Okay, so in the first situation he votes against it, and the first pirate gets thrown overboard.
In the second situation he votes against it, and the second pirate gets thrown overboard.
But in the third situation, there are only three pirates left (3, 4 and 5). #3 knows that #5 will vote against it, but he only needs two votes to survive. #4 will vote for this proposal whatever he's offered, because he doesn't want to propose something that #5 might reject.
So #3 proposes that he gets all 100 gold pieces. #4 agrees, because he doesn't want to die. #5 rejects it, but it's two votes to one, and he gets nothing.
Whatever he's offered in the first proposal is better than what he would get offered in the second proposal, which is better than nothing (what he would get from the third proposal).
Where does it say that only the head pirate will die if his suggestion is rejected?
In 98-0-1-0-1, pirate 5 is getting the same amount of gold as he would if the second in command makes the suggestion. This means that he might not support the proposal.
That used to be the logic I used, but the last time I gave this riddle to a group of people, they pointed out a problem with it.
If the offers of 1, 2 and 3 are rejected, then 4 will offer 5 all hundred pieces. However, 5 could reject this offer. He gains nothing either way, so we have to accept it as a possibility.
This means that 3 can offer 4 nothing, and 4 will still accept, so that the possibility of getting thrown overboard goes away.
2 will offer 4 and 5 one gold piece each.
1 will offer 3 one gold piece, and either 4 or 5 two gold pieces.
To be fair, I don't think you can blame it entirely on stupid users.
Say you accidentally install to C:\ - you might have expected it to create a subdirectory automatically, and forgot to check. That's silly, but it's not necessarily a sign of a user who knows nothing.
So you decide that rather than making a subdirectory manually, and moving all the files into there (annoying if you've got a lot of files/folders in C:\), you'll uninstall it and reinstall in the intended directory.
You get to the warning message. "This will remove mozilla and delete its installation directory". Well of course it will, you think, without actually considering that it's installed into a stupid place. Uninstallers only remove files that were installed, anyway.
And bam, your files are gone.
You don't need to be stupid. Just careless when performing common tasks.
Disclaimer: the above is a thought experiment. I haven't been affected by the bug myself, and I haven't even had cause to use the installer (running Linux).
We had (and still have it, in fact) an Acorn Archimedes when I was younger, and it was absolutely great.
I don't know about the programs being in ROM, though - I definitely managed to break a few of the games through extreme experimentation. I guess they just weren't system-critical...
It's quite amusing, actually. I broke Monopoly by - no joke - opening the BASIC source code, and doing a search and replace for 1 to 5, and replacing them with 6.
I also broke a Sokoban clone called "Real Sneaky, Innit?" (RSI) by finding the textfiles that the level designs were stored in, and editing them because I couldn't figure out how to do the level properly.
I'm currently watching Angel episodes that I've downloaded with BitTorrent. I'm intending to work my way through the entire run, but I'm not expecting to do so more than once.
A season of Angel is supposed to retail at £80. That's far, far too expensive for something which I am only going to watch once.
It looks like I can get it from Amazon for £40, which is much better, but still not good enough.
At these prices, there is no way I will buy them. BitTorrent provides me with an easy alternative.
PHP still has the user comments - they're just temporarily down.
The very first news article on the page you link to says:
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[28-Jul-2004] Due to server problems, some of the services provided by php.net and the mirror sites are not available currently. These include the documentation user notes (including their submission interface), the event submission, cvs account request and mailing list subscription forms. Please be a bit patient, while we sort out the issues.
When I was about 9 or 10, and just starting to use our (possibly at the time, and certainly to me) snazzy Acorn computer (it ran RISC OS 3, I believe), I managed to delete my home directory.
I had discovered that you could copy a directory onto the desktop, and it would give you access to your files from there. For some reason, I thought that hiding my files on the desktop would be a great idea, and so deleted the folder that wasn't on the desktop.
Then I try to view my files from the desktop and get errors. I can safely say that I haven't made that mistake again.
Somewhat more recently, I was fiddling about with a phpBB forum. Due to a busted conversion script to move posts from ezBoard to phpBB, I had a bunch of excess posts.
Rather than deleting them the normal way, I decided that as the conversion had only got halfway through, I couldn't be sure that it would work the way it was expected to. This was because I think the script added posts before linking them to a topic.
So, I decided to write my own quick PHP script to delete everything in forum X. To do this, I process the list of posts, making a list of those which are in forum X. Then the idea is that those topics are deleted. (Note: I couldn't just delete the posts in forum X as one query, as phpBB stores posts in two tables - one for the post info and one for the post text)
Unfortunately, halfway through, I switch from selecting everything that ISN'T something to selecting everything that IS something else. I wasn't thinking that hard about the original implementation. However, I forget to switch a crucial piece of code to compensate for this.
End result: every single post NOT in forum X got deleted.
Thankfully, the forums were just a few days old, so not much was lost. However, I have learnt my lesson, and will always back up the database before fiddling with the SQL myself.
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Okay, so in the first situation he votes against it, and the first pirate gets thrown overboard.
In the second situation he votes against it, and the second pirate gets thrown overboard.
But in the third situation, there are only three pirates left (3, 4 and 5). #3 knows that #5 will vote against it, but he only needs two votes to survive. #4 will vote for this proposal whatever he's offered, because he doesn't want to propose something that #5 might reject.
So #3 proposes that he gets all 100 gold pieces. #4 agrees, because he doesn't want to die. #5 rejects it, but it's two votes to one, and he gets nothing.
Whatever he's offered in the first proposal is better than what he would get offered in the second proposal, which is better than nothing (what he would get from the third proposal).
The way I read it, the next highest will then become the highest rank. If their proposal is rejected, they'll get killed as well.
That's how it was explained to me.
It doesn't really matter, though; it just makes a different riddle.
Where does it say that only the head pirate will die if his suggestion is rejected?
In 98-0-1-0-1, pirate 5 is getting the same amount of gold as he would if the second in command makes the suggestion. This means that he might not support the proposal.
"If I were to ask you whether the left door leads to the kingly feast, would you say da?"
If he says da, you go left. If he says na, you go right.
That used to be the logic I used, but the last time I gave this riddle to a group of people, they pointed out a problem with it.
If the offers of 1, 2 and 3 are rejected, then 4 will offer 5 all hundred pieces. However, 5 could reject this offer. He gains nothing either way, so we have to accept it as a possibility.
This means that 3 can offer 4 nothing, and 4 will still accept, so that the possibility of getting thrown overboard goes away.
2 will offer 4 and 5 one gold piece each.
1 will offer 3 one gold piece, and either 4 or 5 two gold pieces.
So, I think the two possible solutions are:
97,0,1,2,0
and
97,0,1,0,2
I'm British, but I've never bothered getting the en_GB version.
What are the differences?
Why should anyone bother?
However, word processing, email and the internet are already available on probably every operating system in existence.
Gaming is tied to Microsoft Windows almost entirely.
Until that changes, most of that 55.9% just won't give any new OS a chance.
My point was that if you're a character animator, you would have tried Blender already, to see if it provided the features you needed.
I'm sure this new release is great and all, but I don't see what soft body support adds to entice someone new to try it.
If you haven't tried Blender yet, then these additions are not likely to affect you or matter to you.
The HTML validates, sure.
But the CSS doesn't.
From the FAQ: "we're looking to find developers around the world".
There's also a section in the sign-up form to put your country.
Only teach javascript if you can teach good, practical javascript, and especially, when not to use javascript.
When used well, it can enhance usability, but it shouldn't ever be used just for the sake of it.
I eventually managed to scrape through the javascript detection and recreate the form on my hard drive with the right values.
Hopefully, these links will work:
One Season More
Tiny Toys
Sith Apprentice
(Leave a comment if you want a more in-depth explanation of how to get the direct links)
To be fair, I don't think you can blame it entirely on stupid users.
Say you accidentally install to C:\ - you might have expected it to create a subdirectory automatically, and forgot to check. That's silly, but it's not necessarily a sign of a user who knows nothing.
So you decide that rather than making a subdirectory manually, and moving all the files into there (annoying if you've got a lot of files/folders in C:\), you'll uninstall it and reinstall in the intended directory.
You get to the warning message. "This will remove mozilla and delete its installation directory". Well of course it will, you think, without actually considering that it's installed into a stupid place. Uninstallers only remove files that were installed, anyway.
