Sorry for rude answer, not my best day.

I expect readers of this forum to know at least basics of crypto currencies.

(SOFT) Forks can happen all the time (like with any other crypto currency).
They are resolved based on chain score.

Highest allowed (soft) fork in NEM is 360 blocks height [1].
Although in reality you can consider yourself lucky, if you'll see fork deeper than 20 blocks (in NEM I mean).

[1] - After that software won't resolve the fork, and the only way to get proper chain is removal of db, and resync.

HARD forks (the one that we occasionally announce here and on NEM forum)
are the forks introduced by changes in the software.

They are programmed to happen at some certain block. If you WON'T update
your software you might end-up on a fork.

Those are really the basics...

I don't suspect you're serious. That is poor even for a troll.

results are public, they are in the blockchain

this it not a secret at all.

Doesn't change anything other than give competitors an idea if they are far ahead or behind

Does java run on a VAX ?

However... if you manage to do that, I'd be the first one to see photostory (well, screenshot story)

the capability to see and make a decision by himself herself is something I hold dear. you may think someone is easily influenced or can't make a decision but even if that is true in some minor cases, it is better for that person to make a mistake and learn than not allowing him making a decision himself. that is something shared by the core libertarian early btc supporter group. Censorship something because you think it is not fit for the general population does not fit well with me coz you assume you know better and can "think for others". Can't say I speak for anyone but that is the gist of one against "censorship" argument I understand.

"not all readers are as smart and as deep thinking" - this is a trait of any authoritative regime such as fascist or communist. I guess you are new to the decentralized culture. I have to say you are not suited if you do not rid of the "think for others" attitude.

On the logo rendering, I think these logo rendering horrify rockethead and the like because while they are fake, they are convincing. If doing something similar to American and Canada flag, you would have a laugh at most.      

Branding package is built on a certain logo. How can a branding package being developed without a final logo in place?  my question is which logo does he use to develop the branding package ?

It's the content that is the issue. I didn't comment on how new the user is or how many times he has posted or what ranking he has. Just that the vast majority of his posts seem to have the intent of causing argaugments and provoking negative discussion.

note to everyone: check post history of this user.

track record is entirely posts like these so please dont rise to this attempt to splinter the community over the logo again which has been forgotten about.

All the logo has to do is feel and look good at first glance for outsider. Simple as that. You will not be able to provide lengthy explanations and diagrams with it unfortunatelly. It just is what it is to a fresh newbie as he first interprets it. Cube is a cube, it's wishful thinking to suppose that people will pick the letters from it, no way. Tomoe is some kind of whirl, etc. You have to look it from outsiders' point of view.

+1. If NEM group really is going forward despite the opinion of NEM people, THEN can be started the real conspiracy debate 
 first utopianfuture "played" with puppets and "got caught", then a "good" logo was autocratically chosen, what caused NEM to be ... ... ... ...

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Reasons for Selecting the Cube as the Symbol of NEM.
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It is not difficult to see that the cube logo also looks like a network graph.
The cube symbolizes the decentralized network of the NEM cloud, the 8 corners representing the nodes and the 12 edges representing the links.

The cube is a perfect symbol for NEM. All six attributes of NEM the devs wish to incorporate can be done using the cube.
The 6 faces of the cube represents the 3 exoteric ideals and the 3 esoteric ideas of NEM.
The 3 key ideals are financial freedom, decentralization, and equality of opportunity. Plus the 3 secret components in the PoI algorithm.

https://i.imgur.com/rtp42pT.jpg
The cube represents the decentralized and distributed characteristics of a mesh network (peer-to-peer).

https://i.imgur.com/Nh0r3iI.jpg
All 3 letters of NEM are incorporated into the symbol and are easily identified.

Bitcoin's blockchain has a 2-dimensional quality and can be visualized a sequence of squares. NEM's blockchain, because of it's advanced features
(asset exchange, messaging, games, apps built upon the blockchain, etc) has a 3-dimensional quality can be visualized a sequence of actual blocks.
When we harvest with the client we are processing blocks (cubes).

The cube also has more marketing possibilities than a two-dimensional circle. It has additional surfaces for text and graphics. A hanging mobile can
be constructed for kinetic art advertising. A model can be produced from a 3d printer. The cube is relatively free of the historical and religious
references that plague the tomoe.

