Let:
n=2 prisoners
l=1 the number of times the King must call each prisoner
k=0 times the king may flip the chalice
Consider this a base case of the problem. A real base case would set n=1, but that is trivially simple. If there is no strategy for one case, then there is no general strategy.
There are several possible ways this can play out but they are all symmetric.
King calls prisoner 1. The chalice is in its initial state which is up or down. The prisoner gains zero information and says I do not know. The prisoner attempts to signal prisoner two by setting the chalice up. The king calls the second prisoner. He sees the chalice up. Now he has a decision to make (really the same decision the first prisoner had). Was the chalice up in the initial state or did the other prisoner turn it up? Without knowing anything about the distribution of the initial state he can't gain any information and has to answer "I don't know". Both prisoners are imprisoned forever.
The question, as stated, has no general solution.
So maybe there is some missing information. Let's say that the chalice always starts up. The king calls prisoner 1. Prisoner 1 answers "I don't know" and turns the chalice down. The king calls prisoner 2. Prisoner 2 sees the chalice down and answers "Yes" and both prisoners are set free.
But if we set k=1 this changes. Prisoner 1 sets the chalice down. The king flips it back up. Prisoner 2 sees the chalice up, says "I don't know" and turns it down again. Both prisoners stay in jail. So we also need a constraint on k with respect to n and m.
I am giving this post more credibility at this time.
Fine. Pay developers like CEO's. If developers are the ones shouldering the risks then they should be the ones receiving the rewards. I think I can afford malpractice insurance on an eight million dollar a year salary.
Maybe they are planning on releasing DVDs with DRM built in so that you purchase a license to watch the movie. You play the movie on a special DVD player that phones into Microsoft HQ to make sure your license is vald. When your 'rental' period is up the DVD stops working and you can either throw it away or save it to repurchase another time. The great thing about this is they can start shipping out movies like AOL and if you want to watch it you just have to punch your credit card in over the phone. Pretty soon everyone will have their very own library of thousands of movies to watch any time they want to.
A film teacher I had argued that a film should have one character who changes and one character who is the main force of change. Everyone else is a supporting character feeding the story towards that change. If more than one person changes the movie loses focus and becomes uninteresting.
By doing this, Lego is providing a better service to their customers promoting increased sales in the future. Trying to rope your customers into buying things they do not want may increase sales in the short term but doesn't make sense long term.
Exactly what I was thinking. It wasn't intended to be funny. They already sell search appliances. I think a plug and go email server appliance would be a natural next step and I really would be surprised if it isn't already in the works. It should also allow you to add another box for more capacity and do redundant backups and failovers and everything automagically.
Heck, maybe I should make this if they aren't offering it.
"Kirchoff's Laws".. that sounded vaguely familiar... had to look it up. I didn't remember the name, but I think I could have still done the node analysis of a circuit. Then again, I haven't solved one of those problems in 10 years. Maybe I couldn't.
What companies generally want is people that can do things Right Now The First Time. It really sucks for recent grads. And it's really great for veteran in the field.
Bah. It stinks for veterans too. "Oh, I see you have 10 years of experience writing applications in C++. We're really looking for someone experienced in C. Sorry." The other replier is right. Companies want lots of experience in the exact position they are hiring for.
Then they complaint that they can't find an American for the job and hire someone on an H-1B.
I came to that conclusion some years back. It works the other way too. As a worker (be an employee, manager, or business owner) you work for everyone. You work for your manager. You work for your customers. You work for your co-workers. If you fail to produce that they value then you are not doing your job. If they do not like your work then they can fire you by finding someone else whose work they like better.
Conversely, all of these people also work for you. The job of your manager is to make you more effective at work. If he doesn't do this, you need to fire him (perhaps by finding a new job).
Not only that, but if you are travelling on business it is nice to remember that you should be in the office by 8am wherever you are -- not 8am when in London, 3am when on the East Coast, and midnight when on the West Coast.
It is much easier to win a game of Civilization using diplomacy or doing the space race than it is to conquer the world. Does this mean that Sid has been pushing his pacifist ideals on us for the past decade? The game also has pretty severe penalties for using nuclear weapons. I suppose that is part of a liberal agenda too. And don't get me started on how you absolutely have to put resources into science research to have a remote chance to win the game.
Then Han was extremely lucky that he happened to be carrying a gun specially made for killing Greedo when he had the fateful encounter.
Maybe the gun had its own ego and forced Han to kill Greedo! Han, realizing the evil influence the gun had over him, was forced to destroy the gun in the fires of planet Mustafar, where alone the ring could be unmade. The very same planet where the Dark Lord had been born of the world.
And so the fellowship of nine set out to destory the great weapon before it could fall into the hands of the Enemy. The companions journeid in secret and faced many desperate perils, always with the black fliers of the Empire in close pursuit.
Except that if companies are going to design their products and services around my opinions then the marketplace is going to be a better place for me. So they benefit and I benefit. Personally, it doesn't bother me at all.
Although they don't really have a choice. If the company sold it directly for less than the MSRP then no retail stores would want to stock it and they would lose sales.
You forget to put one nail in anywhere in the house and the whole thing comes crashing down.
What if making movies were like writing software? Someone hold their glass in the wrong hand and that causes the film to catch fire during a screening which grows into an inferno that burns the whole city down.
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Let:
n=2 prisoners
l=1 the number of times the King must call each prisoner
k=0 times the king may flip the chalice
Consider this a base case of the problem. A real base case would set n=1, but that is trivially simple. If there is no strategy for one case, then there is no general strategy.
There are several possible ways this can play out but they are all symmetric.
