"dead-tree version" = available to be paged through without taking up monitor space.
"soon be obsolete"? Define soon. Maybe there are projects waiting that could be up and earning income within a couple days of receiving this information formatted in easy to digest "chunks" - do you promise it will be online as-is, and if so, when?
"alway (sic) up to date"? please...
The only thing worse is that some lazy butt bunch of mods dropped "insightful" points on your low-uid self.
It's existed in email form for over a year: Somebody started tying marketing onto "funny" video clips, and made extravagant guesses about how many people would forward the video to all their friends and relatives, thus also forwarding the connected ad.
And just to make things even wierder, another modifier for chip position: If I'm chip leader, I may think it's worthwhile to see a flop acting last with that hand, where if it's close or I'm not the leader, I'd be more inclined to drop them, depending on how big those raises were...
About the only thing you left out is that most important lesson for the intermediate player, position: How many have acted, how many are left to act? Multiply a basic chance for a given pocket by a factor for position by a factor for prior player's actions... re-calc after flop and so forth... Wouldn't be too tough, except for assigning values to those factors...
So because I'm not some m4d l33t-5k1llzd sheeple slavishly buying and beating every cart for the console recommended by some self-styled critic gomer, I'm hard-core?
Somebody needs a dictionary, and I sincerely hope it isn't me.
As a casual gamer myself, I drift from game to game, site to site - it's not about being hard-core anything, it's not about finishing the latest FPS release faster than anybody, it's about passing an hour or two with some distracting entertainment.
Period.
The only thing remotely hard-core about it is a stubborn refusal to commit to anything more than finding a fun game and playing it for only as long as it remains interesting.
A really good (read:attempting to be objective) central reference site to sites/games worthy of trying out would probably be a worthwhile addition to the bookmark list.
Are you a parent? Y'see, I can't decide if you're seriously suggesting continuing the trend of learned helplessness by way of dependence on electronic tools that may or may not continue to function perfectly forever, or suggesting that *others* continue their slide into mental cripple-ville while you and yours (and me and mine) gain potential advantage... Either way, nice potential troll.
Next dupe/"follow-up" article on Slashdot: "RTLinux used to laser-trap mimes in boxes" "Finally, a valid use for Linux" a certain well-known OS development rival group was heard to say - apparently beleaguered by mimes performing outside their Redmond HQ for spare change, the possibilities of trapping mimes in boxes using lasers controlled by RTLinux has intrigued...(read more)
(Pedant) Actually, lead, being a metal, is measured in pounds (troy), whereas feathers are measured in pounds (avoirdupois) - the lead is heavier. (Avoirdupois pounds*1.2152=Troy pounds) (/pedant)
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After the first movie, I wrote a fan letter.
After the second movie, I wanted to nominate the W brothers for a Nobel Prize.
After the (insert high-volume profanity here) ending of the third movie and series, I was glad I didn't know how to make the nomination happen - arguably the greatest story-telling/cinematic failure of our modern age.
After all of the above, does anyone really care what else they do?
(more meaningless grumbling of profanities follows)
I missed your point, on purpose. Can you see how the issue might seem to someone who does not have your unique vantage point? There's too much work, so you choose the high-profile cases. There's too much work, so you let the small fry continue to break the law. There's too much work, so you need more funding... All of this is more than likely true, however:
My point is, to the eye of an average tax-paying citizen, me, it seems very much as if, because the average tax-paying citizen doesn't have large enough businesses or large enough losses, we don't rate any protection at all, and only those who pay larger amounts in taxes or sustain larger losses (regardless of relative ability to *bear* such losses) get their issues even heard, much less addressed.
Beyond a massive education initiative so that the people affected are better-prepared to protect themselves (hence reducing the amount of work your beleaguered department has), how would you recommend solving this dilemma?
And, really, do we want citizens knowing that we must protect ourselves because the people in the agencies we pay to protect us are so overworked? Methinks that way may lie vigilantism, which seems to get prosecuted much more vigorously for some reason....
Maybe we average folks don't get to see nearly enough of what's going on - maybe some network exec could follow a day/week/month in the life of a law enforcement official in yet another reality show, bring it home that it's not all doughnuts and jaywalkers, but meantime, there's still that pesky problem of appearances.
I'm just letting you know how it looks from out here...
So, in loose translation, the FBI doesn't have to/want to do their jobs with regard to cyber-crime because the Ass't. US Attorney won't do theirs unless it's just so glaring that the negative press might actually affect their mutual self-esteem? Net effect, the job doesn't get done, the average tax-paying citizen sees zero return on that fraction of the tax dollars we're paying (not quite zero, we get a shrug, "That's life."), oh, and by the way, both agencies are requesting MORE funds???
