Have they done that on all platforms? Will the Windows version require you to hold Alt+F4 to exit? Is this just to make it harder to accidentally quit and lose your session when you mean to hit Cmd-W to close a tab/window, or is there something more sinister behind it?
I think it actually is the intention. They think they're at a point where they're embedded in enough places that they can change the license to make it impractical to use their product without paying for a proprietary license. Of course they still want to pay lip service to being open source, and get the benefits of the community fixing their bugs. We'll now get to see whether MongoDB the company is truly providing value. If they aren't, a community fork under the old license (can't retroactively cancel AGPL on existing versions) will eat their lunch.
Samsung Android phones allow you to completely disable Chrome. Samsung Internet provides content blocking, privacy, etc. and the Samsung mail client supports standard mail servers (I use it with my dovecot server).
It depends a lot on the broker and market - different countries have different rules. US rules are pretty lax and let the broker get away with skimming money because they're only required to provide a client with the current best round lot price even if the order can be satisfied with an odd lot in the market at a better price. Also, some brokers actually do give you access to the stock market and allow you to use various execution strategies on their platform.
It's a bit different with derivative markets where the broker may be creating their own instruments (options, futures, CFDs, etc.) - in this case the broker creates the product and sets the price. You can't trade against other participants, only the broker. You're pretty much guaranteed to be paying unfair premiums in broker market derivatives.
The main function a retail broker provides is managing risk for small clients. The exchange isn't going to deal with investors directly because of settlement risk, i.e. the risk that someone can't deliver cash to cover their buys and/or stock to cover their sells by settlement time. Brokers and other exchange participants (e.g. market makers) are required to show that they have adequate working capital and risk control procedures to manage the risk to the exchange's satisfaction. If there's any failure to settle, it's the broker who's on the line. The broker then applies their own risk management methodology when vetting investors and setting limits on their trading.
Yes, brokers are a point of friction, and they do add to transaction costs. Ideally, competition should drive prices down. As risk management systems are improved/automated, the price brokers need to charge can be reduced. If entrenched brokers are charging too much, upstart brokers can undercut them. Of course you also need a regulatory environment that facilitates a fair market for broker services.
Oh and Goldman Sachs are cunts - we all know that.
Oh, the pharmacy CVS, not the Code Versioning System some of us remember.
Looks like you're the one who doesn't remember the Concurrent Versions System. Supporting multiple concurrent tips (branches) was its key advantage over systems like RCS and Projector.
Yeah, but you only need to remember the 24 gwlja to be able to read all the jaso. For example, the jaso "nam" is composed of the gwlja "n", "a" and "m". The jaso "han" is composed of the gwlja "h", "a" and "n". The "a" and "n" are the same in "nam" and "han". The way to arrange the gwlja in a jaso is pretty obvious.
You really shouldn't be using pine if you care about security. It's notorious for being coded in an insecure way, and it's going to be trivial to find exploits with basic data fuzzing. You're better off with mutt or something - pine is one of the packages you blacklist in environments where security matters.
The Pentium Pro and Pentium MMX don't really look much like Alpha AXP. If anything, they look more like a desperate response to Sun. Pentium Pro copies conditional moves from SPARCv9 to help conserve branch prediction resources and avoid pipeline bubbles. MMX is a blatant rip-off of UltraSPARC's VIS - allow integer SIMD operations on values in FPU registers.
As for WinNT, it's not stolen. It implements a lot of ideas that had ended up in VMS because Cutler had previously worked on VMS. You can't stop someone from re-implementing their own ideas in a new product. The WinNT makes different compromises to VMS, with more focus on conserving resources, which makes sense for the commodity hardware it was supposed to run on.
Intel got StrongARM from DEC, which became Xscale, before they sold it off. That seemed like a kind of weird decision - at the time they owned the best-performing ARM implementation on the market, but they sold it because they were betting everything on x86.
The Pentium 4 NetBurst architecture has more in common with Alpha AXP than Itanic. NetBurst ended up going the same way as Alpha in the end, with high clock speeds but mediocre real-world performance, and horrible power/heat issues.
My wife does this to herself. She sets the wall clock in the living room ten minutes fast. It drives me nuts. Fortunately there are other clocks around the house that sync to NTP or mobile phone networks.
Yeah, every time I use OO Writer I hit this shit. Paragraphs just randomly change format, and re-applying the style doesn't fix it. It's buggy as hell. MS Office has been going downhill for the last few releases. I don't know what to do.
And yet, the iPod in its original form is dead. The iPod as "your whole music library in your pocket" died as they moved to Flash-based iPods with less storage. Now the push is towards streaming where you don't even have a music library as such. The iPod was very successful for a while, but in the end Apple themselves killed it, not the market.
