This could result in another series of fuckups like this, where a bitcoin exchange lost its wallet.dat due to a misconfigured EC2 instance.
GEEZ I didn't know that.
I admit this is not very clear from EC2 users (that is unless you read the docs), but Amazon should have a provision where if it shuts down because of them, then no data is lost.
And btw use S3 and s3cmd, very good and very easy (even with encryption)
They didn't find antimatter, they found anti-protons. Matter is what happens when particles arrange themselves a certain way. A few stray protons doesn't constitute matter: neither do some stray anti-protons.
Furthermore, they've found a whopping 28 of them in two years' research. Even if they'd found 28 atoms of anti-hydrogen (which would require that each anti-proton also have a positron), the amount is utterly irrelevant in terms of power generation. 28 atoms of anti-hydrogen (which I point out again that this is not) wouldn't produce a reaction capable of running a AA-battery flashlight.
I believe that the BBC has fallen victim to sensationalism and/or ignorance. It's pretty much what I've come to expect from the world press.
Thank you for trying to piss in their party, but the sensationalist/ignorant here is you.
Had you properly read TFA (or the original explanation) you would have found that - You obviously don't know WTF is Pamela - Pamela spent around 2% of its time in the South Atlantic Anomaly - It detected 28 protons because that's within its capabilities (protip - particle detectors don't know an atom from an anti-atom BECAUSE IT'S NEUTRAL) - "Protons doesn't constitute matter" What, they don't have mass? Protons fit squarely in the definition of matter, unless you are being sensationalistic or forgot the definition of matter.
And by the way, try to buy 28 antiprotons from CERN and see how much they ask for it
Price variations on this case are not based on speculation
They are based on the fact that, at night, power consumption drops considerably.
Even though most forms of energy generation have a certain level of control over the power generated, at night you can say there is a surplus (since most forms have a generation floor)
ZING! But there's an NDK for Android as well, so it's not like you have to use Java anyway.
yes you have. Yes, it's only a stub, and probably the launch menu, but still.
I personally think they should have done all the base components native, made an X11 like protocol for communication between widgets and apps and whatever, and then just told everyone to go for it. If that were the case using a VM based language would spare you some headaches, but even then you wouldn't be tied to Java as Ruby, Python, AIR/AS3, and a whole bunch of others would work just the same.
On a side note, I'm a bit ashamed to admit it but the SDK for Android running in Eclipse is really really nice and they've streamlined all the Java stuff and added enough libraries that things are pretty easy to understand and work with. I would have preferred something other than Java, and in general I'm a VIM/Makefile kind of guy so the whole IDE thing still puts me off but still I have to admit they did a great job.
One more thing: Fuck you Oracle!
The main problem is not the VM, but that google picked Java and Java libs. I mean, how are going to say 'it's not java' to the Judge!? Yes, they have great lawyers, etc, but still...
But yeah, technically, I agree on the whole (except for the X11 part, I'm not sure Android even uses X11)
I'm guessing for IO bound servers (that is, all those that take care of storage) the use of a fast CPU is a waste (unless they're also running MapReduce)
Since most modern CPUs can 'go around the world' while the HD is fetching data, kind of makes sense.
Of course, the cost/benefit analysis is not only this.
As I said, the USD is worth nothing. The Japanese and Chinese at the peril of their own economies have been subsidizing US consumers, which doesn't speak highly of their economic understanding.
Yeah, the 2nd and 3rd largest economies of the world have a lack of economics understanding.
NOT
They most likely diversified their investments, but 1Trillion is still 1/5 of their GDP.
Actually the US bonds have been a losing proposition for many economies from around 2000 onwards. Due to the falling USDxEUR or USDxJPY exchange rates, 10 years obligations maturing now have actually turned into a ~40% loss instead of a profit for European investors and Japanese investors. I still have a few thousand bucks laying around, I'm just waiting for the currency to rebound before swapping them out to EUR.
Yeah, true, if you buy $1000 you'll get the $1000 + interest in the end, inflation and everything else be damned.
Apart from them, in times of crisis the USD increases its value relative to the local currency in most countries, so it may be good for other countries. (but yeah, the true dollar variation is only seen when comparing it to Euro, Pound or Yen)
Yes. I can see the Monty Python sketch already in my head
The problem with regulation (and increasing it) is that : - bigger companies have more resources to fulfill them - closing a loophole always hurts someone small/well-intentioned - small business have to deal with a regulation bag of hurt
Solution? I really don't know. But for GEs, Starbucks, etc regulation is only another excuse to increase prices, and quickly brushed off. While small business owners cant afford dressing as a clown bad playing with a seal before paying the taxes.
