At least the Verge link is a full article. It bothers me less there then the stuff Slashdot is doing with the beta version. If an article page wants to try to look like a glossy magazine page with some small animations and popping up text that is fine, I can still read the article through without things being missing. The beta version of Slashdot has things missing that leave you stuck without being able to read what you wanted to read. Trying to see a parent post is not possible and I don't even remember being able to find a way to change the moderation cut-off filter level. Slashdot isn't read for the article, it's read for the comments.
0 degrees Fahrenheit is well below the freezing point of water at 32. I would not consider "at the freezing point" to be within the statement "well below the freezing point".
I always hear about this galactic rotation curve. I understand that there are other observations that seem to point the way to there being extra matter also, but the curve idea give rise to a question I have. Have physicists taken into account that the stars nearer the center of the galaxy are in a deeper gravity well and so will experience time at a different rate than the stars out at the edge. Also, the stars at the edge are moving faster, so they have a speed factor to their local time. If time is changing as you move from the center to the edge, then I would not expect things to appear right to someone who calculates how things should look by some computer simulation if the simulated galaxy has consistent time throughout.
That is what I was thinking. Facebook helped kill MySpace, it didn't just die on it's own. Plus, nobody can stay sick with a virus or bacteria forever. They either get over it or die. There is nothing that will force you to abandon Facebook after using it for a year or two. People who like it can use it for their whole lives if they want. I guess something like Herpes or maybe even HIV with the current drugs might be similar in a way.
They mention how businesses use Facebook to connect to their customers. In a way, Facebook will kill itself with it's desire to make some money. Didn't they start charging businesses to connect to their customers a while back. Why would a business stick with something when it ceases to be economical?
Well sure, the big BTC payment processor would have higher fees than doing a straight BTC transaction involving no fee or the amount you put into the transaction to give to the miner who solves the next block. But if their fees were higher than our current credit card processing fees then there would be no reason to use BitCoin for the transaction. I guess it comes down to free market competition like you said. Who can do it cheaper? The credit card company/Western Union money transfer who has whatever cost associated with building and maintaining their network to handle the transfers or processors who can use the resources of the BitCoin network for a part of their processing and only need the extra costs associated with their business plan? At this point BTC is still such a niche that it is hard to imagine it being in the same league as other payment processors. I also remember a day when PayPal was new and it seemed like it would never catch on because nobody accepted it yet.
You forgot about the cheaper to transfer money part of BTC. If real money costs 2% to make a transfer, but BTC only costs 0.001%, then which would you choose to use? Even if the BTC are tied to your account and your name, it still saves you money. If all you are interested in is buying things on Silk Road, then you should probably not use bank transfers weather they are in BTC or dollars. It will be traced back to you either way.
Well actually, Amazon will already have the product on the truck driving out to deliver it to your house. And if you don't end up purchasing it, well. . . I guess it is a free gift to you from Amazon!?!
This is soo funny. He complains about the exchange stealing people's BitCoins and there being nothing you can do about it. Then he says you should use PayPal for better protection. Must be a troll as everyone knows PayPal steals people's money from their accounts and there is nothing you can do about it.
Did you know it's ok if you type your credit card number information into slashdot? The site will replace the numbers with *'s. So you will see it as 1234 5678 9012 3456 exp 12/12 ccv 123, but everyone else here will just see it as **** **** **** **** exp **/** ccv ***. It's really cool that they do that, try it out sometime.
I like the idea. I love it when I can buy the cheaper model of a product, and with a little soldering over some jumper points or something, upgrade my device into the higher priced version. If I could get all those expensive features like heated seats for free I would be jumping all over that. And don't think for a second that people would not figure out how to activate these features on the cars once you got them home. They would and the instructions on how to do it would be on the internet real quick.
It seems like these people who support our totalitarian regime will go to any length to justify their positions. It just becomes ridiculous how much they have to twist their logic.
One act of piracy would be equated to one act of burglary. But you, in your race to make the government terrorists look good, equate all the piracy occurring in the world to one small act of burglary. I think that if you actually equate the two properly you would see the several thousand dollars from a burglary compared to the $17 or so from the cost of the movie ticket. Or perhaps you should use the cost of the DVD, so $20 or $30 compared to the thousands of dollars. Yeah, I see the priorities there now. One plebe having things stolen, no big deal, but a corporation getting a few bucks taken from them, send in the special forces!
I don't really understand these two complaints. The Wii U lets you use the original Wiimote controllers for almost every game that has come out for it. So not only can you buy 4 cheap controllers, you probably already have them if you had a Wii before. And in addition to that, it boots into the original Wii so it is just a Wii HD, if that is what you want.
After the entire line is executed the result is the same. The two operations are different though. int a = i++; is different from a = ++i;. The first one puts the old result of i into a then increments i. The second example increments i before putting it into a, so a has the newly incremented value.
This isn't the first attempt at this technology though. I saw the same invention in a working prototype model something like 3 or 4 years ago. It was still a rather large device, about the size of a desk or a cubicle, so it sat on the side of the pool. If they can scale it down it would do the same thing. I think the method of extraction was different though. I think it worked to extract the air in a similar way that air bubbles come out of soda when you open the bottle. You reduce the pressure enough and the air come right out of solution. I did a quick Google search and found this link, http://www.likeafish.biz/, which looks like the same one I saw previously.
You're ignoring the fact that 99% of the populace are too stupid to do anything other than make-work.
Perhaps they could sit in a toilet/easy chair with a bucket of food and a hose of drink and watch commercials all day. It worked fine for Idiocracy, which seems to be a movie made by someone from the future rather than the comedy it looks like at first.
Okay, take a marble, hold it out at arm's length, and let go. Note how, in your frame of reference, the marble falls straight down. Try doing it from the top of a building, and you might even be able to detect the effects of atmosphere or the earth's rotation on it. Feel free to place an object further out in earth's gravity well, or in the sun's gravity well, with no angular momentum relative to the central object (earth or sun) and it too will fall straight down, providing there are no other forces acting on it.
So how is it any different from placing a stationary object at the edge of the sheet and having it roll down?
I don't see the similarity because I am not considering Earth's gravity in the rubber sheet analogy to be a component of the actual analogy. It is only there because we don't have a way to get rid of gravity. The analogy would work the same if you had a metallic sheet and a magnetic marble. If you were in the space station and pulled the center of the sheet with a hook, the marble would curve around the depression when rolled in a straight line. If the marble is just placed there, it would just sit there. Using gravity to simulate gravity does not help with the understanding at all. Pretending that gravity is not a part of the analogy and seeing what the marble would do with the warped space-sheet seems to help explain how gravity is causing the warping of space which causes straight paths to curve. If Earth's gravity is considered when showing the marble curve around the mass on the sheet, then what is pulling the object in space at an orthogonal direction to space that would then slid the object down in the gravity well of warped space. Gravity is the warping of space (the depressed sheet) what force is the pulling in orthogonal direction to space (gravity pulling the marble down into the sheet). See, real gravity in the analogy needs to be ignored for it to make sense. Unless you are saying there is a new dark force that acts outside our 4D space time that pulls things into the 5th dimention.
This kind of reminds me of the book Extras, the fourth in the Pretties series by Scott Westerfeld. I takes place in a future world driven by a reputation economy. Many people have hovercam robots that take video of events to post on the internet. The more your feeds get watched the more money you earn. There are other ways to have reputation, like being famous or whatever, but the main character does the news feeds thing. The whole series was pretty cool actually. In fact, the author has many other books I ended up reading that I really enjoyed also.
If it was gravitons being emitted, then you would have gravity shadows behind other objects that are affected by gravity. I have never heard of a low or no-gravity area due to a gravity shadow.
A marble rolling on rubber is affected by a great deal more than just gravity. It's only a model, not Camelot. Next on the news: scientists find out that one dimension isn't equal to a dot and two dimensions isn't equal to a line.
Umm, I thought a line would be one-dimensional and a two dimensional object would be a plane. The dot, or point, would be zero dimensional as it has no length, width, or height.
No, if you were to put a straight piece of tape on the upside down rubber sheet, it would follow a curve. Gravity is used to create the distorted rubber sheet, but the curved motion is due to the shape of the sheet and not due to Earth gravity. If the marble is placed stationary on the sheet then there is no analogy that I can see that makes sense as Earth's gravity is the only force causing the marble to move.
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At least the Verge link is a full article. It bothers me less there then the stuff Slashdot is doing with the beta version. If an article page wants to try to look like a glossy magazine page with some small animations and popping up text that is fine, I can still read the article through without things being missing. The beta version of Slashdot has things missing that leave you stuck without being able to read what you wanted to read. Trying to see a parent post is not possible and I don't even remember being able to find a way to change the moderation cut-off filter level. Slashdot isn't read for the article, it's read for the comments.
0 degrees Fahrenheit is well below the freezing point of water at 32. I would not consider "at the freezing point" to be within the statement "well below the freezing point".
I always hear about this galactic rotation curve. I understand that there are other observations that seem to point the way to there being extra matter also, but the curve idea give rise to a question I have. Have physicists taken into account that the stars nearer the center of the galaxy are in a deeper gravity well and so will experience time at a different rate than the stars out at the edge. Also, the stars at the edge are moving faster, so they have a speed factor to their local time. If time is changing as you move from the center to the edge, then I would not expect things to appear right to someone who calculates how things should look by some computer simulation if the simulated galaxy has consistent time throughout.
That is what I was thinking. Facebook helped kill MySpace, it didn't just die on it's own. Plus, nobody can stay sick with a virus or bacteria forever. They either get over it or die. There is nothing that will force you to abandon Facebook after using it for a year or two. People who like it can use it for their whole lives if they want. I guess something like Herpes or maybe even HIV with the current drugs might be similar in a way.
They mention how businesses use Facebook to connect to their customers. In a way, Facebook will kill itself with it's desire to make some money. Didn't they start charging businesses to connect to their customers a while back. Why would a business stick with something when it ceases to be economical?
Well sure, the big BTC payment processor would have higher fees than doing a straight BTC transaction involving no fee or the amount you put into the transaction to give to the miner who solves the next block. But if their fees were higher than our current credit card processing fees then there would be no reason to use BitCoin for the transaction. I guess it comes down to free market competition like you said. Who can do it cheaper? The credit card company/Western Union money transfer who has whatever cost associated with building and maintaining their network to handle the transfers or processors who can use the resources of the BitCoin network for a part of their processing and only need the extra costs associated with their business plan? At this point BTC is still such a niche that it is hard to imagine it being in the same league as other payment processors. I also remember a day when PayPal was new and it seemed like it would never catch on because nobody accepted it yet.
You forgot about the cheaper to transfer money part of BTC. If real money costs 2% to make a transfer, but BTC only costs 0.001%, then which would you choose to use? Even if the BTC are tied to your account and your name, it still saves you money. If all you are interested in is buying things on Silk Road, then you should probably not use bank transfers weather they are in BTC or dollars. It will be traced back to you either way.
Well actually, Amazon will already have the product on the truck driving out to deliver it to your house. And if you don't end up purchasing it, well. . . I guess it is a free gift to you from Amazon!?!
If you dropped your $100 bill in the fire it is gone forever. How about that? Or should I have used a car for an analogy?
This is soo funny. He complains about the exchange stealing people's BitCoins and there being nothing you can do about it. Then he says you should use PayPal for better protection. Must be a troll as everyone knows PayPal steals people's money from their accounts and there is nothing you can do about it.
Yes, the last satoshi will be lost. And the sun will burn out. Which will happen first is the real question then, huh?
Did you know it's ok if you type your credit card number information into slashdot? The site will replace the numbers with *'s. So you will see it as 1234 5678 9012 3456 exp 12/12 ccv 123, but everyone else here will just see it as **** **** **** **** exp **/** ccv ***. It's really cool that they do that, try it out sometime.
I like the idea. I love it when I can buy the cheaper model of a product, and with a little soldering over some jumper points or something, upgrade my device into the higher priced version. If I could get all those expensive features like heated seats for free I would be jumping all over that. And don't think for a second that people would not figure out how to activate these features on the cars once you got them home. They would and the instructions on how to do it would be on the internet real quick.
It seems like these people who support our totalitarian regime will go to any length to justify their positions. It just becomes ridiculous how much they have to twist their logic.
As if the burglar is not going to sell the stuff he steals!
One act of piracy would be equated to one act of burglary. But you, in your race to make the government terrorists look good, equate all the piracy occurring in the world to one small act of burglary. I think that if you actually equate the two properly you would see the several thousand dollars from a burglary compared to the $17 or so from the cost of the movie ticket. Or perhaps you should use the cost of the DVD, so $20 or $30 compared to the thousands of dollars. Yeah, I see the priorities there now. One plebe having things stolen, no big deal, but a corporation getting a few bucks taken from them, send in the special forces!
