The slashdot editor dropped the last part of my summary which read:
"The identity of the malware used was not mentioned. Changing your password is nice, however, useless if your network is still infected."
I'm pretty much got sucked in the same way. My solution was to write all of my own analysis tools. I've thought many times about open sourcing the goods. I've got 10 years of development into a data warehouse analysis system that pushes the limits of what PostgreSQL will do on modern hardware.
The only way to ensure privacy of your analysis and back testing is to run your own data warehouse. I can only imagine the kinds of customer data that is skimmed from stock analysis/filtering "services".
In my opinion, it's only worth doing if you can get a view of the whole market. Feeds of just a few stocks is incomplete when you're trying to marry trends of market to sector to individual stock.
Finding a good data source can be quite a challenge if you don't have thousands a month to spend. But, it can be done with some compromises.
Since I started developing analysis tools, probably the best alternative I've found out there is called quantlib and is C++ centric.
If you know of a portfolio manager looking for a risk analysis computer geek then let me know.;D
Or if anyone is serious about getting more serious about financial FOSS and/or SaaS, let me know.
. . . Roomster. I've been working on a DVOD platform for a few years now and the technology is alive and well. In terms of the adoption curve, the major factor is bandwidth (read: either bandwidth goes up or compression gets better).
The telecoms crash (e.g. fiber glut) was due mainly to the fact that the last mile never materialized thanks to our friends at the cable/phone company. Had that happened, DVOD and a whole range of applications would be further along in deployment. Innovations, including wireless technologies, will solve the last mile problem at some point in the near future.
In the mean time, companies like the one I work for (Roomster, Inc.) have chosen to go where the bandwidth is, hotels. This is the market in which DVOD technology is actually being deployed, both in terms of digital set top boxes and content distribution technologies.
Digital video technology is here and being deployed in the hospitality market. These technologies will shift with the cost effective availablity of bandwidth to the home market.
As far as the impact on DVDs, worst case I would say (for the format) would be at least another 10 years of life. But I don't think that portable, buyable media is going away. I agree with the comments about studio content release windows and the home video market. There's no way the studios will abandon this important market. DVOD may compete with DVD as a distribution mechanism, but, at the end of the day studios will make their same buck and then some (where DVOD will enable new markets).
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The slashdot editor dropped the last part of my summary which read: "The identity of the malware used was not mentioned. Changing your password is nice, however, useless if your network is still infected."
I'm pretty much got sucked in the same way. My solution was to write all of my own analysis tools. I've thought many times about open sourcing the goods. I've got 10 years of development into a data warehouse analysis system that pushes the limits of what PostgreSQL will do on modern hardware. The only way to ensure privacy of your analysis and back testing is to run your own data warehouse. I can only imagine the kinds of customer data that is skimmed from stock analysis/filtering "services". In my opinion, it's only worth doing if you can get a view of the whole market. Feeds of just a few stocks is incomplete when you're trying to marry trends of market to sector to individual stock. Finding a good data source can be quite a challenge if you don't have thousands a month to spend. But, it can be done with some compromises. Since I started developing analysis tools, probably the best alternative I've found out there is called quantlib and is C++ centric. If you know of a portfolio manager looking for a risk analysis computer geek then let me know. ;D
Or if anyone is serious about getting more serious about financial FOSS and/or SaaS, let me know.
. . . Roomster. I've been working on a DVOD platform for a few years now and the technology is alive and well. In terms of the adoption curve, the major factor is bandwidth (read: either bandwidth goes up or compression gets better).
The telecoms crash (e.g. fiber glut) was due mainly to the fact that the last mile never materialized thanks to our friends at the cable/phone company. Had that happened, DVOD and a whole range of applications would be further along in deployment. Innovations, including wireless technologies, will solve the last mile problem at some point in the near future.
In the mean time, companies like the one I work for (Roomster, Inc.) have chosen to go where the bandwidth is, hotels. This is the market in which DVOD technology is actually being deployed, both in terms of digital set top boxes and content distribution technologies.
Digital video technology is here and being deployed in the hospitality market. These technologies will shift with the cost effective availablity of bandwidth to the home market.
As far as the impact on DVDs, worst case I would say (for the format) would be at least another 10 years of life. But I don't think that portable, buyable media is going away. I agree with the comments about studio content release windows and the home video market. There's no way the studios will abandon this important market. DVOD may compete with DVD as a distribution mechanism, but, at the end of the day studios will make their same buck and then some (where DVOD will enable new markets).