The basic strategy and doubling down

There's a sad fact about playing in a casino, whether real or virtual. The operators have worked out how to play the games on offer and set the odds to favor themselves. After all, if the majority did not lose, there would be no money to pay out all the money you win. Needless to say, the casinos have invested time and money into working out every possible variation on the rules and the ways to play under them. So, if you are going to take on the House edge, you have to become as big an expert on the rules as the operators. So let's start with one of the more interesting rules which decides when you are allowed to double down. This applies when you have received your two cards. If you decide you are going to draw only one more card, the casino rules can allow you to double your initial bet. The different possibilities are to double:

• on any card combination;


• only when the two cards total 9, 10 or 11; or


• after splitting.

Why should you double your bet? The answer is deceptively simple. You double the bet when you think you are going to beat the Dealer. That really does make sense. But because you are suddenly investing more money in playing the game and have more to lose, you need to get on board with the math. You need to know the frequency with which the Dealer is likely to go bust based on the card you can see. If the Dealer's card suggests a bust is probable, i.e. the Dealer's hand is weak, you double the bet when you have a strong hand. You are maximizing the chance of making a good profit on the hand. If you build the doubling rule into your basic strategy, you reduce the House edge. If you refuse to play the doubling rule, the House edge actually increases. This is not to claim you will win every hand when you double down. If you are on a losing streak, you could lose every doubled bet for the session. But, in the long term, you will win more than you lose if you double. If you hesitate to double the bet, it suggests you are outside your comfort zone and already playing for higher stakes than you can afford.
At the blackjack table, the Dealer is weakest when showing a card in the range 2 through 6. With a 2, the bust percentage is 35%. It rises to a 42% chance of busting with a 5 or 6. Your hand is strongest if the two card total is less than 11. Do not be thrown off the basic strategy by the casinos that allow you to add less than the original bet. Blackjack is a game for winners. Never give up the chance to double and take the maximum win against the Dealer. Adding a few dollars to the original bet but not doubling is half-hearted and cowardly.

The first steps to a basic strategy

The game is one of the simplest ever invented. The rules are few and there's no physical effort involved in playing it. You just sit, look at a few cards and make your bets. That's probably why it's become one of the most popular casino games of all time. Of course everyone knows the House has an edge. That's how it pays all the expenses for running the casino. Remember it makes no difference whether this is a casino in the real world or online. You still need people and a base. So common sense tells you that no-one beats the House unless they invest some effort. Put another way: if everyone could beat the House without breaking sweat, the casino would go out of business in a day. This produces the headline: no pain, no gain. You have to put in some study time to master the basic strategy.
So what is this strategy? Over the years, some serious math types did all the work for you. They calculated the best way to play all the card combinations and wrote them down in simple charts. If you were going to play in a real casino, you would have to learn all these rules. That saves you having to pause before every decision to check the charts. Not only would the other players around the table be less than impressed, the casino would probably suggest you leave. But playing online changes all that. You can consult the charts as often as you like before deciding which card to play. It may be slow but, if you get the strategy right for every hand, you just shifted the odds in your favor.
So what are these charts? The first gives you the rules on when to split a pair. The strategy changes depending on the value of the cards dealt to you and the value of the card you can see the Dealer holding. So it starts with the rule that you split a pair of aces no matter what the Dealer holds, and goes down to the choices when you hold a pair of 2s. The other two charts deal with hard hands and soft hands. A hard hand is when neither card is an ace and the strategy changes significantly depending on the card held by the Dealer and the table rules on when the Dealer must stand or draw. A soft hand contains an ace and is easier to play because you can always draw one more card without busting - this takes some of the pressure off the play. I started off by saying blackjack is an easy game but, like all games, you can play for fun or you can take it seriously and play to win. In this case, you are more likely to win if you learn the charts and can play the strategy without thinking. To really take on the House edge, you also have to become a card counter but that's a whole new story because it does not work in a virtual casino. For now, focus on the basic strategy and start your winning blackjack career.

Infineon chip for the Nokia LTE

Infineon chip card developer reportedly live stage again collaborate with Nokia to supply chip cards for handheld devices Nokia new generation aimed at upper middle class. Infineon is ready to supply the chip card to Nokia in the work to develop a modern modem technology that runs on Infineon's chip platform is. So that was launched PC World. The company also revealed that the product creation money to carry the devices that will use technology Long-Term Evolution (LTE) or known as the fourth-generation (4G). This network is the latest generation of mobile networks that allow connections run very fast. Because as is known, will begin commercial LTE in 2011.

