It mines Gridcoin. I just don't do it 24/7.
Anyway, it's still marketed as a gaming card, so the lack of performance for the specs is pretty disheartening.
At least the word is that new drivers should resolve a lot of issues with performance.

I was really disappointed by the comparative performance of the AMD 290x 4GB vs my nVidia 650 Ti Boost 2GB.

The nVidia let's me run games like Borderlands 2 and Skyrim at max settings on my old Core 2 Duo smoothly, yet the 290X hitches and drags, almost as if it were streaming the gameplay from the hard drive. I expected a card with 2000+ shaders to be faster than that.

If my processor isn't bottlenecking the 650s performance too badly, at least the 290X should be able to cap out at something reasonable.

Scissors are good for cutting pizzas. But as someone who is not working in a clean kitchen environment while driving, if the cooks forgot to cut the pizza and the recipient complained, I'd just suggest their own scissors as a quick fix.

The first line in the Charter of Rights here in Canada blathers on about recognizing the "supremacy" of "god".
It's of some comfort that most Canadians have never read it, therefore aren't using it to push their religious agenda.
And also, most of us aren't religious nutjobs.

Your comment sucks and is below standard.

A friend's father kept his Betamax machine because he found that he could copy VHS rentals with Macrovision on them without and of the signal distortion they usually had.

Too bad that's too big to print on a tee shirt. Good rant.

There are sites I would happily support by whitelisting them in adblock, but I've seen their ad companies send infectious shit and other problematic ads down the pipe. And when it happens they block it and apologize, but that doesn't prevent anything from happening first.

A while back I went to a cannabis site to look at pics of grow ops. There were all kinds of photos taken with iPhones with the EXIF data still intact.
Meanwhile these guys were regularly accusing each other of 'narcing' about their grows. They didn't get that it wasn't someone jealous over how tall their plants were, but that they were bragging their GPS coordinates to the public with every photo attachment.

If it's not legal, don't take pictures of it.

I'm not American, eh.

They'll just let the NSA know that the national password is 'bacon' and it's back to spying as usual.

I mine Gridcoins. They're not currently traded on any exchanges but I imagine once they catch on they will have some value.
The reason being, they are tied to BOINC. The Gridcoin wallet verifies that you're working on BOINC projects and trickles coins to you as a reward.
I don't even need to run the dedicated mining tools to get some coins on the side. I just work on the research projects that BOINC is dedicated to and the coins add up.

Is it worth anything right now? Nope. But it might be in the future. And it's a reward for contributing to real-world research, not just verifying transactions.

That's the kind of coin I think will have a future. Ones that are tied to tasks of value, rather than just a clever name and a pump and dump scheme.

I've been hoping to see a coin for Render Farming as well. It would be great to be able to dedicate CPU time to works, earn coins, and either sell them off to people who want them, or use the coins within the system to buy higher priority when rendering out animations.

My canada post delivery guy in Toronto was stealing the games being sent to me for review. But since he marked them as "delivered" (eg. dropped on the doorstep) they told me it wasn't their fault.
Except I worked right by the front door, and kept it open in the summer for fresh air. If the guy had even set foot in the driveway I would have heard his footsteps on the gravel, and if he came to the doorstep I'd have been looking right at him.

Altcoins like Gridcoin seek to put that wasted electricity to use, doing BOINC work and earning coin credits for it.
Seems like a great plan, doing more than just signing transactions with busy work.

When you go to get a new driver's license, or vote, and they ask you if you want fries with that... it's time to move.

I had the DCM-6 modem found here: http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/trs80/mirrors/trs-80.com/2011/www.trs-80.com/wordpress/computers/model-i/20101015/trackback/index.html

I usually had to stop typing and wait for it to catch up :)