I just got a Seagate Barracuda from endpcnoise.com, to replace the Maxtor my Mac came with (which sounded like a jet engine), and it's quiet as a mouse. The only noise now is the fan in the power supply. VERY satisfied.
Sally: How'd your research go?
Harry: Great. I was at the grocery store and... watch this: [holds up a can of corn] fat skinny skinny fat fat skinny fat skinny... $2.49. I cracked the bar code!
Sally: Good work!
I'd rather see chewbacca appear in a romantic comedy with sandra bullock
Well, at least there'd be more chemistry than in Episode II.
I agree. It was contrived enough that he had Anakin make 3PO, and it just HAPPENED that Boba Fett, the most popular bounty hunter, was chosen to be a model for the clones. Is he even capable of creating new characters? Oh yeah, Darth Maul. He was cool. Except Lucas fleshed out his character like Kate Moss trapped in a 1-dimensional universe.
And you know, if he wants to maintain some consistency with the first two, he wouldn't use an actor at all for Chewbacca, just some fidgety CGI model.
If there are 22 unknown cards, then 4 of them make your straight, and 18 of them don't. So if there was a dollar in the pot, and it was a dollar to bet, then if you made the bet 22 times, you'd win $4 and lose $18 (assuming, for the sake of probability, you caught a different card each time). So you'd lose, on average, $12. Bad move.
However, if there was $4.50 in the pot, then you'd, on average, win $18 (4 winning cards * $4.50), and lose $18, so you'd come out even. So all you need is more than $4.50 in the pot to go ahead and bet, not $5.50. The same goes for my earlier example. This is of course why odds are expressed like "4:18" rather than "4 in 22." Less confusion.
Anyways, you get my point that sometimes it makes sense to draw to an inside straight.
You can draw to an inside straight if the pot odds are good enough.
Let's say you're playing draw poker. You've got A-K-J-T-3. You're first instinct is to toss the 3 and hope you get a queen back. Normally, that would be a stupid move.
But let's say, for some reason, there was a lot of betting before the deal or the draw, or maybe you're playing no-limit, and there's a lot of money in the pot. Well, if the bet required for you to stay in is $1, and there's more than $11.75 in the pot, then by all means go for it! Because there are 47 unknown cards, and 4 of them are queens, so there's a 4 in 47 chance of you making your straight (47/4 = 11.75). The odds are in your favor, and if you make this bet a bazillion times, you'll come out ahead.
Of course, you also have to take into account the chances of your made straight being beaten. If it gets beat, you were "drawing dead."
This gets more interesting in 7-card stud. If there are 7 people at the table, and they're all in the hand up to the last card (unlikely, unless you're playing with n00bs), then there are 28 cards face-up, 4 for each player (and 14 cards face-down, 2 for each player). If your cards are A-K-J-T (and 2 worthless cards face-down), then there are only 22 unknown cards available for you to catch. If no one has any queens showing, then there is a 4 in 22 chance that you'll make your straight. So if the bet is $1, all you need is $5.50 in the pot to justify going for that queen.
Of course, you could also semi-bluff, which means that you act like you've already made your straight, and if you catch the queen, so much the better.
Real men take a canister of unexposed film and manipulate its molecules with the sheer force of their will to be organised into the proper sequence of transparent colors and magnetic waveforms.
And that's just the n00bs. Back in my day, we had to create the film from scratch, borrowing molecules from film scraps we pulled out of a movie studio's waste bin.
Maybe to someone who's bilingual, but as someone who speaks only english, frankly, they all sound the same. Not meant to be a racial slur or anything; I just can't hear a lot of difference in the japanese voices (except, like, Ed). Maybe the tones are different in the dub, but they sound just perfect to me.
Anyone know if the voices are the same as in the (english) series? The voice actors did such a great job; I prefer the dub way more than the subtitle, and I usually go for the sub.
No way man. First I'll be all down wit my tape deck, wit the two big reels. I be like "I ain't no dog, baby, I'ma treat you right." Then I see her best friend, and she a slot-loading CD player. Man, that shizzat was tight. So I'm playing them, when I see the second one's sister, and she can take like 5 CDs at once! Hooo lord, I had to have her. I'm tellin ya, ain't no way I can stay wit just one.
I agree. That's why I wrote the OSML. It's based on the GPL. Next step is to simplify it and try to make it easier to read. The trickiest part is defining what constitutes the source audio. And before the next revision, I need to decide if I want it to require you to publish binaries (mp3s) for free download, or just make the source available. I'm leaning towards the latter, since that's the way the GPL is, and it'll get more people to use the license. Any thoughts,/.?
So what this says is as longs as you don't resell what you download, or distribute more than $1000 worth of stuff in a 6-month period, then it's totally legal!
