I think what you're suggesting is a having a call auction every minute. There may be exchanges that do this already, but there'd still be advantages to being high frequency (i.e. waiting until the last possible nanosecond to submit your order and take advantage of whatever you can find in the order book before the matching engine does its thing...or submitting early if you have other information, there is little liquidity on one side or the other and the time/size order priority is in play).
I think the HFTs are pretty easy scapegoats these days, but on closer examination, any criticism of them is a criticism of capital markets in general. People/robots/algorithms with more information are always going to outperform the retail investor. If you really want to curb HFTs a transaction tax is the only semi-effective thing I can think of.
Yeah, exactly. And I'm kind of wondering what the problem with having a GPL licensed compiler is anyway. How many people/companies have the skill or need to hack on a compiler?
Concurrent applications needn't be so difficult to program. Take a look at the actors model and STM.
What's unfortunate is that we're stuck on this idea that concurrency == multiple threads w/shared state. With that approach, sure, apps will never scale. You're right, we do need higher-level threading primitives. I'm just not so sure they're all at the compiler level.
I have no idea what the architecture of open office currently is, but it would be neat to see a more complete plugin architecture like in eclipse. Everything could be a plugin and reduce some of the bloat people seem to complain about. For instance, the spreadsheet and writer could really just be different plugins. I'm sure this is much much easier said than done.
I'm not exactly sure what "more modular and running on tops of frameworks such as Eclipse, Netbeans or Mozilla's XUL" at the end of the article is supposed to mean, but maybe this is what they're getting at?
This is true, but the thing to remember is that with apollo missions the heat shield was not exposed to this debris. The shield was on the bottom of the command module, which was packed nicely against the service module and (at launch) not exposed to the elements.
is my sssid. Although I know that I will regret naming it this in 1997, 2001, or 2004. By then, though, I will have gone back in time, prevented the ratification of certain ammendments and sent a T-800 to become president and kill sarah connor.
Does anybody know if you can run x11 by itself? Can you just login under >console and type 'startx'? I would love to have this capability with a hardware accelerated x11.
(I've searched for the answer to this and can find nothing.)
Oh great, how am I supposed to car dance to my technolicious music on the way home from work. Half the fun is having uptight soccer moms stare while you jam to Slyver or some such nonsense. Fortunately my cars tend to be so old that it will be another 50 years before I drive anything with this level of innovation.
It doesn't violate the DMCA. You only violate the DMCA if you go around something digital, (i.e. encryption) that is protecting a copyrighted work. However, it could constitute a violation under regular copyright law or, more likely, the No Electronic Theft Act. If anything, the provisions of the DMCA that get OSPs out of responsibilty for the infringements of their users if they meet certain stipulations might help Apple in this regard, but I've never read over those much. Thats only a guess. I think that people tend to think the DMCA prohibits way more than it actually does. It has almost taken on a buzzword status. I'm not defending the law. It's overly vague, and prohibits circumvention in too many circumstances, but still most of the Kazaa/napster/p2p issues are covered by plain old boring copyright law initially set up in the constitution.
No, I do not think this makes MS liable since its autocompletion is based off of what users have previously entered as opposed to this system which bases the autocompletion off the most popular searches performed by a large group of people. MS would be liable if everything typed in the URL bar was logged somewhere and suggestions were made not based on what _you_ had entered previously but rather what the most frequently entered things by others were. This patent is not merely talking about autocompletion. It's talking about autocompletion based off the most popular searches starting with the letters the user has already entered.
I, too, have wondered about the politics of open source software. Let me preface my coments by saying that I am a conservative. Although I am 15 and can not vote, I am a passionate follower of politics, and I am supporting Pat Buchanan for the 2000 election.
Now, with that being said, I do wonder whether or not open source software is socialist. By its nature, I think it is a work of love. Many people like myself are adament about their computers. It's a passion. I think that is what linux grew out of. Mr. Torvalds had a passion for computing, coding, etc. so he made an OS. To me, the GNU project is similar. It is a work of love, but if you look at things in a very black and white view, it appears to be socialist. People contribute whithout wages, and people take without wages. However, I do think it comes back to passion. The people who work on open source projects are passionate about what they do, and the fact that they do not gets paid brings out some of the best coders in the world. Why are they doing? Becasue they love to do it.
