But you do realize that the point was that they used probability theory to figure out strategies of using the count to beat the house. They figured out how to turn that into a maximal advantage while still eluding suspicion. The math isn't what they did on the floor - it's what they did in the "mock casinos"
So wait - let me get this straight - if I bind stdin/out from my little Eliza lisp thing from highschool AI to a script that interfaces to IM, I violate patent?
Or, say, write a sample out of a perl book?
It can't last... prior art has been there for so long it's not even funny. They'll lose cases when they enforce very, very early.
Nietzche was also an incredible hypocrite. He probably would have openly lambasted Internet porn though he might practice one-handed typing twice a day.
I don't know about you, but I'm a "make menuconfig" kinda guy myself - CLI can do so much, but mostly linearly - and each thing must be done in turn - which is annoying, especially when there's host of options I don't care about that I don't want to be prompted about.
I agree with whoever said that there's a comfort area - additionally when inputting install directories (or file locations), it's nice to have a browse button - especially when you don't have tab completion in your CLI script - which most don't... I could go on about the benefits of non-linearity, "back" buttons, etc, but you get the idea.
On the other hand, I love the ability to do things using CLI/curses interfaces (I consider them to be different since there's more of a "2-D" nature to curses interfaces) for the versatility it gives - keep on doing a task? Write a script. Need to do something from a remote location? ssh in! So many wonderful uses.
CLI and GUI (or for that matter, curses-based interfaces) are not interchangeable - each has its place and function. I personally love programs ilke aumix which adjust to the capabilities of my current situation - i.e. if $DISPLAY is defined, and I dn't force it to run in a terminal, it will use a GTK interface, or I can use a curses interface, or do everything from the command line.
India is a hugely Hindu nation. Pakistan/Bangladesh broke off, taking most of the Muslim population. India however, still has one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, but that's because they have the second largest population in the world.
Actually, in response to the games thing, a good site to get old shareware games (not abandonware, unfortunately, but hey - with Epic Pinball and Scorch what else do you need?) for DOS is classicgames.org. It's a great source for games and sarcasm.
Check it out. The news... well, the news is interesting, and the reviews are useful, but the user base doesn't seem to like to post any reveiws/comments about games. Somebody should rectify this. I'm telling you, this DOS game heaven.
umm... i think the point is that he's doing it as a labor of love, not for the money, but also he'd rather not, you know, be poor for that year. Just my two cents - it'd be nice if we could give him more but i think he himself chose $55K so it wasn't that bad, and he could devote his time to open source work (the only problem with open source is that it's so hard for some of these great coders to make any money off of their work).
I concur - the idea is ludicrous. If AT&T kept track of every merchant's site their customers wnet to and purchased from (which'd be a royal PITA) and then billed the merchants, then they'd be laughed off the face of the market. If instead they somehow got the merchants to agree to sign a contract, then it'd make sense, but as far as I can tell there are only two ways to do this - offer to promote the merchant's site or threaten to block traffice to it.
The first is a dying revenue model of advertising - big deal. The second scream "unfair business practices! Sherman Antitrust Act! DOJ! HEEELP!"
So yeah, AT&T isn't stupid - they're going to put their necks in the noose like that.
The charge-per-traffic cheme was once used, and still is for dialup services in France, for example. Problem is, nobody in their right mind would by from AT&T if they did the rest of the major Telcos would pick the bones of AT&Ts dead carcass like so many vultures.
I did not mean to imply that I was for the gross violation of rights, I was just pointing out that the government is fickle at best in terms of rights.
Please, I am not citing these examples as good practice or moral. I was inflamed when I read about these cases - apparently our wonderful government felt that we are a totalitarianism or an oligarchy during times of war.
All I was saying is that the gov't can and does discriminate despite elemtary school indoctrination of "liberty and justice for all". And yes, I do think the government is by far better than most others around but I think thre are cases like this that show the hypocricy of it, and show that sometime things aren't as they seem.
