The are in financial services business, providing liquidity needed by investors who want to buy their long-term holdings at the time when it suits them (investors.)
So stop all this bitching about speculations - it reeks of USSR. There 'speculation' was criminal offense. Want that? Move to North Korea.
Sure, blame it on free markets. Never mind that securities market in US is one of the most regulated (with FBI background checks on assosiated persons and all). Never mind that housing bubble was created by government meddling in a form of extending Community Reinvestment Act during Clinton term in office which gave a lot of easy money into hands of unqualified borrowers. 'Unqualified' like in 'you would not trust them with a penny of your own money', because they proved hard that they cannot make sound financial decisions.
Hey, let's forget about unfunded goverment mandates, senators busy playing blame games, clueless SEC employees, greedy intermediaries, lopsided compensation practices, and market participants that do not understand instruments that they are trading.
What we really miss is python interface to EDGAR. Some guy say so, it must be true.
"...system filled with endless hordes of immigrants and outsourced labor willing to work for wages no American can live on..." - as someone who went through H1B program myself, I can attest your view of the program is utterly wrong. Sure, there are plenty of scambags (namely four big Indian consultancies) that game the system, but there is no "endless hordes" of immigrants (just about 50K in recent years if you exclude graduates from US universities.) And surely offshoring (I take that's what you really mean by outsorcing) does not have anything to do with H1B which is about 'onshoring' labor, not shipping out work. As for wages, all my colleagues ( and I mean dozens ) from H1B days in couple of years were paid way "more" than run off the mill IT drone. And do not even get me started about how many welfare queens and public service "workers" live off theirs and mine taxes. We'd be very lucky to collect one-tenth of that when retired.
I've been in trading business for a while but never met him. Still "press" keep talking about him. Especially when it comes to getting someone to pay for something guvmint wants. Enyone met him yet?
Well, my points are based on personal experience withing soviet industry and reading a lot of russian press and web boards. That wikipedia article about marvel of contemporary russian engineering, the missle that never flew right is rather mild. Russian language discussions about it are never short of expletives btw. And don't even get me started about the only russian semi-aircraft carrier that I helped to design and with is rotting now full with thousands of tons of sewage.
Congradulations, you have managed to be wrong in pretty much all you points. 1. Russia does not have resources to maintain their military on functional level. The current doctrine is to rely on nukes as much as possible since everything else is in disrepair. In fact, they are cutting close to 30% of staff because of lack of money. Oil money go to Putin's private coffers so not much left for anything else. 2. Their nuclear industry is in disrepair and barely hanging on the guys who are going to retire in the next five years or so. 3. There is no manufacturing capacity as of note. Maybe dozen plants here and there again all staffed with guys in sixties. 4. There is no space _industry_. There are old thirty year old designs on life support. 5 Maybe Russia is not american enemy if you could read russian, you would know that USA and NATO is still their enemy number one on official and laymen level. They seem to be very nostalgic about russian/soviet empire. There is a Kremlin-sponsored campain to whitewash Stalin's name. Yes, the guy who directed killing of more people than Hitler ever did.
For you education, here is a greatest russian engineering project of new century: the missle that never flew as expected in like 10 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSM-56_Bulava
Sure, Schmeisser, Krupp, Junkers, and Messerschmitt are not russian names, but Russia was providing critical testing grounds and raw materials to Nazis up until 1941. Nazi tank strategy was build on Tuchachevski ideas and proven on Soviet fields in joint exercises. Stalin is Hitler's enabler and USSR is direct accomplice in starting WWII.
Through the places were you never want to be stuck in. Believe me, I _was_ stuck in some of those earlier in my life. Never mind 16 border crossings with underpaid corrupt goons with guns rummaging through your belongings. What could go wrong? Besides, 2 days it's 48 hours and plane London to Singapore is like 14. I cant wait and see a contractor or businessman saying "ah, instead of flying in on Sunday and going home on Thursday, lets leave on Friday night, then leave on Thursday and be back home on next Sunday. Two weekends spent in train instead of my family is just great". Same for vacationers too.
It amazes me sometimes how salaried employees underestimate risk of losing their job. Many mistake word 'full-time' to mean 'permanent'. Business changes, so are needs for 'full-time employees'. Doing my second decade in software business, I've seen many times when full-time employees are let go but contractors stay. At least as a contractor I knew when I'm due to look for another gig and can plan accordingly, whereas full-time people are duped by management to the last possible moment to keep their morale up. Stop pretending that being a full-time cog in a corporate machine somehow guaranties life-time employment - it never did and never will.
Currently about 40 server boxes, about dozen of workstations. Tried other distros many times since 2002, always switched back. Good job, Mandriva guys!
The sole reason for POSIX subsystem in WIndows was to satisfy formal criteria in some US government specs. No one is using it to actually _code_, AFAIK.
