Most people do not know how to get around copy protection, or even think about getting around it, they just know they need the CD in the drive for the software to work. It prevents casual copying of the CD for those who don't know about No-CD cracks. It would be more aptly called "copy inconvenience" instead of protection.
Has anyone else noticed that people who have "the good luck" to not live in the US also enjoy ranting bitterly about things being "too US-centric" or "this is useless to me because I don't live in the US"?
If I had to pay a penny for every 10 hits (maybe you mean visits?) to the sites I frequent I would be a very poor man. I think I'll stick with paying nothing, thanks!
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There used to be a Kazaa Lite version that didn't have all the crap in it but it seems hard to find these days. You could try Soulseek it's totally spyware/adware free and pretty decent.
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Yeah, but one thing cartoons have taught me is that mice and pussies just don't get along.
Oh, didn't you forget? This election is the most important because we live in the most dangerous times ever. Just because 20 years ago we lived under constant threat of global thermonuclear war and perservered doesn't mean we shouldn't be shitting our pants over a bunch of ragtag religious fanatics.
Remember, the only thing we have to fear is not fearing the terrorists enough!
Yeah, I suppose I wouldn't suggest it to your average person. I guess I was kind of writing my endorsement towards someone who's already played a good amount but not become a full professional yet. And obviously I do have a conflict of interest and could be leading sheep to the slaughter but really I just think it's a great job.
Poker is certainly not for everyone, if you don't think you could handle working an 8 hour day and ending up with $5,000 less than you started, don't do it. Dealing with the monetary variance of the lifestyle is difficult, you have to pretty much completely remove the idea that money is worth anything from your mind.
Also, I should add another disclaimer. If you do not have money that you can afford to lose, don't even try it, you cannot learn or play properly when you are playing with your rent money or whatever.
Maybe that's a good idea when you are playing 50c-$1 limits and lose $5 but you can lose $200 in one hand of $15-30, the money is well worth it. But certainly if you don't want to read a book that's your decision, I suppose you figured out physics for yourself "the hard way" too?
Being intelligent does give you a large advantage in poker when it comes to determining probabilities. The ability to calculate quickly how many outs you have as well as other factors like pot odds and implied odds is extremely useful. Also, it should provide some hedge against going on tilt although this happens to any player one time or another regardless of what they might say.
That said, online poker is much more mechanical than live poker and the advantages for the analytical mind are stronger online by a significant amount. In live play it is much more about profiling people, sensing weakness, and so on then actually what cards you are holding. Online play for any good player is a strictly "by the numbers" you only have to profile particularly bad (or rarely, particularly good) players.
One rather large caveat, being smart/analytical is great but it will not save you against an extremely experienced player. Of course, the ideal is to be both intelligent and experienced, then you are nearly unstoppable (in the long term of course, short term anything can happen).
Myself and the majority of my friends play poker professionally, some extremely successfully but all make a good living. Note that all of us have college degrees but have not bothered to us them yet.
All it takes to be successful is three things:
1) Money
This is a no brainer you have to have enough money so that you can lose for a significant amount of time without busting your bankroll. It is helpful to have other friends who play and can lend you money if things go bad. To make a good living I'd recommend playing 2-3 tables of 15-30 around 30 hours a week online, for this you'll need about $10,000 to be safe. A good 15-30 player that plays full time, 3-4 tables should be able to make around $60,000 a year or more depending. Typically though an excellent player will move to higher limits when they start making this amount of money.
2) Theory
Books, books, books. Of course the "Bible" for Hold 'Em is Sklansky and Malmuth's Hold 'Em Poker for Advanced Players. There are a lot of others but this is the best to start with in my opinion. In addition, if you know someone who is already a professional theory knowledge can be gained by simply watching them play and asking them questions.
3) Experience
Don't need to say much here. A professional playing for 5 years will school you 60+% of the time if you've only been playing for a year. The more the better. Note that the "play money" games do not count as experience nor does limits below 5-10/10-20 really prepare you for a 15-30 or 30-60.
As an aside, tournament play can definitely get you experience but don't count on it improving your play dramatically in standard games, with the exception of profiling and reading people. Not only are tournaments typically no limit but they have a much different dynamic in general. There are many good tournament players who suck at ring games and vice versa.
Anyways, the best thing about being a poker player is the total freedom, you can work whenever you want, or not work for a week if you don't feel like it. If you feel like taking a vacation you can just go, of course sometimes you do have to go to places like Aruba and play tournaments, what a drag!:) Also, most people think it's a pretty cool job and like to talk to you about it...
