Yesterday Google announced earnings. At 4:01pm EST, exactly. I was able to get the page at 4:01:05pm EST, and just as a joke at the exact same time I checked out after hours trading on GOOG. It was already down 8%, though 5 minutes earlier it was holding around even on close. Tell me, how anyone was able to parse that document in 4 seconds, place the trade, and have it go through after hours.
The system is already so corrupt and broken that anybody who isn't on the "in" shouldn't ever try to invest except for extreme long term. I don't know why a case like this would surprise anyone.
I don't know what mother you're buying, but my 4 year old Asus P5K-E mother board does not have a parallel or serial port. This is fairly normal these days.
I have about 15 domains, and I switched to NameCheap last year from GD, because someone mentioned it on/. around that time. I have had no issues at all with NameCheap, I would recommend them.
With a smartphone and a data plan you can quickly determine whether or not the store you are at has the best deal for an item, and if it doesn't, where you could get a better deal. And, it's not always something you can plan ahead for (i.e. you need to look it up while you're out, or it would cost more to go home and look it up in gas/travel than just doing it right there).
So I don't know, I find it saves me money quite a lot.
The BI platform used by Dundas Data Visualization, Dundas Dashboard, is in Silverlight. I use it on a daily basis. However, they are now offering HTML5 as well. But having a dashboard designer, in the web with a very rich experience, is one example where Silverlight has an advantage. But of course, as HTML5 improves/adopts, that advantage is going away, making plug-ins no longer needed.
I thought they were getting more progressive in the recent years? Is this not the case? It seems like it's just getting closer and closer to another dictatorship and extreme socialism.
Can someone more informed than me on the subject explain what's going on there? None of the sites seem to say more than "Putin is being an asshole."
Where I live in Canada we've had a 3 bin system for a long time.. garbage, recyclables, and organic waste. Nothing is mandated, as far as I know, but recycle/organic comes once a week, whereas garbage comes every other week. This is not a big issue, and it's really easy to just separate stuff while you're doing things..
So uh, what's the issue?
For those who have been to Japan, I think the U.S. and here in Canada have it pretty damned easy compared to there.
I live in Canada, and while we aren't without our problems as well, the headlines coming out of the US lately, including this one, are just ridiculous.
What is the problem? Since when did the government become so extremely pro-corporation, and anti-citizen? Why is there no pressure to do something, like cap contributions by corporations to political parties, or something, anything?
For the people, by the people? What happened to that.
Mexico is basically in a state of quiet civil war at this point: the government vs. the gangs. I read somewhere that the US is moving more men to the southern border, and expects a collapse of the Mexican government in 5 years time (unfortunately, I can't find the article again, so maybe it was incorrect).
In any case, while I completely agree that legalization of drugs in both the US and Mexico would solve this (in the short term; who knows what the gangs would move on to), the real answer is for Mexico to just hurry up and collapse into total civil war. That way the whole world can acknowledge the crises, and help re-build the country from the slum that it currently is.
As for me, I refuse to travel there, and I tell everyone I can to do the same. I realize lack of tourism dollars may hurt non-gang industries, but quite frankly I don't care. I know that if I go there, at least some portion, if not a large portion. of any money I spend will end up in the gangs hands, and I'm not willing to give them anymore than they have already. I suggest everyone does the same, and let the country collapse.
This is kind of a good point. Since when did "being a musician" amount to only having to work for a year or two, and then be ultra-rich? Maybe musicians just have to work 9-5, 5 days a week, like the rest of us..
Oh I'm sorry, let's all live in specification land. Except there's that small problem, where in the real-world, you actually have to make shit work, and in order to do that you're at the mercy of the browsers. Thanks though, for those completely useless and naive words of wisdom.
This blurb is a bit old, but it's still relative (from dive into html5:
There is no single combination of containers and codecs that works in all HTML5 browsers.
This is not likely to change in the near future.
To make your video watchable across all of these devices and platforms, you’re going to need to encode your video more than once.
