while in theory your idea is correct, the harsh reality is that in practice, the large investment firms increase their profits drastically because there are actually two markets. this isn't strictly legal, but it's there. the large firms have dedicated connections to the exchanges with guaranteed SLAs and lower latencies than any other regular participant in the market. this allows them to stuff the buy/sell queues and rapidly cancel orders before they go through. the purpose of this is to deduce other bidders' price points and gain an edge. there are a number of such hedge funds (and even a major bank whose name escapes me), for example, that have had perfect trading days for over a year. statistically impossible outcomes like this only come from gaming the system in the above mentioned manner. as usual, the regulators are asleep at the wheel and the markets become more volatile week to week with increasing flash-crashes exactly because of these schemes. more efficient markets these are not.
my take is that the biggest problems with the new release will be traceable back to hardware issues, compatibility or otherwise.
personal anecdote: dell inspiron mini 1012 that i just got over the summer. netbook and desktop editions work great with lucid, but the RC and the final release both botch up the sleep mode power management on the mini. the netbook goes to sleep and i can't wake it up without a hard reboot. i haven't tried sshing in or filing a bug report because i'm lazy.:P
Okay, you've got yourself a predator/prey situation and the best solution you can come up with is a feeble attempt to artificially mask the prey? I suppose a more obvious and cheaper alternative, say, using the bird scent as bait to trap the predators escaped the geniuses at this agency.
People wonder why the cost of health care is spiralling out of control. MRI scans are a very EXPENSIVE way to diagnose anything. I fear the additional cost (via increased demand) of scans will only put greater pressure on health care budgeting. I can already see greedy marketroids wringing their hands in anticipation of the forthcoming lucre.
... isn't that the mysterious bidders are "testing" the market to see if anyone is selling or buying at outrageous prices. the problem is that the bids being placed are not placed in good faith -- this is against the law in the USA.
the crazy, high-frequency bids are placed and then cancelled at high speed. they act as place holders waiting in line for the price to move in their favoured direction. however, since the vast majority of the time the bids are cancelled, they never execute. this results in the mirage of liquidity and the inevitable "Flash Crash" where sellers come in and all the buyers instantly disappear.
maybe i'm thick or something, but why in bloody blazes is a REGSTRAR not just registering all these domains automatically to cut off the botnet? the cost to the registrar is marginally ZERO. you people are crazy to pay for so many domains yourselves. convince the registrar to do it at little or no cost to the greater community and we're gold.
are you OUT OF YOUR MIND or just incredibly young and sheltered?
there are reasons that humanity has evolved into collections called communities and societies. it is because we acknowledge that the group can more effectively assure the well being of each individual than the individual could on his or her own. it's why cells group up into organs and organ systems and into whole animals and plants. it's why animals form groups and packs and communities and societies.
this is why we have public roads, fire protection services, safety standards, electrical standards, postal services, and a whole raft of other products and services that are owned or operated or regulated by government -- an extension of the society empowered to HARNESS the power of the group in order to make the lives of the individuals in the group better.
the role of the government isn't to tell you what services you deserve or don't. the role of the government is to make sure that an expert in the field can do their job with no conflict of interest.
private insurance's singular goal is to maximize profit. it is not to provide you with health coverage -- that's just the services they claim to provide while raking in your cash premiums. the whole system is set up from the start to do anything possible to PREVENT you from getting treatment. you want to shop around from one provider to another? how are you going to judge their services? the only thing you can compare is how much you pay them each month and then you have to take them on their word that they'll pay for your healthcare BEFORE YOU DIE in the hospital waiting for approval of services.
there is no good reason to assume that being responsible has anything whatsoever to do with one's health. did you have a miscarriage whilst attempting to give birth to a child? did you come down with leukemia, cervical cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer? do you suffer from arthritis? did you have a stroke? are ANY of these ailments related in any way to how responsible you could be in the normal course of your life? those are just simple, basic, and obvious examples. there are countless others that straddle the border between responsibility and accident/predisposition. but who are we to judge? who can we rely on to make an unbiased decision? it leads to a slippery slope unless the care is UNIVERSAL.
there are two things that are important to people in modern societies. health and happiness. a society that takes ADVANTAGE of its resources to help its members achieve these goals is a good society. if you force people to struggle on their own and take away their access to the resources of the group then is there really a society there? is there a point to the people being a member of the group? is there a point to the government's existence if all it does is prevent people from helping one another? if it fails to harness their power and puts roadblocks up to improving their lives?
as for the costs of running top notch medical care you need only ask yourself this: if your society has the money to kill people why shouldn't it have money to save people and to care for them?
For the majority of users, OOo is roughly equivalent to Office. The only cases where I've run into trouble are with funky formatting and hardcore formulas/macros, which is pretty much power user territory. Most people either don't do complex operations, or do them by trial and error which works just as well under OOo as Office
the strength of Microsoft's lockin on the office productivity market is that it only takes one person to use some fancy wizbang feature in their software to affect all the other users in the company. i've personally seen this happen in cases where a VP will want some fancy pivot-table-macro-widget that he got working on his home computer (with a new version of MS Office) while making a document for work. he brings that document in to the business and just expects it to work. when it doesn't he demands that IT make it work, forcing the upgrade cycle or other painful workarounds. the one thing that usually does not happen is a change to an alternative productivity suite like OpenOffice.
your mistake wasn't in using OpenOffice, but in submitting your CV in.doc format. had you used a portable document format (i.e. PDF) you wouldn't have had any trouble.
.doc files are not designed to look the same in all environments. it is a common misconception because it is WISYWIG. a.doc document will reflow and change its appearance based on what sort of printers have configured on your computer along with things like language settings and US vs metric units of measure, etc.
next time you apply for a job, use whatever word processor you like and export to PDF.
From what I can tell on Wikipedia, the Dept. of Defense gets 16.6%, 5% on the GWOT, 1.4% on the Dept. of Veteran Affairs. That adds up to far less than the 30% you recommend.
Here's a link to the USA Government Budget. The number you're looking for is in table S-3 to the tune of $410.7 billion.
the grandparent assumes that someone has already determined what goods are stolen and what ones aren't when they are being transported. the concept of fair-use in most sane copyright legislation makes the determination of a violation nontrivial.
just like in real life, no one can stop you from transporting stolen goods without first determining whether those goods were indeed stolen or are merely borrowed, purchased, bartered, found, inherited, etc.
i suspect that this is the crux of the legal case here. ISPs aren't able to determine what content is in violation of copyright because most copyright has special cases and exceptions that depend on usage; something the ISPs are unable to determine from their perspective.
pragmatically speaking, your government is going to tax your ass whether you like it or not (for the foreseeable future). this means they already have your hard earned cash to do with as they please. you can now look at the situation in one of two ways.
1. the government spends about 60-70% of all that money paying for a "defense" budget, wallstreet bailouts, and interest on the debt it has accumulated.
2. the government cuts "defense" funding to 30% and puts the same cash to work in programs that put better food on your table, give you better medicines, better roads, parks, clean air and water, more free time to enjoy your life, better and cheaper education, and a more beautiful city or town in which you live.
the way i read your response is that you'd rather see the government spend money on "defense" (using the term very lightly), killing people in other nations, spying on you and your family, and creating illegal prison camps for "terrorists". whereas people like myself would rather see the government use the money that it "stole" from me in a way that actually improves my quality of life and doesn't infringe on my rights and freedoms.
[a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/summarytables.html]USA Government Budget[/a] for 2006, 2007, 2008, etc.
i'm sure if you look at the budget figures even with a [i]cursory[/i] glance you will notice that [b]defense[/b] spending, and interest payments on current debt constitute an enormous bulk of USA's debt (well over 50%!). that doesn't even include the MASSIVE $700B bailout package to wallstreet; a number that dwarfs even the defense budget!
[i]Table S-2[/i] has your basic budget figures, [i]Table S-7[/i] contains your net interest figures. [i]Table S-9[/i] has a very rosy picture of economic assumptions and [i]Table S-10[/i] has the debt financing figures.
seeing you try to pass the blame for $10T debt off onto social services and research that actually creates value, wealth, long term security, and growth for your society makes the mind boggle.
they're doing it so as to get rid of specs that are cumbersome to translate to and from current Ethernet. the rationale is that in order to gain speeds into the 40gbps and beyond they will have to pull out bottlenecks in the frame forwarding components in their switches.
translating one frame protocol to another is probably a big overhead for buffering and processing (especially if there are dropped frames) so they want to take advantage of a spec with a huge install base of network equipment and nodes but throw on some feature blobs that are required to achieve the next leap in performance. in theory, most people would rather rebuild a data centre's core than replace thousands of NICs and network stacks on their servers and PCs, VOiP phones, and a whole tonne of other devices.
Ethernet has nothing to do with the connector type. It is a layer 2 protocol that sits on top of the physical transport medium. There is a little bit of overlap with things like wiring specs for distances and attenuation, but it ethernet itself doesn't really care what plugs or wires you use. even if connectors were in the spect, it would still likely be extended to allow for new connector types to fit the appropriate devices (mobile phones, mp3 players, etc).
thus, for the consumer world you probably wouldn't see much difference on the user end. developers, on the other hand, would have to start pushing their device drivers into the network stack in order to get them working. say hello to firewalls and IDS/IPS on your HDD and video card.
if i was heading IT in an institution that was affected by this ban i would probably consider "reorganizing" my IT infrastructure. suddenly, my IT needs would be fulfilled by a new institution that was not affected by the new ban and problem is solved.
geeze. i can't believe how blind some people are. as has obviously been pointed out before, the Swiss provide a financial anonymization service. they have removed their own imperfect judgement of what constitutes right and wrong and simply act in good faith for their clients. yes, sometimes this system is abused (nazi gold and various tax evasion schemes, etc), but the principles of the system are no different than you wanting privacy for all users of the internet, for wanting secrecy in your instant messaging systems, deniability, the rights to use the Internet for whatever purpose you choose. the issues here are all the same. some people will use the system for the benefit of the public good while others will use it for their own selfish purposes at the expense of the public good.
if the "good guys" haven't caught on to the fact that they can exploit the system the same way as the "bad guys" then it's only their fault for missing the opportunity.
As far as I'm concerned, it's they're government and if they choose to limit what their population can see it's their business.
If anything it helps me appreciate that I live in a country that allows me to see and search pretty well whatever I want, even if it's at my own risk. I really don't think anyone will die from not being allowed to see YouTube. Personally sometimes I wish my government would just block it lol just to keep me from losing IQ points from seeing some of the content posted. Just a joke if you're wondering, there are some great videos up there. (emphasis added) looks like some of that magical IQ diminishing content has already penetrated your brain.;)
it's true. you have nothing to worry about until someone decides to abuse your "priceless" boring identity by pretending to be you.
after that you might find your name on a government watch list and shortly thereafter may be arrested and locked away at a secret prison without any rights whatsoever until the government gets bored of holding you there (if you don't get beaten to a pulp first by the "interrogators").
are you kidding? expelling 147 students is going to affect the bottom line of the university for the next 2-4 years (or more!). think of all the funding they'll be missing out and the tuitions, residence fees and exclusive deals with on-campus vendors that won't be getting a cut of the 147 students' hard-earned student loans!
