Over where I live (Czech Republic) I'm told it's been this way for several years now. Although even before that, the local Vodafone made a point of differentiating itself from competitors by selling only unlocked phones. Their position was always "our service is so much better that we don't need to lock you in".
I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case in a lot of the EU countries (or if it were an EU-wide directive shortly).
Such is the case with just about every group and their beliefs.
Yet most beliefs don't seem to attract the level of politically-correct-bullshit-hysteria-preventing-rational-discussion that environmentalism does. Which is what this article is about.
I agree. This story is such an excellent example of why environmentalism can be so dangerous and *must* be subjected to intense criticism, not adopted automatically "because that's what we should all do, right?".
It plays on people's fears, causes them to act irrationally and in the end can achieve environmentally negative results - as in the case of Germany introducing 20 new coal power-plants - the same that we've been so fighting so many years to get rid off, since they pollute the air and deplete non-renewable resources. (Yeah, my country neighbors with Germany, so I actually care about the resulting pollution.)
Another way to look at it is that it helps find the price point by analyzing that crow-sourced human price-finding.
I suppose we should also outlaw exit poll election forecasting, since they help us analyze human behavior and thus somehow invalidate the process of voting for our elected officials.
Both this and the parent comment are FUD that is sad to see so highly promoted on Slashdot. It is fear-mongering over technology you don't understand, neo-ludism.
HFT does not replace long-term positions. It cannot. While HFT does make up a lot of VOLUME of sales, they are of absolutely negligible in terms of profits and don't end up having nowhere near the same proportion of profits as the long-term position traders.
- you believe that long-term trading is somehow obliterated by HFT - but the vast majority of PROFITS (not VOLUME) are still realized in long-term trading - you compare HFT to a Wall Street broker (the whole point of HFT is that it's NOT a physical, slow broker) - you believe HFT means "computers make investment decisions" (they don't, look it up, HFT company is defined by having virtually no positions at the end of the day) - you believe this somehow undermines private ownership (see above)
Your hysteria around HFT can be compared to an ludite breaking an early telegraph machine just because he's scared it can read radio morse code signals faster then a human can - and believes that it means the end of people talking to each other, only machines will do the talking from now on. Somewhere along the way, he fails to realize it's still humans talking through the machines, which just amplify their abilities.
It is a sad day when I have to preach about this on Slashdot.
This comment is bullshit, because it demonstrates lack of understanding what HFT is. Let me explain, why HFT cannot be influenced by decisions that the company makes, regardless how long- or short-term those decisions turn out to be.
HFT is not based on strategic company behavior. HFT is purely based on market patterns, ie. patterns created by physical traders
Imagine that Apple introduces a revolutionary new phone. Investors get excited and start buying AAPL stock, thus starting to raise it's stock price. The HFT algorithms discover this sooner then most living investors and starts buying. It's also faster then physical investors to notice when the demand is tapering off, thus stops buying and starts selling.
This short example both illustrates how HFT improves liquidity for longer-term investors (people seeking to buy AAPL stock now have the ability to do so very quickly from the HFT trader) and how company behavior does not influence the HFT behavior (it is not the introduction of iPhone that triggers the HFT, but the reaction physical investors have to it) and the fact that long-term investment is still the most profitable and not hampered by HFT (if you invested into AAPL at the time iPhone was introduced, you're a happy man today).
Cut the fear-mongering and FUD about technology you don't understand. This is not Slashdot-worthy.
Email is currently running around 90 TRILLION messages a year, and continuing to rise.
78% of which is spam. Remaining 22% is generated in large part from mailing lists. I'd hazard a guess that already today Tweets, Facebook messages and text messages combined easily trounce actual, real email activity. And the gap will be growing.
That - and Apple (Dave Hyatt) fueled the fire a bit as well when it chose to base it's Dashboard widgets on extended HTML4 with new radical elements like - and promptly built support for all these right into Safari.
