Say what you want about the gimmickness of a Wii controller, but they did the powerglove to what it should have been. Props to Nintendo for sticking to getting something to the finish. My favorite Nintendo controller so far has been the SNES controller. It might not have analog, but it was a cerebral interface unlike some controllers where you had to adjust your grip to get to different buttons.
They come in, test security via social engineering like if someone falls for phishing or whatnot. Then they educate based on what failed.
I interviewed with a firm once, and said,"Hey, maybe people don't even know they need your security product. How about sending phishing emails to all companies you might want to work for:P" He got a laugh and he said something like,"The window salesman doesn't go around throwing rocks through people's windows to stir up some business." I don't think the analogy is applicable, but my marketing suggestion was mostly a joke anyway.
I've owned a computer long enough to know it works better when you're using less than 70% of your hard drive. After a certain point, the harddrive starts harder work to find places to write instead of nice continuous blocks. Now by all means, use 80% of your harddrive if you must, but try not to.
Scrap a bloated super jet program that isn't going to win us any war we're fighting today, and you can pay for all people's tuitions and student loans over a couple years.
And instead of bailing out banks, we could have paid off 70-90% of the mortgages directly.
With that kind of attitude, you're not going to perfect your play.;) A good poker player or algorithm doesn't really need to see the cards mucked to know what they were.
There's even casinos you an play against limit players.
The real "challenge" if you call it that is finding No Limit solved.
I could easily code a No limit bot which will make the right move maybe 80-90% of the time that puts reads on and everything.
But where's the fun in that? Online poker sites crack down on bots with captchas, so why do I want to lose my initial deposit. Anymore when I play no limit, I play it like it is solved. I get my money in correctly maybe 95% of the time. The fun part of poker is that once you know how to play, its simple. Its hard to learn how to play correctly, but it is easier than tic-tac-toe once you got a strategy down. And yes, I've turned $1 into $1000 over several thousand games, so I'm not just bsing. I'm just a lifelong gamer with a math statistician background who got interested with poker over about a decade.
The reason I don't just go and make a living over it is that I still have some moral hangups on making money and not producing anything for society. It is the same reason I didn't decide to be a pro-gamer, but instead wanted to make software games and useful aps for people to use.
The only thing a good NL bot could do in today's world is make bad players into geniuses like chess programs makes everyone online play like a Grand Master. And there's no good way to monetize this with piracy or I'd sell "near-perfect No limit poker bots" for 500$ a pop or something. Since there's no money to be had due to piracy, its the same reason good players don't write books on the best strategies, they can just play the game and make money. It's better to keep other poker players in the dark on the right moves instead of educating them. I only teach a select few how to play the game right, and normally they don't listen anyway:P Some day in the future everyone will be playing perfect NL Texas Holdem, and it will no longer be a game of skill, it will be gambling since everyone is playing the same style.
Laugh all you want. Believe all the negative propaganda if you listen to everything people tell you. But Flash is incredible to produce Android,Ipad/iPhone aps. Its soooo easy compared with any language I ever used. If you know C/C++ or Java, you can pick up Flash in a week. It also ports to Web, and Windows/Linux/Mac without modifying code.
Flash gets a bad rap, but I've never been so impressed with a language for producing modern software. The only downside is that it can be slow, but you can generally render 1,000+ graphics on the screen before you notice any slowdown. It isn't meant for the leanest and meanest modern 3d games, but if you want to get into the ap stores, its one of the best roads. It is far superior than picking Android or IOS specific programming languages.
Now I typically get buried for saying this for some reason. I'm not sure if people are bent out of shape because they hate Flash or if the Flash developers don't want their well kept secret to get out.
The marketing bots are out of control and use science in ways it wasn't meant to be. All a marketing bot needs to do is look at one scientific fact anywhere that says something remotely positive about their product and voila, advertising angle. I seriously saw Lucky Charms marketed as a health food once because the oat pieces are made of oats which are known to be good for the heart. Science is supposed to be unbiased, but the results are being used in wrong ways. You can say something good about anything. "Why not try toxic waste for a facial cream? It will give your skin a healthy glow."
