Is it really? There are fund managers that constantly keep outperforming the market. The problem is that humans have access to different sources of information other than price variations over time. From a purely mathematical point of view the market is chaotic, but given these managers' performance, I'd say it's not that chaotic at all....
I've heard from various application writers who say they haven't got a clue when it
comes to "porting" to Linux, because there are so many variations in APIs (from their
standpoint) between the various distributions. I've been running SuSE for years, yet
I can't seem to install gnucash without getting into dependency hell where I seem to
need one more RPM after another ad nauseum/infinitum. I have a copy of gimp from a site
in Germany that's now out of date, but I can't do an 'rpm -e' on it without disrupting
the (circular) dependencies on a bunch of libraries that came with it, so it can't be
removed (or updated) without incredible frustration. I can't get an RPM of the latest
version of gimp because no one (particularly SuSE) can be bothered to package it up
to make it quickly, easily and *RELIABLY* installable *AND* removeable. And, other
distros don't seem to be any better - Debian is a nightmare to get WINE for. I can sort
of understand that they don't want to support a rapidly moving target, but it's not going
to settle down unless folks can install it, test it, report bugs on it, and try to fix it.
In the other hand, there is Gentoo. Red Hat 8 threw me into deep dep hell, while I was trying to get Gnucash working. Out of anger, I switched to Gentoo. After three days compiling (I had a really lame machine back then -- insert Gentoo compile joke here), I got it working flawlessly.
Not that Gentoo is perfect, but dependency hell issues have been enormously reduced. Installation and removal of packages are quite painless, except when you need to downgrade software, as older versions may have disappeared from Gentoo mirrors but, hey, I'd better deal with that rather than dep hell....
I have this lingering impression that modern equipment that is supposed to be on standy by instead of switched off acutally experiences a reduction of its expected life, simply because the PSU inside the equipment wasn't designed to handle frequent switching/connection-disconnection from the wall socket.
I used to switch off my TV every day, and the internal PSU went dead in three months from the purchase date. Maybe the TV was already bad, maybe this is correlated to the electrical sparks I saw every time I pressed the "on" switch on the powerstrip, but I do not know.
Which is a curious finding. Back at the renaissance, leaning on the heavy side was a proxy for high income. Kings and rich merchants were, well, obese.
Now we have excess refined food, sugar, etc. Being properly fit these days is a sound indication of financial status, as you need time to workout (time == money), and some money to get into a gym or something alike (except, of course, if you are Rocky Balboa: stairs work just fine for him), and a decent diet (which also became expensive, if you eat out).
Poor people were condemned to a life of famine and generalised lack of nutrients these days and now, on most post-industrialised societies, they are condemned to a life of high cholesterol, diabetes, and a generalised lack of nutrients!
Is it really? Google's Brazilian office is just a sales frontdesk. They do little development in the state of Minas Gerais, but they mostly make money (or try to, I don't know) from their many ad programs from their Sao Paulo office.
Closing Google Brazil only mean that Google won't have physical presence there and won't be able to collect revenue from ads (since the local law makes it very uncompetitive to pay foreign service providers in foreign currency). That's it.
Have someone noticed how the western public (cannot tell about the rest of the world) has become more and more sensitive to "horrible accidents"?
In the old days, racing events that ended up with deaths, sometimes gruesome and very graphical (ground meat all around), were relatively common, as I can tell from watching F1 and WRC documentaries. And the public seemed to like it.
If you think that this was bad -- "sports should be safe for everyone" -- think for a moment that the pilots themselves might never have considered the inherent danger of their trade as "bad". Think on how many women the pilots could score when they told them they could die the next day. It's a typical James Bond-ish scenario, prevalent in the racing sports of the 50's and 60's. It is sexy, I won't deny it.
The last big racing accident I remember is Ayrton Senna's. It wasn't particularly gory (seems that a driving shaft pierced his skull through his helmet, but the helmet never came off until rescue arrived and the car was in one piece, no gory stuff scattered), but the media made it look worse.
