Either:
- Find a better Brokerage account to use (without an account minimum you need to maintain)
- Don't waste you're time trading with $2500, put it in a high Interest savings account (ok, they don't pay much) and get back in when you have more funds to invest
- Put it all on Black on the roulette table (May as well if you're entire "investment" is in one stock).
It's more like someone wants to buy for 1.21 and someone wants to sell for 1.20, and the trade goes thought at 1.201, with the HFT skimming the 0.001 off the trade.
From the retail investor's view:
1. I want to buy 1,000 shares at 1.20.
2. The HFT is willing to sell them to me at a slightly higher cost
3. Trade gets executed at 1.201.
4. It costs me $1 for the trade to be executed quickly (against the HFT) rather than wait for the bid/ask spread to hit my trade (possibly costing me much more than $1 as the price trends up).
Now if I'm an institutional investor, whole different story when trading 1,000,000 shares.
I use Cobian as well, backing up to a Truecrypt volume on an external hard drive. Every month or so, I swap my current backup drive with the drive I store off site (at my desk at work).
Being encrypted, I 'm not too worried if it walks at work, and the data isn't my most current copy. And if my primary backup and off site backup are both destroyed by the same event, then I've likely got MUCH BIGGER problems to worry about than my old tax returns and photos.
I agree. Here is what I was thinking about (in the shower no less) this morning
How about the movie / music / tv industries provide a pay portal. A site where people would just go and pay "what they feel is appropriate" for a work?
So it would work something like this. Make the movie / song / tv show and distribute it via the normal avenues. Let the rest of us obtain, distribute, and pay what we feel is appropriate for the work. So lets say one was to download an NBC tv series that is from via P2P. It turns out quite a good show and one enjoys it. You might figure that's worth somewhere in $1-5 per episode.
Then one could browse over to www.nbc.com/PAYUS and pay the amount directly to NBC
The best thing is that 90% of this is already in place and NBC wouldn't need to invest in much new infrastructure to capture the revenue. The only missing bit is the website where one can pay for it. At least way, they would be capturing some of the lost revenue from "pirating".
If you've ever worked for a software development development company, it goes a little more like this:
CEO: "Are we going to meet the release date?"
Project Manager: "Most of the work is done, but we still have some bugs to work out"
CEO: "Release it, we need the revenue"
Project Manager: "But it's still pretty buggy, users are going to notice and not be happy about it"
CEO: "Release it, we need the revenue"
Project Manager: "I really think we should push the release date out a couple of weeks"
CEO: "You're fired!!!"
CEO: "Head lead developer, we need to release this software ASAP"
Lead Developer: "Yes Sir!"
I sure hope it doesn't affect home phone service. I have mine with Teksavvy (along with my DSL) and I'm quite happy. Long distance in North America for $20 flat a month. And on top of that, really good rates to Europe (as cheap as most calling cards, but without the stupid rules that eat away the remaining balance).
Not to be rude, but that is somewhat shortsighted. Today != 15 years from now. With the masters, you likely have a better chance of bigger $$$. Of Course, your mileage may vary.
Disclosure: I'm a CS, but don't have my masters and have been working for 10 years. I don't think that's limited me so far, but I have 30+ years left in the workforce. So I may hit this ceiling someday.
My previous boss told me this once, and so true it is:
It'll never be cheaper to get more education, so if you're going to do it, do it now.
In a few years, you'll likely have a spouse, kids, mortgage, car payment. Those things will be a huge factor if you ever wanted to go back and do your Masters.
And if the economy is in the tank for the next year or two, then it's probably the best time to be doing more education.
Maybe the malware infected machine had a hacked hosts file and he was connecting to some site in Russia? Or some other way of redirecting the supposed chat session with "Symantec Support"
I heard a story about a cop in Rochester NY who shot a copier (the home of Kodak)
I guess it was many years ago (70's or 80's) and they got their first copier from Kodak. Huge piece of equipment. The tech gets called to repair it one morning because it wouldn't make any copies. Needless to say that the bullet hole in the side of the copier didn't go over too well with the Kodak tech.
I've always thought that Debian was a great Distro. Stable, lots of packages that can be installed, and lots of resources on the web.
Ubuntu (based on Debian) ties it all together with a nice, easy to use installer and GUI. Great choice for desktops, but I'd stick to Debian for servers.
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Either:
- Find a better Brokerage account to use (without an account minimum you need to maintain)
- Don't waste you're time trading with $2500, put it in a high Interest savings account (ok, they don't pay much) and get back in when you have more funds to invest
- Put it all on Black on the roulette table (May as well if you're entire "investment" is in one stock).
If you open a trading position that goes heavily against you, you can end up trading on margin
Simple, don't trade on Margin and ignore the daily fluctuations. Are you trading (short term) or investing (long term)?
It's more like someone wants to buy for 1.21 and someone wants to sell for 1.20, and the trade goes thought at 1.201, with the HFT skimming the 0.001 off the trade.
