Slow down there chief. I myself got a GED because high school was a waste of my time (dropped out after junior year). Now I'm 26 (going on 27) and am already worth enough to never have to work another day in my life (sold my company; started another one, etc). Attending high school/college doesn't guarantee success any more than dropping out guarantees failure. Some people will just work hard to succeed while other just don't give a fuck. Getting rid of GEDs isn't going to change that one bit.
Umm, no. Whether something is a luxury item or not matters not at all in contract law. The principal still applies. You can sign a contract with an auto maker that says you own the car but they can take it back at anytime even if you own it, and they can come and *try* to take it, but a judge is going to bitchsmack them for the contract inequity, and nullify it.
Won't work. If a contract is one-sided, with a huge benefit to one party but little benefit to the other ("fair exchange"), a judge will typically null the contract (in this case, a EULA).
True. But didn't the media companies attempt to force the Swedish government to change their laws to fit said media companies' business model? *That* is far beyond what should be permitted.
I am really sick of them making the most retarded decisions regarding what applications I can install on MY device
It's really easy to ensure Apple doesn't control what software run on YOUR device. Buy your device from a manufacturer who doesn't suck. iPhone users deserve what they get, knowing Apple tightly controls the ecosystem.
To be fair, I did start with some cash in my pocket from a business venture I sold.
While I of course wouldn't want to give away the keys to the castle (I've put several years into putting the formulas/algorithms together), I'll give you a hint. They neither look at past performance, nor do they use information across different futures. They rely a *great* deal on technical data alone, although I do have overrides put in place for fundamental data. I've got over 100 books on the subject of market trading, and have done quite a bit of research to compile my methods.
My account is fairly affordable. I pay less than $500/month, but that's because my volume is high (anywhere between 5-15K transactions a month, although sometimes as low as 500). You can start with as a little as $5K, but I would suggest starting with $10K-$20K. Also, please please please DO NOT use money you can't afford to lose. So many people start doing this and lose everything because they don't follow that rule. It should be the first and most important one. I had a bad experience, where I lost $75K in a day. It humbles you. Have fun, learn a lot, but above all, be careful.
Pirates would rather take cargo ships hostage than try to damage cables that will be relaid quickly and are worth little in salvage (glass = worthless compared to copper).
I actually host my own infrastructure (I own a hosting firm). It's more than 150ft away from the exchange core, but only one building away (downtown Chicago). I've done the cost-benefit of hosting at the exchange, and I still come out ahead being where I'm at. It's people who are miles away that run into speed of light issues.
Thought I'd chime in on this. I have a trading account with $150K+ in it, and my per transaction costs are extremely low (I trade futures though, YMMV when it comes to equities, commodities, etc). The provider I use exposes an API that I can interact against to directly execute trades (although, you're always going to be fighting the speed of light). I wrap around this API with Python and Postgresql. If you're smart and your algorithms are rock solid, you can do well (I don't have to work if I don't want to). On the other hand, you have to make sure a human is *always* in the loop somewhere, otherwise you end up with the United Airlines fiasco someone pointed out above.
Probably not. Most undersea cable is armored using metal sheathing when in shallow water and typically pumps are used to shift the sand where the cable lays so it drops into the sand and is covered by it, thereby protecting it. Your biggest concerns are large anchors from boats that ignore the "NO ANCHORING - UNDERSEA CABLE" markings on charts and people who would cut your cable where it gets to land (unless you're smart and buried it all the way to the enclosure).
Also when companies see how big of a dip the performance of their critical apps take when they migrate to VMS, I can see a shift back to the racks and racks of servers.
Some would say the performance hit is worth it when you gain the ease of scaling your app at a moments notice with more virtual machines (if your app supports it AND you have the available capacity).
I'm glad people like you don't do electrical for a living. There's a reason NEC code exists, and it's to stop stupid people. Being cheap with electrical is what burns your house/datacenter/etc. down.
APC doesn't allow per-outlet monitoring, only per PDU monitoring. UCSD or UC Berkley is working on small per-outlet devices to both monitor and control loads (i.e. servers) that are to cost less than $20/piece. Assume they are controllable via HTTP, and you can do some fine power control.
A rack is only allowed 15A (in your case) or 16A usually out of 20A, because NEC code states you can only drive a circuit at 80% of it's max capacity (16A on a 20A circuit, 24A on a 30A circuit, etc). Colo customers should be taking this into account when they buy power. If you want to buy 10U of space, and expect to fill it with 10 1U servers, be prepared to pay an appropriate price, as it's not just space, but power, and cooling to cool all that power going into those serves. Every watt of heat you make is a watt of power needed to cool everything.
