They say they are making an example and claim that they will not split because they want the serious investors and not the small time day traders.
That's interesting. I know several mutual and hedge funds which set the same rules; these are good funds in it for the long term, they don't charge front or rear loaded fees, but have high minimum investment requirements. A bit like Berkshire Hathaway: like long term money, dislike short term money. But if that is really their intention, surely the more prudent way would be to do it sooner than later, i.e. a reverse share split, because in the mean time the investors they 'care about' (given they have an alteristic motive of wanting to benefit long term investors) suffer high volatility from the speculative demand for the shares (or... are likely to if something shocks the market).
Plus $5000 is small change for a day trader. I mean a 'professional' day trader, as they're the ones who herd and move prices first, small time (mom and pop?) day traders, who could not afford to switch around $5000 (minimum) quickly, nearly always lag the big boys.
So to answer your question, of course GPS equipment can be used over there!
Well, sort of. Don't depend on GPS 100%.
GPS can be turned off by the US government, and is done so regularly in hostile countries, and all the time in countries the US is at war with. So if there is the most remote possibility the US could get pissed off with the country you're in, don't do it.
Making sense of your longitude and latitude means having a decent map in the first place. And while this argument is a bit circular given you'll be working in uncharted villages, at least carry a decent geological map.
Infact, a hi-tech solution is nice, but the low-tech is going to be orders of magnitude more use to you. As long as you have a basic geological/terrain map, it it quite simple to put an ink based red mark and write about something you find interesting. This will be more robust than:
having expensive high-tech in extremely poor areas (a $100 (US retail price) piece of GPS equipment could probably be sent for much more in an area where annual incomes are significantly less than $100),
Potentially rugged conditions: laptops dont take easily to 2 foot deep potholes every 5 metres on rugged roads when travelling on the 4x4. They certainly have an aversion to mud or dry earth should you drop it. 100% mission over if relying on standard (non-army standard) tech.
Abstraction from a real scenario. It sounds like you're interacting with real people in a very human way: interact with them on as personal basis as possible, don't abstract yourself (your perception of them, or their perception of you hiding behind a screen) as that, on a 1-2-1 basis, could only be negative.
Carry a weapon. I'm English, not a gun-nut Texan (no offense), but if going into a potentially hostile environment, don't carry it around when meeting people for the first time, but keep it discretely to hand when travelling.
As for the GPS equipment? Take 3 hand held sets, tested to be rugged for terrain use: carry 1 yourself, 1 for your partner (incase you get seperated), and 1 spare in your vehicle if yours gets over doused in mud.
On all the above, I assume you're planning a reasonably independent trip, with 1-2 guides, for around 3 months. If you're going in a party of 20 with masses of guides, well much could be unnecessary.
Saying you can only buy 10 shares means nothing,... What if there was only 30 outstanding shares in a company, you would own 1/3rd.
OK, maybe you were making an extreme example, but if a $30bn company had only 30 shares outstanding each share would be valued at $1bn. Under today's conditions, that would make the market illiquid and looking at prices, price/earnings ratios, volume, volatility, or relative performance near worthless.
Actually, P/E (along with implied earnings growth, dividend (earning) discount models, etc) only makes a difference to a fundamental investor. A momentum or technical (technical analysis surely uses technical in the loosest sense of the word) driven investor looks at the price and ignores fundamentals, and some of them consistently outperform just as 84% of stock pickers in the US underperform (that much quoted statistic); infact those 'outperforming' long term stock pickers that exist actually underperform when analysed in risk-return space (i.e. adjusting returns to volatility, volatility being costly in the sense that the time you actually want your money back it is +/- the average valuation you desired using average return projections), rather than return only space.
The problem is, markets often fail to obey ex-ante fundamentals, let along ex-post ones. Some people like to take the ride and believe they can jump off sooner, all fair play.
blah blah nationalist blah... Humans in space are still humans just like the one on this blue ball.
