Well, it's not necessarily stupid per se, but there will hopefully be a few lawsuits over this bullshit. False arrest, defamation, etc. And I think Best Buy should be charged criminally with refusing to accept legal US currency, if that's a law anywhere on the books.
No, I assumed Mars was a cube. WTF, did you read anything I wrote? I wouldn't have included the fact that it was at 1m height or the assumption that Mars is spherical if I wasn't aware of their relevance.
The judges were wrong, and could not articulate to us any proof to the contrary.
I knew the history of timezones, but I didn't know that DST was adopted in the same legislation. Was it a de facto standard before the statute was passed? For that matter, I know that the statute doesn't require states to observe DST, but only to change clocks on the same day if they do choose to observe it - which implies the following question: Are time zones mandatory or optional under the same statute?
Living on the eastern edge of a time zone, I would love for DST to be extended.
Living on the western edge of a time zone, I would love for you to go screw yourself. The sun should not still be up at 11:00 PM outside of the arctic.
As it is, I'm sick of the government sneaking into my home in the dead of the night twice a year to fuck with my clocks. If I wanted that kind of intrusiveness in my life, I would have chosen to be born in a socialist country.
Nope, no divide by zero error. We ran our code later with the full test dataset and were just a bit short on one answer, not on any other and not as a result of any runtime faults like that.
Maybe they just shafted us because we submitted a fork() bomb for our allowed test of their network submission system.;-D
Yep, arcs. Our team was mathematically strong - of the three of us on the team, one was a double major with math and I was minoring in it (only a few credits short of a major, but I wanted out of school after 3 years:P) - and, as I said, we submitted a detailed mathematical proof of our correctness. Moreover, if our submitted appeal was incorrect, I would have expected an answer to that effect, at least stating that we were wrong but preferably pointing out specifically what we had done wrong. Instead, we got no response at all, which leads me to suspect that either (a) our solution was over their heads (highly unlikely) or (b) we were just right and they didn't want to deal with it.
It's worth noting that we got the correct result for every sample answer and every actual test answer except for one.
And yes, optimization problems are a particular challenge, but this wasn't Traveling Salesman. This was Connect the Dots, where you can lift the pencil up at any point if you want.
The one to which I belonged as an undergraduate Computer Science student. Does that have any bearing on whether we were treated fairly at the competition 2 years ago?
2003, regional (in Lincoln, NE), no, and I have no idea and am not going to sort through that site to find it. Does it really matter at this point? I mean, it was 2 years ago and I'm now in law school. It's not like my failure in the ACM programming competition would have substantially affected my life.:P
No. It met the requirement that every point have a path through the network to every other point. Moreover, the difference would have been thousands of meters, not hundreds of meters, had we left out important segments.
It's not anywhere near fair. Our ACM chapter competed a few years ago. We didn't make it past the first round on account of getting one problem "wrong." By "wrong," of course, I mean that we produced a better solution than the judges had, and some other teams produced the same, non-optimal solution that they had, so we were wrong. I later sent in a detailed proof of our answer's correctness as the unique optimal solution, but we never heard back.
For what it's worth, that problem was "Given a list of latitude and longitude points on the surface of Mars, which has radius R, what is the minimum total length of cable needed to connect those points to form a network, if the cable is 1m above the planet's surface? Assume that Mars is spherical."
To this day, I have no idea what the "correct" answer was that took several hundred more meters of cable than our solution did.
It's merely a question of enforcement. Your license to the software under the GPL is terminated when you violate this term, so any further use that would require a license is now copyright infringement instead of licensed use. The question is whether you are going to get sued for the copyright infringement.
(Season 3, episode 7 - The Day the Earth Stood Stupid)
Everyone on Earth, except Fry and Nibbler, suffers from acute and utter stupidity caused by an invasion of enormous brains.
Linda (newscaster): Hi! Today, some bad things happened. One bad thing was, a train go crashed in New Jersey. Wanna see? People won't be late for work, though, because the Governor lady said, "I'm sending in more trains."
Generally, I don't buy bottled water. However, I got into the habit of buying it while I lived in Phoenix, AZ, and Aquafina was what I drank. Arrowhead may advertise a lot, but it just doesn't taste good. And Dasani...is just about as homogenic (is there a real word for "things that make you turn gay"?;-D) as Evian. Plus they taste bad. And Fiji has to be the highest-priced urine sample available anywhere.
That depends entirely on how you get cooler servers. You could set up a complete liquid cooling system per server and have it be less efficient than just cooling the room that they're all in. Implementation details make or break the assumption you've stated.
Finally, we can have a flamewar over something outside the computer realm. I say Aquafina is the best bottled water that can possibly ever exist. Fiji sucks donkey balls, and Arrowhead just tastes like dirt. And don't even get me started on Evian - that stuff will turn you gay.
