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They aren't really finite... just limited release due to processing power.
And they are not as liquid as cash for trading goods, just another place to diversify your cash assets... kind of like futures, stocks, bonds, etc. I see it as a risky investment with the dangers of having to time the market. But to each his own
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No they are actually finite. They are designed to be capped to about 22 million; the rules of mining a bitcoin makes it impossible for more than 22 million to exist.
Anyway, I agree with what you say about the risks and impracticality/security issues.
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..and LiteCoins from $4 to $26 in a week. Not very surprising, as more people are looking for alternatives for their electronically deposited fiat-currencies. Larger demand (with equal supply) implies a higher price value per object. The question is whether when gold will follow.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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In theory 1 LTC will be worth about 1/4 BTC if both coins are equally successful into being an established, secure and easy to use currency. If only I knew whether that would really happen...
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Determined lawyers—and the father of modern crypto—couldn't stop TQP patent. "When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty."
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Worse; no one goes to jury duty with the intent to acquit.
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If I could've I'd've convicted the county DA of wasting about 30 people's time when he didn't have anything approaching a case.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Can coders become business leaders? Cornell University is betting they can. "I've got the brains, you've got the looks. Let's make lots of money"
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If all you knew about me was my email address, what could you say about me? Put on your Sherlock Holmes stalker hat. Does an address by itself tell you anything at all? "Not only do millions of folks in the US continue to pay for and use AOL dial-up, but they continue to actually browse the web with AOL’s browser."
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Very interesting and insightful!
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Today, arguably, no industry is innovating more rapidly than software development. As a result, artistic expression based in coding and programming is experiencing something of a quiet renaissance. Given the vast selection of constantly changing programs, programming languages and processes for artists to work with, no piece of artwork or artistic style is exactly the same.
Quite the trippy pieces of art. I would say more of a modern art age than renaissance.
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"Quite the trippy pieces of art."
Man, I wouldn't want to take what you were taking. That stuff is just awful.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I had fun creating fire and plasma effects in highschool never played with anything like it since then.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My thoughts exactly - that stuff was old a decade ago, why is it suddenly acclaimed as art?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Can you imagine your company having a chief electricity officer? Seems ridiculous doesn’t it, but many large businesses did when electricity first started to power the industrial economy. After all, with just a good book, *anyone* can do what we do, right?
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I am not a fan of the analogy. Web is about data, electricity is not data.
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CompTIA says 80 percent of companies surveyed believe their security is satisfactory, but only 13 percent had made changes since embracing cloud and BYOD. The new "transparency in business"
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..most "don't know" and simply assume that security is satisfactory. It eats up the profit-margin, and will not be an issue until someone publicly proves that the security is broken.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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RubyMine 6.0 is fully baked up and waits for you to download and try it! The IDE for people who don't often use IDEs improves
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The IDE for people who don't often use IDEs improves
Or for people like me, who come from the world of Windows and expect a snazzy IDE for doing Rails development. And RubyMine is very impressive!
Marc
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There you go: I knew *someone* might be interested. After all, it's tough to beat a JetBrains IDE these days.
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TTFN - Kent
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Unfortunately they don't have a free version like they do for IntelliJ,
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Unfortunately they don't have a free version like they do for IntelliJ,
I am more than happy to pay to $100 for a personal license for all the hard work those folks do. Furthermore, it's free if you're doing open source development. Pricing[^] And I think there's a 30 day trial version.
Marc
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I'm not doing OSS, $100 is outside my personal out of pocket limit, and elephanting beancounters.
A month with a self destructing trial version would only make having to go back to a braindead text editor suck even worse.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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