This can't be serious, right? This is Slashdot, we're all nerds here. A lot machine is nothing more than a random number generator matched up against a win table.
Completely made up numbers, but say you bet $1. The rngs spits out a number say from 1 to 10,000,000. If it hits 10,000,000 on the dot, you win the $1 million jackpot. If it hits 9,999,995-9,999,999 you win the 2nd best prize. If it hits between 5,000,000-8,000,000 perhaps you win $2 back. This is the basic premise.
Thus, there is no "hot" or "cold", just a random number. You could get lucky and roll a the jackpot 10 times in a row. It could never hit. If the casino wants to tighten up the machine, they just change so now it only pays $2 when you hit between 6,000,000 and 8,000,000. Its basic math.
And I say this as someone who loves to gamble, and does so more often than I really should. But to presume its anything more than just getting lucky is silly.
semi-offtopic, but as a Latino, what is your take on why Obama can't seem make signifigant inroads into that constituency? Is it Obama or Clinton's stance on immigration? Healthcare? Labor issues? Racism? I'm geniunely curious?
I like the idea, but how is "private non-commercial copyright infringment" determined? You said allofmp3 is out, how about the Pirate Bay and its massive ad revenue? (pretend it's in the USA for the sake of discussion). How about if I run a personal website on my ISP webspace linking to some songs?
I've never been to Vegas, but I've been all over the midwest, and I've never heard of a casino that lets you touch your cards in blackjack. I have seen TV and movies however where the players actually privately hold their cards to themselves. Why would any casino allow this? Why would the players care?
To be honest, that sounds like old Vegas four Yorkshireman talk about who had it rougher and who was there first. Lots of washed up old men want to believe they have one over on young successful MIT type college kids, and probably didn't appreciate those kids in their "world".
Ugh, it truly, truly is a joke here. C'mon Focus on the Family, focus on yourselves for once and let us bet decent spread. You'd think they'd let us bet at least a $5-$100 spread for all the trouble in driving up the mountain.
What the fuck Burger King did you find that you can get a Whopper, fries and a drink (was it water?) for $2? That goes for around 5-6 dollars in Colorado.
Vista? And XP SP2? The tray icon might be there, but damned if I've ever used it, and I've sure never gotten any warning messages.
It's only just about a month ago reading through some Slashdot thread about USB keys that I even learned that I was chancing corruption by pulling the USB key at any time. It certainly hasn't happened to me yet despite 1,000+ pulls of my USB key.
When I put the Ubuntu CD in my HP dv6258se, It can't make it into the installer, the screen just goes black (fans are still running but the machine is unresponsive). I'd really love to run it too. As I understand, there may be some kernel parameters I can pass to make it work, but I'm not even sure how to do that, which parameters I'd need, or what the syntax is for passing a kernel parameter.
For comparison, when I blanked it to replace the shitty preinstalled Vista with XP, it went beautifully (of course I needed to grab the driver, and assuming its as easy to install Nvidia drivers on Linux as Windows, I'll just consider that a wash)
I try every once and a while and burn the latest Ubuntu to CD and pop it in, just to see if it can make it into the installer, but so far no luck.
Just my anecdotal experience. (and plea for help to the linux world in case I'm just being stupid)
Please let me know when they come to Denver? Also, how much are you looking at per month for that service? I imagine I'd gladly pay it, I'm just curious.
I'm going to disagree.. I love my Wii to death, but there is sometimes 30 seconds plus of just black screen after launching a game disc through the launcher screen.
This would be reasonable if you really thought that this "subsidization" could be relieved to back to you. Why should grandma pay $45 when she uses less than 2GB in a month, checking email and going to weather.com?
Your post made me think of something (that would of course require competition in the cable industry of course).
It seems the two biggest money sinks are the technically inept and the uber-geeks. What if a company catered to one in exclusion of the others? I'm sure some of us Slashdotters would be willing to forego (expensive) support in order to have unfettered, fast (expensive) internet.
Just the same, you'd think that the sort of people who call up with moronic questions about "the internet is broken" would not care about or notice bandwith/port throttling and caps, and with the saved money from REALLY being able to over-sell your capacity (those users don't use much), you could offer them top-notch tech support.
Not in the real world, but seems like a nice idea, eh?
[Blockquote]I would much rather pay a very low rate per minute. That way I can buy exactly as many minutes as I need in a given month, at a known rate, and not worry.
Why should bandwidth be different? It costs money to provide it, and those who use a resource most should pay in proportion to their usage. Just make the per-megabyte fee very low. This fixes everyone's problems: every consumer will have a fair bill, the provider will profit in proportion to usage, and if, like the grandparent stated, you only have occasional spikes in usage, it won't affect your budget very much.[/Blockquote]
I'd love this, but lets be realistic. if they make it something reasonable like.1 to.5 cents per Megabyte (is that reasonable for moderate internet usage somewhere between a torrent geek and grandma?), then Grandma would get away with a $5 or less bill at the end of the month, and there ain't no way the telcos would go for that.
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This can't be serious, right? This is Slashdot, we're all nerds here. A lot machine is nothing more than a random number generator matched up against a win table.
Completely made up numbers, but say you bet $1. The rngs spits out a number say from 1 to 10,000,000. If it hits 10,000,000 on the dot, you win the $1 million jackpot. If it hits 9,999,995-9,999,999 you win the 2nd best prize. If it hits between 5,000,000-8,000,000 perhaps you win $2 back. This is the basic premise.
