The HFT programs would slow down a lot if it cost them, say, one cent per share traded. That would not be a burden to average investors, or even the super wealthy, but it dampens the enthusiasm for shifting millions of shares a day to skim tiny fractions.
This technology does scale down. The SportCruiser LSA that I fly from time to time warns me when I get down to 500ft from the ground. This is a 2-seat airplane. However, there are lot of old GA aircraft out there (often 30+ years old) that do not have modern avionics.
How many of the astronauts would be considered flight crew? So long as they're "flying", it would seem they'd be covered by 14 CFR 91.17, which is the 0.04% and 8 hour bottle-to-throttle rule. Oh, IANAL, but IAAP and wondering how many of the FAA regulations apply.
it's hard to see how a double-blind study could even be designed in this area
In the medical field, it means that both the patient and the doctor evaluating the symptoms don't know who received a placebo.
For this experiment - setup two antennae in front of some seedlings, have a different dude turn one of them on. The person measuring the seedling growth doesn't know which were exposed to radio waves. That's all you need to make sure the study doesn't have some bias in it.
I think ITA made a great deal of hype around their NP proof, but the complexity of the search was known by many and was known before ITA published their results. For example, Tom Holloran (United Airlines) published a paper at AGIFORS in the 1980's that showed the equivalence to a set covering / set partitioning problem.
Sabre's fare search engine was rewritten from scratch in C++ & Java starting about the same time ITA started. The search engine runs on a Linux cluster, and independent benchmarks show that it is the leader in finding the lowest fares. In fact, pretty much *all* the major players in fare search run on x86 clusters. You could look this up online too:-)
I've had very good support from MySQL as well. This is experience from several years ago, before Sun or Oracle got involved. The nice thing is that you get to choose, if you don't want support then you pay very little - but ther enterprise level support is quite good.
The noise reduction (ANR) headsets that pilots use are a little more expensive but work really well. Start shopping (well) north of $300 and the top of the line models are around $900. I have a Lightspeed headset, and really like it. I've tried it with my phone a couple of times and it makes a great hands-free for driving on the highway.
You could try one at any pilot store. Most General Aviation (GA) airports, even many of the smaller ones, have a store nearby.
Suppose someone holds the nation's power grid hostage and then wants payment? So, why doesn't the government simply pay them, then track them down for assassination and release photos of their bullet ridden corpses? Would certainly discourage any copy-cat crimes. Somali pirates too.
A good friend of mine spent a couple of years on the Confirm project, which ended in a total mess almost 20 years ago. He claims that he simply put "2 years, federal prison" on his resume so that he'd have a better chance of being hired.
For those that don't know the Confirm project, they spent about $180M and about 6 weeks from the end date realized they were at least 18 months late. You can look up the rest of the details.:-)
I was a cable internet customer, with Charter, for several years. It was flaky and crapped out at least once a month, and their service sucked. THey completely rewired my lot twice, each tech saying that the previous tech used the wrong cable, or just somehow did it all wrong. Can't say I'm sad to see Charter suffer.
Currently have FiOS, the 15 Mbit download is pretty cool. Only had one minor problem and their support was good, and called back to make sure I was satisfied with their service.
Hope this doesn't sound like a rant - but when we went over to the fiber optic service, the tech told us that Charter and other cable companies were driving a lot of frustrated people over to them.
Spammers know they won't likely be caught. And, if they're caught then the punishment won't be harsh.
Put a few in a federal PYITA prison. Put some heads on pikes outside the city walls. Send in some Navy Seals and install Vista on their machines. Do whatever it takes!:-)
My employer (Sabre Holdings) offers Active Release Therapy (ART) for RSI and similar problems. The doctor that does this comes into the office two mornings a week and does 15 minute treatment sessions. No complex insurance forms and the associated cost of running around and taking time off to get it treated. It's a nice benefit to have:-)
I've had ART done on me for running injuries (repetitive strain) and it's worked really well, I recommend it.
