Real Gamers Build their machines from the silicon up! Infusing their Blood and mana into grains of sand forming the very logic gates required to emulate a Geforce 7950 GT KO..
Er uh.. Gamers build their machines w/ parts from NEW EGG!
Slot machine: Scenario a.
You put in $1 and see 10 Credits. You look over and see 1 Credit = $1. You go to the ATM, pull out a grand. You put in 10 $100 bills, then cash out.
Scenario b.
You put in $1 and see 10 Credits. You look over and see the big flashing button to play all or bet max. You make a little bit of money, then loose a ton, because that is what slot machines are designed to do "TAKE YOUR MONEY!"
ATM: Scenario a.
It's after hours and you need $100 to take your date out to the fair. The ticket & food Vendors take dollars not Visa. The ATM hands you $200, but your ballance shows only $100 withdrawn. You spend $200 dollars on your mom to find out she still wont put out.
Scenario b.
It's after hours and you need $100 to take your date out to the fair. The ticket & food Vendors take dollars not Visa. The ATM hands you $200, but your ballance shows only $100 withdrawn. You decide test it, being a programmer geek. You find that as your acout reaches $0 you have a lot of extra cash on hand! You spend $1000 (ATM has a $500 limit or you would have spent more) dollars on your mom to find out she still wont put out.
Not that I am agreeing w/ "the least (recorded) traffic?" bit. You have to have at least some comercial quality traffic. But really, if I must see adds, at least show me something I haven't seen yet. Something new. Instead of... oh wait, I hosts out my adds... nvm
Seriously, do you want everyone who allready knows about your product to see another anoying comercial? Or would you rather want to reach out to those people who have no idea you exist, and inform them of your wares?
I don't think that's correct. The probabillity of him getting a failure on the 3rd is the same, if it's 10%, it's 10% every time you flip the coin, roll the die, rnd(10) etc...
However, statistics show that historically, it'd be damn crazy, and or there could be some other factor (environment, weight of heads vs. tails, Killer Dust Bunnies, just happens to be in an amazingly small insulated entertainment center left on 24/7 over a heater duct,etc...)
I remember going through this in genetics in AP bio, and then again in logic.
I can't recall the term though, one sec while I wiki...
One penny can either come up heads or tails. There are only two possibilities and one of them is heads and the other is tails.
Head Tail
1 + 1 = 2 possiblities
way to get way to get
a head a tail Thus we may reason that about 1/2 (half) the time we would get a head and about 1/2 half the time we would get a tail. We call this "1/2" the fractional probability of heads or of tails.
In this guys case, it either works > 3 mo, or it doesn't
Likewise:
If a penny is flipped 270 times, about how many heads would you expect to get? About how many tails? We can calculate the expected values by multiplying the total tosses by the fractional probability: Total tosses * Fractional Probability = Expected Outcome
We should not expect the expected results and the actual results to be the same, probability involves the chance that a certain result will occur, not the guarantee. We might look for a small percentage difference between the actual and the expected. The percentage difference can be calculated from:
If this is smaller than 0.05, then for our purposes we can say we have good agreement
In Conclusion
While it is highly unusual for 11 pennies in a row to come up "heads" it is not impossible. The differance here is that this guy should only have whitnessed at normal, a maximum of 4x failure rate (3?) for 12% Seriously small still given the sample of 11 boxes,
Lol, just started flipping a "bottle cap" got 14 tails in a row, out of 24 throws. This guy can expect 2 more bad ones!
Same goes on the WoW Eula. After every update, they make the EULA pop up twice. Scroll, check, click, login. Nobody (defined as at least I dont) reads the updates.
That depends on what the original "ITEM" is defined as being... the physical CD or the Game. If it's the game, it looks like counterfeit to me. If it's the CD, well then the *.AA doesn't have a case at all. I am pretty sure it's the IP that they are defining as "THE ORIGINAL" and not the medium for which that product is on.
