Latest posts of: ShadowOfHarbringer

Quote from: justmoon on March 23, 2011, 05:20:01 PM

I've uploaded the French and German subtitles. Since they're even longer than the English subtitles, they're too fast in some parts. Any changes to shorten them would be appreciated.

Told ya.
That is because the video is too damn fast. It will be impossible to create good subtitles, or voice record in some languages because of that.

It should be slowed down at least 15% to make various translations possible.

EDIT:
Or perhaps you could release the background music and voice separately, so people can make modifications necessary for other languages

I don't wanna spoil all the fun guys, but this belongs in mining.

What a load of crap.

I didn't even bother reading after the "spyware" thing, LOL.

There is no "manipulation".

The rise of Bitcoin value is caused by 2 things:

1. Slashdot effect, http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4827.msg70553#msg70553
2. Weusecoins.com / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo&feature=player_embedded

Every time the total amount of goods & services rise faster than number of avaiable coins, the Bitcoin will rally. Every time the opposite happens, it's value will fall. It is as simple as that.
Therefore, every bigger influx of people into the system will rise the value of Bitcoins, which is what is happening when we are slashdotted / redditted / digged.

Quote from: kiba on March 23, 2011, 11:56:11 AM

Will Satoshi be taking a look at this video?

I think yeah, that is if tsunami didn't kill him... (I mean it would be really nice if he signed in just to show that he is alive)

We hit slashdot again today, prepare for the worst Tongue

(best) :

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/23/0210207/Google-Engineer-Releases-Open-Source-Bitcoin-Client

It also contains link to a nice interview with Gavin Andresen:

http://www.cio.com.au/article/380394/open_source_identity_bitcoin_technical_lead_gavin_andresen/

I guess another rally is ahead of us (looking at MtGox's charts - I would say it already started).

Quote from: kiba on March 23, 2011, 01:14:31 AM

Quote from: ShadowOfHarbringer on March 23, 2011, 01:11:52 AM

Also, another MAJOR disadvantage: Impossible to make a readable subtitles for it.
Almost nobody reads that damn fast (while simultaneously being able to actually watch the video).

I can understand everything just fine.

I meant people in other countries (not speaking english).
If you make subs in another language, they will be unreadable.

Quote from: hazek on March 23, 2011, 12:48:39 AM

ShadowOfHarbringer you are missing the point of my post entirely. The promo is not suppose to answer all the question and have the viewer grasp all the concepts. It's suppose to present BitCoins in a concise manner and lure them in to research more on their own. And for that purpose it's perfect.

The first thing a viewer notices when watching this video is "damn, this is fast". And that is the point. It's taking the focus away from Bitcoin itself and moving it to the velocity of the video.
When i first watched it, that was my first impression. So do you want the watchers to think about how fast the video is, or about Bitcoin ?

First impression is everything in such situations. And this is a bad first impression, because it's too fast to catch what is said in it. Especially for non-geeks.

Also, another MAJOR disadvantage: Impossible to make a readable subtitles for it.
Almost nobody reads that damn fast (while simultaneously being able to actually watch the video).

Quote from: hazek on March 23, 2011, 12:20:56 AM

I disagree. I think the speed is perfect for such a basic promo which should only serve as an inspiration for people to read more about it and research more on their own.

I am a fluent english speaker, and i had to watch it like 3 times to catch everything, even though i am a programmer and I understand the concept of bitcoin.

So believe me, when I am saying that it is much too fast.

And if it is too fast for me, imagine how fast will it be for "slower" people.

Quote from: justmoon on March 22, 2011, 10:27:36 PM

Finally, the video:
http://www.weusecoins.com/ or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo

The video is released under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. If you would like to provide an HTTP mirror or seed the video on Bittorrent please contact me for the original H.264 1080p file.

This is excellent video, however much too fast.
Especially for people who don't speak fluent english. Actually i think that it will even be difficult to make subtitles that can keep up to the speed.

If you can slow the speed of events a little, it would be absolutely awesome.

