Never understimate the will power of the RIAA. Why do you think they are squeezing thousands of dollars out of old grandmas who don't even have a computer? Just to buy another yacht? Think again, they are building up the cash needed to enforce copyright across the galaxy!
Then one year in the very distant future (several millennia from now) we'll just not switch to daylight savings time and then carry on as before. I still don't see the problem.
As for the small minority of people who do care: I assume they're astronomers, and they can just apply a correction factor. The majority of people shouldn't be affected by the needs of a small minority, especially since the small minority can easily get around the "problem".
The entire point of date/time is because we do in fact care a lot about how that "arbitrary counter" lines up with when we will be awake or asleep or eating at various points -- that's what makes it useful.
I care about the fact that the sun comes up in the morning and goes down in the evening. I don't care about the fact that it happens to cross some particular meridian going through some English village at precisely 1:00 pm or 12:00 pm (depending on daylight saving time) on exactly two days of the year (thanks to the elliptical orbit of our rock). I'll sleep just fine if it's 12:01 instead of 12:00, so you can skip at least the next 60 leap seconds.
Even simpler: shut off the electricity, seal all the doors and windows, then flood the entire building. Once the fire is gone, let the water out, wait for everything to dry up, switch on the electricity again. Easy!
It would be funny to send out news bulletins like "Bernanke refrained from not announcing an end to quantitative easing" and then watching all the HFT algos trade in different directions, then:-)
That kind of latency is still way too high. There's no way anyone is going to try HFT from the other end of the globe. The top HFT firms are actually buying server racks inside of the stock exchange building, with the racks closest to the transaction servers being the most expensive.
Yes, the benefit is that stock prices will stay nicely synchronized between different locations, and that the average Joe doesn't have to worry about it.
which would be impossible to achieve if trades took one second instead of a few microseconds...
Speculation? No, not at all. Speculation is at least on the seconds scale, not microseconds. Unless you mean "speculating that your algorithm doesn't contain any bugs". In that case, yes, it's pure speculation.
Quite funny how Steve Jobs decided not to support Flash on iOS because it was such a resource hog, consuming way too much processor power, and now people are going to try and get around that restriction by... making a flash interpreter in html5:-)
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That's not a Monty Python reference, but it could have been...
"doing as the locals do."
Yes, but I think we were talking about the US. Doing as the locals do might not always be the best way then...
Only if they can enforce it. So basicly, NO
Never understimate the will power of the RIAA. Why do you think they are squeezing thousands of dollars out of old grandmas who don't even have a computer? Just to buy another yacht? Think again, they are building up the cash needed to enforce copyright across the galaxy!
Then one year in the very distant future (several millennia from now) we'll just not switch to daylight savings time and then carry on as before. I still don't see the problem.
As for the small minority of people who do care: I assume they're astronomers, and they can just apply a correction factor. The majority of people shouldn't be affected by the needs of a small minority, especially since the small minority can easily get around the "problem".
It's completely safe!
What about taking a shower? Could the particles get airborne there?
It's not great for your lungs if inhaled, of course, but getting some in your drinking water isn't going to hurt you.
So as long as you don't drown in it, you're fine?
You mean crashing with every leap second is the "proper" way of doing things, as opposed to being one second off but working just fine?
The entire point of date/time is because we do in fact care a lot about how that "arbitrary counter" lines up with when we will be awake or asleep or eating at various points -- that's what makes it useful.
I care about the fact that the sun comes up in the morning and goes down in the evening. I don't care about the fact that it happens to cross some particular meridian going through some English village at precisely 1:00 pm or 12:00 pm (depending on daylight saving time) on exactly two days of the year (thanks to the elliptical orbit of our rock). I'll sleep just fine if it's 12:01 instead of 12:00, so you can skip at least the next 60 leap seconds.
Might have HAD ice... before they evaporated it all using that laser.
I know a guy this happened to in a bar, but he actually turned down the girl that was hitting on him. Worked wonders for his relationship.
Excellent suggestion, since most technically challenged people are already on FaceBook anyway.
Playing doctor?
Then you can always just call the insurance company.
Even simpler: shut off the electricity, seal all the doors and windows, then flood the entire building. Once the fire is gone, let the water out, wait for everything to dry up, switch on the electricity again. Easy!
It would be funny to send out news bulletins like "Bernanke refrained from not announcing an end to quantitative easing" and then watching all the HFT algos trade in different directions, then :-)
which would also open up the window where the high frequency trader would be vulnerable to external news that could upset the stock price.
In one second? Really?
The news still has to be processed by a human, right? Can those people read a news item and feed info to their algorithms in less than a second?
That kind of latency is still way too high. There's no way anyone is going to try HFT from the other end of the globe. The top HFT firms are actually buying server racks inside of the stock exchange building, with the racks closest to the transaction servers being the most expensive.
Yes, the benefit is that stock prices will stay nicely synchronized between different locations, and that the average Joe doesn't have to worry about it.
which would be impossible to achieve if trades took one second instead of a few microseconds...
So what are the hackers waiting for?
Speculation? No, not at all. Speculation is at least on the seconds scale, not microseconds. Unless you mean "speculating that your algorithm doesn't contain any bugs". In that case, yes, it's pure speculation.
The Voyager probes do not have warp engines
yet.
Just wait until their AI has sufficiently progressed.
The password "Password" is not allowed, but "pissword" is because it contains a number!
But why didn't print the display case too? Or even print the model IN a display case in one go?
Quite funny how Steve Jobs decided not to support Flash on iOS because it was such a resource hog, consuming way too much processor power, and now people are going to try and get around that restriction by... making a flash interpreter in html5 :-)