I don't why it got moderated as funny... maybe cuz there's no +1, absurd rating. Its a mostly serious argument though I don't know where you got that monex buy back crap from.
Whether or not the panic devaluation of the US Dollar is innevitable, I'd much rather use an eGreenBack service than eGold. The exact same service, except the currency backed by dollars instead of gold. My reason: replace storage fees, and exchange and goods pricing uncertainty with interest earned.
The value of gold is based on the fickleness of the jewelrey industry. My opinion is that humanity has found alternate ways to spend its excess wealth, and gold's demand and therefore value will continue to decline.
They could even keep square millimeters of a $ instead of miligrams or thousands of a cent... if they think that's cute that is.
that's way up there! Thats Jazz! No way anyone bought that stuff. There has to be more popular jazz stuff than this, let alone way more popular pop stuff.
I'm surprised at most of the stuff above this
014 The Rolling Stones, Voodoo Lounge
especially:
017 Rick Springfield, Hard To Hold
How can this be?????
You'd think everyone with one of those Zeppelin albums would have picked up a couple of stones records as well.
Not that I disagree with what you are trying to say, but its wrong to blame the lack of album/career oriented rock on the RIAA. The RIAA is equally concerned with its entire catalog, and so are its member record companies.
Rather the ones you'd be better to blame is the radio stations, who seem to all agree that even in the rock/alternative genre, there should be singles released off of albums so something equivalent to payola can be acquired in exchange for being the record company puppets.
Basically, they've all discovered that the pop/top 40 system is the most profitable for the radio owners.
Find that most packages for mandrake would not urpmi correctly, and had failed dependencies. Most.tgz's had some compilation error.
Basically, except for the.isos, everything is out of synch, and installing any given package is more likely to fail than succeed. Ok It was probably based on my choice of distro, and it might even be better today than it was, but I'll still wait a year after someone thinks its smoothed out.
Some of you will now promise that Debian's package database is always in sync, and mistakes in it never occur. So does apt-get really always work?
With a subscription model, the incentive for your ASP to improve and upgrade their app is extremely low compared to their incentives to squeeze more money out of you.
In the shrink wrap business, they've got to come up with good reasons for you to shell out more bucks on an upgrade. = more improvement required than for you to not cancel service.
Your.Net services will have more and more ads creep into them over time, or require more companion services. Upgrades are more likely to be marketed as extras (additional cost) rather than upgrades.
No your not missing anything. Its a long lasting tradition to snobishly look down on anything that has to do with BASIC as a language. Many of the people commenting have no programming experience of any kind, and are just repeating snobbish expressions they heard 5 years ago.
The fact that its MS only, that it can be tricky to compile 5 year old code, and so closed source 3rd party components are worth avoiding, and that its incredibly annoying to deploy are all extremely good reasons not to use VB.
However, much better programming tools would exist if more people realized that VB is in some ways the best language tool in existence. It has the best debugger, IDE has excellent code navigation, and the language is among the most readable, and correctly determines that ; and == or:= should be optional.
That was really hillarious. Loudest laugh I ever remember having.
It was particularly clever in that it transformed english into the correct language: early 60's sitcom version of German.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!
Disagree with the statement that Canada can make any claims of radio superiority.
I'm not sure if payola is illegal here, but am sure that similar practices take place. Look at all the promotions offered, and look at the excessive overplay of singles.
actually the article said they "upgraded" the kernel to 2.4.
If they went into the make file, and changed the optimizations to amd k7 before re-compiling they might have pretended they were way leet, instead of saying "upgraded" the kernel, which suggests they just pointed apt-get to unstable mirrors, and got binaries (which is also alluded to in the next sentence of the article).
also debian's kernel, and other linux utilities that may have been running, is i386 compiled.
They probably could have fixed it such that linux came out ahead if that was the result they wanted. Though their reasearch does show that reaching for the shelf, and using what is most easily available in a default config can sometimes lead to NT performance wins.
I also have a huge problem with copyrighting data structures.
Presumably, MS's (pro side) argument might be that there would be no reason to catalog the data were it not for the company's unique and innovative business process.
That would be like RSA saying that no one is allowed to track large primes and their multiplications, because until their business process was created there was no use that they could envisage as useful (There probably were some marginally useful uses).
Because you can create a data model with unique applications depending upon it, does not mean you should have a right to restrain others use of that data model in any way.
