Raising the roof on debt
Peter Schiff is one of the few non-biased investment advisors to have correctly called the current bear market before it began. Published time: May 17, 2011 18:38 Today the U.S. government officially borrowed beyond its $14.29 trillion statutory debt limit. And even though the Obama administration has assured us that accounting gimmickry will allow the government to borrow for another few months, the breach has given seeming urgency to Congressional negotiations to raise the debt ceiling. Republicans are making a great show of acting tough by linking their "yes" votes with promises for future budget cuts (that could even slow the rate of debt increases at some uncertain point in the future).
Autodesk is giving away free software - New Promotions starting 5/15/11 through 7/15/11 - "Autodesk Reach Higher Promotion" - The Game Changer
Luke posted about this a few days ago and only because his reseller, who will probably get in a lot of trouble for preleasing information, so let's make this official. Autodesk is starting a couple of new promotions starting May 16th running through July 15th. Why July 15th? Because you have a tendancy to wait until the last minute and if it ended on July 31st, it would be chaotic to process all of the orders. Here's the deal for the main promotion. I'll post about the LT and older software promotions later because if you're reading this blog, you don't give a hoot about LT or have AutoCAD 14.
L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen - Launch -
Solid discussions of this piece on BoingBoing.net, Hacker News, Slashdot and Reddit. Rob Tercek has a follow up to this piece here. by Jason Calacanis and the LAUNCH team
The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom
Bloom’s & SOLO ‘are not Just Colorful Posters we Hang on the Wall’ is my two-part series at Education Week Teacher. Bloom’s Taxonomy is talked about a lot in educational circles. However, if you believe a recent survey of visits to 23,000 U.S. classrooms, the higher-order thinking skills it’s ideally designed to promote doesn’t get much use.
Comparison of mining pools
Reward types & explanation: CPPSRB - Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay. [1] DGM - Double Geometric Method. A hybrid between PPLNS and Geometric reward types that enables to operator to absorb some of the variance risk. Operator receives portion of payout on short rounds and returns it on longer rounds to normalize payments. [2] ESMPPS - Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but equalizes payments fairly among all those who are owed. [3] POT - Pay On Target. A high variance PPS variant that pays on the difficulty of work returned to pool rather than the difficulty of work served by pool [4] PPLNS - Pay Per Last N Shares.
Generate Bitcoin - Bitcoin Plus
It looks like you don't have Java installed. Please install java at Java.com You must have Java installed to use the bitcoin generator. If your browser asks you to run the applet, or to install Java, say yes. Waiting for Java applet to load... Step 1: Click "Start Generating"Step 2: Wait while your computer works (leave this page open)Step 3: Earn bitcoin
Getting Started with Bitcoin - We Use Coins
Getting Started With Bitcoin Step 1 ---> How to get a Bitcoin wallet Setting up your first Bitcoin wallet is simple with several quality mobile apps available. A great path would be (1) a mobile wallet like Airbitz (iPhone, Android), Breadwallet (iPhone) or Mycelium (Android), (2) acquire bitcoins from a friend, as payment for a good or service or buy bitcoins from Circle and then (3) if you decide to store large amounts of bitcoins and want to know they are absolutely safe then use Armory. Best Mobile Bitcoin Wallets iPhone and Android apps are available with popular choices including:
Aldous Huxley: The Mike Wallace Interview
THE MIKE WALLACE INTERVIEWGuest: Aldous Huxley5/18/58 WALLACE: This is Aldous Huxley, a man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley 27 years ago, wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that some day the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship.
LRB · Donald MacKenzie · How to Make Money in Microseconds
What goes on in stock markets appears quite different when viewed on different timescales. Look at a whole day’s trading, and market participants can usually tell you a plausible story about how the arrival of news has changed traders’ perceptions of the prospects for a company or the entire economy and pushed share prices up or down. Look at trading activity on a scale of milliseconds, however, and things seem quite different. When two American financial economists, Joel Hasbrouck and Gideon Saar, did this a couple of years ago, they found strange periodicities and spasms. The most striking periodicity involves large peaks of activity separated by almost exactly 1000 milliseconds: they occur 10-30 milliseconds after the ‘tick’ of each second. The spasms, in contrast, seem to be governed not directly by clock time but by an event: the execution of a buy or sell order, the cancellation of an order, or the arrival of a new order.
Y)^_°(V) - How to get started using your GPU to mine for Bitcoins on Windows
(In a slight departure from my normal content…) Money for only running your computer!? It's more likely than you might think! No referral pyramid scam shit, you can make as much money as you have computing power to devote. ***NOTE: Since the difficulty is very high, unless you have an ASIC mining device and/or a very significant aggregate hash rate (over several TENS OF Ghash/sec or more) you are probably going to spend more on electricity than you can recoup in mined bitcoins, even when mining in a pool! If you have access to free electricity though, then there really is no argument against mining
Y)^_°(V) - How To Set Up Pooled Bitcoin Mining In Windows
(Please Note: This guide is mostly up to date…. syntax and URLs may not be 100% correct, please extrapolate if you have to and let me know in the comments so I can try to fix stuff… Updated 4-10-13) So, you've read my previous article about using your GPU to mine for bitcoins, but now that the difficulty is starting to get high absurd, you may be having a hard time generating any bitcions on your own (especially if you have non-specialized hardware). Never fear, there is a solution!