Is it really stealing? They're already pumping the shows into your house - you're just using a device to unscramble them. You're not taking anything from them. In fact, it's less stealing than d/l'ing Metallica on Kazaa; you're not even taking 1s and 0s. They're sending it to you. Of course, you have an agreement that you let them send it into your house, as long as you pay for it, so it's definitely wrong, but it's not stealing. Call it what it is: illegal access of information.
"Oh, it's just german for 'The Buffy, the.'"
"Anyone who's German can't be bad."
Why do people watch it? Here's a few reasons, in the form of quotes from the show:
"...it's the biggest con since Ghengis."
"Any last requests?"
"Don't kill me."
"You never give me any support."
"I give you plenty of support. I'm a flying butress of support!"
Plus there's all the great made-up/oblique slang, like "5x5" (meaning "doing great"), or "kicking the gearshift" (for making out in a car).
Sure, it's no "Uncle Vanya," nor is it even perfect entertainment like "Raiders of the Lost Ark," but if you're looking for a show to ease your mind after getting home from work, you can't do any better than Buffy. I'm currently hooked on the reruns on FX every night, which they're showing in glorious order (they're just starting the 5th season now). My favorite part about the whole show? It never gets stale. There is no status quo. It gets built up and torn down on an almost daily basis. I can't think of any other show that has such a blatant disregard for the status quo as Buffy. Sopranos even. During the 2nd season, they were getting into a lot of stuff that was calling into question the whole idea of being in the mafia, and then they ignored it and went back to business as usual. Not the Buffy writers - they have balls.
It's weird. I can open a.txt file, but I can only save it as plain text if I originally created it in TextEdit. What's more, the help file says:
"You can open SimpleText documents in TextEdit. If you save the document, TextEdit saves the document in RTF format.
To make changes to a SimpleText document, open it using the SimpleText application, which will start the Classic environment."
Maybe it's me, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to set it so it will save a document I created in SimpleText as plain text. Of course, it's academic now that I've got BBEdit Lite, but I'd still like to know if I'm missing something.
Synthetic benchies just aren't that reliable anymore...
I agree. All I want to know is, is it going to improve the graphics enough to warrant the cost? I'd much rather read a collection of reviews that included a person's description of their system, and described how a specific game ran on it. for instance:
My System:
PowerMac g4 tower, 450 mhz
384 mb RAM
ATI Rage 128
When playing Warcraft III, the single player scenarios are playable with default options. A performance boost is noticable if you set all the video options to low and turn off ambient sound. You have to do this in many online games. All in all, the game is enjoyable with this video card, but you can tell that it would really shine - and probably was intended for - a faster one.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein however is uplayable (to me). Even with minimum options (video and sound), the framerate is noticably choppy. If you don't mind a little choppiness, you can deal with it, but I demand silky-smooth response from a fps. I won't be playing the game until I get a better video card.
This kind of review may be totally non-quantifiable, but if I found a reviewer with similar system specs, I would find it invaluable.
You can still get bbedit lite 6.1, which includes an os x native version, at download.com. If Bare Bones is phasing out bbedit lite, you might want to get it soon. I just got it, and it kicks ass. I was looking for a simple text editor to replace the non-existant simpletext in os x, and it fits the bill perfectly Plus, it's way better in so many ways.
Whether or not the magic actually does anything is totally irrelevant. The point is that there are a variety of groups of people dedicated to the study of magic, and it's therefore theoretically possible that D&D is a "gateway drug" which leads one into more serious magic, stuff that in many cases invloves lots of evil. All I was trying to say is that magic does exist. Thankfully, I have no evidence that it does anything.
You're wrong. Ever hear of Wicca? As in witches who worship The Goddess (IIRC)? Many of them cast spells. Ask someone about Alistar Crowley someday. He's famous for his delvings into the black arts, and I'm pretty sure it killed him. I believe Alan Moore (th ecomics writer) is also a spellcaster, or at least a magic worshipper. But it doesn't end at Satan or earth-spirits. If I'm not mistaken, there's an ancient Jewish spell that creates a golem, to protect something. That's where D&D got golems from. Magic is very real. The thing is, I wouldn't go near it with a ten-foot pole, and I used to play spellcasters in D&D all the time.
Is anyone aware of any church leader or something officially sanctioning D&D? I'm in the middle of a long argument that's reached a stalemate. I say it's all make-believe and harmless and the other person (who happens to be very religious) says playing at casting spells opens you up to the idea of casting real ones. Logic and common sense just doesn't work at all. I need a quote from someone like the pope or something.
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If they've got line (or mic) in, how much further can voice recognition be? Imagine an AUI (Aural User Interface):
"iPod, play Pink Floyd, album Dark Side of the Moon."
Might be a nice alternative to the scroll wheel, cool as it is.
I just got a Seagate Barracuda from endpcnoise.com, to replace the Maxtor my Mac came with (which sounded like a jet engine), and it's quiet as a mouse. The only noise now is the fan in the power supply. VERY satisfied.
