Knight is a market maker. The software was simply buying at the ask and selling at the bid hundreds of times per second, nothing more (a bug that is the polar opposite of how a market maker provides liquidity). How is that in any way related to HFT?
And what parachute? GS bought the accumulated position at a discount in return for cash to keep NITE afloat.
Not sure what's going on with the +5 interesting, can someone clue me in?
What's wrong with a four letter.org? They obviously vetted it. There was also a mention of "dns-ok.us". That domain looks even funkier but it's perfectly legit.
What you have is LED backlit, not OLED. OLED is an emissive technology and is pretty much only in cellphones right now (the majority being Samsung produced with Universal Display Corp PHOLED chemicals). Displays of 15" and larger are expected in production quantities later this year, more realistically in 2013.
Considering that Samsung currently owns 95% of the OLED display market, it's not surprising that he'd say that. Picture quality (and thinness) is going to be the primary driver for OLED replacing LCD in the TV and monitor markets.
Of course the real question how the price vs. adoption curve plays out. There's a shot at seeing sub-$5k sets when their 8G OLED lines are up to full production this year. LG's faux-OLED (i.e. WOLED stack) is waiting in the wings too. It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out.
It's odd that after all these years Google bombs still work (santorum being the most obvious). And it's especially effective for reaching the average Joe because of Google's ubiquity.
The Reddit crew could find one good article on a reputable site about this quote and start the campaign around the most effective anchor text for the issue, or simply "Chris Dodd". With all of the SOPA exposure these days, it shouldn't be hard to attract a healthy number of links. Old school stuff still works.
If you don't mind me chiming in...unless things have changed, the benchmark textbooks are Oppenheim and Willsky "Signals and Systems" then Oppenheim and Schafer "Discrete-Time Signal Processing".
For some reason these two books have drawn violently differing reactions/reviews. But they worked just fine for me back in the day. Try the library first because as textbooks, they're expensive.
Exactly. Let's not forget how Allison Halataei and Lauren Pastarnak whored themselves out to the RIAA/MPAA straight out of Lamar Smith's office. No waiting period to dispel any appearance of impropriety. They know it doesn't matter, just follow the money because the corruption is so ingrained.
It's not just Namecheap. I transferred a dozen names this weekend to a (non-Namecheap) registrar and the whois info is now in limbo. i.e. whois is still showing Godaddy info even after receiving "your domain transfer is complete" messages from the gaining registrar.
Note that I've done transfers from GD numerous times in the past decade (exactly the same way) and they've always cleared immediately. This time it's definitely different.
From my layman's understanding, yes, but how much of a real world effect it is vs. a polymer based device, I don't know. In general though, the three factors related to drive current+lifetime that come to mind are 1) good emitter outcoupling, 2) the fact that OLED is dimmable and 3) OLED is color tunable.
The internal quantum efficiency (IQE) for PHOLED is always going to be 100% as opposed to (much less) for fluorescent OLED. The external quantum efficiency (EQE) factors in outcoupling. So the more light reflected out of the device, the less energy required in the future vs. current benchmarks.
For dimmability and lifetime, the drive current can be reduced (which with OLED retains/increases it's efficiency).
Since OLED is color tunable, white oled fixtures can be biased for more higher-lifetime red and green when CRI is not so important. For display, it just means biasing the UI towards red and green usage since all white is a problem (i.e. minimizing blue).
If you're curious, see these three easy-reading links for info on the power issues, materials specs, and an outline presentation of how things are looking for lighting. Lighting will be different in terms of efficacy, structure, CRI, etc. But from a materials standpoint, there's still good info that can be extrapolated to displays wrt PHOLED efficiency and degradation:
This news, coupled with the fact that Samsung controls 95% of the rapidly accelerating AMOLED panel market, puts them in a dominant position for display panels in general.
For years Samsung played the "ant" by investing heavily into new production plants for AMOLED when the technology was uncertain. While LG, AUO and Sony acted as the "grasshopper", flip-flopping in their commitment to future investment (documented on oled-info.com back to 2006).
Now AMOLED is in a huge number of phones and actual production TVs will be appearing at the upcoming CES (with OLED lighting in a couple years). So Samsung can retrofit the dying, low-margin LCD business by integrating hybrid OLED backlit modules. That will provide competition to LG's upcoming "fake" OLED TV (OLED backlit only), while Samsung's "true" OLED TV (actual OLED pixels) business will have little competition when they release it.
