Scenario: You have four billion dollars of google stock. You have nothing of note anywhere else. You believe there is a 90% chance that the stock will outpace the market.
What is your best financial move?
Claiming this is a red flag is disingenuous. There are lots of red flags, but this isn't one of them.
I don't think it's fair to say that the Ars review is "about as insightful as a Blind Spot review of Solaris 10." (Actually, I'm a bit fuzzy on the exact meaning of that, but I'm reasonably sure it's intended as a smear.)
It's not a smear, it's an analogy.
Blind Spot is a photography magazine, which I'm sure is staffed by intelligent and talented people. Many of these people have Unix RIPs in their offices.
Their review would be extremely unlikely to jive with those of professional sysadmins, even on the off chance that one of them knew how to get around on the command prompt and had a Gentoo box at home.
I'm not going to defend the massive tagging delays, thumbnail switching or conversion corruption that some people are reporting. These are bugs.
I'm not saying Aperture is a perfect piece of software, I just despise the sanctimonious way that a bunch of people who have never seen or used a piece of software sit around and call it useless, when it's not even intended for you. It happens time and again on this site.
The funniest part is that if it was non-commercial software, you'd all be going on about the legitimately good uses it has, and assuring any detractors (probably correctly) that major bugs will be fixed in relatively short order. After that was done, you'd claim the writer was paid off, had inherent bias, flawed methodologies, and inadaquate training.
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You don't edit in Aperature.
It's for proofing hundreds of frames in a relatively short period of time. Of course most of us (the reviewer included), don't routinely shoot 500 or 1000 frames in a day, and then need to get the best 10 to an editor two hours later.
Ars and Slashdot's reviews of Aperture are about as insightful as a Blind Spot review of Solaris 10.
The stability is great, but lets face facts, no OS is perfect.
The fantastic thing about a mac is that if your mac doesn't work right, you have one company that takes responsibility and solves the thing. For those of us who just want to be able to get work done, this is a godsend.
Maybe the Feds should've gotten into the automobile business then? After all, cars are pretty much compulsory through most of America (esp in the 60s/70s when public transit systems were sparser) so everyone could benefit from cheap cars.
Maybe some healthy competition from the government would've kept the US auto industry from being taken over by the Japanese. If so, that wouldn't be an entirely bad result. Perhaps it would've inspired Detroit to innovate a bit sooner, and become a legitimate global leader, instead of the dying dog it is today.
Heck, the Soviets, Yugoslavs and Indians tried their hand at cars built by government-built entities. They sucked. Wonder why...
I'd guess it's primarily because all those countries were incredibly poor, and aimed for insanely low production costs. I sincerely doubt this has anything at all to do with who ran the factories.
Oh and socialized healthcare? Go and actually look at Europe's state-run healthcare systems sometime, they're tottering and will not last a generation for the countries with declining populations.
They aren't perfect systems, but they beat the shit out of my PPO.
The solution to healthcare woes isn't socialized healthcare, it's about distinguishing medical risk from malpractice and make sure customers can tell the difference.
This is a problem, but it's not the problem. If you look at actual malpractice costs, you'll soon realize that almost all malpractice losses come from an extremely small pool of lousy doctors, which makes the issue far easier to solve than most people claim.
3-digit UID and such idiocy
I'm open to the possibility that I might not have the best ideas about massive government projects, as that is not my field of expertise. I would gladly take critical input from educated and intelligent people.
However, the chances of me considering your opinion are extremely close to zero. Do you see why?
Heck, while we're at it, why not put automotive companies out of business by having government-funded and operated initiatives to build and sell cheap or free cars in regional co-ops?
If the free market had failed for cars, I would be all for it. A better comparison would be to modern health care.
Every industry other than health care would benefit from a streamlined, socialized health-care system. Similarly, every company other than Microsoft would benefit from a high-quality open-source OS and office suite.
Just last night, me and my black friend Jerome were discussing the Rosa Parks situation. He agrees that her protest was overrated, and that the damage she did to OutKast greatly outweighed the minute benefits which came out of the civil rights era.
Please stop praising this overly litigious and exceptionally lazy woman. I mean, was the back of the bus really that far away? Besides, every school child knows that the cool kids are in the back. It was an honor!
