re:haven't been to SanFran yet (only to places like Mountain View and San Jose :>)
I like the train stations in Mountain View and Palo Alto. The Palo Alto stop on California avenue has great easy access to many restaurants, and is a short walk from the south-east corner of Stanford University. (I hope to make use of that station frequently if I get into Stanford someday). It's easy to take the train from the suburbs up to San Francisco that way, or to the SFO airport, and then connect on BART from SF to Oakland or Berkeley. I think travelers can get a "week pass" for the bus or a "month pass" for the bus or for BART, but I really can't remember the price for it from when I was up there last summer. Boston's T was just around 2 bucks, and the city + cambrdige are easily walkable so you can even skip the T and just walk around between MIT and Harvard and BU and Tufts and the Art Museum and downtown Boston. The bridges are beautiful to walk over in that area, whereas San Diego and LA are hellish and impossible to move around in without a car. LA is really meant for the car culture that is the USA. I had not known about the WVa Univ SkyTran like thing. Is that something like the disney monorail? And the big express thing in LA is the Express Bus on Wilshire Avenue going from east to west. .
The problem is always that "locals" in some areas do not want easy public transportation access. Here in La Jolla, I've learned that UCSD turned down the ability to have a commuter rail stop nearby, whereas SDSU over closer to downtown (with 40k-45k student population) and I-8 has a subterranean station for the commuter rail system which makes it really easy to get from there to downtown or to the airport, or to transfer from downtown to the commuter rail with stops in La Jolla, Del Mars, Encinitias and further up, including all the wy to LA or SF. I think the La Jollans do not want "outsiders" easily able to come onto campus or town (as if La Jolla is a separate governmental entity, it's just a neighborhood in San Diego, an expensive one, but really only a neighborhood name).
As to Greyhound, I've got family that's ridden busses in new england on "Pilgrim" or "Plymouth" and "Bonanza", and they do have a lot of stops, but are useful for in between towns. But then again, all of New England encompasses less area than 1/3 of California! And Rhode Island is smaller than either San Diego or Los Angeles counties!
Boston (and, to a lesser extent), San Francisco and a little bit of the surrounding areas are not as densely populated as Manhattan but are decent examples of the success of public transportation. I've visted SF more than Boston, but I was very impressed by how easily you could get around Boston on the T and then walk to most places from the stations. The suburbs could use more buses, but you could also take trains to Providence or Hartford or Yale (New Haven?) or to New York city and even to Washington DC. San Francisco is decently criss-crossed by buses, but it's a much smaller area, and the BART does not do a great job going down the peninsula but does get you across to Berkeley or Oakland. I think if they invested more in the infrastructure and ran more often, fewer people would need to use cars. .
But a poorly distributed and poorly timed (frequency, or hours of operation starting too late or ending too early) transportation system just means that you need to have your own car/bike/motorcycle to get you where you want to go when you need to go. I hope to end up in Boston for college. I might know even more about the T then, to be able to argue with even more facts. .
But when the density of stations or bus stop locatoins is high enough, you can walk to the location of your choice from the public transport endpoints/waystops. That's how it really ought to be.
You know that Apple released a "windowed graphical user interface" before Microsoft did, right? And so did MIT on X with X windows on Project Athena. And that Microsoft Windows was the latecomer to the party, just like it was late to realize that TCP/IP stack would be useful to have available to the Operating System.
Hmmm... android winning... windows dying... Is it finally the year of linux on the laptop? (even if it's an intel androidy laptop) .
I thought that the sub-$300 laptops were declared dead last year and at the beginning of this year. Are people finally realizing that holding a tablet upright isn't all that it's cracked up to be? :>)
And also that {unbundling a touchscreen laptop and selling its parts individually as a touchscreen tablet + case cover + attachable keyboard + carryalong recharger which ends up costing twice the cost of the comparable bundled together laptop in the firstplace} is untenable in a market-place where people are still interested in saving money.
