They don't tell you where to get it. And no source available from the website. Before they go into oracle territory they need a product and a price tag.
Same people that would give you dollars in exchange for Pesos, I guess. People is doing this right now, so they probably have some utility for Pesos.
In this particular case, it is easy. An entity sets up a bit-coin exchange outside of Argentina. A person from Argentina buys bit-coins in that exchange by transferring the Pesos where the exchange is located (this is not forbidden for now, Argentinians can buy foreign products, in this case bit-coin, using Pesos). Then since outside of Argentina there are no capital controls for Pesos, the Pesos are exchanged into dollars at current international rate in the bit-coin exchange. At this point neither the Argentinian nor the bit-coin exchange have Pesos anymore. Both are happy.
Off course, after getting bit-coins I would exchange the bit-coin back into Dollars or Euros or whatever outside of Argentina. That way I woudn't need to bet on the long term viability of bit-coin.
This is where bit-coin can be a good option. Independent from the future of the currency, right now it can be used to move money around without capital controls.
If I were Argentinian and I wouldn't be allowed to exchange pesos into foreign currency, I would exchange pesos into bit-coins as soon as I get them. Better than nothing.
There are a number of users that will be happy to buy from steam if it is available for Linux. I am one of them and here is the description
I have grown used to buying apps for my Androis phone. The reason are: - It is convenient - prices are not outrigeous, so I can do impusle buying
Now, I don't use Windows and I don't feel like rebooting into it just for playing. I don't feel like maintaining the Windows OS, so I don't play games except the few Free/free Linux games coming in my distro. But I will purchase and play some of the classic games if they are available in Steam for Linux.
What you are describing is the process of commercialising a product, and also the process of regulation capture. Most of the money invested here hasn't gone to research and development, but has been used to create barriers to competition. So instead of having three or four companies competing for a market we end up with only one. We have created a monopoly and therefore slowing progress in an area that could benefit all of us.
Many many researches with new ideas about how to improve on robotic surgery are not pursuing them because they know it is almost impossible to bring them to market unless you sell them to Intuitive Surgical for peanuts.
Wait another five years and you'll find that even without a phone, the millions of cammeras embedded anyware will give enough biometrics to big brother's computers to track anyone outside their houses. All this they will cross reference with license plates, rfid tags, cell tower information, gps inside your phone, IP addresses you use, credit card transactions, electronic wallet transactions, and some other things that I miss.
The end result will be a historic log with your every physical movement, electronic communication and economic transaction.
No way to avoid this. We are going straight to distopia. At least I can't see any way to stop it, although I hate it as much as you.
The only way to make it barely acceptable would be to get the governments and corporations to be more transparent. Good luck with that. Child pornography, terrorism and Chinese corporate spies will be used to make sure that more and more information is hidden from us.
The western world has been taking the products built in china, paying by printing dollars/euros they didn't intend to back with value. This is highly unethical and a bad strategy for the long term, but that is what has allowed the current consumerism society and citizens expect it to keep going.
Now this globalization tactic has killed their local economies, ability to produce stuff and turned them into parasites. The only option forward is trying to produce stuff like the Chinese, erect commerce barriers, or wait until the Chinese standard of life grows enough so we don't have to compete with slaves.
I think the strategy taken is #3. Problem is, this is economic suicide.
Well, if we go with the current U.S. "intelectual property" laws, the U.S. wouldn't be able to use any of this newly patented Chinese stuff without risking (oh the irony) commercial sanctions from China.
And once you have confirmed this fact, you should start searching for jobs instead of trying to redo the full IT structure of your company by yourself.
Agreed, but in any case, from what I remember from my physics degree, wave functions have a value in all points, covering all of the universe. I would expect that if two wave functions overlap in space, they would interact. This result seems intuitive to me.
Maybe I am not understanding something. Can two wave functions be completely un-entangled in reality? My understanding is that when we use wave functions to solve problems we artificially separate two parts of the universe: the system we are considering and the rest. But that is just an aproximation, since for non theoretical cases the system we are considering is a part of the universe and has been interacting with the other parts forever, so it must be entangled with them in infinite ways.
Lets say Google wins and Dalvik is legally cleared. We could code in Scala and run on a grown up Dalvik VM (I know it doesn't scale to big hardware, but that surely can be fixed). This would keep the investment in java APIs and skills and give us a gradual path to bypass all Oracle stuff.
Then we could forget about Oracle forever. I would be really happy.
If you look at all the available safety systems coming in the next generation of cars:
- automatic braking - infrared night vision - reverse backup sensors - adaptive cruise control - lane departure warning systems - traction control systems - electronic stability control - emergency brake assist - cornering brake control - precrash system - automated parking
It is just a couple of steps away from turning you into a mere supervisor of your car's automatic driving. If you add fuel efficiency to the safety concerns, it will add a new set or constraints that will give automatic driving an advantage over human driving.
