I'm truly flabbergasted by how much money this is making.
And it happened right under my nose as I watched on.
Which just goes to show: I have no friggin clue about how to make money on the internet.
If you started thinking outside the Sudoku grid, the opportunities are endless. Consider the image below. Create a gambling site where the user picks a number from one to ten. If their chosen number causes the corresponding digit to wiggle, they win. Even if they lose, they win by enjoying the wiggling of a digit. Addictive? Yes! Profitable? Yes! Weird? Yes! Hell, incorporate a girl's voice on the site like, "You were so close! Please try again, but this time it won't cost you anything, and you still can win your prize." Or, each digit is assign a Bitcon address, and when you place your cursor on any digit, it wiggles. Tip the digit with a micro payment for the one you liked best. Don't forget to include sound associated with each digit: "Please save this digit for last, for it makes me sooooooooo..."  Hell, why have only one set of feet, when 100's would be better. Actual feet of real women giving each toe a voice. Then you'll have the toe of the day, week, month, year... determined by the micro payments transferred. The girls would then have a link provided to their profile, and the resulting sites don't necessarily need to rated X. You could name such a site...wait for it...Satoshi Toes (or Satoshi Digits). |
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You missed sooooo much. We had this huge thing where everyone ... yeah... nothing much happened besides usagi melting down twenty or thirty times.
EDIT: And Roger Ver destroying all trust anyone had in him over 50 bucks. But that might have been before you left.
Both Ver & Usagi happened before I left. I am guess forum is contains itself. And has died. Sure did! Look what Santa put in my stockings
Mr. Gage, are you a perv? Santa gave you backwards feet?
They're not backwards, they're crossed at the ankles, because that's how ladies do it. Not a perv, but I did learn something today--not all actresses are ladies:  |
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San Jose?! That's actually a location I could attend!
I'll be watching this thread with great interest.
Let's do it!!!! For all practical purposes, the event is written in Yap stone. Another question: Will the discussions/talks be record with quality cameras, manned by competent individuals? There should be no excuses for inferior productions. Who here has quality equipment and is planning on attending? Do you lack anything or have questions or concerns pertaining to the event? Exactly what do you need to make sure the recording process proceeds seamlessly? ~Bruno K~ |
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Some say the Voynich manuscript is a hoax, and contains no real meaning.
I'm fascinated by your idea, Phinnaeus. When the user gets to the final point, would the item do or reveal anything? If not... what a joke!
Oh, and I can second what SgtSpike and myrkul are saying: because GPS confines all coordinates to MSL (Mean Sea Level) + elevation, and elevation is always much smaller than the diameter of the sphere, then we can say elevation is always (approximately) zero.
This means a triangle formed by three GPS coordinates is either degenerate (it's a straight line) – or, the points and the length from each point will exactly resolve to one "solution." Since elevation is not truly zero, there are actually two solutions if elevation is included in the calculation; but both solutions need to be averaged together to get the best Latitude and Longitude reading for the real solution (that is, use Newton's method to approximate a more accurate solution along the line between the two mathematical solutions).
It will be up to the giver of the device and how that person programmed it as to what's at the final destination. The possibilities are endless: the geocaching crowd could find a use for it; lovers could give it to their sole mates, where its only purpose is to read out how far away they are from the location of their first kiss, date, sex, met, etc.; B & M businesses could use it for some creative marketing campaign; among others I've thought of and, given time, a myriad more examples would manifest themselves. Bottomline, let the end users decide its purpose. Putting aside the marketing aspect to create a demand for the device (just had a vision of Atlas when I penned 'device' that time--weird!), what would be paramount is that the device works properly, and the website function seamlessly with little effort on the user's part. I further propose that the device be manufactured in the US as cost efficient as possible, not worrying too much of its final price point, for it's a gift, not a necessity. As a gift, the device should have aesthetic qualities in its design and packaging, albeit it's possibly just a box-like structure. For sake of argument, we'll just safely assume that one coordinated is possible when only three coordinates are inputted. Any bugs regarding this fact can be worked out during the coding stage of the accompanied website. More to come. ~Bruno K~ |
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The small device (for sake of design, consider it box-shaped) only has a display that reads out in miles or kilometers (automatically adjusts to the region it's in) while in default mode, a single button, and an image, similar to one below.  Would have a USB port for programming and a port for a charger (included), for it runs on replaceable rechargeable batteries, located behind a screwed in panel. Almost forgot something. A very small speaker is inside the device, or another unmarked port is provided that would accommodate a headphone cord, which may prove to be the better option. |
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In the second image, I attempt to demonstrate a triangle slightly tilted (due to difference in elevation when taking the readings). With the tilt of the triangle, the mirror images of the triangle don't overlap with each other, and you still end up with a difference in calculated position. The horizontal dotted black line attempts to show that difference.