What about a 30% slowdown ?

I'm sending X BTC now.
If you can slow it down, i will send more.

Quote from: Dai on March 22, 2011, 08:09:11 PM

Then bit coins is not for me I shall not be wasting any more time on it.

OK, first make sure to send all coins you have currently to my address (1NLWBAD7ZD82fJDDawKfp5RAKSR8YWWYd3), since i guess you won't be needing them anymore.
Who would keep such a worthless stuff and waste time for it ? Come on, let me ease your suffering.

Remember my address: 1NLWBAD7ZD82fJDDawKfp5RAKSR8YWWYd3 , I'm here to help you.

Quote from: stonetz on March 22, 2011, 06:17:36 PM

It's a scary thought that a company that sucks as much as paypal could take the bitcoin concept and with their resources tweak it to suit them better and make it known.
Of course it would lose a lot of benefits like anonymity that we want.

Not so scary as you think.

Paypal probably would never make such thing Open Source. In that case people wouldn't trust it as they trust BTC.
If they did make it open source though, all possible innovations could be implemented in Bitcoin.

Again: Problem solved.

Quote from: bobR on March 18, 2011, 09:17:07 PM

Bottom line I asked questions
ASS HOLES did this to enflame

This speaks highly of this board
no moderators ... no way to Huh

wild west free for all

I'll not contribute to anything here this is .....
I can't even think of a name to call this CRAP

the whole board is a joke

Their is nothing serious here its all SHIT FOR THE kiddys
It;s no place for bitcoin discussion
makes bitcoins look rediculas as well

I think we should be sorry for him, he may be mentally handicapped or something...

Quote from: Anonymous on March 22, 2011, 01:09:58 AM

Quote from: stonetz on March 21, 2011, 02:00:43 PM

That highlights one of the biggest problems with trying to educate people on Bitcoin. They don't have a proper groundwork or any idea what a dollar really is.

They actually love the current system . There is a depth of brainwashing so pronounced its like living amongst zombies.

Hahahaha. You just reminded me of "Zombieland". Nice movie btw

I think that creating bitcoin-only town somewhere would get us a lot of media coverage / PR / fame.

When we get enough people, somebody could start an initiative like this somewhere.

Quote from: kiba on March 19, 2011, 05:18:44 PM

I would still get rid of the blue.

+1

I didn't like the blue either.

Quote from: gavinandresen on March 19, 2011, 05:56:21 PM

I don't want to hijack the design discussion...

... but I would like to open up discussion of content. I'd like to see the bitcoin.org home page to be less about bitcoin-the-software and more about bitcoin-the-currency.

You don't have to download and run any software to run bitcoin, and I think most non-technies are better off using an online wallet service rather than running bitcoin.exe.

+1

Good idea. It will be easier for new users to start using an online service rather than software.

Perhaps there should be a link pointing to a page for "advanced users" which will want to have their own client and/or miner.
Or there could be 2 sections - one for normal users, and one for advanced users (the easy one being the default).

Quote from: genjix on March 20, 2011, 09:09:37 AM

Quote from: idev on March 07, 2011, 10:37:44 PM

LR is working fine,
every year someone comes out of the woodwork with some fear mongering claims that LR
are going to close, or they are shutting down, and it never happens.

Looks like Madhatter was right though.

Clap, clap.

That would actually be an excellent opportunity for Bitcoin if LR was dying.

Everybody would quickly dump LR, and with nowhere to go - a lot of them could go Bitcoin.

Quote from: sgornick on March 20, 2011, 10:30:04 PM

I think the difference though is that WingCash is representative currency. A $5 USD WingCash note really does represent $5 USD somewhere in a bank.

And the $5 in bank represents.... nothing Tongue

Well, i fully translated Polish wikipedia page, but there wasn't a bounty at the time.
Thanks for adding me to the list, cw.

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Also, i think that it would be good idea to make somebody more trusted such as theymos, Kiba, Gavin or Noagendamarket hold the money.
No offense there cw, but you just registered.

Thank you very much.