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I have often thought about this brute force method on chess and checkers ever since I saw "Wargames." But you say that chess has fewer board positions than checkers???
1) Checkers uses fewer pieces, with only two possible types (regular or king).
2) Checkers uses only half the number of board spaces as chess.
3) Although it's true that your pawns aren't going to end up in the first row, moves and positions are pretty much unlimited in chess. Note: A lot of these positions are not practical if someone is playing to win, but they are still theoretically possible.
Conclusion) Deep Blue played chess, but it would have creamed Kasparov at checkers.
If I'm wrong, let me know. It won't be the first time.
I think the poster meant that the $150 million investment plus "an undisclosed amount" was getting beat down. The legal battle was a long one and I doubt anyone at Apple feels as though the end result was fair. They kind of had to accept something because it was obvious that they would never end up winning in court.
Xerox actually considered taking legal action against Apple.
Sure, they thought about it once they realized how much money they lost not marketing it themselves. But just because a company considers suing someone doesn't make their position any more favorable or justified. Actions speak louder than words and they knew it was a losing battle.
If you got paid a million or two for appearing in a Japanese ad for 3.56 seconds while saying the name of the product or sometimes for not saying anything at all (recent weird ad with Jodie Foster), dignity becomes a non-issue.
And on the flip-side, I laughed my butt off when I saw Steven Segal do a noodle ad. I thought TV ads were way above him!
Everyone (who's addicted to Newsradio on TV in the USA, now in syndication) knows that Jimmy James thought of this idea a long, long time ago. Of course, it was near Central Park in New York City, and was going to have the largest damn disco in the world (complete with flashing lights on the outside of the building), and would look like two large letter "J". Hmmm... I think his idea was just as plausible.
Players may be forced to guess, because since there's no communication, there's no way to figure out if the other two players are going to guess!
The rules allow for a strategy to be planned in advance of the hats being worn. According to the solution in the article, either 1 person will guess or all 3 will guess. There is no possibility of no one guessing or exactly 2 guessing (according to this specific solution). We must assume that the players are actually following their predetermined strategy.
We claim the aircraft was in international airspace, but China claims it was in their airspace.
I don't think this is correct. I have read almost every report I could on the subject in the past couple weeks and have never seen this claim. The Chinese claim that their airspace was violated has to do with the fact that the US plane did invade their airspace after the collision in order to land. The reason that this hacks off the Chinese is because they do not believe that a plane that intentionally rams a fighter should be granted "emergency status" to come into their airspace. Dakara.... invasion of airspace.
Of course, China has other international airspace issues with the small islands that other SE Asian countries also claim. However, that is not relevant to this incident.
In five years, I just dont see Apple being part of the picture any more in reality than they are now
Some Mac Evangelists consider this a good thing, me included. It's not the marketshare that is of concern, it's the quality and efficiency of the tool. Apple, and by that I mean S.J., gets a little too cocky when the marketshare is relatively large.
It's sells for about 16 cents per pound on the open market, so just slightly under that for actual production cost. That's for degummed crude soy. If you want to make any money at it, it would have to be hexane-extracted, not pressed.
Hell, blockbuster (1/3 of US rental market)won't carry NC-17 films.
True, but they carry "unrated" versions of films, which may or not be the equivalent of NC-17. Some are foreign and never rated anyway. Blockbuster is not stupid enough to turn away income.
The original Robocop was rated NC-17.
I'm too lazy to look this up, but I'm pretty sure that the addition of the NC-17 rating by the MPAA was added well after Robocop was released.
That's the point. You don't have the funds, although it does show up as you having the funds. When you wind up with a negative $20 million balance, you're hosed.
If you go to the bank and deposit a check for $100, your balance goes up $100. If that check bounces, your balance goes down $100 to the original amount. That's why banks say that you have to wait a certain number of business days before they guarantee that you actually have the money. What you do in the meantime is at your risk.
First of all, country code 234 is Nigeria...big surprise. Second, I think I have seen this exact same one...they all look alike though.
The basic premise is that you are greedy and will agree to anything, even if it is not exactly like it is stated in the letter. If you set everything up so that you expect a wire transfer in of $26 million and expect to transfer x% of that out, everything is theoretically ok. However, if the deposit is not a wire transfer, but instead a forged/bounced check, that is the problem. Your bank will accept the fake deposit, but they will have to verify it (say it takes 2 business days). When it bounces, you lose that money. Unfortunately, by that time, the money you wire transferred out is gone, and making sure you have the actual money available for a wire transfer is your responsibility. You just can't "cancel" it when you find out the deposit money bounced.
"But the nice man said the deposit was a wire transfer, not a check," you exclaim. "Tough grits," said the banker.
At work, we get these faxes all the time... Almost always from Nigeria. But why would the SEC be interested? And how do they have the means to "frequently arrest" these people? The scams come from overseas where corruption is the norm. And technically, most don't do anything illegal, aside from misrepresenting the source of the fund transfer to you.
It's rather ingenious, praying on people's greed and utter lack of common sense when a large sum of money is involved.
If the postage was *already* paid, the only thing you are costing them is the annoyance of having to open your worthless mail (AFAIK, they pay whether or not you actually use the prepaid envelope).
Actually, I thought it was the opposite. In other words, the post office adds money to your "tab" every time they deliver one of those letters to you. Sometimes the non-profit company mail I get asks for me to put a stamp over the "No Postage Necessary" stamp on the envelope in order to save them money.
It might work both ways. Maybe if there is an exact amount printed in the stamp area, it is prepaid. A "No Postage Necessary" stamp then means postpaid. I wouldn't bet my life on either assumption.
My practice for years has been to simply set the phone down gently and let them talk on.
Yes, yes, please do this. I consider it karma for all the times I do the same thing, because another side effect is that it cuts down on the total number of calls made, and that means that the chance of them getting around to calling me decreases.
I agree that putting in more feedback would increase membership, but not double. People either are or are not interested in the first place.
...Anyway, what I really wanted to say is that the S@h guys make it pretty clear that they alone are in charge of determining what is or is not an "important" signal. They also state that users are not allowed to contact the media or otherwise claim to have found something significant. That is S@h's job. I think that offering too much feedback will convince some users that they have found ET and will start to pester the S@h people.
Although you can consider the info displayed on the graph predictable or boring, a signal way off the norm would be easily recognizable by looking at the numbers. I'm not saying it would be a sign of an ET signal, just obviously not the run-of-the-mill static. In fact S@h has had these before, but all were explained by either test signals or faulty data from the telescope.
Don't think that I am against your idea from a psychological point of view. A reward is a reward and would increase membership. These guys just don't want to deal with it.
In 5 years what will there be that the average user (or even the power user for that matter) will need something that absurdly fast? I can see it now... "I can crunch SETI@Home packets in under 20 seconds!"
All of us that have traveled back in time from 2010 know that the SETI@home project yielded success on September 22, 2001. Unfortunately, it was a warning that earthlings had only 15,000 years to live. Even more unfortunate, the telescope was scanning a solar system that was approximately 15,000 light years away. Even though the earth was destroyed within 3 years, some of us escaped and are now using the latest in technology from the remains of the once-mighty company once called Intel... a 486.
Next, we will try to reinvent the Pentium, but we have vowed to exile anyone who wants to advertise it with those "bunny suit guys."
He was obviously referring to the fact that the dividends will be some percent lower than they would have been had the corporation not been taxed. That percent will be the same, regardless of who receives the dividends. That was his point. Yeash.
I diasagree. First of all, when you say the dividends will be some percent lower, what exactly do you mean? The frequency of the dividend is less often? The dividend paid will be less per share of stock? If the latter, you must understand that quite a few companies pay a fixed amount dividend price per share no matter if the company makes a ton of money, breaks even, or fails miserably. And most of those actually increase them over time in a relatively linear curve. ($0.05 per quarter for 1995, $0.07 per quarter for 1996, $0.09 per quarter for 1997, etc.). Maybe not a majority, but a good portion do this.
And just be clear about something, if a poster mixes up words that have a clear-cut meaning in the tax world, one cannot obviously expect to understand what he or she is trying to say. For someone say that Mr. or Mrs. Doe is paying corporate income tax on a dividend that is based on personal stock holdings is not someone I would trust to do my taxes. This is not a personal attack, but a fact of life. I know very little about the subject of underwater basket weaving and therefore I do not try to convince people otherwise.
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...2 points modded down for a redundant post posted #4 at no more than 2 minutes after the story goes up and no more than a minute after the redundant joke?
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1) Checkers uses fewer pieces, with only two possible types (regular or king).
2) Checkers uses only half the number of board spaces as chess.
3) Although it's true that your pawns aren't going to end up in the first row, moves and positions are pretty much unlimited in chess. Note: A lot of these positions are not practical if someone is playing to win, but they are still theoretically possible.
Conclusion) Deep Blue played chess, but it would have creamed Kasparov at checkers.
If I'm wrong, let me know. It won't be the first time.
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I think the poster meant that the $150 million investment plus "an undisclosed amount" was getting beat down. The legal battle was a long one and I doubt anyone at Apple feels as though the end result was fair. They kind of had to accept something because it was obvious that they would never end up winning in court.
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Sure, they thought about it once they realized how much money they lost not marketing it themselves. But just because a company considers suing someone doesn't make their position any more favorable or justified. Actions speak louder than words and they knew it was a losing battle.
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And on the flip-side, I laughed my butt off when I saw Steven Segal do a noodle ad. I thought TV ads were way above him!
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Everyone (who's addicted to Newsradio on TV in the USA, now in syndication) knows that Jimmy James thought of this idea a long, long time ago. Of course, it was near Central Park in New York City, and was going to have the largest damn disco in the world (complete with flashing lights on the outside of the building), and would look like two large letter "J". Hmmm... I think his idea was just as plausible.
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The rules allow for a strategy to be planned in advance of the hats being worn. According to the solution in the article, either 1 person will guess or all 3 will guess. There is no possibility of no one guessing or exactly 2 guessing (according to this specific solution). We must assume that the players are actually following their predetermined strategy.
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Rats! Someone already posted the answer. I guess my hours of looking through old Playboys to find the answer was just a waste of time ;-)
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I don't think this is correct. I have read almost every report I could on the subject in the past couple weeks and have never seen this claim. The Chinese claim that their airspace was violated has to do with the fact that the US plane did invade their airspace after the collision in order to land. The reason that this hacks off the Chinese is because they do not believe that a plane that intentionally rams a fighter should be granted "emergency status" to come into their airspace. Dakara.... invasion of airspace.
Of course, China has other international airspace issues with the small islands that other SE Asian countries also claim. However, that is not relevant to this incident.
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Some Mac Evangelists consider this a good thing, me included. It's not the marketshare that is of concern, it's the quality and efficiency of the tool. Apple, and by that I mean S.J., gets a little too cocky when the marketshare is relatively large.
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It's sells for about 16 cents per pound on the open market, so just slightly under that for actual production cost. That's for degummed crude soy. If you want to make any money at it, it would have to be hexane-extracted, not pressed.
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I laughed so loud I got strange looks from the cubicle farmers.
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True, but they carry "unrated" versions of films, which may or not be the equivalent of NC-17. Some are foreign and never rated anyway. Blockbuster is not stupid enough to turn away income.
The original Robocop was rated NC-17.
I'm too lazy to look this up, but I'm pretty sure that the addition of the NC-17 rating by the MPAA was added well after Robocop was released.
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dman123 forever!
If you go to the bank and deposit a check for $100, your balance goes up $100. If that check bounces, your balance goes down $100 to the original amount. That's why banks say that you have to wait a certain number of business days before they guarantee that you actually have the money. What you do in the meantime is at your risk.
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dman123 forever!
The basic premise is that you are greedy and will agree to anything, even if it is not exactly like it is stated in the letter. If you set everything up so that you expect a wire transfer in of $26 million and expect to transfer x% of that out, everything is theoretically ok. However, if the deposit is not a wire transfer, but instead a forged/bounced check, that is the problem. Your bank will accept the fake deposit, but they will have to verify it (say it takes 2 business days). When it bounces, you lose that money. Unfortunately, by that time, the money you wire transferred out is gone, and making sure you have the actual money available for a wire transfer is your responsibility. You just can't "cancel" it when you find out the deposit money bounced.
"But the nice man said the deposit was a wire transfer, not a check," you exclaim. "Tough grits," said the banker.
"Now give us the $20 million you owe us."
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It's rather ingenious, praying on people's greed and utter lack of common sense when a large sum of money is involved.
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Actually, Ariane launches from French Guiana in South America, not Central America. Cheers!
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I also predict that it will hit the ocean at sea level plus or minus 8 meters.
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Disclaimer to previous post: ...Numbers are according to the /. story filters I set up. Your mileage may vary.
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People obviously care enough to comment on it.
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Actually, I thought it was the opposite. In other words, the post office adds money to your "tab" every time they deliver one of those letters to you. Sometimes the non-profit company mail I get asks for me to put a stamp over the "No Postage Necessary" stamp on the envelope in order to save them money.
It might work both ways. Maybe if there is an exact amount printed in the stamp area, it is prepaid. A "No Postage Necessary" stamp then means postpaid. I wouldn't bet my life on either assumption.
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Yes, yes, please do this. I consider it karma for all the times I do the same thing, because another side effect is that it cuts down on the total number of calls made, and that means that the chance of them getting around to calling me decreases.
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...Anyway, what I really wanted to say is that the S@h guys make it pretty clear that they alone are in charge of determining what is or is not an "important" signal. They also state that users are not allowed to contact the media or otherwise claim to have found something significant. That is S@h's job. I think that offering too much feedback will convince some users that they have found ET and will start to pester the S@h people.
Although you can consider the info displayed on the graph predictable or boring, a signal way off the norm would be easily recognizable by looking at the numbers. I'm not saying it would be a sign of an ET signal, just obviously not the run-of-the-mill static. In fact S@h has had these before, but all were explained by either test signals or faulty data from the telescope.
Don't think that I am against your idea from a psychological point of view. A reward is a reward and would increase membership. These guys just don't want to deal with it.
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All of us that have traveled back in time from 2010 know that the SETI@home project yielded success on September 22, 2001. Unfortunately, it was a warning that earthlings had only 15,000 years to live. Even more unfortunate, the telescope was scanning a solar system that was approximately 15,000 light years away. Even though the earth was destroyed within 3 years, some of us escaped and are now using the latest in technology from the remains of the once-mighty company once called Intel... a 486.
Next, we will try to reinvent the Pentium, but we have vowed to exile anyone who wants to advertise it with those "bunny suit guys."
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dman123 forever!
I diasagree. First of all, when you say the dividends will be some percent lower, what exactly do you mean? The frequency of the dividend is less often? The dividend paid will be less per share of stock? If the latter, you must understand that quite a few companies pay a fixed amount dividend price per share no matter if the company makes a ton of money, breaks even, or fails miserably. And most of those actually increase them over time in a relatively linear curve. ($0.05 per quarter for 1995, $0.07 per quarter for 1996, $0.09 per quarter for 1997, etc.). Maybe not a majority, but a good portion do this.
And just be clear about something, if a poster mixes up words that have a clear-cut meaning in the tax world, one cannot obviously expect to understand what he or she is trying to say. For someone say that Mr. or Mrs. Doe is paying corporate income tax on a dividend that is based on personal stock holdings is not someone I would trust to do my taxes. This is not a personal attack, but a fact of life. I know very little about the subject of underwater basket weaving and therefore I do not try to convince people otherwise.
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