Yes, cooling has got easier but building bif systems and keeping them cold isn't easy. Room Temperature semiconductors may be difficult but what about those at around 75K, the boiling point of nitrogen.
Tech to keep nitrogen liquid (even on big bits of plant) is well known and even relatively cheap.
What happens is that you get market data as fast as possible, predict what is happening then act on it. If somebody else is faster, they get the deal, you don't. Already some of the biggest electronic exchanges, LSE, Xetra & Eurex offer so-called proximity hosting where you pay $$$ to share the data centre with the exchange.
Yes, the original order may have come from a human but the execution of big orders is via algorithmic trading so that the market isn't adversely effected.
I work in investment banking and have worked at some of the largest banks in the world. The desktop has been Windows, and never bleeding edge (they took their time going from NT to 2K to XP and Vista is something off the horizon. The backend servers tend not to be Windows, but Linux. Mostly the webservers are Apache. IBM heavy iron is often still there for things like the ledger, other systems were running on Sun but have been slowly moving to Linux, the why was simple, costs & flexibility. A lot of the backend apps were implemented in Java so migration was relatively easy.
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OpenVMS allowed the use of privileged images as well as libraries. These allowed for subsystem seperation. Of course, you had to be a fairly disciplined programmer to ensure that privs didn't leak.
I think he is referring to the logical name searchlists:
$ DEFINE/user SRC U:[CURRENT],U1:[BASELINE]
The logical name SRC become translated as both current and baseline. If the file SRC:hello.c was in CURRENT, it would use that, it it wasn't it would be looked for in BASELINE instead.
This alongside, the ability to use a filespec with a default spec and a related spec in the basic RMS filename parser was extremely powerful.
I have always considered that to be a true reflection of modern times, cheating to get an MBA should be permitted. Anything else should be strongly punished.
The original 74 series were TTL chips definitely implementing digial logic, albeit at rather a lower level of integration. Later people went to 74LS which was lower-power but faster, I had heard on some people doing analog things with a TTL chip but it would be rather unusual.
Mandatory disclaimer: I'm not a professional graphics designed but I have helped some out in the past. Personally I prefer to use GPLed software because licensed design software is generally isn't that stable (whether on Win or a Mac).
First, a professional graphics/designer shop probably has a number of expensive packages. They have to be kept relatively up to date so it means a few thou per desk just on software. You are always needing latest versions for compatibility with whatever your customers are doing. Yes, you may have up to date licenses for one of each of the main packages at any time but maybe not more if you are small. The other three systems you run with out-of-date software (officially) and in reality have pirated copies of the up to date software. Gnerally the anti-piracy dongles on some packages are enough of a disinsentive.
If you're a professional, than the $600 price tag probably won't phase you . That's probably what you'd bill your clients for a days work. $600 is nothing.
Adobe is quite aggressive with pricing for updates. A small graphics design shop has a lot of costs and up to date licenses for Photoshop isn't one of them. Generally they function with a mixture of older licensed versions and new pirate versions.
You forgot about outsourcing with insufficient control on the handling of data. You may work at a bank, for an example (but it could be medical data for a hospital or insurance company) but the person on minimum wage cleaning data who works for another company doesn't give a fig for the data.
In former times, to be a good law enforcement officer you needed to know the difference between the law and common-sense, and in the end realising that job was to "keep-the-peace", not as some legal fundamentalist.
From time to time, Hashers have used other media for trail, i.e. chalk marks or sawdust to avoid the white powder = anthrax panic (actually, I've read that it is grey, but nevermind). Ironically in times of paranoia the chalk marks are "terrorist signals" and the sawdust may also be mistaken for biological weapons (I kid you not). If law enforcement switches to stubborn idiot mode (as in the Hamburger Hashers affair), there is very little people can do unless the dumb LE people are forced to back down.
You see the same problems all over now. Maybe with the massive increases in manpower required after 9/11, the wrong people have been entering the security business - whether the FBI or the minimum wage X-ray machine operators. Common-sense seems to have been left at the door.
I would agree that behind old money there is often an interesting story. However the point is that we are not dealing with the original people, we are dealing with their decendants who are genarlly quite civilised, even contributing to charity an so on. However once you start dealing with these people it comes down to a scale of distaste. Many successful businessmen are a bit too sharp at grasping opportunities and putting the opposition out of business but I have never heard of Mr Gates or Mr Branson threatening anyone physically. Actually, as the son of a lawyer, Gates was arguably old money but Branson wasn't. Neither can be compared with the Ruissian oligarchs and some are definitely a lot worse than others.