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i have to agree here. most of the demos and screenshots i've seen include too much white space.
while in theory your idea is correct, the harsh reality is that in practice, the large investment firms increase their profits drastically because there are actually two markets. this isn't strictly legal, but it's there. the large firms have dedicated connections to the exchanges with guaranteed SLAs and lower latencies than any other regular participant in the market. this allows them to stuff the buy/sell queues and rapidly cancel orders before they go through. the purpose of this is to deduce other bidders' price points and gain an edge. there are a number of such hedge funds (and even a major bank whose name escapes me), for example, that have had perfect trading days for over a year. statistically impossible outcomes like this only come from gaming the system in the above mentioned manner. as usual, the regulators are asleep at the wheel and the markets become more volatile week to week with increasing flash-crashes exactly because of these schemes. more efficient markets these are not.
my take is that the biggest problems with the new release will be traceable back to hardware issues, compatibility or otherwise.
personal anecdote: dell inspiron mini 1012 that i just got over the summer. netbook and desktop editions work great with lucid, but the RC and the final release both botch up the sleep mode power management on the mini. the netbook goes to sleep and i can't wake it up without a hard reboot. i haven't tried sshing in or filing a bug report because i'm lazy. :P
stop upgrading to shittier technology.
Okay, you've got yourself a predator/prey situation and the best solution you can come up with is a feeble attempt to artificially mask the prey? I suppose a more obvious and cheaper alternative, say, using the bird scent as bait to trap the predators escaped the geniuses at this agency.
People wonder why the cost of health care is spiralling out of control. MRI scans are a very EXPENSIVE way to diagnose anything. I fear the additional cost (via increased demand) of scans will only put greater pressure on health care budgeting. I can already see greedy marketroids wringing their hands in anticipation of the forthcoming lucre.
... isn't that the mysterious bidders are "testing" the market to see if anyone is selling or buying at outrageous prices. the problem is that the bids being placed are not placed in good faith -- this is against the law in the USA.
the crazy, high-frequency bids are placed and then cancelled at high speed. they act as place holders waiting in line for the price to move in their favoured direction. however, since the vast majority of the time the bids are cancelled, they never execute. this results in the mirage of liquidity and the inevitable "Flash Crash" where sellers come in and all the buyers instantly disappear.
maybe i'm thick or something, but why in bloody blazes is a REGSTRAR not just registering all these domains automatically to cut off the botnet? the cost to the registrar is marginally ZERO. you people are crazy to pay for so many domains yourselves. convince the registrar to do it at little or no cost to the greater community and we're gold.
are you OUT OF YOUR MIND or just incredibly young and sheltered?
there are reasons that humanity has evolved into collections called communities and societies. it is because we acknowledge that the group can more effectively assure the well being of each individual than the individual could on his or her own. it's why cells group up into organs and organ systems and into whole animals and plants. it's why animals form groups and packs and communities and societies.
this is why we have public roads, fire protection services, safety standards, electrical standards, postal services, and a whole raft of other products and services that are owned or operated or regulated by government -- an extension of the society empowered to HARNESS the power of the group in order to make the lives of the individuals in the group better.
the role of the government isn't to tell you what services you deserve or don't. the role of the government is to make sure that an expert in the field can do their job with no conflict of interest.
private insurance's singular goal is to maximize profit. it is not to provide you with health coverage -- that's just the services they claim to provide while raking in your cash premiums. the whole system is set up from the start to do anything possible to PREVENT you from getting treatment. you want to shop around from one provider to another? how are you going to judge their services? the only thing you can compare is how much you pay them each month and then you have to take them on their word that they'll pay for your healthcare BEFORE YOU DIE in the hospital waiting for approval of services.
there is no good reason to assume that being responsible has anything whatsoever to do with one's health. did you have a miscarriage whilst attempting to give birth to a child? did you come down with leukemia, cervical cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer? do you suffer from arthritis? did you have a stroke? are ANY of these ailments related in any way to how responsible you could be in the normal course of your life? those are just simple, basic, and obvious examples. there are countless others that straddle the border between responsibility and accident/predisposition. but who are we to judge? who can we rely on to make an unbiased decision? it leads to a slippery slope unless the care is UNIVERSAL.
