Actually, the point of bluffing is to misrepresent the strength of your hand, whether it's good or not. And the original poster is correct - opponents with poor skills are simply not thinking at all about what hand you could have; they're just playing their hand. So misrepresenting your hand is pointless if your opponents aren't paying attention.
About the only exception to this is a raise in late position on the flop when you're on a draw (cf, the "free card" play). It's sort of a bluff, and it actually gets their attention, usually to make them check into you on the turn.
Ah, but in FLT, the postulate was simple, but the proof was not. In the case of the OP, it's reversed - the game is complicated, but he knows of a simple solution. In any case, when it comes to poker, you're talking about money; that changes peoples' motivations:-)
Not it isn't, because if there was a "simple mathematical algorithm" for beating poker, it would have long ago been discovered and would be in common use. Winning a few games does not make you a winner at poker. Bad players can have winning streaks that last months, and vice-versa for good players. The only way you could even evaluate if the algorithm is correct is if it has been making you a consistent winner for at least a year, maybe longer.
Disadvantage: that compatability comes at a significant runtime cost, which makes VMWare mainly used only for testing purposes, not for running multiple OSes for general work.
Wanna bet? I use VMWare on Linux to host a Windows XP system that I use primarily for software development with Visual Studio, and also for other general windows applications. My work mix is probably 50/50 windows and linux although on any given day it's usually 80-90% in a single environment.
I have zero complaints about the speed. Granted, I have a pretty beefy machine, but doing it on vmware sure beats having dual machines.
Xen may be faster than vmware (may, i haven't yet tried it or done any benchmarks, although it's on my list), but the runtime cost of vmware is not what I would call "significant".
And the other benefits of vmware such as snapshot trees make it much better than Xen at the moment, even if Xen could run Windows.
You keep using the word socialist, but I don't think that word means what you think it means.
p.s., please don't bring up stupid word games and say that Hitler's political party was called the National Socialist Party. It was no more socialist than the German Democratic Republic was a democratic republic.
See, when push comes to shove, your security is really your own problem
Except that with a credit card, your security is already ensured. As long as you're timely about reporting stolen cards and disputing unknown charges, your liability is only $50. The rest of the liability belongs to the merchant that charged your card. If they choose not to look at your ID, that's their problem, not yours, and complaining to the manager just makes you look like a twit.
These go away in a week or so. Over the years, I have periodically quit coffee just to prove to myself that I could. After a week, the headaches go away and I have no physical or mental cravings for it. I find that Aleve helps with the headaches, and it contains no caffeine. After abstaining for a month, I start up again, because I enjoy the taste of coffee, and haven't seen any compelling health reasons not to drink it.
So what. Disk space is too cheap to develop to edge cases like your laptop.
Subversion is slow
Because it's doing a lot more things than CVS ever did. Those things are useful.
The server-side database is too easily and far too frequently corrupted or left locked
I rarely run into locked databases (on the scale of only 1 or 2 a year) and I have never seen database corruption.
Most Subversion installations are configured to work over HTTP (only).
And how is it Subversion's fault that admins don't set the installation up to use a more secure transport. We use subversion over https with a self-signed certificate. The weak point in that chain is not with subversion, it's with the local machine, and if the local machine is compromised, both subversion/https and cvs/ssh are both equally vulnerable.
The list goes on and on and on, but I'm not interested in continuing it just now
In other words, I can't think of anything other than "it won't fit on my 9GB disk", and "some people don't set it up securely".
But most spam is pretty easy to spot and shouldn't be much trouble to weed out.
You may change your tune if you have 15 minutes in the morning to scan six or eight screenfuls of subject lines, looking for the two messages -- or maybe it's four or it could even be eight, or mabe none at all -- that are legitimate. The penalty for missing the messages are an angry customer or a lost contract opportunity, or the chance to reconnect with an old friend, or worried parents, or maybe no penalty at all on this day.
And this afternoon, you get to do it again, and again tomorrow morning, and again tomorrow afternoon, and worse, if you take the weekend off, then on Monday morning, you get to scan twenty or thirty screenfuls.
I think that PalmOne is right in choosing to use a block based filesystem.
Except that they haven't really. They've moved from storing their databases on battery-backed RAM to NVRAM. Their implementation uses a block-based filesystem, but the API continues to be the same as it always was (DmQueryRecord, DmWrite, DmReleaseRecord, etc.).
The backing store uses FAT, but I believe that each database is still stored in a single FAT file, that the programmer never sees or knows about.
PalmOS uses a cache to arbitrate between the NVRAM backing store and the Dm* functions. For performance, their cache implementation pads records up to the nearest 512B block, which is why databases with small-sized records seem to bloat.