You are totally right. Counterfit money still buys things. Therefore, it has legal value, and is somewhat "REAL." It's a duplication (even if exactly perfect) that wasn't authorized.
Google define:
forge: make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"
imitation: a copy that is represented as the original This one here sounds right to me!
not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"
Again, this wouldn't hold liquid, or a gel, and maybe not a solid (especially in powder form), because it was not purchased at the website. (and as another poster mentioned, that assumes that access to the internet is ubiquitous, in the USA it is not.
Most likely a new game, or piece of software could have been an impulse buy at a store, or maybe a recommendation from a clerk. Maybe it was purchased for some other reason than: "Consumer put research time into product x to determine it's viability in said user's life and found a perfect fit, or good compromise." Most consumers don't do thorough research on items costing $100. It's a fact, and it's also the sweet spot for marketing. Most games fall into this category.
As for the physical things in the world that are licensed, such as sneaker design via copyright.
You are not going to get arrested, or even tried for marking your sneakers. If you mark them, and sell them, Probably still not. It's luda Chris.
Your car? Aftermarket will NOT go away.
Coffee table? No one is going to bitch if you take a router to it. You loose warranty rights, that's all.
The genetically modified apple sold at the store? If you plant the seeds, and they sprout, congratulations, you now own some great fruit trees! But if you grow genetically modified strawberries, and you don't cut off the runners, SWAT teams will seize everything you own, and probably your neighbors to because they watered them once.
Just kidding about the neighbors.
Replace a transistor in a radio for more "oomph". no big.
Modify the leaf blower so it has "MORE POWER" Sweet, post plans even.
Altoids? Use the box for a myriad of other projects.
Marlboro? You have to sign a waiver, but if you want to use the cigarettes to test smoke alarms or light fireworks, so be it.
Fast food? Not suitable for human consumption. Feed that bigmac to fish for bait, but be careful, that pole is O.K. but the EULA on the real is a bitch!
Really, it can get ridiculous.
Paper?
You can not print money, unless you do. Any art made on said paper belongs to the owner of the paper company.
Any art displayed on your monitor is subject to screen capture and use in Viewsonic commercials. Lets not even go there w/ digital cameras. Not only do they get to keep rights to the pictures you take, they also have a personal stash of the "good ones."
No doubt. What this guy was doing was definately wrong. Parts of it might have been fine. Really, where is the arguement for this guy? It'd be like saying " The chop shop owner should have gone to jail for procurement of stripped car parts, but it's not illegal to use an air grinder on a Honda"
WRIGHT, WRONG, and right, (C), and right (the direction).
Except that you can't read the EULA until after you buy the said software. You should not be expected to read EVERY EUALA for EVERY piece of software you might use. What is fair on the consumer end? NOTHING. Thats why you have to negotiate, and work the system to get what you want.
There is a course of action that sometimes does work though. Shareware, Trials, and Expiring Full Versions. I agree that software is difficult to produce, and thus costs $ to create requiring protection. It's just unfortunate that the current system does not allow for either protection, or consumer rights.
Remember kids, Corporations are in it for the stock holders, the stock holders are in it for the money, the money is in it because we Print and use it for legal tender for all debts public and private.
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Lol. Thats hillarious...
I get the jokes...
I otoh. play WoW, Q4, UT2k3, all in the same week.
Real Gamers Build their machines from the silicon up! Infusing their Blood and mana into grains of sand forming the very logic gates required to emulate a Geforce 7950 GT KO..
Er uh.. Gamers build their machines w/ parts from NEW EGG!
Slot machine:
Scenario a.
You put in $1 and see 10 Credits. You look over and see 1 Credit = $1. You go to the ATM, pull out a grand. You put in 10 $100 bills, then cash out.
Scenario b.
You put in $1 and see 10 Credits. You look over and see the big flashing button to play all or bet max. You make a little bit of money, then loose a ton, because that is what slot machines are designed to do "TAKE YOUR MONEY!"
ATM:
Scenario a.
