mercredi 18 avril 2007
Des chiffres et... des chiffres
Un calcul de tête hallucinant dans l'émission "Countdown", la reprise britanique des "Des Chiffres & et Des Lettres".
via webjunkie
L'extension Firefox qui améliore Gmail
Lifehacker a compilé plusieurs scripts forts utiles dans une seule et même extension pour Firefox sensée rendre l'utilisation de Gmail encore plus pratique...
Avec celle-ci on pourra masquer le nombre de spams reçus, afficher les raccourcis claviers en surimpression, sauvegarder ses recherches, prévisualiser ses messages ou intégrer Google Reader dans Gmail... on notera aussi l'excellent "Attachment icons" de Moktoipas qui ajoute des icônes de pièces jointes différenciés aux messages.
Better Gmail v0.2
mardi 17 avril 2007
Netvibes Univers
Ce matin, aprés une nuit d'indisponiblité, Netvibes lance son Univers : des pages prés-remplies sur un théme particulier et disposant d'une URL unique.
Pas de quoi fouetter un chat (enfin ça va être une révolution : aprés les MySpace officiels, les Univers officiels des stars et des marques...) mais ça permet de se créer sa propre page avec un design personnalisé.
lundi 16 avril 2007
vendredi 13 avril 2007
Freshy 2 pour Wordpress
Jidé apporte les dernières finitions au thème Freshy 2.0 pour Wordpress, il devrait être prêt demain.
Est-ce que ça va rembourser ?
Est-ce que
Pour qui je vais voter ?
C'est vrai je pourrai voter pour une conne ou un mégalo, mais bon...
Non en fait je vais voter pour celui qui aura le moins de voix.
Et si effectivement il arrive le dernier, ben... j'aurais gagné. ;)
Kylie Minogue en Scarlett Johansson pour H&M
Après Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney, Viktor & Rolf, et Madonna, c'est la chanteuse australienne Kylie Minogue, qui pose pour la collection été H&M.
Toutes les photos chopées sur JustJared...
via Nos amis les People.
jeudi 12 avril 2007
Poker and Life - Lessons in both.
A rule that all good poker players live by:
Always try and make the best decision possible with the information you have attained. This makes a good poker player, it may not necessarily mean you will win the hand, or lose the least amount of money, but it's what all good poker players live by.
There is a concept known as the "Sklansky Dollar" named after the mathematical/poker genius of the same name. It is an imaginary amount of money that you earn every time you make a good decision mathematically.
If you get all-in with a hand that will win 80% of the time you will take 80% of that pot and add it to your "Sklansky Dollar" total, no matter the outcome of the hand. For example, you get all in with a hand that has a 70% chance of winning, and the pot total is 100 dollars, no matter if you get sucked out or if you win the hand, you have earned 70 Sklansky Dollars.
Now don't go out and start calculating this figure for all of your poker games, the math will overwhelm you and you won't have enough time to think about the game and will probably start playing worse. It's the concept that is important here. Essentially in the long run after playing thousands if not millions of games of poker you should expect your *actual* earnings to equal your Sklansky Dollars.
This concept helps people realize that the longer you play good poker, the more money you should earn. It also illustrates that you *will* and *should* have your pocket aces cracked from time to time, Sklansky Dollars wouldn't equal out in the long run if this didn't happen.
**************
So what on earth does this concept have to do with life in general?
Life is an ongoing poker game, filled with many easy and tough decisions every day. Life is also predicated by luck in many instances, in many cases no matter how good of a decision you make you feel like life just crapped on you. In life we often go on "tilt" where we let our emotions take control of our actions, and it often leads to the making of bad decisions.
We can apply the idea of "Sklansky Dollars" to this concept as well. I'll call it "Applebury Dollars" (after my last name). You however can't refer to this quite so much in terms of cash or money, but it helps us monetize and conceptualize the concept.
When we are going through our daily lives we try to think that we make good decisions. Whenever we do we expect good things to happen to us for making such good decisions, they often happen, but they sometimes don't. A good decision will depend on the person, and often when faced with difficult situations we don't know what a good decision will be. But generally you can think of a good decision of a case where you have a better chance of something good happening to you than bad or a case where your decision creates less pain or bad to you than the alternative.
Whenever a good decision is made, you essentially add to your "Applebury Dollar" total no matter the outcome of the decision. This teaches us the same concept in poker, but as it deals with life. We should do two things, make good decisions, and live life to the fullest.
Live life to the fullest? How does that pertain here? As with poker, you will find yourself with more profit if you play more and more poker, as long as you make good decisions. This same concept pertains to life, you must go out and live life, take risks, make decisions. If life craps on you some of the times, then so be it, but we must move forward because if we stop making decisions and stop living we will never be able to to make the most of our lives and we will never overcome the sinister "luck factor".
How do we know if we make good decisions?
This is a much trickier question. In poker, we must discern from luck and skill when playing poker. Mathematics helps us with this, we can calculate the odds and the expected gain/loss from a decision.
