Different services require different amounts of bandwidth. The answer to this question is going to be pretty different depending on whether you're planning on putting up one "order form" for a small business, or a giant search engine that relies heavily on banner ads. It's also going to be different depending on whether you're an IT company already and have some of the equipment and personnel available already, or you're some random industrial company that just wants a web presence.
Dude. This is totally false. Often (in fact, usually), the Defense will countersue for attorney's fees and costs. And once in a while, they get it. But just because a Plaintiff loses doesn't mean their case is frivolous. Just like it's hard to prove that any given moderator is being unfair and has no legit reason for their actions, it's very hard to prove that the Plaintiff in a lawsuit has filed suit just to be annoying, like some kind of harassment tactic
Judging by the fact that Cheesebot lost 999 games in more than 50% of his matches, I don't know WHAT it was doing, but I don't think "Rock, rock, rock" is a bad guess.
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This isn't very insightful. Actually, it's obviously wrong. Just look at the rankings from last year's tournament.
Sure, "Optimal Random" beat, and was beat by, some programs, almost never by a margin of more than 20 points. Conversely, "Iocaine Powder" (last year's champion) won several matches 999 wins to 1 draw. That's an enormous margin for a random program to catch up to. There are going to be some "idiot bots" that choose the same one over and over - and any reasonably programmed bot should beat them - so assuming five easy wins for a competently programmed bot, the random(optimal) will have to somehow come up with 5000 more wins than losses.
Try this. Write code that picks a random number, 0 or 1. Have it pick 50,000 of these, and compare the quantity of each number, and add an iteration. See how many iterations it takes before the 0's beat the 1's by 5000 or more.
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My first thought was to just go RR SS PP RR SS PP until the program appeared to be losing, and then jump ship and go random. I figured the "bait and switch" tactic might work pretty well against some programs - put out two in a row to get them to take the one that would beat it, and then quickly switch to the one that would beat that. Then I read the rankings and saw that there was already a bot called "Bait and Switch" - and it lost half its games with a score of -999, which means 999 losses and 1 draw. So now I think I won't be making that bot.
Actually, I think we should have solved the Cold War this way. Or something a little more complicated.
Let's face it - the country that can write the best code will win modern wars, anyway. So why not just match one government's (chess/ go/ RoShamBo) program against the others, and then disband the government that loses?
is that they know how to name their programs to make them attractive to the general public. For example, the name "Quicken" seems to imply that it will "Quicken" the process of balancing one's books--which it does, if you compare it to using a typewriter and a four-function calculator.
On the other hand, "Gnucash" has got to be one of the worst names, ever. When I saw the name, my first thought was "cash for Gnutella, because they're charging now," and I freaked out. Then I thought, "Well, maybe it's just a GNU thing that has something to do with making payments online." I had to actually read down to figure out that it was the GNU money-managing software--and I'm sure that anyone who saw it on the shelf (assuming it was packaged) would think "Cash for gnus?? Is this another stupid video game like 'Lemmings?'"
Every time you make a move in chess, you should make a conscious effort to think, "Was that piece blocking the path to anything important?"
Similarly, every time you respond to a Slashdot post, you should make a conscious effort to think, "Am I going to look like a moron by disagreeing with something that was blatantly sarcastic to begin with?"
Yes. I have no doubt that your local Radio Shack clerk will be building this thing. I also have no doubt that they'll be using the same crappy parts they stock in their store.
People are going to read this story and post things like, "Radio Shack sucks. I know, because I've been in their store." My guess is that Radio Shack's role in this endeavor is limited to dumping money on it.
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Yes, and the emulation client named EWAN stands for "Emulation Without a Name", and MS-Works stands for "Microsoft Works". Both of these are clear misnomers.
(by the way, I didn't miss your sarcasm, or the representation of the one-eyed man who can't retract his tongue)
Re:They're not called "Pilots" anymore
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Perhaps the Air Force should sue the Pilot Pen Company. Alternatively, the MPAA could file the lawsuit, since they own a few movies with characters who are pilots. Also, changing the name from PalmPilot to Palm will really get on McDonald's nerves, since they use (have used?) palm oil on their fries
Your post came out sounding pedantic, by the way, because it was. But it's all right, we love you anyway.
I KNOW that the US national anthem was first a poem and only later put to the music of a drinking song
And a crappy drinking song, at that. Most of us can't hit the note that occurs at the word "free" when we're sober. I can't think of anything more frightening than a bunch of drunken Irishmen singing about their sexual prowess to the tune of "The Star Spangled Banner".
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The only question is: Does the Palm have a joystick port? Or just really, really crappy internal speakers?
Everyone thinks of MIDI as a music protocol, but it's not - it's just a protocol for controlling hardware that's usually used for instruments or internal music synth. However, you could just as easily define the note "middle C" as "the red light above the stage." I've been to concerts where everything from the lights to the smoke machine was MIDI.
Even fact, this application is useful even to the purists who have nothing to say about MIDI except that it sucks, well, because it does. You could give a drummer a click track synthed with the MIDI, and you'd be guaranteed that the whole visual experience of the concert was synched with the live music.
Of course, there's no reason you couldn't do this with a laptop rather than a palm, but for a lot of us starving artists, cost is a factor.
I'm all hoping the the mpaa or whoever loses badly...this whole thing is BS.. but this guy, Velenti, *does* answer honestly and truthfully.. it seems.
If Valenti is actually being honest and truthful, he doesn't deserve to be a janitor. He's the HEAD of the MPAA and he "may have" heard of DivX? The only reason anyone would appoint a half-catatonic seventy-year old guy with Alzheimer's to be the head and spokesman for a major corporation, rather than someone (gasp) in the prime of their life who can still make decisions and remember things, is that there's more time in seventy years to seduce various politicians, judges, and lawyers, so that the issues won't matter anyway.
I just want to say for the record that I *hate* Valenti and I *hate* the concept that antique, incontinent figureheads who have long since lost any mental capacity they may have once had are running our legal system and, let's face it, our country.
If there were any justice in this world, Valenti would be mopping floors and not remembering whether he took out the trash, and his pit bull sidekick Mr. Cooper would be a bouncer in a strip bar. I honestly hope Karma somehow causes these men to choke on chicken bones. (No, I'm not suggesting that you moderate them down)
It's a weird feature of our legal system that the best possible witness is a store mannequin.
Q. Have you ever heard of motion pictures?
Mr. Cooper: Ambiguous. Leading the witness. Calls for speculation. Calls for witness to make a legal conclusion. Attorney-client privilege. Redundant. Complex. Misleading.
Q. Go ahead.
Mannequin:...
Of course, it doesn't hurt if the mannequin happens to have personal relationships with the White House and Congress, and have half of them in its pocket.
I think actors and musicians are treated a little differently.
John Travolta gets $20 million for "Battlefield Earth". Courtney Love gets the shaft for her three albums. Both of these names and faces are instantly recognizable commodities to the majority of the American public.
I wonder why that is? Anyway, the point is, you can't lump actors, athletes, musicians, producers, talk show hosts, DJs, and hot grits into the category "Media Industry Employees" and have a coherent discussion.
I hadn't seen the "hide IMs" - thanks for notifying me of that.
What I mean by "poor text handling" is that AIM frequently chokes when you change fonts/colors/sizes, and often doesn't properly represent the font of the person on the other size. I've swapped IMs with my sister, both of us on Pentium Wintel boxes, in the same house, and her text might appear as Ariel, 12 point, whereas my client interperets that as, for some reason, Courier New, 36 point.
Now I can remove the auto-smiley faces, fix the (incredibly bad) text handling, turn the volume down, and prevent AIM from switching me out of a full-screen game.
If you can't do it right, let someone else do it for you.
Okay, this is obvious flamebait. Moderate it down. BUT:
I'm browing at +2. About FIFTEEN POSTS in a row say "Wow, I like Courtney Love now, she's gutsy, she's taking on the record companies, people should show her more respect." Then they all get moderated +3 to +5 Insightful, Interesting...
Isn't this the definition of redundant?? When I browse at +2 and I STILL have to read a discussion that consists of nothing but people accolading a celebrity's character??
People's personal opinions of Courtney Love do not add a thing to the discussion, and thus should not be moderated At All. And if fifteen people post the same thing, the Redundant tags should come out - NOT the "Interesting/Insightful" tags. There is NO insight in this.
Hey, man. I browse at +2. So when I get a message that just says "Oh, that's right. I forgot. Thanks!" it's no better than pointless, USEnet spam. If you're going to post something worthless, DON'T USE YOUR EXTRA POINT.
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I should have read the c file before I posted that, but it turns out I was right.
/* Good Ole Rock */
/* "Good ole rock. Nuthin' beats rock." */
int rockbot ()
{
return(rock);
}
Different services require different amounts of bandwidth. The answer to this question is going to be pretty different depending on whether you're planning on putting up one "order form" for a small business, or a giant search engine that relies heavily on banner ads. It's also going to be different depending on whether you're an IT company already and have some of the equipment and personnel available already, or you're some random industrial company that just wants a web presence.
