Ahhh so if I decide in the morning to buy and then at lunch time news is issued that makes me change my mind for a purchase that hasn't actually been made yet then I am fucked? even though I haven't actually got the benefit of the shares in my portfolio or having actually made a contract of purchase. such changes benefit the rich and large investors the most (i.e. people that can afford to sit and watch the markets all day and make decisions as the market changes). I can agree with nanoseconds, perhaps even a few seconds, beyond that it you are basically taking away peoples ability to make legitimate decisions simply because of a few arseholes like those in the article.
No they don't, high frequency traders stay within the trading rules and don't spoof/make fake transactions. They merely exploit the advantage of being able to react to the market faster. They are still scum, but there goal is not to manipulate the market to make their gains like the piece of shit in this article.
because you may get information that changes your decision or a reason to alter the order to buy/sell more or less, as nothing has been purchased/sold yet you should be well within your rights to change your mind, only after a transaction has taken place should an order be irreversible. I regularly change outstanding orders I place. I have both buy and sell orders that sit their for weeks sometimes waiting for price triggers (e.g. Buy Share X at price Y), however I also sometimes change my mind, e.g. the price seems unlikely to hit so I want to lower/increase it or perhaps I hear news that makes me not want to invest in that company any more regardless of price.
how do you stop it though. Unless you know that the buyer or sellers intent is to manipulate the market how can you tell their order is fake or legitimate? being able to cancel an order is important. The issue here is placing of orders where their was never an intent to follow through on those orders. I am not sure I see a way to counter that except through rules or laws as no system can adequately judge the intent at the time of the order.
Fail on all 3. No all steam machines are not more powerful. the cheapest steam machines (which are less powerful) are still more expensive than the consoles, A decent specced one is massivley more expensive. I can do a lot more with a PC than I can with a steam machine and I don't end up paying a premium just to support valve misguided efforts.
It isn't about turning it into class warfare, I think it is about revealing (though I think accidentally by apple) how they really think of consumers. For them it isn't about producing a product that gets the job done, it is about pushing a new gadget every couple of years whether the user needs it or not and the only way to do that is to try to appeal to style over substance.
yep the paranoia from them sounds like they seriously don't understand security. They should ALWAYS be assuming others have access and that some of them may be people you don't want to have access. The way to correctly respond to that is by managing your security, keys, encryption and data correctly then what they have access to in equipment you don't control doesn't actually mater so much.
given the pile of absolute shit that is steam boxes are. (overpriced, inconsistent spec, basically glorified PC's), lets hope you are wrong as that will be bad for everyone.
yeah great idea, alienate their userbase and undermine their profit margin to become just another app producer being screwed over by apple on subpar hardware. Whatever the future holds for Nintendo that avenue is almost a sure fire way to be death.
It doesn't just depend on what hardware you buy at all, that is only the small easy part of the problem. It depends on how many other devices are in proximity and nowadays it is common for the various channels to be flooded with devices and access points constantly causing interference with each other, Their are also a ton of other devices from electrical cabling, Microwaves, dryers, TV's etc etc that will cause interference to the signal. WiFi is something you live with if you absolutely have too, But it is SHIT!.
So we are to believe a company that operates through contracters to avoid being classified as a taxi company has on the spur of the moment ordered somewhere between 5 and 10 billion dollars (that is assuming not top of the line and no premium for self driving) worth of S class Mercedes. smells like utter bullshit to me.
The quote made PERFECT sense. The stated reason for the sale was that a commercial product was not likely to be created in the next few years and hence they need to divest themselves of the asset under the new model. Given your timelines this could mean their self driving cars are also inline for the chopping block. advanced research is always a long term investment and something you need to do a lot of if that is your thing as many/most of this research doesn't end in profit. A Corporate outlook that requires products from the research in short term is incompatable with that type of research.
And FYI, we don't tend to rely on reviews of other people. Vendors generally provide various builds and submit samples of those builds together with costings to us. We then put them through our test lab with our builds for developers, designers and general workstation usage testing compatibility with all our software and hardware devices. generally at the end of that we have a hand full of suitable machines that meet cost, spec and performance requirements and then it is a matter of getting in a room with the various technical groups to make decisions on which one. The only people that really use idevices are a few execs and I would say that that has significantly diminished over the last year or two, it tends to be Android and Surface devices for the main part now, Even in the phone arena iphone is a relatively minor segment now with most moving to Android (though we do support whatever the user wants to use phone wise)
100k desktops is really not a lot, especially over more than 10 years. That is 3 hardware refresh cycles for one org or 25k seats and 2 for an 11k seat org (I work across a couple of organisations). You can add close to 10k servers to that too.
