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Disappointing they're going with Coinbase, but this is the Big Thing I've been waiting on, personally, for a long, long while, now.
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Since there's Legendary now, what's our upgrade to obnoxiousness permissible? [flash]?
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There's one at Hacker Dojo in Silicon Valley. It's similar to the one in the video, with the hand scanner and license scanner. There's about a 15% spread between the buy and sell price, plus a $5 fee. Nobody uses it.
15% fee kind of defeat the entire purpose of bitcoin replacing credit card and paypal, doesn't it? Not if your target is dumb and/or lazy and/or busy people looking to "invest" in something making whatever they think's expected that year.... 20000% or whatever. Looking on the speculation forum, you'd think this is most people with coin, but I don't think that's really the case, thank God.  However, there may be some areas more prone to that kind of audience.... but I can't think of them.... somewhere dumb and urban... okay, I can think of a few, but I'll keep my mouth shut. |
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I don't think it's reasonable to not accept that Foley was beheaded by ISIS (though yeah, I've had the displeasure of watching a few Taliban execution videos which leaked out, and they're very different, but people and organizations are all different, so...), but it's difficult to justify more deaths (including Americans) to fight something which can't die (or at least, something which the USG has shown it can't or won't kill). We fought the Taliban. Their numbers were estimated at ~45,000 when we went in. Now, they're estimated to be 60,000 strong and growing (AFTER killing tens of thousands of 'em), and in the meantime, our thirst for justice has led to >3,000 ISAF deaths, >10,000 Afghan National Security deaths, and ~20,000 civilian/contractor deaths.
Moreover, very frankly, meddling in Iraq and Afghanistan has cost the USG $4-6T, money which could've been spent elsewhere, certainly including life-saving sectors desperate for funding. In low-development countries, a life can be saved for ~$400-2,000. In the US - and this is mostly out of my ass - maybe $40,000 for someone who could be cured of something but isn't because they can't pay for it, or deaths of crimes brought by poverty. -So, outside the ~2,600 American deaths, we used enough money to've effectively eradicated poor healthcare and famine in third- and second-world countries, or basically every American dying of a death which could've been prevented by having more wealth (for years if incurable).
I mean - can you just imagine how much better off everyone would be if we simply donated $1T in material aid to Afghanistan (~20-30x their annual GDP) and DIDN'T blow their infrastructure to Hell and frequently halted or impeded business? Maybe we wouldn't be spending so much just on counternarcotics in Afghanistan if our efforts were to build people up instead of shooting them down - maybe Afghanis really would raise llamas instead of growing poppies. US companies could still make the goods, and then we'd have a stronger useful economy instead of a stronger kill economy, and there's no reason for civil war when there's little resource scarcity. Look at that, and it's just.... why try suffocating terrorists with their own blood when we could just suffocate them by dropping hundreds of thousands of canned goods, books, medical supplies, seeds, livestock (... well, I'm not sure if there's a cheap way of safely dropping hundreds of lambs from hundreds of ft up), and building materials on their hideouts? When an "enemy combatant" is identified out in the open, I have no doubt it would be far more beneficial to literally just spray so much USD at him, he's knocked over and can't breathe because he has hundreds of pounds of fiat crushing his body and preventing air circulation. There aren't many wrong changes we could make compared to how awful the consequences of military intervention is.
It's the same damned thing for police, prisons, and related. Police and an outrageously high prison population can only deal with symptoms of a problem (and maybe not even in an effective way), and we still throw more money at treatment than we do at a cure. (alright, I'm out of high-horse one-liners, now)
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Yes Amazon has very low margins, in fact I think usually it isn't even in the black, which is ridiculous for a company its size. Frankly I don't know why they do it, you'd think they should exploit their dominant position a little more and make more profit.
