Heads up does not have the most variance. You just made that up. Maybe specific players do, but thats a different story.
This fact is quite obvious. A 10-handed $20/$40 game verses a 2-handed $20/$40 games. In both cases it costs about the same to see a hand through, but in the 10 handed game your chance of winning any given hand is less, but the payoff odds are higher. Thats the fucking definition of variance.
Thats heads-up live action, and its true that some poker has low variance.
The GP was correct that the old guard of pro tournament players do not like the new situation, and it isnt because they dont have an edge against the young hyper-aggressive crowd.
Its because the hyper aggressive players increase the variance of everyone at the table, including the loose passive players, which is pecisely counter to what benefits the top half of the table (including the *good* hyper-aggressives) the most.
So the old pros still have an edge, but the edge they pick up on Mr. Raise-A-Lot does not cover the edge that they lose on Mr. Call-A-Lot.
Ask any pro-poker player what type of cash money table they like to sit at, and the answer is Loose-Passive. When the game gets overly aggressive, the pros pick up and find a new game to play in thats less dramatic.
To many users, a computer works by doing what they tell it to do, and that's plenty for them to know. "How computers work" is a very broad statement that could mean a number of things that you don't address in the statements following your first one.
Its quite simple really.
He doesn't know what hes talking about, and even though he knows that too.. hes talking anyways
So I get to point out that he doesnt know what hes talking about. Really. I do.
They first disallow Flash.
Then they make a deal with companies that provide Flash based games, to sell non-flash apps that provide access to those very same Flash games (Zynga Poker, etc..)
This is equivilent to Ford Motors declaring that none of its suppliers can use any tools from Stanley (aka Craftsman), and then Ford setting up its own tool supplier and declaring that you can use tools from their wholly owned tool division, or from other spoecific competition to Stanley, but not at all from Stanley.
The blue screen crashing that this rootkit caused after the previous update was not due to rootkit modifications to the files that were being patched.
The problems occured because code that was NOT being patched (the rootkit!) was making direct jumps into kernel memory, to offsets that were no longer relevant after the patch.
I still assume that uptime is your biggest worry in enterprise. Compromised security is dealt with in a way that preserves the uptime required to operate the business.
As Microsoft has noted, while the solution prevents users from suffering the misery of Blue Screens of Death, it does leave them unprotected and the company has urged users to download its Malicious Software Removal Tool to clean up their machines and run the patch as soon as possible.
It isnt that they wont patch these systems, its that they wont automatically install the MSRT, which removes the rootkit, as part of the update.
..and to be perfectly honest, who wants the MSRT to be a mandatory component. Things like that are capable of unexpectedly altering the system, something typically frowned upon in enterprise.
Unless you owe a lot in taxes or back taxes and just need the extra time to come up with the money...why would you wait until the very last day to file?
I wait until the last minute to pay it because I can.
A case-in-point on this is the new "Making Work Pay" tax credit."
Why do we need Tax Credits based entirely on income? Well, its not based entirely on income. People with anuity/pension income do not recieve this credit.
The game is revealed. Rather than hit retired people with a new tax aimed directly at them, they instead give a credit to everyone else but them.
Tax credits should not even exist. They are wholly dishonest/disingenuous.
"I'm a manufacturer of soft-top convertible sports cars. Am I to read from your post that since I don't cater for people who want a sunroof I'm violating this Sherman act you refer to?"
No.
But if you insist that only equipment from Stanley Tools can be used by the independent suppliers that manufacture parts of this car that you assemble, then you would in fact be in violation of the Sherman act.
Apple make a product.
Apple is also operating a horizontal marketplace that is vertical to the product, and thats a whole 'nother can of worms.
I don't think they can sue over anti-trust because because you have to show a monopoly.
No, you don't have to show a monopoly.
Section 1: "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal."
Violations of section 1 of the Sherman act only deals with anti-competitive practices. Apple is certainly dangerously close to the line because they have created a self-described marketplace, and then act to manipulate the competition within it. A single mis-step, if they haven't taken one already, is all it takes. If they havent fallen into the abyss yet, they are still right there looking out into it.
