Archive for October 17th, 2005

17
Oct

The Piracy Lunacy

   Posted by: AUDIOMIND   in Random

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It is estimated that piracy costs the entertainment and software industries tens of billions of dollars.
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The concept of pirating has knocked a few ‘linguistical’ screws loose in all impending DRM arguments IMO…….take for instance the 4-3v3r touted preposterous figure above [BS].

The music/software/movie/etc industries !MAY!-[emphasis] not make tens of billions of dollars, but I hardly believe that they “lose” that much. IME and ‘research’, most of the stuff downloaded or bought illegally is generally something a person wouldnt buy anyway, primarily bc of the cost. For instance, people don’t want to spend $80 for a software program, especially if they can download it for free or buy it off some random street vendor guy for 5 bucks.

When that happens, they [the RIAA/MPAA/software vendors/etc] don’t lose $80 because the person never would have bought the software/music/movie in the first place, instead they just didn’t make the $80.

Same thing with CD’s/DVD’s…………

Someone isn’t going to buy a certain CD for 13 bucks, when they can get it for free or for a few bucks. So the artist didn’t necessarily lose $13 because they were never going to make that $$$ in the first place.

So that ‘figure’ above is bloated and full of crap……..regardless of the fact that I do not condone TRUE copyright/patent violations.

17
Oct

One of the Hardest Logic Puzzles in de World

   Posted by: AUDIOMIND   in Random

It’s extremely subtle……….I’ve never seen anything like it.

Anyhooz here’s the Hardest Logic Puzzle in the World:

A group of people live on an island. They are all perfect logicians — if a conclusion can be logically deduced, they will do it instantly. No one knows the color of their eyes. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island. If anyone has figured out the color of their own eyes, they [must] leave the island that midnight.

On this island live 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and the Guru. The Guru has green eyes, and does not know her own eye color either. Everyone on the island knows the rules and is constantly aware of everyone else’s eye color, and keeps a constant count of the total number of each (excluding themselves). However, they cannot otherwise communicate. So any given blue-eyed person can see 100 people with brown eyes and 99 people with blue eyes, but that does not tell them their own eye color; it could be 101 brown and 99 blue. Or 100 brown, 99 blue, and the one could have red eyes.

The Guru speaks only once (let’s say at noon), on one day in all their endless years on the island. Standing before the islanders, she says the following:

“I can see someone with blue eyes.”

Who leaves the island, and on what night?

[Stipulations]
There are no mirrors or reflecting surfaces, nothing dumb, It is not a trick question, and the answer is logical. It doesn’t depend on tricky wording, and it doesn’t involve people doing something silly like creating a sign language or doing genetics. The Guru is not making eye contact with anyone in particular; she’s simply saying “I count at least one blue-eyed person on this island who isn’t me.”

And lastly, the answer is not “no one leaves.”

some other things to ponder……and finally the answer

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