If you're trying to work with datasets larger than 65k lines you may want to check out Kirix Strata.
-Handles 60 Billion records
-Spreadsheet-like viewing of data from relational databases (drag in fields from related tables)
-Really, really fast
-Runs on Linux
I seem to remember reading somewhere last week that Google was thinking about opening their own E-Bay similar marketplace (a move deserving of FARK's "obvious" tag). I wonder how much of the decision to open the API has to do with the fact that Google will certainly open theirs when it gets up and running.
... let's remember that this is the best possible thing that could ever happen to them. Every major news network is going to be giving them free advertising for the next week.
I rarely post on slashdot, but i just wanted to agree with zbode and thank you for one of the only "read more" comments that i've read in its entirity.
Hadn't thought about it... but it makes sense. What's the difference between scanning a book that's in a library and scanning a DVD that's in the library?
We started up this site to act as an aggregation service for all the housing info that's out there. If anyone has any LAMP skills or experience interfacing with Google Maps we would absolutely love to talk to you.
The real question here is how geeks can use their skills to win huge on online poker. In the lower level games much of the play is very formulaic (especially in limit holdem). Because the players are so bad (loose and passive) you can almost literally get away with just playing a certain set of hands and almost always come out on top. If you can manage small wins consistently and then start playing several tables simultaneously you could make big bucks.
The key is automation. While you wouldn't need to automate the whole process, you could certainly write an application that would screen out (fold) most hands and only alert you when certain profitable situations arose, allowing you to intervene. If you could play 10+ tables at a time using this type of system I don't think it's unreasonable to make $50+ hr.
Which is why most casinos use 6 decks at blackjack. which lowers your odds of winning even with card counting signifigantly.
Actually, that is incorrect. According to the book Bringing Down the House when a single deck goes toward your favor, the odds only last for a couple hands. There's really not time enough to take advantage of the remaining highcards because the low number of total cards only lets the disparity last for a few hands. However, if you're playing with 6 decks, the swings can last much longer, giving you even more time to take advantage of the deck being stacked in your favor.
I entirely understand that the wardens typically frown on putting holes in walls ever since that whole Shawshank mess... but I didn't know that our penal system gave inmates personal computer access to take advantage of such a system. Do you have problems with your cellmate constantly trying to use your connection to DL pr0n? I guess that wouldn't be so bad if it keeps him from getting funny ideas about you in the wee hours of the morning...
I appreciate what you're trying to do here. There are some out here that share your beliefs, and it takes some balls to say what you said on here when you know it won't even be given a fare chance.
For me, my logic simply won't let me believe that everything around me is the circumstance of cosmic chance. Vegas is an empire built on the fact that even when you only have a slight advantage, the odds still work out in your favor. For me, the chances upon chances that would be required for the end result that is our society today simply do not compute if left up to chance.
However, Rand's argument is that you cannot feel, see or hear God, and thus only a fool would leave up to faith that which their logic and reasoning could not prove. I really like the basis for her arguments, I just don't follow them to the same conclusion. ---
As far as the "literal bible" thing... what so many forget is that the bible is a translation of the original Greek (new testament) and much gets confused in it. For example, the greeks have some absurd number of words for "love"... we have but one. In any such translation, there will be things that if taken literally or out of context, will lead to difficulties.
But if you really really liked the Bourne Identity Movie, don't read the book. You'll walk away feeling really dissapointed (by the movie, the book is awesome).
I the director's commentary the guy says "Basically, the only thing I borrowed from the book was the premise" (secret agent with amenisa getting plucked out of the ocean with two bullets and a bank account number embedded in his skin).
Other than that, there's pretty much no similarity whatsoever to the book.
I consider myself to be a "praticing" Christian, an Ayn Rand is admamantly opposed to a belief in God as it totally defies her way of living by reason alone. Some of the stuff she put forth in Atlas Shrugged were 180 degrees in contradiction to my way of life -- even sometimes to the point of being insulting.
With that being said, it's the best novel I've ever read.
... I still doubt I'll be able to make calls on my Sprint PCS phone between 9-10pm. Once 'nights' kicks in in this town the network is perpetually busy.
From the article: "Another day in the office, which, according to one recent study, consists of handling 46 phone calls, 25 emails, 16 voicemails, 23 items of post, eight inter-office memos, 16 faxes and nine mobile phone calls."
25? Only 25? I know coal miners that get more emails that that at work every day.
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If you're trying to work with datasets larger than 65k lines you may want to check out Kirix Strata.
-Handles 60 Billion records
-Spreadsheet-like viewing of data from relational databases (drag in fields from related tables)
-Really, really fast
-Runs on Linux
Currently there's a 30-day evaluation version
... I really wish I would have got some of that IPO a while back...
Since its not in the headline:
https://www.codebase.ebay.com
I seem to remember reading somewhere last week that Google was thinking about opening their own E-Bay similar marketplace (a move deserving of FARK's "obvious" tag). I wonder how much of the decision to open the API has to do with the fact that Google will certainly open theirs when it gets up and running.
... let's remember that this is the best possible thing that could ever happen to them. Every major news network is going to be giving them free advertising for the next week.
you can't buy this kind of PR.
Someone start up a "Open Content Alliance" for music... then we can digitize and share it all we want.
I rarely post on slashdot, but i just wanted to agree with zbode and thank you for one of the only "read more" comments that i've read in its entirity.
Very well done.
Hadn't thought about it... but it makes sense. What's the difference between scanning a book that's in a library and scanning a DVD that's in the library?
The RIAA says that P2P encourages illegal downloads? Holy crap! When did this happen?
It doesn't come packaged with XP
We started up this site to act as an aggregation service for all the housing info that's out there. If anyone has any LAMP skills or experience interfacing with Google Maps we would absolutely love to talk to you.
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The real question here is how geeks can use their skills to win huge on online poker. In the lower level games much of the play is very formulaic (especially in limit holdem). Because the players are so bad (loose and passive) you can almost literally get away with just playing a certain set of hands and almost always come out on top. If you can manage small wins consistently and then start playing several tables simultaneously you could make big bucks.
The key is automation. While you wouldn't need to automate the whole process, you could certainly write an application that would screen out (fold) most hands and only alert you when certain profitable situations arose, allowing you to intervene. If you could play 10+ tables at a time using this type of system I don't think it's unreasonable to make $50+ hr.
Just a thought.
...said one NASA scientist "Mars is our bitch"
Suave.
Which is why most casinos use 6 decks at blackjack. which lowers your odds of winning even with card counting signifigantly.
Actually, that is incorrect. According to the book Bringing Down the House when a single deck goes toward your favor, the odds only last for a couple hands. There's really not time enough to take advantage of the remaining highcards because the low number of total cards only lets the disparity last for a few hands. However, if you're playing with 6 decks, the swings can last much longer, giving you even more time to take advantage of the deck being stacked in your favor.
(ie; pornos)
PayPal no longer will process payments to online casinos as well.
I entirely understand that the wardens typically frown on putting holes in walls ever since that whole Shawshank mess... but I didn't know that our penal system gave inmates personal computer access to take advantage of such a system. Do you have problems with your cellmate constantly trying to use your connection to DL pr0n? I guess that wouldn't be so bad if it keeps him from getting funny ideas about you in the wee hours of the morning...
Read this book called Bringing Down the House. Its the book that all those articles you read make reference to.
Its a great book.
Hey man,
I appreciate what you're trying to do here. There are some out here that share your beliefs, and it takes some balls to say what you said on here when you know it won't even be given a fare chance.
Stay strong man.
Greg
I agree, unfortunately Rand didn't.
For me, my logic simply won't let me believe that everything around me is the circumstance of cosmic chance. Vegas is an empire built on the fact that even when you only have a slight advantage, the odds still work out in your favor. For me, the chances upon chances that would be required for the end result that is our society today simply do not compute if left up to chance.
However, Rand's argument is that you cannot feel, see or hear God, and thus only a fool would leave up to faith that which their logic and reasoning could not prove. I really like the basis for her arguments, I just don't follow them to the same conclusion.
---
As far as the "literal bible" thing... what so many forget is that the bible is a translation of the original Greek (new testament) and much gets confused in it. For example, the greeks have some absurd number of words for "love"... we have but one. In any such translation, there will be things that if taken literally or out of context, will lead to difficulties.
Nice slip of the ref. link there...
so how much have you made so far?
But if you really really liked the Bourne Identity Movie, don't read the book. You'll walk away feeling really dissapointed (by the movie, the book is awesome).
I the director's commentary the guy says "Basically, the only thing I borrowed from the book was the premise" (secret agent with amenisa getting plucked out of the ocean with two bullets and a bank account number embedded in his skin).
Other than that, there's pretty much no similarity whatsoever to the book.
I consider myself to be a "praticing" Christian, an Ayn Rand is admamantly opposed to a belief in God as it totally defies her way of living by reason alone. Some of the stuff she put forth in Atlas Shrugged were 180 degrees in contradiction to my way of life -- even sometimes to the point of being insulting.
With that being said, it's the best novel I've ever read.
... I still doubt I'll be able to make calls on my Sprint PCS phone between 9-10pm. Once 'nights' kicks in in this town the network is perpetually busy.
From the article: "Another day in the office, which, according to one recent study, consists of handling 46 phone calls, 25 emails, 16 voicemails, 23 items of post, eight inter-office memos, 16 faxes and nine mobile phone calls."
25? Only 25? I know coal miners that get more emails that that at work every day.