I suspect that since it has no downloadable apps, that "bleeding edge" isnt really a concern.
Only needs a CPU good enough to run the included apps. Probably dont even need a GPU. With application control, you also get reliable antialiasing (only fonts that look good included) so perhaps a regular 100DPI display may be good enough (iphones and recent ipods sport a 200DPI display, if I am not mistaken,) the battery probably wont need to be nearly as good, the memory probably doesnt need to be nearly as fast either...
There are probably lots of ways to cut costs here without sacrificing much beyond that initial sacrifice: no downloadable apps
Could you imagine what the market would do if Photoshop and the like were no longer supported on Apple's OS?
Those Macintosh's can run Windows 7, and thats only $100-$200. A sum that amounts to nothing compared to the price of Photoshop. Thus, the market would immediately install Windows 7 on their Macintosh's when purchasing the new version of Photoshop.
Quite simply, any anti-competitive behavior may be grounds for an anti-trust case under section 1 of the Sherman act. It could certainly be construed that allowing a specific application constitutes an agreement between Apple and the applications developers, and that if Apple refuses to allow Flash-based alternatives to that application that it then is a conspiracy that restrains competition, and if that application is for sale then this agreement by definition restrains competitive commerce.
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Heads up does not have the most variance. You just made that up. Maybe specific players do, but thats a different story.
This fact is quite obvious. A 10-handed $20/$40 game verses a 2-handed $20/$40 games. In both cases it costs about the same to see a hand through, but in the 10 handed game your chance of winning any given hand is less, but the payoff odds are higher. Thats the fucking definition of variance.
Ripping isnt illegal (yet) ..
...distribution is.
They can offer free low quality (say 64kbps) audio on demand for free, and then charge a small amount for 128kbps and a premium for 196+kbps.
oh wait.. they already offer 128kbps for free in the form of Pandora/etc, 'cept that its not on demand.
So who gets to do nothing?
Gee, nobody modded you at all, what a surprise.
So fuck honesty? Lets dramatize everything with exaggerations? Think of the children that your line of thinking will hurt.
Thats heads-up live action, and its true that some poker has low variance.
The GP was correct that the old guard of pro tournament players do not like the new situation, and it isnt because they dont have an edge against the young hyper-aggressive crowd.
Its because the hyper aggressive players increase the variance of everyone at the table, including the loose passive players, which is pecisely counter to what benefits the top half of the table (including the *good* hyper-aggressives) the most.
So the old pros still have an edge, but the edge they pick up on Mr. Raise-A-Lot does not cover the edge that they lose on Mr. Call-A-Lot.
Ask any pro-poker player what type of cash money table they like to sit at, and the answer is Loose-Passive. When the game gets overly aggressive, the pros pick up and find a new game to play in thats less dramatic.
To many users, a computer works by doing what they tell it to do, and that's plenty for them to know. "How computers work" is a very broad statement that could mean a number of things that you don't address in the statements following your first one.
Its quite simple really.
He doesn't know what hes talking about, and even though he knows that too.. hes talking anyways
So I get to point out that he doesnt know what hes talking about. Really. I do.
Gee I don't know. Lets see..
They first disallow Flash.
Then they make a deal with companies that provide Flash based games, to sell non-flash apps that provide access to those very same Flash games (Zynga Poker, etc..)
This is equivilent to Ford Motors declaring that none of its suppliers can use any tools from Stanley (aka Craftsman), and then Ford setting up its own tool supplier and declaring that you can use tools from their wholly owned tool division, or from other spoecific competition to Stanley, but not at all from Stanley.
You don't know how computers work, do you?
The blue screen crashing that this rootkit caused after the previous update was not due to rootkit modifications to the files that were being patched.
The problems occured because code that was NOT being patched (the rootkit!) was making direct jumps into kernel memory, to offsets that were no longer relevant after the patch.
I still assume that uptime is your biggest worry in enterprise. Compromised security is dealt with in a way that preserves the uptime required to operate the business.
I'm sure that you've HURD of it.
..oh..did you want one that actually works and stuff?