Also, at what point did it become a good idea to buy illegal drugs over the Internet? What exactly do you plan on doing when your 10k in Cocaine doesn't show up at your doorstep?
It is easy. You start small, and if they show themselves reliable, you do bigger deals.
The last trade should be either a very small one, so you don't care a lot about the loss if they don't deliver, or if it is a bigger one, it should be a small percentage of the accumulated amount you have spent prior to it. In that case is not in the best interest of the dealer to lose a regular customer.
It is called reputation. For the dealer it takes work and effort to build a relationship with your customers, and it is worth more than what the dealer would get by taking the money from the last trade and running.
So in order for a 10k deal to happen, you would have spent something like between 100k and 1 million before. In that case, if the deal goes wrong, you should be more concerned about the loss of a good dealer than the actual money.
Well, they are buying skype's user base, and their contact database, and stopping it from working on competing platforms (android being the clear target here).
This is it. A bit stupid in my mind. But this is Microsoft.
I hope Google gets its way on court, scales up the Dalvik VM and we stop using anything coming from Oracle. Tomcat would run happily on it and we would use a completely Free/Free/No patents virtual machine. Kind of like they are doing with WebM. That would result in companies becoming really careful when trying to take open source code and screw up with it.
The USA has lost all manufacturing jobs to Asia and it hopes to survive creating "intellectual property". This is a case of a USA company suing Asian manufacturers for royalties. Chances are that if you explain this to a Congress representative, he will side with Microsoft.
Of course this is a foolish thing to do, because "intellectual property" is a faulty concept that can only be enforced in a society without freedom of speech. So if the USA is successful its people live in tyranny and if it fails its economy and superpower status will go down the drain.
Actually, once the phone company is just a carrier, it will be so much easier to run open source VoIP products as the phone company won't try to actively stop us from using them. Having skype on cellphones gets us half way along that path.
Maybe Oracle and Google have secretly agreed to create this circus in order to show the world how stupid software patents are?
If this ever makes it to the supreme court, the most likely result is the invalidation of the whole software patents idea. Specially after the media has gone over it again and again and people is educated about how stupid software patents are, judges included.
Here lies Joe, he had no medical insurance and the only available means for him to get some (admittedly bad quality) medical diagnostics on his melanoma where forbidden by the bureaucracy for "safety" reasons.
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Google spanner of code ?
They don't tell you where to get it. And no source available from the website. Before they go into oracle territory they need a product and a price tag.
Same people that would give you dollars in exchange for Pesos, I guess. People is doing this right now, so they probably have some utility for Pesos.
In this particular case, it is easy. An entity sets up a bit-coin exchange outside of Argentina. A person from Argentina buys bit-coins in that exchange by transferring the Pesos where the exchange is located (this is not forbidden for now, Argentinians can buy foreign products, in this case bit-coin, using Pesos). Then since outside of Argentina there are no capital controls for Pesos, the Pesos are exchanged into dollars at current international rate in the bit-coin exchange. At this point neither the Argentinian nor the bit-coin exchange have Pesos anymore. Both are happy.
Off course, after getting bit-coins I would exchange the bit-coin back into Dollars or Euros or whatever outside of Argentina. That way I woudn't need to bet on the long term viability of bit-coin.
This is where bit-coin can be a good option. Independent from the future of the currency, right now it can be used to move money around without capital controls.
If I were Argentinian and I wouldn't be allowed to exchange pesos into foreign currency, I would exchange pesos into bit-coins as soon as I get them. Better than nothing.
There are a number of users that will be happy to buy from steam if it is available for Linux. I am one of them and here is the description
I have grown used to buying apps for my Androis phone. The reason are:
- It is convenient
- prices are not outrigeous, so I can do impusle buying
Now, I don't use Windows and I don't feel like rebooting into it just for playing. I don't feel like maintaining the Windows OS, so I don't play games except the few Free/free Linux games coming in my distro. But I will purchase and play some of the classic games if they are available in Steam for Linux.
What you are describing is the process of commercialising a product, and also the process of regulation capture. Most of the money invested here hasn't gone to research and development, but has been used to create barriers to competition. So instead of having three or four companies competing for a market we end up with only one. We have created a monopoly and therefore slowing progress in an area that could benefit all of us.
Many many researches with new ideas about how to improve on robotic surgery are not pursuing them because they know it is almost impossible to bring them to market unless you sell them to Intuitive Surgical for peanuts.
So many missed opportunities.
Wait another five years and you'll find that even without a phone, the millions of cammeras embedded anyware will give enough biometrics to big brother's computers to track anyone outside their houses. All this they will cross reference with license plates, rfid tags, cell tower information, gps inside your phone, IP addresses you use, credit card transactions, electronic wallet transactions, and some other things that I miss.
The end result will be a historic log with your every physical movement, electronic communication and economic transaction.
No way to avoid this. We are going straight to distopia. At least I can't see any way to stop it, although I hate it as much as you.
