The vast majority of counting strategies are based on adjusting your bet. As a counting player, you always play the 'basic strategy', and adjust your bet according to your count.
Well, almost 'always', anyway. If your in third base, holding a 12 against a dealers 3, and the last 7 cards have been faces, then a hit would be a good thing, even though it is against basic strategy.
The other exception is if you are keeping a side count of faces, you can use that information to choose to take insurance. Playing basic strategy, insurance (or even money on a BJ) is always a bad idea.
On your second to last point, I wounder how well a program : "sitdown(); bed(0); leave(); " would do....
My message wasent directed at IT staff, but at students.
If the bandidth usage is reasonable, then the IT staff wont care what the bandwidth happens to be. If the bandwidth usage is insane, they will use any excuse to solve it, including caving in to outside legal forces.
Standard story I hear from anyone of a dozen people who work in the various IT departments at a local University.
Bob, in his dorm room wants a movie. He downloads 1.5GB over $CURRENT_P2P_SYSTEM. Cool. Bob tells Joe, his roommate about the movie. Joe downloads 1.5GB over $CURRENT_P2P_SYSTEM. Rinse, lather, repeat for 3 or 4 or 50 other students.
Had Bob put up his movie in a shared folder on his Winblows computer, it would have been downloaded over the internet once. But Bob, and his 50 friends are stupid and unable to right click on a directory. So the movie is downloaded 50 times.
Had it been downloaded once, well, Im not going to say it would go unnoticed, but it wouldnt be an issue. Copyrights? Beh. Insane amount of traffic that happens to be copyrighted? Well, thats costing us real money. That is causing significant load on the network. Real users are complaining. Solution: Traffic shaping. Port filtering. Suspending insane-traffic users.
If your a student in a dorm stop being so fscking stupid. Keep it under the radar.
Criminals are sent to prison for four reasons: punishment, protection of others, rehabilitation, and as an example to others.
Prison is punishment because it removes you from society. Society is protected because the criminal is removed from it.... Said criminal is now not part of Canadian society. Canadian society is no longer under threat from said criminal.
Said criminal is not a Canadian citizen (or taxpayer). It is not our job (or responsibility) to rehabilitate him.
His deportation serves as an example to prospective illegal aliens from entering Canada.
Furthermore, we have saved in court costs, and the cost of housing and rehabilitating him.
win, win, win. With the bonus of not costing any money.
What they did was to FUD their (existing) product line. It is (usualy) a known risk of anouncing any product, even one with a short (and doable) release date.
phoenix:jeffw:~$ uname -a
SunOS phoenix 5.6 Generic_105181-03 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20
phoenix:jeffw:~$ which crypt /usr/bin/crypt
[jeffw@halifax jeffw]$ uname -a
SunOS halifax 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
[jeffw@halifax jeffw]$ which crypt /usr/bin/crypt
I never noticed that before. But knowing Sun, it doesnt supprise me. Learning this has caused me to both love and hate Sun more then I already love and hate Sun.
Im subscribed to a bunch of OSS admin help type lists, and sunmanagers. DAMM there are some stupid sysadmins out there. About 50% of the questions on the FreeRADIUS list over the past week could be answered with: "google for that exact sentence and click 'Im feeling lucky'" and/or "I dont know, but it would be fun to try".
Being out of work, I am very tempted to start isolating these morons, and sending off some mail to their company explaining how they have a moron working for them (and I would be a better choice). Hmm.. I have some time on my hands right now...
First, I specificly said that I diddn't expect the US to go around making the world a better place. What I said was that you shouldn't hide your self serving missions behind that mask. Anyway...
You mean besides Hitler? Canada was involved in both WWI and WWII year before the US was.
Ok. More recent stuff. UN Peacekeeping missions. One in paticular, the mission to Rwanda in 1994-1995. The Belgians quickly left after a trivially small number of their soilders were killed, abandoning both their responsibility to their former colony, and the Canadian troop, conviently forgetting that it was almost exclusivly Canadian troops who liberated them in both WWI and WWII. I will say again, I don't fault the US for not committing any troops to quell the genocide. Not their problem, fair enough. But the US activly slowed down the UN from action. The forced the resolutions to be watterd down.
Rwanda was not a war fought with tanks and cruise missles. Or even heavy infantry weapons. Personal arms and machetees were the weapons of choice, under the control of personal with zero training. And 'war' isnt the right word. It was one sided genocide with 800,000 deaths.
The UN peacekeepers were, by design, unequiped for combat against anything resembling a modern, 20th century army. But the combatants in Rwanda had less firepower then your typicle LA drug dealer. The 5000 UN troops, mostly technicians and analists, with their personal small arms and a few armoured vechiles could have stopped the genocide, at least in the cities. Axes are good weapons against defensless women and children. But a couple squads of troops armed with M16s could have stopped a regiment of ax wielding thugs.
The US pervented this from happening. The US response, due to their veto power at the UN was not "Sure, stop the genocide, but leave us out of it", it was effectivly "Leave us out of stopping the genocide. And, Oh, by the way, your not allowed to do anything about it either".
The whole Gary Power thing was political fallout because it was proof undenieable that the US was routinly invading USSR air space.
If your dropping bombs on someone then you are at war. Pilots getting shot down is part of war.
Unless you want to use these space based wepons covertly, without a declaration of war. Ignoring that space based wepons are illegal, engaging in hostilities before declaration of war is illegal, and has been formaly so for more then a century. Before then it happened as a matter of honor. Hell, 50 years after it happened - long after all the political figures were dead - the US forced Japan to apologize for Perl Harbour.
The reason why everyone hates America is because you have the ability to rain down death and destruction on anyone who gets in your way. Not anyone who does something wrong. Not anyone who wrongs a non-friendly country. Just anyone who happens to have something that you want that paticular week.
The problem is not the underlying forign policy of "make the world a better place" but that you only execute it when there are also self serving reasons to do so. I can not think of a single wholy selfless use of US militray might, ever. Sure youve done some good along the way while getting what you want. But the US has NEVER done good just to do good.
It wouldnt even be so bad if diddnt try to claim differently. I dont think the US (or any country) is obligated to do good just to do good. Just stop trying to con the rest of us into thinking thats what you're up to.
If you diddnt have the ability to rain down death and destruction on whomever you wanted then you wouldnt NEED the ability to rain down death and destruction.
Frankly, Im supprised that you could even get Windows2000 to boot on a laptop. Laptops, as a rule, have weird, unique, and/or fucked up hardware. Windows 2000, as a rule, has piss poor to no support for weird, unique and/or fucked up hardware.
It is standard practice for ie ISPs to explicitly NOT support Windows 2000. Win2k is a bastard child - not quite friendly enough for mear mortals to use, not quite enough hardware suport for mear mortals to bother trying to use.
It is a very interesting question. Clause 0 of the GPL specificly excludes, ie the output of a compiler. Also, I suppose, the files saved by a text editor, image program.....
Question: If some ASP took some GPLd web-based program, but rewote all its templates, would that be more acceptable?
Are the error messages generated by (some GPLd MTA) consitered redistibution of that MTA? If you hack in some site specific stuff into your MTA, and it sends out an error message, must you also allow distrubtion of your hacks?
These days a lot of 'traditional' javascript jobs can be done with DHTML (and other things I dont understand...). If sending out javascript (which is arguably a programing language), is consitered redistribution, then would be sending out equivelent DHTML? I don't consiter DHTML a programing language.
All the "good for large project" languages do differently then the "good for quick hack" languages is force you into using an arbitrary and desigined-elsewhere methodologies. You don't need to do and explicit planning or design because if you dont they compiler will just laugh at you. They force you into producing someone else idea of nice code.
I don't write maintainable code because doing so allows my holy-grail compiler to work. I write maintainable code because its the right thing to do. But not all the time. Some time a hack is the right thing. Sometimes a hack will save days of "proper" coding. With Perl you have the option of producing pretty code and producing code fast in the same program.
You sholdnt be looking at what commercial available, mass produced consumer grade, desigined for PCs MoBo's are out there.
Get on the phone and call up the manufactures. Get something custom desigined, or at least get pointed at the non-consumer grade web page. If your doing any kind of volume at all, it wont be that expensive. Its not quite as easy as building a computer from componets in your basement, but PC technology is standardized components. Hell, if they have an autorouting board designer they could likely so something from scratch in an afternoon.
I don't understand the problem here. RMS is old enough to remember when computers were big and centerlized.
A "computer utility" was the purpose behind the Multics project. Many mainframe hardware manufactures, in addition to small regional based outfits, opearated ASP style businesses as far back as the 1960's. ASPs are nothing new.
Ive said it before, HTTP+HTML - markup language with forms, client side rendering, few bits going accross the wire, is conceptually exactly the same as IBM 3270 terminals worked. A 1960's time sharing computer company is conceptually exactly the same as a 2004 web bases ASP.
