The author probably didn't mean that Windows distibuted on PCs were free. He probably meant that it was a fixed cost associated with purchasing the PC (or thinks of it in terms of purchasing the Windows distribution at the same time he buys a PC). I believe his point is that we purchase a new copy of Windows (along with a PC) every 3 years vs. purchasing a Linux distribution every 6 months.
Just a few points to help you on the field. Insurance is considered a good bet when the true count is 3 or above. This is regardless of your hand, of course, because whether the dealer has a face in the hole has nothing to do with your hand.
You're right about the odds just barely being in the house favor (at Foxwoods, CT, where I play, they're 0.33% on the 6-deck high limits and 0.36% on the 8-decks).
Which brings me to my last point. Fewer decks is considered better, but what matters most by far to a card counter is penetration, where the dealer places that colored card to signal shoe reshuffle. A penetration that's closer to the front of the shoe, the worse it is for the counter.
BTW, simple increment counting systems, while simple and difficult to get good at, are the systems that the vast majority of counters use.
A potential solution to this would be to simply not punish the ones whose paper got copied -- only the one who plagerized.
But your anecdote with the 3rd greade teacher exemplifies the fundamental crux of the problem. How do we know who was the one that copied and who was the one that was copied from?
I find it odd when someone criticizes someone else for not catching the fact that the movie was supposed to make fun of itself or its genre. Therefore, this makes the movie better. It seems that lately if the movie makes fun of its genre, then it's a good movie. Scream made fun of horror movies, Starship Troopers made fun of sci-fi, and now The Mummy Returns makes fun of undead-type movies. These movies were all bad, regardless of the fact that we were supposed to see that they were making fun of themselves. Making fun of a genre is not justification for poor quality.
You know, being from Lubbock, I'm particularly wary of cDc. I've never been able to figure out where in town they operate. Then one day I was driving about and I saw a guy with glasses and a nerdy outfit dragging a dead bovine body, roadkill from our truckers, across the road. I followed him for awhile and somewhere near 82nd street and Indiana he turned into a back alley. When I caught up to him next, I couldn't believe my eyes. He was using a crane to lift the dead cow up to the top of a huge pile of dead cows. There must have been hundreds. It was quite smelly. Finally I met these Geek Gods. I didn't know how to open up conversation. I was nervous. Plus, I found it kinda strange that they collected dead cows, literally. So I decided to ask them about their new software coming up. His reply? "Cult of the Dead Cow? Browser? Back Oriface? I'm just a homely redneck collecting cows." Oh well, I'll find them someday.
Now that the series is coming out on DVD almost 1 a month, it's exciting to see that the release date of DVD #7 is May 29, 2001 (a little known fact, find it here: ADVfilms. The date for the next one has been released even before the April 17th release date of #6 has approached! I'm excited, but then again these DVDs are poor quality compared to other DVDs, but that's another story.
I love the series to death, but I agree with you. I've contemplated eventually buying the entire DVD set after 6,7,8 come out, but who is willing to spend $160 for the series @ $20+ a pop when the DVDs are not really that high quality. Gainex could do so much better than ADVfilms.
I'm replying to my own comment. As we know, AI takes place in the twenty-second century. Both Netscape and IE are not able to handle the technology of the future.
From Martin Swinton's Design Website, a pop-up window:
I'm sorry, but your web browser cannot handle the holographic stream of this web site.
Please upgrade to Earth-Net 39 standard. Provided is a transcript
When is Earth-Net Standard going to be provided? Sure would fix up the security holes in MSIE 5.5.
Friday night in my room trying to deceipher the system of websites. There are hundreds of pages of information set up all pretending that we are in the future. By decoding a chemistry cryptogram here I found out that coronersweb.org set up a case file for Evan Chan who died on a boat having sex with a sexbot. I found out about Evan Chan by calling Jeanine Salla's number, 212-502-1177 and going to extention #2. The number I found on her website. She's important because she's the sentient machine therapist listed in the credits in the trailer.
But perhaps the most esoteric thing I found was that there are notches in the 'Coming "Spring 2001"'. Spring 2001 has 10 characters, the same as a telephone number. That number was, corresponding the notches, 503-321-5122.
The information above is only ~3% of all information found on the web pertaining to the movie. It must have taken programmers well over a thousand man hours to put all this up. AICN is definitely the way to find out more.
There are a wide variety of.edu domains that are not US 4 year universities. Here are just a few examples. As you can see from the last examples, some of them don't even have to do with school. If you're crafty enough you can get a.edu by saying that you have some redeeming academic value.
Does anyone remember what happened last year on April fools day on Slashdot? Was it really this bad? For a bunch of nerds (readers included) with nothing better to do, I was hoping for something better than my own lame excuses for April fools jokes.
Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
Does anyone remember what happened last year on April fools day? Was it really this bad? For a bunch of nerds (readers included) with nothing better to do, I was hoping for something better than my own lame excuses for April fools jokes.
Schmiedmayer, who's mentioned in the parent story, is also in this story from mid-last year.
A recent slashdot article that I submitted also concerns the aspect of using silicon buckyballs as cages for qubits.
The crux of the matter still remains unsolved in this SciAm article, and I have yet to see any explanation on how to solve it in any of the scientific journals that I read: that is, we don't use pure quantum states to preserve the very fickle quantum condition. When we can do that - there have already been enough postulation on what a qubit can consist of - then we can seriously consider quantum computing in the future.
banner ads are easily skipable - the blinking ones are instantly ignored by my eyes, like most regular internet users. After a few months on the web, most people have come to ignore the approximately 460x60 size ads that are everywhere. However the most annoying feature of a webpage is the onclose(? I'm not a coder) tags that automatically open the SAME website in another window as soon as you close the first one. If only I were fast in my window closing abilities I wouldn't have a permanent window to Alex Chiu's eternal life device open on my desktop.
The Nazis are all too busy for the screen shots because someone set up us the bomb and they are trying to sweep them out. I think that we'll be seeing more pics of them soon however, as this guy here has stated that 'all the base are belong to us.' As you can see from the background, he's right.
project than I and my classmates used to do back then. I did a volcano that didn't explode because somehow I thought that any old liquid could replace vinegar. The girl right next to me did one on the planets. Well all the planets except for Jupiter that is. "Oh crap. That's ok," she said to me, "I'll just try to cover up the place where it's supposed to be when the judges come around."
Actually, this has already been proposed from NASA. The following is from here:
Further out, NASA is developing a plan to launch the air-breathing rocket vehicle by using magnetic levitation (maglev) tracks. Using maglev tracks, the vehicle will accelerate to speeds of up to 600 mph before lifting into the air.
Following liftoff and after the vehicle reaches twice the speed of sound, the air-augmented rockets would shut off. Propulsion would then be provided by the air-breathing rocket vehicle, which will inhale oxygen for about half of the flight to burn fuel. The advantage of this is it won't have to store as much oxygen on board the spacecraft as past spacecraft have, thus reducing launch costs. Once the vehicle reaches 10 times the speed of sound, it will switch back to a conventional rocket-powered system for a final push into orbit.
Because it will cut the weight of the oxidizer, the vehicle will be easier to maneuver than current spacecraft. This means that traveling on an air-breathing rocket-powered vehicle will be safer. Eventually, the public could be travelling on these vehicles into space as space tourists.
Perhaps the best article (4 pages easy reading) for the average slashdot reader is the one that How Stuff Works put up here.
Some information: It takes $10,000 per pound to put something in orbit. NASA's intent is to reduce it to below $1000/pound in 25 years. They way to do this is to get rid of the ~1,000,000 pounds of liquid oxidizer that wouldn't be needed for air-breathing rockets (which will use air instead, duh).
An air breathing rocket is very similar to a jet engine, except that a jet engine overheats at about Mach 3-4.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, Air-breathing rockets DO NOT have the thrust to achieve lift off. The intent in the future is to use conventional rockets up to Mach 3-4. Then switch to air-breathing until Mach 10, then return to conventional rockets for the spaceward journey.
The term Near Earth refers to this side (inside) of the Mars orbit. There are quite a few asteroids that are considered Near Earth. There are comets too. The sun is considered Near Earth even though you don't ususally hear it referred to as that. Venus is too. You don't ever here about us having a collision with Venus or the Sun right? There is a very small possibility of deflection, but there's a lesser chance of that happening than trolls stopping their visits to slashdot.
The term Near Earth is just a term for a vague scientific concept. It has nothing to do with an object's closeness to Earth (except that Mars' orbit is never more than about 250M miles away from us). That's not very close at all.
In a billion years we will most certainly have perfected interstellar travel and extraterrestrial populating. Who says we'll use Earth in a billion years? There's bound to be better planets that don't have bad seasonal variation, better sunsets, and other such amenities. In a billion years, Sol will be forgotten in the annals of human history.
is holographic storage and how does it compare to our current media. From the word holographic I assumed some sort of three dimensional storage instead of 2D disks, but the 100 gigabits/square inch threw that guess in the recycle bin. Could someone enlighten me?
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The author probably didn't mean that Windows distibuted on PCs were free. He probably meant that it was a fixed cost associated with purchasing the PC (or thinks of it in terms of purchasing the Windows distribution at the same time he buys a PC). I believe his point is that we purchase a new copy of Windows (along with a PC) every 3 years vs. purchasing a Linux distribution every 6 months.
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Your basic strategy chart based on number of decks, DAS, DA2, etc.
