It is a scam. The bitcoin production difficulty is exponential, so the first few people who designed the system easily produced a big percentage of the total possible bitcoins (Over 6 million out of the total 21 million scheduled to be produced until the year 2140 are already taken) and now they are doing everything they can to give them value. So, those that "accept" bitcoins as currency are those that have a vested interest in them gaining value. Basically you are using more and more power for the chance to produce a virtual "coin", so you are not producing value, just hurting the environment and if enough stupid people follow your example you will make a few scammers rich.
If the consistency of the initial statement is what matters, I think he said he was dining with hist daughter at the time (at least that is what newspapers wrote that his lawyers were maintaining), so he would be screwed. IANAL but I think most "justice" systems don't work as simply/logically as that, and the lawyers can find ways to suppress statements (and even evidence).
Are you just kidding due to the iMac being a monitor, or was it on a more serious note?;) I have no idea about how many actually take advantage of this, however both the mac mini and the Mac Pro make it very easy to attach multiple monitors (up to three for my Mac Pro with a Radeon 5770), meaning the hardware is there an the OS handles it gracefully (and automatically). So I would expect *real* developers on Macs to take advantage of those extra monitors. Of course you might say that you don't see that many *real* or *hardcore* (however you want to call them) developers working on Macs, so apple as always only cares about the mass of iphone-programming newbies and their macbooks. Again, I don't know. But as someone who works on many platforms and appreciates the advantages of each one, I had to rant about the backwards step.
Exactly! The (small) company I work has a policy for engineers that they can get anything they think will help their work and if it is under $500 they don't need to ask! Which meant that a second monitor was an obvious addition for me (while an extra low end desktop + kvm switch to have a true Windows machines in case debugging a device under a Windows VM was giving me trouble was also on a no-need to ask basis). Of course the nicest thing was that they gave me one work day to build my own machine (and the following week our admin had to build several of those as well after my coworkers saw how much faster it was than their Dells). Back to the monitor setup, my optimal is a 26" 1920x1200 in portrait mode and a second 19" 1440x900 in landscape. It works great for most things, with the 26" portrait being amazing for reading documents, or browsing thousands-of-lines long terminal outputs, or viewing long header files in one glance, or being able to see more than a function at a time. There is a funny anecdote about that last comment. We have in our company developers manual a rule that says functions cannot be longer than one screen height. I pointed to my monitor and asked "are you sure about this?";) Anyway, the second monitor is just 19" because I have found out (after trying other setups) that if I go wider than the 26" portrait + the 19" landscape, my neck will get tired after some usage. Similarly 26" is the maximum size I can have a monitor in portrait mode. Anyway, a big WTF moment was going from Xcode 3 to Xcode 4 (we develop for iOS among others). Apple seems to have decided that all developers have just one monitor, otherwise I cannot imagine why they would try to cram EVERYTHING under a single window. Windows are customizable so you can somewhat work around it by opening new windows and customizing them, but it is nowhere as simple as de-attaching the terminal and moving it where you want etc.
While we did not have drug trials at school, just outside our school there was a little park where you could sometimes find syringes from whatever drug research activities were going on overnight.
What is the point of making this a USB stick? It obviously needs to be connected to a powered USB hub. So, why not make a USB hub PC? i.e. include this device with its hdmi port in the hub, so that in the end you only need one small device, instead of this tiny usb stick device PLUS one small device?
I remember from almost 20 years ago (DOS / floppy era) overhearing a couple of kids in my school yard. Apparently one of them had promised the other a floppy with a game and he had not delivered. The excuse was "you know, I had it ready and everything, but I hit on the "delete" key by accident and I lost it - sorry". The other party agreed it was an unfortunate accident and did not make a fuss. I was in disbelief of the idiocy of the exchange I had just heard - and I was just 13 years old.
Vmware's explanation reminded me of that incident. Unless "touching the keyboard" means logging on a secure system and entering a few bad commands.
