The problem is that the light cone from DC to Chicago is larger than the time in which the first transactions happened in Chicago.
There are a few possible explanations:
- If the light cone is really 2-3ms, it is possible that one path of information went via copper wire (electrons in copper wires move at less than the speed of light) while the other went via fiber-optics
- Two paths as above, only with different latencies of routing equipment
- Someone in Chicago had insider knowledge, and was tipped off
- And from having read TFA, I think it's possible that someone with the embargoed information had a copy of it in Chicago, programmed to transmit at the intended moment, thus abiding by the letter of the rule. It is entirely possible that they might not have considered the relativistic implications, not even trying to be the "first post" guy. Whoever made those trades happened to be looking at that alternate source in Chicago instead of the "official" one. It could be argued that this would be a good idea to do intentionally, as long as they can keep the information properly locked up ahead of time when it is in more places.
With all the high-speed trading going on these days, Einstein was bound to get involved sooner or later.
I have used Slackware since the '90s, but for text mode stuff only. For GUI stuff it's OS X all the way. And I like Debian's apt-get system. If it weren't for apt-get, I wouldn't use Ubuntu at all. And I recently set up a MythTV, for which OS X isn't the best choice due to the limited choice of hardware. So I made a list of things to make Ubuntu sane after install, and that was some of it.
It's just as ridiculous as forcing people to pay car insurance or home insurance in some states.
I'm not familiar with any home insurance requirements here in Texas, but I have a mortgage, I'm sure the finance company requires it, just like they require auto insurance to finance a vehicle. But states don't (to my knowledge) require insurance that pays you for your own fault accidents, only to pay someone else for your fault accidents.
What happened is that most career politicians know the value of keeping the oligarchs happy. You can have all the free trade you want as long as it doesn't affect my buddy over there who donated $20,000 to my campaign last year and who I play golf with monthly. The ones who don't know the value of it are generally beaten in the next election by the buddy of the guy who donated $20,000 to his campaign and plays golf with him monthly.
It's sort of like evolution, except it's driven by the guys who throw money around so that they can keep making more money to throw around.
Basically, it's like a text adventure with a much worse and stupider parser, but it has graphics.
In other words, instead of fighting the parser to figure out the word it wants, you're fighting the less-than-helpful user interface, having to "scrub" the screen and watch where the cursor changes. Everything is pre-rendered, so you don't even get the usual visual cues around the edges of objects against the background. Until today I don't think I've ever thought of Myst as making a game out of excessively skeuomorphic interfaces.
Another thing is that Myst was in the early CD-ROM era. Before that, you had to distribute things in 1.44MB chunks that a user had to pre-install, and a CD-ROM could hold 450 floppies worth of data. I think Myst even ran directly from the CD-ROM, in a time when you might not even have a 640MB hard drive.
I guess one of the things about it was that it made a game out of an excessively skeuomorphic interface. If you render a background too well, it makes it hard to tell what are the limited objects that you can interact with. I think it at least changed your cursor to indicate what you could interact with if you "scrubbed" the screen, but it was still new enough to see that for it to be interesting.
Here's a bit of trivia: the original version of Myst ran in Hypercard. What, you say Hypercard can't do color graphics? They had to use plug-ins to make it show those pre-rendered pictures.
More specifically, either Arduino or mbed. Arduino is the 800-pound gorilla of the hobbyist embedded world, and mbed makes good use of C++ classes as APIs. Embedded systems programming is my job, and mbed taught me a few things about using C++ in that context. (Note: no templates, no cin/cout, no RTTI, just C-with-classes like Bjarne originally intended.)
There's dozens of Arduino compatible boards, though only a few mbed boards.
Second best is to turn them off manually as part of a post-install checklist. I'm pretty sure most of this stuff is with "lens" or "scope" plug-ins for the desktop, so to find out what might be "spying" on you (or at least trying to monetize you): dpkg -l | egrep "lens|scope"
The nuke-and-pave variant of that would be: dpkg -l | egrep "lens|scope" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo apt-get remove
Other things I manually change post-install are to remove the stupid pop-out scroll bars (liboverlay-scrollbar or somesuch) and the stupid start-up splash screen (/etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""), and to install a decent vi (sudo apt-get install vim, export EDITOR=vi), C++, and an SSH server.
Maybe you could actually read the page you linked to?
As of June 2012, its launch is anticipated to be in 2015,[20] the Antares rocket has been reported as the "top contender" for the launch vehicle.[21] Since the available power from the ISS is less than 200 kW, the ISS VASIMR will include a trickle-charged battery system allowing for 15 min pulses of thrust."
Wow, both of your questions answered in the same paragraph!
