I have to admit that WinZip does have a pretty interface (if you use Windows), but if you don't want to pay for it, and you don't want to take the risk of infecting your Windows computer with a virus when you download a WinZip crack of Kazaa
when i was in high school (about 6 or 7 years ago) i found a winzip key generator in the piracy rooms on AOL. (#warez waaaaay back when)... funny thing is, i have memorized the winzip key that goes with my last name and even after all these years it still works! just thought that was funny.
well, i dont really have anything to compare to, right? i wouldn't really know what "strong 3D effect" entails, since i've never really experienced it. i do get a sense of depth from these games, however. it definitely "feels" 3D to me.
non-AI controlled cars cannot be on the road, as they will add randomness to the central control.
if that is the case, what you are describing is less like a bunch of cars and more like a bus that has individual compartments for each passenger and knows when and where to pick everyone up. dont see why you need your own car if you arent driving it anyways.
they sure do! i didn't know if they would (i can't see those cool 3d effects with the glasses, since those require your brain to coprocess the difference between two images). apparently these illusions are based upon something different. probably just perspective.
The latter happens when the brain can't handle the conflicting information from your two eyes
I didn't realize this was the cause of seizure fears. I happen to be completely blind in one eye, does this mean I don't need to worry about getting seizures from this sort of thing? If so, that's an interesting bit of news I never heard of... perhaps even the first (only?) perk of being half blind.
I use a flat wallet for my various cards. It's very conspicuous and never annoying to sit on. I keep my bills in a money clip in my front pocket.
Two pieces of advice, and i havent read all posts so this might be redundant. If you have a standard bi or tri fold wallet, its bad for your back to keep it inside your back pocket and sit on it. Second, if you put a rubber band around your wallet it is virtually impossible for a pickpocket to get (this is very common advice given to tourists at mardi gras).
wtf is everyone's problem? did you all bitch and moan when there was a front page story about (for example) Microsoft Music Store? sheesh, it's something new, and i am sure there are plenty of people who are glad they got a heads up about it. go on about your business now.
but try hard enough and he might just turn his life around
i dislike the implication that his life needs to be "turned around." the kid made some dumb decisions about how to use his intelligence, i hardly think that makes him a terrible person. correct me if im wrong but i dont think he tried to rob a bank or gain in any other way except for, perhaps, recognition.
we only did this for paradise poker.com, which did not have animated cards. i dont believe there is an online poker site that would use animated cards (at least not once the card has been dealt to someone). it would be a pretty weird interface
besides, i didnt say this was how one could do this, i said this is we did do this. hence, what ifs dont apply.
From the article: argue the complexities of the game and the changing strategies ensure that creation of a program that can "read" opponents' cards using screen scanning techniques and respond in real time is years away at best.
well considering that my friend and i implemented a system that does just that (over a year ago), i call bullshit on this one. what we did was capture an example of each card off the screen (we use ParadisePoker). then we came up with a best-match algorithm that compares each card to our reference cards to decide which card it is.
it's the "react in real-time" part that is the bitch of it all... the "read" from the screen is, while i won't say trivial, doable. it took me and my friend less than a week to implement using java's "robot" class (to read pixel values from the screen).
some guys we know were just trying to put together something that calulated odds for 7-stud on the fly, but found that inputting the cards by hand took too long. so they asked us if we could capture the cards from the screen. we didnt know if we could or couldnt, but we looked into it and it wasnt so hard.
i also know of more than one person back at school (MIT) who is working on a fully-functioning bot. i dont think they are "years" off from being finished either.
If MS were to somehow make the xbox 75% smaller, it could be about 10x more appealing. Not to mention the fact that it would make a much sexier set top box. Considering that they are already losing the big bucks on every console, it's not likely to happen though. *sigh*
Anyone else notice the view counter on the page go up exponentially since this got posted here? Best slashdot-story-as-advertisement ever! Especially when considering that an appreciable the crowd here is probably geeky enough to mortgage their house for this thing (assuming its authenticity can be verified... as opposed to "verified.")
i think he means "asymptotically longer"... which means that as the size of the search space, n, goes to infinity, the time it takes to run the search approaches lg(n) for x86 and n^2 for turing's machine
p.s. i am a software developer, nobody makes more than i do (do they?);)
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Sorry but MIT, Apple, etc, as much as I respect their contributions to the human race, do not need a Class A. Allow for the redistribution of the IPs and we should be good to go for quite some time last time i checked, there were only 4 class A's left (stanford was the fifth, but they gave theirs up a few years ago i believe)... so thats ~70mil addresses to give back. i dont believe that would makes us "good to go for quite some time"
if minimum wage were all that were offered, there would be:) but then of course the company that pays minimum + epsilon would snatch all the talent. answer: corporate salary cap, just like in sports.
... i am pretty sure i have an atari emulator already installed on my xbox. but, i guess there are people out there who like the "feel" of the old skool gamepads and such. i wonder, when will nintendo re-release the virtual boy - greatest console EVER!;)
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competency, conflicting goals, and uneven beneviolence (emphasis mine)
so is this a simple typo on "benevolence," a freudian slip, or a clever play on "beneficial violence?"
