thanks for backing me up. Also, don't forget counting cards at blackjack. Thorpe, Uston, Wong and others are/were "hackers" in the true sense of the word.
Thorpe's legnedary book "beat the dealer" was based on trials of thousands of hands on a mainframe simulator. These guys today can run simulations of billions of hands. Card counting isn't THAT hard, and it's kind of fun that the casinos will kick you out for it (but IT IS NOT ILLEGAL), giving it a real "james bond" feel.
That being said, you have to have a huge bankroll and play a LOT to make any money. I do it strictly as a hobby (and don't even count all the time while in vegas).
bj21.com is a great place to start about the world of card counting. Cardcounter.com isn't bad either. ---
There are two ways to get a long-term, statistically valid edge over the casino, as far as I know.
1. Learn card counting and play blackjack.. www.cardcounter.com and www.bj21.com are good places to start.
2. Play video poker. Learn the correct strategy and look for games with payouts near 100% (or over) long-term. Combined with comps, you can come out ahead. ---
Yep, sleep depravation is real. Here's a quick test:
Do you have to use an alarm clock to get up? If so, you didn't go to bed early enough. I never use an alarm clock unless I am varying from my routine. Like my son has an early soccer game on Saturday, when we usually sleep late. ---
that's what I thought, but recently my cable (roadrunner) changed their pricin so the total amount ($44.95) stayed the same, but the rental rate went from $10 to $15 (subscription cost went down). at this rate, buying made sense. Not $250 new, but I got one one ebay for $180. Works fine and in a year I'll be in the black. I called a guy I know at the cable company first and he said there were no plans to change to a new modem type, and even if they did, the old ones would still work.
Moral of the story: Look over your bill occasionally! When I asked them, they said they'd made the billing changes three months ago and I hadn't noticed! ---
As an employee of a software company, I can whole-heartedly agree with #4. With R&D, shipping, customer care in the south and everything else (most management, sales, marketing, accounting, etc) in California, the natural cultural clash of markeing/sales v. engineering is exacerbated by the cultural clash of "left coast" v. "bible belt". It's REALLY ugly. ---
You really only "connect" to one Napster server at a time. Your search runs to many servers. But trust me when I say starting a HL server is JUST as easy as a napster one. You launch the server app, pick folders to share, and you're done. ---
How is Hotline any different from Napster? because the client and server piece are in two diffferent apps? What's the difference? Because you can't run Napster without being a server? Yes, you can.... I just don't see the big difference. ---
Maybe you could actually READ my comment. I said that the same response is NOT given. People rant on M$ security, how it "sucks" and is "worthless", but say that the admins are cluless in the apache case...
BTW, the fact that my response was modded "troll" -1, pretty much does nothing except back up my argument. ---
What APACHE cracked? How come when an apache server is cracked, the slashdot crowd says "who were these idiots who can't apply patches!" but when an IIS server is cracked and people say "they haven't applied the patches, cluess admins!" those folks get either flamed or modded into oblivion? The double standard is really getting old and the reason I don't read/. very often anymore.... ---
The other thing folks is, people don't LIKE the restricted functionality that being security concious (it's too early to spell properly) brings. My father in law got mad when Outlook was changed to not let him run.exe's directly from the email (you have to save them first, so they can be viurs scanned & stuff). ---
Haven't you guys ever heard of Windows Update? I assume (I don't know, because I run IE6 preview) that everyone has a critical update notification about right now (assuming you run it). Windows update even works for older OS'es where it wasn't built in (like nt4).
Again, before I get flamed I'm assuming this patch is on Windows update, but I don't know, because I don't run ie 5.5. I'm sure it will be shortly. ---
Really. I haven't used a mac since the g3 came out, but I recall one thing that used to impress my PC friends was I had a Zip disk which had a "universal" system which I could plug into any mac EVER MADE at the time and boot to. It had all my disk utilities, file recovery tools, etc. ---
Bullshit. I sat down at a Linux terminal with KDE on it and looked in vain for a place to change the resolution. I looked for ten minutes and never found it. Next question. ---
And I still say that is a trivial change. The structure of the start menu hasn't really changed. You can turn it off (administratively for all workstations on install, btw, or through SMS if you wanted to after the fact).
You were talking about the changes between win95 and win2000 were SO drastic that any 95 knowledge is worthless, essentially. I was saying the differences were trivial.
In summary: I want my school teaching on Windows first, because -- whether we like it or not -- that is the dominant system he/she will be using. Linux and stuff are gravy. Listen, I spent my youth being a "rebel" using macs. And you know what it got me? Access to very few &*(! jobs in my market. When I went to the dark side, my salary started increasing exponentially. Sorry, but I have a family to take care of. Idealism is for young, single people. I'll learn to use/program in Linux when I see the economic demand for it, and not ONE second sooner. I have too many other things to do with my time.
Just for fun, I just went to Monster.com and searched my area for all jobs with "linux" in the description. It returned 9, only three of which were programmer/analyst (I'm not a network engineer). In contrast, there were 37 with VB or Visual Basic in the description -- and I limited that search to postings in the last two weeks so I wouldn't have to wait for a massive search to be returned). ---
Are you seriously telling me that you can't plunk a secretary trained on Windows 95 and office 95 in front of Windows 2000 and Office 2000 and they wouldn't be any more/less productive than someone trained on Linux/StarOffice? If so, you are on crack. ---
The only reasons schools use anything but open source software is marketing.
WHAT! I've got another reasone for you: How about learning to use the OS/environment that 95% of the colleges will they will attend and businesses they will go to work for will use? ---
dude, put it in perspective. You want to be REALLY depressed? My wife was a child welfare worker for a year and a half (investigated child abuse). You wouldn't believe the situations so many kids grow up in. It's just sad. I have no idea how she did it. ---
You know, I've wondered this myself. I went looking on Chilisoft's site and found: "VBScript and JavaScript scripting languages" quote. No mention of using Perl or another WSH language.... ---
just FYI, lots of people here are using ASP when they seem to mean VBScript. The Windows Scripting Host can use a whole lot of scripting languages. Lots of folks use Jscript or even Perl. ---
Probably isn't, but a random drug search of the students CARS sure is. I live in a community with very little crime, and just read an article about drug dogs walked through the lot.... ---
Quoting, since AC's commment won't be seen by most:
The first ammendment doesnt apply to schools. it applies to free speech.
Schools dont speak, being made as they are of bricks and mortor. School-kids, at school, can write, at school, whatever they want. The people responsible for running the school can censor anything they like, its their school, why shouldnt they? The first amemdment applies purely to the government saying what you can and cant say, not other organisations.
Umm, the government is paid for by the people's taxes, everyone hired there is a paid government employee, so how is it not the government? I also assure you, kids' can't "say whatever they want" ( I do support limits of course, there are always limits to free speech). Not only that, but kids can't say what they want about the school EVEN IF THEY AREN'T IN SCHOOL NOR ON SCHOOL PROPERTY (kids get suspended every day in this country for web pages they author from home that is not hosted on a school-owned computer.) ---
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thanks for backing me up. Also, don't forget counting cards at blackjack. Thorpe, Uston, Wong and others are/were "hackers" in the true sense of the word.
Thorpe's legnedary book "beat the dealer" was based on trials of thousands of hands on a mainframe simulator. These guys today can run simulations of billions of hands. Card counting isn't THAT hard, and it's kind of fun that the casinos will kick you out for it (but IT IS NOT ILLEGAL), giving it a real "james bond" feel.
That being said, you have to have a huge bankroll and play a LOT to make any money. I do it strictly as a hobby (and don't even count all the time while in vegas).
bj21.com is a great place to start about the world of card counting. Cardcounter.com isn't bad either.
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There are two ways to get a long-term, statistically valid edge over the casino, as far as I know. 1. Learn card counting and play blackjack.. www.cardcounter.com and www.bj21.com are good places to start. 2. Play video poker. Learn the correct strategy and look for games with payouts near 100% (or over) long-term. Combined with comps, you can come out ahead.
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Yep, sleep depravation is real. Here's a quick test: Do you have to use an alarm clock to get up? If so, you didn't go to bed early enough. I never use an alarm clock unless I am varying from my routine. Like my son has an early soccer game on Saturday, when we usually sleep late.
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that's what I thought, but recently my cable (roadrunner) changed their pricin so the total amount ($44.95) stayed the same, but the rental rate went from $10 to $15 (subscription cost went down). at this rate, buying made sense. Not $250 new, but I got one one ebay for $180. Works fine and in a year I'll be in the black. I called a guy I know at the cable company first and he said there were no plans to change to a new modem type, and even if they did, the old ones would still work. Moral of the story: Look over your bill occasionally! When I asked them, they said they'd made the billing changes three months ago and I hadn't noticed!
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As an employee of a software company, I can whole-heartedly agree with #4. With R&D, shipping, customer care in the south and everything else (most management, sales, marketing, accounting, etc) in California, the natural cultural clash of markeing/sales v. engineering is exacerbated by the cultural clash of "left coast" v. "bible belt". It's REALLY ugly.
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You really only "connect" to one Napster server at a time. Your search runs to many servers. But trust me when I say starting a HL server is JUST as easy as a napster one. You launch the server app, pick folders to share, and you're done.
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How is Hotline any different from Napster? because the client and server piece are in two diffferent apps? What's the difference? Because you can't run Napster without being a server? Yes, you can.... I just don't see the big difference.
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wow! you ever waited tables? There isn't a lot of "free time to think over problems"
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Maybe you could actually READ my comment. I said that the same response is NOT given. People rant on M$ security, how it "sucks" and is "worthless", but say that the admins are cluless in the apache case... BTW, the fact that my response was modded "troll" -1, pretty much does nothing except back up my argument.
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What APACHE cracked? How come when an apache server is cracked, the slashdot crowd says "who were these idiots who can't apply patches!" but when an IIS server is cracked and people say "they haven't applied the patches, cluess admins!" those folks get either flamed or modded into oblivion? The double standard is really getting old and the reason I don't read /. very often anymore....
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The other thing folks is, people don't LIKE the restricted functionality that being security concious (it's too early to spell properly) brings. My father in law got mad when Outlook was changed to not let him run .exe's directly from the email (you have to save them first, so they can be viurs scanned & stuff).
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Haven't you guys ever heard of Windows Update? I assume (I don't know, because I run IE6 preview) that everyone has a critical update notification about right now (assuming you run it). Windows update even works for older OS'es where it wasn't built in (like nt4). Again, before I get flamed I'm assuming this patch is on Windows update, but I don't know, because I don't run ie 5.5. I'm sure it will be shortly.
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Really. I haven't used a mac since the g3 came out, but I recall one thing that used to impress my PC friends was I had a Zip disk which had a "universal" system which I could plug into any mac EVER MADE at the time and boot to. It had all my disk utilities, file recovery tools, etc.
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Bullshit. I sat down at a Linux terminal with KDE on it and looked in vain for a place to change the resolution. I looked for ten minutes and never found it. Next question.
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And I still say that is a trivial change. The structure of the start menu hasn't really changed. You can turn it off (administratively for all workstations on install, btw, or through SMS if you wanted to after the fact).
You were talking about the changes between win95 and win2000 were SO drastic that any 95 knowledge is worthless, essentially. I was saying the differences were trivial.
In summary: I want my school teaching on Windows first, because -- whether we like it or not -- that is the dominant system he/she will be using. Linux and stuff are gravy. Listen, I spent my youth being a "rebel" using macs. And you know what it got me? Access to very few &*(! jobs in my market. When I went to the dark side, my salary started increasing exponentially. Sorry, but I have a family to take care of. Idealism is for young, single people. I'll learn to use/program in Linux when I see the economic demand for it, and not ONE second sooner. I have too many other things to do with my time.
Just for fun, I just went to Monster.com and searched my area for all jobs with "linux" in the description. It returned 9, only three of which were programmer/analyst (I'm not a network engineer). In contrast, there were 37 with VB or Visual Basic in the description -- and I limited that search to postings in the last two weeks so I wouldn't have to wait for a massive search to be returned).
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Are you seriously telling me that you can't plunk a secretary trained on Windows 95 and office 95 in front of Windows 2000 and Office 2000 and they wouldn't be any more/less productive than someone trained on Linux/StarOffice? If so, you are on crack.
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But the differences between Win95 and Win2K are trivial, in terms of UI.
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The only reasons schools use anything but open source software is marketing. WHAT! I've got another reasone for you: How about learning to use the OS/environment that 95% of the colleges will they will attend and businesses they will go to work for will use?
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dude, put it in perspective. You want to be REALLY depressed? My wife was a child welfare worker for a year and a half (investigated child abuse). You wouldn't believe the situations so many kids grow up in. It's just sad. I have no idea how she did it.
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Ahh, only to be nailed by the thing that kills the greater than and less than signs... SIGH.
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Actually, I just realized I probably should have put this in Vb syntax ASP (VBScript) ...
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You know, I've wondered this myself. I went looking on Chilisoft's site and found: "VBScript and JavaScript scripting languages" quote. No mention of using Perl or another WSH language....
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just FYI, lots of people here are using ASP when they seem to mean VBScript. The Windows Scripting Host can use a whole lot of scripting languages. Lots of folks use Jscript or even Perl.
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Probably isn't, but a random drug search of the students CARS sure is. I live in a community with very little crime, and just read an article about drug dogs walked through the lot....
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The first ammendment doesnt apply to schools. it applies to free speech. Schools dont speak, being made as they are of bricks and mortor. School-kids, at school, can write, at school, whatever they want. The people responsible for running the school can censor anything they like, its their school, why shouldnt they? The first amemdment applies purely to the government saying what you can and cant say, not other organisations.
Umm, the government is paid for by the people's taxes, everyone hired there is a paid government employee, so how is it not the government? I also assure you, kids' can't "say whatever they want" ( I do support limits of course, there are always limits to free speech). Not only that, but kids can't say what they want about the school EVEN IF THEY AREN'T IN SCHOOL NOR ON SCHOOL PROPERTY (kids get suspended every day in this country for web pages they author from home that is not hosted on a school-owned computer.)---