Probably they missed out on no. 2. Pain management is well developed in the UK because of experience with long-term cancer care. I believe (and hope) that on admission to hospital he didn't feel a thing. The person committing the murder may not be aware of this as this area of russian medecine was less well developed. However the victim would be aware that he was being killed and this is the kind of thing that certain sickos on the edges of a rogue security service may appreciate.
If you want to hurt Putin, it is easiest to do so bt proxy. Gazprom, the state gas and oil company is effectively an organ of Kremlin policy. The company is publically listed and even allows foreign shareholders, but the Kremlin retains control through their majority holding. They already supply a lot of gas to western europe and they are looking to buy up the supply chain, in particular RWE in Germany and Centrica in the UK. As both companies are publicly owned and Gazprom is run by the Kremlin, I'm sure that any such purchase could be reasonably blocked by their respective governmen ts or even the EU. That's unless Blair or Merkel are looking for a Gazprom directorship like Markel's predecessor.
Gazprom still needs access to foreign capital and expertsie. As a state organ, there is much corruption and it is run very inefficiently, as evidenced by its failure to develop fields. Sure the company makes money, but at the same time, it is losing it, with no outside help, this is likely to continue.
It does seem likely to me that Litvinenko's death can be attributed to the ex-KGB, if for no other reason than that they are one of the few organizations that would have had quantities of exotic poisons stashed away.
Most of the ex-KGR people are from the early nineties and the fall of the Soviet Union in 91. Given that Po210 has a half-life measured in days (134 days), this sample was *recently* obtained. Whether or not someone with a direct link to the KGB performed the execution is arguable, but it seems that whoever did this had a direct link to a govt. lab. A fifteen year old sample would have been largely, just decay products.
You missed out on the assassination of Galina Starovoitova in 98. Not in Putin's time, but she was firmly in favour of democracy and transparency. She would certainly have upset some of the people behind Putin.
I disagree, George Smiley was a gentleman (even when his wife was having an affair). It was Karla that was the ruthless whatever and he was KGB in the books heading up a department at 'Moscow Centre'. Interestingly enough Karla is supposed to be based on Markus Wolf who headed the East German Stasi.
The accounts of the Slotin incident all mention a wave of heat being felt by the observers who were closest to the experiment. The air wouldn't have been heated directly, more likely it it was the surfaces of the Pu hemispheres heating up with the reaction. Note that we do feel radiated heat quite well (particularly on the face), it isn't necessary for there to be any direct stimulation of the nerves from other forms of radiation.
At Univerisity, I was making some tapes and was rather annoyed by breakthrough SSB (I couldn't decode it but recognised the type of interference). I took a wonder over to the Ham radio shack and they running an HF transmitter into a 2kw linear amp. Interestingly enough, the regulations said 450wPEP, quite considerably less. We then had a nice discussion about them messing up my tapes. However, whennever they stopped, the interference stopped. Note that the kit was fairly well RF isolated because of its normal use at the student discos and so on with lots of potential triac buzz from the lights. HF was a much higher frequency so it walked over the filters.
Slippage tends to no be a big deal until there are major market movements at this point it is possible that you end up in a corner. The things is that lots of things were happening at about the same time. Asia had currency problems but the price of oil was also falling. Note that the fall of the rouble was imminent from way before it happened due to the reliance on the Russians for Oil to support the GKO market (Russian zero coupon Federal Bonds). This was no secret but not something that could be factored into algorithmic trading.
On a previous job, I had a market crash to analyse and simulate, to see how electronic trading could be automatically suspended. From my own work (which had privileged access to the order books), it was clear that the sh*t hits the fan when the stops are touched. In our case, the crash was triggered by a developer at a member screwing up the API, overriding the checks and causing a mistrade. What really caused the problems was not the impact on the market but on the cash market. Functionally it is clear that if an index future changes then the component shares must also change and anything linked to those shares via a portfolio.
Being the one that gets dragged in to support the family PCs, I can see a lot of benefit to giving them a special sandbox to install stuff into (or even to browse the internet). I haven't used MS's virtual PC, but I have used other virtualisation environments. I'm sure it could be very easy to create a pre-virtualised app in the way that VMWare does its virtual appliances.
Btw, I hate home editions too, but you would be supplied and how many people running SOHOs get themselves boxed in by buying PCs with XP home preloaded.
A very good point. When you need a bunch of lawyers to explain to you whether a regular use is within the license agreement, then maybe something is desperately wrong (and I should ditch my CS and learn law instead). A fundemental use for any developer would be under a VM to see if they can install on a clean environment. Should every developer go for the professional ultimate edition?
Ah well, if MS continues to shoot themselves in the foot then the more users that Linux may get. Unfortunately, it can also take a lawyer to understand the implications of the GPL.
The stock market isn't just gambling. At least, in theory you are buying a 'piece' of the action. What is a gamble are derivatives. In fact you will find that some derivatives really are being sold by bookmakers, say spread bets.
One of the key problems of LTCM was slippage, that is the lag between needing to trade and the execution. Slippage can be caused by speed of access to the market (not an issue for LTCM, but a problem for those who do not have direct or near dircet access to the market) and also liquidity. Your algorithm may tell you that you need to buy a secutrity, but there aren't enough to buy so the price jumps too quickly.
Note that LTCM had privileged market access with effective direct backing from major banks. That meant rather than covering their own positions, due to the participation by the banks, it was their money that provided collateral (no longer permitted). In effect, LTCM going would then have caused several major clearing banks to go, and not just in the US but wherever LTCM were trading.
I am not aware of any real long term benefit in Elliot waves or so called Fibonacci trading. However as with any theory where there are a number of adherants, you can simply follow the flow. This will generally work until there is a major market adjustment.
and how to build a complex epicyclic movement with ancient Greek tech? Sure, they had gears, but this is rather more of a mechanism. Our (so-called modern) astrolabes were quite crude by comparison, as were our clocks until the 16th Century or later.
I have an out of contract phone, a Nokia 6680 direct from a UK air-time provider , Vodafone. The original contract has expired an I have moved to another country. I have requested an unlock code, but Vodafone seems to have difficulties doing that.
The annoying thing is that I appear to need to pay an unlocker to release the net lock before I can use it in another country (ironically, another bit of Vodafone). Vodafone themselves have no problems with the idea of unlocking the phone, it just seems that they can't do that in reality as the unlocker apparently isn't in house. (it needs to be run by Nokia).
The phone was sold to me on the basis that it would be unlocked after a year (I explained that I may be transferred to another country at some point).
NASA have been in the software development business since whenever. It all gets contracted out and a lot of it ends up being released at some point. Sure they can use a 'feature-complete' commercial engine, but it will probably implement a bunch of things they don't need and it will be expensive anyway.
Forget Mars, we could be well on our way to Jupiter. According to this we are talking about a little under $350 billion or so. This will be much more before a successful exit.
Ah but the cute thing is that any 'improvements' made by NASA would go back into the open code base. Note the suggestion earlier was to use the ODE for physics. Yes, it would be 'bitty' with serveral FOSS products to replace one commercial engine, but look at what it would give back to the community.
The big consultancies get software at very low cost and often have links with major software producers (i.e., shared board members). They are seen as evangelists and act as a major sales channel with corresponding access to products and support. Their clients pay substantially more as end users. However, if you can afford one of the big consultancies, then a few $100K of license fees is a relatively small cost compared to the consulting services
The use of open source can improve things for the consultancies, after all, they can build up a substantially better service to their clients. At the same time, it is sometimes useful for a consultancy to be able to blame the vendor (in much the same way that a CIO can blame the consultancy when things go wrong).
The point that I was making is that the devices can make VoIP calls. It was intended for WiFI but a data connection is just another access point as far as the telephony software is concerned. The big issue is that terminating a call in a PSTN network can cost too much. Part of that is the PSTN's hook-up charges, part of it is your air time provider's margin. The margin isn't fixed so if I call international, the call becomes very expensive. Now if you are concentrated in the airtime market, you are being limited by the PSTN so it is advantageous to bypass them which VoIP does nicely.
Unfortunately, in many cases the airtime provider makes so much money from the call termination that they don't want to give this up.
Ah but many PDA phones and some of the new Nokia phones (E61, E80) have WiFi. You can run VoIP over a WiFi either at home or through local hotspots supplied by your provider (or anywhere else).
The 1802 was designed 'down' as a controller for unfriendly environments such as space. It was also completely CMOS so used very little power. Although the instruction set was 'quirky', the processor was quite important becuase of the applications. Of course, the 4004 and later the 4040 were 'made' by washing-machines. That is to say if you build something cheap enough to replace the elctromechanical mechanisms (drum-timers) in domestic equipment - such as washing machines then your market is huge.
An important thing to remember is that many officers look at the rest of the world dividing it into 'Citizens' and 'Criminals'. Once perceived as 'Criminal', it is very much a matter of just applying pressure until they can find a justification to lock you away. Regrettably, although you were only guilty by association, it would be very difficult for the police to regard you as a citizen again.
Have you had any problems since then, for example, if stopped for speeding, have this turned into a full search? The original investigation may have been closed down, but notes can be made on your record.
If memory serves me right, C first came about on a PDP-11. You had a program counter, PC or R7, the main stack, SP or R6. You also had five other general purpose registers (but you could do arithmetic on R6 and R7 as well), and the instruction set being nicely orthogonal, although the return address always went on the stack, any register could be used as the argument list pointer. Note that towards the end of life, the later 11s even implemented seperate I and D spaces which made it impossible to stick code on the stack and force its execution. The killer for multiple stacks though was the limited address space, 64K per process.
The thing is that although C primitives mapped onto the PDP-11 instruction set very well, C was designed as a system programming language, so it was intentionally quite lean.
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Probably they missed out on no. 2. Pain management is well developed in the UK because of experience with long-term cancer care. I believe (and hope) that on admission to hospital he didn't feel a thing. The person committing the murder may not be aware of this as this area of russian medecine was less well developed. However the victim would be aware that he was being killed and this is the kind of thing that certain sickos on the edges of a rogue security service may appreciate.
If you want to hurt Putin, it is easiest to do so bt proxy. Gazprom, the state gas and oil company is effectively an organ of Kremlin policy. The company is publically listed and even allows foreign shareholders, but the Kremlin retains control through their majority holding. They already supply a lot of gas to western europe and they are looking to buy up the supply chain, in particular RWE in Germany and Centrica in the UK. As both companies are publicly owned and Gazprom is run by the Kremlin, I'm sure that any such purchase could be reasonably blocked by their respective governmen ts or even the EU. That's unless Blair or Merkel are looking for a Gazprom directorship like Markel's predecessor.
Gazprom still needs access to foreign capital and expertsie. As a state organ, there is much corruption and it is run very inefficiently, as evidenced by its failure to develop fields. Sure the company makes money, but at the same time, it is losing it, with no outside help, this is likely to continue.
You missed out on the assassination of Galina Starovoitova in 98. Not in Putin's time, but she was firmly in favour of democracy and transparency. She would certainly have upset some of the people behind Putin.
I disagree, George Smiley was a gentleman (even when his wife was having an affair). It was Karla that was the ruthless whatever and he was KGB in the books heading up a department at 'Moscow Centre'. Interestingly enough Karla is supposed to be based on Markus Wolf who headed the East German Stasi.
The accounts of the Slotin incident all mention a wave of heat being felt by the observers who were closest to the experiment. The air wouldn't have been heated directly, more likely it it was the surfaces of the Pu hemispheres heating up with the reaction. Note that we do feel radiated heat quite well (particularly on the face), it isn't necessary for there to be any direct stimulation of the nerves from other forms of radiation.
At Univerisity, I was making some tapes and was rather annoyed by breakthrough SSB (I couldn't decode it but recognised the type of interference). I took a wonder over to the Ham radio shack and they running an HF transmitter into a 2kw linear amp. Interestingly enough, the regulations said 450wPEP, quite considerably less. We then had a nice discussion about them messing up my tapes. However, whennever they stopped, the interference stopped. Note that the kit was fairly well RF isolated because of its normal use at the student discos and so on with lots of potential triac buzz from the lights. HF was a much higher frequency so it walked over the filters.
