"I have more than 100k hands logged on Party Poker and I'm not having any more trouble beating it than ever (I win a little more than $1/hand)."
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that you've made over $100,000 from playing at Party Poker. Is this correct, or am I missing something?
If this is correct, have you quit your day job? How many hours a week do you play?
Frangible bullets are not cop killers. Cop killers are armor-piercing rounds, frangibles are exactly the opposite - they're made to break up rather than continue penetrating.
Not only are my movies not ruined by it, but the house is a much more pleasant place with that damned thing turned off. Also, reducing the number of commercials I expose myself to has had a very nice effect on my general outlook.
"Remember when Dungeon Seige was supposed to have a Dungeon Master creating a dungeon for adventurers in a multiplayer enivronment? And then it turned out to be Sim Dungeon."
I think you mean Dungeon Keeper. Dungeon Siege was a Chris Taylor game.
Yes, it is a great concept - the creators intend the pieces to be like playing cards, able to handle any number of games. The two most popular games for the pieces are Icehouse (my personal favorite) and Zendo, which is a much more accessible game, very popular on game night. For Icehouse, you really want pieces of the right proportions (though I do know guys who have really nice homemade pieces, so they don't have to be the ones you buy) but I'm sure Zendo could easily be adopted to pieces of other shapes and sizes.
I haven't tried Homeworlds, but will check it out.
I don't believe he uses Free Software; that means that Microsoft is not satisfying their customers, and Free Software can perform better than Microsoft even in the ease of use area!
And from it concluded that he (the author of the linked article) loves open source software's principles? What in the quoted sentence implies that love? Was it the part that said "I don't believe he uses Free Software"?
Then you group the author in with people who use Linux/BSD as their desktops. What exactly puts him into this group?
Come on! I know RTFA gets tiresome around here, expecially when the FA is slashdotted (this one is handling the load very nicely), but at least read what you're quoting!
"if i'd known it was harmless, i'd have killed it myself"
One of the best quotes in one of my favorite books. (A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick for those who don't know) I fear the movie will be a major disappointment, since the trend is to try to make Dick's stories into action movies and since I heard Keanu Reeves is gonna be one of the stars.
No, more like Car & Driver downgrading a car because it doesn't come with an automatic steering function that occasionally kicks in and makes the car go whereever it is directed to go by the nearest billboard.
I've played 3x3, and have tried 6x6, but never 4x4. The boards smaller than 9x9 seem almost novelty games to me - Yes it's true there is still some depth to it, but it's just not a very interesting game after the first time or two.
I have played Go Moku (that's the spelling I'm familiar with, but I'm sure there's more than one way to spell it), and while it shares board and pieces with Go, that's about where the similarities end. Go Moku is much closer related to Tic-Tac-Toe than to Go in terms of how it's played and its objective (not in origin).
For those that aren't familiar with it, Go Moku is a game played on a Go board, with the objective of getting 5 stones (pieces) in a row. Pente is a variant of Go Moku.
The best way to simplify Go (IMO, of course) into easier to digest bits is to play it on a smaller board. The standard board size is 19x19, but the game also commonly played are 13x13 and 9x9. Much of the strategy of the game only happens on the larger board sizes, smaller boards emphasize tactics more, which is easier for beginners to grasp.
I am very glad that you've posted about Go. It's a beautiful game and more people in the western world should know about it.
That said, I've never understood why so many Go players treat Go and Chess as an either/or, one vs the other type of choice. I play both Go and chess, and while I can easily see that there remain much greater challenges in computerized Go playing programs than in Chess (For those who don't know, the best Go playing programs play at roughly the level of an intermediate amateur human player), this fact does not take away from the fact that chess is still an interesting game, both to play and, I'm sure, to develop better computer opponents for. Nor does the work being done on chess take anything away from Go development.
While I'm here, I may as well post a Go wiki link in a wiki that's all about Go. I realize you (parent poster) probably know about it, but just in case anyone is interested in learning more about Go, I figure it's a nice starting point.
It's not quite that simple. A good number of the positions are pre-determined to indicate manufacturer, country of origin, production year, etc. Also, the letters I, O and Q are not used, for the sake of clarity.
All in all, I believe the last 8 digits are the ones that are changed without predetermined meaning - and of those, the last 4 are always numeric.
I'm not about to do the math to figure out how many numbers are available, but am interested enough to appreciate it if someone else cares to figure it out and post it.
Hmm, just thought of something, since manufacturer and model year are part of the VIN, this would seem to indicate that manufacturers are producing too many cars per year (for the VIN system) - though I believe there's some overlap - IIRC, only one digit is used for model year, so I guess eventually the same numbers gets re-used for the year digit.
Re:For a geeky game, you should try "Go" instead.
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You play KGS too? Say hi if you see me, my nick there is khan. Maybe we can get a game in sometime.
I haven't been playing a lot lately, so my rank is a bit inflated, just so you know.
Considering that each participant must put up $10,000 for the privilege, I'd say it's pretty significant.
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Yes, the site is down. Yes, it's ironic that this should happen to a site hosting information about a service that's being claimed as a solution to the slashdot effect.
But I don't think that it really is an indicator. I happen to have read the site yesterday after reading the Petabox article, so I think I have some of the basic concepts down. As I understand it, the idea works with cooperation from ISPs (and others) to provide more localized caches of large popular files. The motivation for the ISPs is that by providing the cache, they save on their upstream bandwidth and the associated costs.
So, while it's funny that we've slashdotted the archive.org server where the Freecache website is, Freecache itself is not dependant upon archive.org's bandwidth.
It's also worth noting that the concept is still in beta and pretty new - I don't think they've got a lot of ISPs on board yet. From what I can tell, it seems a very good concept - the only thing I can think of that I would want to make sure of if I were an ISP is that my cache is only available to users on my network (the whole saving on bandwidth usage argument falls apart if you suddenly become a cache for users on other ISPs) but I would think that would be pretty easy to do.
For those who haven't yet been able to read about it, here's Google's cache of the front page.
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"A better use of Freecache is "under the hood". Make your webserver redirect accesses to your "http://whatever.com/something" to "http://freecache.org/http://whatever.com/somethin g". More sites will be able to plan for that single change to their webserver config, than will be able to plan to distribute the freecache.org compound URL. And it won't depend on users correctly using the compound URL. More sites will get the benefit of the freecache.org service."
I believe that is the idea - not for users to prepend URLs, but for the owners/webmasters of sites with large, popular files to prepend the URL in their links, or implement redirects to freecache when they get slashdotted, or otherwise hit hard all of a sudden.
There must be some way that this could be used against them. Perhaps if someone were to inform the clients against the bill, they might pull out their money.
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Yahoo Games is an awful place to play Go. Escapers galore, horrible interface, nonstandard rating system, time cheaters - UGH!
Stay with KGS and Dragon, depending on the speed of game you're looking to play (real-time or correspondence style).
"I have more than 100k hands logged on Party Poker and I'm not having any more trouble beating it than ever (I win a little more than $1/hand)."
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that you've made over $100,000 from playing at Party Poker. Is this correct, or am I missing something?
If this is correct, have you quit your day job? How many hours a week do you play?
Yep. Eliza is way more advanced than that silly skinjob Leon.
Frangible bullets are not cop killers. Cop killers are armor-piercing rounds, frangibles are exactly the opposite - they're made to break up rather than continue penetrating.
...so I don't watch it.
Not only are my movies not ruined by it, but the house is a much more pleasant place with that damned thing turned off. Also, reducing the number of commercials I expose myself to has had a very nice effect on my general outlook.
So the correct form would be 'Whose code is what'.
While we're on this stuff...
That's all I'm gonna cover today. Buy your own copy of Strunk and White.
(Yes I know, the grammar and spelling nazis know no loyalty, they'll be on me for all of my sloppy mistakes and slang in moment or two)
"Remember when Dungeon Seige was supposed to have a Dungeon Master creating a dungeon for adventurers in a multiplayer enivronment? And then it turned out to be Sim Dungeon."
I think you mean Dungeon Keeper. Dungeon Siege was a Chris Taylor game.
Or Worms
Yes, it is a great concept - the creators intend the pieces to be like playing cards, able to handle any number of games. The two most popular games for the pieces are Icehouse (my personal favorite) and Zendo, which is a much more accessible game, very popular on game night. For Icehouse, you really want pieces of the right proportions (though I do know guys who have really nice homemade pieces, so they don't have to be the ones you buy) but I'm sure Zendo could easily be adopted to pieces of other shapes and sizes.
I haven't tried Homeworlds, but will check it out.
It's called Icehouse, and I highly recommend it.
WTF are you talking about? You quoted:
I don't believe he uses Free Software; that means that Microsoft is not satisfying their customers, and Free Software can perform better than Microsoft even in the ease of use area!
And from it concluded that he (the author of the linked article) loves open source software's principles? What in the quoted sentence implies that love? Was it the part that said "I don't believe he uses Free Software"?
Then you group the author in with people who use Linux/BSD as their desktops. What exactly puts him into this group?
Come on! I know RTFA gets tiresome around here, expecially when the FA is slashdotted (this one is handling the load very nicely), but at least read what you're quoting!
"if i'd known it was harmless, i'd have killed it myself"
One of the best quotes in one of my favorite books. (A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick for those who don't know) I fear the movie will be a major disappointment, since the trend is to try to make Dick's stories into action movies and since I heard Keanu Reeves is gonna be one of the stars.
Seen this. Not so spooky.
No, more like Car & Driver downgrading a car because it doesn't come with an automatic steering function that occasionally kicks in and makes the car go whereever it is directed to go by the nearest billboard.
I've played 3x3, and have tried 6x6, but never 4x4. The boards smaller than 9x9 seem almost novelty games to me - Yes it's true there is still some depth to it, but it's just not a very interesting game after the first time or two.
I have played Go Moku (that's the spelling I'm familiar with, but I'm sure there's more than one way to spell it), and while it shares board and pieces with Go, that's about where the similarities end. Go Moku is much closer related to Tic-Tac-Toe than to Go in terms of how it's played and its objective (not in origin).
For those that aren't familiar with it, Go Moku is a game played on a Go board, with the objective of getting 5 stones (pieces) in a row. Pente is a variant of Go Moku.
The best way to simplify Go (IMO, of course) into easier to digest bits is to play it on a smaller board. The standard board size is 19x19, but the game also commonly played are 13x13 and 9x9. Much of the strategy of the game only happens on the larger board sizes, smaller boards emphasize tactics more, which is easier for beginners to grasp.
I am very glad that you've posted about Go. It's a beautiful game and more people in the western world should know about it.
That said, I've never understood why so many Go players treat Go and Chess as an either/or, one vs the other type of choice. I play both Go and chess, and while I can easily see that there remain much greater challenges in computerized Go playing programs than in Chess (For those who don't know, the best Go playing programs play at roughly the level of an intermediate amateur human player), this fact does not take away from the fact that chess is still an interesting game, both to play and, I'm sure, to develop better computer opponents for. Nor does the work being done on chess take anything away from Go development.
While I'm here, I may as well post a Go wiki link in a wiki that's all about Go. I realize you (parent poster) probably know about it, but just in case anyone is interested in learning more about Go, I figure it's a nice starting point.
It's not quite that simple. A good number of the positions are pre-determined to indicate manufacturer, country of origin, production year, etc. Also, the letters I, O and Q are not used, for the sake of clarity.
All in all, I believe the last 8 digits are the ones that are changed without predetermined meaning - and of those, the last 4 are always numeric.
I'm not about to do the math to figure out how many numbers are available, but am interested enough to appreciate it if someone else cares to figure it out and post it.
Hmm, just thought of something, since manufacturer and model year are part of the VIN, this would seem to indicate that manufacturers are producing too many cars per year (for the VIN system) - though I believe there's some overlap - IIRC, only one digit is used for model year, so I guess eventually the same numbers gets re-used for the year digit.
You play KGS too? Say hi if you see me, my nick there is khan. Maybe we can get a game in sometime.
I haven't been playing a lot lately, so my rank is a bit inflated, just so you know.
Considering that each participant must put up $10,000 for the privilege, I'd say it's pretty significant.
Yes, the site is down. Yes, it's ironic that this should happen to a site hosting information about a service that's being claimed as a solution to the slashdot effect.
But I don't think that it really is an indicator. I happen to have read the site yesterday after reading the Petabox article, so I think I have some of the basic concepts down. As I understand it, the idea works with cooperation from ISPs (and others) to provide more localized caches of large popular files. The motivation for the ISPs is that by providing the cache, they save on their upstream bandwidth and the associated costs.
So, while it's funny that we've slashdotted the archive.org server where the Freecache website is, Freecache itself is not dependant upon archive.org's bandwidth.
It's also worth noting that the concept is still in beta and pretty new - I don't think they've got a lot of ISPs on board yet. From what I can tell, it seems a very good concept - the only thing I can think of that I would want to make sure of if I were an ISP is that my cache is only available to users on my network (the whole saving on bandwidth usage argument falls apart if you suddenly become a cache for users on other ISPs) but I would think that would be pretty easy to do.
For those who haven't yet been able to read about it, here's Google's cache of the front page.
"A better use of Freecache is "under the hood". Make your webserver redirect accesses to your "http://whatever.com/something" to "http://freecache.org/http://whatever.com/somethin g". More sites will be able to plan for that single change to their webserver config, than will be able to plan to distribute the freecache.org compound URL. And it won't depend on users correctly using the compound URL. More sites will get the benefit of the freecache.org service."
I believe that is the idea - not for users to prepend URLs, but for the owners/webmasters of sites with large, popular files to prepend the URL in their links, or implement redirects to freecache when they get slashdotted, or otherwise hit hard all of a sudden.
Never noticed that effect before. I knew Tom's split articles up into too many pages, but I've never seen the ads.
Try looking at it my way: with Privoxy (Cross-platform, Open Source) or Proxomitron (Windows only, freeware).
Nice. What slime!
There must be some way that this could be used against them. Perhaps if someone were to inform the clients against the bill, they might pull out their money.
Now I can make a PDF from the HTML version of the PDF document that grandparent hunted down on Google!
Why do we want to do this again?