Perhaps this is why companies typically go out of business instead of reforming themselves to fill new niches and solve new problems. New problem? New company.
I run gmake and gcc, And I ain't never called malloc without calling free. I'll beat your ass until it's colored like a red-black tree 'Cause there's so much drama in the PhD
If you're going to comment on Taylor, MI's redneck population by trying to imply that it's actually in Indiana then why not just stick with the terminology coined over 20 years ago? They already call it Taylor-tucky.
I don't see how the release of the body thetans (criminals from another world) could qualify as anything but terrorism, so all members should be tried as such and sent to gitmo.
I once worked at a Scientology company, and well, it was pretty entertaining. After a few months with me the "trainer" on staff had some new shiny books on his shelf about dealing with SPs. I do recall the staring contests being entertaining (I can still stare like a champion), and it was awesome when someone caught a cold. People would swarm them wondering what it was that they didn't understand (sneezes are evidence to them of a misunderstanding - I shit you not).
To be honest, I harbor no ill will toward any of the individuals that I came into contact with, and I was not fired when I chose to spend my hour a day of training time writing essays about how absurd the whole thing was. I was actually one of the last employees there before they closed up shop.
If you want kids to cart around an expensive heavy (relative to the utility after lockdown) item that they wil probably break just to piss off parents (who will likely be required to pay for it) invest in Faberge eggs. It's more straightforward.
I propose that the lack of anonymity will do things that I guess you boil down to "signal to noise ratio." Basically, that people will be more polite with their viewpoints and present them in a way that they think that you'll approve of.
If that's what you want, then that's terrific and you have achieved your goal. I'm not like that, and would rather have 50 people spout profanity about why I'm being a retard than have 50 people kindly and politely basically agree with me or offer "constructive criticism." Sometimes noise is damn helpful in getting me to rethink my own positions.
I'm thinking that my point would have been better made if I told you to go fuck yourself at some point, but I'm not going to rewrite it.
I'd be willing to bet that the keyboard will outlive the book. Books are a neat novelty item, but as far as information stores they're inefficient and very heavy to lug around.
The US Government hasn't done a good job lately of showing that it can do anything well, no matter how much money they're given to attempt it.
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So there are two people on slashdot who not only have wives, but also spent a great deal of time reading the exact same book out loud with them.
The following is a PSA to the rest of slashdot:
I do not care how cute or romantic it sounds to spend weeks reading a Neal Stephenson book out lout to a chick. If you ever want to keep a girlfriend/wife/hooker you will not attempt to do so.
Some people like playing, and some people like getting good. I do not like the playing part so much, which is why I quit playing WoW after a full day at level 20. I felt like it was a grind, and didn't feel like I was getting better at anything. If I were at level 36 after 3 months, well, I think I would have hated every minute of it.
I would imagine that these level 80s would not have fun playing the game like you apparently do. To each their own, and all that good shit.
High school level geometry is about the worst thing in any math curriculum. Unless major changes have taken place in the last 18 years or so, it is rote memorization of theorems and dutifully writing them down in order to create two column "proofs" that are completely trivial. It's like someone who didn't know what math is decided that they had to condition rigor into their students, and came up with high school geometry.
Just to clarify, if geometry as taught in high school were indicative of "real math" then math would be a completely worthless endeavor, and his niece would be best served to study something more useful to the world, like darts or bowling.
So, from the summary, we can infer that 8% of players typically buy DRMed games, and 18% of people bought this one, for an increase of over 100%, which makes the last part:
There seemed to be no major difference in the outcomes of the rate regardless of whether DRM was used or not... well, no difference other than the cost to implement such nonsense.
sound utterly retarded.
In the article you see that they think it's more like 90% and is at the very least 82%, so the summary is just crap. The god damn title of the post that it links to is "90%."
Anyhow, if it is actually 90% vs 92% then I disagree with their definition of significant, but who's counting. Yes, I think that selling 20% more is significant.
Feel free to correct me if I'm missing something big.
If the $2k you save every few years by not using a mac made any noticeable impact on your net worth, you don't have enough money to be playing the "laughing all the way to the bank" card.
seem to be from people that know absolutely nothing about poker and ultimately nothing about how the sites make their money, so let's clear up a few things.
