Indeed, it's a bit like somebody writing in to Dear Deirdre and saying "I've a 13 inch cock, how can I make girls aware of this, and what's the best way to make use of it?"
I second AC, this is blatantly nothing to do with how fast you'll get your news of hailstorms in Florida, as you'll spend more that 6ms deciding whether to type FOJ or OJ (is this a reference to Trading Places?) in your email. This is purely so that traders with the fastest black boxes can take advantage of tiny changes in values.
HFT (High Frequency Trading) is all about betting (vast volumes of shares etc) that there will have a minute change in value, and do it continuously. It has absolutely no relation to reality, or the hugely enjoyable scenes of Eddie Murphy & Dan Aykroyd getting one over on the Dukes.
The simple solution is not to drink mass produced lagers - best described as like making love in a canoe - fucking close to water. Seriously, how much taste can you get out of fizzy water with malted barley, especially when people insist on serving it at 2-5C.
Saying that, there are some absolutely superb European lagers, but you tend to have to go searching for them. Whenever I'm in Germany, I always come back with a crate of proper pilsner. Same when I'm in the Lake District in Northern England, they do some fantastic ales & porters up there.
The analogy I use is that if Karl Benz had filed his patent for the combustion engine in the way software patents are filed, it would have read something like:
1). Put hydrocarbon compound into metallic structure. 2). Get power out of metallic structure.
Spot on, I used to skive off on days when my mum was in London seeing her PHD tutor. She never knew until I told her a few years ago - she asked how I got away with it - and I told her I only did it when I knew I wouldn't miss anything important, or make it too obvious.
She now uses me as an example (she's a child psychologist) as how teenagers can make informed decisions even when they're misbehaving.
Remember that the straw that broke the camel's back was the shooting of a civilian by the police. Unlike the USA, it is rare for the police to gun people down here in the UK.
I'm not convinced that's true. The police shot a (possibly former) member of a gang who was carrying replica gun converted to fire live ammunition. It's fairly obvious what's going to happen if you're seen carrying a weapon in London while resisting arrest. I for one don't blame the police for what happened.
Locals then legitimately protested at the shooting (it's their prerogative), but it was hijacked by a bunch of people who - to paraphrase a previous poster - fancied a bit of smashy smashy and the old in-out. It wasn't like all of London suddenly decided they'd had enough of civilians being shot without cause and decided to riot.
Rioters and looters in Croydon wouldn't give a damn about a bloke shot in Tottenham, it was an excuse to create mayhem and steal without consequence. The most political any of the looters attempted to get was when asked why they were stealing from Dixons "we're getting our taxes back init" - I hadn't realised that Dixons were subcontracted by HMRC.
Fair enough, my carrier (UK Vodafone) only gives out addresses in the private range, therefore NATed, so I've no chance of being able get an inbound connection to the phone. I'm guessing your carrier gives you a public address then.
When a mate of mine went to Kenya for his honeymoon he kicked himself for not bringing his mobile (would have been cheaper roaming on Vodafone than using hotel phones). From what he said Kenya appear to have decided not to create the expansive wired telecoms network we're used to and went straight to mobile telecoms.
Isn't that one of the sub-plots from Michael Crichton's Next? I read that book when it came out and felt most of it was completely absurd. It's still absurd but unfortunately believable. It's also worrying how life can imitate art that parodies life.
Assumption fail - they were regularly used and we were examined in both Imperial & SI. Maybe the reason I'm fairly happy using both is because I was too cheap to buy the newest edition of the textbooks for my course - I checked out old editions (aerodynamics, thermodynamics & structures) week after week for 2 years, and nobody else ever requested them as they were "out of date". The only difference was the units: slug, Rankine, psi etc. The format and layouts were almost identical.
Out of my year, I'd say I was one of the best at knowing whether a number was in the right ball park as I was used to expecting values in both sets of units. One of my lectures had a go at us as somebody handed in a course work calculating a drag coefficient as 30, rather than 0.03 - he said that if he had his way we'd be using slide rules, as that way one would know what magnitude the result should be before you started.
