yeah, some of this is fluff like the "block youtube, make youku" stuff. but there is some genuine innovation, and i'm glad for increased supports for start-ups in asia in general
lots of negativity here. i think it's a cool idea, and i hope he runs with this. if you're problem with bitcoin is "it's not quite perfect enough" then that's a bad reason to not attempt this
it has obvious benefits (and some cons) over the bolivar or a foreign fiat currency, but ya know, baby with the bathwater
i look forward to seeing where this goes
but i do agree about LN mainnet not being appropriate to use yet
The problem with Venezuela isn't just inflation. Inflation is a symptom of the political and economical chaos they are going through. Before you can attempt to fix their inflation you need to first get them out of the borderline civil war they are going through.
This is also not the first time I see these suggestions that bitcoin is going to solve all of Venezuela's troubles. Overall these suggestions strike me as foreign bitcoin holders hoping that the venezuelans will push up the value of their speculative investment.
i remember back when my dad bought lotus 123 for like $60 at the local store. that was a fair value
i think the app store and ad-supported software really devalued a lot of forms of software for most lay people. my wife still gasps when i spend a buck on software
Just looked at a random PC Magazine from the mid-eighties. Lotus 1-2-3 was $319, which is about $700 in today's money. And that was by no means an outlier. A lot of PC software used to be very expensive.
As someone who sells on Amazon (just used books and whatnot), the third-party system is great when everyone's honest. I can sell a $40 book for $15 used because otherwise it's just collecting dust, the buyer can easily find the item and shop among third-party sellers. (since my item gets organized under the main amazon search result, vs. ebay where every item is totally seperate)
But this is an announcement about a feature addition to the Windows Server product (not Win10, which already has it), which does little to no image editing in practice and tends to be touched by zero muscle-driven input devices in production use.
loved my 6-speed 2015 mazda 6. highway miles were truly amazing for a full sized sedan. like others said i'm glad to see mazda continuously innovating. it's paying off
That depends on whatever the local mean and standard deviation is for the locale you're talking about. Absolute temperatures are meaningless in that context
Absolute temperatures in that context are not so much "meaningless" as actively misleading. Measuring in terms of standard deviation is much more precise and relevant, even if it feels less concrete to those not versed in statistics.
yeah i think people forget (or just don't know) that flash became animate. Most of the "html5" animations we see are made in animate. so in a way, it's all still in the same family and toolset, just the delivery format has changed
that said, i'm really curious as to what's going to happen to actionscript. Starling really ran with that and it's an otherwise really nice language (as3, that is). i'm glad they open sourced it and I hope it still gets developed.
i also hope they keep developing and supporting AIR
AIR support remains and there are always features being added. AIR as a cross platform platform for Win/Mac/iOS/Android is still alive and has quarterly releases. Any missing functionality can be added via extensions written in native code. I've open sourced a few for desktop including a webview. It uses Chromium Embedded Framework (via C#) on Windows and WKWeview on OSX (via Swift) https://github.com/tuarua/WebViewANE/
Others include FFmpeg, libtorrent,toast ports as well as porting of the C extension interface to C# and Swift.