I highly recommend it but be warned you WILL lose money at first, and you WILL be incredibly stressed out much of the time. Playing is inherently stressful, especially when you hit a dry spell where you lose for a week or two straight. Make sure if this happens, to stay calm, playing looser will not get your money back quicker!
As far as I can tell from the specification you are correct, the provider of the e-mail service will sign the address as legit since it did come from one of their accounts.
The benefit would be that the provider could exactly trace the user account that was comprised. When complaints came in they would know which accounts were causing the problem and take appropriate action.
As it is now I get e-mails from people saying I'm sending them messages with viruses in them when I have never sent them anything. If they received a message signed by DomainKeys coming from my account I would know that someone has comprised either my computer or the account itself.
Yes, it is true some people might get fed up with the patent laws but they probably also think that people should have more rights than corporations. A laughable notion at best.
With any luck, patent and copyright violations will be be mandatory life sentences in the near future. Once these undesirables are off the street we will be able to once again sleep comfortably.
Apps that were designed with OpenGL (such as most id games) typically will run faster on linux. A DirectX native application though will often be quicker than a comparative OpenGL application because DirectX allows direct hardware access. OpenGL doesn't have this capability since it's platform independent, it still has to go through the system API and that incurs a performance penalty.
What is clearly needed here is for the government to step in and start dividing up different areas of the country and assigning monopolies to the various telecom companies. I think we can all attest to the wonderful customer service and prices that a government sanctioned localized monopoly provides.
Who needs human contact anyway? Humans are SO out this season.
The real future is robots, sex robots in particular. With one of those I could avoid all human contact and still visit Slashdot regularly while being "serviced".
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Yes, and the people are idiots.
Most people do not know how to get around copy protection, or even think about getting around it, they just know they need the CD in the drive for the software to work. It prevents casual copying of the CD for those who don't know about No-CD cracks. It would be more aptly called "copy inconvenience" instead of protection.
Has anyone else noticed that people who have "the good luck" to not live in the US also enjoy ranting bitterly about things being "too US-centric" or "this is useless to me because I don't live in the US"?
If I had to pay a penny for every 10 hits (maybe you mean visits?) to the sites I frequent I would be a very poor man. I think I'll stick with paying nothing, thanks!
There used to be a Kazaa Lite version that didn't have all the crap in it but it seems hard to find these days. You could try Soulseek it's totally spyware/adware free and pretty decent.
Yeah, but one thing cartoons have taught me is that mice and pussies just don't get along.
Oh, didn't you forget? This election is the most important because we live in the most dangerous times ever. Just because 20 years ago we lived under constant threat of global thermonuclear war and perservered doesn't mean we shouldn't be shitting our pants over a bunch of ragtag religious fanatics.
Remember, the only thing we have to fear is not fearing the terrorists enough!
Yeah, you might have, Stefan and myself go down there sometimes... Shawn and Thomas Keller used to play there all the time a couple years ago.
Booze is what unlocks my poker playing powers :)
Yeah, I suppose I wouldn't suggest it to your average person. I guess I was kind of writing my endorsement towards someone who's already played a good amount but not become a full professional yet. And obviously I do have a conflict of interest and could be leading sheep to the slaughter but really I just think it's a great job.
Poker is certainly not for everyone, if you don't think you could handle working an 8 hour day and ending up with $5,000 less than you started, don't do it. Dealing with the monetary variance of the lifestyle is difficult, you have to pretty much completely remove the idea that money is worth anything from your mind.
Also, I should add another disclaimer. If you do not have money that you can afford to lose, don't even try it, you cannot learn or play properly when you are playing with your rent money or whatever.
Maybe that's a good idea when you are playing 50c-$1 limits and lose $5 but you can lose $200 in one hand of $15-30, the money is well worth it. But certainly if you don't want to read a book that's your decision, I suppose you figured out physics for yourself "the hard way" too?
Being intelligent does give you a large advantage in poker when it comes to determining probabilities. The ability to calculate quickly how many outs you have as well as other factors like pot odds and implied odds is extremely useful. Also, it should provide some hedge against going on tilt although this happens to any player one time or another regardless of what they might say.
:) Also, most people think it's a pretty cool job and like to talk to you about it...