Humans are not nations. Nationalism is a trait within humans, the nations that are more domineering have greater nationalism, hence it is a greater aspect in their humanity. Many other nations don't display aggressive nationalism as commonly seen in the 'Western world'.
That a trite comment is fact is not the point, it is a statement of the obvious. The question of the article was 'whether it is possible?' Reducing this, would nationalism win in space, or would a human trait of another kind dominate?
Catch phrases may include "think of the blue tree", or "think out of thinking there is a box to think our of [it is, infact, n-dimensional space... maybe]"
What inspired the British Broadcasting Corporation to suddenly leap into the software programming foray?
Check out the page in TFS:
Apache (BBC have a large online news presence, they have seen the need to adapt the software)
Media Lounge (experimenting with multimedia)
TV Anytime (PVR stuff)
Broadcasting doesn't necessarily mean sticking to radio signal, the change to digital demonstrated further diversification of media delivery (essentially broadcasting), as does their online presence: online video news bulletins, program snapshots, or entire programs.
My favourite innovation that I've heard the BBC working on is Dirac. The streaming video codecs (inc. variants) require royalities to be paid for various aspects of their use depending on the one you use, be that encoding or broadcast (Real and Microsoft pick up a nice royalty tab), the 'open source' xVid is on shaky ground for use by the BBC as it uses MPEG-4 routines which are protected, a large corporation could get into big legal questions for using it. So they're developing Dirac, a codec for streaming and static video content, completely different from the MPEG school (simply put, MPEG uses blocks, hence the squares when looking at low quality recordings, while Dirac uses wavelets). Dirac also promises great encoding abilities - 2 money savers from developing software (royalites, bandwidth). Releasing it Open Source allows more media publishers to use it, meaning its more likely to be pre/easily installed on/in PCs/media players and not a waste of money (it is being developed with the aim to save money, not diverge the BBC into a software monopoly).
As long as it stays focussed into things like this, developed in order to save money, I'm pretty happy. The FAQ states the point of releasing Open Source isn't an automatic decision, it will only be done where there aren't obvious profit opportunities.
Apogies for poor editing, off out now, was in a hurry.
So, this new computer will have two seperate types of ram? I don't see how 16 GB RAM and 1 GB RAM works.
Then you need to re-read the parent comment. The 1GB mentioned belongs to the graphics card, and graphics cards, today, do not share RAM with the main system.
That's a good thing. It continues the highly effective mutual assured destruction paradigm until the US finds a way to stop those missiles. The minute one country can stop the other countries missiles nuclear war is more likely.
When it had no firearms restrictions England had little violent crime
That was 200 years ago, when girls of 11 were forced into marriage, boys of 5 were sent to the workhouse and murder was common occurance.
There have been strict gun control laws for decades, the recent change was to completely eliminate non-essential (shotguns for farmers) guns, impossible to legally own guns instead of making it very very hard.
Do you really think Fox News is a reputable unbiased source?
It is a great effort, but I'm curious as to your motivation (other than a job;-P)?
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Good luck to you too. Youre clearly a knowledgeable and experienced programmer, and being a knowledgeable/experienced programmer means you are probably able to write code that is minimal on bugs, fast, and effective. But what is the purpose of this book? It clearly isnt a commentary; the reference on your homepage to a blog entitled coding guidelines seems more appropriate: the book used the word shall so much when I tried to count the amount Adobe Reader hung for 2 minutes.
Your book is a style guide: a reference of background information and pointers how best to code, and know whats going on. A good C programmer will know this info already (or be on their path there), as the only reason for knowing C today is to interact on a close level with the machine, or to know exactly how things are handled, otherwise theyd be mad not to use a higher level language. A knowledgeable programmer does not need dictating to.
So Im curious, for whom do you intend this book to be most useful for (the book most certainly is useful if someone needed a reference, but given my overriding interpretation of it as a style guide for people who dont need one, it seems to be lost without an audience).
