My best mate is a fan of his work. I like it too, but I have a problem in that since a particularly... finger lickin' good scene in Consider Phlebas, my squick factor precludes me from reading any more of his work. Without any details, that particular scene pressed a particular dark, furry, oily and squirming button in my psyche, and I cannot get rid of the image in my mind, even years later.
*shudder*
Still, I heartily concur, on behalf of my friends, and myself before that button was squished. It is very sad news.
You've been given a list of words to study and memorize. Being a diligent student of language and the arts, you've decided to not study them at all and instead make up pointless games based on them. One game you've come up with is to see how you can concatenate the words to generate the lexicographically lowest possible string.
Input As input for playing this game you will receive a text file containing an integer N, the number of word sets you need to play your game against. This will be followed by N word sets, each starting with an integer M, the number of words in the set, followed by M words. All tokens in the input will be separated by some whitespace and, aside from N and M, will consist entirely of lowercase letters.
Output Your submission should contain the lexicographically shortest strings for each corresponding word set, one per line and in order.
Constraints 1 = N = 100 1 = M = 9 1 = all word lengths = 10
Example Input 5 6 facebook hacker cup for studious students 5 k duz q rc lvraw 5 mybea zdr yubx xe dyroiy 5 jibw ji jp bw jibw 5 uiuy hopji li j dcyi
Example Output cupfacebookfor hackerstudentsstudious duzklvrawqrc dyroiymy beaxeyubxzdr bwjibwjibwjijp dcyihopjijliuiuy
(Please remove spaces from example outputs. slashdot filters ftl)
I'm sick of reading this, and sorry Zymergy for picking on your post to reply to.
Please, all of you posting, "oh, she should have had a backup, please stop the QQ", follow along slowly.
IT'S NOTHING TO DO WITH HAVING OR NOT HAVING A BACKUP!
Zip, Nada, Zilch.
She's not complaining that she lost the data, she's complaining that Best Buy allowed her data, including personal information that leaves her vulnerable to identity theft, to be stolen, and then LYING about it for months!
I've read TFA, and nowhere that I can find does she complain "Oh, they lost my data and I don't have a backup". For all we know, she/does/ have a backup!
There were some videos a while back of a similar system being demo'd. It showed a system which allowed for multiple simultaneous touches to be detected, so you could actually grab a photograph and resize it by pulling the corners. You could give commands by chording touches on the screen. It looked really interesting, but I can't find it anymore - anybody know where I can find them again?
FTFA
I mean, he's not necessarily the sharpest knife in the drawer, and he and his guys were mistyping their email addresses, sent them to georgewbush.org, instead of dotcom, which is an email domain owned by friends of ours, who shot them right to us.
I just want to know what/.'ers think will happen 4 years from now, in case either candidate wins?
Bush wins. Agh. A stacked supreme court, war in Iran, Syria, and (remote) north korea, etc. etc., more bad karma, and a possible backlash at the polls.
Kerry wins Agh. Failure to extract cleanly from Iraq, more casualties, intense scrutiny from republicans a la Clinton, economy going down simply because oil is running out, and a possible backlash at the polls.
Ok, that's really very silly. My real point is, does it seem to anyone else that we are seeing a see-saw effect here - it's just getting worse and worse with both sides becoming more and more polarised and angry about the other. I have never seen such an acrimonious election campaign.
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We have another one here in Waterford, Ireland. Called the Magic Road, it's about 20 miles from Waterford City, heading towards Dungarvan, and then hang a right about halfway there.
Not only do you have the Magic Road, a little further on you have a spectacular Mahon Falls, a lovely waterfall, and then turn around and you can see all the way to the coast across the patchwork quilt of 40 shades of green....
</wax lyrical>
It's truly a beautiful place. Come on over and visit!
It's a smoking gun situation. No-one saw the shot, but the gun is there next to the body.
Carbon dating the ring shows that it occurred 65 million years ago, and checking the fossil record all over the world shows a massive extinction occurring at the same time.
I use the diceware system. I generally end up with 25+ character passwords, and when mixed up cases, swap letter for number and word separator special chars are used, it gives very high strength passwords.
Then just use memory path tricks to store them in the old' grey matter, nuff said. I use the same rules every time for character substitution, so I don't have to remember the coded password, just the diceware phrase. Apply the coding, and there's the password.
So, they had to patch a ton of different versions, and you don't necessarily want them issuing a shitty patch. So if you blame anyone, blame those sendmail monkeys for the delay.;)
Sun just delays - We're looking at probably 3-4 weeks yet before they roll out a patch for the Cobalt range. That's pretty much been the pattern up to now - 4-6 weeks for really critical patches, and god knows how long for less important stuff.