While many of us don't like Flash, for various reasons, there's no denying that video streaming over HTML5 is a real big pain in the ass for developers. This is one of the problems with "open" formats; nobody agrees, everyone squabbles around and tries to push their own agenda. Sometimes it's better to have a dictator than a democracy (I'm sure I'll get modded down just for saying that..).
I suspect you're a troll, but some idiots will end up agreeing with you if they ever read your post, so we'll just refute the idiocy right now.
"Volcanoes release more than humans" = wrong. Volcanic activity releases on average 65-319 mln tonnes/year, fossil fuels release 29 bln tonnes/year (EIA 2007).
"Humans breathe more".. well there's a ton of sites just doing the simple math, but in my lazy search I found this. It indicates human emissions via respiratory system is 1-2 bln tonnes/year. 2 / 29 = ~7% of all fossil fuel burned, so that is also not correct.
Honestly, I don't really feel like continuing anymore than this. I really hope you were a troll, and that you don't procreate.
Judging by your previous also incoherent comments, including:
"When I used to have cable it sucked they cut out the sound even on the local channels so you can't even hear the local live weather report that is more detailed then then in there is a alert in $county."
I'm starting to think you're a bot, or, a partial bot. Cyborg.
I'm glad you agree. And I'm also glad you agree that having candidates who can just memorize APIs, sorting algorithms, and such are often not the kind of people who possess the qualities that make good developers.
It makes me sad that this fact is lost on so many people, including the "smart" companies like Google and Facebook.
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Yesterday Google announced earnings. At 4:01pm EST, exactly. I was able to get the page at 4:01:05pm EST, and just as a joke at the exact same time I checked out after hours trading on GOOG. It was already down 8%, though 5 minutes earlier it was holding around even on close. Tell me, how anyone was able to parse that document in 4 seconds, place the trade, and have it go through after hours.
The system is already so corrupt and broken that anybody who isn't on the "in" shouldn't ever try to invest except for extreme long term. I don't know why a case like this would surprise anyone.
I don't know what mother you're buying, but my 4 year old Asus P5K-E mother board does not have a parallel or serial port. This is fairly normal these days.
Looks strangely familiar.
In seriousness, why isn't this all over the news? Why just SOPA?
I guess I'll post it in here too. A SOPA comic for your enjoyment.
Here's a SOPA comic for your enjoyment. Figured it was fitting, for today.
I believe he's talking about the legend of the cocktopus.
As someone stated in an above comment:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110508/16543114199/belgian-appeals-court-says-google-must-pay-up-linking-to-newspaper-websites.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110718/16394915157/belgian-newspapers-give-permission-to-google-to-return-them-to-search-results.shtml
I have about 15 domains, and I switched to NameCheap last year from GD, because someone mentioned it on /. around that time. I have had no issues at all with NameCheap, I would recommend them.
With a smartphone and a data plan you can quickly determine whether or not the store you are at has the best deal for an item, and if it doesn't, where you could get a better deal. And, it's not always something you can plan ahead for (i.e. you need to look it up while you're out, or it would cost more to go home and look it up in gas/travel than just doing it right there).
So I don't know, I find it saves me money quite a lot.
Here you go: http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/13/apple-and-google-dominate-smartphone-space-while-other-vendors-scramble/.
WP7 went from 1% to 2% of sales. Android is at 53%, iOS at 29%. This is sales, not market share.
The BI platform used by Dundas Data Visualization, Dundas Dashboard, is in Silverlight. I use it on a daily basis. However, they are now offering HTML5 as well. But having a dashboard designer, in the web with a very rich experience, is one example where Silverlight has an advantage. But of course, as HTML5 improves/adopts, that advantage is going away, making plug-ins no longer needed.
Recently in Japan, a new member in a pop group called AKB48 was "announced", but she was actually a CGI composite of of 6 existing members.
People figured it out pretty fast though. So, this sort of thing is not without precedent.
I thought they were getting more progressive in the recent years? Is this not the case? It seems like it's just getting closer and closer to another dictatorship and extreme socialism.
