I'm in san Diego, and all of my TV stations are working just fine. AM radio is doing just fine as well. All of the local news stations have a ton of info on their websites. Check the city's site for info. Call the number they set up just for that purpose (619-570-1070). There is no shortage of info.
Incidently, check my journal for my thoughts on the fire.
The ugly fact is all these computers have not made our cars more reliable.
Cars get far better gas milage and produce far fewer pollutants than they did before the introduction of electronics. I would argue that they are also more reliable. You can buy cars now that can be driven for 100,000 miles with only regular maintenance (oil, filters, etc). You don't even have to change the spark plugs.
OMFG! Let them sue. It's the best thing that can happen. Bring the lunacy of the ridiculous laws into everyone's living room and expose them for what they are. The media will latch on to this one.
I would think with the ticketing system, that style of crime is dramatically reduced, as patrons aren't motivated (through weight, or whatever) to put down their bucket-o-coins. They can just stick the ticket into their pocket and move on.
That would be a side benefit. Crooks rarely get away with this kind of stuff... there are far too many cameras.
Finally, I think it's in the casinos interest to keep a person seperated from their actual money as long as practical. An LED display saying 100 credits is "different" from $100, same as a small piece of piece of paper with 100 units on it. This makes the money less "real" and therefore more easily spent.
Definitely not the first consideration, but a factor nonetheless.
I work in the Slot Technical department of the first casino in the world to have a 100% ticket-in/ticket-out floor. I can tell you with absolute certainty that your fears are completely unfounded.
There are many advantages to using tickets instead of coins. The primary reason is that it saves us a ton of money. A stack of 200 tickets sitting in the printer can last for days. If the same machine has coins, it might have to have its coin hopper filled multiple times a day. The labor savings from just that are incredible. It also prevents people from having to wait for an attendant to fill an empty hopper when they cash out. Happier customers stay longer, spend more money, and come back more often.
Coins have to be collected, counted, wrapped or bagged, and redistributed, and they are very heavy. My casino has two people to handle the paper distribution. It would take 40-50 additional people to do all coin handling.
Contrary to popular myth, we can't change what a machine does on the fly, nor do we need to. A slot machine has a theoretical mathematical hold percentage that is in our favor. It varies from day to day and week to week, but over the life of the machine it almost always comes very close to the theoretical. We don't need to cheat. We can give you back 99% of what you put in and still make money. Most of the time you'll take your 99% and put it in again. Then we'll take 1% of that. And you'll do it again. And again. That's how we make money.
We don't need to track you with barcoded tickets, we do that with player's club cards. We entice you to use cards by giving you comps based on how much you put into our machines. You don't have to use a card if you don't want to. The only reason the tickets have barcodes is so that the bill validator can read it. The unique number on the ticket is there so that the machine can query the back-end system to validate it as a good ticket. Nothing more.
As we all know, the standard is whether or not something can "flood a 10BaseT network". Anyone who has read the networking HOWTOs know that Pentium 100's can "do this easily".
With a 1MHz, 8-bit CPU, I seriuosly doubt the C-64 would even come close.
At higher speed, less time is spent on each pit, which allows less energy for the chemical change. At lower speeds, more time is spent on each pit, which allows more energy for the chemical change.
Which is why the higher speeds use a more powerful beam to compensate.
If you lose, double your bet for the next go, if you lose double it again, do that continuosley until you do win, then go back to one chip betting. [...] Although I suppose this theory is wrong somewhere.
All tables have a maximum bet limit, and doubling your bet very quickly reaches that limit.
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it's not the volts it's the amps that getcha
God, I knew someone was going to say that. Ohm's law... I=V/R. If the voltage goes up, so does the current. They are not mutually exclusive.
What I really want to know is what kind of royalties do game designers get from the casino? Do the basically lease the machine? Do the designers get a cut of the proceeds?
