I hate responding to AC's but this story, unlike many previous "Oatmeal" stories, actually does things like explain to us that The Oatmeal is a web-comic.
"The Maricopa County jail system, administered by Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, holds about 9,000 inmates, 70 percent of whom are pre-trial detainees."
First, Sheriff Joe has no say in who the courts decide needs to be detained pre-trail and which defendants get to be set free. Second, there's a fairly good standard for the sort of repeat or (suspected) dangerous criminals that are held in police custody awaiting trial.
The people sitting in jail for more than a day sobering up are either violent, repeat offenders, or flight risks....because a JUDGE said so. They were arraigned in front of a judge and now they're awaiting trial. They are being held in due process of law, not on Joe's whim, and not without having been in front of a judge.
Sheriff Joe doesn't decide who's held awaiting trial and who isn't. He only gets to make decisions about the conditions of those who are.
We like when our pretrial detainees go there too.:)
I understand that you prefer hugging drunk drivers, the voters of the great state of Arizona prefer to lock them up.
Over 20 years ago I made some mistakes in my life, and one of those ended me up in tent city (when it was still new). Part of what's kept me straight in the 20 years since has been the overwhelming desire not to ever, ever, go back.
We've kept him in office since 1993 because we like his position on crime and law enforcement.
We mostly ignore things like his recent birther rhetoric because, as mentioned, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office doesn't determine presidential eligibility.
Despite Joe's antics, he'll get elected again because his politics aren't what most of the voting populous of AZ cares about.
Things like Tent City suck, and we like when our criminals get sent there. We like that he deputizes people to track down deadbeat dads or keep gangbangers out of mall parking lots. We like that he's a mean son of a bitch. We want our stupid kids locked up and put in a chain-gang for the week when they get a drunk driving charge.
We overlook the fact that he panders to the media on the right with birther nonsense, because he's not a position in our government where it matters. [Hint, the MCSO doesn't determine presidential eligibility.]
The portrait that the national media likes to paint of Arizona is fairly inaccurate - especially when it comes to the people working in technology.
It's an outdated, overplayed stereotype. Idiot local politicians on the right like to rattle their sabers to garner press. Truth be told, the state is about as balanced with its share of both "normal" people and nutjobs on both sides of the aisle.
My IT architecture team is a snapshot of diversity.
The IT arm of my (large) company is fairly representative of IT shops in general -- and the only segregation is among the H1-B types who live/eat/work together, since their teams are often contract-based.
This already happened. It was called, "every large poker site on the internet," as they all had bots playing on them.
They were, by large, profitable at low limits playing high volume against mediocre players.
If you'd like to play head's up poker against a computer, it's available at many casinos: http://www.slotmachinesforum.com/showthread.php?5792-Texas-Hold-em-Heads-Up-Poker-(IGT
I was initially going to just mod this informative and/or insightful, but I wanted to add on instead.
There's certainly some value to understanding tells:
Does your opponent look back at their hole cards when a middling card hits the board? Do they reflexively look at their chips when the flop comes out? Do they make a bet and give a speech about why they're betting? Are they quiet when they weren't before? Are they sitting upright when they were slouched before? All of these mean things - and they all mean different things coming from different players of different experience and skill...
....but none of those things are as important as understanding bet sizing and hand ranges and putting that together with a player's history. The glint in your opponent's eyes isn't nearly as important as the fact that he re-raised out of the small blind when defending against a raise from the cutoff. What hands do this and why? How often does he do this? What does that say about his cards -- or what does it at least say about what cards he's representing. What does it mean when the early limper gets raised and then HE re-raises?
Sure, players lie, but bets speak WAY louder than tells.
Side note: A number of top game pros take beta blockers. Most of their edge comes from understanding the game, but they'll do everything they can do protect the remaining part of the puzzle that is tells -- especially the impossible to prevent ones that adrenaline rushes cause (and beta blockers prevent).
If you think people don't get their lives ruined over sexual harassment ALLEGATIONS (forget actual harassment), you're clearly living in a fantasy world.
Dish or DirectTV both have great packages and great multi-room DVR systems, mostly without the worry of babysitting your downloads or pissing off your ISP with torrent downloads.
Similar, Ceton makes a fantastic 4-tuner cable-card that works great with Windows Media Center, albeit after a sometimes difficult setup. Media Center then integrates nicely with things like Netflix.
If your goal is to easily watch TV, then keep paying for cable or Dish/Direct and upgrade DVR systems.
