It's hard to make a general-purpose fpga board cost-efficient for bitcoin mining. And with ASIC mining solutions now surfacing, it's also going the way of the GPU, just as that obsoleted the CPU.
Interestingly enough, your stereotype seems just about as dogmatic as what you blame them for. America's *real* biggest problem is the sort of divisive forces you promote. It's always a matter of 'us versus them' for you guys. Meanwhile, the people who understand and promote this principle profit immensely at your expense and they won't even thank you for helping them do so with comments such as the one you made.
I know you want to cheer for whatever team you think you're on. I'm sure you're absolutely convinced that you're right in thinking the bad guys are all on the other side of that imaginary fence you built for yourself. You're rooting for your team... and you never bothered to notice that the guys selling you tickets are also selling tickets to fans of the other team. You point and laugh at all those idiots on the other side of the arena cheering the bad guys and you completely ignore all the idiots on yours, nevermind question your own self.
There are people just as 'enlightened' as you are on the other side. They make fun at the idiots on your side and chances are, they, like you, ignore the fact that you may not be the same kind of morron that they've been taught to stereotype.
Pretty sure patents are the #1 thing holding back 3D printing, as with a lot of other technologies. As such, it'll start taking off in China then trickle back to the rest of the world.
But is it immoral for you to take a (very detailed, for the sake of analogy) picture of someone else's car and build your own similar car at your own cost?
The media industry's problem is the same problem the car industry would have if everyone could afford a car-sized star-trek style replicator that runs on 100W of electrical power.
The question is, if such a replicator existed, would you make it illegal for the sake of the car industry? If people used it to produce their own food, would you have that device banned for the sake of farmers? Content distribution, as an industry, is growing obsolete.
If carriage makers had the same kind of lobbying power as the media industry, you wouldn't be on the computer reading this right now, you'd be tending to your horses.
You might want to study the economics of this a little further. Forcing people to pay into the system does not bring costs down, it brings revenues up. I live in such a system where everyone who can afford to is forced to pay. More than half the government's budget is now on health care and for some odd reason, all that money gets soaked up by an ever expanding layer of management. Services have deteriorated to the point where it's often cheaper to just pay for a patient to go get care int he US. The few people doing *real* work in the system (doctors/nurses) are overworked, underpaid and most attempts to strike are rendered illegal.
They set our system up stupidly hoping that the costs would remain the same or lower. However, anytime you offer a mountain of money to a system, no matter how well intentioned it is, it always ends up getting consumed with very little return on investment. This is because there is absolutely no downward pressure on prices: It is the government's money, they will do what it takes to pay. Which usually amounts to forcing that money out of the population, one way or another. Not to mention that we punish efficiency: Any budget that under-spends gets cut the next year.
Corporations are evil, I'm not going to defend them, but remember that if it weren't for the government handing your money to them, they'd actually have to earn it or go broke. The government can take just your property by force of law and toss you in jail if you attempt to refuse. The government also remembers who its friends are and your name isn't on that list. Every increase in power that you allow your government to take will serve those friends, make no mistake about that.
Once you break the key, you see all traffic, including the mac addresses of known devices. At least it was that way with earlier encryption schemes, maybe they worked around that now, I haven't kept up to date.
What exactly is 'Climate Denial'? Denying that climate exists? For people claiming the moral and scientific upper hand here we aren't very good at framing the issue. I thought the issue was over the 'man made' element of it all. The fact that one thinks the other side of that debate is wrong isn't really a very good excuse to completely misrepresent their argument. A little integrity would go a long way to validate one's position: if you're not capable of fairly state the opposing side's claims, how are you going to refute them?
ICANN likely referred him to the UN as an arbitrator because the current ronpaul.com is curently owned in Panama, that is, outside of US juridiction. I understand that you have an axe to grind against Paul and that you would jump to conclusions but at least do some research into the matter first.
I think it's a stupid move on his part turning into a complete PR disaster, but this isn't as clean-cut a case of hypocrisy as you would have hoped. Personally, I think this has more to do with Paul telling a legal firm to do whatever they can fix it and them not taking into account the implications of accepting the UN as an arbitrator. Still a stupid move, but not like he just up and decided to go cry to the UN because someone has 'his' domain name.