The best blackjack site for info.
The most informative site on counting cards for the beginner
Just a few points to help you on the field. Insurance is considered a good bet when the true count is 3 or above. This is regardless of your hand, of course, because whether the dealer has a face in the hole has nothing to do with your hand.
You're right about the odds just barely being in the house favor (at Foxwoods, CT, where I play, they're 0.33% on the 6-deck high limits and 0.36% on the 8-decks).
Which brings me to my last point. Fewer decks is considered better, but what matters most by far to a card counter is penetration, where the dealer places that colored card to signal shoe reshuffle. A penetration that's closer to the front of the shoe, the worse it is for the counter.
BTW, simple increment counting systems, while simple and difficult to get good at, are the systems that the vast majority of counters use.
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A potential solution to this would be to simply not punish the ones whose paper got copied -- only the one who plagerized.
But your anecdote with the 3rd greade teacher exemplifies the fundamental crux of the problem. How do we know who was the one that copied and who was the one that was copied from?
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I find it odd when someone criticizes someone else for not catching the fact that the movie was supposed to make fun of itself or its genre. Therefore, this makes the movie better. It seems that lately if the movie makes fun of its genre, then it's a good movie. Scream made fun of horror movies, Starship Troopers made fun of sci-fi, and now The Mummy Returns makes fun of undead-type movies. These movies were all bad, regardless of the fact that we were supposed to see that they were making fun of themselves. Making fun of a genre is not justification for poor quality.
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You know, being from Lubbock, I'm particularly wary of cDc. I've never been able to figure out where in town they operate. Then one day I was driving about and I saw a guy with glasses and a nerdy outfit dragging a dead bovine body, roadkill from our truckers, across the road. I followed him for awhile and somewhere near 82nd street and Indiana he turned into a back alley. When I caught up to him next, I couldn't believe my eyes. He was using a crane to lift the dead cow up to the top of a huge pile of dead cows. There must have been hundreds. It was quite smelly. Finally I met these Geek Gods. I didn't know how to open up conversation. I was nervous. Plus, I found it kinda strange that they collected dead cows, literally. So I decided to ask them about their new software coming up. His reply? "Cult of the Dead Cow? Browser? Back Oriface? I'm just a homely redneck collecting cows." Oh well, I'll find them someday.
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of an access to a website, etc. that has a Unix time counter (if that's even possible)? And what's the significance of the date chosen to be time 0?
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Now that the series is coming out on DVD almost 1 a month, it's exciting to see that the release date of DVD #7 is May 29, 2001 (a little known fact, find it here: ADVfilms. The date for the next one has been released even before the April 17th release date of #6 has approached! I'm excited, but then again these DVDs are poor quality compared to other DVDs, but that's another story.
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I love the series to death, but I agree with you. I've contemplated eventually buying the entire DVD set after 6,7,8 come out, but who is willing to spend $160 for the series @ $20+ a pop when the DVDs are not really that high quality. Gainex could do so much better than ADVfilms.
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I'm replying to my own comment. As we know, AI takes place in the twenty-second century. Both Netscape and IE are not able to handle the technology of the future.
From Martin Swinton's Design Website, a pop-up window: I'm sorry, but your web browser cannot handle the holographic stream of this web site.
Please upgrade to Earth-Net 39 standard. Provided is a transcript
When is Earth-Net Standard going to be provided? Sure would fix up the security holes in MSIE 5.5.
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Friday night in my room trying to deceipher the system of websites. There are hundreds of pages of information set up all pretending that we are in the future. By decoding a chemistry cryptogram here I found out that coronersweb.org set up a case file for Evan Chan who died on a boat having sex with a sexbot. I found out about Evan Chan by calling Jeanine Salla's number, 212-502-1177 and going to extention #2. The number I found on her website. She's important because she's the sentient machine therapist listed in the credits in the trailer.
But perhaps the most esoteric thing I found was that there are notches in the 'Coming "Spring 2001"'. Spring 2001 has 10 characters, the same as a telephone number. That number was, corresponding the notches, 503-321-5122.
The information above is only ~3% of all information found on the web pertaining to the movie. It must have taken programmers well over a thousand man hours to put all this up. AICN is definitely the way to find out more.
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Does anyone remember what happened last year on April fools day on Slashdot? Was it really this bad? For a bunch of nerds (readers included) with nothing better to do, I was hoping for something better than my own lame excuses for April fools jokes.
By God, even MIT (those nerds) had pretty funny stuff on their front page. Most hilarious pictures (and article) ever.
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Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
Does anyone remember what happened last year on April fools day? Was it really this bad? For a bunch of nerds (readers included) with nothing better to do, I was hoping for something better than my own lame excuses for April fools jokes.
By God, even MIT (those nerds) had pretty funny stuff on their front page. Most hilarious pictures (and article) ever.