If your goal is to cut the cord, deploy a good internet-enabled Blu-Ray player with DivX/x264 support in each room and get yourself some Netflix.
It is not YOUR computer. YOU should not, under any circumstances, upgrade it. People managed to do "real" work just fine a couple years ago when that computer was mainstream.
It's not ONLY a stick of ram. It's an indicator to your employer that you don't understand boundaries, roles, and responsibilities.
In many cases, losing a save game is the literary equivalent of getting to the last chapter of a book, and then being told you can't read the final chapter until you RE-read all the chapters before it. That's just work.
Further, there's a good group of people that play games for the achievements -- and no matter how twisted they might be, losing their progress might represent a loss of hundreds of hours of "work."
If World of Warcraft said, "Oops, we lost your characters, and we have no backup" we'd be on them like white on rice.
Network COPIES of your save games are a fantastic idea. Network ONLY storage is a bad idea (but not the premise of your post).
In nearly all jurisdictions, casinos can ask you to stop playing. "You've had a good run sir. Please no longer play here."...but if they accept the wager, they pay you out on your wins.
In some jurisdictions, they've ruled that they have to allow equal access to the game to all players, or not offer it to you at all. In those cases, the casinos allow you to play...slowly...with a constantly shuffled deck...at low limits...or other countermeasures to make beating the game for a small edge (which is all counters have) unattractive.
This is different from the slot case we see here, which isn't about betting and getting (or not getting) paid, but is instead about exploiting software glitches to record wins.
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I hate responding to AC's but this story, unlike many previous "Oatmeal" stories, actually does things like explain to us that The Oatmeal is a web-comic.
G+, a vastly superior platform.... ....except that there's nobody on it, which is what makes a social platform superior.
Unless your preferred social experience is finding new social groups, you're pretty much boned.
I participate in the Dragon Age Legends community when it was live, but when that closed, I wandered away...
If my local grocery store could make sure that I visit them in person by merely holding my mail for me, they'd find room for my packages, I'm sure.
His numbers are right, but he's still misguided.
"The Maricopa County jail system, administered by Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, holds about 9,000 inmates, 70 percent of whom are pre-trial detainees."
First, Sheriff Joe has no say in who the courts decide needs to be detained pre-trail and which defendants get to be set free. Second, there's a fairly good standard for the sort of repeat or (suspected) dangerous criminals that are held in police custody awaiting trial.
The people sitting in jail for more than a day sobering up are either violent, repeat offenders, or flight risks. ...because a JUDGE said so. They were arraigned in front of a judge and now they're awaiting trial. They are being held in due process of law, not on Joe's whim, and not without having been in front of a judge.
Sheriff Joe doesn't decide who's held awaiting trial and who isn't. He only gets to make decisions about the conditions of those who are.
We like when our pretrial detainees go there too. :)
I understand that you prefer hugging drunk drivers, the voters of the great state of Arizona prefer to lock them up.
Over 20 years ago I made some mistakes in my life, and one of those ended me up in tent city (when it was still new). Part of what's kept me straight in the 20 years since has been the overwhelming desire not to ever, ever, go back.
We've kept him in office since 1993 because we like his position on crime and law enforcement.
We mostly ignore things like his recent birther rhetoric because, as mentioned, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office doesn't determine presidential eligibility.
Thanks for confirming my suspicion.
Despite Joe's antics, he'll get elected again because his politics aren't what most of the voting populous of AZ cares about.
Things like Tent City suck, and we like when our criminals get sent there. We like that he deputizes people to track down deadbeat dads or keep gangbangers out of mall parking lots. We like that he's a mean son of a bitch. We want our stupid kids locked up and put in a chain-gang for the week when they get a drunk driving charge.
We overlook the fact that he panders to the media on the right with birther nonsense, because he's not a position in our government where it matters. [Hint, the MCSO doesn't determine presidential eligibility.]
Summers in Phoenix do suck, but frankly the mostly-dry summers of Phoenix are infinitely more tolerable than summers in the South or in the mid-West.
The portrait that the national media likes to paint of Arizona is fairly inaccurate - especially when it comes to the people working in technology.
It's an outdated, overplayed stereotype. Idiot local politicians on the right like to rattle their sabers to garner press. Truth be told, the state is about as balanced with its share of both "normal" people and nutjobs on both sides of the aisle.
My IT architecture team is a snapshot of diversity.
The IT arm of my (large) company is fairly representative of IT shops in general -- and the only segregation is among the H1-B types who live/eat/work together, since their teams are often contract-based.
