I once ate an ant, I was bout 10 years old, that was a greyish colour, 3mm long. Very bitter, one of the most bitter things I had ever eaten, especially in such a small quantity.
I don't see a lot of geek content here, just American type propaganda.
Well, a British aeroplane (Harrier), a British company (Qinetic), a British ship (HMS Invincible), carried by a British news service (BBC). Damn this Americanisation. Oh... what language are these posts in, English?
Plus its pretty cool, IMHO, that a computer can do this given the huge difficulty and inability to simplify the process (wind, gravity, thrust) into simple mechanics.
Ah, Seagate. One of my computers it still running an old 40MB drive I bought back in 1994. Slow and small yes, but it does the job. Waste not want not.
I ended up with something installed, it was very odd:
1. It was not a seperate process, it bounded itself to IE. No process to end other than IE and in a work environment where Firefox is not an option that's a problem.
2. When uninstalled and files deleted it reinstalled itself. The files had to be deleted manually. Yet they reinstalled with random file names, the only way to identify them was by working out they were always a combo of 5 letters and had the same file size.
3. Sure it had a registry entry, but when it spread it randomly named itself as in step 2. Manual registry editing was the only option, somewhat risky as entries could be deleted by mistake.
4. Because of 1, 2 and 3, there were no processes and files to be deleted automatically. It becomes a manual process.
The solution: We did a diff of the registry from a backed up version and went through line by line. Could have done a reinstall, and did in the end (with something this sneaky what elso could it have been doing?) but it was very interesting to see how it worked. Lets hope this type of malware remains in the minority.
IANAL, but the argument allofmp3.com put forward is pursuasive.
You legally buy the music in Russia. Then, via the internet, you import it into the US/UK/Mali/whatever, you then have the liability of paying whatever import fees may be applicable, perhaps local sales tax, some import levies.
It is a nice imterpretation of the internet. The internet is not some strange entity, it is a means of communication. It is subject to the same laws as something like international mail-order. It is up to you to find out what the laws are like regarding traditional import or export for personal use, but because it is the internet it does not become some special situation.
The sites you mention: FT and Telegraph, it isn't surprising they charge as they have concentrated readerships with higher levels of disposable income, so why not go for a straightforward revenue model?
I have no doubt that the popularity of BBC news is for reasons consistent with the popularity of their television and radio news: high quality and impartial in a way commercially sponsored news could not be (commercial news also remains very popular: the total cross-media circulation of ITN, Times, Sun, etc is massive).
No no... the best hardware opportunities are in analog. No one learns it because its not the next big growth theme, but because almost no one learns it and everyone who works it is retiring a fresh mind goes a long way.
Plus its harder in an academic sense, that keeps the sheeple away...
Back office: Provide accounting and valuation methods. Typically work off a c-tree database system. Little reason to reinvent the wheel in this role, the scope of back office has been covered by 20 years+ by existing systems.
Middle office: Provide performance and risk analysis. This may be abstract benchmarking to defined verification of back office. Work tends to be more 'ad-hoc' than back office, may use a variety of systems, often likely to include linking to a (several) 3rd party databases and importing that data to a flexible ad-hoc environmeny for analytical manipulation: Excel VBA + 3rd party database APIs are an ideal fit.
Front office: Make the investment decisions. Based of a variety of models. Usually involves quant. I question: What can a mainframe do that a 3GHz P4 with data/filtered data loaded in memory can't do? 5-10 years it was a different question. Desktops today, with the investment manager using Excel, Matlab, SAS, whatever, are able to do what they want. Manipulating 5 million database entries takes seconds with decent code. What is a mainframe needed for other than promote incredably inefficiient databse lookups?
The serious database apps used tend not to be that serious. Back office do things on 30 year old tech which is audited and trusted. Front office use constantly changing models hacked together with whatever whim the imvestment mnager has, middle office tie in front to back office.
There is no fantastic use of mainframes or serious databse applications. Analytical databases used tend to be 3rd party (Bloomberg, Datastream, Reuters). The only serious in-house database I have experience with was set up by the IT department: 1 million ish records, 3 years late, 2 million USD over budget. That's a joke. A modern desktop can perform a huge amount of calculations on the fly. A good aspect of the increase in calculation power these days has led to the use of computing power as a commodity and people are paying much more attention to the specification and interpretation of financial models. Screw mainframes, they're defunct, cheap computer power fuels interpretation/analytics of stats.
Wow! I'm surprised. Not only does someone have experience of linking (wrestling) with the Blooomberg API they have a closed end fund specialism! Me too! You also reference crack pipes, which makes me question whehter you are, infact, me...