Or should I have just posted: "I, for one, welcome our new aquatic overlords." ?
Yet another reason to go around Ohio. I'm from ND and go to school in VA. I drove through OH on the way here and got a speeding ticket (they kept changing the limit, like 5 times in 2 miles, then it was a 40mph construction zone for 10+ miles, and then it said "resume legal speed" which you couldn't possibly remember; I assumed 75mph and was wrong), and since you must go to court for your second speeding ticket in Ohio in 12 months, I'm going around Ohio through Kentucky when I drive to South Dakota for work this summer. It's actually shorter to go around Ohio than to drive the speed limit through it.:P
I agree that the solution to this involves spreadsheets rather than anecdotes. Figure out how much it would cost to maintain what you own if you bought it instead of leasing. Figure out the MTBF and cost of dealing with the F part for each item. Figure out how many man-hours it would take to prepare things to return from lease. Work to maximize efficiency in the numbers. The numbers are something that you (the original submitter) are you a uniquely good position to know and to examine.
Okay, there is no way that you didn't set this joke up. Either you have more than one account or you have a female friend that you collaborated with, and my money is on the former. Conspiracy of one.
As to the TV habits and small-town friendliness, it's the same way in much of the United States. The more things change...
I'm convinced that the main differences between third-world countries and the US don't lie in culture, lifestyle, etc. They lie mainly in diet and medicine. And the likelihood of political upheaval, but we have the same thing every 2, 4, or 6 years (and it's gradual enough that nobody has to nail anyone to anything to accomplish it).
If I didn't love steak and constitutionally-protected liberty so much, I would almost prefer to live in a third-world country - they have more of those small, friendly villages than we do, with the Internet and all.
It sounds to me like you'd legally be assuming the risk by strapping yourself into an electroshock suit to play a video game. Assumption of the risk bars negligence lawsuits. It's almost a given that you'll have to agree, either by signing them or by reading a warning sign, to terms that explicitly state that you assume the risk of unknown heart conditions.
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Well, it's not necessarily stupid per se, but there will hopefully be a few lawsuits over this bullshit. False arrest, defamation, etc. And I think Best Buy should be charged criminally with refusing to accept legal US currency, if that's a law anywhere on the books.
No, I assumed Mars was a cube. WTF, did you read anything I wrote? I wouldn't have included the fact that it was at 1m height or the assumption that Mars is spherical if I wasn't aware of their relevance.
The judges were wrong, and could not articulate to us any proof to the contrary.
I knew the history of timezones, but I didn't know that DST was adopted in the same legislation. Was it a de facto standard before the statute was passed? For that matter, I know that the statute doesn't require states to observe DST, but only to change clocks on the same day if they do choose to observe it - which implies the following question: Are time zones mandatory or optional under the same statute?
:)
I'm way too lazy to look this one up tonight.
Living on the eastern edge of a time zone, I would love for DST to be extended.
Living on the western edge of a time zone, I would love for you to go screw yourself. The sun should not still be up at 11:00 PM outside of the arctic.
As it is, I'm sick of the government sneaking into my home in the dead of the night twice a year to fuck with my clocks. If I wanted that kind of intrusiveness in my life, I would have chosen to be born in a socialist country.
We asked for multiple clarifications during the contest. They just started ignoring us.
Nope, no divide by zero error. We ran our code later with the full test dataset and were just a bit short on one answer, not on any other and not as a result of any runtime faults like that.
;-D
Maybe they just shafted us because we submitted a fork() bomb for our allowed test of their network submission system.
Yep, arcs. Our team was mathematically strong - of the three of us on the team, one was a double major with math and I was minoring in it (only a few credits short of a major, but I wanted out of school after 3 years :P) - and, as I said, we submitted a detailed mathematical proof of our correctness. Moreover, if our submitted appeal was incorrect, I would have expected an answer to that effect, at least stating that we were wrong but preferably pointing out specifically what we had done wrong. Instead, we got no response at all, which leads me to suspect that either (a) our solution was over their heads (highly unlikely) or (b) we were just right and they didn't want to deal with it.
It's worth noting that we got the correct result for every sample answer and every actual test answer except for one.
And yes, optimization problems are a particular challenge, but this wasn't Traveling Salesman. This was Connect the Dots, where you can lift the pencil up at any point if you want.
The one to which I belonged as an undergraduate Computer Science student. Does that have any bearing on whether we were treated fairly at the competition 2 years ago?
