It's actually difficult to learn to play decent poker online for free. There are plenty of sites that offer free games and tournaments, but the problem is that when there is no money being risked people don't play as well. You'll see people betting their whole stack on bad hands and 4 people (at a 10 person table) calling with mediocre hands. This really isn't good practice. Also it's hard to learn in a format where it's mostly beginners playing. The good players generally don't waste their time on the free games (with some exceptions of course), so you're mostly playing against other beginners which isn't all that great of training.:)
My advice is to play home games with other poker players, go to local tournaments. There may even be free ones available in your area at local bars. Once you feel like you have a decent grasp of the game, deposit $100 or so to your poker site of choice (usually you'll get a deposit bonus too) and start playing. My favourite format for the value is the single table no-limit tournaments. For $10 + $1 you have a decent shot at winning $50 and the tournaments only take an hour or so.
I'm not sure which method you use, but I included one method in an article I wrote on memory improvement which some slashdot readers might find interesting.
With some practice, you really can get to the point where you can calculate days of the week for any date in just a few seconds. People don't realize it's not all that difficult so it's a nice parlor trick.
Also included in that article are methods for remembering long-digit numbers, the order of a deck of cards, etc.
You have Red Hat to thank for the fact that Gentoo doesn't suck. Red Hat contributes more to the open source community than any other Linux company out there and they've been doing it for years. Red Hat developers' code is all over the place when you're "emerging". And Red Hat's profits continually go back into improving that same code you're running on all your Gentoo boxes. So really you should be cheering Red Hat on.
How does the announcement that they will work together to insure interoperability mean that RPM is losing popularity? Keep in mind the major vendors are still RPM-based: Red Hat, Novell SUSE, JDS (SUSE based), Mandrake...
Definitely. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to meet him at one point and he was an extremely friendly guy, until people ask him to do a "trick" like calculate the day of the week their birthdate fell on or do some math. Then he seemed to get annoyed, understandably.
Yes, it's called ADSL2 and I have it at my house in St. Louis, MO right now. Granted I'm on SBC's trial program for the next 3 months, but the speeds can reach as high as 24Mb/s which is enough for HDTV. They just installed the new DSL modem last week and are going to be ramping up speed over the next few weeks. Currently I'm at about 5Mb/s.
Any credible argument or salient points are pretty much wiped out by statements such as:
The people who say they want to vote for Bush are generally in the older age brackets, and they don't have as much trouble with the lies told by Bush and his people.
Yeah, because we all know that older people don't mind when a president and "his people" lie to the nation. And clearly everyone knows the president has lied to all of us. It's just that older people don't mind. Huh?
The young people on cell phones appear not to be listening and they hear every syllable. They punch out a number without looking.
They are quicker, and probably smarter at this time, and almost doubtlessly more in favor of Kerry than Bush.
Yeah, and we all know that the younger people who are also smarter will doubtless vote for Kerry (probably a direct consequence of their increased intelligence). Only the old, stupid, slow people would not mind Bush's lies and vote for him and "his people."
Older people complain about Kerry's performance as a candidate. Younger people don't want to get shot at in a war that most believe, and firmly, never should have started because it was started with a president lying.
And obviously the older generation will be more concerned with trivial details such as the candidate's "political record" and "performance" while the younger, smarter people don't want to die and therefore don't want to vote for a liar who sends people to their death for a pointless cause.
I love firefox, but plugins to NOT install seamlessly. I hit a java site today with the latest release of firefox and it said "down load plugin?" So I click "yes" and it says the plugin can't be found. The amusing thing is that I have the java plugin installed on my system. It works in every other mozilla-based browser. I'm not sure what's up with that, but it's definitely not seamless.
It had the opposite effect on me, for sure. Before seeing the film I was actually undecided. I watched the film and thought, "There is something seriously messed up about this film." So I did research, went to various sites, looked into the facts as much as possible and watched both the republican and democratic national conventions. After all that I have decided to vote for Bush. I think F911 is an important film, but I don't think it's necessarily going to have Moore's desired effect. He's a radical, egotistical propagandist and I think the majority of people who see the film will see right through his ranting and spinning.
This is something that the articles and reports often fail to mention. I know at our company every Linux server we have (and we have quite a few) is running a downloaded distribution. The original server shipped with either no OS or with Windows.
I think it's probably due to a couple factors. First of all, Mono is generally a more complete and compatible implementation (Windows.Forms aside) of.NET. Secondly, the project has been more vocal and is being lead by Miguel de Icaza @ Novell. Personally I think it's a bit of a shame that Portable.NET exists. I wish those developers would join the Mono effort and move things along faster. But that's just my opinion.
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It appears to use Windows.Forms which isn't really supported on Mono yet. However, Novell has a team working hard on a new Windows.Forms implementation, so it's just a matter of time...
Between the fedora project and the Fedora Legacy Project you get something like 2.5 - 3 years of supported updates. And at any point you can do an upgrade, you do not have to "wipe and reinstall."
Hotmail is offering 2GB because that's all they got up their sleves. Gmail is a *huge* improvement over Hotmail on the user interface level. And the Gmail spam filter is pretty awesome.
I have to disagree with you there. I'm noticing about 15 spams per day getting through. It's annoying enough to keep me from using gmail regularly.