1. It would never be in the best interests of the company to try to allow this to happen to anyone, as the cost would be too high. If players had a hint that they were being cheated they would never play there. That $10MM figure is nothing compared to what the sites generate from rake alone. The only people who could benefit would be hired contractors who wrote the code and got paid some small amount of money to do so. To them, it would be worth the risk to try to cheat somehow, and they obviously did.
2. To the few people who seem to think that they were getting information that was already on their systems from memory that was encrypted or something, well, that's false. The "special" accounts were sent information that other players do not get sent. You only get your hole cards, and it's not until a showdown where anyone but you and a random server out there know what anyone has.
I guess that's it, aside from the extreme unlikelihood that anyone would try to cheat in this manner at a small (say 30-60 or less) game. The risk/benefit doesn't add up at those stakes.
A few random points: high stakes poker can be shady at times, and collusion in the smaller games can be defended against to some extent (by either not playing, or using the style of collusion against the colluders. At times games can appear to be collusive due to excessive raising, but the majority of the time that's just strategy.
"I use pop-ups because I can at least cover my own ass when the end-users I trained to click through them immediately delete things despite my shitty pop-ups."
I'll just signal that I completely disagree with your world view.
Granting the power of life and death to a state over its constituents is something that I'm not comfortable with. Granting them power to give and take liberty at will is also something that I'm not comfortable with. The civilians should be more responsible for protecting themselves than the government is, and will also have better information to do it most of the time.
While I'm posting, I'll just throw another one out there: premeditated murder should have a lesser punishment than a "temporary insanity" crime of passion. I'd rather have people on the streets (or alive, or whatever) that think about things before they do them than apes that kill people when they get agitated.
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Perhaps this is why companies typically go out of business instead of reforming themselves to fill new niches and solve new problems. New problem? New company.
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I run gmake and gcc,
And I ain't never called malloc without calling free.
I'll beat your ass until it's colored like a red-black tree
'Cause there's so much drama in the PhD
If you're going to comment on Taylor, MI's redneck population by trying to imply that it's actually in Indiana then why not just stick with the terminology coined over 20 years ago? They already call it Taylor-tucky.
I don't see how the release of the body thetans (criminals from another world) could qualify as anything but terrorism, so all members should be tried as such and sent to gitmo.
I once worked at a Scientology company, and well, it was pretty entertaining. After a few months with me the "trainer" on staff had some new shiny books on his shelf about dealing with SPs. I do recall the staring contests being entertaining (I can still stare like a champion), and it was awesome when someone caught a cold. People would swarm them wondering what it was that they didn't understand (sneezes are evidence to them of a misunderstanding - I shit you not).
To be honest, I harbor no ill will toward any of the individuals that I came into contact with, and I was not fired when I chose to spend my hour a day of training time writing essays about how absurd the whole thing was. I was actually one of the last employees there before they closed up shop.
If you want kids to cart around an expensive heavy (relative to the utility after lockdown) item that they wil probably break just to piss off parents (who will likely be required to pay for it) invest in Faberge eggs. It's more straightforward.
I propose that the lack of anonymity will do things that I guess you boil down to "signal to noise ratio." Basically, that people will be more polite with their viewpoints and present them in a way that they think that you'll approve of.
If that's what you want, then that's terrific and you have achieved your goal. I'm not like that, and would rather have 50 people spout profanity about why I'm being a retard than have 50 people kindly and politely basically agree with me or offer "constructive criticism." Sometimes noise is damn helpful in getting me to rethink my own positions.
I'm thinking that my point would have been better made if I told you to go fuck yourself at some point, but I'm not going to rewrite it.
Without privacy you have no actual freedom.
Without anonymity you have no actual freedom of expression.
Without freedom individual life is pretty meaningless, and choices are arbitrary.
I'd be willing to bet that the keyboard will outlive the book. Books are a neat novelty item, but as far as information stores they're inefficient and very heavy to lug around.
The US Government hasn't done a good job lately of showing that it can do anything well, no matter how much money they're given to attempt it.
