As a sealed second-price bid, you never know what *their* maximum bid was. The selling price will always-always-always be one ebay auto-bidder bid increment higher than the second highest bidder's maximum bid. Anything else should probably be reported to eBay as a bug in their bidding code.:)
I read something in an article a few weeks ago wherin the average (not too bright) eBay bidder was likened to a bidder at an "English" auction, where the bid continually creeps up to the final selling price once no one is willing to pay more for it.
However, that's *not* the kind of auction that eBay is. eBay is a sealed second-price auction/Vickrey auction. That means that the highest bid wins, regardless of when it arrived. If something had an opening price of $1, and someone bid $100 for it, they would still win even if someone tried to snipe at $50 for it.
However, when people fail to realize that eBay bids on their behalf, they choose to befuddle their lives by continually re-bidding in small increments. Sometimes they get caught up in the perceived passion of The Hunt for The Win, and that just leads to all kinds of Stupid. These are the victims of Snipers, simply because they were playing the wrong kind of auction strategy.
People who use a strategy befitting a sealed second-price auction don't become victims of snipers, they simply become a victim of a higher sealed-price bid. The timing of the bid is irrelevant. If they feel maligned in any way, they can be comforted in the thought that they forced the winner to pay one bid increment higher than their maximum bid.
Next, write this on your T-shirt "By looking at me, you agree to...
Sadly, for full effect, it would have to be printed on the *inside* of the shirt.
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On a long enough timeline, the probability of hitting *something* is almost certain. Given many of these ejecta events, one could feasibly argue that the odds of hitting something solid are much greater than what you are alluding to.
See, *that's* the conspiracy. THEY have phased out Tin Foil and replaced it with Aluminum Foil for its amplification properties. It's the foodwrapping/military complex, headed up by GLAD.
Geriatric Leotard-wearing Alien Drones.
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I'd be interested to hear your ideas on how the weightlessness portion of the experiment could be replicated on Earth?
At the most, I think we can achieve seven or eight minutes of simulated weightlessness. The experiment called for an extended period of exposure time to a constant weightless state, while simulatenously being bombarded with cosmic radiation, a vacuum, and countless insults. ("You worthless mold! Lazy fungus!")
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There's this force called "Gravity"; objects with a large and/or dense mass displace the space around them, creating an attractive force that drawns in surrounding objects - albeit at a slow speed. Over many eons, a sufficient gravitational force could attract many interstellar and intergallactic visitors of various shapes and sizes.
But the movie would be so boring... Imagine no last-minute, daring attempts to set off some nuclear warheads at the core of the asteroid, just in time for it to... Just sitting around, waiting for "gravity" to run its course...
That is a commonly-utilized theoretical application for Dual Core technology. You can do a virus scan and play a game at the same time, one running on each core, and not interferring with each other.
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I humbly suggest "Blacker Hat".
Stock options require banks and financial managers. Cash only requires a mattress to hide it in.
Hah, you jest, but I have already posted on the subject. I grok the conspiracy, man, and it's SCARY.
What can I say? I'm on the Jazz, man ...
As a sealed second-price bid, you never know what *their* maximum bid was. The selling price will always-always-always be one ebay auto-bidder bid increment higher than the second highest bidder's maximum bid. Anything else should probably be reported to eBay as a bug in their bidding code. :)
DARPA created the Internet.
You are using the Internet.
You are part of the conspiracy.
I read something in an article a few weeks ago wherin the average (not too bright) eBay bidder was likened to a bidder at an "English" auction, where the bid continually creeps up to the final selling price once no one is willing to pay more for it.
However, that's *not* the kind of auction that eBay is. eBay is a sealed second-price auction/Vickrey auction. That means that the highest bid wins, regardless of when it arrived. If something had an opening price of $1, and someone bid $100 for it, they would still win even if someone tried to snipe at $50 for it.
However, when people fail to realize that eBay bids on their behalf, they choose to befuddle their lives by continually re-bidding in small increments. Sometimes they get caught up in the perceived passion of The Hunt for The Win, and that just leads to all kinds of Stupid. These are the victims of Snipers, simply because they were playing the wrong kind of auction strategy.
People who use a strategy befitting a sealed second-price auction don't become victims of snipers, they simply become a victim of a higher sealed-price bid. The timing of the bid is irrelevant. If they feel maligned in any way, they can be comforted in the thought that they forced the winner to pay one bid increment higher than their maximum bid.
Next, write this on your T-shirt ...
"By looking at me, you agree to
Sadly, for full effect, it would have to be printed on the *inside* of the shirt.
On a long enough timeline, the probability of hitting *something* is almost certain. Given many of these ejecta events, one could feasibly argue that the odds of hitting something solid are much greater than what you are alluding to.
See, *that's* the conspiracy. THEY have phased out Tin Foil and replaced it with Aluminum Foil for its amplification properties. It's the foodwrapping/military complex, headed up by GLAD.
Geriatric Leotard-wearing Alien Drones.
I'd be interested to hear your ideas on how the weightlessness portion of the experiment could be replicated on Earth?
At the most, I think we can achieve seven or eight minutes of simulated weightlessness. The experiment called for an extended period of exposure time to a constant weightless state, while simulatenously being bombarded with cosmic radiation, a vacuum, and countless insults. ("You worthless mold! Lazy fungus!")
There's this force called "Gravity"; objects with a large and/or dense mass displace the space around them, creating an attractive force that drawns in surrounding objects - albeit at a slow speed. Over many eons, a sufficient gravitational force could attract many interstellar and intergallactic visitors of various shapes and sizes.
You can hardly blame him for it; neither has the USPTO.
I only have one question.
Should I ship it FedEx or UPS Ground?
But the movie would be so boring... Imagine no last-minute, daring attempts to set off some nuclear warheads at the core of the asteroid, just in time for it to... Just sitting around, waiting for "gravity" to run its course...
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Sounds kind of like "Closer"
Not Just Huge! Grizzly Bear Huge!
You know, they filmed the final episode for that show a few days ago.
:(
End of an era.
And lest we forget, IRC and Usenet contained the seedy underbelly of the Internet *long* before the Web was thought of.
Hell, Veronica was a slut for Archie. They also liked to use Gophers in their sex games, I heard.
If that's the case, what the hell is the loading screen for?
Rich or stupid. Too bad they aren't mutually exclusive.
I always felt that Via was to blame for AMD's lackluster stability in the past.
I still blacklist Via chipsets because of the horror stories I've seen and heard.
My work machine's been fairly stable, though. Except for that blown power supply. (Via+AMD running FreeBSD4.11)
It might slow down load times, but it shouldn't slow down gameplay.
That is a commonly-utilized theoretical application for Dual Core technology. You can do a virus scan and play a game at the same time, one running on each core, and not interferring with each other.
:)
I don't know how well it actually works.
We already call that Nagware.