I thought it was a lovely graph.

What is funny are those that want to link irrational human behaviour to empirical analysis.

Another thought for the OP, I have some stocks/equities, and they are priced well below my buy-in price, but it means my dividend yield looks better on a percentage basis.  ie, a $1000 dividend on x shares when the price is $1.00 or $0.80 is still $1000.

Make sure the adapter is going the right way as the naming convention is not set.  many allow PCI cards to be used in PCIe slots, not the other way around.

If you find the right ones, yes, you can use them because the bus traffic is low.

I was offering BTC for the information - i.e. I would pay.  I thought $20 of coin would be reasonable yesterday, although it looks a little less today.

Yes, the terms change depending on country.  Network or distribution = the company that owns the poles and wires locally.  You might also have a national high-voltage network covering the major connections between power stations and the main demand centres, but usually that is included in the network bill.

I am based in New Zealand where we have a few major retailers (6) and lots of small network companies (20-30).  Fairly similar to Australia where I've also done a lot of work in this area.

The argument I am dealing with is basically as follows:
 - Retailers like to combine the network/distribution charges into the delivered price.
 - My client is a lines business that chooses to bill customers directly and the retailers can't then fudge the numbers (my cynical bias)
 - Some customers don't like paying their share of the network and are waging a campaign against the network company.
 - The local mindset is "no one else in the world does this, why do you?"

Now obviously other people around the world do actually charge separately for lines and energy.  Most are a per unit or kWh charge, some have a daily charge, but few charge a "demand charge" measured in kW to residential or small commercial.  Normally you would need a demand meter (or time-of-use/smart meter - a device that records consumption in half-hour or hour blocks, not just the total between meter reads.)

It's a problem - I had a BIG $8.57 there.  I found a friend in the US who agreed to have a cheque posted to him, otherwise it would have gone to waste.  Instead, he's got enough money for ??

Interesting point of view.

Something might have a price, and other things will be set at a particular "point" where it will sell better.

DVD's might have a "price point" at 29.99 in several different currencies, and other DVDs will have a different price, say $30.05 which will not sell as well.  The supply/demand tradeoff to maximise profit given a price might not work because people are illogical.

It's a "fact" is your opinion.

Many proven "facts" are later proven false.  Also many "facts" are found on the interweb.

This is part experiment, part business.

One of the parts of my job is working with different energy companies and recently I did a little piece of online research into places where the electricity bill comes in two parts - one the actual power and the second covering the network component.  Denmark does this, as do some companies in Rhode Island or Delaware.

I'm after a couple of examples from people who have separate bills and I thought a 5 BTC bounty for the first few (I'm thinking four or five) would be adequate to stimulate some interest.  I would need a scan of each, and a picture of the "happy" bill payer.  You can scrub the address part if you're paranoid, but being able to see and verify the charges from you local company would be important.

Yes (some faster than others, some not at all).  I run distributed computing (Boinc) projects before mining so have stressed cards longer than just June.  My graveyard covers quite a few.  Not running o/clock, and most are mem down clocked.

HD2600 - it was a cute card
HD4850 - several
HD4890 - nice card, ran hot
gt8800 - still going, but suspect
gt9800 - simple fail - not even artifacts
gtx280 - major artifacts on load, will not compute
HD5850 - tried the "oven bake" fix on this as a test, but used the fan in another card.
HD5850 - meh
HD5970 - XFX black edition, very nice paper weight
HD5970 - screens of death (blue, grey, green, black - I think the gtx280 was the only one with a pink/red screen of death)

I mine on deepbit (less at the moment than I used to) because it worked when I was setting up, the relative size helped with variance of block discovery rate, and the 3% fee was fairly modest.  I have mined in other pools on alt-chains for fun, but nothing serious.

I notice that deepbit has its share of detractors and it might be an easy target because it is large and mines the largest share of coins.  The latest events don't mask that other pools have had problems in the past.

exchange risks = minor.

I go from my local currency to USD and then they go across the world.  I've donated to their organisation and the loans (from my end) are interest free.  It's a step up from gifting money (or a goat) and I get to chose where across the globe I can make a small (but very localised) difference.

At the receiving end, it is a simple matter to say "we need USD25 per loan share, so at current rates = XX BTC"  not different to saying $25 = XXX JPY or XXX GBP or XXX XYZ currency.

I would like Kiva to take Bitcoins.  I've done 30 or 40 loans and this would be a nice addition.

I don't dispute people donate time (and other stuff).  Was just curious about this particular case.

Curious discussion.  I'm not being pro or anti SC or the different camps of people on either side - time will determine if it succeeds or not.

I was intrigued to see the claim that 1000+ hours at 12 hours/day have gone into this development, and the nice observation that might take a few weeks to accumulate.  I was also wondering how an advanced programmer might have that much time available unless they were unemployed, and why their skills were not in demand in employment.  Is it that SC is designed to earn them revenue?  I would find it hard to believe an aulturistic approach having spent 100k+ of valuable coder time would be a gift to humanity, but then I'm a cynic.

Declaration of interest = 70 or so solid coin (version 1 something).  no plan to mine SC, not mining much BTC either at the moment (and Locust - for your survey, I'm not USA based, but that's not hard to work out)

Following the debate with interest.  The above post catches the eye.  Nice compliment in a round about sort of way.

New Zealand or Colombia??  The .CO domain is the later, although .co.nz gets NZ.  Australia have a weird .com.au mix.

Thread needs a bump.

Wanted, an idiot to buy 100,000 (pick a number) I0coins.  For sale, I0coins, just like Bitcoins, but with a 5% discount. 

The neutrinos arrive not before they started, just earlier than expected.

So, the price of flat screen tv's has crashed from over $10,000 to under $1,000.  Most people don't know how tv works, so we should just ditch the whole thing.

Good thing the geeks will buy up a few.  They might even swap one for a DVD/blueray player or a cable service - those alt-chains are so sneaky.

There is an argument that the faster the USA fails, the better the world will be.  However, more realistically, in an effort to balance the US budget, the "nice to haves" like the $550billion/year on defense and waging war around the world might have to be put on the back-burner.  $240billion a year on that bloated debt appetite might also need a bit of fixing.

Total revenue   $2.17 trillion (estimated)
Total expenditures   $3.82 trillion (estimated)
figures for 2011 federal budget

Thanks for those links - I didn't find them earlier when I was having problems.  I also noticed they ditched three currencies without warning or explanation, and I was getting poor answers from their help desk for things that were clearly their problem and costing users money.  So I exited a couple of weeks ago.

The site had some nice features, but was missing others, and in the end I found I couldn't trust it.  (A bit like the way I still don't trust Gox because they do odd things with money transfer and I suspect they do not have the funds to cover all deposits.)