And bam, your files are gone.
You don't need to be stupid. Just careless when performing common tasks.
Disclaimer: the above is a thought experiment. I haven't been affected by the bug myself, and I haven't even had cause to use the installer (running Linux).
That's interesting - not so long ago I was wondering how well my site (on Dreamhost) would respond to a slashdotting.
Encouraging that you're not having a problem, even though you don't seem to have any extra-large files.
We had (and still have it, in fact) an Acorn Archimedes when I was younger, and it was absolutely great.
I don't know about the programs being in ROM, though - I definitely managed to break a few of the games through extreme experimentation. I guess they just weren't system-critical...
It's quite amusing, actually. I broke Monopoly by - no joke - opening the BASIC source code, and doing a search and replace for 1 to 5, and replacing them with 6.
I also broke a Sokoban clone called "Real Sneaky, Innit?" (RSI) by finding the textfiles that the level designs were stored in, and editing them because I couldn't figure out how to do the level properly.
I had a lot of fun with it.
I agree.
I'm currently watching Angel episodes that I've downloaded with BitTorrent. I'm intending to work my way through the entire run, but I'm not expecting to do so more than once.
A season of Angel is supposed to retail at £80. That's far, far too expensive for something which I am only going to watch once.
It looks like I can get it from Amazon for £40, which is much better, but still not good enough.
At these prices, there is no way I will buy them. BitTorrent provides me with an easy alternative.
The joke's on you; you got modded offtopic.
(Go on, mod me informative. You know you want to.)
But due to space restrictions, mine and the one you see had to be represented as one post.
PHP still has the user comments - they're just temporarily down.
The very first news article on the page you link to says:
Some services are temporarily unavailable
[28-Jul-2004] Due to server problems, some of the services provided by php.net and the mirror sites are not available currently. These include the documentation user notes (including their submission interface), the event submission, cvs account request and mailing list subscription forms. Please be a bit patient, while we sort out the issues.
When I was about 9 or 10, and just starting to use our (possibly at the time, and certainly to me) snazzy Acorn computer (it ran RISC OS 3, I believe), I managed to delete my home directory.
I had discovered that you could copy a directory onto the desktop, and it would give you access to your files from there. For some reason, I thought that hiding my files on the desktop would be a great idea, and so deleted the folder that wasn't on the desktop.
Then I try to view my files from the desktop and get errors. I can safely say that I haven't made that mistake again.
Somewhat more recently, I was fiddling about with a phpBB forum. Due to a busted conversion script to move posts from ezBoard to phpBB, I had a bunch of excess posts.
Rather than deleting them the normal way, I decided that as the conversion had only got halfway through, I couldn't be sure that it would work the way it was expected to. This was because I think the script added posts before linking them to a topic.
So, I decided to write my own quick PHP script to delete everything in forum X. To do this, I process the list of posts, making a list of those which are in forum X. Then the idea is that those topics are deleted. (Note: I couldn't just delete the posts in forum X as one query, as phpBB stores posts in two tables - one for the post info and one for the post text)
Unfortunately, halfway through, I switch from selecting everything that ISN'T something to selecting everything that IS something else. I wasn't thinking that hard about the original implementation. However, I forget to switch a crucial piece of code to compensate for this.
End result: every single post NOT in forum X got deleted.
Thankfully, the forums were just a few days old, so not much was lost. However, I have learnt my lesson, and will always back up the database before fiddling with the SQL myself.
I believe after the 1.0 release, Firebird will be known as Mozilla Browser.
Same for Thunderbird --> Mozilla Mail.
My friend invited me earlier today.
Or at least, he told me he invited me. The actual invite didn't turn up until 15 minutes later.
And then when I tried to sign up, I got an error message:
Server Error
Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
It swallowed my invite code, and whenever I try to log in, it gives me that message.
I'm annoyed, to say the least.
Many, many moons ago, we used our Acorn Archimedes computer (running RISC OS 3) as the answering machine.
It didn't have any features mentioned by the OP, but I'm willing to bet it was pretty darn good for the time.
I can't remember when we started using it, but I know we stopped using it in '99, and it had been going for quite some time then.
Daddy, am I a robot?
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