Yes, but the loss of a pawn isn't a loss with respect to the game either. Chess is a zero sum game since each winner requires one loser.
A mere pawn capture does not constitute a game of chess.
If you kept score by material, both sides would be strongly negative. If you kept score by enjoyment, any range from both being winners to both being losers would be possible. But, if you keep score by wins draws and losses, it is a zero sum game.
I don't think they are referring to future sales of people you've met on Ebay.
The biggest example is someone that advertises an item, and says something like, "Don't bid, email me for prices." I've seen whole categories where there were no actual bids going on.
This is one of the symptomathics of IT today. You start out analyzing the problem, then you choose an aproprite tool. Some month's later you hit trouble and you consider moving to new language, OS, architecture, whatever, totally discarding the initial analysis that led to the choises you made!
This is one of the symptomatics of/. readers today. You start out answering someone's question. Some time later you have trouble answering them, then change the question you choose to answer, totally discarding the initial question made.
This was a simple question of what's the best debugger. The fact that its been posted on/. means that this question might pertain not just to this guy, but other people as well. Telling them that multi-threaded programming should be difficult and implying their problems stem from them not thinking is just plain rude.
A lynch mob uses force. RBL uses no force at all, they merely provide information. This list is hardly compiled in an arbitrary fashion, but is made to weed out the people that spam, and assist in that process.
A lynch mob is just ridiculous as an analogy. This is more like consumer advocacy group saying that product X made by company XYZ is so harmful we recommend you don't buy from the company at all.
Or, to extend the analogy to the "innocent" provider, its like boycotting Dillard's because they carry brand XYZ that was made by sweatshop workers. Hey, they were only providing shelf space. You don't hear the department stores whine about this, they realize that's how business goes, and they make their choices about which customers to go with. You can't have everything.
The whole point is that people should be doing the coercion, and not the government. There is a group of peopled (users of RBL) that don't want anything to do with spammers, or their hosts. I'm among them.
Even to say that its coersion isn't quite right. All parties involved are present voluntarily. We're not talking about outlawing Media3, we're talking about withdrawing a knowledgeable portion of the public until they behave reasonably.
Oh! That reminds me of one more thing I hated about this coverage. If you looked up when your game would be on, they would have a block of coverage spanning 8 hours with a list of events they would be showing. Of course they didn't say which order, or what time any particular one would be on. So if you wanted to watch a US soccer match you would know it was on between 8am, and 5pm, and which channel. But unless you watch all 9 hours you couldn't be sure of seeing it.
Facetious maybe, funny no. The coverage is much worse than being American only. Only a few events are covered
Gymnastics and all those perverse variations on it. Basically anything with a subjective scoring system (diving).
Event with Americans that are expected to win GOLD
Basketball, baseball, and softball
Personally I think the heart and soul of the Olympics is track and field, but I'm not sure if I've ever watched it. You'd think that they skip straight to the finals of the sprints, and that nobody has to make it through the heats to get there.
And if you think this ban on the internet is bad, how about this last olympics ban on moving pictures?! The sports highlights would show a picture of the action while a commentator read what happened. They claimed that video could be used after the broadcast, but after watching their broadcast of a US soccer match I wanted to watch the highlights on the same channel and all I got were still pictures!
Another little issue is that they would not allow athletes to post their diaries online. For those of you that have not followed an obscure sport (I follow cycling in the US), this is the absolute best coverage of an event that you can get. Reading in the athletes own words what they were thinking at that crucial moment is far more informative than listening to some bozo that's covering 150 different sports because his hair looks good.
The olympics are dead to me.
PS. How the hell do they get to trademark a name like Olympics, Olympic, Olympiad...etc?!
Some of these reasons for foreigners (from a US standpoint) being there is that its easier to stay here as a student. Once a high level degree is obtained is is then easier to get past the immigration service.
For those where this is not an issued, there is the opportunity cost of going to school. I personally spent $15k/year attending college when I could have been making $50k programming already. Over there course of 4 years, I'm in the hole $60k, and have missed $200k of income. It also costs 4 years of work experience. All that is gained is one line on a resume.
Of course for some jobs, engineering is required. And if you can afford to go and enjoy it enough have fun doing it. Personally I would have been better off skipping school entirely. This brings up another point. I know what I should have done now, but would I have known without 4 years to figure it out in school? Maybe not.
My only conclusion is that college is expensive, but I weigh this against living in a building with several hundred women.
I view the type of online cheating that occurs in FPS (not limited to FPS though) as the bully mentality. Usually they just want to beat the crap out of someone then taunt them. They know they are wrong, and their only enjoyment is making someone else feel miserable.