Now, back to what I was originally saying. I do think that the basic premise of open source software is socialist. However, the licenses leave the capitalist option open. You can make money, and that is why I do not have a problem with most open source software. Now, if the GNU/GPL license were to ban all commercial use of code licensed under, then I would have major problems. However, code can be used for commercial purposes, and, in my line of thinking, it is capitalist. That's why I, a member of the 'religious right' support open source software.
Download libjpeg.so.62 from somewhere in rpm format and just force the rpm to install. I tried statisfying the dependencies, and then X wouldn't start. I had the same problem in SuSE 6.1.
A merger like this would produce a company that could manipulate the thoughts and feelings of numerous people. China serves as a beautiful example.
In China, the government runs the media, and in doing so they have a tremendous influence over the way their people think and feel. About a year ago, the US bombed the Chinese embassy in Kosovo. While this was a terrible thing, the response in China was overwhelming. The Chinese media showed images from other grusome scenes in order to stir up fears. The media in China also failed to air apologies and explanations for the happenings in Kosovo. The media controlled what the people thought and felt on one particular issue, and I see nothing that would prevent this new company from doing the same thing.
Yes, this may sound far-fetched, and it probably will not happen in the same degree as in communist countries. However, a media giant like this would indeed have the power. Another example. Ever been involved with a news story? Ever been interviewed? Often times only pieces of this will shown in order to make a point, or show one side of the story. Ineed, some of this manipulation of people's thoughts and feelings goes on today, and I think that a this new AOL/Time Warner company could and would use this same power. Maybe not for some horrible world plot, but maybe for promotion of porducts or sponsership of political ideas that would benefit the company.
Yesterday really was a dark day in history. I hope this merger is stopped.
I'm not sure about the UK, but in the US, speeding tickets are a very large source of revenue. Some little towns in the US use this as their primary source of revenue, and I think it is unlikely an politician would support a measure that would cut a large amount of money out of the budget, as well as causing very many pissed of people.
If he's got neat materials, I don't care if his physics is stupid; he's got neat materials.
I agree. From the article it sounded like various people have tested his "cell," and have gotten the same results. The issue seems to be why, and if you can produce this energy, and make these cool materials, who cares why it works. Let's figure that out later.
Also, the way everyone jumps to conclusions and ignores data when ananlyzing this guy, reminds me of a Mr.Gregor Mendel. Remember him?
Although I'm not Jewish, I do think you made a good point about the pagan rituals. The Christmas tree has nothing to do with Christ. The same goes for lights (unless they are star shapped or something similar). Also, everyone says that they hate the commercialization of Christmas, but we all continue to support it (myself included). I went shopping last night, and I saw nothing close to Christian behavior. Christians definately do need to focus on what Christmas is about. Also, I think the Jewish people, and everyone else too, should stop acting like victims. Remember, God will reward the persecuted, regardless of their religion.
Creating life is nice and all, but we'll be 'gods' when we can create a universe in a lab. Until then, I'm sticking to the God theory because so far, we can't explain how somethin' came from nothin'.
One of the things that we know about the future is that the notion of God will be around forever. In all civilizations some notion of a superior being/beings has existed. Now, it is a matter of time before some religion picks up the genetic "ball." Essentially, it is a religion's "job" to adress these issues. Religion is supposed to provide something to look to in almost every case. Now, if Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, or some other religion starts to answaer this question, it will likely see an increase in members. Since I am Catholic, I would like good ol' JPII to address this problem, because I think it would benefit the church and give it some peace of mind in this particular realm
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I think what you're suggesting is a having a call auction every minute. There may be exchanges that do this already, but there'd still be advantages to being high frequency (i.e. waiting until the last possible nanosecond to submit your order and take advantage of whatever you can find in the order book before the matching engine does its thing...or submitting early if you have other information, there is little liquidity on one side or the other and the time/size order priority is in play).
