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3741  Other / Off-topic / Re: What's your typing speed? on: January 26, 2013, 09:21:58 AM
3742  Other / Off-topic / Re: AMD Embedded CPU gizmosphere board on: January 26, 2013, 04:52:09 AM
VGA? WTF?
More correctly known as a 15-pin D-sub RGB video connector, commonly referred to as a "VGA connector" because it was first used on ye olden VGA graphics cards (though some VGA cards used the earlier 9-pin connector). Of course, nobody uses VGA cards any more, but the connector is still the most widely supported today, which is probably why it was chosen over DVI or HDMI.
3743  Economy / Speculation / Re: Relax people. on: January 25, 2013, 12:54:51 PM
This forum is where I learned of the Dead Cat Bounce effect. Two steps forward, one step back. Drive on, Bitcoin.
Actually, it's the exact opposite of a dead cat bounce. This is a live cat. Bouncing off the ceiling. In an attempt to break through it. Dead cats don't do that (unless you throw them real hard).
3744  Other / Off-topic / Re: (something different) Add a word to the puzzle. on: January 23, 2013, 04:03:40 AM

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3745  Other / Off-topic / Re: (something different) Add a word to the puzzle. on: January 23, 2013, 03:19:19 AM

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3746  Other / Off-topic / Re: (something different) Add a word to the puzzle. on: January 23, 2013, 02:30:29 AM

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3747  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Do you believe in Reincarnation? on: January 21, 2013, 01:49:27 PM
I'm not sure, but for me it intuitively seems that if we didn't have any built-in mechanism to make illogical decisions, we'd be permanently "chasing our tails" and unable to snap out of a particular chain of thought whenever a problem is logically undecidable.

Machines don't really 'need' to deal with that but it's pretty much the definition of a crash and humans don't want to wait forever.
Did you even read the article you linked to? A problem is undecidable when there is a right answer and a wrong answer, and no way to tell which is which in all cases. If there are multiple answers with no way to pick between them, but it doesn't really matter which answer you pick (ie, there are no wrong answers), it is not undecidable. Computers do have a way to decide such problems. It's called a random number generator, and it is in fact routinely used to solve such problems as collision avoidance in networking. Contrary to what you might think, it is trivially easy to program a computer to decide randomly between equally good choices, or to add random factors to break out of an infinite loop.
3748  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Wallet encryption backup on: January 20, 2013, 01:17:39 PM
I was only concerned with protecting my bitcoins. Should i be concerned about the public keys, and the fact that they are in this wallet.dat?
As long as your wallet is encrypted with a good password, nobody else can spend your bitcoins, if that's what you're worried about. However, they can still see exactly how many bitcoins you have, where they came from, and where you're spending them. If you do not want others to have this information, you must encrypt your wallet again with a third-party encryption program before you upload it anywhere.
3749  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: I find this offensive, who do I sue ? on: January 20, 2013, 07:55:17 AM
I think your case will be dismissed when it is shown that the alleged libel is not actually a false statement. Cheesy
3750  Other / Off-topic / Re: Defy the law with style! on: January 20, 2013, 07:38:19 AM
Who is he hurting that he needs to be arrested? Victimless crimes are not crimes at all.
Well, if his parachute failed, the landowner probably wouldn't appreciate the resulting mess and associated clean-up costs, but that should be a civil matter, not a criminal one.
3751  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: new bitcoin miner on: January 17, 2013, 11:24:28 AM
The time is very limited.We will need to release it as soon as possible.
Because mining limit will be done nearly end of this year...
WTF are you talking about? There is no "mining limit"... which you would know if you actually wrote a miner, or even have the most basic understanding of what mining is. Roll Eyes Obvious scam and/or virus is obvious.
3752  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Can Trading Options In The Stock Market Make You A Full Time Income? on: January 17, 2013, 01:41:46 AM
Possible? Yes. Probable? No. Bad idea? Definitely. Options trading is not for inexperienced investors. If you don't know what you're doing (and if you have to ask how much money you can make, you certainly don't), you will likely lose your money. The safe way to make money on the stock market is to just buy a bundle of shares in a diverse range of industries and then sit back and collect the dividends. Talk a (competent) financial advisor, not your friends or strangers on an Internet forum, and they'll tell you the same thing.
3753  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Will/Should the decimal in BitCoin measurements be removed? on: January 16, 2013, 02:59:42 AM
I know there is slang already for satoshis or "mikes" etc... but I've noticed through traveling that countries use different money slang in different places for different amounts- some of them not so sensible. Relying on a world-wide slang to cope with too many zeros in digits seems difficult to do.
It's not slang, and it's not different in different countries. It's the metric system. It already has worldwide acceptance. We just need to convince America to get with the program. Roll Eyes

