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What he said :)
Done. We'll see if they reply.
I hear you on not liking either one of the three, it's the same here (has been for a while). However, the bans do seem to center around the handguns.
By becoming a doctor? Not a chance, I don't trust doctors at all :)
On SWHC, the self-protection part might be impaired with new anti-gun laws (sorry, gun control laws). Aside from everything else, we're on-track to elect one of the two Democrats, both of whom're into more gun control. To SWHC this might mean lower domestic sales of handguns. Internationally, there's more pressure from growing Chinese and recovering Russian gun manufacturing.
So you do the dualboot, got it.
Yeah, IBM charges an arm and a leg for them, but the banks pay it rather than moving to something else, banks being generally quite conservative about such things and all. The plans to replace them have been discussed for at least 10 years by now. In another 10 years, it might happen, too :)
The fun part comes when you deal with systems made by the companies that aren't around anymore. A client of mine has a cancer research program written in early '90's for DOS, and the vendor went belly-up in late 90's (without bothering to create an updated version). Their security policy calls for Windows XP on the client side, and their desktop techs all but resigned making it run on XP, even in a virtual machine (it has very specific hardware requirements for what it can run on, since it drives the equipment they use). It took several months to figure it out, especially since the vendor never bothered to document the program, either, being a university spin-off (the worst kind of vendor you can get).
I was talking about a bunch of legacy systems that quite a few IT departments have to support. Some systems I have to deal with date back to, believe it or not, 1980's. Could be 1880's, for all I know.
Are you dualbooting, or running Vista in a virtual machine?
Besides, who was talking about Vista, anyway? That's one big Mac-alike blunder :) Myself, I prefer Windows 2003 as a desktop OS, with Solaris 10 running in a VM.
As for never running Vista faster, well, let me guess here. You mainly use OS10, and only use Vista to run the programs you can't run on OS10. You have most of your personal stuff on OS10. WHich wouldn't be the case, of course, if you ran a PC with the same hardware, but with only Vista on it, as people usually keep their PCs loaded to the gills with stuff, especially after using them for a few months.
Which makes me want to tease you even more, you know, being envious and all :)
I wouldn't mind some skiing now...
In obeisance to the KISS principle, got it.
And then sit back in your chair, relax, and drink some coffee, with the sense of the job well done... All without leaving your desk :P
That'd be a first in the academia :)
You were demoted from Staff Veterinarian (e.g. Monkey Doctor) to, I believe, flipping burgers. Not bringing out that rally monkey was a bad career move :)
Thank you, your command of the language is impeccable, sir! :)
That IS a beautiful place! I visit it quite often, and that's one place I wouldn't mind living in. Well, if it wasn't in Canada, of course :)
And those of us who are in IT will have to set a lot of clocks... What's the opposite of weeeeeeeeeee again? :)
Well, I did look through the couch cushions, and what I found there... Let's me just say, for me that was a bad advice :)
Yup, providing an easier and more fun way to lose your money since 2008 :)
It's a Saturday morning. What people do on Saturday mornings is sleep... or do the PT, if one's a Marine ;)
Of course, that explains a lot. The Army teaches you to be sensible, not to buy into a hype, and to pick the best tool for the job (as opposed to the Marines' only tactics of "Charge! Damn ,that didn't work... Charge! Damn, that didn't work again... Charge!" :)). IN other words, it practically teaches you to buy a PC that you can work and play with, as opposed to a Mac that you can "play" with :)
Now beat that, Mr. Marine :)
And the odds are always on the house. Hmm, NASDAQ should really open a casino :)
heh, that's why I don't gamble. There's enough of it in my stock picks :)
I really dislike them, but then, it's quite apparent, isn't it? I just don't like hyped-up things which mostly have the hype to back them. I work with them, when I have to, but I really dislike how they lock everything down to quite a ridiculous degree, while at the same time leaving gaping security holes while locking down the ways to remediate those security issues. At the same time, they float the statements like "There're no viruses for Macs", "Macs never get infected", "Macs have no security issues, all those are vetted out during testing" and so on. This leaves their users with the false sense of security, to the point that they don't even bother to get an antivirus or a decent firewall. Then again, it serves them right, as does anything ever get as smug as a Mac user talking about his Mac? :)
BTW, the main reason why there're fewer viruses for Mac than there're for, say, Windows is less exposure. There're simply fewer Macs out there, so statistically a virus is likely to infect more Windows PCs than Macs. Of course, macs are still affected by most UNIX/Linux viruses, and there're quite a few viruses targeted specifically at Macs. Virus writers are catching up to the fact that, while there're fewer Macs out there, they're generally less protected than the PCs of the scared Windows users, and so while the malcontents in question can infect the same number of PCs when writing a virus for Mac.
At this point, from what I see, the WIndows users run to some IT guy whenever they see something funny on their computer, while Mac users revel in the sense of false safety, and ignore the telltales of their PC having been infected. I've had cases where people had their identity stolen, and went through all the possible ways of how it could've happened, set up all sorts of precautions, but somehow left their computer out of it, and kept using it. In all 4 cases, the computers in question were Macs with a rootkit hiding a keylogger. In 3 cases, the rootkit wasn't even written specifically for Macs, just your garden variety Czech-made UNIX rootkit.
So, when/if you buy a Mac, make sure to secure it just like you would (or should :)) any other computer.
I think, trading the system helps. Mind you, I'm a rookie, so take my opinion for what it is. For example, I took profits today because, with a run like that, I set a 100% profit target, after which a half of my position had to go to lock in the profits. With the rest, I can ride it, they're my profit.
Hmm, now who would want a Mac? iPod, maybe, but a Mac? :P
Besides, flipping is what we do, as well, if the situation warrants it, isn't it?
I think, there's a misunderstanding here. What I was trying to say is that playing big board stocks is NOT necessarily safer. I've observed the same kind of manipulation there that you'd expect in the pinkieland; the difference is that they don't run 100% like pennies do. At this point, I don't actually have any big board stocks in my portfolio, and it's doing quite fine (thanks, in no small part, to the picks from WU). FRGY, 261% up from where I entered it, LLEG 100% up, not mentioning taking the profit today. Did I say thank you?
Well, people do a lot of stupid things. Part of being a human and all :)
Nah, I'm sure it's free. Google can make enough money by selling their info, so why even bother charging for it? :)
Of course, since "flippers" are the ones generally making money on those runs.
Still with the manipulations being as widespread as they are these days, I'm not sure playing big board stocks is still safer :)
I see. Well, I don't know the situation, but from what little you said, it looks like they violated several laws I can think of by using that information to contact your school.Not that I'm suggesting anything, of course :)
Hmm, interesting. Well, you can always use a public proxy... It'd have to be someone with either the access to the admin interface for iHub, or someone who gained unauthorized access to it, or someone you sent an email to.
IP addresses?
Got a bit of INIX at .045. Told ya it'll come back to me. ONly a partial fill though :s
I guess somebody doens't mind keeping it over the weekend :)
Well, not gonna chase it. We'll see if it pulls back for me.
Double damn, it's up 100% now :)
Damn, missed that INIX. Oh well :)
You can get a margin account with Etrade with $2000. $25 will enable you to daytrade.
This was supposed to be a reply to cvcamper.