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Comment Re:Not so great (Score 1) 414

Watch the replay... do what your opponent did to you to the next guy.

I'm really enjoying the game. Having played way too much Starcraft certainly helped get me in shape for SC II, but there are differences and you do have to practice to get the timing down. Remember that there are a disproportional amount of good players in the beta, so it can be a little rough when you go against someone who's got the timing down to the millisecond.

Math

The Tuesday Birthday Problem 981

An anonymous reader sends in a mathematical puzzle introduced at the recent Gathering 4 Gardner, a convention of mathematicians, magicians, and puzzle enthusiasts held biannually in Atlanta. The Tuesday Birthday Problem is simply stated, but tends to mislead both intuitive and mathematically informed guesses. "I have two children, one of whom is a boy born on a Tuesday. What's the probability that my other child is a boy?" The submitter adds, "Believe it or not, the Tuesday thing is relevant. Well, sort of. It's ambiguous."
Graphics

GIMP Resynth vs. Photoshop Content Aware 269

aylons writes "Just after Adobe released videos showing off the content-aware feature of Photoshop CS5, the GIMP community answered by showing the resynthesizer plugin, which has been available for some time and can do a similar job. However, are they really comparable? (In original Portuguese, but really, the images are pretty much self-explaining.) Compare them side by side removing the same objects from different kinds of images. Results do vary, but the most interesting part may be seeing the different results and trying to understand the logic of each algorithm."

Comment Re:WoG... (Score 1) 290

Really? Because I only beat WOG out of some demented need to finish something I start and an unfulfilled hope that at some point I would understand what everyone else saw in the game.

On a scale of 1 to 5, I give it 3.

Comment Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? (Score 4, Funny) 290

I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

'No,' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.'
'No,' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.'
'No,' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.'

I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...

Rapture.

Comment Re:Take some time and think (Score 1) 537

Ah, perhaps you should RTFA! :)

Eventually we looked at it and we saw that in late June his manager had requested certain accounts to be created that would have access to certain routers and switches. And he did create those accounts, and he sent that back in an email with the user IDs and passwords, to which Richard Robinson was also copied. If his big concern was that Richard Robinson was not authorized to be a user, why -- just a week before -- did he copy him on an email that has user IDs and passwords?

Comment Re:Microsoft should stop (Score 3, Insightful) 473

As a web developer, I'm really glad that every version of IE has been more standards compliant than the last.

It would be nice if the everyone magically installed FireFox or Safari or Chrome, but that doesn't seem to have happened yet.

Our best hope for killing off older versions of IE is newer versions of IE and an automatic upgrade path.

Frankly 8 doesn't seem that bad to me. Most of my code just works with IE 8. I'm really excited about HTML 5 and SVG in IE 9.

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