Example with n choices per question,
each correct answer worth c
and each incorrect answer worth -i:
If you have no idea which answer is correct, and (n-1)*i < c, then guess.
Likewise, if you can eliminate some of the answers, so you are only choosing from m possible correct answers, and m < n, then guess if (m-1)*i < c
It got me a full-tuition scholarship to an ivy-league school (where I learned to hyphenate adjectival phrases). Your results may vary.
In any case, please be sure to join the slashdotters posting 'you are an idiot' message on the article's comments. It's important to keep the slashdot's reputation as the premiere internet home of arrogant assholes.
Suppose I have a bunch of images of the same size already in ordinary computer memory, and I want to display them at 60 images per second. The image format is whatever is 'best'--a texture, whatever.
Given card X, what is the largest (width x height or bytes) image that can be displayed smoothly? That is, each image is read from memory and sent to the screen at scale 1.0 with no shading or other modification, but it is synced to the monitor display rate, and doesn't ever (or hardly hardly ever) drop frames.
You don't mention BIOS...
Did you change BIOS settings when you installed the new drive? Does your BIOS do that kind of stuff automatically?
Better go see what your BIOS thinks is there--
probably by pressing DEL soon after booting, or
read the first boot screen for directions as it flashes by.
I take this opportunity to trot out my own Fischer anecdotes:
I went to high school with him, except that he didn't attend it much. The only time I saw him was in a gym class. This class had about 250 kids in it (very big city school), and mostly we just sat around the walls and talked--a few more athletic types played basketball, and the teacher, as I remember, took attendance and hid.
One day, Bobby Fischer showed up in this class, wearing street clothes (the other gym ritual was changing into white shorts, a white teeshirt (no printing on it--this is in antedeluvian 1958) the smelliest socks imaginable--never washed, abandoned at the end of the year--and Converse-style sneakers.
So Fischer starts walking through this mass of sullen teenage humanity, and a big freckley Irish kid follows him around, loudly challenging him to a chess match. Fischer finds the teacher, gets whatever signature he needs, and starts walking back to the door. At this point, the Irish kid decides he is the new world chess champion by default, and declaims this loudly in Bobby's ear.
My high school girl friend went to elementary school with Fischer--it was some little private school. She said that in the fifth grade, if he lost a game (probably basketball) during the lunch break, he would go home for the afternoon.
Thanks for the help. I just implemented and tested it.
And for other users as slow as I am (or god forbid, slower):
1. The lines that begin Rewrite... go into an.htaccess file in the directory to be protected
2. The 111s get replaced with the IP to be blocked
I found this is happening on my own little site.
I host a rogue game on my site, so some page visits can last for hours.
Two road-runner ip's were downloading the same page once every few seconds (for hours, on some days) and, I guess, using a bad date, because they did not get 304's back, but the full page each time. The page is pretty small, but I noticed a big spike in bytes/day on one day and investigated.
If anyone has an explanation, I'd like to learn it.
My simple solution is to block those ip's in.htaccess -- it stops the traffic but unfairly stops access to my site from those ip's, and the (almost certainly) innocent users of them.
The real miracle is that most of those bible-thumping engineers actually do a pretty good job. You hardly ever hear them say "I can't understand why that bridge collapsed. I prayed every day I worked on its design." or "Air bags? God is our protector!"
Advertising does not have to grab one's attention to be effective. Most effective advertising works by simply getting the victim used to associating the advertised item with positive experiences. This is how all those essentially meaningless ads showing happy, attractive people having fun work. You are not even supposed to pay attention to them. But when you choose a product, you are heavily influenced by its warm associations.
1973-The laser printer invented at Xerox PARC
This did earn X a few good bux
1973 also saw the invention of Ethernet there and lots of other things of interest.
The last time the draft was instituted was not for Vietnam, it was for World War II. But that draft did not go away until after Vietnam. Drafts seem to be much easier to start than to stop.
As for the domino theory--it was falsified in the clearest way possible. Its premise was fulfilled (the Hanoi government rules all of Vietnam) and its conclusion failed to occur (our last several presidents, with all their shortcomings, were not communists)
I was going to reply to this RANT, but I realized my reply probably already exists--the thoughts, while my own, were, well, obvious. So I did a google search, and found most everything I might want to say expressed tersley and entertainingly on a page dated three years ago. Here it is:
CA is not noted for throwing their money around. This move could well make sense for them, if the price was right. Now lets see:
Actual value of a license from SCO: $0.00
Value of CA's name as a licensee: $(negative to CA)
Value of above if it is known that SCO actually
PAID CA to take the damn license: $0.00
Value to CA of it's competitors believing CA paid for SCO licences: $(slight, but positive)
Therefore, it is most likely that SCO paid CA some amount (middle 6 to low 7 figures) on condition that
1.SCO could announce that CA bought (or got, what word did they actually use) licenses from SCO, and
2.CA would not discuss the terms of the license publically.
CEOs and children under five prefer a whole cupcake to a piece of pie, regardless of the comparative amounts. But isn't it nice to know that corporations are not ruled solely by the desire to increase profits? It seems, at some level of affluence, the desire for more control exceeds the desire for mere gain.
And some people claim idealism is dead!
This is easy to fix:
1. Take apart your phone and move the little buttons to the calculator configuration.
2. Translate your phone numbers to the new system.
3. Don't forget to dial '7' before the number!
Should we be looking at some economics website for the true poop about software design, OS's, and driver compatibility questions?
No, they would probably be anecdotal, thinly analyzed, and full of obvious errors no one working in the field would ever make.
And so is most of the macroeconomics discussed here.
I see that almost all the responders here are much too smart to be ever be scammed. Scammers know that such smarties should be avoided at all costs. Yeah, right.
The very first step in any scam, before the scammer even makes contact, is the belief by the sucker that he is somehow too (smart, good, honest, knowledgeable-about-people, or whatever) to be taken. Have you ever paid too much or been paid too little, and made excuses for how it 'wasn't my fault' or 'actually, the deal was not bad' or any of a hundred other rationalizations?
So remember, O wise ones--people with your qualifications have been shown to be born only once each sixty seconds.
The tin woodsman was not a robot. He was a piecemeal cyborg. An offended witch caused him to 'accidentally' chop pieces off himself while plying his trade. As each limb and part was lost, the local tinsmith made him a replacement, until his entire body had been replaced. At least, that's what's in the book. Personally, I find it incredible. It's enough to cast doubt on the veracity of the entire OZ ouvre.
The real question is: Where should research effort be put? Drexler has been pushing his simple-to-understand vision for some decades. Even a congressman can understand "We stick the atoms together to make the molecules by pushing them into place, just like we make tinkertoy stuff." It's a nice idea. But there is no known way to do it. And real chemists know that atoms are way too small and way too sticky and way too jumpy to be dealt with like bricks. It may not be impossible. But it is impossible right now, and bellowing about how nice it would be is just--bellowing.
Meanwhile, plain old chemical reactions have kept you alive all your life. Your parents too. They do lots of impressive things--like make beer. Have one.
There is a good pretty-new book about old automata--Gaby Woods "Edison's Eve" (at Amazon).
It mentions the Japanese flute-player--apparently the Japanese researcher simply didn't believe Vaucanson was possible
How could they not have researched previous art before starting the flute-player in 1990? Duplicating a 252-year-old invention is pathetic. And it seems, except for replacing adjustible cams with computer control and adding motors, that is all the Japanese did.
Unbelievably old-hat.
A flute-playing automaton was constructed before 1750.
Search for Vaucanson (the inventor) and flute (the instrument)--it's no secret, though the current developers fail to mention this prior art.
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each correct answer worth c
and each incorrect answer worth -i:
If you have no idea which answer is correct, and (n-1)*i < c, then guess.
Likewise, if you can eliminate some of the answers, so you are only choosing from m possible correct answers, and m < n, then guess if (m-1)*i < c
It got me a full-tuition scholarship to an ivy-league school (where I learned to hyphenate adjectival phrases). Your results may vary.
In any case, please be sure to join the slashdotters posting 'you are an idiot' message on the article's comments. It's important to keep the slashdot's reputation as the premiere internet home of arrogant assholes.
Here's a question I never get answered...
Suppose I have a bunch of images of the same size already in ordinary computer memory, and I want to display them at 60 images per second. The image format is whatever is 'best'--a texture, whatever.
Given card X, what is the largest (width x height or bytes) image that can be displayed smoothly?
That is, each image is read from memory and sent to the screen at scale 1.0 with no shading or other modification, but it is synced to the monitor display rate, and doesn't ever (or hardly hardly ever) drop frames.
You don't mention BIOS...
Did you change BIOS settings when you installed the new drive? Does your BIOS do that kind of stuff automatically?
Better go see what your BIOS thinks is there-- probably by pressing DEL soon after booting, or read the first boot screen for directions as it flashes by.
I went to high school with him, except that he didn't attend it much. The only time I saw him was in a gym class. This class had about 250 kids in it (very big city school), and mostly we just sat around the walls and talked--a few more athletic types played basketball, and the teacher, as I remember, took attendance and hid.
One day, Bobby Fischer showed up in this class, wearing street clothes (the other gym ritual was changing into white shorts, a white teeshirt (no printing on it--this is in antedeluvian 1958) the smelliest socks imaginable--never washed, abandoned at the end of the year--and Converse-style sneakers.
So Fischer starts walking through this mass of sullen teenage humanity, and a big freckley Irish kid follows him around, loudly challenging him to a chess match. Fischer finds the teacher, gets whatever signature he needs, and starts walking back to the door. At this point, the Irish kid decides he is the new world chess champion by default, and declaims this loudly in Bobby's ear.
My high school girl friend went to elementary school with Fischer--it was some little private school. She said that in the fifth grade, if he lost a game (probably basketball) during the lunch break, he would go home for the afternoon.
And for other users as slow as I am (or god forbid, slower): .htaccess file in the directory to be protected
1. The lines that begin Rewrite... go into an
2. The 111s get replaced with the IP to be blocked
Two road-runner ip's were downloading the same page once every few seconds (for hours, on some days) and, I guess, using a bad date, because they did not get 304's back, but the full page each time. The page is pretty small, but I noticed a big spike in bytes/day on one day and investigated.
If anyone has an explanation, I'd like to learn it.
My simple solution is to block those ip's in .htaccess -- it stops the traffic but unfairly stops access to my site from those ip's, and the (almost certainly) innocent users of them.
In USSR, Santa Claus doesn't believe in YOU!
The real miracle is that most of those bible-thumping engineers actually do a pretty good job. You hardly ever hear them say "I can't understand why that bridge collapsed. I prayed every day I worked on its design." or "Air bags? God is our protector!"
Or perhaps you drink the store-brand cola.
1973-The laser printer invented at Xerox PARC
This did earn X a few good bux
1973 also saw the invention of Ethernet there and lots of other things of interest.
There is a PARC history timeline at here
The last time the draft was instituted was not for Vietnam, it was for World War II. But that draft did not go away until after Vietnam. Drafts seem to be much easier to start than to stop. As for the domino theory--it was falsified in the clearest way possible. Its premise was fulfilled (the Hanoi government rules all of Vietnam) and its conclusion failed to occur (our last several presidents, with all their shortcomings, were not communists)
I was going to reply to this RANT, but I realized my reply probably already exists--the thoughts, while my own, were, well, obvious. So I did a google search, and found most everything I might want to say expressed tersley and entertainingly on a page dated three years ago. Here it is:
I Have No Attorney and I Must Scream
CA is not noted for throwing their money around. This move could well make sense for them, if the price was right. Now lets see:
Actual value of a license from SCO: $0.00
Value of CA's name as a licensee: $(negative to CA)
Value of above if it is known that SCO actually PAID CA to take the damn license: $0.00
Value to CA of it's competitors believing CA paid for SCO licences: $(slight, but positive)
Therefore, it is most likely that SCO paid CA some amount (middle 6 to low 7 figures) on condition that
1.SCO could announce that CA bought (or got, what word did they actually use) licenses from SCO, and
2.CA would not discuss the terms of the license publically.
CEOs and children under five prefer a whole cupcake to a piece of pie, regardless of the comparative amounts. But isn't it nice to know that corporations are not ruled solely by the desire to increase profits? It seems, at some level of affluence, the desire for more control exceeds the desire for mere gain. And some people claim idealism is dead!
Real republicans don't become senators. They buy them. They don't become gardeners either.
This is easy to fix: 1. Take apart your phone and move the little buttons to the calculator configuration. 2. Translate your phone numbers to the new system. 3. Don't forget to dial '7' before the number!
Should we be looking at some economics website for the true poop about software design, OS's, and driver compatibility questions?
No, they would probably be anecdotal, thinly analyzed, and full of obvious errors no one working in the field would ever make.
And so is most of the macroeconomics discussed here.
Remove your pants before reading http://www.419fun.com/phillipepage1.htm . You have been warned.
I see that almost all the responders here are much too smart to be ever be scammed. Scammers know that such smarties should be avoided at all costs. Yeah, right.
The very first step in any scam, before the scammer even makes contact, is the belief by the sucker that he is somehow too (smart, good, honest, knowledgeable-about-people, or whatever) to be taken. Have you ever paid too much or been paid too little, and made excuses for how it 'wasn't my fault' or 'actually, the deal was not bad' or any of a hundred other rationalizations?
So remember, O wise ones--people with your qualifications have been shown to be born only once each sixty seconds.
The tin woodsman was not a robot. He was a piecemeal cyborg. An offended witch caused him to 'accidentally' chop pieces off himself while plying his trade. As each limb and part was lost, the local tinsmith made him a replacement, until his entire body had been replaced.
At least, that's what's in the book. Personally, I find it incredible. It's enough to cast doubt on the veracity of the entire OZ ouvre.
I designed & wrote hexagonal rogue and it also isn't as much fun as rogue.
The real question is: Where should research effort be put?
Drexler has been pushing his simple-to-understand vision for some decades. Even a congressman can understand "We stick the atoms together to make the molecules by pushing them into place, just like we make tinkertoy stuff." It's a nice idea. But there is no known way to do it. And real chemists know that atoms are way too small and way too sticky and way too jumpy to be dealt with like bricks. It may not be impossible. But it is impossible right now, and bellowing about how nice it would be is just--bellowing.
Meanwhile, plain old chemical reactions have kept you alive all your life. Your parents too. They do lots of impressive things--like make beer. Have one.
There is a good pretty-new book about old automata--Gaby Woods "Edison's Eve" (at Amazon). It mentions the Japanese flute-player--apparently the Japanese researcher simply didn't believe Vaucanson was possible
How could they not have researched previous art before starting the flute-player in 1990? Duplicating a 252-year-old invention is pathetic. And it seems, except for replacing adjustible cams with computer control and adding motors, that is all the Japanese did.
Unbelievably old-hat. A flute-playing automaton was constructed before 1750. Search for Vaucanson (the inventor) and flute (the instrument)--it's no secret, though the current developers fail to mention this prior art.