The fact that bitcoin is 100% tractable by governments for every single transaction makes it totally useless as cash replacement. No one wants the government tracking them when they make a small transaction over Craigslist for some lawn furniture, or have to calculate their capital gains when they trade pokemon cards at a flea market. That combined with very slow wait times to make a successful transaction and ensure you are not being ripped off, pretty much make bitcoin useless.
The ONLY thing bitcoin has right now is name recognition. Technologically it SUCKS BALLS compared to other more well designed cryptos like Monero that actually have a chance of delivering on the ideas of Bitcoin.
Bitcoin will never do it, and anyone with a clue is done with Bitcoin.
Good greif, now I read that the whole DNC thing yesterday was not even an "attack" it was just a phising email sent to some people. And they cried "muh rushians" over that.
The Nigerian Prince who sent these super scary emails to people at the DNC which made headlines in every #fakenews organization yesterday, was unavailable for comment.
I run mythtv backend on Linux VM, and use Kodi running on FireTV's to watch livetv, and recordings. Kodi has a really good MythTV frontend plugin available.
I have never seen so companies who do exactly the opposite of what their users ask for and want from them than Apple and Microsoft....oh wait, um HP, Oracle, and IBM probably fit in there too..
Hm is it just me or do all big tech companies suck
More like its an better cross-platform open alternative to OpenGL or DirectX. Sort of a next-gen OpenGL.
Basically, Vulcan is a better and more modern alternative to DirectX than OpenGL with many of the benefits of OpenGL such as cross-platform, portable, open, etc. but easier to use than OpenGL, and better performance as good or better than DirectX.
Too Late Patreon. I like many others deleted ALL my pledges and was in fact encouraged to do so by those I supported.
I deleted all my pledges via your site, and instead I have donated directly to all those who I was sending funds via your service, just as I did before you existed.
You have been cut out of the process because your only value was convenience, and that is easily replaced with direct payments and just about 5 minutes more effort to contact each person I supported individually.
BTW, I am not going back to you no matter how much you "change", the deed is done.
Frankly, I don't know why PayPal does not lift a pinky and replace you. They already have monthly subscriptions supported in their service, all they need is to spend 15 minutes adding a page that allows you to setup monthly payments yourself instead of requiring it to be initiated from the provider. You guys are one webpage and about an interns afternoon of work from PayPal away from being replaced.
In the early days, slashdot was considered the ultimate test of your website. If you could handle the inrush of users from being linked on slashdot, you could handle anything. Entire technologies and designs were created just to handle the slashdot-effect.
Hello fellow 4-digit user. I got to me taco and the guys at LinuxWorld / Comdex 1999 I think as well. I remember they would all just hang out sitting in bean bag chairs in the middle of the conference on their fancy new sony laptops that the slashdot staff was so in love with at the time.
Frankly, I see ZERO use for students to have cellphones, laptops, or tablets in school.
There is nothing they need to do that can not be done better with paper, and just having a few computers available in the room for research etc.
Constant possession of devices is NOTHING but a huge distraction in the classroom and contributes to the sick addiction behaviors I see in nearly an entire generation.
Not to mention that many schools put these devices in the hands of children and have no clue how to manage or police their use to only appropriate purposes.
The rush to add tables,laptops etc into classrooms is one of the biggest mistakes in educational history.
The were called "radio phones/car phones". They were in use since the late 1940's and were quite popular in the 60s, 70s, and through the early 80s and often found in Limousines etc, before cell phones.
This author does not really know what they are talking about.
Uber will eventually die on its own, because it is unsustainable.
As soon as everyone realizes that fact that most Uber drivers actually LOSE MONEY when you figure in the low rates they pay people combined with the total cost of driving for them (insurance, gas, auto maintenance, etc) most honest figures come up with either less than minimum wages or you are actually losing money on the deal.
Well I have that as well, but frankly being able to fire up an Ubuntu shell in a window has made me much more productive. It has replaced using putty, winscp, notepad++, TortoiseGIT, and god knows what else I used to have to do just to get stuff done when stuck with the corporate standard Windows desktop.
It is my main interface now to ssh to systems to support them, transfer files back and forth to my desktop, edit files, use git, etc.
I am quite addicted to WSL now myself. It would be even better if there were multiple distros to chose from such as RHEL, Centos, Fedora, Debian etc in addition to Ubuntu.
Haha.. just noticed that this is bringing out all us low digit Slashdot users.:)
My first was a TRS80 Model 1, learned some basic on that.
