This doesn't work because everone will just flip the chalice once. If the king flips it back before the watcher gets to see it, they will not be able to confer the information again.
I suppose you could have the watcher flip the chalice at some point to tell the other to report gain, but the lack of limits on the number of times someone can be called makes it hard to specify any strategy.
"up to k times" means k or less times. k is not any number, it is constant, an it can be assumed this constant is know to the prisoners berforehand.
So when all prisoners work out not to change the chalice, when a prisoner has seen the chalice been turned k times, he can safely assume the king has spent his turning actions and then the chalice can start conferring information.
However, since the king may decide never ever to turn the chalice, prisoners might still stay pretty much indefinitely, same if the king decides to call the first prisoner a million times.
I suppose the answer that they have all been in the central room while being led into their cell is correct, on the other hand the wording seems to indicate the game starts with all prisoners already locked up in their cells.
"I'm not surprised that injecting lab rats with a twice as potent THC like substance spurred neuron generation,"
Interesting to note that those who habitually smoke Marijuana misread "100 times" as "double".
Yes, it would make more sense if they misread it as "4 times as potent" in binary. I think the problem is that with more brain cells receiving random or mistuned stimulation, you would learn "better" but a lot of what you would learn is crap.
On the other hand, I heard that old people seem to die of suffocation very often because brain cells stop functioning, I think starting from a certain age a bong might do more good than bad.
Well, in one system for coordinating traffic I made up, the slow lanes would be in the middle to reduce the speed between cars in opposing lanes. I guess that system would only work in highways through the desert.
Now back to the question on which side of the car to sit, for the British custom of steering on the right side, it is often said this is so that drivers of carriages could attack each other better with the sword.
I suppose steering on the left then must be better for knightly jousting with the lance
There was a similar opportunity at http://www.mrfixititonline.com/ in 2001, since you could use javascript in your signatures. In their infinite wisdom, instead of fixing the hole, they made using signatures a subscription-only "gold" feature. Now that's a business model;-)
I was going to post about how the rocket was probably shot down by the United States, to prevent global warming information from getting out, but then I remembered that shooting down a rocket is impossible.
Well, the panspermia theory is a bit like intelligent design - it is not one theory, but several theories, however, the panspermia theories have a chance to be proven true, while the ID theories tend to be proven wrong.
Examples:
- the cosmos helped life come into existance by simple organic molecules that were
- formed in space
- ejected from a planet
- life spread through our solar system, that is:
- from mars
- the asteroid belt was formely a planet hosting life which
- DNA/RNA came from space
- bacteria survived a journey through the cosmos
The study reported by slashdot makes some of these theories unlikely, but not all of them.
Well, not everyone knows the shortcuts to the history, so this basically is the menu that leads to it.
I didn't know it was there either, I though he was meaning the menu that appears under the Go Back button:-P
The Find UI is never in the right place - if it was on top, it would be in the way of viewing, if it is on the bottom, I forget about it and try to open it again..
Download UI - can be switched off in settings
new Tabs cannot be used to go back - well, that is annoying sometimes, but the drawback of showing the previous page is that you end up with disorganized behaviour.
Zabs and modality - maybe that was a security fix? The problems is modal windows would have to disappear when another tab gets focus.
Apple needs to learn that it can't control and sell hardware, OS, and software at the same time, because it will be working against the market all the time, not with it.
The administration gambled their peace as in - not having to evacuate N.O., possibly against the will of its inhabitants - against - a disaster - and the disaster won.
It's probably the same choice you and me would have made, but that doesn't make it a great choice.
So Cory Doctorow is against DRM, but what Marcus Ranum suggests is exactly what is used to secure the DRM core - a "list" of allowed apps.
People will need to rely more on backups and the ability to log attacks and then rollback and redo the operation of a system. Of course that is only easy with mostly self-contained systems that do not execute business transactions. However, even banks "rollback" phising attacks by calling back money sent, so its not impossible to undo for them either, it just needs extra steps.
The point is they put work into it, and they control the sources to their game, so yes, they can ask money for it.
Whether Valve asks them for a part of the money, or whether they make them release the game under the GPL is up to Valve. As you wrote yourself, its up to Valve, and Valve seems to be fine with it
By the way, you are still allowed to ask money for programs under the GPL, it is just harder to continue finding people who pay your price.
They put effort into the develpment, so they could ask money for it if they wanted to.
After all, most sequels to computer games are just "mods" in a a way aren't they, and you don't object to paying for them, do you?
However, I think they should sell mods as standalone, the concept of selling an add-on for the same money that requires the previous version just doesn't make sense - it is practically asking for abuse.
most PCs will have GPUs, simply because most office and private PCs use them - and they don't need to choose the costly top versions. The only redoubt against GPUs are CAD machines and production machines(where you won't need the display much)
I'm not an expert on this, but thats how I see it.
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I, for one, welcome our pixel shading overlords.
On the other hand, in Soviet Russia, the pixel is shadowing you.
Expect a beowolf cluster of SwiftShaders to run the matrix soon.
This doesn't work because everone will just flip the chalice once. If the king flips it back before the watcher gets to see it, they will not be able to confer the information again.
I suppose you could have the watcher flip the chalice at some point to tell the other to report gain, but the lack of limits on the number of times someone can be called makes it hard to specify any strategy.
"up to k times" means k or less times. k is not any number, it is constant, an it can be assumed this constant is know to the prisoners berforehand.
So when all prisoners work out not to change the chalice, when a prisoner has seen the chalice been turned k times, he can safely assume the king has spent his turning actions and then the chalice can start conferring information.
However, since the king may decide never ever to turn the chalice, prisoners might still stay pretty much indefinitely, same if the king decides to call the first prisoner a million times.
I suppose the answer that they have all been in the central room while being led into their cell is correct, on the other hand the wording seems to indicate the game starts with all prisoners already locked up in their cells.
"I'm not surprised that injecting lab rats with a twice as potent THC like substance spurred neuron generation," Interesting to note that those who habitually smoke Marijuana misread "100 times" as "double".
Yes, it would make more sense if they misread it as "4 times as potent" in binary. I think the problem is that with more brain cells receiving random or mistuned stimulation, you would learn "better" but a lot of what you would learn is crap.On the other hand, I heard that old people seem to die of suffocation very often because brain cells stop functioning, I think starting from a certain age a bong might do more good than bad.
Well, in one system for coordinating traffic I made up, the slow lanes would be in the middle to reduce the speed between cars in opposing lanes. I guess that system would only work in highways through the desert.
Now back to the question on which side of the car to sit, for the British custom of steering on the right side, it is often said this is so that drivers of carriages could attack each other better with the sword.
I suppose steering on the left then must be better for knightly jousting with the lance
There was a similar opportunity at http://www.mrfixititonline.com/ in 2001, since you could use javascript in your signatures. In their infinite wisdom, instead of fixing the hole, they made using signatures a subscription-only "gold" feature. Now that's a business model ;-)
I was going to post about how the rocket was probably shot down by the United States, to prevent global warming information from getting out, but then I remembered that shooting down a rocket is impossible.
So, it was HAARP
A province of the Empire of China
Blacklists are a stupid idea, they can be used for denial of service as well.
.." lists ready ..
[x] I wish I had one of these "Your idea does not work because
Brain: Pinky, I have set up your computer so that nothing can go wrong. Just press the "conquer the world" button NOW.
.. .. So now we rule the world?
..
Pinky: Oh, which one is that?
Brain: The big red one in the middle of the screen, Pinky. Hurry!
Pinky: Ok
Pinky: It is starting again
Brain: Argh! Not the reboot button!
There are 10 kinds of people: Those who think in binary, and those who don't.
yes, that is a pretty constructive method.
Yea, that is cool, but isn't it like something you would come up with later when you already know "tan" is the answer?
Well, the panspermia theory is a bit like intelligent design - it is not one theory, but several theories, however, the panspermia theories have a chance to be proven true, while the ID theories tend to be proven wrong.
Examples:
- the cosmos helped life come into existance by simple organic molecules that were
- formed in space
- ejected from a planet
- life spread through our solar system, that is:
- from mars
- the asteroid belt was formely a planet hosting life which
- DNA/RNA came from space
- bacteria survived a journey through the cosmos
The study reported by slashdot makes some of these theories unlikely, but not all of them.
Well, not everyone knows the shortcuts to the history, so this basically is the menu that leads to it.
:-P
..
I didn't know it was there either, I though he was meaning the menu that appears under the Go Back button
The Find UI is never in the right place - if it was on top, it would be in the way of viewing, if it is on the bottom, I forget about it and try to open it again
Download UI - can be switched off in settings
new Tabs cannot be used to go back - well, that is annoying sometimes, but the drawback of showing the previous page is that you end up with disorganized behaviour.
Zabs and modality - maybe that was a security fix?
The problems is modal windows would have to disappear when another tab gets focus.
The Campers Cup is brought to you by "Campers Gear".
T0ny is one of the expert campers sponsored by "Campers Gear", hiding under a staircase and outfitted with "Campers Gear"s "outdoor style" collection.
format /X C:
easy to do, ain't it ?
Apple needs to learn that it can't control and sell hardware, OS, and software at the same time, because it will be working against the market all the time, not with it.
The administration gambled their peace as in - not having to evacuate N.O., possibly against the will of its inhabitants - against - a disaster - and the disaster won.
It's probably the same choice you and me would have made, but that doesn't make it a great choice.
So Cory Doctorow is against DRM, but what Marcus Ranum suggests is exactly what is used to secure the DRM core - a "list" of allowed apps.
People will need to rely more on backups and the ability to log attacks and then rollback and redo the operation of a system. Of course that is only easy with mostly self-contained systems that do not execute business transactions. However, even banks "rollback" phising attacks by calling back money sent, so its not impossible to undo for them either, it just needs extra steps.
The point is they put work into it, and they control the sources to their game, so yes, they can ask money for it.
Whether Valve asks them for a part of the money, or whether they make them release the game under the GPL is up to Valve. As you wrote yourself, its up to Valve, and Valve seems to be fine with it
By the way, you are still allowed to ask money for programs under the GPL, it is just harder to continue finding people who pay your price.
They put effort into the develpment, so they could ask money for it if they wanted to.
After all, most sequels to computer games are just "mods" in a a way aren't they, and you don't object to paying for them, do you?
However, I think they should sell mods as standalone, the concept of selling an add-on for the same money that requires the previous version just doesn't make sense - it is practically asking for abuse.
most PCs will have GPUs, simply because most office and private PCs use them - and they don't need to choose the costly top versions. The only redoubt against GPUs are CAD machines and production machines(where you won't need the display much)
I'm not an expert on this, but thats how I see it.
Flat out prohibiting use of GPL software to companies that us DRM and/or Patents seems a bit extreme.
In the CIIIA, DRM bans free software from computers.In Soviet Russia, free software bans itself from computers with DRM.
gallons per parsec