| Author | Message | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2346 Registered: 5-2003 |
He wasn't impressed by the Queen. | ||
| La_sparky (La_sparky)
New member Username: La_sparky Post Number: 61 Registered: 10-2008 |
he=HAM? queen=FAM? a certain time period relevant? certain place? were they related? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 2496 Registered: 1-2007 |
Is the title a reference to Queen Victoria? | ||
| Fleemco198 (Fleemco198)
New member Username: Fleemco198 Post Number: 401 Registered: 9-2009 |
Does it have anything to do with cards or card games? | ||
| Fleemco198 (Fleemco198)
New member Username: Fleemco198 Post Number: 402 Registered: 9-2009 |
Chess relevant? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2350 Registered: 5-2003 |
he=HAM? No. queen=FAM? No. a certain time period relevant? Modern. certain place? Yesish. were they related? No. Is the title a reference to Queen Victoria? Yes. Does it have anything to do with cards or card games? No. Chess relevant? No. | ||
| La_sparky (La_sparky)
New member Username: La_sparky Post Number: 64 Registered: 10-2008 |
lol, queen=HAF? got my letters a little mixed up there, I was tired. | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 1281 Registered: 9-2009 |
"queen=FAM?" - My first thought was that you were asking if it was a drag queen. Queen = derogatory term? Depiction of a queen? Representation of a queen? Ruler of a country? Money with the picture of a queen on it? Bribery relevant? Forgery? A game? Did someone try to impress him with the queen? Did the queen try to impress him? | ||
| Alhucema (Alhucema)
New member Username: Alhucema Post Number: 1786 Registered: 11-2008 |
Pregnancy relevant? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2351 Registered: 5-2003 |
My first thought was that you were asking if it was a drag queen. It isn't. Queen = derogatory term? No. Depiction of a queen? Representation of a queen? Ruler of a country? Yes. Money with the picture of a queen on it? This. Bribery relevant? No. Forgery? No. A game? No. Did someone try to impress him with the queen? Yes. Did the queen try to impress him? No. | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 2498 Registered: 1-2007 |
So was he unimpressed by the actual representation of the queen on the banknote? Or was he unimpressed by the amount of money? was he being offered money? for a service provided? for a sale of goods? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2352 Registered: 5-2003 |
So was he unimpressed by the actual representation of the queen on the banknote? This. Or was he unimpressed by the amount of money? No. was he being offered money? No. for a service provided? for a sale of goods? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 2500 Registered: 1-2007 |
Was he unimpressed because the queen was represented i.e. did he feel that she shouldn't be? Or did he think the representation didn't do her justice? Is he a royalist? relevant? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2353 Registered: 5-2003 |
Was he unimpressed because the queen was represented i.e. did he feel that she shouldn't be? Yesish. Or did he think the representation didn't do her justice? No. Is he a royalist? No. relevant? Relevant in the sense that it's literally impossible for anything but a human to be royalist. | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 1297 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is ha an animal? Did he eat the banknote? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2354 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is ha an animal? Did he eat the banknote? No to both. | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 1300 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is he something living? A machine? Is he human? Does someone try to give him a bank note? To pay for something? Does he reject it because it's foreign? Because he has no concept of money? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 2504 Registered: 1-2007 |
D'oh didn't spot the no answer to HAM... Is it a machine that accepts notes like a parking metre or a vending machine? If so do you have to insert the note with the queen's face up ? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2356 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is he something living? No. A machine? Yes. Is he human? Does someone try to give him a bank note? To pay for something? Does he reject it because it's foreign? Because he has no concept of money? No to the rest. Is it a machine that accepts notes like a parking metre or a vending machine? No. If so do you have to insert the note with the queen's face up ? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 1306 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is it a real machine? Or fictional? Is it sentient? Is it built to handle money? Does it think there should be a picture of a machine on the bank note instead of the queen? Is the money foreign to the machine? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2359 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is it a real machine? Yes. Or fictional? No. Is it sentient? No. Is it built to handle money? No. Does it think there should be a picture of a machine on the bank note instead of the queen? No. Is the money foreign to the machine? The machine is from the queen's country, but it has never seen money before. | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 1310 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is it a computer? Does someone put money into it? When they should have put in something else? Like a credit card? Or did they stuff a bank note into a CD slot or similar? Did they try to make a payment? (I've heard anectdotes about people putting credit cards inside computers to try paying for stuff online.) | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2362 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is it a computer? It contains one. Does someone put money into it? When they should have put in something else? Not quite. OTRT -- Money did not change hands, but otherwise correct. Like a credit card? Not this. Or did they stuff a bank note into a CD slot or similar? No. Did they try to make a payment? No. (I've heard anectdotes about people putting credit cards inside computers to try paying for stuff online.) Hint in the form of an addition to the puzzle statement: He wasn't impressed by the queen, because she wasn't impressed by him. | ||
| Kalira (Kalira)
New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 324 Registered: 2-2009 |
impressed (1): affected favorably? stamped by the use of pressure (i.e. imprinted)? compelled into service of some kind? Same questions for the second "impressed" from the hint. | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2373 Registered: 5-2003 |
impressed (1): affected favorably? This for both of them. stamped by the use of pressure (i.e. imprinted)? compelled into service of some kind? Same questions for the second "impressed" from the hint. | ||
| Noobdogg (Noobdogg)
