"Rm -rf" would mark the block as empty, and unless the programmer hasn't written anything new, he should be able to recover nearly all of the data. Something about the story feels weird.
As a heads up, "unless" should be "if" or "hasn't written anything new" should be "has written something new."
Uh, so I disagree with using the Super Bowl and OTA to determine ESPN viewership, but regardless, check that math - you shouldn't be multiplying by 1/2 there since the original statement was 15% of subscribers, not 15 of overall population.
Let me ask you, what do you think the purpose of DRM is? Go up to a dozen people on the street and ask them the same thing. Nearly all of them will tell you DRM is to prevent media theft.
Actually, nearly all of them will tell you they have no idea what DRM is, much less what it's intended to do. I personally think that's a bigger problem, but it's also reality.
Their release about how customers want unlimited plans (irony there, considering their bandwidth throttling) is all roses for now, but once folks are converted over, I don't expect the "unlimited" wording to stay around long. At some point soon after, releases will come out about how abusers of the system are using more than their fair share of texts so they will redefine their unlimited plan to be good for up to, say, 1000 messages a month. Yay - twice the profit! The cycle of "Customers want unlimited! The sky is falling; customers are using what we sold them!" is completely predictable at this point.
You don't get a discount on gift cards as a Best Buy employee. Discounts are based on cost (+5% when I was there). There's no "cost" to a gift card since it's not product. The discount comes when you spend the gift card.
Very true - cables in particular were marked up through the roof. There was some pressure to sell accessories, but not nearly as much as there was to sell warranties, for a few reasons.
First, the warranties generally cost more. Second, they don't require any inventory space. You don't have to restock shelves of warranties. Third, you can sell them anywhere in the store - they've addressed this in some of their stores with the accessories along the checkout lanes, but it's much easier to sell a warranty in a different department than it is an accessory.
It's funny - when I first started working there (92?), they had a policy that warranties were explained and offered once, and we were trained to not be pushy. That was still around the time they trailed CC in overall sales, so they were attempting to grow their customer base. Once they took the lead, they switched to pushing the warranties to bump up margin.
Not sure where you got your information, but Best Buy doesn't do commission sales. When I worked there, there was other corporate pressure, but the "non-commissioned salespeople" label has long been a key differentiator in their eyes.
The corporate pressure I saw was primarily based around selling the extended warranties. That kind of pressure usually comes from even higher - the shareholders. Warranties have a very large profit margin.
Don't program your remote controls based on devices, program them based on the actions you're taking.
In my case, I have the Home Theater Master MX-500. To get around the problem you run into, I have it programmed so that my TV mode is only used for rare functions (sleep, changing to RF-in, etc.). I have a "TV watching" mode that changes channel through my TiVo, turns the TV power on and off, and controls volume through my receiver.
I used to have those problems too. I learned, though, that I'd been using not particularly good all-in-one remotes. With a good all-in-one remote, you can program it to reduce a ton of those issues.
In my case, I have the Home Theater Master MX-500. To get around the problem you run into, I have it programmed so that my TV mode is only used for rare functions (sleep, changing to RF-in, etc.). I have a "TV watching" mode that changes channel through my TiVo, turns the TV power on and off, and controls volume through my receiver.
I think the key is thinking of the "modes" as actions (watching TV, listening to music, etc.) instead of objects (TV, receiver,...).
I rip all of mine at pretty high VBR (LAME preset extreme) and average about 100 MB/CD. I'm at around 1200 CD's, and have 110 GB used. I'd prefer to have all of my music on the portable unit and sync up with my mp3 HD semi-regularly than have to worry about prioritizing and all that. Plus, at that point it makes for a handy backup.
So I'll be waiting for a while, but that's fine with me.
Wild - that was my HS too! I'll second the praise. I took a total of ten semesters of electronics (doubled up one year) in HS; very cool class atmosphere, everything student run, but with good direction from the top.
Number of possible board positions after white's first move: 20
After black's first move: 400
After white's second move: 29,200
After black's second move: 2,131,600
Those are positions, rather than games, but both are going to explode exponentially in that manner. At 50 moves and up, it's overwhelming (for now).
This addresses the number of games possible, but you make the point that we should only concern ourselves with "relevant" chess games. There are a number of reasons I don't think even this would work to pare down that number. First, to have the game solved, we *have* to take into account that the other player will make suboptimal moves as well. If we
"throw out all of the games where the person just systematically moves their pawns up 1 space each turn from left to right, and stuff like that"
all that someone has to do to take the machine out of book is to start down one of those normally silly paths that we've discarded.
Second, who would determine what's relevant? A human could at best, only set up rules for an automated process to use to cull the games. What would those rules be? If you throw out games where the opposition loses material, gambits immediately become more effective. So if you've thrown those out and are completely relying on a presolved matrix, you won't be able to win by accepting any of those gambits.
The only moves you *could* throw out are suboptimal moves of your own. If I know a certain move loses and another move doesn't, I can cull that move. Simple min-max stuff. But the problem here is, you still have to traverse down that path to find that out in advance. So you're almost solving the whole tree anyway.
There are distributed projects underway to evaluate certain sets of positions, usually branching off of known openings in a brute force manner. These should result in deeper knowledge of the game, but we're still a long way off from being able to brute force our way through the whole tree. And any selection process that gets us down to manageable disk sizes is going to suffer from some sort of flaw like the ones mentioned above.
While the top bid may be BS, you're reading the history log wrong. The winner bid the top amount earlier. That opa-opa guy then kept submitting higher and higher amounts, finally giving up. His bids seem to be legitimate, because he won the $5K auction later in the day. I'd definitely doubt the winner's authenticity based on a number of facts... the two top bids were exactly the same (and a weird amount at that), they don't have a very active account (with 50% negative feedback), and they're using a hotmail address.
The traditional tournament rule of a move being final when you've removed your hand is a good one. This ensures a player has to make all his/her analysis from the position before the move. Otherwise, you'd have players making moves on the board, analyzing, taking those moves back, making news ones - chaos. In addition, this avoids mistakes such as putting a piece back in a different square from where it started. Also, using the "move by clock" rule you suggest runs into trouble when a piece is taken, removed from the board, and then the move is changed.
It's not, as you say, "petty", to expect your opponents to adhere to the rules of the game, particularly when money is on the line. This is what these people do for a living. In a friendly game, sure, whatever. But in a tournament game? Players should be expected to follow the rules.
Finally, I'm not sure about you, but I've played chess for 22 years, and not once have I "involuntarily twitched" and lost contact with a piece I was moving. You might want to get that checked out at the doctor.
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"Rm -rf" would mark the block as empty, and unless the programmer hasn't written anything new, he should be able to recover nearly all of the data. Something about the story feels weird.
As a heads up, "unless" should be "if" or "hasn't written anything new" should be "has written something new."
The Roku app is now available to all.
https://blog.plex.tv/2015/08/25/graduation-day-the-roku-and-xbox-360-apps-are-now-free-for-everyone/
That should be, used an internally-developed piece of software
Read it again. "Software" is an adjective modifying "robot" in that sentence. While the sentence is a bit awkward, it's correct.
How many times do we have to repeat this: Piracy isn't stealing! Oh, wait, *those* pirates....
Uh, so I disagree with using the Super Bowl and OTA to determine ESPN viewership, but regardless, check that math - you shouldn't be multiplying by 1/2 there since the original statement was 15% of subscribers, not 15 of overall population.
Let me ask you, what do you think the purpose of DRM is? Go up to a dozen people on the street and ask them the same thing. Nearly all of them will tell you DRM is to prevent media theft.
Actually, nearly all of them will tell you they have no idea what DRM is, much less what it's intended to do. I personally think that's a bigger problem, but it's also reality.
Their release about how customers want unlimited plans (irony there, considering their bandwidth throttling) is all roses for now, but once folks are converted over, I don't expect the "unlimited" wording to stay around long. At some point soon after, releases will come out about how abusers of the system are using more than their fair share of texts so they will redefine their unlimited plan to be good for up to, say, 1000 messages a month. Yay - twice the profit! The cycle of "Customers want unlimited! The sky is falling; customers are using what we sold them!" is completely predictable at this point.
You had me at 10.
You don't get a discount on gift cards as a Best Buy employee. Discounts are based on cost (+5% when I was there). There's no "cost" to a gift card since it's not product. The discount comes when you spend the gift card.
Very true - cables in particular were marked up through the roof. There was some pressure to sell accessories, but not nearly as much as there was to sell warranties, for a few reasons.
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First, the warranties generally cost more. Second, they don't require any inventory space. You don't have to restock shelves of warranties. Third, you can sell them anywhere in the store - they've addressed this in some of their stores with the accessories along the checkout lanes, but it's much easier to sell a warranty in a different department than it is an accessory.
It's funny - when I first started working there (92?), they had a policy that warranties were explained and offered once, and we were trained to not be pushy. That was still around the time they trailed CC in overall sales, so they were attempting to grow their customer base. Once they took the lead, they switched to pushing the warranties to bump up margin.
