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// probability of exactly r successes in n trials, // if p is the probability of success in one trial. // 0 <= p <= 1, 0 <= r <= n double binom(int n, int r, double p) { const int x = std::min(r, n-r); double d = 1; int i = 0, j = 2*x+n; while (i < j) { const int k = d<1 ? i++...

All the talk the last two weeks about that silly system for fixing up bad vision makes me think of a videogame that was just released this month -- the Highly Anticipated new Sam and Max game from Telltale games. It's an episodic game, with only the first episode released so far. The first...

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/10/03/ap3063454.html France is rather knowledgeable in this area. I hope talks continue and a diplomatic solution can be found.

Are there any good value (or even free) paint programs out there? I have fond memories of DeLuxe Paint on the Amiga which was really intuitive to use (especially the brushes, animated ones too!) - is there anything available today which works in a similar way?

Best as in most stable, most useful, etc. I bought a new iMac to replace my ever-erratic PC, and want to start using IRC...

We have at work a program that runs on dos, (CA$HLINK an old accountancy package) This should not be a problem as the computers, are all on win 98 or win 98SE. Except mine which is on xp and I assume won;t run a dos program like this? I have loaded it onto a clean installed 98, and it is...

Anyone know of any free PHP/mySQL coding that I could use to set up a simple affiliate program on a website?

Ministers from 17 European countries meet in Berlin on Monday to discuss the future of Europe's space programme. They will decide whether to give the go-ahead to a series of space missions proposed for the next decade. New space proposals being discussed include: The ExoMars mission to put...

My mother in law and parents are both struggling right now. My parents just lost their home and my father has no savings. My mother-in-law has a negative cash flow and is supported by her children. My mother and my parents don't qualify for the program. Who does? What purpose is the program...

I'm only interested in a program so I can view(would be nice if I could edit them too) xls files, so it doesn't need to be a huge program with a billion functions. Must be freeware, with no spyware included. I don't mind banners and such, only want the program to work efficiently.

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Yes, I know this is the age of the internet, but I am in need of a basic RS-232 terminal program, capable of ASCII uploads and capturing output buffers to disk, which will run without crashing on a Windows 2000 laptop in order to communicate with the vintage 1986 HVAC controls at my work. We...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/03/31/canada.solar.reut/index.html The money spent on this works out to about $106k (cdn) per house. I guess prototypes are expensive. Not much detail about the actual process, but I know there are a few companies around that offer a kind of heat pump where...

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/02/08/924568-cp.html I was reading the justifications for this program, and it raised a thought. My question, therefore, is "Why not institutionalize the addicts?" A lot of the justification has to do with safety and reducing crime, and the issue of how...

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In case some of you guys don't get Michael Shermer's newsletter the first broadcast (on California's UCTV) from the science channel is online. It is a symposium of people discussing the science, ethics and politics of current stem cell research. I just saw the first part and it was quite...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.nuclear/index.html UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons have disappeared from Iraq, the chief of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency has warned. Satellite imagery shows entire buildings that once...

A congressional committee will release info on how "the world" (france china and russia) picked up big bucks by playing footsie with their favorite arms customer, Saddam, while iraqi children starved. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134256,00.html

Mediums: Talking to the Dead BBC 2 Wed Sep 29 9:00 PM (60 min., United Kingdom, Magazine/Report/Documentary) Add to My Calendar Following Britain's top mediums at work relaying spirit messages to the grieving from beyond the grave. Super accurate medium, Gordon Smith is known as the...

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/18/1215234&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=146&tid=99 This while massachusetts spends millions on radio ads that feature young children discussing budget cuts that force them to give up pencils and books-- all because democrats feel that you and me are not...

I'm currnetly gathering the software tools I'll need to create a reverse auction website for my current employer and we have decided to use ASP and SQL Server on our own webserver. I've gooten nearly everything I'll need but there is one tool I can't seem to find. What I need is a tool for...

Is there a free program out there that converts and burns from files to VCD format? As opposed to burning DVD's to VCD. I guess I could throw 25 or 30 bucks to Nero, but if someone put a free one out there I'd like to try it.

DNC Rewards Program Man. This cracks me up. :D For thirty bucks I'd find almost anything better than this!

Hello all. I just read an interesting web page about a guy who is trying to reach age 100 using every known advance in medicine. This is the page: http://www.rajeun.net/rejuvenation.html and there is a small extract: " Hormone Replacement Therapy - There are five hormones that are known to...

The owners of Kazaa are sueing Kazaa Lite, for trademark infringement. In case you don't know, Kazaa is a filesharing program that has lots of spyware programs and Kazaa lite is the hacked version without the spyware. Info: http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=789

The history channel did a one hour spot on the NKVD and KGB during the early Bolshevik Revolution and Stalinist phase. What I found interesting is that they talked about Leon Trotsky for about 10 minutes at various points and talked about how he was so opposed to Stalin and how he gave speaches...

I watched last night a program here in Japan that covers lots of usually health-related topics in an entertaining, but reasonably scientific method, ie they do lots of medical tests and small-scale trials (15-30 people or so), and have lots of guys in white coats explaining the results. (It's...

http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-wmd01.html WASHINGTON--The United States has found evidence of an active program to make weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, including "truly amazing" testimony from Iraqis ordered to dupe UN inspectors before the war, the man leading the hunt said...

Ok, this is odd...

Over the 18 months or so I've been posting on this forum, I've had several arguments about NASA and the manned space program. My thesis has been that NASA deceives the public into thinking that the program is necessary for pushing the frontiers of science. Yet they do not compete for funding...