my family does not have to deal with the constant spyware attacks. They really do not care what administrators think. For all they know, I "fixed" IE until I tell them it's not IE. That's all that matters at this point.
Tells are occasionally useful but playing a solid game is far more important.
Well, reading tells and doing the proper response is part of a solid game. Sure, you can have somewhat of a mechanical game by playing "the odds", but the ability to accurately read tells gives a person a distinct advantage. It's the difference between a good player and a dominate player. It's especially true when I play complete strangers. They tend to put up defenses (I call them "barriers"), where they attempt to active hide their flaws or try to act. The key to profitability is knowing when they are for real or when they are bluffing.
Poker is more fun when you look at the faces of real people playing with real money. The most important part of the game is learning the big tells that your opponents are broadcasting, because they are very profitable. You just can't get that online.
Is it just me, or do game programmers seem to be the only group of coders who get away with flaunting their apparent inability to write portable, flexible code?
Well, no. Every time I mention topics like multithreading, memory usage, or anything big-O, I get the blank stare that I can only describe as a deer just before getting it's brains blown out by 12-guage shotgun. I just chalk it up to the fact that my co-workers are just are too focused on domain knowledge to worry about the basic stuff that they may learned in college. It's like the business world sucks the geekness out of you and leaves you a mere shell of what you once were. Then they tend to cry when their portion of their application runs too slow. Oh, well. *sigh*
I use my wasted time at work constructively. I have found throughout my job history that if you want your ideas to be heard and implemented, you have to implement them for them to be heard. Going to the boss and saying, "Hey I have this cool idea..." usually gets a, "That's nice, now get back to work."
Boy, if I heard that from my boss, that would be the perfect time for me to leave my job and create my own startup. That's how all of the cool ideas get started, you know. I would not even give them a chance to take credit for it!
Computer systems tend to deduce either that there's a type of insect called "time flies"...
I doubt it, because that would mean your first sentence does not have a verb in it. I would think that such a system would pick up patterns like "subject verb object", which is a core pattern in many Latin-based languages. If so, the word "flies" would be a verb, thus provide a context of "aerodynamic properties".
Myself, being the introverted geek that I am, would respond the following questions accordingly (cue the fuzzy flashback screen, now):
Who runs the servers?
I do.
Are you qualified to operate the servers?
Well, I dunno. Let's see, what makes me qualified? Hmmm. That's a tough one. Maybe the fact that I spend 10 f'ing hours patching these god-damn Windows boxes, so that some stupid worm does not squeek though. God, I wish my f'ed-up boss stopped buying this "total cost of ownership" crap and allow us some to get some linux boxen so I don't need to worry about this every god-damn day of my life. I must have spent a friggin' eternity in this server room. Ya know, I have'nt seen my children in, oh my god, 2 days! My wife is gonna divorce me, and go live with her mother now. Geez, I am figgin' screwed. I... I'm sorry, what was the question?
Players themselves also took steps against the bots, using a site's chat function to smoke out the software. Moneymaker likes to engage players in small talk between hands. "Poker bots can't make conversation," he says.
It's obvious that Chris Moneymaker probably never played Quake:
Dealer: SargeBot wins with a straight: AKQJT PokerNut: wow TexasChic: nh Sarge doobie:nh SargeBot: Stick a fork in ya... your done.
A few years back, I was involved with a great idea: Monitoring diabetes patients. The idea was to have patients use their monitors, the same one you can find at your local W@l*M@rt, on a regular basis, then occasionally hook their monitors up to their computers (or another specialized device with a modem interface) so that their data can be uploaded. Their doctors will view their patient's data via their secure session on the Internet. By the time that my involvement ended, there was support for many diabetes monitors and even other devices (like blood pressure and weight scales).
The idea was strong and the geek factor was way cool, reverse engineering the monitors and stuff. But there were external problems, mostly meeting FDA requirements. Ultimately, by the time I left the project, they had other internal problems not really related to the technology, but with the direction of it's application. It's still in existence, but not widespead as it should be.
... just an administrative reorg forced by recent cutbacks and layoffs and departures that left the whole research area with too many managers and too few researchers.
Wow, the only thing I can think of as a response is:
IANAL, but I seem to remember a claim from Subway that their subs sandwiches had less fat that the Big Mac and the Whopper. During their claim, they had a disclaimer stating that "Big Mac is a registered trademark of McDonald's" and "Whopper is a registered trademark of Burger King". I really never heard that Burger King and McDonalds sue Subway for use of their trademarks recently, so there must be some sort of fair use, right?
I would respectfully disagree. The garden (and it's book I might add) gave me some wonderful insights on how to arrange my blog. I am not a designer, but it certainly help in my layout rather than trying to figure out Blogger's insane templates.
Hmmm... Maybe this gentleman can also put a little more effort into the regenerative braking to reduce (or eliminate) the need of the plug. Once he solves that problem, I think his mod will be super-amazing.
I think this is one of the great examples of the balance of free software in a business market. The software companies always state that the number one reason why their never release the source code of their product is that they do not want to loose their intellecutual property...ever.