The only way to make it barely acceptable would be to get the governments and corporations to be more transparent. Good luck with that. Child pornography, terrorism and Chinese corporate spies will be used to make sure that more and more information is hidden from us.
The western world has been taking the products built in china, paying by printing dollars/euros they didn't intend to back with value. This is highly unethical and a bad strategy for the long term, but that is what has allowed the current consumerism society and citizens expect it to keep going.
Now this globalization tactic has killed their local economies, ability to produce stuff and turned them into parasites. The only option forward is trying to produce stuff like the Chinese, erect commerce barriers, or wait until the Chinese standard of life grows enough so we don't have to compete with slaves.
I think the strategy taken is #3. Problem is, this is economic suicide.
Well, if we go with the current U.S. "intelectual property" laws, the U.S. wouldn't be able to use any of this newly patented Chinese stuff without risking (oh the irony) commercial sanctions from China.
And once you have confirmed this fact, you should start searching for jobs instead of trying to redo the full IT structure of your company by yourself.
Agreed, but in any case, from what I remember from my physics degree, wave functions have a value in all points, covering all of the universe. I would expect that if two wave functions overlap in space, they would interact. This result seems intuitive to me.
Maybe I am not understanding something. Can two wave functions be completely un-entangled in reality? My understanding is that when we use wave functions to solve problems we artificially separate two parts of the universe: the system we are considering and the rest. But that is just an aproximation, since for non theoretical cases the system we are considering is a part of the universe and has been interacting with the other parts forever, so it must be entangled with them in infinite ways.
Lets say Google wins and Dalvik is legally cleared. We could code in Scala and run on a grown up Dalvik VM (I know it doesn't scale to big hardware, but that surely can be fixed). This would keep the investment in java APIs and skills and give us a gradual path to bypass all Oracle stuff.
Then we could forget about Oracle forever. I would be really happy.
If you look at all the available safety systems coming in the next generation of cars:
- automatic braking
- infrared night vision
- reverse backup sensors
- adaptive cruise control
- lane departure warning systems
- traction control systems
- electronic stability control
- emergency brake assist
- cornering brake control
- precrash system
- automated parking
It is just a couple of steps away from turning you into a mere supervisor of your car's automatic driving.
If you add fuel efficiency to the safety concerns, it will add a new set or constraints that will give automatic driving an advantage over human driving.
Is this the same Microsoft that is suing companies for using Linux in their Android mobile phones?
Also, at what point did it become a good idea to buy illegal drugs over the Internet? What exactly do you plan on doing when your 10k in Cocaine doesn't show up at your doorstep?
It is easy. You start small, and if they show themselves reliable, you do bigger deals.
The last trade should be either a very small one, so you don't care a lot about the loss if they don't deliver, or if it is a bigger one, it should be a small percentage of the accumulated amount you have spent prior to it. In that case is not in the best interest of the dealer to lose a regular customer.
It is called reputation. For the dealer it takes work and effort to build a relationship with your customers, and it is worth more than what the dealer would get by taking the money from the last trade and running.
So in order for a 10k deal to happen, you would have spent something like between 100k and 1 million before. In that case, if the deal goes wrong, you should be more concerned about the loss of a good dealer than the actual money.
Well, they are buying skype's user base, and their contact database, and stopping it from working on competing platforms (android being the clear target here).
This is it. A bit stupid in my mind. But this is Microsoft.
it means that you shouldn't dismiss faith as "magical thinking" that can't exist in the same mind as critical observation
Agreed, but it means (to me) that I can dismiss faith as "magical thinking" that __can__ exist in the same mind as critical observation.
I hope Google gets its way on court, scales up the Dalvik VM and we stop using anything coming from Oracle. Tomcat would run happily on it and we would use a completely Free/Free/No patents virtual machine. Kind of like they are doing with WebM. That would result in companies becoming really careful when trying to take open source code and screw up with it.
Well, you can always grow them up in datacenters :-)
The USA has lost all manufacturing jobs to Asia and it hopes to survive creating "intellectual property". This is a case of a USA company suing Asian manufacturers for royalties. Chances are that if you explain this to a Congress representative, he will side with Microsoft.
Of course this is a foolish thing to do, because "intellectual property" is a faulty concept that can only be enforced in a society without freedom of speech. So if the USA is successful its people live in tyranny and if it fails its economy and superpower status will go down the drain.
Actually, once the phone company is just a carrier, it will be so much easier to run open source VoIP products as the phone company won't try to actively stop us from using them. Having skype on cellphones gets us half way along that path.
Maybe Oracle and Google have secretly agreed to create this circus in order to show the world how stupid software patents are?
If this ever makes it to the supreme court, the most likely result is the invalidation of the whole software patents idea. Specially after the media has gone over it again and again and people is educated about how stupid software patents are, judges included.
There will go straight to ebay and the money from the sale used to buy android terminals :-)
Here lies Joe, he had no medical insurance and the only available means for him to get some (admittedly bad quality) medical diagnostics on his melanoma where forbidden by the bureaucracy for "safety" reasons.