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  1. Szlia

    NBA 2013?14 Season

    I hear Mikel and Jello, the italian roofers, were too. Seriously... prima donna
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The question is.... who buys the Xbox division?
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    A good sign rand() is fubared is that you getexactlythe same results as Tuco at the 100000000 mark even though the values are not converging.
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    I got that. What I am saying is that if you run your code another time, your average might not be anywhere close to 13 despite the sample size. I tried to test it myself, but I forgot most of the little I knew about C, so I am not sure what I need to include for your code to compile.
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    Breaking Game World into Cells

    Not entirely relevant, but could offer some clues:Gamasutra: Matt Klingensmith's Blog - Overview of Motion Planning
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    Did you run it just the once? I would expect avgVal to be all over the place considering the expected result is infinite and the deviation not a lot smaller. expectedResult = (1/2)*1 + (1/4)*2 + (1/8)*4 + ... + (1/2^n)*2^(n-1) + ... since (1/2^n)*2^(n-1) = (2^(n-1:emoji_nose:/(2^n) = 1/2...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    For me, buying a console is akin to voting with my wallet for a video game philosophy. The question is "What should video games be?" and the answer is in the architecture of the console, in its capabilities, in the first party software, in the nature and vibrancy of the third party ecosystem, in...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The guy better be wary of the pixels in his PMs! Droigan: it's a fair point and I don't remember if Reeves made that distinction in his talk. In the context of comparing PS4's potential with PS3's currently installed base, I am not sure it is relevant because of the cheaper revisions of the...
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    That seems related to another paradox:St. Petersburg paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A casino offers you the following lottery: when you enter the game, there is a pot of $1. A coin is then flipped. For each head result, the pot is doubled. As soon as there is a tail result, you...
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    Homeland

    Looking back at this season's events under the light of her secret pregnancy is interesting... suddenly, running and herbal cures make a lot more sense, as is her being genuinely furious for staying too long in the psych ward (assuming there is no mandatory pregnancy test and that she kept it a...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I had the chance to attend several press events during David Reeves' tenure as COO and then CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. The guy was not very knowledgeable about video game software or hardware, but he certainly knew his video game market so he gave very insightful talks about its...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    About Europe, it should be noted that I see a lot of Microsoft sponsored ads for BF4 and CoD:G on French TV along with the general Xbox One ad, but I don't remember seeing a PS4 ad (the Assassin's Creed ads might be sponsored by Sony though, I am not sure). Microsoft France outspending Sony...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Is there cross-generation multiplayer for for CoD and BF4?
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    I am not sure to understand what your Atlantic issue is. They were over the Atlantic because the Sand Box is in Morocco. Now you can argue there is an american military base in the Azores but...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    You do realize that game companies will also become more familiar with the PS4 so while the resolution gap might close it will be at the expense of a gap in the complexity of the visuals, don't you?
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    There are two envelopes but you only know one has twice the amount of the other.
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    Homeland

    The fact the test was positive did not seem at all like a surprise for Carrie, so it's fair to assume she checked it several times before, so maybe the drawer represents two or three previous abortions (witch is not totally out of the question when you consider how her lifestyle pas presented in...
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    The wikipedia page mentions this, but then it takes it a step further: you open the envelope you picked and it contains... say... $100. So now you know the other envelopes contains $50 or $200 so switching is risking losing $50 for a chance at winning $100, a deal that seems difficult to...
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    Homeland

    A possibility is also that the other tests are from earlier pregnancies that got terminated.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Sean: News embargo play a part in this one. The fear of losing access if they piss in Microsoft cheerios is also a possibility (with or without threats from Microsoft).
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    Homeland

    Seemed like a lot of positive pregnancy test for it to be him. On top of that, Google tells me that the most sensitive home pregnancy tests take a week after conception until they are able to detect the pregnancy hormone in the urine (The more you know!).
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    Metal Gear Solid V

    The part where I sneaked through an underground improvised infirmary while I could hear the battle raging outside, the part where as a third party I influenced the outcome of a battle to suit my needs, the part where I sneaked into an enemy camp only to find myself in the middle of an ongoing...
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    foxnews hacked?

    Looks more like someone pushed on the server some content that still had placeholder headline and lead.
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    Oups! My bad for typing it in a hurry. I edited the original post to put the correct 1.25 X. You are unto something here: the idea that things go wrong because X does not represent the same thing in all its instances. Yet it does not fully elucidates the paradox. Anyway, for more:Two envelopes...
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    I wonder how many pages we would have if the problem was an actual paradox that has yet to be convincingly solved. Like: There are two indistinguishable envelopes. Both contain money. One has twice as much as the other. You can pick an envelope and keep its content. You pick one, but before...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I don't care about baseball at all, but the production level and attention to detail in these games often made me want to buy one just to experience it as a kind of high fidelity virtual documentary on a televised sport.
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    Resogun

    I am a big shm'up fan. I failed to understand how one could find Super Stardust interesting and fail to understand why I would play Defender / Fantasy Zone in 2013. At least Fantasy Zone was beautiful!
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    Homeland

    I don't agree with this portrait you make of Saul. The love he has for his wife, the father/daughter relation he has with Carrie or that he developed with the terrorist girl in season 2 (?), show he has a very high level of empathy, but he keeps his emotions bottled up and share his rage, pain...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Statistics about video game players on PC has always been a nightmare, because you never know what criteria are used to form the numbers. You can usually assume the worst methodology because most of these numbers are published by organisations that have to promote video games (like the ESA), so...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It should be added: no frame rate issue on X360/PS3 and embargo on info about the Xbox One version until the 15th.
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    The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

    Curious to see it but... What's the idea behind Jonah Hill's fake teeth?
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    Thor: The Dark World.

    That would be a good example of a lazy movie oneliner!
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    Maybe it's a cultural thing... when playing Russian roulette with one bullet for six chambers and a single initial shuffle, do you believe you have five chances out of six to survive the third shot?
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    Thor: The Dark World.

    Oneliners in the context of a movie has very little to do with what a Mitch Hedberg did or what a Jimmy Carr or aStewart Francisdo. Oneliners in stand-up are like the haiku of jokes, something self-contained and condensed to the extreme. In the movies, it's breaking the tone of a situation with...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Remind us again the launch line up of the Jaguar?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    So.... the Steam machine is competing with the Ouya basically.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    There is two years between Uncharted and Uncharted 2 and there is a pretty huge difference between the two... there is that... but Uncharted was released a year after the PS3.
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    Metal Gear Solid V

    Isn't that about the price of a DVD box set of a mini serie?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I still wonder how they plan to sell the Steam Box and to whom.