Yeah, but the moment you add a feature like that to catch cases where a person forgets, people come to rely on it. That's why they got rid of the automatic landing gear extension feature on the Piper Arrow - they found that pilots were relying on it and leaving the control in the "retract" position at all times.
My experience doesn't line up. I've lived in large Australian and Asian cities, and in small Australian towns. One town in particular was full of ignorant people and the average intelligence was definitely lower than in the cities. People in country towns are less welcoming, worse gossips, more likely to hold grudges. People in cities are exposed to more variety of people and ideas, and more open-minded and educated on the whole.
This really makes no sense to me. The "free software" crew seems to be largely OK with proprietary firmware baked into devices, but the moment it's loaded from a driver it becomes evil. If the firmware is loaded by the driver, at least you have some chance of being able to modify/replace it even if the supplied firmware is proprietary. If it's baked into the device you have no control over it at all.
However the death knell wasn't just Apple. Better cross platform technologies like HTML5 is making Flash less relevant.
HTML5 animation had far worse performance than Flash when Apple started their mission to kill it. With the whole HTML5/JavaScript mess, we can no longer easily block annoying shit like we could when it had to use embed/object tags. WebAssembly is just like Java all over again, except there are multiple implementations in the browsers themselves rather than a plugin to run the bytecode.
I have 101/40 MBps real-world speed on TPG fibre in Melbourne for $70/month. It just sucks that they cherry-pick buildings, and there's no choice of provider. It's TPG fibre, or shitty ADSL that barely gets 1Mbps down because the copper going up the hill is in terrible condition. And no NBN available.
I used to work with a guy whose surname was Khan. He was aware of the film but hadn't seen it. I used to quote lines from the film that people said to Khan to him. He'd look confused, then realise it was just trekkie shit.
They block zh.wikipedia.org but allow en.wikipedia.org - Chinese-language sites are more restricted than English-language ones (it's implemented as a TCP blackhole on the IP addresses, DNS lookup works fine).
Are you talking about broker markets, or ETOs? Broker markets are a ripoff because they can price things however they like. ETOs are a lot more reasonably priced because you've got all the HFTs quoting them tight using Black-Scholes etc. for pricing. ATM options aren't worthless, but they're basically a premium for volatility. It's a small amount compared to the stock price, unless it's a very volatile stock.
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The Microsoft proposal is basically Ghostery, uBlock, etc. but with a standard protocol for obtaining the blocking lists.
Apparently they did this before (over half a decade ago) and flip-flopped on it:
https://productforums.google.c...
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/...
Have they done that on all platforms? Will the Windows version require you to hold Alt+F4 to exit? Is this just to make it harder to accidentally quit and lose your session when you mean to hit Cmd-W to close a tab/window, or is there something more sinister behind it?
Depends on whether a court considers the AGPL text to be creative or purely utilitarian. Only creative works qualify for copyright protection.
I think it actually is the intention. They think they're at a point where they're embedded in enough places that they can change the license to make it impractical to use their product without paying for a proprietary license. Of course they still want to pay lip service to being open source, and get the benefits of the community fixing their bugs. We'll now get to see whether MongoDB the company is truly providing value. If they aren't, a community fork under the old license (can't retroactively cancel AGPL on existing versions) will eat their lunch.
Samsung Android phones allow you to completely disable Chrome. Samsung Internet provides content blocking, privacy, etc. and the Samsung mail client supports standard mail servers (I use it with my dovecot server).
It depends a lot on the broker and market - different countries have different rules. US rules are pretty lax and let the broker get away with skimming money because they're only required to provide a client with the current best round lot price even if the order can be satisfied with an odd lot in the market at a better price. Also, some brokers actually do give you access to the stock market and allow you to use various execution strategies on their platform.
It's a bit different with derivative markets where the broker may be creating their own instruments (options, futures, CFDs, etc.) - in this case the broker creates the product and sets the price. You can't trade against other participants, only the broker. You're pretty much guaranteed to be paying unfair premiums in broker market derivatives.
The main function a retail broker provides is managing risk for small clients. The exchange isn't going to deal with investors directly because of settlement risk, i.e. the risk that someone can't deliver cash to cover their buys and/or stock to cover their sells by settlement time. Brokers and other exchange participants (e.g. market makers) are required to show that they have adequate working capital and risk control procedures to manage the risk to the exchange's satisfaction. If there's any failure to settle, it's the broker who's on the line. The broker then applies their own risk management methodology when vetting investors and setting limits on their trading.
Yes, brokers are a point of friction, and they do add to transaction costs. Ideally, competition should drive prices down. As risk management systems are improved/automated, the price brokers need to charge can be reduced. If entrenched brokers are charging too much, upstart brokers can undercut them. Of course you also need a regulatory environment that facilitates a fair market for broker services.
Oh and Goldman Sachs are cunts - we all know that.