That image isn't very clear. Are lines B 1 and B 2 identical in length? Same for C 1 and C 2, and A 1 and A 2? They need to be. Remember, what you're actually reading when you press the button is a sphere, placed on the surface of a much larger sphere, with it's center at your location, and it's surface intersecting your destination. Sine we're pretty sure the desired location is not in space, or deep within the crust, most of those points are discarded, leaving only a circle on the surface of the larger sphere. Is it safe to assume that that is how the distance is calculated using GPS? I see that it wouldn't be a pure straight line through the crust of the Earth. That's how it's calculated when the GPS is figuring out where you are, in relation to the satellites. The GPS knows it's on the surface of the earth, though, so when it calculates distance, it does it along the surface, since it knows how many miles or kilometers it is, roughly, per degree or longitude and latitude. It's not a straight line through the earth that it uses, but a curved one along the surface. That's how it defines the circle. That little box is smarter than you might think. That's what I figured, whereupon a layperson would just imagine it as a beeline. Allow me to re-ask the original question differently, given: Suppose there's a site on the internet that allows the user to plug in a GPS coordinate and a distance into some provide fields. Then they are asked to provide two different sets of the same into another pair of fields. Then asked to do it one more time, making that three different GPS coordinates and three different distances. Would the resulted GPS coordinate be of one location or two? Bear in the mind that this imaginary device does not read out any GPS coordinates, and must be provided with the use of a secondary device, presumably a smart phone. More on this later, but first let's make sure we're on the same page as it pertains to the question. ~Bruno K~ |
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I lost 42BTC with martingale strategy and quit gambling that day
Your problem may have lied with your original starting amount, unless you quit after only two or three rounds, or you were betting with fiat and rounded the conversion rate to the sum provided. Either way, I would have put BTC84 on red, for it was due. |
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Feet are so weird.
I knew they were backwards. Seriously, I did! There's no way I would have missed such a fact. Meow, on the other hand may not have noticed.  Full Disclosure: I didn't notice. But it's too late to take back all I've envisioned doing to them sexy digits. |
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This is fuckin' nuts! I've literally stared at the above image for over five minutes. It seems so really to me, as if such creatures exist, but knowing they don't.
During the extended viewing, I do believe I found a solution to his problem. Sell 500 numbered limited editions of the image above for $10 each, with Jaime honestly and openly penning the reason as to what the money will be used for.
If such a scenario transpired, who here would purchase a copy? I would!
Somebody, bring this thread to Jaime's attention.
~Bruno K~
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Is there any way bitcoiners could help this cause? If so, who would act as an honest intermediary to handle the money? His work is fuckin' awesome! With apologies to Jaime Ibarra, for his work is protected: http://ibarraphoto.com/portfolio/wings/ Perhaps he, for whoever is taking care of this while he's ailing, populate the following site with a little more content: http://jaimeneedssurgery.chipin.com/hernia-surgery-costsWelcome to Jaime Ibarra's page for their ChipIn event Hernia Surgery Costs. Jaime Ibarra has not made any updates to this page yet. To make a contribution, click on the ChipIn! button on the right. I assume that Jaime has a hell of a following, only needing a handful of his supporters to donate a little to reach his goal: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113464569897311842405/about47,279 HAVE HIM IN CIRCLES I get goosebumps while viewing his work. About to check out his videos. ~Bruno K~ |
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In the second image, I attempt to demonstrate a triangle slightly tilted (due to difference in elevation when taking the readings). With the tilt of the triangle, the mirror images of the triangle don't overlap with each other, and you still end up with a difference in calculated position. The horizontal dotted black line attempts to show that difference.
