There is a problem with this. Most corporates with VLKs will just get the PC delivered with whichever operating system it ships with and then drop in their corporate build of XP. I have yet to see a Vista build at a bank, even on laptops.
The difference is how quickly information is dispersed. Foreign exchange (FX) is the ultimate insiders game. Even the central banks participate. The thing is that although individuals participate too, it is frankly a mugs game if you wish to speculate rather than just hedge an exposure.
With shares and similar securities it is a little different as it isn't just the bankers messing around. The problem with Friedman's approach is that some people get the information and can act very quickly on it but others, i.e., retail investors usually cannot.
The situation was demonstrated by the relative late adoption in Germany of insider trading rules. Essentially private share ownership was seen to be a mugs game unless you were at the top tier (preferably with a seat on the board). Funnily enough banks in those days use to specialise in holding directorships in many public companies as a means of gathering and using information. Introduction of the new regulations did open the market up to much wider public participation.
Clarke was an astrophysicist's sci-fi author. He liked to get his orbits right (amongst other things) and I believe he even blagged one of the early desktop programmable calculators from HP.
I would be fascinated to know what percentage of the engineers in NASA grew up on him? Heinlein was good, so was the original Star-Trek, but Clarke liked to get things right and I'm sure that inspired some engineers there.
For police, they are playing a numbers game. Deliver the statistics and you ease the political heat and get your promotion. Political het tends to go with the press and there is a continual game between police and the press as to what can be misrepresented as a 'serious crime' to get the politicians off their backs. The police often use the concept of escalation to link easily arrestable petty law breaking with so-called seroious crime to over inflate the trivial arrests.
Lastly the police themselves have to prepare their reports and deliver statistics. Usually any technical assistance they get works poorly. The admin load on police officers is such they have precious time to actually do any policing, even if they had the will.
I work at banks, IT does everything except legal and even there we have to help draft and read the contracts to pull out the IT implications. We live and breath SEC regulations (as well as any others that may apply) and we are usually the ones to raise risks, i.e., against Sarbanes-Oxley, OFAC and other stuff.
Come to think of it, very little of what a bank does involves handling physical money or securities. What we do is handle information, so the processing of which is the core business.
The IP lawyer seizes what is obvious and then grabs copyright on it. The marketing type will promise the world to the clients whilst forgetting to confer with developers as to whether it is at all possible. Also the marketing guys for overriding ship dates so that POS like Vista can get delivered to manufacturing months before it is ready for a real customer.
I knew a lady who got shifted out of being a secretary to 'manning' the help desk. She was hopeless and knew little but she was drop-dead gorgeous and had a voice like a porn-star (without the moaning and the heavy breathing). None of the customers objected to her lack of knowledge and she was always a welcome guest at the user events. Actually she always was always able to pass on the call to someone on the second level who could help.
That is exactly the point. People go on about the cheap "knock-off" products but forget to mention that one factory is proably just down the road from the so-called real one. It should be noted that when working with Chinese companies, what you get is what is written down in the contract. If you don't demand quality or stnadrads compliance, you won't necessarily get it. However, that factory down the road may well find it easier just to comply than not (heck they may even be a vendor to the factory that you think is doing the manufacturing).
From several articles in the German press, this wasn't about the eye-phone or whatever trade mark ripoff, this was principally about enforcing the MPEG patents (amongst others). The way it works in Germany is that any lawyer may as an officer of the court bring suit against the vendor on behalf of the patent or trademark holder (even if the holder is unaware of the action). If they have reason to believe there may be trouble, they can request police assistance. So, to be accurate the lawyers give grioef but the police just maintain the peace.
What annoys me is that we still are trying to legislate patented technology as standards. Someone's implementation of MPEG may or may not be protected but not the standard.
Yes there is NIPRNET and SIPRNET, with one for the unclassified stuff and the other for classified. Funny thing is that the mildenhall.com incident demonstrated that secret data not only goes out on the public Internet (this should only happen through secure tunnels), it can end up outside the military altogether.
I was on the delayed flight from hell. They warned us that there would be very little time when the slot came to get everyone boarded so they did something similar, no bubble sort but we boarded in smaller groups than normal with emphasis on helping one another with bags. Yes, it worked so much better than normal, and that I believe was a short-hall in Europe.
Unless your name is Bill Gates, that wouldn't work.
What does work is bad press. Any bank wishing to do business with any anyone, especially when opening a correspondent account must investigate the background of their client. If the client is located in an area of increased risk, then the client must be rechecked often. Part of this involves a bad press search Such would seriously hamper the ability of BJB Cayman to do business and may hurt the parent bank.
That is of course unless that it was on a Blackberry. It is amazing how much more attention managemnet pays during a meeting when RIM is having upgrade problems.
Besides, what would this do to licensing? I'm thinking the "copyleft" schemes that the GNU software falls under. That's intellectual property, isn't it? The right to license that software as open source, and the requirements to make source code of derivative works freely available?