I totally agree with all of you points, especially in reducing the issue period for patents to a much smaller time. I remain against patents in general, however.
1. Inefficiencies in the legal system. It costs money and time to bring or defend a patent claim, something a small scale innovator has little of. It is of note that around 1/2 of economic growth in the US comes from entrepreneurism - small companies or individuals. Small companies and individuals can are are threatened by patent infringement; as economic growth further tends towards intellectual innovation this is only likely to hinder economic growth further. These inefficiencies are patently (excuse the pun) obvious - witness constantly increasing protective and derivative patents of drugs/biotech/IT, actually constraining innovation (one drug using the original patent is used and promoted for 15 years, to be superceeded by a derivative, also patented, for another 15 years, ad infinitum).
2. Lack of evidence. That allowing the benefits of innovation accrue to the innovator surely is a logical and worthy concept. The problem there is little suggestive, let alone conclusive, evidence that this is the case in aggregate. While an individual/company may always say "I wouldn't have spent my time developing this had I not been guaranteed the rewards" history and comparison with other industries/countries suggests this is not the case - overall - what disincentivises one company/business model incentivises another. Has there been no innovation in OSS, so how has it reached such a dominant position without innovation? While there have been lots of studies, they have totally offset each other in real world conclusions.
So yes, patents seem like a good idea, but a lack of evidence they even work, coupled with inefficiencies in the legal system lead me to the conclusion: why do it?
I'm not especially in favour of small scale innovators - most of my pension is invested in stocks which are predominantly large companies, but I am interested in as best a future as possible, and I don't believe what patents, software patents in particular, is that.
It was a stupid point. How about I dignify it with:
I got a mac delivered, it ran OS X. At no time did it show:
1.gas prices in your area
2.Google maps that stays there to view a route, area etc etc.
3.animated weather maps from weather.com
4.Search for and view wikipedia articles, complete with pictures
5.view memory usage, CPU usage, network stats, uptimes, load averages of your computer
6.Shows significant historical events that took place on the current day or any selected day
7.Quickily search All Recipes.com from your Dashboard
8.See what's being shown on US TV right now
9.Play all the BBC's national radio streams from one minimal place
10.Track you packages from UPS/FedX
Oh, you mean I'd have to set it up myself, program it through the GUI?
Most of the fees you mentioned are included in a live performance. Hence, the only additional cost is mixing and polishing in the recording studio, if the BBC are going to broadcast, they've done all of this aswell.
These things do exist. There should be a compliance/risk management system in place which does exactly
if amount > big_number
Fatally deny trade, refer to risk management
Its not hard stuff. Most finance companies (from my experience) do have safeguards in place, the fact this one doesn't has done far more than give it a $12m loss, it has warned the market that this company has lax risk controls and higher risk charges should be applied to it.
The trader should get fired, they are employed and payed to do an accurate job. The compliance officer should also get fired, because the buck stops with them.
She gets fired, and they keep the stock as they expect to profit from it...
No. They minimise their loss. To resell that amount of stock would make the price plummet, they would make a large loss. They will most likely hang on to the stock and gradually get rid of it. They state a $12mn loss - not sure if this is an estimated loss, or if they've hedged out future price moves, in which case the hedging probably cost $12mn.
I was quite taken a-back by that term in the story too. I'd assume the US-centric orientation of this site means the meaning of the word is not too obvious to US readers/editors.
In the UK the meaning and roots of the word, as an offensive term, are quite common. Gypsies themselves are one of the most oppressed, disliked and unaccepted people in Western Europe, far more so than 'mainstream' ethnic minorities - often said to be the last publicly acceptale form of racism. Walk around the country side one day, as referenced here, its not unusual to see signs on pub doors, or even the grounds of religious schools, saying "no gypos allowed", "jips leave", or "no jipping".
If you are serious about security you can invest more than $100.
