In a casino, players make bets with chips on a specially made craps table with a table cloth made of felt that displays the various betting possibilities.

Many players, in order to eliminate the confusion of tossing four chips to the center of the table or having change made while bets are being placed, will make a five-unit Horn High bet, which is a four-way bet with the extra unit going to one specific number.

Masks are the large drawings of the chip that are photo-reduced to make the pattern from which chips are made — a process similar to photocopying.

To split a pot, one player uses both hands to take the chips from the pot and make stacks, placing them side by side to compare height ( and therefore value ).

If there is an odd number of larger chips, smaller chips from the pot can be used to equalize stacks or make change as necessary.

As QILs became obsolete in the 1980s, many hobbyists and small manufacturers simply rebent the pins on old stock QIL chips with pliers to make them fit the standard DIL layout.

In 1825 a contract was issued to Henry Ristine to cut trees and pick up chips from under the courthouse so that " hogs would not find a comfortable place in which to make their beds ".

Materials which make up the brake shoe include, friction modifiers ( which can include can include graphite and cashew nut shells ), powdered metal such as lead, zinc, brass, aluminium and other metals that resist heat fade, binders, curing agents and fillers such as rubber chips to reduce brake noise.

As the quartz window is expensive to make, OTP ( one-time programmable ) chips were introduced ; here, the die is mounted in an opaque package so it cannot be erased after programming-this also eliminates the need to test the erase function, further reducing cost.

* AMD disables defective cores on their quad-core Phenom and Phenom II X4 processor dies to make cheaper triple-core Phenom and Phenom II X3 and dual-core X2 models without the expense of designing new chips.

The house dealer at casinos often maintains a bank and can make change for a large amount of chips, or in informal games players can make change with each other or with unused chips in the set.

Some players may choose to buy into games with a " short stack ", a stack of chips that is relatively small for the stakes being played, with the intention of going all in after the flop and not having to make any further decisions.

* In the absence of a verbal declaration of " Raise ," if a player puts in chips equal to 50 percent or more of the minimum raise, he will be required to make a full minimum raise.

Players can also make mistakes that may seem like a tell, like fumbling chips out of clumsiness or betting the wrong amount online when clicking the wrong button.

The notches remove a fair amount of wood, make chipping easier and prevent long shreds of material being removed, only smaller chips.

Nevertheless, in the costliest redesign in Frito-Lay history, in 1994 the company spent $ 50 million to redesign Doritos to make the chips 20 % larger and 15 % thinner.

The current in a winding needs to be reversed in order to reverse a magnetic pole, so the driving circuit must be more complicated, typically with an H-bridge arrangement ( however there are several off the shelf driver chips available to make this a simple affair ).

On chips that make this optional or do not support it at all, the OS may choose to use a tree-based page table exclusively.

By 1976, with less demand for their memory, production problems, and the challenges created by Japanese " dumping " of memory chips at below cost prices, Grove was forced to make radical changes.

Chip manufacturers publish a " maximum clock rate " specification, and they test chips before selling them to make sure they meet that specification, even when executing the most complicated instructions with the data patterns that take the longest to settle ( testing at the temperature and voltage that runs the lowest performance ).

Under the name of the brand, Premier Foods make mushy peas ( since April 2006 ), and Ross Youngs ( owned by Heinz since October 1999 ) make frozen fish and oven chips.

One limitation ( also afflicting the Intel Pentium III ) is that SRAM cache designs at the time were incapable of keeping up with the Athlon's clock scalability, due both to manufacturing limitations of the cache chips and the difficulty of routing electrical connections to the cache chips themselves.

The player may add up to half the value of their original bet to the insurance and these extra chips are placed on a portion of the table usually marked " Insurance Pays 2 to 1 ".

A casino craps table is run by up to four casino employees: a boxman who guards the chips, supervises the dealers and handles " coloring out " players ( exchanging small chip denominations for larger denominations in order to preserve the chips at a table ); two base dealers who stand to either side of the boxman and collect and pay bets ; and a stickman who stands directly across the table from the boxman, takes bets in the center of the table ( hard ways, yo, craps, horn, etc.

The Origin 2000 begat the Origin 3000 series which topped out with the same 1024 maximum CPU count but using the R14000 and R16000 chips up to 700 MHz.

A padded table top is preferred to facilitate picking up chips and cards.

Each player remaining in the game takes two chips or coins below the table, then brings up a closed hand containing zero, one, or two of the chips.

The objective here is twofold: the re-raiser hopes to pick up both the blinds and antes and the original raiser's chips when the raiser folds, and he also hopes to keep that player from constantly raising before she or he can act because that cuts down on the reraiser's own stealing opportunities.

Modern chips have up to eleven metal levels produced in over 300 sequenced processing steps.

Smoking can be done with wood or charcoal, although many common commercial smokers use a gas, such as propane, to heat up a box of wet wood chips enough to cause smoke.

Eventually, the NATO missiles were set up and used as bargaining chips in arms talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who took office in 1985.

Some makers of snacks such as potato chips or crisps have produced baked versions of their snack items as an alternative to the usual cooking method of deep-frying in an attempt to reduce the calorie or fat content of their snack products. Baking has opened up doors to businesses like cake making factories and privatised cake shops but the baking process is done in a more larger mass in bigger and open furnaces.

However, this also meant that building the most basic system, with a single processor, required both chips and considerable wiring between them, driving up costs.

( 1993 ) assessed postharvest losses of chips of about 14 % after four months of storage, about 20 % after seven month of storage and up to 30 % when P. truncatus attacked the dried chips.

Its first practical application was as a second processor to the BBC Micro, where it was used to develop the simulation software to finish work on the support chips ( VIDC, IOC, MEMC ) and to speed up the operation of the CAD software used in developing ARM2.

** with asynchronous interface, such as the 28 pin 32Kx8 chips ( usually named XXC256 ), and similar products up to 16 Mbit per chip

Some informal games allow a bet to be made by placing the amount of cash on the table without converting it to chips, as this speeds up play.

This guess is not improved by the added knowledge that you started with 10 chips, then went up to 11, down to 10, up to 11, and then to 12.

Code pointers ( including return addresses on the stack ) are two bytes long on chips with up to 128 kBytes of flash memory, but three bytes long on larger chips ; not all chips have hardware multipliers ; chips with over 8 kBytes of flash have branch and call instructions with longer ranges ; and so forth.

The POWER1 is a multi-chip CPU built from separate chips that are connected to each other by buses.

The 7800's compatibility with the Atari 2600 is made possible by including many of the same chips used in the Atari 2600.

A more recent development is the Atari 7800 expansion module developed by Legacy Engineering with a high scores save feature ( with compatible games ), additional RAM capabilities, as well as vastly improved sound capabilities using the POKEY and YM2151 sound chips.

The eye in the sky usually makes a video recording of the table, which helps in resolving disputes and identifying dealer mistakes, and is also used to protect the casino against dealers who steal chips or players who cheat.

Fully insuring a blackjack against blackjack is thus referred to as " taking even money ", and paid out immediately, before the dealer's hand is resolved ; the players need not produce to place more chips for the insurance wager.

In bulk form ( typically as chips or " turnings "), the metal is somewhat difficult to ignite, more so even than magnesium chips ; but, when lit, the metal burns in air with a brilliant high-intensity orange-red light.

It provides a rich growing medium, or a porous, absorbent material that holds moisture and soluble minerals, providing the support and nutrients in which plants can flourish, although it is rarely used alone, being primarily mixed with soil, sand, grit, bark chips, vermiculite, perlite, or clay granules to produce loam.

If a player is playing don't pass instead of pass, they may also lay odds by placing chips behind the don't pass line.

However, the most likely origin of name is from a local fishmonger, Arthur " Ikey " Bryan, who rewarded the team with meals of haddock and chips.

This is not a recommended practice as disconnecting the serial lead from a powered drive and / or computer could result in destruction of one or both of the port chips in the disk drive.

For example, some memory can be stored in physical RAM chips while other memory is stored on a hard drive.

The F8 is very complex compared to the typical integrated circuits of the day, and had more inputs and outputs than other contemporary chips.

Thanks to a well-designed set of chips designed by MOS Technology, the Commodore 64, ( also referred to as C64 ), possessed remarkable sound and graphics for its time and is often credited with starting the computer demo scene.

The first specification is for memory chips, and the second is for memory modules.

It is possible to upgrade some OCS machines, such as the Amiga 500, to obtain partial or full ECS functionality by replacing OCS chips with ECS versions.

An open pit barbecue in the American south is one example along with the American style outdoor grill fueled by wood, liquid propane, or charcoal along with soaked wood chips for smoking.

The word " aiguillettes " or " allumettes " is used when the chips are very small and thin.

Today the meat is cured in brine for two weeks and placed in a smoker fed from beech and oak chips for about a week.