I dont even think that you could argue that the poster implicitly tried to pass of the summary as his own work. Slashdot summaries of single articles generally dont add anything new (and frequently get it wrong). It is an abstract of the article. Since a well written introduction should itself be an abstract of the rest of the article, what makes a better abstract then a polished intro?
The ratio of small cards remains the same, however. There are 4 two's in a 52 card deck, 1:13. 24 in a 6 deck shoe. 1:13. Same thing. Well, not that simple, but with more then a couple of decks, and only using 2/3 of the shoe, it is all but consistant throughout the entire shoe.
The only built in edge is that the dealer plays last. Or, more specifficly, double busts are not pushes.
The advantage of a large shoe is twofold to the casino: it makes card counting less effective, and the (slight) overhead of doing any kind of shuffle is reduced (that is, it takes 6n+something to shuffle a 6 deck shoe, n+something for a single deck). Another one, I suppose, that the supervisors can keep track of more tables... They keep track of how long players play, but that is based not on the wall clock, but on the number of decks they play. Sup's do something when a player sits, gets up, and when a shuffle happens. Less shuffles, less to do, more tables can be covered.
As for autoshufflers, the reason is speed, pure and simple. Less time shuffling, more time playing, more wins for the house.
The advantage of getting a clone, or building a clone, is that when it breaks, you can fix it. You can go anywhere and get some replacement RAM. You can go anywhere and get a processor. With any of the "name brand" computers that isnt an option, at least for most of their parts.
Typically the little shops are going to use OEM parts, and they have shorter warranties, anyway. There is a "window of risk"... When the name brand is still under warranty, when the clone wouldn't be but: 1) after that has expired, parts for the clone will be infinitely cheaper then for the name brand box and 2) an individual part isn't that expensive, even if it does die during the window of risk . "Good enough to replace something on a 18mo old box" is never going to cost more then, say, $75.
Well, there is a grain of truth to that statement.
w3c requires a working implementation before it will be standardized. IETF doesnt do so explicitly, but the individual working groups almost always base standards on shipping products.
OSI was a standard process built "top down", desigined and published, with no working implementation of most of what it defined. There are still some residual pieces of it in use, (part of) ATM, x500 touching SSL/TLS, LDAP.. But also parts of it that, so far as I know, were never used; x400 mail, for example. Since a large chunk of the OSI standards were "optional" or "vendor specific", even when implementations were built, you still diddnt gaurentee interoperability. Standards can be tricky. And it isnt just MS who diveges from standards.. Almost nothing, ever, anywhere, has implemented 100% of a spec, no more, no less.
This doesnt excuse them for diverging from demostrativly acheivable standards. Or developing their own independent thing to do what a working standard defines. Their logic is correct, just the threshold of where it kicks in is wrong. (and the threshold is more likely defined by business, rather then technical, concerns)
If you were going to kill someone with a rifle, why would you ever get within hand to hand range? For fuck sake, not every firing a gun before, from 10m you would be able to hit a person firing from the hip.
And if they did get within hand to hand range, then they could get closer to them then the length of the barrel, making it very very difficult for you to use it effectivly as a firearm. Ignoring the insane American obesssion with firearms, a rifle is not a good choice for personal defense.
Simple to solve. Everytime you get in 20 computers, go down to your local hardware store and get a tube of caulking. No more USB.
Or just set up your OS so the users can mount external storage.
Dont speek too fast. Many companies pay their electrical utility for an "interuptable" rate. Many of the chip fabs in silicon valley do just that, and get shut off first when there is a roaling blackouts.
I think it would reasonably well for a pay for CPU time type service. The customer has three choices - build it yourself at >$1/hr - pay Sun $1/hr, with no gaurentees of when it will finish as you arn't the only customer - pay Sun's competitor <$1/hr, with no gaurentees of when it will finish as you arn't the only customer and the cluster may or may not be working today
If you are building your grid out of lesser components then Sun does, making it less reliable, you could also take that difference and buy more hardware. So you could do the work faster. So you might actually get the work done sooner, on average, with the cheaper solution.
That creative argument just doesn't fly. You dont need infinite possibilities to be creative. For example, Bach was a church organist. His job was thus to produce church music, a greater barrier to creativity then anything I can think of. But he produced amazingly creative stuff.
The advantage of a established ST universe is that the writers (and prop guys, and set guys...) can focus on the story at hand. They dont need to worry about what is almost always secondary to the story at hand.
As importantly, neither do the viewers. You dont need to explain every little detail, because they already know it. Having that depth - even if always the same depth - adds to the show.
So UPN cancels "Enterprise". UPN isn't the only station that buys Enterprise. In Canada, the Space network show it, as does CityTV. (who, while both are owned by CHUM, may not be paying exactly twice, but paying more then once) Im sure there are both "normal" and speciality networks all over the world buying and showing it.
Besides that, Enterprise is almost gaurenteed to have a long syndication run. STTOS is still being aired; outside of a marathon, when was the last time you saw Leave it to Beaver? Isn't Viacom all but gaurenteed infinite future syndication sales?
I remember one of those "behind the sceens" show on TNG. Each episode cost about as much to make as an average feature film. They had a bunch of production staff working full time, 52 weeks a year. (a 30 minute comedy could likey be shot in <2 days, 8 weeks for the season, not much post-production) So while expensive, I would think it would also be easy to manage at the executive level... Keep a regular, full time, cardre of ST production staff and all but forget about it on the executive level. No toss of the dice every season with new shows. No worrying about getting good writers or crew. ST just churns out stuff like clockwork. Quality is important, but many people will watch it regardless today, and tomorrow.
For that matter, with a full time ST cadre, movies could almost be done for free. Well, thats a streach.. But all your pre and post production stuff can be done here and there by the TV staff (or the opposit, the TV stuff could be done here and there by your movie crew). Farm out major work, and get a special crew to do the principal photography, but all the "glue" stuff could be done inhouse. At the very least, you will maintain a skill set, ST props, ST makup, ST sets and what not that, if you diddnt have full time staff, may or may not carry over from movie to movie.
People are saying that ST needs a break. Writers need a break, fans need a break. Is the opposite not true? Airing new shows keeps the interest up, even in the syndicated series. One might not tune in to watch a TNG episode, but if a TNG episode airs just before or just after Enterprise, the viewers might stick around for both.
US based for political reasons perhaps. But for security reasons? Why would the developers need to have access to real data? They wouldn't. So you are proposing building a secure system via obscurity, and keeping that obscure information to citizens? Why do you assume that one of those citizens with obscure knowlage won't want to get fucked by some hot spy someday? Or want a pile of cash?
Or they manage to produce a high quality online enviroment that cant be (easily) duplicated. This could come in the form of high quality servers, or the "meta" enviroment - ladders and whatnot.. But also in secondary things.. armyops, which is free, has some kind of partnership where you can rent a gaming server.... It would be a whole new LOB for gaming companies to expand on this idea. And strengthen the EULA such that commercial sale of server space is forbidden. You can run a server on a colo box, a dedicaded server, just not a "package" gaming specific server. Make your product good enough that people wont want to go anywhere else.
As for your last question, because they dont know its crap. The question is that once you have established that it is not crap, why dont you then buy a copy? As for pirating and continuing to use crap.. Kinda like buskers: payment is based on quality.
The extenstion to that is that Sun has a damm good reason not to just throw the Solaris source tree up on a ftp site somewhere. Remember when Netscape released their code? It diddnt so much as compile because of all the 3rd party stuff i it.
The GNU project was started in reaction to licenses that closed down communities. Its goal (though it has expanded further) was a return to that community spirit. That community existed because of the lack of licenses, "good" licenses, or licenses that just were not enforced - or a bit of all of them. Licenses existed that "fulfilled the goals of government grant projects".
It is an oversimplification to say that the FSF and the GPL was first. What they did do first was to attach political rational to what was previously pragmatic (or apathetic) actions.
Sun would have been about -4 years old in 1979. They diddn't come into existance untill after (and as a result of) the ATT break up. It was only then that non-Accademic groups could get UNIX licenses.
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I dont even think that you could argue that the poster implicitly tried to pass of the summary as his own work. Slashdot summaries of single articles generally dont add anything new (and frequently get it wrong). It is an abstract of the article. Since a well written introduction should itself be an abstract of the rest of the article, what makes a better abstract then a polished intro?
That is would "normal" people be setting them up? If not, you could simply use make. Or Ant.
The ratio of small cards remains the same, however. There are 4 two's in a 52 card deck, 1:13. 24 in a 6 deck shoe. 1:13. Same thing. Well, not that simple, but with more then a couple of decks, and only using 2/3 of the shoe, it is all but consistant throughout the entire shoe.
The only built in edge is that the dealer plays last. Or, more specifficly, double busts are not pushes.
The advantage of a large shoe is twofold to the casino: it makes card counting less effective, and the (slight) overhead of doing any kind of shuffle is reduced (that is, it takes 6n+something to shuffle a 6 deck shoe, n+something for a single deck). Another one, I suppose, that the supervisors can keep track of more tables... They keep track of how long players play, but that is based not on the wall clock, but on the number of decks they play. Sup's do something when a player sits, gets up, and when a shuffle happens. Less shuffles, less to do, more tables can be covered.
As for autoshufflers, the reason is speed, pure and simple. Less time shuffling, more time playing, more wins for the house.
- ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games/a/
- http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Games/Gaming
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Add network play:The advantage of getting a clone, or building a clone, is that when it breaks, you can fix it. You can go anywhere and get some replacement RAM. You can go anywhere and get a processor. With any of the "name brand" computers that isnt an option, at least for most of their parts.
Typically the little shops are going to use OEM parts, and they have shorter warranties, anyway. There is a "window of risk"... When the name brand is still under warranty, when the clone wouldn't be but: 1) after that has expired, parts for the clone will be infinitely cheaper then for the name brand box and 2) an individual part isn't that expensive, even if it does die during the window of risk . "Good enough to replace something on a 18mo old box" is never going to cost more then, say, $75.
Hence forth, all space boddies will be known as "thingies".
Well, there is a grain of truth to that statement.
w3c requires a working implementation before it will be standardized. IETF doesnt do so explicitly, but the individual working groups almost always base standards on shipping products.
OSI was a standard process built "top down", desigined and published, with no working implementation of most of what it defined. There are still some residual pieces of it in use, (part of) ATM, x500 touching SSL/TLS, LDAP.. But also parts of it that, so far as I know, were never used; x400 mail, for example. Since a large chunk of the OSI standards were "optional" or "vendor specific", even when implementations were built, you still diddnt gaurentee interoperability. Standards can be tricky. And it isnt just MS who diveges from standards.. Almost nothing, ever, anywhere, has implemented 100% of a spec, no more, no less.
This doesnt excuse them for diverging from demostrativly acheivable standards. Or developing their own independent thing to do what a working standard defines. Their logic is correct, just the threshold of where it kicks in is wrong. (and the threshold is more likely defined by business, rather then technical, concerns)
Couldnt you condense that down to "Joe"?
If you were going to kill someone with a rifle, why would you ever get within hand to hand range? For fuck sake, not every firing a gun before, from 10m you would be able to hit a person firing from the hip.
And if they did get within hand to hand range, then they could get closer to them then the length of the barrel, making it very very difficult for you to use it effectivly as a firearm. Ignoring the insane American obesssion with firearms, a rifle is not a good choice for personal defense.
Simple to solve. Everytime you get in 20 computers, go down to your local hardware store and get a tube of caulking. No more USB. Or just set up your OS so the users can mount external storage.
Uh, we do share a border with Russia. Borders can go over water, too.
Dont speek too fast. Many companies pay their electrical utility for an "interuptable" rate. Many of the chip fabs in silicon valley do just that, and get shut off first when there is a roaling blackouts.
I think it would reasonably well for a pay for CPU time type service. The customer has three choices
- build it yourself at >$1/hr
- pay Sun $1/hr, with no gaurentees of when it will finish as you arn't the only customer
- pay Sun's competitor <$1/hr, with no gaurentees of when it will finish as you arn't the only customer and the cluster may or may not be working today
If you are building your grid out of lesser components then Sun does, making it less reliable, you could also take that difference and buy more hardware. So you could do the work faster. So you might actually get the work done sooner, on average, with the cheaper solution.
That creative argument just doesn't fly. You dont need infinite possibilities to be creative. For example, Bach was a church organist. His job was thus to produce church music, a greater barrier to creativity then anything I can think of. But he produced amazingly creative stuff.
The advantage of a established ST universe is that the writers (and prop guys, and set guys...) can focus on the story at hand. They dont need to worry about what is almost always secondary to the story at hand.
