you'll be lucky to make more than your bank would have given you for the same amount of cash in a savings account.
I moved my money to Ally CDs because Chase savings accounts pay 0.01% APY.
And at least that doesn't "devalue" over time.
While fiat currencies inflate, Bitcoin keeps on deflating.
What does Java do that a piece of Python\Perl\Ruby\Lisp script can't do
Run on Java ME phones is one. Acceptable performance through recompilation to native code is another. Last time I checked, Python, Perl, and Ruby were interpreted, with expectation that inner loops would be factored out into a library written in C++ and called through ctypes or the other languages' equivalents. Java threading also beats Python's Global Interpreter Lock.
Because cell phone plans suck.
Agreed.
And this is ultimately why people stick with POTS.
I press a button, say "call " and then either click the number or say which one it is.
Doing so requires a smartphone, and in Slashdot's home country, the top carriers (Verizon, Sprint/Boost/Virgin, and AT&T) require all smartphones to be activated on a data plan. A lot of parents don't want to pay for a data plan for each of their single-digit-year-old children.
Call is ringing within 5 seconds.
And it's using up two minutes on your plan per minute that you're connected: one for the caller and one for the callee. A lot of families don't want to pay what carriers want to charge for unlimited calling because they don't make enough outgoing long-distance calls for it to actually be cheaper than POTS.
Why would you make so many calls to other rooms in the house. Stand up, walk around
Not everybody has that luxury.
Stop dropping your phones.
Good luck getting your single-digit-year-old children to do the same.
Saying that musicians held a gun to people's heads and demanded money is about as ridiculous as saying every single store holds a gun to your head and demands money
I can't live without eating, and I pretty much can't buy food without going in a grocery store that has major label music playing, with a percentage of the price of food going to the record industry as a performance royalty. And say I wanted to write and record my own music. How should I do so without running a risk of being sued for accidental infringement like George Harrison was?
Granted, you couldn't copy a song, because there was no audio recording equipment
You don't need audio recording equipment to copy a musical score. And some scores were even machine-readable, such as those for player pianos.
So... how come most of the people I saw at the concert last year were youngsters? University student age.
Probably because the concert was at one of the few venues of that scale that still allows under-21 fans to attend. A lot of touring bands end up playing at venues that serve too much alcohol to be considered "restaurants" under the law.
when you go to install a personal music player and it asks for root the instinctive response is to hit "Cancel" and go looking for confirmation that what you downloaded is really legit because legit stuff Doesn't Do That.
"Unless you install this media device management application for all users, you will not be able to use it to transfer media to or from your media device. You will have to ask your administrator to install it for all users." Would users be fine with this behavior?
On Windows it's unusual to see an installer that even gives you the option of choosing per-user vs. system-wide.
And on common X11/Linux distributions the packages provided by your distribution are intended for a system-wide installation, not an installation to
I've never seen "faucet" spelled that way. Googling it points to Steve Fossett. Australian spelling, maybe? Is it a Britishism? Canadian?
From 1997 to 2003 I had a Quake web site, The Springfield Fragfest. Every December it sported presents: skins, maps, MP3s, Quake Christmas Carols. It's been fifteen years since it's been up.
Ever see two ships using those flashing lamp things to talk in morse code? They are communicating at the speed of light.
Data transfer speed is in baud, or bps, or Gb/s, or Encyclopedia Britannicas/s - never metres per second.
I think less than 1/10th of the US population has a telephone in their house that will work solely from CO power on the line pair without a wall wart.
Then I should be glad I'm among this 10 percent smart enough to keep a wired phone to report a blackout.
A common solution to this is to tell people just to text instead of making calls, that helps reduce the load on the cellular infrastructure.
And 80 cents to the phone company, 40 to send and 40 to receive, when people pay for plenty of minutes but no texts. And people struggling with figuring out how to text on a flip phone. And the POTS lines still tied up by relay calls made by the carrier when someone on a cell phone texts someone on POTS.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