As Microsoft has noted, while the solution prevents users from suffering the misery of Blue Screens of Death, it does leave them unprotected and the company has urged users to download its Malicious Software Removal Tool to clean up their machines and run the patch as soon as possible.
It isnt that they wont patch these systems, its that they wont automatically install the MSRT, which removes the rootkit, as part of the update.
..and to be perfectly honest, who wants the MSRT to be a mandatory component. Things like that are capable of unexpectedly altering the system, something typically frowned upon in enterprise.
Quite possibly the first one. Certainly dangerously close to violating it.
That is, specifically, section 1 of the Sherman act.
Unless you owe a lot in taxes or back taxes and just need the extra time to come up with the money...why would you wait until the very last day to file?
I wait until the last minute to pay it because I can.
Seriously. What about this confuses you?
A case-in-point on this is the new "Making Work Pay" tax credit."
Why do we need Tax Credits based entirely on income? Well, its not based entirely on income. People with anuity/pension income do not recieve this credit.
The game is revealed. Rather than hit retired people with a new tax aimed directly at them, they instead give a credit to everyone else but them.
Tax credits should not even exist. They are wholly dishonest/disingenuous.
You arent skeptical of the "every labor law" claim?
Really? You arent at all skeptical?
Apple isn't a monopoly
How many times do we need to go through this? A monopoly is not required for an anti-trust violation.
"I'm a manufacturer of soft-top convertible sports cars. Am I to read from your post that since I don't cater for people who want a sunroof I'm violating this Sherman act you refer to?"
No.
But if you insist that only equipment from Stanley Tools can be used by the independent suppliers that manufacture parts of this car that you assemble, then you would in fact be in violation of the Sherman act.
Apple make a product.
Apple is also operating a horizontal marketplace that is vertical to the product, and thats a whole 'nother can of worms.
I don't think they can sue over anti-trust because because you have to show a monopoly.
No, you don't have to show a monopoly.
Section 1: "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal."
Violations of section 1 of the Sherman act only deals with anti-competitive practices. Apple is certainly dangerously close to the line because they have created a self-described marketplace, and then act to manipulate the competition within it. A single mis-step, if they haven't taken one already, is all it takes. If they havent fallen into the abyss yet, they are still right there looking out into it.
I suspect that since it has no downloadable apps, that "bleeding edge" isnt really a concern.
Only needs a CPU good enough to run the included apps. Probably dont even need a GPU. With application control, you also get reliable antialiasing (only fonts that look good included) so perhaps a regular 100DPI display may be good enough (iphones and recent ipods sport a 200DPI display, if I am not mistaken,) the battery probably wont need to be nearly as good, the memory probably doesnt need to be nearly as fast either...
There are probably lots of ways to cut costs here without sacrificing much beyond that initial sacrifice: no downloadable apps
The iphone reportedly costs ~$200 in parts
Its nice that you mentioned Symbian.
..yet Opera's mobile dominance is 25.8% .. this means that a significant portion of iPhone/Symbian/Android owners MUST be browsing with Opera.
Combined, iPhoneOS and SymbianOS make up 67% of the market, and you are at 81% of the market if you add in Android.
Could you imagine what the market would do if Photoshop and the like were no longer supported on Apple's OS?
Those Macintosh's can run Windows 7, and thats only $100-$200. A sum that amounts to nothing compared to the price of Photoshop. Thus, the market would immediately install Windows 7 on their Macintosh's when purchasing the new version of Photoshop.
The relationship between Adobe and Apple has been somewhat strained. Adobe for the most part made their name with Photoshop on Mac.
Yeah, they had nothing to do with the crazily successful PostScript.
Anti-Trust laws are not exclusive to monopolies.
Quite simply, any anti-competitive behavior may be grounds for an anti-trust case under section 1 of the Sherman act. It could certainly be construed that allowing a specific application constitutes an agreement between Apple and the applications developers, and that if Apple refuses to allow Flash-based alternatives to that application that it then is a conspiracy that restrains competition, and if that application is for sale then this agreement by definition restrains competitive commerce.