Note that in many of the 'stans; like Rashidov many leaders were kept barely restrained by the Soviet authorities. Take that restraint away and it becomes a massive backward step as happened in Uzebkistan.
When communism died, so did all semblance of control over the government there who reverted to a kleptocracy. The power to export (Uzbekistan is a major cotton producer) or to convert currency was given to a select few. When the blackmarket rate was something like four times the official currency rate you can imagine what happened - yes, a massive black-market in currency. Privatisation became a rip-off. Although shares were passed out to all, those in remote places became vulnerable to raiders who swept them up in return for nothing.
Given the nature of the controls on the Uzbek economy, I cannot understand how Usmanov made his money legally. He cannot be permitted to become the beneficial owner of a western company as the anti-money laundering rules would force the company to become increased-risk or worse which would cause problems for western banks to do business with him. Lawyers are now also constrained by anti-money laundering rules, so they too could have problems working with him.
Despite the shot of the blond on the beech, does this mean the Asus have sunlight readable screens? Also, I note that the ports aren't covered so easy ingress for sand. Lastly the OLPC also has mesh networking. Overall, a win for use outside. Personally, I think they will go down well for external use.
If you buy software, it becomes a capital asset and be treated as such on the books. If you lease, it does not and 100% of the cost becomes tax deductible. A $4K license is definitely not peanuts. I could imagine what the reaction of the taxman on that would be!!!
He is effective and efficient. Moral concerns are nothing to him and his supporters. For someone steeped in the culture of corruption and disregard for human life that only communist leadership can engender, I would say he is performing near the top of the scale.
No he isn't. Russia still needs foreign investment and expertise. The joke is they now loads of money but they prefer to route much of it via external institutions. The current behaviour comes comes straight out of the "KGB Guide to Political Power" and he has managed to build and maintain a power base but has failed to build Russia up its economy from raw-materials extraction and services.
Under FATF (Financial Action Task Force), all countries are supposed to cooperate with anti-money-laundering inquiries from other FATF countries. This means even banking secrecy locations such as Switzerland will cooperate under pain of being designated a pariah in the banking system. However, the requesting nation may be required to submit evidence before the data is opened. FATF does not permit fishing expeditions. The issue with SWIFT is that many people felt that they gave in to easily (the US was threatening to establish another transfer system unless they cooperated).
Legal stuffs wasn't at the top of everyone priority in september 2001. All you wanted to do (private companies included) is to help tracking down these bastards.
My problem exactly. Whilst people felt that helping the US government track down those responsible was a good thing. Many of us were concerened about the abuse of due process. of course, this later happened.
In comparison to the Nazis these modern day terrorists are like flies trying to stare down a tank.
Terrorism is a valid defence/liberation strategy but it doesn't work well if you are attacking. By definition, asymmetric warfare involves a much smaller force attacking a much larger one. They cannot play by the rules because if they do, they will lose. As a defence/liberation strategy it works by making it too expensive to hold territory, which is why the Arab revolt worked in 1917. As an attacking strategy, it is like a myriad of pin-pricks, at best annoying but hardly enough to trigger a major policy change.
In the UK, Northern Ireland is a case in point, however much the British government would have liked to have withdrawn and left them to it, the loyalist faction may have had Scottish/English origins but after 300 years or so, they were hardly going to evacuate. In reality nobody from the British government could see the practicality of a pull-out even after the attacks in England.
Peace happened when all sides realised there was a stalemate and after for some strange reason the funding of terrorism became more difficult in 2001.
The strange thing is that none of the IRA related organisations or the Unionists used suicide bombers. The biggest influence of their campaign on mainland Britain was a certain extra police presence at critical points, a paranoia about left packages and the absence of wastebins at stations. There rules have changed now with Islamic terrorists as they are prepared to kill themselves. This makes certain assumptions more difficult, i.e., that a passenger is unlikely to bring a bomb on board a plane. This time, though the US had flipped from almost zero security on flights to the other way and promptly forced this overreaction on the rest off the world.
The problem isn't the current draw - it is the heat. The big laser pointers tend to ensure there is better thermal coupling to the case so the waste heat is removed. With this, it will tend to heat up the module until pssst... and your laser is dead. Should be ok for less than a minute or so.
First I find this quite interesting because I'm a certified scuba diver where we are made to feel very aware of pressure differences. You are a free diver where you breath in air at 1 bar but then go down to where the water pressure is 2 or 3 bar.