Back in 95/96, my first year of universiry, I printed out the Jargon File - and still have it ina 3" 3 ring binder somwhere.
I say over a school year because I did it by
- running html2ps on one chapter
- copying the ps to a DOS boot disk
- going to the one lab on campus that had {no supervision, a PS printer, an accessable 286 as a print server (netware, pserver)}
- rebooting the printserver with the DOS boot disk
- running "copy chap-X.ps LPR"
- waiting untill it ran out of paper
- waiting a week untill they replenished the paper "PC Load Letter! What the fuck does that mean?"
Now that I think about it, I must have used multiple printers, since different chapters are in different fonts....
Ah yes. I remember the interviews with ESR where he refused to answer any questions about Linux unless the interviewer said OSS/Linux.
ESR no longer accepts invitations for speaking engagements. When he did, he said he was prepared to sleep on a couch. Fly him in (coach) and pay for his meals, but he was prepared to help out just about anyone. Keynote speakers usually cost tens of thousands of dollars, and sure as hell demand first class tickets, a hotel suite, and fine dining.
Not that RMS asks/demands this treatment. But ESR doesn't act like most people bent on self-promotion and self-gratification..
They opened it up, and about 4 months later, closed it. Kinda like 'zero cost' Solaris. It was once a zero cost download, now its media kit can be had for around $100.
Star/Open/SunOffice sucks. Sory, thats the truth. That it is simply not Microsoft does not make up for the fact that it sucks. I have installed and breifly used 1.1, however I have not been following the OO stuff very closely - when Ive tried I always see 6-24month old web pages. What I am deep down hoping for is a parallell with Mozilla. As it turned out, it was a compleate rewrite. And now, many years later, the Mozilla group is producing some amazing stuff, and its core technology is being used elsewhere.
It is possible that OO will always suck. Im hopeing that in a couple of years once they have fixed/replaced all the legacy crap it will be good. But Im not holding my breath.
The Jargon Dictionary. Founding member of the OSI. A large number of HOWTOs
Ok, no one huge earth shattering project. An while I cant find it now, in one of the Fetchmail history docs, he readily admits to being a better maintainer then coder.
Even if he was a complete non-coder, The Jargon Dictionary alone would be enough for him to be 'one of the tribe', and worth listening too. But he has managed a not insignificant tool.
But all of that is nothing compared to his work with OSI. Even before that, his non-technical guidance and writings were immensely helpful to the community. Netscape/Mozilla was one of (if not the) first example of closed source being let free. And its still one if the biggest examples.
ESR may have a bit of a primiadonna attitude, but compared to RMS he is humble as they get.
The fact that people are committing those crimes goes to prove Eric's point. If there is an opportunity to make money doing something, it will be done.
Of course, not everyone looks at things in a purely financial cost/benefit. Drug dealers get shot at a lot. Criminals can get set to jail. For some people it is worth the risk. For some people who have no skills or education, crime is the only method of survival... And in jail you have a roof over your head and 3 meals a day.
That said, there are very few ramifications to sending spam. Sending spam, morally speaking, isn't quite as bad as dealing drugs. Its definitely a hell of a lot safer. And the long arm of the law isn't doing much in the way of prosecuting spammers.
Given a choice between dealing drugs, and spamming, I would choose spamming. Very low risk.
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Well, almost 'always', anyway. If your in third base, holding a 12 against a dealers 3, and the last 7 cards have been faces, then a hit would be a good thing, even though it is against basic strategy.
The other exception is if you are keeping a side count of faces, you can use that information to choose to take insurance. Playing basic strategy, insurance (or even money on a BJ) is always a bad idea.
On your second to last point, I wounder how well a program : "sitdown(); bed(0); leave(); " would do ....
If the bandidth usage is reasonable, then the IT staff wont care what the bandwidth happens to be. If the bandwidth usage is insane, they will use any excuse to solve it, including caving in to outside legal forces.
Bob, in his dorm room wants a movie. He downloads 1.5GB over $CURRENT_P2P_SYSTEM. Cool. Bob tells Joe, his roommate about the movie. Joe downloads 1.5GB over $CURRENT_P2P_SYSTEM. Rinse, lather, repeat for 3 or 4 or 50 other students.
Had Bob put up his movie in a shared folder on his Winblows computer, it would have been downloaded over the internet once. But Bob, and his 50 friends are stupid and unable to right click on a directory. So the movie is downloaded 50 times.