there are two things that are important to people in modern societies. health and happiness. a society that takes ADVANTAGE of its resources to help its members achieve these goals is a good society. if you force people to struggle on their own and take away their access to the resources of the group then is there really a society there? is there a point to the people being a member of the group? is there a point to the government's existence if all it does is prevent people from helping one another? if it fails to harness their power and puts roadblocks up to improving their lives?
as for the costs of running top notch medical care you need only ask yourself this: if your society has the money to kill people why shouldn't it have money to save people and to care for them?
"You must be new here."
For the majority of users, OOo is roughly equivalent to Office. The only cases where I've run into trouble are with funky formatting and hardcore formulas/macros, which is pretty much power user territory. Most people either don't do complex operations, or do them by trial and error which works just as well under OOo as Office
the strength of Microsoft's lockin on the office productivity market is that it only takes one person to use some fancy wizbang feature in their software to affect all the other users in the company. i've personally seen this happen in cases where a VP will want some fancy pivot-table-macro-widget that he got working on his home computer (with a new version of MS Office) while making a document for work. he brings that document in to the business and just expects it to work. when it doesn't he demands that IT make it work, forcing the upgrade cycle or other painful workarounds. the one thing that usually does not happen is a change to an alternative productivity suite like OpenOffice.
your mistake wasn't in using OpenOffice, but in submitting your CV in .doc format. had you used a portable document format (i.e. PDF) you wouldn't have had any trouble.
.doc files are not designed to look the same in all environments. it is a common misconception because it is WISYWIG. a .doc document will reflow and change its appearance based on what sort of printers have configured on your computer along with things like language settings and US vs metric units of measure, etc.
next time you apply for a job, use whatever word processor you like and export to PDF.
wooops. my bad. need to learn to read tables :D you're right that the defense budget is about 16% of the whole.
From what I can tell on Wikipedia, the Dept. of Defense gets 16.6%, 5% on the GWOT, 1.4% on the Dept. of Veteran Affairs. That adds up to far less than the 30% you recommend.
Here's a link to the USA Government Budget. The number you're looking for is in table S-3 to the tune of $410.7 billion.
the grandparent assumes that someone has already determined what goods are stolen and what ones aren't when they are being transported. the concept of fair-use in most sane copyright legislation makes the determination of a violation nontrivial.
just like in real life, no one can stop you from transporting stolen goods without first determining whether those goods were indeed stolen or are merely borrowed, purchased, bartered, found, inherited, etc.
i suspect that this is the crux of the legal case here. ISPs aren't able to determine what content is in violation of copyright because most copyright has special cases and exceptions that depend on usage; something the ISPs are unable to determine from their perspective.
pragmatically speaking, your government is going to tax your ass whether you like it or not (for the foreseeable future). this means they already have your hard earned cash to do with as they please. you can now look at the situation in one of two ways.
1. the government spends about 60-70% of all that money paying for a "defense" budget, wallstreet bailouts, and interest on the debt it has accumulated.
2. the government cuts "defense" funding to 30% and puts the same cash to work in programs that put better food on your table, give you better medicines, better roads, parks, clean air and water, more free time to enjoy your life, better and cheaper education, and a more beautiful city or town in which you live.
the way i read your response is that you'd rather see the government spend money on "defense" (using the term very lightly), killing people in other nations, spying on you and your family, and creating illegal prison camps for "terrorists". whereas people like myself would rather see the government use the money that it "stole" from me in a way that actually improves my quality of life and doesn't infringe on my rights and freedoms.
hell of a country, the USA.
[a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/summarytables.html]USA Government Budget[/a] for 2006, 2007, 2008, etc.
i'm sure if you look at the budget figures even with a [i]cursory[/i] glance you will notice that [b]defense[/b] spending, and interest payments on current debt constitute an enormous bulk of USA's debt (well over 50%!). that doesn't even include the MASSIVE $700B bailout package to wallstreet; a number that dwarfs even the defense budget!
[i]Table S-2[/i] has your basic budget figures, [i]Table S-7[/i] contains your net interest figures. [i]Table S-9[/i] has a very rosy picture of economic assumptions and [i]Table S-10[/i] has the debt financing figures.
seeing you try to pass the blame for $10T debt off onto social services and research that actually creates value, wealth, long term security, and growth for your society makes the mind boggle.
they're doing it so as to get rid of specs that are cumbersome to translate to and from current Ethernet. the rationale is that in order to gain speeds into the 40gbps and beyond they will have to pull out bottlenecks in the frame forwarding components in their switches.
translating one frame protocol to another is probably a big overhead for buffering and processing (especially if there are dropped frames) so they want to take advantage of a spec with a huge install base of network equipment and nodes but throw on some feature blobs that are required to achieve the next leap in performance. in theory, most people would rather rebuild a data centre's core than replace thousands of NICs and network stacks on their servers and PCs, VOiP phones, and a whole tonne of other devices.
Ethernet has nothing to do with the connector type. It is a layer 2 protocol that sits on top of the physical transport medium. There is a little bit of overlap with things like wiring specs for distances and attenuation, but it ethernet itself doesn't really care what plugs or wires you use. even if connectors were in the spect, it would still likely be extended to allow for new connector types to fit the appropriate devices (mobile phones, mp3 players, etc).
thus, for the consumer world you probably wouldn't see much difference on the user end. developers, on the other hand, would have to start pushing their device drivers into the network stack in order to get them working. say hello to firewalls and IDS/IPS on your HDD and video card.
here's an interview of mafiaboy on a Canadian tv programme called The Hour.
cheers
if i was heading IT in an institution that was affected by this ban i would probably consider "reorganizing" my IT infrastructure. suddenly, my IT needs would be fulfilled by a new institution that was not affected by the new ban and problem is solved.
your attacks on my character make me laugh, but i see your point.
Cheers.
Oh, won't someone PLEASE THINK OF THE TERRORISTS!
geeze. i can't believe how blind some people are. as has obviously been pointed out before, the Swiss provide a financial anonymization service. they have removed their own imperfect judgement of what constitutes right and wrong and simply act in good faith for their clients. yes, sometimes this system is abused (nazi gold and various tax evasion schemes, etc), but the principles of the system are no different than you wanting privacy for all users of the internet, for wanting secrecy in your instant messaging systems, deniability, the rights to use the Internet for whatever purpose you choose. the issues here are all the same. some people will use the system for the benefit of the public good while others will use it for their own selfish purposes at the expense of the public good.
if the "good guys" haven't caught on to the fact that they can exploit the system the same way as the "bad guys" then it's only their fault for missing the opportunity.
If anything it helps me appreciate that I live in a country that allows me to see and search pretty well whatever I want, even if it's at my own risk. I really don't think anyone will die from not being allowed to see YouTube. Personally sometimes I wish my government would just block it lol just to keep me from losing IQ points from seeing some of the content posted. Just a joke if you're wondering, there are some great videos up there. (emphasis added) looks like some of that magical IQ diminishing content has already penetrated your brain.
cheers
it's true. you have nothing to worry about until someone decides to abuse your "priceless" boring identity by pretending to be you.
after that you might find your name on a government watch list and shortly thereafter may be arrested and locked away at a secret prison without any rights whatsoever until the government gets bored of holding you there (if you don't get beaten to a pulp first by the "interrogators").
nope. nothing to worry about.
cheers!
are you kidding? expelling 147 students is going to affect the bottom line of the university for the next 2-4 years (or more!). think of all the funding they'll be missing out and the tuitions, residence fees and exclusive deals with on-campus vendors that won't be getting a cut of the 147 students' hard-earned student loans!