The standard argument against public transportation always forgets that the capability scales up easily and provides a lower cost ultimately. Most of the first objections against public transportation take the full cost of the service and instead of amortizing it over multiple years and a larger populace served says "why only 4000 people will ride the bus! Instead of spending 80 million on 4 thousand people, we could just give each of them 20 thousand to buy their own car and we'd be better off!! We don't need bus service!". But giving those people cars won't solve anything when another 30 thousand people want to use the bus later. But building the bus system with available excess capacity will help out in the longer term .
It's the same way with building out and deploying this high speed network access. The cost is amortized over multiple years. Why is it that when the gov't pays for it directly, people get riled up but when the government sneaks it out as a subsidy or a give-away of public right of way access to monopolies provided by private corporations, no one realizes the actual cost of what is being given away?
The real article about the "dance tax" in Washington is at http://jeffreifman.com/2013/04/12/seattle-dance-clubs-fundraise-to-pay-microsofts-tax-bill/ , whereas this/. article only links to the boingboing article which then links to the dance tax article. The short version: washington caves to ms and allows them to bail on 1.5 billion (BILLION!!!!) dollars in tax liability, then it goes on a crusade to nickel-and-dime other businesses for obscure tiny laws like
providing the "opportunity to dance", proven by yelp postings that "people like to dance here" or by obituaries that mention that XYZ "liked to dance at $geoloc".
In other words, the rich get to write the laws (or fund the writing of laws, wink, wink) that allow them to avoid taxes whilst the poor (or relatively poor-er) get told to pay higher taxes. Sounds like the republican platform has taken over all of washington state to me.
First, they learn about lobbying. Then, what they learn in lobbying is that greasing the wheel requires either
a - hiring some politico's kid, niece, girlfriend, cousin, dad, mistress (what's the male version of mistress?), or such
b - hiring some politico's flunky as soon as they leave office to teach you how to reach the politico or to give you special access to former coworkers
c - hiring some politico when they leave office
Then, they figure out that instead of hiring at the end of the cycle, why not embed somebody in directly at the beginning of the cycle? Have current or recently current employees run for office, and also looking out for the best interests of their employer / former employer. .
Next, they figure out how to do all of this at a lower cost. Easy ways to lower cost:
- decrease tax liability
- - decrease taxes
- - increase credits for employment, etc
- increase profits
- - require your software to be purchased
- - make your software a de facto requirement for even transacting business with the government
- - make tax rules in your favor
Why pay for the hamsters to run on the wheel when you can own the hamsters yourself? [can you tell that ihashhasst? : i have a seventies hippy history and social-sciences teacher]
In the past, they used to stick it to american or any non-chinese company by allowing them to build a factory in china to produce what they make, and then nationalizing that factory and kicking that company out of china. La voila! Instant new means of production for some item they were not capable of manufacturing before!
Okay, from what I've read on the wikipedia pages:
Internet2 is a consortium that runs a secondary internet network between 200 educational institutions on a fiber optic network (originally called abilene) but now provided by L3 communications. It's big thing when it started out was its very high capacity bandwidth and low latency allowing for rapid wide-band communication between supercomputer centers like UIUC and UCSD's supercomputing center and various
CAVE environments were the demo toys of that era (like ten years ago, chickies!).
Now when you think about what the military's networks are, you've got:
MILNET
that came out of
ARPANET and remained the military portion of it.
the
Nonclassified Internet Protocol Router Network
subnets of the internet
SIPRNet which is the "Secure Internet Protocol Router Network", a separate-from but parallel-to the regular internet network used by the military for secure comms to transmit classified information.
So I'm guessing that the military's Internet2 is going to be a 100Gbit fiber at the ends network which is being deployed by whomever to allow for a SIPRnet-like secure communication channel for classified information over a parallel-network which is separate from (and securely separate from) the regular internet and the "regular" Internet2 accessible to universities created by the internet2 consortium. So like Internet2, but more secure and separate.
