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We know what happens when a currency undergoes massive deflation - Germany in the 1930's or, more recently, Zimbabwe happens.
Well... at least you were modded "Interesting" instead of "Informative".
Both of those were examples of hyper-*inflation*, not *deflation*
By nicely you mean very little content compared to today. By nicely you mean not able to make money.
It's the obnoxious, intrusive and privacy-stealing ads that are the problem.
That's part of the problem yes.
The other part of the problem is that people such as yourself see "not able to make money" as part of the "problem" with the pre-hyper-commercialized web.
Not everything needs to be squeezed until it makes a buck, but as long as people keep seeing everything in the world with fucking dollar signs in their eyes the problem will continue.
Was part of the "problem" with gas handle pumps that they didn't have space for another ad? 'cause we solved that problem.
How about airliner tray tables? They couldn't make money, but we sure addressed that one.
And long stretches of road with greenery and shit visible? The issue there was it just wasn't making money! But don't worry, we fixed it.
Advertising is societal corrosion. It eats away at our experiences, it reshapes our thoughts, it homogenizes and neuters our culture, and it's all because people such as yourself see "not making any money" as an inherent problem with all sorts of aspects of our lives.
As opposed to actual Model Ms which are still made. With the same switch design. By many of the same workers. On the same machines.
Why bother "emulating" the buckling spring feel when you can get a brand new keyboard with real buckling springs. Oh, and it's made in the USA too!
(Also, they have keyboard layouts that offer the Ctrl key in the correct location. 'cause it's about damn time...)
> If it is legal to edit the source of a web page on the fly, why is it illegal for media boxes to skip advertisements on television programmes?
Because it's not illegal to do that.
Most of those, actually, in both code and cash (and some in both). Which you'd know if you actually followed BSD development.
Nor is it being used as a currency right now. A currency is something people hold, spend, get paid in, etc. Bitcoin is basically used only for three things:
And you base this on....
What exactly?
No, really. I mean, with a traditional currency you have a variety of financial sources you can draw stats from, but with Bitcoin? Given the nature of Bitcoin, there's only one place you could have pulled that figure...
Yeah, well... I still use the US dollar despite that.
Kidding aside, I have to wonder why people such as yourself like to sling mud at the idea? If I didn't know better I'd suspect jealousy.
On a related note, I think the FCC should make Caller ID both required and un-forgeable. (An individual could still choose to not have his Caller ID revealed, and that would be indicated on your Caller ID display.)
Or just nix it, use ANI, and make sure that ANI data's sent for all calls.
Yes, much better that we remain isolationist. After all, market distortions only improve the longer you leave them in place!
Kidding aside, the silver lining here -- and it is a substantial one -- is that the follow-up story should be (and is): "Aging IT Workers Returning as Higher-Paid Consultants to Fix Fuck-Ups of H-1B Visa Workers".
Don't you get the irony of Phoenix? It's a small and light version of Firefox which was a small and light version of Mozilla. It's turtles all the way down man.
Uh... I think he does. Firefox used to be called Firebird. You know why? Because hey had to change the original name: Phoenix.
"They" who?
The WINE project?
No. That's never been the model, actually, since there's no business model. It's an open source project. That said, like any free software project, it's easier to motivate people to fix the bugs that you care about if you show up with patches or donations -- but neither is necessary.
Now if you're referring to Codeweavers, then yes, actually, that is part of their business model.
I thought that anyone could run anything on 8. I know my Win8 laptop runs lots of things that aren't in any app store. I think it's an optional walled garden. There are plenty of problems with MS, you don't need to make up any more.
For the developers, not the users.
If you want to write a "Metro" (Windows Store) app, you must get a special license from Microsoft and must ship via the Windows Store or you'll be locked out of at least some of the Windows 8 devices (since they'll need to have sideloading enabled -- and not everything will).
Yes, for now it's a minor restriction, but when has Microsoft ever tried to *loosen* its control in subsequent generations?
Outside of Metro, what's different between 8 and 7 (especially in tablet form)?
Providing support for a walled garden design which restricts developers who don't play the "app store" game.
If they weren't on your website, (or if they don't provide the header, an act to be widely discouraged)
Excuse me?
No, actually, it's not an act to be "widely discouraged". Why? Because I don't trust you. Shit, I run several large sites and I wouldn't want my users to trust me with that sort of thing. Ok, I can at least see a case for providing it for intra-site requests, but it's absolutely a bad thing from a privacy standpoint to tell every site where you were previously.
Plus, you know, what with Google serving their results over HTTPS, there's not going to be a ref. header for the subsequent request to your site.
Seriously though, HTTP_REFERRER should burn in a fire. It's right up there with SMTP: a vestige from a time when networks consisted of admins and users who generally could be trusted to do the right thing. Those days are over. Sorry.
Now sending a User Agent header... that's at least a *little* more defensible (though not much...)
You'd point to data denying global warming or the link between smoking and cancer as being from an industry source, why are you so quick to accept data from the sugar industry?
You know why this is different?
Because in those cases, there's good data from neutral parties that smoking increases the risk of lung cancer and that the earth is getting warmer.
But that HFCS is worse, measure-for-measure, than sucrose when in food consumed by healthy adults?
The data just ain't there. Sorry. It's just not. And no, that Princeton study that you're trying to find the link for right now doesn't count.
Q: What is the difference between a duck? A: One leg is both the same.