The solution to me is simple: add a new header flag to the database that tells PalmOs not to pad records on that database. This would go back to the way that PalmOS exports databases to normal flat files without padding each record.
Canadians have no civil rights as citizens. Canadians are chattel owned by an old crazy woman in England. When you are nothing but human chattel, you can be herded around however your owners see fit.
That's great rhetoric, but how does this fit into your world view?
So many initial posts asking what Hibernate is when it is probably the poster child of Java Open Source (OK JBoss might be better known but unlike JBoss Hibernate is universally well regarded). Disappointing really.
It sounds like this may come as a complete surprise to you, but not everybody is a Java programmer. Why should non-Java programmers be expected to know about a Java-only tool?
the Iran Contra scandal which dragged on for six years and resulted in only 3 convictions upheld
Maybe that was because George Bush Sr. pardoned Casper Weinberger and 5 others, effectively preventing Weinberger from ever having to testify (and possibly incriminating Bush himself).
And people complain about Clinton's pardons while completely ignoring Bush's horrendous abuse of power.
The problem is, that most home poker games (or those held in bars, etc) are illegal
This may be true in your state, but is not necessarily true in most states. As long as the house is not making a profit from holding the game (i.e., no rake, no entry fee, etc.), then many states classify this as a "social game", which is legal.
roulette with just picking the color gives your 50% odds of winning
No, it doesn't, because there are 1 or two numbers on the wheel that aren't red or black (the 0 and the 00). Thus, while a red/black bet pays 1:1, but the odds are slightly less than that. This is called a negative expectation bet.
There is no freaking way to get those kind of odds playing a card game
If you really believe that, you would be very welcome to join us at our regular poker game (bring lots of money).
The sender would just receive a message from the mail server saying that their mail was marked as spam
Sadly, if it is spam, then you'll be punishing thousands of innocent people whose email addresses have been forged by the spammers, by sending them the bounce messages. Very little actual spam gets past my bayesian filters, but I do get a lot of bounces from other people's spam filters for messages and virusses that I never sent.
Sorry, it is you who hasn't looked into it hard enough. If you have a degree (or sufficient experience) and a job offer, you can get a temporary NAFTA work visa that does not require pre-approval by the government.
Specifically, "professionals... may complete an application for an employment authorization upon arrival at a Canadian port of entry; or they may apply... at a Canadian consulate or embassy in the United States or Mexico... [for a] processing fee of $150.
More than $50, but still much less than $1500. But, as I said before, this is not an application for permanent residence; it is a temporary work permit that can be renewed.
If you're a US citizen with a bachelor's degree in computer science, all you need is a job offer as a systems analyst. You will be issued a work visa when you cross the border. There may be a nominal fee. I'm not sure what Canada charges, but the US fee is $50, so the Canadian fee is probably similar.
This is temporary visa (although it can be renewed) and it does not lead to Canadian citizenship.
Even without the automatic updates, it doesn't take that long. I helped my brother update his XP system from completely unpatched over dialup in a rural area where the best speeed he could get was 33. It took most of an afternoon to download all the patches, but at the end of the day he had every critical patch from Microsoft installed on his system. In the meantime, we just sat in the other room and shot the breeze while waiting.
So, let me get this straight - my spam filter will know better than I do which emails I want to read, and which ones I don't?
Yes, it will. When I'm faced with 100 new messages in my inbox and probably only one or two are legitimate, I often delete messages that look like spam without opening them, and other times, I have to open them just to double check that it really is spam. I have accidentally deleted more than one legitimate message this way, and have wasted more time that I care to contemplate opening up spam.
So I probably have an accuracy rate of around 97 or 98%, which is nowhere near as good as 99.9.
(And I use SpamAssassin as well; but it's clearly no longer the killer it once was:-(
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If we think in terms of postal mail, postage has not reduced or eliminated direct mail advertising.
How would you know? Surface mail has never been free. In other words, "postage" existed before direct mail advertising existed, so how could the "invention" of postage have had any kind of effect on something that didn't yet exist?
On the other hand, you could argue that eliminating postage would not result in an increase in the volume of direct mail advertising. You'd be wrong. But you could still argue it.
I've used the Peace Arch every time except for the first one, which I got at the Edmonton PFI. I have friends who have used Sumas as well with no problems. I have heard bad stories about the Vancouver PFI, but since you're not flying, you won't be going through that one.
Slashdot Mirror
How about here and here.
Or have anti-abortion statements and the right to display confederate flags suddenly become left-wing causes?
Actually, the point of bluffing is to misrepresent the strength of your hand, whether it's good or not. And the original poster is correct - opponents with poor skills are simply not thinking at all about what hand you could have; they're just playing their hand. So misrepresenting your hand is pointless if your opponents aren't paying attention.