I work for a large software company (about 10,000 employees) and have released a couple of things into open source. We use Linux / MySQL / Apache / Spring / etc in a big way. A colleague and I wrote some MySQL utilities and some other bits and pieces, but the code we wrote didn't really give away competitive secrets, so I went to my management and asked - and they said "yes".
My company has contributors to at least a half-dozen open source projects that I know of. For example, se use Apache Camel and we contribute. It makes sense for us to share, because the sum of what we get back from the community is more than what we put into it individually (and we give away no secrets).
Now, if the code you wrote is something a competitor could use against your company, don't both asking, you already know the answer.
Integration with typography? Mathematica does this, and also has multi-paradigm support. I've been using Mathematica for years and really like being able to type readable equations, use Greek letters, etc.
That said, typing of variables is kind of interesting.
When NT was first announced, I thought it was the coolest thing since bottled beer. The protected mode subsystems looked like a way to consolidate the APIs of multiple systems. As smoebody who'd already programmed Unix, PDP-11 (RSX), VAX-VMS, MVS, Univac, CDC, etc in the years prior, I thought NT was going to totally rock. It had the potential to subsume everything around it.
Little by little, the OS/2 compatibility evaporated, X-Windows was declared "brain dead", it went beyond embrace and extend, it became Microsoft's way or the highway.
I still wonder - if MS had supported POSIX / UNIX APIs in a protected mode subsystem, would Linux have really "happened"?
There are other types of income with real-world value that the IRS doesn't go after. What about frequent flyer miles? My employer buys my tickets to go to meetings, as abusiness expense and I get the mile. I have enough to fly around the world first-class, but aren't required to report them on my taxes.
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How do I know this? I was using it from my hotel room about an hour ago...
The HFT programs would slow down a lot if it cost them, say, one cent per share traded. That would not be a burden to average investors, or even the super wealthy, but it dampens the enthusiasm for shifting millions of shares a day to skim tiny fractions.
Wow, this guy has some serious management skillz! Maybe he should be running Spain or Greece or the US?
Ummm - am I the only one that would wonder why anybody would want this?
This technology does scale down. The SportCruiser LSA that I fly from time to time warns me when I get down to 500ft from the ground. This is a 2-seat airplane. However, there are lot of old GA aircraft out there (often 30+ years old) that do not have modern avionics.
Am I the only one thinking of the latest South Park episodes?
How many of the astronauts would be considered flight crew? So long as they're "flying", it would seem they'd be covered by 14 CFR 91.17, which is the 0.04% and 8 hour bottle-to-throttle rule. Oh, IANAL, but IAAP and wondering how many of the FAA regulations apply.
While he may have never actually said it, years from now the world will only remember one thing:
"64 fart apps ought to be enough for anybody"
-- Alan Panezic
it's hard to see how a double-blind study could even be designed in this area
In the medical field, it means that both the patient and the doctor evaluating the symptoms don't know who received a placebo.
For this experiment - setup two antennae in front of some seedlings, have a different dude turn one of them on. The person measuring the seedling growth doesn't know which were exposed to radio waves. That's all you need to make sure the study doesn't have some bias in it.
I think ITA made a great deal of hype around their NP proof, but the complexity of the search was known by many and was known before ITA published their results. For example, Tom Holloran (United Airlines) published a paper at AGIFORS in the 1980's that showed the equivalence to a set covering / set partitioning problem.
Sabre's fare search engine was rewritten from scratch in C++ & Java starting about the same time ITA started. The search engine runs on a Linux cluster, and independent benchmarks show that it is the leader in finding the lowest fares. In fact, pretty much *all* the major players in fare search run on x86 clusters. You could look this up online too :-)
I've had very good support from MySQL as well. This is experience from several years ago, before Sun or Oracle got involved. The nice thing is that you get to choose, if you don't want support then you pay very little - but ther enterprise level support is quite good.
The noise reduction (ANR) headsets that pilots use are a little more expensive but work really well. Start shopping (well) north of $300 and the top of the line models are around $900. I have a Lightspeed headset, and really like it. I've tried it with my phone a couple of times and it makes a great hands-free for driving on the highway.