We can't do this in terms of life. Some people will make bad decisions and continue to make bad decisions until luck catches up with them and they realize that what they have done is wrong. Some people will make many good decisions and continue to make good decisions only to be crapped on and made to feel that they have made bad decisions their whole life.
This is probably the best reason for having a good education. Being well educated is probably one of the few for sure good decisions that one can make. Education allows us to examine the decisions made by many people throughout the world and time and the theories and thoughts of those thinking about decisions we are making today and in the future. Education allows us to think more clearly about the decisions we have to make, much like the education of a poker player except life takes much longer to learn. As we begin to view the world differently because of our education, we begin to make hard decisions more easy. And often times it takes experience to truly understand the difference between wrong and right.
I hope you enjoy my little philosophical babble. In poker and in life you must first educate yourself, play and live as much as possible, and finally make good decisions. If you follow this creed you will become not only more successful at the poker table, but also at life.
- Justin "Tireur" Applebury
Always try and make the best decision possible with the information you have attained. This makes a good poker player, it may not necessarily mean you will win the hand, or lose the least amount of money, but it's what all good poker players live by.
There is a concept known as the "Sklansky Dollar" named after the mathematical/poker genius of the same name. It is an imaginary amount of money that you earn every time you make a good decision mathematically.
If you get all-in with a hand that will win 80% of the time you will take 80% of that pot and add it to your "Sklansky Dollar" total, no matter the outcome of the hand. For example, you get all in with a hand that has a 70% chance of winning, and the pot total is 100 dollars, no matter if you get sucked out or if you win the hand, you have earned 70 Sklansky Dollars.
Now don't go out and start calculating this figure for all of your poker games, the math will overwhelm you and you won't have enough time to think about the game and will probably start playing worse. It's the concept that is important here. Essentially in the long run after playing thousands if not millions of games of poker you should expect your *actual* earnings to equal your Sklansky Dollars.
This concept helps people realize that the longer you play good poker, the more money you should earn. It also illustrates that you *will* and *should* have your pocket aces cracked from time to time, Sklansky Dollars wouldn't equal out in the long run if this didn't happen.
**************
So what on earth does this concept have to do with life in general?
Life is an ongoing poker game, filled with many easy and tough decisions every day. Life is also predicated by luck in many instances, in many cases no matter how good of a decision you make you feel like life just crapped on you. In life we often go on "tilt" where we let our emotions take control of our actions, and it often leads to the making of bad decisions.
We can apply the idea of "Sklansky Dollars" to this concept as well. I'll call it "Applebury Dollars" (after my last name). You however can't refer to this quite so much in terms of cash or money, but it helps us monetize and conceptualize the concept.
When we are going through our daily lives we try to think that we make good decisions. Whenever we do we expect good things to happen to us for making such good decisions, they often happen, but they sometimes don't. A good decision will depend on the person, and often when faced with difficult situations we don't know what a good decision will be. But generally you can think of a good decision of a case where you have a better chance of something good happening to you than bad or a case where your decision creates less pain or bad to you than the alternative.
Whenever a good decision is made, you essentially add to your "Applebury Dollar" total no matter the outcome of the decision. This teaches us the same concept in poker, but as it deals with life. We should do two things, make good decisions, and live life to the fullest.
Live life to the fullest? How does that pertain here? As with poker, you will find yourself with more profit if you play more and more poker, as long as you make good decisions. This same concept pertains to life, you must go out and live life, take risks, make decisions. If life craps on you some of the times, then so be it, but we must move forward because if we stop making decisions and stop living we will never be able to to make the most of our lives and we will never overcome the sinister "luck factor".
How do we know if we make good decisions?
This is a much trickier question. In poker, we must discern from luck and skill when playing poker. Mathematics helps us with this, we can calculate the odds and the expected gain/loss from a decision.
We can't do this in terms of life. Some people will make bad decisions and continue to make bad decisions until luck catches up with them and they realize that what they have done is wrong. Some people will make many good decisions and continue to make good decisions only to be crapped on and made to feel that they have made bad decisions their whole life.
This is probably the best reason for having a good education. Being well educated is probably one of the few for sure good decisions that one can make. Education allows us to examine the decisions made by many people throughout the world and time and the theories and thoughts of those thinking about decisions we are making today and in the future. Education allows us to think more clearly about the decisions we have to make, much like the education of a poker player except life takes much longer to learn. As we begin to view the world differently because of our education, we begin to make hard decisions more easy. And often times it takes experience to truly understand the difference between wrong and right.
I hope you enjoy my little philosophical babble. In poker and in life you must first educate yourself, play and live as much as possible, and finally make good decisions. If you follow this creed you will become not only more successful at the poker table, but also at life.
- Justin "Tireur" Applebury
mardi 10 avril 2007
Test comparatif des clés USB 2Go
Le magazine 60 Millions de Consommateurs s'est amusé à comparer les clés USB 2Go du marché.
Kingston, Intuix, JumpDrive... 23 clés testées, de 28 à 135 euros pour la plus chère.
lundi 9 avril 2007
dimanche 8 avril 2007
Le retour des PC zombies
Le nombre de PC zombies semble être en nette augmentation depuis début mars.
Qu'est-ce que ça cache ? Une attaque de grande envergure serait-elle en préparation et contre qui ?
Jamel & Melissa Theuriau
Jamel Debbouze & Melissa Theuriau, ça a plutôt l'air bien parti comme on peut le voir sur ces images tirées de Paris-Match :
samedi 7 avril 2007
vendredi 6 avril 2007
jeudi 5 avril 2007
Robot Gundam en Platine pur
C'est Bandai, le fabriquant japonais du Tamagotchi, qui propose cette figurine Gundam en platine pur - 1,4 kilo pour 12,5 cm - et 2 yeux en diamant pour... 250.000$
Elle sera visible au salon mondial de la joaillerie de Bâle à partir du 12 avril prochain.
via La MJC
mercredi 4 avril 2007
Yod'm 3D : Gestionnaire de bureaux virtuels 3D pour Windows
Il y avait déjà VirtuDesktop pour Mac ou Beryl pour Linux; voici Yod'm 3D pour Windows.
Yod'm 3D (Yet anOther Desktop Manager 3D) est un gestionnaire de bureaux virtuels à effet cube sans installateur pour Windows XP ou Vista.
Il suffit de décompresser l'archive dans n'importe quel répertoire et de lancer le programme pour pouvoir « switcher » de bureaux en pressant une combinaison de touches (par défaut Crtl-Shift Flèches droite/gauche).
La maison du bonheur
Question : selon vous combien de plants de marijuana peut-on faire pousser dans le sous-sol de cette charmante bicoque du Tennessee ? 20 ? 50 ? 100?
La réponse en images :
via Digg
La réponse en images :
via Digg
mardi 3 avril 2007
lundi 2 avril 2007
1000 commentaires pour une Fonera
[Bravo, à mathieu qui a posté presque à lui tout seul 1000 commentaires, il a gagné une Fonera !]
Widget webradios : toute la musique sur votre blog
Les webradios d'ados.fr directement dans la sidebar de votre blog.
24 radios de tous les styles, diffusant 24/24 en 128 kb/s grace au flashplayer de Komcitiz pour satisfaire les envies de musique de vos visiteurs.
Pour ajouter le widget dans la sidebar de votre blog (Blogger),
cliquez simplement sur le bouton:
Pas chez Blogger ?
24 radios de tous les styles, diffusant 24/24 en 128 kb/s grace au flashplayer de Komcitiz pour satisfaire les envies de musique de vos visiteurs.
Pour ajouter le widget dans la sidebar de votre blog (Blogger),
cliquez simplement sur le bouton:
Pas chez Blogger ?
dimanche 1 avril 2007
En vrac...
Gmail envoie les emails par la poste.
Google devient fournisseur d'accès par les canalisations d'égout.
Crunchgear change de look.
reddit pratique la censure.
Le blog de Matt Cutts hacké par des français.
Engadget présente un nouveau gadget d'électrocution.
The Pirate Bay déménage ses serveurs dans l'embassade de Corée du Nord en Suède.
Slashdot met en place un système de vote sur les articles.
Blizzard propose un nouvel opus à World Of Warcraft : Heroes Of Azeroth.
Technorati change de nom.
Björk obligée de renommer le nom de son dernier album à cause d'un vol.
Utorrent c'est fini...
La NASA publie la photo du 1er match de Quidditch dans l'espace.
TechCrunch rachéte la FuckedCompagny.
Google devient fournisseur d'accès par les canalisations d'égout.
Crunchgear change de look.
reddit pratique la censure.
Le blog de Matt Cutts hacké par des français.
Engadget présente un nouveau gadget d'électrocution.
The Pirate Bay déménage ses serveurs dans l'embassade de Corée du Nord en Suède.
Slashdot met en place un système de vote sur les articles.
Blizzard propose un nouvel opus à World Of Warcraft : Heroes Of Azeroth.
Technorati change de nom.
Björk obligée de renommer le nom de son dernier album à cause d'un vol.
Utorrent c'est fini...
La NASA publie la photo du 1er match de Quidditch dans l'espace.
TechCrunch rachéte la FuckedCompagny.
Mon C65
Le C65 "Chinese Folder" n'est malheureusement plus fabriqué par Spyderco et il ne reste apparemment qu'une seule boutique en ligne à le commercialiser.
Ce Liner Lock, dessiné par le coutellier Bob Lum, est doté d'une lame en VG10 - un des meilleur acier de coutellerie japonais - très fonctionnelle en forme de feuille qui rappelle les couteaux traditionnels chinois; elle est munie d'un trou qui autorise son ouverture à une main.
Son manche en acier anodisé plat et léger est pourvu d'un clip qui permet le transport en toute sécurité à l'arrière de la poche.
C'est un des meilleur utilitaire grand public de ce type ayant été usiné par Spyderco et, en finition couleur verte, esthétiquement un de plus réussi.
Son prix reste néanmoins à la hauteur de sa qualité de fabrication.
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