Jawaharlal Nehru--A Quotes Of Life

Jawaharlal Nehru

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Jawaharlal Nehru

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

the stacks

Klondike solitaire turn one is a game that precedes its computer version, and that means that all the cards are truly shuffled, without the computer peeking in to verify the game is solvable.

And like McKay mentioned, with a random shuffle you can definitely end up with an unsolvable game.

I'm sure it is possible to design a Solitaire variant in which each game is solvable, though.

Literally just played a game in which one of the stacks (the one containing 4 cards) was lead by the 9 of diamonds, and the cards inside of it were the King of Spades, the 5 of diamonds, the 10 of spades, and the 10 of clubs (I know this because I had the entire field solved except for this stack and used process of elimination). As far as I can see this makes the game impossible. I have a 9 of diamonds in which can never be moved, as the two 10s that it's eligible to rest upon are trapped underneath it in the stack face down. Attempting to get rid of the 9 by moving it to the diamond stack would also be fruitless, as the 5 of diamonds is stuck underneath it too. Unless someone can tell me some way that this could be solved, I'm pretty darned certain that if a card that is leading a stack is covering a stack that contains the two cards it is capable of resting on, and a lower number of it's own suit, then the game is made impossible right from the get-go.

However, if you started a list and enumerated the initial conditions -- I feel like I've seen this on a linux version of Solitare: the numbering of deck order, that is -- and you definitively decide a certain one is un-winnable, you then could compare notes across nodes (share with friends) and VOILA: a list of un-winnable starting deck stacks.

I've been starting to think the Windows 7 version has the un-winnable decks removed, ... I don't know, it's a little heavy-handed and smug about the statistics.

solitaire player

The game's continued pre-eminence is a remarkable feat—it's something akin to living in a universe in which Pong were the most-popular title for PlayStation 3. One reason solitaire endures is its predictability. The gameplay and aesthetic have remained remarkably stable; a visitor from the year 1990 could play the latest Windows version without a glitch, at least if he could figure out how to use the Start menu. It also remains one of the very few computer programs, game or nongame, that old people can predictably navigate. Brad Fregger, the developer of Klondike solitaire turn one, the first commercial solitaire game for the Macintosh and the PC, told me that his 89-year-old mother still calls regularly to brag about her high scores.

The game has also maintained a strong foothold in the modern-day cubicle. Despite the easy availability of other cheap amusements, five minutes of dragging cards around on the screen remains a speedy route to mental health and a mild form of workplace disobedience. (Just don't do it when Mayor Bloomberg is around.) Since solitaire doesn't take up the whole screen, it's easy to click over and play a hand or two when you get tired of data entry, then quickly toggle back over to your database program when your manager happens to walk by. This sort of multitasking, the ability to minimize and hide applications, is the most essential feature of the Windows OS. And solitaire taught us how to use it.

The ability to screw around while staring at one's computer—a posture once exclusively associated with doing work—added new friction to the boss-employee dynamic. While people screwed around at work before computers—what did they do exactly, those poor souls?—the advent of PC-based leisure pursuits launched a national conversation about how much screwing around is too much. By the early 1990s, companies like Coca-Cola, Sears, and Boeing either removed Windows' preinstalled games or enacted bans on engaging with them. In 1993, a travel agency executive educated Business Week on the prevailing wisdom: "If you let people play games on [office computers], you may as well let them insert a TV-reception board so they can watch The Beverly Hillbillies." (For his sake, I hope this guy retired before they invented YouTube.)

Despite all of these upper-management freakouts—and despite regular, bogus productivity studies that estimated solitaire and its ilk draining $800 trillion dollars a year from the economy—you could make the case that the card game has actually been good for business. Before e-mail and the Web, solitaire introduced the idea of being chained to your desk. Consider that the rise of FreeCell coincided with the erosion of coffee breaks, cigarette breaks, and lunch breaks. Why leave the office when you can just eat at your desk and entertain yourself?

For the goal-oriented solitaire player, the entertainment value comes in pushing for the game's outer limits: a new high score in Klondike, a record FreeCell winning streak. It's this sort of private record-keeping that brings on the game's addictive properties. Dr. Maressa Hecht Orzack, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, opened the first clinic for computer addiction in 1996. Her inspiration: becoming obsessed with beating her personal solitaire scoring record. "I kept playing solitaire more and more," she wrote in a 2006 Washington Post chat, "my late husband would find me asleep at the computer. I was missing deadlines. I knew something had to be done."

fish

Doctor Doctor I keep thinking I'm a caterpillar 

Don't worry you'll soon change! 

Doctor, Doctor you've taken out my tonsils, my adenoids, my gall bladder, my varicose veins and my appendix, but I still don't feel well.

That's quite enough out of you! 

Doctor, Doctor I've got bad teeth, foul breath and smelly feet.

Sounds like you've got Foot and Mouth disease! 

Doctor, Doctor my husband smells like fish

Poor sole! 

Doctor, Doctor I keep thinking I'm a spider

What a web of lies! 

Doctor, Doctor I'm a burglar!

Have you taken anything for it? 

Doctor, Doctor my baby is the image of his father

Never mind just so long as he's healthy! 

this light

Doctor Doctor I think I'm a moth.

So why did you come around then?

Well, I saw this light at the window...! 

Doctor, Doctor I keep getting pains in the eye when I drink coffee

Have you tried taking the spoon out? 

Doctor, Doctor I feel like a spoon!

Well sit still and don't stir! 

Doctor, Doctor, I feel like a pack of cards. 

I'll deal with you later. 

Doctor, Doctor Have you got something for a bad headache?

Of course. Just take this hammer and hit yourself in the head. Then you'll have a bad headache. 

Doctor, Doctor I keep thinking there is two of me

One at a time please 

Doctor, Doctor will this ointment clear up my spots?

I never make rash promises! 

my sister

Doctor Doctor I feel like a racehorse.

Take one of these every 4 laps! 

Doctor, doctor my sister here keeps thinking she's invisible!

What sister? 

Doctor, Doctor I'm on a diet and it's making me irritable. Yesterday I bit someones ear off.

Oh dear, that's a lot of calories! 

Doctor, Doctor Can I have second opinion?

Of course, come back tomorrow! 

Doctor, Doctor you have to help me out!

Certainly, which way did you come in? 

Doctor, Doctor I keep thinking I'm God

When did this start?

Well first I created the sun, then the earth... 

Doctor, Doctor I keep thinking I’m invisible

Who said that? 

a quadruped

Q: What looks like half a cat?

A: The other half!

Q: What was the name of the film about a killer lion that swam underwater?

A: 'Claws.' 

Q: If a four-legged animal is a quadruped and a two-legged animal is a biped, What's a tiger?

A: A stri-ped!

Q: What do you get if you cross a tiger with a sheep?

A: A stripey sweater!

Q: How does a lion greet the other animals in the field?

A: 'Pleased to eat you.'!

Q: What do you get if you cross a tiger with a snowman?

A: Frostbite!

Q: What did the lions say to his cubs when he taught them to hunt?

A: 'Don't go over the road till you see the zebra crossing.' 

Q: What is lion's favorite food?

A: Baked beings!