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I remember seeing something about atom trapping. I was able to find a tone down version of the Science magazine article here: www.academicpress.com/inscight/06022000/graphb.htm
Schmiedmayer, who's mentioned in the parent story, is also in this story from mid-last year.
A recent slashdot article that I submitted also concerns the aspect of using silicon buckyballs as cages for qubits.
The crux of the matter still remains unsolved in this SciAm article, and I have yet to see any explanation on how to solve it in any of the scientific journals that I read: that is, we don't use pure quantum states to preserve the very fickle quantum condition. When we can do that - there have already been enough postulation on what a qubit can consist of - then we can seriously consider quantum computing in the future.
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banner ads are easily skipable - the blinking ones are instantly ignored by my eyes, like most regular internet users. After a few months on the web, most people have come to ignore the approximately 460x60 size ads that are everywhere. However the most annoying feature of a webpage is the onclose(? I'm not a coder) tags that automatically open the SAME website in another window as soon as you close the first one. If only I were fast in my window closing abilities I wouldn't have a permanent window to Alex Chiu's eternal life device open on my desktop.
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The Nazis are all too busy for the screen shots because someone set up us the bomb and they are trying to sweep them out. I think that we'll be seeing more pics of them soon however, as this guy here has stated that 'all the base are belong to us.' As you can see from the background, he's right.
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project than I and my classmates used to do back then. I did a volcano that didn't explode because somehow I thought that any old liquid could replace vinegar. The girl right next to me did one on the planets. Well all the planets except for Jupiter that is. "Oh crap. That's ok," she said to me, "I'll just try to cover up the place where it's supposed to be when the judges come around."
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Mitsubisi. Perhaps one of their cars. Then I'll park my car in the kitchen. They'll have a hard time trying to figure that one out.
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Bring back LOGO! What couldn't that turtle do?
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Actually, this has already been proposed from NASA. The following is from here:
Further out, NASA is developing a plan to launch the air-breathing rocket vehicle by using magnetic levitation (maglev) tracks. Using maglev tracks, the vehicle will accelerate to speeds of up to 600 mph before lifting into the air.
Following liftoff and after the vehicle reaches twice the speed of sound, the air-augmented rockets would shut off. Propulsion would then be provided by the air-breathing rocket vehicle, which will inhale oxygen for about half of the flight to burn fuel. The advantage of this is it won't have to store as much oxygen on board the spacecraft as past spacecraft have, thus reducing launch costs. Once the vehicle reaches 10 times the speed of sound, it will switch back to a conventional rocket-powered system for a final push into orbit.
Because it will cut the weight of the oxidizer, the vehicle will be easier to maneuver than current spacecraft. This means that traveling on an air-breathing rocket-powered vehicle will be safer. Eventually, the public could be travelling on these vehicles into space as space tourists.
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Perhaps the best article (4 pages easy reading) for the average slashdot reader is the one that How Stuff Works put up here.
Some information: It takes $10,000 per pound to put something in orbit. NASA's intent is to reduce it to below $1000/pound in 25 years. They way to do this is to get rid of the ~1,000,000 pounds of liquid oxidizer that wouldn't be needed for air-breathing rockets (which will use air instead, duh).
An air breathing rocket is very similar to a jet engine, except that a jet engine overheats at about Mach 3-4.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, Air-breathing rockets DO NOT have the thrust to achieve lift off. The intent in the future is to use conventional rockets up to Mach 3-4. Then switch to air-breathing until Mach 10, then return to conventional rockets for the spaceward journey.
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That is absolutely absurd.
The term Near Earth refers to this side (inside) of the Mars orbit. There are quite a few asteroids that are considered Near Earth. There are comets too. The sun is considered Near Earth even though you don't ususally hear it referred to as that. Venus is too. You don't ever here about us having a collision with Venus or the Sun right? There is a very small possibility of deflection, but there's a lesser chance of that happening than trolls stopping their visits to slashdot.
The term Near Earth is just a term for a vague scientific concept. It has nothing to do with an object's closeness to Earth (except that Mars' orbit is never more than about 250M miles away from us). That's not very close at all.
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In a billion years we will most certainly have perfected interstellar travel and extraterrestrial populating. Who says we'll use Earth in a billion years? There's bound to be better planets that don't have bad seasonal variation, better sunsets, and other such amenities. In a billion years, Sol will be forgotten in the annals of human history.
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is holographic storage and how does it compare to our current media. From the word holographic I assumed some sort of three dimensional storage instead of 2D disks, but the 100 gigabits/square inch threw that guess in the recycle bin. Could someone enlighten me?
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I just bought a +1 sword of vanquishing from a level 14 dwarf. Can I borrow a few gold pieces so that he can FedEx it over here?
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