Lets call the guy with the restriction player 1 and the other player 2. If you think about it player 1 got 3 "pure" strategies (as in: each other strategy he can play can be seen as a mixture of these 3): (1) rock 100%, (2) paper 50%/rock 50% and (3) scissors 50%/rock 50%. Against (1) rock gives 0, paper -1 and scissors 1. Against (2) rock gives 1/2, paper -1/2 and scissors 0. Against (3) rock gives -1/2, paper 0 and scissors 1/2. In each case, the number is the probability of player 1 winning minus player 2 winning.
We see that player 2 should not play scissors, because he will never gain anything from it and clearly the optimal strategy should be able to gain something (we will see that it is 1/6). Then, knowing that, paper 50%/rock 50% is better than rock 100% for player 1: If player 2 plays rock, player 1 gets 1/2 (instead of 0) and if player 2 plays scissors player 1 gains -1/2 (instead of -1).
Hence, we are down to: (2) paper 50%/rock 50% and (3) scissors 50%/ rock 50% vs. rock and paper. If player 1 plays (2) with pr. 1/3 and (3) with probability 2/3, he loses 1/6 against both rock and paper. If player 2 plays rock with probability 1/3 and paper with probability 2/3 he gets 1/6 against (1) and 1/6 against (2). This is optimal since each player have a way to guarantee that player 1 loses 1/6 and player 2 wins 1/6. If either had a better strategy it would break the other players guarantee (note that the given strategy for player 1 wins 1/6 against scissors, again showing that it is a bad strategy for player 2 and player 2's strategy wins 1/3 against rock 100% showing that it is a bad strategy).
They actually do not need to do any framing or anything. They simply give up all the files Snowden got at one time, everybody gets angry at them and in a month the furor over all this will have died down. Currently people are getting annoyed at them whenever Snowden releases a new file and that can continue for a long time yet, which seemes way worse for them. Sort of the real version of the boiling frog. In reality it jumps out when it gets too hot, but it might not if it gets warm only for a short time.
Lyx gives you both options. E.g. I want to use the fancy macro I made previously, so I write \macroname like I would in your latex by hand. I need to take the union of two sets and can't remember the syntax (it is \cup or \bigcup but this is a example - I could write \bigcup, but this is a example) so I find it in the menu...
The real strength, to me, is that per default you see the equations as they would look in print (and not like \frac{stuff}{other stuff}). It is (to me atleast) alot easier to read 10 lines of inequations using symbols with 1 super script and 2 subscribts if I can see them as the way they are in the output instead of unstructed text. It is not really a solution to have output at the side, since you have to look back and forth between them.
LyX bad sides are that it cant convert that well from pure latex and that the algorithms (I am a ph.d. student in comp. sci.) are not the best looking.
He might be. The question does not say one way or the other.
The idea is that there are 198 posibillities for two children and the day they are born (as in: the first is a boy on a monday the second is a girl on sunday - there are 198 different statements like that). If you go through it you will see that excatly 27 of them contains a boy on a tuesday. Of those 27, 13 had two boys. Each of the events are equally likely - well not in the real world, but it would require a bit more info otherwise. So you end up with 13/27.
A non-numerical version goes as follows. To easen the reading I will use unordered pairs:
There are three sets. A set where the boy on a tuesday is born first, F, one there he is born second, S, and one where there are two boys on a tuesday, B. The S and F are equally large and the number of girl boy pairs are equally large in both (similary for boy boy pairs), but they contain a slightly larger probabillity for boy, girl pairs over boy, boy pairs(because neither S nor F contains two boys on a tuesday - they are in B - but they DO contain the posbillity that it is a boy on a tuesday and a girl on a tuesday). The difference is excatly such that if you add B to e.g. F the numbers of boy, girl pairs are equal to the number of boy, boy pairs. Therefore you will have a slightly larger probabillity for girl, boy pairs (because the number of boy, boy in F+B is equal to the number of boy, girl in F+B, but the number of girl, boy pairs are slightly larger than the number of boy, boy pairs in S).
That is not really true. You, as a outsider, will need some time to understand the code and what is causing the error before you can fix it. That will take time and you can bet (for everything, but the smallest pieces of software) that it won't be "Fixed tomorrow".
I suppose you could find someone who knows the code and throw money at him to fix it, but I suspect you could do the same with Microsoft, if you cared enough about the problem (but proberly quite a bit more expensive).
I expect to be modded down for this (old, but what you said is the conventional wisdom on/.).
