This sounds really interesting to me, and I am in Vancouver too. Would you consider putting your email address in your profile? I have a quick question for you.
My email address is already in my profile. Not sure why you can't see it. I don't mind repeating it here if you can't see it for some reason: kamil@kamilkisiel.net
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It's bizarre that they mention EA Canada for Vancouver yet don't mention that Montreal, due to Quebec's very significant tax incentives, is where all the new traditional games studios are being created. EA made a Bioware satellite studio out there, THQ is opening up a huge 400 man studio, and Warner Bros is doing a studio there too. Vancouver in contrast has shrunk with EA Blackbox collapsing and being absorbed into EA Canada, and Radical downsizing into a one team studio. EA Canada itself has had rounds of layoffs.
Now that's not to say that things are all bad for Vancouver. Many traditional games studios have disappeared but smaller studios have appeared in their place. Xbox Live focused studios such as Klei and Hothead for example. Microsoft bought Big Park and they're creating casual Kinect titles. Finally, Vancouver still has their digital effects industry with Sony Imageworks and Pixar opening up studios.
Aside from traditional console games I just noticed a few days ago that EA is opening up a Playfish studio in Montreal so that's another point for the Montreal column.
Montreal would probably be on par with Vancouver and Calgary, but I'd guess it's still behind Waterloo and Toronto. I think the VC landscape is actually quite good in Quebec since there's a lot of government money to stimulate investment in the province. Or so I hear.
The whole quotebook could stretch quite long depending on the numbers of buyers and sellers on the market. Algo's and human traders use the quote books to analyze sell or buy interest. For example, if the quote book has a lot of bid size and very little ask size, it means that there are a lot of buyers than sellers which could prompt traders to buy the stock at a much more expensive price in hopes that the stock will go up due to the demand.
However, what Trillium did was that they stuffed the quote book with a bunch of buy orders just slightly out of money to make for the appearance of more buy interest. e.g.,
Other algo machines or human traders will now jump to buy the stock at $4.02 (which Trillium is short selling) in hopes that the buy side's demand will propel the stock past $4.02. But what happens next as soon Trillium short sells $4.02, they will cancel the bid orders. Now the buy-side interest is back to normal, un-inflated side and whoever bought the stock at the inflated price is left holding the bag. The pricing of stock will go down due to reduced buy interest, Trillium buys to cover at $4, netting $0.02/share profit.
Basically, it's submitting hidden sell orders at a high price, and submitting a lot of visible buy orders in the hopes that other people pile on and bid the price up to your sell order. It's market manipulation, and it wouldn't even work if you DOSed other people's computers. The goal is to fool them into filling your orders at unfavorable prices - a DOS would simply shut them down.
I would just like to point out that oatmeal has a glycemic index of about 50 (out of 100). That's for plain oatmeal with nothing added, not the instant stuff or the sugar laden version most people end up with.
Ah yes, use whole oatmeal instead of instant oatmeal - it actually doesn't take much longer to cook. Definitely stay away from the sugary junk.
The real advantage to oatmeal is that the fiber is quite high - this has many advantages, a big one being that you'll feel full and satisfied for the first part of the day. Also, 300 calories of oatmeal is 56 grams of carbohydrates, but only 1 gram of sugar [1]. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I think oatmeal is pretty much all glucose-based carbs and fiber, which is the healthier form of carbohydrate. (Fructose/sucrose/sugars being the worse form)
The ratio of fiber/sugar is high, but by any other index(fiber/total carbs or fiber/calories) it's terrible. (doesn't stop me from having it on rare occasions though)
A complete picture of the benefits and drawbacks of oatmeal, like any other food, has to acknowledge that:
-It's carb-heavy
-The carbs are from grain and thus glutenous
-Total nutrition is low(compared to say, an avocado)
I agree with this. For me, math started to make sense when I saw it applied to problems, especially simple physics problems that explain things you can directly observe. The Feynman lectures were an especially rich source of these types of problems.
My favorites: at what angle will a marble rolling down the side of a bowling ball leave the surface?
when you observe water flowing out of your tap, the stream tappers and becomes more thin as it falls, can you derive the formula for that?
This sounds really interesting to me, and I am in Vancouver too. Would you consider putting your email address in your profile? I have a quick question for you.