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The download link appears to be broken (says: this website has been temporarily suspended). Is there another location to download from?-william_r_s (April 10, 2013, 07:23 PM)
tomos,yes, windows 7 -
are you using Win7? if yes, which theme/shell? it looks very nice-kalos (April 10, 2013, 12:11 PM)
on resizing the SnapDB window, I've gotten three freezes so far-tomos (April 10, 2013, 07:51 AM)
I can reproduce this by grabbing the right side and shaking the hell out of it but not under normal circumstances. I'm going to guess the issue is in the Anchor() function that I use for positioning and resizing controls.-skwire (April 10, 2013, 10:15 AM)
i.e. it's fine in everyday use which file format is more accurate to save webpages?
that it will lossly save all the webpage and its related files, eg videos, scripts, etc, so that I will archive the webpage in fully functional form, offline-kalos (April 08, 2013, 04:53 PM)
Facebook Home will feature ads in the near future.
The current artificial and deliberate cap of about 20 million BTC numbers (objects) that can be created in/by the Bitcoin protocol is very interesting in that it is a control - it safely controls the experiment and caps the bubble that we see inflating/deflating (it is currently re-inflating after having had one major deflation).
This control affects/limits the endogenous money supply (M3) in this enclosed system, but not necessarily the velocity of circulation of the money. The latter may be theoretically unlimited, but in practice could be under a constraint set via a function determining the necessary CPU cycle time forced to be consumed in operating the protocol.-IainB (April 08, 2013, 07:22 PM)
I am very interested in, but also ambivalent about Bitcoin and crypto-currency generally, but I do at least see that in Bitcoin the currency seems to be its own gold standard (as I wrote in a separate post), and trust seems to be made irrelevant and is substituted by the security and statistical authenticity inherent in the incorruptible cryptographic protocol. I would suggest the possibility that Bitcoin - or other crypto-currency - could be considered as a potential new "gold standard", against which all other currencies could be valued.
Nationa/International settlement and exchange could even take place through the medium of the crypto-currency, thereby reducing systemic risk. Forex trading could become obsolete.-IainB (April 09, 2013, 05:33 AM)
Sure, there's lots of differences. There's the novelty thing too.You ignore the *big* difference that Bitcoin is limited. Otherwise I agree with the above.-tomos (April 08, 2013, 09:22 AM)
I think I'm probably missing something again being a bitcoin neophyte. Limited in what way?-40hz (April 08, 2013, 02:40 PM)
If there were a sudden loss of confidence in standard currencies I'd think gold and all the other commodities would be hyperinflating in market value just as rapidly. But they're not. So I don't think the Cypress banking crisis (as one often given example) is driving the bitcoin roller coaster. I think it's pure speculative "gold rushing" fueld by the usual combination of greed and ignorance at play here. It's not sustainable. And when it crashes it will be far more likely to take down bitcoin rather than anything else.-40hz (April 08, 2013, 02:40 PM)
I tend to follow about a dozen libertarian/counter-economics blogs. And needless to say, bitcoins seem to be their new poster child. However, I find it interesting that the diehard bitcoin supporters are constantly crowing about how the prices are illogically ratcheting up while at the same time criticizing national monetary policies and currencies for encouraging inflation. Same goes for the widespread bitcoin supporters' criticism of fractional reserve banking for "printing money with nothing backing it " when there is really no underlying value you can pin a bitcoin to - other than the "irrational exuberance" that is apparently driving its soaring rates.-40hz (April 08, 2013, 06:33 AM)
that got me laughing anyway