Well if he meant "hottest" as in most competent, then what did photoshopping have to do with it, and how is it any different from what the US did with Sally Ride? I fail to see how what China is doing is any more of a dickwaving exercise than the US/Soviet space race. In fact, it's probably less of a dickwaving exercise since no matter how fast or slow they go, they aren't aiming for any firsts anyway.
She isn't hot by any standard of the word. Well, at least by classical Chinese measures of beauty she's quite ugly. And if the pictures are photoshopped, whoever did it should be sacked. I think it's you who's insecure, and you seem to have a bit of a case of yellow fever, too if you think she's hot.
A million dollars is pocket change for a telco or a trading firm. It's going to be good for customers in the long run because it's competition in the market for getting data across the harbour. But all the talk about reducing latency from the "financial district" to the ASX site is marketing bullshit.
Not really. Chi-X is at Global Switch in Pyrmont and there are already dedicated fibre links to the ASX colo at Gore Hill from there. This link appears to run to the CBD. Besides, there's very little volume on Chi-X so no-one trades there. It's a bit of a catch 22 - no volume there, so no-one trades there, so there's no volume. I reckon it's just used for re-reporting negotiated trades as it's cheaper than reporting on ASX. There definitely isn't enough going on there to make any money out of arbitrage or for executing hedges or anything like that.
Definitely. Everyone who really cares about low latency is renting rack space colocated with the stock exchange at the site in Gore Hill. There is no point shaving 400m off the link to the CBD, as it will still be far poorer latency than running colocated. There's nothing in the CBD of significance that would make you want to run an application there vs in the colo.
Nobody pays us for standing around. Imagine having to do actual work.
Thing is, business relationship management is real work. I'm a manager of sorts in the finance industry, and part of my job is maintaining relationships with brokers. That involves, among other things, having Yahoo IM open all day, presenting a particular persona, and being prepared/able to flirt with Korean women on demand. And evidently it isn't as easy as you'd think, as there are a bunch of people at work who just can't do it and hence it falls to me.
Also, before you get ideas about it being a dream job, remember that:
They aren't necessarily attractive or pleasant women - it's all about whether I'd want to flirt with them, just how valuable they are as a business partner
I have to be able to do it no matter how I'm feeling - bad day, sick, angry at them for being unprofessional, doesn't matter - have to do it
Sorry to be a whiny bitch, but the MiG-25 was actually designed to shoot down the XB-70 Valkyrie. The XB-70 project may appear to be a failure in that it only produced two prototypes at enormous cost, but it achieved what it was supposed to in that the USSR spent a fortune building a fleet of interceptors to shoot it down.
It's sensible to keep your tank low - vehicles are more efficient if they aren't hauling extra fuel weight. Aircraft operators have this down to a fine art.
I have a broken body clock, so random hours suit me. I sleep when I'm tired enough and wake up when I've had enough rest or my alarm tells me to, whichever comes first.
Funny thing is I managed to run one of those DeskStars for a decade - it was running until about April last year - with no problems. Only spun down when moving house, in power failures, and when I needed to replace a power supply fan in the machine. I replaced it with a WD Blue last year.
Look, I don't know if you're ever actually worked with autistic kids. I don't mean movie-style Rain Man style, but an actual real flesh and blood kid
Yes I have. My wife's much younger cousin will never speak. She has the ability to imitate sounds, but she has no concept of language. We're probably going to be responsible for her when her parents can't look after her any more. It's going to be a big responsibility, but I'm not bitter. It's my lot in life - I just have to deal with it.
That's not even true. The original Mac had 64kB ROM, and 28kB of it was taken up by the QuickDraw graphics library. The 512Ke and Plus had a massive 128kB ROM. The ROM size went up to 256kB with the SE and II, then doubled again to 512kB with the IIci. It eventually got up to 1MB with the Quadra. The biggest classic Mac ROMs were 2MB in the Quadra AV and "blackbird" PowerBook 500 series.
OK, let me clarify. The base Win32 APIs provided in system32.dll, kernel32.dll, comctl.dll, etc. Things like Direct3D, etc. change around a bit, but for stuff other than games, stability is pretty good.