About the only exception to this is a raise in late position on the flop when you're on a draw (cf, the "free card" play). It's sort of a bluff, and it actually gets their attention, usually to make them check into you on the turn.
Ah, but in FLT, the postulate was simple, but the proof was not. In the case of the OP, it's reversed - the game is complicated, but he knows of a simple solution. In any case, when it comes to poker, you're talking about money; that changes peoples' motivations :-)
How is this flamebait??? It's true.
Not it isn't, because if there was a "simple mathematical algorithm" for beating poker, it would have long ago been discovered and would be in common use. Winning a few games does not make you a winner at poker. Bad players can have winning streaks that last months, and vice-versa for good players. The only way you could even evaluate if the algorithm is correct is if it has been making you a consistent winner for at least a year, maybe longer.
Disadvantage: that compatability comes at a significant runtime cost, which makes VMWare mainly used only for testing purposes, not for running multiple OSes for general work.
Wanna bet? I use VMWare on Linux to host a Windows XP system that I use primarily for software development with Visual Studio, and also for other general windows applications. My work mix is probably 50/50 windows and linux although on any given day it's usually 80-90% in a single environment.
I have zero complaints about the speed. Granted, I have a pretty beefy machine, but doing it on vmware sure beats having dual machines.
Xen may be faster than vmware (may, i haven't yet tried it or done any benchmarks, although it's on my list), but the runtime cost of vmware is not what I would call "significant".
And the other benefits of vmware such as snapshot trees make it much better than Xen at the moment, even if Xen could run Windows.
Was Hitler a socialist?
No, he was a fascist.
You keep using the word socialist, but I don't think that word means what you think it means.
p.s., please don't bring up stupid word games and say that Hitler's political party was called the National Socialist Party. It was no more socialist than the German Democratic Republic was a democratic republic.
See, when push comes to shove, your security is really your own problem
Except that with a credit card, your security is already ensured. As long as you're timely about reporting stolen cards and disputing unknown charges, your liability is only $50. The rest of the liability belongs to the merchant that charged your card. If they choose not to look at your ID, that's their problem, not yours, and complaining to the manager just makes you look like a twit.
If I don't have coffee I get headaches.
These go away in a week or so. Over the years, I have periodically quit coffee just to prove to myself that I could. After a week, the headaches go away and I have no physical or mental cravings for it. I find that Aleve helps with the headaches, and it contains no caffeine. After abstaining for a month, I start up again, because I enjoy the taste of coffee, and haven't seen any compelling health reasons not to drink it.
I'm guessing that any site that asks for your PIN number in their credit card information form is probably a scam site...
Subversion uses too damn much disk space
So what. Disk space is too cheap to develop to edge cases like your laptop.
Subversion is slow
Because it's doing a lot more things than CVS ever did. Those things are useful.
The server-side database is too easily and far too frequently corrupted or left locked
I rarely run into locked databases (on the scale of only 1 or 2 a year) and I have never seen database corruption.
Most Subversion installations are configured to work over HTTP (only).
And how is it Subversion's fault that admins don't set the installation up to use a more secure transport. We use subversion over https with a self-signed certificate. The weak point in that chain is not with subversion, it's with the local machine, and if the local machine is compromised, both subversion/https and cvs/ssh are both equally vulnerable.
The list goes on and on and on, but I'm not interested in continuing it just now
In other words, I can't think of anything other than "it won't fit on my 9GB disk", and "some people don't set it up securely".
Lamer.
But most spam is pretty easy to spot and shouldn't be much trouble to weed out.
You may change your tune if you have 15 minutes in the morning to scan six or eight screenfuls of subject lines, looking for the two messages -- or maybe it's four or it could even be eight, or mabe none at all -- that are legitimate. The penalty for missing the messages are an angry customer or a lost contract opportunity, or the chance to reconnect with an old friend, or worried parents, or maybe no penalty at all on this day.
And this afternoon, you get to do it again, and again tomorrow morning, and again tomorrow afternoon, and worse, if you take the weekend off, then on Monday morning, you get to scan twenty or thirty screenfuls.
I think that PalmOne is right in choosing to use a block based filesystem.
Except that they haven't really. They've moved from storing their databases on battery-backed RAM to NVRAM. Their implementation uses a block-based filesystem, but the API continues to be the same as it always was (DmQueryRecord, DmWrite, DmReleaseRecord, etc.).
The backing store uses FAT, but I believe that each database is still stored in a single FAT file, that the programmer never sees or knows about.