I am European but lived in the US for 6 years. The base-2 division of inches that kind of helps in engineering is just an exception. Every-day units are very hard to use, since for example you use inches/feet/yard with 12 inches = 1 foot and 3 feet = 1 yard making calculations hard even for Americans. Where things start to get bad is weight & volume. As an experiment I started asking colleagues questions like "how many (fluid) ounces in a quart/pint/galon" etc. You know what, even if it is a base-2 system, they would usually get the answer wrong by one power, with the most common being confusing pint/quart. My hypothesis about that is that they confuse the ratio of the most common measures of weight (lb, oz), which is at 16:1, applying it to the most common (excluding gallon) measures of volume (quart, fl. oz). I won't even discuss about your feelings for "natural" distance. Well ok, I will discuss it a little bit. The inch. Seriously? Just small enough? I find it a huge problem at how inaccurate sizes in inches are. Two people can claim to be 5ft 10in, yet when you see them they have distinctively different heights, since they could have up to a very visible 2.54cm difference BEFORE any measuring errors! The measuring error of half a unit in inches is huge for even every-day usage, so you have to turn to the (useful in some cases but cumbersome in most) inch fractions. And I left the best for last. While after a while I got used to thinking natively in the Imperial system since everything around me was using it, in 6 years I still could not figure out the meaning of the friggin' Fahrenheit scale! I mean, I tried to get a "feel" for it - who wants to subtract 32 and multiply by 5/9 every time they read a temperature reading - but it just makes no sense! The scale's zero is the freezing point of brine??? WTF? Yeah, plain water freezes at 32, thank you very much. Then 100 is the temperature of horse blood??? WTF^2??? Yeah, human blood is around 98, thank you very much again... To make matters worse, the inventor of the scale had even miscalculated several temperatures so the scale had to be re-adjusted to get the water freezing/boiling at exactly 32/212. Given the fact that all temperatures we use in every-day life are based on water (weather, cooking etc) it was so counter-intuitive that I never managed to get used to the scale. I just knew that the thermostat was fine close to 70 and that when the weather guys talk about "low teens", it is VERY cold outside!
I see it differently. When you are offered a position you factor-in the non-disclosure agreement. How much is it worth to you, that much more they have to pay you to accept the position, otherwise you take another offer. You can't say, yeah, great salary, I will sign that non-disclosure to get it and then turn around and say it was unfair! But in any case, courts have overturned agreements in many cases where the employers were abusive of them and employers usually don't try to enforce them to non-critical employees in the first place. However, if you were a top exec receiving 7 digit salary they sure have prepaid the non-disclosure they had you sign!
To not exaggerate, 13MB/s was probably the full speed of a 1996 hard disk, as twice that speed is the UltraATA 33 interface which was new (so it would take another couple of years to saturate it)... but you get the picture.
What are you talking about? I could find decent sub-$100 consumer gigabit routers 5 years ago. They would work fine for over 50MB/s access to NFS servers. A 105Mbit connection is nothing compared to the local transfers of a home LAN (especially with SSDs you can max out your gigabit connections easily). And consumer OS? As opposed to a "professional OS" which is what exactly??? Again, to put you in perspective, a 13MB/s (105Mbit) connection is less than half the speed of a 1996 hard disk.
Ehmm... I don't know where you live, but assuming there are caps everywhere just because "you had since day one", is at least ignorant. It must be a very backwards place if caps are 10-40GB. For example, I live in one of the least developed (in Broadband service) EU countries (Greece) and the only cap I have seen is for internet on 3G Mobile networks, where it is at 30GB (it is plenty as a 3G connection is not supposed to replace your DSL). The DSL service on the other hand is never capped (unless you ask to get charged by usage) and usually costs 20-40 Euro (depending the ISP and options) for ADSL2+ up to 24Mbit service. But as I said this is also considered lame compared to, say, Northern Europe. From this year there will also be VDSL connections at 50Mbit with prices announced at around 50 Euro again with no mention of caps. $105 for 250GB is ridiculous any way you look at it. The fact that the service is 105Mbit makes it even more likely to hit the limit.
According to some accounts they were more, and they were probably carrying some armor (and lets not mention two spies fitting on the mouth alone), so it is definitely not "life sized". But the biggest disappointment for me is that it doesn't look like a horse. I am sure the Trojans would not bother to roll it in their city looking like that. Ok, it was just a school project, but still...
Here is what I got on my New York & Company email address (I had not received anything else - except the breach warning - on this address for years after an order with them in 2007): (I assume that the german unicode characters will be missing from my post but you will get the picture...)