I read somewhere that ICANN can recommend the UN as an arbitrator in cases where one of the parties in the dispute isn't a US entity, as is the case now according to WHOIS. That could be a lawyer-made decision and not a case of Ron Paul going straight to the UN as a solution to his problem. I don't know that for sure but it seems more plausible to me than someone like RP heading straight to the UN.
I think Lenovo beats Dell on the high end too (wouldn't know about HP). I bought a fully loaded Precision M65... It was great on paper and out of the box. It was also bloody expensive and I found out later very keen to cut corners where things do not show too much at first, like flimsy hinges, a magnesium casing that at first looks awesome but was prone to cracks from stress fatigue ( never tried dropping it).
I bought a fully loaded W520 for about a thousand bucks less when it came out. It may not have a metal casing, but it's built like a tank, every little detail that made the M65 reveal its cheapness was carefully engineered in the W520, solid hinges, everything is built to last. The M65 was a nice laptop but it just doesn't compare. Now I haven't tried whatever was a replacement for the Dell when I got the Lenovo but I'd be surprized to find a major design improvement.
Uh oh... I post example of work done on my milling machine. The horrible whine sound of the spindle definitely could be interpreted as RIAA copyrighted material, especially given the talent of pop singers lately.
Private property already barely exists on earth... Fat chance of that in space. As a previous poster said, it all boils down to the larger guns and that makes it a government-only game in space and on earth. If your government is nice, it can let you pretend that the property is yours (at a recurring cost of course) so long as it doesn't need it for its own ends.
Ron Paul, Tom Woods, Andrew Napolitano are examples of 'real' conservatives as I define them. I'll grant you that, in positions of power and influence at least, they aren't very numerous but they do exist.
I understand that my definition of conservatism is a lot like the definition of 'hacker'. The meaning sort of evolved into something else but I like to take the word back, so to speak.
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It's hard to make a general-purpose fpga board cost-efficient for bitcoin mining. And with ASIC mining solutions now surfacing, it's also going the way of the GPU, just as that obsoleted the CPU.
Interestingly enough, your stereotype seems just about as dogmatic as what you blame them for. America's *real* biggest problem is the sort of divisive forces you promote. It's always a matter of 'us versus them' for you guys. Meanwhile, the people who understand and promote this principle profit immensely at your expense and they won't even thank you for helping them do so with comments such as the one you made.
I know you want to cheer for whatever team you think you're on. I'm sure you're absolutely convinced that you're right in thinking the bad guys are all on the other side of that imaginary fence you built for yourself. You're rooting for your team... and you never bothered to notice that the guys selling you tickets are also selling tickets to fans of the other team. You point and laugh at all those idiots on the other side of the arena cheering the bad guys and you completely ignore all the idiots on yours, nevermind question your own self.
There are people just as 'enlightened' as you are on the other side. They make fun at the idiots on your side and chances are, they, like you, ignore the fact that you may not be the same kind of morron that they've been taught to stereotype.
Pretty sure patents are the #1 thing holding back 3D printing, as with a lot of other technologies. As such, it'll start taking off in China then trickle back to the rest of the world.
You have to be a pretty bad driver to end up on top of a traffic light though.
But is it immoral for you to take a (very detailed, for the sake of analogy) picture of someone else's car and build your own similar car at your own cost?
The media industry's problem is the same problem the car industry would have if everyone could afford a car-sized star-trek style replicator that runs on 100W of electrical power.
The question is, if such a replicator existed, would you make it illegal for the sake of the car industry? If people used it to produce their own food, would you have that device banned for the sake of farmers? Content distribution, as an industry, is growing obsolete.
If carriage makers had the same kind of lobbying power as the media industry, you wouldn't be on the computer reading this right now, you'd be tending to your horses.
You might want to study the economics of this a little further. Forcing people to pay into the system does not bring costs down, it brings revenues up. I live in such a system where everyone who can afford to is forced to pay. More than half the government's budget is now on health care and for some odd reason, all that money gets soaked up by an ever expanding layer of management. Services have deteriorated to the point where it's often cheaper to just pay for a patient to go get care int he US. The few people doing *real* work in the system (doctors/nurses) are overworked, underpaid and most attempts to strike are rendered illegal.
