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actually, i believe you are mistaken. the time to which you are referring is most likely 1927 Berlin where he played versus Sämisch.

here is where i found my information:

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kmoch02.txt - this is supposedly a first hand account from somebody who met Nimzowitsch (or whatever spelling you prefer) and was told the story by said person who was across the table at the time. Search for "Saemisch".

Here's where I found out when he'd played Saemisch:

http://home19.inet.tele.dk/kastanie/Tourn_and_Matc h/tournindex29.htm

anyway, you're wrong :) have a nice day.

This bypass also works http://home19.inet.tele.dk/jys05000/ I tested it earlier today, good job MS :D

Several?!? Ive had two and one of them was one of two IBM drives http://home19.inet.tele.dk/jys05000/rack/4x3uracks /IMG_3959.JPG and ít failed after a short period as I expected it would (Those IBM drives had a relly bad trackrecord). And with the number of HDs Ive had, two drive failures is pretty low. But I will take your recommendation up to consideration.

Never argue with a Motie. They'll kill you at poker and rock-paper-scissors too. You never know what they will do next!

Here's a worse example.

Something went very wrong between 0.9 and 1.0 final. I experience random page rendering errors, especially on pages that change frequently. See what I mean here. Only way to fix it is to Ctrl-+ and then Ctrl-- to get the page to show like it should. A minor bug, but very annoying, and a reason not to recommend Firefox to friends and family. Instead I tell them to download Mozilla which doesn't have this flaw.

Anyway the instructor of the movie can be booked for lectures on the subject of cosmic love. If you live close to Copenhagen (Denmark, north of Germany) you should attend one. they can be quite enlightening. Homepage (in danish) Simple english translation

The Macintosh SE case had screws that needed a quite unusual Torx spanner to open it, and even to add RAM you were supposed to take it back to Apple.

- Tom Lehrer

... and is really sweet with an RPN shell on it.

scramjets are completely different. They work on a principle of compressing the incoming air and then using a combustion chamber to blow it out the back at higher speeds. The big difference is that the air intake is compressed down slightly and that the combustion chamber has a constant combustion going on.

A pulsejet/detonation engine uses the previous detonation to compress the air/oxidizer for the next one. I've seen some designs with two outputs, it actually just oscillates between them. It's in a U shape and the detonation on one side send the shockwave to the otherside to compress that detonation.

Here's a good site with pics and even audio of pulsejet engines. http://home3.inet.tele.dk/kennethm/ There's also a section on ramjets which are just variants of scramjets for slower speeds.

This PDF has the osciliatory pulsejet design with pics starting on about page 5 or 6. The link is from the Valveless Pulsejet Engine article linked under pulsejets in the above site.

Did someone say Flava Flav? A piss-weak compromise is always the best solution, so either "Flava" or "Flav" would do. (And then, in a show of unity, we can all continue coding in the middle of the Atlantic).

My guess is that we will see a peak in malicious activity as soon as the Iraq situation escalates into a full scale war.

I remember the last time around, back when I was an Amiga user myself, and everyone was infected with the escadron of Saddam virus variants.

I'm quite sure this time it will take a turn for worse. The Internet is a great media for spreading havoc in the form of e-mail virii and worms. These pieces of malicious code will probably contain a message related to the possible military actions in some way (like the Saddam virus, which originally overwrote your disk blocks with the word "IRAK"). Some of the attacks will remain very local and poorly coordinated (due to the large number of black-hat hackers, and a natural variation in their skills), but I bet there will be those that hit the Internet and people connected to it a lot harder.

Also, the global opinion against the Iraq operation will probably dictate the height of the attack peak. A probable U.N. mandate would, I presume, decrease the amount of worm and virus attacks in general. Let's hope the near future proves me wrong on this..

This is one of the few cases where copyright in my opinion is too weak in the current system; only if you are profiting from a work is it practical to defend it.

This site has the only interview Watterson has given, and two speeches he gave (the latest in 1990.) The forward of one of his collections (I'm blanking on which one) describes the legal battles he had to not licence his work in greater detail.

Use mozilla, its what any godfearing patriot american would use. If you do not use it you are probably a terrorist.

The old saw about "You're good at chess? Oh, you must be good at maths" has some logical background to it. Emanuel Lasker, World Chess Champion between 1894 and 1921, was also a world-class mathematician, doing original research in his chosen field under Hilbert.

(Some confirmation on the Agdestein story is also available, if you're interested.)

I am also led to understand that some of the lesser British chess GMs make more money from poker than they do from chess.

Anyone remember the Gadaffi virus on the Amiga? It was rumoured that it played strange tunes using the drive stepper motor. The info on it here backs this up, but I've never seen the virus in action... anyone care to elaborate?

Sounds like Stephen R. Donaldson had something going when he described datacores in the Gap series.

If you can jack one of these things up into giga, tera, or larger ranges, then you can start using it to provide write-once history logging. Big brother, black boxes, personal recorders...

I agree. You should believe nothing without good evidence.

The article referenced at the bottom of this post provides official U.S. government statistics. (Search on "prison".) An interesting link mentioned there gives another statistic: The murder rate in Washington, D.C. is 170 times the murder rate in Brussels, Belgium.

You can do a Google search for the prison rate in other countries. You will find that European countries have about 1/6 as many of their citizens in prison as the U.S.

"Ever read The Gulag Archipelago?"

Yes, I read that book. During that time in the Soviet Union, there was a far smaller percentage of people in prison than now in the U.S. Also, the Supermax prisons in the U.S. are less humane than Gulag prisons. There is a difference, though; the U.S. apparently has few or no political prisoners.

Check out one prisoner's story: Supermax Prison is Torture and Death. This is not obscure data. I learned about U.S. prisons from a PBS TV program. The two links in this and the previous paragraph are just the 2nd and 4th Google links from a search on "supermax prison".

We live in a time when a well-dressed, educated man or woman in a leadership position will look into your face or a camera, be very clear and logical-sounding, and speak complete nonsense. That's how things got to be such a mess. Tonight on a TV news program a U.S. government official was talking about the "Talley Bahn". He meant the Taliban. From years of experience with this kind of thing, I know it is a good guess that the speaker knows nothing of importance about Afghanistan.

More about the social breakdown: What should be the Response to Violence? .

We tried to get Bill Watterson for The Onion too, but he's basically a hermit. As near as I could tell, he's granted a total of two interviews in his career. One of those was for an obscure magazine, and has been reprinted all over the Web. For the other, he wouldn't actually let the interviewer record anything he said or take notes, he just talked to him for an article. These days, his syndicate just auto-rejects any requests; they've been asked to not pass them on at all.

I'm still hoping to get to Gary Larson one of these days, though. We asked and he was friendly about it, but ultimately turned us down because he's working on something, and asked us to get back to him in about six months. That was about six months ago, so maybe someday soon.

We tried to get Bill Watterson for The Onion too, but he's basically a hermit. As near as I could tell, he's granted a total of two interviews in his career. One of those was for an obscure magazine, and has been reprinted all over the Web. For the other, he wouldn't actually let the interviewer record anything he said or take notes, he just talked to him for an article. These days, his syndicate just auto-rejects any requests; they've been asked to not pass them on at all.

I'm still hoping to get to Gary Larson one of these days, though. We asked and he was friendly about it, but ultimately turned us down because he's working on something, and asked us to get back to him in about six months. That was about six months ago, so maybe someday soon.

Well now that I've touched streaming video, I'll never go back to ASCII Video/Static low quality, low color images again... Bring it on full color full movie... :)