Had it been downloaded once, well, Im not going to say it would go unnoticed, but it wouldnt be an issue. Copyrights? Beh. Insane amount of traffic that happens to be copyrighted? Well, thats costing us real money. That is causing significant load on the network. Real users are complaining. Solution: Traffic shaping. Port filtering. Suspending insane-traffic users.
If your a student in a dorm stop being so fscking stupid. Keep it under the radar.
Prison is punishment because it removes you from society. Society is protected because the criminal is removed from it.... Said criminal is now not part of Canadian society. Canadian society is no longer under threat from said criminal.
Said criminal is not a Canadian citizen (or taxpayer). It is not our job (or responsibility) to rehabilitate him.
His deportation serves as an example to prospective illegal aliens from entering Canada.
Furthermore, we have saved in court costs, and the cost of housing and rehabilitating him.
win, win, win. With the bonus of not costing any money.
What they did was to FUD their (existing) product line. It is (usualy) a known risk of anouncing any product, even one with a short (and doable) release date.
phoenix:jeffw:~$ uname -a
/usr/bin/crypt
SunOS phoenix 5.6 Generic_105181-03 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20
phoenix:jeffw:~$ which crypt
[jeffw@halifax jeffw]$ uname -a
/usr/bin/crypt
SunOS halifax 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
[jeffw@halifax jeffw]$ which crypt
I never noticed that before. But knowing Sun, it doesnt supprise me. Learning this has caused me to both love and hate Sun more then I already love and hate Sun.
I just press the "indigo" button,and if by magic, it releases the light it has stored. Amazing!
Being out of work, I am very tempted to start isolating these morons, and sending off some mail to their company explaining how they have a moron working for them (and I would be a better choice). Hmm.. I have some time on my hands right now...
You mean besides Hitler? Canada was involved in both WWI and WWII year before the US was.
Ok. More recent stuff. UN Peacekeeping missions. One in paticular, the mission to Rwanda in 1994-1995. The Belgians quickly left after a trivially small number of their soilders were killed, abandoning both their responsibility to their former colony, and the Canadian troop, conviently forgetting that it was almost exclusivly Canadian troops who liberated them in both WWI and WWII. I will say again, I don't fault the US for not committing any troops to quell the genocide. Not their problem, fair enough. But the US activly slowed down the UN from action. The forced the resolutions to be watterd down.
Rwanda was not a war fought with tanks and cruise missles. Or even heavy infantry weapons. Personal arms and machetees were the weapons of choice, under the control of personal with zero training. And 'war' isnt the right word. It was one sided genocide with 800,000 deaths.
The UN peacekeepers were, by design, unequiped for combat against anything resembling a modern, 20th century army. But the combatants in Rwanda had less firepower then your typicle LA drug dealer. The 5000 UN troops, mostly technicians and analists, with their personal small arms and a few armoured vechiles could have stopped the genocide, at least in the cities. Axes are good weapons against defensless women and children. But a couple squads of troops armed with M16s could have stopped a regiment of ax wielding thugs.
The US pervented this from happening. The US response, due to their veto power at the UN was not "Sure, stop the genocide, but leave us out of it", it was effectivly "Leave us out of stopping the genocide. And, Oh, by the way, your not allowed to do anything about it either".
If your dropping bombs on someone then you are at war. Pilots getting shot down is part of war.
Unless you want to use these space based wepons covertly, without a declaration of war. Ignoring that space based wepons are illegal, engaging in hostilities before declaration of war is illegal, and has been formaly so for more then a century. Before then it happened as a matter of honor. Hell, 50 years after it happened - long after all the political figures were dead - the US forced Japan to apologize for Perl Harbour.
The problem is not the underlying forign policy of "make the world a better place" but that you only execute it when there are also self serving reasons to do so. I can not think of a single wholy selfless use of US militray might, ever. Sure youve done some good along the way while getting what you want. But the US has NEVER done good just to do good.
It wouldnt even be so bad if diddnt try to claim differently. I dont think the US (or any country) is obligated to do good just to do good. Just stop trying to con the rest of us into thinking thats what you're up to.
If you diddnt have the ability to rain down death and destruction on whomever you wanted then you wouldnt NEED the ability to rain down death and destruction.
It is standard practice for ie ISPs to explicitly NOT support Windows 2000. Win2k is a bastard child - not quite friendly enough for mear mortals to use, not quite enough hardware suport for mear mortals to bother trying to use.
Question: If some ASP took some GPLd web-based program, but rewote all its templates, would that be more acceptable?
