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IMO, the most dangerous (and maybe I'd even label it as "evil") current aspect of web-centric computing is "dot net" (.Net)-saralynn (October 24, 2013, 06:29 PM)
Wow... take an economics class!
Inflation (a *decrease* in a currency's value) is a completely different phenomenon from the price of a currency going UP (which is an *increase* in a currency's value).
You see, "inflation", as we usually encounter it, is due to an increase in the *amount* of money in circulation (not necessarily *physical* currency, mind you, as many people are paid, these days, with direct-deposit, and we buy things with a debit card, so no physical currency ever moved through our bank account. So, we're talking about the total amount of bank-account assets plus their cash minus their debts). When the amount of money in the economy goes up, that's more money people can spend on items in the market. And, since every price is the result of an invisible bidding war between buyers on a non-infinite supply of goods, if people *can* spend more money on something, some *will* spend more on it, and the price will be driven up.
When this happens, the price of the *currency* drops. It doesn't cost you as much, in terms of other currencies, to purchase it, because it doesn't have as much purchasing power. For example, suppose the British pound and the American dollar were trading 1:1. Suppose a candy-bar costs 1 dollar or 1 pound. Then, the American gov't prints a bunch of money and pays the people to build a bunch of roads or whatever. Now, the American people have twice as much money in their pocket, so they're going to be able to pay twice as much for a candy-bar, so the price of candy-bars goes up to 2 dollars. Meanwhile, a candy-bar *still* costs 1 British pound. And the *exchange* rate becomes 1 British pound buys 2 American dollars. *THAT* is inflation.
This is the opposite of what's happening with Bitcoin. A bitcoin's price, in terms of other currencies, has been going *up*, even though the supply of bitcoins has been (slowly) increasing. This is due to increased demand for it as more and more merchants accept it (which is the same as "demand" increasing).
My next release won't be a free upgrade. I'll be making a blog post for reasons when I'm near to release.-Renegade (October 24, 2013, 06:02 AM)
I'm really starting to long for products and services that charge enough for each item/service to make a reasonable profit on that item/service. What a crazy idea.-mouser (October 23, 2013, 09:34 PM)
The Apple hype machine is way too strong. Mavericks is not far from a SP or an upgrade like 8.1, both free. I have checked many "what's new" articles (because admittedly I am not a user) and if you have paid for 10.6+ (for example), why should this NOT be free?-rgdot (October 23, 2013, 06:35 PM)
Yeah... i saw her on the show. It was disconcerting and cool at the same time.-wraith808 (October 20, 2013, 10:09 AM)
I thought it was more cool than disconcerting. It's about people "walking the walk" of "innovating creatively". So at like age 8 she wasn't singing Miley Cyrus, she was singing "Teen metal".
I'll offer this as the equally funny counterpoint from the other side of life!
The Zimmers!
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=-m0EZO5O2dM-TaoPhoenix (October 21, 2013, 03:44 PM)
but in today's world it's a solution in need of a problem.-Vurbal (October 16, 2013, 05:07 AM)
but in today's world it's asolutionproblem in need of aproblemsolution.-Vurbal (October 16, 2013, 05:07 AM)
There was an outcry because MS contributed to Ghost, which was complete BS.They'll need to deal with botters though, but a lot of games already have anti-bot gamemasters and infrastructure to sniff out bots.-Renegade (October 15, 2013, 08:55 AM)
So why not just use the delivery system people seem to rather obviously prefer instead of trying to handle the traffic spicks and bandwidth hits themselves?-Stoic Joker (October 15, 2013, 07:00 AM)