It is simply an oil exchange that accepts Euros for oil instead of US dollars.
Author makes some interesting points. Although last paragraph summarized it all nicely:
About the Author: Krassimir Petrov (Krassimir_Petrov@hotmail.com) has received his Ph. D. in economics from the Ohio State University and currently teaches Macroeconomics, International Finance, and Econometrics at the American University in Bulgaria. He is looking for a career in Dubai or the U. A. E.
That just depends on how good of a coder he is and how well he hid his backdoors now doesn't it?
Unless he spent all his time just rigging it once, not to be able to do it when he wanted. Maybe he put some cool eastereggs in and in 2008 Fidel Castro will win in Florida!
They can hire Google to index their entire existing code base. The new OS can be made by developers "googling" for existing code where needed and cutting and pasting it in!
This will be just like programming for OSS! Bound to improve efficiency and Vista or whatever the new OS is called will be done in no time!
because a CPU failure usually leads to you peeing the bed...
Especially if you are the sys/admin who did not order a spare X core chip or worse budget for the inevitable cost of ever replacing one or more of these behemoths!
We fell down the slope years ago when we went from centrally controlled computing ( Computer centers and mainframes maintained by professionals) to decentrallized computing ( Personal computers everywhere, administrated (or not) by whomever ).
If personal computing had not taken over as the driving force in technology development, we would see computers/computing as another utility. We would be plugging dumb terminals into holes in walls (net outlets) or maybe there would be some wireless connections for dumb laptop terminals.
Whether or not that would be better who knows. If you were one of the "chosen" who got to work in the computer utility it may have been wonderful. For many of us, well would have had much different lives/jobs.
I think all these "farm-raised" chickens have been affected by the Hollywood Body Image.
It is all about the breasts! I mean, have you seen the breasts on these chickens!?! I know we raised chickens when I was young, but none of them were these "Dolly Parton Big Boob" chickens you see now.
You know these chickens can't run, hell I wonder how they can even walk with those huge breast!
I first ate Mahi Mahi on a trip to California. It was the catch of the day. White meat fish, delicious. It doesn't have that "fishy" taste that tuna or salmon. Grilled or baked... so very good!
Senior Manager: You missed the deadline. Project Manager: My aplogies, my team will work much harder.
Senior Manager: No excuses. Report to Mr. Balmer immediately. Project Manager: No, not that, not Mr. Balmer.
Senior Manager: Oh, and bring your chair. Mu ha ha ha!
I have found that anyone who spends more than say 10-15 minutes in Walmart gets "Walmart Sickness" where they appear slightly intoxicated and more aggressive than usual. Course this is the South, that may be normal behavior *wink*.
The screens that play repetative loops, especially Martina McBride singing "How Far" again and again and again... well that just doesn't help.
How about interactive screens that tell me where the hell they have moved the item(s) I am looking for? Oh, they want me to buy their overstocked product instead. Ah, clever aren't they.
but when my wife sees me messing with my mythtv box she normally has no frickin clue whats going on, and shes an above-average user
Sometimes I miss the good ole days... when my wife thought that white text on black was Linux and green text on black was MUD. I got many a good hour of "Linux" in before she figured that one out. *Grin*
Reformed 14hr a day computer user. Yesterday I went fishing and got sunburned...but at least I was outside. Man you should have seen the one that got away!
The LAMP stack when broken down consists of: Linux & Apache - rock solid stable releases. MySql - Okay, getting better with each release.
P - This is the kicker. Perl, Python, PHP, and more so lately even that R one Ruby & Rails. We are living in interesting times when we have so much choice... much like the Chinese curse. I do not see as how you can evaluate all of these platforms together in a general fashion. Where is the skew or bias in this study?
Someone on IRC recently was critical of a small website I put together in 2000. It was written in plain html, using frames *gasp*. Many people today do not realize how far web development has come since then.
My younger brother came to live with my grandmother while I was in college, around late 90's.
