No, you can get access to the same information that Goldmans and the rest have access to, you just have to do what they do and buy the access. And, to be honest, even if you had the same access for free and an HFT system, you probably couldn't by enough stock using HFT to matter. Most individual traders buy less than 1000 shares. HFT systems buy hundreds of thousands if not millions of shares at a time.
Anyone can create a HFT system to automate buying and selling. All one needs is the skill and money to set up the system.
It is not a monopoly on the stock market because every medium to large trading house has its own HFT system. It does put individuals and smaller trading houses at a disadvantage but HFT generally takes advantage of small changes in price by volume. We wouldn't make much if we bought 100 shares of a stock that dipped by $.01 for one second, but Goldmans and the like can make a return on it by buying hundreds of thousand shares.
HFT algorithms are considered trade secrets and there is big money behind each one. A firm whose HFT algorithm were made public would be at a serious disadvantage in competing with other firms. It might even be possible to game the algorithm and cost the firm big money.
How is socializing online inferior to socializing in a golf cart or softball game or restaurant?
Simple. There is no physical presence so after or even during, you can not as a group decide to go do something else. Socializing on Vent is the equivalent to being on a party line phone call. While you may be communicating, you aren't really spending any time with the person. The difference between IRL socializing and net.socializing is the difference between having sex and jerking it to phone sex.
So....don't play multiplayer games?
So, I shouldn't play any MMORPGs, right? I enjoy playing WoW on occasion and the game starts off as being single player and as one levels up, it becomes necessary to socialize and join a guild, etc. The same with EVE, only more so. These games are set up so that one can not go very far unless one socializes even though the games claim to be single player capable. And, the reason is completely financial. The more you play and socialize in game, the less of an IRL social life one will have, the more reason one has to keep paying to play the game. Then, there is PVP. I get hit up for PVP on WoW all the time, multiple times from the same player, regardless of what I am doing at the time. I won't even talk about EVE and PVP. The subject is too broad.
Games like Warhammer:DOW and SC2 come with multiplayer functions and require an network connection. Yet, they are not sold as multiplayer games. The problem is real is that multiplayer is in almost EVERY game.
Your experience is very limited, even if it is more than most people's. Out of the thousands of colleges and universities you have experience with six or seven? And, somehow, I think if you looked closer at the other colleges in the schools you name you would find a great many more MS machines.
Have I ever heard someone speak positively about Comcast? On Slashdot, no I don't think so. Elsewhere, yes. As to Comcast's market share, they have almost none where I am at.
It seems to me you are missing an important fact: people rarely praise but often condemn. For a long time, I had Sprint PCS for cell service. I had no problem with them but all I ever heard was how horrible they were. The only reason I switched was because Sprint service.
Rolls-Royce? They are a luxury brand dominating a niche market with a good margin and good capitalization. While they may have a small part of the general market, they have a large share of a niche market.
We are not talking about the value of a brand but rather whether a brand is "dying", and the measure of that is the brand's market share.
Look at Walmart, they are a hated company in many locations, have a bad repuation, and have a huge market share. No one would say Walmart is a dying brand.
I will believe that Microsoft is dead the day I walk into a computer retailer and at least 25% of the systems on display aren't running Windows and aren't running Apple OSX. I exclude Apple on the basis that, according to the EULA, one is not allowed to run OS X on non-Apple hardware.
And Linux is built on the same paradigm as 1972 and optimized for the terminal. Yes, it has a GUI, but it is a bolt-on, just like Windows 3.X and one often has to go into a terminal to install/configure/run things in Linux. Yes, it is getting better, but that still doesn't change the fact that it is based on the paradigms of the early 1970s.
True. But, this isn't about performance. It is about whether or not "Microsoft is a dying consumer brand" and when it comes to brands market share == life or death.
You have already proven you haven't taken an interest in the current state of things. You have been sitting there spouting your ignorance for all to see. You do not advance the cause of justice, rather you simper and whine. You wouldn't know "rational, just, and effective" if it reached up and bit you on your ass. You want to coddle the poor little criminal and treat him like a victim. But, the truth is almost all criminals deserve their punishments and often more deserve more than the sentence handed down. Recidivism is rampant because first time offenders are often punished so leniently that there is no deterrent. My step-brother, my dear friend, and a few other people I know are just a few of the examples of that.