It's after hours and you need $100 to take your date out to the fair. The ticket & food Vendors take dollars not Visa. The ATM hands you $200, but your ballance shows only $100 withdrawn. You spend $200 dollars on your mom to find out she still wont put out.
Scenario b.
It's after hours and you need $100 to take your date out to the fair. The ticket & food Vendors take dollars not Visa. The ATM hands you $200, but your ballance shows only $100 withdrawn. You decide test it, being a programmer geek. You find that as your acout reaches $0 you have a lot of extra cash on hand! You spend $1000 (ATM has a $500 limit or you would have spent more) dollars on your mom to find out she still wont put out.
Must have been a Dell...
Not that I am agreeing w/ "the least (recorded) traffic?" bit. You have to have at least some comercial quality traffic. But really, if I must see adds, at least show me something I haven't seen yet. Something new. Instead of ... oh wait, I hosts out my adds... nvm
It seems that microsoft is going to take a hint from one of footballs finest leaders, my hero, John Elway!
interesting way to put it, but yes!
Seriously, do you want everyone who allready knows about your product to see another anoying comercial? Or would you rather want to reach out to those people who have no idea you exist, and inform them of your wares?
Thats why it is called WinCE. It makes me wince just imagining being forced to use it!
nah, I just hacked this schmucks account. Seriously this guy hasn't posted anything funny in weeks anyway...
They think this guy really did it! I fooled 'em good!
And as a bonus, I read somewhere that NanoTubes are being used to increase the SA
It's everything I learned about videogames.
http://paulcarhuff.googlepages.com/videogames
Lol, Yeah, that's what I meant!
That is 100% true.
I guess what I was thinking, didn't come out right.
I just meant that in a realatively small sample size, anomalies like this are not that uncommon. Hopefully for this guy 12th time is the charm!
I don't think that's correct. The probabillity of him getting a failure on the 3rd is the same, if it's 10%, it's 10% every time you flip the coin, roll the die, rnd(10) etc...
However, statistics show that historically, it'd be damn crazy, and or there could be some other factor (environment, weight of heads vs. tails, Killer Dust Bunnies, just happens to be in an amazingly small insulated entertainment center left on 24/7 over a heater duct,etc...)
I remember going through this in genetics in AP bio, and then again in logic.
I can't recall the term though, one sec while I wiki...
One penny can either come up heads or tails. There are only two possibilities and one of them is heads and the other is tails.
Head Tail
1 + 1 = 2 possiblities
way to get way to get
a head a tail
Thus we may reason that about 1/2 (half) the time we would get a head and about 1/2 half the time we would get a tail. We call this "1/2" the fractional probability of heads or of tails.
In this guys case, it either works > 3 mo, or it doesn't
Likewise:
If a penny is flipped 270 times, about how many heads would you expect to get? About how many tails?
We can calculate the expected values by multiplying the total tosses by the fractional probability:
Total tosses * Fractional Probability = Expected Outcome
We should not expect the expected results and the actual results to be the same, probability involves the chance that a certain result will occur, not the guarantee. We might look for a small percentage difference between the actual and the expected. The percentage difference can be calculated from:
percentage difference = (expected-actual)/expected
If this is smaller than 0.05, then for our purposes we can say we have good agreement
In Conclusion
While it is highly unusual for 11 pennies in a row to come up "heads" it is not impossible. The differance here is that this guy should only have whitnessed at normal, a maximum of 4x failure rate (3?) for 12% Seriously small still given the sample of 11 boxes,
Lol, just started flipping a "bottle cap" got 14 tails in a row, out of 24 throws. This guy can expect 2 more bad ones!
THTTHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHTTH
Search google for a utility called "Unlocker" It will unlock those files for you so you can delete them. Beware: Know wtf your deleting!
If assuming we could "KNOW" that they did in fact do it, I'd be right there with you. Instead, LWOP
I love those little effers.
Same goes on the WoW Eula. After every update, they make the EULA pop up twice. Scroll, check, click, login. Nobody (defined as at least I dont) reads the updates.
