Some programmer's going to lose their job over this error that resulted in a $440 million loss. If the programmer had done the job properly, Knight would have lost $1 billion and been eligible for a government bailout.
Millisecond liquidity is substantially superior to having exchanges post transactions in 1-sec intervals because it allows Goldman Sachs to make more money... duh.
It's basic physics... make a heavy enough rocket and when you release the holding pin it will fall downwards, accelerating until it breaks free of the Earth's atmosphere. Then just turn it around and head to the moon.
I knew mankind would find a solution for the so-called "global warming" problem. Since buckyballs absorb carbon when lasers are shot at them, all we need to do is sprinkle buckyballs into the ocean. Then it's just a matter of finding some fish or other marine animal to equip with laser beams to activate them, at which point all the excess carbon dioxide will be incorporated into the buckyballs. Voila! I'll be patenting this idea when my lawyer gets into his office on Monday morning.
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Some programmer's going to lose their job over this error that resulted in a $440 million loss. If the programmer had done the job properly, Knight would have lost $1 billion and been eligible for a government bailout.
Millisecond liquidity is substantially superior to having exchanges post transactions in 1-sec intervals because it allows Goldman Sachs to make more money... duh.
Apparently, what is hard is coming up with a sucky GUI... I hear it took Microsoft two years.
What happens if a patent troll gets the Trolltech patents?
They only publish excellent books, according to reviews on Slashdot.
Ask your iPhone to tell you.
Sorry, they've signed an exclusivity deal with Lowe's.
I thought Pro-bono lawyers only sued people who infringed U2's copyrights?
It's company policy at Gartner for the analysts give their website links to their mothers, so that someone will read their blogs.
What's that in BitCoins... this project should appeal to the same characters.
Another fine example of Timothy's "editing".
It's basic physics... make a heavy enough rocket and when you release the holding pin it will fall downwards, accelerating until it breaks free of the Earth's atmosphere. Then just turn it around and head to the moon.
How do you know it wasn't the pigs that had IBS? The corpse was probably the one with the bad cologne that lingered on the headrest for weeks...
Really... how many East Texas woman have you met?
That's what we want you to think. -Faceless Comglomerate Tracking You
Enjoy spending all your paychecks on products you don't really need, Mr Faceless Exploitable Consumer.
But they did know. The FCC has pals in the NSA.
I knew mankind would find a solution for the so-called "global warming" problem. Since buckyballs absorb carbon when lasers are shot at them, all we need to do is sprinkle buckyballs into the ocean. Then it's just a matter of finding some fish or other marine animal to equip with laser beams to activate them, at which point all the excess carbon dioxide will be incorporated into the buckyballs. Voila! I'll be patenting this idea when my lawyer gets into his office on Monday morning.
I heard they're turning it into a zombie theme park.
One day you may tax it.
Poor people can't spell, apparently, which may be why they don't become ritches.
That is an insightful comment. It should be copy-written by your lawyers so you can get paid for it.
Yeah, but now you look like a terrorist.
Of course they will rise again. In good Canadian fashion, once they go bankrupt a mining exploration company will buy the shell.
They could use it to put rootkits on your computer... from a cloud!