I have to admit that WinZip does have a pretty interface (if you use Windows), but if you don't want to pay for it, and you don't want to take the risk of infecting your Windows computer with a virus when you download a WinZip crack of Kazaa
when i was in high school (about 6 or 7 years ago) i found a winzip key generator in the piracy rooms on AOL. (#warez waaaaay back when)... funny thing is, i have memorized the winzip key that goes with my last name and even after all these years it still works! just thought that was funny.
well, i dont really have anything to compare to, right? i wouldn't really know what "strong 3D effect" entails, since i've never really experienced it. i do get a sense of depth from these games, however. it definitely "feels" 3D to me.
non-AI controlled cars cannot be on the road, as they will add randomness to the central control.
if that is the case, what you are describing is less like a bunch of cars and more like a bus that has individual compartments for each passenger and knows when and where to pick everyone up. dont see why you need your own car if you arent driving it anyways.
they sure do! i didn't know if they would (i can't see those cool 3d effects with the glasses, since those require your brain to coprocess the difference between two images). apparently these illusions are based upon something different. probably just perspective.
The latter happens when the brain can't handle the conflicting information from your two eyes
I didn't realize this was the cause of seizure fears. I happen to be completely blind in one eye, does this mean I don't need to worry about getting seizures from this sort of thing? If so, that's an interesting bit of news I never heard of... perhaps even the first (only?) perk of being half blind.
... "of what?" I'll bet I wasnt the only one ;)
I use a flat wallet for my various cards. It's very conspicuous and never annoying to sit on. I keep my bills in a money clip in my front pocket.
Two pieces of advice, and i havent read all posts so this might be redundant. If you have a standard bi or tri fold wallet, its bad for your back to keep it inside your back pocket and sit on it. Second, if you put a rubber band around your wallet it is virtually impossible for a pickpocket to get (this is very common advice given to tourists at mardi gras).
From TFA:
the Blue Gene/L system next year with 130,000 processors and 64 racks, half a tennis court in size.
The prototype for which IBM claimed the speed record is located in Rochester, Minn., has 16,250 processors and takes up eight racks of space.
So does this mean the finished product, with almost 10x as many procs will be much faster still? Or am I reading this wrong?
wtf is everyone's problem? did you all bitch and moan when there was a front page story about (for example) Microsoft Music Store? sheesh, it's something new, and i am sure there are plenty of people who are glad they got a heads up about it. go on about your business now.
but try hard enough and he might just turn his life around
i dislike the implication that his life needs to be "turned around." the kid made some dumb decisions about how to use his intelligence, i hardly think that makes him a terrible person. correct me if im wrong but i dont think he tried to rob a bank or gain in any other way except for, perhaps, recognition.
bad decision != bad person.
I need the real estate provided by a 19in CRT running at 1600x1200. A 17in LCD at 1280x1024 just doesn't cut it
you are forgetting the first rule of lcd purchasing... why buy 1 when you can get 2 for twice the price!
we only did this for paradise poker.com, which did not have animated cards. i dont believe there is an online poker site that would use animated cards (at least not once the card has been dealt to someone). it would be a pretty weird interface
besides, i didnt say this was how one could do this, i said this is we did do this. hence, what ifs dont apply.
From the article: argue the complexities of the game and the changing strategies ensure that creation of a program that can "read" opponents' cards using screen scanning techniques and respond in real time is years away at best.
well considering that my friend and i implemented a system that does just that (over a year ago), i call bullshit on this one. what we did was capture an example of each card off the screen (we use ParadisePoker). then we came up with a best-match algorithm that compares each card to our reference cards to decide which card it is.
it's the "react in real-time" part that is the bitch of it all... the "read" from the screen is, while i won't say trivial, doable. it took me and my friend less than a week to implement using java's "robot" class (to read pixel values from the screen).
some guys we know were just trying to put together something that calulated odds for 7-stud on the fly, but found that inputting the cards by hand took too long. so they asked us if we could capture the cards from the screen. we didnt know if we could or couldnt, but we looked into it and it wasnt so hard.
i also know of more than one person back at school (MIT) who is working on a fully-functioning bot. i dont think they are "years" off from being finished either.
If MS were to somehow make the xbox 75% smaller, it could be about 10x more appealing. Not to mention the fact that it would make a much sexier set top box. Considering that they are already losing the big bucks on every console, it's not likely to happen though. *sigh*
Anyone else notice the view counter on the page go up exponentially since this got posted here? Best slashdot-story-as-advertisement ever! Especially when considering that an appreciable the crowd here is probably geeky enough to mortgage their house for this thing (assuming its authenticity can be verified... as opposed to "verified.")
milked it like no one has ever milked an idea before
bill gates might have something to say about that
miss massachusetts is MIT class of '04
check it out
i think he means "asymptotically longer"... which means that as the size of the search space, n, goes to infinity, the time it takes to run the search approaches lg(n) for x86 and n^2 for turing's machine
from TFA:
It requires no user intervention: It kicks in automatically when a non-native application is launched.
does this mean my mac running this software is now susceptible to windows worms and virii w/ me totally unawares?
it was a sarcastic suggestion...
;)
p.s. i am a software developer, nobody makes more than i do (do they?)
Sorry but MIT, Apple, etc, as much as I respect their contributions to the human race, do not need a Class A. Allow for the redistribution of the IPs and we should be good to go for quite some time
last time i checked, there were only 4 class A's left (stanford was the fifth, but they gave theirs up a few years ago i believe)... so thats ~70mil addresses to give back. i dont believe that would makes us "good to go for quite some time"
if minimum wage were all that were offered, there would be :) but then of course the company that pays minimum + epsilon would snatch all the talent. answer: corporate salary cap, just like in sports.
UT Dallas expects enrollment at its engineering school to drop to zero for the upcoming school year.
... i am pretty sure i have an atari emulator already installed on my xbox. but, i guess there are people out there who like the "feel" of the old skool gamepads and such. i wonder, when will nintendo re-release the virtual boy - greatest console EVER! ;)