AMD/ATI were actually a far better solution at the time that I started to do this. But I used to have a lot of loyalty and faith in the Nvidia product line, had they treated our support request with even basic courtesy then they would have had a chance at maintaining the relationship even if they were slightly more expensive (better the devil you know).
As to the other numbnut A/C coward that responded saying I went to an inferior product, grow the fuck up and do your research, back in mid 2000 there was very little difference between them and it came down mostly to price and support unless you had very specific software that favoured one or the other. Nvidia proved they didn't do support.
That is amusing I had a similar issue about 10 years ago with the Linux driver and one of their new cards. I reported the details of the bug, how to recreate it etc. What I got back was basically an insult of bad luck we don't really offer any support, "either take what is to offer or go with one of the competitors (HaHa)", The HaHa part was actually part of the response as at the time no one came close to matching Nvidia performance so there was no real option.
A few months later AMD came out with some competitive offerings I immediately went about removing Nvidia from all future orders we made for our enterprise for both windows and Linux and of course any personal purchases even when it meant I got less performance. The total disregard for a loyal customer at the time was more than I could stomach or forgive and I have not purchased a single Nvidia based system where I had any say in the specs since. I like to think I have cost them a pretty penny, or at least the prick that responded to me at the time has cost them a pretty penny, realistically it probably no more than 100k desktops but still I like to think that that is 100k desktops of revenue AMD has that they don't.
Nvidia have a really poor history in even being able to maintain drivers or basic software support, I think it is more than fair for the Answer to be NO. It is up to Nvidia to prove it has capabilities that are better and beyond what it has publicly shown in the past.
Nvidia struggle to make a stable driver, who the fuck thinks they can handle maintaining an entire OS. Steambox looks to be a relative disaster and I have far more faith in them being able to do it then Nvidia.
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what the hell has this got to do with 401k? this is regular trading.
Ahhh so if I decide in the morning to buy and then at lunch time news is issued that makes me change my mind for a purchase that hasn't actually been made yet then I am fucked? even though I haven't actually got the benefit of the shares in my portfolio or having actually made a contract of purchase. such changes benefit the rich and large investors the most (i.e. people that can afford to sit and watch the markets all day and make decisions as the market changes). I can agree with nanoseconds, perhaps even a few seconds, beyond that it you are basically taking away peoples ability to make legitimate decisions simply because of a few arseholes like those in the article.
No they don't, high frequency traders stay within the trading rules and don't spoof/make fake transactions. They merely exploit the advantage of being able to react to the market faster. They are still scum, but there goal is not to manipulate the market to make their gains like the piece of shit in this article.
because you may get information that changes your decision or a reason to alter the order to buy/sell more or less, as nothing has been purchased/sold yet you should be well within your rights to change your mind, only after a transaction has taken place should an order be irreversible. I regularly change outstanding orders I place. I have both buy and sell orders that sit their for weeks sometimes waiting for price triggers (e.g. Buy Share X at price Y), however I also sometimes change my mind, e.g. the price seems unlikely to hit so I want to lower/increase it or perhaps I hear news that makes me not want to invest in that company any more regardless of price.
how do you stop it though. Unless you know that the buyer or sellers intent is to manipulate the market how can you tell their order is fake or legitimate? being able to cancel an order is important. The issue here is placing of orders where their was never an intent to follow through on those orders. I am not sure I see a way to counter that except through rules or laws as no system can adequately judge the intent at the time of the order.
Fail on all 3. No all steam machines are not more powerful. the cheapest steam machines (which are less powerful) are still more expensive than the consoles, A decent specced one is massivley more expensive. I can do a lot more with a PC than I can with a steam machine and I don't end up paying a premium just to support valve misguided efforts.
It isn't about turning it into class warfare, I think it is about revealing (though I think accidentally by apple) how they really think of consumers. For them it isn't about producing a product that gets the job done, it is about pushing a new gadget every couple of years whether the user needs it or not and the only way to do that is to try to appeal to style over substance.
yep the paranoia from them sounds like they seriously don't understand security. They should ALWAYS be assuming others have access and that some of them may be people you don't want to have access. The way to correctly respond to that is by managing your security, keys, encryption and data correctly then what they have access to in equipment you don't control doesn't actually mater so much.
Uhh, Steam Machines are more powerful than the current consoles and have more games available for them.
that is simply wrong. some steam machines are more powerful (but they are also a shitload more expensive), some are significantly less powerful.
given the pile of absolute shit that is steam boxes are. (overpriced, inconsistent spec, basically glorified PC's), lets hope you are wrong as that will be bad for everyone.
That was true for Nintendo UNTIL the Wii U,The Wii U was a huge sinkhole of money for them
yeah great idea, alienate their userbase and undermine their profit margin to become just another app producer being screwed over by apple on subpar hardware. Whatever the future holds for Nintendo that avenue is almost a sure fire way to be death.
It doesn't just depend on what hardware you buy at all, that is only the small easy part of the problem. It depends on how many other devices are in proximity and nowadays it is common for the various channels to be flooded with devices and access points constantly causing interference with each other, Their are also a ton of other devices from electrical cabling, Microwaves, dryers, TV's etc etc that will cause interference to the signal. WiFi is something you live with if you absolutely have too, But it is SHIT!.
yeah.. no. WiFi sucks balls for for anything you actually want to be reliably connected even in the home.
So we are to believe a company that operates through contracters to avoid being classified as a taxi company has on the spur of the moment ordered somewhere between 5 and 10 billion dollars (that is assuming not top of the line and no premium for self driving) worth of S class Mercedes. smells like utter bullshit to me.
The president got a one of custom built BB to meet the security requirements.
UMMM, they did. Did you not even read the summary? they have two phones at the time that adhered to that spec.
BB wasn't good enough for the president either. They had to highly customise it a special version just for him so he could use it.
The quote made PERFECT sense. The stated reason for the sale was that a commercial product was not likely to be created in the next few years and hence they need to divest themselves of the asset under the new model. Given your timelines this could mean their self driving cars are also inline for the chopping block. advanced research is always a long term investment and something you need to do a lot of if that is your thing as many/most of this research doesn't end in profit. A Corporate outlook that requires products from the research in short term is incompatable with that type of research.
And FYI, we don't tend to rely on reviews of other people. Vendors generally provide various builds and submit samples of those builds together with costings to us. We then put them through our test lab with our builds for developers, designers and general workstation usage testing compatibility with all our software and hardware devices. generally at the end of that we have a hand full of suitable machines that meet cost, spec and performance requirements and then it is a matter of getting in a room with the various technical groups to make decisions on which one. The only people that really use idevices are a few execs and I would say that that has significantly diminished over the last year or two, it tends to be Android and Surface devices for the main part now, Even in the phone arena iphone is a relatively minor segment now with most moving to Android (though we do support whatever the user wants to use phone wise)
100k desktops is really not a lot, especially over more than 10 years. That is 3 hardware refresh cycles for one org or 25k seats and 2 for an 11k seat org (I work across a couple of organisations). You can add close to 10k servers to that too.
AMD/ATI were actually a far better solution at the time that I started to do this. But I used to have a lot of loyalty and faith in the Nvidia product line, had they treated our support request with even basic courtesy then they would have had a chance at maintaining the relationship even if they were slightly more expensive (better the devil you know).
As to the other numbnut A/C coward that responded saying I went to an inferior product, grow the fuck up and do your research, back in mid 2000 there was very little difference between them and it came down mostly to price and support unless you had very specific software that favoured one or the other. Nvidia proved they didn't do support.
That is amusing I had a similar issue about 10 years ago with the Linux driver and one of their new cards. I reported the details of the bug, how to recreate it etc. What I got back was basically an insult of bad luck we don't really offer any support, "either take what is to offer or go with one of the competitors (HaHa)", The HaHa part was actually part of the response as at the time no one came close to matching Nvidia performance so there was no real option.
A few months later AMD came out with some competitive offerings I immediately went about removing Nvidia from all future orders we made for our enterprise for both windows and Linux and of course any personal purchases even when it meant I got less performance. The total disregard for a loyal customer at the time was more than I could stomach or forgive and I have not purchased a single Nvidia based system where I had any say in the specs since. I like to think I have cost them a pretty penny, or at least the prick that responded to me at the time has cost them a pretty penny, realistically it probably no more than 100k desktops but still I like to think that that is 100k desktops of revenue AMD has that they don't.
Nvidia have a really poor history in even being able to maintain drivers or basic software support, I think it is more than fair for the Answer to be NO. It is up to Nvidia to prove it has capabilities that are better and beyond what it has publicly shown in the past.
Nvidia struggle to make a stable driver, who the fuck thinks they can handle maintaining an entire OS. Steambox looks to be a relative disaster and I have far more faith in them being able to do it then Nvidia.