Back in the 60's/early 70's before the game changed, card counting was effective. Casinos played with single decks, used favorable rules, and dealt down to the last few cards. In 2008? Please.
This movie and the book it was based on is essentially a shill for the gaming industry, in my opinion. Casinos clandestinely promote card counting because they know they make more money from people who try to count cards and who are convinced they have an edge on the casino. The myth of blackjack makes the casinos a lot of money.
Scratching out an edge with a reasonable spread, 1 check for negative counts 5-10 for positive counts, is all but impossible in a casino setting. Sure, a computer can do it churning out numbers, but there is a big difference.
And then there is the risk of ruin to consider. Even if you do create a small edge, without a tremendous bankroll to back you up risk of ruin is still almost certain against the house. And if you had a tremendous bankroll, then the slight mathematical edge possible at blackjack would be a foolish, risky investment completely not worth the effort.
Your argument is flawed, please come in for a repair so we can update your firmware, there is a known bug in the logical processing unit.
Sure, flop and bounce your fake brains around. When you get older and the rest of your body is fat and flabby, you don't think you'll look strange with big nice full and firm brains?
It does not make one bit of difference to me if MS stops supporting XP. I have had windows updates turned off for some time now.
I keep my firewall, anti-virus, and browser updated. I don't use any of Microsoft's office products or any other MS programs besides the OS. If MS stops supporting Office on XP, it may just give people a reason to consider alternatives like Open Office.
The only reason I don't run a Linux distro right now is that my laptop came with XP and everything runs fine. If I feel the need to change OS's in the future, I will not be upgrading to another version of windows, but rather to a linux distro.
[Fry stands up and raises his hand.]
FRY: One jillion dollars.
[The bidders gasp in shock.]
AUCTIONEER: Sir, that's not a number.
[The bidders gasp again.]
I would write the lawyers and tell them if they want to protect their intellectual property, then they should make sure that the cease-and-desist letter never becomes part of the court record. Because if it ever does, I would totally put it up on my blogz, lolz.
The position of Ford is that pictures of the vehicle are been displayed prominently and the pictures are being sold in a calendar. So, what about buy-sell magazines you can buy up at the quickie mart with prominently displayed Fords? These are all in violation of Ford's IP also I guess.
Do I recall some kind of ridiculous refresh bug in one of the Netscape 4.x versions, whereas if you moved the browser on your screen the page refreshed?
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
2.1.4 WHEN method
When coffee is poured, and milk is offered, it is necessary for the holder of the recipient of milk to say "when" at the time when sufficient milk has been introduced into the coffee. For this purpose, the "WHEN" method has been added to HTCPCP.
Prior art, ey? That won't stop me and my team of IP lawyers.
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When American conservatives say they want free markets, what they really mean is that they don't want to pay taxes.
And this explains many of the contradictions in their 'ideology'.
Back in the 60's/early 70's before the game changed, card counting was effective. Casinos played with single decks, used favorable rules, and dealt down to the last few cards. In 2008? Please.
This movie and the book it was based on is essentially a shill for the gaming industry, in my opinion. Casinos clandestinely promote card counting because they know they make more money from people who try to count cards and who are convinced they have an edge on the casino. The myth of blackjack makes the casinos a lot of money.
Scratching out an edge with a reasonable spread, 1 check for negative counts 5-10 for positive counts, is all but impossible in a casino setting. Sure, a computer can do it churning out numbers, but there is a big difference.
And then there is the risk of ruin to consider. Even if you do create a small edge, without a tremendous bankroll to back you up risk of ruin is still almost certain against the house. And if you had a tremendous bankroll, then the slight mathematical edge possible at blackjack would be a foolish, risky investment completely not worth the effort.
I guess they'll have to start banking in the Caymans.
Sure, flop and bounce your fake brains around. When you get older and the rest of your body is fat and flabby, you don't think you'll look strange with big nice full and firm brains?
And the envious non-enhanced smaller brained nerds say, "Those brains are so fake".
It does not make one bit of difference to me if MS stops supporting XP. I have had windows updates turned off for some time now.
I keep my firewall, anti-virus, and browser updated. I don't use any of Microsoft's office products or any other MS programs besides the OS. If MS stops supporting Office on XP, it may just give people a reason to consider alternatives like Open Office.
The only reason I don't run a Linux distro right now is that my laptop came with XP and everything runs fine. If I feel the need to change OS's in the future, I will not be upgrading to another version of windows, but rather to a linux distro.
...until it humps your leg, or pees on the floor, or chases the robot cat.
[Fry stands up and raises his hand.]
FRY: One jillion dollars.
[The bidders gasp in shock.]
AUCTIONEER: Sir, that's not a number.
[The bidders gasp again.]
It's a reference to the shitty source of the article. Of course, in order to understand that reference, one would have to actually read the article.
mysterious bruises?" Madonna's bruises take 2nd billing to a fountain of youth helmet? What type of publication are these people running?
I would write the lawyers and tell them if they want to protect their intellectual property, then they should make sure that the cease-and-desist letter never becomes part of the court record. Because if it ever does, I would totally put it up on my blogz, lolz.
The position of Ford is that pictures of the vehicle are been displayed prominently and the pictures are being sold in a calendar. So, what about buy-sell magazines you can buy up at the quickie mart with prominently displayed Fords? These are all in violation of Ford's IP also I guess.
Free as in freedom is great and all, although a little high minded for the average computer user. But 'free as in beer' is the real crowd pleaser.
You think anyone would have given a hoot what Patrick Henry was saying if the Brits had not tried several unpopular taxes?
vinyl is alive and well
Do all public school administrators have some built in compulsion towards infringing tyrannical nonsense?
I don't understand how anyone could learn java and then have the least bit problem with c++, or the other way around.
poop.
Do I recall some kind of ridiculous refresh bug in one of the Netscape 4.x versions, whereas if you moved the browser on your screen the page refreshed?
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or Anals
Prior art, ey? That won't stop me and my team of IP lawyers.
As a minimalist, I make my own coffee. So, I would like my coffee maker to send a text message to my cell phone.
YCIR, lolz!@11!
would be sad.
By the laws of the universe, a Star Trek related article is soon to follow.
At least this was not about time dilation.