From the retail investor's view:
1. I want to buy 1,000 shares at 1.20.
2. The HFT is willing to sell them to me at a slightly higher cost
3. Trade gets executed at 1.201.
4. It costs me $1 for the trade to be executed quickly (against the HFT) rather than wait for the bid/ask spread to hit my trade (possibly costing me much more than $1 as the price trends up).
Now if I'm an institutional investor, whole different story when trading 1,000,000 shares.
Mod Parent Up. Exactly what I think too. I've only ever worked for small companies, and it's nice to not have to deal with the HR bull.
I use Cobian as well, backing up to a Truecrypt volume on an external hard drive. Every month or so, I swap my current backup drive with the drive I store off site (at my desk at work).
Being encrypted, I 'm not too worried if it walks at work, and the data isn't my most current copy. And if my primary backup and off site backup are both destroyed by the same event, then I've likely got MUCH BIGGER problems to worry about than my old tax returns and photos.
I agree. Here is what I was thinking about (in the shower no less) this morning
How about the movie / music / tv industries provide a pay portal. A site where people would just go and pay "what they feel is appropriate" for a work?
So it would work something like this. Make the movie / song / tv show and distribute it via the normal avenues. Let the rest of us obtain, distribute, and pay what we feel is appropriate for the work. So lets say one was to download an NBC tv series that is from via P2P. It turns out quite a good show and one enjoys it. You might figure that's worth somewhere in $1-5 per episode.
Then one could browse over to www.nbc.com/PAYUS and pay the amount directly to NBC
The best thing is that 90% of this is already in place and NBC wouldn't need to invest in much new infrastructure to capture the revenue. The only missing bit is the website where one can pay for it. At least way, they would be capturing some of the lost revenue from "pirating".
Let me google that for you:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=arm+architecture
I listen to music passively. I never listen to the words, and the music is a great way to drown out background noise.
http://www.hibermate.com/images/3m-ear-plugs.jpg
Earplugs for everyone. Buy a set for each developer and then maybe the boss will get the picture that office chatter/noises are very distracting.
Or remove the drive, put it in another computer, install the boot loader and off you go.
Without physical security, you may as well have no security.
If you've ever worked for a software development development company, it goes a little more like this:
CEO: "Are we going to meet the release date?"
Project Manager: "Most of the work is done, but we still have some bugs to work out"
CEO: "Release it, we need the revenue"
Project Manager: "But it's still pretty buggy, users are going to notice and not be happy about it"
CEO: "Release it, we need the revenue"
Project Manager: "I really think we should push the release date out a couple of weeks"
CEO: "You're fired!!!"
CEO: "Head lead developer, we need to release this software ASAP"
Lead Developer: "Yes Sir!"
Well that truly sucks. Maybe time to consider VOIP phone service. I really do not want to have to deal with Bell again.
I sure hope it doesn't affect home phone service. I have mine with Teksavvy (along with my DSL) and I'm quite happy. Long distance in North America for $20 flat a month. And on top of that, really good rates to Europe (as cheap as most calling cards, but without the stupid rules that eat away the remaining balance).
Maybe they want to buy GM?
Not to be rude, but that is somewhat shortsighted. Today != 15 years from now. With the masters, you likely have a better chance of bigger $$$. Of Course, your mileage may vary.
Disclosure: I'm a CS, but don't have my masters and have been working for 10 years. I don't think that's limited me so far, but I have 30+ years left in the workforce. So I may hit this ceiling someday.
Think of the Children!!!
My previous boss told me this once, and so true it is:
It'll never be cheaper to get more education, so if you're going to do it, do it now.
In a few years, you'll likely have a spouse, kids, mortgage, car payment. Those things will be a huge factor if you ever wanted to go back and do your Masters.
And if the economy is in the tank for the next year or two, then it's probably the best time to be doing more education.
I was actually homeschooled and more or less "taught myself" for most of my schooling, so I had a bit of an advantage there, hehe.
A wise man once said:
:)
He who was self taught, was taught by an idiot.
I'm just sayin'
Maybe the malware infected machine had a hacked hosts file and he was connecting to some site in Russia? Or some other way of redirecting the supposed chat session with "Symantec Support"
Tell that to playboy: http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN1841769320090218
I heard a story about a cop in Rochester NY who shot a copier (the home of Kodak)
I guess it was many years ago (70's or 80's) and they got their first copier from Kodak. Huge piece of equipment. The tech gets called to repair it one morning because it wouldn't make any copies. Needless to say that the bullet hole in the side of the copier didn't go over too well with the Kodak tech.
I remember my first install of slackware back in maybe 1996. That was NOT for the faint of heart. I still get cold sweats thinking about it :)
I've always thought that Debian was a great Distro. Stable, lots of packages that can be installed, and lots of resources on the web.
Ubuntu (based on Debian) ties it all together with a nice, easy to use installer and GUI. Great choice for desktops, but I'd stick to Debian for servers.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT
Microsoft paid out $0.46 per share last year
Forgot to post anonymously did you?
:)
That little check box is quite important sometimes