You could try one at any pilot store. Most General Aviation (GA) airports, even many of the smaller ones, have a store nearby.
Suppose someone holds the nation's power grid hostage and then wants payment? So, why doesn't the government simply pay them, then track them down for assassination and release photos of their bullet ridden corpses? Would certainly discourage any copy-cat crimes. Somali pirates too.
Just a thought...
A good friend of mine spent a couple of years on the Confirm project, which ended in a total mess almost 20 years ago. He claims that he simply put "2 years, federal prison" on his resume so that he'd have a better chance of being hired.
For those that don't know the Confirm project, they spent about $180M and about 6 weeks from the end date realized they were at least 18 months late. You can look up the rest of the details. :-)
They don't attribute their sources, such as Wikipedia. They may be on a slippery slope here....
An alternate view is that they'll limit the production and manipulate the price. Then profit!!!
Yes, I think the title pretty much sums it up.
I was a cable internet customer, with Charter, for several years. It was flaky and crapped out at least once a month, and their service sucked. THey completely rewired my lot twice, each tech saying that the previous tech used the wrong cable, or just somehow did it all wrong. Can't say I'm sad to see Charter suffer.
Currently have FiOS, the 15 Mbit download is pretty cool. Only had one minor problem and their support was good, and called back to make sure I was satisfied with their service.
Hope this doesn't sound like a rant - but when we went over to the fiber optic service, the tech told us that Charter and other cable companies were driving a lot of frustrated people over to them.
Alan
Spammers know they won't likely be caught. And, if they're caught then the punishment won't be harsh.
Put a few in a federal PYITA prison. Put some heads on pikes outside the city walls. Send in some Navy Seals and install Vista on their machines. Do whatever it takes! :-)
My employer (Sabre Holdings) offers Active Release Therapy (ART) for RSI and similar problems. The doctor that does this comes into the office two mornings a week and does 15 minute treatment sessions. No complex insurance forms and the associated cost of running around and taking time off to get it treated. It's a nice benefit to have :-)
I've had ART done on me for running injuries (repetitive strain) and it's worked really well, I recommend it.
So, here's a theory - how about just asking?
I work for a large software company (about 10,000 employees) and have released a couple of things into open source. We use Linux / MySQL / Apache / Spring / etc in a big way. A colleague and I wrote some MySQL utilities and some other bits and pieces, but the code we wrote didn't really give away competitive secrets, so I went to my management and asked - and they said "yes".
My company has contributors to at least a half-dozen open source projects that I know of. For example, se use Apache Camel and we contribute. It makes sense for us to share, because the sum of what we get back from the community is more than what we put into it individually (and we give away no secrets).
Now, if the code you wrote is something a competitor could use against your company, don't both asking, you already know the answer.
Alan.
Teradata has been around a lot longer than that, I first wrote Teradata code at American Airlines in 1988.
Alan.
Integration with typography? Mathematica does this, and also has multi-paradigm support. I've been using Mathematica for years and really like being able to type readable equations, use Greek letters, etc.
That said, typing of variables is kind of interesting.
Alan.
Here's an example...
When NT was first announced, I thought it was the coolest thing since bottled beer. The protected mode subsystems looked like a way to consolidate the APIs of multiple systems. As smoebody who'd already programmed Unix, PDP-11 (RSX), VAX-VMS, MVS, Univac, CDC, etc in the years prior, I thought NT was going to totally rock. It had the potential to subsume everything around it.
Little by little, the OS/2 compatibility evaporated, X-Windows was declared "brain dead", it went beyond embrace and extend, it became Microsoft's way or the highway.
I still wonder - if MS had supported POSIX / UNIX APIs in a protected mode subsystem, would Linux have really "happened"?
Alan.
...is to vote. Or have gaming lobbyists.
There are other types of income with real-world value that the IRS doesn't go after. What about frequent flyer miles? My employer buys my tickets to go to meetings, as abusiness expense and I get the mile. I have enough to fly around the world first-class, but aren't required to report them on my taxes.
we'll all be yelling "Geronimo.....!!!!!"
(rimshot)