Ich bin Frank Morgan, die ich in der Buchhaltung eines Finance Haus hier in Europa zu arbeiten. Ich sah Ihr Kontakt während meiner privaten Suche im Info-Center, ich glaube, dass Sie ganz ehrlich, engagiert und fähig Unterstützung in diesem Geschäft Venture wollen. Es ist auf dieser Grundlage, dass ich mich an Sie als nächsten Angehörigen zu einem späten Client des Finance House, so dass die Gesamtsumme von $ 16.5million (Sechzehn Millionen fünfhunderttausend US Dollar) freigegeben wird und bezahlt werden stehen Sie als Empfänger sowie den nächsten Angehörigen des Verstorbenen. Alle Dokumente und Nachweise, damit Sie bekommen die Mittel wurden sorgfältig erarbeitet, wie ich aus den verschiedenen Büros für die ordnungsgemäße Übertragung der Fonds für Sie besorgt haben gesichert. Wenn dieser Vorschlag Ihnen gefällt, antworten Sie bitte auf mich mit den folgenden Informationen. -Vollständige Namen -TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER- -Address- -AGE- -SEX- -BERUF- Ich erwarte Ihre dringende Antwort, segne alles Gute und Gottes euch. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Frank Morgan +447031901697 mrfrankmorgan444@hotmail.com
Forgive me, but I work fine with vi on my N900. In fact one of the basic reasons I got it was because it is the only possible way I can work while riding the subway (in the common situation when I don't have a seat), and whatever the developments of touch screen keyboards I find them unusable for serious text entry, while the N900's hardware keyboard is decent.
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It is a scam. The bitcoin production difficulty is exponential, so the first few people who designed the system easily produced a big percentage of the total possible bitcoins (Over 6 million out of the total 21 million scheduled to be produced until the year 2140 are already taken) and now they are doing everything they can to give them value. So, those that "accept" bitcoins as currency are those that have a vested interest in them gaining value.
Basically you are using more and more power for the chance to produce a virtual "coin", so you are not producing value, just hurting the environment and if enough stupid people follow your example you will make a few scammers rich.
Yeah, because "basic security" does not involve sanitizing your sql queries...
The "random twat" even rickrolled: http://twitter.com/RoyOsherove/status/71334987152101376
That was his third tweet on the subject...
If the consistency of the initial statement is what matters, I think he said he was dining with hist daughter at the time (at least that is what newspapers wrote that his lawyers were maintaining), so he would be screwed.
IANAL but I think most "justice" systems don't work as simply/logically as that, and the lawyers can find ways to suppress statements (and even evidence).
Are you just kidding due to the iMac being a monitor, or was it on a more serious note? ;)
I have no idea about how many actually take advantage of this, however both the mac mini and the Mac Pro make it very easy to attach multiple monitors (up to three for my Mac Pro with a Radeon 5770), meaning the hardware is there an the OS handles it gracefully (and automatically). So I would expect *real* developers on Macs to take advantage of those extra monitors.
Of course you might say that you don't see that many *real* or *hardcore* (however you want to call them) developers working on Macs, so apple as always only cares about the mass of iphone-programming newbies and their macbooks.
Again, I don't know. But as someone who works on many platforms and appreciates the advantages of each one, I had to rant about the backwards step.
Exactly! The (small) company I work has a policy for engineers that they can get anything they think will help their work and if it is under $500 they don't need to ask! Which meant that a second monitor was an obvious addition for me (while an extra low end desktop + kvm switch to have a true Windows machines in case debugging a device under a Windows VM was giving me trouble was also on a no-need to ask basis). Of course the nicest thing was that they gave me one work day to build my own machine (and the following week our admin had to build several of those as well after my coworkers saw how much faster it was than their Dells). ;) Anyway, the second monitor is just 19" because I have found out (after trying other setups) that if I go wider than the 26" portrait + the 19" landscape, my neck will get tired after some usage. Similarly 26" is the maximum size I can have a monitor in portrait mode.
Back to the monitor setup, my optimal is a 26" 1920x1200 in portrait mode and a second 19" 1440x900 in landscape. It works great for most things, with the 26" portrait being amazing for reading documents, or browsing thousands-of-lines long terminal outputs, or viewing long header files in one glance, or being able to see more than a function at a time. There is a funny anecdote about that last comment. We have in our company developers manual a rule that says functions cannot be longer than one screen height. I pointed to my monitor and asked "are you sure about this?"
