There just isn't any meaningful data that can be generated about the activities of corporations on the millisecond scale.
No, but there is meaningful data to be generated about the supply, demand, and liquidity of their stock on the millisecond scale.
I think you forget the stock is an asset itself governed by market forces, apart of and independent from the company itself.
And valuation of the company and its profits barely effect its valuation at all, over sufficiently short periods of time.
What does society actually gain from ultra-fast gambling on the markets? Other than a cheap thrill and massively increased risk?
It's not actually gambling, necessarily.
But for every investor, there has to also be a speculator, otherwise, the transaction won't ever get made.
Increased liquidity has a great advantage for society -- like the ability for businesses to obtain capital, for investors to get their money, for enterprise to thrive and generate more capital.
The average American's retirement also relies on all this "gambling".
Force.com is a direct competitor to Windows Azure. Who needs Microsoft's PaaS, when SF has a better one?
MS wants to get in the same business, likely. But another company already has a hegemony there. MS does what they do best, (usually) embrace, extend, extinguish. They have already embraced PaaS, and are working on extend... this is their first move towards extinguishing the dominant leaders in this industry
They are pissed, possibly, that SF is written using Java server pages, and using SOAP for web services, instead of the.NET framework, and MS proprietary APIs?
It can wipe within 2 hours of losing signal, if you set the delay to 2 hours.
Or it can wipe within 15 minutes of losing signal, if you set the delay to 15 minutes.
(However, you better be in a well-covered cell area, to ensure your phone can link up with the server more often than every 15mins.)
When the phone is collected you have the choice: either remove the battery or put the phone into a shielded bag. No special shielded bags handy? Then you have to remove power and hope the phone doesn't lock itself.
And what about passworded Blackberries configured with encryption enabled and an IT policy that says "Secure Erase if low battery / battery door opened, and secure wipe after delay ?"
The act of breaking communications can result in a self-erasure.
Standard data leak protection practice.
Anything that could be used by law enforcement to isolate a mobile device, could also be used by a criminal attempting to conduct industrial espionage / gathering info from a stolen handset.
Sometimes phones are configured to self-erase, if turned off, if the battery is removed, or if an incorrect password is entered 10 times.
So pressing the power button can actually initiate a secure erase.
Additionally, I believe in corporate death penalty, where the assets of the company are seized by the government and put into the treasury, leaving the stock holders empty handed.
What about their creditors? Like the banks that lent them money, or the VC firms that financed them, in exchange for preferred stock?
Also, executives already get stock in their companies.
Of course this is in addition to their salaries. Stock is typically issued to execs of any company on a frequent basis, which they sell and collect huge profits on long before any potential issue could hurt the company.
Stock alone doesn't put food on the table, and it doesn't make financial sense for most companies to pay out dividends, executives wouldn't stand for that, unless they were Google, the company would die just from the irregular compensation practices.
Totally unreasonable to expect executives to convert their company's business risks into a risk of personal bankruptcy.
You never had the book in the first place. You have always had a dislike of Georgy Orwell, otherwise you would have the book in your kindle.
Actually... I used to have a Kindle... but one day it disappeared from my backpack, at my table in the library, when I went to go get something else, and I could never find it again.
Very strange, it seems that Amazon deleted my kindle itself, possibly as punishment for visiting a library.
Also, my iPod disappeared from the other compartment of my backpack the very same day, also never to be seen again.
So Amazon was being thorough, in ensuring I also could not utilize the free kindle app as another venue to read my books.
And therefore, it's probably not fair to say I would have it on my kindle.
But... then I suppose that also means I also always had a dislike of Georgy Orwell, otherwise, I would own a kindle, and have the book on it.
Oh, ye of little mind... think of all the possibilities it would open.. like 3.5" full sized HDDs that have two 2.5" SFF hot-swappable HDDs inside them.
Think RAID1 or RAID0 controller integrated into the HD itself
Who needs more than 2.1TB on a NTFS filesystem anyways? Sounds like a major stability risk, seeing as one bit out of place, or power outage at the wrong time, and the entire medium becomes unusable, due partly to the inpetitude of the filesystem, its repair tools, and lack of data journaling.
The outcomes of decisions are not made based on popular vote. A consensus based on merit and WP policy has to be reached before a decision is made, and the decision is the consensus, not a poll result.
Design a SATA controller that allows one physical 4.2TB drive to be presented as two 2.1TB disks, behind a SATA port multiplier.
Then it's simple... plug your HD in... OS sees two drives, but you have 4TB of storage, once your volume manager does its thing and carves a single 4TB volume out of two LUNs.
The US constitution applies to the Federal government's activity in Texas, but not to the Texas government's activity in Texas.
Actually, the constitution systemically grants the Texas government each power that is denied to the Federal government through the 10th amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
By definition a Troll is someone who makes defamatory ad hominem comments about the poster, instead of bothering to legitimately address the subject of discussion.
Posts like #32233514. In the regards to the fact that Jefferson had some ideas that would be largely considered crackpot ideas today.
Just ask any independent musician, artist, lawyer, or professional computer programmer, or inventor, what they think about the idea that there should be no exclusive rights to the ideas they have created.
Well.. in a history class, part of the point of learning it is get an overall unifying message, about what history says, what the facts say about history, and what the big overall lessons are.
This is usually supposed to be the students -- draw your own conclusions. But I suppose the average citizen now is too dumb, the level of sophistication had to be reduced, and now everything has to be spoonfed, including conclusions about history.
They want their lessons to show that free market (historically) is a cornerstone of the US success.
This should be possible to show, if it is actually true, without omitting much.
I hope they actually have historians alleging this, though, and they aren't just making it up off the top of their heads, to suit an agenda, however.
Omitting counterexamples is bad -- but even if there are some counterexamples, the overall message might be true.
"This was the case, except once....."
Is a more interesting message. It may mean "This" is pretty reliable, but caution the student about believing any close-minded approach is a universal answer to every problem.
Constitution was SPECIFICALLY written to enshrine the rights of the minority against the tyranny of the majority.
Yeah, the US constitution was.
But Texas is not the federal government, and Texas is not beholden to the requirements imposed on the federal government by the US constitution.
The Texas government has to follow the Texas constitution.
Yes that was my point. However deliberately airbrushing Comrade Jefferson out of the picture, for instance, is going a little further than simply making a "value judgment."
I doubt he would be airbrushed out of the picture entirely... he was after all the Third president of the US, and there is at least that little to be said about him in any early American history class, the fact he was president, and what his accomplishments were as president.
And he was a main author of the Declaration of Independence (though admittedly plagiarized from Locke), that the Continental congress adopted, which should get him mentioned somewhere in history class at least as a bullet point.
However, his personal opinion on separation of church and state may not be that notable or considered that influential.
Without enough time in class on the US in that time to put it in proper perspective, even mentioning it, would be a biased thing to do.
There were a lot of well-known figures around at the time, with a lot of opinions, some which got accepted, some were controversial, and some were simply crackpot ideas, even Thomas Jefferson had ideas that would be considered crackpot ideas today -- like rejection of exclusive property rights (in regards to creations, inventions, ideas).
Moreover, it could not be explained in a simple class, how sound that opinion was, how strongly the person held it, or how long they held it (if they changed their mind and held a different opinion later)
So, basically, covering anything more about Thomas Jefferson than the core facts, is a value judgement.
Because there's actually not all that much about Thomas Jefferson to be covered in a simple history class, he was involved, but didn't provide the theories, he just reminded what others had said before.
Crackpot ideas of (even founding fathers), which were never widely accepted, don't belong in a classroom, except at possibly a university, where there might be an entire history class about just the Revolution, or about just the founding of the country, with an in-depth treatment of the documented political climate at the time, and examination of primary sources..
You're entitled to your opinions. You're not entitled to your facts. The "majority" is often incorrect regarding the facts. Voting about the facts doesn't change the facts.
Yes, but opinions are more powerful.
They control which facts you choose to present.
You can't vote facts true or false, but you can vote about which facts are worth mentioning, and which ones should be set aside for later.
The only 'fair' way to write textbooks, would probably be to utilize something like Wikipedia, with the same or more robust WP:NPOV and WP:V standards..
It's not simple reductio ad absurdum.
It is "use of false analogy" to attempt to make a point.
Reductio ad absurdum would be like this:
Telephones in public places can be used to call people and make harassing phone calls.
Person X setup a publicly accessible telephone, payphone outside his house in plain view from the street, and placed a sign inviting people to use this phone.
At 6:00pm one evening, a local business received a prank call from this phone.
Therefore, Person X should be thrown in jail or fined based on the prank calls (for not adequately securing his payphone against prank calls being made).
Actually, the peak of MS OS... is Windows 2008 Server, core install [CLI-managed, no GUI].
Win 2k was so crappy, buggy, and had so limited hardware support... I cannot imagine anyone preferring it nowadays for a real workload.
Server 2008 sure, 2003, ok, maybe... server 2000.. hellno.
You ever try to do failover clustering or use the file replication service with Win2K in a large scale environment ?
Actually Windows 2003 is basically Windows 2000 with a lot of Windows 2000's really annoying bugs and limitations fixed.
I will agree Vista was a flop, but Microsoft has not done anything to screw up their server platform (yet), other than increase the price and licensing complexity.
Presumably the issue with non-notable pages is they waste editors' time working on them trying to populate them or make them fit Wikipedia's verifiability policies -- in vain.
Such that they should not be included in a high-quality encyclopedia.
If the claims in an article are not verifiable, then the existence of the article takes away from the encyclopedia's credibility.
The problem is there is no law that says you shall not ever leave your door unlocked, if you have a house, and no law that you shall not provide free internet access to the public.
In past decades it was commonplace, and rare for anyone to actually lock their doors anyways.
In many areas, homes are still rarely locked, except when nobody is actually at home.
So it's entirely unfair to make up new laws on the spot and charge people with having broken a made-up rule that is not on the books.
Well, WiFi is not designed to be used for copyright infringement, even if open, and such things are commonplace/readily available.
It's more like someone walked in through an unlocked door in your house, stole a fork from your silverware drawer, and stabbed someone to death with it.
And now you the homeowner are being charged with the murder, because you leaving your door unlocked allowed the fork to be used.
What, the USAF was the only buyer of PS3s, and now suddenly that they can't use them, nobody wants them... the market will be flooded with $0.10 used PS3s nobody can actually use for anything useful.
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There just isn't any meaningful data that can be generated about the activities of corporations on the millisecond scale.
No, but there is meaningful data to be generated about the supply, demand, and liquidity of their stock on the millisecond scale.
I think you forget the stock is an asset itself governed by market forces, apart of and independent from the company itself. And valuation of the company and its profits barely effect its valuation at all, over sufficiently short periods of time.
What does society actually gain from ultra-fast gambling on the markets? Other than a cheap thrill and massively increased risk?
It's not actually gambling, necessarily. But for every investor, there has to also be a speculator, otherwise, the transaction won't ever get made.
Increased liquidity has a great advantage for society -- like the ability for businesses to obtain capital, for investors to get their money, for enterprise to thrive and generate more capital.
The average American's retirement also relies on all this "gambling".
It can wipe within 2 hours of losing signal, if you set the delay to 2 hours.
Or it can wipe within 15 minutes of losing signal, if you set the delay to 15 minutes. (However, you better be in a well-covered cell area, to ensure your phone can link up with the server more often than every 15mins.)
When the phone is collected you have the choice: either remove the battery or put the phone into a shielded bag. No special shielded bags handy? Then you have to remove power and hope the phone doesn't lock itself.
And what about passworded Blackberries configured with encryption enabled and an IT policy that says "Secure Erase if low battery / battery door opened, and secure wipe after delay ?"
The act of breaking communications can result in a self-erasure.
Standard data leak protection practice. Anything that could be used by law enforcement to isolate a mobile device, could also be used by a criminal attempting to conduct industrial espionage / gathering info from a stolen handset.
Sometimes phones are configured to self-erase, if turned off, if the battery is removed, or if an incorrect password is entered 10 times. So pressing the power button can actually initiate a secure erase.
Additionally, I believe in corporate death penalty, where the assets of the company are seized by the government and put into the treasury, leaving the stock holders empty handed.
What about their creditors? Like the banks that lent them money, or the VC firms that financed them, in exchange for preferred stock?
Also, executives already get stock in their companies. Of course this is in addition to their salaries. Stock is typically issued to execs of any company on a frequent basis, which they sell and collect huge profits on long before any potential issue could hurt the company.
Stock alone doesn't put food on the table, and it doesn't make financial sense for most companies to pay out dividends, executives wouldn't stand for that, unless they were Google, the company would die just from the irregular compensation practices.
Totally unreasonable to expect executives to convert their company's business risks into a risk of personal bankruptcy.
You never had the book in the first place. You have always had a dislike of Georgy Orwell, otherwise you would have the book in your kindle.
Actually... I used to have a Kindle... but one day it disappeared from my backpack, at my table in the library, when I went to go get something else, and I could never find it again.
Very strange, it seems that Amazon deleted my kindle itself, possibly as punishment for visiting a library.
Also, my iPod disappeared from the other compartment of my backpack the very same day, also never to be seen again. So Amazon was being thorough, in ensuring I also could not utilize the free kindle app as another venue to read my books.
And therefore, it's probably not fair to say I would have it on my kindle.
But... then I suppose that also means I also always had a dislike of Georgy Orwell, otherwise, I would own a kindle, and have the book on it.
Oh, ye of little mind... think of all the possibilities it would open.. like 3.5" full sized HDDs that have two 2.5" SFF hot-swappable HDDs inside them.
Think RAID1 or RAID0 controller integrated into the HD itself
Who needs more than 2.1TB on a NTFS filesystem anyways? Sounds like a major stability risk, seeing as one bit out of place, or power outage at the wrong time, and the entire medium becomes unusable, due partly to the inpetitude of the filesystem, its repair tools, and lack of data journaling.
Wikipedia is not a democracy.
The outcomes of decisions are not made based on popular vote. A consensus based on merit and WP policy has to be reached before a decision is made, and the decision is the consensus, not a poll result.
Design a SATA controller that allows one physical 4.2TB drive to be presented as two 2.1TB disks, behind a SATA port multiplier.
Then it's simple... plug your HD in... OS sees two drives, but you have 4TB of storage, once your volume manager does its thing and carves a single 4TB volume out of two LUNs.
The US constitution applies to the Federal government's activity in Texas, but not to the Texas government's activity in Texas.
Actually, the constitution systemically grants the Texas government each power that is denied to the Federal government through the 10th amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
By definition a Troll is someone who makes defamatory ad hominem comments about the poster, instead of bothering to legitimately address the subject of discussion.
Posts like #32233514. In the regards to the fact that Jefferson had some ideas that would be largely considered crackpot ideas today.
Just ask any independent musician, artist, lawyer, or professional computer programmer, or inventor, what they think about the idea that there should be no exclusive rights to the ideas they have created.
Well.. in a history class, part of the point of learning it is get an overall unifying message, about what history says, what the facts say about history, and what the big overall lessons are.
This is usually supposed to be the students -- draw your own conclusions. But I suppose the average citizen now is too dumb, the level of sophistication had to be reduced, and now everything has to be spoonfed, including conclusions about history.
They want their lessons to show that free market (historically) is a cornerstone of the US success.
This should be possible to show, if it is actually true, without omitting much.
I hope they actually have historians alleging this, though, and they aren't just making it up off the top of their heads, to suit an agenda, however.
Omitting counterexamples is bad -- but even if there are some counterexamples, the overall message might be true. "This was the case, except once....."
Is a more interesting message. It may mean "This" is pretty reliable, but caution the student about believing any close-minded approach is a universal answer to every problem.
Constitution was SPECIFICALLY written to enshrine the rights of the minority against the tyranny of the majority.
Yeah, the US constitution was. But Texas is not the federal government, and Texas is not beholden to the requirements imposed on the federal government by the US constitution.
The Texas government has to follow the Texas constitution.
Yes that was my point. However deliberately airbrushing Comrade Jefferson out of the picture, for instance, is going a little further than simply making a "value judgment."
I doubt he would be airbrushed out of the picture entirely... he was after all the Third president of the US, and there is at least that little to be said about him in any early American history class, the fact he was president, and what his accomplishments were as president.
And he was a main author of the Declaration of Independence (though admittedly plagiarized from Locke), that the Continental congress adopted, which should get him mentioned somewhere in history class at least as a bullet point.
However, his personal opinion on separation of church and state may not be that notable or considered that influential. Without enough time in class on the US in that time to put it in proper perspective, even mentioning it, would be a biased thing to do.
There were a lot of well-known figures around at the time, with a lot of opinions, some which got accepted, some were controversial, and some were simply crackpot ideas, even Thomas Jefferson had ideas that would be considered crackpot ideas today -- like rejection of exclusive property rights (in regards to creations, inventions, ideas).
Moreover, it could not be explained in a simple class, how sound that opinion was, how strongly the person held it, or how long they held it (if they changed their mind and held a different opinion later)
So, basically, covering anything more about Thomas Jefferson than the core facts, is a value judgement. Because there's actually not all that much about Thomas Jefferson to be covered in a simple history class, he was involved, but didn't provide the theories, he just reminded what others had said before.
Crackpot ideas of (even founding fathers), which were never widely accepted, don't belong in a classroom, except at possibly a university, where there might be an entire history class about just the Revolution, or about just the founding of the country, with an in-depth treatment of the documented political climate at the time, and examination of primary sources..
You're entitled to your opinions. You're not entitled to your facts. The "majority" is often incorrect regarding the facts. Voting about the facts doesn't change the facts.
Yes, but opinions are more powerful. They control which facts you choose to present.
You can't vote facts true or false, but you can vote about which facts are worth mentioning, and which ones should be set aside for later.
The only 'fair' way to write textbooks, would probably be to utilize something like Wikipedia, with the same or more robust WP:NPOV and WP:V standards..
Until Amazon deleted it entirely.
Either that, or he has a really good one.
It's not simple reductio ad absurdum. It is "use of false analogy" to attempt to make a point.
Reductio ad absurdum would be like this:
Telephones in public places can be used to call people and make harassing phone calls.
Person X setup a publicly accessible telephone, payphone outside his house in plain view from the street, and placed a sign inviting people to use this phone.
At 6:00pm one evening, a local business received a prank call from this phone.
Therefore, Person X should be thrown in jail or fined based on the prank calls (for not adequately securing his payphone against prank calls being made).
Actually, the peak of MS OS... is Windows 2008 Server, core install [CLI-managed, no GUI].
Win 2k was so crappy, buggy, and had so limited hardware support... I cannot imagine anyone preferring it nowadays for a real workload.
Server 2008 sure, 2003, ok, maybe... server 2000.. hellno.
You ever try to do failover clustering or use the file replication service with Win2K in a large scale environment ?
Actually Windows 2003 is basically Windows 2000 with a lot of Windows 2000's really annoying bugs and limitations fixed.
I will agree Vista was a flop, but Microsoft has not done anything to screw up their server platform (yet), other than increase the price and licensing complexity.
Presumably the issue with non-notable pages is they waste editors' time working on them trying to populate them or make them fit Wikipedia's verifiability policies -- in vain.
Such that they should not be included in a high-quality encyclopedia. If the claims in an article are not verifiable, then the existence of the article takes away from the encyclopedia's credibility.
Dignity? You're talking about an "Encyclopedia" that displays entire eispode lists of series like "Friends" or Star Trek.
A reference to one word in XKCD is microscopic compared to the amount of junk that nobody dare submit for deletion.
The problem is there is no law that says you shall not ever leave your door unlocked, if you have a house, and no law that you shall not provide free internet access to the public.
In past decades it was commonplace, and rare for anyone to actually lock their doors anyways. In many areas, homes are still rarely locked, except when nobody is actually at home.
So it's entirely unfair to make up new laws on the spot and charge people with having broken a made-up rule that is not on the books.
Well, WiFi is not designed to be used for copyright infringement, even if open, and such things are commonplace/readily available.
It's more like someone walked in through an unlocked door in your house, stole a fork from your silverware drawer, and stabbed someone to death with it.
And now you the homeowner are being charged with the murder, because you leaving your door unlocked allowed the fork to be used.
What, the USAF was the only buyer of PS3s, and now suddenly that they can't use them, nobody wants them... the market will be flooded with $0.10 used PS3s nobody can actually use for anything useful.