SAP upgrades can easily take that long, but SAP can easily run organizations an order of magnitude bigger, and two orders of magnitude more complicated than Tesla.
From the comments I'm readin in this story, my take home messege here is that SAP probably shouldn't run organizations at all. What the hell does their software do for all this expense and hassle anyway?
Basically her response is that of the bankrobber who is angry and blaiming his friends for turning him in rather than himself for being caught with the cash.
The response of the entire administration has been the response of a spoiled, petulant teenager.
In fact, this has been the response of the administration -- and the previous one -- to just about any development or obstancle they don't like.
The US is no longer a nation of laws. It is a nation of men (and some women) who are impulsive, incompetent, largely juvenile, disrespectful of their offices, and contemptuous of both the public and the law. The Administration is being run by people with the mentality and motives of a cast of Saturday morning cartoon, or late Thursday night TV villains. Unfortunately these people have one common talent -- they are all connected to each other like threads in a rotten carpet.
Not a nation of laws. A nation of men. And a particularly base and uninspiring kind of man at that. Central and South American countries have been run by such men for centuries. Run into the ground. The US, for all its power and potential, is now being run into the ground as well.
The end result is probably something like Singapore. Ostensibly free, but scratch the surface and you quickly hit authoritarianism and an oligarchy of connected families and companies. The problem is, most of the US governing class would see little wrong with such an outcome.
. I mean, you can prove that it works, but some people "see" how to separate a function and some don't.
You don't ever "see" how to seperate the function into udv to get uv-vdu. Even in the case of the most "obvious" examples like xe^x, you still need to decide which part should be u or dv.
After a few dozen (hundred?) times of doing this, you get a feel for which should be chosen. More recently, this knowledge has been codified in a LIATE mnemonic/algorithm for choosing the two parts, which works for most elementary integrals students are likely to encounter.
Nobody can "just integrate". Nobody. Not even Euler was able to integrate everything. With experience -- extensive expeirience -- you may garner enough tricks and techniques to be able to integrate something like x^m(a+bx^n)^p -- but you would need to be very well read to know that you could only do so if one of p, (m+1)/n, or (m+1)/n +p is an integer -- (see Chebyshev's Integral). I didn't "see" or know this fact -- I learned it from reading works of others who came before me. No gene can replicate that.
Money laudering in US politics hit the big time during the Watergate scandal. Details are never quite clear, but basically CREEP -- the Committee to Re-electe the President -- funnelled a then extraordinary $60 million or so through mexico to help fund Nixon's relelection campaign. Some of this money was used to finance dirity election tricks, rat-fucking, a famous letter which caused a governors campaign to implode I believe, and of course the watergate bugging itself and related operations.
And here's the result of a search on PubMed for the same paper. I'm danmed if I can find it there.
Perhaps this is due to my search coming from outside the US, but I doubt it. I don't think the papers are being made available, or at least, they are being made less accessable than the paywalled versions.
To make universal knowledge a reality, it is first necessary to have all books and journals available in torrents and file sharing sites everywhere.
I knew a researcher from a place around Eastern Europe way. He claimed he had access to a university alumni forum where almost any paper could be requested, and an aluimni working at an institution with access would post the request within hours.
Well the President shouldn't know about these things. That's what his Secretaries of State are for.
The President is the Head of State. I put those capitals in for a reason. It is an almost religious position. A large part of the authority and legitimacy of the state is invested in the current head of state and their behaviour has to be of an appropriately high standard. This is difficult under an executive presidency like the US, but the principle still applies.
Of foremost concern here is the simple principle that there are certain things the president should not see or hear. Sometimes countries need to spy on others, or assassinate people, or steal, or whatever. But there is absolutely no reason why the President needs to be told about these things. The only time the President should hear about things like this is in the newspapers, shortly before he makes a pledge to hold the guilty responsible.
The President is not going to be able to uphold the law if all of the lawbreakers make him an accessory before or after the fact as a matter of routine.