You left out Rambus - I got my mom into and out of that at prices that, along with Starbuck's, allowed her to retire 5 years earlier than she'd planned. Rolling happily along with AMD myself...
Funny (really), but I don't think they'd let any code go into widespread distribution without running through it with their army of lemmings (testers) first.
Would-be writers write new games, or even mods for existing games, a savvy corporation can increase their codebase for the cost of a contest with a few cash prizes for the most popular works - what's not to love with this?
So, assuming one has, say, an Athlon 700 on a K7 board with 256MB Ram, which Linux distro would be the least painful to convert to from Win98se while keeping the MS Office and games?
The next steps will be legal definitions of what constitutes spyware, and refinements of those definitions based on cases brought to trial.
How will they know who's doing spyware? Offer rewards to reports resulting in convictions.
Of course, the thing might be struck down as unconstitutional depending on the breadth of definitions it starts with and the zeal of the ever-loathed ACLU in promoting the letter of the First Amendment to the detriment of the spirit of it.
Any user of "free" webmail service sells their eyeballs - hotmail, gmail, Yahoo, all of them charge money to advertisers to place those banners above, to the right of, and to the left of every page those users view. Nobody seems to kick too terribly hard about that. There *is* a web-based email service that shares some of those revenues with its users - while nowhere near enough to quit one's day job, extra income can be very nice, especially if it costs nothing. My email address is un-obfuscated for a reason...
And if they should happen to prove the string, then give it a tug, would our little corner of the multiverse start to unravel? I'm going to go wallow in the welcome mundanity of warm cookies and cold milk now...
Are you suggesting that either of us have not done both?
Or, heavens forbid, have we (in *your* opinion) wasted some few seconds of your oh-so-valuable/. reading time?
Or, is it possible that either of our posts might, (O, the HORROR) inspire some thought beyond the initial habitual knee-jerk response to the issue discussed for someone besides your august self, who obviously already has all the answers?
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"dead-tree version" = available to be paged through without taking up monitor space.
"soon be obsolete"? Define soon. Maybe there are projects waiting that could be up and earning income within a couple days of receiving this information formatted in easy to digest "chunks" - do you promise it will be online as-is, and if so, when?
"alway (sic) up to date"? please...
The only thing worse is that some lazy butt bunch of mods dropped "insightful" points on your low-uid self.
The only thing missing is the dread "tt" tag...
I am a "novice developer with only basic knowledge of HTML if any at all.", you insensitive clod!
Happy Troll Tuesday!
It's existed in email form for over a year: Somebody started tying marketing onto "funny" video clips, and made extravagant guesses about how many people would forward the video to all their friends and relatives, thus also forwarding the connected ad.
And just to make things even wierder, another modifier for chip position: If I'm chip leader, I may think it's worthwhile to see a flop acting last with that hand, where if it's close or I'm not the leader, I'd be more inclined to drop them, depending on how big those raises were...
About the only thing you left out is that most important lesson for the intermediate player, position: How many have acted, how many are left to act?
Multiply a basic chance for a given pocket by a factor for position by a factor for prior player's actions... re-calc after flop and so forth... Wouldn't be too tough, except for assigning values to those factors...
But, wait, see, it says right here in my handy Geek-bonics pocket edition....
So because I'm not some m4d l33t-5k1llzd sheeple slavishly buying and beating every cart for the console recommended by some self-styled critic gomer, I'm hard-core?
Somebody needs a dictionary, and I sincerely hope it isn't me.
As a casual gamer myself, I drift from game to game, site to site - it's not about being hard-core anything, it's not about finishing the latest FPS release faster than anybody, it's about passing an hour or two with some distracting entertainment.
Period.
The only thing remotely hard-core about it is a stubborn refusal to commit to anything more than finding a fun game and playing it for only as long as it remains interesting.
A really good (read:attempting to be objective) central reference site to sites/games worthy of trying out would probably be a worthwhile addition to the bookmark list.
Are you a parent?
Y'see, I can't decide if you're seriously suggesting continuing the trend of learned helplessness by way of dependence on electronic tools that may or may not continue to function perfectly forever, or suggesting that *others* continue their slide into mental cripple-ville while you and yours (and me and mine) gain potential advantage...
Either way, nice potential troll.