Lastly, not only did Samsung have the foresight to invest billions in capex for the replacement technology, they also locked up a multi year (non-exclusive) contract with the fundamental IP and materials provider for PHOLED (Universal Display Corp). LG and AUO are still twiddling their thumbs with 3-6 month contracts with UDC. This extends to the general lighting market too, as PHOLED will be required because of efficiency.
Is it a good thing for one company too become so powerful in a single segment? Never. But when the competition is weak and near-sighted, this is inevitable outcome. Jmho.
Just wanted to chime in and say avoid Register.com because of the ongoing renewal costs (and Network Solutions of course). As others have replied, there's absolutely nothing wrong with the low-margin registrars like Namecheap. There's Moniker and Fabulous too.
So be sure to check renewal pricing on their published price list on the site. Quite a few offer sweetheart transfer deals then revert to $30-$40 annual renewals (Register.com, Netsol, others). There's absolutey nothing that $30-$40 buys you...except financing their marketing budget to suck in more people paying $30-$40 a year.
Note also that there are quite a few "tiny" names on that SOPA supporters list. "Tiny" meaning small time photographers and the like. It seems odd that out of millions of businesses, only 439 names comprise the list, and that they're not all the usual suspects of large companies.
From the digitaltrends.com link, examples of those that support SOPA: Andrea Rugg Photography Julien McRoberts Photography Kenneth Garrett, photographer for National Geographic Tony Bullard Photography Wendy Kaveney Photography Greg Nikas Photography Photojournalist Dave Bartruff Linda Olsen Photography Mark Niederman Photography Marcia Andberg Associates LLC (one employee) etc.
It should be noted that these folks might have just signed up blindly based on the phrase "copyright protection law". Of course a tiny bit of effort on their part would have revealed that SOPA actually puts their online presence in danger. And to think that PIPA is right around the corner...
Not always. For millenia, Alaskans have fiercely defended their belief that Africa is indeed a country. It's a proud tradition upheld by only the most patriotic of its constituents. Righteous battles have been fought over this issue and surely the blessed pro-country advocates will be victorious once again.
"I directed this video myself and the production of the video cost around $170,000. (This was largely paid for by the tickets bought by the audiences at both shows)."
So ticket sales were part of the risk reduction in the model. Pretty cool business model overall, but only if you're exceedingly good at the craft (like he is).
Not sure I understand what you're saying. One thing you may have missed is the footnote in the material lifetime table. Since they're material specs, those figures do not factor any outcoupling efficiency gains for the emitter structure. Also the drive currents are worst case (constant illumination). Both factors greatly suppress EQE (but still 100% IQE for AMOLED). So with sufficient encapsulation, the usable lifetime is definitely far longer than device lifetime. HTH.
The 50% lifetime degradation for red and green is in the hundreds of thousands of hours for PHOLED. It's in the tens of thousands of hours for 95%, far longer than the usable life of actual products on the market:
"Sky blue" PHOLED has a sufficient lifetime but dark blue is a long way off. So fluorescent blue is used which is lower efficiency but compensates by having a much higher lifetime. This is the set of chemicals currently being used in all Samsung OLED displays currently on the market (almost all of their phones; TVs and tablets next year).
The larger issue has been encapsulation which is solved for rigid displays. For flexible displays, it's essentially solved.
I realize you probably know all this but your post made it sound like there are still problems with PHOLED lifetimes. So this is a synopsis for those readers unfamiliar with the technology.
Correct, and in early 1995 the price for 16MB (Micron) was around $1000. The price collapsed by over 75% within a few months. (Worst buy I've ever made...and still pissed about it!)
Noticed the same thing. However Newegg did have a 500G Hitachi for $50 and a Seagate for $80 this morning in their email blast.
Also noticed that there seems to be an uptick in refurbished drives there. Not sure if it's related to the shortage or just a push to offer more refurbed items in general. Probably just the latter.
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Knight is a market maker. The software was simply buying at the ask and selling at the bid hundreds of times per second, nothing more (a bug that is the polar opposite of how a market maker provides liquidity). How is that in any way related to HFT?
And what parachute? GS bought the accumulated position at a discount in return for cash to keep NITE afloat.
Not sure what's going on with the +5 interesting, can someone clue me in?
The greatest Tom Cruise movie evar.
(Yeah, I can't believe I just typed that either)
In that case, let's hope no one from the Lemon Party runs for office.
What's wrong with a four letter .org? They obviously vetted it. There was also a mention of "dns-ok.us". That domain looks even funkier but it's perfectly legit.
