Since when is school about "doing what you love"? School is a means to an end, a stepping stone to teach you how to research what you really need to know, nothing more. It's to teach you how to think, and that's especially true for law school.
I'm not saying they shouldn't ban the wireless access in classes, I've always thought it was a distraction more than a useful tool. Saying this is about student's inability to pay attention or that it's somehow a waste of everyone's time simply isn't the case though. People recognize that most classes aren't there to teach you anything, and certainly not the lectures. (I'd say that's generally not the case for law classes which seem to be driven on Socratic method more than some other courses.) For the people who do recognize the lecture doesn't provide much extra, then what's the beef other than distracting other people who may be getting something different from the lecture?
I personally like to take notes during lectures, so I don't have to study outside of lecture, but a lot of people do better by reading from courseware rather than paying attention during lecture. But some professors require attendance, others give "hints" as to what will be on the test even though the lecture is essentially just reading the text.
There are lots of instances where browsing the internet is definitely wasting time, but it's certainly not 100% of cases.
I really hate this reply that people always fall back on. There are really only a very few jobs that can accommodate telecommuting for any significant portion of the work.
I don't disagree, the commute is ridiculous and I've posted elsewhere anyone making that commute needs to find better work, in my opinion, but most jobs don't allow telecommuting. Many many more simply don't have work that can actually be accomplished over the internet.
Love the train when the US finally figures out a system that allows the train to get me to work in a time frame approximating how long it takes me to get there by car.
You're out of your mind if you think most people looking for Engineering consultants are looking for PEs except in a couple of areas where they are required by law (Civil engineering projects/buildings/etc.)
I've been doing consulting work on the side for 4 years now and not one of my clients ever asked me if I have a PE.
So CNet did a "review" of a laptop they've never seen and spent most of that review talking about how pretty the laptop is based on some artist renderings and touched up photography. High quality such as we've come to expect from CNet.
No, Sony doesn't believe this, but they sure want us to believe it. There's no way BD is going to reach 50% market share before HDTVs are ubiquitous worldwide and player prices drop below $150. Not to mention the ridiculous cost of the discs themselves.
This is more PR bullshit from Sony trying to sway more people to buy their product by convincing them there will be some (false) shortage of DVDs in the near future.
Yes, I did make it a little simpler than reality, but in a 3 deck game, it's not that hard to count the cards and the odds of getting a decent advantage aren't thousands of hands.
It's certainly more than 6, as you point out, but it's definitely not in the thousands, perhaps in the low hundred range based on what I've read for good players.
The odds of winning with the high betting hand are not 100% but it's much better than the 50.5% you suggest. It's more like a 8-10% advantage for the player at that point (some estimate higher) which is why you bet high at that point of the game. Sure, that's still far less than 100%, but it's not going to take hundreds of hours. Either way, you're enjoying your time (presumably) or you wouldn't be there in the first place, right?
That's exactly why most tables "burn" the top card. You know what it is, which gives you some advantage, but not the advantage you're discussing because the card is never put into play.
They weren't there at the beginning by any stretch of the imagination. People have been counting cards for 100 years, and documenting their systems for over 60, at least. Read "beat the dealer" for a more complete history of different systems. By the way, that's the book the MIT guys learned the system from, according to one interview I heard.
These guys just got famous for doing it in a slightly new way and got more famous by writing a book to promote themselves.
Actually, perfect play is exactly what makes you stand out because invariably even professional counters make mistakes. They're just more consistent about figuring out their mistakes.
You're right though, team play makes it easier and significantly faster.
"It may not be as obvious but its not easy to grind away for the hundreds of hours it takes to come ahead in blackjack without getting caught at it either."
This is what I don't get. Why do people keep insisting it takes "hundreds of hours" to get ahead or find a hot table?
