It is not at all clear that there was/is a problem with the new system.
What is clear is that if you unfortunate enough to have signed up to 500 quid per workstation to Thomson Reuters per month you got garbage quotes from Thomson Reuters.
Personally if I was one of the people that received garbage quotes / no quotes at those price levels I would be looking for a new vendor and talking to a solicitor.
Or the big vendors were doing excessive cost cutting to maintain profits during the recession.
As long as this is just a one weekend nightmare, the execs that ordered the QA not done are looking like great business monkeys. they took a risk that cut costs and managed to defect the blame to the exchange when it blew up, and it looks like nothing bad will happen to the big vendors, unless one of the small vendors gets a really unethical sales monkey that steals a large chunk of business from a couple of the big vendors.
Java is not needed. Java is used for some of the extensions, such as the save to a website running mediawiki page extension, and the mail merge extension.
The last I check the bug tracker libre office is planning on replacing the database connector with one that does not require java, so mail merge will not require java.
If you want to buy now, or sell now, instead of spending a few days shopping for a willing partner on the other side of the trade you won't get as good of a price. But you also have the reduced risk of not spending a few days trying to unload your stock.
The one thing that you will notice is that with the high frequency traders the spread is now very small, but the volitility is much higher, so in some ways this is a reaction to discount brokerages and the decimalization of stock prices, as the fees are not in the spread but in the volatility. I don't know which is more profitable to the house, but the reduced spread and the greatly reduced commissions had to be made up for someway. Banks are more profitable now, but there are many fewer banks, so direct comparisons with thirty years ago are not possible without correcting for industry consolidation.
An example of the cost of liquidity is that, while exchanges are liquid, someone selling five to ten percent of a company in the open market in a few minutes can easily erase more than half of the companies market capitalization. But the stock is sold and the books are closed.
One difference between specialists and high frequency traders is that specialists have to be the buyer and seller of last resort, while HFT's have no obligation to make a losing trade.
I have not looked at the math behind technical trading recently, but in the nineties there were several papers published that suggested that technical trends could only see about 15 minutes into the future, and the predictive value more than five minutes into the future was murky, but not useless.
As far as your question of how a companies market capitalization matters to the company, it depends on the company. Some companies carry a large number of authorized shares on the balance sheet, but do have not issued them. The company can give bonuses as stock options which if the options are deep in the money, the investors are essentially paying a substantial percentage of employee compensation, instead of the company paying it. A high market capitalization does not guarantee that people will loan you money, but it does tend to lower your interest rate, and allow you to issue really long term debt. (Disney and Coke issued 100 year bonds, Canadian Pacific issued 1000 year bonds.) One other thing that companies can do with an over inflated market cap is buy things with the stock, see aol buying time warner as a famous example of that. I am sure that there are uses that I am forgetting at the moment. But I hope that is somewhat illuminating.
In major corporations business divisions bill each other all the time. The laptop devision may well be charging the other divisions for installing the shovelware.
This doesn't help the hp shareholders, but it does help the head of the laptop division.
When I briefly used windows 2003 I was surprised at how easy it was to lock down IE.
I was further surprised by the number of things that did not work when IE was locked down and security exceptions had to be added. (Quickbooks being the one that I remember, because it took a fair amount of searching to find out what the exact rule that was needed in order for it to work, most people seemed to just unlock IE, if the forum posts I was reading are any indication.
There seems to be a common attitude about system administration that if you run everything as Administrator, chmod -R 777./, disable SELinux, unlock IE, or run all your server process as the same user (here's looking at you Zimbra) you have fixed the problem, instead of realizing that you have done the equivalent of jumping out the 20th floor window because the ink jet printer is on fire. You're safe for the moment, but the inevitable consequence of your action is going to suck a lot more.
Except, that Dell does it. Toys R. Us does it. Barnes and Noble does it. Amazon can do it. It's not onerous.
The point wasn't that it was onerous for Amazon, the point is that it is onerous for the part time, virtuemart, ubercart, oscommerce, and zencart distributions.
