NASD Rule 3350 prohibits NASD members from short selling in Nasdaq National Market System securities at or below the inside best bid when the best bid is below the previous inside best bid for that stock. The inside best bid is the highest bid by all market makers quoting a particular stock.
Note, that there is nothing related to minimum price. If you are told that you cannot short a stock under 5, then you are being subjugated to house rules, not SEC rules.
When stocks fall under 4 they have a Federal Reserve Board margin requirement of 2. This makes shorting low priced stocks less attractive, but they may still be shorted.
An example of this is to short 1000 shares at 0.01 would require a deposit of $2000 to short $10 of stock. This may not be a concern if you have a large amount of marginable securities that you are not using for anything else, but for most people it is imprudent to short low value stock.
But for the most part, the profit motive is what drives innovation. Patents are essential to that process.
Wrong, Most invention is not primarily driven by a desire to make money. Most invention is because there is a need to fill. Spreadsheets, were invented not so that the inventor could make money from a spreadsheet, but so that they could analyze business plans and do what if senarios and make money doing something besides the mental masturbation that is so common it tech companies. (The failure to grasp this is a possible explanation of why software companies are the least likely companies to last five years.)
The existence of a patent can have a chilling effect on innovation
That is the most specious argument I've ever heard.
The existence of patents (owned by HP and Panatone) is why Photoshop is better than GIMP, for print work. Most CGI studios use Cinepaint, which is a fork of GIMP. So the argument is true in at least one case. Claiming that ILM and Dreamworks have devoted resources to Cinepaint because they are a bunch of hippies that don't care about money. Is a comment that is so nonsensical that I don't know where to start rebutting it.
We live country that tries to use free markets as much as possible, and patents are the state granting monopolies, with the long term outlook being foreshadowed by the stellar success that this idea had in Communist Russia.
Though not in the release notes (unless they have been changed since I read them).
If you use vinum on your drives (the reasons to do this are many but boil down to hard disks are unreliable pieces of crap.) You can no longer use a vinum volume as swap partition, and this is not on the immediate fix list. (this is new from 5.1) I am back at 5.1 because it is functional if not as stable.
This is part of a onstep back to go two steps forward. But it kind of sucks to lose functionality in a new point release, even though something better is comming along. But it really sucks that you don't get any warning.
One of the reasons that GIMP does not compare to PhotoShop is patents. The PhotoShop works, GIMP doesn't work is limited to print. If the final output is print, you need panatone, etc. This is not available without going to closed source.
In the video world. Cinapaint is more used by pro's than Photoshop. If your job is one the line research your tools. But the issues isn't that adobe makes better software. They have features that are patented, and if you need them. you have to use their products.
Don't make this out to be a failure of the GIMP. Realize that when the patents expire, the features will be there.
* People are dying because of the artificial monopoly created by patents on drugs.
This artificial monopoly was created by a company using non-artificial money to develop these drugs. They are recouping the costs of R&D, which is quite high. The fact that third world countries can't afford the medicine is not their problem. They need to build an infrastructure that can support education of their people that will then lead to their own scientists discovering their own cures. To borrow an oft used phrase here, these governments "need to change their business model."
A huge percentage of this money comes for taxpayers in the form of State funded universities and grants from places like the NSF. so tax payers are paying for the development ot the drugs twice. Private money is scarce until phase II clinical trials. and money only shows up there if the odds are for approval. and that there is a profitable market for the drug. (vacines are not developed due to the down side risk of being sued for large damages, the low profit per dose, and limited market for the drug.
* Real software innovation is slowing due to patents.
See above. While I agree that most software patents should never have been allowed, I do not believe all software patents shoudl be allowed. Some ideas are quite rare or unique and cost a lot of R&D money. Companies should be allowed to get the money back that they sunk into the project if this is the case. Real software innovation would be developing an alternative, non-infringing method to work around the patent. However, many here find it far easier to grouse about the situation instead of taking the challenge head on.
