"Everyone said I was crazy. I said F* everybody and I tried it anyway. Now I am a millionaire and everyone is trying to copy me." A. United States B. China
"Everyone said I was crazy. I said F* everybody and I tried it anyway. Now I am in a re-education camp having my personality broken down and rebuilt into one more suitable to the party." A. United States B. China
Innovation doesn't come from having a magic tech bullet like the Internet 2.0. Magic tech bullets come by the hundreds from having a free and open exchange of ideas, talent, motivation, and capital.
China has lost before its even out of the starting gate.
> I don't do well under the kind of pressure typically experienced at a job interview when asked to solve oddball problems in real-time. Often, my biggest insights come when I'm not consiously thinking about the problem, e.g., while in the shower
That could make for an awkward interview. "I went to Boston University for undergrad... pass the soap... and got my masters at MIT... hang on a sec I'm shampooing now."
> BTW, the "quatloos on the newcomer" line didn't actually appear in the episode. There was bidding "for the newcomers" at one point, but IIRC you never heard the Providers betting on the outcome of the games.
I distinctly remember the line from the episode. It became an in-joke with my friends after we saw it sometime in the 70's. Anytime we bet on anything or challenged each other on anything someone would call out 'xxx Quatloos on the newcomer!'
> restricted by FEDERAL LAW that certain correspondence must be kept and archived > very well may be criminal to delete some of those nine thousand emails
Nice try.
If it's a federal law to keep emails, then the company's compliance department should be archiving all incoming and outgoing mails to an archive store, not depending on a desktop user to keep thousands of emails organized for years at a time. I guarantee you any real "global insurance company" is complying with the data retention laws within the IT department, not by hoping each and every employee knows what to do in Outlook.
You have 'a manager who is willing to help' and you are here asking Slashdot how to become a trader?
Well, here's my advice: Start an open source project to write a day-trading application that can be run in 'live' mode or 'fantasy-trading' mode for practice. Also let it run on live data or stored historical data for re-plays and what-ifs. Oh, make sure it runs on Linux. Probably should write it in Python or Ruby. Let's hear from the community on that important question.
But then again, this is Slashdot, and we are mostly computer programmers not traders so take this advice for what it's worth.
The suit has a device in front of your eyes that captures the light and simultaneously displays it to your eyes AND displays a copy on the back of your head.
>> I think competition alone at this point would gaurentee net neurality. > How many backbones are there?
None.
The public peering points are a joke that are ignored by the network engineers at all of the big ISPs. All of the big ISPs have private data exchange agreements with each other.
In related news, MPAA president Jack Valenti was quoted as saying 'Every time a parent fast-forwards past sex and violence, they are committing a crime.'
> I highly doubt that they could get their population to accept them completely shutting off access to the outside world
Their population accepts a lot worse than losing Internet access. I don't think a government that rolls tanks over dissidents is going to worry too much about cutting off their Internet.
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Quiz time. Match the statement with the country:
"Everyone said I was crazy. I said F* everybody and I tried it anyway. Now I am a millionaire and everyone is trying to copy me."
A. United States
B. China
"Everyone said I was crazy. I said F* everybody and I tried it anyway. Now I am in a re-education camp having my personality broken down and rebuilt into one more suitable to the party."
A. United States
B. China
Innovation doesn't come from having a magic tech bullet like the Internet 2.0. Magic tech bullets come by the hundreds from having a free and open exchange of ideas, talent, motivation, and capital.
China has lost before its even out of the starting gate.
> pedabytes of information
or in this case "Pedo-bytes" of information...
> I don't do well under the kind of pressure typically experienced at a job interview when asked to solve oddball problems in real-time. Often, my biggest insights come when I'm not consiously thinking about the problem, e.g., while in the shower
That could make for an awkward interview.
"I went to Boston University for undergrad... pass the soap... and got my masters at MIT... hang on a sec I'm shampooing now."
Then the RIAA gets you for using this piece without a license!
> BTW, the "quatloos on the newcomer" line didn't actually appear in the episode. There was bidding "for the newcomers" at one point, but IIRC you never heard the Providers betting on the outcome of the games.
I distinctly remember the line from the episode. It became an in-joke with my friends after we saw it sometime in the 70's. Anytime we bet on anything or challenged each other on anything someone would call out 'xxx Quatloos on the newcomer!'
Some of my favorite quotes come from the worst episodes of Star Trek.
"'Brain' and 'brain'... what is 'brain'?!"
"Ooooh the eggs... the children... the eggs... the children..."
"200 Quatloos on the newcomer!"
> the same hackneyed ideas and insultingly shallow plots
Hey, I for one enjoyed "Spock's Brain"!
"'Brain' and 'brain'... what is 'brain'?!"
Simple.
Get a pegboard. Fill it with bars sticking out. Label each bar 0-99, 100-199, 200-299, etc. Hang up to 100 CDs on each one.
I've seen store display slatwalls with metal bars with a slight upturn at the end so products don't fall off the end. That would be ideal.
> Poker machines
Hey, there's an idea. Let's let the people who run the casinos build the machines that decide our government. That should be safe.
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of spelling nazis and grammar nazis suddenly cried out in terror...
> Good artical
> realtivly
> the point is mute
> equaly
> becaomes
> less then
> secruity
There is prior art:
"Blondie, what did he tell you? I know which graveyard the money is buried in. Don't die on me Blondie. What did he tell you?"
"A name... a name on a gravestone..."
"Ah! We are partners! I know the graveyard, you know the name! Partners just like good old times, eh?!"
"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to get a 1mm cut and ruin my blade..."
> restricted by FEDERAL LAW that certain correspondence must be kept and archived
> very well may be criminal to delete some of those nine thousand emails
Nice try.
If it's a federal law to keep emails, then the company's compliance department should be archiving all incoming and outgoing mails to an archive store, not depending on a desktop user to keep thousands of emails organized for years at a time.
I guarantee you any real "global insurance company" is complying with the data retention laws within the IT department, not by hoping each and every employee knows what to do in Outlook.
> . The US government has contemplated "simulated" terrorist attacks to change public opinion.
Holy shit.
The tin-foil hats have been right all along.
Thank you for showing me that shocking piece of political insanity.
Here's the quote that blew my mind: 'staged attacks purporting to be of Cuban origin, with a number of them having real casualties'
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other D.O.D. officials were going to have people killed to generate public approval for attacking Cuba.
> You have a 20% chance of receiving more troops when you overtake an enemy country
You have a 0% chance of getting through to the server.
You have 'a manager who is willing to help' and you are here asking Slashdot how to become a trader?
Well, here's my advice: Start an open source project to write a day-trading application that can be run in 'live' mode or 'fantasy-trading' mode for practice. Also let it run on live data or stored historical data for re-plays and what-ifs. Oh, make sure it runs on Linux. Probably should write it in Python or Ruby. Let's hear from the community on that important question.
But then again, this is Slashdot, and we are mostly computer programmers not traders so take this advice for what it's worth.
> if anything gets done it will be Japan or China.
Actually, the secret truth is that Great Britain already has a moon base.
Simple.
The suit has a device in front of your eyes that captures the light and simultaneously displays it to your eyes AND displays a copy on the back of your head.
>> I think competition alone at this point would gaurentee net neurality.
> How many backbones are there?
None.
The public peering points are a joke that are ignored by the network engineers at all of the big ISPs. All of the big ISPs have private data exchange agreements with each other.
> Walmart will probably succeed but most likely by appealing to the geriatric crowd
So, you think we will see winning videos with lyrics like this:
"Cruise down to the 'Wal to meet my FRIENDS
We'z hanging in the lot wearin' our DEPENDS (word!)"
In related news, MPAA president Jack Valenti was quoted as saying 'Every time a parent fast-forwards past sex and violence, they are committing a crime.'
> I highly doubt that they could get their population to accept them completely shutting off access to the outside world
Their population accepts a lot worse than losing Internet access.
I don't think a government that rolls tanks over dissidents is going to worry too much about cutting off their Internet.
> You should leave out the "basically", unless you are writing about PH.
You shouldn't capitalize the 'p' in pH.
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ball's in your court...
> And if only you could find someone to remove your nitpicking, superiority complex...
Thanks, I'll try not to loose site of my humility.