The issue I have with this test is that poker is more than just a game of probability, luck and pattern analysis.
If you play on the internet, you rely solely on these three factors, but today's poker celebrities also rely on psyching the opponent and reveal tells. If the bot was capable of emotions as well as reading its opponents emotions, this would be far more interesting.
In the meantime, congress doesn't believe poker is a game of skill.
Is it even possible to do this? Can you make hundreds of thousands of attempts in a short amount of time? I mean, is it not likely that the system will restrict access from the IP address(es) and perhaps even shut down access temporarily?
"And seriously, what kind of password is T1me Out. This is just pathetic."
What's wrong with it? Uppercase, lowercase and numbers. Looks safe to me. If you had a thousand years to figure it out on your own, would have succeeded?
I would say it's safer than 'xXsa425Vff', because 'T1me Out' is easy to remember. That way, you don't have to ask your co-workers what it is in case you forget it. Plus, I'm sure they're changing the password from time to time. It's unlikely 'T2me Out', however.:)
"..could pose a much bigger threat to long-established phone makers such as Nokia, Motorola Inc, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Sony Ericsson.."
Yes, it will steal some market share from the phone makers, but we should all assume that they aren't idiots. What they all have in common is great income and plenty of money to spend on development. Why would they just watch Apple steal everything from them? It's one thing to conquer the mp3 player market, but significantly harder to conquer the mobile phone market.
I am one hundred percent certain that at least a couple of these companies will bring out very competitive products very soon, possibly this year. I also have no doubt that Apple will continue to develop great products, but I just don't see the same iPod era in the cell phone market like so many people think.
"The elegant new enclosure will somewhat resemble the current white iMac but is said to feature a shorter space below the actual display, where most of the internals are housed." The upcoming iMacs are expected to be based on Intel's Santa Rosa platform with speeds will reach the highest point at 2.4GHz."
So in other words, this is a tablet PC without the movable touch screen.
Now I am puzzled. Apple announced better gaming support at the latest WWDC, but the move to make the most common home Mac more of a laptop, indicates that high-end graphics cards are a no-no.
I personally think that the next iPod will be rougly half the size of the ones we see today. After all, the next step for Apple is to make the scroll wheel obsolete by integrating all the necessities into the screen.
I think it's unlikely for Apple to release an iPod with a screen as big as the iPhone, simply because there is no need for so much information on a simple music player.
Here we go again. "Official" printer ink is more expensive than heroin, but instead of competitive pricing, they go hand in hand with RIAA's marketing folks (read: more competition equals pricier products).
If they had ink cartridges with aggressive pricing in the first place, people would buy the factory-made ink simply because it would sound like a safe choice. At least I would.
Your problem is that you waste too much time bothering and then commenting. Yes, this news is sort of questionable but so is some news at CNN, CNet and other networks too.
The trick is to waste as little time as possible per news item you do not find interesting. No one gives a shit if you stop visiting Slashdot. I know I will, because I really enjoy the service as it is.
That, however, is an absolute world away from bankruptcy, which you claim.
Are you serious or are you just trying to ignore the fact that I used the word "may" in bold? Nowhere am I claiming that AMD is about to go bankrupt. I am just saying that it is more possible now than it has been for a very long time.
AMD has a more significant share of the laptop market now than they did for basically the rest of their existance.
I never said anything else. You are missing the point, however. Yes, they have a higher number of laptop sales, but the market share remains fairly low and most importantly, not on the climb.
I can assure you that you are wrong, and I wouldn't buy AMD shares either, but that has to do with how unbelievably over-inflated the stock market as a whole is, not fear for the future of the company.
Your assurances mean nothing to me. I doubt that you are a stock market analyst so I would not take any advice from you.
You do make one valid point in your entire post, however. "AMD is a closer second than they've ever been before", but that's as far as it goes. You fail to understand that the cash flow is crippled and that AMD is indeed running out of money as previously reported on quite a lot of sites. Market share is nothing if you cannot fund your development to support it.
As we're looking at the problem as a whole, we must realize that the great firewall is just a branch at the end of a giant tree. Trying to do something about this is like chopping of that branch when it is the whole tree that is ill. And eventually, another branch will grow out.
I don't think the Chinese commie leaders will remove the firewall. It stands for what they believe in, and if they were to shut it down, it would be a sign of weakness that they do not want. So for anything to happen and last, they must attack the fundamental flaws of their society, not just one of its flawed products.
When the Core series were released, things didn't look to good for AMD. When they announced the delay of Barcelona, things started to look really bad. There are a few reasons why AMD may go bankrupt in a few years:
-AMD is behind in the laptop market, which is growing at a staggering pace.
-Intel has as extreme cash flow, and therefore more room for mistakes.
-The marketing team at Intel has been doing a better job than its counter-part.
-Intel is ahead of schedule. In the meantime, AMD is behind.
-AMD recently purchased ATI. It is not necessarily a bad move, but it cost them tons of money. To make things worse, ATI is behind schedule and also behind its only competitor, nVidia, which means less money for AMD.
-AMD shares are currently falling.
I can only hope that I am wrong but I would definitely not buy AMD shares today.
Seriously though, this debate is getting tiresome and at the end of the day, I feel no more enlightment on the subject.
These people fail to see how stupid it is to scare the public with billion dollar figures. I frankly don't give a crap if company x lose a y dollars per year. My point is that if a company is struck by heavy use of piracy, then their business module is entirely misplaced. It could be too expensive, too difficult to purchase, only a tiny useful function out of many less useful ones, and many other factors that contribute to such outcome.
Take a music CD for example. It's expensive, impractical to purchase, often DRM:ed and includes maybe two, three or four songs that you like. This is why iTunes and other comparable services are slowly taking over that "lost" segment that chose piracy over unthoughtful music labels.
I don't believe that we are criminals by nature and I doubt that most of us prefer to "steal" rather than purchasing, but the companies have to find solutions very soon and adapt before piracy becomes a habit and not just an escape.
Last but not least, I am yet to see an anti-piracy statement that admits to the positive effects of pirating. After all, that's how many artists, movies and software developers gain a lot of attention. Do you think Photoshop would be widespread in Europe if there was no alternative to that idiotic $1,500 price tag? At least people pirate Photoshop instead of turning to the cheaper alternatives. And when have you heard Adobe admit to this?
I was actually looking forward to try this browser out, but to my surprise, I could not even make it work.
The installation was smooth without any unexpected bumps on the road. First when I loaded the program, I noticed that no menu fonts nor any fonts whatsoever on the web pages existed. To make it worse, the browser would crash every time I clicked on anything with interactivity, such as the stop button. I have read quite a few solutions to this problem but so far no success. I run Win XP SP2, btw.
Also, I am not a big fan of customized GUI:s for crucial applications like a web browser. We should be able to use Windows ClearType instead of the ported OSX version (which sucks), and most importantly, we should be able to use the standard Windows themes. I don't get why Apple thinks the average Windows user would want a significantly altered browser that looks nothing like the rest of the operating system he or she is using. How would Mac users react if Internet Explorer was ported with the Windows theme?
I think it looks like a promising project, but I am worried because it's not in Apple's nature to release beta software with so many bugs and so little heart put into it.
A front page, full text synopsis about a product delay, and the summary doesn't even bother going a little further into depth what this mystical "turbo memory" is?
With the exception of a small fraction of Slashdot readers, most of us are in fact capable of gathering information without a problem.
You could spin this in either direction, but fact of the matter is that this news is very interesting to some readers and covers technology we have read much about already. So if you don't know much about this innovation, why complain? It's like covering a story on PHP updates: most people won't understand much about the news and the terminology used in that news item. Does that mean that the author is responsible for explaining every single shortcut to those who don't do PHP?
There will always be a lack of information in EVERY news item on EVERY piece of article you can read from ANY source, simply because it is news, not an encyclopedia.
There is no reason for Intel to make this move just yet. Now that they are completely dominating AMD in the desktop segment, why not hold it as a safe card against AMD next time they come with something new?
Intel would gain almost nothing on claiming another performance victory over AMD since it is widely known that their Core 2 Duo/Quad CPU series outperform AMD by a lot. So by releasing more technology that increases performance by a very small margin is like for AMD to announce the 1% speed bump with AM2 over 939.
From another view, I think it is interesting to see that the laptops receive cutting-edge technology ahead of the desktop market. Could this become a trend in the computer industry?
I was playing with the idea of controlling my computer with my brain, but ended up a little dizzy and exhausted.
When I navigate with the mouse and type with a keyboard, I do so without much thinking. However, try to look around a page, look at the word and think "click" every time you want to click something. It is actually kind of difficult, because you don't want to think your actions as much as you want to just click with a mouse button. And what if you play an fps game? Thinking that you have to turn around and shooting at a precise moment will be contra-productive because you can't just sit and stare at a screen for hours without moving around a bit.
This may of course be something I can get used to and I guess a lot of people would prefer this method, but I doubt I would.
There are many alternatives, but none of them offer what Adobe's products offer. Some may argue that many applications are closing in on tools like Photoshop, but I firmly believe that the support for these programs is what makes it so dominating.
I am a professional Photoshop user and have become one thanks to the vast amount of tutorials and discussions that relate directly to Photoshop. I know Gimp and I know Paint Shop Pro, but aside from the fact that none of these tools are quite as extensive as Photoshop, you still want that large community to back you up when you need help.
To answer the question of the main article, I would say that the best alternative to Photoshop is yet another Adobe product: Photoshop Elements. It's a capped version of Photoshop at some $100 in retail stores. This is fully comparable to Paint Shop Pro, which is about the same price.
I realize this could be a great thing for computers - especially portable computers. However, I am more interested in how large portion of the heat that turns into sound and eventually into electricity. My stationary computer is fine without all that extra power. What I want is to know if this will kill the need for huge fans and actually remove some of the heat, or if it will just suck a small portion of it.
convicted criminal corporationvsyou can also go to the White House for being one
Is Ballmer a convict or is it Microsoft? He is the CEO of a company that is constantly involved in lawsuits, but can you name one large company that isn't? And does that make the CEO a criminal? Regardless of what you may think of him, he is one of the world's most powerful voices in the world of technology, so I am sure his word counts.
And while we're at it, don't forget to criticize George W Bush for using the constitution as toilet paper.
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The issue I have with this test is that poker is more than just a game of probability, luck and pattern analysis.
If you play on the internet, you rely solely on these three factors, but today's poker celebrities also rely on psyching the opponent and reveal tells. If the bot was capable of emotions as well as reading its opponents emotions, this would be far more interesting.
In the meantime, congress doesn't believe poker is a game of skill.
Is it even possible to do this? Can you make hundreds of thousands of attempts in a short amount of time? I mean, is it not likely that the system will restrict access from the IP address(es) and perhaps even shut down access temporarily?
"And seriously, what kind of password is T1me Out. This is just pathetic."
:)
What's wrong with it? Uppercase, lowercase and numbers. Looks safe to me. If you had a thousand years to figure it out on your own, would have succeeded?
I would say it's safer than 'xXsa425Vff', because 'T1me Out' is easy to remember. That way, you don't have to ask your co-workers what it is in case you forget it. Plus, I'm sure they're changing the password from time to time. It's unlikely 'T2me Out', however.
I guess 3/4 of Jobs' next WWDC speech must be rewritten now.
"..It just doesn't make sense to limit yourself to just one system.."
No, what we need is like 500 different systems. Just like in the world of memory cards.
"..could pose a much bigger threat to long-established phone makers such as Nokia, Motorola Inc, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Sony Ericsson.."
Yes, it will steal some market share from the phone makers, but we should all assume that they aren't idiots. What they all have in common is great income and plenty of money to spend on development. Why would they just watch Apple steal everything from them? It's one thing to conquer the mp3 player market, but significantly harder to conquer the mobile phone market.
I am one hundred percent certain that at least a couple of these companies will bring out very competitive products very soon, possibly this year. I also have no doubt that Apple will continue to develop great products, but I just don't see the same iPod era in the cell phone market like so many people think.
Why do wealthier people have more male children, and poorer people have more female children?
That's absurd. I'd love to explain why, but I am in a rush to apply for some new credit to my daughter.
"The elegant new enclosure will somewhat resemble the current white iMac but is said to feature a shorter space below the actual display, where most of the internals are housed." The upcoming iMacs are expected to be based on Intel's Santa Rosa platform with speeds will reach the highest point at 2.4GHz."
So in other words, this is a tablet PC without the movable touch screen.
Now I am puzzled. Apple announced better gaming support at the latest WWDC, but the move to make the most common home Mac more of a laptop, indicates that high-end graphics cards are a no-no.
I personally think that the next iPod will be rougly half the size of the ones we see today. After all, the next step for Apple is to make the scroll wheel obsolete by integrating all the necessities into the screen.
I think it's unlikely for Apple to release an iPod with a screen as big as the iPhone, simply because there is no need for so much information on a simple music player.
Here we go again. "Official" printer ink is more expensive than heroin, but instead of competitive pricing, they go hand in hand with RIAA's marketing folks (read: more competition equals pricier products).
If they had ink cartridges with aggressive pricing in the first place, people would buy the factory-made ink simply because it would sound like a safe choice. At least I would.
Your problem is that you waste too much time bothering and then commenting. Yes, this news is sort of questionable but so is some news at CNN, CNet and other networks too.
The trick is to waste as little time as possible per news item you do not find interesting. No one gives a shit if you stop visiting Slashdot. I know I will, because I really enjoy the service as it is.
Perfection is an illusion.
That, however, is an absolute world away from bankruptcy, which you claim.
Are you serious or are you just trying to ignore the fact that I used the word "may" in bold? Nowhere am I claiming that AMD is about to go bankrupt. I am just saying that it is more possible now than it has been for a very long time.
AMD has a more significant share of the laptop market now than they did for basically the rest of their existance.
I never said anything else. You are missing the point, however. Yes, they have a higher number of laptop sales, but the market share remains fairly low and most importantly, not on the climb.
I can assure you that you are wrong, and I wouldn't buy AMD shares either, but that has to do with how unbelievably over-inflated the stock market as a whole is, not fear for the future of the company.
Your assurances mean nothing to me. I doubt that you are a stock market analyst so I would not take any advice from you.
You do make one valid point in your entire post, however. "AMD is a closer second than they've ever been before", but that's as far as it goes. You fail to understand that the cash flow is crippled and that AMD is indeed running out of money as previously reported on quite a lot of sites. Market share is nothing if you cannot fund your development to support it.
So you're against AMD for their policy on open source, but for monopoly? If so, your ideology is fundamentally flawed.
As we're looking at the problem as a whole, we must realize that the great firewall is just a branch at the end of a giant tree. Trying to do something about this is like chopping of that branch when it is the whole tree that is ill. And eventually, another branch will grow out.
I don't think the Chinese commie leaders will remove the firewall. It stands for what they believe in, and if they were to shut it down, it would be a sign of weakness that they do not want. So for anything to happen and last, they must attack the fundamental flaws of their society, not just one of its flawed products.
When the Core series were released, things didn't look to good for AMD. When they announced the delay of Barcelona, things started to look really bad. There are a few reasons why AMD may go bankrupt in a few years:
-AMD is behind in the laptop market, which is growing at a staggering pace. -Intel has as extreme cash flow, and therefore more room for mistakes. -The marketing team at Intel has been doing a better job than its counter-part. -Intel is ahead of schedule. In the meantime, AMD is behind. -AMD recently purchased ATI. It is not necessarily a bad move, but it cost them tons of money. To make things worse, ATI is behind schedule and also behind its only competitor, nVidia, which means less money for AMD. -AMD shares are currently falling.
I can only hope that I am wrong but I would definitely not buy AMD shares today.
Lots of people steal Cars. Just ask Pixar.
Seriously though, this debate is getting tiresome and at the end of the day, I feel no more enlightment on the subject.
These people fail to see how stupid it is to scare the public with billion dollar figures. I frankly don't give a crap if company x lose a y dollars per year. My point is that if a company is struck by heavy use of piracy, then their business module is entirely misplaced. It could be too expensive, too difficult to purchase, only a tiny useful function out of many less useful ones, and many other factors that contribute to such outcome.
Take a music CD for example. It's expensive, impractical to purchase, often DRM:ed and includes maybe two, three or four songs that you like. This is why iTunes and other comparable services are slowly taking over that "lost" segment that chose piracy over unthoughtful music labels.
I don't believe that we are criminals by nature and I doubt that most of us prefer to "steal" rather than purchasing, but the companies have to find solutions very soon and adapt before piracy becomes a habit and not just an escape.
Last but not least, I am yet to see an anti-piracy statement that admits to the positive effects of pirating. After all, that's how many artists, movies and software developers gain a lot of attention. Do you think Photoshop would be widespread in Europe if there was no alternative to that idiotic $1,500 price tag? At least people pirate Photoshop instead of turning to the cheaper alternatives. And when have you heard Adobe admit to this?
ReputationDefender - "Nothing to see here, please move along."
and
DefendMyName - "We created the idea for Rockstar's Bully"
I was actually looking forward to try this browser out, but to my surprise, I could not even make it work.