One thing I would like to add to this is that the campaigns were run assuming an EC. If they had been run for a strict popular vote, Bush would surely have campaigned more heavily in the larger states (CA, NY) that Gore won, while Gore would have had to campaign more heavily in many many smaller states to swing votes.
If the election were held for popular vote (and campaigned accordingly) it would have still be very very close.
The way that we are overextended is very frustrating to the people in the military. Every day the people in the military train to fight a war, and every day they are sent out to be a presence.
They are regularly in positions to be targets of terrorist attack, but are not equipped and not allowed to fight such terrorists. People ask how the Cole could have been bombed. Its quite simple, load up a boat with explosives and cruise it up to the ship. It is quite likely that the ship is not allowed to just open fire. The same goes for troops in many areas...they have nobody to fight, but are in a position to be killed.
The military wants a little more of a mission than stand-around-here-so-the-president-can-say-he's-do ing-something.
I might add (I haven't seen anyone else point this out yet) that they will be providing bandwidth. I've downloaded troops a couple times, and its a real pain in the butt to look through all the old links that no longer mirror only to find one that downloads at modem speeds.
This is great, they are providing a service for the parodies they like. We certainly shouldn't expect them to provide a service for the ones they don't like.
Its funny how the same people saying that the DOJ should be investigating the gouging prices of Intel are now saying the DOJ should be investigating Intel making deals with companies.
The case is simple here. For the first time, companies like Compaq, and IBM have been able to dictate terms to Intel because of COMPETITION. This is what everyone has been screaming for, now its here, and now the prices have been forced lower by the consumers (Compaq and IBM).
It is small surprise that a new company is not able to match on price given the unknown risks they also present. These companies have dealt with Intel for quite some time, so Intel probably doesn't have to match on price exactly as I'm sure there is some goodwill that they are trading on.
Sure he may have behaved poorly. But how much of his other behaviour has ever been reported? How much is reported about him at all other than "Kasparov wins".
IBM was pretty slick in all of this. First, they were going to keep building a computer until they beat him. The did on the second attempt. Do they allow a rematch? No, the dismantle it and run off. This computer they built was designed and prepared to beat only Kasparov. Garry was not allowed to ever see a previous game played by Deep Blue, while DB had thousands of his games for preparation. If IBM didn't get the terms they wanted, they could have scheduled the match with Karpov, the FIDE champion.
He was beaten by gamesmanship well before he lost on the chessboard. There is no way you can learn all about your oppoenent in the course of a 6 game match.
Mathematicians don't face the timed stress to perform that tournament chess players do.
And, its not so much that skills deteriorate, but the drive to stay on top wanes. There is a whole lot of studying that goes on. Opponents moves, new changes in opening theory. As well as the development of your own novelties to be used in tournaments. It is the ability to constantly be advancing on all of those fronts that deteriorates.
Deep Blue fooled nobody. IBM fooled Kasparov. They had a large team of programmers and grandmasters build a machine and prepare it to play one player. This player was not allowed any benefit of viewing previous matches his opponent had played.
Only one side could possibly go into this match with a game plan.
In my opinion, Kasparov's biggest mistake was not making his demands for transcripts of games before the match began. The DB team had thousands of his games use in preparation.
Just as in boxing, the champ picks the venue, number of rounds...etc. Kasparov did a poor job. This happened because Kasparov's claim to being champ was tenous. IBM could have just as well gone with the FIDE champ Karpov, and run their commercials calling him the world champion. IBM definitely had the leverage going into this and played the situation quite well.
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A mere pawn capture does not constitute a game of chess.
If you kept score by material, both sides would be strongly negative. If you kept score by enjoyment, any range from both being winners to both being losers would be possible. But, if you keep score by wins draws and losses, it is a zero sum game.
The biggest example is someone that advertises an item, and says something like, "Don't bid, email me for prices." I've seen whole categories where there were no actual bids going on.
If people could cc 10,000 other people when making a crank call, or sales call there wouldn't just be whining, there would be laws against it.
When I'm addicted, I'm a pusher because I encourage others.
Hey! Its not fair to say its that addictive and not provide a link.
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Or he built his compiler on a different machine
This is one of the symptomatics of /. readers today. You start out answering someone's question. Some time later you have trouble answering them, then change the question you choose to answer, totally discarding the initial question made.
This was a simple question of what's the best debugger. The fact that its been posted on /. means that this question might pertain not just to this guy, but other people as well. Telling them that multi-threaded programming should be difficult and implying their problems stem from them not thinking is just plain rude.
A lynch mob is just ridiculous as an analogy. This is more like consumer advocacy group saying that product X made by company XYZ is so harmful we recommend you don't buy from the company at all.
Or, to extend the analogy to the "innocent" provider, its like boycotting Dillard's because they carry brand XYZ that was made by sweatshop workers. Hey, they were only providing shelf space. You don't hear the department stores whine about this, they realize that's how business goes, and they make their choices about which customers to go with. You can't have everything.
Even to say that its coersion isn't quite right. All parties involved are present voluntarily. We're not talking about outlawing Media3, we're talking about withdrawing a knowledgeable portion of the public until they behave reasonably.
Personally I think the heart and soul of the Olympics is track and field, but I'm not sure if I've ever watched it. You'd think that they skip straight to the finals of the sprints, and that nobody has to make it through the heats to get there.
And if you think this ban on the internet is bad, how about this last olympics ban on moving pictures?! The sports highlights would show a picture of the action while a commentator read what happened. They claimed that video could be used after the broadcast, but after watching their broadcast of a US soccer match I wanted to watch the highlights on the same channel and all I got were still pictures!
Another little issue is that they would not allow athletes to post their diaries online. For those of you that have not followed an obscure sport (I follow cycling in the US), this is the absolute best coverage of an event that you can get. Reading in the athletes own words what they were thinking at that crucial moment is far more informative than listening to some bozo that's covering 150 different sports because his hair looks good.
The olympics are dead to me.
PS. How the hell do they get to trademark a name like Olympics, Olympic, Olympiad...etc?!
For those where this is not an issued, there is the opportunity cost of going to school. I personally spent $15k/year attending college when I could have been making $50k programming already. Over there course of 4 years, I'm in the hole $60k, and have missed $200k of income. It also costs 4 years of work experience. All that is gained is one line on a resume.
Of course for some jobs, engineering is required. And if you can afford to go and enjoy it enough have fun doing it. Personally I would have been better off skipping school entirely. This brings up another point. I know what I should have done now, but would I have known without 4 years to figure it out in school? Maybe not.
My only conclusion is that college is expensive, but I weigh this against living in a building with several hundred women.
I rather enjoy their digital cameras that use disks. All those flash cards are really really annoying
And the job of a standing army should be to stand, it shouldn't be to act as an untrained police force in another country.
If the election were held for popular vote (and campaigned accordingly) it would have still be very very close.
They are regularly in positions to be targets of terrorist attack, but are not equipped and not allowed to fight such terrorists. People ask how the Cole could have been bombed. Its quite simple, load up a boat with explosives and cruise it up to the ship. It is quite likely that the ship is not allowed to just open fire. The same goes for troops in many areas...they have nobody to fight, but are in a position to be killed.
The military wants a little more of a mission than stand-around-here-so-the-president-can-say-he's-do ing-something.
This is great, they are providing a service for the parodies they like. We certainly shouldn't expect them to provide a service for the ones they don't like.
The case is simple here. For the first time, companies like Compaq, and IBM have been able to dictate terms to Intel because of COMPETITION. This is what everyone has been screaming for, now its here, and now the prices have been forced lower by the consumers (Compaq and IBM).
It is small surprise that a new company is not able to match on price given the unknown risks they also present. These companies have dealt with Intel for quite some time, so Intel probably doesn't have to match on price exactly as I'm sure there is some goodwill that they are trading on.
Its not all a conspiracy.
IBM was pretty slick in all of this. First, they were going to keep building a computer until they beat him. The did on the second attempt. Do they allow a rematch? No, the dismantle it and run off. This computer they built was designed and prepared to beat only Kasparov. Garry was not allowed to ever see a previous game played by Deep Blue, while DB had thousands of his games for preparation. If IBM didn't get the terms they wanted, they could have scheduled the match with Karpov, the FIDE champion.
He was beaten by gamesmanship well before he lost on the chessboard. There is no way you can learn all about your oppoenent in the course of a 6 game match.
And, its not so much that skills deteriorate, but the drive to stay on top wanes. There is a whole lot of studying that goes on. Opponents moves, new changes in opening theory. As well as the development of your own novelties to be used in tournaments. It is the ability to constantly be advancing on all of those fronts that deteriorates.
Only one side could possibly go into this match with a game plan.
In my opinion, Kasparov's biggest mistake was not making his demands for transcripts of games before the match began. The DB team had thousands of his games use in preparation.
Just as in boxing, the champ picks the venue, number of rounds...etc. Kasparov did a poor job. This happened because Kasparov's claim to being champ was tenous. IBM could have just as well gone with the FIDE champ Karpov, and run their commercials calling him the world champion. IBM definitely had the leverage going into this and played the situation quite well.
This guy just got stuck with some big ebay fees, on a sale he won't complete.
Anyone with $15k to spend would have hopped on a jet to Japan, bought one, and flown back months ago.
The same people that are about to rail on @home are the same ones that will (ironically) rail against every "luser" that is always wrong.