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H L Mencken
I am not sure that meanes we shouldn't hope he wins:/
Yeah and Denmark gets pissy about Sweden's nuclear power plant and we have to shut it down.:(
As I understood it, it was because Sweden put one (the one the danish goverment tried to shut down) 20 km from the danish Capitol and largest city, Copenhagen - see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barseb%C3%A4ck_nuclear_power_plant
AFAIK, the rest wasn't a problem.
Actually that isn't quite excat (atleast not anymore). If there is one or more non-Danish (the main language spoken in Denmark) speakers the course will be done in English (no matter the course - well in CS anyway (Math got other rules)).
In Denmark I think its lifetime aka. 16 years at avarage. But I am pretty sure that if you DID murder an entire schoolclass that you might be considered mentaly unstable which might put you in a asyleum until the doctores deamed you fit for a normal life. In such a case I doubt she would get out ever...
On the other hand I doubt that you would get a punishment no matter what she did;)
Not really. My brother tried to get into a local goverment, with only one issue. He didnt succed either (missed by a 0,1% or so (I cant remember the excat numbers)). He had excatly one wish and used/uses alot of his time at it now, not because he still tries but because he managed to get it through.
They doesnt need to get in. They need to get egough focus at the subject and egough people behind it to make the goverment do it. Its not hard to make someone do something in a goverment if you are the only side represented (And I dont really think the swedish version of RIAA (I dont know if they even got any) is much of a player). If they can see that they could add even 0,5% additionel votes or how ever many that did vote for the pirate party without any real lose they would be stupid (from my pow atleast) not to go for it.
Lets take a recap of that we have learned today: The internet is like tubes and now someone has send a killer after them.
It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the internets or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the tube killers will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new tubelords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted/. poster, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their *CARRIER LOST*
Qoute by Robert Heinlein
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Then I saw this story I could nearly hear Robert Heinlein saying this:
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years , the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped,or turned back, for their private benefit.
I use RSS for/. The reason? You just click on that link in the sidebar in firefox and you get the equivalent of the/. frontpage, except that it is showing you what you havn't read yet (incl. new stories) and if you don't see anything you want to read you just go back to the main part of the window. Its alot faster then looking at the/. frontpage since the links are all in one size and so on.
Ok I might use it in a way it wasnt intended to be used (I only update the feeds then I check them so its pretty close to normal webbrowsing)...
I read the title alitle bit fast so I thought that it said "Rules set for 50 million", and I thought hey thats differnetly the plan!
1. Get 50 mio.
2. Make an change to the IP laws so they favours you.
3. Profit!!!
Look this is one of the good ones. We know step 2!!!
Btw. Missread the title and 1,2,3 ALL in one post. WOW;)
Evil Genius vs. DK2 + an revivew of the former
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I've been playing this game for awhile. Its close and its not close to Dungeon Keeper II.
The idea is proberly about the same. You are supposed to take over the world. But the traps system is so different ly from DK2, that I wouldnt really be able to compare them. In Evil genius you chose which sensors (and what sensors (thouch pad, laser or movement sensors are the ones on top of my mind)) activate what trap, so you can make hole strings of traps (and you get some money based on how many traps an agent moves through in an short time) (if you get evil genius, try to make an cirkel of blow traps and watch the agents fly around the rest of their stupid lives).
the way you get money is also alot differently from DK2. You get money by robbing hole countries and not by getting some imps to cut out some gold for you.
Now we get to the part about getting more infamous (not really in DK2 -except if you count the completion of missions). you send out ppl that are suppose to eg. steal an artifact (eg. the space suit (for how can you take over the universe if your minons just die all the time?)) and by duing that ppl start to make way for you and you can hire more henchmens (the bad part is that enemy super heros start to appear - and they are annoying and nearly imposible to kill). The coolest thing about this system is the small radio transmissions afterwards about what happend. Some of the missions are plain stupid tho. Who have ever heard about an evil genius that DESTROYED an diamond mine (WITH DIAMONDS IN!)
The minons. They are different from DK2's by being specialesed (eg. quantum physics aint that good in the front line but very good at finding new things to research into and snipers are very good at picking peasky agents off at an distance)
The worst thing about this game is its lack of multiplayer (you can nearly hear it scream "play me in multiplayer") but no no multiplayer.
I think its worth about an 8 for overall and about 9,5 if you aint into multiplayer.
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Lets call the guy with the restriction player 1 and the other player 2.
If you think about it player 1 got 3 "pure" strategies (as in: each other strategy he can play can be seen as a mixture of these 3):
(1) rock 100%,
(2) paper 50%/rock 50% and
(3) scissors 50%/rock 50%.