Amazon's been struggling the more they introduce new schemes, products, and services, increasingly becoming a conglomerate and trying to "force the market," pushing funds to stuff like Lab126. They posted a tiny loss in '12, but made ~$274M in '13. They're estimating effectively breaking even this year, and are expected to post weak profits next year. They used to post many hundreds of $millions and even $billions per year. Amazon grows rapidly, but the stock's basically ev- or neutral at best mid-term and long-term almost any way you look at it. I'd argue they have been exploiting their dominant position (or at least trying to), and failing largely because of it. Basically, I think they've grown too large for their pool and don't have anywhere to go, but they don't really know what to do with their money because they're expected to be multiplying revenue figures like madmen, so they throw it into bad projects. From an investment perspective, it'd probably be good to "go back to their roots," look at their "real" business (distribution/sales platform), and look at ways of squeezing more profits out of their revenue, which'd obviously include accepting BTC (and dumping Prime  ). If Amazon were able to convert just 5% of their fiat sales to BTC, assuming an effective 3% overhead/fees on CC & .5% on BTC, they'd be posting ~$100M less in expenses this year without revenue loss while also ignoring any customer acquisition from the move. -But Amazon acts like a consumer-oriented charity while Bezos sells out of it instead of getting rid of the things generating both revenues and net losses, so with its Profit Retardation philosophy, other companies like Exxon and Shell may actually adopt BTC before Amazon, while also being more important steps for Bitcoin. ETA: Sometimes I think Amazon's trying the Walmart strategy of inhuman growth and pushing through that strain & pain just to push out other B&M businesses in an area, then raising prices once a monopoly's established - which makes no fucking sense since the barrier to entry in a virtual supermarket is pennies on the dollar of producing a B&M supermarket. You can't keep competition out when barrier to entry is roughly equivalent to opening a freakin' lemonade stand. |
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Fair warning: This isn't remotely functional is now semi-functional and I have no idea what I'm doing. I wanted to have a go at making a game. BMJ can be found here. If you played a version older than 000377, you must press shift-F5 or non-Chrome equivalent to force assets to reload. It requires an HTML5-enabled browser with JS enabled. So far, BMJ is only known to work in Chrome 36.0.1985.143. It will almost definitely work in any post-HTML5 Chrome browser and will probably work on other HTML5 browsers (so long as JS is enabled). It's suggested you run BMJ in a 1280x720 resolution browser window or at least near there. The engine attempts to ensure things are scaled proportionally, but isn't 100% pixel-perfect, which may cause some text or images to appear a pixel or few off if screen resolution is significantly different from what's recommended. Recent changes & known issues (00043): See 000425a-00045 feature & squish listOld version changelogs: (000425a)
See [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=751510.msg9901239#msg9901239]000425a-00045 feature & squish list[/url]
(000425)
Added:
*Loan progress bars
*Casino (only one game for now, unlocks March 2nd, 2010)
*Ability to pause and unpause game using spacebar
*BMJtG is now hosted on a newer (and significantly faster) server, courtesy of Hypernia's StableBox
Changed/Fixed:
*Exchange screen revamped
*Exchange slippage formula is a little less insane
*Loan icon will flash red or green to better indicate whether or not a loan was defaulted on
*Lots of bugs with lending
*Date & Time box should now always display the current rate of time
*Game will be a bit less wonky in the way it updates and spend less time waiting for user's PC to confirm its version number
Stuff which should've been in this update, but isn't:
*Co-location option
*User debt
*Fleshed out outcomes for loans
*Color-coding of Weekly I/O screen
(0004)
[s]-user debt
-See [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=751510.msg8765993#msg8765993]here[/url].[/s] (will be excluded from 0004)
-p2p lending.
-See [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=751510.msg8765993#msg8765993]here[/url].
-USD-denominated loans will be excluded from 0004 along with karma loans. Loan settlement offers also excluded (they'll either default or won't).
-Exchange revamp 100% complete.
-The exchange will now charge a 5% fee.
-Price will now factor in slippage, meaning if you buy BTC, price will increase, and if you sell BTC, price will decrease.
-Less ugly buttons, "buy" and "sell" now function as check-boxes rather than true buttons.
-Due to the goofy way I'm preventing cheating (unsure of better way), the Exchange page is a bit of a temperamental bitch and will mess the page up if BTC price would hit zero or you should either enter in a quantity of BTC to sell (after activating the "SELL" button) which is greater than the amount of BTC you have available, or if the amount of USD your purchase of BTC would cost (after activating the "BUY" button) exceeds the amount of BTC you have available. To resolve, zero out BTC quantity, click sell (if you have buy highlighted) or buy (if sell is highlighted), and then click back to the option you originally had highlighted. Alternately, click back button and come back to exchange.
-The slippage formula, for the record, is assuming liquidity increases as BTC price increases, which is why slippage is tied to BTC price, not USD price. Slippage looks very severe at the beginning of the game, which I think is in line with history, but is almost non-existent if BTC price is very high.
-BTC page on WkIO screen cosmetic issue fixed.
-Difficulty starts at 5 rather than 2. (non-historic, but the "hindsight penalty")
-BTC price and difficulty are more likely to increase.
-Cluster 3 sell button will now display properly after slot is filled (still haven't determined actual cause...)
-Luck will no longer cause you to randomly generate BTC even if you have no mining hardware. :D
-Added more trololo.
-Weekly I/O screen will now always correctly report mining income if solo-mining and subtract HW depreciation.
Known issues:
-Forgot to redesign and enable colocation (will be in either 000425 or 00045)
-User debt, karma & USD-denominated loans, and settlement-at-end-of-loan-term events excluded. (will be in 000425)
-Exchange screen is extremely finicky. (will be fixed in 000425)
-If you have a negative USD balance, you can't loan out BTC. (this will be fixed when user debt is implemented)
-Date&Time box quit consistently displaying "0x" some while ago while game is paused, sometimes displays [] instead, esp. on layout changes. (will be fixed in 000425)
-Notification is only rarely given when lendee defaults or repays. (unable to identify cause, maybe will fix in 000425)
-If hardware is added to Cluster One due to purchasing another order with all inventory slots filled, it's impossible to partially insure the order. Instead, if Cluster One is uninsured and added to, it will always remain uninsured even if insurance is purchased on the addition, while if Cluster One was already insured, the user MUST purchase insurance on the addition or Cluster One will become fully uninsured. Same caveat with cases. (Will not be fixed until inventory management is completely overhauled)
(000399a)
-Update text should be more informative and alert when there're no updates detected.