RSA and variants of PGP did not become popular until their patents lapsed. GIMP surpasses Photoshop in every area that is not affected by patents (Panatone color matching is patented by Kodak, HP and others and the reason why professionals that deal with print complain about GIMP.)
* IP Litigation is a huge industry.
Since when was this illegal? I'd rather live in a free nation that allows for oppurtunities like this than one which follows the whims of the mob (which in most cases is the vocal minority), picking anc choosing whenm how and to whom laws shoudl or should not apply.
It is not illegal, It is bad however. It means that large corporations can (not that they always do) squash new ideas from small businesses with lawsuits.
* Kids are being sued for copying a song that can be heard often for free on the radio.
Ah, but radio pays for the license to broadcast those songs AND the quality of FM is not nearly as good as MP3s which pale in copmparison to the audio quality of full CD quality audio. P2P apps are not paying for the rights to broadcast or distribute these songs.
Copyright was originally for books and maps in this country primarily because of the high production costs of both books and maps in the eighteenth century. The cost of producing a CD have dropped to under five grand including renting space. (You can spend more but you don't have to.) People will not stop recording songs if we remove copyright from songs. We may wind up with different artists, and artists may have to find different ways of funding themselves, but we will not have a shortage of songs, which is the problem copyright is supposed to solve.
It is state law that you are not required to provide your Drivers License or or California ID, Your ID fee would then be construed as a poll tax which is unconstitutional.
If you carefully read your voter registration form It said "No person shall be denied the right to register because of hie or her failure to furnish a California driver's license or California identification card number."
The new voter registration forms require either your Drivers License number OR the last four digits of you social security number. This is to comply with the Help America Vote Act. (no clue how this makes it easier for people to vote)
I've only voted in Connecticut, New Mexico, and California, I've never had to show ID, I have always had to sign my name.
Denying you the right to vote if you don't have identification is something that would probably not go over well with the courts.
This is not like drinking which is not a protected right. Denying someone the ability to vote for any reason is generally looked down on by the courts.
One of the problems with xfree86 is that it is almost impossible to get patches considered. (ATI tried and failed.)
A lot of positive changes have happened to xfree86 since the threat of a fork. but none of them have addressed the fact that some of the leadership is using the position as resume/C.V. padding.
One of the primary maintainers of xfree86 made a statement where he admitted that he uses w2k as his desktop. and doesn't really use X. (check google for references, I'm too lazy at the moment.)
Xouvert my well get contributions from ILM, Pixar, Nvidia, ATI, and others that xfree86 had no interest in. Either xfree86 will become more focused on progress or the will become irrelevant.
Your premise that there is no mass rejection of qualified developers at present is wrong.
The premise that there are a finite amount of programmers, if you have less than five projects filling a need is also wrong.
This is the best news about the *n*x desktop in the last month.
To Jonathan Walther, William Lahti, RJ Bergeron, and everyone else involed, Thank you.
If these machines can be coaxed into running Darwin, maybe there will be some limited amount of binary compatibility with OS X - and people could run programs on both boxes.
With Linux you already have an emulator, Mac-On-Lin, it seemed to work pretty well when I played with it. But my usage was minimal, so I can't really recommend it.
> You cannot rename files or directories. Can too. > You cannot move files or directories. Can too.
Same issue for both of them.
From the info page:
For example, `cvs log OLD' will give the log up until the time of the rename.
Then you need to know what it was renamed to. That's f*cked up. And is what the version control software should handle. (Arch, Subversion, and Bit Keeper all do.)
> Support of binary files is very bad (yes it exists, but it is very crude and almost worthless)
Is not.
You have to disable keyword expansion on binary files. (keyword expansion is most of the point of CVS) this means that you may as well be using ftp instead.
> It has a steep learning curve. All of these objections seem laughable to me, but this one really takes the cake. You need 3 commands in order to do all that any developer (not a CVS maintainer) should ever need to do:
I know of one project, http://www.koha.org , that does not keep documentation in CVS because of the problems volunteers had using it.
