Comment Re:What, no Clippy? (Score 0) 51
1) Photoshop
2) Full Office
3) World of Warcraft
4) All productivity software.
1) Photoshop
2) Full Office
3) World of Warcraft
4) All productivity software.
Who said "Desktop" the point is to get these onto Smartphones and Tablets. The fact that it'll also run on the desktop is sort of besides the point.
Because then you wouldn't be able to use any platform specific features. Also BB didn't exactly profit from that approach. If they re-compile for the native platform they are more likely to actually add a few specific features as they go like live tiles while they've got it 'open' so to speak.
Download two linux cd images in a second?
My laptop doesn't have a 2gbps ethernet port unfortunately, so I'll be stuck with one.
ITYM two in 10 seconds, since it's mega bits not mega bytes.
There's nothing xenophobic about wanting to stop the H-1B program from being a way to cut costs. If you truly need to bring in talent from overseas because you can't get it in the U.S., that's one thing, but if you are firing American workers and bringing in foreign workers to do the same job at a lower cost, that's quite another. It is abusing the system, and unfortunately, the H-1B system was practically designed to make such abuse easy.
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.
Quite a few people seem to get Chinese or Japanese tattoos without even bothering to figure out if they say what they think they say.
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.
It's Apple. The whole POINT of the thing is that you don't have to RTFM.
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.
Bitcoin Is Disrupting the Argentine Economy
The number of Bitcoin users in Argentina is relatively small; it barely registers on most charts of global Bitcoin usage.
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
Where there's a will, there's a relative.