He had never really played any games past some NES and SNES. I loaned him my old computer and got him to playing Doom II, Hexen, and even Betrayal at Krondor. He loved those games. I never told him that at the same time I was playing Unreal,Starcraft and Tribes.
He got the whole "Old School Experience" more than half a decade late. He appreciates the modern now, but still has respect for the playability of the older games.
Don't waste all the old games you loved back in the day. Share those experiences with children too young to know there is "something better".
Montezuma's Revenge! Awesome game. My grandmother made a map of the entire game by hand on the green/white strip computer paper. About 20 sheets all taped together.
This was about 15-20 years ago. She is 77 now and mostly plays solitaire, with cards. I miss the good ole days sometimes.
And Starbucks will only require you to put in 5 hours growing/harvesting beans, 2 hours grinding, and 1 hour cleaning the store, along with the $15M, for the privilege! At least it will be "organic", whatever that will mean by then.
He uses this website, slash something or other. All he has to do is put the url he wants attacked on its frontpage and all his loyal "bots" go right to work on a DDOS attack.
Most ingenious! And I bet he profits handsomely from it too!
Slashdot Mirror
For those wondering what the Iranian Bourse is?
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It is simply an oil exchange that accepts Euros for oil instead of US dollars.
Author makes some interesting points. Although last paragraph summarized it all nicely:
About the Author: Krassimir Petrov (Krassimir_Petrov@hotmail.com) has received his Ph. D. in economics from the Ohio State University and currently teaches Macroeconomics, International Finance, and Econometrics at the American University in Bulgaria. He is looking for a career in Dubai or the U. A. E.
Full article
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1
I have managed to fly under their radar until now. I check my lines.. oh so careful not to go to fbi.gov
Don't make waves... just an average peon citizen who votes Republican.
Oh my... where is my FOIL!!! Never enough FOIL!!!
*charlton heston like* Damn slashdot... DAMN THEM! *end charlton heston like*
how can he possibly win?
That just depends on how good of a coder he is and how well he hid his backdoors now doesn't it?
Unless he spent all his time just rigging it once, not to be able to do it when he wanted. Maybe he put some cool eastereggs in and in 2008 Fidel Castro will win in Florida!
Children... not Euphemism for Employees?
I thought for a minute this was about his "children" all him evil minions who work for him at Microsoft.
Guess it would be hard for a company, even Microsoft, to ban google and IPODS for employees.
Then you find out how really evil they are!
And you still don't learn anything about Linux!
They can hire Google to index their entire existing code base. The new OS can be made by developers "googling" for existing code where needed and cutting and pasting it in!
This will be just like programming for OSS! Bound to improve efficiency and Vista or whatever the new OS is called will be done in no time!
because a CPU failure usually leads to you peeing the bed...
Especially if you are the sys/admin who did not order a spare X core chip or worse budget for the inevitable cost of ever replacing one or more of these behemoths!
How well do these multi-core chips fail? Do they fail silently? Do they come crashing down if even a single core on them fails?
Are we putting too many eggs in one basket? I thought modular design was good.
Oh well, back to setting up Linux on old dell boxes. Maybe I will get a real server one day. *grin*
We fell down the slope years ago when we went from centrally controlled computing ( Computer centers and mainframes maintained by professionals) to decentrallized computing ( Personal computers everywhere, administrated (or not) by whomever ).
If personal computing had not taken over as the driving force in technology development, we would see computers/computing as another utility. We would be plugging dumb terminals into holes in walls (net outlets) or maybe there would be some wireless connections for dumb laptop terminals.
Whether or not that would be better who knows. If you were one of the "chosen" who got to work in the computer utility it may have been wonderful. For many of us, well would have had much different lives/jobs.
I think all these "farm-raised" chickens have been affected by the Hollywood Body Image.
It is all about the breasts! I mean, have you seen the breasts on these chickens!?! I know we raised chickens when I was young, but none of them were these "Dolly Parton Big Boob" chickens you see now.