Lets see: Lift coefficient of a fully laden C152 at stall speed: Cl = 1670lb / (.5 * 2.379E-3 slug/ft^3 * (43kts /.592 kts/ft/s)^2 * 160ft^2) = 1.66 Cl = 9.806m/s^2 * 757kg / (.5 * 1.226kg/m^3 * (79km/h / 3.6 km/h/m/s)^2 * 14.9m^2) = 1.69 2% error for imprecise conversion of units on Wikipedia.
I don't disagree that SI is easier, but I certainly don't regret learning both, in fact I appreciate the additional knowledge. <snob alert>If you're unable to convert slug to kg, lbf to Newton, ft/s to m/s, you shouldn't be involved in engineering.</snob alert>
Why, both systems work. In school we only used SI units, at home we used both (my Dad is a farmer and even though the Department of Agriculture used imperial, he used SI as he had a lot of German equipment). In uni (Aero engineering) I was taught both. Sure it can be an arse-ache to convert mass to volume in imperial, but you get a feel for the numbers. Besides, as long as you state what units you use, you can use any mixture safely* - I've described something as a metre by a yard (it wasn't quite square), and got some strange looks, but it was the most accurate description. I also calculate my fuel consumption in miles per litre.(about 8 is good for me). I describe my mass & height in kilos & centimetres, but if I measure something short I'll use my thumb and estimate it in inches.
Some mod points, some mod points, my kingdom for some mod points.
As a Brit however, I also agree with you, it's nothing to lose sleep over, god only knows if the blitz didn't take out my grandparents, the IRA didn't finish my parents off in the 70s and me off in the 80s, and Al Qaeda haven't been able to touch me in the 00s I'm not likely to live in fear of terrorism if not only because that would mean terrorism was effective, and people not altering their lives because of it, means it's not- terrorism can only be terrorism if it actually effects change through terror. These people are such statistically insignificant threats to daily life that they should be treated as such, and thought of as such- less likely to cause you any harm than a rogue lightning strike hitting you on the head at the end of the day.
Please can you send that to your MP, highlighting that paragraph. Those people really need to be told that we've (I say we, I'm Irish but have been described as more English than the English themselves) suffered more in history, but it's only now that we're being told to run scared. We will not be dictated to by a bunch of incompents who could have barely received a U in GCSE science.
We had regular explosions and killings in the Republic of Ireland when I was growing up, but managed to survive without the ridiculous threat level and constant reminders that our government is "keeping us safe".
Thanks, you've ruined my weekend by bringing that to my attention. The optimist in me wants it be fake, though the video linked was http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=jNGGNomLx_c'>the scariest 127 seconds of my life(not really,but certainly the most excruciating).
Off topic, wtf is going on with the textareas on slashdot? Their performance is horrific on mobile devices - I had to compose this in my email client - as the cursor just doesn't work.
Yup, as an Android owner and developer I admit I've mocked other manufacturers for their school boy errors. Guess what my reaction was? Something along the lines of "oh for fucks sake, they had better fix this pronto".
That said, my fetchmailrc file on machines contain plain text passwords and rely on only the owner having read rights, so maybe I'm a hypocrite. Any encryption key will have to live on the device, so it'll be interesting to see opinions and suggestions.
are you sure that the tax is the same on both as diesel is typically about 4p a litre more expensive?
Yup, as stated from HMRC. Diesel had less duty up until 2009ish. I recokon that when the duty was equalised, prices were modified to so as to keep diesel more expensive than petrol.
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Funny, I interpreted the GP as meaning "this is truly stunning, unlike most of the stuff labelled as stunning".
Indeed, it's a bit like somebody writing in to Dear Deirdre and saying "I've a 13 inch cock, how can I make girls aware of this, and what's the best way to make use of it?"
I second AC, this is blatantly nothing to do with how fast you'll get your news of hailstorms in Florida, as you'll spend more that 6ms deciding whether to type FOJ or OJ (is this a reference to Trading Places?) in your email. This is purely so that traders with the fastest black boxes can take advantage of tiny changes in values.
