Did reading comprehension drop while I was away? It's not "adding 1 to a counter", it's performing cryptographic checks on other people's transactions. Whether people were getting bitcoins as a reward or not (that's not actually a technical requirement), it would be necessary to the system.
I don't think you understand who Foxconn are. They do the actual manufacturing work for almost everyone in the tech business, from Apple and Motorola to Nintendo and Sony; the aforementioned "clients" they want to shield. In terms of who it affects, it's huge.
Bitcoins do have an intrinsic value: each one represents a certain amount of computer time spent cryptographically verifying and certifying transactions on the Bitcoin network. Financial bubble aside, that's what their value should tend to over time, a price placed on the usefulness and reliability of the system as a means of transferring money.
The display is up and off to the side of the user's vision. You can glance up at it, but heads-up displays (yes, like the ones in the original concept video) aren't an option. You have to intentionally look at the thing.
I would be willing to bet my mortgage and my left testicle that the mobile carriers will say "this service is x% better than the 3G network, so we need to charge the consumer at least x% more than they paid for 3G services" irrespective of the relative cost of the 3G and 4G services to the provider.
At least one carrier has indicated that they will not charge different amounts for 3G and 4G, while EE - the only current 4G carrier - has reduced its 4G surcharge well ahead of any of those competitors coming online. It's safe to assume giving the limited uptake of 4G at current prices that the surcharge will have diminished to zero by the time rivals arrive.
While I support increasing our country's autonomy, I think that becoming a sovereign nation in this decade would render us only nominally independent, removing our political influence over the UK while retaining our economic and social dependence upon it. Functional independence first, then nominal independence. Not the inverse, which if I'm reading the SNP's timeline right, is what we're trying to achieve.
At the moment, religious leaders have particular authority to perform marriages, while authorised registrars have the authority for non-religious (civil) marriages. It seems that this would expand those legal powers to include, well, Jedi Masters I guess, but without necessarily classifying those organisations as religions.
Scotland's already pretty liberal about what's permitted in non-religious ceremonies. You just need an authorised registrar, an approved location, and the inclusion of certain critical marriage-activation phrases in the ceremony.
Just to be clear on this, if Mozilla failed to obey the HTML5 spec on offline storage, then that's a design error in Firefox, and even the most complete, perfectly bug-free version of Firefox is not going to address their original oversight. Any more than a completely bug-free version of Internet Explorer 6 is going to be standards-compliant.
This is important stuff. All mistakes are not equal.
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Did reading comprehension drop while I was away? It's not "adding 1 to a counter", it's performing cryptographic checks on other people's transactions. Whether people were getting bitcoins as a reward or not (that's not actually a technical requirement), it would be necessary to the system.
Foxconn isn't just an "Apple OEM", they make portable electronic devices for nearly everybody, including - yes - Android devices.
I don't think you understand who Foxconn are. They do the actual manufacturing work for almost everyone in the tech business, from Apple and Motorola to Nintendo and Sony; the aforementioned "clients" they want to shield. In terms of who it affects, it's huge.
You thought they meant that gold was literally appearing and disappearing? What planet are you from?
Bitcoins do have an intrinsic value: each one represents a certain amount of computer time spent cryptographically verifying and certifying transactions on the Bitcoin network. Financial bubble aside, that's what their value should tend to over time, a price placed on the usefulness and reliability of the system as a means of transferring money.
Significantly more stable?
That'd be one of the different levels of vacuum I'm talking about.
Scientists distinguish between different levels of vacuum, but I assume in this case they are just reminding the reader that space is a vacuum.
The display is up and off to the side of the user's vision. You can glance up at it, but heads-up displays (yes, like the ones in the original concept video) aren't an option. You have to intentionally look at the thing.
I would be willing to bet my mortgage and my left testicle that the mobile carriers will say "this service is x% better than the 3G network, so we need to charge the consumer at least x% more than they paid for 3G services" irrespective of the relative cost of the 3G and 4G services to the provider.
At least one carrier has indicated that they will not charge different amounts for 3G and 4G, while EE - the only current 4G carrier - has reduced its 4G surcharge well ahead of any of those competitors coming online. It's safe to assume giving the limited uptake of 4G at current prices that the surcharge will have diminished to zero by the time rivals arrive.
While I support increasing our country's autonomy, I think that becoming a sovereign nation in this decade would render us only nominally independent, removing our political influence over the UK while retaining our economic and social dependence upon it. Functional independence first, then nominal independence. Not the inverse, which if I'm reading the SNP's timeline right, is what we're trying to achieve.
That's a whole other argument though.
We already have that in Scotland, it's called a Civil Wedding. (Not to be confused with a Civil Partnership, that's a whole other headache.)
The same authority it has in overseeing other long-term contracts? You need a licence to be a bank and give someone a mortgage.
At the moment, religious leaders have particular authority to perform marriages, while authorised registrars have the authority for non-religious (civil) marriages. It seems that this would expand those legal powers to include, well, Jedi Masters I guess, but without necessarily classifying those organisations as religions.
Scotland's already pretty liberal about what's permitted in non-religious ceremonies. You just need an authorised registrar, an approved location, and the inclusion of certain critical marriage-activation phrases in the ceremony.
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/regscot/getting-married-in-scotland/what-form-does-a-marriage-ceremony-take-in-scotland.html
Just to be clear on this, if Mozilla failed to obey the HTML5 spec on offline storage, then that's a design error in Firefox, and even the most complete, perfectly bug-free version of Firefox is not going to address their original oversight. Any more than a completely bug-free version of Internet Explorer 6 is going to be standards-compliant.
This is important stuff. All mistakes are not equal.
Not HTML5's specification, Firefox's.
Are we done here? My coffee break ends soon.
Which is a deliberate error in design. No amount of bug fixing will correct for an error in specification.
I have a doctorate and spend more time bathing in a given week than on videogames.
I'd call that a design error. The browser is behaving as it is designed to, it's just that the way it's designed to behave is wrong.
Of course it is, ha.
Is this a thing? People get tribal about browsers?
Assuming 500GB free space and a 20Mbps ADSL connection, call it 2MB/s down... I make it almost three days.
I think you would notice.