Amen! Most of the people who intend on playing for more than half an hour at least try to count cards. Luckily for the casinos, most people just aren't that good at it. It's frikkin' HARD to count precisely through 6 decks of an 8-deck shoe! And if you're partaking of the complementary libations offered up by the casino, it's just a wash. Many poor counters just pile on huge bets right after a table full of low cards, regardless of the running count, further screwing their chances. Besides, the dealers are generally better at counting than most players, and the margins, even with perfect counting, are somewhere on the order of 1%. Play for fun, count for fun, but expect to lose.
It sounds like the *AA are basically trying to extend an informal common carrier status to the universities.
I agree wholeheartedly. I mean, who are the FAA to tell me that I can't fly an unlicensed airplane in the privacy of my own dorm room? It's not even like it's keeping my from buying plane tickets!
We've got to keep the population down, or else we'll start running out of IP ranges again. Take up smoking, compete in Russian roulette tourneys, start taunting mobsters, whatever it takes!
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IBM = USA Microsoft = USSR Red Hat = South Viet Nam SCO = North Viet Nam
Nah, man, you've got it all backwards. Microsoft is the perfect icon for capitalist greed, whereas those pinko commie bastards over at IBM are just *giving* away the software.
That's why I eat all my sensitive documents after I'm done with 'em. Is someone is willing to sift through the septic tank to recreate the original document, at that point they're welcome to it.
A word means whatever the person who uses it intends. If people choose to use the word "ironic" to means something other than what the dictionary says it means, then the dictionary is out of date. The English language is a moving target, and I wish the vocabulary whiners of the world would wake up and just go with the flow.
Pro: Allowing citizens to vote online will probably just weight the results more toward the geeks who otherwise wouldn't vote at all. Strengthening the geek lobby can only have positive consequences, like maybe, one day, fiber to the curb for the average geek.
Con: Put it online, and someone will hack it. No system is immune, and something as important and public as the "voting server" would be quite the honeypot.
As a developer of an OSS project, my measure would be the number of bugs/RFE's reported per time. Many bugs _reported_ means that many people are kicking the tires on the stuff, and see enough worth in what you're doing to report shortcomings, rather than give up and look elsewhere. It also implies that your project is full-featured enough to have room for all those bugs, and therefore room for improvement in general, leading to future fun. ls, bin and cat are all widely used, but I daresay that there isn't much ongoing work on these tools these days. OSS coders code for fun, ego-boost or both, and a steady stream of bugs/RFE's being reported ensures that they will both be satisfied for a while to come.
Amen brotha! Send in the rebate as soon as you get back from the store (assuming a old fashioned brick-and-mortar transaction), forget about it, and 2 weeks, months or years later, there's a $20 check in the mailbox. It's like a little unexpected X-mas!
After a few rounds of that, I tried passing my user name/password in the URL of the tools page (...?userName=XXX&password=YYY) (No, not my real id/pw) and it worked.
Yeah, thanks a lot for giving away _my_ username and p/w...
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Amen! Most of the people who intend on playing for more than half an hour at least try to count cards. Luckily for the casinos, most people just aren't that good at it. It's frikkin' HARD to count precisely through 6 decks of an 8-deck shoe! And if you're partaking of the complementary libations offered up by the casino, it's just a wash. Many poor counters just pile on huge bets right after a table full of low cards, regardless of the running count, further screwing their chances. Besides, the dealers are generally better at counting than most players, and the margins, even with perfect counting, are somewhere on the order of 1%. Play for fun, count for fun, but expect to lose.
And notice how close it is to the 2nd anniversary of 9/11 (within a month).
Dude, 1/6 of the year is within a month of 9/11. So is Labor Day. It's just a coincidence.
It sounds like the *AA are basically trying to extend an informal common carrier status to the universities.
I agree wholeheartedly. I mean, who are the FAA to tell me that I can't fly an unlicensed airplane in the privacy of my own dorm room? It's not even like it's keeping my from buying plane tickets!
We've got to keep the population down, or else we'll start running out of IP ranges again. Take up smoking, compete in Russian roulette tourneys, start taunting mobsters, whatever it takes!
Wanna grow your schlong? Do what I do: View pornography! Millions of satisfied customers report a dramatic increase in length, girth and firmness in just minutes, using this ancient time-tested technique.
Disclaimer: Results may not last more than 5-10 minutes.
Nah, man, you've got it all backwards. Microsoft is the perfect icon for capitalist greed, whereas those pinko commie bastards over at IBM are just *giving* away the software.
I'll bet that "have sex" link on the right side will be seeing some action...
That's why I eat all my sensitive documents after I'm done with 'em. Is someone is willing to sift through the septic tank to recreate the original document, at that point they're welcome to it.
So, umm, at what point was the RIAA granted the title of "God"?
"George Bush: The choice of a new generation" Wait, or is it, "George Bush: The Joy of Bush! Baa bup-ba baaa, ba ba bup-ba baa..."
...and still nobody knows what the fsck .Net actually is. (sigh)
A word means whatever the person who uses it intends. If people choose to use the word "ironic" to means something other than what the dictionary says it means, then the dictionary is out of date. The English language is a moving target, and I wish the vocabulary whiners of the world would wake up and just go with the flow.
You mean, other companies' web programmers get to take weekends?!? Man, that must be nice...
Speaking of buyouts and Sun's great technology...anyone remember where Sun's UltraSPARC chip came from in the first place? Sun bought it from Cray!
Pro: Allowing citizens to vote online will probably just weight the results more toward the geeks who otherwise wouldn't vote at all. Strengthening the geek lobby can only have positive consequences, like maybe, one day, fiber to the curb for the average geek.
Con: Put it online, and someone will hack it. No system is immune, and something as important and public as the "voting server" would be quite the honeypot.
Yeah, I read it the same way. Man, if you thought flying monkies were bad...
This guy has no idea what he's talking about. All my car-bombs and sniper rifles run WinXP...
As a developer of an OSS project, my measure would be the number of bugs/RFE's reported per time. Many bugs _reported_ means that many people are kicking the tires on the stuff, and see enough worth in what you're doing to report shortcomings, rather than give up and look elsewhere. It also implies that your project is full-featured enough to have room for all those bugs, and therefore room for improvement in general, leading to future fun. ls, bin and cat are all widely used, but I daresay that there isn't much ongoing work on these tools these days. OSS coders code for fun, ego-boost or both, and a steady stream of bugs/RFE's being reported ensures that they will both be satisfied for a while to come.
Hell, man, I work at Sun. Dell's just a reseller, which is what Sun'll be in 5 years anyway. Build a name, sell to ignorant CTO's, profit!
Amen brotha! Send in the rebate as soon as you get back from the store (assuming a old fashioned brick-and-mortar transaction), forget about it, and 2 weeks, months or years later, there's a $20 check in the mailbox. It's like a little unexpected X-mas!
Intel-based Dell systems running Linux
So conflicted...Intel bad...Linux good...Dell ambivalent...
After a few rounds of that, I tried passing my user name/password in the URL of the tools page (...?userName=XXX&password=YYY) (No, not my real id/pw) and it worked.
Yeah, thanks a lot for giving away _my_ username and p/w...
So they're only blocking spam from hosts on DSL lines? Good thing I run my spam-mill on a cable line...
Dude, my sister drives a Neon, and it'd take one heck of a mod to get that thing running 14's...
...or is anyone else creeped out by that TiVo icon?