I'm not saying it makes sense. And I'm not saying they don't lose most of the time, and that their playing isn't irrational, and believe me, there has been tales of woe.
But I know people who has won big several times, each time more than they'll ever spend. Winning like that one time should happen just once every 1000 years. And I know, winning twice should then happen every 2000 years, so that's almost the same degree of impossible. But I would still call it some quite concentrated luck.
In that light, I see the best strategy of winning when gambling is to bet as little as possible where the possibility of the biggest win is. Since the only way of winning is to have luck, and if you have it you'll win with little effor, and if you don't have luck, you'll lose a lot, even though you sometimes win a little.
There is one and only one way of winning in gamling. Luck.
Don't laugh. I know lucky people, and I'm not one of them.
The people I know have gambled a lot their whole life, with quite a profit. Not horse racing or anything where guessing is possible. If you know your math, you'll know that's very very improbalble without luck. Plain luck.
On topic:
I wouldn't hire you if I knew you considered taking the job but refrained to do it because you thought it might hurt your chances of getting other jobs. That is a very questionable moral and hypocritical. Please choose what you want to do with your life based on your own moral judgement.
I'm quite sure, when people realise that digital content is free as air, and anyone trying to make a business out of charging for making personal copies of or sharing music, video, whatever that doesn't cost anything to reproduce, are either stupid or evil. Artificially limiting the spread of cultural expression is huge obstacle to public creativity, and laws that encourage such absurdities will only be abided in countries with totalitarian governments. This will all be old news in, lets say, five years.
Then, when this is realised, you will not stream or download, you will have a lot of music on your phone, and when you miss something you will stream it from your own home server, or from wherever else. There might even be live feeds you like to pay to listen to live, or listen to it later for free.
There are many more asian people in Poland than black people. I heard that many years ago Poland had a kind of common poitical platform with a large asian country.
Still, this stupid mistake doesn't say that Microsoft is racist, or their marketing department, but it says that they think the people in Poland are. I don't think that's a better message to send.
I just decide that the breath I exhale should be my property, and therefore anyone using it after me should pay as much as I decide it's worth. There's just one catch.. First I must become the most powerful nation on earth, so I can force all other nations to see the fairness in this rule.
I'm sure the only reason Britain hasn't yet asked for royalties on the world wide use of the English language, is that they're not the most powerful nation.
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Asking people to pay for something that is free to reproduce is something that will only work in a totalitarian regime. Go and find better business models, that's the only solution for the future.
They are artists, creative people. They should be in the forefront of the development of human culture. Then they base their business model on certain technological limitations. That is bad in the first place, but then, when the limitations are overcome, they try to force the limitations back, just so they won't have to adapt to a new reality. That's not very artistic. With that kind of attitude, I'm not sure I want their stuff, for free or not. Then again, I hope very few actual artists think in this way. I guess it is the industry people, who are very rich and conservative, and want to stay rich and conservative.
Actually, if you read the decimals of pi backwards, you'll get all the primes after each other.
Yes, that's right. Almost every Linux desktop means one less Windows desktop, with a license or not. I have at least five XP licenses that I don't use, and have never used, and I use about 5 different Linux desktops.
So go ahead and credit God if you want to. I won't tell you that you're explanation is necessarily wrong. Just please don't do so in a scientific context.
I agree with you. But there is sad tendency for people who regard themselves as not religious or spiritual, who might have very little or a lot of scientific knowledge, to disregard ideas that don't lend themselves to scientific investigation as untrue or stupid. If an idea is unscientific, science can't say anything about the validity of the thought, and nothing about whether it's interesting or not. My opinion is that it isn't useless to wonder about the things we can never know. Science might some day find all the answers about the world which lies within its scope, every possible theory that can be tested empirically might some day have been proved or disproved, to great advancement of our comfort and self esteem. But we will still have great questions we can ask, and even more answers to them that makes our imaginations tremble. We will still wonder about our existence, we will speculate about what is right and wrong, and we will pretend to know which is which, and go to war on those convictions, caring little about if it is scientific or not. We might be right and we might be wrong.
If it's more complicated than devanagari, yes. A lot more complicated. Then you have hundreds of combinations of letters creating different glyphs in different circumstances. There are words that can't have spaces between them, since the last sound of the first word and the first sound of the second word for one single glyph.
Still, as long as someone will create all the glyphs, it wouldn't be very hard to implement.
And if all people in the world would pee into the ocean all the time, I'm sure some climate panel would come up with a theory that this could be the cause of the smell of fish.
I'm disappointed, I had really hoped they would go for the second choice. The 10 digit calculator upside-down format. OB'LLBEGOO
Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested, and say nothing about the other.