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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
May 14, 2013, 16:03 |
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From the video: "But providing vaccines throughout the developing world is no simple task, so Gates has set up his foundation to run like Microsoft. He insists on strict accounting, and, when a problem arises, he pulls in the best people to find solutions."
That doesn't sound naive. Yes, there is waste, but it's worthwhile when trying to eradicate 3 deadly diseases from the world.
InBlack wrote on May 14, 2013, 10:18:
Invest in technology that will have a huge long term beneficial effect for humanity, renewable energy for one or something or other that is not really that profitable or is pushed under the rug by the oil/gas lobby.
Also from the video "And Gates showed us one of his boldest and, he says, most important ventures, a new kind of nuclear reactor. It would burn depleted uranium, making it cleaner, safer, and cheaper than today's reactors. Your fuel will last for 60 years. So, during that entire time, you don't need to open it up, refuel it. You don't need to buy more fuel. So there's a certain simplicity that comes with this design."
InBlack wrote on May 14, 2013, 10:18:
Or if he wants to give to charity, he should concentrate on the charities that help people in the US (and I say this as a non US citizen). The US has a shitload of poverty related social problems, and the biggest of them has to be education.
From Bill Gates 2009 TED Talk: "Now, our foundation, for the last nine years, has invested in this. There's many people working on it. We've worked on small schools, we've funded scholarships, we've done things in libraries. A lot of these things had a good effect. But the more we looked at it, the more we realized that having great teachers was the very key thing. And we hooked up with some people studying how much variation is there between teachers, between, say, the top quartile -- the very best -- and the bottom quartile. How much variation is there within a school or between schools? And the answer is that these variations are absolutely unbelievable. A top quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class -- based on test scores -- by over 10 percent in a single year. What does that mean? That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away. Within four years we would be blowing everyone in the world away."
Maybe before complaining about how Bill Gates is spending his money you should at least listen to the video. Or better yet, you should try spending some of your pittance (and I have no idea how much you make, but it's a pittance compared to him) and try to solve these problems. |
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| News Comments > More Valve Layoffs |
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Re: More Valve Layoffs |
Feb 15, 2013, 12:51 |
Loose Cannon |
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I realize that no one will probably read this, but I wrote a program to use the Way Back Machine (archive.org) to look at the employee directory. According to it:
Total Hires: 143
Total Fires: 35
Hires By Date:
04/14/2010 - 102
06/21/2010 - 1
07/22/2010 - 2
08/08/2010 - 1
08/11/2010 - 1
03/24/2011 - 1
05/13/2011 - 3
09/02/2011 - 1
09/05/2011 - 5
09/25/2011 - 12
10/07/2011 - 1
10/12/2011 - 2
10/24/2011 - 1
03/29/2012 - 1
06/25/2012 - 1
07/28/2012 - 1
09/19/2012 - 4
01/13/2013 - 2
02/15/2013 - 1
Fires By Date:
06/21/2010 - 3
09/04/2010 - 2
03/24/2011 - 1
06/15/2011 - 2
09/02/2011 - 1
09/25/2011 - 1
03/17/2012 - 4
06/25/2012 - 5
09/19/2012 - 4
01/13/2013 - 3
02/15/2013 - 9
These figures point to the layoffs not being that substantial (of course that assumes that the employee directory is accurate, which it probably isn't). If anyone is interested, I have a list of the 143 people that have been in the employee directory at some point and their hire/fire dates (Way Back Machine started crawling the site 4/14/2010, when the page had 102 people on it). |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Oct 30, 2012, 14:42 |
Loose Cannon |
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Dev wrote on Oct 30, 2012, 13:43:
BTW, looks like front page is down except for the 1 entry...
There is actually more to the front page than just today's Out of the Blue, you just need to scroll down to see it. This happens because the left navigation bar and "today's" news are within the same table. "Yesterday's" news is in another table below the left nav... so if "today's" news is shorter than the left nav, the page requires some extra scrolling.
