He claims to have discovered the 137 sequence in mathematics.
Big whoop... I discovered the 1337 sequence!
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...lemme get this straight--you need to worry about how long your flashlight batteries last?
Actually, in terms of contributing to gaming suspense, I prefer games where flashlights have batteries.
The original Unreal level called "The Sunspire", where half the level is played in pitch-black spaces with slithery, nasty bug things leaping at you is for me the benchmark by which most light/dark gaming horrors are compared. The permanent flashlight in Doom 3, even though it is probably scientifically accurate for a Martian space station, was something of a let-down in terms of game play.
Clay Shirky has written an excellent article about why the Semantic Web ain't gonna work. I don't agree with everything he says, but it's a thought-provoking read nevertheless.
v) 98.14% of the web-surfing world doesn't know about the CSS background-image attribute and will never view-source on a page, hence solving most of Google's problems right out of the starting gate.
vi) If you are Google and want to get some hard-hitting free QA on your new feature, get it linked as a Slashdot article crowing about DRM.
Why is everyone saying that bots won't cost the casino money??
Yes, I understand that, given a fixed number of players, it doesn't matter whether the players are human or robot, the house still gets its rake on every hand played.
But, if online poker gets a reputation for being bot-ridden, I guarantee you that the number of players will not stay fixed, it will go down. And then the online poker rooms will definitely see a drop in income. QED.
When was the last time Real did anything which *didn't* piss people off?
I have been following their curve since 1995, when their RealPlayer actually seemed like it would be a huge boon to the Web. They started out on a high note and could have been a long-time darling of the 'net community. Instead, they've chosen the dark side, and they've pretty much sucked ever since.
The power cord on my laptop just went fashizzle and I was wondering if anyone here could give me some advice how to run MacOS X on the digital clock on my Google shwag pen. I am hoping to spend no more than $.10 on parts for this. Oh, and I'd like to boot it remotely from my wireless MP3 server. Thanks in advance!
Did this Orkut guy sign an NDA or is there some sort of specific document that says he promised he wouldn't develop another social service?
It sounds like he signed a non-compete agreement with his old employer before joining Google. Unfortunately for Affinity Engines, non-compete agreements are extremely difficult to enforce in the state of California -- the courts are very generous with respects to the rights of the employee and generally stay clear of cases which don't involve outright theft of IP.
The real question seems to be was there theft? And the clues do seem to indicate that a further investigation is warranted.
60 percent are satisfied. That means 40 percent want to switch. If you estimate that half of that 40 percent will actually switch to broadband, then the number of modem users has shrunk by 20 percent.
So instead of saying "60 percent of modem users are happy", you could just as easily say "modem market shrinking by 20 percent per year". Most analysts would call that a dying industry.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. It's all how you spin it. (i.e. no story here, move along.)
Having examined this language in some detail, I'm a little disappointed by its design.
1. It makes overly heavy use of punctuation. I'm of the opinion that languages need to be more human-readable, not less. Put another way, the speed and power of coding in any language is not gated by the number of characters it takes to type out a statement; it's gated by the time it takes to find and detect bugs and flaws. Words > punctuation for readability.
2. Many of the design decisions are obviously influenced by one person's peeves with existing languages. The world already has one Larry Wall, and as wonderful as he is, we don't really more Larrys.
3. Elegance is a hard thing to measure, much less quantify. Still, aside from simply being a unique language, it doesn't really offer any new elegance to the concept of what a language should do.
It's an impressive hack, to be sure. I'd be proud to be able to show off a body of code like this, for its demonstration of sheer technical strength. But I find its artistic merits somewhat lacking for my own tastes.
This is probably just the handiwork of some lone engineer at MS who found this amusing. Now he's out of a job. (Ever heard of an easter egg? This is a slightly nastier equivalent.)
I seriously doubt Bill sent around a memo to MSN directing them to block searched for XFree86....
Practically speaking, repetitively working a muscle is NOT the same thing as exercise. Not only is this "exercise" anaerobic, but it also opens up a huge potential for injuries resulting from RSI. Imagine a mouse with a button which required a 1/2-pound of force to click instead of 1/20-ounce. Or a keyboard with such 1/2-pound buttons. We would all be crippled by now if we had been using these instead of our current devices.
Even if that's true, which I'm not at all certain of, I don't see it as an issue. You have no right to card counting.
True! And what's more you don't even have a right to play. It's a privilege, and if they don't like the way you play (for reasons of card counting or otherwise) they are fully within their rights to ask you to leave the [private property] premises.
This problem has already been solved with 100% effectiveness: A casino simply enacts a rule that says new players cannot enter play in the middle of a shoe. Team counters are finished.
How is this different from Macy's in New York, which has its own holding cell in their basement for shoplifters who have been detained and are awaiting the NYPD?
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Yes please. 36-24-36.
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Moore's Law: Gordon Moore is Dead
That article is absolutely the most meaningless piece-of-crap-fluff reporting on technology I have read in a long time.
Thanks a lot for elevating it to the status of meta-piece-of-crap-fluff by linking it on slashdot.
(Bleh. Is it just me or is the content being reported here a little weak in the last month or so?)
He claims to have discovered the 137 sequence in mathematics.
Big whoop... I discovered the 1337 sequence!
Actually, in terms of contributing to gaming suspense, I prefer games where flashlights have batteries.