Boost rocks. Using it on win & lin for few years already. Currently planning to replace ACE with it. Take a look at AIO and Thread libraries, that what you need. As a bonus you get to know all other juicy libs like bind, lambda, format, date_time etc. There are a lot of new stuff added to boost in past couple of years so it's definitely worth a look.
Have only one issue with it - jam.Why, why did they decide to stick with homegrown, badly documented, convoluted python-based build system????
USSR lost in technology war and that was for a reason - because our tech sucked. Yes, that's "ours" 'cause I helped to desing it too (electronics anyway), for military/space program as well. And I would guess, US did not exactly do nothing in the field of electronics and material sciences since USSR is no more.
If someone is willing to trust your life to inferior control systems and 30+ year old mechanics - that's his problem. Me, I'd pass.
I recall couple years ago Russia bought entire decommissioned Dresden AMD fab. Good luck competing using manufacturing processes of yesteryear. It seems like the best product of their nanotech push so far are midget kremlin rulers with their delusion of grandeur.
And yes, I used to know something about semiconductor industry in ex-USSR
"However, liquidity of a stock/bond/credit in this context is referring to how much that market is actively being traded" - yep, this is _exactly_ definition of liquidity that applies to stock market. Ther is no other.
If you think it is not true ask all those holders of Auction Rate securities how easy to convert their holdings into cash when there is no traders to take the other side. If you do not know anyone holding ARS then google 'Auction rate TD settlement'.
So what, you want to go to old specialist system and got cheesed on fees, front-runned and ripped in ten other ways that are too complex to discuss here?
Ha-ha, tell that to Citadel guys that got blown up big last year! Why do you think Misha Malyshev (head of Citadel hf trading desk and of Aleynikov assosiation) left Griffin in Feb?
Excellent explanation. Only can add that someone's "investments" ultimately has to be converted to cash to fund a living. "Liquidity" means ability to do that when someone needs it with minimal costs.
AFAIK, Allston Trading (and most of big prop shops like Citadel etc.) has a profit split with trading groups which are quite independent in regards to strategy, tech or personnel.
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The are in financial services business, providing liquidity needed by investors who want to buy their long-term holdings at the time when it suits them (investors.)
So stop all this bitching about speculations - it reeks of USSR. There 'speculation' was criminal offense. Want that? Move to North Korea.
Sure, blame it on free markets. Never mind that securities market in US is one of the most regulated (with FBI background checks on assosiated persons and all). Never mind that housing bubble was created by government meddling in a form of extending Community Reinvestment Act during Clinton term in office which gave a lot of easy money into hands of unqualified borrowers. 'Unqualified' like in 'you would not trust them with a penny of your own money', because they proved hard that they cannot make sound financial decisions.
Hey, let's forget about unfunded goverment mandates, senators busy playing blame games, clueless SEC employees, greedy intermediaries, lopsided compensation practices, and market participants that do not understand instruments that they are trading.
What we really miss is python interface to EDGAR. Some guy say so, it must be true.
"...system filled with endless hordes of immigrants and outsourced labor willing to work for wages no American can live on..." - as someone who went through H1B program myself, I can attest your view of the program is utterly wrong. Sure, there are plenty of scambags (namely four big Indian consultancies) that game the system, but there is no "endless hordes" of immigrants (just about 50K in recent years if you exclude graduates from US universities.) And surely offshoring (I take that's what you really mean by outsorcing) does not have anything to do with H1B which is about 'onshoring' labor, not shipping out work.
As for wages, all my colleagues ( and I mean dozens ) from H1B days in couple of years were paid way "more" than run off the mill IT drone. And do not even get me started about how many welfare queens and public service "workers" live off theirs and mine taxes. We'd be very lucky to collect one-tenth of that when retired.
I've been in trading business for a while but never met him. Still "press" keep talking about him. Especially when it comes to getting someone to pay for something guvmint wants. Enyone met him yet?
Well, my points are based on personal experience withing soviet industry and reading a lot of russian press and web boards. That wikipedia article about marvel of contemporary russian engineering, the missle that never flew right is rather mild. Russian language discussions about it are never short of expletives btw. And don't even get me started about the only russian semi-aircraft carrier that I helped to design and with is rotting now full with thousands of tons of sewage.
Congradulations, you have managed to be wrong in pretty much all you points.
1. Russia does not have resources to maintain their military on functional level. The current doctrine is to rely on nukes as much as possible since everything else is in disrepair. In fact, they are cutting close to 30% of staff because of lack of money. Oil money go to Putin's private coffers so not much left for anything else.
2. Their nuclear industry is in disrepair and barely hanging on the guys who are going to retire in the next five years or so.