CVS works great, until you need to go back in time. and then you will start looking at other products. It works if you spend the time to work around it's limitations. But if you don't know that if you rename or move a file you have versioning disconnect. that needs to be manualy fixed. and that your images, etc are just sitting there, you will find your self in a big mess eventually.
Another missing feature is batch commits. Personally I have never worked on a busy enough tree to be bitten by that flaw.
If CVS is such a "p-o-s" in many respects, and unsuitable for large projects, why then do very large (much bigger than the Linux kernel) projects such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD and others, use it very successfully ?
Until very recently it was better than all the free competion. No one who uses it will call it good. Good enough maybe, It has flaws that make most people that use it swear at it.
Lots of people spout off about how "unsuitable" CVS is, but I have yet to see any concise example of where, exactly, its short-comings lie.
Major problems are:
You cannot rename files or directories.
You cannot move files or directories.
Support of binary files is very bad (yes it exists, but it is very crude and almost worthless)
You can compile the kernel without any gpl code, But if you compile in a floating point emulator but don't specify no gpl code, you get a gpl tainted kernel.
Not that this is used very much, but be aware that making Free BSD gpl free is a tricky task, and not worth it for most people.
Nope. All this means is that SCO is guilty of a license violation.
No. They are in copyright violation. They owe the copyright holder(s) royalties for each copy that they distributed without a license.
The GPL doesn't count because violating it essentially voids it leaving you with copyright law for distributing terms. (You can't, but if you do, you have to pay thousands per copy.)
If SCO had not been trying to screw over the Linux community, this would probably be, small cash settlement, an apology and stop using the code, as it is the copyright holders are probably not going to want to be nice.
The Linksys router I installed for a friend said that you need IE for some client software. (it seemed pretty useless at the time so I ignored it) The http interface works just fine with gecko and khtml.
It works fine from every web browser I've tried, but I haven't tried lynx or any other text browsers
My understanding is that Free BSD 5.0 has file-system snapshots so that dump can work on a live (rw) file-system. Where as the Linux developers have more or less said dump is broken use something that works.
The argument for dump is that it gives you a snapshot at a particular time. The argument for tar is that it gives you independence from the file system.
As someone else has noted, the US only has an election once every 2 years, so the costs of paying people to do the count would not be very high.
In California, because we have contested primaries and six parties on the ballot, we can have as many as four in one year. The primary, runoff for the primary, general election, and finally runoff of the general election. (San Francisco is suppossed to have instant run off voting starting this fall.)
I don't like PayPal. So seeing them nailed under the Patriot act if kind of funny, But, using the Patriot act this way is confirming the worst fears of everyone aout this act.
It is truely sad when the fight for our rights is being led by companies like PayPal.
It is really nice to have a coordinated group responsible for a complete, working system, instead of a distributor that merely duct-tapes together unrelated, each on their own incomplete, parts.
What do you think the BSD ports collection is, if not unrelated, incomplete parts?
This only applies to kernel hackers. To everyone else this just flies in the face of reality.
choice quote -- With copyright holders wanting stronger protections and users seeking greater freedom to copy, Congress "looked at those extremes and struck a balance," said Robert Holleyman, chief executive of the Business Software Alliance.
unfortunatly halfway between the two is not resonable.
you will have to change RELENG_4 to 5-STABLE for cvsup.
There will be no RELENG_5 until 5.1 (I didn't see the flame fest^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h discussion that caused this change for the 5.x series so I can't comment on why.)
There may be some files that need to be manualy deleted. Read/usr/src/UPDATING. after you cvsup. It should tell you all you need to know.
I've installed 5.0dp2 on a test server. After recompiling the kernel and world the only problem I've had was when someone threw a circut breaker. Personally I would recommend that you try 5.x instead of 4.x because of all the impovements in almost everything.
Upgrading is simple under *BSD, no Linux compares in this respect except perhaps Gentoo or Debian.)
Upgrading within 4.x has been pretty smooth
4.x to 5.0 may not be however.
