Update 6.3.3.:G I C J:.

If anybody's wondering what all those initials stood for... they stand for Google India Code Jam. 2006. The qualification round of which is going to end on 21st March 2006. at noon. After which the top 500 coders will be invited for an online contest, from which the top 50 will get cash prizes. The top ten get job offers from Google.... And as if this wasn't enough... the cash prizes will wipe out all your financial worries... for the rest of your college life !!! The winner gets 122000... and the person who comes 50th gets 18k.
My personal performance in GICJ was ok..... was able to solve both the problems... though I lost a lot of points bcoz I wasn't conversant with ISO C++... hell.... 610.85 points out of a possible 1250 should be amongst the top 500. I'm praying.....

and while I'm at it... I can shed a couple of tears for my dismal performance in Robocode 6.1...
Got questions wrong which were as simple as: If the size of an int in Java is 4 bytes on a 32 bit Pentium machine, what will be it's size on a 64 bit AMD Athlon ?
Can you believe that??? This is a lesson for all of you.... Never take anything for granted...

Gotta go and sleep...
Good Night...

-ONE
I don't think. Therefore I may not be...

Update 6.3.2.:Baby Eyes:.

So ppl....
With all parts of your bodies colored in different shades of yellow purple n green... It's time to get back to the daily grind...
a couple of weeks and April will be upon us, and a week after that people will be scrambling all over the place to finish Lab journals/files. Take care lest some lazybone manages to pinch your journal... It's a hell of a job to write a new journal, and convince the prof to accept it... believe me.. I've done it several times...

For all you minions who missed the Holi celebrations on campus... it was a good thing you did...
After 15 minutes of early morning revelry, most of the hostels ran out of water... Hence the morbid attraction to mud... naturally available, in abundance outside most of the hostels...
My lobbymates looked straight out of a Hindi-phillum... remember the ones where the hero and the villian have taekwondo bouts, while having the time of their lives rolling in mud ?
The campus wore a more desolate look then usual as most of the public had either gone home... or as some 'smart' fellows did... went off to Cal to watch 'Rang de Basanti'...
Well... even I wanted to watch that movie... but I sure didn't have the 'courage' to shell out 2k bucks for a day n half in the most polluted city in the country....

Time to sleep... In a few hours the insti would be teeming with grouchy profs, intent on driving their students' up the wall, and even grouchier students...
But I'll be asleep... I have a day off...
whoever said Mechies don't have it easy... eh ?


-ONE
"Every war has it's casualities...
every victory it's price..."

Update 6.3.1 .:Happy Holi:.

Happy Holi to all of you ppl...
May the festival of colours bring joy into all your lives....
Play with safe colours, and exercise restraint with that pitcher of bhaang...

Now that i've dispensed with the crap, let me remind you all...
Google India Code Jam 06 is fast approaching... The practice sessions are good... though I still can't figure out how to declare arrays in ISO C++... it seems we've gotta use vectors or sth...
Ppl... wake up... register for it... It'll be a good measure of your coding skill...


Gotta go... My lobby animals are baying for blood... I'm doomed today....

-ONE
I code. Therefore I am.

Movies At Long Last !

