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Anarchy / Re: Puzzle of the Week 7« on: March 04, 2011, 08:32:23 PM »
Oops...
I thought we had until next Sunday night to reply... which assuming a uniform distribution would've put the expected maximum value at 3.5 days past Monday, with the mode being 4 days past (Fri)... If I'd read it correctly then I would've come up with Wed giving the expected maximum number of points... which seems would have been correct 
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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: What are you listening to?« on: February 16, 2011, 12:37:43 AM »
Song: Jungle Boogie
Artist: Kool & The Gang Album: Pulp Fiction Soundtrack 104
Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: The Infamous "Me/Them" thread« on: February 16, 2011, 12:23:44 AM »Adobe should DIAF.... Yeah, I ran into Flash not properly updating several times. Every now and then it simply will not update until you've nuked the old installation from orbit. Doesn't help that the Specialized uninstaller program is buried in Adobe's site. 105
Anarchy / Re: Re: I wanna present a puzzle too DISCUSSION THREAD -- SPOILER ALERT« on: February 15, 2011, 10:00:12 PM »
Ok, THIS is the crux of the proof. Now you just have to algebra the numbers to show who is paying what mean.
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Anarchy / Re: Re: I wanna present a puzzle too DISCUSSION THREAD -- SPOILER ALERT« on: February 09, 2011, 08:15:47 PM »107
Anarchy / Re: Re: I wanna present a puzzle too DISCUSSION THREAD -- SPOILER ALERT« on: February 09, 2011, 02:59:14 AM »
Strictly speaking, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality isn't absolutely necessary to solve the problem. Perhaps I just felt like being mean.
But what if there were two n dimensional vectors, the lengths of which described Adam and Bob's respective averages? 108
Anarchy / Re: Puzzle of the Week 4« on: February 08, 2011, 07:48:28 PM »
How does one cheat when there are no rules?
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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: The Infamous "Me/Them" thread« on: February 01, 2011, 01:01:34 AM »
However, the craziest customer I ever helped, BY FAR, was a woman who was convinced that several huge corporations were after her. Disney was after her because she knew, or could prove, that one of their characters was plagiarized, and some huge fashion company was hacking into her computer to steal her knitting or crochet patterns.
How did she know someone was stealing her stuff? because sometimes her screen would flash as though someone were photographing it! 110
Anarchy / Re: I wanna present a puzzle too!« on: February 01, 2011, 12:51:59 AM »
Ok, since this is a pretty difficult problem I'll give you all a Big Hint
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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: The Infamous "Me/Them" thread« on: February 01, 2011, 12:45:32 AM »
Back when I worked retail (I'm paraphrasing here)...
Customer: "I'd like to return this notebook computer" Me: "Ok, what seems to be the trouble" Customer: "It just shuts off after awhile" I turn on the computer, it seems just fine Me: "How long did it take to shut off before?" Customer: "A few hours" Me: "A few hours? Did you have it plugged in?" Customer: "No" Me: "Well, the battery probably just ran out. They only run 4-5 hours on the battery" I don't remember the exact details after that, but we ended up doing the return since it was within a few days of the purchase. 112
Anarchy / Re: I wanna present a puzzle too!« on: January 29, 2011, 04:42:33 AM »Insufficient data. A Monte Carlo solution would be generating random prices and calculating who gets the best Dollar to pounds of sugar ratio. You can use it to find the right answer, you just can't use it as a proof. 113
Anarchy / I wanna present a puzzle too!« on: January 28, 2011, 10:23:56 PM »
It seems to be the cool thing to do, so here you go:
Adam buys one kilogram of sugar every Monday. Bob buys one dollar's worth of sugar every Wednesday. The price of sugar may change on Sundays only. Who gets the best deal over time? Justify your answer. Monte Carlo solutions will not be accepted. 114
Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: What are you listening to?« on: January 25, 2011, 10:35:56 PM »Song: Will We Survive As long as you know how to love, I think you'll be alright. 115
Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: What are you listening to?« on: January 22, 2011, 03:47:52 AM »
Dusty Springfield - Son of a preacher man
I'd never bothered looking up the artist... I didn't know she was white... and British... 116
Anarchy / Re: The geeky quotes thread!« on: January 22, 2011, 03:43:04 AM »Who is general failure and why is he reading my disc?  He's reading your disc because he lost his map. 117
Entertainment / Re: Censored; not censored...« on: January 22, 2011, 01:47:29 AM »
I have it on good authority that Rush Limbaugh, Michael Moore, and 38% of the population of Tibet, are anti-skub
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Flamer's Corner / Re: Random Rants« on: January 18, 2011, 10:59:47 PM »
Based on your description, I'm assuming they fucked something.
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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: The Infamous "Me/Them" thread« on: January 16, 2011, 08:32:22 PM »
Ok so what happened was this one time Randy Beeman was in his kitchen looking for a snack and he opened up the refrigerator and inside the refrigerator was a jar of yogurt and he started eating the yogurt and then Randy Beeman's mom came in and she asked him what he was doing and he said he was eating yogurt but then she said, "That isn't yogurt."
K, bye 120
Anarchy / Re: Puzzle me this Detta« on: January 15, 2011, 07:52:47 PM »
It's quite simple.
That series of numbers represents the puzzle you're presenting. 121
New Geeks on the Block / Re: Hello Everyone« on: January 14, 2011, 07:32:38 PM »
I don't use Linux because it doesn't allow me to easily blame my computer problems on other people.
and I love blaming other people. Also this is my post number 223, which is a prime number 223 is the fourth Carol number and the third to be prime. 223 is the sum of three consecutive primes (71 + 73 + 79), the sum of seven consecutive primes (19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43), and the smallest number requiring 37 fifth powers for Waring representation This post is brought to you by the number 223 
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Flamer's Corner / Re: School related rants« on: January 14, 2011, 06:33:44 AM »
Or he may...
Some schools have some pretty slutty schedules. And there's a reason plans are rolled: 
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Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Re: FS: Intel i7 920« on: August 01, 2009, 05:30:44 PM »
Any takers if I go down to $235?
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Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Re: FS: Intel i7 920« on: July 27, 2009, 07:29:22 PM »
Well, depends on what this object is, but it's unlikely as I'm needing cash.
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Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / not FS: Intel i7 920« on: July 26, 2009, 05:14:23 PM »
now on e-bay, item no longer available here.
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