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I didn't know about faces looking at the content - that is cool!
Now back to the real world!
The 1990-91 and 1991-92 teams went a combined 49-12, won back-to-back North Atlantic Conference championships and earned berths in the NCAA Division I national championship tournament. The first year in the NCAA tournament, the Hens lost 85-47 to the University of Cincinnati and the second year they fell 76-70 to the University of Louisville.
The NCAA teams featured a strong front line with the aptly named center Spencer Dunkley, UD’s all-time rebounding leader with 916, and forward Alex Coles, who is seventh all-time with 711 rebounds.
The NCAA teams featured a strong front line with the aptly named center Spencer Dunkley, UD’s all-time rebounding leader with 916, and forward Alex Coles, who is seventh all-time with 711 rebounds.
I remember it well because I was living in Louisville at the time and everyone was "slightly" into basketball. Spencer Dunkley was going to walk home after the lost but the coach wouldn't let him.
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/03/20
Some highlights:
Harrah's exercised that option in the 2009 rules by enacting a blanket prohibition on "the use of obscene or foul language in any public area of the casino at any time."
Oh @#%^&*,
First, the lead-in to Rule 43 prohibits the wearing of "[t]emporary tattoos, adhesive strips for the skin, and 'band-aids' with logos or promotional language."
But these are the only band-aids I have left?
Some new penalties in 2009 that may show up in the Rule 52(E) penalty log include: refusing to show a hand and intentionally mucking it after making the last aggressive action on the final round of betting (Rule 78); and leaving the table before acting on a hand (Rule 79). Penalties for the usage of cell phones at the table (Rule 86) remain in place, but require players merely to "step away from their assigned table". In 2008, players were required to be "at least one table length away".
I think it would be hard to measure one table length away while I'm using poker oven for the iPhone.
Rule 58, regarding discussion of live hands, has been clarified to state that players are allowed to speak freely as to the contents of their hands during heads-up play, but only to the extent that the discussion does not lead to collusion;
I've never liked this rule but I guess it makes for better TV.
Apple has to approve all applications. However, jail-broken phones can still run apps the user paid for. Apple has "high" standards in what they will actually approve.
Google allows almost anything but porn, but won't allow jail-broken phones to install apps the user paid for. Google does NOT allow any adsense ads related to poker software - even if Apple has approved the app for the iPhone.
Palm has stated there will not be an approval process at all for the Pre - anything goes. However, developers can only write "high level" web apps. Access to the low level graphic and sounds APIs is not allowed. Not really sure how they will enforce that or how they will handle jail-broken phones. This is actually sad since the Pre seems to have the best hardware specs.
I don't know Blackberry's policy. However, most corporations lock down their end-users blackberries so they cannot install any third-party apps. Kills most of the market for causal games.
Right now I have to improve the speed. Some hands take over 90 seconds to compute! (Most take about 30 seconds, just slightly longer than it takes me to set a hand.)
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/0
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"The goal of my app was to create a tool for people to annoy others," Gloss wrote in a blog entry at his website. He set a one-hour time limit to write and upload it to Apple. "The end product was Sound Grenade, which is a really terrible app, one button turns a sound on or off, period. For 20 minutes' work, I thought it would be interesting to take the ride."
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At first, Sound Grenade was completely free. Once it entered the Top 50, High said he decided to switch to an ad-supported model. Now, after processing a million ad requests in 24 hours, the app is generating upwards of $200 per hour in clickthrough revenue. In order to keep the app popular, he is looking into a few strategies.
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"The goal of my app was to create a tool for people to annoy others," Gloss wrote in a blog entry at his website. He set a one-hour time limit to write and upload it to Apple. "The end product was Sound Grenade, which is a really terrible app, one button turns a sound on or off, period. For 20 minutes' work, I thought it would be interesting to take the ride."
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At first, Sound Grenade was completely free. Once it entered the Top 50, High said he decided to switch to an ad-supported model. Now, after processing a million ad requests in 24 hours, the app is generating upwards of $200 per hour in clickthrough revenue. In order to keep the app popular, he is looking into a few strategies.
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Let's just say I'm not making $200 a hour or even a day.
So how about it livejournalers and facebookers - what do you think would be a really really bad awful dumb application to write for the iPhone?
Economies stabilize following technological discontinuities for two reasons. One has to do with the slowing rate of evolution in the cluster of core technologies underlying the disruption. The Bessemer steel process, the Siemens electrical generator, the automobile--all had more or less one big breakthrough and then very modest performance improvements thereafter.
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We now face something entirely different. Today's core technologies--computing, storage, and bandwidth--are not stabilizing. They continue to evolve at an exponential rate. And because the underlying technologies don't stabilize, the social and business practices that coalesce into our new digital infrastructure aren't stabilizing either. Businesses and, more broadly, social, educational, and economic institutions, are left racing to catch up with the steadily improving performance of the foundational technologies. For example, almost forty years after the invention of the microprocessor, we are only now beginning to reconfigure the digital technology infrastructure for delivery of yet another dramatic leap in computing power under the rubric of utility or cloud computing. This leap will soon be followed by another, then another.
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We now face something entirely different. Today's core technologies--computing, storage, and bandwidth--are not stabilizing. They continue to evolve at an exponential rate. And because the underlying technologies don't stabilize, the social and business practices that coalesce into our new digital infrastructure aren't stabilizing either. Businesses and, more broadly, social, educational, and economic institutions, are left racing to catch up with the steadily improving performance of the foundational technologies. For example, almost forty years after the invention of the microprocessor, we are only now beginning to reconfigure the digital technology infrastructure for delivery of yet another dramatic leap in computing power under the rubric of utility or cloud computing. This leap will soon be followed by another, then another.