At some point Bluenews should get a redesign... at least drop all the nested tables :). |
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| News Comments > The Humble Voxatron Debut Expands |
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Re: The Humble Voxatron Debut Expands |
Nov 2, 2011, 09:40 |
Loose Cannon |
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| There definitely is a steam code, which gets you Blocks that Matter and The Binding of Isaac. I'm not surprised Voxatron has no Steam code yet since it's in alpha. Go to your redeem page and click the "Get your Steam key" link at the top of the page. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Poker |
Oct 20, 2008, 12:37 |
Loose Cannon |
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Er, I'm pretty sure that if you have KdJd in your hand, the odds of the turn being the Jd and the river being the Kd is significantly lower than 2/45 and 1/44.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that would be called cheating. Thanks Bhruic, I've corrected my post.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Poker |
Oct 20, 2008, 11:06 |
Loose Cannon |
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I would disagree... losing with a good hand is a "tough beat," or some such. A bad beat is losing to someone with no business in the pot due to a bad or misplayed hand... Like having a big pocket pair and raising the blinds and someone calls you with 6-2 and wins.
I agree with blue, this wasn't a bad beat. Phillips had an outside straight draw after the flop to Mabuchi's 3 of a kind Aces. The turn put Phillips in the lead with a 9-K edit: A-T straight, a flush draw, and a royal flush draw. The A on the turn completed both hands, but Phillips retained the top hand.
It seemed like a bad beat at first glance because it looked like Phillips needed runner-runner to win the hand; but that just wasn't the case. It looks like there was limited (if any) betting during the hand. Both players had a legitimate stake in the pot, so this was unlucky, not a bad beat.
A bad beat would have looked like this, with the same cards in a different order (and different betting):
AA vs KdJd
Flop: AdA9
A raise of any kind by Mabuchi and a call by Phillips (let's just assume all-in to make it a real bad beat, because Phillips would have had .1% chance of winning.
Turn: Jd - (2/45) edit: Qd (2/45)
River: Kd - (1/44) edit: Td (1/44)
Another example... I was playing a $30 SNG, I lost an all-in preflop KK vs KK [there is only one way to lose this hand]. We both had a legitimate claim to the pot (the same hand, in fact), but I was just unlucky with a (12/48) * (11/47) * (10/46) * (9/45) * 1 = .2% chance of losing the hand.
Edit: Thanks Bhruic for pointing out my typos. Corrected A-10 straight [can't believe I missed that] and JdKd stupidity.
This comment was edited on Oct 20, 2008, 12:35. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: No subject |
Jan 24, 2008, 11:25 |
Loose Cannon |
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us.pool.ntp.org is probably a better time server to use for North Americans. The *.pool.ntp.org servers use round robin, so there is a very good chance the one you get won't be getting hammered. Check http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers to see the NTP pools in your area.
I forgot to mention previously that time synchronization won't work if your machine time is off by more than 15 hours.
[edit, changed north-america.pool.ntp.org to us.pool.ntp.org]
This comment was edited on Jan 24, 11:29. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: No subject |
Jan 24, 2008, 11:00 |
Loose Cannon |
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What happens when you click the Update Now button? You may need to check the Windows Application Event Log. Check to make sure that the Windows Time Service is not disabled, and that you can UDP to port 123 through your firewall.
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - The Ship |
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Re: No subject |
Apr 11, 2007, 17:45 |
Loose Cannon |
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I understand your argument, but I disagree. I would rather see support for company that is outside the shadow of the colossal EA or Ubisoft. I realize a good game can be created without the backing of a large publisher, but those games can be counted on one hand. The fact is game development costs money and unless support is given to these smaller companies the only games you'll see are the ones the large publishers think are safe.
Given the stupidity of your post you shouldn't be lecturing anyone on logical fallacies.
Welcome to ad hominem, you know it well.
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - The Ship |
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Re: No subject |
Apr 11, 2007, 14:43 |
Loose Cannon |
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I didn't miss the point.
Just because you say you didn't miss the point doesn't make it true. You still missed the point. He's saying that he's glad he supported a company that developed an original idea. Maybe he's sick of WW2 FPS and RTS games, I know I am. His hope is that his support will encourage the same developer, or other developers, to not rehash the same game over and over again.