That image isn't very clear. Are lines B 1 and B 2 identical in length? Same for C 1 and C 2, and A 1 and A 2? They need to be. Remember, what you're actually reading when you press the button is a sphere, placed on the surface of a much larger sphere, with it's center at your location, and it's surface intersecting your destination. Sine we're pretty sure the desired location is not in space, or deep within the crust, most of those points are discarded, leaving only a circle on the surface of the larger sphere. Is it safe to assume that that is how the distance is calculated using GPS? I see that it wouldn't be a pure straight line through the crust of the Earth. |
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Actually, I have an outfit in mind capable of building the device en masse. Retaining capital may not be that big of a concern. What's paramount is brainstormin' the idea to the nth degree in an open-source manner, whereupon the reward for doing such is that all bitcoiners would be able to purchase the item at a steep discount oppose to the SRP that the general public will have to pay. Granted, such a thing can be easily developed as an APP for a smart phone at a much cheaper price point, but that would negate the aspect of giving a physical gift, one that as it's look upon would elicit emotions for the gift giver. That would be lost if such an item only consisted of binary code in some hand-held device already loaded with gimmicky apps no longer, or worse, never used. More to come! ~Bruno K~ Agreed on all points. I even have a snappy name: GeoCash. If you like it and use it, send me a few BTC, and I'll be happy.  Nice name, but won't work: About 23,200 results (0.36 seconds) Now on to reading the other posts, and it looks like math is evolved, for I glimpsed triangulation images. EDIT: Now I'm back at square one, not knowing if two points or one is possible. Google, here I come! |
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After having to return their two pandas to China, The South Korean Zoo sought and found a new exhibit to fill the cage. The only problem is that they don't know what it eats, let alone what species it is. Perhaps a clue can be found from the children visiting the exhibit when they cry, "Ellet no eat!"  A sign has now been erected on its cage:  |
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BTC.pt just sent 1 BTC: f7c1e4dd29d748d0dd9e493f02b66a8847eede56ad5984c8c2b1b786667c2831
Thank you, psy. I've updated the list in the OP and soon Rassah will adjust his ledger. We are still shy, thus needing a few more donations for MY Refuge House. At least take a look at the page I linked to and see how easy BitPay has made it for NPOs to donate for all those who've implemented a Bitcoin donation option onto their websites. Smooth!~Bruno K~ What I realy like about theit hompage are the differnt buttons:  and  both original size from their homepage. Very Nice! Nice effort, but my attempt to show the same is better. (insert smiley patting his back here) Just sent my five BTC: 668061846134ee11d329038e12d2cb4735e8d73b6dfbc02ae271fa588f170db5
And once again, thank you, edd, for your very kind donation. The list has been updated. UPDATE:Rassah has sent half ( BTC50) to My Refuge house as seen in this transaction: http://blockchain.info/tx/2219e67225ad58edc0f8f4b29a50f6c5dccf4aed5e6045e31ee5ed62e0710180Please bear in mind that the address the coins were sent to may be a one-off address generated by BitPay. At the moment, I'm not aware of any personal Bitcon address they may have dedicated for donations. That fact will be brought to light shortly, I'll assume. The reason only half was sent is so that I can hold it hostage, not from them, but for the sole purpose of using it as talking points to solicit the shortfall needed to honor the entire BTC100 pledge we've made to them. Seth even suggested via a PM to me that if we did such, MRH would have a sense as to how the entire process works. He's even commented that more NPOs may manifest themselves once MRH is fully funded. Currently, we're now about a dozen coins short. I still owe the general pool BTC6. This was not a loan, but a promised sum to make up the shortfall when we funded Bund last month. Once again, I wish to thank Seth and Rassah for all their efforts in regards to this current project, with a special thanks to those responsible at BitPay for helping My Refuge House configure their website so neatly and in a timely fashion. ~Bruno K~ |
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