Hardly. Selling immediately is what most of the principals in an IPO deal do. The investment banks and all early-round investors (like VCs) typically sell almost right away.
Getting access to the pre-market (i.e. listing) price on an IPO is a carrot held out by many brokerages for their high-net-worth clients, so that they can make even more money.
Some other folks have posted (correctly) that what ETrade is doing is enforcing SEC guidelines for IPOs, which are inherently risky. The guidelines protect the individual investor from getting swindled or defrauded, and thus require some degree of experience, plus cash/assets such that IPO "speculation" wouldn't wipe you out, if it were to tank/vaporize.
Further proof of the axiom, "It takes money to make money".
What is bloat? Bloat is the American dream: bigger, better, and everywhere all at once. Supersize it! From VCRs to food processors to Ford Expeditions, industry has historically provided consumers with features to have, not necessarily to use. How many of you have programmed your VCR? Minced carrots with your Cuisinart? Or gone off-roading in your SUV? Why should software be any different?
Well, let's see. If that is the American dream, I must be an accidental American. I hate SUVs, I drive a small sports car. I don't own a Cuisinart, and yes, I have programmed my VCR (it's really not that hard, god bless Sony's industrial designers).
Of course, >99% of Gigabit Ethernet is full-duplex so there are no collisions. This is partly because, up until now, all GigE was fiber-based, and most fiber topologies have one strand for transmit, one for receive (i.e. no way to collide). If you did build half-duplex, I believe the collision domain would be like 20 meters, not very useful.
The reason Broadcom's chip is so complicated is that for full-duplex GigE on copper, all 4 pairs in the cable are used, _in both directions_. This means the chip uses fancy DSP techniques to subtract what is transmitting from what is receiving. It handles FEXT and NEXT (far-end and near-end cross-talk) as well.
The only other concern is that the end-station just cannot create frames fast enough @ 1518 bytes, so there is a proposal for jumbo frames to enable endstations to lower their rate of frame generation. Still, for decent TCP stacks you can see 500-800 Mbps right now, which is a good bit better than 100Mbps.
The ATM fixed-53B cell is an interesting idea, since it allows for uniform memory allocation per cell (versus ethernet, where you don't know if you need 64 or all the way up to 1518), but in hardware, often the implementation for Ethernet is to use linked-lists of buffers (say of 128B) which will have good efficiency.
Problems like these can always be solved, and Ethernet is cheap and standard.
yeah this reply is "me too"-ish, but it's really quite a good article. Sometimes Katz is over the top, sometimes he's spot-on. This one is more of the latter.
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Hardly. Selling immediately is what most of
the principals in an IPO deal do. The investment banks and all early-round investors (like VCs) typically sell almost right away.
Getting access to the pre-market (i.e. listing) price on an IPO is a carrot held out by many brokerages for their high-net-worth clients, so that they can make even more money.
Some other folks have posted (correctly) that what ETrade is doing is enforcing SEC guidelines for IPOs, which are inherently risky. The guidelines protect the individual investor from getting swindled or defrauded, and thus require some degree of experience, plus cash/assets such that IPO "speculation" wouldn't wipe you out, if it were to tank/vaporize.
Further proof of the axiom, "It takes money to make money".
What is bloat? Bloat is the American dream: bigger, better, and everywhere all at once. Supersize it! From VCRs to food processors to Ford Expeditions, industry has historically provided consumers with features to have, not necessarily to use. How many of you have programmed your VCR? Minced carrots with your Cuisinart? Or gone off-roading in your SUV? Why should software be any different?
Well, let's see. If that is the American dream, I must be an accidental American. I hate SUVs, I drive a small sports car. I don't own a Cuisinart, and yes, I have programmed my VCR (it's really not that hard, god bless Sony's industrial designers).
Maybe that's why the software I use is different?
Of course, >99% of Gigabit Ethernet is full-duplex so there are no collisions. This is partly because, up until now, all GigE was fiber-based, and most fiber topologies have one strand for transmit, one for receive (i.e. no way to collide). If you did build half-duplex, I believe the collision domain would be like 20 meters, not very useful.
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The reason Broadcom's chip is so complicated is that for full-duplex GigE on copper, all 4 pairs in the cable are used, _in both directions_. This means the chip uses fancy DSP techniques to subtract what is transmitting from what is receiving. It handles FEXT and NEXT (far-end and near-end cross-talk) as well.
The only other concern is that the end-station just cannot create frames fast enough @ 1518 bytes, so there is a proposal for jumbo frames to enable endstations to lower their rate of frame generation. Still, for decent TCP stacks you can see 500-800 Mbps right now, which is a good bit better than 100Mbps.
The ATM fixed-53B cell is an interesting idea, since it allows for uniform memory allocation per cell (versus ethernet, where you don't know if you need 64 or all the way up to 1518), but in hardware, often the implementation for Ethernet is to use linked-lists of buffers (say of 128B) which will have good efficiency.
Problems like these can always be solved, and Ethernet is cheap and standard.
Death to ATM!
yeah this reply is "me too"-ish, but it's really quite a good article. Sometimes Katz is over the top, sometimes he's spot-on. This one is more of the latter.
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Keep articles like this coming Jon