This is to say nothing of the loss of legitimacy that comes with being involved this close to the coal-face of the uglier side of state operations. As bin Laden was being killed, the President should never have been allowed into a room where live images of people being shot and killed were displayed on screen. Without exaggeration: His aide-de-camp deserves to be court-martialed for allowing that. The damage to the image of the US President as a head of state will take decades to undo. Heads of State do not watch gunbattles on live feeds.
There is Politics, or PR-Politics as it is practised today. There is Government, and the business of running it. Then there is Diplomacy and grand and murkier business of deal with other countries.
And finally there is Statecraft, the art of running a country wisely. No PR-man, economist, scientist or other technocratic advisor can speak with any authority on this most essential of topics. It is nebulous, yet essential to all actions of the state. Systems ; political, economic, national, international, are made or unmade by the actions of senior officials and heads of state. It is essential that these actors have the gravity and respect necessary to inspire confidence in their actions. It is simply not possible to do this effectively if you have been repeatedly seen emerging from the latest political abattoir, covered from head to twitter feeds in fallout gore and scandal. Heads of State have to be above such things.
Not with major browsers like Firefox screaming blue murder at encrypted connections that haven't been officially by certification authorities. We can't have an encrypted web if browsers themselves are hostile towards it.
It cost the shareholders $472 million. The men and women mismanaging Knight Capital drew their paychecks and benefits as before and didn't lose a dime in remuneration.
The only lesson learned here was that no lesson was learned.
The summary mentions "God" or "Godlike" about three or four times. I think most people have figured out the "twist" in this particular quantum press release -- I mean experiment.
The world was better in the 90's. It was better than this. I'm pretty sure it's not just the nostalgia talking anymore. At least then a plane trip was something to look forward to.
Christ even the internet is going backwards nowadays. I'm pretty sure that peaked in 2006/7. After that it's all apps, iDinks, and walled gardens. At least you could set up a secure email service in 2007.
And I'm pretty sure this isn't just me getting old. I'm pretty sure.
Nor merited. The guy made a single video game, that's his life's accomplishment. What else really needs to be said?
What the game was. How he made it. How he sold it. How he continued developing it. How this method brought about a worldwide phenomenon.
Now a book on John Carmack, Warren Spector, Will Wright, Sid Meyer, Peter Molyneux, Cliff Bleszinski or even John Romero might actually be interesting and warranted.
To the niche audience of geeks and gamers who likes that type of game. Persson on the other hand made a game which is played by millions of eight to eighty year olds, and is still a big seller almost four years after its initial release. With Minecraft, we are clearly dealing with a significantly different gaming beast.
You are not going to have much advanced IT business left over there soon if this goes on.
I think we are witnessing the (not very) slow disintegration of the principals and reality of the American Internet. Whether the internet itself will survive this is another matter.
I don't understand why some (most) people are scared of Latex.
As a regular latex user for the last 8 years, I have to say that I am not scared of latex.
I hate latex.
I could rant forever about how latex turns writing mathematics from a joy into a constant chore, or how errors and typos can take long to fix than it took to type the document, or how pages never, ever come out satisfactorally.
But I'll just note that the biggest issue with Latex is that it has its own idea of how your document should look, and if you disagree or ever dare attempt to override its page and space wasting decisions, you are in for a world of pain.
I(and the rest fo the world) need a handwriting recognition system for written mathematics. Something I can use to prepare "typed" documents by hand, writing my mathematics whereever I will on the page. Preferably, I need this before Latex ends up giving me another ulcer.
This is actually wierdly ontopic. There is a powerful analogy between modern touchscreen development and modern games. Touchscreens and games have bother become ever flashier, commiditised, and mass marketed, and yet when I use either, I find I get less done, and ultimately less enjoyment out of the whole process than I did with traditional computers and old school games.#
If they didn't offer better prices, why would anyone trade with them?
Now you're outright misleading everyone.