Anyway, a big WTF moment was going from Xcode 3 to Xcode 4 (we develop for iOS among others). Apple seems to have decided that all developers have just one monitor, otherwise I cannot imagine why they would try to cram EVERYTHING under a single window. Windows are customizable so you can somewhat work around it by opening new windows and customizing them, but it is nowhere as simple as de-attaching the terminal and moving it where you want etc.
While we did not have drug trials at school, just outside our school there was a little park where you could sometimes find syringes from whatever drug research activities were going on overnight.
This $105M recouped from piracy will come in handy!
Oh, wait...
If there weren't model airports they wouldn't have gotten the idea for the big airports!
What is the point of making this a USB stick? It obviously needs to be connected to a powered USB hub. So, why not make a USB hub PC? i.e. include this device with its hdmi port in the hub, so that in the end you only need one small device, instead of this tiny usb stick device PLUS one small device?
How was this left un-moderated?
Haha, Algol!
Yep, if you want fast I/O like eSATA you have to get a Mac Pro. ...
Oh, wait
I remember from almost 20 years ago (DOS / floppy era) overhearing a couple of kids in my school yard. Apparently one of them had promised the other a floppy with a game and he had not delivered. The excuse was "you know, I had it ready and everything, but I hit on the "delete" key by accident and I lost it - sorry". The other party agreed it was an unfortunate accident and did not make a fuss. I was in disbelief of the idiocy of the exchange I had just heard - and I was just 13 years old.
Vmware's explanation reminded me of that incident. Unless "touching the keyboard" means logging on a secure system and entering a few bad commands.
Forget about Detroit, the Chinese built entire cities that nobody uses:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339536/Ghost-towns-China-Satellite-images-cities-lying-completely-deserted.html
I am European but lived in the US for 6 years. The base-2 division of inches that kind of helps in engineering is just an exception. Every-day units are very hard to use, since for example you use inches/feet/yard with 12 inches = 1 foot and 3 feet = 1 yard making calculations hard even for Americans. Where things start to get bad is weight & volume. As an experiment I started asking colleagues questions like "how many (fluid) ounces in a quart/pint/galon" etc. You know what, even if it is a base-2 system, they would usually get the answer wrong by one power, with the most common being confusing pint/quart. My hypothesis about that is that they confuse the ratio of the most common measures of weight (lb, oz), which is at 16:1, applying it to the most common (excluding gallon) measures of volume (quart, fl. oz).
I won't even discuss about your feelings for "natural" distance. Well ok, I will discuss it a little bit. The inch. Seriously? Just small enough? I find it a huge problem at how inaccurate sizes in inches are. Two people can claim to be 5ft 10in, yet when you see them they have distinctively different heights, since they could have up to a very visible 2.54cm difference BEFORE any measuring errors! The measuring error of half a unit in inches is huge for even every-day usage, so you have to turn to the (useful in some cases but cumbersome in most) inch fractions.
And I left the best for last. While after a while I got used to thinking natively in the Imperial system since everything around me was using it, in 6 years I still could not figure out the meaning of the friggin' Fahrenheit scale! I mean, I tried to get a "feel" for it - who wants to subtract 32 and multiply by 5/9 every time they read a temperature reading - but it just makes no sense! The scale's zero is the freezing point of brine??? WTF? Yeah, plain water freezes at 32, thank you very much. Then 100 is the temperature of horse blood??? WTF^2??? Yeah, human blood is around 98, thank you very much again... To make matters worse, the inventor of the scale had even miscalculated several temperatures so the scale had to be re-adjusted to get the water freezing/boiling at exactly 32/212. Given the fact that all temperatures we use in every-day life are based on water (weather, cooking etc) it was so counter-intuitive that I never managed to get used to the scale. I just knew that the thermostat was fine close to 70 and that when the weather guys talk about "low teens", it is VERY cold outside!
There are numerous Missions, e.g. the Holy Mission of DoubleCommand, the Logitech Mission of Kopi Keyboards etc hard at work to convert the heathens!
Woops! I was talking about non-compete yet I was writing non-disclosure. Not sure how I managed that...