I'm so glad I'm out of retail
Not sure where you got your information, but Best Buy doesn't do commission sales. When I worked there, there was other corporate pressure, but the "non-commissioned salespeople" label has long been a key differentiator in their eyes.
The corporate pressure I saw was primarily based around selling the extended warranties. That kind of pressure usually comes from even higher - the shareholders. Warranties have a very large profit margin.
Don't program your remote controls based on devices, program them based on the actions you're taking.
In my case, I have the Home Theater Master MX-500. To get around the problem you run into, I have it programmed so that my TV mode is only used for rare functions (sleep, changing to RF-in, etc.). I have a "TV watching" mode that changes channel through my TiVo, turns the TV power on and off, and controls volume through my receiver.
In my case, I have the Home Theater Master MX-500. To get around the problem you run into, I have it programmed so that my TV mode is only used for rare functions (sleep, changing to RF-in, etc.). I have a "TV watching" mode that changes channel through my TiVo, turns the TV power on and off, and controls volume through my receiver.
I think the key is thinking of the "modes" as actions (watching TV, listening to music, etc.) instead of objects (TV, receiver, ...).
Exactly.
I rip all of mine at pretty high VBR (LAME preset extreme) and average about 100 MB/CD. I'm at around 1200 CD's, and have 110 GB used. I'd prefer to have all of my music on the portable unit and sync up with my mp3 HD semi-regularly than have to worry about prioritizing and all that. Plus, at that point it makes for a handy backup.
So I'll be waiting for a while, but that's fine with me.
How exactly is this a "presale contract" if you can't read it until you've already bought the unit? Very odd meaning of the prefix "pre."
Wild - that was my HS too! I'll second the praise. I took a total of ten semesters of electronics (doubled up one year) in HS; very cool class atmosphere, everything student run, but with good direction from the top.
Try looking up the definition of definition.
First, there are more than 1 billion relevant chess matches to store. According to about.com's chess forum:
http://chess.about.com/library/weekly/aa072400a.ht m?terms=number+possible+moves
Number of possible board positions after white's first move: 20
After black's first move: 400
After white's second move: 29,200
After black's second move: 2,131,600
Those are positions, rather than games, but both are going to explode exponentially in that manner. At 50 moves and up, it's overwhelming (for now).
This addresses the number of games possible, but you make the point that we should only concern ourselves with "relevant" chess games. There are a number of reasons I don't think even this would work to pare down that number. First, to have the game solved, we *have* to take into account that the other player will make suboptimal moves as well. If we "throw out all of the games where the person just systematically moves their pawns up 1 space each turn from left to right, and stuff like that" all that someone has to do to take the machine out of book is to start down one of those normally silly paths that we've discarded.
Second, who would determine what's relevant? A human could at best, only set up rules for an automated process to use to cull the games. What would those rules be? If you throw out games where the opposition loses material, gambits immediately become more effective. So if you've thrown those out and are completely relying on a presolved matrix, you won't be able to win by accepting any of those gambits.
The only moves you *could* throw out are suboptimal moves of your own. If I know a certain move loses and another move doesn't, I can cull that move. Simple min-max stuff. But the problem here is, you still have to traverse down that path to find that out in advance. So you're almost solving the whole tree anyway.
There are distributed projects underway to evaluate certain sets of positions, usually branching off of known openings in a brute force manner. These should result in deeper knowledge of the game, but we're still a long way off from being able to brute force our way through the whole tree. And any selection process that gets us down to manageable disk sizes is going to suffer from some sort of flaw like the ones mentioned above.
Derek
Khalifman (also listed as Halifman at times) is Russian.
While the top bid may be BS, you're reading the history log wrong. The winner bid the top amount earlier. That opa-opa guy then kept submitting higher and higher amounts, finally giving up. His bids seem to be legitimate, because he won the $5K auction later in the day. I'd definitely doubt the winner's authenticity based on a number of facts... the two top bids were exactly the same (and a weird amount at that), they don't have a very active account (with 50% negative feedback), and they're using a hotmail address.
It's not, as you say, "petty", to expect your opponents to adhere to the rules of the game, particularly when money is on the line. This is what these people do for a living. In a friendly game, sure, whatever. But in a tournament game? Players should be expected to follow the rules.
Finally, I'm not sure about you, but I've played chess for 22 years, and not once have I "involuntarily twitched" and lost contact with a piece I was moving. You might want to get that checked out at the doctor.