There are ~12 million bitcoins in existence. 1 million of those belong to a single entity, with another large chunk divided among a few related entities.
It seems ridiculous to expect stability when a single person has the ability to destroy the entire bitcoin economy, probably multiple times over.
The specific parts I disagreed with are the parts where the title says the article is going to be a review of a video game, and the content of the article is actually meandering pseudo-intellectual musings on Nintendo's game release strategy by some random guy on the internet.
I thought that was pretty clear from my original post.
90% of it is just some random dork from the internet armchair quarterbacking Nintendo's release strategy. I'm sure they are furiously taking notes at Nintendo HQ.
A record number of amateur radio operators...in 40 years the population of amateur radio operators has increased from ~.15% of the population to ~.23% of the population, and the vast majority of that growth was 20 years ago.
The 90's saw 189,000 new licenses added. The next decade the number dropped to 17,000 new licenses.
It is a dying hobby. I'm sorry if that upsets you, but with the constant shrinking of non-user servicability of nearly all of the modern electronics that youth might be interested in, it is only going to drop more.
I think it is less that "people" aren't interested in how things work, anymore, and more that nobody cares about amateur radio or clunky robots.
The modern generation of people who would have been building Heathkit things years ago are building weird stuff out of Lego robotics or writing software, or any number of other outlets for inquisitiveness and ingenuity that didn't exist 30 years ago.
I wish they would go back to doing urban legends and myths instead of recreating obviously fake viral videos and lame "omg blow up this" ideas from people on their godawful forum.
Either that or just scrap the entire show and let Grant do a new iteration of Mr. Wizard.
My experiences were similar when working from home on projects with other employees, but this also happened when working offsite in general, even on multi-month projects at client offices.
When working on projects which were mainly staffed with consultants, the downsides did not exist.
Overall the benefits of working from home as often as possible seem to outweigh the negatives unless you are have other people actively trying to horn in on your job.
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The worst part about the Raptor cuts is that they cut it after the most expensive part of the program.
The cost per plane would have dropped significantly since the lines were already up and running. Meh.
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There are ~12 million bitcoins in existence. 1 million of those belong to a single entity, with another large chunk divided among a few related entities.
It seems ridiculous to expect stability when a single person has the ability to destroy the entire bitcoin economy, probably multiple times over.
They should have just went with the non-digital rights management that the original SimCity used.
That annoying piece of red paper with barely legible blue ink with the symbols on it that you had to squint at.
It is only abused if there is no easy way to quote text you are replying to, or if the edited post doesn't include some indication it was edited.
Shockingly, those two features exist on basically every other web forum and large blog in existence.
These problems are long solved.
Yeah, I know. I've been posting here under various accounts for 10+ years.
It seems like the general slashdot method of operation is to turn accidental success into intentional failure.
I imagine they will port it to Drupal eventually, but we need a really strong 10/10 book on it first and Packt hasn't released it yet.
Are there a lot of people out there who have just been chomping at the bit to change the slashdot logo?
How about fixing some of the horribly out of date and broken website code instead? Just for one day. In October!
Maybe make a mobile version of the site that is more than barely functional? For one day! In October!
Shameful.
If you work in a cubicle area, do not use a standup desk. There was always some chucklehead who would stand up while working and it annoyed everybody.
It is like having someone standing behind your chair all day.
If you have your own office, having the option of standing is probably nice.
The reviewer accidentally typed O'Reilly in the spot where Packt should go. Otherwise another solid 8/10 Drupal review.
The specific parts I disagreed with are the parts where the title says the article is going to be a review of a video game, and the content of the article is actually meandering pseudo-intellectual musings on Nintendo's game release strategy by some random guy on the internet.
I thought that was pretty clear from my original post.
Reddit does something like this.
90% of it is just some random dork from the internet armchair quarterbacking Nintendo's release strategy. I'm sure they are furiously taking notes at Nintendo HQ.
Is that instead of encouraging increasing efficiency, agile encourages increasingly inflated estimates.
There are certain types of projects where it makes sense, but they are few and far between.
It is more efficient to build a giant robot maid to attach an equally gigantic vacuum cleaner to the outer atmosphere and suck the air out.
Suck...suck...suck.
If only it had the +2 bonus modifier than Packt books get, it would be the standard slashdot "this books sucks! 8/10" score.
If you can't see a difference in the ease of entry into programming and consumer robotics today vs. 30 years ago, you are insane.
There are all kinds of tube amp plans and kits available from other sources.
It is a niche market that has taken off in the last couple of years. Look around.
A record number of amateur radio operators...in 40 years the population of amateur radio operators has increased from ~.15% of the population to ~.23% of the population, and the vast majority of that growth was 20 years ago.
The 90's saw 189,000 new licenses added. The next decade the number dropped to 17,000 new licenses.
It is a dying hobby. I'm sorry if that upsets you, but with the constant shrinking of non-user servicability of nearly all of the modern electronics that youth might be interested in, it is only going to drop more.
I think it is less that "people" aren't interested in how things work, anymore, and more that nobody cares about amateur radio or clunky robots.
The modern generation of people who would have been building Heathkit things years ago are building weird stuff out of Lego robotics or writing software, or any number of other outlets for inquisitiveness and ingenuity that didn't exist 30 years ago.
This doesn't make cable subscriptions more attractive.
All it does is make hulu less attractive than it already is.
If you gave Uwe Boll the kind of money and backing that gets thrown at Michael Bay, they would be essentially the same person.
Kurt Sutter is basically the same guy, too.
Here is a novel idea. Play the games you bought for the original PSP on the original PSP that you still own.
So crazy it just might work...
I wish they would go back to doing urban legends and myths instead of recreating obviously fake viral videos and lame "omg blow up this" ideas from people on their godawful forum.
Either that or just scrap the entire show and let Grant do a new iteration of Mr. Wizard.
Also a version of Noscript that isn't garbage. Because the attempts at cloning it that exist are garbage.
My experiences were similar when working from home on projects with other employees, but this also happened when working offsite in general, even on multi-month projects at client offices.
When working on projects which were mainly staffed with consultants, the downsides did not exist.
Overall the benefits of working from home as often as possible seem to outweigh the negatives unless you are have other people actively trying to horn in on your job.
The worst part about the Raptor cuts is that they cut it after the most expensive part of the program.
The cost per plane would have dropped significantly since the lines were already up and running. Meh.
Oh man, you got me. You're right. You should always let programmers design your interface and user experience.
The pinnacle of usability will be the result.