I'm a big poker player and have played online for the last 3 years. This year, the Poker scene has blown up to unreal proportions, in part because Chris Moneymaker, the 2003 World Series of Poker winner, won his seat to the tourney in an online tourney.
The Online Poker community (which is usually treated differently then the gambling community) has been very curious as to how this works, esp. since there are probably a higher percentage of poker players who are profitable as opposed to games where the house has the advantage -
but then, we only care about the WTO when it is profitable for us to...so I doubt anything will come of this -
let me get this straight....virtually unbelieveable insulation at the coldest of temperatures...creating super greenhouses/habitats and so forth...
improves the desalination of seawater plants a thousand fold...
my god....all we have to do is find a cheap or easier way to produce (like we do with virtually everything in the world in the free enterprise system) and we can offer virtually energy free habitats (excess heat can be channelled into electronics and solar can pick up the rest) - as well as a cheap water supply for the world...
christ...someone get me some chemists and a few venture capitalists.....this is incredible... - and it's real and now...not like those carbon nanofibers people want to use to create space elevators...
pax RB
one reason to take chips out of a casino..
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In Missouri, they only allow you to buy $500 worth of chips a day...(state law) or at least only every few hrs...
for the high stakes poker games like at the Ameristar, ($30-60 and so forth) - that's barely 12 BB
so I know of a few players there who will take their $2000 home in $100 chips, so that they can come to the table next time starting with $2000 -
but having said that, anyone who thought they had privacy in a casino beforehand is a friggen moron...big deal...
RB
coulda used this two years ago...
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I was part of a company that wanted to branch into network management for others
problem was, to sell your services as a NOC, you have to already have it built, which we didn't have...we had a bunch of fake looking tools, though...
where was this two years ago when I needed it...LOL
I used Win 98 for most of my stuff cause I like some of the older 6.22 games, and they never seemed to run worth a damn on Win2000 - so I stayed with Win 98 -
The funny thing is, I'm also running Zonealarm and a private FW, but it's nice to know the next time some mega XP worm launches it won't affect me too badly...
RB
finally, a favorable story about Windows
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never thought I'd see the day Slashdot praised Windows.....LOL
seriously, though...energy is everything we need...from producing food to finding water (or desalinating the oceans as will probably be necessary) we need energy to make this work....
therefore...this is a very good thing...esp. taking buildings off the grid...
on the other hand, if this really does hit 80-100% efficency as predicted in the article by scientists, I can see a lot of servers and CO-LO's relocating to the Equator...LOL
Like it or not, the courts have become the whipping boy for corporations....locking up development for years in the pharmeticul community, bullying individuals who can't afford a legal defense to pull down websites or stop distributing items that are legal... - One needs look no further then Scientology to see what a large organization with lots of money and no shame in suing/litigating their desires into existance. They even forced Slashdot to pull posts off it's server under the "threat" of action to see the courts are the big stick in today's society.
Linux is gonna have to be able to stand up to these guys if it's going to make further inroads into the corporate environment. Better that it start now, with an ally like IBM. What if they had gone after some real poor Linux distro manufacturer who would have had to cave under financial demands? - There would then be legal precedent for their claims...
Nope, I honestly think this is a ploy by the Executives of SCO to inflate stock price a bit so they are selling at $10 instead of.68 cents a share, but it's a legitmate threat, and I'm glad we're starting here. Once we've established the validity of the GNU/Open Source License, no lawsuit like this will have any teeth again.
either that or someone will "find" a misplaced patent from 30 yrs ago that gives them rights to the technology and the ability to legislate the technology into the junk bin for another 20 years.
But so far, sounds like Boeing has a couple for the receiver and that's it...but rest assured...it'll happen.
Technically, Superman is solar powered as well...it's just he stores the solar energy in him like a battery with massive amounts reserves whereas that guy in Superman 4 was more like a solar man.
Technically, if you read it correctly...he's not really even tough skinned so much as that solar energy creates a barrier around him that protects him.
There are issues that are supposed to take place in the future where Enviornmental damage has done so much to the atmosphere, Superman can really only leap great distances and his power is greatly reduced. There were also issues like the Doomsday one where his continual exertion over the course of the day drives him down so much he starts getting cut by Doomsday because his solar reserves are depleted..
Now I know why I'm still single...I'm a friggen geek.
just a cool book on the history of codes and encryption - It' been reviewed on/. - history of codes...the Codebreakers is good too, though pretty long and mostly centered on the WWII Enigma cracking.
don't waste your time though trying to solve the puzzles at the end, unless you're bored...the puzzle and 10,000 pounds were won less then a year after the challenge was issued, I think...
mod up...LOL...good thing I have the Karma to waste to get a +1 bonus...