Both your posts suffer from logical fallacy. Just because he bought one game doesn't mean he didn't also support the developer of a "good" game. No where did he say "I bought The Ship instead of <if you actually like a game, insert that here>."
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| News Comments > Crysis Q&A |
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Re: No subject |
Jan 28, 2007, 13:10 |
Loose Cannon |
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Why wont the OGL devs do something to compete and get more adoption of OGL? Don't they care about OGL?
Gaming on Mac and Linux will NEVER happen while OGL sits with their thumbs up their arses. They have become the Matrox of graphics. Who? Yup thats what people think outside of the lab, or vision system, Matrox who? OpenGL who?
With a name like m00zilla, I'm surprised you don't understand the issues with open source development. One of the larger issues is that there is no central body pushing open standards. Microsoft spends a lot of money making developer tools and providing developer support for DirectX. The developers of OpenGL are software developers. They write lines of code. There are no people trying to get game houses to adopt OpenGL. The main reason for this is cost. The vast amount of open source contributions are in time, not dollars.
A previous poster mentioned that you should contribute to OpenGL. That's how open software development works. If you can't contriute code, perhaps you can contribute money, or perhaps something else. So while you're saying OGL sits with their thumbs up their ass. I say you are sitting with your thumb up your own ass.
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| News Comments > Evening Consolidation |
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Re: Attach rate |
Nov 22, 2006, 09:18 |
Loose Cannon |
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Really? I think this argument is completely bogus. I understand the math behind it. If your attach rate goes from 4.6 to 5.2 it can mean two things: number of consoles sold per month is dropping and game buying remains level; or console buying remains level and game buying is increasing. So, it's fairly easy to see if sales figures are dropping for the 360 (http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=11067), but they aren't. So, while console buying remains fairly level, it must mean that console owners have increased their game purchases. This is great news for Microsoft.
Side note: My "attach rate" for the 360 is currently at 17 (although some are used).
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Bleh |
Sep 14, 2006, 09:45 |
Loose Cannon |
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I had a problem with my 5V rail recently as well. I would see artifacts while doing anything 3D. Sometimes the artifacts were minimal, sometimes unplayable so, and sometimes the artifacts would go away. My 5V rail would drop below 4.2, but that's still well below the 5% threshold. A new power supply fixed it right up.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Active Directory |
Aug 17, 2006, 11:49 |
Loose Cannon |
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I wrote a program to do something like this about 10 years ago (although it was NT then, not AD). It would look at all the subdirectories and reassign permissions based on directory name (and take ownership if it needed to). Not what you're looking for, but it wouldn't be terribly difficult to do something like this... I would say it would even by easy to do with with .Net.
I would imagine you'd want something like this: Obtain list of all AD Security Groups, get group access for individual share/NTFS, remove that group from the list. You'd be left of a list of groups that don't have assignments. Of course, it wouldn't be that easy because Security Groups can be in Security Groups.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: you know... |
Aug 8, 2006, 12:36 |
Loose Cannon |
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Picking my copy up in about two hours.. will post up some first imps. this evening after the preliminary slaughter..
Where can you pick the game up? It doesn't seem like any stores in my area have it. Tomorrow seems like the day for me 
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: No subject |
Aug 4, 2006, 23:21 |
Loose Cannon |
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It doesn't matter if "it says it is hot swap" - unless you have a critical process running that NEEDS it 24/7 to be up, you ALWAYS power down the system first.
Don't be an idiot.
That may be, although in my experience it's more dangerous to shut down the system. There is always a danger when platters that spin constantly for months are stopped and started again; the hardest thing for a drive to do is spin up.
Of course, your mileage may vary.
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Tech question of the night |
Aug 4, 2006, 22:17 |
Loose Cannon |
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I've had to replace hard drives multiple times in Dell servers and haven't had any problems with hot swapping. The raid controller should automatically recognize the new hard drive and begin scrubbing.
That being said, if you have a working array I would attempt to get a solid backup first. Fairly recently I've had a drive in array go dead and after swapping in a good hard drive, about half way through the scrubbing a different hard drive failed... because the scrubbing wasn't completed the array was completely lost. This happend twice to the same server in a one month period. I assume that this was the case of a faulty controller. The server was ultimately taken out of commission.
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