-Difficulty will increase sharply before and after users gain access to GPU mining.
-2011 bubble now more severe in its effects.
-Weekly I/O screen will now factor in hardware depreciation.
-Game will no long effectively freeze on 2/28/11 and Silk Road news event will now fire.
-HW in Cluster 3 can now be sold - Cluster 2 sell button will function properly.
-Sell checks work correctly.
-Game now has a more proper splash screen - updating handled better.
-"Stealth fix" (no new version number) News events involving Silk Road opening and 25% of BTC being mined can now be clicked through.
-"Stealth fix" (no new version number) Fire event will function properly (again). "Secretly," you can switch to 20x speed by double-clicking the date/time box (this is considered a debug feature - don't expect everything to always work right).
Known issues:
-Cluster 3's sell button displays "Cluster 3" after filling it. (unsure of cause -- should fix in 0004)
-User cash can go negative. (will be fixed when p2p lending implemented -- aiming for 0004)
-There's all of jack-shit to do while "AdoptionTrend" is low. This is historically accurate... and boring as fuck. P2P lending will be introduced at a historically inaccurate time so something's happening. (aiming for 0004)
-If hardware is added to Cluster One due to purchasing another order with all inventory slots filled, it's impossible to partially insure the order. Instead, if Cluster One is uninsured and added to, it will always remain uninsured even if insurance is purchased on the addition, while if Cluster One was already insured, the user MUST purchase insurance on the addition or Cluster One will become fully uninsured. Same caveat with cases. (Will not be fixed until inventory management is completely overhauled)
(000395):
-Stats will now factor in the 2% pool fee if you should use one.
-Difficulty can now decrease.
-New news events (OpenCL public release, opening of Bitcoin-OTC, 25% BTC generation point, Silk Road opening)
-BTC price and difficulty will now factor in historical price & difficulty trends. This doesn't mean BTC price will necessarily be close to historical prices, just that it will have a stronger or weaker tendency to increase or decrease at certain points in game time. It attempts to emulate the 2011 run up and collapse, but I may've been too extreme in the adjustments (better hunker down!). Checkpoint system currently "ends" on November 14, 2011 (which just means it's "normal" forever past that point until I add more).
-News events starting with ArtForz have had functionality fixed. (It looks like the "next" button wouldn't have functioned properly, before -- believe it or not, that button does a lot of work!)
-Added GPU mining (unlocks on August 10, 2010).
-After a day, remembered to add text to the "electricity bill accrued" box in the Stats page. >:( ::)
-Weekly I/O report will factor in office costs, now...
-Cash income per hour was effectively dividing daily by 24 twice and actually paying the user his electricity costs... Since electricity costs should only be added to the monthly bill (not billed hourly), anyway, this had an odd tendency of roughly balancing out unless you moved in with your mom, where it becomes very obvious.
-News stories and button are no longer global, which was causing them to hang around while unwanted.
-Set Small Office to use correct "OfficeType," preventing a conflict with Mom.
-Fixed a few minor cosmetic issues.
Known issues:
-Update texts aren't displaying quite right. (will fix in 0004)
-Difficulty needs a sharp bump starting when the GPU mining starts. (will fix in 0004)
-$ income stat in HUD is technically correct, I guess, but misleading. (will fix in 0004)
-Weekly I/O screen does not factor hardware MV depreciation in. (will fix in 0004)
-Monthly office costs are likely being calculated queerly. (will fix in 0004 if broken)
-User cash can go negative. (will be fixed when p2p lending implemented -- aiming for 0004)
-There's all of jack-shit to do while "AdoptionTrend" is low. This is historically accurate... and boring as fuck. P2P lending will be introduced at a historically inaccurate time so something's happening. (aiming for 0004)
-If hardware is added to Cluster One due to purchasing another order with all inventory slots filled, it's impossible to partially insure the order. Instead, if Cluster One is uninsured and added to, it will always remain uninsured even if insurance is purchased on the addition, while if Cluster One was already insured, the user MUST purchase insurance on the addition or Cluster One will become fully uninsured. Same caveat with cases. (Will not be fixed until inventory management is completely overhauled)
(00039):
-All events will now trigger on Stats screen
-Fire event trigger will now actually trigger the fire event instead of unlocking the exchange... ::)
-Added some new news events. (Laszlo, Gox creation, ArtForz GPU mining, 184b BTC exploit, first use of split allocation in mining reward, Slush's Pool -- h/t http://historyofbitcoin.org/)
-Initial pool functionality added (unlocks on September 18, 2010). Currently, you can only select between solo-mining and Slush's method (which isn't actually his method, but the original way I calculated how much a user should be paid) w/2% fee. Stats don't calculate the fee in, yet.
-Exchange screen now tries to enforce non-negative integers in the quantity box.
-Exchange buttons will now disable and enable themselves correctly.
-Selling BTC will now actually sell BTC for USD instead of doing whatever the Hell it was trying to do before... :D (h/t busterroni)
-Weekly I/O screen includes recent additions and includes note about office & electricity costs not being billed until the end of the month.
Known issues:
-Difficulty formula needs to be tweaked further and made more complex so it can decrease. Right now, letting it decrease risks allowing it to go negative due to a lack of checks and overly-simple formula. (will be fixed in 0004)
-2% fee isn't calculated in mining estimate stats (will fix ASAP)
-User cash can go negative. (will be fixed when p2p lending implemented)
-If hardware is added to Cluster One due to purchasing another order with all inventory slots filled, it's impossible to partially insure the order. Instead, if Cluster One is uninsured and added to, it will always remain uninsured even if insurance is purchased on the addition, while if Cluster One was already insured, the user MUST purchase insurance on the addition or Cluster One will become fully uninsured. Same caveat with cases. (Will not be fixed until inventory management is completely overhauled)
-Qty box in HW buy page is goofy. (will fix when I figure out a better way to enforce integer-only rule)
(000378)
-Game will now check if your local version is up to date and try to force an update. (ETA: but it still doesn't always work... shift+f5 is your best bet)
-Saves re-enabled.
Known issues:
-Difficulty formula needs to be tweaked further and made more complex so it can decrease. Right now, letting it decrease risks allowing it to go negative due to a lack of checks and overly-simple formula. (will be fixed in 0004)
-User cash can go negative. (will be fixed when p2p lending implemented)
-If hardware is added to Cluster One due to purchasing another order with all inventory slots filled, it's impossible to partially insure the order. Instead, if Cluster One is uninsured and added to, it will always remain uninsured even if insurance is purchased on the addition, while if Cluster One was already insured, the user MUST purchase insurance on the addition or Cluster One will become fully uninsured. Same caveat with cases. (Will not be fixed until inventory management is completely overhauled)
-Qty box in HW buy page is goofy. (will fix when I figure out a better way to enforce integer-only rule)
(000377)
-Hell has been removed, but there's a similar (designed) way to break the game. You get an achievement for it instead of going to Hell, now (though there's no achievement screen, yet, so...).
-You'll no longer earn a guaranteed hourly reward while solo-mining. You now have to actually "solve a block." The "unabridged" formula for this is [add to available coin] ((GoodLuck/5)-(BadLuck/5)) + (24/((Difficulty * (2^32) / (PersonalHashrate*10^6)/60/60))) > random(0.00000001,24) ? BlockReward : 0 -- good luck deciphering that. I'm not even sure what it says entirely, anymore. :D It's very flawed, though -- you can only earn one block in any given hour, so you'll effectively be much more unlucky than you ought to be -- OTOH, if you play with high luck, it should be partially compensated for. I'm working on a different formula for 000378, but there are so many calculations and numbers in that, I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around it without forgetting stuff.
-Per-cluster power draw displays correctly again.
-Game will no longer attempt to save offline/cached resources to load later. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to force it from trying to load, so shift-f5 or non-Chrome equiv must be pressed while at BMJ page to update the version. I'm looking into better ways of handling this.
Known Issues:
-Save/load system is likely broken. (will fix ASAP)
-Difficulty formula needs to be tweaked further and made more complex so it can decrease. Right now, letting it decrease risks allowing it to go negative due to a lack of checks and overly-simple formula. (will be fixed in 0004)
-User cash can go negative. (will be fixed when p2p lending implemented)
-If hardware is added to Cluster One due to purchasing another order with all inventory slots filled, it's impossible to partially insure the order. Instead, if Cluster One is uninsured and added to, it will always remain uninsured even if insurance is purchased on the addition, while if Cluster One was already insured, the user MUST purchase insurance on the addition or Cluster One will become fully uninsured. Same caveat with cases. (Will not be fixed until inventory management is completely overhauled)
-Qty box in HW buy page is goofy. (will fix when I figure out a better way to enforce integer-only rule)
(000376)
-Added ability to donate directly through URI and ability to sign up for PrimeDice using referral link. (yay!)
-Fixed bug where the month would forever stay in March (h/t James Moriarty).
Known issues:
-I broke the per-cluster power draw display at some point. (will be fixed in 000377)
-I forgot to fix HW purchases after overhauling inventory when the user triggers a trip to Hell, so HW purchased after a Hell trigger causes it to not update the cluster appropriately. (will be fixed in 000377)
-Difficulty formula needs to be tweaked further and made more complex so it can decrease. Right now, letting it decrease risks allowing it to go negative due to a lack of checks and overly-simple formula. (will be fixed in 0004)
-You mine a part of a block each hour while solo-mining. (will be fixed in 000377)
-User cash can go negative. (will be fixed when p2p lending implemented)
-If hardware is added to Cluster One due to purchasing another order with all inventory slots filled, it's impossible to partially insure the order. Instead, if Cluster One is uninsured and added to, it will always remain uninsured even if insurance is purchased on the addition, while if Cluster One was already insured, the user MUST purchase insurance on the addition or Cluster One will become fully uninsured. Same caveat with cases. (Will not be fixed until inventory management is completely overhauled)
0.0.0.375a hotfix
Added:
Changed:
-Game will now be published online.
Fixed:
-Fixed a minor cosmetic bug in Hell.
