Online poker sites take a rake just like a normal casino. Why would an online casino jeopardize their entire business by rigging games when they get paid whether you win or lose?
If they ever get caught they lose all their credibility and likely their future profit, just like what happened to UltimateBet and Absolute Poker.
You could just go buy an ink refill kit and refill existing cartridges
Unless you have something like an Lexmark Z1300 which contains a chip on the ink cartidge that tracks the ink level, you can refill it all you want but it won't recognize the ink unless you figure out some way to reset the chip.
I got the printer for around $25 bucks so I certainly got what I paid for, I think I'll be going with a Canon next time.
Couldn't they just make bulk orders through a distributor such as Ingram Micro? Or is Ingram Micro being prohibited from selling to Redbox?
That's exactly what they did.
But... what happened now is that these studios (Fox, Universal and Warner Bros.) told not just the distributors (Ingram and Video Product Distribution) but also retailers like Best Buy and Wal-Mart to not sell to Redbox. That's restraint of trade. The studios have every right not to sell videos to whomever they want -- but those distributors and retailers can then sell to whomever they want. The studios should have no say in the downstream sales of the videos once they've been sold to the distributor, wholesaler or retailer. That's where the antitrust issue is. The studios are successfully controlling downstream sales.
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe is an excellent book about the early days of the Mercury program. The first astronauts were test pilots but they felt the Mercury program made them glorified monkeys sitting in a can. The flight of the rocket was computer controlled and they were only along for the ride, test pilots were on the bleeding edge of flight where they had control.
When Chuck Yeager was trying to beat the previous speed record of Mach 2 he managed to get to Mach 2.44 then lost aerodynamic control at 80,000ft, the airplane tumbled down 51,000ft in 51 seconds before he was able to regain control. He managed to land the plane safely.
I can't use a laptop keyboard to near my regular level of productivity. I only have to use a laptop for work from time to time and whenever I do I always plug in a regular sized keyboard if one is available.
The laptop keys don't have the same feel, some are in strange places, no regular number pad. Less lack of division between the keys, regular keyboards have that nice gap between the tops of the keys.
Making the Esc and Del keys bigger is a good idea in my view but it still isn't going to get me to use a laptop keyboard unless I'm forced to.
My work has standardized on IE 6 as well due to the mountains of IE6 specific code in their web applications.
I'd like to know if has anyone tried migrating slowly installing Firefox with IETab and using Firefox for normal browsing and IE for the internal apps only?
Alex Trebek: Yeah, it was a trick question, Mr. Connery. Why don't you pick a category?
Sean Connery: I've got to ask you about the Penis Mightier.
Alex Trebek: What? No. No, no, that is The Pen is Mightier.
Sean Connery: Gussy it up however you want, Trebek. What matters is does it work? Will it really mighty my penis, man?
Alex Trebek: It's not a product, Mr. Connery.
Sean Connery: Because I've ordered devices like that before - wasted a pretty penny, I don't mind telling you. And if The Penis Mightier works, I'll order a dozen.
Alex Trebek: It's not a Penis Mightier, Mr. Connery. There's no such thing!
Nicholas Cage: Wait, wait, wait.. are you selling Penis Mightiers?
Alex Trebek: No! No, I'm not.
Sean Connery: Well, you're sitting on a gold mine, Trebek!
The resolution to that case was fairly interesting. FOr those not familiar with it you can see the video here. Basically this officer, Patrick Pogan, picked a guy out of a huge group of cyclists riding in a rally and decided to body check him, hard. In the video the cyclist clearly steers away from the cop and the officer charges him. The officer then arrested the cyclist, writing in the police report that he was weaving in and out of traffic, forcing vehicles to swerve or stop, and generally disrupting the normal flow of traffic. He said that he suffered lacerations on his arms because the cyclists steered his bike into him and knocked him down, and that when he tried to arrest him he began flailing, kicking and screaming, "You are pawns in the game!". The cyclist spent the next day in police custody charged with attempted assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
The charges against the cyclist were dropped. Pogan, after being a police officer for three weeks got put on desk duty during the investigation. Then on Dec 16, 2008 he appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to felony charges of of falsifying business records and filing a false instrument and misdemeanor charges of third-degree assault, second-degree harassment and making a punishable false written statement. After the indictment, he was suspended. Two months later he resigned as the department prepared to fire him.
