As a developer who is forced to use products developed by Microsoft, I find your products deeply offensive.
Whenever I use a Microsoft product, the take home message I get is "the people who made this didn't really care." Whenever I use a Microsoft product, I gird myself for a session of head scratching and frustration.
People at M$ only innit for the money.
Microsoft's got good people no doubt, but I am reminded of line from Chef in Apocalypse Now:
"They lined us all up in front of a hundred yards of prime rib. Magnificent meat, beautifully marbled. Then they started throwing it in these big cauldrons. All of it. Boiling."
That's Microsoft: boiled prime rib.
Embracing that sort of celebrity culture is a kind of selling out, but it's a kind that needs to be seriously considered if you want to invest the average celebrity-focused person on the ideas at hand.
The problem with promoting "heroes" is that everybody else can go and suck it. Throwing money at projects is a nice sentiment, but this is not how scientific progress works. A society or a group needs to promote a sufficiently large community of scientists, and every once in a while something really great pops out. It's a lot like catching fish: often what you really need is a bigger net.
To that end, what isn't need is some token prize to hand out to a couple of "winners". This is the route you take if you want good press and a tax break.
But if you want results, real progress, what you need is to promote scientific careers that, you know, pay a decent fucking wage.
Psychopathy is a trait which means you're not enslaved by emotions and morals.
Some could argue it's the next step in being more human and less animal.
You go ahead and fill a city with people who are not "enslaved" by emotions and morals and see what happens.
In about a month you will see what being "more human and less animal" is all about.
Here is one citation and if you want the PDF, try here.
Data and facts trumps FUD every day of the week in my book.
I applaud your attempt to back up your claims with citations. However, the source of that first article is somewhat suspect (authors have a background in the banking industry - not exactly what you would call disinterested parties) and the claim itself is tenuous at best. Does high speed trading increase market liquidty? Yes, I think that is almost self-evident: increased trading activity cannot help but to increase liquidity (it certainly doesn't decrease it). "Informativeness"? I'm not sure what that even means in this context, sounds like a weasel-word, almost like "truthiness".
But the most important question that's not being asked is: do the benefits of high speed trading outweigh the risks? Absoltuely not [citation needed].
Rent-Seeking: "An attempt to obtain economic rent by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking)
Not chatting with any other outlet - at that specific time. But seems to me he could turn around from that first interview right after and give another "exclusive" interview.
Like most things in the news these days, an expression entirely bereft of actual information. Journalistic aspartame.
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As a developer who is forced to use products developed by Microsoft, I find your products deeply offensive. Whenever I use a Microsoft product, the take home message I get is "the people who made this didn't really care." Whenever I use a Microsoft product, I gird myself for a session of head scratching and frustration.
People at M$ only innit for the money. Microsoft's got good people no doubt, but I am reminded of line from Chef in Apocalypse Now: "They lined us all up in front of a hundred yards of prime rib. Magnificent meat, beautifully marbled. Then they started throwing it in these big cauldrons. All of it. Boiling." That's Microsoft: boiled prime rib.
Was that driving while using a smartphone would soon be considered a violent crime across the U.S. Which, honestly, wouldn't be such a bad idea.
http://imgur.com/gallery/4zEEW4B
Is that some dude in a white wig and black robes said "Kickass Torrents".
Embracing that sort of celebrity culture is a kind of selling out, but it's a kind that needs to be seriously considered if you want to invest the average celebrity-focused person on the ideas at hand.
Obviously you're not a bowler.
The problem with promoting "heroes" is that everybody else can go and suck it. Throwing money at projects is a nice sentiment, but this is not how scientific progress works. A society or a group needs to promote a sufficiently large community of scientists, and every once in a while something really great pops out. It's a lot like catching fish: often what you really need is a bigger net. To that end, what isn't need is some token prize to hand out to a couple of "winners". This is the route you take if you want good press and a tax break. But if you want results, real progress, what you need is to promote scientific careers that, you know, pay a decent fucking wage.
Psychopathy is a trait which means you're not enslaved by emotions and morals. Some could argue it's the next step in being more human and less animal.
You go ahead and fill a city with people who are not "enslaved" by emotions and morals and see what happens. In about a month you will see what being "more human and less animal" is all about.
Crack a series of tubes.
Here is one citation and if you want the PDF, try here. Data and facts trumps FUD every day of the week in my book.
I applaud your attempt to back up your claims with citations. However, the source of that first article is somewhat suspect (authors have a background in the banking industry - not exactly what you would call disinterested parties) and the claim itself is tenuous at best. Does high speed trading increase market liquidty? Yes, I think that is almost self-evident: increased trading activity cannot help but to increase liquidity (it certainly doesn't decrease it). "Informativeness"? I'm not sure what that even means in this context, sounds like a weasel-word, almost like "truthiness".
But the most important question that's not being asked is: do the benefits of high speed trading outweigh the risks? Absoltuely not [citation needed].
Rent-Seeking: "An attempt to obtain economic rent by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking)
Not chatting with any other outlet - at that specific time. But seems to me he could turn around from that first interview right after and give another "exclusive" interview. Like most things in the news these days, an expression entirely bereft of actual information. Journalistic aspartame.
A bit of an aside, but what the hell is really meant by "exclusive" interview? That there were no other interviewers in the room?