you do know you're supposed to pay taxes on it, right? (all gambling winnings). If you are audited you WILL be asked to explain what those deposits are for.
I have a database of 80,000 hands of online poker (which is small potatoes compared to some). Everything is in statitistical line with what it should be (and yes, I've even ran queries of how often I flop a pair, etc.).
The house has no interest in stacking the deck. They are making a crapload. The people who say this are generally people who lost a bunch of money playing online poker, probably because (GASP) they aren't very good.
Um, get them the Mario DDR game and pad. It's a hoot, and my kids love it. Frankly, I turn the thing on and we all take a turn.. I do the really fast songs on "hard" or "very hard" and since I can't really dance, I just bounce up and down on beat, moving my feet (to the middle if I have to). This is a decent areobic workout. I lift dumbells/do crunches and stuff on a ball when it's not my turn. If I do this for 30-40 minutes, it's a pretty good workout, and everyone has a good time.
Sorry, the Feds keep saying that online gambling is illegal (due to the Wire Act), but no one has ever been prosecuted for it (sports betting aside, as the Wire Act clearly applies to that). see a link here: linky for some more info. Simply put, no one has been prosecuted, so the best you can say is that certain people say it is illegal but have chosen to enforce it. A more reasonable point of view upon researching it is that no one has been prosecuted because the prosecutors are aware that they would probably lose.
The real question is, can/will the banks block transactions from NetTeller and FirePay, etc, on the grounds that most of there business is gambling related? If so, the business is big enough that I would think a large, Non-U.S. bank would step into the void. If that bank (obviously) had significant non-gamlbing business volume and could object to the U.S. government classifying it as a "gambling business", it might work.
I agree. our IT guy was giving a security talk a while back and saying that they were going to get PGP desktop or some other "mount an encrypted volume" software and I pointed him to trueCrypt. I put this on our laptop to have our Quicken stuff on, in case it got stolen. It's simple enough for my wife to use, and comes with a large variety of encryption key options. Very nice and simple to use. It even has support for complex things like a secret encrypted volume inside the encrypted volume so you can put some innocuous stuff on the fake volume in case you were forced to reveal it you could say "see, that's all there is". I don't use all that stuff, but I like it, it's free and Open Source.
I'm sorry, but this is, without a doubt, the stupidest post I've ever seen on slashdot (and I've been reading a long time). That's the guiding principle of EVERY COMPANY EVER. It's so much a guiding principle that it isn't even bothered to be said. Of COURSE they are trying to maximize revenue.
Honestly, they are a public company. If their CEO came out and said "Maximizing revenue isn't our #1 goal" he would be (rightly) fired by the board of directors. If the board refuses to fire him, they would (rightly) be voted out at the next stockholders meeting or the everyone would (rightly) sell the stock and it would tank.
In our company, at least, (a moderate-sized start up about 7 years in with ~275 employees) that isn't true. Granted, this isn't a game company (we make financial software/services) but QA intern to QA fulltime to dev is a pretty common path. I work with two guys so far in the company who spent significant time in qbit. They both called the experience a good one, and solid experience for development. If nothing else, they can keep on top of the people filing bug reports so we get good ones! I also think it makes them a little more thorough in testing a code change than the average developer -- certainly more so than me:)
Are you sitting here telling me that splitting data that is usually read/updated together (particularly read) from one table into six isn't much slower. Denormalization is an everyday tool used to get acceptable performance from a database. There are other ways a competent dba can ensure the integrity of the data (for instance, you can force all data updates to be done through stored procedures.. I've seen this done before).
This is what I'm talking about... go ask slashdot's dev if there database is 3rd normal form. I would be shocked if it is.
I tried a wiki.. and what you and I consider easy to use and the masses who aren't really into tech consider easy to use still has a big gap. They said it was too confusing.
fine, but unless you are using a materlialized view (which is, in most cases, only for read), that doesn't address the fundamental problem of joining and reading/updating/deleting rows from six tables is slower (in most, but not all cases) than putting it in one.
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and as a developer, I will counter, that, in my experience, the reason there was a 5-page sql query in the first place was because the DBA had very restrictive rules about normalization (not realizing that denormalization is a common, industry-standard way to improve database performance). Why did my query (this was at my last job, which had the dba's from hell) have 16 joins in it? Because I had to split stuff up across 6 tables that I knew I would always be accessing at the same time anyway...
I never claimed my post was perfect... but I guarantee you, If I was writing an email to management, I'd be more careful. Of course, to be fair, the grandparent's post wasn't to management really either.
Unfortunately, as soon as an engineer (and I am one) says something in an email/public forum where they can't get basic subject/verb agreement down, you kinda lose all credibility with "management types". You can get pissed off about it, say it doesn't really matter re: the CONTENT of your message, but it is true.
hell, I program for a living, use open source stuff (eclipse rocks!), and I'm going to guess at it. I'm assuming Free Open Source Software, but I wouldn't put money on it, I'm just going from the context.
I remember a game called "zeppelin" for my old Atari 600XL which loaded from tape (what a great game... a four-way scroller going thru underground caverns with great puzzles and multiplayer -- you could have the second player use a joysitck to be the second gunner) anyway, it actually played the William Tell Overture (I think.. the one with the "lone ranger theme" section) while it loaded! because the sound track wasn't actually used for data from casette, apparently. Anyway, it was cool.
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Agreed. I just got the new DVD's for the 10th anniversary (didn't own either on DVD and always want to add good family movies to the collection) and I hadn't watched either for several years and you know what? the 2nd one is better. I thought so when I saw it at the theater and I think so now. It's so rare that we see a good sequel, though.
hmmm, first clue.. they won't pay for your parking.. This is a true story. I was unemployed at the time, so I was desperate, but I think it's important to show you're not THAT desperate. I interviewed at a place downtown in a bigish Midwest city. I couldn't find the company lot, figured they parked in one of the garages, so I double-parked, ran in and this was the conversation:
me: Hey, I have the interview at 10, where do I park? receptionist: around the corner, in the garage. me: I assume you validate? receptionist: no, not for interviews. me: Ok, then, be sure to tell XXXX, I'm sorry, but If you can't even validate my parking, I don't think I'll waste his or my time.
me, drives off, 30 seconds later, my cell rings: xxxx: Hey, sorry about the mix up, we'll be happy to validate your parking.
Interview went well, and got an offer. XXXX said he was "impressed with my assertiveness about the parking situation" I ended up taking another job, though it was a tough choice.
but, I bailed on BB way back because there late fees were excessive. I checked them out again with there "no late fees" thing (and they are like, 6 blocks from my house). And I switched stores to them. I get a WEEK grace with no late fees, even on a 2 day rental (and video game rentals). And I've actually used the "convert to purchase" a few times on kids/family movies. For instance, I rented Robots, my kids liked it, I read the recipt that it was only $12.99 more to buy it,just kept it and paid the bal. next time I was in. that really is pretty nice.
ah! didn't know that. well, I wouldn't call the myreplay.tv.com site a shining example of UI, either. Interestingly, after they were sold, there was a posting on avsforums.com about how they had an ad wanting someone to reverse-engineer the site (I think all they had were the compiled java in a.war file) and document it. Guess they didn't get the source repository! Sounded like an interesting job.
.. but I've been able to do that on my ReplayTV for years! I go to myreplaytv.com and can browse my shows, marks for record/deletions, etc. Of course, ReplayTv has been marketed for crap and has been sold/went bankrupt several times... oh well.
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you do know you're supposed to pay taxes on it, right? (all gambling winnings). If you are audited you WILL be asked to explain what those deposits are for.
I have a database of 80,000 hands of online poker (which is small potatoes compared to some). Everything is in statitistical line with what it should be (and yes, I've even ran queries of how often I flop a pair, etc.).
The house has no interest in stacking the deck. They are making a crapload. The people who say this are generally people who lost a bunch of money playing online poker, probably because (GASP) they aren't very good.
Umm, you do know that sql server has it's own scheduler for running scripts and stuff? SQLAgent? Obv. I guess not.
Um, get them the Mario DDR game and pad. It's a hoot, and my kids love it. Frankly, I turn the thing on and we all take a turn.. I do the really fast songs on "hard" or "very hard" and since I can't really dance, I just bounce up and down on beat, moving my feet (to the middle if I have to). This is a decent areobic workout. I lift dumbells/do crunches and stuff on a ball when it's not my turn. If I do this for 30-40 minutes, it's a pretty good workout, and everyone has a good time.
Sorry, the Feds keep saying that online gambling is illegal (due to the Wire Act), but no one has ever been prosecuted for it (sports betting aside, as the Wire Act clearly applies to that). see a link here: linky for some more info. Simply put, no one has been prosecuted, so the best you can say is that certain people say it is illegal but have chosen to enforce it. A more reasonable point of view upon researching it is that no one has been prosecuted because the prosecutors are aware that they would probably lose.
The real question is, can/will the banks block transactions from NetTeller and FirePay, etc, on the grounds that most of there business is gambling related? If so, the business is big enough that I would think a large, Non-U.S. bank would step into the void. If that bank (obviously) had significant non-gamlbing business volume and could object to the U.S. government classifying it as a "gambling business", it might work.
I agree. our IT guy was giving a security talk a while back and saying that they were going to get PGP desktop or some other "mount an encrypted volume" software and I pointed him to trueCrypt. I put this on our laptop to have our Quicken stuff on, in case it got stolen. It's simple enough for my wife to use, and comes with a large variety of encryption key options. Very nice and simple to use. It even has support for complex things like a secret encrypted volume inside the encrypted volume so you can put some innocuous stuff on the fake volume in case you were forced to reveal it you could say "see, that's all there is". I don't use all that stuff, but I like it, it's free and Open Source.
I'm sorry, but this is, without a doubt, the stupidest post I've ever seen on slashdot (and I've been reading a long time). That's the guiding principle of EVERY COMPANY EVER. It's so much a guiding principle that it isn't even bothered to be said. Of COURSE they are trying to maximize revenue.
