Say you play video poker in Vegas. Are the cards not dealt completely randomly? Do the previous cards dealt affect the cards dealt in the next round? Is the game not completely analogous to if somebody dealt you the cards in real life from a well shuffled deck? To my best knowledge that is how video poker machines should work according to the law. And there isn't any need for them to work in any other way because the pay tables make sure that the casino will win on the long run.
Poker is definitely a gambling game, even though you can make bets that have positive expectation. If you flip coins with your buddy and you give him one dollar for tails and he gives you two dollars for heads it is still gambling (but you are basically guaranteed to make big profit).
Kyyrä's comment is related to a new FUCKED UP copyright law that is about to be approved by the Finnish parliament. It features for example outlawing the ripping of copy protected CDs and having an organized discussion about cracking copy protections.
This law has caused lots of anger among computer literate citizens. As counter-attack IFPI has written a petition that requests that the law would be approved immediately. It is signed by many record company bosses and ignorant artists. The interview that featured the idiotic comment was about that petition.
Apple Bluetooth utility for browsing files on the phone? Where is that program located? I can send files to the phone and the Mac can receive files that are sent from the phone, but is there such a utility that can actually browse the phone's memory?
My iBook G4 (Panther) runs fine with the standard 256 MB of memory. I thought that I would need to upgrade to 640 MB right away, but there are no problems in running for example Safari, iTunes, iPhoto, Mail, Terminal and occasional Photoshop and Word. On the other hand, my university's iMac G4s with 128 MB and Jaguar seem really slow.. Anyway, the memory requirements for OS X aren't as bad as some people claim.
Me and my s.o. got a Shocking Roulette game from a friend who is studying in Scotland (it's supposed to be popular around there?). It's for 2-4 players. Each puts a finger inside this machine, the lights start blinking, and as they stop the lucky winner is rewarded with an electric shock. "The more you sweat the worse it gets!"
I have played two blacklisted movies (Blow, Planet of the Apes 2001) fine on PS2 with driver 2.10. But i live in Europe and the movies have area code 2. Maybe that makes a difference?
BTW, new PS2's have new version of the driver out of the box. Mine was bought in October 2002.
Which is good./home is often on a network file system or another hard disk. If it cannot be accessed for some reason, it is nice to be able to login at least as root. And you can make a symlink/home/root ->/root if it bothers you:-)
Exactly. It would be completely insane to switch to Intel right now with a powerful Altivec holding PPC backwards compatible CPU around the corner. No need to modify thousands of applications. If Apple were to switch to Intel, a good moment to do it would have been at the same time as releasing OS X.
Three statisticians went duck hunting. A duck was approaching and the first statistician shot, and missed the duck by being a foot too high. The second shot and was a foot too low. The third cried, "We hit it!"
Why should there be a warning about future versions? Your old iApps won't go anywhere when the new versions are out. And as others probably have mentioned, the iApps aren't exactly free in the first place. You sort of pay for them when you buy your computer or OS X.
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Say you play video poker in Vegas. Are the cards not dealt completely randomly? Do the previous cards dealt affect the cards dealt in the next round? Is the game not completely analogous to if somebody dealt you the cards in real life from a well shuffled deck? To my best knowledge that is how video poker machines should work according to the law. And there isn't any need for them to work in any other way because the pay tables make sure that the casino will win on the long run.
Poker is definitely a gambling game, even though you can make bets that have positive expectation. If you flip coins with your buddy and you give him one dollar for tails and he gives you two dollars for heads it is still gambling (but you are basically guaranteed to make big profit).
I didn't find the actual law text right away, but check this out (linked article in Finnish).
Kyyrä's comment is related to a new FUCKED UP copyright law that is about to be approved by the Finnish parliament. It features for example outlawing the ripping of copy protected CDs and having an organized discussion about cracking copy protections.
This law has caused lots of anger among computer literate citizens. As counter-attack IFPI has written a petition that requests that the law would be approved immediately. It is signed by many record company bosses and ignorant artists. The interview that featured the idiotic comment was about that petition.
I wonder if Nintendo DS will get a browser too. Input would probably be much better with the touch screen.
Well, Apple seems to be trying to trademark Mactel.
But if they actually use Intel _X86_ processors, I would guess it is only matter of time when somebody hacks OS X to run on some others PCs too.
... where that word came from (and what it means)?
Apple Bluetooth utility for browsing files on the phone? Where is that program located? I can send files to the phone and the Mac can receive files that are sent from the phone, but is there such a utility that can actually browse the phone's memory?
Well, since he broke it, it's probably better that way.
a band called Panasonic. They got harassed by Panasonic the company, changed their name to Pansonic and released an album called "A".
My iBook G4 (Panther) runs fine with the standard 256 MB of memory. I thought that I would need to upgrade to 640 MB right away, but there are no problems in running for example Safari, iTunes, iPhoto, Mail, Terminal and occasional Photoshop and Word. On the other hand, my university's iMac G4s with 128 MB and Jaguar seem really slow.. Anyway, the memory requirements for OS X aren't as bad as some people claim.
Me and my s.o. got a Shocking Roulette game from a friend who is studying in Scotland (it's supposed to be popular around there?). It's for 2-4 players. Each puts a finger inside this machine, the lights start blinking, and as they stop the lucky winner is rewarded with an electric shock. "The more you sweat the worse it gets!"
There goes my social life!
What is this pen device you speak about?
I have played two blacklisted movies (Blow, Planet of the Apes 2001) fine on PS2 with driver 2.10. But i live in Europe and the movies have area code 2. Maybe that makes a difference? BTW, new PS2's have new version of the driver out of the box. Mine was bought in October 2002.
You don't seem to remember the joke well enough. You're supposed to IMAGINE the beowulf cluster, not actually build it.
Front page? I didn't see this on the front page. Maybe you have configured /. to show Apple stuff there.
"Security improvement"? I guess it improves security dramatically if it kills the network access. Thanks, Microsoft!
Exactly. It would be completely insane to switch to Intel right now with a powerful Altivec holding PPC backwards compatible CPU around the corner. No need to modify thousands of applications. If Apple were to switch to Intel, a good moment to do it would have been at the same time as releasing OS X.
Three statisticians went duck hunting. A duck was approaching and the first statistician shot, and missed the duck by being a foot too high. The second shot and was a foot too low. The third cried, "We hit it!"
Why should there be a warning about future versions? Your old iApps won't go anywhere when the new versions are out. And as others probably have mentioned, the iApps aren't exactly free in the first place. You sort of pay for them when you buy your computer or OS X.