Sally: How'd your research go?
Harry: Great. I was at the grocery store and... watch this: [holds up a can of corn] fat skinny skinny fat fat skinny fat skinny... $2.49. I cracked the bar code!
Sally: Good work!
I'd rather see chewbacca appear in a romantic comedy with sandra bullock
Well, at least there'd be more chemistry than in Episode II.
I agree. It was contrived enough that he had Anakin make 3PO, and it just HAPPENED that Boba Fett, the most popular bounty hunter, was chosen to be a model for the clones. Is he even capable of creating new characters? Oh yeah, Darth Maul. He was cool. Except Lucas fleshed out his character like Kate Moss trapped in a 1-dimensional universe.
And you know, if he wants to maintain some consistency with the first two, he wouldn't use an actor at all for Chewbacca, just some fidgety CGI model.
Oops, noticed a flaw in my math.
If there are 22 unknown cards, then 4 of them make your straight, and 18 of them don't. So if there was a dollar in the pot, and it was a dollar to bet, then if you made the bet 22 times, you'd win $4 and lose $18 (assuming, for the sake of probability, you caught a different card each time). So you'd lose, on average, $12. Bad move.
However, if there was $4.50 in the pot, then you'd, on average, win $18 (4 winning cards * $4.50), and lose $18, so you'd come out even. So all you need is more than $4.50 in the pot to go ahead and bet, not $5.50. The same goes for my earlier example. This is of course why odds are expressed like "4:18" rather than "4 in 22." Less confusion.
Anyways, you get my point that sometimes it makes sense to draw to an inside straight.
A little poker trivia here.
You can draw to an inside straight if the pot odds are good enough.
Let's say you're playing draw poker. You've got A-K-J-T-3. You're first instinct is to toss the 3 and hope you get a queen back. Normally, that would be a stupid move.
But let's say, for some reason, there was a lot of betting before the deal or the draw, or maybe you're playing no-limit, and there's a lot of money in the pot. Well, if the bet required for you to stay in is $1, and there's more than $11.75 in the pot, then by all means go for it! Because there are 47 unknown cards, and 4 of them are queens, so there's a 4 in 47 chance of you making your straight (47/4 = 11.75). The odds are in your favor, and if you make this bet a bazillion times, you'll come out ahead.
Of course, you also have to take into account the chances of your made straight being beaten. If it gets beat, you were "drawing dead."
This gets more interesting in 7-card stud. If there are 7 people at the table, and they're all in the hand up to the last card (unlikely, unless you're playing with n00bs), then there are 28 cards face-up, 4 for each player (and 14 cards face-down, 2 for each player). If your cards are A-K-J-T (and 2 worthless cards face-down), then there are only 22 unknown cards available for you to catch. If no one has any queens showing, then there is a 4 in 22 chance that you'll make your straight. So if the bet is $1, all you need is $5.50 in the pot to justify going for that queen.
Of course, you could also semi-bluff, which means that you act like you've already made your straight, and if you catch the queen, so much the better.
Real men take a canister of unexposed film and manipulate its molecules with the sheer force of their will to be organised into the proper sequence of transparent colors and magnetic waveforms.
And that's just the n00bs. Back in my day, we had to create the film from scratch, borrowing molecules from film scraps we pulled out of a movie studio's waste bin.
Maybe to someone who's bilingual, but as someone who speaks only english, frankly, they all sound the same. Not meant to be a racial slur or anything; I just can't hear a lot of difference in the japanese voices (except, like, Ed). Maybe the tones are different in the dub, but they sound just perfect to me.
Anyone know if the voices are the same as in the (english) series? The voice actors did such a great job; I prefer the dub way more than the subtitle, and I usually go for the sub.
I thought fidelity was for audiophiles?
No way man. First I'll be all down wit my tape deck, wit the two big reels. I be like "I ain't no dog, baby, I'ma treat you right." Then I see her best friend, and she a slot-loading CD player. Man, that shizzat was tight. So I'm playing them, when I see the second one's sister, and she can take like 5 CDs at once! Hooo lord, I had to have her. I'm tellin ya, ain't no way I can stay wit just one.
I agree. That's why I wrote the OSML. It's based on the GPL. Next step is to simplify it and try to make it easier to read. The trickiest part is defining what constitutes the source audio. And before the next revision, I need to decide if I want it to require you to publish binaries (mp3s) for free download, or just make the source available. I'm leaning towards the latter, since that's the way the GPL is, and it'll get more people to use the license. Any thoughts, /.?
So what this says is as longs as you don't resell what you download, or distribute more than $1000 worth of stuff in a 6-month period, then it's totally legal!
Am I interpreting this right?
