"Girls are attracted to that guy who steps on everybody's toes for his own personal gains. "
Not the sweet girls you'd want to be with, nope. Studies like this are great except they cant tell the difference between the stupid bimbo b*tch you wouldn't want to touch anyway, and the great (and possibly very attractive) girl who does not like assholes such as the one you're describing. Some girls like nice guys, you know. Not weak guys. Nice guys.
The first thing to do is get rid of money... Think about it. Have you really thought about it? I don't think anyone advocating this nonsense has ever truly given deep insight to the matter, and that's why Marxist movements always fail.
Why do I have to use the sword you gave me to get food? And since when do I get to dictate what people will do with their belongings, which they have acquired from me via exchange of resources? Or, for that matter, who gets to decide EVERYTHING that is produced, sold, consumed, and modified? The People(TM)? Come on.
Money is "natural". It is a medium of exchange, and the freedom that it brings is one of the foundations of free society. Without money, you would have to succumb to the inefficiency (and possible tyranny) of barter. Without money, benign government "planners" (think USSR) would have to sit down and decide for their fellow comrade what he needs, and how large the honey jars his family will consume should be. Coop's are just one step away from totalitarian despotism, because you need artificial "planning" to get these to work across domains on a large scale, as opposed to letting free economy determine what is needed and what can be provided, and at what price.
When you give someone money, anyone, you surrender all control over.. I'm sorry, but I don't have (and don't want) any control over anyone's life but my own. We are sentient beings, and our society protects itself from itself via a system of sensible crime-deterring law, not totalitarian control.
It allows selfish and evil men to harness good men in ignorance. Treade lightly, for heare bee dragons! The only instances of wise, all knowing characters trying to lead the "ignorant masses" away from the evil of exploitation, have been truly gruesome disasters. Real black spots in human history. That commoner, he knows more than you think. Much, much more.
That's a good point, but don't you think there are reasons that make it practical for our conscious efforts to be focused on one problem/issue at a time? Apart from the fact that our sentience dictates much of how we process data (e.g we recall something from our memory that looks similar..etc), our sentience also "learns" to prioritize the objects on which to focus. If you're driving at high speed at a critical point and something catches your eye only slightly and you ignore it, it may be good that you do that. Similarly, if there are too many of these guys with RPGs around(battlefield non-ambush situation), maybe you are (correctly) focusing on the ones that are nearer to you, rather than the ones that the computer would politely be pointing out if it were picking up your mind-debris.
I think it will be very difficult for them to strike a balance between informativeness and harmful distraction.
There's no real reason not to try to patent any little thought that passes through your mind, no matter how stupid or banal. One such reason is to *not* appear stupid or banal, particularly when you're in a field where your endeavors are almost common knowledge to people even without professional training. People who comprise part of your user base, and who will not take stupidity and banality very well. I (and many reasonable citizens of the internet/world) make it a habit to avoid companies whose business models rest on the stupid and the banal.*
There are probably other reasons to hate this guy. Being even somewhat responsible for Facebook is probably enough. ??? Facebook was a beautiful thing, and possibly still is, despite the silly applications. I have met "friends" from middle school, high school.. you name it. And now that we are in random places around the globe it truly is an amazing phenomenon, to wake up in the morning and watch people's lives progress in different environments (and sometimes completely different cultures) without the 14-year-old-girl-atmosphere of other connecting tools. I think he has done a wonderful thing with this, even if by accident.
as a matter of fact I do work in France... I think I'm going to add that to my list of favorite quotes. Maybe it's early in the morning, but I find this very funny. Slashdot is so damn entertaining - I should have brought popcorn to work today:)
I agree, but that's still the case with most elongated party names in the world now and before. The names and are an important part of the propaganda - they get repeated often because you have to say them, and really that is what matters most. I guess pretty much anyone can argue that [insert least favorite totalitarian regime] was not really [insert political ideology] but was rather parading under it.
As for the Nazi fascism being against socialist principles, I can still remember the poster pics we had in middle school (modern history) showing the "ideal german family". Sitting in their back yard with the children, simple (but not poor) clothing, their own planted vegetables visible. They looked very "socialist" to me - almost directly comparable to Cuban and Chinese propaganda.
Good points though, and should always be remembered. History repeats often. Mod parent up!
Well, he's grouping the Nazis and the Communists together, which is hardly accurate, but then again it was called the Nationalist Socialist party, wasn't it? They combined the worst of socialist interventionism with nationalist/racial pride(necessitating means to goals). So he is partially right, I guess.
The "right wing" platforms, depending on what Right Wing means in your part of the world, tend to be geared towards less government involvement and more emphasis on freedom and natural states of welfare and resource exchange. Same for naive communist utopias, where governments do not even exist. Funnily enough, both ends of the spectrum seem to lose these ideals somewhere on the way to their optimal scenario, and instead turn into draconian nightmares. Libertarians, for e.g, are more "right wing" than the current evangelist hijackers of American government, yet look where we are.
It is best to just ignore labels and instead follow logic, science, and human experience.
Try plugging it into an overhead projector a few times through an AGP connector. Not the ones you use for the Apple fanboi meetings, with static images of Jobs displayed all the time. See, it SUCKS when someone does that "you fanboi" thing, eh? Please read my post again to understand what I am trying to say.
I'm running Vista on an Apple Macbook Pro, bitlocker+UAC disabled, and having the time of my life. I have literally not seen a single BSOD so far, and the platform has never "hung up" on me. Ever. Maybe I came late to the show after they released many fixes, but bear in mind that Apple OSX 10.4 crashed on me twice while connecting to external graphics output. All in all, I think Vista looks better, performs better (despite very high memory reqs - try starting up firefox on Vista and Tiger and see which is faster) and is the most stable MS system since 2000. Which isn't saying much, but I really am puzzled as to why people have so many damn lethal problems. Vista may well be the first OS microsoft makes that comp.sci/IT people/knowledgeable folk can enjoy more than the layman.
On topic: $89,000 is not terrible to live on, is it. Not when you produce world-leading products and the best-quality computing hardware in the world, and are working with some of the world's finest minds in CS. Maybe they should raise it a little to avoid articles like this one, but I think we all need to sit down and talk about those children in Africa. Why won't anyone think of the children?
That stupid, mindless slashdot user. Imagine wanting to read an article without being bombarded with advertisements that render the text almost completely unreadable because of their stupid design and placement. Let's behead this flagrant offender immediately for wanting quality web design! Off with his johnson!
I think (actually I sincerely hope, and it's a strong kind of hope, so I'll just say think) that the parent was being sarcastic. Somebody draw the joke-flying-over-head thing for the mods.
I suspect that this has something to do with the upcoming international year of astronomy, which is all about getting the public excited about astronomy, semi-reversing Pluto's demotion (which appears to have been unpopular among non-astronomers) seems to be good for this. Yes, and bringing me closer to celebrity status is a good thing too. When the plutoids grow, behold! They become... Plutonite!
I wish I had better things to do at work today. I really do.
I see. So Iran is funding Hezbollah in it's attempt to take over.. No, I already told you, if you had the patience to read on, that they are funding Hezbollah because they are Shiite. My logic has nothing to do with being impeccable, it's just the way things are. Not my fault you are clueless or can't read what I write or possibly have an "Iranians planning world order" theory in your head from watching too much faux news. Stop being silly.
And now they're even more pissed off because the US fought AGAINST Iraq... No, they're not pissed off because we changed sides, they're kinda worried because the US - insane enough to pull off a war like this one - has threatened to bomb them as well on several occasions. They see us as the people who allowed saddam to commit genocide against their civilians and as the people who are trying to fight them for their beliefs - evildoers who want only destruction and chaos. They haven't seen any other side of us. It's easy for zealous rhetoric to take our actions and turn them into the picture they want for the public. What are they supposed to think? That we are a benovolent peace loving people? You're like, totally smarter than I am apparently.
I can't believe you're supporting the US backing of saddam hussein's massacres. You've never seen footage of the hundrends of thousands of civilians who were gassed like insects? The entire families' bodies lying outside their homes in the streets? Looks like you only know about Jewish suffering, and I'm not surprised.
You mean we defended a people who had almost been exterminated by Nazism and have ever since been under constant assault from the Muslim hordes? Yep, that's a nice way to say "defended the founding of a nation on purely racial basis (contrary to everything the US stands for) and the creation of one of the worlds largest refugee problems and human rights cases in history." The "Muslim hordes" had Jews living peacefully in their countries before we came along and fucked things up in the name of the "promised land" and "zion". That was a mistake, or at least a terribly screwed up way of dealing with things. You are trying to rationalize our blind support for Israel as if there is no lobbying power making us on several occasions the ONLY nation to defend Israel's crimes in the UN.
I am not isolationist. I don't support the libertarians. I want our nations to take action based on logic and humanitarian responsibility, not on neocon dogma. Yes we shouldn't have backed the Taliban if they are so fundamentally against our ideals and beliefs. And yes we shouldn't have backed a lunatic in the process of war crime on massive scales. Since you know nothing about the middle east (judging from your writing) and nothing about how these people think, nothing I write will probably change your opinion on anything involving our intervention in those parts of the world. I've lived there for years however, and just wanted to illustrate how easy it is to think you are right when you are furthest from the truth. University student are obviously more educated on these matters than both you and the conservative nutjobs who fuel all this madness.
Woah, thousands of years of history there. I'm sure all of this started way before "1945" or whatever is was you said, right?
Yes the Iranian pres is a lunatic and yes they have supported the Shiites in Lebanon (and everywhere else, because that's how religious prejudice works, genius), but maybe your all knowingness and non-nonsense approach to my babble has forgotten the hundreds of thousands of Iranians that we helped massacre by providing Saddam Hussein with chemical warfare in the gulf wars? MAYBE that has something to do with helping the zealous rhetoric against us? And the fact that we invaded a nation half way around the world and caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people for no reason at all, except our own leadership being similarly nutty and driven by christian zealots that are the mirror reflection of theirs?
I don't recall anyone in this discussion saying the persians or the arabs are not living a backward, retarded culture, and inciting hatred..etc. What we are saying is that we - the civilized part of the world - have in general behaved in a pretty barbaric manner ourselves towards that region, and shown limitless bias in the support of zionism and other bizarre ideologies. And I'm so glad you're not putting up with my incompetence, I'll leave you take that out on all the other incompetent people in your world. Jeeze.
Yes, most of the region's nations gained political independence around that time. We drew up the maps and we created (and continue to create) many of the problems. Of course, if you have insights on how the thousands of years of history relate directly to yesterday's news, please don't let my ignorance stop you.
PS: try to discipline yourself a little in responses. You don't have to embody the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory every time you reply to one of us simple folk on the interwebs you know.
What I'm trying to say is: GP doesn't have anything to do with you, and everything to do with people who get SUVs and don't do "SUV stuff." Yep. For instance, the GGP is probably talking about middle-aged Asian women in black SUVs. Mark my words, those are the signs of destruction. They're not trying to cover up anything, the little terrors, they're just intent on wreaking havoc and chaos on the world. I speak out of years of scholarly studies on the phenomenon. Very well, brush me aside, but don't say I haven't warned you when one of them rolls over your Prius in broad daylight screaming YOKAWAMASHIKA!!
btw, this is a very defining moment in human civilization. Our energy consumption is finally being reined in by natural consequences of resource shortage and previous extravagance. I don't remember we've ever had to do this before.
Wow, thanks for the lecture, you totally changed my worldview there. I'm sure the country that has hundred of tactical nukes is the child being picked on by those nasty persian bullies who are under international surveillance. Get a grip on it. Israel has our backing to go bombing nations that won't be able to respond. That is what I was pointing out. But never mind, i am just a biased pig.
Because most of the problems in the middle east come from a few badly taken and short-sighted decisions that have been made by the western powers a few decades ago (and continue to be taken till this day, in fact). Iran getting bombed for a nuclear program that Israel already took the liberty of developing many years ago? I'm sure that will sound like fair to the entire region, especially with "our" usually automatic blessing. You must understand that the world does not always see with our eyes. Why should one nation (one that is almost invariably at the top of human rights abuse lists) get to have an aggressive tactical nuclear weapons program while others - who declare it peacefully - get bombed?
And to answer the other poster: Arabs are not involved. This is Persia, genius, and they are practically enemies with the sunni states. they are not abut to cross continents and invade anyone soon, so yeah, I take their "threats" pretty liberally. People who like watching faux news often come up with amazing video-game scenarios where Iran develops high-tech weaponry and delivers it to lebanese militias who annihilate Israel, but frankly, I am more concerned about Israel launching strikes against sovereign nations and starting a regional war. Hey they have our backing, even on slashdot.. why wouldn't they?
I haven't seen "the jews" being blamed for anything on slashdot. Maybe you're a little too sensitive, especially as the GP was probably referring to the recent direct threats to sovereign nations that Israeli leadership was making in the last few days. Threats of military action.
Your long term is not my long term. While stocks and the like are probably suited for daily and longer timeframes, there are many markets (including indexes based on stocks) that can be traded with decent statistical edges with a few hours of graphical info at a time. Granted, this is still above the ranges the article is talking about, but even that can come in useful and is generally nice to have: what if some disasterous news release comes in and you want to know whether to bail out or not? The market can go either way no matter what the news is.
Also, there is a good number of brilliant traders on some exchanges who actually make very decent consistent winnings by having access to "book" information. Let's just say that amateurs and pros alike tend to be positioned ridiculously during the news, where you can benefit from the surges in price due to low liquidity. In that case, you need a tick-by-tick feed from the book, not just 15min updates.
Dont stop at "A random walk..". Recently, "a non-random walk" was published by princeton university press, for free. Huge debate. Good luck.
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"Girls are attracted to that guy who steps on everybody's toes for his own personal gains. "
Not the sweet girls you'd want to be with, nope. Studies like this are great except they cant tell the difference between the stupid bimbo b*tch you wouldn't want to touch anyway, and the great (and possibly very attractive) girl who does not like assholes such as the one you're describing. Some girls like nice guys, you know. Not weak guys. Nice guys.
Why do I have to use the sword you gave me to get food? And since when do I get to dictate what people will do with their belongings, which they have acquired from me via exchange of resources? Or, for that matter, who gets to decide EVERYTHING that is produced, sold, consumed, and modified? The People(TM)? Come on.
Money is "natural". It is a medium of exchange, and the freedom that it brings is one of the foundations of free society. Without money, you would have to succumb to the inefficiency (and possible tyranny) of barter. Without money, benign government "planners" (think USSR) would have to sit down and decide for their fellow comrade what he needs, and how large the honey jars his family will consume should be. Coop's are just one step away from totalitarian despotism, because you need artificial "planning" to get these to work across domains on a large scale, as opposed to letting free economy determine what is needed and what can be provided, and at what price.
When you give someone money, anyone, you surrender all control over.. I'm sorry, but I don't have (and don't want) any control over anyone's life but my own. We are sentient beings, and our society protects itself from itself via a system of sensible crime-deterring law, not totalitarian control. It allows selfish and evil men to harness good men in ignorance. Treade lightly, for heare bee dragons! The only instances of wise, all knowing characters trying to lead the "ignorant masses" away from the evil of exploitation, have been truly gruesome disasters. Real black spots in human history. That commoner, he knows more than you think. Much, much more.That's a good point, but don't you think there are reasons that make it practical for our conscious efforts to be focused on one problem/issue at a time? Apart from the fact that our sentience dictates much of how we process data (e.g we recall something from our memory that looks similar..etc), our sentience also "learns" to prioritize the objects on which to focus. If you're driving at high speed at a critical point and something catches your eye only slightly and you ignore it, it may be good that you do that. Similarly, if there are too many of these guys with RPGs around(battlefield non-ambush situation), maybe you are (correctly) focusing on the ones that are nearer to you, rather than the ones that the computer would politely be pointing out if it were picking up your mind-debris.
I think it will be very difficult for them to strike a balance between informativeness and harmful distraction.
I disagree. First of all:
There's no real reason not to try to patent any little thought that passes through your mind, no matter how stupid or banal. One such reason is to *not* appear stupid or banal, particularly when you're in a field where your endeavors are almost common knowledge to people even without professional training. People who comprise part of your user base, and who will not take stupidity and banality very well. I (and many reasonable citizens of the internet/world) make it a habit to avoid companies whose business models rest on the stupid and the banal.* There are probably other reasons to hate this guy. Being even somewhat responsible for Facebook is probably enough. ???Facebook was a beautiful thing, and possibly still is, despite the silly applications. I have met "friends" from middle school, high school.. you name it. And now that we are in random places around the globe it truly is an amazing phenomenon, to wake up in the morning and watch people's lives progress in different environments (and sometimes completely different cultures) without the 14-year-old-girl-atmosphere of other connecting tools. I think he has done a wonderful thing with this, even if by accident.
*disclaimer: I use MS software :)
I agree, but that's still the case with most elongated party names in the world now and before. The names and are an important part of the propaganda - they get repeated often because you have to say them, and really that is what matters most. I guess pretty much anyone can argue that [insert least favorite totalitarian regime] was not really [insert political ideology] but was rather parading under it.
As for the Nazi fascism being against socialist principles, I can still remember the poster pics we had in middle school (modern history) showing the "ideal german family". Sitting in their back yard with the children, simple (but not poor) clothing, their own planted vegetables visible. They looked very "socialist" to me - almost directly comparable to Cuban and Chinese propaganda.
Good points though, and should always be remembered. History repeats often. Mod parent up!
Well, he's grouping the Nazis and the Communists together, which is hardly accurate, but then again it was called the Nationalist Socialist party, wasn't it? They combined the worst of socialist interventionism with nationalist/racial pride(necessitating means to goals). So he is partially right, I guess.
The "right wing" platforms, depending on what Right Wing means in your part of the world, tend to be geared towards less government involvement and more emphasis on freedom and natural states of welfare and resource exchange. Same for naive communist utopias, where governments do not even exist. Funnily enough, both ends of the spectrum seem to lose these ideals somewhere on the way to their optimal scenario, and instead turn into draconian nightmares. Libertarians, for e.g, are more "right wing" than the current evangelist hijackers of American government, yet look where we are.
It is best to just ignore labels and instead follow logic, science, and human experience.
Try plugging it into an overhead projector a few times through an AGP connector. Not the ones you use for the Apple fanboi meetings, with static images of Jobs displayed all the time. See, it SUCKS when someone does that "you fanboi" thing, eh? Please read my post again to understand what I am trying to say.
Congratulations, you just made me cry! :'(
Of course we all run Linux or BSD or some Unix variant. I'm just speaking from the perspective of having to use a windows box for convenience ;)
I'm running Vista on an Apple Macbook Pro, bitlocker+UAC disabled, and having the time of my life. I have literally not seen a single BSOD so far, and the platform has never "hung up" on me. Ever. Maybe I came late to the show after they released many fixes, but bear in mind that Apple OSX 10.4 crashed on me twice while connecting to external graphics output. All in all, I think Vista looks better, performs better (despite very high memory reqs - try starting up firefox on Vista and Tiger and see which is faster) and is the most stable MS system since 2000. Which isn't saying much, but I really am puzzled as to why people have so many damn lethal problems. Vista may well be the first OS microsoft makes that comp.sci/IT people/knowledgeable folk can enjoy more than the layman.
On topic: $89,000 is not terrible to live on, is it. Not when you produce world-leading products and the best-quality computing hardware in the world, and are working with some of the world's finest minds in CS. Maybe they should raise it a little to avoid articles like this one, but I think we all need to sit down and talk about those children in Africa. Why won't anyone think of the children?
That stupid, mindless slashdot user. Imagine wanting to read an article without being bombarded with advertisements that render the text almost completely unreadable because of their stupid design and placement. Let's behead this flagrant offender immediately for wanting quality web design! Off with his johnson!
You're forgetting the signal direction markings
Jesus Christ you're talking as if the internet was like a big truck or something. Come on.
I think (actually I sincerely hope, and it's a strong kind of hope, so I'll just say think) that the parent was being sarcastic. Somebody draw the joke-flying-over-head thing for the mods.
I can't believe you're supporting the US backing of saddam hussein's massacres. You've never seen footage of the hundrends of thousands of civilians who were gassed like insects? The entire families' bodies lying outside their homes in the streets? Looks like you only know about Jewish suffering, and I'm not surprised. You mean we defended a people who had almost been exterminated by Nazism and have ever since been under constant assault from the Muslim hordes? Yep, that's a nice way to say "defended the founding of a nation on purely racial basis (contrary to everything the US stands for) and the creation of one of the worlds largest refugee problems and human rights cases in history." The "Muslim hordes" had Jews living peacefully in their countries before we came along and fucked things up in the name of the "promised land" and "zion". That was a mistake, or at least a terribly screwed up way of dealing with things. You are trying to rationalize our blind support for Israel as if there is no lobbying power making us on several occasions the ONLY nation to defend Israel's crimes in the UN.
I am not isolationist. I don't support the libertarians. I want our nations to take action based on logic and humanitarian responsibility, not on neocon dogma. Yes we shouldn't have backed the Taliban if they are so fundamentally against our ideals and beliefs. And yes we shouldn't have backed a lunatic in the process of war crime on massive scales. Since you know nothing about the middle east (judging from your writing) and nothing about how these people think, nothing I write will probably change your opinion on anything involving our intervention in those parts of the world. I've lived there for years however, and just wanted to illustrate how easy it is to think you are right when you are furthest from the truth. University student are obviously more educated on these matters than both you and the conservative nutjobs who fuel all this madness.
Woah, thousands of years of history there. I'm sure all of this started way before "1945" or whatever is was you said, right?
Yes the Iranian pres is a lunatic and yes they have supported the Shiites in Lebanon (and everywhere else, because that's how religious prejudice works, genius), but maybe your all knowingness and non-nonsense approach to my babble has forgotten the hundreds of thousands of Iranians that we helped massacre by providing Saddam Hussein with chemical warfare in the gulf wars? MAYBE that has something to do with helping the zealous rhetoric against us? And the fact that we invaded a nation half way around the world and caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people for no reason at all, except our own leadership being similarly nutty and driven by christian zealots that are the mirror reflection of theirs?
I don't recall anyone in this discussion saying the persians or the arabs are not living a backward, retarded culture, and inciting hatred..etc. What we are saying is that we - the civilized part of the world - have in general behaved in a pretty barbaric manner ourselves towards that region, and shown limitless bias in the support of zionism and other bizarre ideologies. And I'm so glad you're not putting up with my incompetence, I'll leave you take that out on all the other incompetent people in your world. Jeeze.
Yes, most of the region's nations gained political independence around that time. We drew up the maps and we created (and continue to create) many of the problems. Of course, if you have insights on how the thousands of years of history relate directly to yesterday's news, please don't let my ignorance stop you.
PS: try to discipline yourself a little in responses. You don't have to embody the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory every time you reply to one of us simple folk on the interwebs you know.
btw, this is a very defining moment in human civilization. Our energy consumption is finally being reined in by natural consequences of resource shortage and previous extravagance. I don't remember we've ever had to do this before.
The god of lim handles those nicely. We are blessed with his limitless simplifying and differentiating bounties, o ignorant one.
Wow, thanks for the lecture, you totally changed my worldview there. I'm sure the country that has hundred of tactical nukes is the child being picked on by those nasty persian bullies who are under international surveillance. Get a grip on it. Israel has our backing to go bombing nations that won't be able to respond. That is what I was pointing out. But never mind, i am just a biased pig.
Because most of the problems in the middle east come from a few badly taken and short-sighted decisions that have been made by the western powers a few decades ago (and continue to be taken till this day, in fact). Iran getting bombed for a nuclear program that Israel already took the liberty of developing many years ago? I'm sure that will sound like fair to the entire region, especially with "our" usually automatic blessing. You must understand that the world does not always see with our eyes. Why should one nation (one that is almost invariably at the top of human rights abuse lists) get to have an aggressive tactical nuclear weapons program while others - who declare it peacefully - get bombed?
And to answer the other poster: Arabs are not involved. This is Persia, genius, and they are practically enemies with the sunni states. they are not abut to cross continents and invade anyone soon, so yeah, I take their "threats" pretty liberally. People who like watching faux news often come up with amazing video-game scenarios where Iran develops high-tech weaponry and delivers it to lebanese militias who annihilate Israel, but frankly, I am more concerned about Israel launching strikes against sovereign nations and starting a regional war. Hey they have our backing, even on slashdot.. why wouldn't they?
I haven't seen "the jews" being blamed for anything on slashdot. Maybe you're a little too sensitive, especially as the GP was probably referring to the recent direct threats to sovereign nations that Israeli leadership was making in the last few days. Threats of military action.
Ahh, ORACLE... I thought it was an Access database, hence the utter disbelief.
Your long term is not my long term. While stocks and the like are probably suited for daily and longer timeframes, there are many markets (including indexes based on stocks) that can be traded with decent statistical edges with a few hours of graphical info at a time. Granted, this is still above the ranges the article is talking about, but even that can come in useful and is generally nice to have: what if some disasterous news release comes in and you want to know whether to bail out or not? The market can go either way no matter what the news is.
Also, there is a good number of brilliant traders on some exchanges who actually make very decent consistent winnings by having access to "book" information. Let's just say that amateurs and pros alike tend to be positioned ridiculously during the news, where you can benefit from the surges in price due to low liquidity. In that case, you need a tick-by-tick feed from the book, not just 15min updates.
Dont stop at "A random walk..". Recently, "a non-random walk" was published by princeton university press, for free. Huge debate. Good luck.