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Slow down there chief. I myself got a GED because high school was a waste of my time (dropped out after junior year). Now I'm 26 (going on 27) and am already worth enough to never have to work another day in my life (sold my company; started another one, etc). Attending high school/college doesn't guarantee success any more than dropping out guarantees failure. Some people will just work hard to succeed while other just don't give a fuck. Getting rid of GEDs isn't going to change that one bit.
Thanks for backing me up. Too swamped at the moment for citations.
For more research, google "contract inequity"
Won't work. If a contract is one-sided, with a huge benefit to one party but little benefit to the other ("fair exchange"), a judge will typically null the contract (in this case, a EULA).
Sell it Buy It Now. You'll get further than you think =)
I hope so. I'm an American and I think the EU needs to come down on our movie/record companies.
True. But didn't the media companies attempt to force the Swedish government to change their laws to fit said media companies' business model? *That* is far beyond what should be permitted.
Crappy hardware > Locked Down OS
I am really sick of them making the most retarded decisions regarding what applications I can install on MY device
It's really easy to ensure Apple doesn't control what software run on YOUR device. Buy your device from a manufacturer who doesn't suck. iPhone users deserve what they get, knowing Apple tightly controls the ecosystem.
Of course! He prefers to save the world with deadly lasers instead of deadly slide shows (apologies to Futurama)
While I of course wouldn't want to give away the keys to the castle (I've put several years into putting the formulas/algorithms together), I'll give you a hint. They neither look at past performance, nor do they use information across different futures. They rely a *great* deal on technical data alone, although I do have overrides put in place for fundamental data. I've got over 100 books on the subject of market trading, and have done quite a bit of research to compile my methods.
My account is fairly affordable. I pay less than $500/month, but that's because my volume is high (anywhere between 5-15K transactions a month, although sometimes as low as 500). You can start with as a little as $5K, but I would suggest starting with $10K-$20K. Also, please please please DO NOT use money you can't afford to lose. So many people start doing this and lose everything because they don't follow that rule. It should be the first and most important one. I had a bad experience, where I lost $75K in a day. It humbles you. Have fun, learn a lot, but above all, be careful.
Suggestion: Get a cheap webcam and use it to snapshot the whiteboard. Better resolution.
Right, which is why Apple can't run apps in the background. Someone at Apple was asleep at the switch with that decision.
Pirates would rather take cargo ships hostage than try to damage cables that will be relaid quickly and are worth little in salvage (glass = worthless compared to copper).
I actually host my own infrastructure (I own a hosting firm). It's more than 150ft away from the exchange core, but only one building away (downtown Chicago). I've done the cost-benefit of hosting at the exchange, and I still come out ahead being where I'm at. It's people who are miles away that run into speed of light issues.
Not having to work != nothing to do
Futures trading on commodities.
Thought I'd chime in on this. I have a trading account with $150K+ in it, and my per transaction costs are extremely low (I trade futures though, YMMV when it comes to equities, commodities, etc). The provider I use exposes an API that I can interact against to directly execute trades (although, you're always going to be fighting the speed of light). I wrap around this API with Python and Postgresql. If you're smart and your algorithms are rock solid, you can do well (I don't have to work if I don't want to). On the other hand, you have to make sure a human is *always* in the loop somewhere, otherwise you end up with the United Airlines fiasco someone pointed out above.
Probably not. Most undersea cable is armored using metal sheathing when in shallow water and typically pumps are used to shift the sand where the cable lays so it drops into the sand and is covered by it, thereby protecting it. Your biggest concerns are large anchors from boats that ignore the "NO ANCHORING - UNDERSEA CABLE" markings on charts and people who would cut your cable where it gets to land (unless you're smart and buried it all the way to the enclosure).
Also when companies see how big of a dip the performance of their critical apps take when they migrate to VMS, I can see a shift back to the racks and racks of servers.
Some would say the performance hit is worth it when you gain the ease of scaling your app at a moments notice with more virtual machines (if your app supports it AND you have the available capacity).
I'm glad people like you don't do electrical for a living. There's a reason NEC code exists, and it's to stop stupid people. Being cheap with electrical is what burns your house/datacenter/etc. down.
APC doesn't allow per-outlet monitoring, only per PDU monitoring. UCSD or UC Berkley is working on small per-outlet devices to both monitor and control loads (i.e. servers) that are to cost less than $20/piece. Assume they are controllable via HTTP, and you can do some fine power control.
A rack is only allowed 15A (in your case) or 16A usually out of 20A, because NEC code states you can only drive a circuit at 80% of it's max capacity (16A on a 20A circuit, 24A on a 30A circuit, etc). Colo customers should be taking this into account when they buy power. If you want to buy 10U of space, and expect to fill it with 10 1U servers, be prepared to pay an appropriate price, as it's not just space, but power, and cooling to cool all that power going into those serves. Every watt of heat you make is a watt of power needed to cool everything.
Sir, I am offended. You should know well and good that the LHC is a circular (not linear) accelerator, and as such I can't aim it. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics