I thought about the performance meters, but then considered that the few times when I wanted to see performance figures they would be obscured by a window. Install a proper monitoring utility which will output to the system tray, or an overlay, or a proper performance monitoring tool. Hell, even perfmon does a better job when set up correctly.

I personally use Coretemp for temperature and fan monitoring, and the motherboard manufacturer supplied tuning app for CPU clock / usage stats. GPUz will give you live graphics info, if you want it.

Passthrough, in this instance, is where your company-supplied router has all of the functionality apart from the modem disabled; It is set up to pass all data straight out to the LAN side of the device. You then have a second router, purchased by yourself and set up how you wish, handling all LAN services; DHCP, NAT, SPI etc. This has two major benefits;

- The device provided by your ISP is almost guaranteed to be the cheapest crap they can get away with calling an Integrated Service Router; It will fall over faster than you can reboot it. Taking all services away from this device, apart from passing packets from the ISP to the LAN, is good for your network uptime.
- Your ISP provided device is probably hooked up with any number of backdoors for service reps to help Grandma Lilly connect her wireless printer, or meter your LAN traffic and bill you for it (I forget who did that, but I laughed when I read it). Having another router inside the LAN, after the ISP's device, ensures that the CSR's on the support desk can't access your LAN. Ever. They can't see traffic, they can't tell how many devices you have, nothing.

My home network is set up exactly like this, only I go one step further and have my own router pass all traffic through a VPN. There is just no way for the ISP to know anything about my internet usage, only how many bits it passes for me.

As for serving one MAC address, that's exactly why a lot of ISRs in the early - mid 2000s had MAC cloning as a feature; Set up your modem on your PC, then tell your router to clone your PC NIC's MAC address. BOOM instant internet sharing, and the ISP is none the wiser.

How would you keep the overlay in focus while you are concentrating on objects in the distance?

That is only one consideration, and a questionable conclusion at best. There is also airflow; Very good through the 25mm thick radiator an unrestricted 120mm^2 case fan mounting, poor through 100mm of densly packed fins and the height of a PCI slot and out through the single slot exhaust. If you're running an aftermarket cooler (Windforce 3, as I have) then that's different, but that exhausts into the case, increasing ambient temperature. There's also acoustic preferences; The stock AMD coolers *howl* under load, as the tornado-style fans are small and have to spin pretty damn fast to get the air pressure required to push air through those small fin gaps at a reasonable pressure. There's no such issue with the water loop; 120mm fan can be silent and still easily cool a GPU without the into-case exhaust of the aftermarket coolers. My CPU is cooled by a Corsair Hydro closed loop system; Not ideal when coupled with the Windforce, but it gets the job done.

If I was in the market for a $1000+ graphics card and didn't already have my own water system, I'd snap up one of these AMD cards in a second. It's almost guaranteed to be next to silent as long as the tornado fan can keep the RAM and MOSFETs cool at a reasonable RPM.

The radiator for the liquid loop is not on the graphics card, only the waterblock and pump are. The radiator is separate and designed to be mounted on the 120mm case-fan mounting at the rear of your case (or wherever else it will fit) and exhaust out of the case. You lose can only gain in cooling efficiency as you are increasing the air-cooled surface area (120mm rad compared to standard GPU heatsink), you're exhausting directly out of the case thereby reducing ambient temperature compared to an enclosed air-cooling system, and you're getting a lower RPM, therefore lower noise, fan to boot.

I think what parent was saying is the current release, v16, and is patched. Either you're on Maya (LTS release) or you're doing a full upgrade at each new version. Nobody should be running v15 anymore.

There's no increased liquidity; Buyer and seller(s) were already engaged in a transaction (had reached Exchange A, not Exchange B), and all orders would have been fulfilled by the Exchange B once the order arrived there (Gross simplification, I know). Someone with a faster link between A and B buying all of $Stock at B and selling for slightly higher before the order from A arrives isn't adding liquidity. If a person did it, it would be called front running and it's illegal.

Ah fuck me not closing my tags properly.

1 - 5 cents is the bread and butter of HFT. The fact that it's only < 10 cents that nobody thinks it's that big a deal.

The trouble is that it's actually billions of dollars annually because it's on every transaction.

1 - 5 cents is the bread and butter of HFT. The fact that it's only
The trouble is that it's actually billions of dollars annually because it's on every transaction.

It's front-running by machine. If a person-trader did this, they'd be in jail.

"... the illegal practice of a stockbroker executing orders on a security for its own account while taking advantage of advance knowledge of pending orders from its customers."

I put Linux Mint on my mum's laptop. After adding the default Windows XP "green meadow" background and renaming the desktop links for LibreOffice Writer, Calc, and Presentation to "Word" "Excel" and "Powerpoint" she didn't have any problems. She didn't even realise the "Start" button didn't say "Start" anymore.

I actually prefer sites with no interactive content. I like links which actually go directly where they say they will (not through a 3rd party affiliate), I like the web page to be silent until I choose to engage with multimedia content, and I don't need your navigation to zip onto the screen with a stupid animation when I hover my mouse over an icon; Just put it down the left hand side like everyone else!

Take /. for example. There is nothing on the classic view which requires JS except for the advertising and the "new" comment system; It can all be HTML and CSS, and I like it that way. It's fast, and it's simple, and it doesn't get in my way. Hell, check for yourself. The vast majority of the JS for the file comments.pl is affiliates, be that social networking buttons or DoubleClick advertising tracking. I don't want that shit! There's some stuff for meta-modding, but other than that it's CSS and HTML.

Well, basically, they pay through the nose to do it.

Take have manufacturer X who want to sell product Y, and media company Z who want you to watch their shitty TV programs. Company Z has no money at all to make any TV shows because nobody pays a subscription to a media service with no content, so they go looking for some money to make new shows. In comes X, trying to increase exposure for product Y, thinking "Hey, we'll give you money to make some shows if you show our super slide-show of Product Y in between sections of your shows!" and Z says "Sweet! Let's get to some TV making!" Z make a show, you watch the show, you see the advert for Y, X may make some more sales.

Twelve months later and Z is reviewing figures, looking at refreshing advertising, increasing synergy boondoggles or something, and decide that they don't have anyone at the company who's any good at this "advertising mumbo-jumbo". They are approached by with a company name straight out of Norse mythology, who say "Listen here, buddy, old pal. Can I call you Jim? Listen, Jim. We have psychologists, and statisticians, and SCIENCE! that will make your advertising more effective! Pay us money to handle it, and we'll show you some magic..."

Two decades later, and we have "Gillette! The best a man can get!" and "WhooooAAAAAAAAA BODYFORRRRRRM! Bodyform for youuuuuuuu!" and media companies, having proved their worth, are into absolutely everything.

Yeah, but then you wouldn't have to whitelist the JavaScript to see the content and get all the advertisements too.

Working as intended.

Who is the OEM? If I'm talking to a luddite I'll say "Get whatever you want" or "Get an iPad". For us? Nexus, all the way. No tie in, updates straight from the source, and root / unlock allowed by default. I won't touch another Android devices from other vendors.