They are only theoretical designs and not expected to be ready for construction until at least 2030.
No, there was a running Integral Fast Reactor operating in the early 90's. Clinton's team defunded it immediately and shut it down in subsequent years.
It solves the nuclear waste cleanup problem as well as the energy source problem. In my opinion, leaving massive quantities of nuclear waste for future generations to deal with is irresponsible.
I'm genuinely interested in knowing what I don't know. I was involved in a securities trading system c. 2000 but not since. Most of what I know now is solely based on mass-financial-media.
BATS, Direct Edge
These look like trading platforms?
CME
The Merc?
Liquidnet
A trading aggregator?
The websites for these are showing volume they handle on the retail markets - are there any new retail markets?
I assure you can get a competing market up and running in 6 months to a year
What would you estimate the regulatory costs to be? I'm surprised if the SEC can get any paperwork through in 6 months, much less a new stock market.
As for HFT, you can thank those guys for being able to buy or sell within a penny of the last trade on liquid stocks. Did you prefer giving up 10 cents when both buying and selling to a market maker who really would front run you?
No, I've seen market maker abuse first hand - I watched a live feed in the mid-90's as a friend put in a sale for $32,000 of a stock at market prices (bid was about $28 all day) and we watched the price drop (live) to $22, the sale went through, and then price immediately jumped back up to $28. The market maker had just taken $4500 for himself. I understand they were class-action sued for this a couple years later, but since that day I've only ever placed limit orders.
But trading frequency and liquidity/order-matching seem to be orthogonal for liquid stocks. Why does it matter if an order takes 2 microseconds or 2 hours if the supply and demand are matched?
These external devices become display units for the frame buffer
Looking at the HDMI specs for guidance, a high-res frame buffer might run 10Gbps. That's still considered a hard amount of data to push around inside a PC, right?
While I'm on the fence about the tax, I am definitely with you on making high frequency trading as difficult and least profitable as possible.
Most people know this and the only people who like high-frequency trading are those who profit from it directly. The markets work for these traders and these traders work for the markets.
Normal people and the companies listed on the markets are hurt by this arrangement. They would gladly take their business to another market that had more sane trading rules.
Which gets to the actual problem - regulations on securities markets. We have a classic example of regulatory capture here, so starting a competing market is effectively impossible. NASDAQ couldn't happen today.
Like anything else there needs to be a market in markets (sup, dawg), and this has been prevented from happening, so we wind up in this surrealistic position with markets that hurt most of its participants to enrich the very few (a net transfer of wealth). The 1% isn't just on Wall Street - their accomplices in Washington are essential to the mechanism.
Sounds like a vicious cycle that needs a technological exit strategy to me.
We have that - e.g. the Integral Fast Reactor or 4S reactors. What we need is a political solution - those are currently forbidden by the government.
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The Air Force and Navy are not as willing nor as capable to provide the close air support role.
No argument there or with your other post - but they ought to be able to fulfill this role. We're spending way too much, and duplication is a good place to go for efficiency.
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Budgets, power, and ego. We're paying for little boys to play with their big toys. Somebody has to reign in the jarheads and it's not going to be the jarheads themselves.
The Marines are the landing soldiers of the Navy. The Navy has aircraft on carriers and we also have an Air Force. The Marines shouldn't have their own aircraft or pilots - that's mission creep.
Now, perhaps the Navy needs a VTOL model for its Marine Corps support operations. But that's not the Marines having their own air support.
Virtual strip-searches, ball-fondling [boingboing.net], never-ending but ineffectual id checks [nypost.com], forcing women to drink their own breast-milk [usatoday.com], arbitrary rule enforcement [hotair.com], making everyone go bare-foot, singling-out people by the clothes they wear [nydailynews.com], forcing people to remove nipple rings with pliers [rackjite.com], torturing injured flyers [podiatry.com], making people piss on themselves [msn.com], the list is practically endless.
And yet the TSA hasn't caught a single terrorist.
You seem to have missed the entire point. George W. Bush was right there on TV 4 hours after the 9/11 attacks announcing that the UBL terrists did it and they Hate Us For Our Freedoms.
