Comment Re:This might be a dumb question... (Score 1) 148
Are the Bitcoin skeptics like me allowed to be smug yet?
As soon as you blame USD and Euro for old-fashioned scams.
Are the Bitcoin skeptics like me allowed to be smug yet?
As soon as you blame USD and Euro for old-fashioned scams.
Running a GPU bitcoin miner on your computer is more profitable. You can find throwaway computers is the bargin bin at Goodwill with 512 core GPUs. They get a lot hotter than modern GPUs, but if the electricity is free, who cares?
Surely you don't mean mining Bitcoins directly? There are much more profitable GPU coins, as in profitable even when you pay for electricity.
"I use lightweight WMs such as XFCE or Openbox. Not a fan of the bloat..."
Where did XFCE get this lightweight reputation? It surely doesn't look very polished (based on looking over other people's shoulders only).
This. Openbox is a good example of a light WM, but XFCE is more like a desktop environment, with all the Windowsy cruft like the start menu, and all the panels that take up screen space and visual attention.
Personally, I use Fluxbox with plenty of virtual screens, because I want to focus on doing one thing at a time. I don't want constant reminders of what other programs are running or might possibly be running somewhere in the background -- I trust the computer to handle them for me.
Yep, it works.
That's what she sed.
The biggest technical issue with accessibility is the fixation on the all-in-one user interface and application model. If you separate the user interface from the application then you can swap out the UI for another one. I could remove the GUI and put in a speech or an interface with graphical augmentation for feedback. Or use text-to-speech for feedback. Splitting off the UI from the application makes it possible to make an application accessible without having to go through the effort of writing an accessibility interface and it reduces the cost of accessibility on the developers making it possible to make more applications accessible.
In other words, Unix philosophy for the win
There is a huge gap between what we know about sex and gender from science, and what people generally believe about sex and gender.
I see what you did there.
We did consider a model where the GPU is hanging on the side off a Thunderbolt cable, but our test group preferred the integrated one.
I still wonder if we made the right choice, though -- the bag-on-the-side would really have differentiated our product from the rest.
This is the form factor the 13' Macbook Pro should be.
More like a Mackbook - not exactly carry-on luggage for your daily commute.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -- Frank Hubbard