The installation was smooth without any unexpected bumps on the road. First when I loaded the program, I noticed that no menu fonts nor any fonts whatsoever on the web pages existed. To make it worse, the browser would crash every time I clicked on anything with interactivity, such as the stop button. I have read quite a few solutions to this problem but so far no success. I run Win XP SP2, btw.
Anyway, there are more problems around the corner. According to the Apple forum, people can't play Windows Media files, dual monitor support is very buggy, some buttons screw up the GUI when pressed down and dragged, loads of spontaneous lockups, random letters appearing everywhere, installation problems, parental control issues and more.
Also, I am not a big fan of customized GUI:s for crucial applications like a web browser. We should be able to use Windows ClearType instead of the ported OSX version (which sucks), and most importantly, we should be able to use the standard Windows themes. I don't get why Apple thinks the average Windows user would want a significantly altered browser that looks nothing like the rest of the operating system he or she is using. How would Mac users react if Internet Explorer was ported with the Windows theme?
I think it looks like a promising project, but I am worried because it's not in Apple's nature to release beta software with so many bugs and so little heart put into it.
A front page, full text synopsis about a product delay, and the summary doesn't even bother going a little further into depth what this mystical "turbo memory" is?
With the exception of a small fraction of Slashdot readers, most of us are in fact capable of gathering information without a problem.
You could spin this in either direction, but fact of the matter is that this news is very interesting to some readers and covers technology we have read much about already. So if you don't know much about this innovation, why complain? It's like covering a story on PHP updates: most people won't understand much about the news and the terminology used in that news item. Does that mean that the author is responsible for explaining every single shortcut to those who don't do PHP?
There will always be a lack of information in EVERY news item on EVERY piece of article you can read from ANY source, simply because it is news, not an encyclopedia.
There is no reason for Intel to make this move just yet. Now that they are completely dominating AMD in the desktop segment, why not hold it as a safe card against AMD next time they come with something new?
Intel would gain almost nothing on claiming another performance victory over AMD since it is widely known that their Core 2 Duo/Quad CPU series outperform AMD by a lot. So by releasing more technology that increases performance by a very small margin is like for AMD to announce the 1% speed bump with AM2 over 939.
From another view, I think it is interesting to see that the laptops receive cutting-edge technology ahead of the desktop market. Could this become a trend in the computer industry?
I was playing with the idea of controlling my computer with my brain, but ended up a little dizzy and exhausted.
When I navigate with the mouse and type with a keyboard, I do so without much thinking. However, try to look around a page, look at the word and think "click" every time you want to click something. It is actually kind of difficult, because you don't want to think your actions as much as you want to just click with a mouse button. And what if you play an fps game? Thinking that you have to turn around and shooting at a precise moment will be contra-productive because you can't just sit and stare at a screen for hours without moving around a bit.
This may of course be something I can get used to and I guess a lot of people would prefer this method, but I doubt I would.
There are many alternatives, but none of them offer what Adobe's products offer. Some may argue that many applications are closing in on tools like Photoshop, but I firmly believe that the support for these programs is what makes it so dominating.
I am a professional Photoshop user and have become one thanks to the vast amount of tutorials and discussions that relate directly to Photoshop. I know Gimp and I know Paint Shop Pro, but aside from the fact that none of these tools are quite as extensive as Photoshop, you still want that large community to back you up when you need help.
To answer the question of the main article, I would say that the best alternative to Photoshop is yet another Adobe product: Photoshop Elements. It's a capped version of Photoshop at some $100 in retail stores. This is fully comparable to Paint Shop Pro, which is about the same price.
I realize this could be a great thing for computers - especially portable computers. However, I am more interested in how large portion of the heat that turns into sound and eventually into electricity. My stationary computer is fine without all that extra power. What I want is to know if this will kill the need for huge fans and actually remove some of the heat, or if it will just suck a small portion of it.
convicted criminal corporation vs you can also go to the White House for being one
Is Ballmer a convict or is it Microsoft? He is the CEO of a company that is constantly involved in lawsuits, but can you name one large company that isn't? And does that make the CEO a criminal? Regardless of what you may think of him, he is one of the world's most powerful voices in the world of technology, so I am sure his word counts.
And while we're at it, don't forget to criticize George W Bush for using the constitution as toilet paper.