Maybe this will make some slots more fair. I used to work as an engineer in the uk fixing fruit machines (as slots are known over here) and the scams involved are pretty nasty. We were always asked to set the lowest % win rate possible on all machines, regardless of what was printed on the legal notice on the front of the machine.
We also used to put the machines in a mode that payed out big consistenly, spin the reels for 5 minutes or so, and then put the cash back in the chutes. This meant the machine thought it had paid out a ton in the recent past, further reducing the odds.
I lasted 1 year in that job - boy, the kickbacks were good (I got paid 1g of cocaine for fixing some machines in an illegal gambling den one time), but the karma was seriously negative.
So they are saying the past is deterministic (since the quantum state has already been resolved). But surely that means that since there was no state in the past determined in which your forefather met you, you can't go back to meet him, since that state does not exist.
It would be far more interesting if this was to turn up the lost writings of Tacitcus and Cassius Dio rather than another lost gospel.
Hell, even a good novel would be a fantastic find: AFAIK, there are only 2 novels that we have from the Roman age: Apuleius's The Golden Ass and Satyricon, by the writer Petronius.
Most likely though the Papryus will record financial and legal transactions from the period. These are actually very common in Egypt, since the conditions there will preseverse dry matter for centuries.
Blame the parents. Seriously. Last Xmas I sold this game many times to parents who were buying it for their kids. Occasionally someone would ask "Is this ok for my child?" - my response, that it was in fact rated at 18 - didn't stop a single person buying it. After a few weeks of this, I answered the question with a different answer:
"We'll it contains many many blatant drug references, uses sexist and racist language, contains sex and S+M, and is extrememly casual in its approach to violence and crime"
That just got me a customer complaint from a women who thought I was being uppity. She still bought the game though.
So, lets see, on a Mac you can use mice with 1 or more buttons. On Windows, you can use mice with 2 or more buttons. However, to keep it simple for joe average, Macs come with 1 button mice.
Now, I see that as greater choice. Has anyone tried using a 1 button mouse in windows?
Go for the mosaics link, they have the best shots. It looks to me like what you'd expect if you dropped a probe onto earth - rivers, seas, clouds, craft landing on a hard rock strewn surface.
It would travel slower, since Mars has a weaker gravitational field than Earth's, although it would suffer from less atmospheric drag. Air resistance is however equal to the square of the speed, so I think the result would still be a slower rock on Mars.
Since we know force=mass*acceleration, the amount of energy hitting the ground would be dependant on the speed of the rock. Thus an identical rock hitting Earth would create a bigger crater.
These condoms contain the bezocaine in a milky jelly inside the teat portion. Which makes it easy to see - and get at - but has the side effect of making them looked used even before you put them on.
I suppose the real reason is that this project needs 'sexing up'. "I contributed to Mozilla/The Linux Kernal/Some cool game" just sounds more geeky than "I just coded a real tricky multi-compund interest rate function for GNUCash!"
Of course I have no way of proving it but I thought of doing this some time ago, after reading a few quantum computing sites and realizing that nobody had actually tried to make a 'virtual' quantum computer.
It's a great idea, though I feel it would be better to make a header file for another language rather than write a new language from scratch. I intended to write such a beast in C++, mainly cos' thats what I know best.
Finally, it has to be said thay any new quantum language/library ultimatly suffers from 2 defects:
1: It is slow, after all it has to emulate the 'speedy' aspects of quantum computing: for example, an 8-qbit operation will be some 256x slower than an equivalent 8-bit variable operation.
2: Most normal computers cannot generate a true random number, needed for 'real' quantum computing.
(2) can be fixed with hardware, but (1) is much tougher. Remember a tool such as this can only really be used to see *WHAT* a quantum computer will be like, not to actually use it.
I can't argue with with the logical thinking for using 'viruses' rather than 'virii' but surely you should use the word as many other people recognise it?
I spent 3 years at university study biotechnology and one of the first things we learnt is that the plural of 'virus' was NOT 'viruses'.
I know latin is a historically important language but do we really need to check out 2000+ year old rules in the generation of modern phrases?
I joined up with NTL in south-east England about 4 months ago. Installation was free and it included a cable modem; the service supplyed was an 'always on, no limits' 600 MBit line. Having knowledge of getting 'other' broadband services working in Linux, it was a real surprise to find, in this case, the whole thing a breeze. We have the have the main oppostion, BT broadband, (always-on, 512 MBit) at work and let me say it seriously sucks. It advertises 'no dial-up', and yet, open explorer and the windows dial-up box says:
No need to dial... Dialling...
