In the US, when you arrive at a city, the first thing you need is a car. Otherwise, you can't get anywhere. NYC is an exception. Almost anywhere else, you will need to get of the train and immediately rent a car. Without addressing this issue, this might as well be a train to nowhere.
On statistics: The train throughput numbers ( passengers per hour ) are often very deceiving. The numbers are based on trains being closely spaced ( very frequent ) and 100% full of passengers. Just look at Caltrans in CA. I've seen numbers showing how the train corridor carries a lot more people per hour than the same sized road. However, the assumption is that you can run one train every 6 minutes. Caltrans can't get anywhere near that rate of trains. Also, the Caltrans trains run virtually empty through the middle of the day. There are no passengers, but the engine is cranking out massive amounts of pollution from the big diesel engines. The pollution per person must be awful.
If these quotes are sent to one market and then forwarded to other markets, it tells the creator of these quotes information about the latency between all the markets.
If you see an order to buy on market A and you are SUPER fast, you can buy the shares at a good price on Market B and then in an instant turn around and sell them for profit.
Problem is, I don't know if these off market quotes are forwarded to all the places for execution.
A massive keg party held every 27 million years with everyone in the Milky Way invited!:)
"Either way, the origin of the 27 million year extinction cycle is hotting up to become one of the great scientific mysteries of our time. Suggestions, if you have any, in the comments section please."
These batteries don't like heat. Simply leaving them in a hot place for a year can rapidly degrade their performance. 8 years sounds like a stretch to me. Is this using once a week and storing at 55 degrees ( Fahrenheit )? What happens to the battery in a black car left in the Texas 100+ degree sun every afternoon?
Everyone's first book for computer science should be The Purple Book. If you can't handle this book, go do something easier. You'll be happier in the log run.
Doh! 54Mbps. Not to self. Drink more coffee before reading slashdot.
I don't know many people with access to fiber. I know. It is coming. Someday.
Most of the time, moving things around involves hitting the internet. A small pipe. I back-up to a USB drive. In many homes, most average Windows users who have never heard of slashdot aren't able to get them networked. It is too complicated. They use gmail to e-mail files from one computer to another. Through the small pipe again. I know. Apple fans have it easy.
The iPhone has this cool thing for moving movies. It is a cute little white wire with a USB plug...
In Japan, this could be more useful.
If you truly need speed, you most likely also need a desktop - which would most likely have a fast cable connection.
My internet connection ( DSL ) can't come anywhere near saturating my 802.11g router's 54Gbps. If my wireless connection is 10Mbps or 100Gbps, what does it matter? Unless I have a fiber optic line running to my home, how do I benefit from faster wireless? So at work I can open my TPS report off the local outlook server a fraction of a second more quickly?
I'm limited by the speed of my DSL, not the wireless connection speed.
Why the iPad? iDigital is the Israeli distributor
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I think the bigger question is how 1,000's of other foreign products go in without any problems. Why was the iPad singled out? If I take my new HTC phone fresh from Taiwan and unlicensed in Israel, they are not going to seize it.
"It is worth noting," Etengoff wrote, "that Apple's Israeli distributor, iDigital, is run by Chemi Peres, the hyper-entrepreneurial son of Israeli President Shimon Peres.
"Clearly, iDigital wants its lucrative cut of every iPad brought into the country — which it will undoubtedly receive when a modified European version of the iPad is approved for import over the next two or three months.
Some of the comments refer to a life as "invaluable". Money has no meaning, etc.
People in Africa get AIDS, and we all sit at home watch them die. We do nothing. The people who post these types of comments could send all their money to save as many people as possible, but they don't. The US government has the resources to save these people, but the US government withholds the money and watches them die.
The reality is that resources are finite. A society could devote all its resources to health care and do everything possible for everyone, but where does this leave the rest of us?
I could not buy anything for the next 20 years and save up an extra 500K USD ( this is above and beyond normal retirement saving ). This way, when I eventually get to my last year or two, I will have the money on hand to handle my own "spare no expense" end of life care. What impact does this have on the economy and my quality of life when I'm healthy? One needs to multiply this number by 300M people to get the scope of the entire US health care problem. These are real problems with a huge impact on both the living and the dying.
Finally, Europe is no panacea. For instance, England deems many new cancer drugs as too expensive. Cancer survival rates suffer due to England's cost cutting.
If I was in his position, I would have let it go. When the odds of a successful outcome are low, I would consider it a hugely selfish act to blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on my own treatment. If I was really rich, perhaps I would spend more of my own money on a few last ditch attempts and continue the treatment. Even then, when I reach the point that I can no longer be active enough to enjoy simple pleasures outside without assistance, I'd let it go and leave the rest to family or donate to a good cause. I completely fail to understand why anyone should be forced to pay for my personal expenses.