First of all, children do not have full rights under the constitution. The voting age being a prime example - I can't vote in the coming election because I'm not yet 18, but i'm probably more a informed voter than many who will be at the ballots on November 7th. Do I think this is unfair? A litle, but not really - because I believe that a two-year old shouldn't be allowed to vote, nor a 10 yr. old, nor a 13 year old. The voting age of 18 is a somewhat arbirtrary but objective division between adulthood and childhood and the level of maturity of these voters. They can't give an IQ test, or a poll quiz about how informed people are (because of the ban on literacy tests), so they have to set some year, and I say 18 is fine, because it's a fine line indeed.
Secondly, our rights are suspended once we enter a public school. Student's freedom of speech is stifled (both in what kind of language they can use and all distributed literature must be approved, at least where I live).
Finally, first amendment rights are not considered absolute guarantees. The U.S. Supreme Court stated as much in the unanimous decision in Schenk v. United States where a socialist, Charles Schenck, mailed 15,00 leaflets to draft-age men during WWI telling them that the draft violated their 13th amendment rights. The U.S. had passed the Espionnage Act of 1917 saying that it was illegal to use the U.S. mail system to distrubute materials urging resistance to the government. Schenck was tried and found guilty by the Supreme Court.
Not enough? Fast Forward to WWII, when all Americans of Japanese descent were being forced into intenrment camps away from the coasts. 110,000 people of Japanese origin were forcibly moved from the west coast, allowed only what they could carry with them. 75,000 of them were natural-born ctizens. Enter Fred Korematsu. He lived in Oakland all his life, and had never in his life seen Japan. Fred wanted to join the U.S. navy to fight for the U.S.- no luck there - he was of Japanese descent. So he tried working at a naval shipyard and was fired despite good performance write-ups. He was planning to marry his white fiancee and move to New Jersey when the executive order to relocate was passed. He did not leave, figuring it couldn't apply to him. he was arrested, and he sued. His case made its way all the way up to the Supreme Court (along with two other cases). Korematsu v. United States was tried and the relocation was upheld 6-3.
So yeah, those are two precedents for suspension of rights. I no you probably all hate me for all that blasted legal stuff. Oh well. Oh, and yeah, I know both cases I mentioned were wartime, but the decision in the first left wiggle room for it to apply to any time.
Well, first of all, that's not at the state or federal level, as I specified. Yes, there are going to be wacky local laws, but 1) they are not enforced, and 2) if they were, they would be struck down by higher courts.
In the marvelous commonwealth of Virginia it is illegal to commit sodomy (a legal term which they use to describe a number of non-intercourse sexual practices (probably all, I don't remember - I could cite examples, but for fear for my karma). True, they don't enforce this much but I will point out that it's there, and I'm not exactly sure how they'd react if somebody were reported...
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Please - it was conjunction Junction, not Sesame Street.
But you do realize that the point was that they used probability theory to figure out strategies of using the count to beat the house. They figured out how to turn that into a maximal advantage while still eluding suspicion. The math isn't what they did on the floor - it's what they did in the "mock casinos"
So wait - let me get this straight - if I bind stdin/out from my little Eliza lisp thing from highschool AI to a script that interfaces to IM, I violate patent?
Or, say, write a sample out of a perl book?
It can't last... prior art has been there for so long it's not even funny. They'll lose cases when they enforce very, very early.
Nietzche was also an incredible hypocrite. He probably would have openly lambasted Internet porn though he might practice one-handed typing twice a day.
I don't know about you, but I'm a "make menuconfig" kinda guy myself - CLI can do so much, but mostly linearly - and each thing must be done in turn - which is annoying, especially when there's host of options I don't care about that I don't want to be prompted about.
I agree with whoever said that there's a comfort area - additionally when inputting install directories (or file locations), it's nice to have a browse button - especially when you don't have tab completion in your CLI script - which most don't... I could go on about the benefits of non-linearity, "back" buttons, etc, but you get the idea.
On the other hand, I love the ability to do things using CLI/curses interfaces (I consider them to be different since there's more of a "2-D" nature to curses interfaces) for the versatility it gives - keep on doing a task? Write a script. Need to do something from a remote location? ssh in! So many wonderful uses.
CLI and GUI (or for that matter, curses-based interfaces) are not interchangeable - each has its place and function. I personally love programs ilke aumix which adjust to the capabilities of my current situation - i.e. if $DISPLAY is defined, and I dn't force it to run in a terminal, it will use a GTK interface, or I can use a curses interface, or do everything from the command line.
India is a hugely Hindu nation. Pakistan/Bangladesh broke off, taking most of the Muslim population. India however, still has one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, but that's because they have the second largest population in the world.
Check it out. The news... well, the news is interesting, and the reviews are useful, but the user base doesn't seem to like to post any reveiws/comments about games. Somebody should rectify this. I'm telling you, this DOS game heaven.
umm... i think the point is that he's doing it as a labor of love, not for the money, but also he'd rather not, you know, be poor for that year. Just my two cents - it'd be nice if we could give him more but i think he himself chose $55K so it wasn't that bad, and he could devote his time to open source work (the only problem with open source is that it's so hard for some of these great coders to make any money off of their work).
The first is a dying revenue model of advertising - big deal. The second scream "unfair business practices! Sherman Antitrust Act! DOJ! HEEELP!"
So yeah, AT&T isn't stupid - they're going to put their necks in the noose like that.
The charge-per-traffic cheme was once used, and still is for dialup services in France, for example. Problem is, nobody in their right mind would by from AT&T if they did the rest of the major Telcos would pick the bones of AT&Ts dead carcass like so many vultures.
Please, I am not citing these examples as good practice or moral. I was inflamed when I read about these cases - apparently our wonderful government felt that we are a totalitarianism or an oligarchy during times of war.
All I was saying is that the gov't can and does discriminate despite elemtary school indoctrination of "liberty and justice for all". And yes, I do think the government is by far better than most others around but I think thre are cases like this that show the hypocricy of it, and show that sometime things aren't as they seem.
First of all, children do not have full rights under the constitution. The voting age being a prime example - I can't vote in the coming election because I'm not yet 18, but i'm probably more a informed voter than many who will be at the ballots on November 7th. Do I think this is unfair? A litle, but not really - because I believe that a two-year old shouldn't be allowed to vote, nor a 10 yr. old, nor a 13 year old. The voting age of 18 is a somewhat arbirtrary but objective division between adulthood and childhood and the level of maturity of these voters. They can't give an IQ test, or a poll quiz about how informed people are (because of the ban on literacy tests), so they have to set some year, and I say 18 is fine, because it's a fine line indeed.
Secondly, our rights are suspended once we enter a public school. Student's freedom of speech is stifled (both in what kind of language they can use and all distributed literature must be approved, at least where I live).
Finally, first amendment rights are not considered absolute guarantees. The U.S. Supreme Court stated as much in the unanimous decision in Schenk v. United States where a socialist, Charles Schenck, mailed 15,00 leaflets to draft-age men during WWI telling them that the draft violated their 13th amendment rights. The U.S. had passed the Espionnage Act of 1917 saying that it was illegal to use the U.S. mail system to distrubute materials urging resistance to the government. Schenck was tried and found guilty by the Supreme Court.
Not enough? Fast Forward to WWII, when all Americans of Japanese descent were being forced into intenrment camps away from the coasts. 110,000 people of Japanese origin were forcibly moved from the west coast, allowed only what they could carry with them. 75,000 of them were natural-born ctizens. Enter Fred Korematsu. He lived in Oakland all his life, and had never in his life seen Japan. Fred wanted to join the U.S. navy to fight for the U.S.- no luck there - he was of Japanese descent. So he tried working at a naval shipyard and was fired despite good performance write-ups. He was planning to marry his white fiancee and move to New Jersey when the executive order to relocate was passed. He did not leave, figuring it couldn't apply to him. he was arrested, and he sued. His case made its way all the way up to the Supreme Court (along with two other cases). Korematsu v. United States was tried and the relocation was upheld 6-3.
So yeah, those are two precedents for suspension of rights. I no you probably all hate me for all that blasted legal stuff. Oh well. Oh, and yeah, I know both cases I mentioned were wartime, but the decision in the first left wiggle room for it to apply to any time.
In the marvelous commonwealth of Virginia it is illegal to commit sodomy (a legal term which they use to describe a number of non-intercourse sexual practices (probably all, I don't remember - I could cite examples, but for fear for my karma). True, they don't enforce this much but I will point out that it's there, and I'm not exactly sure how they'd react if somebody were reported...