I am right! But, guys, hey, how about them Rockets!?! I'm going to relent to your logic because I love our team -- we're gonna win 110% of our games!
I'll just add oooooooooooooooooookay. Knowing that I've made a billion and 3 errors myself on this site, I can read enbehay's posts w/ a smile. enbehay, any moment now you'll say "oh, oops!". I appreciate your approach to this issue though, I can tell you don't wear your ego on little silly things such as this.
You know, all this talk of 110%, and I've been waiting on a certain quote from the Simpsons for about 20 or so posts now.
Wait! Wait! I don't watch the Simpsons. What is the certain quote? And Achebe, I agree with you because, if you can't have fun posting, don't post!
I'm not sure what you're thinking of but I've been thinking of my signature the whole time during this thread.
As someone with a bachelor's degree in math, all I have to say is HUH? That's some weird logic there, enbehay. Are you from Bizarro World? The quote from the Simpsons may be this one: "From the episode, The Otto Show" Homer: Bart, how come you haven't been practicing on your guitar? Bart: Well, Dad, I tried playing it, but I realize it was very hard. Homer: Son, you've learned a valuable lesson! If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing! You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your short wave radio, your karate outfit, and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV. Or it could have been the episode in which both Bart and Lisa "try out" to be Mr. Burns' heir and they fail miserably which leads Homer in his infinite wisdom to say: "You both tried your very best and you both failed miserably. The morale is never try." I can see how this applies to Cato...just sub Cato's name for Bart and I don't know who for Homer and VOILA, The Simpsons have come to life, yet again!
Manny, with so many people saying it isn't so, I am considering recanting. However, as a math major, perhaps you can tell me -- mathematically -- how Cato is going to give 110% and how the Rockets are going to win 110% of their games. Then I can say "Oops" in peace.
I do know what you are trying to say...it is impossible for someone to give more than 110 percent. However, that doesn't mean that things can't increase by 110 percent. An example would be making $20,000 a year in your job. If you were given a raise of 50%, then you would take your old salary of $20,000 and multiply by 1 + 50% or 1.5 and you would get $30,000. A 100% raise would increase the salary to $40,000. Now a 110% raise would be $20,000 * 1 + 110% or $20,000 * 1 + 110/100 which is 20,000 * 1 + 1.1 (11/10) and this gives you $42,000 or a 110 % increase in salary. I don't think anyone was arguing with you about the sports cliche, but numbers and things can increase by more than 100%.
Ah, Manny, maybe that is the problem. I have been arguing fixed wholes as opposed to fluid wholes. You can't win more games than you play. You can't get more hits than you have at bats. You can't give more effort than all your effort because, if you have more effort to give, you weren't giving all your effort in the first place. Salaries, on the other hand, are fluid wholes because the whole can increase. So, if you take a hardball and inflate it with enough force, you have a softball, yet both are whole balls, although I submit the parameters of the whole -- the operable paradigm -- have been altered. So, in that regard, I will submit an "oops." Nevertheless, I just want to see Cato give us 110%. Then I will be a true believer. Does that make everybody happy, at peace and with a little smile?
Since when has a high-school kid ever improved an NBA team in his first year? . . . I think the Simpsons quote is the one where Mr. Burns' baseball team undergoes hypnosis as part of their spring training regime. Hypnotist: "You will give 110%" Team: "It is impossible to give any more than 100 percent. By definition, that is the most anyone can give."
Let's see. I am making $150,000 this year. Next year, I will be making $165,000. So my salary next year will be 110% of my salary this year. I still do not understand how you can say that you cannot have more than 100% of something. BS Mathematics - LSU 1986 MS Mathematics - UNO 1991 PhD Mathematics- Tulane - 1999 (Not to brag or anything)
150,000 * 1.1 = 165,000. I'm sorry, I have no PhD in Mathematics.... though I think I know someone who received their MD from Tulane... and is working on a Post Doc at Cross? Christ?
Baseball batting averages are not based on a percentage system but on a permillage system. A batting average of .110 means that a hitter will get a hit 110 times for every 1000 times at bat or 110 per mil. Cato's reference to giving 110% can mean one of three things. He will either give 110% of the performance that he gave last year, or he give 110% of suggested levels of performance, or he will give 110% of his potential. In the first case, Cato will be able to increase his statistics marginally. If he made 10 pts per game last year, he will make 11 pts per game the coming year. The second case makes very little sense in terms of human abilities. It is usually used when talking about recommended usage for pieces of equipment. For example, the signal emitted from a television station may exceed 100%. However, that would be in violation of the contract the station signed in order to receive the signal. The master control operator would have to lower the output of the signal in order to come back into compliance. Cato most probably meant the last of the three options. Unfortunately, this is the only option that is actually impossible.
Alright, enough with the whole percentage thing . Is it just me or did ESPN rank the Rocks down one spot . i could SWEAR they ranked them 8th yesterday afternoon before I went to school. Now its almost 1am Houston time the next morning and they were pushed down one spot and was taken over by the Sixers.
When the Rockets get Jackson in camp, I do think the Rockets are a 5th seed in the west. They definitley should be ahead of utah, but those guys just don't beat themselves. La,Sac,SA,Dall, then Hou is the way I rate it. The west is going to be tougher this year than last. Den and La clipps are going to be tough. Its going to be very games seperating the 5-10 slots in the west. The Rockets and any other team better bring it every night in the west. I think Smith going to the spurs helped us overtake portland,+ losing Sabonis.
Wow, they did move them down. Doesn't matter though, I do think we are the 5th best in the West still.
No, it's not 110%, it's only 10%. A 110% increase in your salary would yield $315,000 or 150,000 * 1 + 11/10 or 150, 000 * 2.1 = 315,000.