Enjoy life while you can when you are active and healthy. All good things do end. When you are bed ridden and on the way out, let nature take its course.
If I was a local sheriff or whatever the British equivalent is, I would wonder over to Heathrow and hang out in the viewing room. As soon as a prepubescent child popped up on the screen, I would whip out my camera, gather evidence and then arrest the "viewer" or "viewers" for viewing kiddy porn. This is an extremely serious charge that effectively changes your life forever. Then I would let the courts deal with it. It would suck to be the worker(s) at Heathrow, but it seems it takes extreme action to wake people in Britain up.
"cannot be hacked" This should be a massive red flag. The is the same as stating to the world, I'm unqualified and have no idea what I'm talking about.
"employees who misuse the machines are subject to serious discipline or removal"
Hmmm. So when pushed, they admit that security is ensured by the fact that the government employees are going to behave. Just like those Blackwater guys?
I would be temped to get a job with the TSA just to get a chance to hack these things. Plus, working with a partner, you could easily get high value images of celebrities.
Wow. I gotta hand it to them. It is times like this when when we should all take note of how lawyers really are a breed apart. I understand the theory, and it does makes sense. Mind you, understanding and agreeing are not one in the same. But how twisted do you have to be to come up with stuff like this? I never would have thought of that!
As the said in the LotR about the lawyers foreclosing on the shire ( I think it was LotR, The Revenge ). "There's something strange at work here. Some evil drives these creatures, sets its will against us."
How do people get tripped up on this stuff? If you are going to post something you KNOW you shouldn't post, use a proxy from a country like China or Russia. Then China gets the blame, and you stay hidden. Com'on. This isn't that hard.
Sadly, stuff you shouldn't post can include stuff you should post, but powerful people don't want you to post.
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In the US, when you arrive at a city, the first thing you need is a car. Otherwise, you can't get anywhere.
NYC is an exception. Almost anywhere else, you will need to get of the train and immediately rent a car. Without addressing this issue, this might as well be a train to nowhere.
On statistics: The train throughput numbers ( passengers per hour ) are often very deceiving. The numbers are based on trains being closely spaced ( very frequent ) and 100% full of passengers. Just look at Caltrans in CA. I've seen numbers showing how the train corridor carries a lot more people per hour than the same sized road. However, the assumption is that you can run one train every 6 minutes. Caltrans can't get anywhere near that rate of trains. Also, the Caltrans trains run virtually empty through the middle of the day. There are no passengers, but the engine is cranking out massive amounts of pollution from the big diesel engines. The pollution per person must be awful.
If these quotes are sent to one market and then forwarded to other markets, it tells the creator of these quotes information about the latency between all the markets.
There is a requirement to execute at the national best bid or ask.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_best_bid_and_offer
If you see an order to buy on market A and you are SUPER fast, you can buy the shares at a good price on Market B and then in an instant turn around and sell them for profit.
Problem is, I don't know if these off market quotes are forwarded to all the places for execution.
A massive keg party held every 27 million years with everyone in the Milky Way invited! :)
"Either way, the origin of the 27 million year extinction cycle is hotting up to become one of the great scientific mysteries of our time. Suggestions, if you have any, in the comments section please."
Things may appear simple in your mother's basement, but in the middle of the real world with an angry wife bearing down on us, they get more complex.
- The Hunt For Red October
These batteries don't like heat. Simply leaving them in a hot place for a year can rapidly degrade their performance. 8 years sounds like a stretch to me. Is this using once a week and storing at 55 degrees ( Fahrenheit )? What happens to the battery in a black car left in the Texas 100+ degree sun every afternoon?
But is it GPL?
Everyone's first book for computer science should be The Purple Book. If you can't handle this book, go do something easier. You'll be happier in the log run.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs
Doh! 54Mbps. Not to self. Drink more coffee before reading slashdot.
I don't know many people with access to fiber. I know. It is coming. Someday.
Most of the time, moving things around involves hitting the internet. A small pipe. I back-up to a USB drive. In many homes, most average Windows users who have never heard of slashdot aren't able to get them networked. It is too complicated. They use gmail to e-mail files from one computer to another. Through the small pipe again. I know. Apple fans have it easy.
The iPhone has this cool thing for moving movies. It is a cute little white wire with a USB plug...
In Japan, this could be more useful.
If you truly need speed, you most likely also need a desktop - which would most likely have a fast cable connection.
My internet connection ( DSL ) can't come anywhere near saturating my 802.11g router's 54Gbps. If my wireless connection is 10Mbps or 100Gbps, what does it matter? Unless I have a fiber optic line running to my home, how do I benefit from faster wireless? So at work I can open my TPS report off the local outlook server a fraction of a second more quickly?
I'm limited by the speed of my DSL, not the wireless connection speed.