Against (1) rock gives 0, paper -1 and scissors 1.
Against (2) rock gives 1/2, paper -1/2 and scissors 0.
Against (3) rock gives -1/2, paper 0 and scissors 1/2.
In each case, the number is the probability of player 1 winning minus player 2 winning.
We see that player 2 should not play scissors, because he will never gain anything from it and clearly the optimal strategy should be able to gain something (we will see that it is 1/6). Then, knowing that, paper 50%/rock 50% is better than rock 100% for player 1: If player 2 plays rock, player 1 gets 1/2 (instead of 0) and if player 2 plays scissors player 1 gains -1/2 (instead of -1).
Hence, we are down to:
(2) paper 50%/rock 50% and (3) scissors 50%/ rock 50% vs. rock and paper. If player 1 plays (2) with pr. 1/3 and (3) with probability 2/3, he loses 1/6 against both rock and paper. If player 2 plays rock with probability 1/3 and paper with probability 2/3 he gets 1/6 against (1) and 1/6 against (2). This is optimal since each player have a way to guarantee that player 1 loses 1/6 and player 2 wins 1/6. If either had a better strategy it would break the other players guarantee (note that the given strategy for player 1 wins 1/6 against scissors, again showing that it is a bad strategy for player 2 and player 2's strategy wins 1/3 against rock 100% showing that it is a bad strategy).
They actually do not need to do any framing or anything. They simply give up all the files Snowden got at one time, everybody gets angry at them and in a month the furor over all this will have died down. Currently people are getting annoyed at them whenever Snowden releases a new file and that can continue for a long time yet, which seemes way worse for them. Sort of the real version of the boiling frog. In reality it jumps out when it gets too hot, but it might not if it gets warm only for a short time.
Well, just a test: clearly it should be 22/7
I think some uses 21/7 (It is even a better approximation than 3.14). Wikipedia calls it Pi Approximation Day.
Lyx gives you both options. E.g. I want to use the fancy macro I made previously, so I write \macroname like I would in your latex by hand. I need to take the union of two sets and can't remember the syntax (it is \cup or \bigcup but this is a example - I could write \bigcup, but this is a example) so I find it in the menu...
The real strength, to me, is that per default you see the equations as they would look in print (and not like \frac{stuff}{other stuff}). It is (to me atleast) alot easier to read 10 lines of inequations using symbols with 1 super script and 2 subscribts if I can see them as the way they are in the output instead of unstructed text. It is not really a solution to have output at the side, since you have to look back and forth between them.
LyX bad sides are that it cant convert that well from pure latex and that the algorithms (I am a ph.d. student in comp. sci.) are not the best looking.
He might be. The question does not say one way or the other.
The idea is that there are 198 posibillities for two children and the day they are born (as in: the first is a boy on a monday the second is a girl on sunday - there are 198 different statements like that). If you go through it you will see that excatly 27 of them contains a boy on a tuesday. Of those 27, 13 had two boys. Each of the events are equally likely - well not in the real world, but it would require a bit more info otherwise. So you end up with 13/27.
A non-numerical version goes as follows. To easen the reading I will use unordered pairs:
There are three sets. A set where the boy on a tuesday is born first, F, one there he is born second, S, and one where there are two boys on a tuesday, B. The S and F are equally large and the number of girl boy pairs are equally large in both (similary for boy boy pairs), but they contain a slightly larger probabillity for boy, girl pairs over boy, boy pairs(because neither S nor F contains two boys on a tuesday - they are in B - but they DO contain the posbillity that it is a boy on a tuesday and a girl on a tuesday). The difference is excatly such that if you add B to e.g. F the numbers of boy, girl pairs are equal to the number of boy, boy pairs. Therefore you will have a slightly larger probabillity for girl, boy pairs (because the number of boy, boy in F+B is equal to the number of boy, girl in F+B, but the number of girl, boy pairs are slightly larger than the number of boy, boy pairs in S).
That is not really true. You, as a outsider, will need some time to understand the code and what is causing the error before you can fix it. That will take time and you can bet (for everything, but the smallest pieces of software) that it won't be "Fixed tomorrow".
I suppose you could find someone who knows the code and throw money at him to fix it, but I suspect you could do the same with Microsoft, if you cared enough about the problem (but proberly quite a bit more expensive).
I expect to be modded down for this (old, but what you said is the conventional wisdom on /.).
I am pretty sure Microsoft is more than capable of making this lawsuit last as long as they want to. Until, e.g. they do not use the tech anymore...
Nah, they are just setting us up for the real April Fools story: One that is actually true...
