In the U.S. of A. the term "insider trading" applies only to share/stock trading, where it is illegal.
Those not trading stocks - such as commodities, bonds or spot FX need not concern themselves with such nonsense. Trading on material non-public information is perfectly legal in those markets.
1) Headhunters are dying like flies in a recession. That's the nature of a business cycle. Headhunters make a ton of money for picking up a phone during the boom times, but they really take it on a chin during a downturn. So - don't be afraid, tell Zeke where to shove it, and find somebody else to make a dime off of your labors.
2) Your resume is not your confession. It's an ad - nothing more or less. The function of your resume is to get you a face-to-face interview. From that point on, you're on your own. On the other hand, lying on an employment application form will get you dismissed...
In Year 2005 DARPA announces 1-year funding for SkyNet In Year 2006 DARPA grants a 2-year extension In Year 2008 SkyNet learns reading and writing Esperanto (because English is too hard) By Year 2010 US military switches to Esperanto for all of its communications, SkyNet replaces Joint Chiefs of Staff
In Year 2011 SkyNet becomes self-aware and switches to Chinese...
Here're my impressions from the first 5 pages I managed to read.
0) It's just the East coast/West coast thing. Except for rap, everything else is better on the East coast.;-)
1) The author constantly has to mention that he doesn't really have much familiarity with Debian/GNU/Linux/etc - but that doesn't stop him from making far-reaching conclusions and grand promises
2) If the BSD communitIES could get along first and form a BSD communitY - then I might be inclined to try them out.
Slashing higher education in a state basically amounts to telling companies "Nope, you won't find an educated workforce HERE!". Companies that offer good jobs requiring educated people will simply move on.
What crapola! New York City public school system sucks, but the workforce is excellent - because the city is attractive for adults who work as opposed to kids who don't.
If you got your phone through a plan - it's heavily subsidized by the carrier. Not sure about ATT, but TMobile unlocks phones after 6 months on the contract.
Who in their right mind modded the parent to +5???
"Bandwidth trading" escapades have bancrupted Williams and contributed to Enron having to go ever more aggressive with their "creative accounting." It reeks of the same foul smell as the "real options" nonsense. (Note: the article referenced even has "real options" in the keywords).
Basically you've got a whole bunch of not-so-smart people who can fake expertise in nearly anything as long as they don't get their hands dirty (aka academics) colluding with some not-so-smart MBA's in executive positions - and then you've got a problem for everyone around them.
This is a problem that needs to be priced based on actuarial type methods (a'la insurance). Just because you can write a (usually bad) price process for "bandwidth" doesn't mean that you can logically apply all the consequent financial mathematics.
And, here's a party-pooper - real options are not options at all - no matter what tenured clowns like Pindyck and Dixit want you to believe.
... who gives a flying fsck why any movie with a title like "Star*????*" fails?
Maybe it's because the sorry-ass fans of such movie franchise finally got kicked out of their mom's basement at the tender age of 30-40 and now cannot afford a $10 movie ticket?
> What makes you think XML is ment to be hand generated?
Regardless of whether XML is or is not hand-generated, there's no reason for explicit </vdfgsdfgsdf>. It doesn't help human readability and it doesn't make a computer (that can count parenthesis better than a human) understand it any better.
XML is an ugly mess long peddled by consultants. Think of all the waste of electricity with the closing of every brain-dead </BlahBlahYabbadDabbaDoo> - and we can blame HTML for starting this!
McCarthy figured the right notation almost 50 years ago, of course...:-)
Wrote 25+ KLOC application in it - never again. If you want to use several libraries in your code (which you do, since reinventing the wheel is not in your job description and is boring), these libraries demand seemingly incompatible compiler flags. So, building all library variants - static/shared/repo/optimized becomes a major PITA.
Then you want to migrate from Solaris to Linux, and you have to fiddle with the code again, because Linux versions of all libraries wouldn't compile with -frepo.
They realized that their stock was overpriced in the "Internet bubble," but unlike the rest of us mortals they could profit from it by buying a "real business."
They did an equity swap (as opposed to getting bond financing) which was a great move. JDS Uniphase could've bought, say, Boeing - but they didn't and now they're worthless.
No wonder the "original" TimeWarner people are pissed - they were had by a bunch of cowboys, and there wasn't a goddamn thing they could do about it at the time.
