Just learn basic strategy (preferably adapted for the rules where you are playing) and practice high-low card counting to adjust your bets for your chance of winning. It's not that hard. Just using basic strategy will make the house's advantage pretty narrow. There are about a billion places on the internet to learn about this stuff.
Re:Best way to deal with conspiracy theorists ...
on
Roswell Declassified
·
· Score: 1
The explanation I read was that it was said to be unlucky to marry in May. So June took on all of the postponed weddings from May. Over time the extra weddings made June a month associated with getting married.
Their study books for the general GRE and the math GRE were terrible. Most of the questions are poorly written. They don't give you a very accurate picture of what the actual test is like.
The USB standard includes specifications for various device classes. You can support all devices that properly follow their device class standards with a single driver. For printers you still have to have a printer-specific driver (or at least a driver specific to the document language your printer uses).
Here's some advice. If you want to convince people that your views are correct with respect to some issue, it helps if you try not to act like a total ass.
Some day I want to make a movie about Nethack. It'll follow the pursuits of all of the different characters through the dungeon, and ultimately we'll get to see a bunch of them fight over the amulet.
I want to have a scene where the monk is getting beaten up pretty bad by one of the other adventurers, but then he pulls a ring and a potion out of his robe. He then uses them to polymorph into an iron golem. Combining his martial arts mastery and his fists of iron, he pummels his opponent.
The mindflayers will have to be utterly terrifying. Somewhere I'll have someone scream "It's eating my fucking brain!"
In the end, the bumbling tourist will get the amulet, but he'll just take it home as a souvenir.
Math can be done alone but these days a lot of it is done by people working together. A lot of the great theorems and algorithms are the product of two or more mathematicians working together.
Oh, wait a minute. You're in Georgia. Do they even allow other beverages in the state? Aren't the faucets labelled "Cherry" and "Classic"?
Well there is Royal Crown Cola, or more simply RC. I'm pretty sure its main selling point is that it's cheaper than Coke or Pepsi. At one point RC also made many store brands for supermarkets and such, but I'm no sure if they do that any more.
I don't see RC around as much as I did when I was younger. It used to be common in drink machines owned by small businesses, soda fountains in small restaurants, and other places run by people too cheap to get a better cola. RC isn't bad, but I wouldn't say it's good either.
Coke can be used to refer to any carbonated beverage? In all of my life in Georgia I've never encountered an incidence of Coke being used to refer to Pepsi, RC Cola, Sprite, tonic water, or anything other than Coca Cola. Are you sure you should generalize the peculiarities of the place where you live to a significantly larger region?
Dark Age of Camelot is kind of like that. There are three realms that fight against eachother. People can coordinate raids on keeps in the frontiers of other realms. Albion almost always has more people than the other realms (for whatever reason some people think they are stronger, even though their classes aren't really designed for cooperation), but it's kind of cool to say "I helped defend X against Y Albs with just Y people."
Re:1 accident in 62.5 flights IS acceptable
on
Shuttle Politics
·
· Score: 1
I would tell you that you are being far too callous, but it is apparent that you don't care about that.
What you might care about is that we might not be able to afford to build a new shuttle every 50 or 60 flights. The shuttle program is already vastly more expensive than it was intended to be. We can do better than the shuttle and I think it may be worthwhile to consider grounding the shuttle until we have a more cost-effective replacement. Hell, we might even be able to be competitive in the satellite launch market again.
I want to be able to get whatever form of entertainment when I want it. That isn't to say that I want pay per use, but rather that I want to pay a yearly entertainment fee and get whatever I want to.
If I want to find out what's so great about a particular show that I've heard about, I want to see it now. I don't want to wait for it to come on or to buy a collector's set. I'm even willing to deal with commercials, but I want things to be on my schedule rather than the networks'.
I like the idea of everything being at my fingertips. I'd like to be able to summon any obscure movie at whatever time I choose. Or any song. Or any book. Or anything. If some sort of flat-rate content on demand service were available it would give me the control I desire. Peer to peer services already do this to a degree, although not quite legally in some circumstances (I see no wrong whatsoever in sharing shows that have been publicly broadcast already though; they've already been given away).
I don't like the idea of pay-per-use, but to say that I don't like getting what I want, when I want it would be like saying that I don't like caramel. Everyone loves caramel.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but unfortunately John Dvorak is a fucking moron .
I have a Honda Element and the jack isn't on the stereo itself but is right next to it above the glove compartment.
Just learn basic strategy (preferably adapted for the rules where you are playing) and practice high-low card counting to adjust your bets for your chance of winning. It's not that hard. Just using basic strategy will make the house's advantage pretty narrow. There are about a billion places on the internet to learn about this stuff.
And that is why he is an American hero.
The explanation I read was that it was said to be unlucky to marry in May. So June took on all of the postponed weddings from May. Over time the extra weddings made June a month associated with getting married.
subpoena
Sub means under in Latin.
Poena means pain or penalty.
Isn't learning fun?
Their study books for the general GRE and the math GRE were terrible. Most of the questions are poorly written. They don't give you a very accurate picture of what the actual test is like.
The USB standard includes specifications for various device classes. You can support all devices that properly follow their device class standards with a single driver. For printers you still have to have a printer-specific driver (or at least a driver specific to the document language your printer uses).
You should use the symbol for the null set in place of 0.
Here's some advice. If you want to convince people that your views are correct with respect to some issue, it helps if you try not to act like a total ass.
That was just a cop-out on his part. He smoked cigars, which can be seen as phallic symbols.
Xiph is also working with them for support for FLAC.
They'll probably cover it in remedial English.
When was the last time John Leguizamo did anything? You should focus your loathing on a more visible target, such as Adam Sandler.
Some day I want to make a movie about Nethack. It'll follow the pursuits of all of the different characters through the dungeon, and ultimately we'll get to see a bunch of them fight over the amulet.
I want to have a scene where the monk is getting beaten up pretty bad by one of the other adventurers, but then he pulls a ring and a potion out of his robe. He then uses them to polymorph into an iron golem. Combining his martial arts mastery and his fists of iron, he pummels his opponent.
The mindflayers will have to be utterly terrifying. Somewhere I'll have someone scream "It's eating my fucking brain!"
In the end, the bumbling tourist will get the amulet, but he'll just take it home as a souvenir.
Now I just need to get the funding for this epic.
Math can be done alone but these days a lot of it is done by people working together. A lot of the great theorems and algorithms are the product of two or more mathematicians working together.
Well there is Royal Crown Cola, or more simply RC. I'm pretty sure its main selling point is that it's cheaper than Coke or Pepsi. At one point RC also made many store brands for supermarkets and such, but I'm no sure if they do that any more.
I don't see RC around as much as I did when I was younger. It used to be common in drink machines owned by small businesses, soda fountains in small restaurants, and other places run by people too cheap to get a better cola. RC isn't bad, but I wouldn't say it's good either.
Some of them were protestants. Some of them were deists. It would be inaccurate to suggest that there was any sort of religous unanimity among them.
Coke can be used to refer to any carbonated beverage? In all of my life in Georgia I've never encountered an incidence of Coke being used to refer to Pepsi, RC Cola, Sprite, tonic water, or anything other than Coca Cola. Are you sure you should generalize the peculiarities of the place where you live to a significantly larger region?
Dark Age of Camelot is kind of like that. There are three realms that fight against eachother. People can coordinate raids on keeps in the frontiers of other realms. Albion almost always has more people than the other realms (for whatever reason some people think they are stronger, even though their classes aren't really designed for cooperation), but it's kind of cool to say "I helped defend X against Y Albs with just Y people."
What you might care about is that we might not be able to afford to build a new shuttle every 50 or 60 flights. The shuttle program is already vastly more expensive than it was intended to be. We can do better than the shuttle and I think it may be worthwhile to consider grounding the shuttle until we have a more cost-effective replacement. Hell, we might even be able to be competitive in the satellite launch market again.
But that's not what I want!
I want to be able to get whatever form of entertainment when I want it. That isn't to say that I want pay per use, but rather that I want to pay a yearly entertainment fee and get whatever I want to.
If I want to find out what's so great about a particular show that I've heard about, I want to see it now. I don't want to wait for it to come on or to buy a collector's set. I'm even willing to deal with commercials, but I want things to be on my schedule rather than the networks'.
I like the idea of everything being at my fingertips. I'd like to be able to summon any obscure movie at whatever time I choose. Or any song. Or any book. Or anything. If some sort of flat-rate content on demand service were available it would give me the control I desire. Peer to peer services already do this to a degree, although not quite legally in some circumstances (I see no wrong whatsoever in sharing shows that have been publicly broadcast already though; they've already been given away).
I don't like the idea of pay-per-use, but to say that I don't like getting what I want, when I want it would be like saying that I don't like caramel. Everyone loves caramel.
Great! I'm going to destroy the entire universe! I'm glad someone has finally made a game with this feature.
That's got to be the worst poem I've read in my entire life.
Alliteration is usually used to refer to the repetition of consonant sounds. Your comment is instead an example of assonance.