As with anything donated to the public good and without the ability to revoke it, the government should waive taxes on free GPLed works (same for books and works of art released under the creative commons license).
Good point, and as I suggested, the aircraft must be over your territory before you know anything and I still don't know how this technique would work at altitude.
However HARMs are somewhat overrated in a place with universal power. The Serbs used to rig microwave ovens with the door open. Cost to the Serbs, one microwave oven, cost to the allies, one very expensive HARM missile.
According to the technique (did you read TFA in the link?) you get a position to about 10m. That would be definitely enough to dent the expensive B2 paintwork. Shoot enough into the area and you increase the possibility of a strike.
According to this story, you can use the path disruption caused by stealthy aircraft flying through areas covered by mobile phone masts and fix the aircraft's position to within 10m or so. Apart from the mobile base station, the system sounds vehicle portable. The issue is that until they get to your territory, you won't be able to get advance warning.
First, think where this keyboard comes from - Russia. It is normal to have to use computers to do both Latin and Cyrillic and this makes it easier to work with the foreign layout (Russian keyboards tend to look rather busy).
A 10% reduction in software piracy in the UK would generate 30,000 jobs and contribute £11 billion to the official economy.
You really didn't beat down enough on this one. The only content producing area where the UK remains significant is music and even there it is falling behind. TV & cinema mostly comes from the US and this has happened a long time before the advent of the first domestic video recorders. When a film does have significant UK content it has been mostly because of the tax breaks which other industries don't benefit from. In any case, the figures of any industry that can claim one their highest grossing products didn't make any money (the New-Line LOTR affair and the disagreements with Peter Jackson and the Tolkein Estate) should be taken with a large piece of salt.
First, I believe that you are using a bad example. MS as a company was always run by their marketing needs rather than engineering, hence their problems delivering major systems. The company lacks rigor and discipline in their design process but others do have that and deliver complex software, albeit at perhaps a higher price. The classic method of engineering is to take a problem and reduce it to a series of smaller ones that can be clearly and carefully abstracted. This disciplined approach is how we build bridges and space shuttles and the overall constraint is the design. For evolved systems, the constraint is the environment, anything can be tried with poorer results being culled by being outcompeted or even culled. It is clear that the brain has a structure, but it appears to far from a classic, top down structure.
Interestingly enough I was on holiday in Oz last November. I overheard some non-computer types discussing problems with Vista and how the store would install the latest XP instead.
This may be old news to many people here but to hear the great unwashed talking of the issues with Vista amused me. This adds up to a major perception problem wit the vendor.
Not entirely true and for Dell this means Vista Business (or ultimate)->XP Pro and only if you have an XP compatible hardware configuration. For example the Latitude may be XP compatible but the.n wireless lan cards are not.
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There is a problem with this. Most corporates with VLKs will just get the PC delivered with whichever operating system it ships with and then drop in their corporate build of XP. I have yet to see a Vista build at a bank, even on laptops.
The difference is how quickly information is dispersed. Foreign exchange (FX) is the ultimate insiders game. Even the central banks participate. The thing is that although individuals participate too, it is frankly a mugs game if you wish to speculate rather than just hedge an exposure.
With shares and similar securities it is a little different as it isn't just the bankers messing around. The problem with Friedman's approach is that some people get the information and can act very quickly on it but others, i.e., retail investors usually cannot.
The situation was demonstrated by the relative late adoption in Germany of insider trading rules. Essentially private share ownership was seen to be a mugs game unless you were at the top tier (preferably with a seat on the board). Funnily enough banks in those days use to specialise in holding directorships in many public companies as a means of gathering and using information. Introduction of the new regulations did open the market up to much wider public participation.
Clarke was an astrophysicist's sci-fi author. He liked to get his orbits right (amongst other things) and I believe he even blagged one of the early desktop programmable calculators from HP.
I would be fascinated to know what percentage of the engineers in NASA grew up on him? Heinlein was good, so was the original Star-Trek, but Clarke liked to get things right and I'm sure that inspired some engineers there.
For police, they are playing a numbers game. Deliver the statistics and you ease the political heat and get your promotion. Political het tends to go with the press and there is a continual game between police and the press as to what can be misrepresented as a 'serious crime' to get the politicians off their backs. The police often use the concept of escalation to link easily arrestable petty law breaking with so-called seroious crime to over inflate the trivial arrests.
Lastly the police themselves have to prepare their reports and deliver statistics. Usually any technical assistance they get works poorly. The admin load on police officers is such they have precious time to actually do any policing, even if they had the will.
I work at banks, IT does everything except legal and even there we have to help draft and read the contracts to pull out the IT implications. We live and breath SEC regulations (as well as any others that may apply) and we are usually the ones to raise risks, i.e., against Sarbanes-Oxley, OFAC and other stuff.
