Actually it's doing an end-run around exchange fees and showing your hand to the market. All trades are publicly reported anyway, just not the quotes of where you are sitting in the market.
Since they've already gone into full corporate sell-out mode, I suggest Disney take some advise from Electronic Arts. Similar to the Madden, NHL and NBA games, they should just name it Star Wars 2014, Star Wars 2015 etc. At least it's not going to make things worse.
I know my "personality" changes a bit when I'm hungry, tired, in physical pain, aroused
I'm not sure this makes sense to me. This is all just stimulus external to the brain arriving through the nervous system. It's like saying I react differently when my eyes see there's a burglar in my bedroom compared to when my eyes don't see that.
Do you at least find it interesting that NOBODY in Russia or China has any secrets that they are willing to give Wikileaks? I hope you don't believe that those societies are so perfect that they have nothing untoward going on at all.
What's that got to do with holding yourself to a higher standard?
Been there, done that. Look specifically at APL in the 60s. Functions were represented by single characters which you needed a special keyboard to type. For example, instead of typing the string floor, instead it was represented by what is now Unicode Character 'LEFT FLOOR' (U+230A) and required a special terminal to reproduce them. This limited where you could input and also display APL code.
One evolution of APL was the A+ language leading finally to K in the 90s. Having these special character requirements was too much of a pain in APL so all special characters were replaced by tuples of ASCII characters that were already common. In K, 'floor' was now expressed as _: which is no easier to guess the meaning of if you don't know the syntax, but now you need only standard ASCII to represent it.
'Son of K' was Q which comes full circle replacing _: with the keyword floor.
Iverson's argument in developing APL was that the terseness achieved by using notoation (single characters) meant that you could express concepts more conciesely. This in turn meant that complex concepts were easier to visualise. There's a lot to be said for this, but I think Q now provides a much happier medium between the two perspectives.
You're absolutely right, they weren't designed right. They were designed 10 years ago without knowledge of what future markets would look like.
Not trying to justify it. I thought old, inappropriate systems at banks were common knowledge...
As someone who works in equities IT for one of the big firms I can confirm that we IT people at least, like HFT customers less than others. They can add sometimes unexpected ramp-ups in data that can cause already-creaking systems to fall over, potentially impacting other non-HFT clients. This is partly bad management of older and less interesting systems but partly because they are an unpredictable lot.
What it comes down to is that they cost a lot to support (force investement in systems) but don't always deliver as much value as other more lucrative clients that trade using our algos rather than HFT DMA merry-making in our dark pool.
Look on the bright side; if you leave garbage around long enough, it becomes archeology!
With a little patience, you too can make something worthless into something priceless!
I thought there was way too much 'emotion'. Every scene Uhura is in, she's weeping about something. Even the stoic vulcan has a good blub at least once.
If you don't understand the details of the technology, you're highly likely to miss a bunch of nuance in understanding how (and how much) it can solve your business problems.
As a CIO, this is what you have underlings for. You build a relationship of trust with people who DO understand the technology. You'll tend to like these people if they can deeply understand the technology and can describe it in language you are used to. "Is this good, yes or no."
This way you can then repeat that information to other people. If you get burned later because they were economical with the truth, you replace them with someone you can trust. This is is how non-technical people work.
Here in the UK the main domain has been blocked by the major ISPs several months ago. Immediately there were no end of proxy alternative domains by which to get access to the same content, no one particular domain really matters at all. I think it's cute that they keep going after the main domain. It keeps them distracted while the main event is going on elsewhere.
This has never been a consideration for the ruling classes. The corporations have a horizon as far as their next yearly statement, the politicians it's the next election.
I've read all of his books and have grown quite attached to his writing style. Even the more difficult to follow ones such as The Bridge were still pretty good in their own right. I'm a Scot who doesn't live in Scotland any more, so I take particular joy in his books set in Scotland like The Wasp Factory, Complicity and Stonemouth.
Also, You don't have to look far to find a few Culture references in the Halo games.
I am one of the backers for the Elite Kickstarter. I think the 'strings attached' bit is probably quite important for an elderly game like Elite. Lets say hypothetically that worst case, someone like EA was the publisher. Everything would be micro-transaction, autolog bullshit with an annoying soundtrack you can't turn off and a 'hey radical' southern-california commentator giving you a mind-meltingly droll tutorial on how to be the hottest, slickest new pilot in the galaxy with pats on the head every 5 minutes. It would need to be themed on a music festival, surf exhibition, frat party or some other 'down-with-the-kids' irrelevance. Of course there has to be a leader board from which some 16 year old ass-hat leaves an audio-message for everyone declaring his teabag is the biggest.
You would have to deal with the fallout from some EA Exec demanding that every time you destroyed another ship, crashed in to one or came with a few metres of one, you get a 3 second cut scene that pauses the action because "it's more 'Michael Bay' that way". When you finally dock after many, many, wooshing, spinning, exploding menu options, you get the pretty much compulsory option of using real money to get rid of your wanted status or whatever, which is probably the only way to progress since like an Ikea store, there seems to be no way to circumvent what you don't want. Every couple of AU that you travel you'll get.... an achievement! Awesome! You will be able to buy 50 achievements with your real money and then sell them for new ships or some other weird artificial game mechanic, all while enduring commercials from "out trusted partners". This certainty was all but avoided because of Kickstarter. I rest my case.
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Actually it's doing an end-run around exchange fees and showing your hand to the market. All trades are publicly reported anyway, just not the quotes of where you are sitting in the market.
Since they've already gone into full corporate sell-out mode, I suggest Disney take some advise from Electronic Arts. Similar to the Madden, NHL and NBA games, they should just name it Star Wars 2014, Star Wars 2015 etc. At least it's not going to make things worse.
That depends, is one of your bodies also your wife?
I'm not sure this makes sense to me. This is all just stimulus external to the brain arriving through the nervous system. It's like saying I react differently when my eyes see there's a burglar in my bedroom compared to when my eyes don't see that.
What's that got to do with holding yourself to a higher standard?
Been there, done that. Look specifically at APL in the 60s. Functions were represented by single characters which you needed a special keyboard to type. For example, instead of typing the string floor, instead it was represented by what is now Unicode Character 'LEFT FLOOR' (U+230A) and required a special terminal to reproduce them. This limited where you could input and also display APL code.
One evolution of APL was the A+ language leading finally to K in the 90s. Having these special character requirements was too much of a pain in APL so all special characters were replaced by tuples of ASCII characters that were already common. In K, 'floor' was now expressed as _: which is no easier to guess the meaning of if you don't know the syntax, but now you need only standard ASCII to represent it.
'Son of K' was Q which comes full circle replacing _: with the keyword floor. Iverson's argument in developing APL was that the terseness achieved by using notoation (single characters) meant that you could express concepts more conciesely. This in turn meant that complex concepts were easier to visualise. There's a lot to be said for this, but I think Q now provides a much happier medium between the two perspectives.
If we had two copies of the book, would diff be enough to muddy the waters of who's copy was the naughty one?
You're absolutely right, they weren't designed right. They were designed 10 years ago without knowledge of what future markets would look like. Not trying to justify it. I thought old, inappropriate systems at banks were common knowledge...
As someone who works in equities IT for one of the big firms I can confirm that we IT people at least, like HFT customers less than others. They can add sometimes unexpected ramp-ups in data that can cause already-creaking systems to fall over, potentially impacting other non-HFT clients. This is partly bad management of older and less interesting systems but partly because they are an unpredictable lot.
What it comes down to is that they cost a lot to support (force investement in systems) but don't always deliver as much value as other more lucrative clients that trade using our algos rather than HFT DMA merry-making in our dark pool.
I think it's his very own SimCity project. Just be thankful he isn't into Populus...
Instead of partially-undersea, eventually it will be totally undersea.
The first part of Rapture perhaps?
Look on the bright side; if you leave garbage around long enough, it becomes archeology!
With a little patience, you too can make something worthless into something priceless!
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I thought there was way too much 'emotion'. Every scene Uhura is in, she's weeping about something. Even the stoic vulcan has a good blub at least once.
Wrong! Plan 9 was from Outer Space.
As a CIO, this is what you have underlings for. You build a relationship of trust with people who DO understand the technology. You'll tend to like these people if they can deeply understand the technology and can describe it in language you are used to. "Is this good, yes or no."
This way you can then repeat that information to other people. If you get burned later because they were economical with the truth, you replace them with someone you can trust. This is is how non-technical people work.
Everyone knows that efficiency in a capitalist system feeds right to the guys at the top. What, were you expecting some of it?
Here in the UK the main domain has been blocked by the major ISPs several months ago. Immediately there were no end of proxy alternative domains by which to get access to the same content, no one particular domain really matters at all. I think it's cute that they keep going after the main domain. It keeps them distracted while the main event is going on elsewhere.
Careful now, this withchunt could still happen on Slashdot too but in several days and with hot grits.
This has never been a consideration for the ruling classes. The corporations have a horizon as far as their next yearly statement, the politicians it's the next election.
The peace V sign being somewhat confusing given the inbound nuke.
Well these Thunderbirds from International Rescue were cancelled in the sixties. Looks like just in time that we sent that pillock David Milliband to restart the whole thing.
Eh? What-what? I can't hear you without my monocle in!
I've read all of his books and have grown quite attached to his writing style. Even the more difficult to follow ones such as The Bridge were still pretty good in their own right. I'm a Scot who doesn't live in Scotland any more, so I take particular joy in his books set in Scotland like The Wasp Factory, Complicity and Stonemouth.
Also, You don't have to look far to find a few Culture references in the Halo games.
But wait, there's more! DRM is included later in expensive DLC for your pleasure!
I am one of the backers for the Elite Kickstarter. I think the 'strings attached' bit is probably quite important for an elderly game like Elite. Lets say hypothetically that worst case, someone like EA was the publisher. Everything would be micro-transaction, autolog bullshit with an annoying soundtrack you can't turn off and a 'hey radical' southern-california commentator giving you a mind-meltingly droll tutorial on how to be the hottest, slickest new pilot in the galaxy with pats on the head every 5 minutes. It would need to be themed on a music festival, surf exhibition, frat party or some other 'down-with-the-kids' irrelevance. Of course there has to be a leader board from which some 16 year old ass-hat leaves an audio-message for everyone declaring his teabag is the biggest.
You would have to deal with the fallout from some EA Exec demanding that every time you destroyed another ship, crashed in to one or came with a few metres of one, you get a 3 second cut scene that pauses the action because "it's more 'Michael Bay' that way". When you finally dock after many, many, wooshing, spinning, exploding menu options, you get the pretty much compulsory option of using real money to get rid of your wanted status or whatever, which is probably the only way to progress since like an Ikea store, there seems to be no way to circumvent what you don't want. Every couple of AU that you travel you'll get.... an achievement! Awesome! You will be able to buy 50 achievements with your real money and then sell them for new ships or some other weird artificial game mechanic, all while enduring commercials from "out trusted partners". This certainty was all but avoided because of Kickstarter. I rest my case.