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H L Mencken
I am not sure that meanes we shouldn't hope he wins :/
Yeah and Denmark gets pissy about Sweden's nuclear power plant and we have to shut it down.:(
As I understood it, it was because Sweden put one (the one the danish goverment tried to shut down) 20 km from the danish Capitol and largest city, Copenhagen - see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barseb%C3%A4ck_nuclear_power_plant AFAIK, the rest wasn't a problem.
Hiring a fake to fake a fake apology about fake reviews?
Actually that isn't quite excat (atleast not anymore). If there is one or more non-Danish (the main language spoken in Denmark) speakers the course will be done in English (no matter the course - well in CS anyway (Math got other rules)).
And both are infiltraded by Microsoft now a days... Nice analogy :)
"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself"
Johann Sebastian Bach
In Denmark I think its lifetime aka. 16 years at avarage. But I am pretty sure that if you DID murder an entire schoolclass that you might be considered mentaly unstable which might put you in a asyleum until the doctores deamed you fit for a normal life. In such a case I doubt she would get out ever...
;)
On the other hand I doubt that you would get a punishment no matter what she did
If I know
Not really. My brother tried to get into a local goverment, with only one issue. He didnt succed either (missed by a 0,1% or so (I cant remember the excat numbers)). He had excatly one wish and used/uses alot of his time at it now, not because he still tries but because he managed to get it through. They doesnt need to get in. They need to get egough focus at the subject and egough people behind it to make the goverment do it. Its not hard to make someone do something in a goverment if you are the only side represented (And I dont really think the swedish version of RIAA (I dont know if they even got any) is much of a player). If they can see that they could add even 0,5% additionel votes or how ever many that did vote for the pirate party without any real lose they would be stupid (from my pow atleast) not to go for it.
Lets take a recap of that we have learned today: The internet is like tubes and now someone has send a killer after them.
/. poster, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their *CARRIER LOST*
It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the internets or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the tube killers will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new tubelords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted
Then I saw this story I could nearly hear Robert Heinlein saying this: There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years , the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped ,or turned back, for their private benefit.
I use RSS for /. The reason? You just click on that link in the sidebar in firefox and you get the equivalent of the /. frontpage, except that it is showing you what you havn't read yet (incl. new stories) and if you don't see anything you want to read you just go back to the main part of the window. Its alot faster then looking at the /. frontpage since the links are all in one size and so on.
Ok I might use it in a way it wasnt intended to be used (I only update the feeds then I check them so its pretty close to normal webbrowsing)...
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times...
I read the title alitle bit fast so I thought that it said "Rules set for 50 million", and I thought hey thats differnetly the plan! 1. Get 50 mio. 2. Make an change to the IP laws so they favours you. 3. Profit!!! Look this is one of the good ones. We know step 2!!! Btw. Missread the title and 1,2,3 ALL in one post. WOW ;)
I've been playing this game for awhile. Its close and its not close to Dungeon Keeper II.
The idea is proberly about the same. You are supposed to take over the world. But the traps system is so different ly from DK2, that I wouldnt really be able to compare them. In Evil genius you chose which sensors (and what sensors (thouch pad, laser or movement sensors are the ones on top of my mind)) activate what trap, so you can make hole strings of traps (and you get some money based on how many traps an agent moves through in an short time) (if you get evil genius, try to make an cirkel of blow traps and watch the agents fly around the rest of their stupid lives).
the way you get money is also alot differently from DK2. You get money by robbing hole countries and not by getting some imps to cut out some gold for you.
Now we get to the part about getting more infamous (not really in DK2 -except if you count the completion of missions). you send out ppl that are suppose to eg. steal an artifact (eg. the space suit (for how can you take over the universe if your minons just die all the time?)) and by duing that ppl start to make way for you and you can hire more henchmens (the bad part is that enemy super heros start to appear - and they are annoying and nearly imposible to kill). The coolest thing about this system is the small radio transmissions afterwards about what happend. Some of the missions are plain stupid tho. Who have ever heard about an evil genius that DESTROYED an diamond mine (WITH DIAMONDS IN!)
The minons. They are different from DK2's by being specialesed (eg. quantum physics aint that good in the front line but very good at finding new things to research into and snipers are very good at picking peasky agents off at an distance)
The worst thing about this game is its lack of multiplayer (you can nearly hear it scream "play me in multiplayer") but no no multiplayer.
I think its worth about an 8 for overall and about 9,5 if you aint into multiplayer.
They've problery already found the cure. Now they just try to calculate were it landed... Everything got an purpose...