5/10. VHS. Starts out as a standard Astaire/Rogers outing but descends around the half-way mark into ill-thought out war propraganda.
I have just finished reading Taylor Branch’s Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, the first volume of a trilogy. It is a fascinating book and fittingly for such a sprawling multi-faceted panorama the two most important themes were tangential ones. The first is the degree to which the perception of events, at [...]
From Hans Stoll, Electronic Trading in Stock Markets, JEP, Winter 2006, 20:1.
Miscellaneous1. Moving towards fully electronic market. NYSE has just merged with Archipelago and NYSE with Instinet.
2. Economies of scale and their affect on firm size and organization:
“Technology has changed the nature of the specialist in other ways, too. In 1975, [...]
5.5. Futuristic thriller noir set in 2054 Paris. Visually striking for being done entirely in chiroscuro animation using an innovative rendering to produce a result reminiscent of recent features such as Sin City. Unfortunately the plot and dialogue don’t live up to the visuals which are without doubt stunning.
[Aside: the producer claims that if [...]
Despite its free availability i can’t find one version formatted in a way I actually like. Anyway here’s a link to one of the least bad (it’s plain vanilla html and supposedly a copy of the page Stephenson first posted on his website): http://steak.place.org/dougo/inthebeginning.html
Published in 1999 and though now a little dated this [...]
debian/ubuntu: apt-get install wdiff macosx: fink install wdiff
From apt-cache show:
wdiff’ is a front-end to GNU diff. It compares two files, finding which words have been deleted or added to the first in order to create the second. It has many output formats and interacts well with terminals and pagers (notably with less’).wdiff’ is [...]
I am a heavy vim user and want to be able to copy and paste from the system clipboard so that, for example, I can edit my posts in vim and then paste them from firefox in here. I should also mention that I prefer to use terminal not gui versions of vim which influences [...]
Lessig reports on some work done by Claus Pedersen on filesharing in Denmark. Unfortunately the full paper is in danish but a summary has been translated by Marie Elisabeth Pade and is available at http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/danish_filesharing.pdf.
Back on June 19th I presented Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-up Problem (pdf) (xml src version) at the 2006 DRUID conference on Knowledge, Innovation and Competitiveness. If you want to get a sense of paper without reading the whole thing there is a set of summary slides.
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