The "no contract" portion is for the pay-as-you go cellular phone service. The "contract" portion, which some people may choose to utilize is for paying for a telephone over time with multiple payments spread out over some months to years. That "contract" portion is not needed if you bring your own phone. Perhaps if T-Mobile were more explicit in their ads saying
No contract if you bring your own phone to the game. Otherwise, still no contract for the monthly service, just a contract to buy the phone over time but with that cost explicitly stated instead of hidden and bundled into the monthly telephone+cell-service contract
I can see how people might get tricked or confused, but that's only if they don't have a brain. And I think, IMHO, that this particular AG has demonstrated that either he does NOT have a brain or that the one he has is not functioning as well as he believes it does. Hmmm... low brain activity... does this automatically qualify him for a congressional political run?;>)
Can I sign it (the Schrödinger's Contract) with quantum cryptography? Then no one, even myself, will know what I've signed or even whether I've signed it...
Hello inventors!
I am nigerian prince with excess money to burn and no nuerons firring in my brainz. Please to give me your ideas and pay the small sum of 10 dollars americain in order to be part of the game. You shall receive feedback. Please to make way through the egress sign after giving me your money. .
{ten-dollars-deposited-tone} .
{dial-tone}... hello? hello....?? anyone there???? .
What, you fell for that "inventor's help-line" scam again? They used to have it by p.o. box, then by 800-numbers, then on web-sites, and now on a "social" aggregation site. It's the new scam, same as the old scam. Sorry, Who.
Consent, eh? Really?
-- Consent, or get back on that airplane!
-- Consent, or get into that jail!
-- (DUI checkpoint, consensual, of course) : consent, or give up your driving privileges, and line up over there for your breathalyser test!
-- (Border patrol checkpoint, right outside San Onofre Nuke plant, on I-5 north bound and southbound, about 50 miles NORTH of the California-BajaCalifornia USA-Mexico) border -- consent or step out of the car please
-- (Watertown MA, search for a terrorist, where did I misplace those 4th amendment rights, weren't they here just yesterday?) -- we're coming into your house NOW, consent or we're pulling you out anyway and we've got automatic weapons, so consent NOW!
-- (DUI checkpoint) -- roll down your windows and answer these questions, with your CONSENT! Hey, don't make a u-turn, we'll chase you DOWN for not CONSENTING to this intrusive non-probable-cause DUI checkpoint!!! .
I musta signed that consent during that EULA as I was coming out of the womb, yeah, that must have been when I consented to all of this crap...
So wait, from your description alone, it sounds like reading/. on mobile is the same as a summarization technology. The summarization is just done by "editors" (god I'm trying not to laugh) "editing" (must... keep... straight... face...) articles already submitted as summaries of pre-existing articles posted elsewhere on other sites. So if I repackaged an RSS feed of m.(/.).org and "mobilized" it so it works even "better" on twitter, I could be bought out for a gaba-za-billion dollahs? Must find fake software front now! .
On the other hand, as for the need for connections, didn't someone named Bill do something like this?
-- Get a contact at IBM through his rich mother...
-- tell them he has the software which they'll need
-- go out and buy someone else's premade software that does what he claims he'd be able to do
-- make buckets of money
[refs, please see any history you care to find on ms and how they landed their bonanza contract for IBM]
True, and what did the initial hacking of the AP Twitter account have to do with HFT? Has anyone shown definitively that any burps that occured in HFT transactions were caused by the algorithmic automatic trading or that they occurred because of human intervention? Again, I replied to the contention of the (prior) GGP post, not to the concept of HFT in general.
dude, read the GP post. I was replying to the GP post's contention that HFT has helped everyone, including the buy-and-hold-er by decreasing transaction costs. I respectfully disagreed. You may need to read in "thread mode" to see the give-and-take of the conversation to which I was responding.:>)
First of all, the MPG (miles per gallon) quoted for combustion engines consuming standard gasoline or diesel gasoline are stated for the amount of miles driven per gallon of fuel expended. .
The "gallon of water" expended is not the consumible fuel, but part of the solvent required to dissolve the metal which serves as the consumible fuel. So you're comparing apples and oranges, or to use a car analogy, you're comparing a consumible fuel (gasoline) to a solvent (distilled water) rather than comparing it to the cost of the dissolved metal electrode lost (the consumed electrode is the fuel). .