OTOH, the final matched ) in this thread will probably be orgasmic for him/her.
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Heh.
What you have is LED backlit, not OLED. OLED is an emissive technology and is pretty much only in cellphones right now (the majority being Samsung produced with Universal Display Corp PHOLED chemicals). Displays of 15" and larger are expected in production quantities later this year, more realistically in 2013.
There are a lot of CES articles about the 55" I was referring to, here's a sample.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/samsung-55-inch-super-oled-tv-launch-ces-2012/
Considering that Samsung currently owns 95% of the OLED display market, it's not surprising that he'd say that. Picture quality (and thinness) is going to be the primary driver for OLED replacing LCD in the TV and monitor markets.
Of course the real question how the price vs. adoption curve plays out. There's a shot at seeing sub-$5k sets when their 8G OLED lines are up to full production this year. LG's faux-OLED (i.e. WOLED stack) is waiting in the wings too. It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out.
It's odd that after all these years Google bombs still work (santorum being the most obvious). And it's especially effective for reaching the average Joe because of Google's ubiquity.
The Reddit crew could find one good article on a reputable site about this quote and start the campaign around the most effective anchor text for the issue, or simply "Chris Dodd". With all of the SOPA exposure these days, it shouldn't be hard to attract a healthy number of links. Old school stuff still works.
If you don't mind me chiming in...unless things have changed, the benchmark textbooks are Oppenheim and Willsky "Signals and Systems" then Oppenheim and Schafer "Discrete-Time Signal Processing".
For some reason these two books have drawn violently differing reactions/reviews. But they worked just fine for me back in the day. Try the library first because as textbooks, they're expensive.
Based on your username, that wasn't a joke, was it?
Exactly. Let's not forget how Allison Halataei and Lauren Pastarnak whored themselves out to the RIAA/MPAA straight out of Lamar Smith's office. No waiting period to dispel any appearance of impropriety. They know it doesn't matter, just follow the money because the corruption is so ingrained.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70149.html
Hmm, maybe. I'll reserve judgment until SharkLaser confirms it.
It's not just Namecheap. I transferred a dozen names this weekend to a (non-Namecheap) registrar and the whois info is now in limbo. i.e. whois is still showing Godaddy info even after receiving "your domain transfer is complete" messages from the gaining registrar.
Note that I've done transfers from GD numerous times in the past decade (exactly the same way) and they've always cleared immediately. This time it's definitely different.
From my layman's understanding, yes, but how much of a real world effect it is vs. a polymer based device, I don't know. In general though, the three factors related to drive current+lifetime that come to mind are 1) good emitter outcoupling, 2) the fact that OLED is dimmable and 3) OLED is color tunable.
The internal quantum efficiency (IQE) for PHOLED is always going to be 100% as opposed to (much less) for fluorescent OLED. The external quantum efficiency (EQE) factors in outcoupling. So the more light reflected out of the device, the less energy required in the future vs. current benchmarks.
For dimmability and lifetime, the drive current can be reduced (which with OLED retains/increases it's efficiency).
Since OLED is color tunable, white oled fixtures can be biased for more higher-lifetime red and green when CRI is not so important. For display, it just means biasing the UI towards red and green usage since all white is a problem (i.e. minimizing blue).
If you're curious, see these three easy-reading links for info on the power issues, materials specs, and an outline presentation of how things are looking for lighting. Lighting will be different in terms of efficacy, structure, CRI, etc. But from a materials standpoint, there's still good info that can be extrapolated to displays wrt PHOLED efficiency and degradation:
http://www.universaldisplay.com/default.asp?contentID=605
http://www.universaldisplay.com/default.asp?contentID=604
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/ssl/pattison_oled_sslmiw2011.pdf
This news, coupled with the fact that Samsung controls 95% of the rapidly accelerating AMOLED panel market, puts them in a dominant position for display panels in general.
For years Samsung played the "ant" by investing heavily into new production plants for AMOLED when the technology was uncertain. While LG, AUO and Sony acted as the "grasshopper", flip-flopping in their commitment to future investment (documented on oled-info.com back to 2006).
Now AMOLED is in a huge number of phones and actual production TVs will be appearing at the upcoming CES (with OLED lighting in a couple years). So Samsung can retrofit the dying, low-margin LCD business by integrating hybrid OLED backlit modules. That will provide competition to LG's upcoming "fake" OLED TV (OLED backlit only), while Samsung's "true" OLED TV (actual OLED pixels) business will have little competition when they release it.
