Well good for you and who gives a fuck? You people sure do like to crow about the most irrelevant shit in the tireless effort to sniff your own farts. More topically, when I go to Starbucks, they scan a QR code on my phone. It takes about a second. Same at chic-fi-la. When I get gas, there's an NFC reader on the pump and I just bump the tag on my keychain against it. Basically instant. The only place that's inexplicably slow is Target. Stick the card in the chip reader, wait for a ding. That probably takes 5 or 10 seconds. What makes everything slow more than anything else? The human factor of the person in front of me taking their sweet ass time. tl;dr Stick Europe up your ass.
I tell people that if you find yourself in the demographic that regularly sees personal injury, cash advance, and private technical college ads then you have one question to ask. What the fuck am I doing with my life?
Gone are the days when freedom of the press required owning a printing press.
Not only that but leveraging your reach can easily be much cheaper than with some local paper. I have quite a few websites that collectively get 10s of thousands of uniques a day and the hosting is less than $600 a month.
Bitcoin being in the set of all cryptocurrencies is akin to Facebook being in the set of all social networks. Bitcoin has the network effect and the economic incentive of the participants to keep building on it. Bitcoin ran away with the crown the same way the longest chain runs away with the consensus every 10 minutes. Every day more miners invest in hardware strengthening the BTC blockchain, more owners take a stake, more businesses associate themselves accepting BTC as payment. True, there are many ersatz challengers and they can all be dubbed "cryptocurrencies" endeavoring to soak up some BTC shine but in the end, there is only one BTC blockchain and whether people realize it or not, that's what they are invested in. If the BTC blockchain isn't verifying your transactions then, no, you have no claim to the "set" of all cryptocurrencies. The set of pretenders maybe.
How exactly is a Chromebook more complicated than an iPad? I have both and while they're both braindead easy to use, the Chromebook still has the upperhand in that department.
A few years ago when Windows Phone 7 came out, I remember having a blast hanging out on tech blog forums like Engadget and The Verge and trolling against it. I would write long screeds about how much it sucked, how terrible tiles were, the lackluster hardware, how much Android was better and on and on. Of course the WP7 fanboys would hit right back about how Android lagged and you need overpowered hardware just to run it and how the apps sucked and on and on. It was a blast. Really all in good fun until I finally got bored with the whole scene and moved on. I pretty much forgot about Window Phone until seeing this now. Funnily enough, it doesn't feel as triumphant as I may have thought it would. Another piece of tech whether I used it or not, snuffed out. Damn. I guess throw it on the Palm Pre, Nokia 900, Symbian, etc. pile. Now I'm getting older I'm out of the fanboy stage I'm growing a bit tired of Google and the data siphoning. Don't care for Apple and the walled garden. Hopefully something new will rise from the ashes soon. Of course something always does. Like when IE seemed unstoppable and Mozilla Sunbird/Sunfire/Phoenix, I can't even remember the exact name, started the browser revolution. Excited to see what's next.
You don't think MS' telemetry and browser is gathering information on you at 10 times the rate of Google Chrome? If you cared that much, you'd be using an OS that doesn't support Edge in the first place.
An aside to this thread, as a child of the MS dominated 90s, I sort of dig Android being dominant on phones, Apple having tablets, MS having the desktop, and Linux more or less having servers with a healthy competition in each segment. It's not a perfect situation but it beats the shit of the bad old days when IE 6 was "the internet." >inb4 everything is just as bad as it ever was or worse
I don't eat at McDonald's but the Panera's Bread down the street has these kiosks and I've pretty much defaulted to using them every time I go. There's never a line, despite there usually being several people waiting for a cashier. The touch screen thing is just an iPad recessed into a plastic holder running some custom ordering software. If this is the future of fast food, count me in.
And is it not men problem? A question for you: what is the common element in all US shootings, recent terrorist attacks in UK (including Finsbury Park) and almost all rapes?
Did you just assume all those peoples' genders, shitlord?
Pretty much what I was thinking. There won't even be a Sweden by 2045. At least not one that's recognizable. Seems like they've got way worse problems than carbon pollution.
Wonder how much of your data will be parsed, stored, collated and available to the IRS, NSA and others at their discretion?
I would suggest encryption then. At least for the files that are sensitive. I have a dropbox account that I use extensively to transfer stuff between all my devices but there is no way I'd put any plain text document in there without encrypting it first. Been using veracrypt. Works for me but there's always bcrypt which is a good option of you're on Linux.
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Well good for you and who gives a fuck? You people sure do like to crow about the most irrelevant shit in the tireless effort to sniff your own farts. More topically, when I go to Starbucks, they scan a QR code on my phone. It takes about a second. Same at chic-fi-la. When I get gas, there's an NFC reader on the pump and I just bump the tag on my keychain against it. Basically instant. The only place that's inexplicably slow is Target. Stick the card in the chip reader, wait for a ding. That probably takes 5 or 10 seconds. What makes everything slow more than anything else? The human factor of the person in front of me taking their sweet ass time. tl;dr Stick Europe up your ass.