On a previous job, I had a market crash to analyse and simulate, to see how electronic trading could be automatically suspended. From my own work (which had privileged access to the order books), it was clear that the sh*t hits the fan when the stops are touched. In our case, the crash was triggered by a developer at a member screwing up the API, overriding the checks and causing a mistrade. What really caused the problems was not the impact on the market but on the cash market. Functionally it is clear that if an index future changes then the component shares must also change and anything linked to those shares via a portfolio.
Btw, I hate home editions too, but you would be supplied and how many people running SOHOs get themselves boxed in by buying PCs with XP home preloaded.
Ah well, if MS continues to shoot themselves in the foot then the more users that Linux may get. Unfortunately, it can also take a lawyer to understand the implications of the GPL.
The stock market isn't just gambling. At least, in theory you are buying a 'piece' of the action. What is a gamble are derivatives. In fact you will find that some derivatives really are being sold by bookmakers, say spread bets.
Note that LTCM had privileged market access with effective direct backing from major banks. That meant rather than covering their own positions, due to the participation by the banks, it was their money that provided collateral (no longer permitted). In effect, LTCM going would then have caused several major clearing banks to go, and not just in the US but wherever LTCM were trading.
I am not aware of any real long term benefit in Elliot waves or so called Fibonacci trading. However as with any theory where there are a number of adherants, you can simply follow the flow. This will generally work until there is a major market adjustment.
and how to build a complex epicyclic movement with ancient Greek tech? Sure, they had gears, but this is rather more of a mechanism. Our (so-called modern) astrolabes were quite crude by comparison, as were our clocks until the 16th Century or later.
The annoying thing is that I appear to need to pay an unlocker to release the net lock before I can use it in another country (ironically, another bit of Vodafone). Vodafone themselves have no problems with the idea of unlocking the phone, it just seems that they can't do that in reality as the unlocker apparently isn't in house. (it needs to be run by Nokia).
The phone was sold to me on the basis that it would be unlocked after a year (I explained that I may be transferred to another country at some point).
NASA have been in the software development business since whenever. It all gets contracted out and a lot of it ends up being released at some point. Sure they can use a 'feature-complete' commercial engine, but it will probably implement a bunch of things they don't need and it will be expensive anyway.
Forget Mars, we could be well on our way to Jupiter. According to this we are talking about a little under $350 billion or so. This will be much more before a successful exit.
Ah but the cute thing is that any 'improvements' made by NASA would go back into the open code base. Note the suggestion earlier was to use the ODE for physics. Yes, it would be 'bitty' with serveral FOSS products to replace one commercial engine, but look at what it would give back to the community.
The use of open source can improve things for the consultancies, after all, they can build up a substantially better service to their clients. At the same time, it is sometimes useful for a consultancy to be able to blame the vendor (in much the same way that a CIO can blame the consultancy when things go wrong).
Unfortunately, in many cases the airtime provider makes so much money from the call termination that they don't want to give this up.
Ah but many PDA phones and some of the new Nokia phones (E61, E80) have WiFi. You can run VoIP over a WiFi either at home or through local hotspots supplied by your provider (or anywhere else).
Possibly I did, but at such a young age I didn't know what to do with them.
The 1802 was designed 'down' as a controller for unfriendly environments such as space. It was also completely CMOS so used very little power. Although the instruction set was 'quirky', the processor was quite important becuase of the applications. Of course, the 4004 and later the 4040 were 'made' by washing-machines. That is to say if you build something cheap enough to replace the elctromechanical mechanisms (drum-timers) in domestic equipment - such as washing machines then your market is huge.
Have you had any problems since then, for example, if stopped for speeding, have this turned into a full search? The original investigation may have been closed down, but notes can be made on your record.
The thing is that although C primitives mapped onto the PDP-11 instruction set very well, C was designed as a system programming language, so it was intentionally quite lean.