Thus, there is no "hot" or "cold", just a random number. You could get lucky and roll a the jackpot 10 times in a row. It could never hit. If the casino wants to tighten up the machine, they just change so now it only pays $2 when you hit between 6,000,000 and 8,000,000. Its basic math.
And I say this as someone who loves to gamble, and does so more often than I really should. But to presume its anything more than just getting lucky is silly.
Is it available to more than 25% of the customers in the United States? 10%? 5%?
No?
Then it's not news.
There are lots of guys named Jesus in the major leagues, perhaps one of them will do it.
They have affirmative action because 400 years of systematic oppression are still far from being reversed.
I think they get a pass because of 400 years of systematic oppression. I could be wrong though.
semi-offtopic, but as a Latino, what is your take on why Obama can't seem make signifigant inroads into that constituency? Is it Obama or Clinton's stance on immigration? Healthcare? Labor issues? Racism? I'm geniunely curious?
is it illegal to hoard and jerk off to pictures of actual (adult) rape?
I like the idea, but how is "private non-commercial copyright infringment" determined? You said allofmp3 is out, how about the Pirate Bay and its massive ad revenue? (pretend it's in the USA for the sake of discussion). How about if I run a personal website on my ISP webspace linking to some songs?
I've never been to Vegas, but I've been all over the midwest, and I've never heard of a casino that lets you touch your cards in blackjack. I have seen TV and movies however where the players actually privately hold their cards to themselves. Why would any casino allow this? Why would the players care?
To be honest, that sounds like old Vegas four Yorkshireman talk about who had it rougher and who was there first. Lots of washed up old men want to believe they have one over on young successful MIT type college kids, and probably didn't appreciate those kids in their "world".
Just my take though.
Ugh, it truly, truly is a joke here. C'mon Focus on the Family, focus on yourselves for once and let us bet decent spread. You'd think they'd let us bet at least a $5-$100 spread for all the trouble in driving up the mountain.
As for programming, how is the keyboard? I mean I know its super tiny, but are all the symbolic keys represented without using shift/Fn or whatever?
What the fuck Burger King did you find that you can get a Whopper, fries and a drink (was it water?) for $2? That goes for around 5-6 dollars in Colorado.
Have a link to said report? I'm curious as to the findings.
Vista? And XP SP2? The tray icon might be there, but damned if I've ever used it, and I've sure never gotten any warning messages.
It's only just about a month ago reading through some Slashdot thread about USB keys that I even learned that I was chancing corruption by pulling the USB key at any time. It certainly hasn't happened to me yet despite 1,000+ pulls of my USB key.
Dude, it's a laptop. Ubuntu's installer just fails on it.
When I put the Ubuntu CD in my HP dv6258se, It can't make it into the installer, the screen just goes black (fans are still running but the machine is unresponsive). I'd really love to run it too. As I understand, there may be some kernel parameters I can pass to make it work, but I'm not even sure how to do that, which parameters I'd need, or what the syntax is for passing a kernel parameter.
For comparison, when I blanked it to replace the shitty preinstalled Vista with XP, it went beautifully (of course I needed to grab the driver, and assuming its as easy to install Nvidia drivers on Linux as Windows, I'll just consider that a wash)
I try every once and a while and burn the latest Ubuntu to CD and pop it in, just to see if it can make it into the installer, but so far no luck.
Just my anecdotal experience. (and plea for help to the linux world in case I'm just being stupid)
Some of us live in the goddamn suburbs, where walking from a Starbucks to your car is really not frightening, even with a $2000 laptop.
Please let me know when they come to Denver? Also, how much are you looking at per month for that service? I imagine I'd gladly pay it, I'm just curious.
I'm going to disagree.. I love my Wii to death, but there is sometimes 30 seconds plus of just black screen after launching a game disc through the launcher screen.
try 180 billion
This would be reasonable if you really thought that this "subsidization" could be relieved to back to you. Why should grandma pay $45 when she uses less than 2GB in a month, checking email and going to weather.com?
Your post made me think of something (that would of course require competition in the cable industry of course).
It seems the two biggest money sinks are the technically inept and the uber-geeks. What if a company catered to one in exclusion of the others? I'm sure some of us Slashdotters would be willing to forego (expensive) support in order to have unfettered, fast (expensive) internet.
Just the same, you'd think that the sort of people who call up with moronic questions about "the internet is broken" would not care about or notice bandwith/port throttling and caps, and with the saved money from REALLY being able to over-sell your capacity (those users don't use much), you could offer them top-notch tech support.
Not in the real world, but seems like a nice idea, eh?
I fail at posting on Slashdot :-(
[Blockquote]I would much rather pay a very low rate per minute. That way I can buy exactly as many minutes as I need in a given month, at a known rate, and not worry.
.1 to .5 cents per Megabyte (is that reasonable for moderate internet usage somewhere between a torrent geek and grandma?), then Grandma would get away with a $5 or less bill at the end of the month, and there ain't no way the telcos would go for that.
Why should bandwidth be different? It costs money to provide it, and those who use a resource most should pay in proportion to their usage. Just make the per-megabyte fee very low. This fixes everyone's problems: every consumer will have a fair bill, the provider will profit in proportion to usage, and if, like the grandparent stated, you only have occasional spikes in usage, it won't affect your budget very much.[/Blockquote]
I'd love this, but lets be realistic. if they make it something reasonable like