I bought some very, very cheap HDMI cables at amazon. $10 for a 3 meter and $6 for 2 meter. The audio/video quality is great, and like my wife, I can't imagine the $80 cables improving on what I'm already seeing.
Simple, I ask any of the two statues, "Am I thinking about boobies right now?". If the statue answer "yes" I walk in since the statue speaks truth and thus leads to salvation. If the statue answers "no" then I go the other way since this statue is obviosly the liar and leads to death.
In the first case where you don't know if the boy is the first child or not there are four possibilites BB, BG, GB and GG. We can eliminate GG since that's now impossible. From the remaining 3 cases only BB would allow the second child to be a boy so the chance that the other child is a girl is 2/3.
In the second case where we know the child is the oldest boy there are only 2 possibilites BB and BG. We can't eliminate any possibilites so the chance the second child is a girl is 1/2.
This gave me the best idea. At login I should be dropped into a Quake map where I have to retrace my steps from point A to point B with only a marginal degree of error. I'm pretty sure my path would be unique. Then I could explain to my boss that I'm just trying to log in but I guess I must have forgotten my password so that's why it's taking so long.
The spammers are even more creative than we could have guessed. Their "real" solution to the problem:
1) Create fake blog entries which discuss a solution to their problems as if they've already implemented them. 2) Get link to article posted on Slashdot. 3) Use +5 Insightful responses to article as a spec for coding a solution.
Where the hell did all you people go to school? I too remember picking up photocopied articles, chapter, etc. at Kinko's, and I also remember that the price included royalties to the holders of the copyrights of the photocopied material. If Napster would consider building in a micro-payment system for works it knows to be copyrighted material, at least it could pretend to be running an honest business, and that might finally shut this whole Napster business up so we can all move on to something a bit more interesting.
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OK, here it goes, I'm down on one knee...
AMY, WILL YOU MARRY ME?
I bought some very, very cheap HDMI cables at amazon. $10 for a 3 meter and $6 for 2 meter. The audio/video quality is great, and like my wife, I can't imagine the $80 cables improving on what I'm already seeing.
Why not have an option to view adds. Then it's sort of like I'm donating my willingness to view a few adds on the site rather than sending in cash.
So should I be pleased that I found the female version of this easy and the male version almost impossible? How many metro-sexual points did I lose?
What I'm really wondering is can I bring bottled water if I freeze it first. It's no longer a liquid so isn't banned as far as I can tell.
Simple, I ask any of the two statues, "Am I thinking about boobies right now?". If the statue answer "yes" I walk in since the statue speaks truth and thus leads to salvation. If the statue answers "no" then I go the other way since this statue is obviosly the liar and leads to death.
In the first case where you don't know if the boy is the first child or not there are four possibilites BB, BG, GB and GG. We can eliminate GG since that's now impossible. From the remaining 3 cases only BB would allow the second child to be a boy so the chance
that the other child is a girl is 2/3.
In the second case where we know the child is the oldest boy there are only 2 possibilites BB and BG. We can't eliminate any possibilites so the chance the second child is a girl is 1/2.
That wasn't papyrus silly, that was a strip of skin peeled from the back of an eight year old factory worker.
This gave me the best idea. At login I should be dropped into a Quake map where I have to retrace my steps from point A to point B with only a marginal degree of error. I'm pretty sure my path would be unique. Then I could explain to my boss that I'm just trying to log in but I guess I must have forgotten my password so that's why it's taking so long.
The spammers are even more creative than we could have guessed. Their "real" solution to the problem:
1) Create fake blog entries which discuss a solution to their problems as if they've already implemented them.
2) Get link to article posted on Slashdot.
3) Use +5 Insightful responses to article as a spec for coding a solution.
So the whole life flashing before your eyes when you die is just your log file being tared, gzipped and dumped to a tape on a shelf somewhere.
Where the hell did all you people go to school? I too remember picking up photocopied articles, chapter, etc. at Kinko's, and I also remember that the price included royalties to the holders of the copyrights of the photocopied material. If Napster would consider building in a micro-payment system for works it knows to be copyrighted material, at least it could pretend to be running an honest business, and that might finally shut this whole Napster business up so we can all move on to something a bit more interesting.