This reminds me of an article from several years back in ?popular mechanics? (I think) . There was a chap who "for fun" would hike to the top of a mountain adjacent to Area 51 and take pictures of the base and air traffic with an uber-telephoto lens. The rig was impressive to my untrained eye, and I have to assume it would make even the most hardened paparazzi jealous. From memory, he was ~6ish miles from the runway. The limitations on picture quality were from atmospheric distortion because of heat differentials rising off the desert, AKA the 'shimmer' from TFA.
Actually it isn't silverlight that is the problem. If you forge a safari user agent* then you can see it's the "move player" plugin that isn't linux friendly.
* Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/XX (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/YY
What if someone takes your code and patents a part of it? BSD then says you cannot claim the patent or protect yourself from it.
This is incorrect. The word "patent" or derivatives do not appear in the BSD license. You can read it here
And patent law says you can't use your BSD code.
Patent law says you must license legally patented methods to include them in a product. It does not interact with the concept of software licensing.
It therefore doesn't matter if you feel confident in obeying the BSD. Your feelings will not make a hill of beans difference. And you will be disallowed.
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Stripping away the FUD here makes this a lot simpler. I make widgets, and tell the world how to make widgets. Company X patents my widget making process. Company X's patent is invalid because of my prior art.
Patent law is too complicated as it is. Don't make it worse with FUD.
You create not a character, but a bloodline. This bloodline has an abode (probably starting as a hovel with upgrade possibilities). Said bloodline can have several characters in it. Bloodline possessions are handed from one character to another.
Here here! Exceptional idea! Toss this whole notion of "soulbound" objects too. Great swords have always been passed through family lines, fater-son-etc/etc. (Too bad for the daughter's though.;) )
Excellent explanation. I'll take it one step further.
Recently, there was a rather famous Google Talk by the founder of Energy Matter Conversion Corp, a DARPA funded energy research company. They built a series of fusors using "Inertial Electrostatic Confinement", which eliminated the wires using an array of electrical coils. This research appeared quite promising, but the project was shuttered for political and budget reasons.
A group of the original SpamAssassin developers got together with a group of mercenaries and created SpammerAssassin. It's in alpha, and looks good except it seems to have started a teeny-tiny war in the eastern bloc. Oops. They have an open bug ticket on it.
I'm struggling to see why she is described as "innocent, disabled". Does the validity of the case or the settlement depend on her being disabled?
Because it evokes the mental image of a "big bad corporation" picking on a "helpless disabled woman". It is called "spin". Here is the same summary with a different "spin".
The RIAA, a copyright defense group representing thousands of musicians and artists was shocked today by a judges decision to award over $100,000 to a person accused of pirating and distributing music illegally. In related news, the accused has filed a countersuit requesting huge additional damages from the artists' organization. An unnamed RIAA spokesperson was quoted as saying. "This was all a big misunderstanding. We represent the musicians that are losing millions to stolen music, and this settlement will come out of their pockets. In the end, that robs the paying music customer."
Sounds a lot different. Says the same thing.
-ellie
Don't flame me bro, this is not defending the RIAA, just answering the question.
Self-replying here...... and if the todays article on Jupiter's slow-but-steady bulldozing of the planetary habitable zone is correct, we need to hurry up.
I don't think the OP is interested in VOIP or anything like that. It sounds like he would like to loop the audio through his modem up to his headset. This is possible with "speakerphone voice modems" They aren't oem in many PCs, so unless you bought one you may be out of luck. To tell if you have one fairly easy, take a look at the modem and see if it has a headphone jack on it. If so, yeah! For software, try the free trial of ExpressDial from NCH software. http://www.nch.com.au/dial/index.html
If my son or daughter asked me this today, I would point him to AutoIt. It is a basic-like open source language that is simple enough to work from the command line(print, input, etc) but complete enough that it can grow into complex applications (windows guis, database access, interacting with other applications using COM). It is an interpreted language, but also includes a compiler. It is written for windows, but could be ported by someone enterprising enough.
One of the really cool things about AutoIt is that it was born as a scripting language to automate simple tasks. It is one thing to be "interested" in programming. As your young programmer gets more comfortable, s/he could use it to write simple bots for WoW, Runescape, etc. Having a program run around and farm gold for you brings programming to a whole new level of coolness. If they aren't into the whole gaming thing, how about using it to control some x-10 stuff?
Oooh, what a great use for MIR, or SpaceLab. Oh wait, WE THREW THEM AWAY.
