Post pictures of your most recent purchase

[BLACKCHARM88]

It used to have Vista but one of my buddies downgraded the running system to make it run faster. My HP laptop runs Vista but I bought that back in 2011 and I bought it for gaming purposes and I haven't touched it since late 2012 so updating is in the works.

[Cabriolet]

For the wife


for me:

[mrsleeve]

Serenity !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Nice

[Hooffenstein HD]

As advised in the photography thread.

[Exodus_2pt0]

Not really a purchase, but we signed the lease a few days ago and got the keys about 10 minutes ago.

3br, not very big but it has a yard and is $300 less than what we were paying for a 1br apartment. Further from work but I should only spend $200 on gas a month.

[lambo]

If this stuff gives me diabetes I won't even be upset.

[MR 325]

If this stuff gives me diabetes I won't even be upset.

Sooooo goooooood.

[Swanny]

If this stuff gives me diabetes I won't even be upset.

Best morning after drink ever

[Mr. Burns]

swap parts collecting has begun!


M30b35 mounts :-D


SSSQUID M30b35 stage 1 chip

[ST1G]

[Hooffenstein HD]

LSD arrived so I bought this.

[george graves]

Let us know if it's a good read....From what I hear its about misconceptions, and how our minds plays tricks on us. (what weights more, a pound of feather, or a pound of lead ?)

Chris Anderson (editor of Wired magazine) takes that a step further, and does a great job of talking about how that works in business. "The long Tail" book and " the "Free" another good one. If your an MBA type(not me!) worth a read.

He talks about how amazon did a free shipping experiment in the US, but charged 2 cents for shipping in France. Free vs 2 cents, free won 90% of the time....or somethining like that.

[ST1G]

Let us know if it's a good read....From what I hear its about misconceptions, and how our minds plays tricks on us. (what weights more, a pound of feather, or a pound of lead ?)

Chris Anderson (editor of Wired magazine) takes that a step further, and does a great job of talking about how that works in business. "The long Tail" book and " the "Free" another good one. If you're an MBA type(not me!) worth a read.

He talks about how amazon did a free shipping experiment in the US, but charged 2 cents for shipping in France. Free vs 2 cents, free won 90% of the time....or something like that.

It's not really that our mind is "tricking us" but that we have over confidence, and don't innately understand statistics.

The Gambler's fallacy is a good example of this. We use hindsight to thing that odd's have changed, when they have not. It doesn't matter how many time the quarter flips tails, the next flip is still a 50/50 chance.

It's really a break down in the way our minds work. There are two systems in our brains, system one (thinking fast) does simple easy to do things such as reading a street sign, or perceiving someone is angry on the phone.

System two (thinking slow) does more complex tasks that require actually dipping into stored memory and holding it in the present, like solving the math problem 23x17

He goes into detail about these two systems and how they can trick us, how they work together, and how they make systemic errors. An example is we replace hard to answer questions with simpler ones, usually without noticing. He gives the example of a executive buying Ford stock, because "he likes Ford's new cars". This is a terrible way to make a investment decision, but it's much easier to answer the questions "do I like Ford?" then it is to answer "is buying Ford stock a good investment?".

It's already great and I'm only 30 pages in.

[15Michaeljoseph]

I've decided to purchase a sack of balls.


--Mike

[ST1G]

Good one.

--Mike