I didn't see an answer posted yet. I must not have looked hard enough, I suppose. I don't think it's that hard, although I did solve a similar puzzle years ago from William Wu, which means I had already gone through this kind of process (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/medium.s html).
It's a cool puzzle, and the steps you have to go through to figure it out are fun to find. The meataphysical implications of the statement kicking off the process, even though everyone knew the statement to be true before it was said, is by far the most interesting part.
On the 100th night, all blue eyed people leave the island.
One of my favortite This American Life stories is Lost in Translation (5/30/2003, Episode 238), in which:
Act One. The Chasm Between Comedy and Music. Why is it that karaoke machines only have songs on them? If what they do is take a version of a public performance and allow the rest of us to give our own interpretations of the material, why aren't there other options, like the "you talkin to me?" scene from Taxi Driver, or Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Jonathan Goldstein and producer Starlee Kine find out why, when they go to a karaoke club that has, along with all the songs, comedy routines for people to perform. (11 minutes)
It's freakin' brilliant, with Jonathan Goldstein innocently picking a routine from the early 90's which happened to contain jokes about the first Iraq war and how incompetent Iraq is. Unfortunaetly, this was delivered just after bodies started coming home during the current fiasco. Also, I think there's some joke about Mike Tyson, but, of course, that was a little touchy, too, having just gone through the rape proceedings.
George W. Bush has a funny way of flip-flopping on the issues.
He was against a Homeland Security Department. FLIP
Then he was for it. FLOP
He was against the McCain Feingold campaign finance bill. FLIP
But then he was for it. FLIP-FLOP
Bush said he was for free trade. FLIPPITY
But then he put on steel tariffs. FLOP
Then he was against the tariffs again. FLIPPITY FLOP
Bush said the states should decide about gay marriage. FLIPPITY
Then he was for changing the Constitution. FLIPPITY FLOP, OR IS IT FLOPPITY FLIP?
Bush said he would put mandatory caps on Carbon Dioxide. FLOOPITY
Then he said he wouldn't. FLOOPPITY-FLEE
Bush said he'd leave no child behind. FLOPITTY
But refused to fund it, leaving millions of children of behind. BYE BYE POOR CHILDREN, WE'RE LEAVING YOU BEHIND, SORRY. OH, I CAN'T SEE YOU NOW, YOU'RE SO FAR BEHIND. I'VE FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU.
Bush said he against an independent 9/11 commission. FLIIIIIIIIIIIIIP
But then reluctantly agreed to one. FLOPPITY FLOOP
Bush said we were going to war in Iraq to disarm Saddam Hussein. FLIPPITY
But when it turned out there weren't any WMD's, he said the war was to fight al Qaeda. FLIPPITY-FLOPPITY
But then he admitted there was no evidence of ties between Saddam and al Qaeda FLIPPITY-FLOOPITY-FLOOP
So then he said the war was to bring Western style democracy to the entire Middle East. FLIPPITY-FLOOPITY-FLOP, FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP
He said he wouldn't invade Iraq without a vote in the UN. FLIP
But then he invaded without a vote. FLOPPITY FLOOP
But now he wants to UN to save his butt. (to tune of: Off to See the Wizard) FLIPPITY FLOPITTY FLOOP. FLIPPITY FLOPPITY FLOOP, FLIPPITY FLOPPITY, FLIPPITY FLOPPITY. FLIPPITY FLOPPITY FLOOP
He said he was ushering in an era of personal responsibility. FLIPPITY
But refuses to take responsibility for all his flip-flops. FLIPPITY BYE BYE BUSH. SEE YOU IN FLIPPITY FLOPPITY LAND - THAT'S RIGHT - CRAWFORD FLIPPITY FLOOP TEXAS. FLOOP FLOOP!
>> Shrek for example, the actual character animation was manually done by artists with mice and digitiser pads at workstations (ie the position of the characters were manually set every few frames--computers did the rendering, camera movements, lighting, in-betweens etc).
That must be why I find it so difficult to watch Shrek. It gives me a headache, because the visual style is so crisp and detailed, but the character motion is so sloppy and irregular.
But the simple fact that you pay for it doesn't mean jack. I have paid to live in aprtments and houses, but I was still restricted by the contracts that I signed.