It isn't hard to get a virus on Windows. Many people can get a virus in their first week of owning a product. Going out and buying a 300$ product every week is not cost feasible. In fact there's probably a correlation between how gullible a person is for falling for Internet virus scams and their ineptitude for reinstalling windows... Call it the noob factor.
Conclusion: Everyone has different skill sets.
PS: I always think it'd be cool if they designed a car for the car heads to work on, but it'd be like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer bankrupts the company because people would get hurt working on the car, and then sue because the car was designed to be worked on. Every year it seems like cars get harder and harder to work on by a non professional mechanic.
I see so many people who go: Hurr, Durr, my computer has a virus, I guess I'll just store it or throw it away.
Generally it isn't hard to reinstall an OS. It is a pain, but it isn't hard. And if you get sick of it, install Linux because almost no viruses target Linux.
My dad knows how to fix cars because he grew up in a world of no computers and cars were cool to get into then. I can't fix cars because I got involves in programming and video games.
Am I really supposed to be fiddling with fixing a blender? That sounds near suicidal for someone who isn't trained in it. And how cheap blenders are, there probably isn't a lot of market for a blender repair man either.
Little guys like Indie video game companies can't afford studios. They make video games with an artist in one state, and a programmer in another state. The teams can get big, but they get successful software done. Telecommuting saves people tens of grand a year, and I'd take a job for 20-30 grand less a year if I could telecommute. That's the price of gas, time to commute and big time savings on housing. Meetings are even more productive than in face meetings because you both share computers with things like gotomeeting or join.me. You get communication via voice, and can share copy/paste buffers and write code together which is productive unlike face to face meetings where no actual code normally gets done.
Don't criticize telecommuting if you haven't done it yet. I know it is different(and people are afraid of change), but it is superior in many ways.
If you could scientifically force God's hand to always act in a certain way, the engineers would have a field day with it.:)
I'm a dude who knows God is real. I don't try and prove him. I just say he is real, and that we all should love each other more because that is what my Bro Jesus said. Just about everyone will conclude the world needs more love.
Over 75% of the articles on Slashdot front page are all political in nature over tech/science related. There's even an article that is Pro-FCC which basically every geek knows is trying to shaft us.
I don't like this Slashdot beta. It was bad enough with all the sock puppet accounts trying to do political spin, but it seems like all the articles are now political. I'll give it a few weeks and see if it was just an anomaly, but Slashdot could be in its death spirals. I've been noticing a change, but you can do it yourself, look at the front page of approved articles, they're almost all political in nature.
Epyx: Summer Games for C64. Then we'd have someone going,"Oh you won the gold medal for diving? Well I got the gold medal for diving too, and pole vault, and 100m dash."
The UN disagrees with what you say. There are reports that come out every year that says World Hunger is going away over time. Every bit we can donate helps it go away faster. And if you think about it: Look at first world countries, the more wealth a country has, generally the lower the birth rates are.
I'm not faulting Notch. There's something about sending the message to kids that you can live large doing computer science stuff. But what you said are things that are tools to make more money. If you want to sacrifice your entire life to live for the poor because it is a noble thing to do, you don't simply give everything you have to live on to the poor. If you do that, you become a problem yourself and can no longer make money. What you do is live on only necessities to get by on and classify things as tools to make more money. One such investment is an education, you should always be getting one now the Internet affords it. The money and time you save in entertainment can help you get a better education.
Sure, we had Java at the time, but for some reason Visual Basic caught on big time in the late 90s. After going to school for software engineering, I had to completely remember how to program in subs. Subs are just like functions, except you need to remember to never use the same loop variable you used in the parent subs:P
One of my ideas was for a gaming network where you played online video games, and you split ad revenue between the player and yourself.
I then wanted to simplify the system and just have a streaming network where you watched advertisements and got paid. The problem is that someone could simply turn it on and walk away from their computer and there's no way to know they watched the ads. The same thing is going on with bots. Anyone can say they watched ads or clicked on ads with computer, and until you solve a way to determine if someone is actually sitting there watching the ads, your system is open to exploitation.
Until courts will stop rewarding RIAA for suing every backwater bar, video game streamer, internet provider, or anyone who plays their music at a party, they'll keep suing everyone. Hey, the music industry isn't as profitable as it was before the free transmission of information, so lets sue anyone who allows free transmission of information. If those buggy whip makers only were as sue happy then as the RIAA is now, maybe some people would still be using horse drawn carriages because cars could have been sued away before they gained ground.
I'm not endorsing anyone doing this for real. It is just a thought on the ramifications. If they can catch you more often when you do bad driving, would we stop hanging them high, and put lower fines on driving infractions?
Okay, police are tracking people on their cell phone. So they should know if you're in a car traveling with someone else. So they should be able to make like "facebook friends" of all the people who travel with you. If someone reports your car's license plate, they probably could just feasibly link that to your phone on a simple 1:1 database search and stop you down the road if you're driving erratically.
This makes me wonder how the public could contribute... Has anyone thought of, just for getting a full panopticon feel and a reverse likes of making a website that links bad driving with your license plate number? All you would do is take a video of a car driving bad in front of you, then upload it to a video sharing site, link it with the license plate on a searchable website. Suddenly all the bad driving someone does is now logged permanently on the Internet.
Now cops could "randomly" be browsing the worst offenders, and just "happen to be the the area" (by linking drivers licence to cell phone records against bad drivers within 1 mile of a patrol car), and hand out reckless tickets.
Well escaping the KGB laid the foundation, and Tetris put most the of the bricks in place, but I spent the rest of my life looking for that one missing piece.
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Say what you want about the gimmickness of a Wii controller, but they did the powerglove to what it should have been. Props to Nintendo for sticking to getting something to the finish. My favorite Nintendo controller so far has been the SNES controller. It might not have analog, but it was a cerebral interface unlike some controllers where you had to adjust your grip to get to different buttons.
They come in, test security via social engineering like if someone falls for phishing or whatnot. Then they educate based on what failed.
:P" He got a laugh and he said something like,"The window salesman doesn't go around throwing rocks through people's windows to stir up some business." I don't think the analogy is applicable, but my marketing suggestion was mostly a joke anyway.
I interviewed with a firm once, and said,"Hey, maybe people don't even know they need your security product. How about sending phishing emails to all companies you might want to work for
I've owned a computer long enough to know it works better when you're using less than 70% of your hard drive. After a certain point, the harddrive starts harder work to find places to write instead of nice continuous blocks. Now by all means, use 80% of your harddrive if you must, but try not to.
Scrap a bloated super jet program that isn't going to win us any war we're fighting today, and you can pay for all people's tuitions and student loans over a couple years.
And instead of bailing out banks, we could have paid off 70-90% of the mortgages directly.
With that kind of attitude, you're not going to perfect your play. ;) A good poker player or algorithm doesn't really need to see the cards mucked to know what they were.
There's even casinos you an play against limit players.
:P Some day in the future everyone will be playing perfect NL Texas Holdem, and it will no longer be a game of skill, it will be gambling since everyone is playing the same style.
The real "challenge" if you call it that is finding No Limit solved.
I could easily code a No limit bot which will make the right move maybe 80-90% of the time that puts reads on and everything.
But where's the fun in that? Online poker sites crack down on bots with captchas, so why do I want to lose my initial deposit. Anymore when I play no limit, I play it like it is solved. I get my money in correctly maybe 95% of the time. The fun part of poker is that once you know how to play, its simple. Its hard to learn how to play correctly, but it is easier than tic-tac-toe once you got a strategy down. And yes, I've turned $1 into $1000 over several thousand games, so I'm not just bsing. I'm just a lifelong gamer with a math statistician background who got interested with poker over about a decade.