In a way this cyclist was lucky, the cop was so stupid he did it in front of at least 100 onlookers. His partner saw it all and still went along with it which doesn't say much for him either. Had there not been so many people around the outcome could've been very different.
The difference between writing software for a UAV that can kill people and writing software for an automobile is that the code for the automobile isn't usually responsible for the deaths, whereas without the code running a UAV is essential to the ability to kill.
I do think it is a necessary job and does accomplish a lot of good, it all depends on how you look at it.
UAVs keep our men and women out of harms way, increase our technological capabilities, lower cost of operations, allows us to be in more places at once, and as the technology matures and flows to the private sector there are tons of uses as well.
We could use them in forest fires to collect better data and fight the fire better. In natural disasters they could be deployed to scout large areas. They could cover large areas in search and rescue missions. They could fly around and help guard our borders. They could monitor the environment, power lines, gas pipelines, etc. They could be used for urban planning, and I'm sure others can think of a bunch more.
A lot of people that are now in their early twenties got exposed to 68k ASM with the TI-89 and TI-92 and z80 ASM with the TI-83 and TI-84 calculators.
What originally got me started programming was my TI-83 in 9th grade Algebra 2. I was horribly unprepared for the class so I learned how to make programs to do the quadratic formula, solve equations, expand polynomials and the like. Now this was just in TI-Basic but translating the math into code really helped me understand the material.
Then I found ticalc which was and probably still is the best resource for everything involving TI calculators. I must have printed almost a thousand pages of code, books, FAQs, and tutorials. I'd trace through the code to learn what I could from and then try writing something myself. Most of the games used z80 assembly and there were tons of them to look through. I think early exposure to assembly definitely improved my ability to work in higher level languages.
A few years later for Calculus I got a TI-89 which used the Motorola 68k processor, however I was never as interested in learning to program the TI-89 as I was with the TI-83. I'm sure I'm not the only one whose first exposure to programming was on the TI calculators, they probably bred a new generation of programmers through their calculators.
I used to work at a very popular seafood restaurant and most people would kill the lobster before cooking. You just take a 10" of so chef's knife and cut lengthwise right behind the eyes, pretty much cutting the head in half. Very quick death.
Surely, if the world's finance "experts" really understood economics, they wouldn't have positioned their companies for the collapses they recently saw. Or did AIG's best and brightest know they were setting their company up for catastrophe?
Rolling Stone had an article in the latest issue titled AIG: The Big Takeover. Here's a small excerpt from it.
The latest bailout came as AIG admitted to having just posted the largest quarterly loss in American corporate history -- some $61.7 billion. In the final three months of last year, the company lost more than $27 million every hour. That's $465,000 a minute, a yearly income for a median American household every six seconds, roughly $7,750 a second. And all this happened at the end of eight straight years that America devoted to frantically chasing the shadow of a terrorist threat to no avail, eight years spent stopping every citizen at every airport to search every purse, bag, crotch and briefcase for juice boxes and explosive tubes of toothpaste. Yet in the end, our government had no mechanism for searching the balance sheets of companies that held life-or-death power over our society and was unable to spot holes in the national economy the size of Libya (whose entire GDP last year was smaller than AIG's 2008 losses).
It is truly an amazing article and the presents the clearest picture I've seen of how this came about. I suggest everyone read it.
I haven't tried 7, but at least from what I hear it does have two features that interest me: minimize other windows by shaking the one I'm using ("aero shake") and making items on the taskbar appear as icons instead of as an icon and a text description.
In right-side pane, change value of MinWidth to -300 and reboot, you may have to tweak the number a bit but -300 works great on my system.
I know this works in XP, I haven't tested it in Vista.
Also to get rid of the start menu I use RocketDock for a MacOS like dock and Launchy to pop up an enhanced Run dialog (and I mean really enhanced). Some people prefer Executor
Also I've tried off and on for years to use only Linux but I've become so proficient with XP that I after a while I get frustrated with not being quite as productive. So until I can force myself to get better at using Linux than I am at Windows I'll continue using Linux as a secondary OS. I'm not flaming Linux by any means, I've just gotten too used to my setup in XP and the tons of modifications I've made to it that it's difficult to give it up and invest the time to match it in some sense with Linux.
Obama was promising that he'd try to cut down earmarks..."line by line" I think was his quote. Yet, that Omnibus bill was loaded with what, like 8K of them?
Yup, he broke a promise there. Sadly, I think I would have done the same in his place. Getting it passed right away for economic reasons was simply too big of a concern compared to the relatively insignificant amount of pork dollars. It sucks that such compromises had to be made, but I lay that mostly at the feet of congress.
That was just their excuse. First they said all bills would be online for public review for five days, then they said 48 hours. They actually made it available 10 hours before they voted on it. It was 1071 pages long. By comparison the Patriot act was 342 pages long and nobody read that.
Is isn't as if bags of money started flying out of the treasury the second it passed. The assholes in Congress allocated almost $1 billion of taxpayer money for every page of the bill and nobody really reviewed it or even had time to.
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The large cluster of people in the security line is an even easier target and anyone can get there.
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Online poker sites take a rake just like a normal casino. Why would an online casino jeopardize their entire business by rigging games when they get paid whether you win or lose?
If they ever get caught they lose all their credibility and likely their future profit, just like what happened to UltimateBet and Absolute Poker.
Windows Vista was around 50 million lines of code. Squeezing twice that into a car seems improbable.
You could just go buy an ink refill kit and refill existing cartridges
Unless you have something like an Lexmark Z1300 which contains a chip on the ink cartidge that tracks the ink level, you can refill it all you want but it won't recognize the ink unless you figure out some way to reset the chip.
I got the printer for around $25 bucks so I certainly got what I paid for, I think I'll be going with a Canon next time.
It also depends where you live. 120k in Montana will get you a lot further than 120k in New York.
Couldn't they just make bulk orders through a distributor such as Ingram Micro? Or is Ingram Micro being prohibited from selling to Redbox?
That's exactly what they did.
But... what happened now is that these studios (Fox, Universal and Warner Bros.) told not just the distributors (Ingram and Video Product Distribution) but also retailers like Best Buy and Wal-Mart to not sell to Redbox. That's restraint of trade. The studios have every right not to sell videos to whomever they want -- but those distributors and retailers can then sell to whomever they want. The studios should have no say in the downstream sales of the videos once they've been sold to the distributor, wholesaler or retailer. That's where the antitrust issue is. The studios are successfully controlling downstream sales.
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The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe is an excellent book about the early days of the Mercury program. The first astronauts were test pilots but they felt the Mercury program made them glorified monkeys sitting in a can. The flight of the rocket was computer controlled and they were only along for the ride, test pilots were on the bleeding edge of flight where they had control.
When Chuck Yeager was trying to beat the previous speed record of Mach 2 he managed to get to Mach 2.44 then lost aerodynamic control at 80,000ft, the airplane tumbled down 51,000ft in 51 seconds before he was able to regain control. He managed to land the plane safely.
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If you want to lose an hour or two have a look at TV Tropes.
I agree, the things we can do with China's money are amazing!
I can't use a laptop keyboard to near my regular level of productivity. I only have to use a laptop for work from time to time and whenever I do I always plug in a regular sized keyboard if one is available.
The laptop keys don't have the same feel, some are in strange places, no regular number pad. Less lack of division between the keys, regular keyboards have that nice gap between the tops of the keys.
Making the Esc and Del keys bigger is a good idea in my view but it still isn't going to get me to use a laptop keyboard unless I'm forced to.
My work has standardized on IE 6 as well due to the mountains of IE6 specific code in their web applications.
I'd like to know if has anyone tried migrating slowly installing Firefox with IETab and using Firefox for normal browsing and IE for the internal apps only?
If so do you have any advice?
How about running Firefox with the IE Tab addon and IE6 installed? I haven't tested it but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
We're probably screwed in the appeals but there is a fairly simple solution for new arrests which I think is already in place in some jurisdictions.
Get a court order to make them take a blood BAC test when they get to the station.
Alex Trebek: Yeah, it was a trick question, Mr. Connery. Why don't you pick a category?
Sean Connery: I've got to ask you about the Penis Mightier.
Alex Trebek: What? No. No, no, that is The Pen is Mightier.
Sean Connery: Gussy it up however you want, Trebek. What matters is does it work? Will it really mighty my penis, man?
Alex Trebek: It's not a product, Mr. Connery.
Sean Connery: Because I've ordered devices like that before - wasted a pretty penny, I don't mind telling you. And if The Penis Mightier works, I'll order a dozen.
Alex Trebek: It's not a Penis Mightier, Mr. Connery. There's no such thing!
Nicholas Cage: Wait, wait, wait.. are you selling Penis Mightiers?
Alex Trebek: No! No, I'm not.
Sean Connery: Well, you're sitting on a gold mine, Trebek!
The resolution to that case was fairly interesting. FOr those not familiar with it you can see the video here. Basically this officer, Patrick Pogan, picked a guy out of a huge group of cyclists riding in a rally and decided to body check him, hard. In the video the cyclist clearly steers away from the cop and the officer charges him. The officer then arrested the cyclist, writing in the police report that he was weaving in and out of traffic, forcing vehicles to swerve or stop, and generally disrupting the normal flow of traffic. He said that he suffered lacerations on his arms because the cyclists steered his bike into him and knocked him down, and that when he tried to arrest him he began flailing, kicking and screaming, "You are pawns in the game!". The cyclist spent the next day in police custody charged with attempted assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
The charges against the cyclist were dropped. Pogan, after being a police officer for three weeks got put on desk duty during the investigation. Then on Dec 16, 2008 he appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to felony charges of of falsifying business records and filing a false instrument and misdemeanor charges of third-degree assault, second-degree harassment and making a punishable false written statement. After the indictment, he was suspended. Two months later he resigned as the department prepared to fire him.
In a way this cyclist was lucky, the cop was so stupid he did it in front of at least 100 onlookers. His partner saw it all and still went along with it which doesn't say much for him either. Had there not been so many people around the outcome could've been very different.
I see your point, I hadn't thought of it like that but it makes a lot of sense.
The difference between writing software for a UAV that can kill people and writing software for an automobile is that the code for the automobile isn't usually responsible for the deaths, whereas without the code running a UAV is essential to the ability to kill.
I do think it is a necessary job and does accomplish a lot of good, it all depends on how you look at it.
UAVs keep our men and women out of harms way, increase our technological capabilities, lower cost of operations, allows us to be in more places at once, and as the technology matures and flows to the private sector there are tons of uses as well.
We could use them in forest fires to collect better data and fight the fire better. In natural disasters they could be deployed to scout large areas. They could cover large areas in search and rescue missions. They could fly around and help guard our borders. They could monitor the environment, power lines, gas pipelines, etc. They could be used for urban planning, and I'm sure others can think of a bunch more.
A lot of people that are now in their early twenties got exposed to 68k ASM with the TI-89 and TI-92 and z80 ASM with the TI-83 and TI-84 calculators.
What originally got me started programming was my TI-83 in 9th grade Algebra 2. I was horribly unprepared for the class so I learned how to make programs to do the quadratic formula, solve equations, expand polynomials and the like. Now this was just in TI-Basic but translating the math into code really helped me understand the material.
Then I found ticalc which was and probably still is the best resource for everything involving TI calculators. I must have printed almost a thousand pages of code, books, FAQs, and tutorials. I'd trace through the code to learn what I could from and then try writing something myself. Most of the games used z80 assembly and there were tons of them to look through. I think early exposure to assembly definitely improved my ability to work in higher level languages.
A few years later for Calculus I got a TI-89 which used the Motorola 68k processor, however I was never as interested in learning to program the TI-89 as I was with the TI-83. I'm sure I'm not the only one whose first exposure to programming was on the TI calculators, they probably bred a new generation of programmers through their calculators.
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It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
I used to work at a very popular seafood restaurant and most people would kill the lobster before cooking. You just take a 10" of so chef's knife and cut lengthwise right behind the eyes, pretty much cutting the head in half. Very quick death.
Surely, if the world's finance "experts" really understood economics, they wouldn't have positioned their companies for the collapses they recently saw. Or did AIG's best and brightest know they were setting their company up for catastrophe?
Rolling Stone had an article in the latest issue titled AIG: The Big Takeover. Here's a small excerpt from it.
The latest bailout came as AIG admitted to having just posted the largest quarterly loss in American corporate history -- some $61.7 billion. In the final three months of last year, the company lost more than $27 million every hour. That's $465,000 a minute, a yearly income for a median American household every six seconds, roughly $7,750 a second. And all this happened at the end of eight straight years that America devoted to frantically chasing the shadow of a terrorist threat to no avail, eight years spent stopping every citizen at every airport to search every purse, bag, crotch and briefcase for juice boxes and explosive tubes of toothpaste. Yet in the end, our government had no mechanism for searching the balance sheets of companies that held life-or-death power over our society and was unable to spot holes in the national economy the size of Libya (whose entire GDP last year was smaller than AIG's 2008 losses).
It is truly an amazing article and the presents the clearest picture I've seen of how this came about. I suggest everyone read it.
I haven't tried 7, but at least from what I hear it does have two features that interest me: minimize other windows by shaking the one I'm using ("aero shake") and making items on the taskbar appear as icons instead of as an icon and a text description.
Aero Shake in XP withAutoHotkey
To only show icons in the taskbar open regedit and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
In right-side pane, change value of MinWidth to -300 and reboot, you may have to tweak the number a bit but -300 works great on my system.
I know this works in XP, I haven't tested it in Vista.
Also to get rid of the start menu I use RocketDock for a MacOS like dock and Launchy to pop up an enhanced Run dialog (and I mean really enhanced). Some people prefer Executor
Also I've tried off and on for years to use only Linux but I've become so proficient with XP that I after a while I get frustrated with not being quite as productive. So until I can force myself to get better at using Linux than I am at Windows I'll continue using Linux as a secondary OS. I'm not flaming Linux by any means, I've just gotten too used to my setup in XP and the tons of modifications I've made to it that it's difficult to give it up and invest the time to match it in some sense with Linux.
Obama was promising that he'd try to cut down earmarks..."line by line" I think was his quote. Yet, that Omnibus bill was loaded with what, like 8K of them? Yup, he broke a promise there. Sadly, I think I would have done the same in his place. Getting it passed right away for economic reasons was simply too big of a concern compared to the relatively insignificant amount of pork dollars. It sucks that such compromises had to be made, but I lay that mostly at the feet of congress.
That was just their excuse. First they said all bills would be online for public review for five days, then they said 48 hours. They actually made it available 10 hours before they voted on it. It was 1071 pages long. By comparison the Patriot act was 342 pages long and nobody read that.
Is isn't as if bags of money started flying out of the treasury the second it passed. The assholes in Congress allocated almost $1 billion of taxpayer money for every page of the bill and nobody really reviewed it or even had time to.