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261  Other / Off-topic / Re: [GAMING] Can a HD 5770 and HD 5870 be CrossFired? on: August 27, 2011, 02:05:31 AM
you can even "crossfire" an integrated card with a dedicated for some tasks, but its not called crossfire.

although i am not sure about 5k series cards, but i do know and can back up that there is greater compatibility with 6k series than 5k, although i don't know for sure,
262  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: what to charge for cold storage? on: August 27, 2011, 02:01:16 AM
are the coins in cold storage insured? what if the drive fails, what if the bank raids your box.

id be willing to bet my coins are safer taped to my wall unencrypted than on a flash drive in a bank.
263  Other / Off-topic / open source energy generation on: August 26, 2011, 11:44:16 PM
i am still revising stuff, but you can still post

I was recently thinking and explaining about an idea i had on making and storing small amounts of energy through simple mechanics and principals. Overall it will end up being good engineering and an example of crowd sourced labor. we will have a working publication of everything you need to make said device, and instructions on how to use the stuff. or so i hope

To put it simply, we each have skills and talents in many different areas. what if we each donated an hour or so to make a bigger thing. in this case a device to make some electricity from sunlight. we would discuss how it would function, what to make it of and such. then people with the skill and ability would draft out sketches, then someone else would make rough models. then someone else would do documentation. in short, if enough people donated a little time and skill to one thing, we would have something that benefits everyone. anyone with the ability to build this thing could, without fear of patents and silly stuff that prevents the creation of great things, even if it is as little as making electricity to run a toaster, its a start.

the goal is to make a device that is licensed to not be able to be patented, or we patent it and allow it to be used without nonsense.

some rough idea of this is the use of mirrors to reflect light on a central point that gets hot. this should be able to work with 1-10 mirrors that are 1m square each(this can change i think). to change the heat into some other energy i was thinking of using a Stirling engine. then using the Stirling engine to make electricity from the rotational movement.

for storing energy, i would opt for a flywheel. i pick this because it is very simple and can easily be scaled. in addition, its green and will not loose its charge capacity over time, and can be made out of almost anything circular(even an old tire i guess, but that would not work very well).

here is a list that i think is logical to run in.

1. discuss what to make
2. draft out roughly what it will look like
3. make more detailed decisions
4. make a "final" or working publication

in the current stage of development, which has nothing i will post some ideas and examples of stuff i find useful. along with other stuff others have come up with.

mirrors to aim sunlight on a central point
hydrogen and oxygen --> combustion energy storage
flywheel for energy storage
Stirling engine to change heat to rotational movement
264  Other / Off-topic / Re: 4 times more profitable to mine SolidCoins instead of BitCoins now !!! on: August 26, 2011, 11:12:48 PM
i vote in favor of simply banning people that make spam threads like these.
265  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: can anybody say on: August 23, 2011, 02:41:17 AM
it will be ready when its ready, and no sooner.

http://bitcoin.bluematt.me/bitcoin-nightly/win32-i686-nightly/

i do not have any reason to not trust them binaries, but use them at your own risk. they are not even beta, so whatever.
266  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Communication during an emergency on: August 23, 2011, 02:13:01 AM
google plus + ?

although if you are looking for something that does not have centralization you can not control, your out of luck afaik.

WASTE again
mumble (text and voice)

could be of use

edit:
µChat
twitter
XMPP
267  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Please remove Bitcoin from Sourceforge.net on: August 22, 2011, 11:34:12 AM
bittorrent?

DHT?

you can literally share bittorrent with just a URI.
268  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Nightly Builds on: August 22, 2011, 02:35:10 AM
if it is possible, could you do a 64 bit windows build? just to see how much faster it is.
269  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcents? on: August 22, 2011, 01:42:59 AM
how about we write out BC1.2345

that way everyone can understand it, and not have to learn new and useless stuff. why make up a whole bunch of stuff, that people joining bitcoin then have to learn.

I stand to make things less complicated and more standardized, and using bitcents and other stuff is not it. after all we dont use cash anymore, we dont say a dollar and 53 cents often, we simply say a dollar 53. sometimes we don't even say units, like 16 29, so why this.
270  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Pywallet: manage your wallet on: August 20, 2011, 06:37:47 PM
you might want to have a script that runs that closes out any and all bitcoin.exe instances, so you avoid any possible wallet corruption.

didnt know that could happen.. well the web interface instructs you to close bitcoin in really big letters.

I suppose though.. you;d have to close namecoin, ixcoin, i0coin and ifuturecoin as well.


i have accidentally left bitcoin open before, and my wallet was fine, but if you package it into an exe, people will use it and the chance of lost wallets will be much higher for many reasons.
271  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Pywallet: manage your wallet on: August 20, 2011, 06:16:39 PM
you might want to have a script that runs that closes out any and all bitcoin.exe instances, so you avoid any possible wallet corruption.
272  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Will Mt.Gox ever return? on: August 20, 2011, 03:26:35 PM
grave digging?
273  Other / Off-topic / Re: whats the best free cad and 3d design program?? on: August 20, 2011, 02:46:49 PM
a student license for autodesk products might be worth it. (they are free btw)
274  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What.CD now Accepting Bitcoin Donations on: August 20, 2011, 02:42:01 PM
How do I get an invite for this site?


what.cd is difficult to get into by average means, but if you can pass the test you get 1 free invite. fail 3 times and you get banned.

but in terms of all private trackers, they are easy to get into.
275  Other / Off-topic / Re: Satoshi Nakamoto - 1,5 million Bitcoins - We need answers on: August 20, 2011, 03:18:23 AM
this makes me think, maby we should start over.

later, some real issues could come along if an early adopter decided or simply gets compromised and the market gets flooded.

however this should not be done now, we should wait a few more months.
276  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Flexcoin offering user defined cold storage! on: August 20, 2011, 01:51:37 AM
if you are referring to a safe deposit box, i would not trust this...
277  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [G+] The really dark pools of Bitcoins, where not even block explorer can track on: August 19, 2011, 09:11:08 PM
does anyone know how many nodes there is in all?
278  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator [v0.17] on: August 18, 2011, 09:25:01 PM
how do you do 64 bit builds on windows, when i build now i only get 32 bit binaries.
279  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Pywallet: manage your wallet on: August 18, 2011, 08:56:05 PM
ill be sure to run dban from now on when i reformat...
280  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: CRYPTO CURRENCY INDEX on: August 16, 2011, 10:10:28 PM
spamcoin

2 minute blocks
start at 1000 coins per block
every 1000000 blocks, DOUBLE
coins will always be generated.
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