Poker is, indeed, like playing a long and difficult RPG... ...in HARDCORE mode.
:(
Make a few mistakes, and you're back farming all of your equipment again
This already happened. It was called, "every large poker site on the internet," as they all had bots playing on them.
They were, by large, profitable at low limits playing high volume against mediocre players.
If you'd like to play head's up poker against a computer, it's available at many casinos:
http://www.slotmachinesforum.com/showthread.php?5792-Texas-Hold-em-Heads-Up-Poker-(IGT
I was initially going to just mod this informative and/or insightful, but I wanted to add on instead.
There's certainly some value to understanding tells:
Does your opponent look back at their hole cards when a middling card hits the board? Do they reflexively look at their chips when the flop comes out? Do they make a bet and give a speech about why they're betting? Are they quiet when they weren't before? Are they sitting upright when they were slouched before? All of these mean things - and they all mean different things coming from different players of different experience and skill...
....but none of those things are as important as understanding bet sizing and hand ranges and putting that together with a player's history. The glint in your opponent's eyes isn't nearly as important as the fact that he re-raised out of the small blind when defending against a raise from the cutoff. What hands do this and why? How often does he do this? What does that say about his cards -- or what does it at least say about what cards he's representing. What does it mean when the early limper gets raised and then HE re-raises?
Sure, players lie, but bets speak WAY louder than tells.
Side note: A number of top game pros take beta blockers. Most of their edge comes from understanding the game, but they'll do everything they can do protect the remaining part of the puzzle that is tells -- especially the impossible to prevent ones that adrenaline rushes cause (and beta blockers prevent).
If you think people don't get their lives ruined over sexual harassment ALLEGATIONS (forget actual harassment), you're clearly living in a fantasy world.
High temperatures thin air. Thin air makes for less lift. Less lift makes for dangerous takeoffs.
>a 10 second 100-meter sprinter could see his time drop by 0.35 seconds
If it can increase performance by 100%, he can run it in zero seconds.
Math confuses Slashdot editors.
Can this be moderated "+1 I hope so?"
Dish or DirectTV both have great packages and great multi-room DVR systems, mostly without the worry of babysitting your downloads or pissing off your ISP with torrent downloads.
Similar, Ceton makes a fantastic 4-tuner cable-card that works great with Windows Media Center, albeit after a sometimes difficult setup. Media Center then integrates nicely with things like Netflix.
If your goal is to easily watch TV, then keep paying for cable or Dish/Direct and upgrade DVR systems.
If your goal is to cut the cord, deploy a good internet-enabled Blu-Ray player with DivX/x264 support in each room and get yourself some Netflix.
<Nelson>
Ha-Ha!
</Nelson>
That's how much it weighed in space?!?
To the OP:
It is not YOUR computer. YOU should not, under any circumstances, upgrade it. People managed to do "real" work just fine a couple years ago when that computer was mainstream.
It's not ONLY a stick of ram. It's an indicator to your employer that you don't understand boundaries, roles, and responsibilities.
I'm going to go with "lots." ...you know, like every one that involved a "photo" or "video" taken in the last decade.
Or, there is perhaps a school in the jail, and the state correctional system uses this as a double-whammy for idiots trying to mule drugs.
Also, good for them.
This is silly.
In many cases, losing a save game is the literary equivalent of getting to the last chapter of a book, and then being told you can't read the final chapter until you RE-read all the chapters before it. That's just work.
Further, there's a good group of people that play games for the achievements -- and no matter how twisted they might be, losing their progress might represent a loss of hundreds of hours of "work."
If World of Warcraft said, "Oops, we lost your characters, and we have no backup" we'd be on them like white on rice.
Network COPIES of your save games are a fantastic idea.
Network ONLY storage is a bad idea (but not the premise of your post).
Incorrect.
In nearly all jurisdictions, casinos can ask you to stop playing. "You've had a good run sir. Please no longer play here." ...but if they accept the wager, they pay you out on your wins.
In some jurisdictions, they've ruled that they have to allow equal access to the game to all players, or not offer it to you at all. In those cases, the casinos allow you to play...slowly...with a constantly shuffled deck...at low limits...or other countermeasures to make beating the game for a small edge (which is all counters have) unattractive.
http://www.indy.com/posts/casino-takes-card-counting-case-to-indiana-supreme-court
This is different from the slot case we see here, which isn't about betting and getting (or not getting) paid, but is instead about exploiting software glitches to record wins.
...and tie up fax lines all day long (at a minimum).