-Fixed a minor cosmetic bug when difficulty changes.
-Office rent/mo box in Stats now read-only.
-After a minor overhaul of how events and news flashes are done, you can finally pass 2/6/10 without the game effectively freezing. The Fire event may now be broken, though.
-Fixed cosmetic bug in Exchange where BTC & $ available didn't display an update until after leaving the Exchange page.
Known issues:
-I forgot to fix HW purchases after overhauling inventory when the user triggers a trip to Hell, so HW purchased after a Hell trigger causes it to not update the cluster appropriately. (will be fixed in 0004)
-Difficulty formula needs to be tweaked further and made more complex so it can decrease. Right now, letting it decrease risks allowing it to go negative due to a lack of checks and overly-simple formula. (will be fixed in 0004)
-You mine a part of a block each hour while solo-mining. (will be fixed in 0004)
-User cash can go negative. (will be fixed when p2p lending implemented)
-If hardware is added to Cluster One due to purchasing another order with all inventory slots filled, it's impossible to partially insure the order. Instead, if Cluster One is uninsured and added to, it will always remain uninsured even if insurance is purchased on the addition, while if Cluster One was already insured, the user MUST purchase insurance on the addition or Cluster One will become fully uninsured. Same caveat with cases. (Will not be fixed until inventory management is completely overhauled)
0.0.0.375
Added:
-You're now billed for your office monthly. Monthly charge displayed in Stats and, like electricity, is NOT factored into any displayed net income stats (with the exception of the "AllNet" stat in the top-center of the Stats page). Due to leap year being factored in, trying to accurately determine hourly cost of office is too complicated, so "AllNet" will instead assume each month is 30.4 days long (and will be the case for all other stats where it's appropriate to average days in month).
-If you consume a very large amount of electricity, it'll trigger an event where you're asked if you'd like to file for an LLC or corporation (and pay a small upfront fee) so you can get business rates on your electricity. This will have massive impact on later-implemented features and events.
-New offices: medium office (200m³), large office(400m³), small warehouse(2,000m³), medium warehouse(20,000m³), large warehouse(200,000m³)
-Co-location option - costs flat $4/mo/m[sup]3[/sup] HW + $.1/KWh, billed weekly (reduced-cost contracts possible at later versions of game, along with unlockable BTC payment option). Co-located HW is immune to most bad events and automatically insured for free. $/mo cost difference if co-located added to Options screen. -- Option disabled (button does nothing) until 0004. I need to think it out more. --
Changed:
-You're now only allotted 10m[sup]3[/sup] in space if you live with your mom.
-Game will now check to ensure there is enough room for you to down-size your office. (if you have 20m[sup]3[/sup] in HW, you can't move in with Mom - if you have 150m[sup]3[/sup] HW, you can't move down to small office, etc, until you sell some clusters)
-You can only move once per month (to prevent "cheating" -- conveniently, it's realistic, too). (month here = January -> February, not something like 30.4 days from time last moved)
-Difficulty now changes appropriately, once per 14 days. It's now 10x more sensitive to time ("10x as exponential"). Luck is also factored in and, owing to its exponential nature, can dramatically change difficulty at far-future times. Difficulty will flash when it changes.
-Electricity will be billed on the first of the month. You can see your accumulated bill in the Stats page. The Weekly I/O page will display electricity costs as if you were billed weekly (with the exception of the "AllNet" stat in the top-center of the Stats screen, all "Net Income" stats will exclude electricity costs both in the "HUD" and in the "Stats" page). Instead of a pause event, the "alert bar" at the bottom-right will alert you to the deduction.
-To help solve confusion (and as a kludgey solution to the rounding issue), BTC price will now display "Exchange still locked." until February 6, 2010, when the first central BTC exchange opened.
-Cases now add to volume of space taken by PC, while PC size has been reduced to .075m³ w/o case, .1m³ w/ case. Cases will SOMETIMES force "catastrophe rolls" in Fire event to re-roll and not be as catastrophic... cases will have more benefits as I think of them to justify the high costs (for example, maybe an event where you spill coffee).
Fixed:
-00035a Hotfix fixes implemented (project save SNAFU prevented the fixes from applying in 00035a).
-Electricity consumption per cluster will now round to something reasonable in inventory display (whole watts).
Known issues:
-Difficulty formula needs to be tweaked further and made more complex so it can decrease. Right now, letting it decrease risks allowing it to go negative due to a lack of checks and overly-simple formula. (will be fixed in 0004)
-You mine a part of a block each hour while solo-mining. (will be fixed in 0004)
-User cash can go negative. (will be fixed when p2p lending implemented)
-If hardware is added to Cluster One due to purchasing another order with all inventory slots filled, it's impossible to partially insure the order. Instead, if Cluster One is uninsured and added to, it will always remain uninsured even if insurance is purchased on the addition, while if Cluster One was already insured, the user MUST purchase insurance on the addition or Cluster One will become fully uninsured. Same caveat with cases. (Will not be fixed until inventory management is completely overhauled)
0.0.0.35a HOTFIX
Added:
-More logic-based CSS snazz in HW screen.