If there was a free feed established that every state that wanted the sales tax collected contributed to. Then this would not be unreasonable. As it is now, it requires a small staff just to keep up with the tax information.
If the states want this tax collected, then need to play ball and put their tax info on line in a standard format.
As to the debian-multimedia not being included, that will require either sanity about software patents from the SCOTUS or a clever work around. Actually, invalidating software patents in the USA would result in debian-multimedia being abandoned in about a week as everything would be merged into debian.
Yes, I think the stock exchange -is- just a gambling casino. Or horse racing if you prefer. And in both the house tilts the rules to ensure their profits.
The difference between the stock market and a poker game is that in a poker game you are paying the ante, and the house keeps a share of the pot. In the stock market the value created by the workers of the company whose stock is being traded is added to the pot.
Lotto - bad, Stock - market good, poker with friends - just killing time.
Ah. I am not a windows user, and don't help that many problems on windows, but I remember that garbage site the last time I had to rebuild a windows computer, IIRC I wound up finding the manufacturers website and using "site:devicemanufacturer.com my device" as the search string. Otherwise I got nothing but malware and spam.
I knew people were not making up their stories about the horrible results, I just haven't been hitting them.
Linux system admin has gotten a lot better over the last couple years, and mysq and postgres searches normally take me to the official documentation instead of some random howto that is mostly wrong.
Out of curiosity, what do you typically search for that you see worse results?
I ask because I have noticed a noticeable improvement in the last year, after about two years of the spammers consistently causing me to alter my search patterns, but I mostly search error messages.
I'm getting paid more than anybody else in my family, and they are all older than me.
Does that mean I should get less just because they have "seniority"? NOPE. Pay is based upon supply-and-demand just like anything else, and if the demand is high and the number of people knowing Skill A is low, naturally the pay will be higher for those workers. Age is irrelevant.
Supply and demand has surprisingly little to do with wages. A shortage of police officers generally results in a marketing campaign, rather than increased wages, the same with teachers.
When the wages of bankers have been really high, the number of people that have applied for those jobs has been huge, and the education requirements were more or less having completed eighth grade. Making the supply almost limitless.
For the most part the wages one is offered have to do with the perceived short term economic benefit of the job being done, as opposed to how hard it was to find someone to do the job, or how hard it would be to get someone to do the job cheaper.
Note that in this case it was be case the higher wages were being offered because the new employee is viewed as increasing the amount of business they will get from a customer, not that the new programmer is competent, or better than the older programmer, in fact the older programmer might be an order of magnitude harder to replace, but they would probably spend $100k advertising the position, before it would cross their minds that maybe they need to offer as much as they offered the other new hire.
Being overweight does not increase the number of cells in your body: the existing fat cells just swell.
Citation please.
I don't have a citation handy, but the general definition of obese is when your fat cells start increasing in number after they have expanded, hence why people that are obese rarely get back down to their lower weight, and when they do it tends to be very hard for them to maintain that weight, as it requires the fat cells to be smaller than before becoming obese. This is an over simplification of course, but you get the idea. Fat cells mostly just grow and shrink, but at some point, they start to divide, and at that point weight loss becomes harder.
Why should someone who has have to give it up for someone who hasn't?
Because the are disproportionately benefiting from those taxes?
A substantial percentage of US government aid in the last decade went to people with a net worth of over 50 million dollars.
A decent percentage of Military spending is spent to reward the contributors to Congressional campaigns, which makes that spending essentially Communism for the rich.
(Why do you think Lockheed Martin donates to Nancy Pelosi?)
The average Republican gets more financial aid from the US Government than they pay in taxes, the average Democrat gets less in financial aid from the US Government than they pay in taxes.
I'm not sure why so many people that are well off have this delusion that they receive no help from the government. It is almost as nonsensical as Justice Thomas complaining about the beneficiaries of affirmative action. (Justice Thomas would not have been admitted to his law school without affirmative action.)
Debian experimental should have it within a week or two.
Debian is "Frozen" for the release of squeeze, so 2.6.37 will probably never make it into Debian unstable as it is likely that 2.6.38 will make it out the door before squeeze is released. (just a gut guess with no supporting evidence for the dates.) If my guess is right 2.6.38 will more likely make it into Debian than 2.6.37.
