I have for a long time failed to understand the concept behind school fundraising (I'm not talking about fundraising for extracurricular activities. I'm talking about bake sales to buy library books and the like for public schools). The school district is part of the government. It is funded by taxes. I'm a silicon valley homeowner, and that means I pay an awful lot of taxes that are aimed in the direction of various local school districts (I'm even willing to cede that I get a benefit from it despite having no kids). If there was a need for more money for my local school, I'm pretty sure my first reaction would be to find out where all the money is going, not find ways to throw more money at it.
I'm not entirely bothered by the lack of 3rd party application development for the iPhone. What I am entirely bothered about is the characterization that bookmarking AJAX websites is the same thing as developing 3rd party applications for the iPhone.
The entire iPhone part of the keynote was all, "You don't need a four course gourmet meal. We've got a Pot Noodle for you right here!"
Counter-examples are only useful to disprove a non-existence. If you wish to be that pedantic about it then, yes, you correct that I should have probably said most (I probably would have said virtually all, actually) windows machines slow down over time. Satisfied?
I find it telling that you're the only one who has chimed in on this thread to provide a counter-example, BTW.
Slow computer? Buy a new one. And that's different from Windows... how?
The difference is that the mac is as fast or slow 2 years later as it was when it was new. By contrast, a windows machine actually slows down over time as it accumulates crap in the registry, spyware, viruses, etc, etc, etc.
The GP's complaint was that he had to completely remove his finger from the left side to register a right click. I occasionally have the same problem - it doesn't wind up picking up a click as a right click, because there is a finger near the left side. I see this as a handedness-neutral problem - whichever side you want to click, you have to keep fingers away from the other one. I suppose the engineers that designed the thing envision keeping your thumb and middle finger off to the side and using the index finger for both virtual buttons. If you, instead, use your thumb and ring finger and keep two fingers over the top, they have to "hover" a bit to make sure the capacitance detector doesn't trip the wrong way. I guess I've gotten used to doing just that.
All that's left are the uni-button skating rinks on their laptops, but I can't imagine that they're going to stay that way much longer. Besides, those can use gestures for scrolling and what not.
... Until Apple noticed and made unencrypted files with those tags unplayable. So everyone went in and erased them. But you're right that the authors of hymn originally preserved all those tags JUST SO they could make their point that it wasn't about piracy, but about freedom.
Wrongo. In 1974 Congress revised copyright law to keep up with the nacent computer industry. To make a long story short, in order for the copying to count, the copy must be embodied in a "fixed" medium. That is, something non-volatile. RAM doesn't count.
And besides, there are fair use exceptions to copyright law that allow for copies to be made even if they ARE in a fixed medium. Backups are a big one. Yes, it is perfectly legal for you to copy a CD and let your kids use the copy while you keep the original locked in a drawer for safekeeping. The only thing about that same scenario that makes it illegal to do the same with a DVD is the DMCA.
It was enough that on the 3rd or 4th page of the '8 reasons not to' article that they used the PHB acronym, but then explained it in parenthesis. *TWEEET* Gene police! Out of the pool!
Decrypting DVDs and violating copyrights are not the same thing. There are plenty of reasons I have for decrypting CSS without the DVD-CCA's approval which do not violate copyright law in any way.
Your linkage of unauthorized decryption with violating copyright law is exactly what the "mafiaa" would like for you to believe. You've fallen into their trap. You have lost. Have a nice day.
While it seems odd, the global Internet makes it a reasonable possibility.
If a crack is available openly in places where it is legal, and you can get to those cracks from within a country where it is illegal, then I could still come to the conclusion that the protection is ineffecetive simply because anyone who wanted to circumvent it would trivially be able to, even if no laws in that country had yet been broken.
If every mail-source domain implemented SPF, and if every MTA implemented it, then the problem of spam would be reduced to something far, far more manageable than what we have today.
Of course, getting to there from here isn't trivial. But it isn't impossible by any stretch of the imagination.
Owners of first-generation Intel Macs that used (32-bit only) Core Duo CPUs may not be so happy knowing that Vista will be the last Windows they will be able to run. I dunno. It seems like a cleansing thought to me.
But just to play the devil's advocate here, I've upgraded 3 mac minis to Merom CPUs, which have the 64 bit extension and virtualization features. I am not sure, but I believe the iMac CPUs are also socketed (they may not have even sold any iMacs without Core 2 - not sure). Seems like the only folks *really* left in the lurch would be 1st gen iBook owners.
But in any event, I believe that by the time Vista's successor arrives, macs (and perhaps even Linux desktop boxen) will have enough market presence that we won't really be bemoaning the software monoculture anymore. Already there are only two things for which I must use Windows and have no Mac alternative: Netflix Instant Viewing (and they will have that available for mac in the future at some point) and playing at pokerstars.com (which I don't do too much since Full Tilt Poker has a mac client).
First, I would start at a recreational level. Poker demands a rather expensive apprenticeship.:)
Resist the temptation to play without real money at stake. People don't play the same when there's nothing to lose. Playing online is great practice. There's almost no tells, which reduces the game to fundamentals, and because the shuffling, dealing and chip counting are instantaneous, you can play a lot more hands in the same amount of time. It's also less expensive, since the rakes are generally smaller (since online cardrooms have a much lower cost structure than their B&M counterparts).
Playing small stakes Hold'em cash games will get you used to the flow of the game and get you started in understanding the most frequently encountered odds calculations. Lee Jone's book on low-limit hold'em is invaluable for a beginner.
Remember always that the object of the game is not winning the pot, it's making the correct decision. That decision is almost always based on comparing the odds of you winning the pot at the showdown to the odds being offered by the current bet and the pot (how much does it cost you to call vs. how much you would win). Decide the right way consistently and you'll make money despite the random distribution of outcomes.
As you progress, you'll find the game style you prefer. For me, it's tournaments, but others prefer cash games.
Keep a log of your play - as detailed as you can. Learn from your mistakes. Practice, practice, practice.
I have to admit at this point that I do not play professionally. In fact, lifetime I am only break-even (over 3 years), but the trend is upwards.:) I am still young and enjoy my IT career, but when it comes time to retire, I will probably switch to poker instead of just going on a permanent vacation.
I believe it was Boss Tweed who once said, "I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating." He was (ironically enough) a Democrat.
If you take the firewall out of the equation, there is still one bit of evil left with NAT - applications that may want to set up and announce a listening port don't know what the correct IP address is. Often times they have to resort to bizarre workarounds, like asking a known external service what their own address is. Very byzantine. If nothing else, moving to IPv6 removes that headache. And if you have two machines behind a 1:n NAT that want to open up port 80, you're hosed. Without NAT, that's not a problem anymore. You'll have to tell your firewall that connections to port 80 on those machines are OK, but that's nothing more than what you would have had to do to your NAT box anyway (except that one of them would have to be port 81 or 8080 or some such nonsense).
I can't wait for the home networking routers that are so popular to implement 6to4. There's no reason they can't do that right now. Even if it were off by default, having it there would give people more options at little or no cost to the manufacturers. All of the major OSes out there shipping today support IPv6 natively.
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I have for a long time failed to understand the concept behind school fundraising (I'm not talking about fundraising for extracurricular activities. I'm talking about bake sales to buy library books and the like for public schools). The school district is part of the government. It is funded by taxes. I'm a silicon valley homeowner, and that means I pay an awful lot of taxes that are aimed in the direction of various local school districts (I'm even willing to cede that I get a benefit from it despite having no kids). If there was a need for more money for my local school, I'm pretty sure my first reaction would be to find out where all the money is going, not find ways to throw more money at it.
I'm not entirely bothered by the lack of 3rd party application development for the iPhone. What I am entirely bothered about is the characterization that bookmarking AJAX websites is the same thing as developing 3rd party applications for the iPhone.
The entire iPhone part of the keynote was all, "You don't need a four course gourmet meal. We've got a Pot Noodle for you right here!"
You fail it, Steve.
Counter-examples are only useful to disprove a non-existence. If you wish to be that pedantic about it then, yes, you correct that I should have probably said most (I probably would have said virtually all, actually) windows machines slow down over time. Satisfied?
I find it telling that you're the only one who has chimed in on this thread to provide a counter-example, BTW.
Your experience is not representative. Anecdotes are not evidence.
The difference is that the mac is as fast or slow 2 years later as it was when it was new. By contrast, a windows machine actually slows down over time as it accumulates crap in the registry, spyware, viruses, etc, etc, etc.
Even if you choose to count the buttons that way, it's still a two button mouse. The top shell is the first, the squeeze button is the second.
Let me expand on the last line of that post.
The GP's complaint was that he had to completely remove his finger from the left side to register a right click. I occasionally have the same problem - it doesn't wind up picking up a click as a right click, because there is a finger near the left side. I see this as a handedness-neutral problem - whichever side you want to click, you have to keep fingers away from the other one. I suppose the engineers that designed the thing envision keeping your thumb and middle finger off to the side and using the index finger for both virtual buttons. If you, instead, use your thumb and ring finger and keep two fingers over the top, they have to "hover" a bit to make sure the capacitance detector doesn't trip the wrong way. I guess I've gotten used to doing just that.
1. It's not pressure sensitive, it's capacitive sensing.
2. There are actually sensors for both the left and right sides and the area around the scroll ball (which is a middle-click).
3. The control panel lets you remap the buttons however you like. You most certainly can map the right side to the primary if you wish.
I don't comprehend how you could not use a mightymouse in a left-handed manner unless you like to click by pushing on the back half of the mouse.
Sigh. Did you not read the part of my comment where I specifically talked about the laptops?
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All that's left are the uni-button skating rinks on their laptops, but I can't imagine that they're going to stay that way much longer. Besides, those can use gestures for scrolling and what not.
... Until Apple noticed and made unencrypted files with those tags unplayable. So everyone went in and erased them. But you're right that the authors of hymn originally preserved all those tags JUST SO they could make their point that it wasn't about piracy, but about freedom.
Would you have been happier if the songs had a serial number (traceable to the purchaser) instead of plantext credentials?
If not, then are you unhappy that your car has a license plate (or are you a barefoot hippie that thinks cars are a tool of The Man)?
Actually, yes it is: Control-click.
Yes, I saw the smiley, but it's a canard that needs to die.
Wrongo. In 1974 Congress revised copyright law to keep up with the nacent computer industry. To make a long story short, in order for the copying to count, the copy must be embodied in a "fixed" medium. That is, something non-volatile. RAM doesn't count.
And besides, there are fair use exceptions to copyright law that allow for copies to be made even if they ARE in a fixed medium. Backups are a big one. Yes, it is perfectly legal for you to copy a CD and let your kids use the copy while you keep the original locked in a drawer for safekeeping. The only thing about that same scenario that makes it illegal to do the same with a DVD is the DMCA.
It was enough that on the 3rd or 4th page of the '8 reasons not to' article that they used the PHB acronym, but then explained it in parenthesis. *TWEEET* Gene police! Out of the pool!
Decrypting DVDs and violating copyrights are not the same thing. There are plenty of reasons I have for decrypting CSS without the DVD-CCA's approval which do not violate copyright law in any way.
Your linkage of unauthorized decryption with violating copyright law is exactly what the "mafiaa" would like for you to believe. You've fallen into their trap. You have lost. Have a nice day.
While it seems odd, the global Internet makes it a reasonable possibility.
If a crack is available openly in places where it is legal, and you can get to those cracks from within a country where it is illegal, then I could still come to the conclusion that the protection is ineffecetive simply because anyone who wanted to circumvent it would trivially be able to, even if no laws in that country had yet been broken.
Of course, getting to there from here isn't trivial. But it isn't impossible by any stretch of the imagination.
Simple. At http://store.apple.com/ .
But just to play the devil's advocate here, I've upgraded 3 mac minis to Merom CPUs, which have the 64 bit extension and virtualization features. I am not sure, but I believe the iMac CPUs are also socketed (they may not have even sold any iMacs without Core 2 - not sure). Seems like the only folks *really* left in the lurch would be 1st gen iBook owners.
But in any event, I believe that by the time Vista's successor arrives, macs (and perhaps even Linux desktop boxen) will have enough market presence that we won't really be bemoaning the software monoculture anymore. Already there are only two things for which I must use Windows and have no Mac alternative: Netflix Instant Viewing (and they will have that available for mac in the future at some point) and playing at pokerstars.com (which I don't do too much since Full Tilt Poker has a mac client).
First, I would start at a recreational level. Poker demands a rather expensive apprenticeship. :)
:) I am still young and enjoy my IT career, but when it comes time to retire, I will probably switch to poker instead of just going on a permanent vacation.
Resist the temptation to play without real money at stake. People don't play the same when there's nothing to lose. Playing online is great practice. There's almost no tells, which reduces the game to fundamentals, and because the shuffling, dealing and chip counting are instantaneous, you can play a lot more hands in the same amount of time. It's also less expensive, since the rakes are generally smaller (since online cardrooms have a much lower cost structure than their B&M counterparts).
Playing small stakes Hold'em cash games will get you used to the flow of the game and get you started in understanding the most frequently encountered odds calculations. Lee Jone's book on low-limit hold'em is invaluable for a beginner.
Remember always that the object of the game is not winning the pot, it's making the correct decision. That decision is almost always based on comparing the odds of you winning the pot at the showdown to the odds being offered by the current bet and the pot (how much does it cost you to call vs. how much you would win). Decide the right way consistently and you'll make money despite the random distribution of outcomes.
As you progress, you'll find the game style you prefer. For me, it's tournaments, but others prefer cash games.
Keep a log of your play - as detailed as you can. Learn from your mistakes. Practice, practice, practice.
I have to admit at this point that I do not play professionally. In fact, lifetime I am only break-even (over 3 years), but the trend is upwards.
I believe it was Boss Tweed who once said, "I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating." He was (ironically enough) a Democrat.
Poker makes an excellent 2nd career for IT personel:
1. You're your own boss.
2. No physical or athletic requirements.
3. Lots of probability math to wrap your head around.
4. You can work from home if you like, or from a variety of physical locations.
5. No retirement age.
6. If you're either very good or very lucky, you can be on TV.
I bet I get moderated "funny," but I'm perfectly serious.
If you take the firewall out of the equation, there is still one bit of evil left with NAT - applications that may want to set up and announce a listening port don't know what the correct IP address is. Often times they have to resort to bizarre workarounds, like asking a known external service what their own address is. Very byzantine. If nothing else, moving to IPv6 removes that headache. And if you have two machines behind a 1:n NAT that want to open up port 80, you're hosed. Without NAT, that's not a problem anymore. You'll have to tell your firewall that connections to port 80 on those machines are OK, but that's nothing more than what you would have had to do to your NAT box anyway (except that one of them would have to be port 81 or 8080 or some such nonsense).
I can't wait for the home networking routers that are so popular to implement 6to4. There's no reason they can't do that right now. Even if it were off by default, having it there would give people more options at little or no cost to the manufacturers. All of the major OSes out there shipping today support IPv6 natively.