No, he said "Oscars," not "Sundance Film Festival." I can see how you might get the two confused. One has scantily clad women and colorful blinking lights, and the other has films.
I'm just kind of annoyed by some of the sillier things environmentalists/hippies say/do (this sonar thing being on the much more reasonable end of the spectrum). They make us beatniks look bad!
It'd be like tearing up all the highways because they interfere with bird's migratory patterns.
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It is my (perhaps misguided) understanding that there are extremophiles and such which might likely be closely linked to our very most primordial ancestors. Were we to kill off all land-based life on earth, within them would lay enough evolutionary basis to rebuild the oxygen breathing world (over the course of a billion years, maybe). As you seem to be more well versed in this than I, could you confirm this as fact or fiction?
Also, I think Australia is an excellent example. I do not know how long it normally takes humanity to destroy entire species, but we've fairly easily wiped out the dodo and the carrier pigeon. Australia is still teeming with life. It may be much unlike its previous design, but we haven't killed off the whole place. It's just found a new ecological balance, as I understand it. Is this incorrect? Are native species continuing to decline amongst the human-introduced predators?
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You might be interested in a process known as "Global Dimming," which some claim as the cause of the equitorial African droughts for the past twenty years. I believe the Indian government funded a few projects concerning this effect.
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Actually, there is evidence concerning this very fact. The research is something like 10-15 years old (heck, I did a report on it in middle school ten years ago and it was old news).
Ultimately, the data is generally interpretted two ways.
We're increasing faster than ever before, so it'll be worse than ever before.
We're not increasing faster than ever before, thus so-called "global warming" is part of a natural cycle.
Just thought I'd mention that =]. Personally, I think it's part of a normal cycle, and that it's pure egotism that humanity can think they're powerful enough to inadvertently destroy a massive ecosystem that has been in place for millions and millions of years. I mean, Australia isn't a whole lot worse off than it was when us Westerners got there, and most people say we really bungled that one.
That last good video game movie I watch was the guy who beat Quake 1 in like 15 minutes of zero story and non-stop violence. Before that was the guy who beat Mario Bros 1 in like 3 minutes (which to this day I have yet to beat =[). But Doom did have a story! Don't you remember the end when your head was on a pike? Or with that poor bunny? That poor, poor bunny...
the american version of Red Dwarf
I have to assume this is sarcasm. Please tell me this is sarcasm. There is a love interest in HL2, so that suggests you're serious... please tell me this is sarcasm!
the 100th corner with a baddy around it
I have to be honest here. That one actually got me almost every time. I was, what, 8 or 9, I wasn't that patient; I'm not gonna look around every freakin' corner!
Anywho, this off-topic rant is here because I absolutely agree with you =]. Also, this has driven me to want to install my good old 2 floppy Blake Stone game, and make a movie based on it. I simply must call someone a pinko commie bastard at some point and waste all my ammo on his corpse... too bad you can't aim down in Blake Stone.
I wanted to try the OOo 2 beta a long time ago, so I downloaded it. To my bemusement, it consisted of a series of RPMs. I do not use an RPM based distro, nor have any experience with RPMs, so I decided it wasn't worth the trouble and didn't install it. Now the release is just RPMs. Wtf do I do?
So I downloaded the source, and there's nothing there! It's three dozen folders which only have more folders in them! How it adds up to 250mb must have something to do with the fact that you have to dig 4 layers deep to find any files.
I've compiled from source before. Usually with nice, handy instructions, or with the normal autogen system. Heck, I even compile my own source with autogen now. But there's nothing like that here! And their help page (as of now) doesn't cover linux. They say they do, but the page just ends after the Windows part.
I told Konqueror to delete the folder with the Open Office source, and now it's up to 89220 files, so they're in there somewhere.
Both Xine and VLC are based on the mplayer code. In Linux GUIs, Xine is the clear choice (mplayer beating it out for consoles). Many of my Windows friends extol the virtues of VLC, but it leaves much to be desired in its Linux implementation.
Define king-chalice-flips as (prisoners*times-they-get-to-come-out) and the king can always reset the chalice. The original post does not limit k to anything less than that. The real point still stands, even though my poor attempt at using infinity instead of limits fails.
I use a giant gateway tower from 1998 ("Designed for Microsoft Windows 95" sticker and all =]). I've had to chop off the insides and I've mounted the mobo in an unusual manner, but when I do upgrades ever 1.5-2.5 years (thats how I do it too =]) I usually only have to buy a new motherboard (with cpu & ram) and/or gpu. I don't need a new harddrive, case, power supply, etc. And I can get more hard drive space or the next type of burner when it comes out. I never replace the whole system. Ever. I've been on this system for 7 or 8 years now, easy.
