[vpFREE] Re: Math v. Superstition?

 

> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com,
> Barry Glazer <b.glazer@...> wrote:
> >
> > The "error" is not in changing machines because you've
> had a "cold streak".  The error is thinking / believing
> that changing machines will really make a difference in
> future outcome.  The other reasons for changing
> machines are done with a belief that it will be less drafty,
> that the lighting will be better, that you will be in better
> company, etc. -- expectations that may have a more factual
> basis, and good reason for "believing" that THOSE changes
> will occur.  But to think your "luck will change" with
> a machine change is NOT a reasonable expectation unless you
> believe that different machines with the same computer
> hardware are in fact statistically different in their
> expected performance for mysterious reasons that we can't
> perceive.
> >
> > --BG
>
> No,I'm telling you. Don't you guys know how to do
> anthing?  Spit  on the machine.  That's how
> you get things done. 
>

Perhaps that will decrease the glare that I sometimes experience and thus allow me to play longer; I'll give it a try :)

I look forward to playing a machine with spit on the keys (I'm a button-pusher, not a screen-tapper).

--BG
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