So, he went about implementing DHS to take away our Freedoms so that the terrists wouldn't hate us anymore.
Now that we're guilty until proven innocent and treated like sheeple at the airports and at random papers-please checkpoints around the country, whilst the government taps our phones and sends agents to infiltrate church groups, the terrists no longer have any reason to hate us.
So, of course the TSA hasn't caught any terrists - they prevent them from needing to attack in the first place!
Thus, even if there are the same number of incoming physics and English grad students, I suspect that there will be 4-6 times as many English majors available for teaching.
Except at Dartmouth grad students don't teach, only TA. The number of professors who are hired on is the determining factor for class sizes. Granted, for Freshman English, they pull profs from various Humanities (and a few sciences) to teach the sections, not just from the English department.
I guess what I'm saying is to hire more teachers if they want to improve outcomes in the sciences. I suspect, though, that there are those in the sciences who don't want 150% more successful students. There's also a certain degree of "I made it on my own, why shouldn't you?" I see this trend reversing with real for-profit educational opportunities online where educating the student is the primary goal.
Any cinema of repute would refuse to show material sourced from a VHS.
I used to be of this 'THX' mindset, but now I see it as folly to deny content over technical concerns. These theatres apparently agree - the content must be compelling enough that people will pay good money to see it, and the quality sufficient to not get in the way of the content.
basically, it's the Gnome way, or else find something else instead...
I went over to KDE when GNOME started pushing mono as their preferred technology for default applications. GNOME continues to make bad choices for my use cases.
I'm amazed by how many Slashdot computer geeks still feel a strong affinity for running whatever the distros set for a default in spite of the obvious long-term negative outlook.
Don't get me wrong - I have complaints about KDE, but they're normal complaints, not massive fundamental disastrous complaints.
Or the executives there ignore their AV engineers and don't install proper lighting in the room and at least a 10,000 lumen projector or use a plasma to overcome the added lighting needed for the cameras.
Thar's yer problem. We have the sensors and signal processing today to not require a TV-studio installation for video conferencing. This stuff is wrapped up in $30,000 gear at the moment, but apply some Moore's Law (and hope against patent law) and we should see video conference gear that can be plunked down in a normal office conference room and work well within the decade. By then everybody should have the bandwidth required to support the HD streams too.
We still dont have affordable video conference phones.
How cheap do you need? I have this Grandstream on my desk at work, and it does h.264 over SIP and Skype with a full-duplex speakerphone for $180. Runs Linux internally.
using 'ssh -C -Y' and then calling whatever application I want to use (usually eclipse) and it works just great. If I want to remotely run the desktop itself I just call 'startx' instead of the application. It works fine. I'm just confused as to why VNC could possibly offer any benefit over doing it the way I described.
OK, use case: You're right in the middle of working out a class in Eclipse, when you notice you have to leave *right now* to pick up the kid at day care. The class needs to be done tonight, but you can work on it from home, just needs an extra 20 minutes of work.
ssh/X case: Save, quit Eclipse, possibly exit X desktop environment. Go home..... Tuck kids in. Log in via ssh. [Start X desktop] Start Eclipse. Open Project. Navigate to class, scroll to function, start working again.
VNC: disconnect. Go home.... tuck kids in... reconnect via VNC, start working right where you left off.
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Cool, I'm interested in understanding the specific tech they've chosen for these types of devices.
^ This.
Nicholas has single-handedly restored my faith that Firefox will survive.
I'll admit... it's entirely possible that I don't understand the meaning of that word.
I seem to recall the Vedic method for lingam enlargement involved a bed with a hole in it and bees.
That's one weird trick...
Hmm...where would we be now if the $1 trillion stimulus was spent on perfecting and implementing a IFR design instead of paying back Obama's cronies?
Out of the Middle East wars, so it's not gonna happen. IFR is bad for the Empire.
They are only theoretical designs and not expected to be ready for construction until at least 2030.
No, there was a running Integral Fast Reactor operating in the early 90's. Clinton's team defunded it immediately and shut it down in subsequent years.