Oh wait, they already are (at least when it comes to currency). America already uses "cents" and "mills" to refer to a hundredth-part and a thousandth-part of a dollar, respectively, though the latter is seldom used these days for obvious reasons. What's the problem, again?
3754  Other / Off-topic / Re: PC monitor on: January 16, 2013, 01:57:01 AM
hmm do you have 2+ monitors on one video card? win7
One monitor, on Linux. Though that won't make any difference if the problem really is the monitor. If you're getting different behaviour with 2 monitors vs. 1 monitor, then it's your video card/driver doing something screwy as opposed to your monitor.

Well then, you've probably got exactly what he's looking for!  What brand/model are you using?  I've never seen any monitor display anything immediately after being turned on - all the ones I have used seem to take at least 2-3 seconds before they display a picture.
I mean, as soon as an image comes up (usually in 1-2 seconds), it's what it's supposed to be, with no stupid splash screens.
3755  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Word of caution using Bitcoin-qt client and managing your own private keys on: January 15, 2013, 02:05:08 PM
And every one though i was mad for having a daily cronjob to backup my wallet Tongue
To a different file each day, I trust. It's always real fun when your wallet gets corrupted and your daily backup job overwrites your only backup with the corrupt data.
3756  Other / Off-topic / Re: Duplicate private keys on: January 15, 2013, 01:34:07 PM
1 in 2^256
Wrong. Since a hash collision is all that's required, the odds are actually 1 in 2^160, or 1 in 1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976 if you prefer.

more than the atoms in the universe
Actually, it's less than the best estimate of the number of atoms in the universe by over 30 orders of magnitude, which is about the difference between the width of a human hair and the extent of the observable universe. Roll Eyes Please do your research before claiming that all "really big" numbers are equally "really big".
3757  Other / Off-topic / Re: PC monitor on: January 15, 2013, 07:03:15 AM
PC on and awake, monitor Off
push button
1.5 seconds
'ASUS, power and innovation'
2 seconds
black
1.5 seconds
normal OS screen
I've never seen any monitor do anything like that when turned off and on while it still has a video signal. Every monitor I've ever used just displays what it's supposed to immediately as soon it's turned on.
3758  Other / Off-topic / Re: PC monitor on: January 15, 2013, 05:36:03 AM
Off
push button
1.5 seconds
'ASUS, power and innovation'
2 seconds
black
1.5 seconds
normal OS screen
Huh? You said you were putting your computer into sleep mode. Not turning anything off. Are you putting your computer into hibernation instead? Huge difference. It's normal to take several seconds to come out of hibernation, if that's what you're doing. If not, I really have no idea what you are doing. Huh
3759  Other / Off-topic / Re: PC monitor on: January 15, 2013, 05:14:20 AM
its about halfway waiting for monitor to show anything, then it goes black and shows the real output
Huh What do you mean "it goes black"? Isn't it supposed to already be black if it's not showing anything? If not, what exactly is it showing? If it's showing an error message such as "No signal/Check connection", then your monitor is already on, and it's your computer that's taking a while to come out of sleep mode, and replacing the monitor won't help.
3760  Other / Off-topic / Re: PC monitor on: January 15, 2013, 03:51:17 AM
LCD monitors should only take 1-2 seconds to turn on from being completely off, and almost instantly from standby.

tired of seeing the stupid loading screen, waiting to recover from sleep...
Um, monitors don't have loading screens, though some display an error message if the monitor comes on before the computer does. If you're seeing any image on the monitor, the monitor is already on, and if that image isn't what you were expecting, the problem is with your computer, not the monitor.
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