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How you can break Murphy's Law
By Jennifer Sym
October 8, 2004
THERE'S grim news for people who worry that if something can go wrong, it will go wrong. A new mathematical formula has proved Murphy's Law really does strike at the worst possible time.
Ordinary people have long known that computers crash on deadline and cars break down in emergencies, while previous studies have shown the law, also called Sod's Law, is not a myth and toast really does fall buttered side down.
But now a panel of experts has provided the statistical rule for predicting the law of "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" - or ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10)).
After tests of the experiences of 1000 people, they have discovered "things don't just go wrong, they do so at the most annoying moment".
Now the experts commissioned by British Gas - a psychologist, a mathematician and an economist - say the formula allows people to calculate the chances of Sod's Law striking, and even try to beat bad luck.
Project psychologist Dr David Lewis said: "The lesson from this is that, to cut the seemingly unbeatable Murphy's Law gremlins down to size, you need to change one of the elements in the equation.
"So, if you haven't got the skill to do something important, leave it alone. If something is urgent or complex, find a simple way to do it. If something going wrong will particularly aggravate you, make certain you know how to do it."
But he added a note of caution: "There is, of course, a Sod's Law factor to the equation. If you judge your ratings wrongly, you might become too optimistic - and calamity will strike."
In the calculation, five factors have to be assessed: urgency (U), complexity (C), importance (I), skill (S) and frequency (F), and each given a score between one and nine. A sixth, aggravation (A), was set at 0.7 by the experts after their poll.
Top of the most likely - and most annoying - events was spilling something down yourself before a date and the hot water heater breaking down in cold weather, followed by rush hour being worse when you're already late.
The Courier-Mail
This report appears on NEWS.com.au.
Is anyone else wondering why the container has to be caught in midair? Why can't the capsule have larger parachutes or a balloon structure attached to it?
I have the benefit of having taken the AP CS test in both JAVA and C++. When I took the C++ test most of the questions centered around coding/analyzing loops and algorithms. In the JAVA test I took this year I only remember a few questions about O(n) and loops. All the questions about algorithms centered on how they functioned and under what circumstances each would be implemented. Most of the questions centered on OO concepts such as the differences between Abstract and Interface classes, and the difference between final and static variables. As a side note, there was a very large section of the test dedicated to all flavors of binary trees.
Anyway, just my $0.02
The server is really slow and not showing the images
Here's the google cache:
http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:EnUXoYbNHugJ: www.gc-linux.org/docs/screenshots.html+&hl=en&ie=U TF-8
**If the images don't show right click on the whitespace and click show images
I have just finished setting up something similar to what you are describing. I simply loaded palantir 2.5.1 (http://www.fastpath.it/products/palantir/) on an old pc (had to buy a PCI 802.11b card) and attached it to my home stereo system through Minijack and RCA connections. The media server part of the program will only run on Linux, however the client is written in Java and therefore will run on both Windoze and Linux platforms.
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How you can break Murphy's Law
By Jennifer Sym
October 8, 2004
THERE'S grim news for people who worry that if something can go wrong, it will go wrong. A new mathematical formula has proved Murphy's Law really does strike at the worst possible time. Ordinary people have long known that computers crash on deadline and cars break down in emergencies, while previous studies have shown the law, also called Sod's Law, is not a myth and toast really does fall buttered side down. But now a panel of experts has provided the statistical rule for predicting the law of "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" - or ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10)). After tests of the experiences of 1000 people, they have discovered "things don't just go wrong, they do so at the most annoying moment". Now the experts commissioned by British Gas - a psychologist, a mathematician and an economist - say the formula allows people to calculate the chances of Sod's Law striking, and even try to beat bad luck. Project psychologist Dr David Lewis said: "The lesson from this is that, to cut the seemingly unbeatable Murphy's Law gremlins down to size, you need to change one of the elements in the equation. "So, if you haven't got the skill to do something important, leave it alone. If something is urgent or complex, find a simple way to do it. If something going wrong will particularly aggravate you, make certain you know how to do it." But he added a note of caution: "There is, of course, a Sod's Law factor to the equation. If you judge your ratings wrongly, you might become too optimistic - and calamity will strike." In the calculation, five factors have to be assessed: urgency (U), complexity (C), importance (I), skill (S) and frequency (F), and each given a score between one and nine. A sixth, aggravation (A), was set at 0.7 by the experts after their poll. Top of the most likely - and most annoying - events was spilling something down yourself before a date and the hot water heater breaking down in cold weather, followed by rush hour being worse when you're already late. The Courier-Mail This report appears on NEWS.com.au.
Who else read phonographic and saw pornographic? I'm such a loser :(
Mac Os X is based on Debian, a flavor of linux. Therefore Gates saying that only linux and windows would be around would still include os x.
Is anyone else wondering why the container has to be caught in midair? Why can't the capsule have larger parachutes or a balloon structure attached to it?
I have the benefit of having taken the AP CS test in both JAVA and C++. When I took the C++ test most of the questions centered around coding/analyzing loops and algorithms. In the JAVA test I took this year I only remember a few questions about O(n) and loops. All the questions about algorithms centered on how they functioned and under what circumstances each would be implemented. Most of the questions centered on OO concepts such as the differences between Abstract and Interface classes, and the difference between final and static variables. As a side note, there was a very large section of the test dedicated to all flavors of binary trees. Anyway, just my $0.02
The server is really slow and not showing the images Here's the google cache: http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:EnUXoYbNHugJ: www.gc-linux.org/docs/screenshots.html+&hl=en&ie=U TF-8
**If the images don't show right click on the whitespace and click show images
When I tried to view the pics the site had already been ./'ed. Here's the google cache for the
Lubic Gallery of Case Mods
I have just finished setting up something similar to what you are describing. I simply loaded palantir 2.5.1 (http://www.fastpath.it/products/palantir/) on an old pc (had to buy a PCI 802.11b card) and attached it to my home stereo system through Minijack and RCA connections. The media server part of the program will only run on Linux, however the client is written in Java and therefore will run on both Windoze and Linux platforms.