That depends on what the original "ITEM" is defined as being... the physical CD or the Game. If it's the game, it looks like counterfeit to me. If it's the CD, well then the *.AA doesn't have a case at all. I am pretty sure it's the IP that they are defining as "THE ORIGINAL" and not the medium for which that product is on.
Imagine this:
Carbon fiber flexible wings able to change shape using cablesto tension the wings to a more economical shape for flying vs. Landing and Take-off.
It would be easy to accomplish an up ward "swept" wing if what they are talking about is real.
You are totally right. Counterfit money still buys things. Therefore, it has legal value, and is somewhat "REAL." It's a duplication (even if exactly perfect) that wasn't authorized.
Google define:
forge: make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"
imitation: a copy that is represented as the original
This one here sounds right to me!
not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"
damn preview...
Didn't see some mistakes, your neighbors to should be too and "real" is supposed to be reel, really.
Again, this wouldn't hold liquid, or a gel, and maybe not a solid (especially in powder form), because it was not purchased at the website. (and as another poster mentioned, that assumes that access to the internet is ubiquitous, in the USA it is not.
Most likely a new game, or piece of software could have been an impulse buy at a store, or maybe a recommendation from a clerk.
Maybe it was purchased for some other reason than:
"Consumer put research time into product x to determine it's viability in said user's life and found a perfect fit, or good compromise."
Most consumers don't do thorough research on items costing $100. It's a fact, and it's also the sweet spot for marketing. Most games fall into this category.
As for the physical things in the world that are licensed, such as sneaker design via copyright.
You are not going to get arrested, or even tried for marking your sneakers. If you mark them, and sell them, Probably still not. It's luda Chris.
Your car?
Aftermarket will NOT go away.
Coffee table? No one is going to bitch if you take a router to it. You loose warranty rights, that's all.
The genetically modified apple sold at the store?
If you plant the seeds, and they sprout, congratulations, you now own some great fruit trees! But if you grow genetically modified strawberries, and you don't cut off the runners, SWAT teams will seize everything you own, and probably your neighbors to because they watered them once.
Just kidding about the neighbors.
Replace a transistor in a radio for more "oomph". no big.
Modify the leaf blower so it has "MORE POWER" Sweet, post plans even.
Altoids? Use the box for a myriad of other projects.
Marlboro? You have to sign a waiver, but if you want to use the cigarettes to test smoke alarms or light fireworks, so be it.
Fast food? Not suitable for human consumption. Feed that bigmac to fish for bait, but be careful, that pole is O.K. but the EULA on the real is a bitch!
Really, it can get ridiculous.
Paper?
You can not print money, unless you do. Any art made on said paper belongs to the owner of the paper company.
Any art displayed on your monitor is subject to screen capture and use in Viewsonic commercials. Lets not even go there w/ digital cameras. Not only do they get to keep rights to the pictures you take, they also have a personal stash of the "good ones."
No doubt. What this guy was doing was definately wrong. Parts of it might have been fine. Really, where is the arguement for this guy? It'd be like saying " The chop shop owner should have gone to jail for procurement of stripped car parts, but it's not illegal to use an air grinder on a Honda"
WRIGHT, WRONG, and right, (C), and right (the direction).
Except that you can't read the EULA until after you buy the said software. You should not be expected to read EVERY EUALA for EVERY piece of software you might use. What is fair on the consumer end? NOTHING. Thats why you have to negotiate, and work the system to get what you want.
There is a course of action that sometimes does work though. Shareware, Trials, and Expiring Full Versions. I agree that software is difficult to produce, and thus costs $ to create requiring protection. It's just unfortunate that the current system does not allow for either protection, or consumer rights.
Remember kids, Corporations are in it for the stock holders, the stock holders are in it for the money, the money is in it because we Print and use it for legal tender for all debts public and private.
Fixing some WoW mods?
Tons of Lau, EASY programming, plenty of defineable todo's, and a comunity which will actually use your product!