So to get a real cost comparison, you'd have to know how many miles (M) you'll get out of the battery and what the replacement cost of the battery is (B), and add it to the cost of the "demineralized" distilled water that will have to be added until the battery needs to be replaced (will that be 100 "fill ups" or 267 fill ups and how many gallons will it be?) Say you need G gallons, and distilled water costs D per gallon. So now your miles are M, and your total cost (not counting oil, repairs, and whatnot) is B + G*D. .
So your cost per mile is M \div (B + G*D). The IRS allows you to deduct about 0.555 dollars per mile for business use, so say that a car costs in toto 55.5 cents per mile. Say you've got a car that gets 30 MPG nowadays, and gas is just under $4 per gallon. You're paying 13.33 cents per mile in consumible fuel costs for that gas combustion engine. (So the IRS is guessing that the rest of the cost for running your car [insurance, maintenance, oil changes, etc] is about 40 cents per mile). Can your electric car really come in under that cost? Tesla wants to charge $15000 for a 60kwh battery that may (only "may") last 6 or eight years. What's the replacement electrode and battery cost for this thing? When there are concrete numbers out there, then it's viability or utility can be calculated. .
But you can't just count the cost of the distilled water or calculate a miles per gallon of distilled water when the distilled water alone is NOT the consumible fuel component!
Yeah, but even if the transaction cost has decreased, they can screw you over in other ways, like timing your sale for the time of day they want to say it occurred so that you get the lowest possible price and timing your purchase for the time of day so that you get the highest possible price. The big brokers, as market makers, can game your transactions so as to make themselves, as market makers, the most amount of money and still be able to say with a straight face that "they carried out your transaction as you requested". They can also play on the "dark markets" where bigger transactions and movements occur, so that the rest of the market and the little schmoes never really see the momentum of the full market.
reThey mention "Al Queda in Iran." ---
So...exactly how powerful is a Wahabbi Sunni sect in an iron-fisted Shiite country?
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It's because the idiots who believe these things make mistakes in what they believe and what they write in their scripts. If they want to provoke an incident in Iran, they create stories with their worst possible bogey-man in Iran: hence their choice of AQ, which logic would show would definitely not be in Iran, as your comment so correctly points out. But when you wants idiots to believes your stories, you tells them whats they wants to hearz. .
Was there even a real plot in the first place? Or was there only a scenario scripted, funded, produced, and directed by "informants" and governmental agencies to further their own ends?
The Patriot Act extended the concept further, making it illegal to attempt or conspire to provide material support. Before, prosecutors had to prove you gave support. Now they just have to show you wanted to. .
That change, along with other newly exploited vagueness in the existing material-support laws, opened up a whole new path for prosecutors. In the Padilla case and others, the government has argued successfully that a suspect is guilty of attempting to provide material support even if the plot he allegedly supported was purely a government concoction or, just as curious, even if the government hadn't said what group or plot the accused might have been supporting. -- from Department of Precrime
Are you using Solaris on x86 or on MIPS? My parents actually have an SGI Indy with IRIX 6.x.something which I've played with, and a NeXT cube with NeXT-Step on it, and an old CPM machine. But there are no Solaris pizza boxes here. Is it possible to still download Solaris for x86? They've also got a big blue SGI with an x86 chip in it that's supposed to run windows NT but we've never found disks and drivers that work on it. (this is along with the trs-80 4k level one and the Apple ][+ which I played with as a kid about ten years ago and learned my BASIC on. Can't beat a TRS-80 for bootup, click button, it's on, but no DOS, just cassette storage!).
A fake debt collection agency sends out fake dunning notices? Pay them with fake money!! It only seems fair, IMHO.:>) .
Pick your poison:
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bitcoin
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S&H green stamps
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Canadian tire money
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Indian Zero Rupee notes
-- Scrip unfortunately does not count, because scrip is defined to be "legal tender" or the "extension of credit"
re: So in other words, it should do what Solaris 10 did years ago? .
Yes!!!
Sure, why not? That's the sad part with too much software. Sometimes, developers add change for the sake of change (or for power trips), rather than for expressly improving the software or its usability. If solaris did it back then that way, then it did it right. Someone else pointed out that for a while redhat bootup did that too. Too bad redhat went away from there. IMHO, a nice clean boot with the option to see details as needed (and of course the ability to redirect bootup messages to a serial console for serious debugging issues when something really screws up) is the right way to do it.
re: No objects, the syntax is not orthogonal (octave is a clone but seems to have done indices right, at least) .