Next I moved onto using a PDP11 running RSTS at school and becoming a student sysadmin and learning Pascal and Fortran and playing TREK:) Ahh the memories of Control-G bombing people's VT52 terminals so they would make that horrible buzzer sound you could hear half way across the computer lab.
Then my first serious home computer was a Commodore-64 the first week they came out. I used that for all sorts of hacking, BBSing, dialup to school mainframes, learning Motorola assembly, learning to be a pirate and bypass copy protections etc.. huge fun that system was all the way into college.
Got a 386SX when they first became semi-affordable (1500). Used that to do DOS stuff, and started running Linux in late 1993 simply because I needed a free C-compiler environment for university homework, by dialing-up a BBS in Ohio and downloading all the floppies for Yggdrasil Linux insdtall. So, I started using Linux before it had ANY sort of gui or X support(other than MGR), and before it had TCPIP networking(unless you hacked in the KA9Q stuff originally written for hams using packet radio on different systems yourself).
Am I the only one who THAT is the reason you went to IMDB?
The message boards is where you could find people discussing when the next season of a show was going to premier, talk about how the filming of an upcoming movie is going and if it is delayed, discussion about a recent episode, talk about a plot, alternative theories on what something in the plot meant, news about long lost actors/actresses, tidbits about a show/movie etc..
Other than looking up the list of actors which you can just do on Wikipedia, the message boards WAS THE REASON you went to IMDB.
Now there will be zero reason to go there, and just go to wikipedia insted.
I am not going to bother getting a TV until 2018 or so when ATSC 3.0 tuners are included. No way I want to spend money on a new 4K TV and then be stuck in a couple of years having to have some lame external ATSC tuner and/or sell it and get a newer TV just a few years later.
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So basically they are teaching it to lie, and push whatever narrative the establishment wants them to push?
TOO bad it did not have the technology.
The fact that bitcoin is 100% tractable by governments for every single transaction makes it totally useless as cash replacement. No one wants the government tracking them when they make a small transaction over Craigslist for some lawn furniture, or have to calculate their capital gains when they trade pokemon cards at a flea market. That combined with very slow wait times to make a successful transaction and ensure you are not being ripped off, pretty much make bitcoin useless.
The ONLY thing bitcoin has right now is name recognition. Technologically it SUCKS BALLS compared to other more well designed cryptos like Monero that actually have a chance of delivering on the ideas of Bitcoin.
Bitcoin will never do it, and anyone with a clue is done with Bitcoin.
OR maybe they have been in the military or go camping where you don't have all the foo foo creamers, sweetners and syrups.
Good greif, now I read that the whole DNC thing yesterday was not even an "attack" it was just a phising email sent to some people. And they cried "muh rushians" over that.
The Nigerian Prince who sent these super scary emails to people at the DNC which made headlines in every #fakenews organization yesterday, was unavailable for comment.
I run mythtv backend on Linux VM, and use Kodi running on FireTV's to watch livetv, and recordings. Kodi has a really good MythTV frontend plugin available.
>Microsoft is looking to drive users away
So they have basically become Apple.
I have never seen so companies who do exactly the opposite of what their users ask for and want from them than Apple and Microsoft....oh wait, um HP, Oracle, and IBM probably fit in there too..
Hm is it just me or do all big tech companies suck
More like its an better cross-platform open alternative to OpenGL or DirectX. Sort of a next-gen OpenGL.
Basically, Vulcan is a better and more modern alternative to DirectX than OpenGL with many of the benefits of OpenGL such as cross-platform, portable, open, etc. but easier to use than OpenGL, and better performance as good or better than DirectX.
Agreed. There is no more accurate fictional account of what working in technical careers is really like than Dilbert.
Too Late Patreon. I like many others deleted ALL my pledges and was in fact encouraged to do so by those I supported.
I deleted all my pledges via your site, and instead I have donated directly to all those who I was sending funds via your service, just as I did before you existed.
You have been cut out of the process because your only value was convenience, and that is easily replaced with direct payments and just about 5 minutes more effort to contact each person I supported individually.
BTW, I am not going back to you no matter how much you "change", the deed is done.
Frankly, I don't know why PayPal does not lift a pinky and replace you. They already have monthly subscriptions supported in their service, all they need is to spend 15 minutes adding a page that allows you to setup monthly payments yourself instead of requiring it to be initiated from the provider. You guys are one webpage and about an interns afternoon of work from PayPal away from being replaced.
If it's not Boeing, I'm not going (to mars).
In the early days, slashdot was considered the ultimate test of your website. If you could handle the inrush of users from being linked on slashdot, you could handle anything. Entire technologies and designs were created just to handle the slashdot-effect.