Even so, the article is about the use of a service provided by the university. The university is essentially your ISP. They can choose to restrict access to anything they like. Maybe they don't allow port 22. Maybe they cache all websites and filter out any references to Loni Anderson (wait, it's Pamela these days).
You really have an over-inflated sense of something. The fact that you pay for it is really just a line item anyway. They could still require you to live there, and offer the dorms for free, but charge more for something else. You pay for it only because they can justify the costs more easily by assigning them to individual items.
But let me tell you, I envy the shit out of my friends who started having kids in their early twenties. Both of their kids will be on their own by the time my friends are 45.
The point stands, raising kids takes a whole lot more stamina than drinking, partying, whatever, and you can still do all of that at 50 years old.
I'll be close to 60 by the time my kids are out of the house (hopefully, one of the Bush twins won't be President, so my kids could actually get a job).
Well, we tend to view the solar system with a staionary sun, not a stationary Earth. The path that the moon takes around the sun from this perspective is relatively close to an eliptical orbit, with a variation back and forth across the Earth's orbital path.
Viewing the sun as staionary, the moon doesn't really go around the Earth, it just passes back and forth across it's path.
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I didn't see an answer posted yet. I must not have looked hard enough, I suppose. I don't think it's that hard, although I did solve a similar puzzle years ago from William Wu, which means I had already gone through this kind of process (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/medium.s html).
It's a cool puzzle, and the steps you have to go through to figure it out are fun to find. The meataphysical implications of the statement kicking off the process, even though everyone knew the statement to be true before it was said, is by far the most interesting part.
On the 100th night, all blue eyed people leave the island.
What happened to egomaniacal playboy doofus? That's how I see 'im.
What are you talking about? He nailed egomaniacal playboy doofus. It was a great impersonation of Bush.
One of my favortite This American Life stories is Lost in Translation (5/30/2003, Episode 238), in which:
Act One. The Chasm Between Comedy and Music. Why is it that karaoke machines only have songs on them? If what they do is take a version of a public performance and allow the rest of us to give our own interpretations of the material, why aren't there other options, like the "you talkin to me?" scene from Taxi Driver, or Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Jonathan Goldstein and producer Starlee Kine find out why, when they go to a karaoke club that has, along with all the songs, comedy routines for people to perform. (11 minutes)
It's freakin' brilliant, with Jonathan Goldstein innocently picking a routine from the early 90's which happened to contain jokes about the first Iraq war and how incompetent Iraq is. Unfortunaetly, this was delivered just after bodies started coming home during the current fiasco. Also, I think there's some joke about Mike Tyson, but, of course, that was a little touchy, too, having just gone through the rape proceedings.
Good stuff.
Then, by all means, check out the television broadcast.
Sorry, I should have given credit to Al Franken. Performed on his radio show
George W. Bush has a funny way of flip-flopping on the issues.
He was against a Homeland Security Department. FLIP
Then he was for it. FLOP
He was against the McCain Feingold campaign finance bill. FLIP
But then he was for it. FLIP-FLOP
Bush said he was for free trade. FLIPPITY
But then he put on steel tariffs. FLOP
Then he was against the tariffs again. FLIPPITY FLOP
Bush said the states should decide about gay marriage. FLIPPITY
Then he was for changing the Constitution. FLIPPITY FLOP, OR IS IT FLOPPITY FLIP?
Bush said he would put mandatory caps on Carbon Dioxide. FLOOPITY
Then he said he wouldn't. FLOOPPITY-FLEE
Bush said he'd leave no child behind. FLOPITTY
But refused to fund it, leaving millions of children of behind. BYE BYE POOR CHILDREN, WE'RE LEAVING YOU BEHIND, SORRY. OH, I CAN'T SEE YOU NOW, YOU'RE SO FAR BEHIND. I'VE FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU.