Since schemas are simply data table definitions, that would suggest monopolies of entire industires could be achieved by simply copyrighting the first recordkeeping formats for that industry.
Didn't MS extend the basic Username, Password record format in comming up with the HailStorm schema? How can it in turn prevent others from extending whatever baggage data MS has tied to UIDs and passwords? Just because its an XML definition instead of RDBMS layout or text file???
McMillan (or is it mCGrawHill?) makes more on the retail sales than they do (as they should... they lose money if no one buys it).
If you've got the bandwidth, dl'ing can be prefereable. Don't even need a CD-rom. I'd sure rather they put up a tip box, and me pay it, than they do what suse does... putting iso's up when they get around to it, with no install instructions.
It will be at least 5 years before I consider purchasing XP. By then, it may have enough useful features to justify upgrading from 98 or 2000. The price is just too high, with little benefit.
XP's copy protection is what will doom it. win98 and its apps is still more useable than linux. A Linux desktop is mostly price-justifiable, just not when the windows versions can be "borrowed" easily.
I think the shift is slow, but its progressing. It starts with migrating away from MS only dead ends such as VB.
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The fact is, while WMA is good, it isn't open or free, and and the Windows player isn't as strong as WinAmp or XMMS.
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I find playback quality noticeably better in WMP 7(win98) than XMMS. Yamaha ymf744 chipset too, which I think is one of the better ones supported in linux.
I'm pretty clueless as to how you think xmms is better in any way than WMP7.
so you can choose your codewords any way you please?
I seem to be able to make more than 16 if I:
use the 7 numbers with a single 1 in them
the 7 with a single 0
There's more than 2 numbers with 3 1s and 3 0s in them ?
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I'm currently working on the 5 hat problem, where the players make 3 initial overlapping 3way pairings, and then compare winners. I don't have it working yet.
I had the same initial solution as you did.
I think its a perfectly valid strategy to just kill player 4 until he is silent. It doesn't matter which player. You're allowed to set as complicated (or simple in this case) a strategy as you can beforehand...
The official solutions (which I still haven't seen) seem to be doing a lot better than ours 7/8ths changes of winning for 7 players and 15/16ths for 15! So I'm sure strategy "complications" are part of their process.
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PS. I beleive that for any group where there are are a power of 2 members (1,2,4,8,etc) it is impossible to get above 50%. Can anyone confirm?
for 4 players,
Let seat 4 shut up all the time
the remaining seats play it just like the 3 player game.
So if there is a number of players (b) n with a higher percentage strategy than your current attempt with n players, you can always use the b strategy by getting enough people to always pass.
I'd also like to see solutions for the 7 hat version.
My guess is that seat positions would come into play, but i'm not sure how yet, or even if that can work.
I mean lets say there's 4 red and 3 blue.
4 see it 3-3, and 3 see it 4-2
but if it was 5-2, 5 people would see it 4-2.
Seeing it split 4-2 wouldn't seem to help much if everyone guessed something each time they saw it. Other than knowing that its probably 4-3 35/64 times rather than 5:2 21/64, so guess blue if u see 4r and 2b, and pass if you see 3/3 ???
This would mean, you'd always lose when the outcome was 5/2. Similarly, if you see 6 of one colour, guess the opposite. So you lose whenever its 7/0, but win 6/1.
This strategy wins 42/64 times. The article suggests there's better, but its not easy to see.
What if, you don't make a guess as long as you see people with your minority colour to the left (numbering players 1-7, and putting them in a line). So if you see 4-2 from seat 3 or 4 (with 2 minority colours in seat 1 and 2), you pass, but this gives no info to the later seats since they don't know if you passed because you saw 3-3 or not... but if seat 7 sees 4-2, can he assume 3 and 4 also saw 4-2, and call it 5-2? it doesn't work... sorry for thinking aloud.
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I don't why it got moderated as funny... maybe cuz there's no +1, absurd rating. Its a mostly serious argument though I don't know where you got that monex buy back crap from.
Whether or not the panic devaluation of the US Dollar is innevitable, I'd much rather use an eGreenBack service than eGold. The exact same service, except the currency backed by dollars instead of gold. My reason: replace storage fees, and exchange and goods pricing uncertainty with interest earned.
The value of gold is based on the fickleness of the jewelrey industry. My opinion is that humanity has found alternate ways to spend its excess wealth, and gold's demand and therefore value will continue to decline.