And this was in one of the comments:
What most business people don't get is that the market has accelerated faster than big corporations can keep up. In the end, the internet is the great equalizer, rewarding only the smartest and most nimble of competitors. One of those two factors is not enough, and big companies will always struggle to be nimble enough.
I believe that companies that are able to adapt to change faster while effectively managing risk will become the new market leaders. Usually these are smaller companies.
Maybe our priorities are different.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/14/our-t
I think anyone in a creative field would benefit from reading the following talk.
At a seminar in the Bell Communications Research Colloquia Series, Dr. Richard W. Hamming, a Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a retired Bell Labs scientist, gave a very interesting and stimulating talk, `You and Your Research' to an overflow audience of some 200 Bellcore staff members and visitors at the Morris Research and Engineering Center on March 7, 1986. This talk centered on Hamming's observations and research on the question ``Why do so few scientists make significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long run?''
Choice Quotes and My Thoughts:
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can. If you think you can't, almost surely you are not going to.
Courage and confidence seem to go together. I know sometimes when helping my daughter with homework half the battle is justing getting her to believe that she can do the problem. She often doesn't like to do something until she has already mastered it.
In my own life I think sometimes I have too much courage and think I can do anything. Maybe it is a problem of focus and prioritization.
What Bode was saying was this: ``Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.'' Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest. I don't want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.
There are lots of people I know with much more natural ability than I. My drive to work harder and to constantly read, learn, reread and improve my skills gives me an edge in many cases. Of course there is no hope against the people I know who have both much more ability and more drive!
On this matter of drive Edison says, ``Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.'' He may have been exaggerating, but the idea is that solid work, steadily applied, gets you surprisingly far. The steady application of effort with a little bit more work, intelligently applied is what does it. That's the trouble; drive, misapplied, doesn't get you anywhere. I've often wondered why so many of my good friends at Bell Labs who worked as hard or harder than I did, didn't have so much to show for it. The misapplication of effort is a very serious matter. Just hard work is not enough - it must be applied sensibly.
Clearly I have a lesson to be learned here - I often work (or read or learn) things that are not part of any current goals or plans. There's another trait on the side which I want to talk about; that trait is ambiguity. It took me a while to discover its importance. Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance. But most great scientists are well aware of why their theories are true and they are also well aware of some slight misfits which don't quite fit and they don't forget it.
I used to treat everything as black and white, true or false. The older I get the more I understand ambiguity in everyday things. I think it helps a poker player to think in these terms.
I didn't say you should conform; I said ``The appearance of conforming gets you a long way.'' If you chose to assert your ego in any number of ways, ``I am going to do it my way,'' you pay a small steady price throughout the whole of your professional career. And this, over a whole lifetime, adds up to an enormous amount of needless trouble.
I once agreed to propose a project with a friend to a major sports team. I created the prototype and presentation. He showed up in cowboy boots and string tie. I knew the deal was lost right then.
I just have to pick up on that one. In our present environment, Dick, while we wrestle with some of the red tape attributed to, or required by, the regulators, there is one quote that one exasperated AVP came up with and I've used it over and over again. He growled that, ``UNIX was never a deliverable!''
Sometimes the tools you create to solve your problems become more important than the problem itself. I said true greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier - when it's spelled with a lower case letter.
Hummm....
You have to change. You get tired after a while; you use up your originality in one field. You need to get something nearby. I'm not saying that you shift from music to theoretical physics to English literature; I mean within your field you should shift areas so that you don't go stale. You couldn't get away with forcing a change every seven years, but if you could, I would require a condition for doing research, being that you will change your field of research every seven years with a reasonable definition of what it means, or at the end of 10 years, management has the right to compel you to change. I would insist on a change because I'm serious. What happens to the old fellows is that they get a technique going; they keep on using it. They were marching in that direction which was right then, but the world changes. There's the new direction; but the old fellows are still marching in their former direction.
The last bug was took way too much time to find. Everything was calculating right but because of a silly logic error the game wouldn't display natural three straights correctly. Spent 5 hours with kids in the background couldn't find it. Spend 1 hour with Bill Frisell in the background and it is now fixed.
When I am coding or writing I find I am much more productive with non-vocal jazz playing in the background. Music with any kind of vocals including rock, jazz or folk and I am just not that productive. Maybe I should make a "Music To Code By" playlist?
The short list would include Bill Frisell, Kaki King, Stanley Jordan and Pat Metheny.
I bet it would apply to poker too!
I had previously played 4 events and have a 1st, 2nd and 8th out of about 30 to 40 players. The play is generally really really bad but the blinds are very aggressive so each tourney last about 2 hours.
Last night I got talked into playing a tag team event. Everyone got dealt a special card at the beginning and got paired up with a partner. Both played at the same time. At random times the owner would call out a suit and you would switch places with your partner. Most of the time in the middle of hand.
I left my partner in a four way raised pot with pocket twos. I don't think he was happy about that.
It was more like a party game than real poker but I did have a good time. I think we finished 11th out of 20 teams. Of course with only about 15,000 in chips and the blinds at 2000/4000 it became pure jam or fold poker and I could get a hand to stand up as my chips slowly disappeared towards the short stacks.
I'm not so sure about "Act weak when strong, act strong when weak. Know when to bluff."
I follow this except at BARGE - "Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them."
"Look for opportunities beyond just the game you sat down to play. You never know who you're going to meet, including new friends for life or new business contacts." - sounds like a ARGer to me.
3 Atlanta
1 Baltimore
1 Green Bay
All fair choices. I have Atlanta. Good luck all!
Crunchy has 92% for Atlanta by the way...
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