hack up something that simulates EXACTLY what the monty hall problem suggests. You'll find that always switching yields success 2/3 of the time.
To put it another way, always staying yields success 1/3 of the time. When you first picked one of the doors, you had a 1/3 chance of being right. When Monty reveals a booby-prize door, there's NO WAY that your 1/3 chance becomes 1/2.
Whenever testing something, you should test not just expected responses, but also the unexpected. Perhaps he lost so many times because he wanted to see MAYA capitalize on human errors, and make sure that it would win?
Who cares if the machine will always play to a tie, if it can't convert a win from a stupid human mistake?
I think it's more important to find people who are fully fluent in ENGLISH, and have decent writing skill too. You can look up the meaning of the phrases said in Japanese, but you really need to be fluent in English to create the subtitles, and have them look good.
Solar Power. Runs on heat, kinda. Assuming the heat's due to excessive sun, you could pull in a lot of power that way. Expensive start-up, but long-term savings, and no more relying on the power co.
Kazaa's crashed on me quite a few times, but it never caused Windows to crash on me, that I can remember. It tends to just crash itself, but leave other things alone.
Yes, I'm admitting to using Windows, but I also use OS X, and Unix. Flame away.
Also, it is likely that MORE than half of the applications run on a Windows box are non-microsoft applications, that would mean that statistically MS apps crash more often than third party apps.
Not that I really care to defend MS, but playing devil's advocate, MS apps would be more likely to crash than other apps because they're used more. Your average user of a Windows machine will use Outlook, IE, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. What non-MS apps will the average user want to use? AOL/AIM, WinAmp, and Kazaa. There may be a few others, but none that will be used as often as the MS-created applications. If you never use the app, it can't crash the system.
A single immortal might get sick of life and end it. If all were immortal, life would change, and there'd be much more to do. Boredom wouldn't be a problem anymore.
Well, I think people would retire later, but also, I think that the actual life expectancy wouldn't grow as much, because health advances will only go so far as to offset the more dangerous things we do to ourselves.
Though fiction, I think Futurama and Transmetropolitan both show pretty well how people will act in the future. Still violent, still stupid, but soon people can be even more careless with their health. Why stop smoking when you can just have the anti-cancer trait?
Transplants might extend our lives a bunch, but brain damage will be the limiting factor. Replacing the brain-cell will do no good, because it won't have the memories of what it replaced. Now if we can do computer back-ups of brains, then we're going somewhere.
As mentioned before, a voter should not have a record of their vote. Otherwise, you could have trouble in which an employer/mobster/meanie could force someone to vote their way. "You voted for Tony, right? Lemme see your reciept."
Maybe for some small elections. However, senators and congresspersons are elected on even years. I can't say for certain that I know when the governor of Virginia is elected.
What I always thought would be a good idea would be to have removable, certified media that is sent from the central government to the local areas, and then after polls close, the media are removed, and sent back to the central government in a physically secure manner. Computerized, but not hackable, as the machines aren't networked. If the media are lost, it's the same as though the local authorities were withholding the results of their districts' votes. Basically, keep the system similar to the way it is now, except that votes are recorded electronically.
Yes, leading. While India is the democracy with the largest population, the United States of America is much more of a world leader, with a longer history of democracy. While you may not like the USA, you should at least be able to admit that the USA is the world's leading democracy. This may change in the next 20-30 years, though, as our freedoms get whittled away and other countries step up.
Because they are actually delivering the pills, they aren't breaking the laws. It's legitimate advertising, kinda. I mean, you take the pill, see attractive member of the preferred sex, and your penis enlarges by many inches.
Because of weird legal loopholes, spammers can legitimately email you by way of lists they got from other companies that once got your email because you agreed to let them sell it when you clicked "OK" without reading the entirety of the 5 page privacy policy.
Actually, if you read only the first letters, it spells "MATIE". I suppose they weren't going for much of a pirate theme though. "Yarr, matie, we be catchin' us some terrorists, arr.."
why not? Your eyes act as two high-res cameras, so how could you see it, but a mechanical camera could not? Perhaps it wouldn't have the right dimensions through a single camera, but it wouldn't be invisible to a single camera while magically visible to a pair of cameras connected via a bit of wetware.
Mods: Please note that this isn't really redundant as it was posted at the same time as the other comment about porn. "mattyohe" probably hadn't read the other comment when he made his comment.
Then don't loose the card. Besides, even if you open its cage, a card's not going to go very far. It's not nearly the same as loosing dogs, lions, or some other animal.
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hack up something that simulates EXACTLY what the monty hall problem suggests. You'll find that always switching yields success 2/3 of the time.
To put it another way, always staying yields success 1/3 of the time. When you first picked one of the doors, you had a 1/3 chance of being right. When Monty reveals a booby-prize door, there's NO WAY that your 1/3 chance becomes 1/2.
Whenever testing something, you should test not just expected responses, but also the unexpected. Perhaps he lost so many times because he wanted to see MAYA capitalize on human errors, and make sure that it would win?
Who cares if the machine will always play to a tie, if it can't convert a win from a stupid human mistake?
I think it's more important to find people who are fully fluent in ENGLISH, and have decent writing skill too. You can look up the meaning of the phrases said in Japanese, but you really need to be fluent in English to create the subtitles, and have them look good.
Solar Power. Runs on heat, kinda. Assuming the heat's due to excessive sun, you could pull in a lot of power that way. Expensive start-up, but long-term savings, and no more relying on the power co.
Kazaa's crashed on me quite a few times, but it never caused Windows to crash on me, that I can remember. It tends to just crash itself, but leave other things alone.
Yes, I'm admitting to using Windows, but I also use OS X, and Unix. Flame away.
Also, it is likely that MORE than half of the applications run on a Windows box are non-microsoft applications, that would mean that statistically MS apps crash more often than third party apps.
Not that I really care to defend MS, but playing devil's advocate, MS apps would be more likely to crash than other apps because they're used more. Your average user of a Windows machine will use Outlook, IE, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. What non-MS apps will the average user want to use? AOL/AIM, WinAmp, and Kazaa. There may be a few others, but none that will be used as often as the MS-created applications. If you never use the app, it can't crash the system.
A single immortal might get sick of life and end it. If all were immortal, life would change, and there'd be much more to do. Boredom wouldn't be a problem anymore.
Well, I think people would retire later, but also, I think that the actual life expectancy wouldn't grow as much, because health advances will only go so far as to offset the more dangerous things we do to ourselves.
Though fiction, I think Futurama and Transmetropolitan both show pretty well how people will act in the future. Still violent, still stupid, but soon people can be even more careless with their health. Why stop smoking when you can just have the anti-cancer trait?
Transplants might extend our lives a bunch, but brain damage will be the limiting factor. Replacing the brain-cell will do no good, because it won't have the memories of what it replaced. Now if we can do computer back-ups of brains, then we're going somewhere.
Is this as poorly performing as FOX News?
An animated show does not have to be low-brow at all.
It's spelled "Guinness." I always love when the spelling corrections on Slashdot are wrong.
You mean they're not the same???? OMG!!! WTF?!? ASL?
As mentioned before, a voter should not have a record of their vote. Otherwise, you could have trouble in which an employer/mobster/meanie could force someone to vote their way. "You voted for Tony, right? Lemme see your reciept."
Maybe for some small elections. However, senators and congresspersons are elected on even years. I can't say for certain that I know when the governor of Virginia is elected.
What I always thought would be a good idea would be to have removable, certified media that is sent from the central government to the local areas, and then after polls close, the media are removed, and sent back to the central government in a physically secure manner. Computerized, but not hackable, as the machines aren't networked. If the media are lost, it's the same as though the local authorities were withholding the results of their districts' votes. Basically, keep the system similar to the way it is now, except that votes are recorded electronically.
Yes, leading. While India is the democracy with the largest population, the United States of America is much more of a world leader, with a longer history of democracy. While you may not like the USA, you should at least be able to admit that the USA is the world's leading democracy. This may change in the next 20-30 years, though, as our freedoms get whittled away and other countries step up.
Because they are actually delivering the pills, they aren't breaking the laws. It's legitimate advertising, kinda. I mean, you take the pill, see attractive member of the preferred sex, and your penis enlarges by many inches.
Because of weird legal loopholes, spammers can legitimately email you by way of lists they got from other companies that once got your email because you agreed to let them sell it when you clicked "OK" without reading the entirety of the 5 page privacy policy.
There's now going to be about 6,000 very embarrassed men if these logs remain accessible.
Actually, if you read only the first letters, it spells "MATIE". I suppose they weren't going for much of a pirate theme though. "Yarr, matie, we be catchin' us some terrorists, arr.."
Look, it's iThis and iThat. Get it right.
Yeah, I'm a Mac OS X user, and the iNamingConvention does annoy me too.
why not? Your eyes act as two high-res cameras, so how could you see it, but a mechanical camera could not? Perhaps it wouldn't have the right dimensions through a single camera, but it wouldn't be invisible to a single camera while magically visible to a pair of cameras connected via a bit of wetware.
Mods: Please note that this isn't really redundant as it was posted at the same time as the other comment about porn. "mattyohe" probably hadn't read the other comment when he made his comment.
Yeah, and next you'll tell us that the hammer-loop on the side of the pants is to hang a hammer, won't you?
Then don't loose the card. Besides, even if you open its cage, a card's not going to go very far. It's not nearly the same as loosing dogs, lions, or some other animal.
Wait, you meant "lose", didn't you?
I think we still have Luna to keep that title. Nice try though.