I don't really understand these two complaints. The Wii U lets you use the original Wiimote controllers for almost every game that has come out for it. So not only can you buy 4 cheap controllers, you probably already have them if you had a Wii before. And in addition to that, it boots into the original Wii so it is just a Wii HD, if that is what you want.
After the entire line is executed the result is the same. The two operations are different though. int a = i++; is different from a = ++i;. The first one puts the old result of i into a then increments i. The second example increments i before putting it into a, so a has the newly incremented value.
This isn't the first attempt at this technology though. I saw the same invention in a working prototype model something like 3 or 4 years ago. It was still a rather large device, about the size of a desk or a cubicle, so it sat on the side of the pool. If they can scale it down it would do the same thing. I think the method of extraction was different though. I think it worked to extract the air in a similar way that air bubbles come out of soda when you open the bottle. You reduce the pressure enough and the air come right out of solution. I did a quick Google search and found this link, http://www.likeafish.biz/, which looks like the same one I saw previously.
My three year old doesn't seem to have any problems with it. And her hands are pretty small.
You're ignoring the fact that 99% of the populace are too stupid to do anything other than make-work.
Perhaps they could sit in a toilet/easy chair with a bucket of food and a hose of drink and watch commercials all day. It worked fine for Idiocracy, which seems to be a movie made by someone from the future rather than the comedy it looks like at first.
Okay, take a marble, hold it out at arm's length, and let go. Note how, in your frame of reference, the marble falls straight down. Try doing it from the top of a building, and you might even be able to detect the effects of atmosphere or the earth's rotation on it. Feel free to place an object further out in earth's gravity well, or in the sun's gravity well, with no angular momentum relative to the central object (earth or sun) and it too will fall straight down, providing there are no other forces acting on it.
So how is it any different from placing a stationary object at the edge of the sheet and having it roll down?
I don't see the similarity because I am not considering Earth's gravity in the rubber sheet analogy to be a component of the actual analogy. It is only there because we don't have a way to get rid of gravity. The analogy would work the same if you had a metallic sheet and a magnetic marble. If you were in the space station and pulled the center of the sheet with a hook, the marble would curve around the depression when rolled in a straight line. If the marble is just placed there, it would just sit there. Using gravity to simulate gravity does not help with the understanding at all. Pretending that gravity is not a part of the analogy and seeing what the marble would do with the warped space-sheet seems to help explain how gravity is causing the warping of space which causes straight paths to curve. If Earth's gravity is considered when showing the marble curve around the mass on the sheet, then what is pulling the object in space at an orthogonal direction to space that would then slid the object down in the gravity well of warped space. Gravity is the warping of space (the depressed sheet) what force is the pulling in orthogonal direction to space (gravity pulling the marble down into the sheet). See, real gravity in the analogy needs to be ignored for it to make sense. Unless you are saying there is a new dark force that acts outside our 4D space time that pulls things into the 5th dimention.
This kind of reminds me of the book Extras, the fourth in the Pretties series by Scott Westerfeld. I takes place in a future world driven by a reputation economy. Many people have hovercam robots that take video of events to post on the internet. The more your feeds get watched the more money you earn. There are other ways to have reputation, like being famous or whatever, but the main character does the news feeds thing. The whole series was pretty cool actually. In fact, the author has many other books I ended up reading that I really enjoyed also.
If it was gravitons being emitted, then you would have gravity shadows behind other objects that are affected by gravity. I have never heard of a low or no-gravity area due to a gravity shadow.
A marble rolling on rubber is affected by a great deal more than just gravity. It's only a model, not Camelot. Next on the news: scientists find out that one dimension isn't equal to a dot and two dimensions isn't equal to a line.
Umm, I thought a line would be one-dimensional and a two dimensional object would be a plane. The dot, or point, would be zero dimensional as it has no length, width, or height.
No, if you were to put a straight piece of tape on the upside down rubber sheet, it would follow a curve. Gravity is used to create the distorted rubber sheet, but the curved motion is due to the shape of the sheet and not due to Earth gravity. If the marble is placed stationary on the sheet then there is no analogy that I can see that makes sense as Earth's gravity is the only force causing the marble to move.