Ubuntu will push a new kernel out in about three months, I don't know if it will be 2.6.37
wall paper with a sheet of aluminum in it would probably do the trick.
A nice Faraday cage with no cell phones or wifi, and as long as the wall paper meets building codes this should be a lot less problematic on the legal front than jamming devices.
If the security system is correctly designed and implemented it should not be possible for that information to be leaked.
Nobody should know the private code of another person. If they do, that code should immediately and as close to automatically as possible, become void.
Also, knowing past keys should also not give an attacker an appreciable advantage of compromising the system.
If one is working for the government one should expect that everything you do on the job will at some point become open to public scrutiny.
As I said, there are things that should, and need to be kept secret, but they are much fewer than one would initially suspect.
Most things that should not be released can easily be released at a well defined date in the not too distant future.
Data that should not be released that I can think of off the top of my head: IRS returns of private individuals, AKA living breathing people; MediCare records of individual patient files; Information held by government attorneys during active litigation; information about government employees that is unrelated to their jobs; and details of future military actions. There is speculation of people that are in the position to make this guess, that most information that is classified is classified so as to hide embarrassing information about official actions or cover mistakes, not for security.
The idea that leaking something from 1966 (the date of some of the classified cables) is a threat to national security stretches credibility.
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It is not at all clear that there was/is a problem with the new system.
What is clear is that if you unfortunate enough to have signed up to 500 quid per workstation to Thomson Reuters per month you got garbage quotes from Thomson Reuters.
Personally if I was one of the people that received garbage quotes / no quotes at those price levels I would be looking for a new vendor and talking to a solicitor.
Or the big vendors were doing excessive cost cutting to maintain profits during the recession.
As long as this is just a one weekend nightmare, the execs that ordered the QA not done are looking like great business monkeys. they took a risk that cut costs and managed to defect the blame to the exchange when it blew up, and it looks like nothing bad will happen to the big vendors, unless one of the small vendors gets a really unethical sales monkey that steals a large chunk of business from a couple of the big vendors.
Java is not needed. Java is used for some of the extensions, such as the save to a website running mediawiki page extension, and the mail merge extension.
The last I check the bug tracker libre office is planning on replacing the database connector with one that does not require java, so mail merge will not require java.
neither of them can do vanila search and replace for new line character for last 10 years. i have 1 ticket per year. i can dig for ticket numbers.
With the ticket number that is a bug worth publicizing.
I could have sworn that was there, maybe it is in abiword.
"increased liquidity" has a cost.
If you want to buy now, or sell now, instead of spending a few days shopping for a willing partner on the other side of the trade you won't get as good of a price. But you also have the reduced risk of not spending a few days trying to unload your stock.
The one thing that you will notice is that with the high frequency traders the spread is now very small, but the volitility is much higher, so in some ways this is a reaction to discount brokerages and the decimalization of stock prices, as the fees are not in the spread but in the volatility. I don't know which is more profitable to the house, but the reduced spread and the greatly reduced commissions had to be made up for someway. Banks are more profitable now, but there are many fewer banks, so direct comparisons with thirty years ago are not possible without correcting for industry consolidation.
An example of the cost of liquidity is that, while exchanges are liquid, someone selling five to ten percent of a company in the open market in a few minutes can easily erase more than half of the companies market capitalization. But the stock is sold and the books are closed.
One difference between specialists and high frequency traders is that specialists have to be the buyer and seller of last resort, while HFT's have no obligation to make a losing trade.
I have not looked at the math behind technical trading recently, but in the nineties there were several papers published that suggested that technical trends could only see about 15 minutes into the future, and the predictive value more than five minutes into the future was murky, but not useless.
