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    Personally, I'd go with grandma's lucky bingo cared every time, it's alright I have been *discussing* with my father the tossing of coins, he insists that if I tossed 4 heads the next one was most likely to be a tail, blinking retired mechanical engineers, whatever next.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pmcleod View Post
    Personally, I'd go with grandma's lucky bingo cared every time, it's alright I have been *discussing* with my father the tossing of coins, he insists that if I tossed 4 heads the next one was most likely to be a tail, blinking retired mechanical engineers, whatever next.
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    I've seen the calculated odds in a Visual Basic program, believe me, not very good - many, many millions from memory. God the people behind it must be stinking rich, probably so rich in fact, that occasionally they fix a win to someone every now and them just to off load some money that they just simply don't know what to do with. Should I pass a couple of million onto someone who I know is gonna give half of it to charity or just let it sit beside the other 1,000 trillion that we have? Feeling generous today - lets fix a win

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    At least in my Country, from a lot of "evidence" I am strongly convined that this lottery thing is setup. Every now and then there is a jackpot almost every holiday! So no machine could predict the next numbers this way. Sure past numbers have no effect on future numbers that way.

    I decided that the only way to make money is to work! And sure it feels good when you are paid for the good job you've done.

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    Yeah - it's probably all bull. I think a lot of these game show on TV are like this too.

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    >I think a lot of these game show on TV are like this too.

    Big scandal currently in UK that a lot of them were fixed either in advance, or were fraudulently weighted against contestants. The regulator stepped in last month and 95% of all the phone-in shows have suddenly dissappeared, and the great BBC even cancelled all phone-in contests yesterday after a report divulged that the shows were rigged in at least half-a-dozen examples.

    >And sure it feels good when you are paid for the good job you've done.

    Actually orgasmic... especially when you play games like ensuring the total of this months 'high' is bigger and better than last months... I'm not saying you have to only get it once a month - but we're talking pay-cheques here...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melanie View Post
    >Big scandal currently in UK that a lot of them were fixed either in advance, or were fraudulently weighted against contestants. The regulator stepped in last month and 95% of all the phone-in shows have suddenly dissappeared, and the great BBC even cancelled all phone-in contests yesterday after a report divulged that the shows were rigged in at least half-a-dozen examples.
    I'm sure you're all aware that the first big fuss about TV game-show deception occurred here in the USA back in the late 1950s. Even the President (Eisenhower) said it was national embarrassment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mackrackit View Post
    You should always listen to your elders.

    Welcome to the forum.
    Thanks for thet welcome, i feel a bit of a fraud in here, I don't use PBP, though I did buy a copy years and years ago from RS I think, the manual then was about 25 pages with very basic info on, I never did get a project working, so I did it all in assembler. Now I have proton basic with a great thick manual, but hang around here because I've learnt a lot of general PIC things and you guys have some interesting ideas
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    Quote Originally Posted by pmcleod View Post
    Thanks for thet welcome, i feel a bit of a fraud in here, I don't use PBP, though I did buy a copy years and years ago from RS I think, the manual then was about 25 pages with very basic info on, I never did get a project working, so I did it all in assembler. Now I have proton basic with a great thick manual, but hang around here because I've learnt a lot of general PIC things and you guys have some interesting ideas
    Give PBP a try again!!! Then you will not have to feel like a fraud
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    Quote Originally Posted by mackrackit View Post
    Give PBP a try again!!! Then you will not have to feel like a fraud
    It was so long ago, I seem to remember it came on 1 or 2 floppies, even if I could find it I doubt it'd do much useful and finding it will not be easy it may well have gone in the bin during the factory move last year one awful lot of stuff did
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    Quote Originally Posted by pmcleod View Post
    It was so long ago, I seem to remember it came on 1 or 2 floppies, even if I could find it I doubt it'd do much useful and finding it will not be easy it may well have gone in the bin during the factory move last year one awful lot of stuff did
    Down load the demo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mackrackit View Post
    Down load the demo.
    Will do that
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