In my experience, it's just as bad, if not worse, developing add-ons for open source projects as it is for open APIs. As much as I hate Windows, it's a good example of a stable API. It doesn't change much, you can keep running old applications, shell extensions, COM modules and whatever else. Open source systems often seem to make incompatible changes at a ridiculous pace that people with plugins are forced to keep up with. Being open source isn't a magical solution to problems. A stable API/ABI is what you want, and it can be delivered, or fail to be delivered, by open or closed source software alike.
How would you feel if you had to, each time you left the US, answer questions such as:
1) Are you a fat lard-ass?
2) Do you rape children for a living?
3) Did you contribute to the Manhattan Project or otherwise aided and abetted global terrorism and mass genocide?
I'm not from America, and I have to fill out the form when I go to US for business, same as everyone else. Yes, it feels silly when I fill it in, but it's more silly in a snicker-inducing way than actually irritating. It takes less than a minute to fill out the form while you're on the plane, and the flight's a lot longer than that, anyway. The groping, body scanning, and insulting questions at immigration piss me off far more.
But you're missing the point. They don't expect to ever catch people giving the "wrong" answer on that form - they expect to occasionally dig up dirt from someone's past, and then be able to say, "Get out of my USA - you signed a false declaration, and are, therefore, a criminal." They probably think this is worth a couple of minutes of your and my time on the plane.
There actually is a reason for that part of the green form. It's so that if they dig up any of those things in your past, they can say you've committed a crime on US soil (signing a false declaration). They can prosecute or deport you for committing this crime in the US, while they may not be able to do anything about something you did in the dim past on another continent.
Sounds like shit - how do you get a vowel to repeat? Long term Mac user here, that just sounds like another reason to put off upgrading to Lion as long as possible.
lolwut? The British MAGNOX and Russian RBMK are designed specifically to be able to produce useful quantity of plutonium for weapons and power for the grid at the same time. They were definitely used to build nuclear arsenals. The first Indian nuclear bomb test used material from a modified CANDU power reactor, too.
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And simultaneously the ugliest woman in outer space! Whoa, that's deep, I think I need to get my bong...
Well if he meant "hottest" as in most competent, then what did photoshopping have to do with it, and how is it any different from what the US did with Sally Ride? I fail to see how what China is doing is any more of a dickwaving exercise than the US/Soviet space race. In fact, it's probably less of a dickwaving exercise since no matter how fast or slow they go, they aren't aiming for any firsts anyway.
She isn't hot by any standard of the word. Well, at least by classical Chinese measures of beauty she's quite ugly. And if the pictures are photoshopped, whoever did it should be sacked. I think it's you who's insecure, and you seem to have a bit of a case of yellow fever, too if you think she's hot.
A million dollars is pocket change for a telco or a trading firm. It's going to be good for customers in the long run because it's competition in the market for getting data across the harbour. But all the talk about reducing latency from the "financial district" to the ASX site is marketing bullshit.
Not really. Chi-X is at Global Switch in Pyrmont and there are already dedicated fibre links to the ASX colo at Gore Hill from there. This link appears to run to the CBD. Besides, there's very little volume on Chi-X so no-one trades there. It's a bit of a catch 22 - no volume there, so no-one trades there, so there's no volume. I reckon it's just used for re-reporting negotiated trades as it's cheaper than reporting on ASX. There definitely isn't enough going on there to make any money out of arbitrage or for executing hedges or anything like that.
Definitely. Everyone who really cares about low latency is renting rack space colocated with the stock exchange at the site in Gore Hill. There is no point shaving 400m off the link to the CBD, as it will still be far poorer latency than running colocated. There's nothing in the CBD of significance that would make you want to run an application there vs in the colo.
Does it really make any difference? They're probably paying in Bitcoins.
Thing is, business relationship management is real work. I'm a manager of sorts in the finance industry, and part of my job is maintaining relationships with brokers. That involves, among other things, having Yahoo IM open all day, presenting a particular persona, and being prepared/able to flirt with Korean women on demand. And evidently it isn't as easy as you'd think, as there are a bunch of people at work who just can't do it and hence it falls to me.