ShareAlike is also a fairly reasonable license, IMO. (As is the Ruby license.)
The GPL has far too many restrictions to be called freedom. It's a bad joke.
If there was, then every VCR sold would need them too - and all the satellite boxes already sold would be upgraded with it.
Actually, satellite receivers have had this for a long time. I've only seen it once or twice, but my receivers have shown lock icons on random shows, and output macrovision when playing them, to prevent recording to VCR.
I've told my own personal "paypal sucks" story a number of times... every time i've posted it I get a bunch of repsonses that say "well they never did that to me, so clearly they don't suck. it was probably your fault."
I've given up. Anybody who deals with paypal is begging for annoyance.
The first of those three claims is the only of those three that's difficult to code for, and there are many poker afficionados who I've heard say "play your hand, not your opponents."
Actually, most online hand-reading is completely quantifiable. You just look at all the action in the hand, and for each action you create a range of hands that fit the action, and assign a probability to each of those hands based on prior experience with players similar to that one.
Physical tells are useful, but most hand reading is just logic.
the cards often appear balanced for high action. Almost every hand sees flops that are difficult for players to let go of. It's our perception that bad beats on the river are far more common online than seen at the meatspace tables. (Undecided if this is just due to more hands being played however...)
Action flops are a myth. Pull any reasonably sized hand database into pokertracker's postgres version, and then do queries on the hand histories. Look for things like "odds that I am going to flop a set" or "odds that I will be dealt X versus Y" and check it. You'll see it's right in range. Obviously some questions require very large sample sizes to know for sure... but as my sample size has increased, everything has always come out in line.
Whenever I see these hands happen in the casino I joke that the casino is rigged for action, and that's why I only play online. (I say this because the old coots who play daytime poker near me all claim online is rigged...)
be aware of the overall game speed. Long rounds allow time to play cards that matter, short ones don't. Speed games are very profitable for the house, putting pressure on skilled players. Avoid those at higher buy in's.
Good tournament advice. You just need different skills as the blind/stack ratios change. "Solid" play just because BAD play once the blinds get big in relation to the stacks.
If you're serious about tournament poker, buy harrington's books, and read both of them... volume 2 is NLHE tournament gold.
rebuy games often generate very good payouts in relation to the intial buy-in. avoid the temptation to rebuy however, unless it's very early in the game. Extra chips won't matter to a skilled player and you just pay a lot more in relation to your potential winnings. Rebuy speed games are pure evil at higher buy-ins, but can be fun and very profitable at lower ones. (Given you don't mind the greater chance factor.)
There's no reason to avoid the rebuy. If you're a better player, it's foolish not to (especially since rebuys generally don't have any fees attached).
Imagine for a second that you were offered entry into a tournament where everybody else bought in for $400, and you can enter for $200. However, you will start with half the chips of everybody else. You'd be a fool NOT to take this offer! Given equivalent skill, a half-sized stack is MORE than half as likely to win. If you have an edge, then it's even better.
Fast rebuy tournaments (as are common in casinos) are high gamble, but they offer an excellent ROI for the expert player. MTTs require an absurdly large bankroll, though, if you're routinely playing in large fields. (I'm not honestly sure since I'm not an MTT specialist, but I'd guess you'd need 100x the buy-in to get down to a 1% risk of ruin).
the large sites are more difficult to manage than the smaller ones are. When considering online poker, pay close attention to the tournament games offered. This will tell you a lot about the site and what players they are looking for. Number of initial chips, buy ins offered and round length are key.
If you're serious about poker, use neteller. Keep some money stashed there, and use it when you have the urge to play a different site or try something out. This also makes it easy to have cash on hand if you like to take advantage of deposit bonuses.
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oven cooking asle, or whatever it'd be called. I believe that's called every other aisle in the entire store.
n some phone calls between the U.S. and specific foreign countries without getting court warrants,
There's no evidence that it only happened between the U.S. and specific foreign countries, so that would actually be less accurate.
But thanks for the reminder that Republicans are all disingenous fucks, who believe that their desired ends justify their incredibly unamerican means.
Martin Luther King.
Scenario: You have four billion dollars of google stock. You have nothing of note anywhere else. You believe there is a 90% chance that the stock will outpace the market.
What is your best financial move?