Next dupe/"follow-up" article on Slashdot: "RTLinux used to laser-trap mimes in boxes" ...(read more)
"Finally, a valid use for Linux" a certain well-known OS development rival group was heard to say - apparently beleaguered by mimes performing outside their Redmond HQ for spare change, the possibilities of trapping mimes in boxes using lasers controlled by RTLinux has intrigued
I love it!
Now that's filkin' funny.
(Pedant) Actually, lead, being a metal, is measured in pounds (troy), whereas feathers are measured in pounds (avoirdupois) - the lead is heavier.
(Avoirdupois pounds*1.2152=Troy pounds)
(/pedant)
After the first movie, I wrote a fan letter.
After the second movie, I wanted to nominate the W brothers for a Nobel Prize.
After the (insert high-volume profanity here) ending of the third movie and series, I was glad I didn't know how to make the nomination happen - arguably the greatest story-telling/cinematic failure of our modern age.
After all of the above, does anyone really care what else they do?
(more meaningless grumbling of profanities follows)
...with remaining *head*! (shudders at thought of instant vaporizations...)
I missed your point, on purpose. Can you see how the issue might seem to someone who does not have your unique vantage point? There's too much work, so you choose the high-profile cases. There's too much work, so you let the small fry continue to break the law. There's too much work, so you need more funding... All of this is more than likely true, however: My point is, to the eye of an average tax-paying citizen, me, it seems very much as if, because the average tax-paying citizen doesn't have large enough businesses or large enough losses, we don't rate any protection at all, and only those who pay larger amounts in taxes or sustain larger losses (regardless of relative ability to *bear* such losses) get their issues even heard, much less addressed. Beyond a massive education initiative so that the people affected are better-prepared to protect themselves (hence reducing the amount of work your beleaguered department has), how would you recommend solving this dilemma? And, really, do we want citizens knowing that we must protect ourselves because the people in the agencies we pay to protect us are so overworked? Methinks that way may lie vigilantism, which seems to get prosecuted much more vigorously for some reason.... Maybe we average folks don't get to see nearly enough of what's going on - maybe some network exec could follow a day/week/month in the life of a law enforcement official in yet another reality show, bring it home that it's not all doughnuts and jaywalkers, but meantime, there's still that pesky problem of appearances. I'm just letting you know how it looks from out here...
So, in loose translation, the FBI doesn't have to/want to do their jobs with regard to cyber-crime because the Ass't. US Attorney won't do theirs unless it's just so glaring that the negative press might actually affect their mutual self-esteem? Net effect, the job doesn't get done, the average tax-paying citizen sees zero return on that fraction of the tax dollars we're paying (not quite zero, we get a shrug, "That's life."), oh, and by the way, both agencies are requesting MORE funds???
You left out Rambus - I got my mom into and out of that at prices that, along with Starbuck's, allowed her to retire 5 years earlier than she'd planned.
Rolling happily along with AMD myself...
Funny (really), but I don't think they'd let any code go into widespread distribution without running through it with their army of lemmings (testers) first.
Would-be writers write new games, or even mods for existing games, a savvy corporation can increase their codebase for the cost of a contest with a few cash prizes for the most popular works - what's not to love with this?
So, assuming one has, say, an Athlon 700 on a K7 board with 256MB Ram, which Linux distro would be the least painful to convert to from Win98se while keeping the MS Office and games?
The next steps will be legal definitions of what constitutes spyware, and refinements of those definitions based on cases brought to trial.
How will they know who's doing spyware? Offer rewards to reports resulting in convictions.
Of course, the thing might be struck down as unconstitutional depending on the breadth of definitions it starts with and the zeal of the ever-loathed ACLU in promoting the letter of the First Amendment to the detriment of the spirit of it.
sigh.
Any user of "free" webmail service sells their eyeballs - hotmail, gmail, Yahoo, all of them charge money to advertisers to place those banners above, to the right of, and to the left of every page those users view. Nobody seems to kick too terribly hard about that. There *is* a web-based email service that shares some of those revenues with its users - while nowhere near enough to quit one's day job, extra income can be very nice, especially if it costs nothing.
My email address is un-obfuscated for a reason...
And if they should happen to prove the string, then give it a tug, would our little corner of the multiverse start to unravel?
I'm going to go wallow in the welcome mundanity of warm cookies and cold milk now...
Are you suggesting that either of us have not done both?
/. reading time?
Or, heavens forbid, have we (in *your* opinion) wasted some few seconds of your oh-so-valuable
Or, is it possible that either of our posts might, (O, the HORROR) inspire some thought beyond the initial habitual knee-jerk response to the issue discussed for someone besides your august self, who obviously already has all the answers?
Thank you for your input.