- Do you guys do any kind of testing prior to deployment? Either running with past data or current data but without sending the orders, or some kind of mock 'signal'?
- Why Java, really? Unless it's something using the JVM like Scala or Clojure
- Any prior 'rule setting' such as, only dealing with a kind of security, only within a certain range of values, etc
- Do you guys use any special libraries (decimal math comes to mind). SSE/SSE2 or other SIMD optimizations?
- Do the programs have internal safety checks (like, see how much this is going to cost, if it's within market rules or is not gonna buy millions of dollars in Enron stocks)
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+1BTC would be more appropriate
This could result in another series of fuckups like this, where a bitcoin exchange lost its wallet.dat due to a misconfigured EC2 instance.
GEEZ I didn't know that.
I admit this is not very clear from EC2 users (that is unless you read the docs), but Amazon should have a provision where if it shuts down because of them, then no data is lost.
And btw use S3 and s3cmd, very good and very easy (even with encryption)
Yeah, I think Zuckberg signed one of those in a moonless night.
And after that, proceeded to cross the other party on that contract.
They didn't find antimatter, they found anti-protons. Matter is what happens when particles arrange themselves a certain way. A few stray protons doesn't constitute matter: neither do some stray anti-protons.
Furthermore, they've found a whopping 28 of them in two years' research. Even if they'd found 28 atoms of anti-hydrogen (which would require that each anti-proton also have a positron), the amount is utterly irrelevant in terms of power generation. 28 atoms of anti-hydrogen (which I point out again that this is not) wouldn't produce a reaction capable of running a AA-battery flashlight.
I believe that the BBC has fallen victim to sensationalism and/or ignorance. It's pretty much what I've come to expect from the world press.
Thank you for trying to piss in their party, but the sensationalist/ignorant here is you.
Had you properly read TFA (or the original explanation) you would have found that
- You obviously don't know WTF is Pamela
- Pamela spent around 2% of its time in the South Atlantic Anomaly
- It detected 28 protons because that's within its capabilities (protip - particle detectors don't know an atom from an anti-atom BECAUSE IT'S NEUTRAL)
- "Protons doesn't constitute matter" What, they don't have mass? Protons fit squarely in the definition of matter, unless you are being sensationalistic or forgot the definition of matter.
And by the way, try to buy 28 antiprotons from CERN and see how much they ask for it
A femtodiamond must be a single carbon nucleus. I wonder how you distinguish femtodiamonds from femtographite, though.
Well, easy, one shines and the other doesn't... Oh wait...
Actually, a femtodiamond is CH4 a femtographite is Benzene. ;)
Unless of course they payed you back with a Bobcat
the worse code, yes
But that runs fast on old/not so fast hardware
Example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
What?
it should be get_off(my_lawn), none of this modern 'object orientation' nonsense
or maybe
lea ax,[my_lawn]
call get_off
With a flat rate I think this could work only if you have an alternative generation method in your house (like solar, etc)
But yeah, with smart meters this would be much easier.
Price variations on this case are not based on speculation
They are based on the fact that, at night, power consumption drops considerably.
Even though most forms of energy generation have a certain level of control over the power generated, at night you can say there is a surplus (since most forms have a generation floor)
Java Police, arrest this man
he talks in NET
He buzzes like C
He's like a detuned VM
This is what you get when you mess with us
Then why didn't he just stay with GNOME 2?
Easy answer (but I may be wrong), the distro he uses doesn't ship Gnome 2
XFCE user, but I couldn't stand Gnome 2 as well
Then Google and and whatnot should take every last single penny and buy the congress...
Or maybe buy a bunch of patent trolls and 'unleash the kraken' agains MS and Oracle, it's probably cheaper.
Geez, I didn't know that.
Looks like a case of severe javatarditis...
ZING! But there's an NDK for Android as well, so it's not like you have to use Java anyway.
yes you have. Yes, it's only a stub, and probably the launch menu, but still.
I personally think they should have done all the base components native, made an X11 like protocol for communication between widgets and apps and whatever, and then just told everyone to go for it. If that were the case using a VM based language would spare you some headaches, but even then you wouldn't be tied to Java as Ruby, Python, AIR/AS3, and a whole bunch of others would work just the same.
