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<i>CSCO at their peak I believe had a 550 billlion market cap and had no where near the monopoly GOOG has.</i> <i>No company has ever grown this fast and had this kind of monopoly on a commodity that most of us would agree is the most valuable in the world. Yes, even more valuable then...

I'm gonna go way out on a limb here and say, the transaction should occur at the natural market clearing price. Why do you believe that allowing sellers who neither possess nor are able to borrow a security to participate in its market will produce more informative prices? Martin

Mining coal for liquefaction is even less efficient, even less amenable to scale, even more capital intensive, and even worse for the environment than mining and upgrading bitumen from tar sands. I would invest in tar sands producers before I'd invest in coal liquefaction. Coal liquefaction...

25. I'm gonna say 9. Maybe you can do it in 8, but 5 is not correct. 28. A tetrahedron has 4 faces, not 10. 29. They did say the cubes were glued together. This may not be an IQ test but whatever it is you failed. Martin

The walrus and the carpenter speak "of cabbages and kings" in Lewis Carroll, John Steinbeck wrote "Of Mice and Men." I just looked that stuff up, all I knew was that I'd heard the phrase "of cabbages and kings" before. Martin

I think 17 is actually historiometrics. The first part is mostly a test of your Latin and Greek, not your IQ. I don't know Latin or Greek so I'm just guessing. Martin

Oh, and 14: manipulate. Martin

2: compulsive 4: kings 6: solipsism 12: friable 38: zero (I also knew 1 and 17.) Martin

A RAM drive is not a good idea. The OS does filesystem buffer caching in RAM, that's more or less a RAM disk for the data you use frequently. You're on the right track though. With the CPU usage you posted you are clearly IO bound. What will help? Assuming you can't do anything to optimize...

I believe the newest generation of DLP chips are native 1080p resolution, 1920x1080, which is nothing to sneeze at even for a PC monitor. Of course the question remains... "Why?" Martin

iceman, you don't need quotes from IB to trade on IB. Just place your market or limit order with the price you want. Execution is completely independent of market data. Martin

Here's my take. For a market to be trustworthy and reliable, the proper functioning of the market must not depend on the creditworthiness of individual participants. It must be structured so that any participant can fail at any time and the counterparty will not notice. That's why futures...

I'm not saying hedge funds don't need big iron, they just don't need a Cray. Cray designs computers for a certain class of numerical problems that are difficult to parallelize, typically mesh optimizations, finite element analysis, and other very large linear algebra based codes. Cray...

There isn't a reason on God's green earth to use a Cray for anything finance related - except maybe ego. Ever since the Cray Research days, Crays have been designed for bisection bandwidth and vector processing. Finance problems are embarassingly parallel, well suited for much cheaper clusters...

In 1992 the LA Times called Hussman "one lonely, raging bull." His fund has outperformed the S&P by 18 percentage points a year since its inception in 2000. Whatever you think of his GOOG call, he has earned his bona fides, and not just by predicting imminent doom. Martin

Thanks for the update. Very relevant, I'm glad you answered my question. :) Martin

Then why trade? Anything? Ever? Martin

It may depend on what you want to short. I'll tell you my experience though. I short mostly listed small caps that are sometimes quite difficult to locate. The best short availability is at large retail brokers like ETrade and Ameritrade. A distant second is Interactive Brokers. I have yet to...

I'm looking for a reliable source of ex-dividend calendar for all listed and NASDAQ stocks for an opening strategy. Free is good, subscription is OK. I don't mind parsing data from web sites. But, it needs to be comprehensive and accurate. Missing an ex-div date with an opening strategy can be...

Basically, I agree, however I should point out that with all the earnings growth expectations baked into Google's stock price, "terrible" is a relative term. It would not take a big miss for the market to punish Google. Martin