I mentioned this morning that it seems he's going to Microsoft to work on IronPython and improve the CLR for dynamic languages. It's hard to say what Microsoft's plans would be for IronPython, but improving the ECMA CLR for languages such as Python sure sounds exciting.
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Do they support multiple blogs with a single installation yet? That was the big reason I didn't move to Wordpress a while back...
Also works for "Kerry is a" and "michael moore is a"
That's a great idea: take our best hacker and put him in a management role where he has less time to hack.
My advice is to play home games with other poker players, go to local tournaments. There may even be free ones available in your area at local bars. Once you feel like you have a decent grasp of the game, deposit $100 or so to your poker site of choice (usually you'll get a deposit bonus too) and start playing. My favourite format for the value is the single table no-limit tournaments. For $10 + $1 you have a decent shot at winning $50 and the tournaments only take an hour or so.
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With some practice, you really can get to the point where you can calculate days of the week for any date in just a few seconds. People don't realize it's not all that difficult so it's a nice parlor trick.
Also included in that article are methods for remembering long-digit numbers, the order of a deck of cards, etc.
You have Red Hat to thank for the fact that Gentoo doesn't suck. Red Hat contributes more to the open source community than any other Linux company out there and they've been doing it for years. Red Hat developers' code is all over the place when you're "emerging". And Red Hat's profits continually go back into improving that same code you're running on all your Gentoo boxes. So really you should be cheering Red Hat on.
How does the announcement that they will work together to insure interoperability mean that RPM is losing popularity? Keep in mind the major vendors are still RPM-based: Red Hat, Novell SUSE, JDS (SUSE based), Mandrake...
Definitely. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to meet him at one point and he was an extremely friendly guy, until people ask him to do a "trick" like calculate the day of the week their birthdate fell on or do some math. Then he seemed to get annoyed, understandably.
Yes, it's called ADSL2 and I have it at my house in St. Louis, MO right now. Granted I'm on SBC's trial program for the next 3 months, but the speeds can reach as high as 24Mb/s which is enough for HDTV. They just installed the new DSL modem last week and are going to be ramping up speed over the next few weeks. Currently I'm at about 5Mb/s.
Actually you are wrong. Even more amazingly it was created by millions of monkeys typing randomly on typewriters over billions of years.
The people who say they want to vote for Bush are generally in the older age brackets, and they don't have as much trouble with the lies told by Bush and his people.
Yeah, because we all know that older people don't mind when a president and "his people" lie to the nation. And clearly everyone knows the president has lied to all of us. It's just that older people don't mind. Huh?
The young people on cell phones appear not to be listening and they hear every syllable. They punch out a number without looking. They are quicker, and probably smarter at this time, and almost doubtlessly more in favor of Kerry than Bush.
Yeah, and we all know that the younger people who are also smarter will doubtless vote for Kerry (probably a direct consequence of their increased intelligence). Only the old, stupid, slow people would not mind Bush's lies and vote for him and "his people."
Older people complain about Kerry's performance as a candidate. Younger people don't want to get shot at in a war that most believe, and firmly, never should have started because it was started with a president lying.
And obviously the older generation will be more concerned with trivial details such as the candidate's "political record" and "performance" while the younger, smarter people don't want to die and therefore don't want to vote for a liar who sends people to their death for a pointless cause.
I love firefox, but plugins to NOT install seamlessly. I hit a java site today with the latest release of firefox and it said "down load plugin?" So I click "yes" and it says the plugin can't be found. The amusing thing is that I have the java plugin installed on my system. It works in every other mozilla-based browser. I'm not sure what's up with that, but it's definitely not seamless.
It had the opposite effect on me, for sure. Before seeing the film I was actually undecided. I watched the film and thought, "There is something seriously messed up about this film." So I did research, went to various sites, looked into the facts as much as possible and watched both the republican and democratic national conventions. After all that I have decided to vote for Bush. I think F911 is an important film, but I don't think it's necessarily going to have Moore's desired effect. He's a radical, egotistical propagandist and I think the majority of people who see the film will see right through his ranting and spinning.
This is something that the articles and reports often fail to mention. I know at our company every Linux server we have (and we have quite a few) is running a downloaded distribution. The original server shipped with either no OS or with Windows.
Life on Alpha Centauri would be most impressive considering Alpha Centauri is a Star.
I think it's probably due to a couple factors. First of all, Mono is generally a more complete and compatible implementation (Windows.Forms aside) of .NET. Secondly, the project has been more vocal and is being lead by Miguel de Icaza @ Novell. Personally I think it's a bit of a shame that Portable.NET exists. I wish those developers would join the Mono effort and move things along faster. But that's just my opinion.
It appears to use Windows.Forms which isn't really supported on Mono yet. However, Novell has a team working hard on a new Windows.Forms implementation, so it's just a matter of time...
Did anyone think to make a hardcopy?
Between the fedora project and the Fedora Legacy Project you get something like 2.5 - 3 years of supported updates. And at any point you can do an upgrade, you do not have to "wipe and reinstall."
I have to disagree with you there. I'm noticing about 15 spams per day getting through. It's annoying enough to keep me from using gmail regularly.
My instant messenger away message: "I'm away from your computer right now"
The .NET CLI and C# are ECMA standardized.
I mentioned this morning that it seems he's going to Microsoft to work on IronPython and improve the CLR for dynamic languages. It's hard to say what Microsoft's plans would be for IronPython, but improving the ECMA CLR for languages such as Python sure sounds exciting.