My earliest memory is of me on a couch in Whitefish, MT, acting like I was being the weather man..I have very distinct memories of certain things...(like trying to crawl into the TV at 4 yrs. old) cause the Price is Right was on, and I wanted to be in the box/window Bob Barker was on...LOL
I remember at the same home seeing people climb up a ladder and being so mad cause the concept of climbing a ladder was SO foreign to me...LOL - might have been 3 at the time...
and as a super young boy of 2-3, I remember Whitefish, a basement of toys...cinder blocks and planks of 1" by 12" boards for shelves...
and wood paneling that looked like the weather map on TV...so I'd walk on the couch and point to wood paneling like it was a weather map...
somewhere in there...I jumped on the couch too much, bounced off, and split my head on the coffee table...since then, I've had a grey streak on the back of my head....
I got stitches, went to the hospital and all....funny how I don't remember that....
HEY...wait...that currently explains my whole life...He hit his head as a baby....that's why he's like that:)
and for most of us, it's true...(unless you believe that Law always equals Justice and the movites of superiors should NEVER be questioned..)
basically, you're saying if you believe a law is BS, you have the right to acquit the defendant even if legally, the crime was committed...a good example would acquiting a guy who smoked pot because you believe the war on drugs is BS persecution.
sometimes it goes the wrong way (good ol' boys who are acquited in the south of lynchings...) - but it is a right of the founding fathers...
Lawyers HATE these guys, and in fact, if you believe in this and don't declare it...they can hit you for contempt of court...
But I've contempt of our court system for a while now...
Hell, considering the number of women who marry for financial reasons (a 'la Joe Millionaire) - then technically every woman who married a man in part because of how much he makes is having sex for money...LOL
as my married friend joked when I told him he should be glad he doesn't have to pay for sex anymore..."oh, you pay...you pay...every day in many different ways, you pay...LOL"
I remember seeing an ad in a gaming magazine...aboutr '86 or so...
black and white, with about 8 developers on it..each talking about games they had programmed...Archon, stuff like that...
that was EA, as I recall....on one hand...kewl they've succeeded...on the other hand, they were once a blatently geek programming company...kind of a bumber...but it was kewl...
you have bought the new Britney Spears CD...congratulations on your excellent choice and fine musical selection...
LEGALESE: - This CD may not be resold or reproduced in any matter...opening this CD certifies that you agree to this stipulation.
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and the legal warning will be on the inside of the CD...bastards..
on the bright side, that should galvanize mainstream support against them...maybe only a small percentage download mp3's, but I'm willing to be a higher proportion of people use used mom and pop shops....if for no other reason then to acquire out of print material...shut those down and America will maybe open their eyes...
of course...they do buy Britney Spears...how smart can they be...
this is the ONLY game on the Sega Genesis I could tolerate...
if I can play this again...(and in an even BETTER format then before) - awesome...
God, I love emulating games I used to play in childhood, like MAME, TI994/A and stuff....WOO HOO!!! - nothing like running an AMD Thunderbird 1200 at 4.33 MHZ throttled down.!!!!
This is really about the movie, Hero. Producers are taking special advantage of all these special precautions cause this is supposed to be the biggest export since "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
You will see it here in the US, and it'll make a lot of money here. This isn't for the average HK flick yet, or bad Chinese cinema...this is like a sneak preview of "The Two Towers. the US cinema showing special previews months early would probably take the same precautions...
I heard this stuff every week...be real curious if it worked...I HIGHLY doubt it would, of course....but it'll be fun...get rid of those pesky Californians who keep moving into the state.
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I'm a big poker player and have played online for the last 3 years. This year, the Poker scene has blown up to unreal proportions, in part because Chris Moneymaker, the 2003 World Series of Poker winner, won his seat to the tourney in an online tourney.