2003, regional (in Lincoln, NE), no, and I have no idea and am not going to sort through that site to find it. Does it really matter at this point? I mean, it was 2 years ago and I'm now in law school. It's not like my failure in the ACM programming competition would have substantially affected my life. :P
No. It met the requirement that every point have a path through the network to every other point. Moreover, the difference would have been thousands of meters, not hundreds of meters, had we left out important segments.
It's not anywhere near fair. Our ACM chapter competed a few years ago. We didn't make it past the first round on account of getting one problem "wrong." By "wrong," of course, I mean that we produced a better solution than the judges had, and some other teams produced the same, non-optimal solution that they had, so we were wrong. I later sent in a detailed proof of our answer's correctness as the unique optimal solution, but we never heard back.
For what it's worth, that problem was "Given a list of latitude and longitude points on the surface of Mars, which has radius R, what is the minimum total length of cable needed to connect those points to form a network, if the cable is 1m above the planet's surface? Assume that Mars is spherical."
To this day, I have no idea what the "correct" answer was that took several hundred more meters of cable than our solution did.
It's merely a question of enforcement. Your license to the software under the GPL is terminated when you violate this term, so any further use that would require a license is now copyright infringement instead of licensed use. The question is whether you are going to get sued for the copyright infringement.
(Season 3, episode 7 - The Day the Earth Stood Stupid)
Everyone on Earth, except Fry and Nibbler, suffers from acute and utter stupidity caused by an invasion of enormous brains.
Linda (newscaster): Hi! Today, some bad things happened. One bad thing was, a train go crashed in New Jersey. Wanna see? People won't be late for work, though, because the Governor lady said, "I'm sending in more trains."
Generally, I don't buy bottled water. However, I got into the habit of buying it while I lived in Phoenix, AZ, and Aquafina was what I drank. Arrowhead may advertise a lot, but it just doesn't taste good. And Dasani...is just about as homogenic (is there a real word for "things that make you turn gay"? ;-D) as Evian. Plus they taste bad. And Fiji has to be the highest-priced urine sample available anywhere.
That depends entirely on how you get cooler servers. You could set up a complete liquid cooling system per server and have it be less efficient than just cooling the room that they're all in. Implementation details make or break the assumption you've stated.
Finally, we can have a flamewar over something outside the computer realm. I say Aquafina is the best bottled water that can possibly ever exist. Fiji sucks donkey balls, and Arrowhead just tastes like dirt. And don't even get me started on Evian - that stuff will turn you gay.
Or should I have just posted: "I, for one, welcome our new aquatic overlords." ?
Yet another reason to go around Ohio. I'm from ND and go to school in VA. I drove through OH on the way here and got a speeding ticket (they kept changing the limit, like 5 times in 2 miles, then it was a 40mph construction zone for 10+ miles, and then it said "resume legal speed" which you couldn't possibly remember; I assumed 75mph and was wrong), and since you must go to court for your second speeding ticket in Ohio in 12 months, I'm going around Ohio through Kentucky when I drive to South Dakota for work this summer. It's actually shorter to go around Ohio than to drive the speed limit through it. :P
1. Lease (or buy)
2. ???
3. Profit
I agree that the solution to this involves spreadsheets rather than anecdotes. Figure out how much it would cost to maintain what you own if you bought it instead of leasing. Figure out the MTBF and cost of dealing with the F part for each item. Figure out how many man-hours it would take to prepare things to return from lease. Work to maximize efficiency in the numbers. The numbers are something that you (the original submitter) are you a uniquely good position to know and to examine.
Okay, there is no way that you didn't set this joke up. Either you have more than one account or you have a female friend that you collaborated with, and my money is on the former. Conspiracy of one.
Yeah, right! Only if you want to keep that sucker in orbit indefinitely. He'd screw up the math and actually fail to bring it down. ;)
science friction books (pun intended)
That's the problem with all intentional puns - they're never funny.
Don't blame him. He works for NASA. ;)
If we don't stop these sharing commies, where will the world end?
;)
The world will end exactly where we stop all these sharing commies.
As to the TV habits and small-town friendliness, it's the same way in much of the United States. The more things change...
I'm convinced that the main differences between third-world countries and the US don't lie in culture, lifestyle, etc. They lie mainly in diet and medicine. And the likelihood of political upheaval, but we have the same thing every 2, 4, or 6 years (and it's gradual enough that nobody has to nail anyone to anything to accomplish it).
If I didn't love steak and constitutionally-protected liberty so much, I would almost prefer to live in a third-world country - they have more of those small, friendly villages than we do, with the Internet and all.
It sounds to me like you'd legally be assuming the risk by strapping yourself into an electroshock suit to play a video game. Assumption of the risk bars negligence lawsuits. It's almost a given that you'll have to agree, either by signing them or by reading a warning sign, to terms that explicitly state that you assume the risk of unknown heart conditions.