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What if you could buy all UK combinations is a what if you bought every combination for the UK lottery for rollovers - that is when it has not been won the previous draw(s)- and it turns out you are £3.2 million down.

John Haigh Probability answers some questions on the Lottery such as when does it make sense to go for one draw rather than playing in the draw weekly.

I run an unofficial UK lottery site at http://lottery.merseyworld.com/ which again will probably have a fairly wide demographic and although Firefox usage (slightly boosted by a JavaScript promo link I put in at the bottom of pages) has now reached its highest ever (10.9%), it's been there for months and isn't rising any more.

You suspect that the honeymoon period is now over and it's not picking up large number of new converts any more (and Firefox 2 isn't a big enough leap to change that, IMHO - it's not until Firefox 3 that we'll see another usage spike I suspect). Still, if it stays above 10%, at least Web designers can't ignore it - we *need* a rival to IE that has such a level of market share otherwise the Web will be balkanised as a "works best in Windows/IE" like it was before Mozilla and then Firefox came along.

Always amazed Merseyworld is there when I check.

Sure enough, the Gecko-using browsers have crept up in recent months, but nothing earth-shattering - what started off as around 2.1% 6 months ago is now 3.2%. Perhaps more interesting is to note that home users are taking up Gecko browsers in a big way (now seeing almost 5% Gecko at the weekends), but on workdays, that slips to back down to under 3%.

Conclusion: Gecko browser usage is increasing on the average site, but only by about 0.2% a month (will take 3 years to reach 10%, which sounds about right).

> "Imagine a world with no posessions."

John Lennon: "Imagine no possessions" (lyrics)
Elvis Costello: "Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions"?" (lyrics)

I don't know much about the roots of Led Zepplin and Eminem, but I am a huge Beatles fan. And I'll tell you this, record companies had a lot to do with us not getting the Beatles sooner.

They received countless rejections, including the one from Decca that famously said "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out". And once they did make it big, Capitol Records still felt they needed to rearrange their albums to make them more palatable to the American public.

The biggest reasons for The Beatles making it big was their pure, raw talent, plus their strong drive to be the toppermost of the poppermost because they believed they were the "best fucking group in the god-damned world". And Brian Epstein definitely had a lot to do with their breaking through to superstardom too.

Those who have been around the gaming scene for a while may be interested in the fact that the folks behind Rare were also the same people behind Ultimate (Play the Game), a popular game development house in the early to mid 1980's.

A similar style of art was used by the BBC for I love the 70's/80's/90's which features items talking about the significance of Space Invaders in 1978 and Pac-Man in 1980

The 'blood' under most of the machines just raises yet more worry for me.

A similar style of art was used by the BBC for I love the 70's/80's/90's which features items talking about the significance of Space Invaders in 1978 and Pac-Man in 1980

The 'blood' under most of the machines just raises yet more worry for me.

Here's another working link :-

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

The second I saw this on TV (I was actually at my apartment watching the live broadcast as it happened) I knew that it wouldn't be long before the media would start its witchhunt. Even with this in mind, I was surprised as to how quickly all the wrong things were blamed. One by one, all the "tell-tale symptoms" were uncovered: KMFDM lyrics on one's webpage, copies of Doom and similar games, black trench coats, anti-social behavior.

I don't want to rant too long, since it would be a re-hash anyway, but I can't help but look on this from a few different angles. In HS 3 or 4 years ago, I was a form of the trenchcoat mafia, wandering the halls with nothing better to do. Then I could get away with it. Out in the real world I've already been harrassed three times by the police for wearing my coat (never mind that it was cold and raining ... that's all circumstantial evidence to the obvious truth I was going to kill everyone in the Deli if my chicken salad sandwich wasn't perfect) and I don't want to think back and imagine what it would be like now.

But my younger brother doesn't have to: he's there, and mad as hell about what's going on. He's already asked if he can borrow my coat and an old pair of boots so he can hand out some "Doom" pariphinalia (sp?). I say more power to him, but what he sees as a little prank could end up suspending/expelling him.

My dad doesn't have to imagine, either. He teaches in a city middle school and has already gotten two or three death threats from students he's had to turn in for bringing loaded weapons to school. Not to say he's one of "those" admins. He's the dad of two geek guys and supports my brother's attempts to point out exactly how absurd some schools have gotten. But what if one of his former students says to themselves, "Hey, if those guys in Colorado did it and became famous, why can't I?" And then my dad would be another victim of a senseless killing?

Why doesn't the media see themselves as part of the problem instead of part of the solution?!?

So what is the solution? I can't say for sure, but it sure as hell isn't taking away from some kids their only avenue of escape (computers, music, etc) and making them pick up a football or a pom-pom. bull:red flag::geeks:repression (for those of you who still remember those horrid analogy things from the SATs). It's in creating organizations like MADD and in counselling students AND parents to be a family and not a loose collection of people wandering in and out of the same living area. Ever read Kurt Vonnegut? Ever hear about extended families and community support?

Almost thirty years ago, John Lennon wrote a song, something the complete opposite of "Imagine" in many ways. And it's all the more true today.

All I can say to those still in HS is stick in there. I agree with previous posters that life isn't a win/lose situation, but one where you just keep working (or hacking) away. If you really feel like trying to define success, try this out: