I will boycott, hate, and spend the rest of my life lobbying against any dictionary that incorporates that horrifically stupid phrase into its vocab. This is slashdot, dammit. We have to do something.
There are none, except maybe if you can convince a few thousand good men to step in a centrifuge and spend a week spinning like..well, like super chickens!
0) Make small hole in mine field with small explosive.
1) Wait for mines to decides who goes where and start hopping
2) Make another small hole where the mines left.
3) Repeat.
Soon mines will run out of power/hop into each other/blow themselves up out of spite.
*takes off hat and bows*
N.B (Notice also that you could pull the minefield like a carpet if you capture one of them and put it on a slow moving pickup. They will all hop after you domino-effect style).
The most I can tell you is I am a 23 year old web designer from Florida named Mike. I can't narrow it down anymore than that. When I say 'we', I really mean 'me'.
I regret to remind you that America (hence Americans) is also responsible for Microsoft. People around the world don't have to watch channel 4 to hate us. They just have to switch on their PC.
You made a good point by traversing the tree like that, but everybody is missing the point: 100 heads in a row is a low probability (just like alternating heads/tails etc) compared to the total of all other possibilities for the same number of events. When I say it is unlikely that 100 heads (or 99 heads and a tail) are obtained, I mean that out of the 2^100 possibilities the occurance of this pattern in particular is not distinguished, and thus unlikely (1/2^100).
The burgled guy/airplanes example is far more complex because the probability distribution equation is different. I think is is geometric with respect to discrete time periods (i.e event is a day, probability of accident occuring increases with total days passed due to influences like paranoia).
I am arguing that even if no external influences apply, the case can be simplified to heads and tails scenarios, except you can think of the coin as a shape with thousands of faces(airlines), and the proability of an accident to occur in any of them very small to begin with.
Man. And I thought analogies were supposed to simplify things. I'm gonna drive next time.
IF x is the probability that an accident will occur in any airlines per month, and there are y airlines, then x/y is the probability My Safe Flyers will get a crash any given month.
Lets call this value Z.
Now the probability of the same incident happening again this month is Z*Z (assuming nothing has changed), and since Z is much less than 1, the number gets really small.
Right? (Its been a while since the probability course:( )
Excellent thinking. I believe the same applies to airlines with accidents...according to laws of probablility alone, it is almost impossible for an airplane crash to occur more than once with the same airlines during the period of, say, a month. They become the safest airlines on earth after an accident.
I took a photograph of an officer today. I think he saw me, but I had the phone-cam hidden inside my jacket. Felt like I was in the cinema (pirate joke, never mind).
You know of anywhere I can post it? No wait, don't say here. Email it to me.
Slashdot Mirror
Hi Anne. Please change your IP, and/or you've been slashdotted.
I will boycott, hate, and spend the rest of my life lobbying against any dictionary that incorporates that horrifically stupid phrase into its vocab. This is slashdot, dammit. We have to do something.
There are none, except maybe if you can convince a few thousand good men to step in a centrifuge and spend a week spinning like..well, like super chickens!
*smacks head
Like superman!
It means you're on Slashdot. And it's grammar not grammer, you clown. (no offense of course)
I bet you could DDOS the mines by doing this:
0) Make small hole in mine field with small explosive.
1) Wait for mines to decides who goes where and start hopping
2) Make another small hole where the mines left.
3) Repeat.
Soon mines will run out of power/hop into each other/blow themselves up out of spite.
*takes off hat and bows*
N.B (Notice also that you could pull the minefield like a carpet if you capture one of them and put it on a slow moving pickup. They will all hop after you domino-effect style).
Sounds like any average club party. Privileged status is equivalent to girls & cocaine on the second floor.
*reviews parent*
Or maybe you mean a whites only party?
*reviews again*
No wait I get it. You're anti-communist(TM).
*reviews again*
You're killing me here. Have mercy. What do you mean? Western politics? Oriental fairy tales? You ruined my day.
"it borks the MBR of the resized Windows partition in such a way that Windows will refuse to boot."
This is a feature, not a BUG. It's for your own good.
*3 hours after takeoff*
It's getting cold up here.
And on a rainy day, the robots will stay at home. Don't buy if you live in U.K!
..which leads one to think what WGA really does then
Hear that? That's the sound of grammatical rules getting flushed down the toilet.
It's dddddelightful to see maddox's satire work so well. He was kidding, but only a little bit.
The most I can tell you is I am a 23 year old web designer from Florida named Mike. I can't narrow it down anymore than that. When I say 'we', I really mean 'me'.
But he never said we. Aha! Tongue slip!
Chris is just one of those names that means "nobody important". Female equivalent is Martha.
Very subtle stuff, but look at the subject matter.
Dear Sir,
I regret to remind you that America (hence Americans) is also responsible for Microsoft. People around the world don't have to watch channel 4 to hate us. They just have to switch on their PC.
Sincerely,
-F
"It's today!" said Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh.
Coincidence? I think not!
Enjoy.
Meh, I can't believe we're doing this.
You made a good point by traversing the tree like that, but everybody is missing the point: 100 heads in a row is a low probability (just like alternating heads/tails etc) compared to the total of all other possibilities for the same number of events. When I say it is unlikely that 100 heads (or 99 heads and a tail) are obtained, I mean that out of the 2^100 possibilities the occurance of this pattern in particular is not distinguished, and thus unlikely (1/2^100).
The burgled guy/airplanes example is far more complex because the probability distribution equation is different. I think is is geometric with respect to discrete time periods (i.e event is a day, probability of accident occuring increases with total days passed due to influences like paranoia).
I am arguing that even if no external influences apply, the case can be simplified to heads and tails scenarios, except you can think of the coin as a shape with thousands of faces(airlines), and the proability of an accident to occur in any of them very small to begin with.
Man. And I thought analogies were supposed to simplify things. I'm gonna drive next time.
This is God's creation, not MS software.
So the probability of getting 100 heads in a row is the same as getting a mix of heads and tails?
:)
We are both wrong, because it is a time function(in the airlines case, a continuous graph). It's not exactly p^2, but I was closer than you
Well actually:
IF x is the probability that an accident will occur in any airlines per month, and there are y airlines, then x/y is the probability My Safe Flyers will get a crash any given month.
Lets call this value Z.
Now the probability of the same incident happening again this month is Z*Z (assuming nothing has changed), and since Z is much less than 1, the number gets really small.
Right? (Its been a while since the probability course:( )
Excellent thinking. I believe the same applies to airlines with accidents...according to laws of probablility alone, it is almost impossible for an airplane crash to occur more than once with the same airlines during the period of, say, a month. They become the safest airlines on earth after an accident.
it won't come much later than Vista.
*evil grin*
Never, EVER steal a piece of hardware for info without returning it(after taking the info).
It will be interesting to see the public's reaction when 26.5 million SSN are posted tommorow on a blog.
I took a photograph of an officer today. I think he saw me, but I had the phone-cam hidden inside my jacket. Felt like I was in the cinema (pirate joke, never mind).
You know of anywhere I can post it? No wait, don't say here. Email it to me.
Now where is that PGP key?!
shhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I'm Muslim, been hiding out here for months. If they find out we'll both lose our karma.