If you have a 3 deck table, it only takes about 100 cards or so before you know where the cards are, basically. It actually takes a little less than that, but I can't remember for sure so I'm roughing it. So, assuming my numbers are right, at a full table (5 seats) that's 6 rounds (average is 3 cards per hand). Most dealers can do that in less than half an hour. And, playing as a team, the "loser" still has decent odds of winning some portion of the hands they play, but let's say they lose 80%. On a $10 table, you've lost only $50 dollars if you lose 80% of your hands. But now you signal your partner and he starts betting $10000 per hand to your $10. If he wins 1 hand you've more than sufficiently made up for the $50 you've lost. Between the two of you, there's $9950 to split for a half hour worth of work. I don't know about you, but I think that's a pretty decent pay rate.
This is the reason single deck tables usually won't allow mid round entry into a game.
They had to do that because the casinos will actively inhibit anyone they know is counting cards. They will ask you to leave, even though you're playing by the rules of the game. If you do it too consistently, they'll ban you permanently, despite the fact that you have done nothing wrong.
This movie is exactly what casinos want. They want to keep people thinking they're breaking the rules by counting cards, when in fact, it's well within the rules and the only way to actually win consistently.
So, yeah, it was sort of a scam, but only because the casinos actively cheat to keep people from playing "properly".
Is he selling those CDs? Then he's doing a "performance", which may or may not require a special performance license, but usually doesn't, in the US, at least. That may be slightly different since a DJ's performance isn't anything more than playback for a lot of them, but for those actually mixing the music, live or otherwise, it is most definitely their own artistic performance of the music.
I'll play devil's advocate here. Why should baseball get some sort of respect? Yes, it's a reasonably fun game to play, a dead boring game to watch, and a somewhat interesting statistical pastime, but why does it earn respect?
I understand it's entertaining for a lot of people, worldwide. So are crochet and knitting, with arguably far more in their favor as far as benefitting the general populace, but no one asks that they be provided some respect.
What it comes down to is, the federal goverment of the U.S. is going to have to step in and build a national fiber network. Private enterprise can't do it.
No, private enterprise can do it, they just won't. They'll expect the taxpayer to foot the bill and then charge the tax payer for the service on top of that. Just like they've always done.
They have a "light" version for OS X. It's Camino, though I don't use it much so I can't tell how "light" it actually is. Anecdotally, it's noticeably to be faster on my machine than firefox, browsing the same sites. I don't think they have anything similar for linux or windows though.
"Weave extends the browser in the other direction: Not toward the desktop, but instead into the Internet. Mozilla wants an individual's browsing experience to stay with them no matter what machine they are on."
Screw that! My employer doesn't need to know I read slashfiction or what kind of porn I browse at home. Now, the porn I browse at work, that's different!
Research is exactly why I respond to all when people forward me misinformation. There was some poorly researched thing going around about how "dangerous" Washington DC is compared to the war in Iraq incorrectly comparing annual statistics with monthly statistics and the like. The person who forwarded it supports the war, and I do not. I responded to everyone he sent it to, debunking every statistic I could in the article with accurate statistics and reasons why everyone else should do their own research. It's a pretty regular routine, actually.
While I don't think most citizens bother to do that, because they want to believe what they're told to believe, at least for now, there are plenty who do filter and try to research and produce accurate information.
See, you almost made it. You were doing really well, right up until the end there, where you showed your own bias. There are "liberal 'professionals'" just as there are "conservative professionals" and choosing to point at either side as the problem while not pointing at the other side, is where the real problem comes into play. I'll leave it as an exercise for you to figure out why.
Yeah, no doubt. Silicon may or may not be the industry standard in 10 years, but saying it only has 4 more years of life is ridiculous to say the least. We're still using 200 MHz processors, for Christ's sake. The difference is now we're using them smaller, and in more "consumable" resources, rather than as our primary machines. Silicon has at least 2 generations (human generations) of life before we see it truly dead.
I make well enough to "pay in" as you say, but even at a family income well above 80k we only pay about 12-15% in taxes at the end of the year on a "high" year. I paid over 20K in taxes (federal and state)out of my paycheck last year, but I got a significant portion of that back. As I said, why complain about taxes, especially if you don't make a lot of money.
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Since when is school about "doing what you love"? School is a means to an end, a stepping stone to teach you how to research what you really need to know, nothing more. It's to teach you how to think, and that's especially true for law school.
I'm not saying they shouldn't ban the wireless access in classes, I've always thought it was a distraction more than a useful tool. Saying this is about student's inability to pay attention or that it's somehow a waste of everyone's time simply isn't the case though. People recognize that most classes aren't there to teach you anything, and certainly not the lectures. (I'd say that's generally not the case for law classes which seem to be driven on Socratic method more than some other courses.) For the people who do recognize the lecture doesn't provide much extra, then what's the beef other than distracting other people who may be getting something different from the lecture?
I personally like to take notes during lectures, so I don't have to study outside of lecture, but a lot of people do better by reading from courseware rather than paying attention during lecture. But some professors require attendance, others give "hints" as to what will be on the test even though the lecture is essentially just reading the text.
There are lots of instances where browsing the internet is definitely wasting time, but it's certainly not 100% of cases.
I really hate this reply that people always fall back on. There are really only a very few jobs that can accommodate telecommuting for any significant portion of the work.
I don't disagree, the commute is ridiculous and I've posted elsewhere anyone making that commute needs to find better work, in my opinion, but most jobs don't allow telecommuting. Many many more simply don't have work that can actually be accomplished over the internet.
Love the train when the US finally figures out a system that allows the train to get me to work in a time frame approximating how long it takes me to get there by car.
You're out of your mind if you think most people looking for Engineering consultants are looking for PEs except in a couple of areas where they are required by law (Civil engineering projects/buildings/etc.)
I've been doing consulting work on the side for 4 years now and not one of my clients ever asked me if I have a PE.
You either think you're too important at work, or you think you're not good enough to get a better job. I would dare say you're wrong in either case.
Find something that gives you a better work-life balance and find something better to do with those 4 hours of your life every day.
So CNet did a "review" of a laptop they've never seen and spent most of that review talking about how pretty the laptop is based on some artist renderings and touched up photography. High quality such as we've come to expect from CNet.
No, Sony doesn't believe this, but they sure want us to believe it. There's no way BD is going to reach 50% market share before HDTVs are ubiquitous worldwide and player prices drop below $150. Not to mention the ridiculous cost of the discs themselves.
This is more PR bullshit from Sony trying to sway more people to buy their product by convincing them there will be some (false) shortage of DVDs in the near future.
Yes, I did make it a little simpler than reality, but in a 3 deck game, it's not that hard to count the cards and the odds of getting a decent advantage aren't thousands of hands.
It's certainly more than 6, as you point out, but it's definitely not in the thousands, perhaps in the low hundred range based on what I've read for good players.
The odds of winning with the high betting hand are not 100% but it's much better than the 50.5% you suggest. It's more like a 8-10% advantage for the player at that point (some estimate higher) which is why you bet high at that point of the game. Sure, that's still far less than 100%, but it's not going to take hundreds of hours. Either way, you're enjoying your time (presumably) or you wouldn't be there in the first place, right?
That's exactly why most tables "burn" the top card. You know what it is, which gives you some advantage, but not the advantage you're discussing because the card is never put into play.
They weren't there at the beginning by any stretch of the imagination. People have been counting cards for 100 years, and documenting their systems for over 60, at least. Read "beat the dealer" for a more complete history of different systems. By the way, that's the book the MIT guys learned the system from, according to one interview I heard.
These guys just got famous for doing it in a slightly new way and got more famous by writing a book to promote themselves.
Actually, perfect play is exactly what makes you stand out because invariably even professional counters make mistakes. They're just more consistent about figuring out their mistakes.
You're right though, team play makes it easier and significantly faster.
"It may not be as obvious but its not easy to grind away for the hundreds of hours it takes to come ahead in blackjack without getting caught at it either."
This is what I don't get. Why do people keep insisting it takes "hundreds of hours" to get ahead or find a hot table?