In Brazil, that event took epic proportions. The country seemed to slow down for couple days, so they could follow the drama on TV. It was an interesting day for TV as well, since the official broadcasting had higher than usual ratings for that week. A week or so later, the body was brought back to Brazil for burial. The guy received official honors, the country was mourning the F1 pilot who was treated like a president (mostly TV-induced hype, that TV channel must have made a lot of money that year). Up to this date, there are private foundations dedicated to the cause of preserving his legacy for generations to come. Kids that barely remember who he was or how well he raced (it is controversial, IMO. I think his success was 95% his cars' in a time when racers clustered in two groups -- turbo and aspirated -- and, well, non-turbo cars never stood a chance and few teams had resources to turbocharge their cars. Just observe how Senna was never able to get an expressive result after FIA's ban on turbo cars.) cry when they visit the foundation's sponsored exhibits, an odd thing since they really do not remember crap about this guy and, for their existence, think that cellphones, broadband and wireless always existed since time immemorial.
Therefore, I think that, while the TV features more and more violence and gore, due to the same TV, the audience grew extremely sensitive to accidents due to the extreme spin TV (and modern media, to a lesser degree) gives to these incidents. People die every year in those super fast boat races, but nobody seems to care and it doesn't preclude the continuation of the sport.
That's an interesting twist on the underpinnings of capitalism.
Although I agree with ClamIAm, who said "I don't think this would work in the US", I also believe some non-chain retailers would be amiable to volume discounts if asked beforehand.
Curiously, it was the opposite that made me buy my PS2, after years of resistance against consoles, being forced to buy one due to the ridiculous upgrade spiral new PC games put me on.
It took me 4 years of upgrades to my computer so I could play MS Flight Simulator 2000 (in case you're wondering, parts are unconceivably ridiculously expensive where I live due to extreme imports taxes).
My last disappointment was Battlefield 2. I have to upgrade my video card again (and perhaps my CPU, but the box says it will suffice).
Consoles, OTOH, would shield me from all this, but now I decided I want the PS3 and Sony is letting me down badly these days.
If it depends on the industry, I think I'll have to learn how to skate or play board games....
Isn't Cambridge deliberately creating an opportunity for the Chinese government to prosecute them?
What about those inside China using those exploits for legitimate ends?
Is Cambridge indirectly helping the Chinese government to fix firewall issues?
Are Cambridge researchers after fame at the expense of the freedom of the Chinese people?
I do not believe in no antipodes
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Saint Augustine (354-430) argued against people inhabiting the antipodes:
But as to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth, where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. And, indeed, it is not affirmed that this has been learned by historical knowledge, but by scientific conjecture, on the ground that the earth is suspended within the concavity of the sky, and that it has as much room on the one side of it as on the other: hence they say that the part which is beneath must also be inhabited. But they do not remark that, although it be supposed or scientifically demonstrated that the world is of a round and spherical form, yet it does not follow that the other side of the earth is bare of water; nor even, though it be bare, does it immediately follow that it is peopled.
He almost got it. If you look at the map in the Wikipedia page, you'll see that some 95% or more of the dry land meets an ocean on the other side (no ground credible indeed). As for the rest, well, you know.
Slashdot Mirror
simply brilliant.
Is it really? There are fund managers that constantly keep outperforming the market. The problem is that humans have access to different sources of information other than price variations over time. From a purely mathematical point of view the market is chaotic, but given these managers' performance, I'd say it's not that chaotic at all....
English... 30 hours.
French... 30 days.
German... 30 years.
Chinese, arabic or any other language with impossibly hard scripts... 30 centuries?
Where do I sign up?
In the other hand, there is Gentoo. Red Hat 8 threw me into deep dep hell, while I was trying to get Gnucash working. Out of anger, I switched to Gentoo. After three days compiling (I had a really lame machine back then -- insert Gentoo compile joke here), I got it working flawlessly.
Not that Gentoo is perfect, but dependency hell issues have been enormously reduced. Installation and removal of packages are quite painless, except when you need to downgrade software, as older versions may have disappeared from Gentoo mirrors but, hey, I'd better deal with that rather than dep hell....
looks strangely similar to "V for vendetta" in some parts.... :)
I for one welcome our DNA overlor.... oh, wait!
I used to switch off my TV every day, and the internal PSU went dead in three months from the purchase date. Maybe the TV was already bad, maybe this is correlated to the electrical sparks I saw every time I pressed the "on" switch on the powerstrip, but I do not know.
Now we have excess refined food, sugar, etc. Being properly fit these days is a sound indication of financial status, as you need time to workout (time == money), and some money to get into a gym or something alike (except, of course, if you are Rocky Balboa: stairs work just fine for him), and a decent diet (which also became expensive, if you eat out).
