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Originally posted by: TheSessler
Well, I think I've definitely decided on which one to get.
I'm going to get the Toshiba Satellite P30 with a 3.2ghz P4, 512 megs of ram, and an 80 gig HDD.
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Originally posted by: DanielB
I know it's a particularly nasty riddle. I'll give you the same thing I got that gave me a head-start (I've worked off this idea).... the prisoners agree that:
#1 they are all assigned one token, and a counter will collect all these tokens as to be able to assert that they have all entered the central living area.
#2 During the first 100 days:
If it is their first time in the living room and the light is off to leave it off. They then remove their token.
If it is their second time in the living room and the light is off to turn it on and assign themselves the role of the counter. The count (number of tokens) is equal to the day number minus one (since he's been in the room twice).
If the light is on, do nothing regardless until day 100, in which case switch it off.
This gives a bit of a head-start, on average the initial count is 12. Meaning there are now on average 11 people with no token, 88 people with one token each and the counter with 12 tokens.
I will also give you my main concept, which I came up with myself and is a huge advantage if you couldn't think of it yourself.
The concept is if we were to assert that a prisoner releases his token, wherever possible for the counter to collect by turning the light on, then we expect the counter and everyone else to enter the room once every time a token is released. Meaning there is conceptually 100 room entries per token release. Reducing this ratio should be our main concern.
I believe I've worked out the perfect strategy, but I have to do some pretty heavy number-crunching until I can make it optimal.
Afterwards I believe I could then produce an optimal strategy with the rather nasty alteration:
The procedure ends not when a prisoner asserts that all prisoners have entered the room, rather the prisoner must assert that all other prisoners now know and have asserted that all prisoners have entered the central living room.
Ooooh that's nasty, I shouldn't have thought of it. But it can be done.
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Shimmy, you can start up threads as a forum member, but to create an entirely new section (which is what you need to do in the case of an off topic area), you need to be a mod or webmaster. Even if Karma wanted to do it, he couldn't. Starting up an offtopic thread within a topical section is just bad form and Karma wouldn't do that anyway.
Karma, he was definitely out of line and I don't see any reason why an off topic section cannot be created. Have you tried sending private messages to the rest of the forum membership to get their opinion? I'm sure that if you were to find a large group of people who want it and were willing to e-mail the Nazi... errr... forum mod all at the same time, he might see the light and start up the section.
I say a bunch of you give the mod an e-mail blitzkrieg.
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Celeron faster than P IV? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Celerons only have 256K of cache and have the reputation of being even slower than the AMD crap that's on the market. Go Mac.
years dont mean shit you dont post a post cus soemthing maye happen your happened in that FUCKIN year. ok Now smarten up you have gotten dozens of fuckin warnings. 