HFT (High Frequency Trading) is all about betting (vast volumes of shares etc) that there will have a minute change in value, and do it continuously. It has absolutely no relation to reality, or the hugely enjoyable scenes of Eddie Murphy & Dan Aykroyd getting one over on the Dukes.
Why anonymous? I very nearly had coffee on my monitor because of that.
Diamond-tipped garden spades are obviously a good idea too. I probably won't bother patenting them though...
I will, bwahaha
Amateur, don't you realise that susceptible to brute force. Triple-ROT533 is the accepted standard
Asterisk?
Steve suddenly got more intense. "Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look around this room!"
Providing it's true, I'd love for that quote to bite Jobs in the ass during this case.
The simple solution is not to drink mass produced lagers - best described as like making love in a canoe - fucking close to water. Seriously, how much taste can you get out of fizzy water with malted barley, especially when people insist on serving it at 2-5C.
Saying that, there are some absolutely superb European lagers, but you tend to have to go searching for them. Whenever I'm in Germany, I always come back with a crate of proper pilsner. Same when I'm in the Lake District in Northern England, they do some fantastic ales & porters up there.
The analogy I use is that if Karl Benz had filed his patent for the combustion engine in the way software patents are filed, it would have read something like:
1). Put hydrocarbon compound into metallic structure.
2). Get power out of metallic structure.
Foxit reader.
Spot on, I used to skive off on days when my mum was in London seeing her PHD tutor. She never knew until I told her a few years ago - she asked how I got away with it - and I told her I only did it when I knew I wouldn't miss anything important, or make it too obvious.
She now uses me as an example (she's a child psychologist) as how teenagers can make informed decisions even when they're misbehaving.
The NHS is also the most efficient healthcare system of seven top industrialised nations: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10375877 [bbc.co.uk]
I don't know which is scarier, that the NHS is "efficient", or that other countries have it worse.
Seriously guys, it's starting to contaminate the rest of the world.
Remember that the straw that broke the camel's back was the shooting of a civilian by the police. Unlike the USA, it is rare for the police to gun people down here in the UK.
I'm not convinced that's true. The police shot a (possibly former) member of a gang who was carrying replica gun converted to fire live ammunition. It's fairly obvious what's going to happen if you're seen carrying a weapon in London while resisting arrest. I for one don't blame the police for what happened.
Locals then legitimately protested at the shooting (it's their prerogative), but it was hijacked by a bunch of people who - to paraphrase a previous poster - fancied a bit of smashy smashy and the old in-out. It wasn't like all of London suddenly decided they'd had enough of civilians being shot without cause and decided to riot.
Rioters and looters in Croydon wouldn't give a damn about a bloke shot in Tottenham, it was an excuse to create mayhem and steal without consequence. The most political any of the looters attempted to get was when asked why they were stealing from Dixons "we're getting our taxes back init" - I hadn't realised that Dixons were subcontracted by HMRC.
Fair enough, my carrier (UK Vodafone) only gives out addresses in the private range, therefore NATed, so I've no chance of being able get an inbound connection to the phone. I'm guessing your carrier gives you a public address then.
When a mate of mine went to Kenya for his honeymoon he kicked himself for not bringing his mobile (would have been cheaper roaming on Vodafone than using hotel phones). From what he said Kenya appear to have decided not to create the expansive wired telecoms network we're used to and went straight to mobile telecoms.
A doctor receives a patient...
Isn't that one of the sub-plots from Michael Crichton's Next? I read that book when it came out and felt most of it was completely absurd. It's still absurd but unfortunately believable. It's also worrying how life can imitate art that parodies life.
Assumption fail - they were regularly used and we were examined in both Imperial & SI. Maybe the reason I'm fairly happy using both is because I was too cheap to buy the newest edition of the textbooks for my course - I checked out old editions (aerodynamics, thermodynamics & structures) week after week for 2 years, and nobody else ever requested them as they were "out of date". The only difference was the units: slug, Rankine, psi etc. The format and layouts were almost identical.
