It is, and there is. The game tree for chess, however, is simply so large that finding the optimal solution probably exceeds the computational power of the universe, or something like that.
But the ONLY thing you need is to be better than a human player. Who cares about the teorethical maximum?
I agree with the spirit of your post, but you're making a huge mistake:
fountain pens are NOT in the same class as rolling ball or gel pens. Fountain pens get better with use, because the tip wears out conforming to the slant of your hand. With time (years) the pen just glides.
That's why using sandpaper doesn't make sense: you're just preventing the pen to adapt to your hand.
A good pen's lifetime is measured in decades! I should know! Mine is a Parker 51 from 1969.
If you really believe that you're better off as a poor person in New York (of all places!) than as a rich one in most of the world, you shold be travelling more.
Cheers,
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I have to buy groceries in pesos, you insensitive clod!
> This is not unlike asking, "I want to take the drive electronics off the hard drive and read and write to the platter with the existing head and motors. How do I do that?"
No, it's not.
This guy's question resonates with a peev obsession of mine, so I'm going to bore you to death:
Why, oh why do we have to endure printer's makers greed?
I'm from a South American country in the middle of a currency collapse. Ink Jet printing, until yesterday a no-thought item, it's now prohibitive, so we're running around with syringes refilling cartridges.
I'd be very willing to pay fair price for a printer I could refill with an ink bottle, but I'm being fucked by Epson and Hewlett Packard ( Canon and Lexmark are nor well established here).
So, I'm saying: I'm mad as hell and I won't take it anymore! (hats off to Network).
I mean: isn't a third rung printer maker interested in having an easily refilled, fair priced machine in the market?
Come on, you're not making any money today. I'll buy one, and a lot of people would. Just make it durable, and you'll own the market.
Sorry for intruding, but the guy's point stands: had Sun tried charging for the JAVA JVM, it would have died in the cradle. They did the sensible thing giving it away.
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It is, and there is. The game tree for chess, however, is simply so large that finding the optimal solution probably exceeds the computational power of the universe, or something like that.
But the ONLY thing you need is to be better than a human player.
Who cares about the teorethical maximum?
Cheers,
And yours is the best post of the thread. The answer is very simple:
Moore's law works for computers, against humans.
Humans are toast.
Get over it.
Cheers
Chess is purely mathematical
I didn't say it was a simple mathematical problem. Besides, something being "purely mathematical" does not mean it must have an "optimal" solution.
Dun, you contradict yourself.
The other guy is right, you know neither chess nor algorithms.
Fudging the issue won't make you look better.
Cheers,
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Then he states that if it does happen, it won't happen in the near future.
What does this mean?
It has already happened!
Cheers,
Well, now I understand your post, but please: when you finally can afford a good fountain pen, hide the sandpaper.
Cheers,
Are you my long lost brother?
My thoughs exactly!
Cheers,
I had a great education, sadly interrupted by school.
George Bernard Shaw
Cheers,
I agree with the spirit of your post, but you're making a huge mistake:
fountain pens are NOT in the same class as rolling ball or gel pens.
Fountain pens get better with use, because the tip wears out conforming to the slant of your hand. With time (years) the pen just glides.
That's why using sandpaper doesn't make sense: you're just preventing the pen to adapt to your hand.
A good pen's lifetime is measured in decades!
I should know! Mine is a Parker 51 from 1969.
Cheers,
I'm afraid I'm getting old, but my favourite is a Parker 51 fountain pen my father gave to me in 1969.
Old, but still the champ!
Cheers,
Hey, moronic moderators!
This is not Funny, but Insightful.
Cheers,
Fortunately, you can reduce population without having to kill yourself.
Just having only two children will do the trick.
Cheers,
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Fail an eye test and 2 weeks late your car insurance increases...
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And the trouble with this would be...?
Yeah, it's just bollocks.
I wouldn't say you're clueless, but you have a progremmer's view of the world.
Hint: small business don't need SAP. Barely computers.
Cheers,
No, it isn't just you.
My thought when reading the so called article was:
How does rubbish like this get published, even in the Internet?
Cheers,
If you really believe that you're better off as a poor person in New York (of all places!) than as a rich one in most of the world, you shold be travelling more.
Cheers,
I have to buy groceries in pesos, you insensitive clod!
I really don't want to start a fight, but...
Why this obsession with load times, also observed when discussing Open Office, Mozilla, KDE, etc.
How many times a day you LOAD your favourite app?
Am I missing something?
Please enlight me.
Cheers,
Nah, it was BeOS thinking they could CHARGE for an OS,no matter how good it was.
They were five years late to the party. And, I have to add, I absolutely LOVED BeOS.
Cheers,
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This is not unlike asking, "I want to take the drive electronics off the hard drive and read and write to the platter with the existing head and motors. How do I do that?"
No, it's not.
This guy's question resonates with a peev obsession of mine, so I'm going to bore you to death:
Why, oh why do we have to endure printer's makers greed?
I'm from a South American country in the middle of a currency collapse.
Ink Jet printing, until yesterday a no-thought item, it's now prohibitive, so we're running around with syringes refilling cartridges.
I'd be very willing to pay fair price for a printer I could refill with an ink bottle, but I'm being fucked by Epson and Hewlett Packard ( Canon and Lexmark are nor well established here).
So, I'm saying: I'm mad as hell and I won't take it anymore! (hats off to Network).
I mean: isn't a third rung printer maker interested in having an easily refilled, fair priced machine in the market?
Come on, you're not making any money today.
I'll buy one, and a lot of people would. Just make it durable, and you'll own the market.
Cheers,
Don't be an asshole, this guy's question is interesting.
Cheers,
You wonder... let me explain to you:
The dummies are the people that think a 2 MHz CPU will be ppreferable to the 1.4 MHz they have now, and upgrade.
The corporations aren't dummies, they are very smart in fleecing the market.
Maybe you need some super-duper machine, but for 99% of people it just doesn't make sense.
Cheers,
No, it sounds as a great review of a not so great book.
Cheers,
If you weren't already been moderated to 5, I would spend a point with your post.
What you're stating is obvious but true: at this point, speed improvements are meaningless except for a fistful of aplications.
For the common user, a fasterr chip means nothing: the application is the choking point.
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Sun is much less evil than most people try to make them out to be.
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I agree, but they have to thank themselves for the animosity of OSS people.
If they could make Scott McNealy shut his big mouth for six months, they woud be amazed at the results.
Nevertheless, I reckon this is not going to happen, because the guy seems to be a pathological attention beggar.
Cheers,
Sorry for intruding, but the guy's point stands: had Sun tried charging for the JAVA JVM, it would have died in the cradle.
They did the sensible thing giving it away.
Cheers,