Nothing like a difficult day when trying to build an analysis of an option chain, realising its necessary to use the Bloomberg API, and spending hours figuring out what bulk data spec to use with repeated calls to the helpdesk. C or VBA makes little difference there!
Have you ever given Datastream a go? For funds their data is a bit more vigorous than Bloomberg (their economics database is awesome), plus they're $5k/terminal vs Bloomberg's $20k.
I'm interested, what exactly do you do? Arb? Pensions?
Being a Western person who happens to speak fluent Mandarin (and Cantonese) as well as 'type Chinese' as well as English:
Does this mean everyone is going to have to type English when accessing URLs? Why shouldn't URLs by Chinese characters first romanisation after.
Of course a section of the internet written in Chinese readable in Chinese will have profound impacts on me.
But what if I only understand/comprehend English, then I must be locked in. Damn this user lock in that is dependent on my knowledge. Damn those French, Italian, Iranian speakers who are also 'locked in' by speaking their own languange.
what it is, it is regardless what I percieve it to be. It's a rather simple concept
Exactly the half-baked excuse that is epistiemology.
What is anything other than perception? Scientific method does not deny this, nor does the most hard core abstract philosophy. Yet epistiemology searches for a solution which works out to be no solution. Assumption is a better word and saves several thousand people thinking they have made a wonderous philosophical discovery.
To deny perception in favour of an absolute is several steps beyond the concepts of epistiemology. Poor excuse for someone who can't be bothered a bit of deeper thinking, at least that's my perception...
a rock is a rock regardless of my perception of it
Is it? What is this 'it' you speak of? Is it a rock? Then if 'it' is a rock, and a rock is a rock, what is a rock? Is it a spray painted piece of glass, is it an electrical stimulus into your mind, what you may call a rock may be a tree if that's what people other than you think of as a treem then is a tree no less a rock?
But epistemology? Nothing but a crude hack of several theories to find a middle ground between two opposed theories. There's something strange about trying to justify a middle ground as an excuse to bridge two extreems rather than believe in oth extreem, given they're not mutually exclusive.
A key difference to the USSR in 1985 and China today is that you can get a visa a jump on a plane to CHina tomorrow: Beijing, Shanghai, some remote province, no real problem. And if you like what you see you are welcome to start a factory or whatever there. Capitalist related matters are pretty out in the open.
I wouldn't expect amazing technological progress from what remains a 3rd world country (apart from the odd pocket here and there), but that doesn't mean a lack of economic growth. Its a country playing catch-up. Like Japan in the 1950s or the US in the 1900s.
Indeed there is little point pursuing ideas of relativeness - if existence is relative upon perception in someone's mind then their mind is absolute - neurons or whatever exist allowing them to think in the absolute. This could be contested...
If perceiving is perceiving, then absolutes are be perceived. There is the falacy of the scientific method: you think its a rock because it fits your perception of being a rock. What if it were a cleverly painted glass ball, it might look and feel like a rock but its not a rock - so your perception is incorrect.
All oranges observed are coloured orange at ripe maturity, do you believe this? So if all cars observed are red does this make all cars red?
Philosophical criticism of the scientific method is indeed interesting, and vice versa. I humbly recommend Kant as a starting point.
If a document's contents were in a file which mapped to a style sheet, a la HTML and CSS, or perhaps the more general purpose XML, then the contents (HTML) could be GPL conditions free, but the overall presentation would be subject to it.
I RTFA, and this really isn't so much about GM rice, more about other effects of GM, but no doubt the GPs point is still valid.
To answer your question:
Budweiser is by far the most widely consumed US originated beer here in the UK. That is if you call it beer. Having lived in the US for some time I appreciated most beer sold in bars was very cold (glasses often kept in a fridge), very fizzy (unless the bar was out of CO2/N) and quite tasteless. That wasn't/isn't always a bad thing - if dehydrated I don't know what could be nicer than a watery cold drink - and if going out with the aim of getting drunk I don't think the quality matters after the second pint - but if drinking beer for beer the taste is extremely important and that's what US mass brews lack - taste. If looking for a fizzy somewhat (but not very) tasty beer that will deliver sugars in your blood Bud is a good choice of many (bar excellent German lagers which are not highly available in the US).
This is not to dismiss US beer as a whole, micro-brew is a massively growing industry and has some excellent choices. But to drink beer for being beer ice cold piss isn't always good. If you're not a big beer drinker why not try something like Old Speckeld Hen or whatever local micro-brew markets itself as strong in taste, it could give you a fresh perspective.
I agree, perhaps from a slightly different perspective:
If a music device producer market their device as interoperable and it isn't in a large propertion of cases then they should be liable to refund consumers they deceived and open up or change their marketing.
