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I know I said I'd have this posted at 6:00 PM PST, but I had a meeting today that went a little long (plus, let's face it, I'm the world's crappiest contest administrator).

Just got back to the hotel, and I've just used the Neopoleon Random Winner Picker (some stupid console app I wrote) to Randomly Pick a Winner.

Brian Schroer:

You've won a copy of VS.NET 2003 Special Edition.

Congrats :)

Manu:

You've won a ticket to the XML DevCon in Washington this Wednesday.

I've contacted both of you by email.

And thanks to everybody else for playing.

Now, I'm going to hit the sack. My eyes are drooping out of their sockets.

I love you all.

Good night.

Published Tuesday, October 19, 2004 5:02 AM by Rory

Filed Under: Enter the Nerd

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	Chris said: Rory, I don't mean to sound cheap, but why not post the answers? October 19, 2004 5:34 AM
	jayson knight said: ditto October 19, 2004 6:13 AM
	Erling Ormar said: Word up October 19, 2004 8:41 AM
	Raymond Lewallen said: No doubt October 19, 2004 12:06 PM
	Jake Good said: 1. Object Oriented Programming in .NET Location Intelligence using MapPoint® Web Services Optimizing ASP.NET 1.1 Web Applications ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Personalization 2. 666 3. 10011 October 19, 2004 12:41 PM
	Stuart said: IMO, the answer to #3 is 1100. Distance = 186 miles Velocity to cover distance in 2 hours = 93 mph 1 mile == 8 furlongs (93 miles/hr) * (1 hr / 60 mins) * (8 furlong/mile) = 12.4 furlongs/minute 12.4 == 1100 binary Q.E.D. October 19, 2004 1:39 PM
	mikeob said: yeah that's what I got. (186miles * 8) / 120 minutes = 12.4 furlong/minute 12.4 = 1100.011001100110... we probably missed something obvious... October 19, 2004 2:18 PM
	Stuart said: mikeob -- Now that we have consensus I think it rather more likely that Jake did. ;) October 19, 2004 2:29 PM
	mikeob said: ooops. sorry... I thought that Jake's was like an 'official answer'. If I see it on the web it has to be true...haha October 19, 2004 2:42 PM
	Erling Ormar said: Yup - I entered 00001100.01100110 as the answer to #3, but that's using the full 8 digits for both the decimal and the fraction value. I just hope Rory didn't let the guys with 00001100 slide - that takes all the challenge out of the binary calculation! October 19, 2004 2:50 PM
	paul said: I got 1100, as with the 666 when I arrived at the number I knew it was the intended answer. You just have to think like a Neopoleon. Congrats Brian and Manu remember Rory+River=great photo October 19, 2004 3:24 PM
	Matt Burns said: I had the thing calculated as a Float but then I read that we were supposed to round it off to the nearest integer. October 19, 2004 4:39 PM
	jayson knight said: sweet, looks like i got it right. next? post the source code to the console app you used :-) October 19, 2004 8:19 PM
	Ben said: I wrote a winforms app that goes online, downloads the various webpages and parses them (getting Lee Harvey Oswalds DOD was a little challenging). It then does the calculation and displays the answer. I had to cheat a litte because I couldn't figure out how to go directly to the MSN Online Directions thing so I went with a different WebService to get the coordinates and then grabbed the distance between the locations. Unfortunately the code is a little long to post. Should I mail it to someone? October 20, 2004 8:19 AM

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