Is it really stealing? They're already pumping the shows into your house - you're just using a device to unscramble them. You're not taking anything from them. In fact, it's less stealing than d/l'ing Metallica on Kazaa; you're not even taking 1s and 0s. They're sending it to you. Of course, you have an agreement that you let them send it into your house, as long as you pay for it, so it's definitely wrong, but it's not stealing. Call it what it is: illegal access of information.
This reminds me - does anyone know how to check the processor temperature in os x?
Ah, Alcohol. The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
who could afford houses with lots of gingerbread
the gingerbread houses I build generally don't last more than a couple of days...
"Oh, it's just german for 'The Buffy, the.'"
"Anyone who's German can't be bad."
Why do people watch it? Here's a few reasons, in the form of quotes from the show:
"...it's the biggest con since Ghengis."
"Any last requests?"
"Don't kill me."
"You never give me any support."
"I give you plenty of support. I'm a flying butress of support!"
Plus there's all the great made-up/oblique slang, like "5x5" (meaning "doing great"), or "kicking the gearshift" (for making out in a car).
Sure, it's no "Uncle Vanya," nor is it even perfect entertainment like "Raiders of the Lost Ark," but if you're looking for a show to ease your mind after getting home from work, you can't do any better than Buffy. I'm currently hooked on the reruns on FX every night, which they're showing in glorious order (they're just starting the 5th season now). My favorite part about the whole show? It never gets stale. There is no status quo. It gets built up and torn down on an almost daily basis. I can't think of any other show that has such a blatant disregard for the status quo as Buffy. Sopranos even. During the 2nd season, they were getting into a lot of stuff that was calling into question the whole idea of being in the mafia, and then they ignored it and went back to business as usual. Not the Buffy writers - they have balls.
It's weird. I can open a .txt file, but I can only save it as plain text if I originally created it in TextEdit. What's more, the help file says:
"You can open SimpleText documents in TextEdit. If you save the document, TextEdit saves the document in RTF format.
To make changes to a SimpleText document, open it using the SimpleText application, which will start the Classic environment."
Maybe it's me, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to set it so it will save a document I created in SimpleText as plain text. Of course, it's academic now that I've got BBEdit Lite, but I'd still like to know if I'm missing something.
Synthetic benchies just aren't that reliable anymore...
I agree. All I want to know is, is it going to improve the graphics enough to warrant the cost? I'd much rather read a collection of reviews that included a person's description of their system, and described how a specific game ran on it. for instance:
My System:
PowerMac g4 tower, 450 mhz
384 mb RAM
ATI Rage 128
When playing Warcraft III, the single player scenarios are playable with default options. A performance boost is noticable if you set all the video options to low and turn off ambient sound. You have to do this in many online games. All in all, the game is enjoyable with this video card, but you can tell that it would really shine - and probably was intended for - a faster one.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein however is uplayable (to me). Even with minimum options (video and sound), the framerate is noticably choppy. If you don't mind a little choppiness, you can deal with it, but I demand silky-smooth response from a fps. I won't be playing the game until I get a better video card.
This kind of review may be totally non-quantifiable, but if I found a reviewer with similar system specs, I would find it invaluable.
You can still get bbedit lite 6.1, which includes an os x native version, at download.com. If Bare Bones is phasing out bbedit lite, you might want to get it soon. I just got it, and it kicks ass. I was looking for a simple text editor to replace the non-existant simpletext in os x, and it fits the bill perfectly Plus, it's way better in so many ways.
Whether or not the magic actually does anything is totally irrelevant. The point is that there are a variety of groups of people dedicated to the study of magic, and it's therefore theoretically possible that D&D is a "gateway drug" which leads one into more serious magic, stuff that in many cases invloves lots of evil. All I was trying to say is that magic does exist. Thankfully, I have no evidence that it does anything.
I agree. And given Lucas' work on eps 1 and 2, I expect ep 3 will indeed roak.
You're wrong. Ever hear of Wicca? As in witches who worship The Goddess (IIRC)? Many of them cast spells. Ask someone about Alistar Crowley someday. He's famous for his delvings into the black arts, and I'm pretty sure it killed him. I believe Alan Moore (th ecomics writer) is also a spellcaster, or at least a magic worshipper. But it doesn't end at Satan or earth-spirits. If I'm not mistaken, there's an ancient Jewish spell that creates a golem, to protect something. That's where D&D got golems from. Magic is very real. The thing is, I wouldn't go near it with a ten-foot pole, and I used to play spellcasters in D&D all the time.
Only on Slashdot, can you turn a grammer mistake into an accusation of child molestation!
Is anyone aware of any church leader or something officially sanctioning D&D? I'm in the middle of a long argument that's reached a stalemate. I say it's all make-believe and harmless and the other person (who happens to be very religious) says playing at casting spells opens you up to the idea of casting real ones. Logic and common sense just doesn't work at all. I need a quote from someone like the pope or something.