Likewise, if an online service promoted themselves on grounds that they provided music that could be used in most devices but couldn't then they should be similarly liable.
Both the above cases are deception: fraud.
But if all is out in the open from a marketing perspective:
If Real promote their store as working in most music players (when the iPod is clearly the dominant music player) then Real are acting dishonestly. If Apple bar the iPod from accepting Real files when they previously could (which consumers bought then for) or is Apple barred Real format files to promote a monopoly position which will be likely to turn out to be uncompetitive for their store they should themselves liable.
There's an interesting difference in perceptions of competition law between the US/Europe here: The US are much more likely to be anti-horizontal monopoly, while the Europeans look at vertical monopolies much more.
I have no idea what the legal case in 'real life' is, the above seems to make sense to me. I recommend allofmp3.com: mp3s/oggs/FLACs at a reasonable cost.
I ask because almost all camera phones have bluetooth and a USB dongle costs $5...
I don't have thorough sales data for mobile accessories, so all of this is conjecture of course.
Companies goals are to make money, not please the customer.
Thank you for your insight, but the argument is a bit circular, no? Perhaps to say "Companies goal is to satisfy the consumer just enough to profit maximise", or "companies goal is to make people money: employees, capital providers (shareholders) and give consumers somethig they want".
If it was highly specific, low levels of abstraction, high levels of re-typed (or almost re-typed with subtle code differences) structures, then it will be a nightmare. If it was highly abstracted and carefully programmed it should be easy to re-implement.
It is easy to find an equivalent library, it is easy to adapt the constructs of well structured code: as easy as going from pseudo code to pascal in past decades, no matter what the language. But it is hard to go from poorly written source to an adaptable solution: VB shows its pitfalls here, but only so much as C (in this respect, not many others which VB implements poorly, but programming it is not the point, reprogramming it is).
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I once ate an ant, I was bout 10 years old, that was a greyish colour, 3mm long. Very bitter, one of the most bitter things I had ever eaten, especially in such a small quantity.
I don't see a lot of geek content here, just American type propaganda.
Well, a British aeroplane (Harrier), a British company (Qinetic), a British ship (HMS Invincible), carried by a British news service (BBC). Damn this Americanisation. Oh... what language are these posts in, English?
Plus its pretty cool, IMHO, that a computer can do this given the huge difficulty and inability to simplify the process (wind, gravity, thrust) into simple mechanics.
Nice. That clarified the issue well.
Ah, Seagate. One of my computers it still running an old 40MB drive I bought back in 1994. Slow and small yes, but it does the job. Waste not want not.
No nearly so easy.
I ended up with something installed, it was very odd:
1. It was not a seperate process, it bounded itself to IE. No process to end other than IE and in a work environment where Firefox is not an option that's a problem.
2. When uninstalled and files deleted it reinstalled itself. The files had to be deleted manually. Yet they reinstalled with random file names, the only way to identify them was by working out they were always a combo of 5 letters and had the same file size.
3. Sure it had a registry entry, but when it spread it randomly named itself as in step 2. Manual registry editing was the only option, somewhat risky as entries could be deleted by mistake.
4. Because of 1, 2 and 3, there were no processes and files to be deleted automatically. It becomes a manual process.
The solution: We did a diff of the registry from a backed up version and went through line by line. Could have done a reinstall, and did in the end (with something this sneaky what elso could it have been doing?) but it was very interesting to see how it worked. Lets hope this type of malware remains in the minority.
IANAL, but the argument allofmp3.com put forward is pursuasive.
You legally buy the music in Russia. Then, via the internet, you import it into the US/UK/Mali/whatever, you then have the liability of paying whatever import fees may be applicable, perhaps local sales tax, some import levies.
It is a nice imterpretation of the internet. The internet is not some strange entity, it is a means of communication. It is subject to the same laws as something like international mail-order. It is up to you to find out what the laws are like regarding traditional import or export for personal use, but because it is the internet it does not become some special situation.
Nearly exterminate? There are still more than a few news organisations with online presences:
Reuters
The Times
The Guardian (interesting... the content is free but if you want to read it in a paper format you can subscribe)
The Sun
The Mirror
ITN Sites, e.g. Channel 4 News
The Scotsman (a surprisingly large online presence)
The sites you mention: FT and Telegraph, it isn't surprising they charge as they have concentrated readerships with higher levels of disposable income, so why not go for a straightforward revenue model?
I have no doubt that the popularity of BBC news is for reasons consistent with the popularity of their television and radio news: high quality and impartial in a way commercially sponsored news could not be (commercial news also remains very popular: the total cross-media circulation of ITN, Times, Sun, etc is massive).
