I think this just shows that firefox user are, just like my fellow opera users, just a bunch of browser fanbois. Hell, i even run weekly snapshot builds of opera for no reason. IE users dont care about the browser in the first place, Safari isn't something Mac users chose to use because it's so great either. So why would they bother updating all the time? So in conclusion, this study shows: If you chose to use some special software, you will update it when you use it. Big suprise...
This is ridiculus. If there are no bots in **online poker**, the only reason for this is that the hosts are too good at detecting them!
**Online poker** is not real poker. I have been myself playing like a bot would do, with a sheet of paper infront of me, with simple instructions like "if you are xx seat, have cards xy, others did that, so you do this". I did make some profit, but i don't really like the game at all, seeing that it is just that simple. Making a bit of profit in online poker is not about *perfect* play, it is only about beating the newbies. Even the most trivial poker bot can win online if it just can go by undetected.
Sure, people can and will exploit you with that type of play and it will never work in games with higher wages, but this is all the more reason to belive there have to be bots. A bot can simply track all players it plays against and leave tables when there is someone exploiting them. There are thousand of tables and millions of players, all you have to do is avoid those who know you. At the same time a bot can play all day and night on any number of tables.
I bet there are alot bots already, undetected and unpublished, generation a steady stream of money for those who wrote them and are not afraid of fraud charges... Only an idiot would publish such a bot and draw attention from the host. And neither would the poker hosts confirm the existance of a bot, since they absolutely depend on the illusion that the game is fair.
Only on/. noone points out the most obvious: If you get a headache after staring at the screen for hours, just follow some of the most basic work economics. Which would include doing a *real* break every hour or two. Not a "drink coffee infront of the pc" but a "walk around, do something else" kind of break. I doubt there is any color scheme that can give you a headache after an hour in a well lit room with a good monitor and frequent breaks...
When Gates first tried to create his fabled army of evil monkeys, he ended up with just one evil and angry monkey(boy). So he called him Steve and made him president. But Gates didn't give up his dream and his army of evil monkeys has been harrassing open source developers ever since
Each time i hear news like this i wonder: Is there no democracy in america or is the majority there religious fundamentalists? You guys should really do something about it, it's getting more and more embarrasing...
But seriously, even C# is a better Java then itself. Java really pushed the whole language concept forwards, but i wouldnt consider it a modern language. But people have used Perl, PHP, etc. for all these years even though those are stupid languages as well.
In the end, everyone has to use the language they deserve. Those who don't know any better could choose worse than Java...
This is only news to IE users, and there probably aren't much around here. Almost every website under *.microsoft.* or *.google.* has problems with either opera or firefox or both.
-compiles to native code -type interference -minimal syntax -multi paradigms -batteries included -great name
That would be my perfect language. I'd call it Perfect Python and "just" add OCamls type interference and native code to Python3k.
Also to add another quote since i saw the Knuth one already: There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. -Bjarne Stroustrup
i loved this. Stop crying, you don't have to click everything that comes up on slashdot. At least if you are a sane person, not a complete slashdot addict.
I got vista64 on my 1 month old laptop, because it has 4gb ram and i get vista for free since i'm a informatics student.
I think vista is not *that bad* anymore, my laptop actually works flawlessly and i had no problems finding drivers for it etc.
The biggest problem with Vista is the huge ram foodprint, but lets face it: Ram costs nothing these days... 100$ for 4gb ram? Last time i upgraded, 1GB cost me 200$.
The UAC is about as annoying as Ubuntu and everyone loves ubuntu after all...
Just write down about 15 lines of python to save it as xml. Why even bother with any database? xml is as portable as it gets and you can actually type in entries with *scite*
It's not like you have to wade through tons of senseless articles before you find something interesting. Most people use it to look things up, not to read for a hour. Who expects everything on the internet to be important and true? Websites are not books to read from front to back. I doubt that there is any Website at all with the quality some people expect from Wikipedia. Filtering trivial information is one of the most important skills on the internet, be it irc, email, usenet or web. Without that skill, sites like/., Digg and Wikipedia would really have to change...
America already denies human rights but people still care about free speech?
Anyways, here in germany free speech means that you cannot be prosecuted for anything you say, *UNLESS* it goes against our constitution. Which includes human rights, so any form of racism is forbidden, and a democratic goverment, and so on. We do have our own problems with that from time to time, like a wannabe-nazi party which we cannot shut down because they dont openly attack the constitution. The even get govermental support, like any political party (because we want fair elections), even though they are always on the edge of being banned. This might sound a bit perverted, but i think it is a great system because it sets very clear rules. There is simply no way around our constition, so this slow decline of personal freedom that happens in america is impossible here. But as we had to learn this lesson from our history, maybe the americans have to make their own experiences first...
... it's the university. I study informatics at TUM, europe's top university for informatics (#1 or 2 in every study for the last 5 years... ).
We started with Java too, but we also learned asm and how a CPU really works on a hardware level in the 1st semester. 2nd semester was VHDL and OCaml, while keeping Java as the language for most homework in the Algorithms and Data scructures and Software Engineering course. 3rd semester we got C in Operation Systems and SQL for databases... I'm not a particular fan of Java, i use mostly Python, Lua, OCaml and C# (if i have to), but bashing Java is completely ridiculus and doing so on basis on a study from a university where idiots seem to lecture is even stupider.
Has ArenaNet considered just purchasing GuildWiki from Phil (Gravewit)?
Technically, it's not possible for Phil to sell the content of GuildWiki. He doesn't own it. The site contains articles written by hundreds of different people, and each author still holds the copyrights for the articles that he or she wrote. The Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license used by GuildWiki provides certain rights, but selling the content for profit is not a right that's provided by that license. So Phil doesn't own the content and he's not allowed to make a profit by selling it.
Individual contributors still hold the copyrights to their articles and can license them however they wish. Anyone who wrote an article for GuildWiki can choose to also make that article available to another site under another license. That's a choice for contributors to make, but it's not a choice that Phil is legally allowed to make on their behalf. Has ArenaNet considered leaving the content on Phil's site and just paying his hosting bills?
The content on Phil's site uses the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, which probably prevents us from using it as a primary source of documentation for our games or building wiki integration into our games, regardless of whether Phil runs the site or we do. Does Phil earn a living from selling ads on his site, and will ArenaNet be taking that away from him by hosting a wiki with no ads?
When we talked with Phil, he told us that the ads on his site only help to defray some of the costs of running the site, and that he still has to spend a lot of his own money to pay for server hosting and bandwidth. Phil is unfortunately in a position where hosting the Guild Wars wiki can't ever become a profitable business for him, because he is hosting it under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license that disallows him from making a profit off the site's content. Phil has started building new wiki sites for other games using the Free Document License instead of the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, so it is possible that his new wikis may become profitable businesses for him. We are very grateful to Phil for everything he has done for Guild Wars; we want to keep his best interests in mind; and we sincerely wish him success in his endeavors. Can ArenaNet 'fork' the GuildWiki site and use it as a basis for ArenaNet's hosted site?
We don't have the right to do that, and Phil doesn't have the right to do that. Only individual contributors have the right to upload the articles they've written to a different site under a different license.
Uhm, so he used a offline copy of wikipedia with a search engine to search through it? Wow that's like.. one of the very reason xapian exists. All the hightlights except latex come from xapian. This is like
1. Download Wikipedia
2. Install Xapian
3. Make Xapian index wikipeida
4. ????
5. Slashdot!
You americans should try to create a constituion. We have one here in germany, and its awesome. It does not only institute "Human rights" ( awesome thing too, try to get that too. You'd have to give up guantanamo tho ), but also protects our personal freedoms and us from a (/another, we actually learned from history ) police state.
And he will be pretty mad when he hears about this.
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while spore looks like an awesome game and i look forward finally playing it, it will not "change the gaming industry" in any way. Thats just a stupid thing that has been said way too often already. Remember Black and White ? It got all the similar praises, revolutionary blah, still, it was a mediocre game that didnt change anything around. The only game i can think of that actually changed the game industry a bit was WOW, which had next to zero innovation but the largest Hype ever ( putting the Sims on #2 hypewise). The only thing that matters these days is the hype: More hype -> many authors write articles on websites/blogs -> more hype. Its a self-fullfilling prophecy
Hmm i wonder how they generate statistics? Do they create a representive set of websites that represend the whole net and log their users? They would need quite alot small websites for that... Or do they analyse the requests in large server farms... what would preselect users in a way. How to do it "right" ? I guess an offline survey would be the most accurate way...
I also wonder whats the stats of newb sites, like MSN:)
"Compare prizes on Mozilla".. what a fine ad for this article;)
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I think this just shows that firefox user are, just like my fellow opera users, just a bunch of browser fanbois. Hell, i even run weekly snapshot builds of opera for no reason. IE users dont care about the browser in the first place, Safari isn't something Mac users chose to use because it's so great either. So why would they bother updating all the time? ...
So in conclusion, this study shows: If you chose to use some special software, you will update it when you use it. Big suprise
This is ridiculus. If there are no bots in **online poker**, the only reason for this is that the hosts are too good at detecting them!
**Online poker** is not real poker. I have been myself playing like a bot would do, with a sheet of paper infront of me, with simple instructions like "if you are xx seat, have cards xy, others did that, so you do this". I did make some profit, but i don't really like the game at all, seeing that it is just that simple. Making a bit of profit in online poker is not about *perfect* play, it is only about beating the newbies. Even the most trivial poker bot can win online if it just can go by undetected.
Sure, people can and will exploit you with that type of play and it will never work in games with higher wages, but this is all the more reason to belive there have to be bots. A bot can simply track all players it plays against and leave tables when there is someone exploiting them. There are thousand of tables and millions of players, all you have to do is avoid those who know you. At the same time a bot can play all day and night on any number of tables.
I bet there are alot bots already, undetected and unpublished, generation a steady stream of money for those who wrote them and are not afraid of fraud charges ... Only an idiot would publish such a bot and draw attention from the host. And neither would the poker hosts confirm the existance of a bot, since they absolutely depend on the illusion that the game is fair.
Only on /. noone points out the most obvious: ...
If you get a headache after staring at the screen for hours, just follow some of the most basic work economics.
Which would include doing a *real* break every hour or two. Not a "drink coffee infront of the pc" but a "walk around, do something else" kind of break.
I doubt there is any color scheme that can give you a headache after an hour in a well lit room with a good monitor and frequent breaks
When Gates first tried to create his fabled army of evil monkeys, he ended up with just one evil and angry monkey(boy). So he called him Steve and made him president.
But Gates didn't give up his dream and his army of evil monkeys has been harrassing open source developers ever since
Each time i hear news like this i wonder: Is there no democracy in america or is the majority there religious fundamentalists? You guys should really do something about it, it's getting more and more embarrasing ...
except for Python, since it does it all better.
But seriously, even C# is a better Java then itself. Java really pushed the whole language concept forwards, but i wouldnt consider it a modern language. But people have used Perl, PHP, etc. for all these years even though those are stupid languages as well.
In the end, everyone has to use the language they deserve. Those who don't know any better could choose worse than Java ...
This is only news to IE users, and there probably aren't much around here. Almost every website under *.microsoft.* or *.google.* has problems with either opera or firefox or both.
-compiles to native code
-type interference
-minimal syntax
-multi paradigms
-batteries included
-great name
That would be my perfect language. I'd call it Perfect Python and "just" add OCamls type interference and native code to Python3k.
Also to add another quote since i saw the Knuth one already:
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
-Bjarne Stroustrup
i loved this. Stop crying, you don't have to click everything that comes up on slashdot. At least if you are a sane person, not a complete slashdot addict.
I got vista64 on my 1 month old laptop, because it has 4gb ram and i get vista for free since i'm a informatics student. I think vista is not *that bad* anymore, my laptop actually works flawlessly and i had no problems finding drivers for it etc. The biggest problem with Vista is the huge ram foodprint, but lets face it: Ram costs nothing these days ... 100$ for 4gb ram? Last time i upgraded, 1GB cost me 200$.
The UAC is about as annoying as Ubuntu and everyone loves ubuntu after all ...
Just write down about 15 lines of python to save it as xml. Why even bother with any database? xml is as portable as it gets and you can actually type in entries with *scite*
http://www.google.de/search?q=log(3**113)%2Flog(2) 179 bit or 38 letters ... google works great ;p
It's not like you have to wade through tons of senseless articles before you find something interesting. Most people use it to look things up, not to read for a hour. Who expects everything on the internet to be important and true? Websites are not books to read from front to back. I doubt that there is any Website at all with the quality some people expect from Wikipedia. Filtering trivial information is one of the most important skills on the internet, be it irc, email, usenet or web. Without that skill, sites like /., Digg and Wikipedia would really have to change ...
yeah i got 65 bith the latest snapshop of opera, but it had one huge lag at 54, i thought it had crashed
Planes are alot more expensive. Did you really think airport security is supposed to protect humans, not investments?
America already denies human rights but people still care about free speech? Anyways, here in germany free speech means that you cannot be prosecuted for anything you say, *UNLESS* it goes against our constitution. Which includes human rights, so any form of racism is forbidden, and a democratic goverment, and so on. We do have our own problems with that from time to time, like a wannabe-nazi party which we cannot shut down because they dont openly attack the constitution. The even get govermental support, like any political party (because we want fair elections), even though they are always on the edge of being banned. This might sound a bit perverted, but i think it is a great system because it sets very clear rules. There is simply no way around our constition, so this slow decline of personal freedom that happens in america is impossible here. But as we had to learn this lesson from our history, maybe the americans have to make their own experiences first ...
... it's the university. I study informatics at TUM, europe's top university for informatics (#1 or 2 in every study for the last 5 years ... ).
We started with Java too, but we also learned asm and how a CPU really works on a hardware level in the 1st semester. 2nd semester was VHDL and OCaml, while keeping Java as the language for most homework in the Algorithms and Data scructures and Software Engineering course. 3rd semester we got C in Operation Systems and SQL for databases ... I'm not a particular fan of Java, i use mostly Python, Lua, OCaml and C# (if i have to), but bashing Java is completely ridiculus and doing so on basis on a study from a university where idiots seem to lecture is even stupider.
Uhm, so he used a offline copy of wikipedia with a search engine to search through it? Wow that's like .. one of the very reason xapian exists. All the hightlights except latex come from xapian. This is like
1. Download Wikipedia
2. Install Xapian
3. Make Xapian index wikipeida
4. ????
5. Slashdot!
I, for one, welcome our new nano robotian overlords.
You americans should try to create a constituion. We have one here in germany, and its awesome. It does not only institute "Human rights" ( awesome thing too, try to get that too. You'd have to give up guantanamo tho ), but also protects our personal freedoms and us from a ( /another, we actually learned from history ) police state.
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/11/fired.html classic.
And he will be pretty mad when he hears about this.
while spore looks like an awesome game and i look forward finally playing it, it will not "change the gaming industry" in any way. Thats just a stupid thing that has been said way too often already. Remember Black and White ? It got all the similar praises, revolutionary blah, still, it was a mediocre game that didnt change anything around. The only game i can think of that actually changed the game industry a bit was WOW, which had next to zero innovation but the largest Hype ever ( putting the Sims on #2 hypewise). The only thing that matters these days is the hype: More hype -> many authors write articles on websites/blogs -> more hype. Its a self-fullfilling prophecy
Hmm i wonder how they generate statistics? Do they create a representive set of websites that represend the whole net and log their users? They would need quite alot small websites for that ... Or do they analyse the requests in large server farms ... what would preselect users in a way. How to do it "right" ? I guess an offline survey would be the most accurate way ...
I also wonder whats the stats of newb sites, like MSN :)
"Compare prizes on Mozilla" .. what a fine ad for this article ;)