Eventually someone is going to say.. Hey, this stuff costs a bajazillion dollars to build and $14,000 an ounce to get into orbit, maybe we should keep it in orbit and see if it can be reused?*
The first time I read this I thought it said Ballmer instead of Stallman. Imho, both could take the dogma down a notch or two for the benefit of the world at large.
Yes, that is mathematically the best way to play. And if you play that way on one of my tables you will very shortly be separated from your money. Why? Because you will be in every pot that has more than 4 players. And you will tell me when you have a good hand by raising, and how good your hand is. If I have a good hand I'll reraise you and you'll call, paying me off. If I have crap I'll throw a HUGE bet out and you'll fold it away.
See how that doesn't work? If you play purely mathematically, playing "perfectly", you lose to an aggressive player.
The whole tells topic is important in professional poker for increasing your odds against flawed human players. That can give you an edge over the basic statistics. However, if you're playing a computer that doesn't have any tells, my intuition says that the game reduces to basic probability.
The assumption here is that the computer has no tells. That is not a safe assumption. Most tells aren't about whether or not the guy licks the oreo on a bluff (Reference: Rounders), heart rate (a really good tell), pupil diameter, or galvanic skin response. They are about how an opponent plays in a particular situation. After a few rounds you get a feel for the types of starting hands a player will play, and their betting patterns. Unless the software opponent has each and every one of these actions randomized to a good extent, it will be read and played. "Perfect" poker software is not impossible, but it is a harder problem than it looks.
Software is actually at a disadvantage when it comes to playing poker at the professional level. A person can infer when another player has a read on her and adjust play to neutralize or take advantage of the opponent's confidence. This all becomes quite fuzzy and recursive when you try to emulate it in software. Sort of like the princess bride. "I know that you know that I know that you know that **TTL EXPIRED IN TRANSIT"
At the cheaper blinds though a software application could easily make money. I am NOT a great player and can make about $10 an hour just playing the top 5 hands on a 1-2cent table at Pokerstars. People are really predictable at that level, but it feels like work after a while and I enjoy my day job more.
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This reminds me of an article from several years back in ?popular mechanics? (I think) . There was a chap who "for fun" would hike to the top of a mountain adjacent to Area 51 and take pictures of the base and air traffic with an uber-telephoto lens. The rig was impressive to my untrained eye, and I have to assume it would make even the most hardened paparazzi jealous. From memory, he was ~6ish miles from the runway. The limitations on picture quality were from atmospheric distortion because of heat differentials rising off the desert, AKA the 'shimmer' from TFA.
Here you go mountain guy, this ones for you.
Fourth thought: "s/wound/would/g"
First thought: "Hey, if it can work within or near the event horizon of a black hole we could time travel!".
Second thought: "Wound this violate one of the laws of thermodynamics?"
Third thought: "I need a life."
Actually it isn't silverlight that is the problem. If you forge a safari user agent* then you can see it's the "move player" plugin that isn't linux friendly.
* Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/XX (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/YY
This is incorrect. The word "patent" or derivatives do not appear in the BSD license. You can read it here
Patent law says you must license legally patented methods to include them in a product. It does not interact with the concept of software licensing.
?.
Stripping away the FUD here makes this a lot simpler. I make widgets, and tell the world how to make widgets. Company X patents my widget making process. Company X's patent is invalid because of my prior art.
Patent law is too complicated as it is. Don't make it worse with FUD.
Here here! Exceptional idea! Toss this whole notion of "soulbound" objects too. Great swords have always been passed through family lines, fater-son-etc/etc. (Too bad for the daughter's though. ;) )
-ellie
Excellent explanation. I'll take it one step further.
Recently, there was a rather famous Google Talk by the founder of Energy Matter Conversion Corp, a DARPA funded energy research company. They built a series of fusors using "Inertial Electrostatic Confinement", which eliminated the wires using an array of electrical coils. This research appeared quite promising, but the project was shuttered for political and budget reasons.
-ellie
A group of the original SpamAssassin developers got together with a group of mercenaries and created SpammerAssassin. It's in alpha, and looks good except it seems to have started a teeny-tiny war in the eastern bloc. Oops. They have an open bug ticket on it.
:D
Because it evokes the mental image of a "big bad corporation" picking on a "helpless disabled woman". It is called "spin". Here is the same summary with a different "spin".
The RIAA, a copyright defense group representing thousands of musicians and artists was shocked today by a judges decision to award over $100,000 to a person accused of pirating and distributing music illegally. In related news, the accused has filed a countersuit requesting huge additional damages from the artists' organization. An unnamed RIAA spokesperson was quoted as saying. "This was all a big misunderstanding. We represent the musicians that are losing millions to stolen music, and this settlement will come out of their pockets. In the end, that robs the paying music customer."
