EhCafe http://www.EhCafe.com Chit-chat about tech, life, and fun, eh? Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:02:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Russell Peters Punk’d by the King of Jordan http://www.EhCafe.com/2010/02/09/russell-peters-punkd-by-the-king-of-jordan/ http://www.EhCafe.com/2010/02/09/russell-peters-punkd-by-the-king-of-jordan/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:36:22 +0000 arrabi http://www.EhCafe.com/?p=305 never take oneself too seriously

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That's a big feat. Solaris, SPARC, MySQL, Java are now part of Oracle. 
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https://www.buydreamie.com/

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One liners:

Question 1: How many digits does 2^71 has? How confident you are in your answer?

Question 2: How many primes are there less than 1000? Provide a confidence interval.

More involved games:

Question 3:  A frog sits on an infinite line. It can jump in steps of 2 to the right and in steps of 1 to the left ( both with probability of 1/2).  What is the probability that it returns its initial position.

Question 4:  You have a standard deck of cards with 26 reds and 26 blacks placed on a table face down.  You and a player take  turns flipping the cards , one by one, if it’s red you win 1 dollar if black you loose 1 dollar. What is the optimal strategy to play this game? i.e When should you stop.

I have plently more if folks are interested.

Surprisingly , I managed to do well . I’ll find out in 2 weeks if I got the job :)

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for some reason I couldn't find this TV specs anywhere on the net, so I thought I'd upload them myself. I bought it 1 week ago and I'm very happy with it.

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"A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the planning approval was "yet another step that shows and proves Israel is not ready for peace"."
Arab 'leaders': Oh really! what can we do?!
- Nothing, as usual!
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I'll ask Roba or Naseem to ask this :-) [I don't support polling yet]
Emmerich: "Well, I wanted to do that [show the destruction of Kaba], I have to admit," the filmmaker told scifiwire.com. "But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said, 'I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie.' And he was right."
Photo by Muhannad Fala'ah/Getty Images

Emmerich went on: "We have to all, in the western world, think about this. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have … a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is. So it's just something which I kind of didn't [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out."

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Daily Show
Full Episodes		 Political Humor Health Care Crisis
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Nintendo Wii Motion Sensitive Video Game Console

Only $164.99area for include for the order now buttonHurry only - 33 Left!

Deal of the Day Ends in
00 Days, 22 Hours, 31 Minutes, 53 Seconds.

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