Currently, the mobile industry still has not established this standard for 4G. The reason some operators and developers, Sprint Nextel, was more interested in developing WiMAX technology, rather than LTE. Whereas previously a Canadian operator LTE Nortel said 80 percent can increase profits from the service. However, there has been no official confirmation from Nokia about the cooperation with the Infineon. Moreover, what cell phone vendor will be excluded from Finladia it to run on LTE network.

IMO S900, Mobile Local OS Android

The more rapid the current communication technology makes PT Content Indomedia poured trying to keep sophisticated phones. The latest is IMO S900 phone equipped with Open Source operating system Google, Android. IMO S900 practically as local phone daring to play in the market that has not seen clearly. The reason is the presence of Android itself can not be predicted in Indonesia.

"We chose Android consideration because by 2012, Android market trends quite well. At this year's estimated global Android will move into second position, with a mastery of approximately 30 percent market share, still below the 39 percent of Symbian. Now, in the global marketplace , Android is still ranked 7th with 2.7 percent market domination, "said President Director of PT Pratama Sarwo Content Indomedia Wargono, during the launch which took place today, Wednesday (18/11/2009) at Cilandak Town Square, South Jakarta. At first glance, this phone like the Blackberry Storm and brought together a sensitive TFT screen touch, without any numeric keypad. Android performance IMO carried S900 also assisted with Samsung S3C2448 processor.

Meanwhile, ROM and RAM capacity on IMO S900, each measuring 128 MB, which is capable of supporting advanced features in it such as Google's online applications, Twitter and a variety of instant messaging, from Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk, and ICQ. IMO S900-aplikas also supports mobile applications for business people, good facilities pushmail, seer document (document viewer), or PDF. All Android sophisticated technology and features that pinned in the S900 IMO worth Rp2, 4 million. In addition, the content on the IMO S900 can also be enriched through the help of IM2. Through the application IM2 owned by iPay, IMO S900 users can buy the app and content in the paid Android application store.

Specifications
Network: Dual Band GSM
Dimensions: 5.9 x10, 8x1, 46
Weight: 116 grams
Screen: 2.9 inch, TFT touchscreen
Video: 15 fps
Data: GPRS Class 10
Ext Memory: microSD (TransFlash)
Connection: wifi, bluetooth, USB
Multimedia: MP3 player, 2MP camera, pushmail,
Battery: Li-Ion 1200 mAh (srn)

Open Hack Day Yahoo successfully

Yahoo successfully presents a special event for web developers, who called Open Hack Day, at the Conference Center Balai Kartini, Jakarta. The event which lasted for two full days provides an opportunity for talented developers and innovative participants to meet each other and exchange experience with developing applications for a global platform.

Through the Open Hack Day, Web developers will be able to participate in talk shows and panel discussions of technology with leading technology experts and innovators to discuss the various technologies from Yahoo and many more. In this session, developers will have many opportunities to learn, share and participate and the opportunity to directly access various equipment and services to reach the right audience for the applications they create and achieve success both inside and outside the Yahoo network.

These sessions will be followed by an opportunity to hack the most attractive offers developers all night and also during the day. The event will close with an exhibition of works from the application that was developed during the event and also the prize for the winner.

"Yahoo! Is committed to encourage the growth of ICT and the Internet industry in Indonesia with more sharing of best practices and support the existing ecosystem," said Pontus Sonnerstedt, Yahoo! Senior Director for Business Development and Indonesia Country Lead, Yahoo! Southeast Asia, through its official statement on Tuesday (24/11/2009).

"Open Hack Day is part of the strategy of Yahoo! To provide the first opportunity for developers, publishers and advertisers in Indonesia to create an innovative site experience, relevant, personal and business building among its users," he added.

In the event, Yahoo provides a connection for the developers to millions of users in the Yahoo!, Providing an opportunity to take advantage of their applications in the platform Yahoo! by using data from Yahoo! homepage, Yahoo! Mail, facility Yahoo! Messenger, site Flickr to share photos and bookmarks important sites Delicious, as some examples of them. By using the content and data from the Yahoo! will provide more value to third-party applications.

"More than 300 hackers who have registered at the first Open Hack Day in Southeast Asia with some participants coming from several countries in ASEAN," said Michael Smith Jr.., Head of Yahoo! Developer Network, Yahoo! Southeast Asia.

"Open Hack Day participants will have the opportunity to experience a bit experienced by people around the world elite, the friendship, cooperation, and competition in creating the best applications they have. This event is a very unique event in the developer community," he said.

Symantec Discover New Attack On IE

TRAQ Bugs mailing list of the types of data published new attacks targeting Internet Explorer browser (IE) Microsoft. According to Symantec, the attack aimed to criticize the weaknesses found in the system of cascading style sheets (CSS). "After thorough testing, we discovered that this attacks targeting IE 6 and 7. That attack was to show a weakness in Microsoft's CSS system. We hope to future weakness can be remedied," wrote Symantec spokeswoman in their official blog, Monday (23/11/2009).

"When this happens, the attacker has the ability to insert an attack on the website, The access to infect potential. First, they will direct The access to web pages or sites that have their virus designed," he explained. In this case the attacker needs to break IE JavaScript. As a result IE users should disable JavaScript and only visit trusted websites until Microsoft patched this weakness.

Ken Uston

Uston burst onto the scene in 1977 with the publication of The Big Player, co-authored with Roger Rapaport. In this book, Uston exposed the secrets of Al Francesco's big player teams. The book caused a falling out between Al and Ken that lasted for years, as Al felt Ken had betrayed his trust as well as his teammates.
But this book caused an upheaval in the world of card counting, changing the ways that professionals looked at the blackjack and attacked it. Three of the most successful international blackjack teams-the Tommy Hyland team, the MIT team, and the Czech team-all were founded in 1978, the year after Uston's book was published.
Al and Ken later patched up their relationship and Uston went on to start many blackjack teams of his own. He was a personality on a grand scale, who legally challenged the casino industry in the courts of both New Jersey and Nevada. His playing career spanned two decades of play at the highest levels, and included card counting, BP teams, hole card techniques, and concealed computer play.
Ken is also the author of Two Books on Blackjack, Million Dollar Blackjack, and Ken Uston on Blackjack.
He died in 1987 at the age of fifty-two.

Blackberry Storm 3 Adoption Sliding Qwerty?

Just a few weeks 2 launch Blackberry Storm, Research in Motion (RIM) is rumored to be releasing a new installment of the Storm, who was named Storm 3. However, the issues circulating on the Internet Storm 3 was not adopted touch-screen technology as previous generations, as a Canadian vendor is reportedly going to adopt a full Qwerty keyboard with sliding. This breakthrough course is presented by RIM. Moreover, during this, Blackberry is identical to the Qwerty keyboard without sliding, it could be true if these rumors will be a new breakthrough to create a new trend which will be launched RIM.

Launched through the Know Your Mobile, Wednesday (18/11/2009), Strom was 3 RIM said to have been designed in prototype form. Other news revealed, this Storm 3 vendors it plans will be announced at the end of this year, but plans were changed and most likely will be clear in appearance in early 2010. Some activists say the gadget, which uses innovative RIM could be sliding to answer the public wants, which is currently sliding Qwerty phone presented by Nokia through the Nokia N900 and Droid. What is clear, we still have to be patient waiting for the presence of a single handheld device is.

Blackberry Onyx

Mobile subscribers are still faithfully waiting for the latest surprise from the Blackberry. After Gemini, Onyx launched a blackberry plan. Found at Indosat Building, after the opening of satellite SKKL Jakabare and Indosat, Tuesday (17/11/2009), Indosat marketing director Guntur S Siboro said the company will launch Blackberry Onyx in December 2009 or January 2010. "Maybe we'll launch onyx in December 2009 or January 2001. Devices we've tried a month ago," said Thunder.

Unfortunately, Guntur refused to disclose the price will price by Indosat to this latest Blackberry. "If the price and the amount we can not mention. Now we are still testing the network, what does not fit with our network," said Thunder. Blackberry Bold Onyx or 2 has a code of 9700, has designed high-gloss black. The new Bold is more like Bold Javelin than the first generation, but still has a keypad like the Bold 9000, despite reportedly trackball feature has been removed, such as Gemini. This handheld device has support 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi, and visual voicemail. Another feature is already supported connectivity Quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE and UMTS / HSDPA, has a 480x360 screen resolution, 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus, Bluetooth, Blackberry OS 5.0 on-board.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon-based Smartbook Announce

Qualcomm, the leading vendor for smartphone processors, officially announced the Snapdragon-based systems smartbook first in the world. This product will debut on display in a computer exhibition Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

Itself be an Smartbook latest product is a combination of intelligent posel (smartphones) and netbooks. Later Qualcomm will menggandengn Lenovo to design in smartbook Snapdragon. In addition to product announcements, chip maker also said that this first smartbook will be sold through a network operator AT & T, with a subsidized price through the contract.

Quoted from Softpedia, Monday (16/11/2009), smartbook Snapdragon-based Lenovo would 'contain' central processing unit (CPU) with an ARM-based high-definition video (HD) 720p. These chipsets will accommodate the needs of good performance and battery life is longer. You could say there are features in smartbook erode the boundary between high-end mobile phones and ultraportable computer systems.

For the operating system, smartbook Lenovo seems to be embedded with Linux operating system. Unfortunately, no details of current prices, but certainly smartbook officially launched at the Consumer Electronics Show (CSE) 7 to January 10, 2010 which will come in Las Vegas.

Scientists Develop Fiber Optic Light

Scientists from the University of Adelaide found that the light can be converted into an optical fiber thinner than previously thought. The discovery is expected to open the gate to find a more efficient tool for data processing in the field of optical telecommunications networks and optical computing. As quoted from TG Daily, Saturday (14/11/2009), data before assigning a diameter optical fiber is hundreds of nanometers. If smaller view of this size, the light will begin to break and spread everywhere.

But Professor Tanya Monro of the Federation Fellow at the University of Adelaide found that this light can be forced above this limit, with at least two factors influenced. This can be known thanks to new breakthroughs in theoretical understanding of the nature of light in nano-scale and the use of a new generation of nano-scale optical fiber developed by the Institute for Advanced Photonics & Sensing (IPAS). "With fiber optics can be used as a sensor rather than using it as a light-emitting tube, we can develop a device that can detect a variety of things. For example, the presence of flu virus at the airport, helping invitro fertilization, or IVF (in vitro fertilization) in determining which egg cells are potentially in fertilization and so forth, "

LG GC900 Viewty Smart

Almost two years since the LG Viewty first appeared, LG finally decided to release 'sequel' of the old phone had called the iPhone is a tough competitor. Some repairs carried out although not all have an impact both on the 'sequel' is now called Smart Viewty is. Build quality, for example, not too strong when compared to its predecessor.

LG Viewty GC900 Smart

By dimension, this Smart Viewty is smaller than the first generation. In addition to dimensions that are shrinking, the design point with a sharp angle that is used more and more slender than give the impression of this phone. But even so, Trusted Reviews of this dimension reduction rate was not too profitable for the phone so the body feels fragile. In addition, the screen is just a simple plastic coated scratched.

Touch screen mounted on a Smart Viewty is already carrying the capacitive touch screen technology, but different from those installed on other similar phones, the screen on the Viewty Smart uses a soft screen. The result, navigation was a bit more difficult than when using a hard screen. Fortunately there's haptic feedback, which means the screen vibrates slightly when you access the navigation menu so that helped a little.

LG Viewty GC900 Smart

Phone interface is quite easy to understand because it is simple enough and that more help is the icon size large enough so that no effort is too needs to move from one function to another function. Trusted Reviews also complained about the speed of its inputs are not too good. As a comparison site is only able to type 15 words a minute while at the same time they are able to achieve 40 words by using the iPhone.

As an iPhone competitor, the support of modern technology such as the ability to access the HSDPA network certainly not forgotten. It was still supported with features Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPRS connectivity alternatives and EDGE if by chance there is no 3G network in your location. Features associated with music, videos and pictures also been provided and no memory slot for storing your files. Unfortunately audio connectivity is still not using the standard jack.

LG Viewty GC900 Smart

For 8-megapixel camera mounted at the rear and has been equipped with autofocus feature though mounted flash LED only format only. This is somewhat disturbing because the first generation of Motorola just been installed Xenon flash that in fact have the ability to more than LEDs. But apart from that, no matter how good the camera is mounted on the phone obviously is not able to keep a digital camera that stands alone.

Different from Trusted Reviews, Right Tech Radar Mobilephone and recommend it highly of this LG mobile phone output. Right Mobile Phone calls Viewty performance is very satisfactory Smart Tech Radar even while touch-screen phone call was very responsive and did not disappoint. What is clear to redeem all of the promised features of this Smart Viewty you must be willing to spend money of U.S. $ 570

Al-Qur'an documented in Digital Form

With a fund of USD300 thousand from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Arts Museum Walters put the entire collection of the Qur'an and other Islamic writings in the online format. This format provides high-resolution display and the Qur'an can be accessed for free by anyone internet connection. "What they do is an example of documentation that can be replicated by other reading collection that so many in number," said Chief Massumeh Farhad Museum, as quoted from the Baltimore Sun, Wednesday (11/11/2009). Meanwhile, the head of the British Museum Fahmida Suleman Walter mentioned that the museum promotes collaboration between Walter and museums or other organizations.

"As can be accessed from anywhere and by anyone, Walter allows us to access their collections, find out what they have and deal directly with them," said Fahmida. While Amy Landau trained experts of Islamic studies from Oxford and Walters, assistant curator saw an other benefits in the Qur'an digitization project. "The point to remember is, the center of Islamic art from popular curiosity and provoke people to know and learn. This is only the beginning stage, many are also now beginning to learn the language of the Koran in Arabic," said Landau. According to him, along with the increasing number of documented material, the more there are many activities that can be done in this field. And digitization projects undertaken Walters is the most potential support it.

Steve Jobs, CEO of Best 10 Years

Who does not know Steve Jobs, Apple leader who can change the music industry, creating the best and make smartphon Pixar became the largest computer animation companies. This success is worth the gifts given by the Fortune magazine recently. Jobs Fortune crowned as the best corporate leaders in the last 10 years. The reason for Jobs are able to lead four different types of industries, computers, music, movies and mobile phones, which previously was not known. "Industry calls for people who are born as 'sellers', or a magician who can make your imagination into reality. A ruler who is a perfectionist. It is of course in accordance with reality, a description that really intended for a legendary name," Fortune said as quoted by the Big News Network, Friday (6/11/2009).

In the report, Jobs compared to Henry Ford, Juan Trippe and PanAm owner Conrad Hilton. According to Fortune, Jobs has managed to integrate and change the music industry, film and mobile phone, and make Apple as a company that deserves to be taken into account in the last 10 years. Prior to confer degrees, Fortune has watched Jobs's performance during the last 12 years, since 1997, when he had traveled and left that company. Before reaching for success, Jobs took many years to introduce new strategies in the digital world. even though he has introduced a digital business strategy through the revolutionary findings and iTunes music player iPod in 2000, still he must face the threat of bankruptcy. But now, Apple has had 34,000 employees at a price of USD170 billion worth of the company. Estimated amount of savings have now reached USD34 billion.

IPhone hit with N900 and Bada

Nokia and Samsung have just launched a new smart phone, to rival Apple's starting to get prestige since the emergence of the iPhone. Nokia, quoted by Yahoo Tech, Wednesday (11/11/2009), now depends on the N900 series smart phones, while Samsung only poured phone platform based on open source with Bada name that can be used by all players in the smart phone market. Nokia N900 is the first Linux-based Maemo, a trusted operating system technology, Nokia has power over Apple and Blackberry. Meanwhile, Bada is the latest operating system made by Samsung themselves are also believed to be able to match capacity iPhone and Blackberry OS.

The two companies, if combined, have managed to control approximately 60 percent market share. But in the realm of smart phones, they have lost the prestige Apple and RIM, Blackberry manufacturer. However, although Nokia has started to lose prestige in the smart phone market, for that matter the number of units scattered, Nokia is still the number one mobile phone. While Samsung is still behind Apple, RIM and HTC. Unfortunately not for profit business. In the third quarter of this year Nokia has lost a percentage of profits, while Apple just increased. iPhone could give Apple a profit contribution of $ 1, 6 billion, while Nokia is only able to reach USD1, 1 billion. Apple itself has managed to sell approximately 7.4 million iPhone units during July to September with the results of approximately $ 4, 5 billion. Meanwhile, Nokia sold approximately 108.5 million in the same quarter results of $ 10, 36 billion.