The main issue is capital adequacy as you say but not so much direct of the direct loan exposure, but rather credit-risk derivatives. Banks tend to package risk, shuffle it around and then to sell it as high-risk/high-gain products known in the industry as 'toxic-waste'. The issue is that the products are non-standard and tend to be difficult to value unless you are a Phd in math or physics. You value your position and then hedge using a variety of products i.e. govt bonds, cash (including overnight money). Total Value at Risk is calculated daily, the Fed can inspect your books at any time but you must report any excursions must be promptly notified. The problem is that forget the maths, your position in real terms is defined by what someone else is prepared to pay for it. During a credit crunch, that tends to be a lot less but this doesn't tend to show up in a model.
On my little Nokia (E61), there is an excellent feature that says do not autocheck mail when roaming. I then pick up the email via free WiFi whenever possible with a manual connect. It saves a fortune!!!! Oh and the E61 dors allow you to enable WiFi without turning GSM/GPRS/3G on. The thing is that whilst Apple has the edgge on sexy interfaces, Nokia has the edge on making mobile phones.
By definition, we all still need food. Agriculture may have fallen behind but the decline has been happening since mechanisation but we are still eating. The cost of food at the farm gate has fallen, the value added bit of the chain moving more and more to the processing and manufacture of food items. I can't find an easy way of looking at the food sector as a whole from farm (or vat for that matter) through to supermarket but it must remain massive.
You are quite right, but having to reboot frequently would mean that less people could be scanned.
It kind of becomes more interesting when the system is effectively in command of a device. An example of this is the USS Yorktown incident. The problem seems to have been a database error that somehow triggered a bluescreen under NT, bringing all power on the ship to a halt. If the ship was in action or at sea state 10 or above, lack of power could of caused the ship to be lost.
Where the earth is really bumpy, i.e., mountain ranges it looks great. So when you take of from Kathmandu (the default), you can head for the big Himalayas and the definition is excellent. The problem is that the 3D buildings aren't rendered in flight sim mode, as far as I can see.
Seems more likely to me. 10MeV is one heck of a potential to build up in a Thundercloud. The idea of an something external with high energy acting as a trigger seems a rather neat solution of how to get the massive flashovers that are lightning.
When I was last in the UK, whoever it was that was the predecessor to Virgin Media was delivering voice+data+cable tv to the local node via fibre. I think the household then had some kind of combined cable bring the services into the household.
Unless you are somewhere like SF, most streets don't go directly up hills, they wind around them. Utilities routing and distribution tends to follow roads so a few hundred feet up a hil can become several thousand. As I say, if you can get line-of-sight to someone below, then a WiFi link becomes interesting.
I'm aware of the issue with the wide-open spaces in the US, however 'm more than a little surprise that you have problems in a built-up area. If you are on a big hill, then you should just look for someone nearer the CO, with a good line of sight to you!!!!!
I'm not sure what the situation is in the US but I remember reading about those in the UK and how at the time being on one meant you had basically no chance of getting broadband. At least one of the UK providers using access nodes also offers data so I guess that doesn't apply now.
I understood that they were using APNs to filter. They have their existing wap.vodafone which seems to support everything and now there is a web.vodafone which is associated with the new lower price tarrifs but is supposed to be port limited. I agree with you about VF-UK's DNS though. It seems to be totally screwed up and I can't understand how.
Unlike you I guess, I have worked a lot in banks. They spend good money to try to lock systems down. There are exceptions but mostly it works.
Corporations claim to lock down systems, but nearly ALL of their systems have a CD burner and/or USB ports.
CD burners are either not installed or are software disabled on the systems I have seen. Actually it is a major PITA to find a burner when you want to send some data to a vendor for analysis. Ah yes, that gets me to the USB ports. You can superglue them but there are tools around (i.e., Lockdrive) that grab and lock out any new drives that appear. Yes, and getting the admin rights which could bypass these restrictions doesn't normally happen on a production network even if you are IT.
And almost ALL systems are capable of being opened, hard disk lifted out, taken home, copied, and then put back in the system.
Most systems I have worked with do nothing locally apart from the pagefile and some temporary storage. Everything long term is stored on NAS systems. Laptops have their hard-drives encrypted.
Do you know the rights of a Jew in an Arab country? The right to be hung
Tell that to about 25,000 Jews still living in Iran. Ok, I know that Iran isn't an Arab country (many in the administration get confused though), but Islam placed a duty of protection on people of the book (indigenous Jews and Christians) as long as they lived in peace and didn't try to evangelise. This was respected originally all over the middle-East.