While advisable to get a more expensive (read built and priced for the task), a PII box and cables can be picked up fot $70 on eBay and, with a minimal Linux firewall install (say, 1 hour to set up @ $30/hour) does cost $100/hour. Of course this assumes the tech expertise exists in the first place, which seems not to be the case in this 'Ask Slashdot'.
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They say they are making an example and claim that they will not split because they want the serious investors and not the small time day traders.
That's interesting. I know several mutual and hedge funds which set the same rules; these are good funds in it for the long term, they don't charge front or rear loaded fees, but have high minimum investment requirements. A bit like Berkshire Hathaway: like long term money, dislike short term money. But if that is really their intention, surely the more prudent way would be to do it sooner than later, i.e. a reverse share split, because in the mean time the investors they 'care about' (given they have an alteristic motive of wanting to benefit long term investors) suffer high volatility from the speculative demand for the shares (or... are likely to if something shocks the market).
Plus $5000 is small change for a day trader. I mean a 'professional' day trader, as they're the ones who herd and move prices first, small time (mom and pop?) day traders, who could not afford to switch around $5000 (minimum) quickly, nearly always lag the big boys.
Well, sort of. Don't depend on GPS 100%.
Infact, a hi-tech solution is nice, but the low-tech is going to be orders of magnitude more use to you. As long as you have a basic geological/terrain map, it it quite simple to put an ink based red mark and write about something you find interesting. This will be more robust than:
As for the GPS equipment? Take 3 hand held sets, tested to be rugged for terrain use: carry 1 yourself, 1 for your partner (incase you get seperated), and 1 spare in your vehicle if yours gets over doused in mud.
On all the above, I assume you're planning a reasonably independent trip, with 1-2 guides, for around 3 months. If you're going in a party of 20 with masses of guides, well much could be unnecessary.
Saying you can only buy 10 shares means nothing, ... What if there was only 30 outstanding shares in a company, you would own 1/3rd.
OK, maybe you were making an extreme example, but if a $30bn company had only 30 shares outstanding each share would be valued at $1bn. Under today's conditions, that would make the market illiquid and looking at prices, price/earnings ratios, volume, volatility, or relative performance near worthless.
Actually, P/E (along with implied earnings growth, dividend (earning) discount models, etc) only makes a difference to a fundamental investor. A momentum or technical (technical analysis surely uses technical in the loosest sense of the word) driven investor looks at the price and ignores fundamentals, and some of them consistently outperform just as 84% of stock pickers in the US underperform (that much quoted statistic); infact those 'outperforming' long term stock pickers that exist actually underperform when analysed in risk-return space (i.e. adjusting returns to volatility, volatility being costly in the sense that the time you actually want your money back it is +/- the average valuation you desired using average return projections), rather than return only space.
The problem is, markets often fail to obey ex-ante fundamentals, let along ex-post ones. Some people like to take the ride and believe they can jump off sooner, all fair play.
blah blah nationalist blah... Humans in space are still humans just like the one on this blue ball.
Humans are not nations. Nationalism is a trait within humans, the nations that are more domineering have greater nationalism, hence it is a greater aspect in their humanity. Many other nations don't display aggressive nationalism as commonly seen in the 'Western world'.
That a trite comment is fact is not the point, it is a statement of the obvious. The question of the article was 'whether it is possible?' Reducing this, would nationalism win in space, or would a human trait of another kind dominate?
Catch phrases may include "think of the blue tree", or "think out of thinking there is a box to think our of [it is, infact, n-dimensional space... maybe]"
What inspired the British Broadcasting Corporation to suddenly leap into the software programming foray?
Check out the page in TFS:
Apache (BBC have a large online news presence, they have seen the need to adapt the software)
Media Lounge (experimenting with multimedia)
TV Anytime (PVR stuff)
Broadcasting doesn't necessarily mean sticking to radio signal, the change to digital demonstrated further diversification of media delivery (essentially broadcasting), as does their online presence: online video news bulletins, program snapshots, or entire programs.
