Also check out the Forex markets. Brokerages like IBFX.com use MT4 which has an open API of sorts. (I am just beginning to look at this myself... For similar reasons to the OP). Some nice things about Forex is that most brokers use the spread for their fees, no other fees or commissions. Also, forex has some nice margins. (50:1 leverage). Together, this means that you can trade for much lower investment than in markets like NASDAQ.
Disclaimer: as I mentioned, I am just now beginning to look into / learn about forex, so I may have completely mangled things.
I would think that the banks would have dedicated systems that would not even know how to go to such an infected site. Just because a device has an operating system and programs running on it, doesn't mean it has the ability to interpret a url and use it to retrieve content from the internet. (For example, my 2003 Taurus is not at risk of getting an infection from a malicious web site, but yes it has a computer that processes input from the outside world.)
On the other hand, I could see small businesses using said QR codes to authenticate larger bills. But they would probably do so with some software running on a PC, iPad, etc....
Great! You can still check out Doomsday Pie and find out that you aren't the only one fighting off zombies as everyone will be tweeting the Zombie Apocalypse in real time.
Plague / Pandemic is still only #3 at Doomsday Pie. So I will continue to place my fear and worry in the Zombie Apocalypse. Hrm... or maybe West Nile is the precursor of some zombie virus....
Natural Selection is a mechanism that results in Evolution. Though they are related, the debate over Evolution is very different from the debate over Natural Selection in a religion vs. science context. I think that both sides tend to forget this in their enthusiasm.
A UHF antenna made from a coat hanger does a fine job of pulling in digital OTA broadcasts. Now I can honestly say that the crap on TV is worth every penny.
Here are some instructions for building a dirt cheap antenna. I have this one in my attic and it pulls in stations from 50 miles away. Not bad for some 14 gauge wire, a 2x4 and some aluminum foil. And I agree that the HD looks way better. My TV viewing is now worth every penny;-)
I have found some of the AI challenges out there to be refreshing. Had a lot of fun with the Netflix challenge a while back (even though I didn't do terribly well). Here is one that Google is sponsoring right now... http://aichallenge.org/
Yeah, my frustration was more in response to some of the other comments. Reminded me of similar attitudes that I see on other tech forums. Like the kind of thing where someone asks how to do something in language X and the responses are that language X is dead and useless and that they should be using language Y instead. If you don't know the answer to the question, there is no need to reply. If you can't imagine why someone is STILL using language X, it doesn't mean that there isn't a legitimate reason.
I don't have a need for a CapsLock. And if I (in my geeky prowess) can't think of any reason that someone would want one, there can't possibly be a legitimate need for one. Get rid of it now!
There are a number of programs and utilities out there that are currently command line only. I have been thinking about working on a GUI front end for one of these as one of my next projects. Seems to me that this could be easier than learning the internals of a given existing project. This way you can slowly implement functionality using the framework of your choice.
I have a linksys card that uses the rt2500 driver. I also had difficulty with WPA under 7.10 until I disabled the Network Manager as per this thread on the Ubuntu forums.
Well, I think that your post argues just opposite what you intended. You first say that broadcast radio offers you a couple dozen stations. XM (which I have) offeres 170 stations. This is a LOT more variety. So I would argue that XM offers more than JUST commercial free radio. It offers way variety. This is especially true if you live in a town like mine where the closest thing to an Alternative Rock station is "The greatest hists of the 80s and 90s". Everything else is Country, Tejano, Pop and R&B. Compare this to a good half dozen XM stations that fall into the Alternative category.
It always amazes me that so many people don't understand / accept the idea of paying for radio. Is this really such a different idea from paying for cable tv? In both cases, you pay to be able to select from tens or hundreds of stations rather than being limited to a handful of 'free' broadcast radio / tv stations.
I am familiar with the vast amount of astronomy data that is available and have used it in the past. (It is interesting that astronomy has such a strong amature component that makes real scientific contribution.) I guess I wish other fields were making their data as EASILY available as the astronomy community is. In this internet age, you have to wonder why some fields are more likely to preemptively make data available than others.
I look at it like this. If you are a reasearcher working for a private company and the owner of the company tells you that he/she wants to see all of your data (both raw data and analysis/conclusions), you are surely going to give them the data. (assuming you want to remain employed). In my mind, the same thing applies to publicly funded research. In this case, the owner of the data is the taxpaying public. And the data should be available to them. I think that when the results of research are published, the corresponding raw data should be published. As for research results that aren't published, I am sure someone can come up with a mechanism for publishing that raw data too. Anyway... I am a programmer that comes from a biology background. The company that I am programmer with now is not even vaguely related to biological research. I have many times found myself wanting some raw data that I could play with in developing algorithms in my free time. As a taxpayer who funds research, I think I should be entitled to the data.
With 218GFLOPS available on the CPU (not considering disabled daughter cores) the PS3 has way more floating point number crunching power than your average P4. At least an order of magnitude more. While MOST users have no need for this power, some do. I myself play with designing neural networks that would definately benefit from this power. Other applications that come to mind include things like Folding@Home and SETI@Home.
Well, I have eyeballed the PS3 as a number crunching machine. The total power of a Cell is 218 GFLOPS. (assuming no disabled cores) This is at least an order of magnitude more than your average P4 at just $600. Of course, it remains to be seen how hard it will be for someone like me to port over my code AND see 10X performance increases. But yeah, I don't see this as something that I would replace my desktop box with.
Slashdot Mirror
Mulling the Mystery of Missing Martian Methane?