The Online Poker community (which is usually treated differently then the gambling community) has been very curious as to how this works, esp. since there are probably a higher percentage of poker players who are profitable as opposed to games where the house has the advantage -
but then, we only care about the WTO when it is profitable for us to...so I doubt anything will come of this -
RB
let me get this straight....virtually unbelieveable insulation at the coldest of temperatures...creating super greenhouses/habitats and so forth...
improves the desalination of seawater plants a thousand fold...
my god....all we have to do is find a cheap or easier way to produce (like we do with virtually everything in the world in the free enterprise system) and we can offer virtually energy free habitats (excess heat can be channelled into electronics and solar can pick up the rest) - as well as a cheap water supply for the world...
christ...someone get me some chemists and a few venture capitalists.....this is incredible... - and it's real and now...not like those carbon nanofibers people want to use to create space elevators...
pax
RB
In Missouri, they only allow you to buy $500 worth of chips a day...(state law) or at least only every few hrs...
for the high stakes poker games like at the Ameristar, ($30-60 and so forth) - that's barely 12 BB
so I know of a few players there who will take their $2000 home in $100 chips, so that they can come to the table next time starting with $2000 -
but having said that, anyone who thought they had privacy in a casino beforehand is a friggen moron...big deal...
RB
I was part of a company that wanted to branch into network management for others
problem was, to sell your services as a NOC, you have to already have it built, which we didn't have...we had a bunch of fake looking tools, though...
where was this two years ago when I needed it...LOL
RB
I used Win 98 for most of my stuff cause I like some of the older 6.22 games, and they never seemed to run worth a damn on Win2000 - so I stayed with Win 98 -
The funny thing is, I'm also running Zonealarm and a private FW, but it's nice to know the next time some mega XP worm launches it won't affect me too badly...
RB
never thought I'd see the day Slashdot praised Windows.....LOL
seriously, though...energy is everything we need...from producing food to finding water (or desalinating the oceans as will probably be necessary) we need energy to make this work....
therefore...this is a very good thing...esp. taking buildings off the grid...
on the other hand, if this really does hit 80-100% efficency as predicted in the article by scientists, I can see a lot of servers and CO-LO's relocating to the Equator...LOL
pax
RB
if you run a WHOIS query on the domain of Jeff Parson (the guy who modified the BLASTER virus here in Hopkins, MN) - you'll get his home address...
that info is wide open, man...
RB
Like it or not, the courts have become the whipping boy for corporations....locking up development for years in the pharmeticul community, bullying individuals who can't afford a legal defense to pull down websites or stop distributing items that are legal... - One needs look no further then Scientology to see what a large organization with lots of money and no shame in suing/litigating their desires into existance. They even forced Slashdot to pull posts off it's server under the "threat" of action to see the courts are the big stick in today's society.
.68 cents a share, but it's a legitmate threat, and I'm glad we're starting here. Once we've established the validity of the GNU/Open Source License, no lawsuit like this will have any teeth again.
Linux is gonna have to be able to stand up to these guys if it's going to make further inroads into the corporate environment. Better that it start now, with an ally like IBM. What if they had gone after some real poor Linux distro manufacturer who would have had to cave under financial demands? - There would then be legal precedent for their claims...
Nope, I honestly think this is a ploy by the Executives of SCO to inflate stock price a bit so they are selling at $10 instead of
either that or someone will "find" a misplaced patent from 30 yrs ago that gives them rights to the technology and the ability to legislate the technology into the junk bin for another 20 years.
But so far, sounds like Boeing has a couple for the receiver and that's it...but rest assured...it'll happen.
Or like you say - we'll go to war.
RB
Technically, Superman is solar powered as well...it's just he stores the solar energy in him like a battery with massive amounts reserves whereas that guy in Superman 4 was more like a solar man.
Technically, if you read it correctly...he's not really even tough skinned so much as that solar energy creates a barrier around him that protects him.
There are issues that are supposed to take place in the future where Enviornmental damage has done so much to the atmosphere, Superman can really only leap great distances and his power is greatly reduced. There were also issues like the Doomsday one where his continual exertion over the course of the day drives him down so much he starts getting cut by Doomsday because his solar reserves are depleted..
Now I know why I'm still single...I'm a friggen geek.
RB
fire your lawyers and PR people...
whoever is giving you advice is getting paid by the hour, and doesn't care how stupid you look or how irrelevant your actions are...
I can't believe this is even a professionally traded company. It feels like amateur hour around there.
RB
Nothing beats the theme music for Atarisoft...
Atarisoft, Atarisoft, Atarisoft, Atarisoft...
RB
just a cool book on the history of codes and encryption - It' been reviewed on /. - history of codes...the Codebreakers is good too, though pretty long and mostly centered on the WWII Enigma cracking.
don't waste your time though trying to solve the puzzles at the end, unless you're bored...the puzzle and 10,000 pounds were won less then a year after the challenge was issued, I think...
RB
only one thing more likely then a first post...
that being Sony will sue him into revoking via DMCA,... LOL
pax
RB
extremely unlikely...