Happy Holi Folks

The Movie Collection as on 15th March 2006

1. A Few Good Men
2. A B C D
3. Alladin
4. Alexander
5. American Pie
6. American Pie 2
7. American Wedding
8. Anand
9. Anchorman
10. Apaharan
11. Bend It Like Beckham
12. Blow
13. Braveheart
14. Bruce Almighty
15. Casablanca
16. Chicken Little + Hitch
17. Cinderella Man
18. Cliffhanger
19. Deep Purple & The London Orchestra
20. Die Hard
21. Dire Straits – On The Night & Nirvana-Unplugged in New York
22. East is East
23. Enemy At The Gates
24. Euro Trip
25. Fight Club
26. Final Fantasy
27. Finding Nemo
28. Finding Neverland
29. Flightplan
30. Freaky Friday
31. From Hell
32. G3 – Live In concert
33. Ghost & The Darkness
34. Ghost in The Shell
35. Ghost in The Shell 2 – Innocence + Indiana Jones – The Temple of Doom
36. Girl Next Door
37. Good Will Hunting
38. Guess Who + Constantine
39. Harry Potter 2 – The Chamber of Secrets
40. Harry Potter 4 – The Goblet of Fire – Disc 1
41. Harry Potter 4 - The Goblet of Fire – Disc 2
42. Harry Potter 1 – The Philosopher’s Stone
43. Harry Potter 3 – The Prisoner of Azkaban
44. House of Wax
45. Indiana Jones – Raiders of The Lost Ark
46. Indiana Jones – The Last Crusade
47. Jackass – The Movie
48. Johnny English
49. Kill Bill vol2
50. Lion of the Desert
51. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
52. Love Actually
53. Metallica – The Black Album
54. Minority Report
55. Mona Lisa Smile
56. Monsoon Wedding
57. Mr. & Mrs. Iyer
58. Naked Weapon
59. Notting Hill
60. Phone Booth
61. Pitch Black + Must Love Dogs
62. Revolver
63. Ronin
64. Salton Sea
65. Saw 2
66. Serendipity
67. Silence Of The Lambs
68. Sleep Hollow
69. Spiderman
70. Sweet November
71. Taking Lives
72. The Butterfly Effect
73. The Day After Tommorrow
74. The Emperor’s New Groove
75. The Fugitive
76. The Incredibles – Disc 1
77. The Incredibles – Disc 2
78. The Island
79. The Others
80. The Real McCoy
81. The Ring
82. There’s Something About Mary
83. To Kill A Mocking Bird
84. Top Gun
85. Troy
86. Van Wilder
87. Vanilla Sky
88. Vertical Limit
89. We Were Soldiers
90. When Harry Met Sally
91. Wimbledon
92. Wild Things
93. XXX – State of the Union
94. Pearl Harbor
95. The Italian Job
96. Requiem For A Dream
97. Trainspotting
98. A Beautiful Mind
99. The Longest Day
100. Ocean’s 12
101. The Lion King
102. The Day Of The Jackal
103. Saw
104. All Quiet on the Western Front
105. All the President’s Men
106. The Longest Yard
107. You’ve Got Mail
108. The Matrix
109. The Ring 2
110. Salaam Bombay (Disc 1)
111. Salaam Bombay (Disc 2)
112. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly (Disc 1)
113. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly (Disc 2)
114. Scorpions – Acoustica + Steve Vai - Rock Around The Bay (Tokyo 97) Live
115. Antz + Moon Hoax
116. Munich (Disc 1)
117. Munich (Disc 2)
118. 15 Park Avenue (Disc 1)
119. 15 Park Avenue (Disc 1)
120. Oliver Twist (Disc 1)
121. Oliver Twist (Disc 2)
122. Iron Maiden – Ullevi -2005 – Disc 1
123. Iron Maiden – Ullevi -2005 – Disc 2
124. The Road To El Dorado
125. Hyderabad Blues
126. A Walk to Remember
127. Murder On the Orient Express
128. Antitrust
129. Citizen Kane
130. Where Eagles Dare
131. The Interpreter
132. Heartbreak Ridge
133. Escape From Alcatraz
134. Sniper 2
135. Shallow Hal
136. City of Angels
137. Fun with Dick & Jane
138. Dumb & Dumber
139. Wicker Park
140. Forrest Gump
141. The Usual Suspects
142. Hearts in Atlantis
143. Monsters Inc
144. I Am Sam
145. Dreamtheater - Scenes From a Memory - 2000
146. Kingdom Of Heaven
147. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
148. G3 Denver 2004
149. Collateral
150. Boat Trip
151. 100 Girls
152. Waterloo
153. Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara
154. LA Confidential
155. Battle Of Britain
156. One Missed Call
157. Treasure Planet
158. The Matador
159. The Chronicles of Narnia – The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Disc 1)
160. The Chronicles of Narnia – The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Disc 2)
161. Bunty aur Babli
162. Black
163. Brokeback Mountain (Disc 1)
164. Brokeback Mountain (Disc 2)
165. Firefox
166. The Eagle Has Landed
167. Bullitt
168. Kelly’s Heroes
169. Runaway Bride
170. The Man + Herbie
171. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Disc 1
172. 172* The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Disc2
173. Hellraiser 1
174. Hellraiser 2 : Hellbound
175. Hellraiser 3 : Hell On Earth
176. Hellraiser 4 : Bloodline
177. Hellraiser 5 : Inferno
178. Hellraiser 6 : Hellseeker
179. Catch Me If You Can
180. The Transporter
181. The Blair Witch Project
182. Monster
183. Atlantis – The Lost World
184. Hostel
185. Dinosaur
186. A Bug’s Life
187. The Lion King II – Simba’s Pride
188. Dil Se – Disc 1
189. Dil Se – Disc 1
190. Apollo 13
191. Pulp Fiction
192. Se7en
193. Scent Of a Woman
194. Goal! – The Movie
195. Raging Bull
196. Goodfellas
197. Green Street Hooligans
198. Batman Begins – Disc 1
199. Batman Begins – Disc 2
200. Hitler – The Rise of Evil – Disc 1
201. Hitler – The Rise of Evil – Disc 2
202. Snatch
203. The Godfather – 1
204. The Godfather - 3
205. The Godfather – 2
206. Rang De Basanti
207. Paycheck
208. Osmosis Jones
209. Raincoat
210. The Phantom Of The Opera
211. The Shawshank Redemption
212. The Ten Commandments
213. Split Wide Open

Ponder This

IBM Research Ponder This March 2006 Challenge