Then some trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange could swap his lifeless body in a millisecond.
One stream after another, every millisecond after the next, someone has something to say.
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And our outliers out to the 99th percentile are still less than a millisecond.
X-ray pulsar that spins fast enough to become a millisecond pulsar once it has consumed its accretion disc.
Spotting such radio pulses would be more evidence that this specimen is destined to become a millisecond pulsar.
He is talking about normal trading latency, not the millisecond or microsecond latency that high frequency traders (HFT) pursue.
The newly discovered one rotates 401 times a second as fast as millisecond pulsars.
For instance, most millisecond pulsars have been found in binary systems but not all.
Meanwhile, the modern emphasis on high-frequency trading (computers swapping shares with each other every millisecond) hardly contributes to shareholder engagement.
Then, he needed two hours of computer time to calculate a single cell's activity during a fraction of a millisecond.
Set to debut at CES 2009, said panel will boast a four-millisecond response time and an unprecedented 480 refresh rate per second.
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It takes up to 1 millisecond to write a single one or a zero to flash, and the parts corrode with each stroke.
Shaving a millisecond or, as some technologies seek to do, a mere microsecond benefits nobody except the guy stepping in front to make the trade.
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Spinning at 10, 000 rpm with a brisk 5.7-millisecond seek time, the lightning-fast Cheetah needs a pair of 6-inch bolts to hold it down.
And the need for speed has made things worse -- with financial institutions avoiding software security features that might cause crucial millisecond delays.
Thus it is that a neutron star in a binary star system gets to spend its retirement years as a millisecond radio pulsar.
If you could carve one second into a thousand slices, that would be a millisecond and about how quickly you could trade dead Wilbur.
But even in our every-millisecond-counts world, the cables' paths are often ancient, landing in or near classic port cities like Marseille, Mumbai and Mombasa.
They have managed to get the delay down to 32 milliseconds, but he thinks a 50 millisecond delay would probably be sufficient for his project.
The HP LV1911 and LV2011 respectively measure 18.5 and 20 inches diagonally and offer VGA inputs, 3, 000, 000:1 dynamic contrast ratios and 5 millisecond response times.
Remember, there are all kinds of computer programs out there searching the news wires every millisecond for combinations of words designed to set off the program-trades.
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Traders have flocked to the new sites because they can get trades done quickly--and in a down market (or upmarket for that matter) every millisecond counts.
Several players have the mechanical skill to reach the top but lack the decision making skills on a millisecond basis to make it to the top.
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The Draft was being held on Thursday night at 7 PM and I was warned that every millisecond that I was late would insure dire consequences.
Indeed, what is the down-to-the-millisecond precision of digital time against this beautiful, whole sense of the day moving imperceptibly across the world, as if in a hush.
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By then, the outer layers of its companion star have been completely torn away and the accretion disc has vanished: millisecond pulsars do not have accretion discs.
In addition, the smaller D40, D50 and D90 models will also feature a 176 degree viewing angle, to go with a 1200:1 contrast ratio and 6-millisecond response time.
His weapon: a rolling, 3-foot-tall machine (think R2-D2 from Star Wars) called the Xenex that bathes hospital rooms with intense, millisecond pulses of ultraviolet light from a high-wattage strobe light.
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The 12.5-millimeter high drive weighs in at 5.43 ounces (155 grams), and other features include a 12 millisecond average read seek time and 66.6M-byte per second Ultra DMA mode-4 interface.
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