Depends on the game. Multi-strike Poker (mentioned above) costs my casino $15 per day per machine to have on the floor. Some titles cost up to $65 per day. Some titles are a percentage of win, usually 80/20 or less, depending on the title. Percentage games are usually owned by the manufacturer, so there is no capital investment and maintenance is not the casino's resposibilty. How much of that actually goes to the designer I don't know. Those are fees we pay to machine's manufacturer. Also, only the most popular titles has a daily fee, most titles just have the initial purchase cost.
I can tell you from here on the inside, I have rarely met any Member of Congress, of EITHER party, that was really a bad person. Members are all just trying to represent the voters and win re-election.
Not necessarily in that order. Therein lies the problem.
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed hereafter are not necessarily those of MENSA, which I am only a member of.
Shouldn't that be "The views expressed hereafter are not necessarily those of MENSA, of which I am only a member." I would think proper grammar usage would be a prerequisite for being a MENSA member.
for the past couple years, i've been using rcn rather than sbc/pacbell for my local dialtone (650 area code). during that time, i've been paying a "local number portability fee" to -er- somebody. i recently moved about seven blocks. rcn doesn't provide service at my new location so i switched to att. could i move my phone number? ha!
Number portability means being able to keep the same number in the same location when you switch providers. It does not cover moving service to a different location.
With the 42 volt alternator, it should be easy though: 3 phase alternator to create 42 volts, just pull off of one phase (14 volts) to supply the 12 volt power system, and use all three for the 36 volt system.
Except, the whole point of having a three-phase alternator is to minimize the amount of filtering that has to be done after rectification. Using a single phase would produce a very choppy dc output. It would almost be cheaper and more reliable to bolt on a second alternator.
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I'm in san Diego, and all of my TV stations are working just fine. AM radio is doing just fine as well. All of the local news stations have a ton of info on their websites. Check the city's site for info. Call the number they set up just for that purpose (619-570-1070). There is no shortage of info.
Incidently, check my journal for my thoughts on the fire.
The ugly fact is all these computers have not made our cars more reliable.
Cars get far better gas milage and produce far fewer pollutants than they did before the introduction of electronics. I would argue that they are also more reliable. You can buy cars now that can be driven for 100,000 miles with only regular maintenance (oil, filters, etc). You don't even have to change the spark plugs.
OMFG! Let them sue. It's the best thing that can happen. Bring the lunacy of the ridiculous laws into everyone's living room and expose them for what they are. The media will latch on to this one.
I would think with the ticketing system, that style of crime is dramatically reduced, as patrons aren't motivated (through weight, or whatever) to put down their bucket-o-coins. They can just stick the ticket into their pocket and move on.
That would be a side benefit. Crooks rarely get away with this kind of stuff... there are far too many cameras.
Finally, I think it's in the casinos interest to keep a person seperated from their actual money as long as practical. An LED display saying 100 credits is "different" from $100, same as a small piece of piece of paper with 100 units on it. This makes the money less "real" and therefore more easily spent.
Definitely not the first consideration, but a factor nonetheless.
I work in the Slot Technical department of the first casino in the world to have a 100% ticket-in/ticket-out floor. I can tell you with absolute certainty that your fears are completely unfounded.
There are many advantages to using tickets instead of coins. The primary reason is that it saves us a ton of money. A stack of 200 tickets sitting in the printer can last for days. If the same machine has coins, it might have to have its coin hopper filled multiple times a day. The labor savings from just that are incredible. It also prevents people from having to wait for an attendant to fill an empty hopper when they cash out. Happier customers stay longer, spend more money, and come back more often.
Coins have to be collected, counted, wrapped or bagged, and redistributed, and they are very heavy. My casino has two people to handle the paper distribution. It would take 40-50 additional people to do all coin handling.
Contrary to popular myth, we can't change what a machine does on the fly, nor do we need to. A slot machine has a theoretical mathematical hold percentage that is in our favor. It varies from day to day and week to week, but over the life of the machine it almost always comes very close to the theoretical. We don't need to cheat. We can give you back 99% of what you put in and still make money. Most of the time you'll take your 99% and put it in again. Then we'll take 1% of that. And you'll do it again. And again. That's how we make money.