I see it differently. When you are offered a position you factor-in the non-disclosure agreement. How much is it worth to you, that much more they have to pay you to accept the position, otherwise you take another offer. You can't say, yeah, great salary, I will sign that non-disclosure to get it and then turn around and say it was unfair!
But in any case, courts have overturned agreements in many cases where the employers were abusive of them and employers usually don't try to enforce them to non-critical employees in the first place.
However, if you were a top exec receiving 7 digit salary they sure have prepaid the non-disclosure they had you sign!
To not exaggerate, 13MB/s was probably the full speed of a 1996 hard disk, as twice that speed is the UltraATA 33 interface which was new (so it would take another couple of years to saturate it)... but you get the picture.
What are you talking about? I could find decent sub-$100 consumer gigabit routers 5 years ago. They would work fine for over 50MB/s access to NFS servers. A 105Mbit connection is nothing compared to the local transfers of a home LAN (especially with SSDs you can max out your gigabit connections easily).
And consumer OS? As opposed to a "professional OS" which is what exactly??? Again, to put you in perspective, a 13MB/s (105Mbit) connection is less than half the speed of a 1996 hard disk.
Ehmm... I don't know where you live, but assuming there are caps everywhere just because "you had since day one", is at least ignorant. It must be a very backwards place if caps are 10-40GB.
For example, I live in one of the least developed (in Broadband service) EU countries (Greece) and the only cap I have seen is for internet on 3G Mobile networks, where it is at 30GB (it is plenty as a 3G connection is not supposed to replace your DSL). The DSL service on the other hand is never capped (unless you ask to get charged by usage) and usually costs 20-40 Euro (depending the ISP and options) for ADSL2+ up to 24Mbit service. But as I said this is also considered lame compared to, say, Northern Europe. From this year there will also be VDSL connections at 50Mbit with prices announced at around 50 Euro again with no mention of caps.
$105 for 250GB is ridiculous any way you look at it. The fact that the service is 105Mbit makes it even more likely to hit the limit.
According to some accounts they were more, and they were probably carrying some armor (and lets not mention two spies fitting on the mouth alone), so it is definitely not "life sized".
But the biggest disappointment for me is that it doesn't look like a horse. I am sure the Trojans would not bother to roll it in their city looking like that. Ok, it was just a school project, but still...
Here is what I got on my New York & Company email address (I had not received anything else - except the breach warning - on this address for years after an order with them in 2007):
(I assume that the german unicode characters will be missing from my post but you will get the picture...)
From: "Mr.Frank Morgan"
Reply-To: frank77morgan3@yahoo.com
Subject: BITTE ANTWORTEN
Guten Tag,
Ich bin Frank Morgan, die ich in der Buchhaltung eines Finance Haus hier in Europa zu arbeiten. Ich sah Ihr Kontakt während meiner privaten Suche im Info-Center, ich glaube, dass Sie ganz ehrlich, engagiert und fähig Unterstützung in diesem Geschäft Venture wollen.
Es ist auf dieser Grundlage, dass ich mich an Sie als nächsten Angehörigen zu einem späten Client des Finance House, so dass die Gesamtsumme von $ 16.5million (Sechzehn Millionen fünfhunderttausend US Dollar) freigegeben wird und bezahlt werden stehen Sie als Empfänger sowie den nächsten Angehörigen des Verstorbenen.
Alle Dokumente und Nachweise, damit Sie bekommen die Mittel wurden sorgfältig erarbeitet, wie ich aus den verschiedenen Büros für die ordnungsgemäße Übertragung der Fonds für Sie besorgt haben gesichert.
Wenn dieser Vorschlag Ihnen gefällt, antworten Sie bitte auf mich mit den folgenden Informationen.
-Vollständige Namen
-TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER-
-Address-
-AGE-
-SEX-
-BERUF-
Ich erwarte Ihre dringende Antwort, segne alles Gute und Gottes euch.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Frank Morgan
+447031901697
mrfrankmorgan444@hotmail.com
Forgive me, but I work fine with vi on my N900. In fact one of the basic reasons I got it was because it is the only possible way I can work while riding the subway (in the common situation when I don't have a seat), and whatever the developments of touch screen keyboards I find them unusable for serious text entry, while the N900's hardware keyboard is decent.
would be so much happier with a N900 running vi & gcc.