Claiming this is a red flag is disingenuous. There are lots of red flags, but this isn't one of them.
You'll want to install quicksilver. It's pretty much the best Mac application in history.
This is probably the dumbest thing I've ever read on slashdot.
And I'm including the GNAA crap floods.
I don't think it's fair to say that the Ars review is "about as insightful as a Blind Spot review of Solaris 10." (Actually, I'm a bit fuzzy on the exact meaning of that, but I'm reasonably sure it's intended as a smear.)
It's not a smear, it's an analogy.
Blind Spot is a photography magazine, which I'm sure is staffed by intelligent and talented people. Many of these people have Unix RIPs in their offices.
Their review would be extremely unlikely to jive with those of professional sysadmins, even on the off chance that one of them knew how to get around on the command prompt and had a Gentoo box at home.
I'm not going to defend the massive tagging delays, thumbnail switching or conversion corruption that some people are reporting. These are bugs.
I'm not saying Aperture is a perfect piece of software, I just despise the sanctimonious way that a bunch of people who have never seen or used a piece of software sit around and call it useless, when it's not even intended for you. It happens time and again on this site.
The funniest part is that if it was non-commercial software, you'd all be going on about the legitimately good uses it has, and assuring any detractors (probably correctly) that major bugs will be fixed in relatively short order. After that was done, you'd claim the writer was paid off, had inherent bias, flawed methodologies, and inadaquate training.
You don't edit in Aperature.
It's for proofing hundreds of frames in a relatively short period of time. Of course most of us (the reviewer included), don't routinely shoot 500 or 1000 frames in a day, and then need to get the best 10 to an editor two hours later.
Ars and Slashdot's reviews of Aperture are about as insightful as a Blind Spot review of Solaris 10.
Photoshop is the darkroom.
Aperature is the light table.
If you don't understand this, you're not the target market.
The stability is great, but lets face facts, no OS is perfect. The fantastic thing about a mac is that if your mac doesn't work right, you have one company that takes responsibility and solves the thing. For those of us who just want to be able to get work done, this is a godsend.
My point, which you missed, was that if you start with insults, you lose all ability to create influence.
Until you realize this, there is absolutely no point in discussing anything with you.
Maybe the Feds should've gotten into the automobile business then? After all, cars are pretty much compulsory through most of America (esp in the 60s/70s when public transit systems were sparser) so everyone could benefit from cheap cars.
Maybe some healthy competition from the government would've kept the US auto industry from being taken over by the Japanese. If so, that wouldn't be an entirely bad result. Perhaps it would've inspired Detroit to innovate a bit sooner, and become a legitimate global leader, instead of the dying dog it is today.
Heck, the Soviets, Yugoslavs and Indians tried their hand at cars built by government-built entities. They sucked. Wonder why...
I'd guess it's primarily because all those countries were incredibly poor, and aimed for insanely low production costs. I sincerely doubt this has anything at all to do with who ran the factories.
Oh and socialized healthcare? Go and actually look at Europe's state-run healthcare systems sometime, they're tottering and will not last a generation for the countries with declining populations.
They aren't perfect systems, but they beat the shit out of my PPO.
The solution to healthcare woes isn't socialized healthcare, it's about distinguishing medical risk from malpractice and make sure customers can tell the difference.
This is a problem, but it's not the problem. If you look at actual malpractice costs, you'll soon realize that almost all malpractice losses come from an extremely small pool of lousy doctors, which makes the issue far easier to solve than most people claim.
3-digit UID and such idiocy
I'm open to the possibility that I might not have the best ideas about massive government projects, as that is not my field of expertise. I would gladly take critical input from educated and intelligent people.
However, the chances of me considering your opinion are extremely close to zero. Do you see why?
If Seychelles allows piracy, why did the cruise ship seek safe harbor there?
Heck, while we're at it, why not put automotive companies out of business by having government-funded and operated initiatives to build and sell cheap or free cars in regional co-ops?
If the free market had failed for cars, I would be all for it. A better comparison would be to modern health care.
Every industry other than health care would benefit from a streamlined, socialized health-care system. Similarly, every company other than Microsoft would benefit from a high-quality open-source OS and office suite.