Out of my year, I'd say I was one of the best at knowing whether a number was in the right ball park as I was used to expecting values in both sets of units. One of my lectures had a go at us as somebody handed in a course work calculating a drag coefficient as 30, rather than 0.03 - he said that if he had his way we'd be using slide rules, as that way one would know what magnitude the result should be before you started.
Lets see: Lift coefficient of a fully laden C152 at stall speed: .592 kts/ft/s)^2 * 160ft^2) = 1.66
Cl = 1670lb / (.5 * 2.379E-3 slug/ft^3 * (43kts /
Cl = 9.806m/s^2 * 757kg / (.5 * 1.226kg/m^3 * (79km/h / 3.6 km/h/m/s)^2 * 14.9m^2) = 1.69
2% error for imprecise conversion of units on Wikipedia.
I don't disagree that SI is easier, but I certainly don't regret learning both, in fact I appreciate the additional knowledge.
<snob alert>If you're unable to convert slug to kg, lbf to Newton, ft/s to m/s, you shouldn't be involved in engineering.</snob alert>
Why, both systems work. In school we only used SI units, at home we used both (my Dad is a farmer and even though the Department of Agriculture used imperial, he used SI as he had a lot of German equipment). In uni (Aero engineering) I was taught both. Sure it can be an arse-ache to convert mass to volume in imperial, but you get a feel for the numbers.
Besides, as long as you state what units you use, you can use any mixture safely* - I've described something as a metre by a yard (it wasn't quite square), and got some strange looks, but it was the most accurate description. I also calculate my fuel consumption in miles per litre.(about 8 is good for me). I describe my mass & height in kilos & centimetres, but if I measure something short I'll use my thumb and estimate it in inches.
* Safely, but maybe not conveniently.
Some mod points, some mod points, my kingdom for some mod points.
As a Brit however, I also agree with you, it's nothing to lose sleep over, god only knows if the blitz didn't take out my grandparents, the IRA didn't finish my parents off in the 70s and me off in the 80s, and Al Qaeda haven't been able to touch me in the 00s I'm not likely to live in fear of terrorism if not only because that would mean terrorism was effective, and people not altering their lives because of it, means it's not- terrorism can only be terrorism if it actually effects change through terror. These people are such statistically insignificant threats to daily life that they should be treated as such, and thought of as such- less likely to cause you any harm than a rogue lightning strike hitting you on the head at the end of the day.
Please can you send that to your MP, highlighting that paragraph. Those people really need to be told that we've (I say we, I'm Irish but have been described as more English than the English themselves) suffered more in history, but it's only now that we're being told to run scared. We will not be dictated to by a bunch of incompents who could have barely received a U in GCSE science.
We had regular explosions and killings in the Republic of Ireland when I was growing up, but managed to survive without the ridiculous threat level and constant reminders that our government is "keeping us safe".
Oh ffs, it's swallowing my markup too.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=jNGGNomLx_c
Thanks, you've ruined my weekend by bringing that to my attention. The optimist in me wants it be fake, though the video linked was http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=jNGGNomLx_c'>the scariest 127 seconds of my life(not really,but certainly the most excruciating).
Off topic, wtf is going on with the textareas on slashdot? Their performance is horrific on mobile devices - I had to compose this in my email client - as the cursor just doesn't work.
Yup, as an Android owner and developer I admit I've mocked other manufacturers for their school boy errors. Guess what my reaction was? Something along the lines of "oh for fucks sake, they had better fix this pronto".
That said, my fetchmailrc file on machines contain plain text passwords and rely on only the owner having read rights, so maybe I'm a hypocrite. Any encryption key will have to live on the device, so it'll be interesting to see opinions and suggestions.
are you sure that the tax is the same on both as diesel is typically about 4p a litre more expensive?
Yup, as stated from HMRC. Diesel had less duty up until 2009ish. I recokon that when the duty was equalised, prices were modified to so as to keep diesel more expensive than petrol.