I think the bigger question is how 1,000's of other foreign products go in without any problems. Why was the iPad singled out? If I take my new HTC phone fresh from Taiwan and unlicensed in Israel, they are not going to seize it.
Time offers an explanation:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1983236,00.html
"It is worth noting," Etengoff wrote, "that Apple's Israeli distributor, iDigital, is run by Chemi Peres, the hyper-entrepreneurial son of Israeli President Shimon Peres.
"Clearly, iDigital wants its lucrative cut of every iPad brought into the country — which it will undoubtedly receive when a modified European version of the iPad is approved for import over the next two or three months.
Don't worry. When your medical records are put into databases, they will be secure.
Honestly. If you want it secure, keep it offline.
It is good to know that MS intends to fill all the available cores in my machine with background processes and crap I don't need or want.
I was wondering why it took this long.
It seems he wants more software. This time to check for both pedals being depressed at the same time. One more thing to break.
The less these embedded systems have to do, the better.
Some of the comments refer to a life as "invaluable". Money has no meaning, etc.
People in Africa get AIDS, and we all sit at home watch them die. We do nothing. The people who post these types of comments could send all their money to save as many people as possible, but they don't. The US government has the resources to save these people, but the US government withholds the money and watches them die.
The reality is that resources are finite. A society could devote all its resources to health care and do everything possible for everyone, but where does this leave the rest of us?
I could not buy anything for the next 20 years and save up an extra 500K USD ( this is above and beyond normal retirement saving ). This way, when I eventually get to my last year or two, I will have the money on hand to handle my own "spare no expense" end of life care. What impact does this have on the economy and my quality of life when I'm healthy? One needs to multiply this number by 300M people to get the scope of the entire US health care problem. These are real problems with a huge impact on both the living and the dying.
Finally, Europe is no panacea. For instance, England deems many new cancer drugs as too expensive. Cancer survival rates suffer due to England's cost cutting.
If I was in his position, I would have let it go. When the odds of a successful outcome are low, I would consider it a hugely selfish act to blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on my own treatment. If I was really rich, perhaps I would spend more of my own money on a few last ditch attempts and continue the treatment. Even then, when I reach the point that I can no longer be active enough to enjoy simple pleasures outside without assistance, I'd let it go and leave the rest to family or donate to a good cause. I completely fail to understand why anyone should be forced to pay for my personal expenses.
Enjoy life while you can when you are active and healthy. All good things do end. When you are bed ridden and on the way out, let nature take its course.
Finally! The Australians are on their way to a "happy harmonious society".
Let us know in a few years how that works out for ya.
China holds that their internet censorship follows international norms. Sadly, France is proving them correct.
If I was a local sheriff or whatever the British equivalent is, I would wonder over to Heathrow and hang out in the viewing room. As soon as a prepubescent child popped up on the screen, I would whip out my camera, gather evidence and then arrest the "viewer" or "viewers" for viewing kiddy porn. This is an extremely serious charge that effectively changes your life forever. Then I would let the courts deal with it. It would suck to be the worker(s) at Heathrow, but it seems it takes extreme action to wake people in Britain up.
Better yet. Sell a small device that jams the signal! Disarm him without firing a shot. Then you can take your time to aim.
"cannot be hacked"
This should be a massive red flag. The is the same as stating to the world, I'm unqualified and have no idea what I'm talking about.
"employees who misuse the machines are subject to serious discipline or removal"
Hmmm. So when pushed, they admit that security is ensured by the fact that the government employees are going to behave. Just like those Blackwater guys?
I would be temped to get a job with the TSA just to get a chance to hack these things. Plus, working with a partner, you could easily get high value images of celebrities.
Next week the AG will be suing "massage" parlors for unused "buy ten get a freebie" cards!
Wow. I gotta hand it to them. It is times like this when when we should all take note of how lawyers really are a breed apart. I understand the theory, and it does makes sense. Mind you, understanding and agreeing are not one in the same. But how twisted do you have to be to come up with stuff like this? I never would have thought of that!
As the said in the LotR about the lawyers foreclosing on the shire ( I think it was LotR, The Revenge ).
"There's something strange at work here. Some evil drives these creatures, sets its will against us."
Here is a reference:
http://www.admin5.com/article/20091221/199510.shtml
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.admin5.com%2Farticle%2F20091221%2F199510.shtml&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
I can't find an English language source.
I'm searching, and I can't find it on Google.
I would very much like to see this from a credible source.
How do people get tripped up on this stuff? If you are going to post something you KNOW you shouldn't post, use a proxy from a country like China or Russia. Then China gets the blame, and you stay hidden. Com'on. This isn't that hard.
Sadly, stuff you shouldn't post can include stuff you should post, but powerful people don't want you to post.