Bush said he against an independent 9/11 commission. FLIIIIIIIIIIIIIP
But then reluctantly agreed to one. FLOPPITY FLOOP
Bush said we were going to war in Iraq to disarm Saddam Hussein. FLIPPITY
But when it turned out there weren't any WMD's, he said the war was to fight al Qaeda. FLIPPITY-FLOPPITY
But then he admitted there was no evidence of ties between Saddam and al Qaeda FLIPPITY-FLOOPITY-FLOOP
So then he said the war was to bring Western style democracy to the entire Middle East. FLIPPITY-FLOOPITY-FLOP, FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP
He said he wouldn't invade Iraq without a vote in the UN. FLIP
But then he invaded without a vote. FLOPPITY FLOOP
But now he wants to UN to save his butt. (to tune of: Off to See the Wizard) FLIPPITY FLOPITTY FLOOP. FLIPPITY FLOPPITY FLOOP, FLIPPITY FLOPPITY, FLIPPITY FLOPPITY. FLIPPITY FLOPPITY FLOOP
He said he was ushering in an era of personal responsibility. FLIPPITY
But refuses to take responsibility for all his flip-flops. FLIPPITY BYE BYE BUSH. SEE YOU IN FLIPPITY FLOPPITY LAND - THAT'S RIGHT - CRAWFORD FLIPPITY FLOOP TEXAS. FLOOP FLOOP!
>> Copy the backup the files on CD (700 MB) and delete them.
If I copy them to a CD, how do I delete them?
>> Shrek for example, the actual character animation was manually done by artists with mice and digitiser pads at workstations (ie the position of the characters were manually set every few frames--computers did the rendering, camera movements, lighting, in-betweens etc).
That must be why I find it so difficult to watch Shrek. It gives me a headache, because the visual style is so crisp and detailed, but the character motion is so sloppy and irregular.
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>> Any validity this analogy might have ever had was blown to hell once you used "broke college student" and "lexus" in the same sentence.
That was intentional. I was amused by the idea of a broke college student being so destitute that all he had was a laptop computer.
Perhaps you're a broke college student, and your only computer is a laptop with a broken CD-drive.
Back when I was in school, I had a 25 pound word processor with a screen that displayed 5 lines. And I was grateful.
But the simple fact that you pay for it doesn't mean jack. I have paid to live in aprtments and houses, but I was still restricted by the contracts that I signed.
Even so, the article is about the use of a service provided by the university. The university is essentially your ISP. They can choose to restrict access to anything they like. Maybe they don't allow port 22. Maybe they cache all websites and filter out any references to Loni Anderson (wait, it's Pamela these days).
You really have an over-inflated sense of something. The fact that you pay for it is really just a line item anyway. They could still require you to live there, and offer the dorms for free, but charge more for something else. You pay for it only because they can justify the costs more easily by assigning them to individual items.
Cool! A Kill Bill bootleg!!!!
Send it to me, too!
I mean, my laptop can only do Gigabit Ethernet. Will all of that data just kind of smush up on the other side of the wall until it bursts the wire?
Oh dear god, if you have never seen one of these, you might be best served by gouging out your eyeballs now, just in case.
>>"Perhaps you're a broke college student, and your only computer is a laptop with a broken CD-drive."
Then you are out of luck, and may have to live a life devoid of all music and joy.
Perhaps I'm a broke colege student who can't afford gas for my Lexus. I should be allowed to siphon gas out of other cars.
>>"If you are FORCED to live in a dorm"
Bullshit. You don't have to go to college.
It is not your home. It is the school's dorm room, which you are allowed to live in.
By the way, it would be okay for them to force you to wear a suit to class everyday, too. Or they could even require you to read books, god forbid.
But let me tell you, I envy the shit out of my friends who started having kids in their early twenties. Both of their kids will be on their own by the time my friends are 45.
The point stands, raising kids takes a whole lot more stamina than drinking, partying, whatever, and you can still do all of that at 50 years old.
I'll be close to 60 by the time my kids are out of the house (hopefully, one of the Bush twins won't be President, so my kids could actually get a job).
Did that game never come out? I know someone was working on it back in 98. It was going to be the most polygon intensive game ever.
Maybe that's why it didn't come out.
I've always wanted to play on the World of Tiers with Kickaha the Trickster.
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The lawyers got there already.
Well, as this old strip shows, they do have a template which could fill all of our needs.
Well, when you go for a jog, I will concede that you are orbiting the Earth and not the sun.
Well, we tend to view the solar system with a staionary sun, not a stationary Earth. The path that the moon takes around the sun from this perspective is relatively close to an eliptical orbit, with a variation back and forth across the Earth's orbital path.
Viewing the sun as staionary, the moon doesn't really go around the Earth, it just passes back and forth across it's path.
...you insensitive clod....