That said, online poker is much more mechanical than live poker and the advantages for the analytical mind are stronger online by a significant amount. In live play it is much more about profiling people, sensing weakness, and so on then actually what cards you are holding. Online play for any good player is a strictly "by the numbers" you only have to profile particularly bad (or rarely, particularly good) players.
One rather large caveat, being smart/analytical is great but it will not save you against an extremely experienced player. Of course, the ideal is to be both intelligent and experienced, then you are nearly unstoppable (in the long term of course, short term anything can happen).
Myself and the majority of my friends play poker professionally, some extremely successfully but all make a good living. Note that all of us have college degrees but have not bothered to us them yet.
All it takes to be successful is three things:
1) Money
This is a no brainer you have to have enough money so that you can lose for a significant amount of time without busting your bankroll. It is helpful to have other friends who play and can lend you money if things go bad. To make a good living I'd recommend playing 2-3 tables of 15-30 around 30 hours a week online, for this you'll need about $10,000 to be safe. A good 15-30 player that plays full time, 3-4 tables should be able to make around $60,000 a year or more depending. Typically though an excellent player will move to higher limits when they start making this amount of money.
2) Theory
Books, books, books. Of course the "Bible" for Hold 'Em is Sklansky and Malmuth's Hold 'Em Poker for Advanced Players. There are a lot of others but this is the best to start with in my opinion. In addition, if you know someone who is already a professional theory knowledge can be gained by simply watching them play and asking them questions.
3) Experience
Don't need to say much here. A professional playing for 5 years will school you 60+% of the time if you've only been playing for a year. The more the better. Note that the "play money" games do not count as experience nor does limits below 5-10/10-20 really prepare you for a 15-30 or 30-60.
As an aside, tournament play can definitely get you experience but don't count on it improving your play dramatically in standard games, with the exception of profiling and reading people. Not only are tournaments typically no limit but they have a much different dynamic in general. There are many good tournament players who suck at ring games and vice versa.
Anyways, the best thing about being a poker player is the total freedom, you can work whenever you want, or not work for a week if you don't feel like it. If you feel like taking a vacation you can just go, of course sometimes you do have to go to places like Aruba and play tournaments, what a drag!
I highly recommend it but be warned you WILL lose money at first, and you WILL be incredibly stressed out much of the time. Playing is inherently stressful, especially when you hit a dry spell where you lose for a week or two straight. Make sure if this happens, to stay calm, playing looser will not get your money back quicker!
Western Samoa
Is just me or does it seem odd they are using x20, x30, and x40 for names? I guess x20 + x30 + x40 does make an x90, slightly better than my x86.
You know you program too much when you see this and all you can think of is what longest common subsequence would be...
As far as I can tell from the specification you are correct, the provider of the e-mail service will sign the address as legit since it did come from one of their accounts.
The benefit would be that the provider could exactly trace the user account that was comprised. When complaints came in they would know which accounts were causing the problem and take appropriate action.
As it is now I get e-mails from people saying I'm sending them messages with viruses in them when I have never sent them anything. If they received a message signed by DomainKeys coming from my account I would know that someone has comprised either my computer or the account itself.
It's the greatest country in the world because if you're rich you can do whatever you want!
The idiots have taken over I fear.
Yes, it is true some people might get fed up with the patent laws but they probably also think that people should have more rights than corporations. A laughable notion at best.
With any luck, patent and copyright violations will be be mandatory life sentences in the near future. Once these undesirables are off the street we will be able to once again sleep comfortably.
Apps that were designed with OpenGL (such as most id games) typically will run faster on linux. A DirectX native application though will often be quicker than a comparative OpenGL application because DirectX allows direct hardware access. OpenGL doesn't have this capability since it's platform independent, it still has to go through the system API and that incurs a performance penalty.
I do live in the third world, what planet are you living on?
Personally, I'm against all this competition.
What is clearly needed here is for the government to step in and start dividing up different areas of the country and assigning monopolies to the various telecom companies. I think we can all attest to the wonderful customer service and prices that a government sanctioned localized monopoly provides.
Yes, it is a nefarious plan indeed.
How dare Microsoft stop people from using Outlook and Outlook Express, the finest and most secure e-mail clients ever?
I, for one, am outraged!
Who needs human contact anyway? Humans are SO out this season.
The real future is robots, sex robots in particular. With one of those I could avoid all human contact and still visit Slashdot regularly while being "serviced".
Given enough time coding, won't open source software always do what you want?