... He blamed the trouble on Mayor Tom McGroarty, saying the mayor "has to do things his way. He was supposed to buy a mainframe a few years ago, it was supposed to cost $10,000 or $12,000. I don't know what happened to the idea."
The people of Wilkes-Barre should hang their mayor by the balls on the city square (if they have one) or at the local strip mall (I bet they've got at least one).
The first thing one learns when graduating from "anything goes, ln -s/dev/backup/dev/null" school and going to a "real business" is the transition process involved in changing an IT process. It involves running the systems in parallel for a while to make sure everything reconciles 100%. They had at least a year to do that...
Having said, could somebody explain why did Wilkes-Barre need an IBM iron in the first place?
Vote with your wallet, buy directly from independent artists.
Easy for you to say. What am I supposed to do when, say, Mark Knopfler
or P.J. Harvey, or Nick Cave, or whoever release their next
album on a cCD (crippled CD)?
The only thing I'll be able to do is bitch to their fan club - and hopefully
raise some awareness on the part of the artist(s)...
For the record, the UK version of Nick Cave's latest CD contains no "CD digital audio" logo and contains a second disc that is (on my system) recognized as a CD, but is an ISO data CD with some video material.
My department is working with a certain software vendor that allows "free reign" to developers and, apparently, QA people (if they have any to speak of).
As a result of the developers' easy-going attitude to registry, we are in a situation where users *must be* local administrators of their NT machines. Or, in the case of another product from the same vendor, they have to be "power users" (demi-gods) of the application. Which is untenable in a production environment.
That statement is very misleading. Patrice Lumumba was hand-picked by the Belgians and heavily backed by them. He was no more a democratic leader than Lenin or Chaing Kai-Schek.
Sure, he was "hand-picked" for being an educated and politically active native in the country they considered to be populated by apes that walk on 4 legs and apes that walk on 2 legs. His real "crime" was to stop being a buffer between his country and the colonial empire and to try to actually do something "unauthorized" like inviting the "Commies."
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In the U.S. of A. the term "insider trading" applies only to share/stock trading, where it is illegal.
Those not trading stocks - such as commodities, bonds or spot FX need not concern themselves with such nonsense. Trading on material non-public information is perfectly legal in those markets.
Hey - at least Fortran does not rely on whitespace!
1) Headhunters are dying like flies in a recession. That's the nature of a business cycle. Headhunters make a ton of money for picking up a phone during the boom times, but they really take it on a chin during a downturn. So - don't be afraid, tell Zeke where to shove it, and find somebody else to make a dime off of your labors.
2) Your resume is not your confession. It's an ad - nothing more or less. The function of your resume is to get you a face-to-face interview. From that point on, you're on your own. On the other hand, lying on an employment application form will get you dismissed...
1st language = Basic
2nd language = Fortran
3rd language = Lisp = nirvana!
In Year 2005 DARPA announces 1-year funding for SkyNet
In Year 2006 DARPA grants a 2-year extension
In Year 2008 SkyNet learns reading and writing Esperanto (because English is too hard)
By Year 2010 US military switches to Esperanto for all of its communications, SkyNet replaces Joint Chiefs of Staff
In Year 2011 SkyNet becomes self-aware and switches to Chinese...
The greatest single app to have under X11! Gives you colors and fonts and images (in XEmacs) with the following:
1) TnT for AIM
2) ZenIRC for IRC
3) Gnus for e-mail/news
4) w3m-mode for w3m browser
5) BBDB for address book
6) Calendar/ToDo
etc!
Just returned from London.
Go to the Tower of London and buy yourself an axe executioner doll - complete with the chopping block and an executee.
How morbid! How delightful!
Here're my impressions from the first 5 pages I managed to read.
0) It's just the East coast/West coast thing. Except for rap, everything else is better on the East coast.
1) The author constantly has to mention that he doesn't really have much familiarity with Debian/GNU/Linux/etc - but that doesn't stop him from making far-reaching conclusions and grand promises
2) If the BSD communitIES could get along first and form a BSD communitY - then I might be inclined to try them out.
'nuff said.
If you got your phone through a plan - it's heavily subsidized by the carrier. Not sure about ATT, but TMobile unlocks phones after 6 months on the contract.
Who in their right mind modded the parent to +5???
"Bandwidth trading" escapades have bancrupted Williams and contributed to Enron having to go ever more aggressive with their "creative accounting." It reeks of the same foul smell as the "real options" nonsense. (Note: the article referenced even has "real options" in the keywords).