Dude. This is totally false. Often (in fact, usually), the Defense will countersue for attorney's fees and costs. And once in a while, they get it. But just because a Plaintiff loses doesn't mean their case is frivolous. Just like it's hard to prove that any given moderator is being unfair and has no legit reason for their actions, it's very hard to prove that the Plaintiff in a lawsuit has filed suit just to be annoying, like some kind of harassment tactic
Judging by the fact that Cheesebot lost 999 games in more than 50% of his matches, I don't know WHAT it was doing, but I don't think "Rock, rock, rock" is a bad guess.
This isn't very insightful. Actually, it's obviously wrong. Just look at the rankings from last year's tournament.
Sure, "Optimal Random" beat, and was beat by, some programs, almost never by a margin of more than 20 points. Conversely, "Iocaine Powder" (last year's champion) won several matches 999 wins to 1 draw. That's an enormous margin for a random program to catch up to. There are going to be some "idiot bots" that choose the same one over and over - and any reasonably programmed bot should beat them - so assuming five easy wins for a competently programmed bot, the random(optimal) will have to somehow come up with 5000 more wins than losses.
Try this. Write code that picks a random number, 0 or 1. Have it pick 50,000 of these, and compare the quantity of each number, and add an iteration. See how many iterations it takes before the 0's beat the 1's by 5000 or more.
My first thought was to just go RR SS PP RR SS PP until the program appeared to be losing, and then jump ship and go random. I figured the "bait and switch" tactic might work pretty well against some programs - put out two in a row to get them to take the one that would beat it, and then quickly switch to the one that would beat that. Then I read the rankings and saw that there was already a bot called "Bait and Switch" - and it lost half its games with a score of -999, which means 999 losses and 1 draw. So now I think I won't be making that bot.
Actually, I think we should have solved the Cold War this way. Or something a little more complicated.
Let's face it - the country that can write the best code will win modern wars, anyway. So why not just match one government's (chess/ go/ RoShamBo) program against the others, and then disband the government that loses?
is that they know how to name their programs to make them attractive to the general public. For example, the name "Quicken" seems to imply that it will "Quicken" the process of balancing one's books--which it does, if you compare it to using a typewriter and a four-function calculator.
On the other hand, "Gnucash" has got to be one of the worst names, ever. When I saw the name, my first thought was "cash for Gnutella, because they're charging now," and I freaked out. Then I thought, "Well, maybe it's just a GNU thing that has something to do with making payments online." I had to actually read down to figure out that it was the GNU money-managing software--and I'm sure that anyone who saw it on the shelf (assuming it was packaged) would think "Cash for gnus?? Is this another stupid video game like 'Lemmings?'"
You know, man...
Every time you make a move in chess, you should make a conscious effort to think, "Was that piece blocking the path to anything important?"
Similarly, every time you respond to a Slashdot post, you should make a conscious effort to think, "Am I going to look like a moron by disagreeing with something that was blatantly sarcastic to begin with?"
If you had gone to the page, and realized that all it was was a notification that you had been trolled, you might not have had to ask that question.
Yes. I have no doubt that your local Radio Shack clerk will be building this thing. I also have no doubt that they'll be using the same crappy parts they stock in their store.
People are going to read this story and post things like, "Radio Shack sucks. I know, because I've been in their store." My guess is that Radio Shack's role in this endeavor is limited to dumping money on it.
Yes, and the emulation client named EWAN stands for "Emulation Without a Name", and MS-Works stands for "Microsoft Works". Both of these are clear misnomers.
(by the way, I didn't miss your sarcasm, or the representation of the one-eyed man who can't retract his tongue)
Perhaps the Air Force should sue the Pilot Pen Company. Alternatively, the MPAA could file the lawsuit, since they own a few movies with characters who are pilots. Also, changing the name from PalmPilot to Palm will really get on McDonald's nerves, since they use (have used?) palm oil on their fries
Your post came out sounding pedantic, by the way, because it was. But it's all right, we love you anyway.
I KNOW that the US national anthem was first a poem and only later put to the music of a drinking song
And a crappy drinking song, at that. Most of us can't hit the note that occurs at the word "free" when we're sober. I can't think of anything more frightening than a bunch of drunken Irishmen singing about their sexual prowess to the tune of "The Star Spangled Banner".
The only question is: Does the Palm have a joystick port? Or just really, really crappy internal speakers?