My favourite innovation that I've heard the BBC working on is Dirac. The streaming video codecs (inc. variants) require royalities to be paid for various aspects of their use depending on the one you use, be that encoding or broadcast (Real and Microsoft pick up a nice royalty tab), the 'open source' xVid is on shaky ground for use by the BBC as it uses MPEG-4 routines which are protected, a large corporation could get into big legal questions for using it. So they're developing Dirac, a codec for streaming and static video content, completely different from the MPEG school (simply put, MPEG uses blocks, hence the squares when looking at low quality recordings, while Dirac uses wavelets). Dirac also promises great encoding abilities - 2 money savers from developing software (royalites, bandwidth). Releasing it Open Source allows more media publishers to use it, meaning its more likely to be pre/easily installed on/in PCs/media players and not a waste of money (it is being developed with the aim to save money, not diverge the BBC into a software monopoly).
As long as it stays focussed into things like this, developed in order to save money, I'm pretty happy. The FAQ states the point of releasing Open Source isn't an automatic decision, it will only be done where there aren't obvious profit opportunities.
Apogies for poor editing, off out now, was in a hurry.
licensing...at least they didn't introduce a new proprietary license.
But they almost changed it! See the FAQ here.
When was the last time that Microsoft Excel got your blood pumping and you wanted to scream HELL YEA! THIS IS AWESOME!!
Yesterday! Excel is an excellend RAD environment in which to get quantitative analysis and presentation of data done.
So, this new computer will have two seperate types of ram? I don't see how 16 GB RAM and 1 GB RAM works.
Then you need to re-read the parent comment. The 1GB mentioned belongs to the graphics card, and graphics cards, today, do not share RAM with the main system.
That's a good thing. It continues the highly effective mutual assured destruction paradigm until the US finds a way to stop those missiles. The minute one country can stop the other countries missiles nuclear war is more likely.
Spot on!
We can thank Bill Clinton's administration for selling our missile tech to China!!!
And... we can thank Hitler for developing it in the first place.
When it had no firearms restrictions England had little violent crime
That was 200 years ago, when girls of 11 were forced into marriage, boys of 5 were sent to the workhouse and murder was common occurance.
There have been strict gun control laws for decades, the recent change was to completely eliminate non-essential (shotguns for farmers) guns, impossible to legally own guns instead of making it very very hard.
Do you really think Fox News is a reputable unbiased source?
That sounded unduely critical.
;-P)?
It is a great effort, but I'm curious as to your motivation (other than a job
Good luck to you too. Youre clearly a knowledgeable and experienced programmer, and being a knowledgeable/experienced programmer means you are probably able to write code that is minimal on bugs, fast, and effective. But what is the purpose of this book? It clearly isnt a commentary; the reference on your homepage to a blog entitled coding guidelines seems more appropriate: the book used the word shall so much when I tried to count the amount Adobe Reader hung for 2 minutes.
Your book is a style guide: a reference of background information and pointers how best to code, and know whats going on. A good C programmer will know this info already (or be on their path there), as the only reason for knowing C today is to interact on a close level with the machine, or to know exactly how things are handled, otherwise theyd be mad not to use a higher level language. A knowledgeable programmer does not need dictating to.
So Im curious, for whom do you intend this book to be most useful for (the book most certainly is useful if someone needed a reference, but given my overriding interpretation of it as a style guide for people who dont need one, it seems to be lost without an audience).
I totally agree with all of you points, especially in reducing the issue period for patents to a much smaller time. I remain against patents in general, however.
1. Inefficiencies in the legal system. It costs money and time to bring or defend a patent claim, something a small scale innovator has little of. It is of note that around 1/2 of economic growth in the US comes from entrepreneurism - small companies or individuals. Small companies and individuals can are are threatened by patent infringement; as economic growth further tends towards intellectual innovation this is only likely to hinder economic growth further. These inefficiencies are patently (excuse the pun) obvious - witness constantly increasing protective and derivative patents of drugs/biotech/IT, actually constraining innovation (one drug using the original patent is used and promoted for 15 years, to be superceeded by a derivative, also patented, for another 15 years, ad infinitum).
2. Lack of evidence. That allowing the benefits of innovation accrue to the innovator surely is a logical and worthy concept. The problem there is little suggestive, let alone conclusive, evidence that this is the case in aggregate. While an individual/company may always say "I wouldn't have spent my time developing this had I not been guaranteed the rewards" history and comparison with other industries/countries suggests this is not the case - overall - what disincentivises one company/business model incentivises another. Has there been no innovation in OSS, so how has it reached such a dominant position without innovation? While there have been lots of studies, they have totally offset each other in real world conclusions.
So yes, patents seem like a good idea, but a lack of evidence they even work, coupled with inefficiencies in the legal system lead me to the conclusion: why do it?
I'm not especially in favour of small scale innovators - most of my pension is invested in stocks which are predominantly large companies, but I am interested in as best a future as possible, and I don't believe what patents, software patents in particular, is that.
But i like Scrubs, Simpsons and CSI
Agreed.
loller coaster I farted, and my fart had lumps.
nokilli, is that you? Changing your login to try to add weight to your posts is a noob thing to do.
Thanks, Anonymous Coward.
noob
lol, r u gonna pwn me with an awp or rail gun?
FOAD
It was a stupid point. How about I dignify it with:
I got a mac delivered, it ran OS X. At no time did it show:
1.gas prices in your area
2.Google maps that stays there to view a route, area etc etc.
3.animated weather maps from weather.com
4.Search for and view wikipedia articles, complete with pictures
5.view memory usage, CPU usage, network stats, uptimes, load averages of your computer
6.Shows significant historical events that took place on the current day or any selected day
7.Quickily search All Recipes.com from your Dashboard
8.See what's being shown on US TV right now
9.Play all the BBC's national radio streams from one minimal place
10.Track you packages from UPS/FedX
Oh, you mean I'd have to set it up myself, program it through the GUI?
Mac is great, but leave your egotism behind pls.
Most of the fees you mentioned are included in a live performance. Hence, the only additional cost is mixing and polishing in the recording studio, if the BBC are going to broadcast, they've done all of this aswell.
if amount > big_number
Its not hard stuff. Most finance companies (from my experience) do have safeguards in place, the fact this one doesn't has done far more than give it a $12m loss, it has warned the market that this company has lax risk controls and higher risk charges should be applied to it.
The trader should get fired, they are employed and payed to do an accurate job. The compliance officer should also get fired, because the buck stops with them.
She gets fired, and they keep the stock as they expect to profit from it...
No. They minimise their loss. To resell that amount of stock would make the price plummet, they would make a large loss. They will most likely hang on to the stock and gradually get rid of it. They state a $12mn loss - not sure if this is an estimated loss, or if they've hedged out future price moves, in which case the hedging probably cost $12mn.
How different is what this book covers from what this, this, this, or this?
I was quite taken a-back by that term in the story too. I'd assume the US-centric orientation of this site means the meaning of the word is not too obvious to US readers/editors.
In the UK the meaning and roots of the word, as an offensive term, are quite common. Gypsies themselves are one of the most oppressed, disliked and unaccepted people in Western Europe, far more so than 'mainstream' ethnic minorities - often said to be the last publicly acceptale form of racism. Walk around the country side one day, as referenced here, its not unusual to see signs on pub doors, or even the grounds of religious schools, saying "no gypos allowed", "jips leave", or "no jipping".
If you are serious about security you can invest more than $100.
While advisable to get a more expensive (read built and priced for the task), a PII box and cables can be picked up fot $70 on eBay and, with a minimal Linux firewall install (say, 1 hour to set up @ $30/hour) does cost $100/hour. Of course this assumes the tech expertise exists in the first place, which seems not to be the case in this 'Ask Slashdot'.