Because we had the Space Shuttle, it was The Future[tm], rockets were old and busted. They told us (and themselves) that it could do everything, so they damn well were going to use it for everything. It was also done that way to give the Shuttle a purpose.
So because pork politics.
It's only now when we're trying to do it again that we realize just how awesome the Saturn V was. And that was before we had powerful microcomputers for guidance. Elon Musk realized that there was no way NASA was going to get a good heavy lift launcher built in any reasonable time frame, and decided to work toward making his own. And Bigelow is working on the space station side of things, so we should see some interesting stuff by the end of the decade from both of them, while NASA limps along with the US Congress as a ball and chain to keep them from getting anything done other than slow-motion pork projects.
Grrr... I realized as I clicked the button that leap seconds happen at midnight. But still, you know a radiologist who works at midnight? People aren't just left sleeping in that kind of medical equipment with no operator. Also, if someone is basing elapsed time (of less than an hour or so) by subtracting two time readings (rather than using a millisecond uptime timer from the OS), they're an idiot.
Or, what about medical equipment [based on POSIX-compliant UTC (e.g. Linux, etc.)] that gives a patient an extra one second of radiation because the master clock is based on UTC?
You know a radialogist who works at 2AM on Sunday?
I'm doing good just to have my DHCP at home assign the same fixed IP to both the wired and wireless interfaces of my laptops. That way I get a limited sort of multipath, where the laptop will default to using the wired if it's connected, and the TCP stacks will see the same IP coming from a different MAC address on the same LAN. Once I've done the big file transfer that I dug out the wired cable for, if it falls out, neither I nor the computers involved care.
It could be done, if we could drain the radiation belts first. They're not radioactive (in the fission sense), they're just full of high-energy particles that are trapped by the magnetic field. But we haven't even tried it on Earth yet, and Jupiter and its field are a lot larger.
Apparently it's sort of like the difference between algebra and calculus. Each particle (?) has its own shape, and you compute the area inside the shape. The "old way" might be more like breaking it up into a bunch of little odd-shaped areas (and not just slices like basic calculus) that you have to add and subtract.
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I'm pretty sure electrons in copper are even slower. Not that anybody still uses copper for long-distance data transfer.
Maybe someone finally invented thiotimolline?
The problem is that the light cone from DC to Chicago is larger than the time in which the first transactions happened in Chicago.
There are a few possible explanations:
- If the light cone is really 2-3ms, it is possible that one path of information went via copper wire (electrons in copper wires move at less than the speed of light) while the other went via fiber-optics
- Two paths as above, only with different latencies of routing equipment
- Someone in Chicago had insider knowledge, and was tipped off
- And from having read TFA, I think it's possible that someone with the embargoed information had a copy of it in Chicago, programmed to transmit at the intended moment, thus abiding by the letter of the rule. It is entirely possible that they might not have considered the relativistic implications, not even trying to be the "first post" guy. Whoever made those trades happened to be looking at that alternate source in Chicago instead of the "official" one. It could be argued that this would be a good idea to do intentionally, as long as they can keep the information properly locked up ahead of time when it is in more places.
With all the high-speed trading going on these days, Einstein was bound to get involved sooner or later.
I have used Slackware since the '90s, but for text mode stuff only. For GUI stuff it's OS X all the way. And I like Debian's apt-get system. If it weren't for apt-get, I wouldn't use Ubuntu at all. And I recently set up a MythTV, for which OS X isn't the best choice due to the limited choice of hardware. So I made a list of things to make Ubuntu sane after install, and that was some of it.
It hasn't happened yet because it's not 2015 yet.
It's just as ridiculous as forcing people to pay car insurance or home insurance in some states.
I'm not familiar with any home insurance requirements here in Texas, but I have a mortgage, I'm sure the finance company requires it, just like they require auto insurance to finance a vehicle. But states don't (to my knowledge) require insurance that pays you for your own fault accidents, only to pay someone else for your fault accidents.
And while we're complaining about this, it's also just as ridiculous as forcing people to buy health insurance.
No, you silly person, Al Gore invented the Internet. The electric car was invented by Ed Begley Jr.
What happened is that most career politicians know the value of keeping the oligarchs happy. You can have all the free trade you want as long as it doesn't affect my buddy over there who donated $20,000 to my campaign last year and who I play golf with monthly. The ones who don't know the value of it are generally beaten in the next election by the buddy of the guy who donated $20,000 to his campaign and plays golf with him monthly.
It's sort of like evolution, except it's driven by the guys who throw money around so that they can keep making more money to throw around.
Basically, it's like a text adventure with a much worse and stupider parser, but it has graphics.
In other words, instead of fighting the parser to figure out the word it wants, you're fighting the less-than-helpful user interface, having to "scrub" the screen and watch where the cursor changes. Everything is pre-rendered, so you don't even get the usual visual cues around the edges of objects against the background. Until today I don't think I've ever thought of Myst as making a game out of excessively skeuomorphic interfaces.
