Ugh, I got sick of BVs selection a long time ago. If you're not in the valley, the burgers tend to sit around and get freezer burned.
Our local drive through serves Chez Gourmet patties (out of Wilsonville, iirc), which are much much much better. Not as good as Impossible/Beyond, but at least I can eat them without chipping a tooth.
Seriously though, hoping this isn't an April Fools' thing....
You get comped if you are seen as a viable repeat customer who will bring business to the casino over time. If you're joe schmo off the street, you're not getting any. If you can track how joe plays and what games, you can then figure the average wins, what the theoretical wins (alternate plays), and so forth...thus you can turn joe from a nobody into a potential future visitor, just by knowing what chips passed through his hands and when.
Identifiable info is key, if you want comps give us your digit...just like slots. It would be entirely opt-in at this level, if you don't want the casino to know what you do then don't get a card. If you get a card you allow the casino to track the chips you use (and obtain though games if the equipment allows such).
Yes, but you wouldn't know what games they won/lost on, which helps the casino determine which players are good at which games and can comp appropriately. Using this you could pinpoint what games and what players are making the casino money without counting every chip manually (which used to be the case).
Actually, they do care about their customers because if the customers are ignored or feel like they won't win...ever...then they won't come back. It's basic business, keep the customers happy. And what better way to do that than to keep track of what they do on and off the casino floor.
Aside from helping to stop counterfeitting, these RF chips could also be used to further what casinos already do: track players. If you know what players have what chips you can figure out what bets they place at table games easier.
They already do this with slots (where you put a card in with credits) to keep track of comps and the like. If this were implemented into the chips, it would be easier to keep tabs on mid-low range players and who is a good repeat player for issuing comps.
Just an expansion of many casinos approach to customer relations:)
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Xbox and GC both support HDTV, although not all the games do.
So I guess you never watch more than 15 minutes of TV either?
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Lure of console games?
1) Not having to wonder if you system can handle said game...it just works 2) Not having to upgrade your system to play said game...it just works 3) Not having to know your system inside and out.
It's gaming for the masses.
Controllers, I love the Xbox and GC controllers (PS2 can suck it) because of the placement of the dual analogs. Your argument "freelook with the mouse" is done with one analog, and the other is movement and strafe, just like any PC setup. Besides that, many games offer custom controller setups (Halo did) if you don't like the default.
The original Xbox controllers were big, they were big enough to be comfortable like a pillow in your hands after a few hours of gaming. Initially I thought they sucked as well, until I used one for a while and realized how well it was layed out.
It's hot in here..I forgot where I was going with this (if anywhere)
Infact, he did try to cover up what he was doing. He was a senior supervisor who should have known better than to go against university policy when others have been fired for far less.
I can't comment on his competence as a worker, but the policy states that any unauthorized installation of software by an employee will result in termination, regardless of the software or its intentions.
We fired someone over the summer for running Folding@Home on multiple computers. It wasn't because of what he was doing, but because he had installed and run software that was not approved by the university, and therefore considered a security breach.
I don't necessarily agree with the firing, but if the rules state explicitly that you can't do it, then don't.
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On the July 13th show, Ken said that he and his wife made flashcards for drinks just for the potent potables category.
Not sure about Pola X, but Waking Life was very interesting for it's use of rotoscoping in a full length feature. The main point of the movie was for the audience to come into contact with differing philosophies...definately an "art film" from the same director who did School of Rock and Dazed and Confused
Granted it is a cult classic, but we must remember that Ed Wood did consider it a serious film, as he did with all of his films. Bad acting, directing, plot, staging, editing only add to it's glory as a horribe movie.
It used to be the sample email addy on RealPlayer's activation form thing (circa 1999). After hand installing it on 200+ machines, it just stuck with me (stupid university didn't multicast-image their machines back then...we had to install everything manually..ugh)
I took the Pascal exam in '95 and went straight into C++ as well. Easiest thing ever, went through the first few semesters without learning anything I didn't already know in High School, and they even let me skip a class. Nine years later, a stack is still a stack:)
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Ugh, I got sick of BVs selection a long time ago. If you're not in the valley, the burgers tend to sit around and get freezer burned.
Our local drive through serves Chez Gourmet patties (out of Wilsonville, iirc), which are much much much better. Not as good as Impossible/Beyond, but at least I can eat them without chipping a tooth.
Seriously though, hoping this isn't an April Fools' thing....
I'll bet we didn't see the wheel coming....
