You don't need a fancy machine. The bottom line is that if the scratch is on the bottom, and it doesn't go too deep, you can polish away some plastic to make the cd readable again.
If the scratch is on the top, and deep enough, there is no way to repair the cd. You can tell if it is a top scratch by holding up the cd to a light and looking through with with top side facing you. If you can see light coming through scratches, you have top scratches.
hey, I will get some bashing, but this works:
http://wrt54g.thermoman.de/
I noticed that traffic shaping adds some latency (~20ms), and you have to be willing to give up some bandwidth for it to work propery. For example, if you're on 3Mbps DSL, you want to set your router to throttle you at maybe 2Mbps, or 90% of what you acutally get most of the time, so the router is alwasy throttling before the ISP, and the router can properly prioritize packets.
Does this mean that someone who is denied health insurance in any other state will be able to move to Massachusetts and be guaranteed to be approved for health insurance? Will high risk people who are denied in other states have higher insurance premiums to pay than "lower risk" insurees in Mass?
Will there even be an application process if accepting me is compulsory? Will this give insurance companies less loopholes to try to out of paying for my expensive procedure. For example, as pointed out in "Sicko", insurance companies routinely deny expensive insurance procedures by finding things on the insurance application to invalidate their contract with the patient. If one can argue to a judge that the insurance company had to approve them no matter what, I'd assume that this makes Massachusetts a much safer place to be able to depend on the health care and insurance that you are paying for than anywhere else in the country.
I think these are pretty important questions, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere.
The one thing that people remember about this game was not re-created in the video game. So basically, this is just a big waste of time for everyone involved.
I don't work at google, but I know how to run their business better than they do. They must really feel dumb for wasting their time on something that generates such little profit. Next time, they should just listen to me.
We need to list some propositions for this on http://www.tradesports.com/ or some other similar site. In addition to the irony, I'd much rather use the value of that contract as an indicator over some news story or comment on the internet.
I recently tried over $500 in pointing devices to help with carpal tunnel from playing internet poker and I'm settled on the evoluent mouse. Here are some criticisms of other alternatives:
3M Mouse: Has no scroll wheel. That makes this mouse completely useless to me.
Quill Mouse: The "shelf" is made of hard plastic. I much prefer using huge soft mousepads and resting my hands on those.
Trackball: Fine for normal use, impossible to play 10 tables of poker with.
Air/Gyration mice: Fun for a few minutes, but tiresome longer than that.
Pete and Repeat are on a boat, Pete jumps off, who's left . . . ?
Why do you let the Civ AI cheat?
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I was dissapointed to discover that at the hardest AI level, the computer is allowed to cheat. The computer can make more moves than the game rules allow. Don't you feel that this degrades your game, and really shows that you couldn't bother to write a decent AI?
Party Poker just posted 82% revanue growth, and over 100% revanue growth in their poker devision (they also do online slots, etc.) in their latest earnings report. They merely meantioned that their growth can't continue to double every few months forever as it has been doing. PartyPoker is the best in the business, and they aren't going to fizzle out any time soon. And there will be no shortage of players unless people are forced to stop.
But then again, how long would it take for each robot to manufacture another copy, versus having a modular assembly line? I don't see self-replicating robots breaking into major industrial use.
Self replicating robots build more self replicating robots, so they can copy themselves exponentially. If you have 1 robot that takes 1 whole day to copy itself, you have 2^32 or 4294967296 robots in 32 days.
Do a google search for "Pen Registers" or "Tap and Trace". Apparently, back before the internet, the government decided that they didn't need a warrant to put a little device on people's phone lines that just gave them a list of the numbers that were called and recieved, as long as it didn't monitor the conversation.
This carries over to email. The FBI can request a list of everyone your email account emailed, and everyone that emailed you without a warrant. Yahoo has at least 6 employees who's entire job is to just give this information to the government all day. The figure I heard was about 1 request per thousand users per year.
You may say, "great, I use my own domain for email", but once 1/2 of all email goes to Yahoo, MSN, Google, and AOL, all the governement has to do is ask them a list of 1/2 the people you emailed.
I'm surpised that this doesn't bother more people. I mean, chances are it happened to a few slashdot users today.
Funny, I'm at MIT too, and I made a bot a while ago. Don't forget that the real advantage of a bot is that it can play multiple tables at once. Each poker site lets you play 4 tables per account. You can have several accounts from the same IP playing at different tables on different computers at the same poker service.
So, playing 8 tables at once, I make about $10 / hour by hand on 0.5/1 . My bot never did that well.
What I actually realized, is that switching tables continously is a hard problem that I never got my bot to solve. It is so tedious that I found a bot basically useless, since if I'm there switching the tables consistantly, it isn't too much of a chore to just play the games myself.
Last time I used google adwords, I noticed that they had a mechanism where ads that got clicked on a lot got some sort of karma points. So if you click on your competitors ads, it will cost them money, but maybe also help their ad karma. I don't know the specifics about this. Maybe it is a google secret. Does anyone else know more?
My guess is the cost per click hurts a lot more than the karma gained in most cases.
OMG the rover found more dirt and rocks! Seriously, this thing travels a few hundred feet per day. It did not find anything important.
Maybe we can spend money on stuff to benefit mankind instead.
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You don't need a fancy machine. The bottom line is that if the scratch is on the bottom, and it doesn't go too deep, you can polish away some plastic to make the cd readable again.
If the scratch is on the top, and deep enough, there is no way to repair the cd. You can tell if it is a top scratch by holding up the cd to a light and looking through with with top side facing you. If you can see light coming through scratches, you have top scratches.
hey, I will get some bashing, but this works: http://wrt54g.thermoman.de/ I noticed that traffic shaping adds some latency (~20ms), and you have to be willing to give up some bandwidth for it to work propery. For example, if you're on 3Mbps DSL, you want to set your router to throttle you at maybe 2Mbps, or 90% of what you acutally get most of the time, so the router is alwasy throttling before the ISP, and the router can properly prioritize packets.
MIT to be tuition-free for families earning less than $75,000 a year: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/tuition-0307.html
4 TB by 2011 means doubling every 2 years. Isn't that a bit slower than the past few years?
Does this mean that someone who is denied health insurance in any other state will be able to move to Massachusetts and be guaranteed to be approved for health insurance? Will high risk people who are denied in other states have higher insurance premiums to pay than "lower risk" insurees in Mass?
Will there even be an application process if accepting me is compulsory? Will this give insurance companies less loopholes to try to out of paying for my expensive procedure. For example, as pointed out in "Sicko", insurance companies routinely deny expensive insurance procedures by finding things on the insurance application to invalidate their contract with the patient. If one can argue to a judge that the insurance company had to approve them no matter what, I'd assume that this makes Massachusetts a much safer place to be able to depend on the health care and insurance that you are paying for than anywhere else in the country.
I think these are pretty important questions, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere.
The one thing that people remember about this game was not re-created in the video game. So basically, this is just a big waste of time for everyone involved.
I don't work at google, but I know how to run their business better than they do. They must really feel dumb for wasting their time on something that generates such little profit. Next time, they should just listen to me.
This is a really bad analogy, guy.
We need to list some propositions for this on http://www.tradesports.com/ or some other similar site. In addition to the irony, I'd much rather use the value of that contract as an indicator over some news story or comment on the internet.
I recently tried over $500 in pointing devices to help with carpal tunnel from playing internet poker and I'm settled on the evoluent mouse. Here are some criticisms of other alternatives:
3M Mouse: Has no scroll wheel. That makes this mouse completely useless to me.
Quill Mouse: The "shelf" is made of hard plastic. I much prefer using huge soft mousepads and resting my hands on those.
Trackball: Fine for normal use, impossible to play 10 tables of poker with.
Air/Gyration mice: Fun for a few minutes, but tiresome longer than that.
If they could clone an IBM, why can't people clone nintendo?
Pete and Repeat are on a boat, Pete jumps off, who's left . . . ?
I was dissapointed to discover that at the hardest AI level, the computer is allowed to cheat. The computer can make more moves than the game rules allow. Don't you feel that this degrades your game, and really shows that you couldn't bother to write a decent AI?
Party Poker just posted 82% revanue growth, and over 100% revanue growth in their poker devision (they also do online slots, etc.) in their latest earnings report. They merely meantioned that their growth can't continue to double every few months forever as it has been doing. PartyPoker is the best in the business, and they aren't going to fizzle out any time soon. And there will be no shortage of players unless people are forced to stop.
So the "innovation" is the big wheels and finding some granny-stairs? This neither qualifies as "news for nerds" nor "stuff that matters".
But then again, how long would it take for each robot to manufacture another copy, versus having a modular assembly line? I don't see self-replicating robots breaking into major industrial use.
Self replicating robots build more self replicating robots, so they can copy themselves exponentially. If you have 1 robot that takes 1 whole day to copy itself, you have 2^32 or 4294967296 robots in 32 days.
Everyone knows the even ones are the good ones. They should just release token odd star treks as shorts for free and focus on the even numbers.
Someone who worked on gmail told me. When the NYTimes asked Serge if google did the same thing, he had no comment. Obviously, they do.
Do a google search for "Pen Registers" or "Tap and Trace". Apparently, back before the internet, the government decided that they didn't need a warrant to put a little device on people's phone lines that just gave them a list of the numbers that were called and recieved, as long as it didn't monitor the conversation.
This carries over to email. The FBI can request a list of everyone your email account emailed, and everyone that emailed you without a warrant. Yahoo has at least 6 employees who's entire job is to just give this information to the government all day. The figure I heard was about 1 request per thousand users per year.
You may say, "great, I use my own domain for email", but once 1/2 of all email goes to Yahoo, MSN, Google, and AOL, all the governement has to do is ask them a list of 1/2 the people you emailed.
I'm surpised that this doesn't bother more people. I mean, chances are it happened to a few slashdot users today.
www.tradesports.com will give you an up-to-the-second probability of everything you want to know.
bugmenot was a huge waste of time. None of the logins worked.
Funny, I'm at MIT too, and I made a bot a while ago. Don't forget that the real advantage of a bot is that it can play multiple tables at once. Each poker site lets you play 4 tables per account. You can have several accounts from the same IP playing at different tables on different computers at the same poker service.
So, playing 8 tables at once, I make about $10 / hour by hand on 0.5/1 . My bot never did that well.
What I actually realized, is that switching tables continously is a hard problem that I never got my bot to solve. It is so tedious that I found a bot basically useless, since if I'm there switching the tables consistantly, it isn't too much of a chore to just play the games myself.
Last time I used google adwords, I noticed that they had a mechanism where ads that got clicked on a lot got some sort of karma points. So if you click on your competitors ads, it will cost them money, but maybe also help their ad karma. I don't know the specifics about this. Maybe it is a google secret. Does anyone else know more? My guess is the cost per click hurts a lot more than the karma gained in most cases.
Here it is in PDF format: us pat# 6756999
OMG the rover found more dirt and rocks! Seriously, this thing travels a few hundred feet per day. It did not find anything important. Maybe we can spend money on stuff to benefit mankind instead.