When I were a lad, we had to go down t'mill at 6 o'clock, work 20 hours in the pitch black, come home, and then our parents would beat us senseless and put us out in the coal shed to sleep.
"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two Brothers torn apart by chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb. The third big war will begin when the big city is burning."
It's quite clear that he was referring to Man U's downfall in the Premiership.
City of God = Stadium of Light (Sunderland)
Great Thunder = Kevin Philips hat trick - Crowd go wild
Brothers torn apart by chaos = The Nevilles can't defend - No change there
The fortress endures = Sunderland unbeaten at home
Great leader will succumb = Alex Ferguson throws a tantrum and quits
The third big war will begin = Arsenal V Leeds United FA cup final
Big city is burning = Arsenal win 2-0 - Leeds United fans go on the rampage
[quote]
Did a search for the group *apparently* claiming responsibility for this attack, The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. This is report of a claim is unverified, but
their website is
http://www.alhourriah.org/urgent.asp
there is a message that has appeared there in the last 90 minutes.
can someone translate it please?
[/quote]
Subsequently, the claim has been withdrawn, but it might still be interesting to see what they say.
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My best mate is a fan of his work. I like it too, but I have a problem in that since a particularly ... finger lickin' good scene in Consider Phlebas, my squick factor precludes me from reading any more of his work. Without any details, that particular scene pressed a particular dark, furry, oily and squirming button in my psyche, and I cannot get rid of the image in my mind, even years later.
*shudder*
Still, I heartily concur, on behalf of my friends, and myself before that button was squished. It is very sad news.
You've been given a list of words to study and memorize. Being a diligent student of language and the arts, you've decided to not study them at all and instead make up pointless games based on them. One game you've come up with is to see how you can concatenate the words to generate the lexicographically lowest possible string.
Input
As input for playing this game you will receive a text file containing an integer N, the number of word sets you need to play your game against. This will be followed by N word sets, each starting with an integer M, the number of words in the set, followed by M words. All tokens in the input will be separated by some whitespace and, aside from N and M, will consist entirely of lowercase letters.
Output
Your submission should contain the lexicographically shortest strings for each corresponding word set, one per line and in order.
Constraints
1 = N = 100
1 = M = 9
1 = all word lengths = 10
Example Input
5
6 facebook hacker cup for studious students
5 k duz q rc lvraw
5 mybea zdr yubx xe dyroiy
5 jibw ji jp bw jibw
5 uiuy hopji li j dcyi
Example Output
cupfacebookfor hackerstudentsstudious
duzklvrawqrc
dyroiymy beaxeyubxzdr
bwjibwjibwjijp
dcyihopjijliuiuy
(Please remove spaces from example outputs. slashdot filters ftl)
Starfish Family Mail - http://www.lincolnbeach.com/sfm_main.asp
Allows whitelists controlled by parent, authenticates emails, no scripts are run, codewords must exist in emails for delivery, etc. etc.
Oh for heavens sake.
/does/ have a backup!
I'm sick of reading this, and sorry Zymergy for picking on your post to reply to.
Please, all of you posting, "oh, she should have had a backup, please stop the QQ", follow along slowly.
IT'S NOTHING TO DO WITH HAVING OR NOT HAVING A BACKUP!
Zip, Nada, Zilch.
She's not complaining that she lost the data, she's complaining that Best Buy allowed her data, including personal information that leaves her vulnerable to identity theft, to be stolen, and then LYING about it for months!
I've read TFA, and nowhere that I can find does she complain "Oh, they lost my data and I don't have a backup". For all we know, she
Head -> Desk
There were some videos a while back of a similar system being demo'd. It showed a system which allowed for multiple simultaneous touches to be detected, so you could actually grab a photograph and resize it by pulling the corners. You could give commands by chording touches on the screen. It looked really interesting, but I can't find it anymore - anybody know where I can find them again?
FTFA I mean, he's not necessarily the sharpest knife in the drawer, and he and his guys were mistyping their email addresses, sent them to georgewbush.org, instead of dotcom, which is an email domain owned by friends of ours, who shot them right to us.
Hey
/.'ers think will happen 4 years from now, in case either candidate wins?
I just want to know what
Bush wins.
Agh. A stacked supreme court, war in Iran, Syria, and (remote) north korea, etc. etc., more bad karma, and a possible backlash at the polls.
Kerry wins
Agh. Failure to extract cleanly from Iraq, more casualties, intense scrutiny from republicans a la Clinton, economy going down simply because oil is running out, and a possible backlash at the polls.