No no... the best hardware opportunities are in analog. No one learns it because its not the next big growth theme, but because almost no one learns it and everyone who works it is retiring a fresh mind goes a long way.
Plus its harder in an academic sense, that keeps the sheeple away...
Are you serious?
bFinance house:
Back office: Provide accounting and valuation methods. Typically work off a c-tree database system. Little reason to reinvent the wheel in this role, the scope of back office has been covered by 20 years+ by existing systems.
Middle office: Provide performance and risk analysis. This may be abstract benchmarking to defined verification of back office. Work tends to be more 'ad-hoc' than back office, may use a variety of systems, often likely to include linking to a (several) 3rd party databases and importing that data to a flexible ad-hoc environmeny for analytical manipulation: Excel VBA + 3rd party database APIs are an ideal fit.
Front office: Make the investment decisions. Based of a variety of models. Usually involves quant. I question: What can a mainframe do that a 3GHz P4 with data/filtered data loaded in memory can't do? 5-10 years it was a different question. Desktops today, with the investment manager using Excel, Matlab, SAS, whatever, are able to do what they want. Manipulating 5 million database entries takes seconds with decent code. What is a mainframe needed for other than promote incredably inefficiient databse lookups?
The serious database apps used tend not to be that serious. Back office do things on 30 year old tech which is audited and trusted. Front office use constantly changing models hacked together with whatever whim the imvestment mnager has, middle office tie in front to back office.
There is no fantastic use of mainframes or serious databse applications. Analytical databases used tend to be 3rd party (Bloomberg, Datastream, Reuters). The only serious in-house database I have experience with was set up by the IT department: 1 million ish records, 3 years late, 2 million USD over budget. That's a joke. A modern desktop can perform a huge amount of calculations on the fly. A good aspect of the increase in calculation power these days has led to the use of computing power as a commodity and people are paying much more attention to the specification and interpretation of financial models. Screw mainframes, they're defunct, cheap computer power fuels interpretation/analytics of stats.
Wow! I'm surprised. Not only does someone have experience of linking (wrestling) with the Blooomberg API they have a closed end fund specialism! Me too! You also reference crack pipes, which makes me question whehter you are, infact, me...
Nothing like a difficult day when trying to build an analysis of an option chain, realising its necessary to use the Bloomberg API, and spending hours figuring out what bulk data spec to use with repeated calls to the helpdesk. C or VBA makes little difference there!
Have you ever given Datastream a go? For funds their data is a bit more vigorous than Bloomberg (their economics database is awesome), plus they're $5k/terminal vs Bloomberg's $20k.
I'm interested, what exactly do you do? Arb? Pensions?
Being a Western person who happens to speak fluent Mandarin (and Cantonese) as well as 'type Chinese' as well as English:
Does this mean everyone is going to have to type English when accessing URLs? Why shouldn't URLs by Chinese characters first romanisation after.
Of course a section of the internet written in Chinese readable in Chinese will have profound impacts on me.
But what if I only understand/comprehend English, then I must be locked in. Damn this user lock in that is dependent on my knowledge. Damn those French, Italian, Iranian speakers who are also 'locked in' by speaking their own languange.
what it is, it is regardless what I percieve it to be. It's a rather simple concept
Exactly the half-baked excuse that is epistiemology.
What is anything other than perception? Scientific method does not deny this, nor does the most hard core abstract philosophy. Yet epistiemology searches for a solution which works out to be no solution. Assumption is a better word and saves several thousand people thinking they have made a wonderous philosophical discovery.
To deny perception in favour of an absolute is several steps beyond the concepts of epistiemology. Poor excuse for someone who can't be bothered a bit of deeper thinking, at least that's my perception...
a rock is a rock regardless of my perception of it
Is it? What is this 'it' you speak of? Is it a rock? Then if 'it' is a rock, and a rock is a rock, what is a rock? Is it a spray painted piece of glass, is it an electrical stimulus into your mind, what you may call a rock may be a tree if that's what people other than you think of as a treem then is a tree no less a rock?
But epistemology? Nothing but a crude hack of several theories to find a middle ground between two opposed theories. There's something strange about trying to justify a middle ground as an excuse to bridge two extreems rather than believe in oth extreem, given they're not mutually exclusive.
A key difference to the USSR in 1985 and China today is that you can get a visa a jump on a plane to CHina tomorrow: Beijing, Shanghai, some remote province, no real problem. And if you like what you see you are welcome to start a factory or whatever there. Capitalist related matters are pretty out in the open.