As far as your question of how a companies market capitalization matters to the company, it depends on the company. Some companies carry a large number of authorized shares on the balance sheet, but do have not issued them. The company can give bonuses as stock options which if the options are deep in the money, the investors are essentially paying a substantial percentage of employee compensation, instead of the company paying it. A high market capitalization does not guarantee that people will loan you money, but it does tend to lower your interest rate, and allow you to issue really long term debt. (Disney and Coke issued 100 year bonds, Canadian Pacific issued 1000 year bonds.) One other thing that companies can do with an over inflated market cap is buy things with the stock, see aol buying time warner as a famous example of that. I am sure that there are uses that I am forgetting at the moment. But I hope that is somewhat illuminating.
In major corporations business divisions bill each other all the time. The laptop devision may well be charging the other divisions for installing the shovelware.
This doesn't help the hp shareholders, but it does help the head of the laptop division.
When I briefly used windows 2003 I was surprised at how easy it was to lock down IE.
I was further surprised by the number of things that did not work when IE was locked down and security exceptions had to be added. (Quickbooks being the one that I remember, because it took a fair amount of searching to find out what the exact rule that was needed in order for it to work, most people seemed to just unlock IE, if the forum posts I was reading are any indication.
There seems to be a common attitude about system administration that if you run everything as Administrator, chmod -R 777 ./, disable SELinux, unlock IE, or run all your server process as the same user (here's looking at you Zimbra) you have fixed the problem, instead of realizing that you have done the equivalent of jumping out the 20th floor window because the ink jet printer is on fire. You're safe for the moment, but the inevitable consequence of your action is going to suck a lot more.
Minor but important correction QT is GPL not LGPL
Except, that Dell does it. Toys R. Us does it. Barnes and Noble does it. Amazon can do it. It's not onerous.
The point wasn't that it was onerous for Amazon, the point is that it is onerous for the part time, virtuemart, ubercart, oscommerce, and zencart distributions.
If there was a free feed established that every state that wanted the sales tax collected contributed to. Then this would not be unreasonable. As it is now, it requires a small staff just to keep up with the tax information.
If the states want this tax collected, then need to play ball and put their tax info on line in a standard format.
As to the debian-multimedia not being included, that will require either sanity about software patents from the SCOTUS or a clever work around. Actually, invalidating software patents in the USA would result in debian-multimedia being abandoned in about a week as everything would be merged into debian.
If you are using the gui it is a checkbox item when you are chosing the location of your repositories (http, ftp, cdrom, etc.)
Debian does give you the option of adding non-free when installing.
What it does not give you is the option of installing the patent encumbered multimedia codecs.
The latter is a result of US law, more than anything else.
Yes, I think the stock exchange -is- just a gambling casino. Or horse racing if you prefer. And in both the house tilts the rules to ensure their profits.
The difference between the stock market and a poker game is that in a poker game you are paying the ante, and the house keeps a share of the pot. In the stock market the value created by the workers of the company whose stock is being traded is added to the pot.
Lotto - bad, Stock - market good, poker with friends - just killing time.
wouldn't sudo script be an acceptable way of working around this?
It would seem a lot less painful.
There are people who have spent many thousands of hours in front of their word processor. When you change it they hate you.
See vi vs emacs for the programmer equivalent of of ribbon vs menu.
docx is an xml wrapper around the doc format, which is mostly but not completely documented.
ooxml as submitted to the standards organization is not docx,
These two facts are why docx support in go-oo was a one plane flight project. It is just an extension of the doc import filter.
Ah. I am not a windows user, and don't help that many problems on windows, but I remember that garbage site the last time I had to rebuild a windows computer, IIRC I wound up finding the manufacturers website and using "site:devicemanufacturer.com my device" as the search string. Otherwise I got nothing but malware and spam.
I knew people were not making up their stories about the horrible results, I just haven't been hitting them.
Linux system admin has gotten a lot better over the last couple years, and mysq and postgres searches normally take me to the official documentation instead of some random howto that is mostly wrong.
Out of curiosity, what do you typically search for that you see worse results?
I ask because I have noticed a noticeable improvement in the last year, after about two years of the spammers consistently causing me to alter my search patterns, but I mostly search error messages.
I'm getting paid more than anybody else in my family, and they are all older than me.
