The politics are much, much worse. People have 'ownership' of things and places, and this can make your life difficult. Policing the network is harder, because anything you try is 'affecting the bottom line'. People with Masters degrees in Business think that their education means more than your knowledge and experience.... otherwise, there are advantages.
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*bigger sigh*
So, again, what you're saying is that people will continually make zero return, and yet, they will never cease to spend money, simply because they have a repeatedly disproved notion that the return will be non-zero. Losing money for years and years won't help them to form a different opinion, so you say.
This slight bias pales when compared with that of spinning a coin on its edge. A spinning penny will land as tails about 80 percent of the time, Diaconis says, because the extra material on the head side shifts the center of mass slightly.
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So again, I guess we are safe from spam, because it won't be too long these "spam pushers" have victimized every single person on the planet by tricking them into sending spam. At that point, once every single one of us has been tricked into spamming, and subsequently realize that "Oh My god, no one has ever bought anything from my spam messages, once that happens there will be no more spam. Whew!
Or maybe it's just more likey that some people do, in fact, make money from spamming. Ya think?
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So you're theorizing that every spam is being sent by people who have no experience in the business of sending spam. Or they are so caught up in the excitement that "other people are doing it so it must work" that they don't bother realizing that all of the time and money they spend researching how to get around filters and spam obstacles is wasted because, oh my god, no one has ever bought anything from us!
Please, someone help me on this one. I've been trying to find out what this game was for years.
A text game that we played over a 300 bps dial up to a Georgia Tech server in the late 70's or early 80's. The only thing I can remember for sure is that there was a monkey with a brass leg in one of the rooms.
In the words of Dennis Leary: "That apple would make a great bong. That guy's head would make a great bong. Why is it that potheads have to make bongs out of everything? The reason why you start smoking is because you DON'T want to build stuff."
GameSpot recently received a preview version of Half-Life: Day One, an OEM version of Half-Life that contains the first few hours of the game. It will be available this month in bundles with the Diamond Monster Sound MX300, Guillemot Maxi Gamer Voodoo Banshee video card, and Thrustmaster Frag Master joystick. Now that GameSpot has finished playing Day One, we give you our impressions of Half-Life and update our preview with what we've learned....
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Well, since you feel compelled to explain my job to me like I'm an idiot, I guess I should admit that I fully understand the reasons for these meetings, and agree that they are necessary.
The final meeting is to show a proof of concept to the Vice Presidents. The meeting before that is to pesent it to the Director. Before that, we have to meet twice; once to figure out how in the hell we are going to put together a proof of concept for about 10 new technologies in only 5 days, and again to try it out ourselves before taking it to the Director. And of course, I wouldn't trust my manager to run the demo, so I'll be gleefully attending them all.
And I swear to god, what I just found out in the pre-meeting's pre-meeting is that the meeting that this was ultimately gearing up for, is in itself a pre-meeting for another meeting.
W ell, the real problem is that, about 15 years ago, I patented a system by which patents are effective, logical, fair, and simple to process. It's really quite simple, and all of it, ranging from a comprehensive research of similar technologies to redundancy searches, etc, is all initated by, of course, a single click.
I'm just waiting for someone to buy the rights to the process for.... 1 MILLION dolars.
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If you like your RPG'ing a little odd, try Paranoia-LIVE
But in the corporate world
The politics are much, much worse. People have 'ownership' of things and places, and this can make your life difficult. Policing the network is harder, because anything you try is 'affecting the bottom line'. People with Masters degrees in Business think that their education means more than your knowledge and experience.... otherwise, there are advantages.
Yeah, but at least he isn't CEO of Infinitum Labs....
*bigger sigh*
So, again, what you're saying is that people will continually make zero return, and yet, they will never cease to spend money, simply because they have a repeatedly disproved notion that the return will be non-zero. Losing money for years and years won't help them to form a different opinion, so you say.
