Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] BitCoin

2013-11-21 Thread Pietro Terna
At http://coinmill.com/BTC_calculator.html#BTC=100 you have the values of 100 BC in ...any money. We are currently in a bubble, see the graphic (euros for 100 BC). Best, Pietro Il 21/11/13 05:49, Arlo Barnes ha scritto: Just listened to an NPR discussion of bitcoin.

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] BitCoin

2013-11-21 Thread Saul Caganoff
Just today I was in a usually locked room in our building and noticed someone's laptop connected to about a dozen bitcoin chips (FPGAs??). The control panel was open on the laptop and indicated a mining rate of 0.0036 bitcoins per day. That's one bitcoin per year. Seems like an awful lot of effort

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] BitCoin

2013-11-21 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 11/21/13 3:28 AM, Saul Caganoff wrote: The control panel was open on the laptop and indicated a mining rate of 0.0036 bitcoins per day. A $150 ASIC miner runs at about 0.0039 per day. Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] BitCoin

2013-11-21 Thread glen
On 11/21/2013 09:50 AM, Steve Smith wrote: Why does this make me think of that Kevin Costner Post Apocalyptic movie? Damnit. Renee's been watching movies on my mind-control machine again. Sorry about that. -- ⇒⇐ glen FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] BitCoin

2013-11-21 Thread glen e. p. ropella
On 11/21/2013 08:44 AM, cody dooderson wrote: What do you think the first country to adopt bitcoins as it's official currency will be? Has it happened yet? Will that make the value go up? I think it'll be one of these: http://www.seasteading.org/ -- glen ep ropella -- 971-255-2847

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Oculus Rift castAR

2013-11-21 Thread Parks, Raymond
Are you thinking about Kinect VR? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7agnTVMjSy4 Or, possibly, Paperdude VR? http://vimeo.com/?1336141 Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov SIPR:

Re: [FRIAM] Oculus Rift castAR

2013-11-21 Thread Steve Smith
The devkit is $300 .. does that also include the HW? If so thats quite a deal! Yes it is... beats my pair of iPhone3's wedged into a Victorian StereOpticon -- Owen On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com mailto:sasm...@swcp.com wrote: Does anyone in this

Re: [FRIAM] Oculus Rift castAR

2013-11-21 Thread Gillian Densmore
Greetings: Hmm. Interesting. I know at one point the OculusRift was going for some kickstarter funding. Some of those were game publishers for online gaming. Names that surfaced included ID Software, Activison, and Sony. I wouldn't be to suprised if one of the things they're devs could help lower

Re: [FRIAM] Guidance could help.

2013-11-21 Thread Steve Smith
Gil - I like your term Technomancer, very apt for this audience. I always have plenty of advice but in this case, I'm not sure how *useful* it is. My feeling is that most people on this list are in one of three categories: 1) Technomancers who had a long and successful career during the

Re: [FRIAM] Oculus Rift castAR

2013-11-21 Thread Owen Densmore
The devkit is $300 .. does that also include the HW? If so thats quite a deal! -- Owen On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: Does anyone in this group (including remote/non-SFe folks) own or have had some direct experience with the Oculus Rift pre-consumer

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] BitCoin

2013-11-21 Thread Eric Smith
However, I wonder if a physical currency can be backed by Bitcoins, just as most physical currencies today are backed by fiat and used to be backed by the value of the metal in them (or for paper, metal stored en masse elsewhere). It's a neat question Arlo. I would add along-side it the

Re: [FRIAM] Manifesto del Macchinismo - Bruno Munari (1938)

2013-11-21 Thread Arlo Barnes
I stumbled across the Viridian Manifestohttp://www.viridiandesign.org/viridiandesign.htmlast year, when the movement was supposed to end (complete it's goal). Of course, Bruce Sterling had already declared it ended in 2008, but that did not stop me from finding it a wonderful speech. -Arlo

[FRIAM] Guidance could help.

2013-11-21 Thread Gillian Densmore
Another day as my world oozes along. I'll make this succinct for the benefit of the Technomancers on both lists. Greetings fellow Technomancers: Where and or how does one go about getting some notion of how realistic a career goal is these days?

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] BitCoin

2013-11-21 Thread Owen Densmore
Whew, pretty Neil Stevenson! One aspect that may be missed by us new to BC is the SETI@home approach: You basically rent access to your computer to gain BCs. I had an idea once that maybe we should give computers away, but with the provision that you give 30%, say, of its resources to us. You

Re: [FRIAM] Guidance could help.

2013-11-21 Thread glen e. p. ropella
On 11/21/2013 10:32 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote: Greetings fellow Technomancers: Where and or how does one go about getting some notion of how realistic a career goal is these days? The only advice I have is to start your own company and do some contract work through that corporation as a

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] BitCoin

2013-11-21 Thread cody dooderson
What do you think the first country to adopt bitcoins as it's official currency will be? Has it happened yet? Will that make the value go up? Cody Smith On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote: On 11/21/13 3:28 AM, Saul Caganoff wrote: The control panel

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] BitCoin

2013-11-21 Thread Arlo Barnes
Ah, like Sealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand, except that they already use the SX$https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_and_postage_stamps_of_Sealand . I would volunteer my nation http://aericanempire.com/, except we already use http://aericanempire.com/money.html the ƺ and

Re: [FRIAM] Guidance could help.

2013-11-21 Thread Gary Schiltz
I think Steve’s suggestions were spot on. Additionally, instead of asking the metaquestion (where do you go to ask said question) on this list, why not just ask the question itself? That is, say a little about what you are thinking for a career goal, and let us chime in. Gary On Nov 21, 2013,