And don't get me started on mac pricing =[
Thats why PCs are generally considered more upgradeable than macs. There aren't even screws on my friend's mac! Wtf is up with that?
Yes, he can. If he can flip the chalice an arbitrary number of times, then unless the inmates can wait an infinite amount of time we should treat that number as infinite. Therefore the chalice cannot retain information. As the question states the orientation of the chalice is the only method of communication, we can therefore assume the prisoners cannot communicate. Therefore they have no way of knowing if everyone has been in the room.
This is of course assuming that the prisoners are not able to wait an infinite amount of time. If they are, then in a statisticians paradise, all things must occur, and therefore have occured, and therefore all the prisoners have been in the room since he locked them in their cells. A similar solution can be derived from a misinterpretation of quantum superposition.
I believe "nolen" said it best below (edited for poor choice of variable names):
Let the number of prisoners (m) be 10, let the number of times each prisoner is called be 1, and let the number of times the king can flip the chalice (k) be a billion. Clearly, in this case, the state of the chalice tells the prisoners absolutely nothing. Therefore I submit that the puzzle is impossible, unless I have misinterpreted something.
Perhaps there is part of the puzzle that has been miscommunicated? I also make a wide range of assumptions based on your assertion that it is not a silly word puzzle.
Standards compliance is becoming more and more common. I bought some chintzy $5 TV Tuner in Tainen and when I got back to the US it wouldn't work under Windows. I boot into Linux, and they used some common hardware piece (BT something?) and it works with TV Time, with Xine, with mplayer, with anything, and without doing much more than installing any one of them and using it's own UI.
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Because regular PCs are prohibitively expensive for home use?
Likewise, poster could buy a real computer. *tongue in cheek*
On a similar note, I think "Splogs Clog Blog Logs" would be a much better title.
There should be an annual Seuss day where all article titles must be tongue twisters, and all summaries must be done in nonsensical rhyme.
Why, yes, yes it does.
No, he said "Oscars," not "Sundance Film Festival." I can see how you might get the two confused. One has scantily clad women and colorful blinking lights, and the other has films.
I believe their script is taken from a classic fake D&D session transcript... I believe remember reading it on a message board a few years back.
Otherwise, the characters' acting is very well done, and the voice acting is marvelous.
Well, you've convinced me! *buys your book*
I'd say more nice things, but my keyboard appears to be on the fritz >.<
Or the Swedish Zombie Worms as evidence of the integral part whale fall plays in the deep sea ecosystem?
Haha, that really is a much better analogy.
I'm just kind of annoyed by some of the sillier things environmentalists/hippies say/do (this sonar thing being on the much more reasonable end of the spectrum). They make us beatniks look bad!
It'd be like tearing up all the highways because they interfere with bird's migratory patterns.
It is my (perhaps misguided) understanding that there are extremophiles and such which might likely be closely linked to our very most primordial ancestors. Were we to kill off all land-based life on earth, within them would lay enough evolutionary basis to rebuild the oxygen breathing world (over the course of a billion years, maybe). As you seem to be more well versed in this than I, could you confirm this as fact or fiction?
Also, I think Australia is an excellent example. I do not know how long it normally takes humanity to destroy entire species, but we've fairly easily wiped out the dodo and the carrier pigeon. Australia is still teeming with life. It may be much unlike its previous design, but we haven't killed off the whole place. It's just found a new ecological balance, as I understand it. Is this incorrect? Are native species continuing to decline amongst the human-introduced predators?
The obvious solution is to emulate Techno Bill
You might be interested in a process known as "Global Dimming," which some claim as the cause of the equitorial African droughts for the past twenty years. I believe the Indian government funded a few projects concerning this effect.
Shit, even though I previewed twice, I didn't notice this. That first link was supposed to be:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0130-11.htm
Actually, there is evidence concerning this very fact. The research is something like 10-15 years old (heck, I did a report on it in middle school ten years ago and it was old news).
Here's some links, Google for more if you want:h tm h tm
http://www.climateark.org/articles/1999/icecore2.
http://www.climateark.org/articles/1999/icecore2.
Here's some good images of analyses of the Vostok core samples fromt ok.co2.gif
http://www.androidworld.com/prod60.htm - http://www.androidworld.com/Vostok_Ice_Core.jpg
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/co2/vostok.htm - http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/co2/graphics/vos
Ultimately, the data is generally interpretted two ways.
Just thought I'd mention that =]. Personally, I think it's part of a normal cycle, and that it's pure egotism that humanity can think they're powerful enough to inadvertently destroy a massive ecosystem that has been in place for millions and millions of years. I mean, Australia isn't a whole lot worse off than it was when us Westerners got there, and most people say we really bungled that one.
1.5 hours of zero story and non-stop violence
That last good video game movie I watch was the guy who beat Quake 1 in like 15 minutes of zero story and non-stop violence. Before that was the guy who beat Mario Bros 1 in like 3 minutes (which to this day I have yet to beat =[). But Doom did have a story! Don't you remember the end when your head was on a pike? Or with that poor bunny? That poor, poor bunny...
the american version of Red Dwarf
I have to assume this is sarcasm. Please tell me this is sarcasm. There is a love interest in HL2, so that suggests you're serious... please tell me this is sarcasm!
the 100th corner with a baddy around it
I have to be honest here. That one actually got me almost every time. I was, what, 8 or 9, I wasn't that patient; I'm not gonna look around every freakin' corner!
Anywho, this off-topic rant is here because I absolutely agree with you =]. Also, this has driven me to want to install my good old 2 floppy Blake Stone game, and make a movie based on it. I simply must call someone a pinko commie bastard at some point and waste all my ammo on his corpse... too bad you can't aim down in Blake Stone.
$20 says there will be in a few days/weeks.
+1 obscure reference! =]
How?
I wanted to try the OOo 2 beta a long time ago, so I downloaded it. To my bemusement, it consisted of a series of RPMs. I do not use an RPM based distro, nor have any experience with RPMs, so I decided it wasn't worth the trouble and didn't install it. Now the release is just RPMs. Wtf do I do?
So I downloaded the source, and there's nothing there! It's three dozen folders which only have more folders in them! How it adds up to 250mb must have something to do with the fact that you have to dig 4 layers deep to find any files.
I've compiled from source before. Usually with nice, handy instructions, or with the normal autogen system. Heck, I even compile my own source with autogen now. But there's nothing like that here! And their help page (as of now) doesn't cover linux. They say they do, but the page just ends after the Windows part.
I told Konqueror to delete the folder with the Open Office source, and now it's up to 89220 files, so they're in there somewhere.
I wanna install OOo 2, but I cannot =[.
Both Xine and VLC are based on the mplayer code. In Linux GUIs, Xine is the clear choice (mplayer beating it out for consoles). Many of my Windows friends extol the virtues of VLC, but it leaves much to be desired in its Linux implementation.
Define king-chalice-flips as (prisoners*times-they-get-to-come-out) and the king can always reset the chalice. The original post does not limit k to anything less than that. The real point still stands, even though my poor attempt at using infinity instead of limits fails.
I use a giant gateway tower from 1998 ("Designed for Microsoft Windows 95" sticker and all =]). I've had to chop off the insides and I've mounted the mobo in an unusual manner, but when I do upgrades ever 1.5-2.5 years (thats how I do it too =]) I usually only have to buy a new motherboard (with cpu & ram) and/or gpu. I don't need a new harddrive, case, power supply, etc. And I can get more hard drive space or the next type of burner when it comes out. I never replace the whole system. Ever. I've been on this system for 7 or 8 years now, easy.
And don't get me started on mac pricing =[
Thats why PCs are generally considered more upgradeable than macs. There aren't even screws on my friend's mac! Wtf is up with that?
Yes, he can. If he can flip the chalice an arbitrary number of times, then unless the inmates can wait an infinite amount of time we should treat that number as infinite. Therefore the chalice cannot retain information. As the question states the orientation of the chalice is the only method of communication, we can therefore assume the prisoners cannot communicate. Therefore they have no way of knowing if everyone has been in the room.
This is of course assuming that the prisoners are not able to wait an infinite amount of time. If they are, then in a statisticians paradise, all things must occur, and therefore have occured, and therefore all the prisoners have been in the room since he locked them in their cells. A similar solution can be derived from a misinterpretation of quantum superposition.
I believe "nolen" said it best below (edited for poor choice of variable names):
Let the number of prisoners (m) be 10, let the number of times each prisoner is called be 1, and let the number of times the king can flip the chalice (k) be a billion. Clearly, in this case, the state of the chalice tells the prisoners absolutely nothing. Therefore I submit that the puzzle is impossible, unless I have misinterpreted something.
Perhaps there is part of the puzzle that has been miscommunicated? I also make a wide range of assumptions based on your assertion that it is not a silly word puzzle.
Gasp! You misquote the gospel!?
I think you mean:
How many boards would the Mongols hoarde if the Mongol hordes got bored?
Standards compliance is becoming more and more common. I bought some chintzy $5 TV Tuner in Tainen and when I got back to the US it wouldn't work under Windows. I boot into Linux, and they used some common hardware piece (BT something?) and it works with TV Time, with Xine, with mplayer, with anything, and without doing much more than installing any one of them and using it's own UI.