I love my 2001 FP, but...(slightly OT)

[PygmyHero]

When I turn it on I get a screen that says

Dell | Ultra Sharp

or something like that. I am wondering if there's any way to make that disappear. I find the extra 5 seconds are vastly EV-

[TheNoodleMan]

This is absurd. Just because you are a poker player doesn't mean everything is defined in ev. The startup screen of your 2001fp has no bearing on the expected value of anything.

[grinin]

I think his time is worth something, thus it is -EV.

btw, this is a poker forum in case you didn't notice

[MicroBob]

you don't understand the meaning of 'EV'.

[Hornacek]

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you don't understand the meaning of 'EV'.

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[TheNoodleMan]

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I think his time is worth something, thus it is -EV.

btw, this is a poker forum in case you didn't notice

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We are talking about five seconds, I'm quite sure that his computer doesn't boot up that fast. Calling it "vastly ev-" is drastically overstating things.

[MicroBob]

I thinkk that a way to get rid of that little 'warm-up, pop-up' thing would be +EV.
So still having it is -EV.

I agree that it is not VASTLY -ev though.

[Hornacek]

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When I turn it on I get a screen that says

Dell | Ultra Sharp

or something like that. I am wondering if there's any way to make that disappear. I find the extra 5 seconds are vastly EV-

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Seems like your definition of -EV is anything that takes time away from poker, be it 5 seconds of poker. This means sleeping and eating and sh1tting are -EV, so I wouldn't recommend doing any of them, ever again.

[MicroBob]

This is a really bad argument.

all of the above are necessary to human existence.

One could argue that the positive EV from poker helps us do all of those 'life functions' more comfortably.


I don't believe that a little 'Dell Ultra-sharp' pop-up for 5 seconds is all that necessary to human existence.


He's not even arguing that 'time away from poker' is -EV.
If I go to a rock-concert then that is 'time away from poker'.
but it's still +EV for me because of the entertainment value I get from the concert (if it's too loud though, then going deaf as a result of that concert would be -EV).


In fact, I would argue that TOO MUCH time playing poker is DEFINITELY -EV....because it is a waste of one's life.

[grinin]

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TOO MUCH time playing poker is DEFINITELY -EV

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