A good formula for "Expected Happiness", from the Wizard of Odds (4th question down):
When the prizes become life-changing amounts, the wise player should play conservatively at the expense of maximizing expected value. A good strategy should be to maximize expected happiness. A good function to measure happiness I think is the log of your total wealth. Let's take a person with existing wealth of $100,000 who is presented with two cases of $0.01 and $1,000,000. By taking "no deal" the expected happiness is 0.5*log($100,000.01) + 0.5*log($1,100,000) = 5.520696. Let b be the bank offer where the player is indifferent to taking it.
log(b) = 5.520696
b = 105.520696
b = $331,662.50.
So this hypothetical player should be indifferent at a bank offer of $331,662.50. The lesser your wealth going into the game the more conservatively you should play.
I had the cash and was a professor I you could make a killing off of leasing books to students.
Better than what's happening now: professor churns out a low-grade course book, then gets it added as a mandatory book. One of my calculus profs did that, and it was the worst piece of crap book I'd ever bought. There were mistakes in several formulas. Nearly every diagram was on a different page than the descriptive text (and by that, I mean a page-flip away. Then a page flip back to re-read the text, then a page flip again to see the diagram...)
And of course, he had already written the "second edition", so I couldn't even resell the junker.
All the years from System 7 through System 9 were sad, abusive times to be an Apple customer. They kept bringing out inadequate hardware at astounding prices
I take it that means Apple is currently on, what, System 8?
So a car just happens to take out a strategic Amazon datacenter? By any chance, was the car a Mini Cooper? Were the paramedics able to attach a neck-brace to the driver over his black turtleneck? And what's with the strange email send moments before? "The JOB will be done in a flash [sent from my iPhone]"
Go buy a whole bunch of magnet boxes and hollow hidey-rocks.
For anything metallic, stick the key to it in the box, and magnet it to the underside. IE: The underside of your car.
For the rest, put the key in the hidey-rock, and place in a convenient yet inconspicuous location
Now you never need to carry the key with you. It's already there. Sure, someone might find it and use it, but if they were that determined to break into your house / car / girlfriend, they'd do it anyways.
AppEngine will start a new instance of Jarlsberg for you, assign it a unique id... http://jarlsberg.appspot.com/123/ (where 123 is your unique id). If you want to share your instance of Jarlsberg, just share the full URL with them including your unique id.
...it is possible to put your Jarlsberg instance into a state where it is completely unusable. If that happens, you can push a magic "reset button" to wipe out all the data in your instance and start from scratch. To do this, visit this URL with your instance id: http://jarlsberg.appspot.com/resetbutton/123
I think I've spotted a vulnerability:
$griefingIsFun = 0; while (1) get("http://jarlsberg.appspot.com/resetbutton/" . $griefingIsFun++);
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Yes, but these were 5.5 METRIC Richters (or Richtres, as we call them).
Ummm... Ronald Regan?
Well, not metric metres...
Just incrementally back up the entire Matrix. You can roll it back a decade or two to play your Atari game.
I loved those guys on Babylon 5. Wait, or were they a clan in Masquerade?
If you're in a school and your traffic is being filtered, then you aren't talking to the right people.
> Is anyone else getting a "jumble" when looking at NYCL site?
Yeah, and what fun it is!
TARPIE
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TREKCAR
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MILIWERE
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ASMOTH
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GRIEFINN
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What the RIAA is suing for: **** *****(2 words, 4 letters, 5 letters)
(BTW, slashdot: "Please use fewer 'junk' characters"... screw you)
It's an asshole lawyer who is about to get ripped a new one by "The Master"
A good formula for "Expected Happiness", from the Wizard of Odds (4th question down):
WARNING!: This item is harmless.
The label that read "do not look at laser with remaining eye"?
How can we be sure there isn't some perv getting off to our children's mathematical templates?
Better than what's happening now: professor churns out a low-grade course book, then gets it added as a mandatory book. One of my calculus profs did that, and it was the worst piece of crap book I'd ever bought. There were mistakes in several formulas. Nearly every diagram was on a different page than the descriptive text (and by that, I mean a page-flip away. Then a page flip back to re-read the text, then a page flip again to see the diagram...)
And of course, he had already written the "second edition", so I couldn't even resell the junker.
I take it that means Apple is currently on, what, System 8?
Then I would ask "If you end up zooming in on the midgets anyways, why not just go with regular-sized porn?"
Depends. Is it Star Trek V? If not, we're cool.
So a car just happens to take out a strategic Amazon datacenter? By any chance, was the car a Mini Cooper? Were the paramedics able to attach a neck-brace to the driver over his black turtleneck? And what's with the strange email send moments before? "The JOB will be done in a flash [sent from my iPhone]"
I was going to write a Greasemonkey script, but there's already a ton of them to address this bug.
Here's one that seems to work: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/76060
Okay, program-- this is a quark. Do you see it? Do you recognize it? Great. Get to work, and I'll be back in a few weeks to see how you're doing.
I i'z a serious develepir!! this i'z a SERIUS gaem!
For anything metallic, stick the key to it in the box, and magnet it to the underside. IE: The underside of your car.
For the rest, put the key in the hidey-rock, and place in a convenient yet inconspicuous location
Now you never need to carry the key with you. It's already there. Sure, someone might find it and use it, but if they were that determined to break into your house / car / girlfriend, they'd do it anyways.
Seems I lost a zero. Stupid Diebold machines.
Not a chance. To get the cash to pay the fines, he'll just break into a bunch of ATMS.
"Here's your $100,00, in $20 and $50s."
I think I've spotted a vulnerability: