vwap is not high frequency. it is intended to aquire a certain amount of shares with some risk guarantees. hft does not intend to aquire a certain amount of shares, it is essentially day trading (you cash out at the end of the day), but on a much smaller scale.

while apple does support same sex marriage, and legislation to further that humanistic goal, i doubt that everyone that works there is, in fact, a homosexual. Steve did have children, and seemed happily married to a woman till the end.

not everyone lives in that type of climate, i havent RTFA, but i assume there are some more challenges that people dont usually think about. seems like it would be interesting if your into data centers.

At least the Application Manager doesnt take up the whole screen. What i wouldnt give for that in windows 8.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64409699/ftl-faster-than-light

a little slow to the draw. its called faster than light. SunDog was a good one, but its a little dated now.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64409699/ftl-faster-than-light

if the pipeline length of a processor is 2x as long, then it will be equivalent in performance to a processor 1/2 the speed. combine this with the fact that different instructions have different pipeline lengths, and you have a recipe for the GHZ to tell you squat. would you rather have a 2008 netburst pentium 3 or a brand new intel chip? both were available clocked at 3ghz.

let me rephrase then. you cannot sell or even distribute for free open licensed software through the apple app store. to install open source software (legally, and in compliance with all of apple's eulas) on your phone or tablet, is to apply for a SDK license, and once apple approves said application, you then have the pleasure of paying $99/yr for access to your own phone or tablet. you may then download, modify, compile and install to your own machine only.

of course you dont blindly distribute programs without testing on the actual target hardware. however its a lot easier to test through emulators before throwing the app on the hardware (this is 99% of development and debugging). its even easier if actual development machine provides the same API access that the target machine has. this means no cross compilation / emulation for regular day to day coding / testing iteration. throw in a touch screen monitor (or emulate just the input) and you have a giant tablet on your desktop, that will make development and testing 100x easier.

now im probably not gonna get a microsoft tablet or phone, but what they are doing is nothing apple hasnt done before. in actuality the situation is not as bad as the situation with apple. its just a group-think microsoft bashing and FUD spreading. before you know it, some people are under the impression that windows 8 is getting rid of the desktop.

im typing this from windows 8 right now (developer preview), and its all FUD. the desktop remains untouched. save for this version (and i think its just for the developer preview) they added a metro interface when you press the start button. this is so developers can start programming their apps for the tablet environment before having access to an ARM tablet. the API's (for metro) are actually pretty good. and everything you used to run still runs.

i hope they bring back the regular start button for the community preview coming out later this month. im pretty sure they will, because the community will collectively *shit a brick*, as they say, if they dont.

ahh, i still dont get why people are so put off by this whole thing. W8oA is identical to iOS in access, and its easier to compile windows programs for it. its actually a little bit better, since iOS explicitly prohibits open source development, and charges 99/yr for the SDK. Also since the same API's exist on both architectures, it might be the first development environment where you dont have to use an emulator. you can compile/test/debug on x86 and deploy on ARM without hassle.

and as far as the desktop goes, its gonna be pretty much the same for 8 as older versions of windows. (i dont think that the metro start menu will be as omni-present in the community preview release, as it was in the developer preview, but we shall see later this month)

there is no older version of windows on arm.

Desktop Metro doesnt make sense. its never happening. Microsoft would lose half their customer base to Linux day1 when this happens.

i cant believe he only brought one pair of fresh socks.

wow! a hoodie with pockets! holy shit. break out the champagne, eureaka they have done! i cant believe i watched that whole video. i was assuming he would be packing a beowulf cluster of trs80's and a high res 21" CRT in there. but no, just some gum, chargers, and candy bars. i nominate this video for the least impressive thing i have ever seen on /.

anybody seen some totally lamely awesome 2am cable style slashvertisements? we should at least try and make this post into something fun. and they obviously want us to make fun of them

that right is not absolute. you can be compelled to produce fingerprints, voice samples, your person in lineups, and blood work and DNA. nobody has a problem with the all the preceding (at least i dont). this isnt a 5th amendment issue. if a safe is locked, law enforcement has the right to crack it if they have the appropriate warrant. the person is under no obligation to open it for them. (although they would most likely do so to avoid it getting damaged). however hard drive encryption is a very tough safe, and law enforcement cant crack it. the judge is most likely overstepping the bounds here, and appeals will follow. what is interesting is that the onus to prove that the woman actually knows the password is not even a consideration. after all, the judge can only ask her to produce what is actually hers to produce. (after thats proven, we can start talking about the 5th amendment again).