Honestly, they are a public company. If their CEO came out and said "Maximizing revenue isn't our #1 goal" he would be (rightly) fired by the board of directors. If the board refuses to fire him, they would (rightly) be voted out at the next stockholders meeting or the everyone would (rightly) sell the stock and it would tank.
right, because nobody could POSSIBLY have a real anti-apple opinion, right?
In our company, at least, (a moderate-sized start up about 7 years in with ~275 employees) that isn't true. Granted, this isn't a game company (we make financial software/services) but QA intern to QA fulltime to dev is a pretty common path. I work with two guys so far in the company who spent significant time in qbit. They both called the experience a good one, and solid experience for development. If nothing else, they can keep on top of the people filing bug reports so we get good ones! I also think it makes them a little more thorough in testing a code change than the average developer -- certainly more so than me :)
Are you sitting here telling me that splitting data that is usually read/updated together (particularly read) from one table into six isn't much slower. Denormalization is an everyday tool used to get acceptable performance from a database. There are other ways a competent dba can ensure the integrity of the data (for instance, you can force all data updates to be done through stored procedures.. I've seen this done before).
This is what I'm talking about... go ask slashdot's dev if there database is 3rd normal form. I would be shocked if it is.
I tried a wiki.. and what you and I consider easy to use and the masses who aren't really into tech consider easy to use still has a big gap. They said it was too confusing.
fine, but unless you are using a materlialized view (which is, in most cases, only for read), that doesn't address the fundamental problem of joining and reading/updating/deleting rows from six tables is slower (in most, but not all cases) than putting it in one.
and as a developer, I will counter, that, in my experience, the reason there was a 5-page sql query in the first place was because the DBA had very restrictive rules about normalization (not realizing that denormalization is a common, industry-standard way to improve database performance). Why did my query (this was at my last job, which had the dba's from hell) have 16 joins in it? Because I had to split stuff up across 6 tables that I knew I would always be accessing at the same time anyway...
I never claimed my post was perfect... but I guarantee you, If I was writing an email to management, I'd be more careful. Of course, to be fair, the grandparent's post wasn't to management really either.
Unfortunately, as soon as an engineer (and I am one) says something in an email/public forum where they can't get basic subject/verb agreement down, you kinda lose all credibility with "management types". You can get pissed off about it, say it doesn't really matter re: the CONTENT of your message, but it is true.
hell, I program for a living, use open source stuff (eclipse rocks!), and I'm going to guess at it. I'm assuming Free Open Source Software, but I wouldn't put money on it, I'm just going from the context.
I remember a game called "zeppelin" for my old Atari 600XL which loaded from tape (what a great game... a four-way scroller going thru underground caverns with great puzzles and multiplayer -- you could have the second player use a joysitck to be the second gunner) anyway, it actually played the William Tell Overture (I think.. the one with the "lone ranger theme" section) while it loaded! because the sound track wasn't actually used for data from casette, apparently. Anyway, it was cool.
Agreed. I just got the new DVD's for the 10th anniversary (didn't own either on DVD and always want to add good family movies to the collection) and I hadn't watched either for several years and you know what? the 2nd one is better. I thought so when I saw it at the theater and I think so now. It's so rare that we see a good sequel, though.
the original and Carmageddon 2 Advanced (a sweet mod).
hmmm, first clue.. they won't pay for your parking.. This is a true story. I was unemployed at the time, so I was desperate, but I think it's important to show you're not THAT desperate. I interviewed at a place downtown in a bigish Midwest city. I couldn't find the company lot, figured they parked in one of the garages, so I double-parked, ran in and this was the conversation:
me: Hey, I have the interview at 10, where do I park?
receptionist: around the corner, in the garage.
me: I assume you validate?
receptionist: no, not for interviews.
me: Ok, then, be sure to tell XXXX, I'm sorry, but If you can't even validate my parking, I don't think I'll waste his or my time.
me, drives off, 30 seconds later, my cell rings:
xxxx: Hey, sorry about the mix up, we'll be happy to validate your parking.
Interview went well, and got an offer. XXXX said he was "impressed with my assertiveness about the parking situation" I ended up taking another job, though it was a tough choice.
but, I bailed on BB way back because there late fees were excessive. I checked them out again with there "no late fees" thing (and they are like, 6 blocks from my house). And I switched stores to them. I get a WEEK grace with no late fees, even on a 2 day rental (and video game rentals). And I've actually used the "convert to purchase" a few times on kids/family movies. For instance, I rented Robots, my kids liked it, I read the recipt that it was only $12.99 more to buy it,just kept it and paid the bal. next time I was in. that really is pretty nice.
Yeah and 13yr old kids in Iowa can play too :D
yeah, because none of them are playing online poker, I'm sure.
ah! didn't know that. well, I wouldn't call the myreplay.tv.com site a shining example of UI, either. Interestingly, after they were sold, there was a posting on avsforums.com about how they had an ad wanting someone to reverse-engineer the site (I think all they had were the compiled java in a .war file) and document it. Guess they didn't get the source repository! Sounded like an interesting job.
.. but I've been able to do that on my ReplayTV for years! I go to myreplaytv.com and can browse my shows, marks for record/deletions, etc. Of course, ReplayTv has been marketed for crap and has been sold/went bankrupt several times... oh well.