Changed:
Fixed (thanks to Professor James Moriarty for bug-finding!):
-You can now roll the "Dice of Fate" if you rolled a 1 when a fire event is first triggered while on the "Main" page (there are a ton of rolls and outcomes possible with this event -- for the record: it is all rolled on-the-fly, not pre-determined as soon as the event triggers).
-The six other game-breaking Fire-related bugs are now fixed..........
-BTC Price and Net Estimate text boxes now read-only
-For purchases beyond that which goes in the first inventory cluster slot, your USD Hourly Net Income will no longer be negative $tens of thousands in the "Main" screen
-Exchange unlock event will fire correctly again
-Exchange button will be unlocked in the Stats screen if the Unlock event should fire there
Known issues:
-Difficulty and electricity billing is changed/charged hourly. (will be fixed in 000375)
-In the first ~2 days, it's very possible for bitcoin price to be so low, it's rounded to $0. (will be fixed in 000375 by not displaying BTC price until exchange is unlocked)
-If hardware is added to Cluster One due to purchasing another order with all inventory slots filled, it's impossible to partially insure the order. Instead, if Cluster One is uninsured and added to, it will always remain uninsured even if insurance is purchased on the addition, while if Cluster One was already insured, the user MUST purchase insurance on the addition or Cluster One will become fully uninsured. (Will not be fixed until inventory management is completely overhauled)
0.0.0.35
Added:
-Insurance (costs 10% of HW purchase, must be purchased at time of sale - covers 90% of market value of hardware losses in most situations where that happens - almost always pays out, with luck as a factor)
-"Goofed police," Hell, unicorn sodomy, pacts with the devil (easter eggs)
-Luck-based "events engine" under the hood fires each in-game hour and allows easy assignment of %chance with good and/or bad luck factored in (they're separate!).
-Estimated "true" hourly income in Stats page (factors in estimated mining profits)
Changed:
-You can no longer order rigs in anything but integers
-All stats should now round to something more manageable without being whole numbers
-Added bg colors to "PC stats" for hardware orders in HWBuy/Inv screen to make it more obvious why the "Order" button is disabled.
Fixed:
-Options and Stats page mis-labeled HUD stats
-Stat boxes had text overflow under certain conditions
-Data presented in Stats page was inconsistent
-The "Next" button for the Exchange Unlocked event wouldn't appear if the event fired on the Stats page
-Market value wasn't always depreciating properly
Known issues:
-Difficulty and electricity billing is changed/charged hourly. (will be fixed in 000375)
-"Est Total Net" and "$/BTC" aren't read-only (fixed in 00035a)
-In the first ~2 days, it's very possible for bitcoin price to be so low, it's rounded to $0. (will be fixed in 000375 by not displaying BTC price until exchange is unlocked)
-At some point, I accidentally deleted 1/3 of the fire event on the "Main" screen (it still works if it fires properly if in Stats page), so if you roll a 1 (out of 1, 2, and 3), you won't be able to click past the "Bad news!" screen if the event fires while on the "Main" page. (fixed in 00035a)
-Outside that, the dice are still always unclickable... :D (fixed in 00035a)
-Electricity cost is being calculated incorrectly on the "Main" page (fixed in 00035a)
-If hardware is added to Cluster One due to purchasing another order with all inventory slots filled, it's impossible to partially insure the order. Instead, if Cluster One is uninsured and added to, it will always remain uninsured even if insurance is purchased on the addition, while if Cluster One was already insured, the user MUST purchase insurance on the addition or Cluster One will become fully uninsured. (Will not be fixed until inventory management is completely overhauled)
0.0.0.325 - HWBuy variables will always clear (FINALLY!). Game will correct BTC price if calculations push it negative. BTC & Cash income boxes changed to "net income" boxes to be less confusing. Electricity cost properly deducted from net income calculations in text boxes. For future comings, insurance added to HWBuy section, and "name-brand" is now set to be a relative % increase in cost of purchase (oops, did I give away too much?). Broke a good few variables down into subcomponents so they can be displayed to user (have not added to Stats screen, yet). HrsToFindBlock and Difficulty will now round to whole number (until I find way to round to specified nth decimal place). Weekly I/O screen added.
0.0.0.3 - Added news events, added currency exchange (doesn't appear until February 6, 2010). Added placeholder BTCPrice calculations. HWBuy variables will now clear more often, as intended. Lots of organizational changes under-the-hood -- likely broke some stuff.
0.0.0.275 (skipped) - Added time-control buttons to Stats page. Added barren Options page. Added "StenchOfFailure" variable.... ;D
0.0.0.25 - HWBuy variables finally clear and hopefully don't mess anything up in the process. All placeholder inventory clusters now function -- lots of sanity checks. Once five clusters are filled, if you don't sell a cluster before ordering more, the game'll simply add to your first cluster. Game will no longer use market value for power draw when committing order to a cluster when it detects a non-newb (no idea how that even happened...). Office now has set limit on space (100m[sup]3[/sup] -- really, I wrote m[sup]2[/sup] on the HW page....? :'(). Until ASICs are introduced, all rigs take up .3m[sup]3[/sup] -- your max office space'll be upgradeable when upgrades are introduced. If you can't afford to buy the HW you've filled out the form for, it'll now be made more obvious. You can now click to the HWBuy page from the stats page.