Moderator Username: Noobdogg Post Number: 311 Registered: 3-2009 |
Does the machine incorporate a scanning mechanism or any kind? Perhaps someone tried using a barcode scanner on currency. Was the currency note the kind that cannot tear? Does not burn easily? Of certain (relevant) colour(s)? Are its dimensions relevant? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2381 Registered: 5-2003 |
Does the machine incorporate a scanning mechanism or any kind? Yes. Perhaps someone tried using a barcode scanner on currency. But not a barcode scanner. Was the currency note the kind that cannot tear? Does not burn easily? Of certain (relevant) colour(s)? Are its dimensions relevant? None of these are relevant. | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 1342 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is it a copying machine? Containing software that recognizes and disallows or garbles the copying of currency? Counterfeiting relevant? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2387 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is it a copying machine? Containing software that recognizes and disallows or garbles the copying of currency? Counterfeiting relevant? None of these. | ||
| Kaygee (Kaygee)
New member Username: Kaygee Post Number: 446 Registered: 9-2008 |
Is the Queen's picture on a coin? Or a banknote? Is it currency that is no longer in circulation? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2393 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is the Queen's picture on a coin? Or a banknote? This. Is it currency that is no longer in circulation? Irr. | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 2532 Registered: 1-2007 |
Does the machine act as security for something? Does it scan IDs ? Is the machine's location a place of work? I have this funny notion of the queen being caught without ID and having to produce a £20 note to prove her credentials | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2396 Registered: 5-2003 |
Does the machine act as security for something? No, though it could. Does it scan IDs ? No. Is the machine's location a place of work? Yes -- largely irrelevant though. | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 1359 Registered: 9-2009 |
Would it help to find out more about the person offering money to the machine? It's not the queen, is it? Is someone trying to scan a banknote in a subway barrier gate or similar? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2397 Registered: 5-2003 |
Would it help to find out more about the person offering money to the machine? Assume an academic. It's not the queen, is it? No. Is someone trying to scan a banknote in a subway barrier gate or similar? No. For hints' sake, this is a demonstration machine. Assume it's at a convention or a university. | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 1379 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is the scanning mechanism: optical? Magnetic? Radio frequency? Does the machine "see" the queen? Or is it a simple scanner, such as a barcode scanner, so it only sees meaningless garbage? Does it do facial recognition? Was the banknote presented just to see what would happen? As a joke? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2408 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is the scanning mechanism: optical? This. Magnetic? Radio frequency? Does the machine "see" the queen? This. Or is it a simple scanner, such as a barcode scanner, so it only sees meaningless garbage? Does it do facial recognition? Yes. Was the banknote presented just to see what would happen? Yes. As a joke? Yes. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 697 Registered: 6-2008 |
Was this machine there to demonstrate face recognition technology? or to demonstrate something else, but just happened to have this capability as part of its function? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2410 Registered: 5-2003 |
Was this machine there to demonstrate face recognition technology? or to demonstrate something else, but just happened to have this capability as part of its function? This. | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 1415 Registered: 9-2009 |
Was the machine for: identifying people? Recognizing people? Is it supposed to scan real faces rather than bills? Or faces from an ID or similar? Or both, and then compare? Is it supposed to make a 3D model of a face? Does it focus on a specific feature of the face? Is it relevant that he used a bill with the queen on it? Or would any bill with a face on it be equally amusing? Would a picture also work for the joke? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2414 Registered: 5-2003 |
Was the machine for: identifying people? Recognizing people? Both, plus something else you haven't defined yet. Is it supposed to scan real faces rather than bills? This. Or faces from an ID or similar? Or both, and then compare? Is it supposed to make a 3D model of a face? No. Does it focus on a specific feature of the face? Irr. Is it relevant that he used a bill with the queen on it? Or would any bill with a face on it be equally amusing? This. Would a picture also work for the joke? Yes. | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 1432 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is the something else also related to the facial recognition? Does it recognize facial experessions? Emotions? Is it a robot? does it have a face of its own? If so: robotic? Or as an image on a screen? Does it recognize speech as well? does it output sound? Speech? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2415 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is the something else also related to the facial recognition? Yes. Does it recognize facial experessions? Yes. Emotions? Yesish. Is it a robot? Yes. does it have a face of its own? Irr. If so: robotic? Or as an image on a screen? Does it recognize speech as well? Unknown, but possibly. does it output sound? Irr. Speech? Irr. | ||
| Ajcham (Ajcham)
New member Username: Ajcham Post Number: 3 Registered: 3-2010 |
Is the subject being scanned expected to react to the machine in some way? Perhaps to some cue/prompt given by the machine? By someone/thing else? Aural? Visual? Textual? Therefore the static facial expression of a photograph causes an anomalous result? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2416 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is the subject being scanned expected to react to the machine in some way? Yes. Perhaps to some cue/prompt given by the machine? Yesish. By someone/thing else? No. Aural? Visual? Textual? Any of these. Therefore the static facial expression of a photograph causes an anomalous result? Got it. ******************** SPOILER ******************** The machine is a robot designed to interact with humans. It "reads" the facial cues of the subject and reacts accordingly. Most humans who encounter the machine are friendly, but the face on a pound note is not, and does not react to the robot in any way. So the robot "tells off" the queen. |