It solves the nuclear waste cleanup problem as well as the energy source problem. In my opinion, leaving massive quantities of nuclear waste for future generations to deal with is irresponsible.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interviews/till.html
Another way to reduce duplication may be to not force close air support upon the air force.
Would you argue that between maintaining two air fleets there aren't commonalities? (staff, maintenance, procurement, facilities, r&d, etc.?)
I'm genuinely interested in knowing what I don't know. I was involved in a securities trading system c. 2000 but not since. Most of what I know now is solely based on mass-financial-media.
BATS, Direct Edge
These look like trading platforms?
CME
The Merc?
Liquidnet
A trading aggregator?
The websites for these are showing volume they handle on the retail markets - are there any new retail markets?
I assure you can get a competing market up and running in 6 months to a year
What would you estimate the regulatory costs to be? I'm surprised if the SEC can get any paperwork through in 6 months, much less a new stock market.
As for HFT, you can thank those guys for being able to buy or sell within a penny of the last trade on liquid stocks. Did you prefer giving up 10 cents when both buying and selling to a market maker who really would front run you?
No, I've seen market maker abuse first hand - I watched a live feed in the mid-90's as a friend put in a sale for $32,000 of a stock at market prices (bid was about $28 all day) and we watched the price drop (live) to $22, the sale went through, and then price immediately jumped back up to $28. The market maker had just taken $4500 for himself. I understand they were class-action sued for this a couple years later, but since that day I've only ever placed limit orders.
But trading frequency and liquidity/order-matching seem to be orthogonal for liquid stocks. Why does it matter if an order takes 2 microseconds or 2 hours if the supply and demand are matched?
I can't argue with that, which just makes the attempts at regulation that much worse (hurting the little guys, not hurting the big guys).
They're actually listing grub2 as an UPGRADE?
Start a new bootloader project and call it GRUB3 and people will just switch to it because it has a bigger number.
These external devices become display units for the frame buffer
Looking at the HDMI specs for guidance, a high-res frame buffer might run 10Gbps. That's still considered a hard amount of data to push around inside a PC, right?
Console Redirect Transfer Controller?
While I'm on the fence about the tax, I am definitely with you on making high frequency trading as difficult and least profitable as possible.
Most people know this and the only people who like high-frequency trading are those who profit from it directly. The markets work for these traders and these traders work for the markets.
Normal people and the companies listed on the markets are hurt by this arrangement. They would gladly take their business to another market that had more sane trading rules.
Which gets to the actual problem - regulations on securities markets. We have a classic example of regulatory capture here, so starting a competing market is effectively impossible. NASDAQ couldn't happen today.
Like anything else there needs to be a market in markets (sup, dawg), and this has been prevented from happening, so we wind up in this surrealistic position with markets that hurt most of its participants to enrich the very few (a net transfer of wealth). The 1% isn't just on Wall Street - their accomplices in Washington are essential to the mechanism.
Sounds like a vicious cycle that needs a technological exit strategy to me.
We have that - e.g. the Integral Fast Reactor or 4S reactors. What we need is a political solution - those are currently forbidden by the government.
The Air Force and Navy are not as willing nor as capable to provide the close air support role.
No argument there or with your other post - but they ought to be able to fulfill this role. We're spending way too much, and duplication is a good place to go for efficiency.
Budgets, power, and ego. We're paying for little boys to play with their big toys. Somebody has to reign in the jarheads and it's not going to be the jarheads themselves.
The Marines are the landing soldiers of the Navy. The Navy has aircraft on carriers and we also have an Air Force. The Marines shouldn't have their own aircraft or pilots - that's mission creep.
Now, perhaps the Navy needs a VTOL model for its Marine Corps support operations. But that's not the Marines having their own air support.
Virtual strip-searches, ball-fondling [boingboing.net], never-ending but ineffectual id checks [nypost.com], forcing women to drink their own breast-milk [usatoday.com], arbitrary rule enforcement [hotair.com], making everyone go bare-foot, singling-out people by the clothes they wear [nydailynews.com], forcing people to remove nipple rings with pliers [rackjite.com], torturing injured flyers [podiatry.com], making people piss on themselves [msn.com], the list is practically endless.
