I look forward to Ovie Carroll's next few breathless announcements:
"Hooh, boy, that YouTube is soooo secure, a person could sign up for an account using their real name and home address, then post videos of them committing crimes online and law enforcement would never ever be able to track them! Honest!"
"You know where the safest place to hide stuff is? Underneath the welcome mat at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in Washington, DC. Really! We did a study and figured out that once that mat is pushed down on top of something, whether it's drugs, cash or big file folders full of industrial secrets, there's NO way that any one can get into it."
"My biggest nightmare is someone committing a crime, then emailing a detailed confession to ovie.carroll@usdoj.gov. Once something gets into those email tubes it's IMPOSSIBLE to get it back out and figure out what happened. Really. You can trust me. I'm with the government."
I can just see the the sysadmin "ohshitohshitohshit, unplug it unplug it now!"
And that's what happened, Three different times. Take a look at this graph of trading volume on NYSE (Taken from Nanex's detailed analysis of market activity during the Knightmare on Wall Street). After the market opened at 9:30 the trading system immediately started going berserk. Eyebrows were no doubt raised and meetings quickly called, but it wasn't until 9:48 that the decision to shut down the entire system was made. There's a gap at 9:49 when Knight goes offline and then back up at 9:50 when their insane trading pattern resumes. At 9:52 the "ohshitohshitohshit!" faction regains control and shuts everything down again, but when it comes back at 9:54 nothing has changed. There's a brief pause where everybody heads back to their desks to get their emergency trousers and then the test system is finally killed, staked and put out in the sunlight by 10:00.
So the lessons here are these:
Don't schedule code promotions for after last call.
Just because your monitoring and tracking system doesn't report something doesn't mean that it isn't happening.
If you work in Capital Markets, always keep an emergency kit including clean pants in your desk. You know you're going to need them, it's just a question of when.
That's okay, I will just make 100 trades every day. Then my coworker, Bob, will make the next 100. After that Bobb down in accounting will make 100 more, and then the intern Bobbb will take over the trading desk. After his 100 trades are completed Bbob from HR will do a little trading and then take off for lunch when the triplits Bbobb, Bobbobb and Booboo will have their turns... Did I mention that we just hired the entire fourth grade class at Bob Roberts Elementary School as Junior Traders for the summer? Little Bobby just can't wait to make a hundred trades.
The markets are already just two giant foam mallets and a dunk tank away from being a Japanese game show. The more you complicate the rules, the more people will find ways to win by following them to the letter.
We've known for a long time that the guys in Hollywood have been pretty bad at math, though usually they are only out by a factor of a million.
As the old saying goes, "You write what you know". When the writers only work experience is in writing scripts, pitching them to producers and preparing movie budgets, it's only to be expected that their grasp on reality will be weak and their math will be lucky to come within a factor of 100 off of the right answer.
Here's a weird little fact. Many people don't live in the USA.
Many people also don't have unlimited access to the Internet, or unlimited money. For these reasons it makes sense to continue supporting the simplest, cheapest way of distributing software on physical media, and that is a CD-ROM.
Very few gamers can even notice a difference between 60-100 let alone over 100.
They will, however, notice the difference when a sudden spike in activity causes the fps to drop to half or a quarter of that. Rendering speeds are highly dependant on what is being rendered.
A game running at 240fps can happily suffer a 75% drop without any noticeable impact, while a game which just barely makes 60 fps will not.
Or better yet, make a complete copy of the Wikipedia page, reformat it, and then look on with joy when it is cited as a reference by Wikipedia a month later.
"At first I thought that that crap about the Temple of Athena Nike having a giant 'swoosh' inscribed on the stylobate was just someone's idea of a joke, but Trepidity's has confirmed it. It must be true."
Why should the group have to change for one new incommer? [sic]
That's a good point. I'll take "Evidence the group may be made up of immature jerks who should not be allowed out in public without a leash" for $200 please, Alex.
Reboot the same lame Batman/Superman/Spiderman/Xmen/Hulk/whatever story again, this time after only two years, not five, and this time, it will be "darker than last time."
Nah... "Darker" has already been done. The next series of reboots will be "Greener" than before.
Slashdot Mirror
You're just not holding it the right way.
I look forward to Ovie Carroll's next few breathless announcements:
"Hooh, boy, that YouTube is soooo secure, a person could sign up for an account using their real name and home address, then post videos of them committing crimes online and law enforcement would never ever be able to track them! Honest!"
"You know where the safest place to hide stuff is? Underneath the welcome mat at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in Washington, DC. Really! We did a study and figured out that once that mat is pushed down on top of something, whether it's drugs, cash or big file folders full of industrial secrets, there's NO way that any one can get into it."
"My biggest nightmare is someone committing a crime, then emailing a detailed confession to ovie.carroll@usdoj.gov. Once something gets into those email tubes it's IMPOSSIBLE to get it back out and figure out what happened. Really. You can trust me. I'm with the government."
Riiiight. And what do T10KC drives cost again?
If you are the kind of person who asks questions like then then Oracle is clearly not for you.