The original Unreal level called "The Sunspire", where half the level is played in pitch-black spaces with slithery, nasty bug things leaping at you is for me the benchmark by which most light/dark gaming horrors are compared. The permanent flashlight in Doom 3, even though it is probably scientifically accurate for a Martian space station, was something of a let-down in terms of game play.
I was quite upset to discover that the game has no Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3 console anywhere in any of the levels. Big disappointment.
Clay Shirky has written an excellent article about why the Semantic Web ain't gonna work. I don't agree with everything he says, but it's a thought-provoking read nevertheless.
Two more facts:
v) 98.14% of the web-surfing world doesn't know about the CSS background-image attribute and will never view-source on a page, hence solving most of Google's problems right out of the starting gate.
vi) If you are Google and want to get some hard-hitting free QA on your new feature, get it linked as a Slashdot article crowing about DRM.
You: YEEEEEEEHAAAAAWWWWW!!!!!!!!
Wait, I missed the part of the article where it said Howard Dean was driving.
Why is everyone saying that bots won't cost the casino money??
Yes, I understand that, given a fixed number of players, it doesn't matter whether the players are human or robot, the house still gets its rake on every hand played.
But, if online poker gets a reputation for being bot-ridden, I guarantee you that the number of players will not stay fixed, it will go down. And then the online poker rooms will definitely see a drop in income. QED.
When was the last time Real did anything which *didn't* piss people off?
I have been following their curve since 1995, when their RealPlayer actually seemed like it would be a huge boon to the Web. They started out on a high note and could have been a long-time darling of the 'net community. Instead, they've chosen the dark side, and they've pretty much sucked ever since.
Boycott Real.
from the i-r-teh-cheapest-mutha-fucka-evah dept.
The power cord on my laptop just went fashizzle and I was wondering if anyone here could give me some advice how to run MacOS X on the digital clock on my Google shwag pen. I am hoping to spend no more than $.10 on parts for this. Oh, and I'd like to boot it remotely from my wireless MP3 server. Thanks in advance!
Did this Orkut guy sign an NDA or is there some sort of specific document that says he promised he wouldn't develop another social service?
It sounds like he signed a non-compete agreement with his old employer before joining Google. Unfortunately for Affinity Engines, non-compete agreements are extremely difficult to enforce in the state of California -- the courts are very generous with respects to the rights of the employee and generally stay clear of cases which don't involve outright theft of IP.
The real question seems to be was there theft? And the clues do seem to indicate that a further investigation is warranted.
60 percent are satisfied. That means 40 percent want to switch. If you estimate that half of that 40 percent will actually switch to broadband, then the number of modem users has shrunk by 20 percent.
So instead of saying "60 percent of modem users are happy", you could just as easily say "modem market shrinking by 20 percent per year". Most analysts would call that a dying industry.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. It's all how you spin it. (i.e. no story here, move along.)
This is basically the same principle as the odd-shaped pieces in your old Spirograph set....
Having examined this language in some detail, I'm a little disappointed by its design.
1. It makes overly heavy use of punctuation. I'm of the opinion that languages need to be more human-readable, not less. Put another way, the speed and power of coding in any language is not gated by the number of characters it takes to type out a statement; it's gated by the time it takes to find and detect bugs and flaws. Words > punctuation for readability.
2. Many of the design decisions are obviously influenced by one person's peeves with existing languages. The world already has one Larry Wall, and as wonderful as he is, we don't really more Larrys.
3. Elegance is a hard thing to measure, much less quantify. Still, aside from simply being a unique language, it doesn't really offer any new elegance to the concept of what a language should do.
It's an impressive hack, to be sure. I'd be proud to be able to show off a body of code like this, for its demonstration of sheer technical strength. But I find its artistic merits somewhat lacking for my own tastes.
There's a huge difference between the two.
When I install new hardware on my WinXp machine, I turn it on and go grab a cup of coffee. By the time I get back my desktop is ready to use.
When I install new hardware on my Linux machine, I go get coffee first. It's gonna be a while....
This is probably just the handiwork of some lone engineer at MS who found this amusing. Now he's out of a job. (Ever heard of an easter egg? This is a slightly nastier equivalent.)
I seriously doubt Bill sent around a memo to MSN directing them to block searched for XFree86....
The very nature of being able to look at the diffs for a page make biases visible. A history of biases if you will.
Edit wars: militant people will continue to insert bias and lies in some topics
In the same spirit of Truth-In-Information that makes open source more truthful than closed source, open bias is more truthful than hidden bias.
Practically speaking, repetitively working a muscle is NOT the same thing as exercise. Not only is this "exercise" anaerobic, but it also opens up a huge potential for injuries resulting from RSI. Imagine a mouse with a button which required a 1/2-pound of force to click instead of 1/20-ounce. Or a keyboard with such 1/2-pound buttons. We would all be crippled by now if we had been using these instead of our current devices.
Girlfriend is better than film. It's got more warmth.
(Is this what the Talking Heads were talking about all those years ago?)
Even if that's true, which I'm not at all certain of, I don't see it as an issue. You have no right to card counting.
True! And what's more you don't even have a right to play. It's a privilege, and if they don't like the way you play (for reasons of card counting or otherwise) they are fully within their rights to ask you to leave the [private property] premises.
This problem has already been solved with 100% effectiveness: A casino simply enacts a rule that says new players cannot enter play in the middle of a shoe. Team counters are finished.
How is this different from Macy's in New York, which has its own holding cell in their basement for shoplifters who have been detained and are awaiting the NYPD?