3. There is no manufacturing capacity as of note. Maybe dozen plants here and there again all staffed with guys in sixties.
4. There is no space _industry_. There are old thirty year old designs on life support.
5 Maybe Russia is not american enemy if you could read russian, you would know that USA and NATO is still their enemy number one on official and laymen level. They seem to be very nostalgic about russian/soviet empire. There is a Kremlin-sponsored campain to whitewash Stalin's name. Yes, the guy who directed killing of more people than Hitler ever did.
For you education, here is a greatest russian engineering project of new century: the missle that never flew as expected in like 10 years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSM-56_Bulava
Sure, Schmeisser, Krupp, Junkers, and Messerschmitt are not russian names, but Russia was providing critical testing grounds and raw materials to Nazis up until 1941. Nazi tank strategy was build on Tuchachevski ideas and proven on Soviet fields in joint exercises. Stalin is Hitler's enabler and USSR is direct accomplice in starting WWII.
Here is something to start if you want to educate yourself on the topic:
http://www.feldgrau.com/ger-sov.html
Does anyone see a parallel here?
Through the places were you never want to be stuck in. Believe me, I _was_ stuck in some of those earlier in my life. Never mind 16 border crossings with underpaid corrupt goons with guns rummaging through your belongings. What could go wrong?
Besides, 2 days it's 48 hours and plane London to Singapore is like 14. I cant wait and see a contractor or businessman saying "ah, instead of flying in on Sunday and going home on Thursday, lets leave on Friday night, then leave on Thursday and be back home on next Sunday. Two weekends spent in train instead of my family is just great". Same for vacationers too.
It amazes me sometimes how salaried employees underestimate risk of losing their job. Many mistake word 'full-time' to mean 'permanent'. Business changes, so are needs for 'full-time employees'. Doing my second decade in software business, I've seen many times when full-time employees are let go but contractors stay. At least as a contractor I knew when I'm due to look for another gig and can plan accordingly, whereas full-time people are duped by management to the last possible moment to keep their morale up. Stop pretending that being a full-time cog in a corporate machine somehow guaranties life-time employment - it never did and never will.
No? GOOD
Currently about 40 server boxes, about dozen of workstations. Tried other distros many times since 2002, always switched back.
Good job, Mandriva guys!
The sole reason for POSIX subsystem in WIndows was to satisfy formal criteria in some US government specs. No one is using it to actually _code_, AFAIK.
Boost rocks. Using it on win & lin for few years already. Currently planning to replace ACE with it. Take a look at AIO and Thread libraries, that what you need. As a bonus you get to know all other juicy libs like bind, lambda, format, date_time etc.
There are a lot of new stuff added to boost in past couple of years so it's definitely worth a look.
Have only one issue with it - jam.Why, why did they decide to stick with homegrown, badly documented, convoluted python-based build system????
Brilliant! ;-)
Idiots- Never a shortage of them in this world..
Only some parts of the world see greater concentration of retards than the others.
Drunk operator at the controls?
"laid out a great way to do stealth" - but what is the name of the country which actually _build_ first stealth plane (hint - no USSR or Russia)
Everything remotely useful, at least.
USSR lost in technology war and that was for a reason - because our tech sucked. Yes, that's "ours" 'cause I helped to desing it too (electronics anyway), for military/space program as well. And I would guess, US did not exactly do nothing in the field of electronics and material sciences since USSR is no more.
If someone is willing to trust your life to inferior control systems and 30+ year old mechanics - that's his problem. Me, I'd pass.
I recall couple years ago Russia bought entire decommissioned Dresden AMD fab. Good luck competing using manufacturing processes of yesteryear.
It seems like the best product of their nanotech push so far are midget kremlin rulers with their delusion of grandeur.
And yes, I used to know something about semiconductor industry in ex-USSR
"However, liquidity of a stock/bond/credit in this context is referring to how much that market is actively being traded" - yep, this is _exactly_ definition of liquidity that applies to stock market. Ther is no other.
If you think it is not true ask all those holders of Auction Rate securities how easy to convert their holdings into cash when there is no traders to take the other side. If you do not know anyone holding ARS then google 'Auction rate TD settlement'.
So what, you want to go to old specialist system and got cheesed on fees, front-runned and ripped in ten other ways that are too complex to discuss here?
Ha-ha, tell that to Citadel guys that got blown up big last year! Why do you think Misha Malyshev (head of Citadel hf trading desk and of Aleynikov assosiation) left Griffin in Feb?
Excellent explanation. Only can add that someone's "investments" ultimately has to be converted to cash to fund a living. "Liquidity" means ability to do that when someone needs it with minimal costs.
AFAIK, Allston Trading (and most of big prop shops like Citadel etc.) has a profit split with trading groups which are quite independent in regards to strategy, tech or personnel.