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Internet Problem Solving Contest 2004
misof writes "The sixth year of the annual Internet Problem Solving Contest (IPSC) will take place on Friday May 21st. IPSC is one of world's largest online programming contests with over 600 teams from more than 50 countries participating last year. The main purpose of IPSC is to compare problem solving skills of people from around the world and, of course, to have fun.
IPSC is not oriented on a specific programming language instead you are given the input data and may produce the output data by any means. (This could actually be THE way to show your friends the superiority of both your skills and your favourite programming environment!) The contest is open for everybody and we invite you to participate!"
...in the world still can't fix the problem of stupid user syndrome.
I know I won't be at my best at 6 in the morning...
Now is finally the time to roll out my speech recognition system, coded in Brainfuck!
Can't I just get a T-Shirt, and *SAY* I participated?
What was the whitespace language from like 2 april fools' days ago. I'll use that.
Either way you look at that .. thats a problem I'm definitely in for solving.
Funtage Factor: Purple
Don't think I could do it...
Not even slashdot??!
This could actually be THE way to show your friends the superiority of both your skills and your favourite programming environment!
All the hours of practice, the computer science degrees, all the long dateless Friday nights coding, I now know they have led up to this contest. Why I can program anything, except for this emotion you call "love."
Don't mess with the bunny, outsideworld.org
Friends?
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PHP? pfffft. Perl? pfffft. C++? pfffft. Hell I don't know even know of any more languages. Not that any of them matter. I can finally prove to the world that HTML is more than just font and table tags. HTML really is all you need to know. And I use Microsoft Frontpage. I'm SO gonna win.
The competition has been outsourced to India.
I hope the participants code - a new AOL software - an Outlook-Skin for TheBat - a new IRC protocol and - WinXP Servicepack 3
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
Maybe it will be on ESPN9.
This may just be the one thing I was waiting for to justify the expense of expanded cable.
And who should we get to announce the action? I vote for Steve Ballmer (Monkey Boy), that will get the crowd going and cheer on their programming teams.
Karma, We don't need no stinkin' karma!
That is just sadistic, they state problems that just scream 'Please use prolog to crunch me!' and then forbid symolic manipulators (read: prolog). It's like a drinking contest where you cant use your mouth :P
..."Problem Solving Contest on Internet"
:)
for a moment i thought we had to solve Internet problems
what kind of problem, pray tell, just screams "Please use prolog to crunch me" ???
-ashot
I heard that second prize is you get a tv aerobics instructor to go with you to your next sci-fi convention and pretend to be your girlfriend.
First prize is William Shatner records the outgoing message for your answering machine.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
judging by the number of entries and the percentages of countries per entries
Does it still count as a win for the country the team registered from if they outsource the actual work to India?
[14:45] New IRC protocol ? What's wrong with current ones ?
[14:47] <Animaether> Hello ?
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"If an employee has at least one Hour of Service during a Plan year commencing on or after October 1, 1989 and has received credit for five (5) or more Credited Years of Service, or has not received credit for five (5) or more Credited Years of Service but his aggregate Credited Years of Service completed before his Break in Service exceed the number of his consecutive Break in Service Years, has a Break in Service, then such Employee's Credited Years of Service completed prior to his Break in Service shall be aggregated with Credited Years of Service completed after his Break in Service for all Purposes of the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Credited Years of Service shall be considered which were to be disregarded as of September 30, 1989 under the plan provisions then in effect."
It had to be written in RPGII on a System 36, no less.
Proverbs 21:19
From http://ipsc.ksp.sk/:
/. is the best place to start looking!
We have encoutered problems with delivering registration e-mails to the following teams: Incubation, Shandong Province Team in Informatics 1#, asar, Orenburg SU 2, Runtime Error, KP, GuoXiaoPeng, kutaisi1, TDT, Haaak. You have just probably misspelled your e-mail address when entering it in the registration form. If you do not provide us with a valid e-mail address, we will not be able to deliver you responses of the online judge as well as announcements during the contest. Please contact us at ipscreg@ksp.sk.
That seems like a pretty obscure problem to solve. Man, I tell ya! These problems are getting harder and harder every year!
OF course, if it's something as simple as mispelling their names,
Internet Problem Solving Contest????
I bet Al Gor's people are behind this contest
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