Can someone more informed than me on the subject explain what's going on there? None of the sites seem to say more than "Putin is being an asshole."
Actually every single one of his 332 comments are pro-MS. So, something is wrong there.
This sounds strangely familiar..
Where I live in Canada we've had a 3 bin system for a long time.. garbage, recyclables, and organic waste. Nothing is mandated, as far as I know, but recycle/organic comes once a week, whereas garbage comes every other week. This is not a big issue, and it's really easy to just separate stuff while you're doing things..
So uh, what's the issue?
For those who have been to Japan, I think the U.S. and here in Canada have it pretty damned easy compared to there.
I live in Canada, and while we aren't without our problems as well, the headlines coming out of the US lately, including this one, are just ridiculous.
What is the problem? Since when did the government become so extremely pro-corporation, and anti-citizen? Why is there no pressure to do something, like cap contributions by corporations to political parties, or something, anything?
For the people, by the people? What happened to that.
Mexico is basically in a state of quiet civil war at this point: the government vs. the gangs. I read somewhere that the US is moving more men to the southern border, and expects a collapse of the Mexican government in 5 years time (unfortunately, I can't find the article again, so maybe it was incorrect).
In any case, while I completely agree that legalization of drugs in both the US and Mexico would solve this (in the short term; who knows what the gangs would move on to), the real answer is for Mexico to just hurry up and collapse into total civil war. That way the whole world can acknowledge the crises, and help re-build the country from the slum that it currently is.
As for me, I refuse to travel there, and I tell everyone I can to do the same. I realize lack of tourism dollars may hurt non-gang industries, but quite frankly I don't care. I know that if I go there, at least some portion, if not a large portion. of any money I spend will end up in the gangs hands, and I'm not willing to give them anymore than they have already. I suggest everyone does the same, and let the country collapse.
This is kind of a good point. Since when did "being a musician" amount to only having to work for a year or two, and then be ultra-rich? Maybe musicians just have to work 9-5, 5 days a week, like the rest of us..
Nobody promoted, neither in that article or in my posts, H.264. So I have no idea what you're rambling on about.
Oh I'm sorry, let's all live in specification land. Except there's that small problem, where in the real-world, you actually have to make shit work, and in order to do that you're at the mercy of the browsers. Thanks though, for those completely useless and naive words of wisdom.
This blurb is a bit old, but it's still relative (from dive into html5:
There is no single combination of containers and codecs that works in all HTML5 browsers. This is not likely to change in the near future. To make your video watchable across all of these devices and platforms, you’re going to need to encode your video more than once.
While many of us don't like Flash, for various reasons, there's no denying that video streaming over HTML5 is a real big pain in the ass for developers. This is one of the problems with "open" formats; nobody agrees, everyone squabbles around and tries to push their own agenda. Sometimes it's better to have a dictator than a democracy (I'm sure I'll get modded down just for saying that..).
I suspect you're a troll, but some idiots will end up agreeing with you if they ever read your post, so we'll just refute the idiocy right now.
"Volcanoes release more than humans" = wrong. Volcanic activity releases on average 65-319 mln tonnes/year, fossil fuels release 29 bln tonnes/year (EIA 2007).
"Humans breathe more".. well there's a ton of sites just doing the simple math, but in my lazy search I found this. It indicates human emissions via respiratory system is 1-2 bln tonnes/year. 2 / 29 = ~7% of all fossil fuel burned, so that is also not correct.
Honestly, I don't really feel like continuing anymore than this. I really hope you were a troll, and that you don't procreate.
Judging by your previous also incoherent comments, including:
"When I used to have cable it sucked they cut out the sound even on the local channels so you can't even hear the local live weather report that is more detailed then then in there is a alert in $county."
I'm starting to think you're a bot, or, a partial bot. Cyborg.
I'm glad you agree. And I'm also glad you agree that having candidates who can just memorize APIs, sorting algorithms, and such are often not the kind of people who possess the qualities that make good developers.
It makes me sad that this fact is lost on so many people, including the "smart" companies like Google and Facebook.