Prison violence exist because criminals are violent and vicious. But, rather than actually treating convicts like the violent, vicious creatures they are, people like you insist that they be treated like harmless victims who just need a slap on the back and hand up. Then, you gnash your teeth and wring your hands when they prey on each other. But, if the steps necessary to keep them from attacking each other, people like you claim it is mistreatment.
Go out and actually learn about criminals and the criminal justice system from the criminals instead of the self-deluding, bleeding hearts whose koolaide you have been drinking. The first thing you need to understand is that over 30 years ago, these same people claimed that criminals had low self-esteem. Then, they enacted programs based on this claim. After 30 years, someone actually investigated this claim and found out that most criminals have average to high self-esteem, some to the point where they are megalomaniacal narcissists who believe that the laws should not apply to them. Almost all of them believed they should not have been punished for their crimes. Almost all of them believed they really didn't do anything wrong
But, you're right. I'm neither cop nor crook - just citizen & taxpayer
In other words, you have been talking out your ass about shit you know nothing about. You have been parroting out ignorant, soft-on-crime whining probably garnered from the "poor little criminals have poor self-esteem" groups that have been around for 30+ years.
My local bookstores have social events and several different book clubs and the gym I used to belong to had both exercise and yoga classes as well as a socializing area with beverages, etc.
It is interesting that you would say I have no understanding of American prisons as I have a step-brother who is currently residing in a prison. I also have a dear friend who was recently in two different jails for multiple months (drugs are bad kids). Yes, nothing like actually knowing people who have gone through and are still going through the justice system to foster misunderstanding of it.
In your case, your multitude of ignorant statements make it obvious you are an ignorant, lying dumbass who has apparently never been involved with the justice system on either end.
So, there is evidence for abiogenesis with experiments that are duplicating the chemistry. Where is the evidence of your invisible man in the sky? Where is your evidence that some god created the universe and/or Terra and/or life?
What gets me is that they are making gaming into a social event. If I wanted to be social, I would not be at home on a computer. I would be at a LAN party. I would play golf, or softball, or just go to a gym. I would go to a restaurant, bar, or club. I would go to a bookstore or coffee shop. I would take a class. I would do something, anything other than sit in a room alone and "socialize" on my computer while playing a game.
When I want to be social, I go be with other people and socialize. I really don't want to be forced to socialize with others in order to play a computer game at home.
There should NEVER be a default selection on an election ballot. If one decides not to cast a ballot in a race with a default selection, one ends up voting for someone one does not wish to vote for unless one specifically has the ability to de-select any and all candidates.
Crippen was arrested before jailbreaking of the iPhone was legal. Even if the iPhone decision can be made to apply to the XBox360, he committed his offense and was arrest when it was still illegal.
I have literally tons of scientific evidence that says we evolved via natural selection, which is not a random process, and that life arose by non-mystical means.
What do you have besides a self-contradictory book of bronze-age myths?
No one is being give the choice of "Do X or suffer physical harm". That is a false statement, which makes you a liar.
What is actually happening is one is being given a choice "Serve the actual jail sentence" or "Don't serve the jail sentence but live for a time under these rules and controls and be subject to search and examination at the governments whim."
It was a device failure and not an intentional attempt to include "outright made up" votes. There was no intent on anyone's part.
It is like a house fire. If one's toaster has a short that causes a fire that burns down one's house, one is not charged with arson. It was a device failure and not one intentionally burning down one's house. You are, in essence, saying that because the toaster failed the homeowner should be charged with arson.
Or, if you prefer car analogies, this is like having one's timing belt break and one's engine seizing up in traffic and then being given a ticket for blocking traffic. There was no intent to block traffic and one would not have been blocking traffic without a device failure.
Without someone intentionally making up votes, there are no "made up votes". You may as well arrest the voting machine for making up the votes because it failed.
But, judging from your other post, you don't believe that. You believe they were magically programmed by an invisible man in the sky for which there is no proof.