Everyone thinks of MIDI as a music protocol, but it's not - it's just a protocol for controlling hardware that's usually used for instruments or internal music synth. However, you could just as easily define the note "middle C" as "the red light above the stage." I've been to concerts where everything from the lights to the smoke machine was MIDI.
Even fact, this application is useful even to the purists who have nothing to say about MIDI except that it sucks, well, because it does. You could give a drummer a click track synthed with the MIDI, and you'd be guaranteed that the whole visual experience of the concert was synched with the live music.
Of course, there's no reason you couldn't do this with a laptop rather than a palm, but for a lot of us starving artists, cost is a factor.
Isn't it cool that something not even vaguely related to the topic can be moderated "Interesting"?
Perhaps if I wrote something about MP3s, the War on Drugs, or Ayn Rand, I'd receive karma.
I'm all hoping the the mpaa or whoever loses badly.. .this whole thing is BS.. but this guy, Velenti, *does* answer honestly and truthfully.. it seems.
If Valenti is actually being honest and truthful, he doesn't deserve to be a janitor. He's the HEAD of the MPAA and he "may have" heard of DivX? The only reason anyone would appoint a half-catatonic seventy-year old guy with Alzheimer's to be the head and spokesman for a major corporation, rather than someone (gasp) in the prime of their life who can still make decisions and remember things, is that there's more time in seventy years to seduce various politicians, judges, and lawyers, so that the issues won't matter anyway.
I just want to say for the record that I *hate* Valenti and I *hate* the concept that antique, incontinent figureheads who have long since lost any mental capacity they may have once had are running our legal system and, let's face it, our country.
If there were any justice in this world, Valenti would be mopping floors and not remembering whether he took out the trash, and his pit bull sidekick Mr. Cooper would be a bouncer in a strip bar. I honestly hope Karma somehow causes these men to choke on chicken bones. (No, I'm not suggesting that you moderate them down)
Sorry about the rant.
It's a weird feature of our legal system that the best possible witness is a store mannequin.
...
Q. Have you ever heard of motion pictures?
Mr. Cooper: Ambiguous. Leading the witness. Calls for speculation. Calls for witness to make a legal conclusion. Attorney-client privilege. Redundant. Complex. Misleading.
Q. Go ahead.
Mannequin:
Of course, it doesn't hurt if the mannequin happens to have personal relationships with the White House and Congress, and have half of them in its pocket.
I think actors and musicians are treated a little differently.
John Travolta gets $20 million for "Battlefield Earth". Courtney Love gets the shaft for her three albums. Both of these names and faces are instantly recognizable commodities to the majority of the American public.
I wonder why that is? Anyway, the point is, you can't lump actors, athletes, musicians, producers, talk show hosts, DJs, and hot grits into the category "Media Industry Employees" and have a coherent discussion.
I hadn't seen the "hide IMs" - thanks for notifying me of that.
What I mean by "poor text handling" is that AIM frequently chokes when you change fonts/colors/sizes, and often doesn't properly represent the font of the person on the other size. I've swapped IMs with my sister, both of us on Pentium Wintel boxes, in the same house, and her text might appear as Ariel, 12 point, whereas my client interperets that as, for some reason, Courier New, 36 point.
Now I can remove the auto-smiley faces, fix the (incredibly bad) text handling, turn the volume down, and prevent AIM from switching me out of a full-screen game.
If you can't do it right, let someone else do it for you.
Will Andover pay for John Katz to fly out to have this skin made, and where can we download it?
I read the article. There were parts that were impressive. I don't need sixteen posts at 2+ to tell me that. That's called redundancy - not insight.
Okay, this is obvious flamebait. Moderate it down. BUT:
I'm browing at +2. About FIFTEEN POSTS in a row say "Wow, I like Courtney Love now, she's gutsy, she's taking on the record companies, people should show her more respect." Then they all get moderated +3 to +5 Insightful, Interesting...
Isn't this the definition of redundant?? When I browse at +2 and I STILL have to read a discussion that consists of nothing but people accolading a celebrity's character??
People's personal opinions of Courtney Love do not add a thing to the discussion, and thus should not be moderated At All. And if fifteen people post the same thing, the Redundant tags should come out - NOT the "Interesting/Insightful" tags. There is NO insight in this.
Hey, man. I browse at +2. So when I get a message that just says "Oh, that's right. I forgot. Thanks!" it's no better than pointless, USEnet spam. If you're going to post something worthless, DON'T USE YOUR EXTRA POINT.