Yes, telling the truth is a 100% defense to a libel case. Too bad we don't have a libel case here.
Jane Kirtley, a U of M professor of media law and ethics, called the lawsuit an example of "trash torts," in which someone unable to sue for libel, which by definition involves falsity, reaches for another legal claim.
It doesn't mention what it was filed under, other than "lost wages and emotional damage", but the article says that it's not being filed under libel.
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You should have said "for reasons I can't rationalize".
No. I would go more in-depth to explain why you're wrong but someone posted in the thread right above here and it explains nicely:
It does not matter whether the computer favors a choice more than the other. Imagine that there is maximal favoritism and the computer just always picks rock. If you play randomly, you will win 1/3 of the time (whenever you happen to randomly pick paper), you will lose 1/3 of the time (idem, scissors), and you will tie 1/3 of the time (idem, rock).
Imagine the computer picks rock X% of the time, paper Y% of the time, scissors in all other instances. Whenever it picks rock, you have 1/3 odds of picking paper and winning. Whenever it picks paper, you have 1/3 odds of picking scissors and winning. Whenever it picks scissors, you have 1/3 odds of picking rock and winning. X * 1/3 + Y * 1/3 + (1 - X - Y) * 1/3 = X/3 + Y/3 + 1/3 - X/3 - Y/3 = 1/3, for all X and for all Y. No strategy can expect to win or lose against a random strategy more than 1/3 of the time in the limit of the number of rounds played.
Knowing WBC's past it's fairly likely that the entire thing was fabricated by them. That said, I don't see anything of value being lost if that organization is actually attacked and taken down.
I would like to discourage anyone from clicking that link. It's goatse.
I either don't have mod privileges or don't know how to access them so I can't just mod this comment down.
Sorry for being off-topic, but I'm pretty new here.
I don't know how to mod and/or get mod points. I realize your post is meant as a joke, but the FAQs are barren of any mention of modding (as far as I've read, which is most if not all of them). Are there actual credentials?
That doesn't really make sense. You can hand someone a bunch of one-time pads before they go somewhere. You can't hand them future messages beforehand (or maybe I missed some neat trick in the article).
That answers the original question then. If they were spent x to make it and made y with y being a bit larger than x it means that after the free-to-play they're making 3*y which seems like they're getting a very significant return on their investment.
I'm glad to see this strategy worked so well for them and seems to be catching on slowly in this market.
That's what I thought when I read this. When I was in High School we could get out of PE if we were in sports for that season. Personally I know that Cross Country, Basketball, then Track were much more physical exercise than PE.
It looks like the article may have totally missed the point of PE though...
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That's actually the case I was thinking about. I suppose I should have elaborated instead of just posting a 1 sentence comment that can't be edited.
Yeah, I saw this on thinkgeek earlier and thought "holy crap that's a good idea".
He may have meant San Fransisco. That's only an hour or so from Sacramento.
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(10 bits per byte)
Uh... There are only 8 bits in a byte.
Just to throw another wrench in - typically 1GB is just 1,000,000,000 bytes (thanks marketing for not understanding binary).
I get 17,844,840,000 bytes (~17GB) per 31 day month:
6662.5 bytes/sec (using your 53,300 bits number)
*3600 sec/hour
*24 hour/day
*31 day/month
Yes, telling the truth is a 100% defense to a libel case. Too bad we don't have a libel case here.
Jane Kirtley, a U of M professor of media law and ethics, called the lawsuit an example of "trash torts," in which someone unable to sue for libel, which by definition involves falsity, reaches for another legal claim.
It doesn't mention what it was filed under, other than "lost wages and emotional damage", but the article says that it's not being filed under libel.
You should have said "for reasons I can't rationalize".
I'm confused. Why would /28 be more important? I understand /15 (next digits of pi) but /28?
"That's no moon"
While the Empire giggles at how gullible Obi-Wan is.
It does not matter whether the computer favors a choice more than the other. Imagine that there is maximal favoritism and the computer just always picks rock. If you play randomly, you will win 1/3 of the time (whenever you happen to randomly pick paper), you will lose 1/3 of the time (idem, scissors), and you will tie 1/3 of the time (idem, rock). Imagine the computer picks rock X% of the time, paper Y% of the time, scissors in all other instances. Whenever it picks rock, you have 1/3 odds of picking paper and winning. Whenever it picks paper, you have 1/3 odds of picking scissors and winning. Whenever it picks scissors, you have 1/3 odds of picking rock and winning. X * 1/3 + Y * 1/3 + (1 - X - Y) * 1/3 = X/3 + Y/3 + 1/3 - X/3 - Y/3 = 1/3, for all X and for all Y. No strategy can expect to win or lose against a random strategy more than 1/3 of the time in the limit of the number of rounds played.
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Knowing WBC's past it's fairly likely that the entire thing was fabricated by them. That said, I don't see anything of value being lost if that organization is actually attacked and taken down.
I would like to discourage anyone from clicking that link. It's goatse. I either don't have mod privileges or don't know how to access them so I can't just mod this comment down.
Sorry for being off-topic, but I'm pretty new here. I don't know how to mod and/or get mod points. I realize your post is meant as a joke, but the FAQs are barren of any mention of modding (as far as I've read, which is most if not all of them). Are there actual credentials?
That doesn't really make sense. You can hand someone a bunch of one-time pads before they go somewhere. You can't hand them future messages beforehand (or maybe I missed some neat trick in the article).
That answers the original question then. If they were spent x to make it and made y with y being a bit larger than x it means that after the free-to-play they're making 3*y which seems like they're getting a very significant return on their investment. I'm glad to see this strategy worked so well for them and seems to be catching on slowly in this market.
That's what I thought when I read this. When I was in High School we could get out of PE if we were in sports for that season. Personally I know that Cross Country, Basketball, then Track were much more physical exercise than PE. It looks like the article may have totally missed the point of PE though...
Reminds me of this essay: http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
Algorithms inspired by Next Generation of Ants?
These remind me of the classic 'Magic' vs 'More Magic' switch. http://ftp.sunet.se/jargon/html/magic-story.html
Was this before that parish banned pencils or before?
From the two choices given I'd have to guess before.