Ok, that's really very silly. My real point is, does it seem to anyone else that we are seeing a see-saw effect here - it's just getting worse and worse with both sides becoming more and more polarised and angry about the other. I have never seen such an acrimonious election campaign.
It just seems to be whiplashing out of control.
(glum)
Very handy, this.
The BBC has a special, ad and nasty stuff-free version of realplayer available here.
Apparently the BBC would not distribute the nasty version because, as a publicly funded organisation, they couldn't be seen to be doing that.
Hi,
There's a petition available. Now I don't know exactly how effective it will be, but signing is more effective than not.
http://www.whois.sc/verisign-dns/.
rgds
Alan
We have another one here in Waterford, Ireland. Called the Magic Road, it's about 20 miles from Waterford City, heading towards Dungarvan, and then hang a right about halfway there.
....
Not only do you have the Magic Road, a little further on you have a spectacular Mahon Falls, a lovely waterfall, and then turn around and you can see all the way to the coast across the patchwork quilt of 40 shades of green
</wax lyrical>
It's truly a beautiful place. Come on over and visit!
17 meteor strikes and counting, or one /.'ing.
;P
Take yer pick
How the heck do you view an image like that? What kind of machine do you need?
Hmm. Imagine a Beowulf
*click*
*boom*
NO CARRIER
It's a smoking gun situation. No-one saw the shot, but the gun is there next to the body.
Carbon dating the ring shows that it occurred 65 million years ago, and checking the fossil record all over the world shows a massive extinction occurring at the same time.
The glove fits.
Book 'em, Dano.
I use the diceware system. I generally end up with 25+ character passwords, and when mixed up cases, swap letter for number and word separator special chars are used, it gives very high strength passwords.
Then just use memory path tricks to store them in the old' grey matter, nuff said. I use the same rules every time for character substitution, so I don't have to remember the coded password, just the diceware phrase. Apply the coding, and there's the password.
So, they had to patch a ton of different versions, and you don't necessarily want them issuing a shitty patch. So if you blame anyone, blame those sendmail monkeys for the delay. ;)
Sun just delays - We're looking at probably 3-4 weeks yet before they roll out a patch for the Cobalt range. That's pretty much been the pattern up to now - 4-6 weeks for really critical patches, and god knows how long for less important stuff.
Excuse me if I sound bitter.
Wonder if any of the people involved would follow up and let us know how many ferrari's they're gonna buy? [bg]
Reading alashdot at anything less than +2!
/this/ post :)
Some of the nuts down in the basement there...
Creepy!
Luckily, I'll probably never even see
Yeah, that demo disk rocks.
/ever/ tried it on, first time.
It's worked on just about every machine I've
<karma whore>
Get it here Demo Disk
</karma whore>
Ha!
When I were a lad, we had to go down t'mill at 6 o'clock, work 20 hours in the pitch black, come home, and then our parents would beat us senseless and put us out in the coal shed to sleep.
Oh.
Sorry.
Wrong sketch.
Ahem
rgds
Alan
Anyway - THIS is the 'correct' interpetation
"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two Brothers torn apart by chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb. The third big war will begin when the big city is burning."
It's quite clear that he was referring to Man U's downfall in the Premiership.
City of God = Stadium of Light (Sunderland)
Great Thunder = Kevin Philips hat trick - Crowd go wild
Brothers torn apart by chaos = The Nevilles can't defend - No change there
The fortress endures = Sunderland unbeaten at home
Great leader will succumb = Alex Ferguson throws a tantrum and quits
The third big war will begin = Arsenal V Leeds United FA cup final
Big city is burning = Arsenal win 2-0 - Leeds United fans go on the rampage
heh
Hi,
[quote]
Did a search for the group *apparently* claiming responsibility for this attack, The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. This is report of a claim is unverified, but
their website is
http://www.alhourriah.org/urgent.asp
there is a message that has appeared there in the last 90 minutes.
can someone translate it please?
[/quote]
Subsequently, the claim has been withdrawn, but it might still be interesting to see what they say.
If you still have a copy of Altavista Discovery around anywhere, install that and copy the books to HD, and let Discovery index it.
:)
Thats a hell of a search engine for the books
Alan
--
Tequila - drink of the gods.
Assuming that it costs $FOO per month for this 3gb limit, wonder would they allow someone to pay $FOO x 2 for 6gb month, and so on?
Alan
--
Tequila - drink of the gods.
Hmm - slashdot is borking the text in the link.
Here it is
click - no goatse
Thats better
Alan
--
Tequila - drink of the gods.
I'm also lazy. What can I say - I found the link, woohoo
i nux/lcds/index.html
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/l
no html - no goatse
Alan
--
Tequila - drink of the gods.