Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 20:15:56 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: <20160117201556.082bcfbb1fb7e446fed22b84@eircom.net> References: <20160117151421.1957ce25cad1f7b3a8c56f25@eircom.net> <-sGdnfGj-YIWdwbLnZ2dnUU78cOdnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3a0d17a306b4a9f171d95653e21ba37e"; logging-data="18381"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19G68zseQDTJ4zrVItf+w9UZgonoTQbyCg=" X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.4.3 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zSnmMgJeA0dJDYt2J+DijBfJqFk= X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc:1896 alt.folklore.computers:156860 On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 19:24:58 +0000 Andrew Swallow wrote: > On 17/01/2016 15:14, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 14:20:10 +0000 > > Andrew Swallow wrote: > > > >> On 17/01/2016 10:23, M. John Matlaw wrote: > >>> The thing that piqued my interest was someone figuring out a way to > >>> increase their chances in roulette. Wouldn't have thought that > >>> possible. > >>> > >>> >>>> > >>> > >> The trick was to bet after the ball was thrown. When and how hard the > >> ball is thrown produces most of the randomness in roulette. There after > >> it is simple mechanics. > > > > It reads like they were timing the ball against the wheel and > > predicting which segment of the wheel the ball would land in by way the > > timing was changing. The uncertainty caused by the way the ball kicks > > at the end would prevent certainty but a boost in probability should be > > easy like that. I wonder if someone with a good sense of rythm could > > learn to do this without aid - any drummers here want to try ? > > > The casinos learnt to close the table before throwing the ball so this > method no longer works. > > The computer in the shoe needed to know the speed of the ball, the speed > of the wheel and the location of the wheel. Yes all this from a single timing pulse. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/