Id has enough sense to realize that there is a point in a piece of software's lifecycle where their innovation has made "enough money". So, they can release their Quake X engine under GPL to benefit the community, while at the same time their can still license the core engine to commercial product. The release of the GPL engine gets people motivated to use the engine in new, innovative ways. They see the code, they understand the code, then they may use it in their project. No matter if the project is GPL or a commercial venture, Id provides the options! Isn't that great?
Wow, that sounded a lot like an employer that I had. For instance, there was an issue where a COM+ server was throwing access violations. After taking some time and using literally basic debugging tools, I found the problem in the disassembly and traced it back to something in COM+ constructor strings. My company still needed to open a ticket to Microsoft because "they were the experts". Low and behold, they found the same thing... five days later. The moral of the story is that no matter how many talented, well-qualified geeks we have, the business people still want the assurance of their vendor. Google, having engineered their solution on their own without a vendor, took the risks and was rewarded handsomely.
To achieve any sort of visual consistency on the site these various formatting tags all need to be scrubbed, but even using other office suites with better HTML export (OpenOffice.Org) to do the dirty work, it's often easier to recreate the formatting by hand from a plain-text version than it is to clean up a sea of messy tags.
The problem with conversion of documents to HTML in general is the expectation that the formatting needs to be preserved. There have been times where I needed to "post" a document to a web site, and I always try to get the author(s) to not worry about formatting. Formatted documents are pure evil simply because 9 times out of 10 it does not affect the relevant information that you are trying to convey to your audience. Sometimes, the authors give me grief about it, but I simply show them the possibilities of separating the content and presentation during the translation. I convert their documents to generic HTML (with whatever tools are available) and use CSS to apply relevant formatting for the type of document (a report, article, thesis, or whatever). No funky font tags, or weird tables. Just the let the HTML flows as it's meant to be.
then the solution would be to develop IE 7 in.NET. That way they, can ensure at least some portability between the operating systems that they support.
Boss: Relax, we'll need to train your replacement, so you'll be here a little while. That should give you enough time to get thing settled. Oh. Here she has just arrived. Johnson, meet Arfa Karim Randhawa.
Johnson: [Turning around...] Arfa, good to meet... oh, crap!
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my family does not have to deal with the constant spyware attacks. They really do not care what administrators think. For all they know, I "fixed" IE until I tell them it's not IE. That's all that matters at this point.
2) Constant password expiration
Passwords expire every 3 months. New passwords can not resemble old passwords.
Or pick today's date, like 20050911.
Now, I have to change my password...
Tells are occasionally useful but playing a solid game is far more important.
Well, reading tells and doing the proper response is part of a solid game. Sure, you can have somewhat of a mechanical game by playing "the odds", but the ability to accurately read tells gives a person a distinct advantage. It's the difference between a good player and a dominate player. It's especially true when I play complete strangers. They tend to put up defenses (I call them "barriers"), where they attempt to active hide their flaws or try to act. The key to profitability is knowing when they are for real or when they are bluffing.
Poker is more fun when you look at the faces of real people playing with real money. The most important part of the game is learning the big tells that your opponents are broadcasting, because they are very profitable. You just can't get that online.
Is it just me, or do game programmers seem to be the only group of coders who get away with flaunting their apparent inability to write portable, flexible code?
Well, no. Every time I mention topics like multithreading, memory usage, or anything big-O, I get the blank stare that I can only describe as a deer just before getting it's brains blown out by 12-guage shotgun. I just chalk it up to the fact that my co-workers are just are too focused on domain knowledge to worry about the basic stuff that they may learned in college. It's like the business world sucks the geekness out of you and leaves you a mere shell of what you once were. Then they tend to cry when their portion of their application runs too slow. Oh, well. *sigh*
I use my wasted time at work constructively. I have found throughout my job history that if you want your ideas to be heard and implemented, you have to implement them for them to be heard. Going to the boss and saying, "Hey I have this cool idea..." usually gets a, "That's nice, now get back to work."
Boy, if I heard that from my boss, that would be the perfect time for me to leave my job and create my own startup. That's how all of the cool ideas get started, you know. I would not even give them a chance to take credit for it!
Time flies like an arrow.
Computer systems tend to deduce either that there's a type of insect called "time flies"...
I doubt it, because that would mean your first sentence does not have a verb in it. I would think that such a system would pick up patterns like "subject verb object", which is a core pattern in many Latin-based languages. If so, the word "flies" would be a verb, thus provide a context of "aerodynamic properties".
Then you imported the wrong key, tool.
:-)
Just because he imported the wrong key, there absoultely no reason to call him a tool.
Myself, being the introverted geek that I am, would respond the following questions accordingly (cue the fuzzy flashback screen, now):
Who runs the servers?
I do.
Are you qualified to operate the servers?
Well, I dunno. Let's see, what makes me qualified? Hmmm. That's a tough one. Maybe the fact that I spend 10 f'ing hours patching these god-damn Windows boxes, so that some stupid worm does not squeek though. God, I wish my f'ed-up boss stopped buying this "total cost of ownership" crap and allow us some to get some linux boxen so I don't need to worry about this every god-damn day of my life. I must have spent a friggin' eternity in this server room. Ya know, I have'nt seen my children in, oh my god, 2 days! My wife is gonna divorce me, and go live with her mother now. Geez, I am figgin' screwed. I... I'm sorry, what was the question?
Nevermind.
Players themselves also took steps against the bots, using a site's chat function to smoke out the software. Moneymaker likes to engage players in small talk between hands. "Poker bots can't make conversation," he says.
It's obvious that Chris Moneymaker probably never played Quake:
Dealer: SargeBot wins with a straight: AKQJT
PokerNut: wow
TexasChic: nh Sarge
doobie:nh
SargeBot: Stick a fork in ya... your done.
A few years back, I was involved with a great idea: Monitoring diabetes patients. The idea was to have patients use their monitors, the same one you can find at your local W@l*M@rt, on a regular basis, then occasionally hook their monitors up to their computers (or another specialized device with a modem interface) so that their data can be uploaded. Their doctors will view their patient's data via their secure session on the Internet. By the time that my involvement ended, there was support for many diabetes monitors and even other devices (like blood pressure and weight scales).
The idea was strong and the geek factor was way cool, reverse engineering the monitors and stuff. But there were external problems, mostly meeting FDA requirements. Ultimately, by the time I left the project, they had other internal problems not really related to the technology, but with the direction of it's application. It's still in existence, but not widespead as it should be.
just wait till the day these ads scan your retina and mistakenly call you "Mr. Yamamoto".
how much of the Q2 code was "reused" in Q3Arena.
Wow, the only thing I can think of as a response is:
Et tu, brute?
IANAL, but I seem to remember a claim from Subway that their subs sandwiches had less fat that the Big Mac and the Whopper. During their claim, they had a disclaimer stating that "Big Mac is a registered trademark of McDonald's" and "Whopper is a registered trademark of Burger King". I really never heard that Burger King and McDonalds sue Subway for use of their trademarks recently, so there must be some sort of fair use, right?
I would respectfully disagree. The garden (and it's book I might add) gave me some wonderful insights on how to arrange my blog. I am not a designer, but it certainly help in my layout rather than trying to figure out Blogger's insane templates.
Hmmm... Maybe this gentleman can also put a little more effort into the regenerative braking to reduce (or eliminate) the need of the plug. Once he solves that problem, I think his mod will be super-amazing.
I think this is one of the great examples of the balance of free software in a business market. The software companies always state that the number one reason why their never release the source code of their product is that they do not want to loose their intellecutual property...ever.
Id has enough sense to realize that there is a point in a piece of software's lifecycle where their innovation has made "enough money". So, they can release their Quake X engine under GPL to benefit the community, while at the same time their can still license the core engine to commercial product. The release of the GPL engine gets people motivated to use the engine in new, innovative ways. They see the code, they understand the code, then they may use it in their project. No matter if the project is GPL or a commercial venture, Id provides the options! Isn't that great?
Wow, that sounded a lot like an employer that I had. For instance, there was an issue where a COM+ server was throwing access violations. After taking some time and using literally basic debugging tools, I found the problem in the disassembly and traced it back to something in COM+ constructor strings. My company still needed to open a ticket to Microsoft because "they were the experts". Low and behold, they found the same thing... five days later. The moral of the story is that no matter how many talented, well-qualified geeks we have, the business people still want the assurance of their vendor. Google, having engineered their solution on their own without a vendor, took the risks and was rewarded handsomely.
To achieve any sort of visual consistency on the site these various formatting tags all need to be scrubbed, but even using other office suites with better HTML export (OpenOffice.Org) to do the dirty work, it's often easier to recreate the formatting by hand from a plain-text version than it is to clean up a sea of messy tags.
The problem with conversion of documents to HTML in general is the expectation that the formatting needs to be preserved. There have been times where I needed to "post" a document to a web site, and I always try to get the author(s) to not worry about formatting. Formatted documents are pure evil simply because 9 times out of 10 it does not affect the relevant information that you are trying to convey to your audience. Sometimes, the authors give me grief about it, but I simply show them the possibilities of separating the content and presentation during the translation. I convert their documents to generic HTML (with whatever tools are available) and use CSS to apply relevant formatting for the type of document (a report, article, thesis, or whatever). No funky font tags, or weird tables. Just the let the HTML flows as it's meant to be.
Hmmm. This sounds awfully familiar. I just can't put my finger on it....
--
"Hey, it's OK. We're authorized."
then the solution would be to develop IE 7 in .NET. That way they, can ensure at least some portability between the operating systems that they support.
Oh, yeah?
My ten year old think she's HOT!
Boss: Johnson, come in here.
Johnson: Yes, boss?
Boss: Your job is being outsourced.
Johnson: Oh no! What will I do?
Boss: Relax, we'll need to train your replacement, so you'll be here a little while. That should give you enough time to get thing settled. Oh. Here she has just arrived. Johnson, meet Arfa Karim Randhawa.
Johnson: [Turning around...] Arfa, good to meet... oh, crap!