As importantly, neither do the viewers. You dont need to explain every little detail, because they already know it. Having that depth - even if always the same depth - adds to the show.
So UPN cancels "Enterprise". UPN isn't the only station that buys Enterprise. In Canada, the Space network show it, as does CityTV. (who, while both are owned by CHUM, may not be paying exactly twice, but paying more then once) Im sure there are both "normal" and speciality networks all over the world buying and showing it.
Besides that, Enterprise is almost gaurenteed to have a long syndication run. STTOS is still being aired; outside of a marathon, when was the last time you saw Leave it to Beaver? Isn't Viacom all but gaurenteed infinite future syndication sales?
I remember one of those "behind the sceens" show on TNG. Each episode cost about as much to make as an average feature film. They had a bunch of production staff working full time, 52 weeks a year. (a 30 minute comedy could likey be shot in <2 days, 8 weeks for the season, not much post-production) So while expensive, I would think it would also be easy to manage at the executive level... Keep a regular, full time, cardre of ST production staff and all but forget about it on the executive level. No toss of the dice every season with new shows. No worrying about getting good writers or crew. ST just churns out stuff like clockwork. Quality is important, but many people will watch it regardless today, and tomorrow.
For that matter, with a full time ST cadre, movies could almost be done for free. Well, thats a streach.. But all your pre and post production stuff can be done here and there by the TV staff (or the opposit, the TV stuff could be done here and there by your movie crew). Farm out major work, and get a special crew to do the principal photography, but all the "glue" stuff could be done inhouse. At the very least, you will maintain a skill set, ST props, ST makup, ST sets and what not that, if you diddnt have full time staff, may or may not carry over from movie to movie.
People are saying that ST needs a break. Writers need a break, fans need a break. Is the opposite not true? Airing new shows keeps the interest up, even in the syndicated series. One might not tune in to watch a TNG episode, but if a TNG episode airs just before or just after Enterprise, the viewers might stick around for both.
The summary consists of "Not feature compleate" "feature compleate" "release". So what are the features?
Red and Blue Pill Omlet(tm) (patent pending).
(prefarably US based for security reasons)
US based for political reasons perhaps. But for security reasons? Why would the developers need to have access to real data? They wouldn't. So you are proposing building a secure system via obscurity, and keeping that obscure information to citizens? Why do you assume that one of those citizens with obscure knowlage won't want to get fucked by some hot spy someday? Or want a pile of cash?
Or they manage to produce a high quality online enviroment that cant be (easily) duplicated. This could come in the form of high quality servers, or the "meta" enviroment - ladders and whatnot.. But also in secondary things.. armyops, which is free, has some kind of partnership where you can rent a gaming server.... It would be a whole new LOB for gaming companies to expand on this idea. And strengthen the EULA such that commercial sale of server space is forbidden. You can run a server on a colo box, a dedicaded server, just not a "package" gaming specific server. Make your product good enough that people wont want to go anywhere else.
As for your last question, because they dont know its crap. The question is that once you have established that it is not crap, why dont you then buy a copy? As for pirating and continuing to use crap.. Kinda like buskers: payment is based on quality.
You might as well cut out the middleman and wait and see what Jobs will be up to in 5 years.
I chose to read the few first paragraphs as Steve Jobs.
Because it is 1998 again. The Browser Is The OS.
So instead of having lots of annoying one character thingies (that is a technical term) all over the place, you have 5-20 charcter thingies? Excelent.
The extenstion to that is that Sun has a damm good reason not to just throw the Solaris source tree up on a ftp site somewhere. Remember when Netscape released their code? It diddnt so much as compile because of all the 3rd party stuff i it.
Well, not quite.
The GNU project was started in reaction to licenses that closed down communities. Its goal (though it has expanded further) was a return to that community spirit. That community existed because of the lack of licenses, "good" licenses, or licenses that just were not enforced - or a bit of all of them. Licenses existed that "fulfilled the goals of government grant projects".
It is an oversimplification to say that the FSF and the GPL was first. What they did do first was to attach political rational to what was previously pragmatic (or apathetic) actions.
Sun would have been about -4 years old in 1979. They diddn't come into existance untill after (and as a result of) the ATT break up. It was only then that non-Accademic groups could get UNIX licenses.