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Addictive - it has that "one more go" factor (until you get above 4096, I agree)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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A while ago I sat down with a version that allows undoes* to see how high I could go. I gave up when I reached 32768. I just did not have the time or patience left to aim for the theoretical maximum of 131027. Reaching the higher numbers was no harder that reaching 2048, it just took more time. The only times it was fun was when the board was full.
So I agree. I don't even care about reaching 4096. As soon as I reach 2048, the game is over for me.
* Is that the correct plural? It looks... wrong?
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
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BotCar wrote: Is that the correct plural? It looks... wrong?
I think the word you are looking for is "undomentifications".
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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The on-line issue of Current Biology reveals fiendish experiments involving amputations of Octopi tentacles: "Self-Recognition Mechanism between Skin and Suckers Prevents Octopus Arms from Interfering with Each Other" [^]. Reported in the "popular press" here: [^].
What more tragic image could be conjured than that of an Octopus holding its own amputated tentacle in its beak ? And, described, in Current Biology in the following luridly heartless language:
"It is likely that the constraining effect of the self-avoidance mechanism led the octopuses to adopt the "spaghetti holding" behavior as the beak is the only organ that allows holding when the suckers action is inhibited." As if Octopi are not stricken with grief at losing a tentacle, and are not holding it in their beak to say a tender farewell.
Meanwhile FOOAAA (Friends Of Octopi Against Amputation Atrocities), in collaboration with PETA, EarthWatch, and Femen, are expected to launch clandestine protests including nude flash-mob events at major aquaria and centers of Octopi research.
Performance artist Nadazedha Matzemiya of FEMEN has scheduled a Paris opening for her performance-art solo: "Dance, Suckers, Dance," rumored to include a duet with a live Octopi kidnapped from the Aquarium de Paris, which was suddenly closed yesterday, and is now surrounded by commandos of the Brigade des Forces Spéciales Terre.
Jacques Derrida, famed post-modern deconstructive philosopher, has made a public statement decrying the experiments, suggesting that the amputations are "a metaphor for the inverted destructive force of post-capitalist pseudo-socialism manifested as a cross-species transference of the perception of autonomy as abomination."
As usual, a number of religious groups have featured this research in their latest newsletter, blogs, and video, as yet another sign of the End of the World.
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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Nude protests and octopodes - YouTube gold!
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Platinum if it gets picked up in Japan... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Once there were three bats. They lived in a cave surrounded by three castles. One night the bats made a bet to see who could drink the most blood.
The first bat comes home one night and has blood dripping off his fangs. The other two bats are amazed and asked how much blood he had drunk.
The first bat said, "See that castle over there? I drank the blood of three people."
The second bat goes out on his night and comes back with blood around his mouth. The other two bats are astonished and ask how many people's blood had he drunk.
The bat said, "See that castle over there. I drank the blood of five people."
The third bat goes out on his night and comes back covered in blood. This was totally amazing to the other two bats. They ask how much blood he drank.
The 3rd bat said, "See that castle over there?" and the other bats nod. "Well," says the third bat, "I didn't."
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
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And for the nth time, it makes me laugh, again!
Repost! 
Your version is somewhat, funny.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Boo! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Argh!
Jeepers, mate - you made me jump there...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Whereas if he had said Baa you would have had a jump.
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It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
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public void DoWork()
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P0mpey3 wrote: Whereas if he had said Baa ![Sheep | [baah]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sheep.gif) you would have had a jump.
FTFY
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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Once there were a number of bats. They lived near a neighborhood of old houses. During the late summer months they like to sneak inside one of the old houses and fly about in the middle of the night, causing the human residents a great deal of consternation. Once they do so, the large male human captures them in a plastic box and releases them back outside. About half the time they don't survive the capture procedure  , which bothers the large male human not at all. The End.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Wait... This story doesn't have a happy ending!
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
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public void DoWork()
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throw new NotSupportedException();
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True. The large male human has a goal of at least one summer where not a single bat gets inside his house. In the last ten years, I've had at least one every summer, and some years a half dozen or so.
Software Zen: delete this;
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How are they coming inside in the first place? Perhaps you should seal of all entrances, at least to a point where bats can no longer enter. There's special screens you can place in open doors or windows that keeps bugs out (and probably bats too). Something like this screen door[^].
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
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throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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It's a large (2400 sq. ft.) old house, built in 1872. Our local bats are small, and can get in through an opening as small as 1 inch by ½ inch. I've sealed chimneys, replaced window screens, etc.
It's an ongoing battle to keep the critters out. We also have raccoons and squirrels that like to try and get into our attic. At one point last year we had raccoons tearing the screens out of an upstairs window to get into the room where our cats' food bowls were. I got up one morning and found the plastic food container had been dragged out onto the roof  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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They sound like cheeky and persistent little critters...
Isn't there some stuff that keeps them away? Something they can smell, but humans can't or some sort.
If all else fails you could become a critter yourself and sneak into others homes to eat and sleep. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
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Raccoons are the worst of the lot. They're destructive, fearless, and can be combative if cornered. The local population is positive for rabies about 50% of the time.Sander Rossel wrote: Isn't there some stuff that keeps them away? Something they can smell, but humans can't or some sort
Most of those sorts of things either don't work well, or they smell so bad the cure is worse than the disease.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Not to sure why they put observatories in cities. I would have thought there would be to much light from street light etc. I find it easier to just go outside and look. (advantages of not being in the country)
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Cool link thanks
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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I did not think it was possible, but there IS something worse than math (well, it's still partly math, but not entirely).
Coming saturday I'm taking my third chance at an exam about communication technology. It's part math, part physics and completely impossible.
Stuff I should know is how a telephone works, how radio works, how a modem works, how the internet works, etc.
We have waves that travel at a certain frequency and there's noise on the channel and we can multiplex it and convert it to bytes using transducers, put it back on a wave using modulators, put a sinus function in there, magically apply cosinus, of course we need to remove redundancy, add line coding and channel coding... And of course there's all kinds of formulae to calculate stuff. AAAARGHHHH!!!
I scored a 4 twice (on a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the highest score). It's 40 multiple choice questions and I answered 23 questions correctly (twice, at least I'm not un-learning), but I need 27 correct questions for a 5,5 (passing grade). Which makes this even more impossible.
Is anyone here working in the field? Or knows a bit about it?
Any tips that might make me see the light?
Why did I ever want to study again? 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
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