Also, before you get ideas about it being a dream job, remember that:
Sorry to be a whiny bitch, but the MiG-25 was actually designed to shoot down the XB-70 Valkyrie. The XB-70 project may appear to be a failure in that it only produced two prototypes at enormous cost, but it achieved what it was supposed to in that the USSR spent a fortune building a fleet of interceptors to shoot it down.
What interest would they have in preventing discussion of xtube? Are they operating a competing pr0n site?
It's sensible to keep your tank low - vehicles are more efficient if they aren't hauling extra fuel weight. Aircraft operators have this down to a fine art.
Whoosh
He even made a point of writing "chinar" and "gubbmint" to make it obvious he was taking the piss.
I have a broken body clock, so random hours suit me. I sleep when I'm tired enough and wake up when I've had enough rest or my alarm tells me to, whichever comes first.
Haha I work unpredictable hours, so DST changes mean nothing to me.
Funny thing is I managed to run one of those DeskStars for a decade - it was running until about April last year - with no problems. Only spun down when moving house, in power failures, and when I needed to replace a power supply fan in the machine. I replaced it with a WD Blue last year.
You really just need a calendar for that, unless she's irregular.
Yes I have. My wife's much younger cousin will never speak. She has the ability to imitate sounds, but she has no concept of language. We're probably going to be responsible for her when her parents can't look after her any more. It's going to be a big responsibility, but I'm not bitter. It's my lot in life - I just have to deal with it.
That's not even true. The original Mac had 64kB ROM, and 28kB of it was taken up by the QuickDraw graphics library. The 512Ke and Plus had a massive 128kB ROM. The ROM size went up to 256kB with the SE and II, then doubled again to 512kB with the IIci. It eventually got up to 1MB with the Quadra. The biggest classic Mac ROMs were 2MB in the Quadra AV and "blackbird" PowerBook 500 series.
OK, let me clarify. The base Win32 APIs provided in system32.dll, kernel32.dll, comctl.dll, etc. Things like Direct3D, etc. change around a bit, but for stuff other than games, stability is pretty good.
In my experience, it's just as bad, if not worse, developing add-ons for open source projects as it is for open APIs. As much as I hate Windows, it's a good example of a stable API. It doesn't change much, you can keep running old applications, shell extensions, COM modules and whatever else. Open source systems often seem to make incompatible changes at a ridiculous pace that people with plugins are forced to keep up with. Being open source isn't a magical solution to problems. A stable API/ABI is what you want, and it can be delivered, or fail to be delivered,
by open or closed source software alike.
What about their buddies the Clitoral Investigation Agency?
I'm not from America, and I have to fill out the form when I go to US for business, same as everyone else. Yes, it feels silly when I fill it in, but it's more silly in a snicker-inducing way than actually irritating. It takes less than a minute to fill out the form while you're on the plane, and the flight's a lot longer than that, anyway. The groping, body scanning, and insulting questions at immigration piss me off far more.
But you're missing the point. They don't expect to ever catch people giving the "wrong" answer on that form - they expect to occasionally dig up dirt from someone's past, and then be able to say, "Get out of my USA - you signed a false declaration, and are, therefore, a criminal." They probably think this is worth a couple of minutes of your and my time on the plane.
There actually is a reason for that part of the green form. It's so that if they dig up any of those things in your past, they can say you've committed a crime on US soil (signing a false declaration). They can prosecute or deport you for committing this crime in the US, while they may not be able to do anything about something you did in the dim past on another continent.
Sounds like shit - how do you get a vowel to repeat? Long term Mac user here, that just sounds like another reason to put off upgrading to Lion as long as possible.
lolwut? The British MAGNOX and Russian RBMK are designed specifically to be able to produce useful quantity of plutonium for weapons and power for the grid at the same time. They were definitely used to build nuclear arsenals. The first Indian nuclear bomb test used material from a modified CANDU power reactor, too.