0.0.0.225 - Electricity cost is now calculated, barren stats screen added. Fixed mining payouts (I stuck with using difficulty over total network hashrate) and difficulty adjustments (kind of), time display will now properly show when it's paused. You'll no longer be charged twice for hardware purchases (... hopefully). Difficulty will no longer reset itself each month (.... d'oh).
0.0.0.2 - Changed some boxes I overlooked to read-only. Added buttons to control speed of time. You can now sell rig clusters, which depreciate in value with time (.01%/hr, relative). AlertBox better at detecting "newbs." Inv "back" button now goes back. Power draw set correctly in inventory screen. Difficulty's now exponential but needs a lot more work... (actually, I don't like the way this works -- it'd be much easier to determine income by % of total network operating)
0.0.0.175 - Mining now generates BTC, not cash. Base income now applied. PSU efficiency rating no longer decreases the claimed max output, instead increasing the load (which still isn't right, but "close enough for now"). Removed purchase confirmation screen and replaced with a quick notification in the "alert box." Fixed some boxes...
0.0.0.15 - sanity checks on whether or not you can buy a rig, time fixed (even accounted for Leap Year!), added inventory management screen to HW Buy page (it's terribly complex for how simple it looks and does service to my name), orders are now actually ordered and added to your inventory (global hashpower now draws from rig cluster data), "quit" removed (I guess it was pointless, anyway), you can now mine (..... well, you generate butt-loads of magic income)
0.0.0.1 - initial release -Notice- *E* marks a work which was slightly modified and may be degraded, not reflecting the quality of the original author's work. That said, I do try to respect the original authors enough to not completely butcher their works. For audio, this is generally audio compression/expansion or cutting. For images, this is generally rotation or a simple hue change (images which're simply scaled are not marked as edited). Images/clipart: HWInv "Alert" icon - kg (CC0/PubDomain) Green padlock (insurance) icon - HuBoro (public domain) White dice - Jeronimo (public domain) *E*Loan icon (gold dollars) - author unknown, posted alleging public domain (sorry!) *E*Casino chains - dear_theophilus (public domain) "7" Casino icon - rwwgub (public domain) Bitcoin gold logo - Bitboy (public domain) Sound effects: Dice roll sound - dermotte ( CC BY 3.0) *E*Single coin drop sound (WGSE) - qubodup ( CC BY 3.0) *E*Few coins drop sound (WGSE) - ToniTobe (public domain) Coin flip (WGSE) - bone666138 ( CC BY 3.0) *E*Various balloon sounds (WGSE) - qubodup ( CC BY 3.0) Non-standard (not Ariel, Calibri, etc) fonts: Lending screen font - "Short Stack" by James Grieshaber ( OFL 1.1) WGSE font - "Walter Turncoat" by Squid and/or "Font Diner"(?) ( Apache 2.0) All else was created or modified beyond recognition by me. (which is why it's so damn ugly!) Alerting me to most of the major bugs squashed so far - Professor James Moriarty & busterroni |
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Dwarf Fortress, a very niche, free video game, is able to pay its devs enough for them to make it their full-time jobs without corporate subsidies/dev-leasing. They consistently raise $thousands each month, even though it sometimes takes over a year to release an update. They've been at it for far longer than Bitcoin's been out and enable a ~$0 economy.
That's a story based on a different enviornment. They still have to come up with some money to pay their servers, coders, etc. So do companies like trezor, armory, dark wallet etc. Oops. I was making a counter-point to an argument I was having with imaginary people. Invisible Bill said major projects can't rely on user donations because there's no funding consistency. A dev will likely not leave his current post to take the new project on full-time if it's uncertain whether or not he'll be able to support his family. DF proves a widely-used product can consistently raise enough through user donations to employ multiple people even though they don't frequently update and enable no commerce. |
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Google's always done that, I think, but now I'm second-guessing. They've always indexed entire block explorer sites, so you could search your address and if it was in a block, it'd come up (assuming a reasonable amount of time has passed), but maybe not blockchain.info specifically.
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Dwarf Fortress, a very niche, free video game, is able to pay its devs enough for them to make it their full-time jobs without corporate subsidies/dev-leasing. They consistently raise $thousands each month, even though it sometimes takes over a year to release an update. They've been at it for far longer than Bitcoin's been out and enable a ~$0 economy.
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Most likely, this is Satoshi. We have turned our backs on His ideals and now He is punishing us. If we do not correct and turn to the way of Our Lord, He will shake hands so harshly, only the purist of Idealoshis will stay in.
