I envy that you can do the math -- and obviously haven't done much gambling. In any straight bet you get your initial bet back. So, if you put down $1 a 3:1 bet and win, your ticket is worth $4. So the correct answer in your first paragraph is $2. You got it correct everywhere after that. (Your $4 ticket is indeed a $3 net).
As an aside, when betting the line you get the vig back too. e.g. Bet $1.10 that a team will cover. If they do, your ticket is worth $2.10, otherwise you lose your $1.10. Assuming correctly set lines, this means the vig is just under 5%. (Not 10% as many people say).
In horse racing, the odds are fixed at post time set so the house wins the same no matter what. You cannont ensure a profit, even if you know what the final odds will be in advance.
Remember the system where you memorize faces and pick them out to authenticate yourself? That too cannot be taken from you -- even with torture, or a butcher knife. You could tell someone, "Well one of the faces is this little guy, kinda funny looking, in a general sort of way". But you could never truly pass on your 'passwords'. And you never forget them. The whole thing relies on the fact that a huge portion of our brain is decidated to memorizing and remembering faces.
I think it's a great idea. It's sort of like biometrics that uses the software in our brain, instead of the hardware in our flesh.
I think there is a market for maybe 5 flying cars in the world.
Nobody needs a flying car in their garage.
The flying car is dead.
50 years from now, you will be able to look at a flying car for 30 minutes, and 70% of the time not be able to tell if it's an airplane, or it's a car.
100 years from now flying cars will be twice as fast, 10,000 times bigger, and cost so much only the richest kings in Europe can afford them.
The question is not about wheather computers help learning, of course they can. The question is, do we need computers in the classroom. The answer is, no. The purpose of a classroom is to have students interact with the teacher. Leave the computers in the lab, or at home.
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time
And he was right. At the time, OS/2 and NT were the same OS. MS and IBM were working on it together. After the falling out, they forked. IBM kept the OS/2 name, MS kept the NT name. NT became Windows 2000, then XP.
Amazing how much a name means to people. I'm sure most people think Windows 2000 was the next version of Windows 98.
I keep checking the comments for a good "5 assed monkey" joke and haven't found one yet. C'mon people, it's a story about genetically engineered pets. It's a softball right up the middle, hit it out of the park!
Quoth Niccolo Machiavelli: For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
The only path to peace is elimination of enemies. Think genocide will just make more enemies? Ask the American Indians. No one cares about their plight, because there are so few of them left. And becuase of this, they stopped fighting back. We need not fear his vengence.
Does anyone honestly think that somday the Israelis and Palestinians will come up with a really good peice of paper for the to sign that will lead to peace? The only way there will ever be peace in that region (or anywhere) is if one side decicevly eliminates the other.
I listened to the Carly Fiorina webcast on Adaptive Enterprise. Her response to every question about it was like "In the future, everyting will be dynamic and virtual".
The NutraSweet Web site's FAQ is devoted to answering charges that aspartame causes brain tumors, epileptic seizures, even weight gain. Such public suspicion could give all-natural tagatose a huge marketing edge
The NutraSweet Web site's FAQ:
American Cancer Society The [ACS] clearly states that aspartame does not cause cancer. In fact, aspartame (due to the nature in which it is metabolized) never reaches the organs of the body.
Does aspartame cause cancer or tumor formation? Long-term and lifetime tests in rats and mice with extremely large amounts of aspartame showed no evidence of brain tumors or any kind of cancer associated with aspartame.
I think I'll take NutraSweet over an ambidextrous sugar isotope invented by someone that flew radioactive sugar to Mars.
I think MS is scared - and rightly so. They are hitting a plateau in sales, and Open Source is a serious threat to their server sales.
Today MS reported better than expected quarterly profit of $2.6 billion. That's more than the entire market cap of Red Hat ($2.2 billion). So, with less than 3 months profit, they could buy all of Red Hat. But instead, they add this cash to their cash bank account, which is now over $50 billion.
I don't think they are the sleightest bit scared of anything.
Nearly all software projects started by people around the world, working on their own time, with no roadmap, and no one's but on the line, fail miserably. Linux, Apache, etc... are anomalies.
With as Microsoft's resources, they really aught to do a better job, but they are failing. They should be asking themselves why.
One of your patients, a Mr. Rush Limbaugh, has gained access to a computer and is sumbitting stories to Slashdot. Please discipline him as appropriate. Preferably shock therapy.
Slashdot Mirror
I envy that you can do the math -- and obviously haven't done much gambling. In any straight bet you get your initial bet back. So, if you put down $1 a 3:1 bet and win, your ticket is worth $4. So the correct answer in your first paragraph is $2. You got it correct everywhere after that. (Your $4 ticket is indeed a $3 net).
As an aside, when betting the line you get the vig back too. e.g. Bet $1.10 that a team will cover. If they do, your ticket is worth $2.10, otherwise you lose your $1.10. Assuming correctly set lines, this means the vig is just under 5%. (Not 10% as many people say).
In horse racing, the odds are fixed at post time set so the house wins the same no matter what. You cannont ensure a profit, even if you know what the final odds will be in advance.
