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« Last post by wraith808 on January 30, 2014, 10:22 AM »There's no post... only the video that you've embedded when I go to that first link.
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Notice how I also use a left handed mouse pointer. That's another visibility issue. I like a big mouse pointer but the bigger it is, the more it gets in your way. Click on a text box and by default the pointer is directly over where you're typing.-Vurbal (January 28, 2014, 08:10 PM)
Looks kind of interesting. Have you much experience with it?-MilesAhead (January 28, 2014, 04:23 PM)
I tried it briefly, but it didn't work in the context that I wanted to use it
FWIW I was running a screen scraper into excel so I wanted to group excel, the source app, and the bot in one window, but, for whatever reason, when I dragged the apps onto the task space the bot could no longer see the target app...
That said, I didn't really give it much time (I didn't really have it to spare) but I had intended to come back to it as there were a few combinations I could try...-Target (January 28, 2014, 05:10 PM)
But yes, I get your meaning. There is waste in the process, and cutting that would be better, as it would be the waste in burning fossil fuels in automotives and such, with the greenhouse emissions and reduction of those.You're deliberately missing the point. I claim that gold has a value regardless of the assumption of it being a medium of exchange. Bitcoin hashes do not have that VALUE REGARDLESS OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THEM BEING A MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE. See the phrase "in and of itself".
Anyway, this is slowly evolving into a flame war, and I don't want to be a jerk (I feel I will be in my next post, if I'm not already). So I won't reply anymore.-eleman (January 24, 2014, 07:22 AM)
when I replied there I didnt realise that was still your main focus. It is unfortunate that there is this waste involved. It would have been great it it could have been doing something useful. But that's not the case - and cannot be changed in retrospect. And I dont think it's going to stop the forward march of bitcoin.-tomos (January 24, 2014, 07:41 AM)
Well, I'd also raise the same argument against the dollar, or peso, or lira, or euro, whatever, if it did needlessly contribute to global warming. Sure they do (dead trees), but not at the scale applicable to bitcoin mining I reckon.-eleman (January 24, 2014, 06:46 AM)
I wouldn't discount the shine as a source of value. Value is defined as the likelihood to get something else in return. I could imagine shiny rocks buying services to some caveman in a cave bordello. In other words you could use it in barter, even before the invention of money. I can't imagine that for random strings of numbers.-eleman (January 24, 2014, 03:44 AM)
But it doesn't.
The other things we used to generate money, for instance mining gold, had an actual use other than just generating money. Actually, the original function of gold (making shiny things women like, using in alloys to make rust resistant weapons etc.) predated the use as legal tender.
This one doesn't have another function. You just burn electricity, and assure yourself that you'll be paid for it. No intrinsic purpose whatsoever.-eleman (January 23, 2014, 09:42 PM)
Perhaps so. But I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees. Because my generation wasn't taught to just give up and bend over on cue.-Stoic Joker (January 23, 2014, 12:36 PM)
This.-40hz (January 23, 2014, 01:35 PM)
No...it's a nice idea. But as long as you're running on somebody else's physical backbone and closed hardware it'll never be your own private internet. This is a rearguard or short-term strategy at best.-40hz (January 22, 2014, 11:39 AM)