Another thing is that Myst was in the early CD-ROM era. Before that, you had to distribute things in 1.44MB chunks that a user had to pre-install, and a CD-ROM could hold 450 floppies worth of data. I think Myst even ran directly from the CD-ROM, in a time when you might not even have a 640MB hard drive.
I guess one of the things about it was that it made a game out of an excessively skeuomorphic interface. If you render a background too well, it makes it hard to tell what are the limited objects that you can interact with. I think it at least changed your cursor to indicate what you could interact with if you "scrubbed" the screen, but it was still new enough to see that for it to be interesting.
Here's a bit of trivia: the original version of Myst ran in Hypercard. What, you say Hypercard can't do color graphics? They had to use plug-ins to make it show those pre-rendered pictures.
Ee, by gum itssssssBOOM!
One Top Lap Per child.
More specifically, either Arduino or mbed. Arduino is the 800-pound gorilla of the hobbyist embedded world, and mbed makes good use of C++ classes as APIs. Embedded systems programming is my job, and mbed taught me a few things about using C++ in that context. (Note: no templates, no cin/cout, no RTTI, just C-with-classes like Bjarne originally intended.)
There's dozens of Arduino compatible boards, though only a few mbed boards.
Ha ha, I'm not falling for that, I know nobody needs more than 640K of RAM, because Bill Gates said so.
I like how it tells you which function to use by telling you it's the "real" one, like mysql_real_escape_string.
Second best is to turn them off manually as part of a post-install checklist. I'm pretty sure most of this stuff is with "lens" or "scope" plug-ins for the desktop, so to find out what might be "spying" on you (or at least trying to monetize you): dpkg -l | egrep "lens|scope"
The nuke-and-pave variant of that would be: dpkg -l | egrep "lens|scope" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo apt-get remove
Other things I manually change post-install are to remove the stupid pop-out scroll bars (liboverlay-scrollbar or somesuch) and the stupid start-up splash screen (/etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""), and to install a decent vi (sudo apt-get install vim, export EDITOR=vi), C++, and an SSH server.
Maybe you could actually read the page you linked to?
As of June 2012, its launch is anticipated to be in 2015,[20] the Antares rocket has been reported as the "top contender" for the launch vehicle.[21] Since the available power from the ISS is less than 200 kW, the ISS VASIMR will include a trickle-charged battery system allowing for 15 min pulses of thrust."
Wow, both of your questions answered in the same paragraph!
Because we had the Space Shuttle, it was The Future[tm], rockets were old and busted. They told us (and themselves) that it could do everything, so they damn well were going to use it for everything. It was also done that way to give the Shuttle a purpose.
So because pork politics.
It's only now when we're trying to do it again that we realize just how awesome the Saturn V was. And that was before we had powerful microcomputers for guidance. Elon Musk realized that there was no way NASA was going to get a good heavy lift launcher built in any reasonable time frame, and decided to work toward making his own. And Bigelow is working on the space station side of things, so we should see some interesting stuff by the end of the decade from both of them, while NASA limps along with the US Congress as a ball and chain to keep them from getting anything done other than slow-motion pork projects.
Because Generic Cutlass Clashers has gotten so stale lately.
Grrr... I realized as I clicked the button that leap seconds happen at midnight. But still, you know a radiologist who works at midnight? People aren't just left sleeping in that kind of medical equipment with no operator. Also, if someone is basing elapsed time (of less than an hour or so) by subtracting two time readings (rather than using a millisecond uptime timer from the OS), they're an idiot.
Or, what about medical equipment [based on POSIX-compliant UTC (e.g. Linux, etc.)] that gives a patient an extra one second of radiation because the master clock is based on UTC?
You know a radialogist who works at 2AM on Sunday?
I'm doing good just to have my DHCP at home assign the same fixed IP to both the wired and wireless interfaces of my laptops. That way I get a limited sort of multipath, where the laptop will default to using the wired if it's connected, and the TCP stacks will see the same IP coming from a different MAC address on the same LAN. Once I've done the big file transfer that I dug out the wired cable for, if it falls out, neither I nor the computers involved care.
It could be done, if we could drain the radiation belts first. They're not radioactive (in the fission sense), they're just full of high-energy particles that are trapped by the magnetic field. But we haven't even tried it on Earth yet, and Jupiter and its field are a lot larger.
Posting as an AC? Really not helping your image.
Apparently it's sort of like the difference between algebra and calculus. Each particle (?) has its own shape, and you compute the area inside the shape. The "old way" might be more like breaking it up into a bunch of little odd-shaped areas (and not just slices like basic calculus) that you have to add and subtract.