That would explain why GNU/Hurd is such an excellent OS

These are based on the original BSD troll which was very similar to the FP, which used to (many years ago) make an appearance in almost every story related to BSD.

Banks use their r&d for competitive advantage. The chances of them freely releasing their work to help humanity (and their competitors) is not very high.

How many major infrastructure projects have been attempted at all over the past 40 years? That is the entire problem, as far as I see it, is we are falling behind because we are not building anything. Successive governments keep playing it safe and if there is a surplus the money does not get invested into major infrastructure projects, it gets "invested" into winning the next election through middle class welfare. The mining boom will eventually end and we will be left in the tough times with nothing to show from the good times.

9 employers in 12 years is excessive for a programmer? I guess you don't know many contractors then. Regular 3 to 12 month gigs are the norm and nobody bats an eyelid at it.

So their main goal is not to make money but to produce innovations and advancements? I'm sure their shareholders would be interested in that one.

Oh come now, we all know you just enjoy the ability to play with no clothes on! Must admit I have done that more than once.

A big problem online poker players face is the nonsense that the GP was sprouting. The trouble is that they know nothing about the topic at hand yet feel they are qualified to talk about it (well, I guess the same goes for any topic really). You summed it up nicely - in a game of poker it is player v player, the house does not care one bit who wins and loses as they get a "rake" out of every pot. Their sole interest - the one that makes them the most money - is to make as many people play as possible. The better players tend to play more tables therefore provide more income to the sites, which is why sites reward high volume players regardless of whether they are winners or losers (and there are quite a number of high volume winners). The site gets paid regardless of who wins and loses a game, there is no way for them to end up behind on a hand played.

If I were playing a cash game I would fist pump if I saw my AK get called by 43. Yes, the flop comes out 443 this time however in the long run (and poker is about the long run, as in tens if not hundreds of thousands of hands if you play seriously online) you will destroy that clown. Yes he wins this game, however over the next 10 times this happens he will lose around 2/3 of the hands, providing a nice profit.

I'm glad someone beat me to it. That statement was just absurd and shows a total ignorance of the subject being discussed, made worse with the condescending "you are all so sadly mistaken and I am now going to tell you how it is" tone.

The ONLY game where computers are a match with the top human players is heads up limit holdem. There is no other poker game where computers would be favoured against a top pro so the statement "pitted against a computer, their results suddenly fall well within a bell curve of chance" is just false.

When I look in my database there is a very strong trend where winrates reduce as the stakes increase. This would indicate that as opponents get tougher, it is harder to beat the game in the long run. This flies in the face of the notion that poker is only a game of chance which would lead to no correlation between opponent skill level and winrates.