Hello fellow 4-digit user. I got to me taco and the guys at LinuxWorld / Comdex 1999 I think as well. I remember they would all just hang out sitting in bean bag chairs in the middle of the conference on their fancy new sony laptops that the slashdot staff was so in love with at the time.
It aint what it used to be but I still read it.
Frankly, I see ZERO use for students to have cellphones, laptops, or tablets in school.
There is nothing they need to do that can not be done better with paper, and just having a few computers available in the room for research etc.
Constant possession of devices is NOTHING but a huge distraction in the classroom and contributes to the sick addiction behaviors I see in nearly an entire generation.
Not to mention that many schools put these devices in the hands of children and have no clue how to manage or police their use to only appropriate purposes.
The rush to add tables,laptops etc into classrooms is one of the biggest mistakes in educational history.
The were called "radio phones/car phones". They were in use since the late 1940's and were quite popular in the 60s, 70s, and through the early 80s and often found in Limousines etc, before cell phones.
This author does not really know what they are talking about.
>aware of some small websites in perl but no large scale ones.
Ever hear of a little website called "Yahoo!"?? Yep, perl.
Frankly I would much rather use Perl, but its not cool and people will complain if I did.
So I use Python because no one complains about it.
I noticed this today. Like 5 in a row were anti-trump blah blah blah.
/. out of my RSS feeds.
If this SJW crap does not stop I am deleting
Uber will eventually die on its own, because it is unsustainable.
As soon as everyone realizes that fact that most Uber drivers actually LOSE MONEY when you figure in the low rates they pay people combined with the total cost of driving for them (insurance, gas, auto maintenance, etc) most honest figures come up with either less than minimum wages or you are actually losing money on the deal.
Uber is a scam.
Well, if they ever do that will be the first.
All I have ever seen is innuendo and guesses, and absolutely zero actual proof of them doing anything.
ACTUALLY Kodi is one of the best front end players for MythTV for making your own whole house DVR, LiveTV system.
Combine that with the ability to play your video own library of videos/DVD's and its a great media center.
That is what I use it for.
Everyone is saying "run a VM".
Well I have that as well, but frankly being able to fire up an Ubuntu shell in a window has made me much more productive. It has replaced using putty, winscp, notepad++, TortoiseGIT, and god knows what else I used to have to do just to get stuff done when stuck with the corporate standard Windows desktop.
It is my main interface now to ssh to systems to support them, transfer files back and forth to my desktop, edit files, use git, etc.
I am quite addicted to WSL now myself. It would be even better if there were multiple distros to chose from such as RHEL, Centos, Fedora, Debian etc in addition to Ubuntu.
Haha.. just noticed that this is bringing out all us low digit Slashdot users. :)
:) Ahh the memories of Control-G bombing people's VT52 terminals so they would make that horrible buzzer sound you could hear half way across the computer lab.
My first was a TRS80 Model 1, learned some basic on that.
Next I moved onto using a PDP11 running RSTS at school and becoming a student sysadmin and learning Pascal and Fortran and playing TREK
Then my first serious home computer was a Commodore-64 the first week they came out. I used that for all sorts of hacking, BBSing, dialup to school mainframes, learning Motorola assembly, learning to be a pirate and bypass copy protections etc.. huge fun that system was all the way into college.
Got a 386SX when they first became semi-affordable (1500). Used that to do DOS stuff, and started running Linux in late 1993 simply because I needed a free C-compiler environment for university homework, by dialing-up a BBS in Ohio and downloading all the floppies for Yggdrasil Linux insdtall. So, I started using Linux before it had ANY sort of gui or X support(other than MGR), and before it had TCPIP networking(unless you hacked in the KA9Q stuff originally written for hams using packet radio on different systems yourself).
Good times. Computers suck now.
Am I the only one who THAT is the reason you went to IMDB?
The message boards is where you could find people discussing when the next season of a show was going to premier, talk about how the filming of an upcoming movie is going and if it is delayed, discussion about a recent episode, talk about a plot, alternative theories on what something in the plot meant, news about long lost actors/actresses, tidbits about a show/movie etc..
Other than looking up the list of actors which you can just do on Wikipedia, the message boards WAS THE REASON you went to IMDB.
Now there will be zero reason to go there, and just go to wikipedia insted.
I am not going to bother getting a TV until 2018 or so when ATSC 3.0 tuners are included. No way I want to spend money on a new 4K TV and then be stuck in a couple of years having to have some lame external ATSC tuner and/or sell it and get a newer TV just a few years later.