On a side note, I'm a bit ashamed to admit it but the SDK for Android running in Eclipse is really really nice and they've streamlined all the Java stuff and added enough libraries that things are pretty easy to understand and work with. I would have preferred something other than Java, and in general I'm a VIM/Makefile kind of guy so the whole IDE thing still puts me off but still I have to admit they did a great job.
One more thing: Fuck you Oracle!
The main problem is not the VM, but that google picked Java and Java libs. I mean, how are going to say 'it's not java' to the Judge!? Yes, they have great lawyers, etc, but still...
But yeah, technically, I agree on the whole (except for the X11 part, I'm not sure Android even uses X11)
Exactly
Geez, if they think "we think they all suck" this screams 'Javatard' to me. The kind of people that think that everything has to be XML.
Do they think Python sucks? Go sucks? JS sucks? Ruby sucks? Groovy sucks?
If they had said "analyzing the several alternatives we think running a JVM is the best option" I would probably agree with them.
Guess what, Apple made the right bet. Not with iPhone, not with MAC OS X, but back there when it was still NEXT. Objective-C
Larry and Sergey, learn the lesson, if you depend 100% on Java, things are not going to work out.
I'm guessing for IO bound servers (that is, all those that take care of storage) the use of a fast CPU is a waste (unless they're also running MapReduce)
Since most modern CPUs can 'go around the world' while the HD is fetching data, kind of makes sense.
Of course, the cost/benefit analysis is not only this.
As I said, the USD is worth nothing. The Japanese and Chinese at the peril of their own economies have been subsidizing US consumers, which doesn't speak highly of their economic understanding.
Yeah, the 2nd and 3rd largest economies of the world have a lack of economics understanding.
NOT
They most likely diversified their investments, but 1Trillion is still 1/5 of their GDP.
Actually the US bonds have been a losing proposition for many economies from around 2000 onwards. Due to the falling USDxEUR or USDxJPY exchange rates, 10 years obligations maturing now have actually turned into a ~40% loss instead of a profit for European investors and Japanese investors. I still have a few thousand bucks laying around, I'm just waiting for the currency to rebound before swapping them out to EUR.
Yeah, true, if you buy $1000 you'll get the $1000 + interest in the end, inflation and everything else be damned.
Apart from them, in times of crisis the USD increases its value relative to the local currency in most countries, so it may be good for other countries. (but yeah, the true dollar variation is only seen when comparing it to Euro, Pound or Yen)
ever since then the USD has been worth nothing
Tell that to Japan and China, they have around 1 trillion dollars (each) http://www.businessinsider.com/who-owns-us-debt-2011-7?op=1
And Japan got to the trillion $ mark a long time ago.
Can someone explain to me why US Treasuries should be rated AAA in the first place?
Easy
the US never defaulted, that's why
Of course, past performance doesn't correspond to future gains.
It also helps that US bonds can be used as money, and are used as such.
Yes. I can see the Monty Python sketch already in my head
The problem with regulation (and increasing it) is that :
- bigger companies have more resources to fulfill them
- closing a loophole always hurts someone small/well-intentioned
- small business have to deal with a regulation bag of hurt
Solution? I really don't know. But for GEs, Starbucks, etc regulation is only another excuse to increase prices, and quickly brushed off. While small business owners cant afford dressing as a clown bad playing with a seal before paying the taxes.
Ok, here goes nothing:
- Do you guys do any kind of testing prior to deployment? Either running with past data or current data but without sending the orders, or some kind of mock 'signal'?
- Why Java, really? Unless it's something using the JVM like Scala or Clojure
- Any prior 'rule setting' such as, only dealing with a kind of security, only within a certain range of values, etc
- Do you guys use any special libraries (decimal math comes to mind). SSE/SSE2 or other SIMD optimizations?
- Do the programs have internal safety checks (like, see how much this is going to cost, if it's within market rules or is not gonna buy millions of dollars in Enron stocks)
Well, they forgot lynx users...
Unless it was a web-based IQ test
They are using the word 'insurance' because it's the word most likely understandable by the public.
I'm not sure CDSs are sold 'directly to consumers' to qualify for a certain regulation, I'm guessing they're sold as part of funds, etc
CDS are side bets; they are hedges. As such they are very risky
Well, they're more risky for who's selling them, as opposed to who is buying them.