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Pros: -Virtually no taxation and heavy subsidization if you're making <$25k. -Very high access to quality healthcare. -Wide cultural diversity, well-developed cultural production. -Virtually 100% access to quality K-12 education (maybe not the best, but it's not that bad). -Hosts some of the most prestigious post-secondary schools in the world. -Very large supply of educated citizens to employ in service sector. -Relatively free media, I guess.... which seems a shame on everyone's part. -I think Justin Bieber came from Canada rather than here. Cons: -Next to Canada. Bieber just walked right on over  -Social immobility from extremely progressive tax/welfare system. You can work 200% more, but only make 115% more at the end of the year unless you're paid an exceptionally high hourly rate. -Cost-inefficient healthcare system, low life expectancy. -Very high homicide rate and prison population. -War on Everything by means of shoving so much money down the problem's throat, we imagine we must be killing it by choking it to death. -Government's long-term plan for preventing economic collapse is inflating debt away. -Extreme import reliance, consumer nation relies on 3rd world & developing countries to work so we can eat. Mining, manufacturing, agriculture makes up ~15% of total US GDP. -Piss-poor Internet infrastructure, crumbling roads, a train system I can't imagine is worse anywhere else on Earth. -Over-educated population - very difficult for uneducated to rise above class they were born into, while educated also have little chance at generation-over-generation success due to extremely progressive taxation. -US military adventurism, blood on almost everyone's hands. -US immigration & drug policy, among other shameful government policies with effects ranging from unnecessary deaths to destitution to no, really, I need a freakin' passport to walk a few blocks to Canada, now? -US domestic spying, arbitrary law respected only at will by government |
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^They aren't explicitly required to take a vein print, but they have to know, pretty absolutely, who they're dealing with in real-time so they don't break draconian AML law in the US (and any other country so backward). everything starts off broken, it will get fixed in the future.
This simple statement has a lot of merit... anyone old enough to remember the first PC or Cell phone will attest to the fact that there will need to be multiple levels of improvements on each level b4 there is a sense of transparency and security... don't jump off the boat at the first sign of a wave. Vein scanning IS the improvement.  The alternative is full KYC, then issuing the customer a card which has to be renewed every so often, which is what the banks do. |
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Yeah - if you can load the drivers before installation, you're fine. I go off on a tangent easily.  If you can't convert your Vista installation discs to a USB version (where you can replace the driver with newer version, though I'd assume you'd be just as fine simply deleting the faulty driver), you'd need to put the updated Intel driver on a floppy disk (I'm going by Intel's info, here, which seems wrong -- you can't load drivers from a USB key if you load the Win setup from a CD?). Since I don't even know anyone with a floppy disk, anymore, your options, I'd guess, would be trying to put the Toshiba-modified CDs onto a USB key using the Windows CD/USB tool or downloading a "clean" version of Vista from a .torrent site. |
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OP - you are using an unmodified Vista CD to install, yeah?
Recovery discs from toshiba that would have otherwise shipped with the laptop when it was new. Like I said in the main post, it does the initializing for the first time thing then it gives that "error" about hardware and everything I looked up points the cause to the drive being Advanced Format. Sorry - made a late edit. You might want to try downloading a .torrent of Vista if you have a fast connection. "Normal" Vista shouldn't have the bad driver on it. |
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^no good if option is grayed out in BIOS.
OP - you are using an unmodified Vista CD to install, yeah? If you're using some Toshiba-modified version and don't have access to a normal Windows installation disk, your best might actually be to download a pirate .torrent of Vista, then use your key for it.
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I think this video is just highlighting on how uneducated our society is. People assume that you mean gay when you say hetero-sexual this way because almost no one will refer to their sexuality this way.
Being uneducated isn't the fucking problem. I think it is. Back when Jay Leno was on, he had a "section" of his show called "jaywalking" asking people very basic questions and the vast majority of them got it wrong. That's called being uninformed and ignorant, not uneducated. Those are all synonymous here in the West of the West. If someone were informing you, you could say they are educating you, relieving you of ignorance, even if not in any kind of formal setting or as part of any grand curriculum. |
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Also, send DCMA takedowns to *where* they host the cgminer binaries.
Bitmaintech.com resolves to 119.9.72.212 which is an APNIC IP allocated to Rackspace in Hong-Kong Since the DMCA is US Law, I am not sure jurisdiction applies However, their domain registrar is Godaddy and their DNS servers are hosted in Arizona which is under US jurisdiction. I would suggest sending a takedown notice to Godaddy If you need help in formatting a correct takedown, send me a PM and I can help. Would Google comply with a takedown request in removing their links from search? |
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 Not really sure why they decided to look at London. What the Hell's in London related to crypto? Article author assumes wherever legacy finance is, Bitcoin's bound to go? I don't mean to say London doesn't have a significant number of bitcoin users, but the last time I read a BTC-related press release out of London was, ummm..... never, and considering favorable legislation and a strong user base already exists in the stronger economy of Germany, looking at London as some kind of "capital" seems left-field.
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Goto BIOS. Enable AHCI, IDE, and/or "Compatibility mode" - or whatever's closest to that in peripherals/storage/boot page. Save, exit, install Windows. Send $40 in BTC to 1FMy3pRj8PUo6758seX6E9AQHBCJrcsMH8 ty. ETA: This isn't supposed to happen on Vista, only Win7. Advanced Format isn't defective at all, just a hardware improvement. There was a problem with Intel drivers Microsoft bundled. |
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