If you have a 3 deck table, it only takes about 100 cards or so before you know where the cards are, basically. It actually takes a little less than that, but I can't remember for sure so I'm roughing it. So, assuming my numbers are right, at a full table (5 seats) that's 6 rounds (average is 3 cards per hand). Most dealers can do that in less than half an hour. And, playing as a team, the "loser" still has decent odds of winning some portion of the hands they play, but let's say they lose 80%. On a $10 table, you've lost only $50 dollars if you lose 80% of your hands. But now you signal your partner and he starts betting $10000 per hand to your $10. If he wins 1 hand you've more than sufficiently made up for the $50 you've lost. Between the two of you, there's $9950 to split for a half hour worth of work. I don't know about you, but I think that's a pretty decent pay rate.
This is the reason single deck tables usually won't allow mid round entry into a game.
They had to do that because the casinos will actively inhibit anyone they know is counting cards. They will ask you to leave, even though you're playing by the rules of the game. If you do it too consistently, they'll ban you permanently, despite the fact that you have done nothing wrong.
This movie is exactly what casinos want. They want to keep people thinking they're breaking the rules by counting cards, when in fact, it's well within the rules and the only way to actually win consistently.
So, yeah, it was sort of a scam, but only because the casinos actively cheat to keep people from playing "properly".
Is he selling those CDs? Then he's doing a "performance", which may or may not require a special performance license, but usually doesn't, in the US, at least. That may be slightly different since a DJ's performance isn't anything more than playback for a lot of them, but for those actually mixing the music, live or otherwise, it is most definitely their own artistic performance of the music.
I'll play devil's advocate here. Why should baseball get some sort of respect? Yes, it's a reasonably fun game to play, a dead boring game to watch, and a somewhat interesting statistical pastime, but why does it earn respect?
I understand it's entertaining for a lot of people, worldwide. So are crochet and knitting, with arguably far more in their favor as far as benefitting the general populace, but no one asks that they be provided some respect.
So, why?
What it comes down to is, the federal goverment of the U.S. is going to have to step in and build a national fiber network. Private enterprise can't do it.
No, private enterprise can do it, they just won't. They'll expect the taxpayer to foot the bill and then charge the tax payer for the service on top of that. Just like they've always done.
You can do that with a standard pop email client using gmail now. Why should it be built into the browser functionality?
They have a "light" version for OS X. It's Camino, though I don't use it much so I can't tell how "light" it actually is. Anecdotally, it's noticeably to be faster on my machine than firefox, browsing the same sites. I don't think they have anything similar for linux or windows though.
"Weave extends the browser in the other direction: Not toward the desktop, but instead into the Internet. Mozilla wants an individual's browsing experience to stay with them no matter what machine they are on."
Screw that! My employer doesn't need to know I read slashfiction or what kind of porn I browse at home. Now, the porn I browse at work, that's different!
Hey, get your fios commercial out of my browser!
Research is exactly why I respond to all when people forward me misinformation. There was some poorly researched thing going around about how "dangerous" Washington DC is compared to the war in Iraq incorrectly comparing annual statistics with monthly statistics and the like. The person who forwarded it supports the war, and I do not. I responded to everyone he sent it to, debunking every statistic I could in the article with accurate statistics and reasons why everyone else should do their own research. It's a pretty regular routine, actually.
While I don't think most citizens bother to do that, because they want to believe what they're told to believe, at least for now, there are plenty who do filter and try to research and produce accurate information.
See, you almost made it. You were doing really well, right up until the end there, where you showed your own bias. There are "liberal 'professionals'" just as there are "conservative professionals" and choosing to point at either side as the problem while not pointing at the other side, is where the real problem comes into play. I'll leave it as an exercise for you to figure out why.
Yeah, no doubt. Silicon may or may not be the industry standard in 10 years, but saying it only has 4 more years of life is ridiculous to say the least. We're still using 200 MHz processors, for Christ's sake. The difference is now we're using them smaller, and in more "consumable" resources, rather than as our primary machines. Silicon has at least 2 generations (human generations) of life before we see it truly dead.
I make well enough to "pay in" as you say, but even at a family income well above 80k we only pay about 12-15% in taxes at the end of the year on a "high" year. I paid over 20K in taxes (federal and state)out of my paycheck last year, but I got a significant portion of that back. As I said, why complain about taxes, especially if you don't make a lot of money.
Does it really matter if it's been discovered by someone else, as long as Apple knows about the flaw and is (presumably) working to patch it?