So how does a 40 year old computer system get replaced and only doubles the number of flights capable of being tracked?

Tracking double the number of flights likely requires about 4x the about of computing power. A naive comparison grows at a rate of (n)(n-1)/2. You might be able to reduce that by not comparing aircraft that aren't going to be anywhere near each other (e.g. a plane in Washington D.C. cannot readily crash into a plane in Los Angeles, CA until they get close to halfway across the country), but still....

No it's 'disruptive' aka the buzzword that Silicon Valley douches use about their latest fart app.

In this instance if a bunch of payment terminals were set up, the government would just ban it and it would go back to the fringes.

They aren't replacing the local Peso with Bitcoin. They're just using Bitcoin as a transactional currency to run an unregulated currency exchange. Bitcoins in this instance are essentially a proxy for US dollars.

If I have $100 USD and I want to convert it to Pesos I can either go to a regulated currency exchange which apparently is attempting to combat inflation by keeping the peso value low or you can exchange your $100USD for say 0.5 bitcoins on the open bitcoin market. Then you find someone who wants "bitcoins" aka USD and you sell them your bitcoins in exchange for pesos at market rates.

The person who sold you pesos for Bitcoins really just wants USD (or Euros).

Now doing this is almost certainly illegal if the government has mandated exchange rates since all you're doing is adding an intermediary step but ultimately performing a currency exchange illicitly. All you've done is employed Bitcoin as an escrow service.

But as the article points out... it's really just a way to streamline an existing black market in money changing. And the reason the black market has to exist at all is because legal money changing it a bad deal.

So as soon as bitcoin actually becomes popular enough to disrupt the existing black-market it'll also be popular enough to attract government intervention as has been done to the banks.

Essentially all this article is saying is "Look at this awesome black market full of illicit goods! Look at how great it is!" Which is true of every black market until it actually grows large enough to warrant a response from the government.

Or not understanding the basics of the written language. I've seen more than one example where a word is composed of two characters but one of the them is written in traditional and the other is in simplified. That's like getting a word tattoo that is in two different fonts with part of it in Olde English script (and spellings) and the other in modern sans serif.

You don't have to RTFM to use the watch. That doesn't mean that there are no conditions which may cause problems with a product. To hold Apple to such a standard is ludicrous and silly. That's like saying D-Link, Netgear, and Cisco should design wireless routers that "just work" under all conditions like through 2 feet of cinder-block walls and never ever experience any sort of EM interference. Instead they have to explain that in a manual about these problems? Obviously they are all shoddy products by your standard.

So it's disrupting the Argentine Economy... but only in a way that's so small as to be imperceptible. Gotcha.

Maybe IT workers aren't all dumb enough to worship the free market?

Yeah. I forgot about those.

You also have to ensure a thick crusting of bugs and crap on the front of the car. I think it's illegal to get them cleaned.

I do love NM though. Can't get good chile in London :(

That's true, but FireFox and Chrome don't maintain backwards compatibility forever, either. Firefox 16 and Chrome 21 are the last versions that support 10.5. And older, 32-bit-only machines are limited to Chrome 38 even if they're running 10.6.x. Otherwise, I think they're both still supporting 10.6.8 for now, but it is probably just a matter of time.

IIRC, they already don't support certain features on old operating systems. For example, Chrome supports WebGL only on 10.8 and later (unless they've changed that recently). So although the UI might be getting updated and security holes might be getting fixed, they're still not getting the full upgrade experience.

Never mind a marathon, have you ever watched a near-toddler learning learning to "walk"?

After they manage to reliably lever themselves up on to two feet, they kinda tip forwards and hurtle towards whatever they want to reach at the best speed they can make which is something approaching a dead run (not like an adult sprint, but it's not like an adult walk either).

This usually leads to them crashing into something and falling over, though they generally only cry if an adult can see them.

So, in fact kids pretty much learn to run as the first thing and actually learning an efficient wallk comes a lot later.

And I certainly agree about the marathon (I've only run 13 miles, but the point stands). I used ot take off and get rapidly out of breath. These days I can run 10k cold (having not done any running or indeed exercise in about 3-4 months), mostly because I have learned how to run and pace myself. It took quite a lot of practice and yes, walking didn't help at all.

WinRT has supported C++ as long as it's existed. What they added was C++ Android compatibility.

Nokia already did that for the Nokia-X. Maybe that's why Microsoft bought Nokia.

Being anti-H-1B is progressive. Progressives generally believe that corporate abuse of workers is bad, and H-1Bs represent the ultimate pathway to worker abuse, by creating a class of people who cannot afford to demand equal pay (because if their employer terminates them, they have to leave the U.S.), who have a harder time moving from company to company (or at least who perceive themselves to have a harder time, which in practice is basically the same thing), and who therefore will end up working for substandard wages by local standards.

And then those H-1B workers end up depending on government subsidies, low-income housing, etc. because the cost of living in high-tech areas is based on typical salaries, not H-1B salaries. In effect, everyone else in the area pays to support these people, solely because their employers were too cheap to pay them properly.

Progressives tend to take a dim view of turning our country into a caste system. Just saying.