They could even keep square millimeters of a $ instead of miligrams or thousands of a cent... if they think that's cute that is.
130 Boz Scaggs, Silk Degrees
that's way up there! Thats Jazz! No way anyone bought that stuff. There has to be more popular jazz stuff than this, let alone way more popular pop stuff.
I'm surprised at most of the stuff above this
014 The Rolling Stones, Voodoo Lounge
especially:
017 Rick Springfield, Hard To Hold
How can this be?????
You'd think everyone with one of those Zeppelin albums would have picked up a couple of stones records as well.
Not that I disagree with what you are trying to say, but its wrong to blame the lack of album/career oriented rock on the RIAA. The RIAA is equally concerned with its entire catalog, and so are its member record companies.
Rather the ones you'd be better to blame is the radio stations, who seem to all agree that even in the rock/alternative genre, there should be singles released off of albums so something equivalent to payola can be acquired in exchange for being the record company puppets.
Basically, they've all discovered that the pop/top 40 system is the most profitable for the radio owners.
and its the only reason I stopped using it.
.tgz's had some compilation error.
.isos, everything is out of synch, and installing any given package is more likely to fail than succeed. Ok It was probably based on my choice of distro, and it might even be better today than it was, but I'll still wait a year after someone thinks its smoothed out.
Find that most packages for mandrake would not urpmi correctly, and had failed dependencies. Most
Basically, except for the
Some of you will now promise that Debian's package database is always in sync, and mistakes in it never occur. So does apt-get really always work?
on the information superhighway:
.Net services will have more and more ads creep into them over time, or require more companion services. Upgrades are more likely to be marketed as extras (additional cost) rather than upgrades.
With a subscription model, the incentive for your ASP to improve and upgrade their app is extremely low compared to their incentives to squeeze more money out of you.
In the shrink wrap business, they've got to come up with good reasons for you to shell out more bucks on an upgrade. = more improvement required than for you to not cancel service.
Your
No your not missing anything. Its a long lasting tradition to snobishly look down on anything that has to do with BASIC as a language. Many of the people commenting have no programming experience of any kind, and are just repeating snobbish expressions they heard 5 years ago.
:= should be optional.
The fact that its MS only, that it can be tricky to compile 5 year old code, and so closed source 3rd party components are worth avoiding, and that its incredibly annoying to deploy are all extremely good reasons not to use VB.
However, much better programming tools would exist if more people realized that VB is in some ways the best language tool in existence. It has the best debugger, IDE has excellent code navigation, and the language is among the most readable, and correctly determines that ; and == or
IDLE (a python GUI IDE) has all the essentials for an IDE. Comes with source. Windows version is very nice.
Came with mandrake 7.2 linux distro, but did not install correctly, which I assume to be my fault.
That was really hillarious. Loudest laugh I ever remember having.
It was particularly clever in that it transformed english into the correct language: early 60's sitcom version of German.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!
I agree with you.
Disagree with the statement that Canada can make any claims of radio superiority.
I'm not sure if payola is illegal here, but am sure that similar practices take place. Look at all the promotions offered, and look at the excessive overplay of singles.
actually the article said they "upgraded" the kernel to 2.4.
If they went into the make file, and changed the optimizations to amd k7 before re-compiling they might have pretended they were way leet, instead of saying "upgraded" the kernel, which suggests they just pointed apt-get to unstable mirrors, and got binaries (which is also alluded to in the next sentence of the article).
also debian's kernel, and other linux utilities that may have been running, is i386 compiled.
They probably could have fixed it such that linux came out ahead if that was the result they wanted. Though their reasearch does show that reaching for the shelf, and using what is most easily available in a default config can sometimes lead to NT performance wins.
they used an i686 compiled version of the seti client on a thunderbird.
Don't amd chips just repsond to i586 optimized instructions, and i686 instruction pairings slow it down?
I also have a huge problem with copyrighting data structures.
Presumably, MS's (pro side) argument might be that there would be no reason to catalog the data were it not for the company's unique and innovative business process.
That would be like RSA saying that no one is allowed to track large primes and their multiplications, because until their business process was created there was no use that they could envisage as useful (There probably were some marginally useful uses).
Because you can create a data model with unique applications depending upon it, does not mean you should have a right to restrain others use of that data model in any way.
is apparently, you can copyright an XML schema!
Since schemas are simply data table definitions, that would suggest monopolies of entire industires could be achieved by simply copyrighting the first recordkeeping formats for that industry.