Are the error messages generated by (some GPLd MTA) consitered redistibution of that MTA? If you hack in some site specific stuff into your MTA, and it sends out an error message, must you also allow distrubtion of your hacks?
These days a lot of 'traditional' javascript jobs can be done with DHTML (and other things I dont understand...). If sending out javascript (which is arguably a programing language), is consitered redistribution, then would be sending out equivelent DHTML? I don't consiter DHTML a programing language.
Interesting questions....
I don't write maintainable code because doing so allows my holy-grail compiler to work. I write maintainable code because its the right thing to do. But not all the time. Some time a hack is the right thing. Sometimes a hack will save days of "proper" coding. With Perl you have the option of producing pretty code and producing code fast in the same program.
Get on the phone and call up the manufactures. Get something custom desigined, or at least get pointed at the non-consumer grade web page. If your doing any kind of volume at all, it wont be that expensive. Its not quite as easy as building a computer from componets in your basement, but PC technology is standardized components. Hell, if they have an autorouting board designer they could likely so something from scratch in an afternoon.
A "computer utility" was the purpose behind the Multics project. Many mainframe hardware manufactures, in addition to small regional based outfits, opearated ASP style businesses as far back as the 1960's. ASPs are nothing new.
Ive said it before, HTTP+HTML - markup language with forms, client side rendering, few bits going accross the wire, is conceptually exactly the same as IBM 3270 terminals worked. A 1960's time sharing computer company is conceptually exactly the same as a 2004 web bases ASP.
They should have seen this coming.
Your right, he wrote it so he could topple the Tanenbaum empire.
Well, its on random then.
If Mono worked it wouldnt need any porting at all....
I say over a school year because I did it by
- running html2ps on one chapter
- copying the ps to a DOS boot disk
- going to the one lab on campus that had {no supervision, a PS printer, an accessable 286 as a print server (netware, pserver)}
- rebooting the printserver with the DOS boot disk
- running "copy chap-X.ps LPR"
- waiting untill it ran out of paper
- waiting a week untill they replenished the paper "PC Load Letter! What the fuck does that mean?"
Now that I think about it, I must have used multiple printers, since different chapters are in different fonts....
ESR no longer accepts invitations for speaking engagements. When he did, he said he was prepared to sleep on a couch. Fly him in (coach) and pay for his meals, but he was prepared to help out just about anyone. Keynote speakers usually cost tens of thousands of dollars, and sure as hell demand first class tickets, a hotel suite, and fine dining.
Not that RMS asks/demands this treatment. But ESR doesn't act like most people bent on self-promotion and self-gratification..
Star/Open/SunOffice sucks. Sory, thats the truth. That it is simply not Microsoft does not make up for the fact that it sucks. I have installed and breifly used 1.1, however I have not been following the OO stuff very closely - when Ive tried I always see 6-24month old web pages. What I am deep down hoping for is a parallell with Mozilla. As it turned out, it was a compleate rewrite. And now, many years later, the Mozilla group is producing some amazing stuff, and its core technology is being used elsewhere.
It is possible that OO will always suck. Im hopeing that in a couple of years once they have fixed/replaced all the legacy crap it will be good. But Im not holding my breath.
The Jargon Dictionary.
Founding member of the OSI.
A large number of HOWTOs
Ok, no one huge earth shattering project. An while I cant find it now, in one of the Fetchmail history docs, he readily admits to being a better maintainer then coder.
Even if he was a complete non-coder, The Jargon Dictionary alone would be enough for him to be 'one of the tribe', and worth listening too. But he has managed a not insignificant tool.
But all of that is nothing compared to his work with OSI. Even before that, his non-technical guidance and writings were immensely helpful to the community. Netscape/Mozilla was one of (if not the) first example of closed source being let free. And its still one if the biggest examples.
ESR may have a bit of a primiadonna attitude, but compared to RMS he is humble as they get.
Of course, not everyone looks at things in a purely financial cost/benefit. Drug dealers get shot at a lot. Criminals can get set to jail. For some people it is worth the risk. For some people who have no skills or education, crime is the only method of survival... And in jail you have a roof over your head and 3 meals a day.
That said, there are very few ramifications to sending spam. Sending spam, morally speaking, isn't quite as bad as dealing drugs. Its definitely a hell of a lot safer. And the long arm of the law isn't doing much in the way of prosecuting spammers.
Given a choice between dealing drugs, and spamming, I would choose spamming. Very low risk.