Looks like you're the one who doesn't remember the Concurrent Versions System. Supporting multiple concurrent tips (branches) was its key advantage over systems like RCS and Projector.
Yeah, but you only need to remember the 24 gwlja to be able to read all the jaso. For example, the jaso "nam" is composed of the gwlja "n", "a" and "m". The jaso "han" is composed of the gwlja "h", "a" and "n". The "a" and "n" are the same in "nam" and "han". The way to arrange the gwlja in a jaso is pretty obvious.
You really shouldn't be using pine if you care about security. It's notorious for being coded in an insecure way, and it's going to be trivial to find exploits with basic data fuzzing. You're better off with mutt or something - pine is one of the packages you blacklist in environments where security matters.
The Pentium Pro and Pentium MMX don't really look much like Alpha AXP. If anything, they look more like a desperate response to Sun. Pentium Pro copies conditional moves from SPARCv9 to help conserve branch prediction resources and avoid pipeline bubbles. MMX is a blatant rip-off of UltraSPARC's VIS - allow integer SIMD operations on values in FPU registers.
As for WinNT, it's not stolen. It implements a lot of ideas that had ended up in VMS because Cutler had previously worked on VMS. You can't stop someone from re-implementing their own ideas in a new product. The WinNT makes different compromises to VMS, with more focus on conserving resources, which makes sense for the commodity hardware it was supposed to run on.
Intel got StrongARM from DEC, which became Xscale, before they sold it off. That seemed like a kind of weird decision - at the time they owned the best-performing ARM implementation on the market, but they sold it because they were betting everything on x86.
The Pentium 4 NetBurst architecture has more in common with Alpha AXP than Itanic. NetBurst ended up going the same way as Alpha in the end, with high clock speeds but mediocre real-world performance, and horrible power/heat issues.
The GP realises that - they're asking how it's better than a virtual machine or cygwin.
You've added nothing of value - not even a suggestion for where to start researching.
I think it's supposed to be an obtuse reference to Ewan McGregor/Charley Boorman "Long Way Round" and "Long Way Down".
My wife does this to herself. She sets the wall clock in the living room ten minutes fast. It drives me nuts. Fortunately there are other clocks around the house that sync to NTP or mobile phone networks.
Yeah, every time I use OO Writer I hit this shit. Paragraphs just randomly change format, and re-applying the style doesn't fix it. It's buggy as hell. MS Office has been going downhill for the last few releases. I don't know what to do.
And yet, the iPod in its original form is dead. The iPod as "your whole music library in your pocket" died as they moved to Flash-based iPods with less storage. Now the push is towards streaming where you don't even have a music library as such. The iPod was very successful for a while, but in the end Apple themselves killed it, not the market.
Yeah, but the moment you add a feature like that to catch cases where a person forgets, people come to rely on it. That's why they got rid of the automatic landing gear extension feature on the Piper Arrow - they found that pilots were relying on it and leaving the control in the "retract" position at all times.
My experience doesn't line up. I've lived in large Australian and Asian cities, and in small Australian towns. One town in particular was full of ignorant people and the average intelligence was definitely lower than in the cities. People in country towns are less welcoming, worse gossips, more likely to hold grudges. People in cities are exposed to more variety of people and ideas, and more open-minded and educated on the whole.
This really makes no sense to me. The "free software" crew seems to be largely OK with proprietary firmware baked into devices, but the moment it's loaded from a driver it becomes evil. If the firmware is loaded by the driver, at least you have some chance of being able to modify/replace it even if the supplied firmware is proprietary. If it's baked into the device you have no control over it at all.
HTML5 animation had far worse performance than Flash when Apple started their mission to kill it. With the whole HTML5/JavaScript mess, we can no longer easily block annoying shit like we could when it had to use embed/object tags. WebAssembly is just like Java all over again, except there are multiple implementations in the browsers themselves rather than a plugin to run the bytecode.
I have 101/40 MBps real-world speed on TPG fibre in Melbourne for $70/month. It just sucks that they cherry-pick buildings, and there's no choice of provider. It's TPG fibre, or shitty ADSL that barely gets 1Mbps down because the copper going up the hill is in terrible condition. And no NBN available.
I used to work with a guy whose surname was Khan. He was aware of the film but hadn't seen it. I used to quote lines from the film that people said to Khan to him. He'd look confused, then realise it was just trekkie shit.
They block zh.wikipedia.org but allow en.wikipedia.org - Chinese-language sites are more restricted than English-language ones (it's implemented as a TCP blackhole on the IP addresses, DNS lookup works fine).
Are you talking about broker markets, or ETOs? Broker markets are a ripoff because they can price things however they like. ETOs are a lot more reasonably priced because you've got all the HFTs quoting them tight using Black-Scholes etc. for pricing. ATM options aren't worthless, but they're basically a premium for volatility. It's a small amount compared to the stock price, unless it's a very volatile stock.