Didn't MS extend the basic Username, Password record format in comming up with the HailStorm schema? How can it in turn prevent others from extending whatever baggage data MS has tied to UIDs and passwords? Just because its an XML definition instead of RDBMS layout or text file???
They release often, and make isos available.
McMillan (or is it mCGrawHill?) makes more on the retail sales than they do (as they should... they lose money if no one buys it).
If you've got the bandwidth, dl'ing can be prefereable. Don't even need a CD-rom. I'd sure rather they put up a tip box, and me pay it, than they do what suse does... putting iso's up when they get around to it, with no install instructions.
Konqueror's UI is awesome and even better than IE's but IE is more stable and does more.
another part of the deal is it limits AOL support to mac/windows
the big prize is of course all the extra consumers of goodies that IIS can spit out
It will be at least 5 years before I consider purchasing XP. By then, it may have enough useful features to justify upgrading from 98 or 2000. The price is just too high, with little benefit.
XP's copy protection is what will doom it. win98 and its apps is still more useable than linux. A Linux desktop is mostly price-justifiable, just not when the windows versions can be "borrowed" easily.
I think the shift is slow, but its progressing. It starts with migrating away from MS only dead ends such as VB.
Ip4 works, and doesn't inconvenience those using it to switch in order to accomodate those who can't get on.
ip6 will be adopted at great expense. From the existing servers and routers perspective, they gain very little out of it too.
Enabling host functionality behind NAT is far cheaper globally, than moving to ip6.
Ip6 is nice to root for just so we can avoid IP address scarcity, but when you try to see who will benefit from it, its quick success is questionable
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The fact is, while WMA is good, it isn't open or free, and and the Windows player isn't as strong as WinAmp or XMMS.
--
I find playback quality noticeably better in WMP 7(win98) than XMMS. Yamaha ymf744 chipset too, which I think is one of the better ones supported in linux.
I'm pretty clueless as to how you think xmms is better in any way than WMP7.
thanks again for posting
thanks for posting.
so you can choose your codewords any way you please?
I seem to be able to make more than 16 if I:
use the 7 numbers with a single 1 in them
the 7 with a single 0
There's more than 2 numbers with 3 1s and 3 0s in them ?
I'm currently working on the 5 hat problem, where the players make 3 initial overlapping 3way pairings, and then compare winners. I don't have it working yet.
I had the same initial solution as you did.
I think its a perfectly valid strategy to just kill player 4 until he is silent. It doesn't matter which player. You're allowed to set as complicated (or simple in this case) a strategy as you can beforehand...
The official solutions (which I still haven't seen) seem to be doing a lot better than ours 7/8ths changes of winning for 7 players and 15/16ths for 15! So I'm sure strategy "complications" are part of their process.
>>
PS. I beleive that for any group where there are are a power of 2 members (1,2,4,8,etc) it is impossible to get above 50%. Can anyone confirm?
for 4 players,
Let seat 4 shut up all the time
the remaining seats play it just like the 3 player game.
So if there is a number of players (b) n with a higher percentage strategy than your current attempt with n players, you can always use the b strategy by getting enough people to always pass.
I'd also like to see solutions for the 7 hat version.
My guess is that seat positions would come into play, but i'm not sure how yet, or even if that can work.
I mean lets say there's 4 red and 3 blue.
4 see it 3-3, and 3 see it 4-2
but if it was 5-2, 5 people would see it 4-2.
Seeing it split 4-2 wouldn't seem to help much if everyone guessed something each time they saw it. Other than knowing that its probably 4-3 35/64 times rather than 5:2 21/64, so guess blue if u see 4r and 2b, and pass if you see 3/3 ???
This would mean, you'd always lose when the outcome was 5/2. Similarly, if you see 6 of one colour, guess the opposite. So you lose whenever its 7/0, but win 6/1.
This strategy wins 42/64 times. The article suggests there's better, but its not easy to see.
What if, you don't make a guess as long as you see people with your minority colour to the left (numbering players 1-7, and putting them in a line). So if you see 4-2 from seat 3 or 4 (with 2 minority colours in seat 1 and 2), you pass, but this gives no info to the later seats since they don't know if you passed because you saw 3-3 or not... but if seat 7 sees 4-2, can he assume 3 and 4 also saw 4-2, and call it 5-2? it doesn't work... sorry for thinking aloud.
how can you get better than 42/64?