A couple of questions for you. I tried to look up "orthogonal syntax" on wikipedia, but the only mention of "orthogonal" on
"Programming Languages" is on "weak and strong typing" rather than in the
"syntax" section. What exactly do you mean by "orthogonal syntax"? .
I've played with Octave, but I've never had the chance to play with Matlab proper. What's the difference in how they deal with indices? .
And does your "no objects" statement mean that you can't define a type and create new instances of it, or is it about "object oriented programming" style availability in writing the matlab/octave programs? Thanks ahead of time for replying to this!:>)
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re:haven't been to SanFran yet (only to places like Mountain View and San Jose
:>)
I like the train stations in Mountain View and Palo Alto. The Palo Alto stop on California avenue has great easy access to many restaurants, and is a short walk from the south-east corner of Stanford University. (I hope to make use of that station frequently if I get into Stanford someday). It's easy to take the train from the suburbs up to San Francisco that way, or to the SFO airport, and then connect on BART from SF to Oakland or Berkeley. I think travelers can get a "week pass" for the bus or a "month pass" for the bus or for BART, but I really can't remember the price for it from when I was up there last summer. Boston's T was just around 2 bucks, and the city + cambrdige are easily walkable so you can even skip the T and just walk around between MIT and Harvard and BU and Tufts and the Art Museum and downtown Boston. The bridges are beautiful to walk over in that area, whereas San Diego and LA are hellish and impossible to move around in without a car. LA is really meant for the car culture that is the USA. I had not known about the WVa Univ SkyTran like thing. Is that something like the disney monorail? And the big express thing in LA is the Express Bus on Wilshire Avenue going from east to west.
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The problem is always that "locals" in some areas do not want easy public transportation access. Here in La Jolla, I've learned that UCSD turned down the ability to have a commuter rail stop nearby, whereas SDSU over closer to downtown (with 40k-45k student population) and I-8 has a subterranean station for the commuter rail system which makes it really easy to get from there to downtown or to the airport, or to transfer from downtown to the commuter rail with stops in La Jolla, Del Mars, Encinitias and further up, including all the wy to LA or SF. I think the La Jollans do not want "outsiders" easily able to come onto campus or town (as if La Jolla is a separate governmental entity, it's just a neighborhood in San Diego, an expensive one, but really only a neighborhood name).
As to Greyhound, I've got family that's ridden busses in new england on "Pilgrim" or "Plymouth" and "Bonanza", and they do have a lot of stops, but are useful for in between towns. But then again, all of New England encompasses less area than 1/3 of California! And Rhode Island is smaller than either San Diego or Los Angeles counties!
Boston (and, to a lesser extent), San Francisco and a little bit of the surrounding areas are not as densely populated as Manhattan but are decent examples of the success of public transportation. I've visted SF more than Boston, but I was very impressed by how easily you could get around Boston on the T and then walk to most places from the stations. The suburbs could use more buses, but you could also take trains to Providence or Hartford or Yale (New Haven?) or to New York city and even to Washington DC. San Francisco is decently criss-crossed by buses, but it's a much smaller area, and the BART does not do a great job going down the peninsula but does get you across to Berkeley or Oakland. I think if they invested more in the infrastructure and ran more often, fewer people would need to use cars.
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But a poorly distributed and poorly timed (frequency, or hours of operation starting too late or ending too early) transportation system just means that you need to have your own car/bike/motorcycle to get you where you want to go when you need to go. I hope to end up in Boston for college. I might know even more about the T then, to be able to argue with even more facts.
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But when the density of stations or bus stop locatoins is high enough, you can walk to the location of your choice from the public transport endpoints/waystops. That's how it really ought to be.
You know that Apple released a "windowed graphical user interface" before Microsoft did, right? And so did MIT on X with X windows on Project Athena. And that Microsoft Windows was the latecomer to the party, just like it was late to realize that TCP/IP stack would be useful to have available to the Operating System.
Hmmm... android winning... windows dying... Is it finally the year of linux on the laptop? (even if it's an intel androidy laptop)
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I thought that the sub-$300 laptops were declared dead last year and at the beginning of this year. Are people finally realizing that holding a tablet upright isn't all that it's cracked up to be?
:>)
And also that {unbundling a touchscreen laptop and selling its parts individually as a touchscreen tablet + case cover + attachable keyboard + carryalong recharger which ends up costing twice the cost of the comparable bundled together laptop in the firstplace} is untenable in a market-place where people are still interested in saving money.
The standard argument against public transportation always forgets that the capability scales up easily and provides a lower cost ultimately. Most of the first objections against public transportation take the full cost of the service and instead of amortizing it over multiple years and a larger populace served says "why only 4000 people will ride the bus! Instead of spending 80 million on 4 thousand people, we could just give each of them 20 thousand to buy their own car and we'd be better off!! We don't need bus service!". But giving those people cars won't solve anything when another 30 thousand people want to use the bus later. But building the bus system with available excess capacity will help out in the longer term
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It's the same way with building out and deploying this high speed network access. The cost is amortized over multiple years. Why is it that when the gov't pays for it directly, people get riled up but when the government sneaks it out as a subsidy or a give-away of public right of way access to monopolies provided by private corporations, no one realizes the actual cost of what is being given away?
In other words, the rich get to write the laws (or fund the writing of laws, wink, wink) that allow them to avoid taxes whilst the poor (or relatively poor-er) get told to pay higher taxes. Sounds like the republican platform has taken over all of washington state to me.
b - hiring some politico's flunky as soon as they leave office to teach you how to reach the politico or to give you special access to former coworkers
c - hiring some politico when they leave office
Then, they figure out that instead of hiring at the end of the cycle, why not embed somebody in directly at the beginning of the cycle? Have current or recently current employees run for office, and also looking out for the best interests of their employer / former employer.
- decrease tax liability.
Next, they figure out how to do all of this at a lower cost. Easy ways to lower cost:
- - decrease taxes
- - increase credits for employment, etc
- increase profits
- - require your software to be purchased
- - make your software a de facto requirement for even transacting business with the government
- - make tax rules in your favor
Why pay for the hamsters to run on the wheel when you can own the hamsters yourself? [can you tell that ihashhasst? : i have a seventies hippy history and social-sciences teacher]
In the past, they used to stick it to american or any non-chinese company by allowing them to build a factory in china to produce what they make, and then nationalizing that factory and kicking that company out of china. La voila! Instant new means of production for some item they were not capable of manufacturing before!
and in other news, the USA chides other countries for human rights violations while we still operate Guantanamo...
Now when you think about what the military's networks are, you've got:
MILNET that came out of ARPANET and remained the military portion of it.the Nonclassified Internet Protocol Router Network subnets of the internet
SIPRNet which is the "Secure Internet Protocol Router Network", a separate-from but parallel-to the regular internet network used by the military for secure comms to transmit classified information.
So I'm guessing that the military's Internet2 is going to be a 100Gbit fiber at the ends network which is being deployed by whomever to allow for a SIPRnet-like secure communication channel for classified information over a parallel-network which is separate from (and securely separate from) the regular internet and the "regular" Internet2 accessible to universities created by the internet2 consortium. So like Internet2, but more secure and separate.
I can see how people might get tricked or confused, but that's only if they don't have a brain. And I think, IMHO, that this particular AG has demonstrated that either he does NOT have a brain or that the one he has is not functioning as well as he believes it does. Hmmm... low brain activity... does this automatically qualify him for a congressional political run? ;>)
Can I sign it (the Schrödinger's Contract) with quantum cryptography? Then no one, even myself, will know what I've signed or even whether I've signed it...
Hello inventors!
I am nigerian prince with excess money to burn and no nuerons firring in my brainz. Please to give me your ideas and pay the small sum of 10 dollars americain in order to be part of the game. You shall receive feedback. Please to make way through the egress sign after giving me your money.
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{ten-dollars-deposited-tone}
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{dial-tone}... hello? hello....?? anyone there????