Poor people were condemned to a life of famine and generalised lack of nutrients these days and now, on most post-industrialised societies, they are condemned to a life of high cholesterol, diabetes, and a generalised lack of nutrients!
"This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds"
"4..."
"3..."
"2..."
"1..."
KA-BOOM
Alan Cox is seen screaming and running for help
You tell me! It took me 5 hours on a dual centrino 1.66ghz.
Closing Google Brazil only mean that Google won't have physical presence there and won't be able to collect revenue from ads (since the local law makes it very uncompetitive to pay foreign service providers in foreign currency). That's it.
Given what happened to Orkut (the Brazilian takeover), I'm not surprised that Google'd go elsewhere....
Unless you've got this: http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Food_synthesiz er
Bad news for hype-driven marketing and economics people, but Pareto got it right in 1897!
Yeah, right!
How in the world you can prove legality of anything, then?
What about the money in your wallet? Should it automatically lose its legal tender status just because some bills can be counterfeit?
Oh, I forgot that one. But did he die? I remember that he escaped with only a broken arm or something. Or not?
Have someone noticed how the western public (cannot tell about the rest of the world) has become more and more sensitive to "horrible accidents"?
In the old days, racing events that ended up with deaths, sometimes gruesome and very graphical (ground meat all around), were relatively common, as I can tell from watching F1 and WRC documentaries. And the public seemed to like it.
If you think that this was bad -- "sports should be safe for everyone" -- think for a moment that the pilots themselves might never have considered the inherent danger of their trade as "bad". Think on how many women the pilots could score when they told them they could die the next day. It's a typical James Bond-ish scenario, prevalent in the racing sports of the 50's and 60's. It is sexy, I won't deny it.
The last big racing accident I remember is Ayrton Senna's. It wasn't particularly gory (seems that a driving shaft pierced his skull through his helmet, but the helmet never came off until rescue arrived and the car was in one piece, no gory stuff scattered), but the media made it look worse.
In Brazil, that event took epic proportions. The country seemed to slow down for couple days, so they could follow the drama on TV. It was an interesting day for TV as well, since the official broadcasting had higher than usual ratings for that week. A week or so later, the body was brought back to Brazil for burial. The guy received official honors, the country was mourning the F1 pilot who was treated like a president (mostly TV-induced hype, that TV channel must have made a lot of money that year). Up to this date, there are private foundations dedicated to the cause of preserving his legacy for generations to come. Kids that barely remember who he was or how well he raced (it is controversial, IMO. I think his success was 95% his cars' in a time when racers clustered in two groups -- turbo and aspirated -- and, well, non-turbo cars never stood a chance and few teams had resources to turbocharge their cars. Just observe how Senna was never able to get an expressive result after FIA's ban on turbo cars.) cry when they visit the foundation's sponsored exhibits, an odd thing since they really do not remember crap about this guy and, for their existence, think that cellphones, broadband and wireless always existed since time immemorial.
Therefore, I think that, while the TV features more and more violence and gore, due to the same TV, the audience grew extremely sensitive to accidents due to the extreme spin TV (and modern media, to a lesser degree) gives to these incidents. People die every year in those super fast boat races, but nobody seems to care and it doesn't preclude the continuation of the sport.
Weird, huh?
I didn't read TFA, but isn't *some* sight required to perform alignment tasks?
Although I agree with ClamIAm, who said "I don't think this would work in the US", I also believe some non-chain retailers would be amiable to volume discounts if asked beforehand.
If and only if you manage to find such retailers.
If they have the inventory.
It took me 4 years of upgrades to my computer so I could play MS Flight Simulator 2000 (in case you're wondering, parts are unconceivably ridiculously expensive where I live due to extreme imports taxes).
My last disappointment was Battlefield 2. I have to upgrade my video card again (and perhaps my CPU, but the box says it will suffice).
Consoles, OTOH, would shield me from all this, but now I decided I want the PS3 and Sony is letting me down badly these days.
If it depends on the industry, I think I'll have to learn how to skate or play board games....
What about those inside China using those exploits for legitimate ends?
Is Cambridge indirectly helping the Chinese government to fix firewall issues?
Are Cambridge researchers after fame at the expense of the freedom of the Chinese people?
He almost got it. If you look at the map in the Wikipedia page, you'll see that some 95% or more of the dry land meets an ocean on the other side (no ground credible indeed). As for the rest, well, you know.