Holding your breath above water and not doing anything is relatively easy. The moment you start physical activity, then the O2 consumption goes up as you will have experienced free diving. Certainly I see the difference to my air-rate when scuba diving between drift diving (using current) and when I must actively swim.
The times of 15 to 30 secs consciousness comes from the NASA vacuum chamber accident and also seems to relate what happened with Soyuz 11 when a valve used for equalising pressure just before landing was nudged open during undocking. Again the time to pass out was easy to determine.
Holding your breath is another matter. The bits we use to physically close our tracha aren't really designed to hold back pressure from within the lungs and the nose doesn't seal (if it did, you would probably lose an eardrum). What normally holds air in the lungs is simply the pressure difference between what is inside the lung and the thoracic cavity. We change the dimensions of the thoracic cavity to breath using out intercostal muscles or our diaphram. In space the little air within the chest cavity would expand pushing air out of the lungs.
Ah, but would going into space trigger the Dive Reflex. This is an important part of free-diving as it switched the body to oxygen conservation mode,i.e., heart rate change and peripheral vasoconstriction amongst other things. The trigger, if I recall is specific to submerging the face.
The next point is the partial pressure of O2 across the aveoli. Gas exchange due to the difference in partial pressures. The capacity of the lungs is reduced but there is still air at whatever the external pressure is in there. Even after you have breathed out, when diving there is always some O2 in your lungs. In space, you cannot hold your breath, so in practice, gas exchange must go in the reverse direction so O2 is being actively drawn out of your bloodstream.
MI6/SIS is foreign only whilst MI5 are domestic. If someone from overseas comes to the UK then 6 is supposed to hand the problem over to 5 as they have no infrastructure for UK based ops. Note that there is a certain healthy rivalry between the services which limits their power. Five do have officers out and about (most famously at places like Heathrow) and they actually work through so-called Special Branch rather than the regular police. If five tell SB to do something that they think is illegal, then SB can and do challenge it.
I would agree that regional accountability is one of the reasons for the UK's succes which is why I shudder at each step towards a 'national' force.
The 20$ sounds much like the media cost with a free key for students. Many places seem to have negotiated this but not all (they have to get the more expensive student/home edition that I mentioned). I had heard of Vista activation being cracked but not Office 2K7. The problems still comes down whether they can get updates. Maybe not important for them but very for me when infected machines starting attacking my systems.
Sorta like PDF files. Except it would be an OPEN format instead of a commercially licensed one. You can still read and even write PDF files with many other applications than Acrobat software.
Adobe control the standard but it is well documented and open, i.e. anyone can build software to it. PDF/A (PDF 1.4 w/o multimedia) is an ISO standard as people needed further assurance of stability for long-term archiving.
The thing is that PDF is essentially about representation as opposed to content so it isn't really suitable for documents that may be edited (although it is great for sending stuff for professional printing)). This is why ODF is so important.
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Yes, cooling has got easier but building bif systems and keeping them cold isn't easy. Room Temperature semiconductors may be difficult but what about those at around 75K, the boiling point of nitrogen.
Tech to keep nitrogen liquid (even on big bits of plant) is well known and even relatively cheap.
What happens is that you get market data as fast as possible, predict what is happening then act on it. If somebody else is faster, they get the deal, you don't. Already some of the biggest electronic exchanges, LSE, Xetra & Eurex offer so-called proximity hosting where you pay $$$ to share the data centre with the exchange.
Yes, the original order may have come from a human but the execution of big orders is via algorithmic trading so that the market isn't adversely effected.
I work in investment banking and have worked at some of the largest banks in the world. The desktop has been Windows, and never bleeding edge (they took their time going from NT to 2K to XP and Vista is something off the horizon. The backend servers tend not to be Windows, but Linux. Mostly the webservers are Apache. IBM heavy iron is often still there for things like the ledger, other systems were running on Sun but have been slowly moving to Linux, the why was simple, costs & flexibility. A lot of the backend apps were implemented in Java so migration was relatively easy.
OpenVMS allowed the use of privileged images as well as libraries. These allowed for subsystem seperation. Of course, you had to be a fairly disciplined programmer to ensure that privs didn't leak.
I think he is referring to the logical name searchlists:
The logical name SRC become translated as both current and baseline. If the file SRC:hello.c was in CURRENT, it would use that, it it wasn't it would be looked for in BASELINE instead.This alongside, the ability to use a filespec with a default spec and a related spec in the basic RMS filename parser was extremely powerful.
