Are you sure? Read the fine print at the bottom of the Yahoo finance page next time:
I am - Yahoo! Finance Launches Free Real-Time ECN Prices. Of course, both the Y! and Google finance teams have been trying to do this for a while - in our case (obvious disclaimer: I work for Y!, although not on Finance) we have to thank Bats Trading Inc for providing us with the data. It's not universal yet, but the blog post above indicates that we're working on it.
Google don't indicate where they're getting their data from, but they've been fighting to do it for a while as well, and as they're starting out with NASDAQ, you can assume they'll be trying to roll it out to further exchanges and markets as well.
As has been noted above, this is a very Science Fiction like area (ooo..Andromeda Strain and so on). Occasionally, reading such short fiction pays off so I can say: I'm not sure this is entirely news to anyone.
My "factual" basis for this is a spectacular novella by Dominic Green called "Send me a Mentagram" (originally published in Interzone), which was also included in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction 21. Read it..and consider.
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This has been a 'my world is informed by science fiction' announcement.
Actually, it does. Or at least an previous version of it did:
I was a student at the Unversity of Southampton up to last year and a friend of mine (one of those listed in the "worked on the project in the past" section) was looking at some interface research for the project. I volenteered to be a test subject; he had purchased a Powerbook within the previous year, and used that for the testing.
As the head of music at a student radio station in the UK, I've seen a large increase in the amount of copy protection issued on the promos that I get week after week.
Standard practice for our playlist system is that I rip the CDs to an MP3 format (using Xing), and then wrap the MP3s in a WAV header (for track information). This has become more difficult recently - as most people will know, some of the copy protection systems split the audio up into a bunch of really small data tracks followed by a huge long one. This can be easy to deal with in the software (just merge the tracks, and kill the white noise at the end), or it can be impossible to deal with (in that Audiocatalyst doesn't recognise any data on the disc at all).
As stated elsewhere, all the copy protection schemes include "music software" for PC/Mac playback. The most frustrating thing about this is that for the most part, the software playback of the CD is at some ridiculous quality (like 43kpbs). It has become easier for me to bring along a hi-fi to the station, and do most of my reviews on that (and take a mini-jack/mini-jack cable with me for A/D transfer). It's pointless to do this to us - anyone who would actually go as far as to violate the promotions agreement either by passing promos on or ripping them is not going to be stopped by some cheap 'n cheerful protection scheme.
The fools (damn them).
Sarcas
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Make a man a fire, and he'll be warm for the night Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life
Everyone knows that Palm and the Palm-a-like Visior rule the handheld workplace in the States. For those of us who use the more European Symbian products, like the Revo,Series 5, or even older Series 3 which are the keyboardful equivilent of the Palms, and include Web browsing as standard, does anyone know if there is a wireless product in the works?
I know that both Ericsson and Nokia are a big partners - this this is their neck of the woods, - and that the new OS has wireless fuctionality, but I don't know of any solid hardware in development.
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Make a man a fire, and he'll be warm for the night,
Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life
Sorry, that comment should have read:
<ln><p>Okay, so it may well be the first degree program, but isn't Karl Eric Drexler (of MIT and <a href="http://www.foresight.org">The Foresight Institute</a>) already a PhD in this area? <p>I bought Nanosystems (availible from Amazon) a while ago (and it went way over my head), but I'm sure that was in the easy-to-understand "About the Author" section <p>Sarcas
<ln>
Sorry if the lack of formatting in the original caused undue consternation.
Okay, so it may well be the first degree program, but isn't Karl Eric Drexler (of MIT and rhe Foresight Institute) already a PhD in this area? I bought Nanosystems (availible from Amazon a while ago (and it went over my head), but I'm sure that was in the easy-to-understand "About the Author" section
Sarcas
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Are you sure? Read the fine print at the bottom of the Yahoo finance page next time:
I am - Yahoo! Finance Launches Free Real-Time ECN Prices. Of course, both the Y! and Google finance teams have been trying to do this for a while - in our case (obvious disclaimer: I work for Y!, although not on Finance) we have to thank Bats Trading Inc for providing us with the data. It's not universal yet, but the blog post above indicates that we're working on it.Google don't indicate where they're getting their data from, but they've been fighting to do it for a while as well, and as they're starting out with NASDAQ, you can assume they'll be trying to roll it out to further exchanges and markets as well.
All good for the market, as is the competition.
As has been noted above, this is a very Science Fiction like area (ooo..Andromeda Strain and so on). Occasionally, reading such short fiction pays off so I can say: I'm not sure this is entirely news to anyone.
My "factual" basis for this is a spectacular novella by Dominic Green called "Send me a Mentagram" (originally published in Interzone), which was also included in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction 21.
Read it..and consider.
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This has been a 'my world is informed by science fiction' announcement.
Actually, it does. Or at least an previous version of it did:
:c).
I was a student at the Unversity of Southampton up to last year and a friend of mine (one of those listed in the "worked on the project in the past" section) was looking at some interface research for the project. I volenteered to be a test subject; he had purchased a Powerbook within the previous year, and used that for the testing.
Not that I suppose anyone cares about that
As the head of music at a student radio station in the UK, I've seen a large increase in the amount of copy protection issued on the promos that I get week after week.
Standard practice for our playlist system is that I rip the CDs to an MP3 format (using Xing), and then wrap the MP3s in a WAV header (for track information). This has become more difficult recently - as most people will know, some of the copy protection systems split the audio up into a bunch of really small data tracks followed by a huge long one. This can be easy to deal with in the software (just merge the tracks, and kill the white noise at the end), or it can be impossible to deal with (in that Audiocatalyst doesn't recognise any data on the disc at all).
As stated elsewhere, all the copy protection schemes include "music software" for PC/Mac playback. The most frustrating thing about this is that for the most part, the software playback of the CD is at some ridiculous quality (like 43kpbs). It has become easier for me to bring along a hi-fi to the station, and do most of my reviews on that (and take a mini-jack/mini-jack cable with me for A/D transfer). It's pointless to do this to us - anyone who would actually go as far as to violate the promotions agreement either by passing promos on or ripping them is not going to be stopped by some cheap 'n cheerful protection scheme.
The fools (damn them).
Sarcas
--
Make a man a fire, and he'll be warm for the night
Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life
Everyone knows that Palm and the Palm-a-like Visior rule the handheld workplace in the States. For those of us who use the more European Symbian products, like the Revo,Series 5, or even older Series 3 which are the keyboardful equivilent of the Palms, and include Web browsing as standard, does anyone know if there is a wireless product in the works?
I know that both Ericsson and Nokia are a big partners - this this is their neck of the woods, - and that the new OS has wireless fuctionality, but I don't know of any solid hardware in development.
--------
Make a man a fire, and he'll be warm for the night,
Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life
Sorry, that comment should have read:
<ln><p>Okay, so it may well be the first degree program, but isn't Karl Eric Drexler (of MIT and <a href="http://www.foresight.org">The Foresight Institute</a>) already a PhD in this area? <p>I bought Nanosystems (availible from Amazon) a while ago (and it went way over my head), but I'm sure that was in the easy-to-understand "About the Author" section <p>Sarcas
<ln>
Sorry if the lack of formatting in the original caused undue consternation.
Okay, so it may well be the first degree program, but isn't Karl Eric Drexler (of MIT and rhe Foresight Institute) already a PhD in this area? I bought Nanosystems (availible from Amazon a while ago (and it went over my head), but I'm sure that was in the easy-to-understand "About the Author" section Sarcas