Lastly, not only did Samsung have the foresight to invest billions in capex for the replacement technology, they also locked up a multi year (non-exclusive) contract with the fundamental IP and materials provider for PHOLED (Universal Display Corp). LG and AUO are still twiddling their thumbs with 3-6 month contracts with UDC. This extends to the general lighting market too, as PHOLED will be required because of efficiency.
Is it a good thing for one company too become so powerful in a single segment? Never. But when the competition is weak and near-sighted, this is inevitable outcome. Jmho.
Just wanted to chime in and say avoid Register.com because of the ongoing renewal costs (and Network Solutions of course). As others have replied, there's absolutely nothing wrong with the low-margin registrars like Namecheap. There's Moniker and Fabulous too.
So be sure to check renewal pricing on their published price list on the site. Quite a few offer sweetheart transfer deals then revert to $30-$40 annual renewals (Register.com, Netsol, others). There's absolutey nothing that $30-$40 buys you...except financing their marketing budget to suck in more people paying $30-$40 a year.
Best of luck.
Note also that there are quite a few "tiny" names on that SOPA supporters list. "Tiny" meaning small time photographers and the like. It seems odd that out of millions of businesses, only 439 names comprise the list, and that they're not all the usual suspects of large companies.
From the digitaltrends.com link, examples of those that support SOPA:
Andrea Rugg Photography
Julien McRoberts Photography
Kenneth Garrett, photographer for National Geographic
Tony Bullard Photography
Wendy Kaveney Photography
Greg Nikas Photography
Photojournalist Dave Bartruff
Linda Olsen Photography
Mark Niederman Photography
Marcia Andberg Associates LLC (one employee)
etc.
It should be noted that these folks might have just signed up blindly based on the phrase "copyright protection law". Of course a tiny bit of effort on their part would have revealed that SOPA actually puts their online presence in danger. And to think that PIPA is right around the corner...
So is Mastercard but not American Express. Wonder if they just took a neutral position or there's some back story to it?
Holy cow dude, lighten up. If you read it with a dry wit, the gp was one of the funniest /. posts of the year.
(Jmho, of course.)
Not always. For millenia, Alaskans have fiercely defended their belief that Africa is indeed a country. It's a proud tradition upheld by only the most patriotic of its constituents. Righteous battles have been fought over this issue and surely the blessed pro-country advocates will be victorious once again.
http://wonkette.com/404207/sarah-palin-thought-africa-was-a-country-not-a-continent
Just to clarify, from the statement on his site:
"I directed this video myself and the production of the video cost around $170,000. (This was largely paid for by the tickets bought by the audiences at both shows)."
So ticket sales were part of the risk reduction in the model. Pretty cool business model overall, but only if you're exceedingly good at the craft (like he is).
Not sure I understand what you're saying. One thing you may have missed is the footnote in the material lifetime table. Since they're material specs, those figures do not factor any outcoupling efficiency gains for the emitter structure. Also the drive currents are worst case (constant illumination). Both factors greatly suppress EQE (but still 100% IQE for AMOLED). So with sufficient encapsulation, the usable lifetime is definitely far longer than device lifetime. HTH.
The 50% lifetime degradation for red and green is in the hundreds of thousands of hours for PHOLED. It's in the tens of thousands of hours for 95%, far longer than the usable life of actual products on the market:
http://www.universaldisplay.com/default.asp?contentID=604
"Sky blue" PHOLED has a sufficient lifetime but dark blue is a long way off. So fluorescent blue is used which is lower efficiency but compensates by having a much higher lifetime. This is the set of chemicals currently being used in all Samsung OLED displays currently on the market (almost all of their phones; TVs and tablets next year).
The larger issue has been encapsulation which is solved for rigid displays. For flexible displays, it's essentially solved.
I realize you probably know all this but your post made it sound like there are still problems with PHOLED lifetimes. So this is a synopsis for those readers unfamiliar with the technology.
Correct, and in early 1995 the price for 16MB (Micron) was around $1000. The price collapsed by over 75% within a few months. (Worst buy I've ever made...and still pissed about it!)
Noticed the same thing. However Newegg did have a 500G Hitachi for $50 and a Seagate for $80 this morning in their email blast.
Also noticed that there seems to be an uptick in refurbished drives there. Not sure if it's related to the shortage or just a push to offer more refurbed items in general. Probably just the latter.