Through the centuries, our economy has gone through different phases. We have shifted from an agricultural economy to an industrial one and now
to an information economy. NEM will be part of this economic evolution and if we view NEM as the successor to Bitcoin, our logo should also reflect
this shift away from the industrialized banking system and away from the circular form of world coinage.

https://i.imgur.com/soiVLBF.jpg

These paradigm shifts can be represented as dimensions in space. A point extended becomes a line, the line extended becomes a plane and the
plane extended becomes a solid. Each shift is followed by exponential growth.
0-dimensional, 2^0=1 vertices= point, agrarian, trade based economy
1-dimensional, 2^1=2 vertices= line, banking, fiat based economy
2-dimensional, 2^2=4 vertices= square, digital currency-inefficient PoW, Bitcoin 1.0, logo is a flat circle
3-dimensional, 2^3=8 vertices= cube, digital currency-efficient PoI, NEM 2.0, logo is a solid 3d cube
4-dimensional, 2^4=16 vertices= tesseract, digital currency-a future 3.0 crypto

We should not use the circle just because it has universally been the ideal shape. It all depends on the application.

As an example, even though the circle is the most efficient shape for a room (it encloses the maximum possible area for a given perimeter of wall) it
is not a good choice for the shape of rooms within a house. Wasted gaps of space would be left between the circular rooms.

Another example can be found in nature, the circle would not be the best shape for a bee cell. Space between the circles would be wasted, whereas
the hexagonal structure of a honeycomb shares all its adjacent sides without any gaps. Bees use hexagonal honeycombs for storage because
hexagons more efficient to construct, the structure ensures that bees fill the volume efficiently yet limit the total wall area of the cells. A given
hexagon has the most area inside for the length of its sides.

Hexagons are the most efficient way to divide up a flat plane. The curve of a geodesic dome structure is easier to produce from hexagons. Solar
panel arrays benefit from the area-to-perimeter ratio of a hexagon. The antenna tower sites for cellular phones are also configured in a hexagonal
grid.

https://i.imgur.com/Tk3YTDB.jpg
The geometric efficiency of the honeycomb makes optimal use of space, similarly, NEM's PoI is more efficient than Bitcoin's PoW.

The cube (hexahedron) is related to the hexagon. NEM's cube logo is actually an orthographic projection of a cube. When rendered in two
dimensions it is a flat hexagon.

The cube is one of the 5 platonic solids. All five platonic solids have either three-sided faces or three-way vertices.
tetrahedron,4,6,4 (vertices,edges,faces)
octahedron,6,12,8
cube,8,12,6
icosahedron,12,30,20
dodecahedron,20,30,12

https://i.imgur.com/bFiFPh4.jpg
When orthographically projected, only the hexagon conforms to the symmetries of all five platonic solids.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Regular_Hexagon_Inscribed_in_a_Circle_240px.gif

A hexagon has 6 edges, relating to the 3 key ideals and the 3 secret components in the PoI algorithm.
A hexagon has 6 vertices, again relating to the 3 key ideals and the 3 secret components in the PoI algorithm.
A hexagon can also be created from two equilateral triangles, one triangle representing NEM's 3 key ideals and the other the 3 components of PoI.
Also one triangle could represent the NEM cloud and the other the physical hardware of the network.

The number six also ties in with the idea of six degrees of separation or the small world theory, that there is no more than six degrees of separation
between any two people in the world. Several studies using internet messages have found that the average network path length was 6. If it is not a
security risk, displaying the average network path length would be a interesting feature. It would be a status of the inner workings of PoI. Over time
we could see if NEM's x degrees of separation agrees with the small world theory.

All life on earth is carbon based. The carbon atom has 6 protons in its nucleus and forms hexagonal molecules. The 3-dimensional hexagonal
structure is the reason that diamond is so strong. Graphene and carbon nanotubes are two of the new super materials. In the future these carbon
molecules may replace silicon based semiconductors. Graphene is one of the strongest and thinnest materials, it is a single layer of carbon atoms
arranged in a hexagonal lattice. The line segments in a hexagonal lattice converge at 120 degree angles, this distributes the load evenly and
prevents shearing. Carbon nanotubes are the strongest and stiffest materials yet discovered, it is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a
cylindrical form.

https://i.imgur.com/2Xd8T4h.jpg
Graphene is strong and secure just like the strengh of NEM's community and NEM's algorithm.

The water molecules in an ice crystal form a hexagonal lattice, this is what gives the six-fold symmetry to a snow crystals.