PalmOS uses a cache to arbitrate between the NVRAM backing store and the Dm* functions. For performance, their cache implementation pads records up to the nearest 512B block, which is why databases with small-sized records seem to bloat.
The solution to me is simple: add a new header flag to the database that tells PalmOs not to pad records on that database. This would go back to the way that PalmOS exports databases to normal flat files without padding each record.
Canadians have no civil rights as citizens. Canadians are chattel owned by an old crazy woman in England. When you are nothing but human chattel, you can be herded around however your owners see fit.
That's great rhetoric, but how does this fit into your world view?
So many initial posts asking what Hibernate is when it is probably the poster child of Java Open Source (OK JBoss might be better known but unlike JBoss Hibernate is universally well regarded). Disappointing really.
It sounds like this may come as a complete surprise to you, but not everybody is a Java programmer. Why should non-Java programmers be expected to know about a Java-only tool?
the Iran Contra scandal which dragged on for six years and resulted in only 3 convictions upheld
Maybe that was because George Bush Sr. pardoned Casper Weinberger and 5 others, effectively preventing Weinberger from ever having to testify (and possibly incriminating Bush himself).
And people complain about Clinton's pardons while completely ignoring Bush's horrendous abuse of power.
The problem is, that most home poker games (or those held in bars, etc) are illegal
This may be true in your state, but is not necessarily true in most states. As long as the house is not making a profit from holding the game (i.e., no rake, no entry fee, etc.), then many states classify this as a "social game", which is legal.
roulette with just picking the color gives your 50% odds of winning
No, it doesn't, because there are 1 or two numbers on the wheel that aren't red or black (the 0 and the 00). Thus, while a red/black bet pays 1:1, but the odds are slightly less than that. This is called a negative expectation bet.
There is no freaking way to get those kind of odds playing a card game
If you really believe that, you would be very welcome to join us at our regular poker game (bring lots of money).
The sender would just receive a message from the mail server saying that their mail was marked as spam
Sadly, if it is spam, then you'll be punishing thousands of innocent people whose email addresses have been forged by the spammers, by sending them the bounce messages. Very little actual spam gets past my bayesian filters, but I do get a lot of bounces from other people's spam filters for messages and virusses that I never sent.
Sorry, it is you who hasn't looked into it hard enough. If you have a degree (or sufficient experience) and a job offer, you can get a temporary NAFTA work visa that does not require pre-approval by the government.
... may complete an application for an employment authorization upon arrival at a Canadian port of entry; or they may apply ... at a Canadian consulate or embassy in the United States or Mexico ... [for a] processing fee of $150.
Specifically, "professionals
More than $50, but still much less than $1500. But, as I said before, this is not an application for permanent residence; it is a temporary work permit that can be renewed.
See this publication.
If you're a US citizen with a bachelor's degree in computer science, all you need is a job offer as a systems analyst. You will be issued a work visa when you cross the border. There may be a nominal fee. I'm not sure what Canada charges, but the US fee is $50, so the Canadian fee is probably similar.
This is temporary visa (although it can be renewed) and it does not lead to Canadian citizenship.
You're not wrong; the parent poster is an idiot.
Even without the automatic updates, it doesn't take that long. I helped my brother update his XP system from completely unpatched over dialup in a rural area where the best speeed he could get was 33. It took most of an afternoon to download all the patches, but at the end of the day he had every critical patch from Microsoft installed on his system. In the meantime, we just sat in the other room and shot the breeze while waiting.
So, let me get this straight - my spam filter will know better than I do which emails I want to read, and which ones I don't?
:-(
Yes, it will. When I'm faced with 100 new messages in my inbox and probably only one or two are legitimate, I often delete messages that look like spam without opening them, and other times, I have to open them just to double check that it really is spam. I have accidentally deleted more than one legitimate message this way, and have wasted more time that I care to contemplate opening up spam.
So I probably have an accuracy rate of around 97 or 98%, which is nowhere near as good as 99.9.
(And I use SpamAssassin as well; but it's clearly no longer the killer it once was
If we think in terms of postal mail, postage has not reduced or eliminated direct mail advertising.
How would you know? Surface mail has never been free. In other words, "postage" existed before direct mail advertising existed, so how could the "invention" of postage have had any kind of effect on something that didn't yet exist?
On the other hand, you could argue that eliminating postage would not result in an increase in the volume of direct mail advertising. You'd be wrong. But you could still argue it.
My usenet feed is perfectly usable. I can go days without seeing a single spam. I see significantly less spam on usenet than in my personal mailbox.
I've used the Peace Arch every time except for the first one, which I got at the Edmonton PFI. I have friends who have used Sumas as well with no problems. I have heard bad stories about the Vancouver PFI, but since you're not flying, you won't be going through that one.