I wouldn't expect amazing technological progress from what remains a 3rd world country (apart from the odd pocket here and there), but that doesn't mean a lack of economic growth. Its a country playing catch-up. Like Japan in the 1950s or the US in the 1900s.
Scientific method vs. philosophy!
Indeed there is little point pursuing ideas of relativeness - if existence is relative upon perception in someone's mind then their mind is absolute - neurons or whatever exist allowing them to think in the absolute. This could be contested...
If perceiving is perceiving, then absolutes are be perceived. There is the falacy of the scientific method: you think its a rock because it fits your perception of being a rock. What if it were a cleverly painted glass ball, it might look and feel like a rock but its not a rock - so your perception is incorrect.
All oranges observed are coloured orange at ripe maturity, do you believe this? So if all cars observed are red does this make all cars red?
Philosophical criticism of the scientific method is indeed interesting, and vice versa. I humbly recommend Kant as a starting point.
A little off-the-wall here:
If a document's contents were in a file which mapped to a style sheet, a la HTML and CSS, or perhaps the more general purpose XML, then the contents (HTML) could be GPL conditions free, but the overall presentation would be subject to it.
I RTFA, and this really isn't so much about GM rice, more about other effects of GM, but no doubt the GPs point is still valid.
To answer your question:
Budweiser is by far the most widely consumed US originated beer here in the UK. That is if you call it beer. Having lived in the US for some time I appreciated most beer sold in bars was very cold (glasses often kept in a fridge), very fizzy (unless the bar was out of CO2/N) and quite tasteless. That wasn't/isn't always a bad thing - if dehydrated I don't know what could be nicer than a watery cold drink - and if going out with the aim of getting drunk I don't think the quality matters after the second pint - but if drinking beer for beer the taste is extremely important and that's what US mass brews lack - taste. If looking for a fizzy somewhat (but not very) tasty beer that will deliver sugars in your blood Bud is a good choice of many (bar excellent German lagers which are not highly available in the US).
This is not to dismiss US beer as a whole, micro-brew is a massively growing industry and has some excellent choices. But to drink beer for being beer ice cold piss isn't always good. If you're not a big beer drinker why not try something like Old Speckeld Hen or whatever local micro-brew markets itself as strong in taste, it could give you a fresh perspective.
That was a highly deterministic post.
I agree, perhaps from a slightly different perspective:
If a music device producer market their device as interoperable and it isn't in a large propertion of cases then they should be liable to refund consumers they deceived and open up or change their marketing.
Likewise, if an online service promoted themselves on grounds that they provided music that could be used in most devices but couldn't then they should be similarly liable.
Both the above cases are deception: fraud.
But if all is out in the open from a marketing perspective: If Real promote their store as working in most music players (when the iPod is clearly the dominant music player) then Real are acting dishonestly. If Apple bar the iPod from accepting Real files when they previously could (which consumers bought then for) or is Apple barred Real format files to promote a monopoly position which will be likely to turn out to be uncompetitive for their store they should themselves liable.
There's an interesting difference in perceptions of competition law between the US/Europe here: The US are much more likely to be anti-horizontal monopoly, while the Europeans look at vertical monopolies much more.
I have no idea what the legal case in 'real life' is, the above seems to make sense to me. I recommend allofmp3.com: mp3s/oggs/FLACs at a reasonable cost.
Sure?
I ask because almost all camera phones have bluetooth and a USB dongle costs $5...
I don't have thorough sales data for mobile accessories, so all of this is conjecture of course.
Companies goals are to make money, not please the customer.
Thank you for your insight, but the argument is a bit circular, no? Perhaps to say "Companies goal is to satisfy the consumer just enough to profit maximise", or "companies goal is to make people money: employees, capital providers (shareholders) and give consumers somethig they want".
Now she was cool.
Exactly.
It depends on the quality the VB was written in.
If it was highly specific, low levels of abstraction, high levels of re-typed (or almost re-typed with subtle code differences) structures, then it will be a nightmare. If it was highly abstracted and carefully programmed it should be easy to re-implement.
It is easy to find an equivalent library, it is easy to adapt the constructs of well structured code: as easy as going from pseudo code to pascal in past decades, no matter what the language. But it is hard to go from poorly written source to an adaptable solution: VB shows its pitfalls here, but only so much as C (in this respect, not many others which VB implements poorly, but programming it is not the point, reprogramming it is).
Subject: Irony? The irony of your post is too much to handle. You sir, are an idiot.
Reply:
Profession of ignorance and of willingness to learn as one interrogates another on the meaning of a term.
Alanis. Indeed.
Props. That's such really clever (but obvious in retrospect) reasoning.