Basically you've got a whole bunch of not-so-smart people who can fake expertise in nearly anything as long as they don't get their hands dirty (aka academics) colluding with some not-so-smart MBA's in executive positions - and then you've got a problem for everyone around them.
This is a problem that needs to be priced based on actuarial type methods (a'la insurance). Just because you can write a (usually bad) price process for "bandwidth" doesn't mean that you can logically apply all the consequent financial mathematics.
And, here's a party-pooper - real options are not options at all - no matter what tenured clowns like Pindyck and Dixit want you to believe.
I don't think so! Architect offered him an if-then-else between "graceful reset" of the software (reloaded!) or run until SIGSEGV. :-)
It is only after that that Neo discovered that the "real physical world" is actually also part of the Matrix - he killed sentinels.
... who gives a flying fsck why any movie with a title like "Star*????*" fails?
Maybe it's because the sorry-ass fans of such movie franchise finally got kicked out of their mom's basement at the tender age of 30-40 and now cannot afford a $10 movie ticket?
No - people create new languages so that they can get new grants to do something that has already been done before... :-)
> What makes you think XML is ment to be hand generated?
Regardless of whether XML is or is not hand-generated, there's no reason for explicit </vdfgsdfgsdf>. It doesn't help human readability and it doesn't make a computer (that can count parenthesis better than a human) understand it any better.
It's just a waste - plain and simple.
XML is an ugly mess long peddled by consultants. Think of all the waste of electricity with the closing of every brain-dead </BlahBlahYabbadDabbaDoo> - and we can blame HTML for starting this!
:-)
McCarthy figured the right notation almost 50 years ago, of course...
Wrote 25+ KLOC application in it - never again. If you want to use several libraries in your code (which you do, since reinventing the wheel is not in your job description and is boring), these libraries demand seemingly incompatible compiler flags. So, building all library variants - static/shared/repo/optimized becomes a major PITA.
Then you want to migrate from Solaris to Linux, and you have to fiddle with the code again, because Linux versions of all libraries wouldn't compile with -frepo.
They did an equity swap (as opposed to getting bond financing) which was a great move. JDS Uniphase could've bought, say, Boeing - but they didn't and now they're worthless.
No wonder the "original" TimeWarner people are pissed - they were had by a bunch of cowboys, and there wasn't a goddamn thing they could do about it at the time.
... He blamed the trouble on Mayor Tom McGroarty, saying the mayor "has to do things his way. He was supposed to buy a mainframe a few years ago, it was supposed to cost $10,000 or $12,000. I don't know what happened to the idea."
/dev/backup /dev/null" school and going to a "real business" is the transition process involved in changing an IT process. It involves running the systems in parallel for a while to make sure everything reconciles 100%. They had at least a year to do that...
The people of Wilkes-Barre should hang their mayor by the balls on the city square (if they have one) or at the local strip mall (I bet they've got at least one).
The first thing one learns when graduating from "anything goes, ln -s
Having said, could somebody explain why did Wilkes-Barre need an IBM iron in the first place?
Easy for you to say. What am I supposed to do when, say, Mark Knopfler or P.J. Harvey, or Nick Cave, or whoever release their next album on a cCD (crippled CD)?
The only thing I'll be able to do is bitch to their fan club - and hopefully raise some awareness on the part of the artist(s)...
For the record, the UK version of Nick Cave's latest CD contains no "CD digital audio" logo and contains a second disc that is (on my system) recognized as a CD, but is an ISO data CD with some video material.
Good grief - why not simply write a Perl syntax parser for Common Lisp?
...)
This project would also require
1) a mechanism to redefine class representations and instances on the fly - similar to
(defmethod update-instance-for-redefined class
2) a mechanism to "save core" under Perl (does this one exist yet?)
And I don't mean it sarcastically.
My department is working with a certain software vendor that allows "free reign" to developers and, apparently, QA people (if they have any to speak of).
As a result of the developers' easy-going attitude to registry, we are in a situation where users *must be* local administrators of their NT machines. Or, in the case of another product from the same vendor, they have to be "power users" (demi-gods) of the application. Which is untenable in a production environment.
Sure, he was "hand-picked" for being an educated and politically active native in the country they considered to be populated by apes that walk on 4 legs and apes that walk on 2 legs. His real "crime" was to stop being a buffer between his country and the colonial empire and to try to actually do something "unauthorized" like inviting the "Commies."