So there are two people on slashdot who not only have wives, but also spent a great deal of time reading the exact same book out loud with them.
The following is a PSA to the rest of slashdot:
I do not care how cute or romantic it sounds to spend weeks reading a Neal Stephenson book out lout to a chick. If you ever want to keep a girlfriend/wife/hooker you will not attempt to do so.
Some people like playing, and some people like getting good. I do not like the playing part so much, which is why I quit playing WoW after a full day at level 20. I felt like it was a grind, and didn't feel like I was getting better at anything. If I were at level 36 after 3 months, well, I think I would have hated every minute of it.
I would imagine that these level 80s would not have fun playing the game like you apparently do. To each their own, and all that good shit.
High school level geometry is about the worst thing in any math curriculum. Unless major changes have taken place in the last 18 years or so, it is rote memorization of theorems and dutifully writing them down in order to create two column "proofs" that are completely trivial. It's like someone who didn't know what math is decided that they had to condition rigor into their students, and came up with high school geometry.
Just to clarify, if geometry as taught in high school were indicative of "real math" then math would be a completely worthless endeavor, and his niece would be best served to study something more useful to the world, like darts or bowling.
And what better way is there to go meet Nelson Malambe or Chief John Aka Bamba, than on a Safari to their homeland?
So, from the summary, we can infer that 8% of players typically buy DRMed games, and 18% of people bought this one, for an increase of over 100%, which makes the last part:
There seemed to be no major difference in the outcomes of the rate regardless of whether DRM was used or not... well, no difference other than the cost to implement such nonsense.
sound utterly retarded.
In the article you see that they think it's more like 90% and is at the very least 82%, so the summary is just crap. The god damn title of the post that it links to is "90%."
Anyhow, if it is actually 90% vs 92% then I disagree with their definition of significant, but who's counting. Yes, I think that selling 20% more is significant.
Feel free to correct me if I'm missing something big.
I hear that people are working on this already: http://www.seasteading.org/
If the $2k you save every few years by not using a mac made any noticeable impact on your net worth, you don't have enough money to be playing the "laughing all the way to the bank" card.
This comment is undervalued.
seem to be from people that know absolutely nothing about poker and ultimately nothing about how the sites make their money, so let's clear up a few things.
1. It would never be in the best interests of the company to try to allow this to happen to anyone, as the cost would be too high. If players had a hint that they were being cheated they would never play there. That $10MM figure is nothing compared to what the sites generate from rake alone. The only people who could benefit would be hired contractors who wrote the code and got paid some small amount of money to do so. To them, it would be worth the risk to try to cheat somehow, and they obviously did.
2. To the few people who seem to think that they were getting information that was already on their systems from memory that was encrypted or something, well, that's false. The "special" accounts were sent information that other players do not get sent. You only get your hole cards, and it's not until a showdown where anyone but you and a random server out there know what anyone has.
I guess that's it, aside from the extreme unlikelihood that anyone would try to cheat in this manner at a small (say 30-60 or less) game. The risk/benefit doesn't add up at those stakes.
A few random points: high stakes poker can be shady at times, and collusion in the smaller games can be defended against to some extent (by either not playing, or using the style of collusion against the colluders. At times games can appear to be collusive due to excessive raising, but the majority of the time that's just strategy.
"I use pop-ups because I can at least cover my own ass when the end-users I trained to click through them immediately delete things despite my shitty pop-ups."
There, fixed that for ya.
They should have made the prize 40k instead of $40. You could fit an e-book in there!
Does anyone have a Wil-signal?
I'll just signal that I completely disagree with your world view.
Granting the power of life and death to a state over its constituents is something that I'm not comfortable with. Granting them power to give and take liberty at will is also something that I'm not comfortable with. The civilians should be more responsible for protecting themselves than the government is, and will also have better information to do it most of the time.
While I'm posting, I'll just throw another one out there: premeditated murder should have a lesser punishment than a "temporary insanity" crime of passion. I'd rather have people on the streets (or alive, or whatever) that think about things before they do them than apes that kill people when they get agitated.
I do like how both other replies to you at this point in time have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
I'm pretty sure the the uproar is one guy named Timothy.