Electoral candidates are picked by the winning party...it's sort of a gift for years of party loyalty.
If they did, they'd end their political career...end of story - Very very unlikely.
RB
so I could die from sitting in front of the comp. too long...
so fucking what...anything less short of imminent death is a fucking release from boredom...
i say bring it on, you fucking biological bioorganisms....fucking white/red blood cells anyways...what the fuck are they any good for...
RB
mod up...LOL...good thing I have the Karma to waste to get a +1 bonus...
:)
My earliest memory is of me on a couch in Whitefish, MT, acting like I was being the weather man..I have very distinct memories of certain things...(like trying to crawl into the TV at 4 yrs. old) cause the Price is Right was on, and I wanted to be in the box/window Bob Barker was on...LOL
I remember at the same home seeing people climb up a ladder and being so mad cause the concept of climbing a ladder was SO foreign to me...LOL - might have been 3 at the time...
and as a super young boy of 2-3, I remember Whitefish, a basement of toys...cinder blocks and planks of 1" by 12" boards for shelves...
and wood paneling that looked like the weather map on TV...so I'd walk on the couch and point to wood paneling like it was a weather map...
somewhere in there...I jumped on the couch too much, bounced off, and split my head on the coffee table...since then, I've had a grey streak on the back of my head....
I got stitches, went to the hospital and all....funny how I don't remember that....
HEY...wait...that currently explains my whole life...He hit his head as a baby....that's why he's like that
RB
easy to get out of jury duty...Just say you believe in Jury Nullification...
0 7J uryNullification.html
http://www.greenmac.com/eagle/ISSUES/ISSUE23-9/
and for most of us, it's true...(unless you believe that Law always equals Justice and the movites of superiors should NEVER be questioned..)
basically, you're saying if you believe a law is BS, you have the right to acquit the defendant even if legally, the crime was committed...a good example would acquiting a guy who smoked pot because you believe the war on drugs is BS persecution.
sometimes it goes the wrong way (good ol' boys who are acquited in the south of lynchings...) - but it is a right of the founding fathers...
Lawyers HATE these guys, and in fact, if you believe in this and don't declare it...they can hit you for contempt of court...
But I've contempt of our court system for a while now...
RB
Hell, considering the number of women who marry for financial reasons (a 'la Joe Millionaire) - then technically every woman who married a man in part because of how much he makes is having sex for money...LOL
as my married friend joked when I told him he should be glad he doesn't have to pay for sex anymore..."oh, you pay...you pay...every day in many different ways, you pay...LOL"
RB
I remember seeing an ad in a gaming magazine...aboutr '86 or so...
black and white, with about 8 developers on it..each talking about games they had programmed...Archon, stuff like that...
that was EA, as I recall....on one hand...kewl they've succeeded...on the other hand, they were once a blatently geek programming company...kind of a bumber...but it was kewl...
RB
I can see it now....
you have bought the new Britney Spears CD...congratulations on your excellent choice and fine musical selection...
LEGALESE: - This CD may not be resold or reproduced in any matter...opening this CD certifies that you agree to this stipulation.
----
and the legal warning will be on the inside of the CD...bastards..
on the bright side, that should galvanize mainstream support against them...maybe only a small percentage download mp3's, but I'm willing to be a higher proportion of people use used mom and pop shops....if for no other reason then to acquire out of print material...shut those down and America will maybe open their eyes...
of course...they do buy Britney Spears...how smart can they be...
RB
this is the ONLY game on the Sega Genesis I could tolerate...
if I can play this again...(and in an even BETTER format then before) - awesome...
God, I love emulating games I used to play in childhood, like MAME, TI994/A and stuff....WOO HOO!!! - nothing like running an AMD Thunderbird 1200 at 4.33 MHZ throttled down.!!!!
RB
This is really about the movie, Hero. Producers are taking special advantage of all these special precautions cause this is supposed to be the biggest export since "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
You will see it here in the US, and it'll make a lot of money here. This isn't for the average HK flick yet, or bad Chinese cinema...this is like a sneak preview of "The Two Towers. the US cinema showing special previews months early would probably take the same precautions...
I grew up in Montana...
I heard this stuff every week...be real curious if it worked...I HIGHLY doubt it would, of course....but it'll be fun...get rid of those pesky Californians who keep moving into the state.
so I'm reading about how we're trying to save and advance Linux.
and I see the article from Telestra..
and I reload (cause of a link I followed) and I have a Microsoft ad at the top of the page.
Is it just me, or does Microsoft have NO idea who their target market is and isn't...LOL
RB