Here are the final entries per user that qualified for this promotion:
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Here are the final entries per user that qualified for this promotion:
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Expected more than 26 this place has really grown though, I hope people still stick around for the new year.
Had to scratch Specifics... Sorry you were a late addition to the RALETC team and per YC's rules RALETC members could not enter. I am pretty sure everyone else that did not qualify has been removed and the list is clean and will get submitted tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by oddpedestrian
Looks like since our last promotion last year there are new choices for picking results:
Pseudorandom numbers
According their name - those numbers are not fully random. They are the result of a specific computer algorithm. It is easier to generate pseudorandom numbers than true random numbers so you can find them in many desktop or server applications by using the RAND() function: in spreadsheets, C++, PHP, ASP and other programming languages.
RandomPicker.com offers the GUID pseudorandom method - Globally Unique Identifier. GUID generates very long numbers so the probability of the same number in the set is extremely low (2128. Here is an example of one number presented in a hexadecimal format: 35AF1252-4BFE-29629-B8FA-20911A21490C. If you are interested in details, visit this article on Wikipedia.
GUID method is definitely sufficient to draw winners.
Genuine random numbers
There are several ways to generate real random numbers - radioactive decay, thermal noise, shot noise, clock drift, avalanche noise, radio noise and other. There are also several ways how to test the randomness (Autocorrelation test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Diehard tests etc.).
For those who want to use true random numbers to draw winner, RandomPicker provides the following options:
Thermal noise: random number generator is based on a physical process. The hardware generator supplies an absolutely constant voltage and measures the small variations in the resistor's heat output. This entropy is converted into random numbers.
Thermal & buzzing noise: the random base is the same - thermal noise (see previous text). We took sound from a beehive and encoded it into computer bytes, then blended with thermal noise - the result is not honey, but another set of random numbers.
I have no clue what any of that means😮
Hahahaha me either. I thought he was trolling us by the end of it but I can't be sure lolQuote:
Originally Posted by oddpedestrian
Those are the options given to us from the company that chooses the winners for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by JStump2490
Wasn't sure if I'd make it, but happy to finally qualify! Good luck to everyone!Quote:
Originally Posted by BestRadarDetectors
cant wait for the results!
The results are in....Quote:
Originally Posted by lugnuts
https://www.randompicker.com/Project...y=134508x94859
Tman - ALP Dual
oddpedestrian - Escort Redline
dinkydi - Escort Passport
To verify the results and confirm everyone who qualified was entered you can visit the link above. At the bottom of the Random Picker website you will be able to search your username and confirm how many entries were submitted for you.
Since some users are out of the US we will arrange either credit for different items that are allowed to be shipped to their country or you can sell the items in the forum and keep the money and we will send the product to whom you tell us in the US.
Congrats you three!!!
congrats guys! wish I could have won the ALP but I will have the cash saved up soon enough.
Please resubmit everyone for the redline I already have one and don't have time for the whole selling thing. Thanks for the sweepstakes!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BestRadarDetectors
Ah nuts!
Oh well.. till next time.
Just my luck, my redline crapped out today..
Use the $499.95 credit towards an ALP if you already have a Redline and pay the difference. We can swap the Redline for an ALP Single Head and just buy an additional head when you get the additional funds.Quote:
Originally Posted by oddpedestrian
Congrats to all three of you. All well-deserved. Good karma at work. :thumb:
Congrats guys! All three were very deserving!
What a surprise !!!!!!!!
I am very happy and very gratefull to Tom and all the participants.
I will pm Tom to see what is the best solution as i am already equipped ...
I salute the other winners :applause:
I take the occasion to send everyone good waves for the
holidays coming along the new year.
Merci @ Tous.
Quote:
Originally Posted by BestRadarDetectors
Congrats everyone!!
Congratulations everyone. I personally would like to thank everyone that participated and especially those that achieved some of the higher number of entries. Each and everyone put together some quality content and helped Ralf to grow to the great forum it is today. Keep up the good work guys again congrats to all the winners.
Congratulations everyone, let's see/hear of some encounters with the new equipment!
congrats winners !
Congratulations to all.
izza totally gob smacked, thx ralf and congrats brd and to all who make this a great forum, best on the net :thumbs2:
Congrats!
Awesome to all winners... Merry Christmas and a happy ticket free New Year!!!
I posted that awhile back..... http://radarandlaserforum.com/showth...ll=1#post37884Quote:
Originally Posted by BestRadarDetectors
@Tman.... you can never have enough toys...:encouragement::encouragement::thumbs2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tman
What did I win??? Hurry, tell me :):)
TOM, why wasn't I on that list??? (as I cry into the milk that Salty just poured me and YC just served me :):) )
Congrats to the winners. ^^^^^
Sorry, You were close but were a few posts shy of the minimum to qualify to be entered.Quote:
Originally Posted by ECMExpert
OH well...........................Quote:
Originally Posted by BestRadarDetectors
Oh shut up YC :):)
Congratrs to all--I was a little later to the party lol, I tried to get in but didnt make it. So ODD---You order up that ALP yet, its 500 off :) and before the price goes up Jan 1
It's done getting a dual, we gonna be gang now Holla lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Holla
I didn't say anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by ECMExpert
Sweet--you gonna keep the LI's for the rear?Quote:
Originally Posted by oddpedestrian
Yea gonna put them in the rear, can't really drive fast till the roads are clear in the spring I'm gonna be moving. Glenn kinda icy for me to fly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Holla
'' @Tman.... you can never have enough toys...''
Ur right ...but tell this to my wife.
I promise in 2015 i will be a wiser man ...keep my mouth closed !
Thanks Tom great result for some very deserving winner :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BestRadarDetectors
Why not just get an extra 2 ALP heads and get VPR protection in the rear?Quote:
Originally Posted by oddpedestrian
I still have some faith in escort.....Quote:
Originally Posted by awj223
You moving into town or staying out that way?
I'm moving over Christmas either to Wasilla or in the city it's still up in the air either way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Holla