Does that mean I should get less just because they have "seniority"? NOPE. Pay is based upon supply-and-demand just like anything else, and if the demand is high and the number of people knowing Skill A is low, naturally the pay will be higher for those workers. Age is irrelevant.
Supply and demand has surprisingly little to do with wages. A shortage of police officers generally results in a marketing campaign, rather than increased wages, the same with teachers.
When the wages of bankers have been really high, the number of people that have applied for those jobs has been huge, and the education requirements were more or less having completed eighth grade. Making the supply almost limitless.
For the most part the wages one is offered have to do with the perceived short term economic benefit of the job being done, as opposed to how hard it was to find someone to do the job, or how hard it would be to get someone to do the job cheaper.
Note that in this case it was be case the higher wages were being offered because the new employee is viewed as increasing the amount of business they will get from a customer, not that the new programmer is competent, or better than the older programmer, in fact the older programmer might be an order of magnitude harder to replace, but they would probably spend $100k advertising the position, before it would cross their minds that maybe they need to offer as much as they offered the other new hire.
Do you think when you click on a Google ad, Google doesn't let their partner know anything about who clicked their ad?
They offer very little.
This is because Google fears that if they offered as much as they know about the person Google could be cut out of the value stream.
Being overweight does not increase the number of cells in your body: the existing fat cells just swell.
Citation please.
I don't have a citation handy, but the general definition of obese is when your fat cells start increasing in number after they have expanded, hence why people that are obese rarely get back down to their lower weight, and when they do it tends to be very hard for them to maintain that weight, as it requires the fat cells to be smaller than before becoming obese. This is an over simplification of course, but you get the idea. Fat cells mostly just grow and shrink, but at some point, they start to divide, and at that point weight loss becomes harder.
Why should someone who has have to give it up for someone who hasn't?
Because the are disproportionately benefiting from those taxes?
A substantial percentage of US government aid in the last decade went to people with a net worth of over 50 million dollars.
A decent percentage of Military spending is spent to reward the contributors to Congressional campaigns, which makes that spending essentially Communism for the rich.
(Why do you think Lockheed Martin donates to Nancy Pelosi?)
The average Republican gets more financial aid from the US Government than they pay in taxes, the average Democrat gets less in financial aid from the US Government than they pay in taxes.
I'm not sure why so many people that are well off have this delusion that they receive no help from the government. It is almost as nonsensical as Justice Thomas complaining about the beneficiaries of affirmative action. (Justice Thomas would not have been admitted to his law school without affirmative action.)
Debian experimental should have it within a week or two.
Debian is "Frozen" for the release of squeeze, so 2.6.37 will probably never make it into Debian unstable as it is likely that 2.6.38 will make it out the door before squeeze is released. (just a gut guess with no supporting evidence for the dates.) If my guess is right 2.6.38 will more likely make it into Debian than 2.6.37.
Ubuntu will push a new kernel out in about three months, I don't know if it will be 2.6.37
wall paper with a sheet of aluminum in it would probably do the trick.
A nice Faraday cage with no cell phones or wifi, and as long as the wall paper meets building codes this should be a lot less problematic on the legal front than jamming devices.
If the security system is correctly designed and implemented it should not be possible for that information to be leaked.
Nobody should know the private code of another person. If they do, that code should immediately and as close to automatically as possible, become void.
Also, knowing past keys should also not give an attacker an appreciable advantage of compromising the system.
If one is working for the government one should expect that everything you do on the job will at some point become open to public scrutiny.
As I said, there are things that should, and need to be kept secret, but they are much fewer than one would initially suspect.
Most things that should not be released can easily be released at a well defined date in the not too distant future.
Data that should not be released that I can think of off the top of my head: IRS returns of private individuals, AKA living breathing people; MediCare records of individual patient files; Information held by government attorneys during active litigation; information about government employees that is unrelated to their jobs; and details of future military actions. There is speculation of people that are in the position to make this guess, that most information that is classified is classified so as to hide embarrassing information about official actions or cover mistakes, not for security.
The idea that leaking something from 1966 (the date of some of the classified cables) is a threat to national security stretches credibility.