1. Appoint one person as the leader
2. The leader always turns the cup upward
3. Everyone else turns the cup downward until they have turned it down a set number of times x (we will calculate later) then they leave it alone
4. The leader counts the number of times he/she turns the cup upwards. Once a set number of times is reached the leader knows that everyone has come out at least once
5. The minimum times for the leader to know is x(n-2)+k+1+1. This accounts for n-2 prisoners doing their x times, the king faking k times, 1 time for the last prisoner and 1 time if the cup starts turned down
6. The minimum number of times that the cup could be turned down by the leader is x(n-1)-k. (The king could fake k times to someone who is not the leader, meaning that the leader would miss out on these k times).
7. To ensure that the minimum number of times that the leader COULD turn the cup down is at least a big as the number required to prove to the leader that everyone has come out x(n-1)-k >= x(n-2)+k+1+1 should be solved. This gives x >= 2k -2.
8. The prisoners then agree upon x before they go in (based on the above equation) and the king can then do nothing to stop the prisoners from escaping!
With reports like this, this and this (Polar ice caps melting), not to mention the fact that events like Katrina are expected to increase in number, you'd think well informed nerds could get over the light headed feeling they get when someone presents the next upgrade to their computer system and consider the impact that their coal-powered l33t-box is having.
With bigger guns of course!
Go out and arm yourself to the teeth and blow the shit out of other Americans to protect your 'rights'. Then get surprised when you don't feel safe at night.
Well just because SuSE doesn't make their ISOs available doesn't stop anyone else from ripping the distro to iso and hosting it. I emailed their info site and asked about the legality, and they said that as long as you're noot seeking monetary gain from providing the isos then you can host them.
So if you have a few Gigs of free space why not get a copy off ebay for $5 and host them for the rest of us.
The suggestion that solar cells contain a whole heap of nasty components is ridiculous.
I work in the solar cell industry, and 99% of commercial solar cells are made from silicon. The same silicon which makes up the chips in your computer (which lasts 3 years). In fact the silicon that is used in solar cells is the seconds material from the IC industry.
The remaining parts of these devices inluce glass (mainly silicon also) and some aluminium and silver.
Solar cells last in the field as long as they are not broken (typically 30 years or longer). And their disposal cost is minimal compared with any other form of electricity. (To date I'm not sure of any coal fired power station which has actually tried to "dispose" of any of the greenhouse gas waste that it produces!)
If you want to talk byproducts, lets look at the CO2 from coal, or the radioactive material from nuclear. There is simply no comparison.
Don't hack on solar energy, it'll save this planet we're content on f***king up one day.
WinXP Pro has "Remote Desktop Sharing", so enable that and simply use rdesktop from your *nix box. It's that easy.
If you want your home directory mounted on your Windoze box, then use SAMBA on your *nix box as a PDC (Primary Domain Controller) and have your Windoze box log in to this domain (You can then setup SAMBA to automatically mount the home directory on the Windoze box as Z: or whatever).
That should do it.
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I made a small algebra mistake
Should be x >= 2k + 2.
I have the answer:
1. Appoint one person as the leader
2. The leader always turns the cup upward
3. Everyone else turns the cup downward until they have turned it down a set number of times x (we will calculate later) then they leave it alone
4. The leader counts the number of times he/she turns the cup upwards. Once a set number of times is reached the leader knows that everyone has come out at least once
5. The minimum times for the leader to know is x(n-2)+k+1+1. This accounts for n-2 prisoners doing their x times, the king faking k times, 1 time for the last prisoner and 1 time if the cup starts turned down
6. The minimum number of times that the cup could be turned down by the leader is x(n-1)-k. (The king could fake k times to someone who is not the leader, meaning that the leader would miss out on these k times).
7. To ensure that the minimum number of times that the leader COULD turn the cup down is at least a big as the number required to prove to the leader that everyone has come out x(n-1)-k >= x(n-2)+k+1+1 should be solved. This gives x >= 2k -2.
8. The prisoners then agree upon x before they go in (based on the above equation) and the king can then do nothing to stop the prisoners from escaping!
Now... back to my thesis.
With reports like this, this and this (Polar ice caps melting), not to mention the fact that events like Katrina are expected to increase in number, you'd think well informed nerds could get over the light headed feeling they get when someone presents the next upgrade to their computer system and consider the impact that their coal-powered l33t-box is having.
With bigger guns of course! Go out and arm yourself to the teeth and blow the shit out of other Americans to protect your 'rights'. Then get surprised when you don't feel safe at night.
Well just because SuSE doesn't make their ISOs available doesn't stop anyone else from ripping the distro to iso and hosting it. I emailed their info site and asked about the legality, and they said that as long as you're noot seeking monetary gain from providing the isos then you can host them.
So if you have a few Gigs of free space why not get a copy off ebay for $5 and host them for the rest of us.
The suggestion that solar cells contain a whole heap of nasty components is ridiculous. I work in the solar cell industry, and 99% of commercial solar cells are made from silicon. The same silicon which makes up the chips in your computer (which lasts 3 years). In fact the silicon that is used in solar cells is the seconds material from the IC industry. The remaining parts of these devices inluce glass (mainly silicon also) and some aluminium and silver. Solar cells last in the field as long as they are not broken (typically 30 years or longer). And their disposal cost is minimal compared with any other form of electricity. (To date I'm not sure of any coal fired power station which has actually tried to "dispose" of any of the greenhouse gas waste that it produces!) If you want to talk byproducts, lets look at the CO2 from coal, or the radioactive material from nuclear. There is simply no comparison. Don't hack on solar energy, it'll save this planet we're content on f***king up one day.
WinXP Pro has "Remote Desktop Sharing", so enable that and simply use rdesktop from your *nix box. It's that easy. If you want your home directory mounted on your Windoze box, then use SAMBA on your *nix box as a PDC (Primary Domain Controller) and have your Windoze box log in to this domain (You can then setup SAMBA to automatically mount the home directory on the Windoze box as Z: or whatever). That should do it.