We don't need to track you with barcoded tickets, we do that with player's club cards. We entice you to use cards by giving you comps based on how much you put into our machines. You don't have to use a card if you don't want to. The only reason the tickets have barcodes is so that the bill validator can read it. The unique number on the ticket is there so that the machine can query the back-end system to validate it as a good ticket. Nothing more.
Looks like phoenix wants to take a dirt nap.
Right, because we all know that no one uses Windows.
2. They run Windows XP Tablet Edition (Which is a variant of Home).
Actually, it is "a superset of Windows XP Professional"
They make the Aibo, they have to be cool.
But they are an RIAA member. Hence the confusion.
Anything that has to do with Japan is cool.
Wait... Sony is from Japan. This whole slash-bot thing is harder than it used to be.
As we all know, the standard is whether or not something can "flood a 10BaseT network". Anyone who has read the networking HOWTOs know that Pentium 100's can "do this easily".
With a 1MHz, 8-bit CPU, I seriuosly doubt the C-64 would even come close.
You seem to be forgetting that a critical part of the laminating process is extreme heat. That would just turn the whole thing solid black.
At higher speed, less time is spent on each pit, which allows less energy for the chemical change. At lower speeds, more time is spent on each pit, which allows more energy for the chemical change.
Which is why the higher speeds use a more powerful beam to compensate.
If you lose, double your bet for the next go, if you lose double it again, do that continuosley until you do win, then go back to one chip betting. [...] Although I suppose this theory is wrong somewhere.
All tables have a maximum bet limit, and doubling your bet very quickly reaches that limit.
it's not the volts it's the amps that getcha
God, I knew someone was going to say that. Ohm's law... I=V/R. If the voltage goes up, so does the current. They are not mutually exclusive.
What I really want to know is what kind of royalties do game designers get from the casino? Do the basically lease the machine? Do the designers get a cut of the proceeds?
Depends on the game. Multi-strike Poker (mentioned above) costs my casino $15 per day per machine to have on the floor. Some titles cost up to $65 per day. Some titles are a percentage of win, usually 80/20 or less, depending on the title. Percentage games are usually owned by the manufacturer, so there is no capital investment and maintenance is not the casino's resposibilty. How much of that actually goes to the designer I don't know. Those are fees we pay to machine's manufacturer. Also, only the most popular titles has a daily fee, most titles just have the initial purchase cost.
I can tell you from here on the inside, I have rarely met any Member of Congress, of EITHER party, that was really a bad person. Members are all just trying to represent the voters and win re-election.
Not necessarily in that order. Therein lies the problem.
"It's time for same sex marriage
Dennis J. Kucinich"
You've got to be kidding me.
...core courses (religion...
Religion as a core course... no wonder Catholic school screws kids up so horribly.
Should be superior intellect. I can't even get it right.
Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
One of these days you'll get your sig right. Someone with such a superior should learn to use a spell check.
The MSNBC version of this story says "The radiation dosage is about the same as sunshine."
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed hereafter are not necessarily those of MENSA, which I am only a member of.
Shouldn't that be "The views expressed hereafter are not necessarily those of MENSA, of which I am only a member." I would think proper grammar usage would be a prerequisite for being a MENSA member.
for the past couple years, i've been using rcn rather than sbc/pacbell for my local dialtone (650 area code). during that time, i've been paying a "local number portability fee" to -er- somebody. i recently moved about seven blocks. rcn doesn't provide service at my new location so i switched to att. could i move my phone number? ha!
Number portability means being able to keep the same number in the same location when you switch providers. It does not cover moving service to a different location.
With the 42 volt alternator, it should be easy though: 3 phase alternator to create 42 volts, just pull off of one phase (14 volts) to supply the 12 volt power system, and use all three for the 36 volt system.
Except, the whole point of having a three-phase alternator is to minimize the amount of filtering that has to be done after rectification. Using a single phase would produce a very choppy dc output. It would almost be cheaper and more reliable to bolt on a second alternator.
And I'll add in my belly button lint collection!
You're not this guy are you? If so, I think your undervaluing your collection.