Zimbabwe Hyperinflation
Discovery Channel: Dirty Jobs
doiwl 1 November 2008 5:21 pm
I love this show.
Season 5 Episode 3 – Imagine how to use YOUR teeth to castrate the sheep.
Gosh… that’s gross. Viewer discretion is advised!
Numbers Forecast Totalisator
doiwl 31 October 2008 10:46 pm
最近有人中Mega Toto的最高payout——RM2千万。
中奖的两夫妻还互赏对方几个巴掌证明自己不是在发梦，哈哈！
之前得空去research，原来博彩公司的赚幅比我想象中的少。
Operating profit还好罢了，市场受限，时不时有被课以重税。
以丹戎的Da ma cai为例，FY08从万字票业务营业额是RM20亿 (2.025 billion)。
营业额的65.13%用作奖金派发。
13.52%被政府抽税。
9.68%是营运开销。
11.67%税后盈利。
Magnum和Berjaya Toto也相去不远。奖金派发的比例徘徊在65%到70%之间。
总得来说，博彩业像robin hood。
但它不是劫富济贫，而是劫贫济己。（富翁何必买万字？）
然后再很random地派回给你。
幸运的人可能可以赢不知多少倍，不幸运的可能10-20%都没有。
Magnum的标语其实很有创意：“有万能，有惊喜”。
没有失落？是习惯失落了，所以惊喜就很容易被放大了咯.
下注的人都想善用randomness，“博”一个希望。
倒是收注公司和政府是稳稳当当赚定35%了。
难怪地下投注这么猖獗。
想想看，13.52%省下了，
开销也肯定不用9.68%，
号码不必自己开彩，
“爆厂”又不用负责……lolx
MMU FIST New Dean, Dr. Loo
doiwl 25 September 2008 3:01 am
Hmm… FIST with new Dean: Dr. Loo Chu Kiong, he was Senior Lecturer from FET before this.
Congrats to Dr. Wong EK who has been promoted to Vice President!
doiwl 23 September 2008 2:17 am
Exploring Facebook……
I was reluctant to try out facebook at first, hate to restart all those process again (register, adding, confirm friends, duh…)
But the Maxis advertisement (featuring mobile Facebook), and my senior colleague “persuasion” had changed my mind. Hehe, free time at work mah~
FB surprises me with lots of WOW factors and highly innovative features.
- Fine grained access control (able to control the access level for each information)
- Tag other people for every photos, videos, postings
- Categorizing your friends into separate lists. (Friendster listing of friends is totally a mess.)
- People you may know…. (How the algorithm works? by using the minimum level of CPU…..)
- Able to import activity from other sites, and also RSS feeds.
- News feeds and status updates. Some kind of micro-blogging.
- Developer (crucial… programmers are improving Facebook free of charge)
- Advertising (Very advanced advertising mechanism, targeting the ads to the relevant audience by using the profile details!)
Drawbacks:
- Rather complicated.
- Annoying notifications from the application / games. More than 100 application requests pending in my account.
- Messy wall (profile page), too personalized… More like a game site rather than showing the personal profile.