When it became clear that continuing down the XHTML path promised tons of heartburn for publishers and user-agent developers without much reward in return, people started thinking that maybe rebooting the HTML specification process wouldn't be such a bad thing. The W3C picked up the WHATWG's independent "HTML5" spec as a starting point, and that's where we are today: XHTML is for people who are comfortable with radical changes between versions of the spec and Draconian error processing; HTML is for people who want backwards compatibility and less strict parsing. You did get most of the points right, but I could maybe add:
It wasn't people that started thinking about extending HTML, it was the browser vendors (w/o Microsoft) -- the WHATWG.
They didn't do it because they didn't like strict parsing without the tag-soup headache, but because the the ludicrous speed of the XHTML WG indicated XHTML2 could be finalized in 10 years - or more. The progress was actually slowing down in recent years.
With the whole web 2.0 thing floating around, browsers were held back in their potential by an old standard with many sore spots (think better forms with better client-side in-browser validation for starters) and no vision of changing it anytime near.
The W3C re-established the HTML WG and adopted the WHATWG spec on the brink of becoming irrelevant when the browser-vendors consortium would be shipping browsers to their own standards
Some people criticize the WHATWG draft as being too browser-centric, however I for one as a developer am thrilled by the proposed changes.
If you create a new file on the CLI, it still won't show up right away in Finder. You frequently have to 'prod' Finder into showing it, by closing and re-opening the window, or creating a new folder and then deleting it. I'll give you all the other short-comings, but this one simply is not true anymore. Ever since kernel upgrade in Tiger the Finder picks up new files (from CLI and elsewhere) IMMEDIATELY.
not all jews are responsible of this action of the Israeli government
I beg do differ. I think people of every country need to feel directly accountable for actions of their goverment. If they are in gross violation of their worldview, then they need to go out into the streets and make themself heard. If they are a minority and the issue is pressing enough, consider emmigration. Seriously. The very feeling that "the goverment is doing these crimes, not me" is the very same one that allows Hezbolah in the first place. Lebanese people need to start feeling responsible for Hezbolah's actions (and that's what Israel is trying to achieve at this point IMO).
"It's the American goverment invading Iraq, not American people." "It's the Israeli goverment killing innocents in scores." "It's the Hezbolah sending katyushas into Israel, not Lebanese people."
The next time I see a Israeli citizen, I'll of course not try to kill him, but I'm going to make sure he gets the message how appaled I am by actions of goverment he is responsible for. Just as I would with Lebanese and I did with Americans.
And is Apache really more of an innovation than Linux?
You must be kidding, right? With Apache market share being 63% and Linux being what? Like 3%? Even if we're talking just about servers, it's got less then 30%. With Apache leading the web server innovation and Linux just trying to replicate more advanced OSes in OSS context (if we're talking about desktops)......sure, mod me down. Still, that doesn't prove me wrong.
I'm in the podcasting demographics sweetspot and I still do vote. And when I vote, I care. I try to soak up as much info about which politician might be worth my vote as possible. I do have a preferred party, but give the other candidate always a chance. Podcasting sounds like an interesting alternative to TV duels (which sometimes skew thing out of perspective).
I'm sorry to be so harsh, but the parent is just bullshit - and since somebody had the insight to mark it Insightful, I could not resist. It has been shown countless of times that public prizes are one of the best return-on-investments in the world of R&D. For every dollar you spent on a prize, about 10 additional research dollars pour in from other private sources as companies and individual teams scramble to win the prize.
Granted - not all "good work" that's needed lies in the R&D area. But plenty of it does (think cure for AIDS, cancer etc.), and for those objectives prizes are a damn good way to spur innovation.
That is of course false, since Safari identifies as Mozilla compatible (with a Safari sidenote at the end). So unless you specifically choose to opt-out Safari, it get's usually included with the Mozilla family. Ditto OmniWeb IIRC.
Right. So we need to close a loophole in Apache, BIND, Postfix & ProFTPd (provided they were all under GPL, which they are not). Since all these actually interact with the users, right?
Well, if you consider this a loophole, I suggest you go to hell. You are killing the internet community right at it's root.
Obviously, you have never read Jules Verne or you would have known better. He predicted so many things it really makes your head spin. For starters:
"In 1863, he wrote a novel called Paris in the 20th Century about a young man who lives in a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, gas-powered automobiles, calculators, and a worldwide communications network, yet cannot find happiness, and comes to a tragic end"
Hunderd years before the act, he wrote about ubiquitous electricity, about submarines, you name it...
Of course, he got plenty of things wrong, just as did others. But that's not the point. I would actually argue that most of the stuff we enjoy today was at some point predicted in sci-fi. Not as a whole picture, but as particular ideas.
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Over where I live (Czech Republic) I'm told it's been this way for several years now. Although even before that, the local Vodafone made a point of differentiating itself from competitors by selling only unlocked phones. Their position was always "our service is so much better that we don't need to lock you in".
I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case in a lot of the EU countries (or if it were an EU-wide directive shortly).
Such is the case with just about every group and their beliefs.
Yet most beliefs don't seem to attract the level of politically-correct-bullshit-hysteria-preventing-rational-discussion that environmentalism does. Which is what this article is about.
I agree. This story is such an excellent example of why environmentalism can be so dangerous and *must* be subjected to intense criticism, not adopted automatically "because that's what we should all do, right?".
It plays on people's fears, causes them to act irrationally and in the end can achieve environmentally negative results - as in the case of Germany introducing 20 new coal power-plants - the same that we've been so fighting so many years to get rid off, since they pollute the air and deplete non-renewable resources. (Yeah, my country neighbors with Germany, so I actually care about the resulting pollution.)
Yay! Progress... :(
Another way to look at it is that it helps find the price point by analyzing that crow-sourced human price-finding.
I suppose we should also outlaw exit poll election forecasting, since they help us analyze human behavior and thus somehow invalidate the process of voting for our elected officials.
Both this and the parent comment are FUD that is sad to see so highly promoted on Slashdot. It is fear-mongering over technology you don't understand, neo-ludism.
HFT does not replace long-term positions. It cannot. While HFT does make up a lot of VOLUME of sales, they are of absolutely negligible in terms of profits and don't end up having nowhere near the same proportion of profits as the long-term position traders.
- you believe that long-term trading is somehow obliterated by HFT - but the vast majority of PROFITS (not VOLUME) are still realized in long-term trading
- you compare HFT to a Wall Street broker (the whole point of HFT is that it's NOT a physical, slow broker)
- you believe HFT means "computers make investment decisions" (they don't, look it up, HFT company is defined by having virtually no positions at the end of the day)
- you believe this somehow undermines private ownership (see above)
Your hysteria around HFT can be compared to an ludite breaking an early telegraph machine just because he's scared it can read radio morse code signals faster then a human can - and believes that it means the end of people talking to each other, only machines will do the talking from now on. Somewhere along the way, he fails to realize it's still humans talking through the machines, which just amplify their abilities.
It is a sad day when I have to preach about this on Slashdot.
This comment is bullshit, because it demonstrates lack of understanding what HFT is. Let me explain, why HFT cannot be influenced by decisions that the company makes, regardless how long- or short-term those decisions turn out to be.
HFT is not based on strategic company behavior. HFT is purely based on market patterns, ie. patterns created by physical traders
Imagine that Apple introduces a revolutionary new phone. Investors get excited and start buying AAPL stock, thus starting to raise it's stock price. The HFT algorithms discover this sooner then most living investors and starts buying. It's also faster then physical investors to notice when the demand is tapering off, thus stops buying and starts selling.
This short example both illustrates how HFT improves liquidity for longer-term investors (people seeking to buy AAPL stock now have the ability to do so very quickly from the HFT trader) and how company behavior does not influence the HFT behavior (it is not the introduction of iPhone that triggers the HFT, but the reaction physical investors have to it) and the fact that long-term investment is still the most profitable and not hampered by HFT (if you invested into AAPL at the time iPhone was introduced, you're a happy man today).
Cut the fear-mongering and FUD about technology you don't understand. This is not Slashdot-worthy.
Email is currently running around 90 TRILLION messages a year, and continuing to rise.
78% of which is spam. Remaining 22% is generated in large part from mailing lists. I'd hazard a guess that already today Tweets, Facebook messages and text messages combined easily trounce actual, real email activity. And the gap will be growing.
That - and Apple (Dave Hyatt) fueled the fire a bit as well when it chose to base it's Dashboard widgets on extended HTML4 with new radical elements like - and promptly built support for all these right into Safari.
Some people criticize the WHATWG draft as being too browser-centric, however I for one as a developer am thrilled by the proposed changes.
Does that mean now that I have paid the royalty fees I can now download music all to my heart's desire?
not all jews are responsible of this action of the Israeli government
I beg do differ. I think people of every country need to feel directly accountable for actions of their goverment. If they are in gross violation of their worldview, then they need to go out into the streets and make themself heard. If they are a minority and the issue is pressing enough, consider emmigration. Seriously. The very feeling that "the goverment is doing these crimes, not me" is the very same one that allows Hezbolah in the first place. Lebanese people need to start feeling responsible for Hezbolah's actions (and that's what Israel is trying to achieve at this point IMO).
"It's the American goverment invading Iraq, not American people."
"It's the Israeli goverment killing innocents in scores."
"It's the Hezbolah sending katyushas into Israel, not Lebanese people."
The next time I see a Israeli citizen, I'll of course not try to kill him, but I'm going to make sure he gets the message how appaled I am by actions of goverment he is responsible for. Just as I would with Lebanese and I did with Americans.
I would advise you to do the same.
And is Apache really more of an innovation than Linux?
...sure, mod me down. Still, that doesn't prove me wrong.
You must be kidding, right? With Apache market share being 63% and Linux being what? Like 3%? Even if we're talking just about servers, it's got less then 30%. With Apache leading the web server innovation and Linux just trying to replicate more advanced OSes in OSS context (if we're talking about desktops)...
I'm in the podcasting demographics sweetspot and I still do vote. And when I vote, I care. I try to soak up as much info about which politician might be worth my vote as possible. I do have a preferred party, but give the other candidate always a chance. Podcasting sounds like an interesting alternative to TV duels (which sometimes skew thing out of perspective).
I'm sorry to be so harsh, but the parent is just bullshit - and since somebody had the insight to mark it Insightful, I could not resist. It has been shown countless of times that public prizes are one of the best return-on-investments in the world of R&D. For every dollar you spent on a prize, about 10 additional research dollars pour in from other private sources as companies and individual teams scramble to win the prize.
Granted - not all "good work" that's needed lies in the R&D area. But plenty of it does (think cure for AIDS, cancer etc.), and for those objectives prizes are a damn good way to spur innovation.
I don't think I know what my programs are doing all the time... :)
I just hope they play nice when I'm not watching.
That is of course false, since Safari identifies as Mozilla compatible (with a Safari sidenote at the end). So unless you specifically choose to opt-out Safari, it get's usually included with the Mozilla family. Ditto OmniWeb IIRC.
So that's why the IPv6 didn't catch on. Now I see...
Right. So we need to close a loophole in Apache, BIND, Postfix & ProFTPd (provided they were all under GPL, which they are not). Since all these actually interact with the users, right?
Well, if you consider this a loophole, I suggest you go to hell. You are killing the internet community right at it's root.
Are you ready?
it looks like he was...
Of course, he got plenty of things wrong, just as did others. But that's not the point. I would actually argue that most of the stuff we enjoy today was at some point predicted in sci-fi. Not as a whole picture, but as particular ideas.
And then like.. my Slashdot did beep, beeep, and it was all gone...
Which sux. It was a really good Slashdot.
I would say, in the last paragraph, GUI is what you actually meant to say.
Certainly, in my oppinion, there are more developers who "understand and accept the importance of consistent API" than those that do so with GUI.