Exactly, by having a computer figure the comps, it alleviates paying someone to watch all the tables keeping track of bets and therefore comps.
You get comped if you are seen as a viable repeat customer who will bring business to the casino over time. If you're joe schmo off the street, you're not getting any. If you can track how joe plays and what games, you can then figure the average wins, what the theoretical wins (alternate plays), and so forth...thus you can turn joe from a nobody into a potential future visitor, just by knowing what chips passed through his hands and when.
Identifiable info is key, if you want comps give us your digit...just like slots. It would be entirely opt-in at this level, if you don't want the casino to know what you do then don't get a card. If you get a card you allow the casino to track the chips you use (and obtain though games if the equipment allows such).
Yeah, it makes sense in my head....
Yes, but you wouldn't know what games they won/lost on, which helps the casino determine which players are good at which games and can comp appropriately. Using this you could pinpoint what games and what players are making the casino money without counting every chip manually (which used to be the case).
Actually, they do care about their customers because if the customers are ignored or feel like they won't win...ever...then they won't come back. It's basic business, keep the customers happy. And what better way to do that than to keep track of what they do on and off the casino floor.
Aside from helping to stop counterfeitting, these RF chips could also be used to further what casinos already do: track players. If you know what players have what chips you can figure out what bets they place at table games easier.
:)
They already do this with slots (where you put a card in with credits) to keep track of comps and the like. If this were implemented into the chips, it would be easier to keep tabs on mid-low range players and who is a good repeat player for issuing comps.
Just an expansion of many casinos approach to customer relations
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Older GCs have digital outputs suitable for HDTV but it is still 480p...otherwise they wouldn't be selling this
here ya go
Xbox and GC both support HDTV, although not all the games do.
So I guess you never watch more than 15 minutes of TV either?
Lure of console games?
1) Not having to wonder if you system can handle said game...it just works
2) Not having to upgrade your system to play said game...it just works
3) Not having to know your system inside and out.
It's gaming for the masses.
Controllers, I love the Xbox and GC controllers (PS2 can suck it) because of the placement of the dual analogs. Your argument "freelook with the mouse" is done with one analog, and the other is movement and strafe, just like any PC setup. Besides that, many games offer custom controller setups (Halo did) if you don't like the default.
The original Xbox controllers were big, they were big enough to be comfortable like a pillow in your hands after a few hours of gaming. Initially I thought they sucked as well, until I used one for a while and realized how well it was layed out.
It's hot in here..I forgot where I was going with this (if anywhere)
Infact, he did try to cover up what he was doing. He was a senior supervisor who should have known better than to go against university policy when others have been fired for far less.
I can't comment on his competence as a worker, but the policy states that any unauthorized installation of software by an employee will result in termination, regardless of the software or its intentions.
We fired someone over the summer for running Folding@Home on multiple computers. It wasn't because of what he was doing, but because he had installed and run software that was not approved by the university, and therefore considered a security breach.
I don't necessarily agree with the firing, but if the rules state explicitly that you can't do it, then don't.
On the July 13th show, Ken said that he and his wife made flashcards for drinks just for the potent potables category.
More info here (Jeopardy forums)
Not sure about Pola X, but Waking Life was very interesting for it's use of rotoscoping in a full length feature. The main point of the movie was for the audience to come into contact with differing philosophies...definately an "art film" from the same director who did School of Rock and Dazed and Confused
Kinda like Super Mario Brothers...right?
Read. The. Book.
The movie follows Burroughs and his twisted mind pretty well.
A shame that it was Raul Julia's last movie too...such a horrible way to end a career.
True, but Plan 9 is a bad movie by any standard...try looking at it as a serious movie instead of the trainwreck of humor it is.
I'm surprised to see that Plan 9 From Outer Space was not on the IMDB bottom 100 list.
Granted it is a cult classic, but we must remember that Ed Wood did consider it a serious film, as he did with all of his films. Bad acting, directing, plot, staging, editing only add to it's glory as a horribe movie.
Ed Wood, king of bad movies!
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It used to be the sample email addy on RealPlayer's activation form thing (circa 1999). After hand installing it on 200+ machines, it just stuck with me (stupid university didn't multicast-image their machines back then...we had to install everything manually..ugh)
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Too bad all they'll be able to find is the sun dried tomatoes.
I took the Pascal exam in '95 and went straight into C++ as well. Easiest thing ever, went through the first few semesters without learning anything I didn't already know in High School, and they even let me skip a class. Nine years later, a stack is still a stack :)
damnit... I spelled his name wrong, it's Flatow :)