Yeah, the whole phone subsidy system is a rip off.  Take the Optimus S,  they show is as having a list price of $499, and then give the subsidy from this price.  If I was to upgrade to it they want me to pay $199, sign a two year contract and pay $10 more a month then I am for my old htc toucpro.   They also claim they are losing money on this.   However,  you can outright buy the same hardware as the Optimus V for $120.    A friend just got that and a $25 a month plan with unlimited data  and texting  last month.    For me at least the numbers and claims dont add up,  they just inflate the retail prices shown on the subsidized phones way too much and then use those funny numbers in their other math, making it all untrustworthy.   I picked those two as they are effectivly from the same company just under different bransds, you can also get the same phone hardware as the Optimus M for $99.  This phone works great as a voip phone on wifi, and is better then the htc hero, so it is not really junk even for $100.


Good to see this types  phones availability for outright purchase of $80 though, hopefully it won't be limited to Kenya.

Seems people in the USA can get an $80 phone after all, wonder if it is the same one ( http://www.metropcs.com/Shop/PhoneDetails.aspx?ProductId=HWM835(Phones) )

Being that it was said to be a known issue on some versions a linux, I think you already know the answer.

Still a lot of hash power for the difficulty ,  so probably getting a lot of orphans still.

so far it seems to be holding up well and not exploded,  I for one hope it continues to hold up.

hee, the network exploding would not be a good thing, think you mean the trading is.

You do know the .49 was a very tiny trade basically the first on the exchange to test it was working basically?
So this statement was nonsense even when it was made as far as trying to show a collapse in price.

I have a linux binary built at http://www.wuala.com/jbw9/pub/Bitcoin/solidcoin/102b4/solidcoin-102b4-linux-i386.bz2/ for now.   

Just tried i0coin for fun after reading this.  I keep bouncing around between 3-5 connections and am sitting @ 14514 blocks

Stock ownership  is company ownership.   There is a name for they types of  governments that own businesses and it is not   supposed to be the system the US uses.   In fact I think allowing the government pensions to buy up voting stock already perverts this too much and should be banned  instead.   The whole bailout of GM and such was just insane the way it was done.

+1, that is  really putting in the extra mile as a mod to sort this for them.

You probably have.  I know I am ready to buy a set at that price!  lol

I would price something to start with at 0.001 or so of a bitcoin probably.   Then you can see how it is trading on one of the *coin to bitcoin exchanges and then base your price off of the right percent of your btc price.

Hmm.. that library actually predates Visual C++ though,  would have thought they would have left it be, and not confused the matter with calling the the c++ library now.

That is the C RTL not the C++ RTL, and indeed mingwin uses the msvcrt dll to avoid the need for gpled code at runtime.

Seems the  link to the patch now gives a 404 record so I can't look at it.  If I am understanding what is proposed here it seems a good idea.  However the above is not the right record type.  It should be using SRV records not A records,  this also lets the record specific the port number, so that need not be fixed.

It does not seem to work for me.  opera mobile not supported and I need something else? What is the recommended browser?

I do think it makes for a great test net, and to have seen and learned more about bitcoin that I had missed with the main client.   Not sure what you mean by no payout system though?    I made a lot more BTC mining IXC and selling them then I usually do from a month a mining btc directly already.

Watching these alternative chains launch has helped me to learn a lot about bitcoin.  They also make great 'test' nets in some ways.  

Actually I do compile gcc, but not for security reasons, lol.

And you are right about it being better to provide no checkfiles then provide a false sense of security.

What you could do is also mirror http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.24/SHA1SUMS.asc/download and provide a link  to http://bitcoin.org/jgarzik-exmulti.asc which an earlier post said is the right signature to verify.  Now you have not only provided a way to check your mirrored files, but that no one has changed the sf ones since you mirrored them.

It is not to protect you.  It is to protect anyone using your download mirror.   Also would help detect if someone changed it on you later etc....   how would someone who cant get to sf check your mirror?
It also would allow someone to double check that the sf binaries were not changed after you fetched them.  Has zero to do with if you trust yourself.    Would just make your mirroring service have a lot more useful by adding a link and a mirror of another small file.     Odd you are so quick to say no.

Would probably get better responses if the link was not just a 404.