Sounds a lot different. Says the same thing.
-ellie
Don't flame me bro, this is not defending the RIAA, just answering the question.
RIAA Lesson Learned: Do not annoy those that can devote their full time occupation to making you look like an imbecile.
Self-replying here... ... and if the todays article on Jupiter's slow-but-steady bulldozing of the planetary habitable zone is correct, we need to hurry up.
Here Here. I believe it to be inevitable that we will we engineer our evolutionary successors.
(And no I am not one of those sky-is-falling singularity-is-near people.)
I, for one, welcome our rat brained robotic overlords.
I don't think the OP is interested in VOIP or anything like that. It sounds like he would like to loop the audio through his modem up to his headset. This is possible with "speakerphone voice modems" They aren't oem in many PCs, so unless you bought one you may be out of luck. To tell if you have one fairly easy, take a look at the modem and see if it has a headphone jack on it. If so, yeah! For software, try the free trial of ExpressDial from NCH software. http://www.nch.com.au/dial/index.html
Good Luck,
-ellie
If my son or daughter asked me this today, I would point him to AutoIt. It is a basic-like open source language that is simple enough to work from the command line(print, input, etc) but complete enough that it can grow into complex applications (windows guis, database access, interacting with other applications using COM). It is an interpreted language, but also includes a compiler. It is written for windows, but could be ported by someone enterprising enough.
One of the really cool things about AutoIt is that it was born as a scripting language to automate simple tasks. It is one thing to be "interested" in programming. As your young programmer gets more comfortable, s/he could use it to write simple bots for WoW, Runescape, etc. Having a program run around and farm gold for you brings programming to a whole new level of coolness. If they aren't into the whole gaming thing, how about using it to control some x-10 stuff?
From one nerd-parent to another,
Good Luck,
Oooh, what a great use for MIR, or SpaceLab. Oh wait, WE THREW THEM AWAY.
Eventually someone is going to say.. Hey, this stuff costs a bajazillion dollars to build and $14,000 an ounce to get into orbit, maybe we should keep it in orbit and see if it can be reused?*
-ellie
The industrious among us have sorted out "dirt-optional" growing, so it will be okay... We promise.
Aquaponics
(Our soylent green is not made of people. People have a poor feed conversion ratio.)
-ellie
The first time I read this I thought it said Ballmer instead of Stallman. Imho, both could take the dogma down a notch or two for the benefit of the world at large.
EllieGreene on Pokerstars. I usually play 1 or 2 50,000 (PLAY MONEY) sit and go's every day.
I was thinking about it this morning and we are approaching this the wrong way.
Some guy, in Vegas, says he has a system that can't lose. Don't believe it even if you see it.
-ellie
Yes, that is mathematically the best way to play. And if you play that way on one of my tables you will very shortly be separated from your money. Why? Because you will be in every pot that has more than 4 players. And you will tell me when you have a good hand by raising, and how good your hand is. If I have a good hand I'll reraise you and you'll call, paying me off. If I have crap I'll throw a HUGE bet out and you'll fold it away.
See how that doesn't work? If you play purely mathematically, playing "perfectly", you lose to an aggressive player.
-ellie
The assumption here is that the computer has no tells. That is not a safe assumption. Most tells aren't about whether or not the guy licks the oreo on a bluff (Reference: Rounders), heart rate (a really good tell), pupil diameter, or galvanic skin response. They are about how an opponent plays in a particular situation. After a few rounds you get a feel for the types of starting hands a player will play, and their betting patterns. Unless the software opponent has each and every one of these actions randomized to a good extent, it will be read and played. "Perfect" poker software is not impossible, but it is a harder problem than it looks.
-ellie
Software is actually at a disadvantage when it comes to playing poker at the professional level. A person can infer when another player has a read on her and adjust play to neutralize or take advantage of the opponent's confidence. This all becomes quite fuzzy and recursive when you try to emulate it in software. Sort of like the princess bride. "I know that you know that I know that you know that **TTL EXPIRED IN TRANSIT"
At the cheaper blinds though a software application could easily make money. I am NOT a great player and can make about $10 an hour just playing the top 5 hands on a 1-2cent table at Pokerstars. People are really predictable at that level, but it feels like work after a while and I enjoy my day job more.
-ellie
The same way we take down 12,000 player online poker tournaments. Just grind it out.
As one of the rare sorts that read TFA, I wish there was more detail. -ellie