I can just see the the sysadmin "ohshitohshitohshit, unplug it unplug it now!"
And that's what happened, Three different times. Take a look at this graph of trading volume on NYSE (Taken from Nanex's detailed analysis of market activity during the Knightmare on Wall Street). After the market opened at 9:30 the trading system immediately started going berserk. Eyebrows were no doubt raised and meetings quickly called, but it wasn't until 9:48 that the decision to shut down the entire system was made. There's a gap at 9:49 when Knight goes offline and then back up at 9:50 when their insane trading pattern resumes. At 9:52 the "ohshitohshitohshit!" faction regains control and shuts everything down again, but when it comes back at 9:54 nothing has changed. There's a brief pause where everybody heads back to their desks to get their emergency trousers and then the test system is finally killed, staked and put out in the sunlight by 10:00.
So the lessons here are these:
First 100 trades in a day: free
That's okay, I will just make 100 trades every day. Then my coworker, Bob, will make the next 100. After that Bobb down in accounting will make 100 more, and then the intern Bobbb will take over the trading desk. After his 100 trades are completed Bbob from HR will do a little trading and then take off for lunch when the triplits Bbobb, Bobbobb and Booboo will have their turns... Did I mention that we just hired the entire fourth grade class at Bob Roberts Elementary School as Junior Traders for the summer? Little Bobby just can't wait to make a hundred trades.
The markets are already just two giant foam mallets and a dunk tank away from being a Japanese game show. The more you complicate the rules, the more people will find ways to win by following them to the letter.
We've known for a long time that the guys in Hollywood have been pretty bad at math, though usually they are only out by a factor of a million.
As the old saying goes, "You write what you know". When the writers only work experience is in writing scripts, pitching them to producers and preparing movie budgets, it's only to be expected that their grasp on reality will be weak and their math will be lucky to come within a factor of 100 off of the right answer.
Or you could just paint one side of it white and let the sun push the asteroid away, but that doesn't include any explosions.
This only works when the asteroid does not keep rotating.
Not quite right. That only works when the sun isn't orbiting the asteroid.
A small nudge, if applied when the asteroid is still some distance from Earth, could have a considerable impact on it's trajectory.
I disagree. It's not about whether there is an effect but whether the effect is big enough.
Actually, that's the whole point. If the effect isn't big enough, you just aren't applying it early enough.
True, but their nearly unlimited storage is full of cheap, uncensored, high quality porn. All that's left is a few blank CDs.
If in the States
Here's a weird little fact. Many people don't live in the USA.
Many people also don't have unlimited access to the Internet, or unlimited money. For these reasons it makes sense to continue supporting the simplest, cheapest way of distributing software on physical media, and that is a CD-ROM.
It may be so, but I have serious doupt about the legallity of this action in light of RF frequency allocation and usage rules.
This is in England. The police can arrest people for being too tall, so why should they let something silly like laws or rights get in the way?
That's a great game. When did Valve release it?
Very few gamers can even notice a difference between 60-100 let alone over 100.
They will, however, notice the difference when a sudden spike in activity causes the fps to drop to half or a quarter of that. Rendering speeds are highly dependant on what is being rendered.
A game running at 240fps can happily suffer a 75% drop without any noticeable impact, while a game which just barely makes 60 fps will not.
% wine Steam.exe
Yeah, look at them all.
Stop that. If you're going to start treating foreigners as though they were people with feelings, then who knows where this could lead?
You know who else liked foreigners? Hitler.
Why do you hate America?
Won't somebody please think of the children?
If speaking English and hating people from the Middle East was good enough for Jesus, it should be good enough for the rest of us.
The flaw with the root kit of course being that someone detected it.
But don't worry, they're working hard to correct that problem.
Nice try. Which three letter agency do you work for?
AOL.
Really? Where do you park it?
That you appear to be mad?
Or better yet, make a complete copy of the Wikipedia page, reformat it, and then look on with joy when it is cited as a reference by Wikipedia a month later.
"At first I thought that that crap about the Temple of Athena Nike having a giant 'swoosh' inscribed on the stylobate was just someone's idea of a joke, but Trepidity's has confirmed it. It must be true."
Perhaps if you tried "2002 concorde temperature control wiring diagram" you might get better results
And if you knew that the last Concorde was built in 1979, you'd have some idea of why you were getting the wrong results.
Why should the group have to change for one new incommer? [sic]
That's a good point. I'll take "Evidence the group may be made up of immature jerks who should not be allowed out in public without a leash" for $200 please, Alex.
Reboot the same lame Batman/Superman/Spiderman/Xmen/Hulk/whatever story again, this time after only two years, not five, and this time, it will be "darker than last time."
Nah... "Darker" has already been done. The next series of reboots will be "Greener" than before.
I'm surprised this hasn't come to the big screen yet. I recall reading about a movie a few years back, but whatever happened to it?
What happened is Sam Raimi got bored and left.
Then "The Invisibles" with Patrick Stewart as King Mob.
Wasn't that one already done with Keanu Reeves as Jack Frost and Laurence Fishburne as King Mob?