not that I use it but know that quite a few do. Wouldn't the more sensible approach be to avoid all browser specific hacks? You would think that would make every IT depts life a heck of a lot easier.
that hasn't greatly exceeded its planned operational life. Pioneer, Viking, Voyager, etc... Though in the Rubble's case I have to say its been precarious its whole life. How many service missions did they do on it, aside from the mirror fix? As someone else posted a few days ago.. we can make a new replacement for cheaper.
I hesitate to suggest this as I am all for privacy. But if, as we are led to believe, somebody else used his Safeway card and the police are able to have ready access to this info then maybe we need something more than just a card swipe. In the NY/NJ area (at least) they have cameras at the toll plazas to snap the plates on the car. I believe they are in use at airport parking lots too (I know Newark runs a check on your car before they will let you *leave*). Maybe its time for a cheap web cam hookup to these POS machines. You could store a few million snaps on a cheap drive these days.
Im curious though if anybody knows the answer to these. Just wondering in general as I'm sure there may be a few where the answer is yes.
1) when using these store discount cards, are only the discounted items kept in store records? 2) when paying with credit card, are the stores retaining a list of my purchases linked to my card?
Yes and I can remember 1991 when I was able to download a nearly full feed (including porn..er binaries) from uunet overnite on a Trailblazer modem.
It was clearly unreasonable to expect it to stay a nice small place with thousands of new inet users every day. But of course the spam, incessant cross posting, and general blather was more than most bargained for. Its somewhat symptomatic of society as a whole. People don't give a fuck what they do or who they piss off. In fact, God forbid you point out what they have just done is bad etiquette or the like and they just blast you as the messenger.
However, I do disagree that it is now useless. Not every group is low signal, and with a good news reader even the high crap volume groups can be made managable.
Now you are bringing back memories of acoustic couplers, la120 terminals and no, not 300 baud, 110! 300 baud was just a touch fast for me:) sniff... makes you wonder what % of people on/. never saw or used a rotary phone.
you bring up some good points. I'll toss in part of the problem too is that the time and money involved in properly indexing and then acting fully on FOIA requests is probably not there. Congress should (and wont) mandate seperate budgeting for this archival and retrieval process.
And as for the FOUO docs, I wasn't aware of that. I do know that the past 10-15 years have been a horrible slip sliding away of public access to just about anything
The beuraucratic culture at FBI headquarters and regional offices are to blame for this and many other woes. I know a retired field agent that was in counter-intel and he has nothing good to say about agency management.
I don't think this is so much an overt effort to hide any one particular document(s) but just a widely prevalent 'we don't give a damn what you want'. Laziness and CYA mentality are to blame.
Agreed. But, aside from the James Webb thing you would think NASA could come up with some alternatives with new technology? Does everything we put in space have to cost $10 billion?
What about launching a series of smaller, simpler scopes and doing some long baseline, high resolution observations?
One also has to wonder what % of people on those channels generated the traffic in question. Was it just 5% of the thousands? 90%? My gut tells me the former is more likely right.
Also don't forget there are smaller IRC nets dedicated to specific areas of interest and have nothing at all to to with warez or other illegal activities.
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if you are speaking of risk analysis, that is just one area. If you are speaking of models, it is not entirely true, even in simple cases of vanilla options. People dont just wake up and say 'oh I'll pay 3 bucks for those calls'. They input the relevant variables into a model which generates a price. Yes, there are market based assumptions which go into that model (implied vol), but the price itself is out of a black box. And different option models will generate a differnt price. Obviously things get much more complicated when you move into pricing products which are dependent on cashflows whos timing (and payment) are not certain. There may be no or limited secondary market for the what it is you are pricing. In that case it matters not that somebody deals on your price, 'setting a price'. What matters is that your pricing model and its assumptions will prove accurate, or at least that you ripped off the custy to give yourself a nice cushion
I dont discount your points on who might find it useful, but I do question how many there are in the long run. The mass market, except for replacing 'moms turdware' aren't going to be do many of those things, if any.
Let me ask you this - if Dell took their current low end PC (dimension 3k, $499 w/mon) and dropped it in a small form factor package, what would happen to the mini mac sales? Other than OS X its a much better performing machine for that price point. Of course it would be an ugly little black box.. hey it could double time as a flight recorder!
As for the cost vs the emac, I think Apple could easily add a 15" screen for $100 given the volume discounts they command, still leaving it under an emac. And as the eMac is a differnt kind of product I'm not sure how much sales one would take from the other. Seems to me you'd be more likely to spring for an iMac than an eMac as you go up the price curve.
You are implying that Apple intends on becoming the walmart of low end computing. They are making dick for margin on these things and tying up productive capital. If they do not believe this will lead to future sales of high margin hardware and software then this is a waste of time and money.
If making order 5% on their large cash horde is the best Jobs expects to do with this minimac then shareholders should be suing his ass for a large return of capital.
the parent is correct about the hours involved. Even those who are front office work some very long days, and lunch is usually something that happens the week between xmas and new years. Depending what markets and products you are involved in can also result in quite a few stressed out late night phone calls.
Of course the pay does tend to compensate to an extent but burnout and lack of life outside of the street does take its toll.
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Having a MS in FE I can say that if you can't handle Hull straight out of the box you should persue other career objectives.
Also as a former currency and bond trader I can say one of the issues with modelling in general is liquidity is not adequately accounted for. It's wonderful to have a theoretical price, but if the spread is wide enough to drive a truck through that takes a way a lot of its good. Likewise when it comes to determining fair market when the shit is hitting the fan. 1994 was a *very* good year to illustrate that.
That isn't at all to say modelling and the rest of hte work of quants is not useful or necessary, just that some people tend to elevate it to levels beyond reasonable and worse, apply theory in a vacuum.
But any of you at all interested in this stuff really need to have a sound grounding in calc and differential equations at a minimum. A few courses in numerical methods are helpful too.
people always seem to under estimate the cost of the upgades, usually pricing off the lowest point which is for hardward that they really dont want or would be dreadful to use. How many people have tried to go bottom basement in memory only to waste hours upon hours on system problems before ultimately going through the headache of a return? And shipping and tax are not always free.
Likewise people always overestimate what they will get for used items, cars and pc parts in particular. Afterall, if you dont want them because they are outdated, why would anybody else be willing to pay up?
IMHO the mac mini is a poor deal. By the time you add memory, upgrade the hd, add a new monitor, kb, and mouse you could have had a much faster system based on inhell. As an ibook owner I just don't think OS X is that great to negate the substantial performance you will be giving up.
Apple should have either a) included a monitor or b) upped the specs and charged $50 more than a low end Dell. If the whole idea is to get new people hooked on your products so they will eventually upgrade to high margin hardware or software then give up the crap 5-7% margin, take a small loss on each and chock it up to advertising expense. If you are right then in the not very long run you will be rolling in the dough on your high end stuff. If you are wrong, no major damage (at least to the bottom line).
"we as a society are not going to simply let them starve, go homeless, get sick, etc."
And what happened for hundreds (1000s) of years before social security? I feel no obligation to assist somebody who squanders their retirement on an SUV and big screen TV. Its a choice they make - happy today vs risk unhappy when old. If they find a charitable organization to take them in good for them. If not, too bad. This is not about compassion at all. Compassion is for somebody who through circumstances beyond their control needs help.
As for the Ponzi scheme nature of FICA, you put a fair assessment. The program was poorly conceived and allowed to continue that way. As soon as the baby boom ended - and it was clear by the late 60s/early 70s, the program should have been changed so that payroll taxes were indexed to the size of your population group. Simply put, the baby boomers should (and need) to pay more into the system. Sadly this will never be changed in the zero sum game that is Washington.
mmm.. when people ask a question like that I tend to think more of the technical aspects, ie like threads and smp and stuff like that and how its implemented differently. Not that the qualitative differences aren't of some import too but I just see that more as the color of the cars vs the types of engines/trannies.
Basially toss it or use it for non critical storage after it is replaced with a new paired unit. Personally, the last drive I had fail was a Quantum in..heck 1995? I've still got a Toshiba 128MB bought 2nd hand in 1991 in a firewall box. Maybe my experience isn't the norm for an average user/power user. But this really wasn't something directed at enterprise users, more the individual workstation market where some easy form of redundancy would be better than none now that the average user is using 10s of megs for photos and mp3s each with no easy (mindless) safety net.
Actually I envisioned 2 drives within a standard housing with an interface between them for mirroring. The 2 drives would be independent in regards power, controller and motor. So the only point of failure for the system would be the mirroring interface.
Before you beat up on me, I'm not an electronics expert, just a long time user(abuser) of self built pc's. So I think the go between interface could be very simple - say your standard cable plugs into it and just splits like a Y to the two drives. There would need to be some electronics on it to decide from which drive it will read and to provide an alert should one drive fail.
My original point is that with the continued shrinking size of drives that they should be able to fit two independent units in what is today regarded as a standard sized bay and with minimial extra effort, enable them to self mirror.
As for the average user and what they do when one drive fails - that is a choice they can then make. Get a new pair or run in standard mode knowing its possible the 2nd drive will fail (and all data lost) at any time. But at least they have a choice. And the mirroring of data to a new pair could be done easily from a program on a bootable cd.
No none of this is earth shattering or not basically doable now, but as the original article said users aren't asking for anything I thought I'd ask them to make my raid 10 life a little easier.
Slashdot Mirror
not that I use it but know that quite a few do. Wouldn't
the more sensible approach be to avoid all browser specific
hacks? You would think that would make every IT depts life
a heck of a lot easier.
My cellphone doesn't work inside the house!
that hasn't greatly exceeded its planned operational life.
Pioneer, Viking, Voyager, etc... Though in the Rubble's case
I have to say its been precarious its whole life. How many
service missions did they do on it, aside from the mirror
fix? As someone else posted a few days ago.. we can make
a new replacement for cheaper.
I hesitate to suggest this as I am all for privacy. But
if, as we are led to believe, somebody else used his Safeway
card and the police are able to have ready access to this
info then maybe we need something more than just a card
swipe. In the NY/NJ area (at least) they have cameras
at the toll plazas to snap the plates on the car. I believe
they are in use at airport parking lots too (I know Newark
runs a check on your car before they will let you *leave*).
Maybe its time for a cheap web cam hookup to these POS
machines. You could store a few million snaps on a cheap
drive these days.
Im curious though if anybody knows the answer to these.
Just wondering in general as I'm sure there may be a few
where the answer is yes.
1) when using these store discount cards, are only the
discounted items kept in store records?
2) when paying with credit card, are the stores retaining
a list of my purchases linked to my card?
yes, terribly off topic but:
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822.3.
this is Yoda, not Spock, and definitely not Spock from
the Galileo Seven
Yes and I can remember 1991 when I was able to download
a nearly full feed (including porn..er binaries) from uunet
overnite on a Trailblazer modem.
It was clearly unreasonable to expect it to stay a nice small
place with thousands of new inet users every day. But of
course the spam, incessant cross posting, and general blather
was more than most bargained for. Its somewhat symptomatic
of society as a whole. People don't give a fuck what they do
or who they piss off. In fact, God forbid you point out
what they have just done is bad etiquette or the like and
they just blast you as the messenger.
However, I do disagree that it is now useless. Not every
group is low signal, and with a good news reader even the
high crap volume groups can be made managable.
surely there must be hundreds of companies elsewhere (France comes to mind) that would be more than willing to host them.
yes but thats 20 year old news and there is no /.
electron.com address so its not worth of
Somebody please mod the parent up.
Now you are bringing back memories of acoustic couplers, :) sniff... makes you wonder /. never saw or used a rotary phone.
la120 terminals and no, not 300 baud, 110! 300 baud was
just a touch fast for me
what % of people on
you bring up some good points. I'll toss in part of the
problem too is that the time and money involved in properly
indexing and then acting fully on FOIA requests is probably
not there. Congress should (and wont) mandate seperate
budgeting for this archival and retrieval process.
And as for the FOUO docs, I wasn't aware of that. I do know that the past 10-15 years have been a horrible slip sliding
away of public access to just about anything
The beuraucratic culture at FBI headquarters and regional
offices are to blame for this and many other woes. I know
a retired field agent that was in counter-intel and he has
nothing good to say about agency management.
I don't think this is so much an overt effort to hide any
one particular document(s) but just a widely prevalent
'we don't give a damn what you want'. Laziness and CYA
mentality are to blame.
Agreed. But, aside from the James Webb thing you would think
NASA could come up with some alternatives with new
technology? Does everything we put in space have to cost
$10 billion?
What about launching a series of smaller, simpler scopes and
doing some long baseline, high resolution observations?
One also has to wonder what % of people on those channels
generated the traffic in question. Was it just 5% of the
thousands? 90%? My gut tells me the former is more likely
right.
Also don't forget there are smaller IRC nets dedicated to
specific areas of interest and have nothing at all to to
with warez or other illegal activities.
if you are speaking of risk analysis, that is just one
area. If you are speaking of models, it is not entirely
true, even in simple cases of vanilla options. People
dont just wake up and say 'oh I'll pay 3 bucks for those
calls'. They input the relevant variables into a model
which generates a price. Yes, there are market based
assumptions which go into that model (implied vol), but the
price itself is out of a black box. And different option
models will generate a differnt price. Obviously things
get much more complicated when you move into pricing
products which are dependent on cashflows whos timing (and
payment) are not certain. There may be no or limited
secondary market for the what it is you are pricing. In
that case it matters not that somebody deals on your price,
'setting a price'. What matters is that your pricing
model and its assumptions will prove accurate, or at
least that you ripped off the custy to give yourself a
nice cushion
I dont discount your points on who might find it useful,
but I do question how many there are in the long run. The
mass market, except for replacing 'moms turdware' aren't
going to be do many of those things, if any.
Let me ask you this - if Dell took their current low end
PC (dimension 3k, $499 w/mon) and dropped it in a small
form factor package, what would happen to the mini mac
sales? Other than OS X its a much better performing
machine for that price point. Of course it would be an
ugly little black box.. hey it could double time as a
flight recorder!
As for the cost vs the emac, I think Apple could easily
add a 15" screen for $100 given the volume discounts they
command, still leaving it under an emac. And as the eMac
is a differnt kind of product I'm not sure how much sales
one would take from the other. Seems to me you'd be more
likely to spring for an iMac than an eMac as you go up
the price curve.
You are implying that Apple intends on becoming the walmart
of low end computing. They are making dick for margin on
these things and tying up productive capital. If they
do not believe this will lead to future sales of high margin
hardware and software then this is a waste of time and money.
If making order 5% on their large cash horde is the best
Jobs expects to do with this minimac then shareholders
should be suing his ass for a large return of capital.
the parent is correct about the hours involved. Even those
who are front office work some very long days, and lunch is
usually something that happens the week between xmas and
new years. Depending what markets and products you are
involved in can also result in quite a few stressed out
late night phone calls.
Of course the pay does tend to compensate to an extent but
burnout and lack of life outside of the street does take
its toll.
Having a MS in FE I can say that if you can't handle Hull
straight out of the box you should persue other career
objectives.
Also as a former currency and bond trader I can say one of
the issues with modelling in general is liquidity is not
adequately accounted for. It's wonderful to have a
theoretical price, but if the spread is wide enough to drive
a truck through that takes a way a lot of its good.
Likewise when it comes to determining fair market when the
shit is hitting the fan. 1994 was a *very* good year to
illustrate that.
That isn't at all to say modelling and the rest of hte
work of quants is not useful or necessary, just that some
people tend to elevate it to levels beyond reasonable and
worse, apply theory in a vacuum.