I think the HFTs are pretty easy scapegoats these days, but on closer examination, any criticism of them is a criticism of capital markets in general. People/robots/algorithms with more information are always going to outperform the retail investor. If you really want to curb HFTs a transaction tax is the only semi-effective thing I can think of.
Yeah, exactly. And I'm kind of wondering what the problem with having a GPL licensed compiler is anyway. How many people/companies have the skill or need to hack on a compiler?
Concurrent applications needn't be so difficult to program. Take a look at the actors model and STM.
What's unfortunate is that we're stuck on this idea that concurrency == multiple threads w/shared state. With that approach, sure, apps will never scale. You're right, we do need higher-level threading primitives. I'm just not so sure they're all at the compiler level.
I have no idea what the architecture of open office currently is, but it would be neat to see a more complete plugin architecture like in eclipse. Everything could be a plugin and reduce some of the bloat people seem to complain about. For instance, the spreadsheet and writer could really just be different plugins. I'm sure this is much much easier said than done.
I'm not exactly sure what "more modular and running on tops of frameworks such as Eclipse, Netbeans or Mozilla's XUL" at the end of the article is supposed to mean, but maybe this is what they're getting at?
Next time use Kahlua.
This is true, but the thing to remember is that with apollo missions the heat shield was not exposed to this debris. The shield was on the bottom of the command module, which was packed nicely against the service module and (at launch) not exposed to the elements.
Thats nothing! For christmas my _favorite_ relative had a star named after me.
Yes, I realize. This was a joke.
The supposed dates that skynet became 'selfaware' are from here (but are all now in the past).
is my sssid. Although I know that I will regret naming it this in 1997, 2001, or 2004. By then, though, I will have gone back in time, prevented the ratification of certain ammendments and sent a T-800 to become president and kill sarah connor.
Does anybody know if you can run x11 by itself? Can you just login under >console and type 'startx'? I would love to have this capability with a hardware accelerated x11.
(I've searched for the answer to this and can find nothing.)
Oh great, how am I supposed to car dance to my technolicious music on the way home from work. Half the fun is having uptight soccer moms stare while you jam to Slyver or some such nonsense. Fortunately my cars tend to be so old that it will be another 50 years before I drive anything with this level of innovation.
It doesn't violate the DMCA. You only violate the DMCA if you go around something digital, (i.e. encryption) that is protecting a copyrighted work. However, it could constitute a violation under regular copyright law or, more likely, the No Electronic Theft Act. If anything, the provisions of the DMCA that get OSPs out of responsibilty for the infringements of their users if they meet certain stipulations might help Apple in this regard, but I've never read over those much. Thats only a guess. I think that people tend to think the DMCA prohibits way more than it actually does. It has almost taken on a buzzword status. I'm not defending the law. It's overly vague, and prohibits circumvention in too many circumstances, but still most of the Kazaa/napster/p2p issues are covered by plain old boring copyright law initially set up in the constitution.
No, I do not think this makes MS liable since its autocompletion is based off of what users have previously entered as opposed to this system which bases the autocompletion off the most popular searches performed by a large group of people. MS would be liable if everything typed in the URL bar was logged somewhere and suggestions were made not based on what _you_ had entered previously but rather what the most frequently entered things by others were. This patent is not merely talking about autocompletion. It's talking about autocompletion based off the most popular searches starting with the letters the user has already entered.
No, not all. I don't.
GO PAT GO!!!!
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I, too, have wondered about the politics of open source software. Let me preface my coments by saying that I am a conservative. Although I am 15 and can not vote, I am a passionate follower of politics, and I am supporting Pat Buchanan for the 2000 election.