Also check out the Forex markets. Brokerages like IBFX.com use MT4 which has an open API of sorts. (I am just beginning to look at this myself... For similar reasons to the OP). Some nice things about Forex is that most brokers use the spread for their fees, no other fees or commissions. Also, forex has some nice margins. (50:1 leverage). Together, this means that you can trade for much lower investment than in markets like NASDAQ.
Disclaimer: as I mentioned, I am just now beginning to look into / learn about forex, so I may have completely mangled things.
Well, any time there is an apocalypse story, I have to post a link to DoomsdayPie.com...
I would think that the banks would have dedicated systems that would not even know how to go to such an infected site. Just because a device has an operating system and programs running on it, doesn't mean it has the ability to interpret a url and use it to retrieve content from the internet. (For example, my 2003 Taurus is not at risk of getting an infection from a malicious web site, but yes it has a computer that processes input from the outside world.)
On the other hand, I could see small businesses using said QR codes to authenticate larger bills. But they would probably do so with some software running on a PC, iPad, etc....
Great! You can still check out Doomsday Pie and find out that you aren't the only one fighting off zombies as everyone will be tweeting the Zombie Apocalypse in real time.
Plague / Pandemic is still only #3 at Doomsday Pie. So I will continue to place my fear and worry in the Zombie Apocalypse. Hrm... or maybe West Nile is the precursor of some zombie virus....
Looks like I need a new category for DoomsdayPie.com.
Natural Selection is a mechanism that results in Evolution. Though they are related, the debate over Evolution is very different from the debate over Natural Selection in a religion vs. science context. I think that both sides tend to forget this in their enthusiasm.
A UHF antenna made from a coat hanger does a fine job of pulling in digital OTA broadcasts. Now I can honestly say that the crap on TV is worth every penny.
A UHF antenna made from a coat hanger does a fine job of pulling in digital OTA broadcasts.
Here are some instructions for building a dirt cheap antenna. I have this one in my attic and it pulls in stations from 50 miles away. Not bad for some 14 gauge wire, a 2x4 and some aluminum foil. And I agree that the HD looks way better. My TV viewing is now worth every penny ;-)
Gray-Hoverman Antenna
I have found some of the AI challenges out there to be refreshing. Had a lot of fun with the Netflix challenge a while back (even though I didn't do terribly well). Here is one that Google is sponsoring right now... http://aichallenge.org/
Yeah, my frustration was more in response to some of the other comments. Reminded me of similar attitudes that I see on other tech forums. Like the kind of thing where someone asks how to do something in language X and the responses are that language X is dead and useless and that they should be using language Y instead. If you don't know the answer to the question, there is no need to reply. If you can't imagine why someone is STILL using language X, it doesn't mean that there isn't a legitimate reason.
I don't have a need for a CapsLock. And if I (in my geeky prowess) can't think of any reason that someone would want one, there can't possibly be a legitimate need for one. Get rid of it now!
I was surprised by how how many unix people at my last job didn't know about 'top'...
There are a number of programs and utilities out there that are currently command line only. I have been thinking about working on a GUI front end for one of these as one of my next projects. Seems to me that this could be easier than learning the internals of a given existing project. This way you can slowly implement functionality using the framework of your choice.
is the ethernet card. THATS where you will find your evidence! Duh.
LOL... s/7.10/7.04/g
I have a linksys card that uses the rt2500 driver. I also had difficulty with WPA under 7.10 until I disabled the Network Manager as per this thread on the Ubuntu forums.
Well, I think that your post argues just opposite what you intended. You first say that broadcast radio offers you a couple dozen stations. XM (which I have) offeres 170 stations. This is a LOT more variety. So I would argue that XM offers more than JUST commercial free radio. It offers way variety. This is especially true if you live in a town like mine where the closest thing to an Alternative Rock station is "The greatest hists of the 80s and 90s". Everything else is Country, Tejano, Pop and R&B. Compare this to a good half dozen XM stations that fall into the Alternative category.
It always amazes me that so many people don't understand / accept the idea of paying for radio. Is this really such a different idea from paying for cable tv? In both cases, you pay to be able to select from tens or hundreds of stations rather than being limited to a handful of 'free' broadcast radio / tv stations.
I am familiar with the vast amount of astronomy data that is available and have used it in the past. (It is interesting that astronomy has such a strong amature component that makes real scientific contribution.) I guess I wish other fields were making their data as EASILY available as the astronomy community is. In this internet age, you have to wonder why some fields are more likely to preemptively make data available than others.
I look at it like this. If you are a reasearcher working for a private company and the owner of the company tells you that he/she wants to see all of your data (both raw data and analysis/conclusions), you are surely going to give them the data. (assuming you want to remain employed). In my mind, the same thing applies to publicly funded research. In this case, the owner of the data is the taxpaying public. And the data should be available to them. I think that when the results of research are published, the corresponding raw data should be published. As for research results that aren't published, I am sure someone can come up with a mechanism for publishing that raw data too. Anyway... I am a programmer that comes from a biology background. The company that I am programmer with now is not even vaguely related to biological research. I have many times found myself wanting some raw data that I could play with in developing algorithms in my free time. As a taxpayer who funds research, I think I should be entitled to the data.
With 218GFLOPS available on the CPU (not considering disabled daughter cores) the PS3 has way more floating point number crunching power than your average P4. At least an order of magnitude more. While MOST users have no need for this power, some do. I myself play with designing neural networks that would definately benefit from this power. Other applications that come to mind include things like Folding@Home and SETI@Home.
Well, I have eyeballed the PS3 as a number crunching machine. The total power of a Cell is 218 GFLOPS. (assuming no disabled cores) This is at least an order of magnitude more than your average P4 at just $600. Of course, it remains to be seen how hard it will be for someone like me to port over my code AND see 10X performance increases. But yeah, I don't see this as something that I would replace my desktop box with.