King calls prisoner 1. The chalice is in its initial state which is up or down. The prisoner gains zero information and says I do not know. The prisoner attempts to signal prisoner two by setting the chalice up. The king calls the second prisoner. He sees the chalice up. Now he has a decision to make (really the same decision the first prisoner had). Was the chalice up in the initial state or did the other prisoner turn it up? Without knowing anything about the distribution of the initial state he can't gain any information and has to answer "I don't know". Both prisoners are imprisoned forever.
The question, as stated, has no general solution.
So maybe there is some missing information. Let's say that the chalice always starts up. The king calls prisoner 1. Prisoner 1 answers "I don't know" and turns the chalice down. The king calls prisoner 2. Prisoner 2 sees the chalice down and answers "Yes" and both prisoners are set free.
But if we set k=1 this changes. Prisoner 1 sets the chalice down. The king flips it back up. Prisoner 2 sees the chalice up, says "I don't know" and turns it down again. Both prisoners stay in jail. So we also need a constraint on k with respect to n and m.
I am giving this post more credibility at this time.
You are right! Why didn't I ever consider that? I should have. You, sir, are a genius.
Fine. Pay developers like CEO's. If developers are the ones shouldering the risks then they should be the ones receiving the rewards. I think I can afford malpractice insurance on an eight million dollar a year salary.
Maybe they are planning on releasing DVDs with DRM built in so that you purchase a license to watch the movie. You play the movie on a special DVD player that phones into Microsoft HQ to make sure your license is vald. When your 'rental' period is up the DVD stops working and you can either throw it away or save it to repurchase another time. The great thing about this is they can start shipping out movies like AOL and if you want to watch it you just have to punch your credit card in over the phone. Pretty soon everyone will have their very own library of thousands of movies to watch any time they want to.
Actually, he is.
A film teacher I had argued that a film should have one character who changes and one character who is the main force of change. Everyone else is a supporting character feeding the story towards that change. If more than one person changes the movie loses focus and becomes uninteresting.
Tell me: Does money grow on trees where you're from?
um... the Treasury Department has asked me to respond to that question with "no comment."
Time Warner let me get Roadrunner without television access.
By doing this, Lego is providing a better service to their customers promoting increased sales in the future. Trying to rope your customers into buying things they do not want may increase sales in the short term but doesn't make sense long term.
Exactly what I was thinking. It wasn't intended to be funny. They already sell search appliances. I think a plug and go email server appliance would be a natural next step and I really would be surprised if it isn't already in the works. It should also allow you to add another box for more capacity and do redundant backups and failovers and everything automagically.
Heck, maybe I should make this if they aren't offering it.
I bet Google would be willing to sell you a solution.
...er.... does not get hurricaines...
Holland does get hurricaines like the gulf coast does.
Brunson does not claim ESP is important. He claims it is a jelly roll.
"Kirchoff's Laws".. that sounded vaguely familiar... had to look it up. I didn't remember the name, but I think I could have still done the node analysis of a circuit. Then again, I haven't solved one of those problems in 10 years. Maybe I couldn't.
That is not the catch-22. You can get a loan to go to college (training). If it were that easy no one would consider it a catch.
Here is the catch:
- companies only want to hire people with experience
- as a fresh college graduate you have no experience
How can you get experience so that someone will hire you if no one will hire you because of your lack of experience?
What companies generally want is people that can do things Right Now The First Time. It really sucks for recent grads. And it's really great for veteran in the field.
Bah. It stinks for veterans too. "Oh, I see you have 10 years of experience writing applications in C++. We're really looking for someone experienced in C. Sorry." The other replier is right. Companies want lots of experience in the exact position they are hiring for.
Then they complaint that they can't find an American for the job and hire someone on an H-1B.
I came to that conclusion some years back. It works the other way too. As a worker (be an employee, manager, or business owner) you work for everyone. You work for your manager. You work for your customers. You work for your co-workers. If you fail to produce that they value then you are not doing your job. If they do not like your work then they can fire you by finding someone else whose work they like better.
Conversely, all of these people also work for you. The job of your manager is to make you more effective at work. If he doesn't do this, you need to fire him (perhaps by finding a new job).
Not only that, but if you are travelling on business it is nice to remember that you should be in the office by 8am wherever you are -- not 8am when in London, 3am when on the East Coast, and midnight when on the West Coast.
It is much easier to win a game of Civilization using diplomacy or doing the space race than it is to conquer the world. Does this mean that Sid has been pushing his pacifist ideals on us for the past decade? The game also has pretty severe penalties for using nuclear weapons. I suppose that is part of a liberal agenda too. And don't get me started on how you absolutely have to put resources into science research to have a remote chance to win the game.
Then Han was extremely lucky that he happened to be carrying a gun specially made for killing Greedo when he had the fateful encounter.
Maybe the gun had its own ego and forced Han to kill Greedo! Han, realizing the evil influence the gun had over him, was forced to destroy the gun in the fires of planet Mustafar, where alone the ring could be unmade. The very same planet where the Dark Lord had been born of the world.
And so the fellowship of nine set out to destory the great weapon before it could fall into the hands of the Enemy. The companions journeid in secret and faced many desperate perils, always with the black fliers of the Empire in close pursuit.
Except that if companies are going to design their products and services around my opinions then the marketplace is going to be a better place for me. So they benefit and I benefit. Personally, it doesn't bother me at all.
I think the movie covers the story that would have comprised the first season.
And I didn't think it was mostly about River.
Although they don't really have a choice. If the company sold it directly for less than the MSRP then no retail stores would want to stock it and they would lose sales.
You forget to put one nail in anywhere in the house and the whole thing comes crashing down.
What if making movies were like writing software? Someone hold their glass in the wrong hand and that causes the film to catch fire during a screening which grows into an inferno that burns the whole city down.