This from the 5.0-DP2 release notes Warning: Binary upgrades to FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 from FreeBSD 4-STABLE are not supported at this time. This may change by the time 5.0 is released.
As a clean install it was fairly painless. The debugging level on the 5.0-DP2 iso's was painfully high, so making world and kernel had a huge effect.
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When stocks fall under 4 they have a Federal Reserve Board margin requirement of 2. This makes shorting low priced stocks less attractive, but they may still be shorted.
An example of this is to short 1000 shares at 0.01 would require a deposit of $2000 to short $10 of stock. This may not be a concern if you have a large amount of marginable securities that you are not using for anything else, but for most people it is imprudent to short low value stock.
- ipfw: if you can handle the learning curve. Very robust, takes a while to get the hang of.
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ipfilter: more common on gateways (from what I've seen, unscientifically)
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pf may have been ported, from Open BSD but I'm not sure.
I don't know if apple has a gui config tool for any of them, but they are all very good, once you have them configured.Wrong, Most invention is not primarily driven by a desire to make money. Most invention is because there is a need to fill. Spreadsheets, were invented not so that the inventor could make money from a spreadsheet, but so that they could analyze business plans and do what if senarios and make money doing something besides the mental masturbation that is so common it tech companies. (The failure to grasp this is a possible explanation of why software companies are the least likely companies to last five years.)
The existence of patents (owned by HP and Panatone) is why Photoshop is better than GIMP, for print work. Most CGI studios use Cinepaint, which is a fork of GIMP. So the argument is true in at least one case. Claiming that ILM and Dreamworks have devoted resources to Cinepaint because they are a bunch of hippies that don't care about money. Is a comment that is so nonsensical that I don't know where to start rebutting it.
We live country that tries to use free markets as much as possible, and patents are the state granting monopolies, with the long term outlook being foreshadowed by the stellar success that this idea had in Communist Russia.
Though not in the release notes (unless they have been changed since I read them).
If you use vinum on your drives (the reasons to do this are many but boil down to hard disks are unreliable pieces of crap.) You can no longer use a vinum volume as swap partition, and this is not on the immediate fix list. (this is new from 5.1) I am back at 5.1 because it is functional if not as stable.
This is part of a onstep back to go two steps forward. But it kind of sucks to lose functionality in a new point release, even though something better is comming along. But it really sucks that you don't get any warning.
One of the reasons that GIMP does not compare to PhotoShop is patents. The PhotoShop works, GIMP doesn't work is limited to print. If the final output is print, you need panatone, etc. This is not available without going to closed source.
In the video world. Cinapaint is more used by pro's than Photoshop. If your job is one the line research your tools. But the issues isn't that adobe makes better software. They have features that are patented, and if you need them. you have to use their products.
Don't make this out to be a failure of the GIMP. Realize that when the patents expire, the features will be there.
It is state law that you are not required to provide your Drivers License or or California ID, Your ID fee would then be construed as a poll tax which is unconstitutional.
If you carefully read your voter registration form It said "No person shall be denied the right to register because of hie or her failure to furnish a California driver's license or California identification card number."
The new voter registration forms require either your Drivers License number OR the last four digits of you social security number. This is to comply with the Help America Vote Act. (no clue how this makes it easier for people to vote)
I've only voted in Connecticut, New Mexico, and California, I've never had to show ID, I have always had to sign my name.
Denying you the right to vote if you don't have identification is something that would probably not go over well with the courts.
This is not like drinking which is not a protected right. Denying someone the ability to vote for any reason is generally looked down on by the courts.
One of the problems with xfree86 is that it is almost impossible to get patches considered. (ATI tried and failed.)
A lot of positive changes have happened to xfree86 since the threat of a fork. but none of them have addressed the fact that some of the leadership is using the position as resume/C.V. padding.
One of the primary maintainers of xfree86 made a statement where he admitted that he uses w2k as his desktop. and doesn't really use X. (check google for references, I'm too lazy at the moment.)
Xouvert my well get contributions from ILM, Pixar, Nvidia, ATI, and others that xfree86 had no interest in. Either xfree86 will become more focused on progress or the will become irrelevant.
Your premise that there is no mass rejection of qualified developers at present is wrong.
The premise that there are a finite amount of programmers, if you have less than five projects filling a need is also wrong.
This is the best news about the *n*x desktop in the last month.
To Jonathan Walther, William Lahti, RJ Bergeron, and everyone else involed, Thank you.
I know I should not respond to a troll, anyways,
> You cannot rename files or directories.
Can too.
> You cannot move files or directories.
Can too.
Same issue for both of them.
From the info page:
For example, `cvs log OLD' will give the log up until the time of the rename.
Then you need to know what it was renamed to. That's f*cked up. And is what the version control software should handle. (Arch, Subversion, and Bit Keeper all do.)
> Support of binary files is very bad (yes it exists, but it is very crude and almost worthless)
Is not.
You have to disable keyword expansion on binary files. (keyword expansion is most of the point of CVS) this means that you may as well be using ftp instead.
> It has a steep learning curve.
All of these objections seem laughable to me, but this one really takes the cake. You need 3 commands
in order to do all that any developer (not a CVS maintainer) should ever need to do:
I know of one project, http://www.koha.org , that does not keep documentation in CVS because of the problems volunteers had using it.
CVS works great, until you need to go back in time. and then you will start looking at other products. It works if you spend the time to work around it's limitations. But if you don't know that if you rename or move a file you have versioning disconnect. that needs to be manualy fixed. and that your images, etc are just sitting there, you will find your self in a big mess eventually.
Another missing feature is batch commits. Personally I have never worked on a busy enough tree to be bitten by that flaw.
- You cannot rename files or directories.
- You cannot move files or directories.
- Support of binary files is very bad (yes it exists, but it is very crude and almost worthless)
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It is very inefficient on the server side.
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It has a steep learning curve.
Did I miss any?Not that this is used very much, but be aware that making Free BSD gpl free is a tricky task, and not worth it for most people.
The GPL doesn't count because violating it essentially voids it leaving you with copyright law for distributing terms. (You can't, but if you do, you have to pay thousands per copy.)
If SCO had not been trying to screw over the Linux community, this would probably be, small cash settlement, an apology and stop using the code, as it is the copyright holders are probably not going to want to be nice.
The Linksys router I installed for a friend said that you need IE for some client software. (it seemed pretty useless at the time so I ignored it) The http interface works just fine with gecko and khtml.
It works fine from every web browser I've tried, but I haven't tried lynx or any other text browsers
The argument for dump is that it gives you a snapshot at a particular time. The argument for tar is that it gives you independence from the file system.
In other words, not that I know of.
The argument seems to be that Open source contributes to terrorism by providing privacy to plan.
This is the great crypto debate that never happend.
It's too bad that none of our represenatives had the strength to hold the debate but instead tried to give us Clipper. (I'm an American)
I don't like PayPal. So seeing them nailed under the Patriot act if kind of funny, But, using the Patriot act this way is confirming the worst fears of everyone aout this act.
It is truely sad when the fight for our rights is being led by companies like PayPal.
All those that are valid but have a reverse dns that looks like it might be assigned by dhcp.
This only applies to kernel hackers. To everyone else this just flies in the face of reality.
you will have to change RELENG_4 to 5-STABLE for cvsup.
/usr/src/UPDATING. after you cvsup. It should tell you all you need to know.
There will be no RELENG_5 until 5.1 (I didn't see the flame fest^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h discussion that caused this change for the 5.x series so I can't comment on why.)
There may be some files that need to be manualy deleted. Read
4.x to 5.0 may not be however. This from the 5.0-DP2 release notes Warning: Binary upgrades to FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 from FreeBSD 4-STABLE are not supported at this time. This may change by the time 5.0 is released.
As a clean install it was fairly painless. The debugging level on the 5.0-DP2 iso's was painfully high, so making world and kernel had a huge effect.