And yet the TSA hasn't caught a single terrorist.
You seem to have missed the entire point. George W. Bush was right there on TV 4 hours after the 9/11 attacks announcing that the UBL terrists did it and they Hate Us For Our Freedoms.
So, he went about implementing DHS to take away our Freedoms so that the terrists wouldn't hate us anymore.
Now that we're guilty until proven innocent and treated like sheeple at the airports and at random papers-please checkpoints around the country, whilst the government taps our phones and sends agents to infiltrate church groups, the terrists no longer have any reason to hate us.
So, of course the TSA hasn't caught any terrists - they prevent them from needing to attack in the first place!
What is this "curve" that everyone is talking about?
You must've had kind, responsible profs who tailored the tests to the course material.
Thus, even if there are the same number of incoming physics and English grad students, I suspect that there will be 4-6 times as many English majors available for teaching.
Except at Dartmouth grad students don't teach, only TA. The number of professors who are hired on is the determining factor for class sizes. Granted, for Freshman English, they pull profs from various Humanities (and a few sciences) to teach the sections, not just from the English department.
I guess what I'm saying is to hire more teachers if they want to improve outcomes in the sciences. I suspect, though, that there are those in the sciences who don't want 150% more successful students. There's also a certain degree of "I made it on my own, why shouldn't you?" I see this trend reversing with real for-profit educational opportunities online where educating the student is the primary goal.
What's wrong with making money off Jobs' death? Apple made a ton, and so did his biographer.
Not just his biographer - I'd be stunned if his family wasn't collecting a large percentage of the profits from the biography.
Any cinema of repute would refuse to show material sourced from a VHS.
I used to be of this 'THX' mindset, but now I see it as folly to deny content over technical concerns. These theatres apparently agree - the content must be compelling enough that people will pay good money to see it, and the quality sufficient to not get in the way of the content.
basically, it's the Gnome way, or else find something else instead...
I went over to KDE when GNOME started pushing mono as their preferred technology for default applications. GNOME continues to make bad choices for my use cases.
I'm amazed by how many Slashdot computer geeks still feel a strong affinity for running whatever the distros set for a default in spite of the obvious long-term negative outlook.
Don't get me wrong - I have complaints about KDE, but they're normal complaints, not massive fundamental disastrous complaints.
Or the executives there ignore their AV engineers and don't install proper lighting in the room and at least a 10,000 lumen projector or use a plasma to overcome the added lighting needed for the cameras.
Thar's yer problem. We have the sensors and signal processing today to not require a TV-studio installation for video conferencing. This stuff is wrapped up in $30,000 gear at the moment, but apply some Moore's Law (and hope against patent law) and we should see video conference gear that can be plunked down in a normal office conference room and work well within the decade. By then everybody should have the bandwidth required to support the HD streams too.
We still dont have affordable video conference phones.
How cheap do you need? I have this Grandstream on my desk at work, and it does h.264 over SIP and Skype with a full-duplex speakerphone for $180. Runs Linux internally.
using 'ssh -C -Y' and then calling whatever application I want to use (usually eclipse) and it works just great. If I want to remotely run the desktop itself I just call 'startx' instead of the application. It works fine. I'm just confused as to why VNC could possibly offer any benefit over doing it the way I described.
OK, use case: You're right in the middle of working out a class in Eclipse, when you notice you have to leave *right now* to pick up the kid at day care. The class needs to be done tonight, but you can work on it from home, just needs an extra 20 minutes of work.
ssh/X case: Save, quit Eclipse, possibly exit X desktop environment. Go home. .... Tuck kids in. Log in via ssh. [Start X desktop] Start Eclipse. Open Project. Navigate to class, scroll to function, start working again.
VNC: disconnect. Go home. ... tuck kids in ... reconnect via VNC, start working right where you left off.
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They say, "fiasco", I say, "pretty frikkin' awesome."
And an 'accident' like this on Guy Fawkes Day? I guess that's remotely possible.