The reason I don't just go and make a living over it is that I still have some moral hangups on making money and not producing anything for society. It is the same reason I didn't decide to be a pro-gamer, but instead wanted to make software games and useful aps for people to use.
The only thing a good NL bot could do in today's world is make bad players into geniuses like chess programs makes everyone online play like a Grand Master. And there's no good way to monetize this with piracy or I'd sell "near-perfect No limit poker bots" for 500$ a pop or something. Since there's no money to be had due to piracy, its the same reason good players don't write books on the best strategies, they can just play the game and make money. It's better to keep other poker players in the dark on the right moves instead of educating them. I only teach a select few how to play the game right, and normally they don't listen anyway
Laugh all you want. Believe all the negative propaganda if you listen to everything people tell you. But Flash is incredible to produce Android,Ipad/iPhone aps. Its soooo easy compared with any language I ever used. If you know C/C++ or Java, you can pick up Flash in a week. It also ports to Web, and Windows/Linux/Mac without modifying code.
Flash gets a bad rap, but I've never been so impressed with a language for producing modern software. The only downside is that it can be slow, but you can generally render 1,000+ graphics on the screen before you notice any slowdown. It isn't meant for the leanest and meanest modern 3d games, but if you want to get into the ap stores, its one of the best roads. It is far superior than picking Android or IOS specific programming languages.
Now I typically get buried for saying this for some reason. I'm not sure if people are bent out of shape because they hate Flash or if the Flash developers don't want their well kept secret to get out.
The marketing bots are out of control and use science in ways it wasn't meant to be. All a marketing bot needs to do is look at one scientific fact anywhere that says something remotely positive about their product and voila, advertising angle. I seriously saw Lucky Charms marketed as a health food once because the oat pieces are made of oats which are known to be good for the heart. Science is supposed to be unbiased, but the results are being used in wrong ways. You can say something good about anything. "Why not try toxic waste for a facial cream? It will give your skin a healthy glow."
It isn't hard to get a virus on Windows. Many people can get a virus in their first week of owning a product. Going out and buying a 300$ product every week is not cost feasible. In fact there's probably a correlation between how gullible a person is for falling for Internet virus scams and their ineptitude for reinstalling windows... Call it the noob factor.
Conclusion: Everyone has different skill sets.
PS: I always think it'd be cool if they designed a car for the car heads to work on, but it'd be like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer bankrupts the company because people would get hurt working on the car, and then sue because the car was designed to be worked on. Every year it seems like cars get harder and harder to work on by a non professional mechanic.
I see so many people who go: Hurr, Durr, my computer has a virus, I guess I'll just store it or throw it away.
Generally it isn't hard to reinstall an OS. It is a pain, but it isn't hard. And if you get sick of it, install Linux because almost no viruses target Linux.
My dad knows how to fix cars because he grew up in a world of no computers and cars were cool to get into then. I can't fix cars because I got involves in programming and video games.
Am I really supposed to be fiddling with fixing a blender? That sounds near suicidal for someone who isn't trained in it. And how cheap blenders are, there probably isn't a lot of market for a blender repair man either.
Little guys like Indie video game companies can't afford studios. They make video games with an artist in one state, and a programmer in another state. The teams can get big, but they get successful software done. Telecommuting saves people tens of grand a year, and I'd take a job for 20-30 grand less a year if I could telecommute. That's the price of gas, time to commute and big time savings on housing. Meetings are even more productive than in face meetings because you both share computers with things like gotomeeting or join.me. You get communication via voice, and can share copy/paste buffers and write code together which is productive unlike face to face meetings where no actual code normally gets done.
Don't criticize telecommuting if you haven't done it yet. I know it is different(and people are afraid of change), but it is superior in many ways.
I'm not sure of an issue that has such unanimous approval as net neutrality.
Only a few vested greedy people who want legalized extortion websites for more money don't want them to be classified as utilities.
It should be interesting if even under the spot light of all the eyes of people that they willingly do the wrong thing.
