If you knew anything about how exchanges work John, you'd know that withdrawal limits are typically imposed by the banks themselves and/or AML rules. Not your entirely unfounded theories about them being fractional reserve. Mt Gox has made many references over the years to having to negotiate with banks to up the amount of money they're allowed to transfer per day. Just one more reason why the banking system sucks. There are typically no withdraw limits on the Bitcoin side once AML verification and good security are set up.

Its not like you couldn't afford to buy a little pipsqueak like Via

Buy? VIA and Nvidia have similar revenue (4-5B/yr). The only thing that could happen would be a merger, and that would never fly because Jen-Hsun Huang would insist on running the combined company.

And there's no guarantee that the VIA x86 license would still be honored after a buyout. I believe that's one of the reasons nobody has made a move to purchase them.

Imagine laptops and tablets that could run full windows and Linux when plugged into the wall but when on battery you would switch into "uber battery" mode and get ARM battery life with none of the downsides...who wouldn't want to buy that?

I think you overestimate the demand for such a complex machine, and also forget that only since last year have you been capable of running Windows on ARM. The real solution has been to add all the ARM power optimizations to the Intel Atom, and now Haswell, so that you can get all-day battery life without compromise (and with no added hybrid system cost).

As for the value of the VIA Nano, it's reasonably impressive, but not suited for phones or tablets. A single core still uses at least 4w, but perhaps better process tech could help. A merger with Nvidia would have fixed ONE SERIOUS PROBLEM for VIA: their shitty chipets, and terrible IGP, and crappy drivers for both.

Even in prison you are actually allowed to go outside. Presumably he prefers an internet connection to being able to see the sun? What he's got now is hardly better than it he was extradited to the USA and thrown in jail, except he doesn't get to be a martyr or fight a decent trial this way.

Think maybe you replied to the wrong comment. My voice calls are fine, it's data that's abysmal.

It comes with Office, so it's a business computer that can also play the tablet game, right?

Except that there's no Outlook. Try getting business done without that.

And you can't join a domain. That goes hand-in-hand with the above.

And most critical to anyone who just wants to get work done: it's not x86-compatible, and you're limited to Windows Store apps.

Who the hell came up with this horrible hodgepodge of an OS? And who expected anyone to pay a premium price for it? They'll be lucky if they can get these things to move even for $200!

It's that cities are hard, Sprint literally has no LTE coverage in DC...at all. They're busy rolling it out to great bustling places like Chattanooga, but not the fscking nations capitol. If you look at their coverage maps for the DC region, Baltimore is mostly covered, the I-81 corridor to the west is covered, south is covered, but DC and suburbs? Not a drip of anything decent.

Our contract is up in a couple months and Verizon is looking pretty good depending on the deal I can get. I'm happy to pay for service, Sprint needs to up its game in a big big way or it's going bye bye

How do they estimate that? Seriously curious how they would have any idea what your expenditures were.

The horns grow back in 12-18 months. So trying to find and capture and tranq every rhino every 1-2 years isn't going to be viable anyway.

Actually it doesn't. By reducing supply, you make the remaining horn (that rangers can't cut off humanely) that much more valuable. It drives more people to try and poach because now it's worth even more. Oh and the horns grow back in 18-24 months, so you have to de-horn the animals repeatedly.

The horns are used for carvings too, but interesting assuming it works as described.

Go check rhino populations...it isn't helping.

I was there talking to the actual safari guides. It's what happens.

And the 'future revenue stream'? Seriously? They kill the rhino to get the horn in the first place...you can't exactly take it off them without doing so, or are you so dense to think the poachers would have tranquilizers and be 'nice' about it?

Yep, for a while over in Africa they cut the horns off rhino's to stop poachers. The result? The poachers still spent days tracking an animal only to find out it didn't have a horn - so they killed it anyway out of spite.

From the description, it sounds like it's basically a viewer for MSOffice documents with the ability to correct text and highlight things.