Remember the system where you memorize faces and pick them out to authenticate yourself? That too cannot be taken from you -- even with torture, or a butcher knife. You could tell someone, "Well one of the faces is this little guy, kinda funny looking, in a general sort of way". But you could never truly pass on your 'passwords'. And you never forget them. The whole thing relies on the fact that a huge portion of our brain is decidated to memorizing and remembering faces.
I think it's a great idea. It's sort of like biometrics that uses the software in our brain, instead of the hardware in our flesh.
I think there is a market for maybe 5 flying cars in the world.
Nobody needs a flying car in their garage.
The flying car is dead.
50 years from now, you will be able to look at a flying car for 30 minutes, and 70% of the time not be able to tell if it's an airplane, or it's a car.
100 years from now flying cars will be twice as fast, 10,000 times bigger, and cost so much only the richest kings in Europe can afford them.
On other topics HOW 'BOUT THEM JAZZ (if they can just start winning on the road now)
Tonight in L.A. would be a great place to start. It would even make Malone look good -- he sits down, and they get their only home loss.
Er...I mean the Empire State Building
Here's a backup of the WTC page in the wayback machine.
Here's another guy with a lego WTC
--I prefer the term "Karma Slut"
It would be a lot easier if you registered the name with a public registrar, then he could ping you.
The question is not about wheather computers help learning, of course they can. The question is, do we need computers in the classroom. The answer is, no. The purpose of a classroom is to have students interact with the teacher. Leave the computers in the lab, or at home.
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time
And he was right. At the time, OS/2 and NT were the same OS. MS and IBM were working on it together. After the falling out, they forked. IBM kept the OS/2 name, MS kept the NT name. NT became Windows 2000, then XP.
Amazing how much a name means to people. I'm sure most people think Windows 2000 was the next version of Windows 98.
I'd expect the hundred-dollar-hammer and similar stories probably have similar truths behind them.
Boy: Do not try and purchase the $600 hammer. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Boy: There is no $600 hammer.
Neo: There is no $600 hammer?
Boy: Then you'll see that it is not the hammer which costs $600, it is only yourself.
Many male astronauts prefer to shave as little as possible, and all agree that it's one area in which their female colleagues have all the advantages.
So women in space have hairy legs and hairy armpits? Cancel my ticket, I'll stay on Earth.
It is 12:10 AM PST ... we just came back from FreeBSD's 10th Year Anniversary Party
Don't need to read the rest, the party must have sucked.
Er..I mean Southpark.
I keep checking the comments for a good "5 assed monkey" joke and haven't found one yet. C'mon people, it's a story about genetically engineered pets. It's a softball right up the middle, hit it out of the park!
Quoth Niccolo Machiavelli: For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
The only path to peace is elimination of enemies. Think genocide will just make more enemies? Ask the American Indians. No one cares about their plight, because there are so few of them left. And becuase of this, they stopped fighting back. We need not fear his vengence.
Does anyone honestly think that somday the Israelis and Palestinians will come up with a really good peice of paper for the to sign that will lead to peace? The only way there will ever be peace in that region (or anywhere) is if one side decicevly eliminates the other.
Dump the e-bomb, hang on to the h-bomb.
I listened to the Carly Fiorina webcast on Adaptive Enterprise. Her response to every question about it was like "In the future, everyting will be dynamic and virtual".
Seriously, what the fuck does that mean?
Slag Dump
Extreme Bugs
Alkaline Lifeform
Caustic Soda
Contaminated Water
Harsh and Toxic
Microbial Little
From what I can tell, I'm not sure anyone even knows the whole truth.
The truth is out there Sculley.
The NutraSweet Web site's FAQ:
I think I'll take NutraSweet over an ambidextrous sugar isotope invented by someone that flew radioactive sugar to Mars.
And the Navy will be using what? Lindows?
No, they'll use Gentoo. Those filthy beggars, they go from port to port.
The problem is all these people coming up with new XML document formats. They should just use plain XML.
;)
I think MS is scared - and rightly so. They are hitting a plateau in sales, and Open Source is a serious threat to their server sales.
Today MS reported better than expected quarterly profit of $2.6 billion. That's more than the entire market cap of Red Hat ($2.2 billion). So, with less than 3 months profit, they could buy all of Red Hat. But instead, they add this cash to their cash bank account, which is now over $50 billion.
I don't think they are the sleightest bit scared of anything.
Actually, yes yes yes.
Nearly all software projects started by people around the world, working on their own time, with no roadmap, and no one's but on the line, fail miserably. Linux, Apache, etc... are anomalies.
With as Microsoft's resources, they really aught to do a better job, but they are failing. They should be asking themselves why.
Dear Tuning Point Rehabilitation Center,
One of your patients, a Mr. Rush Limbaugh, has gained access to a computer and is sumbitting stories to Slashdot. Please discipline him as appropriate. Preferably shock therapy.
The actual files you download after purchase are better quality than the previews.
Thanks, I was wondering about that. I guess I'll plunk down a buck and try it out.