If you could scientifically force God's hand to always act in a certain way, the engineers would have a field day with it. :)
I'm a dude who knows God is real. I don't try and prove him. I just say he is real, and that we all should love each other more because that is what my Bro Jesus said. Just about everyone will conclude the world needs more love.
Over 75% of the articles on Slashdot front page are all political in nature over tech/science related. There's even an article that is Pro-FCC which basically every geek knows is trying to shaft us.
I don't like this Slashdot beta. It was bad enough with all the sock puppet accounts trying to do political spin, but it seems like all the articles are now political. I'll give it a few weeks and see if it was just an anomaly, but Slashdot could be in its death spirals. I've been noticing a change, but you can do it yourself, look at the front page of approved articles, they're almost all political in nature.
Epyx: Summer Games for C64. Then we'd have someone going,"Oh you won the gold medal for diving? Well I got the gold medal for diving too, and pole vault, and 100m dash."
The UN disagrees with what you say. There are reports that come out every year that says World Hunger is going away over time. Every bit we can donate helps it go away faster. And if you think about it: Look at first world countries, the more wealth a country has, generally the lower the birth rates are.
I'm not faulting Notch. There's something about sending the message to kids that you can live large doing computer science stuff. But what you said are things that are tools to make more money. If you want to sacrifice your entire life to live for the poor because it is a noble thing to do, you don't simply give everything you have to live on to the poor. If you do that, you become a problem yourself and can no longer make money. What you do is live on only necessities to get by on and classify things as tools to make more money. One such investment is an education, you should always be getting one now the Internet affords it. The money and time you save in entertainment can help you get a better education.
Sure, we had Java at the time, but for some reason Visual Basic caught on big time in the late 90s. After going to school for software engineering, I had to completely remember how to program in subs. Subs are just like functions, except you need to remember to never use the same loop variable you used in the parent subs :P
One of my ideas was for a gaming network where you played online video games, and you split ad revenue between the player and yourself.
I then wanted to simplify the system and just have a streaming network where you watched advertisements and got paid. The problem is that someone could simply turn it on and walk away from their computer and there's no way to know they watched the ads. The same thing is going on with bots. Anyone can say they watched ads or clicked on ads with computer, and until you solve a way to determine if someone is actually sitting there watching the ads, your system is open to exploitation.
Until courts will stop rewarding RIAA for suing every backwater bar, video game streamer, internet provider, or anyone who plays their music at a party, they'll keep suing everyone. Hey, the music industry isn't as profitable as it was before the free transmission of information, so lets sue anyone who allows free transmission of information. If those buggy whip makers only were as sue happy then as the RIAA is now, maybe some people would still be using horse drawn carriages because cars could have been sued away before they gained ground.
You know what's really lowered the price of solar panels, and got them economical for the rest of the world? The Chinese Connection.
I'm not endorsing anyone doing this for real. It is just a thought on the ramifications. If they can catch you more often when you do bad driving, would we stop hanging them high, and put lower fines on driving infractions?
Okay, police are tracking people on their cell phone. So they should know if you're in a car traveling with someone else. So they should be able to make like "facebook friends" of all the people who travel with you. If someone reports your car's license plate, they probably could just feasibly link that to your phone on a simple 1:1 database search and stop you down the road if you're driving erratically.
This makes me wonder how the public could contribute... Has anyone thought of, just for getting a full panopticon feel and a reverse likes of making a website that links bad driving with your license plate number? All you would do is take a video of a car driving bad in front of you, then upload it to a video sharing site, link it with the license plate on a searchable website. Suddenly all the bad driving someone does is now logged permanently on the Internet.
Now cops could "randomly" be browsing the worst offenders, and just "happen to be the the area" (by linking drivers licence to cell phone records against bad drivers within 1 mile of a patrol car), and hand out reckless tickets.
Well escaping the KGB laid the foundation, and Tetris put most the of the bricks in place, but I spent the rest of my life looking for that one missing piece.