I have always considered that to be a true reflection of modern times, cheating to get an MBA should be permitted. Anything else should be strongly punished.
The original 74 series were TTL chips definitely implementing digial logic, albeit at rather a lower level of integration. Later people went to 74LS which was lower-power but faster, I had heard on some people doing analog things with a TTL chip but it would be rather unusual.
Mandatory disclaimer: I'm not a professional graphics designed but I have helped some out in the past. Personally I prefer to use GPLed software because licensed design software is generally isn't that stable (whether on Win or a Mac).
First, a professional graphics/designer shop probably has a number of expensive packages. They have to be kept relatively up to date so it means a few thou per desk just on software. You are always needing latest versions for compatibility with whatever your customers are doing. Yes, you may have up to date licenses for one of each of the main packages at any time but maybe not more if you are small. The other three systems you run with out-of-date software (officially) and in reality have pirated copies of the up to date software. Gnerally the anti-piracy dongles on some packages are enough of a disinsentive.
You forgot about outsourcing with insufficient control on the handling of data. You may work at a bank, for an example (but it could be medical data for a hospital or insurance company) but the person on minimum wage cleaning data who works for another company doesn't give a fig for the data.
In former times, to be a good law enforcement officer you needed to know the difference between the law and common-sense, and in the end realising that job was to "keep-the-peace", not as some legal fundamentalist.
From time to time, Hashers have used other media for trail, i.e. chalk marks or sawdust to avoid the white powder = anthrax panic (actually, I've read that it is grey, but nevermind). Ironically in times of paranoia the chalk marks are "terrorist signals" and the sawdust may also be mistaken for biological weapons (I kid you not). If law enforcement switches to stubborn idiot mode (as in the Hamburger Hashers affair), there is very little people can do unless the dumb LE people are forced to back down.
You see the same problems all over now. Maybe with the massive increases in manpower required after 9/11, the wrong people have been entering the security business - whether the FBI or the minimum wage X-ray machine operators. Common-sense seems to have been left at the door.
I would agree that behind old money there is often an interesting story. However the point is that we are not dealing with the original people, we are dealing with their decendants who are genarlly quite civilised, even contributing to charity an so on. However once you start dealing with these people it comes down to a scale of distaste. Many successful businessmen are a bit too sharp at grasping opportunities and putting the opposition out of business but I have never heard of Mr Gates or Mr Branson threatening anyone physically. Actually, as the son of a lawyer, Gates was arguably old money but Branson wasn't. Neither can be compared with the Ruissian oligarchs and some are definitely a lot worse than others.
Note that in many of the 'stans; like Rashidov many leaders were kept barely restrained by the Soviet authorities. Take that restraint away and it becomes a massive backward step as happened in Uzebkistan.
In Uzbekistan during communist times, a leader emerged, Sharaf Rashidov, who defrauded the Soviet system by falsifying the production statistics that were used to calculate payments. Communisms central planning would move products directly from producer to user but pay from a central fund so it was ripe for fraud by falsification of statistics. Eventually, the Soviet government found out and many of the government were imprisoned or dismissed.
When communism died, so did all semblance of control over the government there who reverted to a kleptocracy. The power to export (Uzbekistan is a major cotton producer) or to convert currency was given to a select few. When the blackmarket rate was something like four times the official currency rate you can imagine what happened - yes, a massive black-market in currency. Privatisation became a rip-off. Although shares were passed out to all, those in remote places became vulnerable to raiders who swept them up in return for nothing.
Given the nature of the controls on the Uzbek economy, I cannot understand how Usmanov made his money legally. He cannot be permitted to become the beneficial owner of a western company as the anti-money laundering rules would force the company to become increased-risk or worse which would cause problems for western banks to do business with him. Lawyers are now also constrained by anti-money laundering rules, so they too could have problems working with him.
Despite the shot of the blond on the beech, does this mean the Asus have sunlight readable screens? Also, I note that the ports aren't covered so easy ingress for sand. Lastly the OLPC also has mesh networking. Overall, a win for use outside. Personally, I think they will go down well for external use.
If you buy software, it becomes a capital asset and be treated as such on the books. If you lease, it does not and 100% of the cost becomes tax deductible. A $4K license is definitely not peanuts. I could imagine what the reaction of the taxman on that would be!!!