They set our system up stupidly hoping that the costs would remain the same or lower. However, anytime you offer a mountain of money to a system, no matter how well intentioned it is, it always ends up getting consumed with very little return on investment. This is because there is absolutely no downward pressure on prices: It is the government's money, they will do what it takes to pay. Which usually amounts to forcing that money out of the population, one way or another. Not to mention that we punish efficiency: Any budget that under-spends gets cut the next year.
Corporations are evil, I'm not going to defend them, but remember that if it weren't for the government handing your money to them, they'd actually have to earn it or go broke. The government can take just your property by force of law and toss you in jail if you attempt to refuse. The government also remembers who its friends are and your name isn't on that list. Every increase in power that you allow your government to take will serve those friends, make no mistake about that.
Once you break the key, you see all traffic, including the mac addresses of known devices. At least it was that way with earlier encryption schemes, maybe they worked around that now, I haven't kept up to date.
What exactly is 'Climate Denial'? Denying that climate exists? For people claiming the moral and scientific upper hand here we aren't very good at framing the issue. I thought the issue was over the 'man made' element of it all. The fact that one thinks the other side of that debate is wrong isn't really a very good excuse to completely misrepresent their argument. A little integrity would go a long way to validate one's position: if you're not capable of fairly state the opposing side's claims, how are you going to refute them?
People, please mod this up.
In the case of ronpaul.com though, american law doesn't have juridiction, it's registered in Panama. Is there an alternative to WIPO?
The domain is registered in Panama, is there an alternative arbitration authority for such cases?
The domain is registered in Panama, where else would you have him go but the UN?
Actually, the court will have to decide on that, not you.
ICANN likely referred him to the UN as an arbitrator because the current ronpaul.com is curently owned in Panama, that is, outside of US juridiction. I understand that you have an axe to grind against Paul and that you would jump to conclusions but at least do some research into the matter first.
I think it's a stupid move on his part turning into a complete PR disaster, but this isn't as clean-cut a case of hypocrisy as you would have hoped. Personally, I think this has more to do with Paul telling a legal firm to do whatever they can fix it and them not taking into account the implications of accepting the UN as an arbitrator. Still a stupid move, but not like he just up and decided to go cry to the UN because someone has 'his' domain name.
I read somewhere that ICANN can recommend the UN as an arbitrator in cases where one of the parties in the dispute isn't a US entity, as is the case now according to WHOIS. That could be a lawyer-made decision and not a case of Ron Paul going straight to the UN as a solution to his problem. I don't know that for sure but it seems more plausible to me than someone like RP heading straight to the UN.
Well, in french computer does have a masculine gender. Machine is a feminine gender mind you... Your pick.
grep -v 'government_approved' /the/people.list | target | fire
I think Lenovo beats Dell on the high end too (wouldn't know about HP). I bought a fully loaded Precision M65... It was great on paper and out of the box. It was also bloody expensive and I found out later very keen to cut corners where things do not show too much at first, like flimsy hinges, a magnesium casing that at first looks awesome but was prone to cracks from stress fatigue ( never tried dropping it).
I bought a fully loaded W520 for about a thousand bucks less when it came out. It may not have a metal casing, but it's built like a tank, every little detail that made the M65 reveal its cheapness was carefully engineered in the W520, solid hinges, everything is built to last. The M65 was a nice laptop but it just doesn't compare. Now I haven't tried whatever was a replacement for the Dell when I got the Lenovo but I'd be surprized to find a major design improvement.
Made in Britain?
Article 1:
If someone's life depends on it, don't connect it to the internet.
Article 2:
Make sure you've applied Article 1.
Uh oh... I post example of work done on my milling machine. The horrible whine sound of the spindle definitely could be interpreted as RIAA copyrighted material, especially given the talent of pop singers lately.
Private property already barely exists on earth... Fat chance of that in space. As a previous poster said, it all boils down to the larger guns and that makes it a government-only game in space and on earth. If your government is nice, it can let you pretend that the property is yours (at a recurring cost of course) so long as it doesn't need it for its own ends.
I was going to post the exact same thing. Great to see it as a first post.
Ron Paul, Tom Woods, Andrew Napolitano are examples of 'real' conservatives as I define them. I'll grant you that, in positions of power and influence at least, they aren't very numerous but they do exist.
I understand that my definition of conservatism is a lot like the definition of 'hacker'. The meaning sort of evolved into something else but I like to take the word back, so to speak.