Not quite correct. I have seen functionality (PTT) dropped from menus because the supplying carrier (Vodafone) didn't support it. This is not a SIM thing, it is because the carrier has a customised software image.
The funny thing is that given technology costs, the old concept of a CO is dying in urban areas. It costs more money to run (& maintain) copper to a CO than to have a node in your area which then uses fibre and supports a limited number of connections. Newer developments tend to use something like this. Of course, in a rural area, you are still fscked because there isn't enough population density to warrant a node.
Yes, the rule we used in the old days (with a lot of data going via space rather than on the older lower-capacity cable) was.5 of second to bounce off a satellite. The solution was to increase window sizes which would help you max out the connection but interactivity was difficult, to put it mildly so you are quite right about forgetting real-time gaming.
The USAF has stuff on the ground capable of photographing satellites. I think they even have adaptive optics now so photography would probably have been useful (the actual resolution is classified). The NASA managers (note, not engineers) decided that it wasn't useful to ask the USAF so nothing was done.
The way the US metal detectors are calibrated these days, I'm worried that I'll set them off if my blood iron content is too high.
Some detectors have a random number generator so they will bleep every nth passenger irrespective of any metal that you have. I once commented passing through Frankfurt that I knew that apart from the zipper in my pants, all metal was out of my pockets and I was still 'beeped' for a hand search. The person who searched me commented that they had a hand search frequency dictated from above and the machine would beep on this if insufficient people were being pulled out for carrying metal.
Write a letter to the US board of tourism (or whatever it's called).
I live outside the US. A friend worked for the US Consulate here working for Commerce & Tourism. They are fully aware of the downside of the additional security. Many international business meetings now take place in the Caribbean rather than the US because of easier immigration and security. Yes, wroite those letters and at least it might give some comeback against the idiots in the DHS.
Of course the other side is that a lot of the old independent contractors simply don't exist any more. If you are not one of the biggest contractors, it is simply to expensive to bid on an Uncle Sam contract. The prime contractors just want to keep the goodness for themselves and just take turns to win. The difference between the military and civillian operations like NASA is at least thin gs are a bit more open.
Some time last year, I calculated that we could have done about ten mars missions for one year of Iraq or several hundred shuttle missions. The problem is warfare is much better for contractors than space. The fog of war is quite forgiving over supply difficulties and quality levels. In a civilian space program, there is too much of a spotlight and you can't make money so easily.
Then, after that, several smart people[1] figured out that cracks always had been everywhere and, you know, chill. The airplanes we fly around on have lots of cracks. The thing that saves our collective butts is that they are understood.
At the time, stress was not understood and jet airliners were very new. The engineers figured out the effects of stress and crack propagation and the problem was solved, well, kinda. Whilst the comet was retired a long, long time ago, the same basic airframe was used for Nimrod, a aew/asw platform which has since flown for many, many years (although it too is showing its age). After Comet, it became a priority to check for cracks and when they start to move on all critical parts. At that point, the plane has to be fixed, which may involve major work to get at the parts concerned.
Actually neither of the examples you gave originated with NASA. They may have improved them but that is all. NASA did a lot otherwise, especially with regards to sensor technology. They also did a lot for open source software as in common with other govt facilities like Fermilab and LBL, a lot of the software was opens-sourced even before the GPL was invented.
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The main issue is capital adequacy as you say but not so much direct of the direct loan exposure, but rather credit-risk derivatives. Banks tend to package risk, shuffle it around and then to sell it as high-risk/high-gain products known in the industry as 'toxic-waste'. The issue is that the products are non-standard and tend to be difficult to value unless you are a Phd in math or physics. You value your position and then hedge using a variety of products i.e. govt bonds, cash (including overnight money). Total Value at Risk is calculated daily, the Fed can inspect your books at any time but you must report any excursions must be promptly notified. The problem is that forget the maths, your position in real terms is defined by what someone else is prepared to pay for it. During a credit crunch, that tends to be a lot less but this doesn't tend to show up in a model.
On my little Nokia (E61), there is an excellent feature that says do not autocheck mail when roaming. I then pick up the email via free WiFi whenever possible with a manual connect. It saves a fortune!!!! Oh and the E61 dors allow you to enable WiFi without turning GSM/GPRS/3G on. The thing is that whilst Apple has the edgge on sexy interfaces, Nokia has the edge on making mobile phones.