Firstly: No-one chooses whom they trade with on an exchange. The exchange computers match up buyers to sellers. No-one asks for the HFT traders to come in, but has to live with the consequences of their entry as long as they continue to trade.
Secondly: While it is true that at most given instants HFT firms will currently provide the "best" price, this is not true over longer time periods. If there were enforced time delays in the exchange, sellers could wait a second or so to receive a better price, and buyers would pay the same or less without a HFT middleman jumping into the trade between milliseconds.
HFT is turning modern commodity and stock markets into a farce. Sooner or later, buyers and sellers are going to take their balls and go home.
You keep repeating this, but the statement is directly at odds with the reality of a growing and profitable HFT industry. If transaction costs are going down, then how are HFT companies making so much money?
The actual reality is: a) Millisecond HFTs have no effect on transaction costs vs 1 sec transaction speeds, and b) HFTs make money by reducing value for the slower buyers and sellers at the stock exchange. Buyers pay more, and sellers get less for the same stock than they would if HFT trading did not exist.
You can jaw on about liquidity and transaction costs all you want. But the money that HFT is making has to come from somewhere. These companies do not add value, or provide services. As such the profits they make come from companies which do.
For all practical purposes, the HFTers are the exchange.
Except for the rest of the marks -- or "traders" as they were once known -- without whom HFT companies would have no-one to scrape all those pennies from.
It's the Ryanair, low cost airline effect. It's all about the price, squeeze every penny, charge for baggage, (pretend to) charge for toilet usage, just get them from A to B for the minimum advertised price and them make them pay for it in discomfort, inconvenience, or extra charges later.
And there's something to be said for this model. It has brought affordable, regular, international, air travel to the masses -- for the prices mentioned above.
But, look, let me put it this way: I will pay the extra â100 or even â200 euros per flight to fly with Aer Lingus or BA, in some modicum of comfort, without the mental overhead of restrictions, and to be dropped off in an actual city instead of an airport 80km from where I want to go. There are limits to how low people will go for the right price and I think the airline industry has already hit that mark.
While the general contempt being spat in the above post is rather direction-less, I feel that this statement at least is accurate. It is "our" (collective computerdom's) fault that the internet is being turned into a giant walled garden surrounded by watch towers.
The web needed technologies that put decentralisation, anonymity, and encryption into the hands of every single user by default. That never happened. It never happened because hackers did not a) Write such software, or write such addons to existing software, and b) Never pushed for such software to be written or included.
Where's the button on Firefox that turns on -- no, turns off from default -- encrypted browsing? Where's the auto-configured PGP setting in _all_ email clients, ready to send and receive encrypted mail by default? Where are the default sever settings in programs like Apache which support all of this across the web?
These things are no longer optional extras. In the face of the rumbling, Kafka-esque behemoth that the NSA is becoming, they are essential features which everyone on the web needs right now.
The first task: Get Firefox to accept self-signed certs without complaining.
People don't seem that outraged because of the enormity of what they have been faced with.
The size, scale, scope, and capability of the NSA domestic survellance programs literally surpass the wildest dreams of secret police organisations like the Stazi. Snowden's revelations have dropped an undeniable bombshell on the US public, which despite its best efforts to ignore, not even the mainstream media can completely hush up. American's now know that they are under 24/7/365 complete and total government survellance each and every time they go online. Everything they do is monitored, recorded, and kept on file for the rest of their lives.
It takes time for a human being to fully come to terms with something like this.
For American's, it will taken even longer. The idea of a free America is still a very powerful one. The idea that certain things don't happen in America is a founding principle of the nation, and the reason why so many millions chose to build a new life there. The idea that a secret police -- the most quintessential aspect of an oppressive state -- now exists in the US on a scale never before seen in human history is an idea in fundamental conflict with American's own national self-image. It would be easier to accept that the individual states never actually existed than to accept this.
But facts are stubborn things. Despite all efforts to smother it, this story is not going away, and American's are not going to be able to ignore it. This is too huge. The NSA and it's programs are a sledgehammer, slowly pounding at the very foundations of the US itself. No matter how asleep, how apathetic, how cynical, or how uniformed you are, eventually the punding is going to wake you up too.
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The ghosts of Friedrich Hayek and Ayn Rand find your lack of Market faith disturbing.
From the comments I'm readin in this story, my take home messege here is that SAP probably shouldn't run organizations at all. What the hell does their software do for all this expense and hassle anyway?
The response of the entire administration has been the response of a spoiled, petulant teenager.
In fact, this has been the response of the administration -- and the previous one -- to just about any development or obstancle they don't like.
The US is no longer a nation of laws. It is a nation of men (and some women) who are impulsive, incompetent, largely juvenile, disrespectful of their offices, and contemptuous of both the public and the law. The Administration is being run by people with the mentality and motives of a cast of Saturday morning cartoon, or late Thursday night TV villains. Unfortunately these people have one common talent -- they are all connected to each other like threads in a rotten carpet.
Not a nation of laws. A nation of men. And a particularly base and uninspiring kind of man at that. Central and South American countries have been run by such men for centuries. Run into the ground. The US, for all its power and potential, is now being run into the ground as well.
The end result is probably something like Singapore. Ostensibly free, but scratch the surface and you quickly hit authoritarianism and an oligarchy of connected families and companies. The problem is, most of the US governing class would see little wrong with such an outcome.
Well, ....until you come to measure it.
You don't ever "see" how to seperate the function into udv to get uv-vdu. Even in the case of the most "obvious" examples like xe^x, you still need to decide which part should be u or dv.
After a few dozen (hundred?) times of doing this, you get a feel for which should be chosen. More recently, this knowledge has been codified in a LIATE mnemonic/algorithm for choosing the two parts, which works for most elementary integrals students are likely to encounter.
Nobody can "just integrate". Nobody. Not even Euler was able to integrate everything. With experience -- extensive expeirience -- you may garner enough tricks and techniques to be able to integrate something like x^m(a+bx^n)^p -- but you would need to be very well read to know that you could only do so if one of p, (m+1)/n, or (m+1)/n +p is an integer -- (see Chebyshev's Integral). I didn't "see" or know this fact -- I learned it from reading works of others who came before me. No gene can replicate that.
Ah, but you can no longer even contemplate refusing a business card once it has been proferred. Think of all you have lost.
Yeah, given the way politics has gone over the last 30 years, that sounds about right.
(I Am Aware That This Was a Typo)
Money laudering in US politics hit the big time during the Watergate scandal. Details are never quite clear, but basically CREEP -- the Committee to Re-electe the President -- funnelled a then extraordinary $60 million or so through mexico to help fund Nixon's relelection campaign. Some of this money was used to finance dirity election tricks, rat-fucking, a famous letter which caused a governors campaign to implode I believe, and of course the watergate bugging itself and related operations.
Nixon won the 1972 election campaign.
Nope. Doesn't appear to.
Here's an example paper which I picked at random from the journal : Differentiating Speech Delay From Disorder: Does it Matter?. There's a paywall on the journal site with a $30 fee.
And here's the result of a search on PubMed for the same paper. I'm danmed if I can find it there.
Perhaps this is due to my search coming from outside the US, but I doubt it. I don't think the papers are being made available, or at least, they are being made less accessable than the paywalled versions.
I knew a researcher from a place around Eastern Europe way. He claimed he had access to a university alumni forum where almost any paper could be requested, and an aluimni working at an institution with access would post the request within hours.
They are light years ahead of us over there.
Well the President shouldn't know about these things. That's what his Secretaries of State are for.
The President is the Head of State. I put those capitals in for a reason. It is an almost religious position. A large part of the authority and legitimacy of the state is invested in the current head of state and their behaviour has to be of an appropriately high standard. This is difficult under an executive presidency like the US, but the principle still applies.
Of foremost concern here is the simple principle that there are certain things the president should not see or hear. Sometimes countries need to spy on others, or assassinate people, or steal, or whatever. But there is absolutely no reason why the President needs to be told about these things. The only time the President should hear about things like this is in the newspapers, shortly before he makes a pledge to hold the guilty responsible.
The President is not going to be able to uphold the law if all of the lawbreakers make him an accessory before or after the fact as a matter of routine.
This is to say nothing of the loss of legitimacy that comes with being involved this close to the coal-face of the uglier side of state operations. As bin Laden was being killed, the President should never have been allowed into a room where live images of people being shot and killed were displayed on screen. Without exaggeration: His aide-de-camp deserves to be court-martialed for allowing that. The damage to the image of the US President as a head of state will take decades to undo. Heads of State do not watch gunbattles on live feeds.
There is Politics, or PR-Politics as it is practised today. There is Government, and the business of running it. Then there is Diplomacy and grand and murkier business of deal with other countries.
And finally there is Statecraft, the art of running a country wisely. No PR-man, economist, scientist or other technocratic advisor can speak with any authority on this most essential of topics. It is nebulous, yet essential to all actions of the state. Systems ; political, economic, national, international, are made or unmade by the actions of senior officials and heads of state. It is essential that these actors have the gravity and respect necessary to inspire confidence in their actions. It is simply not possible to do this effectively if you have been repeatedly seen emerging from the latest political abattoir, covered from head to twitter feeds in fallout gore and scandal. Heads of State have to be above such things.
Not with major browsers like Firefox screaming blue murder at encrypted connections that haven't been officially by certification authorities. We can't have an encrypted web if browsers themselves are hostile towards it.
It cost the shareholders $472 million. The men and women mismanaging Knight Capital drew their paychecks and benefits as before and didn't lose a dime in remuneration.
The only lesson learned here was that no lesson was learned.
The summary mentions "God" or "Godlike" about three or four times. I think most people have figured out the "twist" in this particular quantum press release -- I mean experiment.
The world was better in the 90's. It was better than this. I'm pretty sure it's not just the nostalgia talking anymore. At least then a plane trip was something to look forward to.
Christ even the internet is going backwards nowadays. I'm pretty sure that peaked in 2006/7. After that it's all apps, iDinks, and walled gardens. At least you could set up a secure email service in 2007.
And I'm pretty sure this isn't just me getting old. I'm pretty sure.
What the game was. How he made it. How he sold it. How he continued developing it. How this method brought about a worldwide phenomenon.
To the niche audience of geeks and gamers who likes that type of game. Persson on the other hand made a game which is played by millions of eight to eighty year olds, and is still a big seller almost four years after its initial release. With Minecraft, we are clearly dealing with a significantly different gaming beast.
I think we are witnessing the (not very) slow disintegration of the principals and reality of the American Internet. Whether the internet itself will survive this is another matter.
As a regular latex user for the last 8 years, I have to say that I am not scared of latex.
I hate latex.
I could rant forever about how latex turns writing mathematics from a joy into a constant chore, or how errors and typos can take long to fix than it took to type the document, or how pages never, ever come out satisfactorally.
But I'll just note that the biggest issue with Latex is that it has its own idea of how your document should look, and if you disagree or ever dare attempt to override its page and space wasting decisions, you are in for a world of pain.
I(and the rest fo the world) need a handwriting recognition system for written mathematics. Something I can use to prepare "typed" documents by hand, writing my mathematics whereever I will on the page. Preferably, I need this before Latex ends up giving me another ulcer.
This is actually wierdly ontopic. There is a powerful analogy between modern touchscreen development and modern games. Touchscreens and games have bother become ever flashier, commiditised, and mass marketed, and yet when I use either, I find I get less done, and ultimately less enjoyment out of the whole process than I did with traditional computers and old school games.#
Now you're outright misleading everyone.
Firstly: No-one chooses whom they trade with on an exchange. The exchange computers match up buyers to sellers. No-one asks for the HFT traders to come in, but has to live with the consequences of their entry as long as they continue to trade.