You know these chickens can't run, hell I wonder how they can even walk with those huge breast!
I first ate Mahi Mahi on a trip to California. It was the catch of the day. White meat fish, delicious. It doesn't have that "fishy" taste that tuna or salmon. Grilled or baked... so very good!
Senior Manager: You missed the deadline.
Project Manager: My aplogies, my team will work much harder.
Senior Manager: No excuses. Report to Mr. Balmer immediately.
Project Manager: No, not that, not Mr. Balmer.
Senior Manager: Oh, and bring your chair. Mu ha ha ha!
I have found that anyone who spends more than say 10-15 minutes in Walmart gets "Walmart Sickness" where they appear slightly intoxicated and more aggressive than usual. Course this is the South, that may be normal behavior *wink*.
The screens that play repetative loops, especially Martina McBride singing "How Far" again and again and again... well that just doesn't help.
How about interactive screens that tell me where the hell they have moved the item(s) I am looking for? Oh, they want me to buy their overstocked product instead. Ah, clever aren't they.
but when my wife sees me messing with my mythtv box she normally has no frickin clue whats going on, and shes an above-average user
Sometimes I miss the good ole days... when my wife thought that white text on black was Linux and green text on black was MUD. I got many a good hour of "Linux" in before she figured that one out. *Grin*
Reformed 14hr a day computer user. Yesterday I went fishing and got sunburned...but at least I was outside. Man you should have seen the one that got away!
We become System Administrators!
Okay, you got me... I am at best Neutral... oh but how I really really try to be "EVIL"!
The site in question was a personal site with pictures from my wedding.
It was mostly for family members who did not get to attend.
Use the best tool for the job. DB driven sites and huge PDF downloads are a bane for posting simple static content.
Oh nog... lets rewrite all the DNS root servers to use LAMP~!
That would be the coolest thing EVA!!!
Until Google gets around to buying them all and porting them to a simple but usable AJAX format!
The LAMP stack when broken down consists of:
Linux & Apache - rock solid stable releases.
MySql - Okay, getting better with each release.
P - This is the kicker. Perl, Python, PHP, and more so lately even that R one Ruby & Rails.
We are living in interesting times when we have so much choice... much like the Chinese curse. I do not see as how you can evaluate all of these platforms together in a general fashion. Where is the skew or bias in this study?
Someone on IRC recently was critical of a small website I put together in 2000. It was written in plain html, using frames *gasp*. Many people today do not realize how far web development has come since then.
My younger brother came to live with my grandmother while I was in college, around late 90's.
He had never really played any games past some NES and SNES. I loaned him my old computer and got him to playing Doom II, Hexen, and even Betrayal at Krondor. He loved those games. I never told him that at the same time I was playing Unreal,Starcraft and Tribes.
He got the whole "Old School Experience" more than half a decade late. He appreciates the modern now, but still has respect for the playability of the older games.
Don't waste all the old games you loved back in the day. Share those experiences with children too young to know there is "something better".
Montezuma's Revenge! Awesome game. My grandmother made a map of the entire game by hand on the green/white strip computer paper. About 20 sheets all taped together.
This was about 15-20 years ago. She is 77 now and mostly plays solitaire, with cards. I miss the good ole days sometimes.
And Starbucks will only require you to put in 5 hours growing/harvesting beans, 2 hours grinding, and 1 hour cleaning the store, along with the $15M, for the privilege! At least it will be "organic", whatever that will mean by then.
What language is interchange written in? What databases does it support?
Searched all over their homepage. Lovely demo, but nothing on language or database support anywhere.
Original Ghostbusters movie... and Sigourney Weaver is still HOT! Alien infested or not.
It is run by this Taco guy...
He uses this website, slash something or other. All he has to do is put the url he wants attacked on its frontpage and all his loyal "bots" go right to work on a DDOS attack.
Most ingenious! And I bet he profits handsomely from it too!