By definition, we all still need food. Agriculture may have fallen behind but the decline has been happening since mechanisation but we are still eating. The cost of food at the farm gate has fallen, the value added bit of the chain moving more and more to the processing and manufacture of food items. I can't find an easy way of looking at the food sector as a whole from farm (or vat for that matter) through to supermarket but it must remain massive.
You are quite right, but having to reboot frequently would mean that less people could be scanned. It kind of becomes more interesting when the system is effectively in command of a device. An example of this is the USS Yorktown incident. The problem seems to have been a database error that somehow triggered a bluescreen under NT, bringing all power on the ship to a halt. If the ship was in action or at sea state 10 or above, lack of power could of caused the ship to be lost.
Where the earth is really bumpy, i.e., mountain ranges it looks great. So when you take of from Kathmandu (the default), you can head for the big Himalayas and the definition is excellent. The problem is that the 3D buildings aren't rendered in flight sim mode, as far as I can see.
Seems more likely to me. 10MeV is one heck of a potential to build up in a Thundercloud. The idea of an something external with high energy acting as a trigger seems a rather neat solution of how to get the massive flashovers that are lightning.
When I was last in the UK, whoever it was that was the predecessor to Virgin Media was delivering voice+data+cable tv to the local node via fibre. I think the household then had some kind of combined cable bring the services into the household.
Unless you are somewhere like SF, most streets don't go directly up hills, they wind around them. Utilities routing and distribution tends to follow roads so a few hundred feet up a hil can become several thousand. As I say, if you can get line-of-sight to someone below, then a WiFi link becomes interesting.
I'm aware of the issue with the wide-open spaces in the US, however 'm more than a little surprise that you have problems in a built-up area. If you are on a big hill, then you should just look for someone nearer the CO, with a good line of sight to you!!!!!
I'm not sure what the situation is in the US but I remember reading about those in the UK and how at the time being on one meant you had basically no chance of getting broadband. At least one of the UK providers using access nodes also offers data so I guess that doesn't apply now.
I understood that they were using APNs to filter. They have their existing wap.vodafone which seems to support everything and now there is a web.vodafone which is associated with the new lower price tarrifs but is supposed to be port limited. I agree with you about VF-UK's DNS though. It seems to be totally screwed up and I can't understand how.
Isn't that the new www (port 80) tariff only? I know that Vodafone were trying hard to lock out other protocols because of their fear of VOIP.
Not quite correct. I have seen functionality (PTT) dropped from menus because the supplying carrier (Vodafone) didn't support it. This is not a SIM thing, it is because the carrier has a customised software image.
Yes, the rule we used in the old days (with a lot of data going via space rather than on the older lower-capacity cable) was .5 of second to bounce off a satellite. The solution was to increase window sizes which would help you max out the connection but interactivity was difficult, to put it mildly so you are quite right about forgetting real-time gaming.
The USAF has stuff on the ground capable of photographing satellites. I think they even have adaptive optics now so photography would probably have been useful (the actual resolution is classified). The NASA managers (note, not engineers) decided that it wasn't useful to ask the USAF so nothing was done.
Of course the other side is that a lot of the old independent contractors simply don't exist any more. If you are not one of the biggest contractors, it is simply to expensive to bid on an Uncle Sam contract. The prime contractors just want to keep the goodness for themselves and just take turns to win. The difference between the military and civillian operations like NASA is at least thin gs are a bit more open.
Some time last year, I calculated that we could have done about ten mars missions for one year of Iraq or several hundred shuttle missions. The problem is warfare is much better for contractors than space. The fog of war is quite forgiving over supply difficulties and quality levels. In a civilian space program, there is too much of a spotlight and you can't make money so easily.
At the time, stress was not understood and jet airliners were very new. The engineers figured out the effects of stress and crack propagation and the problem was solved, well, kinda. Whilst the comet was retired a long, long time ago, the same basic airframe was used for Nimrod, a aew/asw platform which has since flown for many, many years (although it too is showing its age). After Comet, it became a priority to check for cracks and when they start to move on all critical parts. At that point, the plane has to be fixed, which may involve major work to get at the parts concerned.
Actually neither of the examples you gave originated with NASA. They may have improved them but that is all. NASA did a lot otherwise, especially with regards to sensor technology. They also did a lot for open source software as in common with other govt facilities like Fermilab and LBL, a lot of the software was opens-sourced even before the GPL was invented.