Just last night, me and my black friend Jerome were discussing the Rosa Parks situation. He agrees that her protest was overrated, and that the damage she did to OutKast greatly outweighed the minute benefits which came out of the civil rights era.
Please stop praising this overly litigious and exceptionally lazy woman. I mean, was the back of the bus really that far away? Besides, every school child knows that the cool kids are in the back. It was an honor!
ShareAlike is also a fairly reasonable license, IMO. (As is the Ruby license.) The GPL has far too many restrictions to be called freedom. It's a bad joke.
Sounds like one more reason to release code under the BSD license, so it can be truly free.
The GPL version of "freedom" isn't.
In other news, Axe body spray doesn't get you laid, and Red Bull doesn't give you wings.
If there was, then every VCR sold would need them too - and all the satellite boxes already sold would be upgraded with it. Actually, satellite receivers have had this for a long time. I've only seen it once or twice, but my receivers have shown lock icons on random shows, and output macrovision when playing them, to prevent recording to VCR.
I agree with these... but would toss in a recommendation for a well designed desk.
Post non-anon, Steve.
I've told my own personal "paypal sucks" story a number of times... every time i've posted it I get a bunch of repsonses that say "well they never did that to me, so clearly they don't suck. it was probably your fault."
I've given up. Anybody who deals with paypal is begging for annoyance.
The first of those three claims is the only of those three that's difficult to code for, and there are many poker afficionados who I've heard say "play your hand, not your opponents." Actually, most online hand-reading is completely quantifiable. You just look at all the action in the hand, and for each action you create a range of hands that fit the action, and assign a probability to each of those hands based on prior experience with players similar to that one. Physical tells are useful, but most hand reading is just logic.
the cards often appear balanced for high action. Almost every hand sees flops that are difficult for players to let go of. It's our perception that bad beats on the river are far more common online than seen at the meatspace tables. (Undecided if this is just due to more hands being played however...)
Action flops are a myth. Pull any reasonably sized hand database into pokertracker's postgres version, and then do queries on the hand histories. Look for things like "odds that I am going to flop a set" or "odds that I will be dealt X versus Y" and check it. You'll see it's right in range. Obviously some questions require very large sample sizes to know for sure... but as my sample size has increased, everything has always come out in line.
Whenever I see these hands happen in the casino I joke that the casino is rigged for action, and that's why I only play online. (I say this because the old coots who play daytime poker near me all claim online is rigged...)
be aware of the overall game speed. Long rounds allow time to play cards that matter, short ones don't. Speed games are very profitable for the house, putting pressure on skilled players. Avoid those at higher buy in's.
Good tournament advice. You just need different skills as the blind/stack ratios change. "Solid" play just because BAD play once the blinds get big in relation to the stacks.
If you're serious about tournament poker, buy harrington's books, and read both of them... volume 2 is NLHE tournament gold.
rebuy games often generate very good payouts in relation to the intial buy-in. avoid the temptation to rebuy however, unless it's very early in the game. Extra chips won't matter to a skilled player and you just pay a lot more in relation to your potential winnings. Rebuy speed games are pure evil at higher buy-ins, but can be fun and very profitable at lower ones. (Given you don't mind the greater chance factor.)
There's no reason to avoid the rebuy. If you're a better player, it's foolish not to (especially since rebuys generally don't have any fees attached).
Imagine for a second that you were offered entry into a tournament where everybody else bought in for $400, and you can enter for $200. However, you will start with half the chips of everybody else. You'd be a fool NOT to take this offer! Given equivalent skill, a half-sized stack is MORE than half as likely to win. If you have an edge, then it's even better.
Fast rebuy tournaments (as are common in casinos) are high gamble, but they offer an excellent ROI for the expert player. MTTs require an absurdly large bankroll, though, if you're routinely playing in large fields. (I'm not honestly sure since I'm not an MTT specialist, but I'd guess you'd need 100x the buy-in to get down to a 1% risk of ruin).
the large sites are more difficult to manage than the smaller ones are. When considering online poker, pay close attention to the tournament games offered. This will tell you a lot about the site and what players they are looking for. Number of initial chips, buy ins offered and round length are key.
If you're serious about poker, use neteller. Keep some money stashed there, and use it when you have the urge to play a different site or try something out. This also makes it easy to have cash on hand if you like to take advantage of deposit bonuses.