I said it was a "good" point, not "awesome". That's your second factual error in this thread alone (the first one was about Uber).

So it appears you have to work on your reading skills as well as on your typing skills. Less uppercase and sarcasm, more fact checking. But don't give up - you've got some potential, with a bit of work you could get there. You're like an above-average tennis player, just before he started taking tennis lessons. Godspeed!
 

At first I almost made a serious reply to your post because you had good points. But the snarky tone and the uppercase words was just too annoying.

For the record, besides the way it was expressed, you made a good point when you said this:

Many large investment banks still rely on VAR indicators based on historical data; that's how they never understood their huge exposure during the subprime mortgage debacle. And many investors pick fund managers based on their past performance without analyzing their strategies. The past is always more convenient to look at.

Who is "us"? You and your imaginary broker that allows you to do short selling without a fat margin and that won't knock at your door the minute the stock price goes the other way?

What you describe is not a market crash, it's just a bad trend. Or an unusually depressed bear market.

In a market crash, the broker who shorted your stock goes bust and/or the other party goes bust and/or the company whose stock you own/shorted goes bust and the stock is worthless or unavailable to you, and your only solution is to join a class action suit or wait in line at the bankruptcy court with thousands of other creditors to get pennies on the c-note.

Ask anyone who had investments with Bear Stearns.

You should write a book about this. You could call it "Buy low, sell high, not the opposite". This would definitely be a checkout lane best seller at Wal-mart.

I don't believe you. Short positions are a bitch to get, on most self-directed accounts it's not even possible. You need a serious account with a fat margin and a good track record with a broker to get in that business. I don't even know you and I can tell that doing that on a lot of stocks is out of your reach.

That's also part of the battered wife syndrome.

The stock market is not a video game. For a stock to be sold there must be a real buyer. And guess what happens when a market is crashing? Lots of sellers, and no buyers. That's how you can tell that the market is crashing.

So how does your foolproof plan works? You will somehow know just before the market crash so you can sell everything, then buy it back at a huge discount because the market is dead? That's pure genius, you should send your resume to JP Morgan right away.

Get out of what? Uber is not publicly traded. Unless you happen to run a VC operation from your basement (which would require millions) there is no way you could have made money with that company.

Exactly.

If your time was precious, your company would hire a low-cost HR drone who could filter out resume with no C++ experience for a C++ programming position.

But already since you use C++ there's a case to be made that time is worth nothing in your company.

Just so we are clear: do you refer to some kind of fart, or to the lowest item in a stack of burps? Because if it's the later, I think a more sophisticated term would be "mezzanine burp".

Since you posted this on internet, maybe it's not true, which would mean that it's true, which would mean that it's not! *tilt*

Of course. Anyone who disagree with your flawed logic is a troll. I'm not sure where the "lying" part came from, but the important thing is that you can walk away from this discussion wrapped in the comfortable fabric of self-righteousness, so if that can help, feel free to call me a liar, a nazi, a racist or anything else.

At the end of the day you are just another dinosaur trying to pretend that everything has been invented decades ago and as such there is no need to make an effort to understand "new" things. Now why don't you go grab something to drink in the icebox and watch a show on that disguised radio they call a tv.

The point is not about how someone should use or not use RHN subscriptions, or whether they should have gone with CentOS if they didn't plan to renew a subscription. Your advice on those topics is not needed here and is probably not needed anywhere you typically provide it.

The issue is that when you install Red Hat, yum becomes dependent on the repos that are behind Red Hat's paywall. Of course you can reconfigure yum - provided that you have an easy way to do it (try without wget or make or even unzip).

systemd is something that could make the same lock-in approach work on daemons and who knows what else.

It's people using "cloud" for just about anything that creates confusion. That cloud gaming you describe is closer to "gaming as a service" rather than it is to cloud computing.

A SaaS offering, like your gaming example, may or may not be based on cloud computing; but that distinction is not something the end user can see.

Cloud computing is pay-per-use and elastic, just like electricity. Cloud gaming is neither - you pay for a service, it's SaaS; maybe you can have in-game purchase, but from a resource perspective you don't pay more or less based on what you do, and you can't get things like burstable performance.

Time-sharing on a mainframe can be pay-per-use, it depends on the service provider, but it's not elastic, you can't get more resources on demand. And from an architecture perspective, it's not cloud computing because it's not distributed and resource allocation is not automated.

When you say that dumb terminals and mainframe computers in the 50s were cloud computing, not only are you wrong, you are also insulting the incredible work that took place at Amazon and other companies to make computing a convenient commodity. Next time you sit in your sofa to watch a movie on Netflix remember that this type of service at that price would have never been possible with a mainframe architecture. Your Netflix subscription is SaaS - but Netflix's infrastructure is running on Amazon EC2 and that's pure cloud computing.