Now, with that being said, I do wonder whether or not open source software is socialist. By its nature, I think it is a work of love. Many people like myself are adament about their computers. It's a passion. I think that is what linux grew out of. Mr. Torvalds had a passion for computing, coding, etc. so he made an OS. To me, the GNU project is similar. It is a work of love, but if you look at things in a very black and white view, it appears to be socialist. People contribute whithout wages, and people take without wages. However, I do think it comes back to passion. The people who work on open source projects are passionate about what they do, and the fact that they do not gets paid brings out some of the best coders in the world. Why are they doing? Becasue they love to do it.
Now, back to what I was originally saying. I do think that the basic premise of open source software is socialist. However, the licenses leave the capitalist option open. You can make money, and that is why I do not have a problem with most open source software. Now, if the GNU/GPL license were to ban all commercial use of code licensed under, then I would have major problems. However, code can be used for commercial purposes, and, in my line of thinking, it is capitalist. That's why I, a member of the 'religious right' support open source software.
Download libjpeg.so.62 from somewhere in rpm format and just force the rpm to install. I tried statisfying the dependencies, and then X wouldn't start. I had the same problem in SuSE 6.1.
A merger like this would produce a company that could manipulate the thoughts and feelings of numerous people. China serves as a beautiful example.
In China, the government runs the media, and in doing so they have a tremendous influence over the way their people think and feel. About a year ago, the US bombed the Chinese embassy in Kosovo. While this was a terrible thing, the response in China was overwhelming. The Chinese media showed images from other grusome scenes in order to stir up fears. The media in China also failed to air apologies and explanations for the happenings in Kosovo. The media controlled what the people thought and felt on one particular issue, and I see nothing that would prevent this new company from doing the same thing.
Yes, this may sound far-fetched, and it probably will not happen in the same degree as in communist countries. However, a media giant like this would indeed have the power. Another example. Ever been involved with a news story? Ever been interviewed? Often times only pieces of this will shown in order to make a point, or show one side of the story. Ineed, some of this manipulation of people's thoughts and feelings goes on today, and I think that a this new AOL/Time Warner company could and would use this same power. Maybe not for some horrible world plot, but maybe for promotion of porducts or sponsership of political ideas that would benefit the company.
Yesterday really was a dark day in history. I hope this merger is stopped.
I'm not sure about the UK, but in the US, speeding tickets are a very large source of revenue. Some little towns in the US use this as their primary source of revenue, and I think it is unlikely an politician would support a measure that would cut a large amount of money out of the budget, as well as causing very many pissed of people.
If he's got neat materials, I don't care if his physics is stupid; he's got neat materials.
I agree. From the article it sounded like various people have tested his "cell," and have gotten the same results. The issue seems to be why, and if you can produce this energy, and make these cool materials, who cares why it works. Let's figure that out later.
Also, the way everyone jumps to conclusions and ignores data when ananlyzing this guy, reminds me of a Mr.Gregor Mendel. Remember him?
Although I'm not Jewish, I do think you made a good point about the pagan rituals. The Christmas tree has nothing to do with Christ. The same goes for lights (unless they are star shapped or something similar). Also, everyone says that they hate the commercialization of Christmas, but we all continue to support it (myself included). I went shopping last night, and I saw nothing close to Christian behavior. Christians definately do need to focus on what Christmas is about. Also, I think the Jewish people, and everyone else too, should stop acting like victims. Remember, God will reward the persecuted, regardless of their religion.
Creating life is nice and all, but we'll be 'gods' when we can create a universe in a lab. Until then, I'm sticking to the God theory because so far, we can't explain how somethin' came from nothin'.
One of the things that we know about the future is that the notion of God will be around forever. In all civilizations some notion of a superior being/beings has existed. Now, it is a matter of time before some religion picks up the genetic "ball." Essentially, it is a religion's "job" to adress these issues. Religion is supposed to provide something to look to in almost every case. Now, if Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, or some other religion starts to answaer this question, it will likely see an increase in members. Since I am Catholic, I would like good ol' JPII to address this problem, because I think it would benefit the church and give it some peace of mind in this particular realm
For some reason I really enjoy the sound of a dot matrix printer. I don't know why. I guess its a bit weird, but I could listen to that music.