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This slight bias pales when compared with that of spinning a coin on its edge. A spinning penny will land as tails about 80 percent of the time, Diaconis says, because the extra material on the head side shifts the center of mass slightly.
So again, I guess we are safe from spam, because it won't be too long these "spam pushers" have victimized every single person on the planet by tricking them into sending spam. At that point, once every single one of us has been tricked into spamming, and subsequently realize that "Oh My god, no one has ever bought anything from my spam messages, once that happens there will be no more spam. Whew!
Or maybe it's just more likey that some people do, in fact, make money from spamming. Ya think?
So you're theorizing that every spam is being sent by people who have no experience in the business of sending spam. Or they are so caught up in the excitement that "other people are doing it so it must work" that they don't bother realizing that all of the time and money they spend researching how to get around filters and spam obstacles is wasted because, oh my god, no one has ever bought anything from us!
It's far easier to push the fish through, entirely by itself, then use it to pull the wire back from the other side.
The real story is easy for anyone to see about 5p down
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Maybe this guy should RTFA. Then he would know that the article talks about spinning coins landing tail about 80% of the time.
But then, maybe the grandparent should have specified what he was refering to.
And could anyone tell me why the article brings up someone flipping 10000 coins and NOT recording the results?
you can't know for sure what yours is or his so looking at yours gives you enough of a advantage that it might help
But looking at yours doesn't change what his is, so looking doesn't give you any advantage at all.
It's a special case of the general rule.
Change that 2nd to last line to read:
Please, someone help me on this one. I've been trying to find out what this game was for years.
A text game that we played over a 300 bps dial up to a Georgia Tech server in the late 70's or early 80's. The only thing I can remember for sure is that there was a monkey with a brass leg in one of the rooms.
Any help?
It's is not a data format.
It's not a framework.
XML is a badly-formed roman numeral.
It should probably be written "MXL".
But even that might be a problem. You might need to use the Unicode Standard symbols: 2169,216F,216C
In the words of Dennis Leary: "That apple would make a great bong. That guy's head would make a great bong. Why is it that potheads have to make bongs out of everything? The reason why you start smoking is because you DON'T want to build stuff."
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GameSpot recently received a preview version of Half-Life: Day One, an OEM version of Half-Life that contains the first few hours of the game. It will be available this month in bundles with the Diamond Monster Sound MX300, Guillemot Maxi Gamer Voodoo Banshee video card, and Thrustmaster Frag Master joystick. Now that GameSpot has finished playing Day One, we give you our impressions of Half-Life and update our preview with what we've learned....
I'm pretty sure half-Life had one of the most successful demos of all time, released with some video card, months before the official release.
I'm not sure that this is the best strategy for certain games.
Some companies might not be too keen on letting someone play the game before they get the cash, for obvious reasons.
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I've been getting crazazy stuff from here for years.
Well, since you feel compelled to explain my job to me like I'm an idiot, I guess I should admit that I fully understand the reasons for these meetings, and agree that they are necessary.
The final meeting is to show a proof of concept to the Vice Presidents. The meeting before that is to pesent it to the Director. Before that, we have to meet twice; once to figure out how in the hell we are going to put together a proof of concept for about 10 new technologies in only 5 days, and again to try it out ourselves before taking it to the Director. And of course, I wouldn't trust my manager to run the demo, so I'll be gleefully attending them all.
But thanks for your input.
And I swear to god, what I just found out in the pre-meeting's pre-meeting is that the meeting that this was ultimately gearing up for, is in itself a pre-meeting for another meeting.
I really did just accept a meeting request for a pre-meeting for a meeting which is a pre-meeting for another meeting.
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ell, the real problem is that, about 15 years ago, I patented a system by which patents are effective, logical, fair, and simple to process. It's really quite simple, and all of it, ranging from a comprehensive research of similar technologies to redundancy searches, etc, is all initated by, of course, a single click.
I'm just waiting for someone to buy the rights to the process for.... 1 MILLION dolars.