Come to think of it, very little of what a bank does involves handling physical money or securities. What we do is handle information, so the processing of which is the core business.
The IP lawyer seizes what is obvious and then grabs copyright on it. The marketing type will promise the world to the clients whilst forgetting to confer with developers as to whether it is at all possible. Also the marketing guys for overriding ship dates so that POS like Vista can get delivered to manufacturing months before it is ready for a real customer.
I knew a lady who got shifted out of being a secretary to 'manning' the help desk. She was hopeless and knew little but she was drop-dead gorgeous and had a voice like a porn-star (without the moaning and the heavy breathing). None of the customers objected to her lack of knowledge and she was always a welcome guest at the user events. Actually she always was always able to pass on the call to someone on the second level who could help.
That is exactly the point. People go on about the cheap "knock-off" products but forget to mention that one factory is proably just down the road from the so-called real one. It should be noted that when working with Chinese companies, what you get is what is written down in the contract. If you don't demand quality or stnadrads compliance, you won't necessarily get it. However, that factory down the road may well find it easier just to comply than not (heck they may even be a vendor to the factory that you think is doing the manufacturing).
From several articles in the German press, this wasn't about the eye-phone or whatever trade mark ripoff, this was principally about enforcing the MPEG patents (amongst others). The way it works in Germany is that any lawyer may as an officer of the court bring suit against the vendor on behalf of the patent or trademark holder (even if the holder is unaware of the action). If they have reason to believe there may be trouble, they can request police assistance. So, to be accurate the lawyers give grioef but the police just maintain the peace.
What annoys me is that we still are trying to legislate patented technology as standards. Someone's implementation of MPEG may or may not be protected but not the standard.
Yes there is NIPRNET and SIPRNET, with one for the unclassified stuff and the other for classified. Funny thing is that the mildenhall.com incident demonstrated that secret data not only goes out on the public Internet (this should only happen through secure tunnels), it can end up outside the military altogether.
I was on the delayed flight from hell. They warned us that there would be very little time when the slot came to get everyone boarded so they did something similar, no bubble sort but we boarded in smaller groups than normal with emphasis on helping one another with bags. Yes, it worked so much better than normal, and that I believe was a short-hall in Europe.
The artworks were paid for just once. The problem is that for hollywood, etc., once isn't enough.
Unless your name is Bill Gates, that wouldn't work.
What does work is bad press. Any bank wishing to do business with any anyone, especially when opening a correspondent account must investigate the background of their client. If the client is located in an area of increased risk, then the client must be rechecked often. Part of this involves a bad press search Such would seriously hamper the ability of BJB Cayman to do business and may hurt the parent bank.
Good point, and as I suggested, the aircraft must be over your territory before you know anything and I still don't know how this technique would work at altitude.
However HARMs are somewhat overrated in a place with universal power. The Serbs used to rig microwave ovens with the door open. Cost to the Serbs, one microwave oven, cost to the allies, one very expensive HARM missile.
According to the technique (did you read TFA in the link?) you get a position to about 10m. That would be definitely enough to dent the expensive B2 paintwork. Shoot enough into the area and you increase the possibility of a strike.
According to this story, you can use the path disruption caused by stealthy aircraft flying through areas covered by mobile phone masts and fix the aircraft's position to within 10m or so. Apart from the mobile base station, the system sounds vehicle portable. The issue is that until they get to your territory, you won't be able to get advance warning.
First, think where this keyboard comes from - Russia. It is normal to have to use computers to do both Latin and Cyrillic and this makes it easier to work with the foreign layout (Russian keyboards tend to look rather busy).
Didn't see them so much in the AI area, but I worked with excellent programmers in the commercial sector. I worked there etween 97 and 2001.
Forget the Ohmmeter, why not use a Megger instead. This is much better for 'testing' CoS bigots.
First, I believe that you are using a bad example. MS as a company was always run by their marketing needs rather than engineering, hence their problems delivering major systems. The company lacks rigor and discipline in their design process but others do have that and deliver complex software, albeit at perhaps a higher price. The classic method of engineering is to take a problem and reduce it to a series of smaller ones that can be clearly and carefully abstracted. This disciplined approach is how we build bridges and space shuttles and the overall constraint is the design. For evolved systems, the constraint is the environment, anything can be tried with poorer results being culled by being outcompeted or even culled. It is clear that the brain has a structure, but it appears to far from a classic, top down structure.
Interestingly enough I was on holiday in Oz last November. I overheard some non-computer types discussing problems with Vista and how the store would install the latest XP instead.
This may be old news to many people here but to hear the great unwashed talking of the issues with Vista amused me. This adds up to a major perception problem wit the vendor.
Not entirely true and for Dell this means Vista Business (or ultimate)->XP Pro and only if you have an XP compatible hardware configuration. For example the Latitude may be XP compatible but the .n wireless lan cards are not.