Precisely. Had Hillary won, the same talking heads would be crowing about the shrewd "digital strategy".
There[sic] response also indicated to me that the child had been educated in the United States.
Never fails.
Typing this on a Lenovo T420, this is the only answer. If you need something newer, get a T25.
Yeah, except BSG was actually really good.
You misunderstood me completely. Iâ(TM)m not in favor of the regulations. Merely stating the situation as it appears to be playing out.
Hint: Bitcoin and other Blockchain-related coins are not regulated by anyone.
Well enjoy it while it lasts cuz the SEC is going to come down on this like a ton of bricks. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.
https://www.coindesk.com/obvio...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
I tell people that if you find yourself in the demographic that regularly sees personal injury, cash advance, and private technical college ads then you have one question to ask. What the fuck am I doing with my life?
I've found https://www.nextdoor.com/ to be a far more reliable source of what's going on in my neighborhood than anything else.
Gone are the days when freedom of the press required owning a printing press.
Not only that but leveraging your reach can easily be much cheaper than with some local paper. I have quite a few websites that collectively get 10s of thousands of uniques a day and the hosting is less than $600 a month.
Bitcoin being in the set of all cryptocurrencies is akin to Facebook being in the set of all social networks. Bitcoin has the network effect and the economic incentive of the participants to keep building on it. Bitcoin ran away with the crown the same way the longest chain runs away with the consensus every 10 minutes. Every day more miners invest in hardware strengthening the BTC blockchain, more owners take a stake, more businesses associate themselves accepting BTC as payment. True, there are many ersatz challengers and they can all be dubbed "cryptocurrencies" endeavoring to soak up some BTC shine but in the end, there is only one BTC blockchain and whether people realize it or not, that's what they are invested in. If the BTC blockchain isn't verifying your transactions then, no, you have no claim to the "set" of all cryptocurrencies. The set of pretenders maybe.
Actually, if everyone simply agreed to stop running the Bitcoin software and delete the blockchain from their computers
Why would they do that?
There will only ever be 21 million bitcoins. No matter how many copycats spring into existence that number will never change.
How exactly is a Chromebook more complicated than an iPad? I have both and while they're both braindead easy to use, the Chromebook still has the upperhand in that department.
A few years ago when Windows Phone 7 came out, I remember having a blast hanging out on tech blog forums like Engadget and The Verge and trolling against it. I would write long screeds about how much it sucked, how terrible tiles were, the lackluster hardware, how much Android was better and on and on. Of course the WP7 fanboys would hit right back about how Android lagged and you need overpowered hardware just to run it and how the apps sucked and on and on. It was a blast. Really all in good fun until I finally got bored with the whole scene and moved on. I pretty much forgot about Window Phone until seeing this now. Funnily enough, it doesn't feel as triumphant as I may have thought it would. Another piece of tech whether I used it or not, snuffed out. Damn. I guess throw it on the Palm Pre, Nokia 900, Symbian, etc. pile. Now I'm getting older I'm out of the fanboy stage I'm growing a bit tired of Google and the data siphoning. Don't care for Apple and the walled garden. Hopefully something new will rise from the ashes soon. Of course something always does. Like when IE seemed unstoppable and Mozilla Sunbird/Sunfire/Phoenix, I can't even remember the exact name, started the browser revolution. Excited to see what's next.
Go fuck yourself
You don't think MS' telemetry and browser is gathering information on you at 10 times the rate of Google Chrome? If you cared that much, you'd be using an OS that doesn't support Edge in the first place.
An aside to this thread, as a child of the MS dominated 90s, I sort of dig Android being dominant on phones, Apple having tablets, MS having the desktop, and Linux more or less having servers with a healthy competition in each segment. It's not a perfect situation but it beats the shit of the bad old days when IE 6 was "the internet."
>inb4 everything is just as bad as it ever was or worse
See, this is the type of shit that happens when you hang around this place too long..
I don't eat at McDonald's but the Panera's Bread down the street has these kiosks and I've pretty much defaulted to using them every time I go. There's never a line, despite there usually being several people waiting for a cashier. The touch screen thing is just an iPad recessed into a plastic holder running some custom ordering software. If this is the future of fast food, count me in.
You do, cocksmoker since you took the time to reply.
And is it not men problem? A question for you: what is the common element in all US shootings, recent terrorist attacks in UK (including Finsbury Park) and almost all rapes?
Did you just assume all those peoples' genders, shitlord?
Hi. Go fuck yourself.
Pretty much what I was thinking. There won't even be a Sweden by 2045. At least not one that's recognizable. Seems like they've got way worse problems than carbon pollution.
Wonder how much of your data will be parsed, stored, collated and available to the IRS, NSA and others at their discretion?
I would suggest encryption then. At least for the files that are sensitive. I have a dropbox account that I use extensively to transfer stuff between all my devices but there is no way I'd put any plain text document in there without encrypting it first. Been using veracrypt. Works for me but there's always bcrypt which is a good option of you're on Linux.