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What, you fell for that "inventor's help-line" scam again? They used to have it by p.o. box, then by 800-numbers, then on web-sites, and now on a "social" aggregation site. It's the new scam, same as the old scam. Sorry, Who.
something done by Daniel Hillis and Margaret Minsky (minsky's daughter?) at M.I.T. in 1977
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Daniel_Hillis#Education_and_researchConsent, eh? Really?
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-- Consent, or get back on that airplane!
-- Consent, or get into that jail!
-- (DUI checkpoint, consensual, of course) : consent, or give up your driving privileges, and line up over there for your breathalyser test!
-- (Border patrol checkpoint, right outside San Onofre Nuke plant, on I-5 north bound and southbound, about 50 miles NORTH of the California-BajaCalifornia USA-Mexico) border -- consent or step out of the car please
-- (Watertown MA, search for a terrorist, where did I misplace those 4th amendment rights, weren't they here just yesterday?) -- we're coming into your house NOW, consent or we're pulling you out anyway and we've got automatic weapons, so consent NOW!
-- (DUI checkpoint) -- roll down your windows and answer these questions, with your CONSENT! Hey, don't make a u-turn, we'll chase you DOWN for not CONSENTING to this intrusive non-probable-cause DUI checkpoint!!!
I musta signed that consent during that EULA as I was coming out of the womb, yeah, that must have been when I consented to all of this crap...
So wait, from your description alone, it sounds like reading /. on mobile is the same as a summarization technology. The summarization is just done by "editors" (god I'm trying not to laugh) "editing" (must... keep... straight... face...) articles already submitted as summaries of pre-existing articles posted elsewhere on other sites. So if I repackaged an RSS feed of m.(/.).org and "mobilized" it so it works even "better" on twitter, I could be bought out for a gaba-za-billion dollahs? Must find fake software front now!
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On the other hand, as for the need for connections, didn't someone named Bill do something like this? -- Get a contact at IBM through his rich mother...
-- tell them he has the software which they'll need
-- go out and buy someone else's premade software that does what he claims he'd be able to do
-- make buckets of money
[refs, please see any history you care to find on ms and how they landed their bonanza contract for IBM]
True, and what did the initial hacking of the AP Twitter account have to do with HFT? Has anyone shown definitively that any burps that occured in HFT transactions were caused by the algorithmic automatic trading or that they occurred because of human intervention? Again, I replied to the contention of the (prior) GGP post, not to the concept of HFT in general.
dude, read the GP post. I was replying to the GP post's contention that HFT has helped everyone, including the buy-and-hold-er by decreasing transaction costs. I respectfully disagreed. You may need to read in "thread mode" to see the give-and-take of the conversation to which I was responding. :>)
First of all, the MPG (miles per gallon) quoted for combustion engines consuming standard gasoline or diesel gasoline are stated for the amount of miles driven per gallon of fuel expended.
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The "gallon of water" expended is not the consumible fuel, but part of the solvent required to dissolve the metal which serves as the consumible fuel. So you're comparing apples and oranges, or to use a car analogy, you're comparing a consumible fuel (gasoline) to a solvent (distilled water) rather than comparing it to the cost of the dissolved metal electrode lost (the consumed electrode is the fuel).
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So to get a real cost comparison, you'd have to know how many miles (M) you'll get out of the battery and what the replacement cost of the battery is (B), and add it to the cost of the "demineralized" distilled water that will have to be added until the battery needs to be replaced (will that be 100 "fill ups" or 267 fill ups and how many gallons will it be?) Say you need G gallons, and distilled water costs D per gallon. So now your miles are M, and your total cost (not counting oil, repairs, and whatnot) is B + G*D.
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So your cost per mile is M \div (B + G*D). The IRS allows you to deduct about 0.555 dollars per mile for business use, so say that a car costs in toto 55.5 cents per mile. Say you've got a car that gets 30 MPG nowadays, and gas is just under $4 per gallon. You're paying 13.33 cents per mile in consumible fuel costs for that gas combustion engine. (So the IRS is guessing that the rest of the cost for running your car [insurance, maintenance, oil changes, etc] is about 40 cents per mile). Can your electric car really come in under that cost? Tesla wants to charge $15000 for a 60kwh battery that may (only "may") last 6 or eight years. What's the replacement electrode and battery cost for this thing? When there are concrete numbers out there, then it's viability or utility can be calculated.
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But you can't just count the cost of the distilled water or calculate a miles per gallon of distilled water when the distilled water alone is NOT the consumible fuel component!
Yeah, but even if the transaction cost has decreased, they can screw you over in other ways, like timing your sale for the time of day they want to say it occurred so that you get the lowest possible price and timing your purchase for the time of day so that you get the highest possible price. The big brokers, as market makers, can game your transactions so as to make themselves, as market makers, the most amount of money and still be able to say with a straight face that "they carried out your transaction as you requested". They can also play on the "dark markets" where bigger transactions and movements occur, so that the rest of the market and the little schmoes never really see the momentum of the full market.
reThey mention "Al Queda in Iran." --- So...exactly how powerful is a Wahabbi Sunni sect in an iron-fisted Shiite country?
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It's because the idiots who believe these things make mistakes in what they believe and what they write in their scripts. If they want to provoke an incident in Iran, they create stories with their worst possible bogey-man in Iran: hence their choice of AQ, which logic would show would definitely not be in Iran, as your comment so correctly points out. But when you wants idiots to believes your stories, you tells them whats they wants to hearz.
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Was there even a real plot in the first place? Or was there only a scenario scripted, funded, produced, and directed by "informants" and governmental agencies to further their own ends? The Patriot Act extended the concept further, making it illegal to attempt or conspire to provide material support. Before, prosecutors had to prove you gave support. Now they just have to show you wanted to.
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That change, along with other newly exploited vagueness in the existing material-support laws, opened up a whole new path for prosecutors. In the Padilla case and others, the government has argued successfully that a suspect is guilty of attempting to provide material support even if the plot he allegedly supported was purely a government concoction or, just as curious, even if the government hadn't said what group or plot the accused might have been supporting. -- from Department of Precrime
Are you using Solaris on x86 or on MIPS? My parents actually have an SGI Indy with IRIX 6.x.something which I've played with, and a NeXT cube with NeXT-Step on it, and an old CPM machine. But there are no Solaris pizza boxes here. Is it possible to still download Solaris for x86? They've also got a big blue SGI with an x86 chip in it that's supposed to run windows NT but we've never found disks and drivers that work on it. (this is along with the trs-80 4k level one and the Apple ][+ which I played with as a kid about ten years ago and learned my BASIC on. Can't beat a TRS-80 for bootup, click button, it's on, but no DOS, just cassette storage!).
A fake debt collection agency sends out fake dunning notices? Pay them with fake money!! It only seems fair, IMHO. :>)
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Pick your poison:
-- bitcoin
-- S&H green stamps
-- Canadian tire money
-- Indian Zero Rupee notes
-- Scrip unfortunately does not count, because scrip is defined to be "legal tender" or the "extension of credit"
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Sure, why not? That's the sad part with too much software. Sometimes, developers add change for the sake of change (or for power trips), rather than for expressly improving the software or its usability. If solaris did it back then that way, then it did it right. Someone else pointed out that for a while redhat bootup did that too. Too bad redhat went away from there. IMHO, a nice clean boot with the option to see details as needed (and of course the ability to redirect bootup messages to a serial console for serious debugging issues when something really screws up) is the right way to do it.
re: No objects, the syntax is not orthogonal (octave is a clone but seems to have done indices right, at least) :>)
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A couple of questions for you. I tried to look up "orthogonal syntax" on wikipedia, but the only mention of "orthogonal" on "Programming Languages" is on "weak and strong typing" rather than in the "syntax" section. What exactly do you mean by "orthogonal syntax"?
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I've played with Octave, but I've never had the chance to play with Matlab proper. What's the difference in how they deal with indices?
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And does your "no objects" statement mean that you can't define a type and create new instances of it, or is it about "object oriented programming" style availability in writing the matlab/octave programs? Thanks ahead of time for replying to this!