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No, you can get access to the same information that Goldmans and the rest have access to, you just have to do what they do and buy the access. And, to be honest, even if you had the same access for free and an HFT system, you probably couldn't by enough stock using HFT to matter. Most individual traders buy less than 1000 shares. HFT systems buy hundreds of thousands if not millions of shares at a time.
Anyone can create a HFT system to automate buying and selling. All one needs is the skill and money to set up the system.
It is not a monopoly on the stock market because every medium to large trading house has its own HFT system. It does put individuals and smaller trading houses at a disadvantage but HFT generally takes advantage of small changes in price by volume. We wouldn't make much if we bought 100 shares of a stock that dipped by $.01 for one second, but Goldmans and the like can make a return on it by buying hundreds of thousand shares.
HFT algorithms are considered trade secrets and there is big money behind each one. A firm whose HFT algorithm were made public would be at a serious disadvantage in competing with other firms. It might even be possible to game the algorithm and cost the firm big money.
It is an early carbonic (electric) hearing aid.
Simple. There is no physical presence so after or even during, you can not as a group decide to go do something else. Socializing on Vent is the equivalent to being on a party line phone call. While you may be communicating, you aren't really spending any time with the person. The difference between IRL socializing and net.socializing is the difference between having sex and jerking it to phone sex. So....don't play multiplayer games?
So, I shouldn't play any MMORPGs, right? I enjoy playing WoW on occasion and the game starts off as being single player and as one levels up, it becomes necessary to socialize and join a guild, etc. The same with EVE, only more so. These games are set up so that one can not go very far unless one socializes even though the games claim to be single player capable. And, the reason is completely financial. The more you play and socialize in game, the less of an IRL social life one will have, the more reason one has to keep paying to play the game. Then, there is PVP. I get hit up for PVP on WoW all the time, multiple times from the same player, regardless of what I am doing at the time. I won't even talk about EVE and PVP. The subject is too broad.
Games like Warhammer:DOW and SC2 come with multiplayer functions and require an network connection. Yet, they are not sold as multiplayer games. The problem is real is that multiplayer is in almost EVERY game.
Your experience is very limited, even if it is more than most people's. Out of the thousands of colleges and universities you have experience with six or seven? And, somehow, I think if you looked closer at the other colleges in the schools you name you would find a great many more MS machines.
Have I ever heard someone speak positively about Comcast? On Slashdot, no I don't think so. Elsewhere, yes. As to Comcast's market share, they have almost none where I am at.
It seems to me you are missing an important fact: people rarely praise but often condemn. For a long time, I had Sprint PCS for cell service. I had no problem with them but all I ever heard was how horrible they were. The only reason I switched was because Sprint service.
Rolls-Royce? They are a luxury brand dominating a niche market with a good margin and good capitalization. While they may have a small part of the general market, they have a large share of a niche market.
We are not talking about the value of a brand but rather whether a brand is "dying", and the measure of that is the brand's market share.
Look at Walmart, they are a hated company in many locations, have a bad repuation, and have a huge market share. No one would say Walmart is a dying brand.
Microsoft pays a dividend of US$.13 per share and Apple doesn't.
Someone explain to me how this post is a troll.
I will believe that Microsoft is dead the day I walk into a computer retailer and at least 25% of the systems on display aren't running Windows and aren't running Apple OSX. I exclude Apple on the basis that, according to the EULA, one is not allowed to run OS X on non-Apple hardware.
And Linux is built on the same paradigm as 1972 and optimized for the terminal. Yes, it has a GUI, but it is a bolt-on, just like Windows 3.X and one often has to go into a terminal to install/configure/run things in Linux. Yes, it is getting better, but that still doesn't change the fact that it is based on the paradigms of the early 1970s.
True. But, this isn't about performance. It is about whether or not "Microsoft is a dying consumer brand" and when it comes to brands market share == life or death.
You have already proven you haven't taken an interest in the current state of things. You have been sitting there spouting your ignorance for all to see. You do not advance the cause of justice, rather you simper and whine. You wouldn't know "rational, just, and effective" if it reached up and bit you on your ass. You want to coddle the poor little criminal and treat him like a victim. But, the truth is almost all criminals deserve their punishments and often more deserve more than the sentence handed down. Recidivism is rampant because first time offenders are often punished so leniently that there is no deterrent. My step-brother, my dear friend, and a few other people I know are just a few of the examples of that.
Prison violence exist because criminals are violent and vicious. But, rather than actually treating convicts like the violent, vicious creatures they are, people like you insist that they be treated like harmless victims who just need a slap on the back and hand up. Then, you gnash your teeth and wring your hands when they prey on each other. But, if the steps necessary to keep them from attacking each other, people like you claim it is mistreatment.
Go out and actually learn about criminals and the criminal justice system from the criminals instead of the self-deluding, bleeding hearts whose koolaide you have been drinking. The first thing you need to understand is that over 30 years ago, these same people claimed that criminals had low self-esteem. Then, they enacted programs based on this claim. After 30 years, someone actually investigated this claim and found out that most criminals have average to high self-esteem, some to the point where they are megalomaniacal narcissists who believe that the laws should not apply to them. Almost all of them believed they should not have been punished for their crimes. Almost all of them believed they really didn't do anything wrong
In other words, you have been talking out your ass about shit you know nothing about. You have been parroting out ignorant, soft-on-crime whining probably garnered from the "poor little criminals have poor self-esteem" groups that have been around for 30+ years.
My local bookstores have social events and several different book clubs and the gym I used to belong to had both exercise and yoga classes as well as a socializing area with beverages, etc.
It is interesting that you would say I have no understanding of American prisons as I have a step-brother who is currently residing in a prison. I also have a dear friend who was recently in two different jails for multiple months (drugs are bad kids). Yes, nothing like actually knowing people who have gone through and are still going through the justice system to foster misunderstanding of it.
In your case, your multitude of ignorant statements make it obvious you are an ignorant, lying dumbass who has apparently never been involved with the justice system on either end.
I will let those facts speak for themselves.
As opposed to a mythical, mystic being for whom there is no evidence, right?
But, wait, the chemistry is being reproduced in the lab.
So, there is evidence for abiogenesis with experiments that are duplicating the chemistry. Where is the evidence of your invisible man in the sky? Where is your evidence that some god created the universe and/or Terra and/or life?
What gets me is that they are making gaming into a social event. If I wanted to be social, I would not be at home on a computer. I would be at a LAN party. I would play golf, or softball, or just go to a gym. I would go to a restaurant, bar, or club. I would go to a bookstore or coffee shop. I would take a class. I would do something, anything other than sit in a room alone and "socialize" on my computer while playing a game.
When I want to be social, I go be with other people and socialize. I really don't want to be forced to socialize with others in order to play a computer game at home.
Or, chemistry. Perhaps you should try keeping abreast of science.
There should NEVER be a default selection on an election ballot. If one decides not to cast a ballot in a race with a default selection, one ends up voting for someone one does not wish to vote for unless one specifically has the ability to de-select any and all candidates.
Crippen was arrested before jailbreaking of the iPhone was legal. Even if the iPhone decision can be made to apply to the XBox360, he committed his offense and was arrest when it was still illegal.
I have literally tons of scientific evidence that says we evolved via natural selection, which is not a random process, and that life arose by non-mystical means.
What do you have besides a self-contradictory book of bronze-age myths?
No one is being give the choice of "Do X or suffer physical harm". That is a false statement, which makes you a liar.
What is actually happening is one is being given a choice "Serve the actual jail sentence" or "Don't serve the jail sentence but live for a time under these rules and controls and be subject to search and examination at the governments whim."
Are you done being a dumbass yet?
It was a device failure and not an intentional attempt to include "outright made up" votes. There was no intent on anyone's part.
It is like a house fire. If one's toaster has a short that causes a fire that burns down one's house, one is not charged with arson. It was a device failure and not one intentionally burning down one's house. You are, in essence, saying that because the toaster failed the homeowner should be charged with arson.
Or, if you prefer car analogies, this is like having one's timing belt break and one's engine seizing up in traffic and then being given a ticket for blocking traffic. There was no intent to block traffic and one would not have been blocking traffic without a device failure.
Without someone intentionally making up votes, there are no "made up votes". You may as well arrest the voting machine for making up the votes because it failed.
But, judging from your other post, you don't believe that. You believe they were magically programmed by an invisible man in the sky for which there is no proof.