Hi. DBA at a gaming company, here. We dropped poker from the majority of our locations as a result of entirely too small hold percentage (% the house holds on your average bet). Something around 1-2%. This is primarily an artifact of players playing players, instead of playing the house. It is hardly worth the labor when you can push those players to one of two things: Other table games (craps/blackjack run around 8-12% hold on average) or video poker (about 6-7% and no labor involved).
No insult intended, this is just anecdotal evidence that your statement may be misinformation. The reason some of our locations hold on to poker is because the outcry from these players is so dramatic that it effects the turnstyle numbers in a statistically significant way. Even if it is only a fraction of a percentage, it is relevantly outside our margin of error - and so can cost those locations money. This is not because of the game itself, but because word of mouth keeps people off other games.
Jesus man, pot doesn't need a conspiracy theory. You're saying that pot laws drive illegal immegration purposefully? To what end?
There are a number of reasons US government and corporations do not want hemp legally grown within its borders. Hemp is a viable alternative to a huge number of industries which are essentially monopolized insofar as production within US borders is concerned. Paper, ropes, clothing - a huge number of these items could be manufactured inside the US at comparable costs with regards to what it costs to import any number of those items - but that would mean startups and small businesses and for the love of the pre-gen-X crowd, keep the tree hugging hippies out of my profits.
I have to say, though: Gay folks do not "take themselves" out of the gene pool. This assumption that it is a choice by older generations (my own parent's included, who can be considered middle-aged at ~50) is asnine. And I'm a spiteful, critical bastard. It is a natural evolution of overpopulation, evidenced in many of nature's societies. Learn to live with it or get off the soapbox, either way, you called it: you will be modded into oblivion. Rightfully so.
New ~$300 Parrot AR Drone (which is already well on its way to being able to successfully "control technologies for robotic vertical take-off and landing aircraft"): $300.
Cost of a "Navy" badge, some long range sensors, military durability, scripts to automate the process: $97,999,700.
There are a couple of games on Steam that are laced with DRM such that you cannot play without an active connection, but Steam is primarily just a file sorter, which are local and essentially identical to what would have been installed to your harddrive by whatever media you've purchased. It definitely isn't a "rental service" - you can activate your physical media keys in Steam just for its file-sorting convenience.
They pay for the price of doing business, that is all. If they don't want to take my credit cards, fine by me - I'll go somewhere that can afford the cost of doing business due to solid sales numbers, marketing, or whatever it is that made them succeed in retail at my location. The cost of a credit card transaction is an iota in the sea of big business screwing its customers.
If you read into it just a bit, I think he's probably having a rough time with something else: justifying IT to upper management. Which is a topic that comes up all the time, and could have found good results with a simple google query.
Start with one big thing: work efficiency. How much work are your workers getting done when they're focused? How much more work would they get done with an IT department that has it's own budget (which has its own benefits for upper management)? Include engineering in that estimate - I don't just mean wait times on PC's, I mean how much time is everybody spending per day/week/month solving little problems for way too long when one or two IT centric individuals could have completed the task in a fraction of the time? Upper management justifications are nothing but tricky ways of saying "we will save you money/give you more money back on your investment." I could spew that shit all day long, it should be easy to convince them. Give them some made up metric by which they will be able to track their ROI. Make your spreadsheet in a year and put in whatever numbers you want to make it look good. This is America.
Guess you haven't used AdWords much. Google has no qualms letting you know they own 90+% of online advertising/SEM and that if you wish for your paid inclusion to use the best demographics and get your product in front of a target audience, it simply must be through them.
To be fair, I don't think that's the only reason. I know it's best practice to keep your everything updated, but in the practical IT world, there is no way that this happens in the private sector. Too many idiot companies that idiot bosses purchase stupid software from, still running DB software with plugins only tested in IE6 or whathaveyou.
In reality, I think the increase probably stems more from the fantastic advertising Google has been putting out lately. The gf's pipes actually got a little leaky during some episode of Top Gear. I'm not sure what for, or what was in the commercial at all, as my attention for commercials is a definitively negative integer, but it stood out to me as a result of her reaction - that's good advert.
Don't you have to like, have a liver clear the alcohol out of your system? I'm no doctor, but it would stand to reason that any metabolism, regardless of how amazingly fast it is, still needs to be filtered to remove present toxins. I'm sure they have livers, but is it sufficient in size to remove the toxin at the pace with which larger mammals can? The effects of alcohol poisoning (which, imo, could account for the "more than simple drunkenness") seem to be a pretty obvious "duh."
The majority of laptops I've ordered for my business (in the last few years) do not include a Windows Logo anywhere, except on the license key on the bottom. Lenovo and Dell. I know the same machines have a logo on them in big box stores, but I am under the impression logo'd machines are mostly those that will be seen by at least a few folks before being sold.
MS has its own patent portfolio, the fallout could be much more expensive for Apple. Additionally, MS has the cake to have already paid its licensing dues, if applicable.
In contrast, HTC, while still a large company, does not have the resources to build the same portfolio, and so ignores patents and settles over licensing fees on a regular basis. This story crops up about x-named smaller company vs y-named bigger company about once a month, I'm not entirely sure why it's news other than it's Apple on/.
Meh. New tech is all well and good, the problem with SSD is the cost of manufacturing. The same thing occurred with high capacity spindle drives in the late-90's. The tech to produce them cost a lot, so the platters cost a lot. When the supply goes up, the price goes down.
I don't have anything against IBM, but the only thing contributing to the high-cost of SSD and its relatively low usage is the fact that there aren't billions of drives on the market. When there are, the machines to manufacture them will have paid for themselves, and the prices can be cut. This happens with all new tech, and will happen with PCM-based SSD storage as well.
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Hi. DBA at a gaming company, here. We dropped poker from the majority of our locations as a result of entirely too small hold percentage (% the house holds on your average bet). Something around 1-2%. This is primarily an artifact of players playing players, instead of playing the house. It is hardly worth the labor when you can push those players to one of two things: Other table games (craps/blackjack run around 8-12% hold on average) or video poker (about 6-7% and no labor involved).
No insult intended, this is just anecdotal evidence that your statement may be misinformation. The reason some of our locations hold on to poker is because the outcry from these players is so dramatic that it effects the turnstyle numbers in a statistically significant way. Even if it is only a fraction of a percentage, it is relevantly outside our margin of error - and so can cost those locations money. This is not because of the game itself, but because word of mouth keeps people off other games.
It would make your brain explode RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE
Jesus man, pot doesn't need a conspiracy theory. You're saying that pot laws drive illegal immegration purposefully? To what end?
There are a number of reasons US government and corporations do not want hemp legally grown within its borders. Hemp is a viable alternative to a huge number of industries which are essentially monopolized insofar as production within US borders is concerned. Paper, ropes, clothing - a huge number of these items could be manufactured inside the US at comparable costs with regards to what it costs to import any number of those items - but that would mean startups and small businesses and for the love of the pre-gen-X crowd, keep the tree hugging hippies out of my profits.
Twas a dillemma, to mod or to comment on this.
I have to say, though: Gay folks do not "take themselves" out of the gene pool. This assumption that it is a choice by older generations (my own parent's included, who can be considered middle-aged at ~50) is asnine. And I'm a spiteful, critical bastard. It is a natural evolution of overpopulation, evidenced in many of nature's societies. Learn to live with it or get off the soapbox, either way, you called it: you will be modded into oblivion. Rightfully so.
What? Answer: Because you can plan accordingly. With kids, this should be especially important to you.
New ~$300 Parrot AR Drone (which is already well on its way to being able to successfully "control technologies for robotic vertical take-off and landing aircraft"): $300.
Cost of a "Navy" badge, some long range sensors, military durability, scripts to automate the process: $97,999,700.
*golf clap*
Just don't get those fsking bull balls on your hitch. I do not know why that inspires such a deep and angry fire from within.
There are a couple of games on Steam that are laced with DRM such that you cannot play without an active connection, but Steam is primarily just a file sorter, which are local and essentially identical to what would have been installed to your harddrive by whatever media you've purchased. It definitely isn't a "rental service" - you can activate your physical media keys in Steam just for its file-sorting convenience.
They pay for the price of doing business, that is all. If they don't want to take my credit cards, fine by me - I'll go somewhere that can afford the cost of doing business due to solid sales numbers, marketing, or whatever it is that made them succeed in retail at my location. The cost of a credit card transaction is an iota in the sea of big business screwing its customers.
If Google has abandoned the G1, Apple abandoned the first iPhone first.
Those plumbing taxes are a PITA.
If you read into it just a bit, I think he's probably having a rough time with something else: justifying IT to upper management. Which is a topic that comes up all the time, and could have found good results with a simple google query.
Start with one big thing: work efficiency. How much work are your workers getting done when they're focused? How much more work would they get done with an IT department that has it's own budget (which has its own benefits for upper management)? Include engineering in that estimate - I don't just mean wait times on PC's, I mean how much time is everybody spending per day/week/month solving little problems for way too long when one or two IT centric individuals could have completed the task in a fraction of the time? Upper management justifications are nothing but tricky ways of saying "we will save you money/give you more money back on your investment." I could spew that shit all day long, it should be easy to convince them. Give them some made up metric by which they will be able to track their ROI. Make your spreadsheet in a year and put in whatever numbers you want to make it look good. This is America.
Guess you haven't used AdWords much. Google has no qualms letting you know they own 90+% of online advertising/SEM and that if you wish for your paid inclusion to use the best demographics and get your product in front of a target audience, it simply must be through them.
Period inside the quote. "Grammar" capitalized, as it is a part of your proper noun. "Own" is arguably redundant, since you start with "your."
You're welcome.
Fair enough. Maybe I should've said "TV" and "commercial" a few more times.
To be fair, I don't think that's the only reason. I know it's best practice to keep your everything updated, but in the practical IT world, there is no way that this happens in the private sector. Too many idiot companies that idiot bosses purchase stupid software from, still running DB software with plugins only tested in IE6 or whathaveyou.
In reality, I think the increase probably stems more from the fantastic advertising Google has been putting out lately. The gf's pipes actually got a little leaky during some episode of Top Gear. I'm not sure what for, or what was in the commercial at all, as my attention for commercials is a definitively negative integer, but it stood out to me as a result of her reaction - that's good advert.
Don't you have to like, have a liver clear the alcohol out of your system? I'm no doctor, but it would stand to reason that any metabolism, regardless of how amazingly fast it is, still needs to be filtered to remove present toxins. I'm sure they have livers, but is it sufficient in size to remove the toxin at the pace with which larger mammals can? The effects of alcohol poisoning (which, imo, could account for the "more than simple drunkenness") seem to be a pretty obvious "duh."
I just submitted it to my patent office, I'll let you know.
Maybe HP will actually try to compete with somebody, again.
The majority of laptops I've ordered for my business (in the last few years) do not include a Windows Logo anywhere, except on the license key on the bottom. Lenovo and Dell. I know the same machines have a logo on them in big box stores, but I am under the impression logo'd machines are mostly those that will be seen by at least a few folks before being sold.
This site is crucial to not being driven insane by the default AD management tools (we use 2008 R2), and getting more hardware with my budget.
If the town is the world and the game is a Star Wars MMO, it is certainly the only one around until TOR arrives.
MS has its own patent portfolio, the fallout could be much more expensive for Apple. Additionally, MS has the cake to have already paid its licensing dues, if applicable.
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In contrast, HTC, while still a large company, does not have the resources to build the same portfolio, and so ignores patents and settles over licensing fees on a regular basis. This story crops up about x-named smaller company vs y-named bigger company about once a month, I'm not entirely sure why it's news other than it's Apple on
So are refrigerators.
Meh. New tech is all well and good, the problem with SSD is the cost of manufacturing. The same thing occurred with high capacity spindle drives in the late-90's. The tech to produce them cost a lot, so the platters cost a lot. When the supply goes up, the price goes down.
I don't have anything against IBM, but the only thing contributing to the high-cost of SSD and its relatively low usage is the fact that there aren't billions of drives on the market. When there are, the machines to manufacture them will have paid for themselves, and the prices can be cut. This happens with all new tech, and will happen with PCM-based SSD storage as well.