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Oh.. and Western Springs College has "Motion in the Ocean" on Sunday, a guided walk/cleanup of Motions/Meola creek including through the Zoo and MOTAT.
Isn't the name a fantastic double entendre ?
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people on the trading floors there would run over their grandmothers with steamrollers to get a 7ms reduction in trading latency
Things have clearly changed. When I worked in the City of London 10 years ago, latency was the time it took you to yell down the phone.
I still can't believe that 7ms is going to make that much difference - someone still has to read a deal and hit the button. That takes several seconds. If it's a fully automatic system, you'd put it right there in London/New York/Singapore and remote control it, really.
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someone still has to read a deal and hit the button
Not any more - auto trading in milliseconds. And that "remote control" is where latency comes in.
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I am going to Vector tonight, can anyone tell me who is playing Support?
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I still can't believe that 7ms is going to make that much difference
Try this article on how much difference a few ms can make with modern, automated, supercomputer-based trading systems.
Traders here are too small to justify the expense of putting a full trading system into the US, but that doesn't mean they don't want every ms of advantage they can get their hands on from this side of the world.
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but rather specific issues with the route from here to there that more bandwidth won't necessarily fix:
Youtube Performance on TelstraClear
Cable is shared bandwidth. Note that there's no consistency with who's seeing those issues and who's not in the comments? Yet they've all got the same path to YouTube. To my inner-IP engineer, that says congestion on the segment from the head end to the premises. It'll be affecting the people on particular (over-subscribed) segments, but not everyone. The solution is more bandwidth, but since it needs to be added to the "last mile" it won't be helped any by a new international cable.
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I am going to Vector tonight, can anyone tell me who is playing Support?
No, the Backstreet Boys were last night. Too bad.
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Here's the other CactusLabber's Pixies video:
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Traders here are too small to justify the expense of putting a full trading system into the US, but that doesn't mean they don't want every ms of advantage they can get their hands on from this side of the world.
I had assumed you were talking about Australia. NZ has very little international trading activity. That which there is (banks doing client FX deals and the like) isn't that sort of supercomputer quant stuff.
(Our stock exchange is a room above a pub - literally)
If one was setting up a computer based trading facility for a boutique hedge fund, it would be cheaper to put it in a hosting facility in the US than to install it in an office here.
Then again, if this cable is really only going to cost $900mln, then 1.8mln retail customers in NZ paying $10 a month for international bandwidth would probably pay for it.
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And that NZ On Screen Flying Nun collection is now online.
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It's no use having a fire hose to water the garden if your pipe at the street is a straw.
Which reminds me - can anyone here explain the point of those godawful Verizon ad (the water isn't even coming out at full pressure! The metaphor is thoroughly inappropriate for DSL! Gah!)? I've seen it far more times than is possibly necessary and I still don't understand what they're trying to advertise.
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The Internet is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.
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the water isn't even coming out at full pressure
prostate troubles?
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I am quite convinced that the subtext of every single ad on television is "Ask your doctor about Cialis."
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Been reading too much email
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Or watching too much cricket.
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And that NZ On Screen Flying Nun collection is now online.
And I'm gonna grumble (with a smile) that the first one in the list, Tall Dwarf's Nothing's Gonna Happen was not a FN release, but on my (and Paul Rose's) Furtive label, months before FN existed.
Roger....
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Lovin' the Flying Nun collection - THANKS TO WHOEVER HAD A HAND IN IT!!
Woohoo!!
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I'm so lovin' the Flying Nun collection... gunna have to track it down on iTunes...
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It's not a bad selection at all. I'd never seen that Great Unwashed clip before.
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The Pixies at the Powerstation was one seriously tight band. A night full of positive energy and a older crowd. I was grinning from ear to ear just like Kim Deal on bass.
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And I'm gonna grumble (with a smile) that the first one in the list, Tall Dwarf's Nothing's Gonna Happen was not a FN release, but on my (and Paul Rose's) Furtive label, months before FN existed.
Weren't the Gordons on something else pre-FN as well?
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Weren't the Gordons on something else pre-FN as well?
Yep. Self released. I helped distribute in Ak, and sold it on mail order. It came out in late 1980, quite a while before FN existed.
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Can't say as i have ever heard a Pixies tune and those Pt Chev pics from the air are a bit...meh.
Got some good memories of Pasifika though. Even asst stage managed the main stage same year as the failed sweetwaters. We ran 40 minutes late cos the stage manger was a clueless wannabe, it pissed down with rain and we had to cut acts to finish on time with the Urban Pacific Records showcase...AKA Brown for the win !
Sweetwaters was a laugh too. I was co managing the 'aerial artways' stage but thats whole nother story.
Heres a pic i took through a helicopter window of Cable Bay a few months ago. Damn the glarey flash spot! I might try masking it with a fake lense flare. I also tweaked it hardout to look like a painting, dunno if it works, but i like it.
http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/1972/cablebay.jpg
Cable bay, which lies just across the estuary from out my front door, was the landing point of the first trans tasman communication cable. Hence the name. Read some stuff about it here...
Funnily enough, the reason for the chopper ride was to scope out a place on Pepin island (bottom of pic) to put a wireless broadband antenna with a direct line of sight to Mt Campbell (one of those peaks in the distance).
Sucky that I havent gotten onto broadband yet but a new cable sounds well choice for when i do :)
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That Great Unwashed track is just fantastic. Time for some early FN vinyl to come out for a fondle. Might even play it on the turntable. In love with these times and The Dunedin Double good start.
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