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11 Oct 2024 07:13:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Wonderful products from microsoft  
From: Darren New
Date: 10 Jan 2008 21:38:31
Message: <4786d6a7$1@news.povray.org>
Chambers wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Chambers wrote:
>>> Either way, once you get past the "hand me a one dollar bill 100 
>>> times, and I'll hand you a 10 dollar bill once!", selling anything 
>>> else on top of that is relatively easy.
>>
>> I don't think anyone would play if $10 was the top payout.
>>
> 
> OK then, "Hand me a $1 bill 100,000,000,000 times, and I'll hand you a 
> check for $10,000,000!"
> 
> Same thing, different numbers.

Yes, but the "different numbers" are important.

Give me $1 for a 1/100 chance to win $10,000.  Would you do it?

Give me a million dollars for a 1/100 chance to win $10,000,000,000. 
Would you do it?

The "different numbers" matter.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.


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