The Brits used to suffer from schemers who made crap movies for cheap and ran off with government subsidies that exceeded their minimal costs - the wild extension of Hollywood accounting.
If you follow the money, in what cesspit do we arrive? -- Patrick Stewart, William Shattner, $PLEASE_DONT_TELL_ME_ WHERE_THIS_SEQUENCE_LEADS
Reminds me of a story. About 40 years ago some engineers I knew got excited by the day trading of that time - in commodities. The fun went out of it when one of them couldn't sell in time and had to take delivery of 40 tons of cabbages.
As I understand it, the root tool of HFC is being able to cancel orders quickly. Let them buy and sell as fast as they like, but make them stick to their contracts.
There did I finally get something a little bit right? -- Intelligence is realizing that nobody knows what they're talking about. Wisdom is realizing that you don't, either.
Post-Snowden, I am losing my faith in the internet. -- There is an infinity of numbers between 2 and 4, but none of them is 6; thus, the infinite monkeys conjecture is false.
The old masters painted "striking sunsets" because the sunsets were 'striking' - unusual, not your average ordinary sunset.
Could some statistician or philosopher of science please supply the appropriate term for the bias not recognised by TFA. -- Intelligence is realizing that nobody knows what they're talking about. Wisdom is realizing that you don't, either.
Uphill both ways, barefoot in the snow, coming and going to school. Now get that neutrino detector off my lawn. -- To wake with a start and shudder from a lecture you are delivering
French is written with plenty of consonants. The Parisians seem too hurried to pronounce the ones toward the end. I am told the final consonants survive in parts of France away from central influence.
On the other hand, their lack of stress irritates those who speak more Northerly tongues, who tend to be more stressed about monetary irregularities.
These new-fangled smart robots don't need to be smarter than the median fool, just meaner. -- All enlightenment extinguished, HTML tags leaking from your eyes like liquid pain.
Science produces imperfect models of the world it measures.
If you believe there is no way to improve the measurements or to put forth a better model, you are a believer, not a scientist. -- "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'" - Isaac Asimov
You can agree to buy or sell a commodity in whatever tradable currency the buyer and seller can agree on. They can then buy or sell that currency pretty easily on the world currency exchanges to end up using their own choice of currency.
When you look at forward or long term contracts, the choice of currency used in the price begins to make a difference. Price variations are the sum of variation in the supply/demand of the commodity plus variation in the currency used to price the contract. Most buyers and sellers try to minimise the currency component of the total variation.
The preferred currency of the biggest buyer has a significant effect on this choice. USD. -- If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Mass Extinction! Conservatively speaking, leading to vast Energy surplus! Sell your energy shares at the top of the market. Call 911-555-1212 for best terms an conditions. NOW!! -- You didn't think mass extinction involved a black hole, did you?
Slashdot Mirror
Janeway making anti-heliocentric remarks.
To what demographic could this possibly appeal?
The Brits used to suffer from schemers who made crap movies for cheap and ran off with government subsidies that exceeded their minimal costs - the wild extension of Hollywood accounting.
If you follow the money, in what cesspit do we arrive?
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Patrick Stewart, William Shattner, $PLEASE_DONT_TELL_ME_ WHERE_THIS_SEQUENCE_LEADS
Reminds me of a story. About 40 years ago some engineers I knew got excited by the day trading of that time - in commodities. The fun went out of it when one of them couldn't sell in time and had to take delivery of 40 tons of cabbages.
As I understand it, the root tool of HFC is being able to cancel orders quickly. Let them buy and sell as fast as they like, but make them stick to their contracts.
There did I finally get something a little bit right?
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Intelligence is realizing that nobody knows what they're talking about. Wisdom is realizing that you don't, either.
Post-Snowden, I am losing my faith in the internet.
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There is an infinity of numbers between 2 and 4, but none of them is 6; thus, the infinite monkeys conjecture is false.
Travel by air?
Ah, Randall Munroe, the Euler of our time.
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It was Euler, by the way, who popularized the symbol Ï in its now-familiar usage.
Let the HFT people watch and place all the orders they like.
Delay any cancellations 10 seconds. Or 10 minutes.
Apply a time tax to their model.
Did I finally get something right?
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Complex systems usually operate in failure mode.
The old masters painted "striking sunsets" because the sunsets were 'striking' - unusual, not your average ordinary sunset.
Could some statistician or philosopher of science please supply the appropriate term for the bias not recognised by TFA.
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Intelligence is realizing that nobody knows what they're talking about. Wisdom is realizing that you don't, either.
Bush and his evil cartoon sidekick Cheney (who looked exactly like The Penguin!)
Please, what did Danny deVito ever do to deserve such calumny?
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The dinosaurs have returned. They want their copyrights back.
GR says photons lose energy going uphill.
We see red shift in all directions.
So all directions are uphill.
Uphill both ways, barefoot in the snow, coming and going to school.
Now get that neutrino detector off my lawn.
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To wake with a start and shudder from a lecture you are delivering
Facebook is not a site or social space but a service.
Except that you are not being served -
you are being served up.
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You're almost as happy as you think you are.
There's already far too many humans on the planet. If we stop dying there'll be nothing to eat and nowhere to stand.
People don't taste like chicken, they taste like pork.
Does that mean they aren't Kosher/Halal?
Of course, Kosher/Halal people taste like pork, too.
No Problemo.
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If life gives you dichotomies, pick any two.
Could be the decay drivers are weakened, so can't eat the dead plants as fast as expected.
Could be the decay drivers can't cope with zombie plants.
Could be some of both.
Could be a side effect of Obamacare.
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When the data disagrees with the models; which do you believe? I believe I'll have another beer.
French is written with plenty of consonants. The Parisians seem too hurried to pronounce the ones toward the end. I am told the final consonants survive in parts of France away from central influence.
On the other hand, their lack of stress irritates those who speak more Northerly tongues, who tend to be more stressed about monetary irregularities.
These new-fangled smart robots don't need to be smarter than the median fool, just meaner.
--
All enlightenment extinguished, HTML tags leaking from your eyes like liquid pain.
If it is settled, it ain't science.
Science produces imperfect models of the world it measures.
If you believe there is no way to improve the measurements or to put forth a better model, you are a believer, not a scientist.
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'" - Isaac Asimov
It seems that in matters of secure computing, Mr de Raadt is seldom wrong.
Such behaviour appears to be unforgiveable.
By some.
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BTW, Theo - thanks for the code goodness,
I have one of those. It's great.
The picture on the box it came in shows a half dozen of those coffee thimbles the Italians use. It just about fills up my pre-breakfast mug.
It is kind of hard to hold the mug steady pouring the mid-breakfast brew.
The first post-breakfast brew is hazardous.
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Real programmers can PERFORM COBOL and DO FORTRAN.
You can agree to buy or sell a commodity in whatever tradable currency the buyer and seller can agree on. They can then buy or sell that currency pretty easily on the world currency exchanges to end up using their own choice of currency.
When you look at forward or long term contracts, the choice of currency used in the price begins to make a difference. Price variations are the sum of variation in the supply/demand of the commodity plus variation in the currency used to price the contract. Most buyers and sellers try to minimise the currency component of the total variation.
The preferred currency of the biggest buyer has a significant effect on this choice. USD.
--
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
...The IP addressing and the naming (DNS) are two different structure.... One is physical and the other logical....
For ever smaller values of logical.
Wikipedia quotes creeds for several branches of the US military.
Only the Sailors Creed mentions fidelity to the Constitution.
Interesting.
NASA seems not to publish a creed. Probably for the best.
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Credo - I believe I'll have another beer.
Not blaming you, but you left out Larry Flynt.
"If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it will protect all of you. Because I'm the worst."
Mr Flynt is still alive, if not kicking any longer.
Is this easy enough, far enough?
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent...
Currently one of 7 torrents, 4 seeded.
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With horror you look on as you click on SUBMIT.
Time ands materials, youngster.
And coding war stuff slowly is the closest to pacifism some of us can afford
Now, about my lawn - get off!
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God made machine language; all the rest is the work of Lucifer.
From the fine artiicle at http://www.theregister.co.uk/
"...the proposal is sponsored by AT&T..."
We should be alarmed. No good will come of this, except perhaps to wake a few innocent slashdot readers from their dream of a safe friendly internet.
Things have changed on the webs - there is evil out there.
Mass Extinction! Conservatively speaking, leading to vast Energy surplus!
Sell your energy shares at the top of the market.
Call 911-555-1212 for best terms an conditions. NOW!!
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You didn't think mass extinction involved a black hole, did you?