What is it with Slashdot and people using the phrase "Ponzi scheme" to refer to anything they think is a scam?
Yes, Bitcoin mining becomes less profitable over time, because the goal of the system is not to make people money, but to create a sustainable currency. The "gold rush" was engineered in to build up the basic level of hardware needed to make the system useful, and now that there are a lot of bitcoin machines doing transactions we no longer need to hand out a reward for showing up.
Not everything can connect to 3G, and if - as you say - a difference in 3G availability is the issue, "realising" that they should have wifi hotspots instead isn't going to make a blind bit of difference, surely? Whatever's holding back 3G adoption will have to change.
If anyone's wondering, the tradeoff is that (while you're opted in) you get access to everyone else's home BTWifi hotspots and the commercial BTWifi network. It's just a rebranded FON system. You can actually log in to other FON and rebranded-but-FON-compliant networks too.
PROTIP: if your first thought on reading about a project is "that's so flagrantly impractical as to be absurd", it is possible that you have misread it.
Correct, although I should point out that they're photons propagating through a medium, not photons being absorbed and re-emitted as one might assume. It's interesting that they're so strongly coupled to the rubidium.
When I was at university, the only people they trusted to lecture first years were the most experienced staff members, because getting the fundamental principles right was essential. Of course they might do things backwards in crazy old Manchester.
You're supposed to use the left shift key when typing a character on the right, and the right shift key when typing a character on the left. Speeds things up considerably.
You're paying to be able to receive a set of channels*, which operate under public oversight. In what way is it ridiculous?
*You don't have to pay if you don't receive the signal, and it's only billed against the household receiving the service rather than per TV sold, so it's hardly a tax on hardware
I'd modify you insightful if I hadn't already posted here, that's terribly astute. Ensuring that there's as little barrier as possible between the arrival of a copy of the song, and actually paying for it, is all this needs to do to be a success.
Probably not. Alloys tend to have different surface reactivity to their component parts. (Which is why you alloy iron to make stainless steel, of course...) Be interesting to try though.
"Middle class" means something else in the UK. Whereas your American middle class is everyone too wealthy to live on the street but too poor to own an airplane, in the UK... well, it was coined to refer to those people who were neither "lower class" manual workers or "upper class" landed gentry who hadn't worked a day in their lives. Today it basically means you're a doctor or a lawyer or high level management in a company, or something, you're financially secure and upwardly mobile, and socially implies that you're more likely to go to dinner parties and the theatre than pubs and football games.
The honour system. Bittorrent users would never pirate music from independent artists, they only go after labels' output where the economics don't favour the artist or the consumer.
Symbian sales numbers were up, but that was because Nokia was rolling it down to their low end handsets. Meanwhile their high end phones were just not selling. They were making a lot less profit per phone, and their financials were absolutely in the toilet as a result.
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What is it with Slashdot and people using the phrase "Ponzi scheme" to refer to anything they think is a scam?
Yes, Bitcoin mining becomes less profitable over time, because the goal of the system is not to make people money, but to create a sustainable currency. The "gold rush" was engineered in to build up the basic level of hardware needed to make the system useful, and now that there are a lot of bitcoin machines doing transactions we no longer need to hand out a reward for showing up.
That's like arguing that the solution to a 'flu outbreak is to just kill all the people with 'flu. The benefit gained is small compared to the cost.
Compared to current solar photovoltaics and solar CO2 reduction, they're actually really efficient devices that produce a chemical as their output.
Two words: lead time.
Where the heck do you live that people customarily quote storage in bits?
Not everything can connect to 3G, and if - as you say - a difference in 3G availability is the issue, "realising" that they should have wifi hotspots instead isn't going to make a blind bit of difference, surely? Whatever's holding back 3G adoption will have to change.
The NSA tap businesses. Those business then go away and get the information on command, no wiretaps required.
I don't see how that applies to PRMan's insightful point. Where there were no phone booths, there shall be no wifi.
If anyone's wondering, the tradeoff is that (while you're opted in) you get access to everyone else's home BTWifi hotspots and the commercial BTWifi network. It's just a rebranded FON system. You can actually log in to other FON and rebranded-but-FON-compliant networks too.
PROTIP: if your first thought on reading about a project is "that's so flagrantly impractical as to be absurd", it is possible that you have misread it.
Correct, although I should point out that they're photons propagating through a medium, not photons being absorbed and re-emitted as one might assume. It's interesting that they're so strongly coupled to the rubidium.
He's on first.
It's a gift.
BBC Worldwide makes about £100m profit p/a, and being privately held that money goes back into the regular old BBC itself.
When I was at university, the only people they trusted to lecture first years were the most experienced staff members, because getting the fundamental principles right was essential. Of course they might do things backwards in crazy old Manchester.
It's The Doctor.
You're supposed to use the left shift key when typing a character on the right, and the right shift key when typing a character on the left. Speeds things up considerably.
You're paying to be able to receive a set of channels*, which operate under public oversight. In what way is it ridiculous?
*You don't have to pay if you don't receive the signal, and it's only billed against the household receiving the service rather than per TV sold, so it's hardly a tax on hardware
I'd modify you insightful if I hadn't already posted here, that's terribly astute. Ensuring that there's as little barrier as possible between the arrival of a copy of the song, and actually paying for it, is all this needs to do to be a success.
Probably not. Alloys tend to have different surface reactivity to their component parts. (Which is why you alloy iron to make stainless steel, of course...) Be interesting to try though.
"Middle class" means something else in the UK. Whereas your American middle class is everyone too wealthy to live on the street but too poor to own an airplane, in the UK... well, it was coined to refer to those people who were neither "lower class" manual workers or "upper class" landed gentry who hadn't worked a day in their lives. Today it basically means you're a doctor or a lawyer or high level management in a company, or something, you're financially secure and upwardly mobile, and socially implies that you're more likely to go to dinner parties and the theatre than pubs and football games.
The honour system. Bittorrent users would never pirate music from independent artists, they only go after labels' output where the economics don't favour the artist or the consumer.
Stop laughing.
It says he sends her antibiotics, not a prescription, no?
Already-useless antibiotics are an excellent placebo in that situation, side effects notwithstanding.
Symbian sales numbers were up, but that was because Nokia was rolling it down to their low end handsets. Meanwhile their high end phones were just not selling. They were making a lot less profit per phone, and their financials were absolutely in the toilet as a result.