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I broke down and got a ZUNE. Paid $85 for a 30 Gig Brown Zune 1.0 refurbished. I am still getting used to it but I do like it.
Why Brown? Well the Zune is like the AntiPod. And what is more AntiPod than the Brown Zune. So now you know why TheMadAdmin got the Brown Zune. He is sick of Apple, Apple Fanboys, and Apples high prices.
I am waiting for the new software to get released in November so it will have built in support for Netcasts (AKA Podcasts). When it is released I will let you know what I think.
Thanks
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Black vs white with a little black magic thrown in.
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They are pitting two computers against two professional poker players to see who has the skills.
Two professional poker players, Phil Laak and Ali Esmali, will play against a computer program called Polaris, developed by the University of Alberta, during the AAAI’s annual conference.
“Each session will involve a human playing 500 hands against Polaris. However, the cards dealt in the first match to the human will be dealt to the computer in the second match, and vice versa,” said the AAAI.
“The result of a session is the sum of the two humans’ scores versus the sum of the two Polaris scores.
I can’t wait to see the results.
I have added Billy as an author on this site. He is an IT guy connected with the IT liberation front.
So if you see messages from Billy, no I have not been hacked. It is just Billy putting in his two sense.
So Welcome Billy.
Jon has made a very good writeup on the EasyMVC presentation we both saw on Adobe.
Here is the link
OK I was chatting with Tom today on his site and came up with another reason I like EasyMVC.
It Works with Flex Builder 3. So I was playing with it today. Very cool.
Q&A from the Webinar where Tom was nice enough to answer all the questions.
Thanks Tom.
OK I watched Tom Bray doing the Adobe Flex Webinar and I learned a lot.
Here is an application that does nothing. But it does nothing using EasyMVC. I got the main concepts down. Source code is available by right clicking.
Basically I have made a custom event call ButtonPushedEvent (inventive I know).
I have made a controller that modifies the UIComponent to add a listener at the top most level of flash, listening for the event. Once it is fired the appropriate handler is called.
The handler changes the Model. One of the variables is the currentState and it gets changed.
View currentState is bound to the model currentState and thus changes the view by changing the model.
MVC in action.
Model — central data store.
View — what the user sees and interacts with.
Controller — takes events (user generated most times, selections, mouse clicks and the like) and fires off the right handler. It can only affect the Model, not the view directly.
So yeah I am happy though only a geek would understand. Can I get an AMEN my fellow geeks?
Ok this guy posted a Pearl Script on his site that lets you put what you want as the ready message on a HP printer.
Very cool and I can attest to it working. You will need to have Pearl running on your machine. Active Pearl works well and has many flavors.
install that then from a command prompt you run his script by typing it’s name followed by IP address followed by new message in quotes.
Very Cool and found on Geeklikeme.net
Tom Bray gave a talk on Adobe’s site today about EasyMVC. It is a framework like Cairngorm. Well if Cairngorm had a nicer little brother.
It is MVC so you follow the same logic as Cairngorm.
Model–Central Data store for application, also can and does hold application state.
Controller –Listens for events and runs commands that change the model.
Views– Interact with the user. User input fires events. View are changed based on Model data.
What is nice is it is simple. No libraries to load. I am going to watch Tom’s Site for more news on this Framework
Tom’s Post about today’s presentation.