Secondly: While it is true that at most given instants HFT firms will currently provide the "best" price, this is not true over longer time periods. If there were enforced time delays in the exchange, sellers could wait a second or so to receive a better price, and buyers would pay the same or less without a HFT middleman jumping into the trade between milliseconds.
HFT is turning modern commodity and stock markets into a farce. Sooner or later, buyers and sellers are going to take their balls and go home.
You keep repeating this, but the statement is directly at odds with the reality of a growing and profitable HFT industry. If transaction costs are going down, then how are HFT companies making so much money?
The actual reality is:
a) Millisecond HFTs have no effect on transaction costs vs 1 sec transaction speeds, and
b) HFTs make money by reducing value for the slower buyers and sellers at the stock exchange. Buyers pay more, and sellers get less for the same stock than they would if HFT trading did not exist.
You can jaw on about liquidity and transaction costs all you want. But the money that HFT is making has to come from somewhere. These companies do not add value, or provide services. As such the profits they make come from companies which do.
Except for the rest of the marks -- or "traders" as they were once known -- without whom HFT companies would have no-one to scrape all those pennies from.
It's the Ryanair, low cost airline effect. It's all about the price, squeeze every penny, charge for baggage, (pretend to) charge for toilet usage, just get them from A to B for the minimum advertised price and them make them pay for it in discomfort, inconvenience, or extra charges later.
And there's something to be said for this model. It has brought affordable, regular, international, air travel to the masses -- for the prices mentioned above.
But, look, let me put it this way: I will pay the extra â100 or even â200 euros per flight to fly with Aer Lingus or BA, in some modicum of comfort, without the mental overhead of restrictions, and to be dropped off in an actual city instead of an airport 80km from where I want to go. There are limits to how low people will go for the right price and I think the airline industry has already hit that mark.
While the general contempt being spat in the above post is rather direction-less, I feel that this statement at least is accurate. It is "our" (collective computerdom's) fault that the internet is being turned into a giant walled garden surrounded by watch towers.
The web needed technologies that put decentralisation, anonymity, and encryption into the hands of every single user by default. That never happened. It never happened because hackers did not
a) Write such software, or write such addons to existing software, and
b) Never pushed for such software to be written or included.
Where's the button on Firefox that turns on -- no, turns off from default -- encrypted browsing? Where's the auto-configured PGP setting in _all_ email clients, ready to send and receive encrypted mail by default? Where are the default sever settings in programs like Apache which support all of this across the web?
These things are no longer optional extras. In the face of the rumbling, Kafka-esque behemoth that the NSA is becoming, they are essential features which everyone on the web needs right now.
The first task: Get Firefox to accept self-signed certs without complaining.
People don't seem that outraged because of the enormity of what they have been faced with.
The size, scale, scope, and capability of the NSA domestic survellance programs literally surpass the wildest dreams of secret police organisations like the Stazi. Snowden's revelations have dropped an undeniable bombshell on the US public, which despite its best efforts to ignore, not even the mainstream media can completely hush up. American's now know that they are under 24/7/365 complete and total government survellance each and every time they go online. Everything they do is monitored, recorded, and kept on file for the rest of their lives.
It takes time for a human being to fully come to terms with something like this.
For American's, it will taken even longer. The idea of a free America is still a very powerful one. The idea that certain things don't happen in America is a founding principle of the nation, and the reason why so many millions chose to build a new life there. The idea that a secret police -- the most quintessential aspect of an oppressive state -- now exists in the US on a scale never before seen in human history is an idea in fundamental conflict with American's own national self-image. It would be easier to accept that the individual states never actually existed than to accept this.
But facts are stubborn things. Despite all efforts to smother it, this story is not going away, and American's are not going to be able to ignore it. This is too huge. The NSA and it's programs are a sledgehammer, slowly pounding at the very foundations of the US itself. No matter how asleep, how apathetic, how cynical, or how uniformed you are, eventually the punding is going to wake you up too.