Terrorism is a valid defence/liberation strategy but it doesn't work well if you are attacking. By definition, asymmetric warfare involves a much smaller force attacking a much larger one. They cannot play by the rules because if they do, they will lose. As a defence/liberation strategy it works by making it too expensive to hold territory, which is why the Arab revolt worked in 1917. As an attacking strategy, it is like a myriad of pin-pricks, at best annoying but hardly enough to trigger a major policy change.
In the UK, Northern Ireland is a case in point, however much the British government would have liked to have withdrawn and left them to it, the loyalist faction may have had Scottish/English origins but after 300 years or so, they were hardly going to evacuate. In reality nobody from the British government could see the practicality of a pull-out even after the attacks in England.
Peace happened when all sides realised there was a stalemate and after for some strange reason the funding of terrorism became more difficult in 2001.
The strange thing is that none of the IRA related organisations or the Unionists used suicide bombers. The biggest influence of their campaign on mainland Britain was a certain extra police presence at critical points, a paranoia about left packages and the absence of wastebins at stations. There rules have changed now with Islamic terrorists as they are prepared to kill themselves. This makes certain assumptions more difficult, i.e., that a passenger is unlikely to bring a bomb on board a plane. This time, though the US had flipped from almost zero security on flights to the other way and promptly forced this overreaction on the rest off the world.
The problem isn't the current draw - it is the heat. The big laser pointers tend to ensure there is better thermal coupling to the case so the waste heat is removed. With this, it will tend to heat up the module until pssst... and your laser is dead. Should be ok for less than a minute or so.
First I find this quite interesting because I'm a certified scuba diver where we are made to feel very aware of pressure differences. You are a free diver where you breath in air at 1 bar but then go down to where the water pressure is 2 or 3 bar.
Holding your breath above water and not doing anything is relatively easy. The moment you start physical activity, then the O2 consumption goes up as you will have experienced free diving. Certainly I see the difference to my air-rate when scuba diving between drift diving (using current) and when I must actively swim.
The times of 15 to 30 secs consciousness comes from the NASA vacuum chamber accident and also seems to relate what happened with Soyuz 11 when a valve used for equalising pressure just before landing was nudged open during undocking. Again the time to pass out was easy to determine.
Holding your breath is another matter. The bits we use to physically close our tracha aren't really designed to hold back pressure from within the lungs and the nose doesn't seal (if it did, you would probably lose an eardrum). What normally holds air in the lungs is simply the pressure difference between what is inside the lung and the thoracic cavity. We change the dimensions of the thoracic cavity to breath using out intercostal muscles or our diaphram. In space the little air within the chest cavity would expand pushing air out of the lungs.
Ah, but would going into space trigger the Dive Reflex. This is an important part of free-diving as it switched the body to oxygen conservation mode,i.e., heart rate change and peripheral vasoconstriction amongst other things. The trigger, if I recall is specific to submerging the face.
The next point is the partial pressure of O2 across the aveoli. Gas exchange due to the difference in partial pressures. The capacity of the lungs is reduced but there is still air at whatever the external pressure is in there. Even after you have breathed out, when diving there is always some O2 in your lungs. In space, you cannot hold your breath, so in practice, gas exchange must go in the reverse direction so O2 is being actively drawn out of your bloodstream.
A similar problem occurs at high altitude.
MI6/SIS is foreign only whilst MI5 are domestic. If someone from overseas comes to the UK then 6 is supposed to hand the problem over to 5 as they have no infrastructure for UK based ops. Note that there is a certain healthy rivalry between the services which limits their power. Five do have officers out and about (most famously at places like Heathrow) and they actually work through so-called Special Branch rather than the regular police. If five tell SB to do something that they think is illegal, then SB can and do challenge it.
I would agree that regional accountability is one of the reasons for the UK's succes which is why I shudder at each step towards a 'national' force.
The 20$ sounds much like the media cost with a free key for students. Many places seem to have negotiated this but not all (they have to get the more expensive student/home edition that I mentioned). I had heard of Vista activation being cracked but not Office 2K7. The problems still comes down whether they can get updates. Maybe not important for them but very for me when infected machines starting attacking my systems.
Adobe control the standard but it is well documented and open, i.e. anyone can build software to it. PDF/A (PDF 1.4 w/o multimedia) is an ISO standard as people needed further assurance of stability for long-term archiving.
The thing is that PDF is essentially about representation as opposed to content so it isn't really suitable for documents that may be edited (although it is great for sending stuff for professional printing)). This is why ODF is so important.