Is having my bandwidth being limited to 1Gb a day a big hassle for me? No, because even with 'we hate NTL' sites they've been a good company to me and I don't sit on Kazaa and d/l movies all day. If they have a problem with serious persistant offenders who cause me problems because of excessive net traffic, then I back them if they start to be removed.
Having said all of that, someone at the company must have known what most people round here with braodband would do: download pr0n constantly!
A name change may seem a small thing, but not too long ago microsoft were telling all and sundry that.NET would be the future of the computing world.
The fact that they change the name to something NOT containing the magic term '.NET' must mean, at the least, that all the expensive PR has failed.
microsoft need to actually demonstrate an actual use for.NET, after all, if I'm a qualified C++ programmer and I don't really know what it's 'about', how the hell is Joe Public gonna buy into this?
Seeing as the review stated that merely watching the tv took 30% of resources on a 2.4G P4, I was surprised (to say the least) that I got a result of 2% on my Linux 1.3GHz Athlon.
So, it looks all nice and flash but that seems to be most of what the review is about. The fact that is used all those resources and crashed seemed very minor.
Also, I see they use yet ANOTHER proprietry file format for saving video.
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Maybe this will make some slots more fair. I used to work as an engineer in the uk fixing fruit machines (as slots are known over here) and the scams involved are pretty nasty. We were always asked to set the lowest % win rate possible on all machines, regardless of what was printed on the legal notice on the front of the machine.
We also used to put the machines in a mode that payed out big consistenly, spin the reels for 5 minutes or so, and then put the cash back in the chutes. This meant the machine thought it had paid out a ton in the recent past, further reducing the odds.
I lasted 1 year in that job - boy, the kickbacks were good (I got paid 1g of cocaine for fixing some machines in an illegal gambling den one time), but the karma was seriously negative.
Also:
I like having the best software.
I'm not saying that every FOSS replacment for propritary software is better, but for the stuff I use the majority is.
So they are saying the past is deterministic (since the quantum state has already been resolved). But surely that means that since there was no state in the past determined in which your forefather met you, you can't go back to meet him, since that state does not exist.
Current 2.6x very kernels unstable? Linux does not have any stable version? Obviously you havn't even used Linux in the last year or so.
Testing a product to make it better doesn't mean the product is bad to start with. Some code has higher aspirations than that.
A: If you are a star wars fan, goto C, otherwise go to B
B: Are you a fan of eye-candy?
Yes: It looks nice. Terrible dialog
No: Zzzzzz
C: Are you a fan of eye-candy?
Yes: You are going to wet yourself!
No: Enjoyable, but the screenplay sucks
I, sir, would mod you +1 Insightful purely for using a Tacitus quote.
It would be far more interesting if this was to turn up the lost writings of Tacitcus and Cassius Dio rather than another lost gospel.
Hell, even a good novel would be a fantastic find: AFAIK, there are only 2 novels that we have from the Roman age: Apuleius's The Golden Ass and Satyricon, by the writer Petronius.
Most likely though the Papryus will record financial and legal transactions from the period. These are actually very common in Egypt, since the conditions there will preseverse dry matter for centuries.
Blame the parents. Seriously. Last Xmas I sold this game many times to parents who were buying it for their kids. Occasionally someone would ask "Is this ok for my child?" - my response, that it was in fact rated at 18 - didn't stop a single person buying it.
After a few weeks of this, I answered the question with a different answer:
"We'll it contains many many blatant drug references, uses sexist and racist language, contains sex and S+M, and is extrememly casual in its approach to violence and crime"
That just got me a customer complaint from a women who thought I was being uppity. She still bought the game though.
http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ is a kinda Linux VB replacement.
I've been using a combo of PyGtk+Glade recently. If someone could make an true RAD enviroment out of these, they'd be onto a winner.
So, lets see, on a Mac you can use mice with 1 or more buttons.
On Windows, you can use mice with 2 or more buttons.
However, to keep it simple for joe average, Macs come with 1 button mice.
Now, I see that as greater choice. Has anyone tried using a 1 button mouse in windows?
Go for the mosaics link, they have the best shots. It looks to me like what you'd expect if you dropped a probe onto earth - rivers, seas, clouds, craft landing on a hard rock strewn surface.
It would travel slower, since Mars has a weaker gravitational field than Earth's, although it would suffer from less atmospheric drag. Air resistance is however equal to the square of the speed, so I think the result would still be a slower rock on Mars.
Since we know force=mass*acceleration, the amount of energy hitting the ground would be dependant on the speed of the rock. Thus an identical rock hitting Earth would create a bigger crater.
These condoms contain the bezocaine in a milky jelly inside the teat portion. Which makes it easy to see - and get at - but has the side effect of making them looked used even before you put them on.
Bundled with this month's RetroGamer magazine, for those of you in the U.K.
More information and a review can be found at http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/ys94_review.htm/
Obviously, in this situation you wouldn't be underclocking enough - by a long way
It's guys like you that make my slashdot experience so enjoyable....heck I'm too busy to check out that stuff!
From one of the (many) articles:
"[SCO] said, for example, that more than 829,000 lines of SMP code had been duplicated in Linux."
829,000 lines for symmetrical multiprocessing code in Linux? I don't have the stats to hand but I seriously doubt that.
I suppose the real reason is that this project needs 'sexing up'. "I contributed to Mozilla/The Linux Kernal/Some cool game" just sounds more geeky than "I just coded a real tricky multi-compund interest rate function for GNUCash!"
It's a great idea, though I feel it would be better to make a header file for another language rather than write a new language from scratch. I intended to write such a beast in C++, mainly cos' thats what I know best.
Finally, it has to be said thay any new quantum language/library ultimatly suffers from 2 defects:
1: It is slow, after all it has to emulate the 'speedy' aspects of quantum computing: for example, an 8-qbit operation will be some 256x slower than an equivalent 8-bit variable operation.
2: Most normal computers cannot generate a true random number, needed for 'real' quantum computing.
(2) can be fixed with hardware, but (1) is much tougher. Remember a tool such as this can only really be used to see *WHAT* a quantum computer will be like, not to actually use it.
Anyway, thats my 2c, you can vist
to see what I'm currently working on.
I can't argue with with the logical thinking for using 'viruses' rather than 'virii' but surely you should use the word as many other people recognise it?
I spent 3 years at university study biotechnology and one of the first things we learnt is that the plural of 'virus' was NOT 'viruses'.
I know latin is a historically important language but do we really need to check out 2000+ year old rules in the generation of modern phrases?
I joined up with NTL in south-east England about 4 months ago. Installation was free and it included a cable modem; the service supplyed was an 'always on, no limits' 600 MBit line.
Having knowledge of getting 'other' broadband services working in Linux, it was a real surprise to find, in this case, the whole thing a breeze.
We have the have the main oppostion, BT broadband, (always-on, 512 MBit) at work and let me say it seriously sucks. It advertises 'no dial-up', and yet, open explorer and the windows dial-up box says:
No need to dial...
Dialling...
Is having my bandwidth being limited to 1Gb a day a big hassle for me? No, because even with 'we hate NTL' sites they've been a good company to me and I don't sit on Kazaa and d/l movies all day.
If they have a problem with serious persistant offenders who cause me problems because of excessive net traffic, then I back them if they start to be removed.
Having said all of that, someone at the company must have known what most people round here with braodband would do: download pr0n constantly!
In soviet russia, root compiles you!
This sounds like my sort of stuff since I mainly program evolutionary code and other esoterica: can anyone reccomend a good web-site?
/. posters!
Yeh I searched google but it sure lists a load of dry math info, give me some more readable info!
Can't wait to code the 'automatic pro-M$ flame generator', sure make life a lot a lot easier for some
A name change may seem a small thing, but not too long ago microsoft were telling all and sundry that .NET would be the future of the computing world.
.NET, after all, if I'm a qualified C++ programmer and I don't really know what it's 'about', how the hell is Joe Public gonna buy into this?
The fact that they change the name to something NOT containing the magic term '.NET' must mean, at the least, that all the expensive PR has failed.
microsoft need to actually demonstrate an actual use for
Seeing as the review stated that merely watching the tv took 30% of resources on a 2.4G P4, I was surprised (to say the least) that I got a result of 2% on my Linux 1.3GHz Athlon.
So, it looks all nice and flash but that seems to be most of what the review is about. The fact that is used all those resources and crashed seemed very minor.
Also, I see they use yet ANOTHER proprietry file format for saving video.