But any of you at all interested in this stuff really need
to have a sound grounding in calc and differential equations
at a minimum. A few courses in numerical methods are
helpful too.
people always seem to under estimate the cost of the upgades,
usually pricing off the lowest point which is for hardward
that they really dont want or would be dreadful to use. How
many people have tried to go bottom basement in memory only
to waste hours upon hours on system problems before
ultimately going through the headache of a return? And
shipping and tax are not always free.
Likewise people always overestimate what they will get for
used items, cars and pc parts in particular. Afterall, if
you dont want them because they are outdated, why would
anybody else be willing to pay up?
IMHO the mac mini is a poor deal. By the time you add
memory, upgrade the hd, add a new monitor, kb, and mouse
you could have had a much faster system based on inhell.
As an ibook owner I just don't think OS X is that great
to negate the substantial performance you will be giving up.
Apple should have either a) included a monitor or b) upped
the specs and charged $50 more than a low end Dell. If
the whole idea is to get new people hooked on your products
so they will eventually upgrade to high margin hardware or
software then give up the crap 5-7% margin, take a small
loss on each and chock it up to advertising expense. If
you are right then in the not very long run you will be
rolling in the dough on your high end stuff. If you are
wrong, no major damage (at least to the bottom line).
Will they get their own class B net? What about the Intergalactic Federation?
.space registrations?
And will ICANN be in chage of
"we as a society are not going to simply let them starve, go
homeless, get sick, etc."
And what happened for hundreds (1000s) of years before
social security? I feel no obligation to assist somebody
who squanders their retirement on an SUV and big screen TV.
Its a choice they make - happy today vs risk unhappy when
old. If they find a charitable organization to take them
in good for them. If not, too bad. This is not about
compassion at all. Compassion is for somebody who through
circumstances beyond their control needs help.
As for the Ponzi scheme nature of FICA, you put a fair
assessment. The program was poorly conceived and allowed
to continue that way. As soon as the baby boom ended -
and it was clear by the late 60s/early 70s, the program
should have been changed so that payroll taxes were
indexed to the size of your population group. Simply put,
the baby boomers should (and need) to pay more into
the system. Sadly this will never be changed in the
zero sum game that is Washington.
are you a /. bot? I like monospace and as long
as its a pref I'll use it. Get over it.
mmm.. when people ask a question like that I tend to think
more of the technical aspects, ie like threads and smp and
stuff like that and how its implemented differently. Not
that the qualitative differences aren't of some import too
but I just see that more as the color of the cars vs the
types of engines/trannies.
nice link on bsd philosophy.
Basially toss it or use it for non critical storage after it
is replaced with a new paired unit. Personally, the last
drive I had fail was a Quantum in..heck 1995? I've still got
a Toshiba 128MB bought 2nd hand in 1991 in a firewall box.
Maybe my experience isn't the norm for an average user/power
user. But this really wasn't something directed at
enterprise users, more the individual workstation market
where some easy form of redundancy would be better than none
now that the average user is using 10s of megs for photos
and mp3s each with no easy (mindless) safety net.
Actually I envisioned 2 drives within a standard housing
with an interface between them for mirroring. The 2 drives
would be independent in regards power, controller and
motor. So the only point of failure for the system would
be the mirroring interface.
Before you beat up on me, I'm not an electronics expert, just
a long time user(abuser) of self built pc's. So I think the
go between interface could be very simple - say your standard
cable plugs into it and just splits like a Y to the two
drives. There would need to be some electronics on it to
decide from which drive it will read and to provide an
alert should one drive fail.
My original point is that with the continued shrinking size
of drives that they should be able to fit two independent
units in what is today regarded as a standard sized bay and
with minimial extra effort, enable them to self mirror.
As for the average user and what they do when one drive
fails - that is a choice they can then make. Get a new
pair or run in standard mode knowing its possible the
2nd drive will fail (and all data lost) at any time. But
at least they have a choice. And the mirroring of data
to a new pair could be done easily from a program on a
bootable cd.
No none of this is earth shattering or not basically doable
now, but as the original article said users aren't asking
for anything I thought I'd ask them to make my raid 10
life a little easier.