I wonder if any political blogs use slashcode. It would be interesting to see how a site that used moderation and meta-moderation might help foster political discussion, especially if the moderators were seeded with a capable set of folks from different points on the spectrum.
All those MT and blogger sites out there just have hopeless comment sections, which are ravaged by more trolls than even a Microsoft post here.
>Lawyers, on the other hand, seem to >be in high demand.
Were it only so. It's probably easier for an attorney to find employment than a programmer, but I wouldn't say attorneys are in "high demand" in the States.
A downturn in an economy means companies are less likely to want to pay big bills to the large, prestigious law firms. Consequently, they lay people off like anyone else. Add that to the glut of grad from law schools over the years, and it's not that easy to find a job as an attorney.
> And why should they? The race was in > Baltimore last weekend. Boulder has a race > in May. When they report on the race in > Boulder should they mention that there was > a race in Baltimore a few weeks ago?
Hey, isn't Wired supposed to be hip? That's why they should mention the Boulder race. It's not as old as the Baltimore race, but it's major event. And unlike marathons, I doubt the average reader knows about the various kinetic races around the country (you probably don't need to mention the NY marathon in an article about the Boston marathon).
I was always under the impression that video cards were cheap, depressingly so if you're a hardware maker. Considering the quick rate of improvement, the complexity of graphics technology, and the fabs required to make the chipsets, they seem pretty cheap compared to say, cpu's.
Sure, the top of the line stuff has been $200 for a long time (now $300 or more). But within a 1/2 year, your top card goes down to $100 or less.
That doesn't seem much for a cutting edge part of your PC.
Of course the article is a hoax. One of the "features" of Fritz is its slightly snotty comments and it used to be marketed as "Fritz the Talking Chess Program." This was introduced several versions ago when the audio was more of a novelty.
There's some pretty open source good chess software out there:
-Tim Mann's winboard (GUI, mentioned in other post)
-If you have winboard and want to try something besides GNUchess, the most popular engine for the GUI: crafty, by Robert Hyatt. Not anywhere as user-friendly as something like Chessmaster, but a great engine. Er, and I'm not sure this has an actual open source license or if it's merely free as in beer.
-connect to an open source chess server, the Free Internet Chess server; use Winboard as an interface and play internet chess with players from around the world
-organize your game scores or study those of the greats with Shane Hudson's SCID chess database. Search the database by player name, Elo rating, openings, etc. This is an incredible program, usable, fast, and stable!
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I wonder if any political blogs use slashcode. It would be interesting to see how a site that used moderation and meta-moderation might help foster political discussion, especially if the moderators were seeded with a capable set of folks from different points on the spectrum.
All those MT and blogger sites out there just have hopeless comment sections, which are ravaged by more trolls than even a Microsoft post here.
>Lawyers, on the other hand, seem to
>be in high demand.
Were it only so. It's probably easier for an attorney to find employment than a programmer, but I wouldn't say attorneys are in "high demand" in the States.
A downturn in an economy means companies are less likely to want to pay big bills to the large, prestigious law firms. Consequently, they lay people off like anyone else. Add that to the glut of grad from law schools over the years, and it's not that easy to find a job as an attorney.
> And why should they? The race was in
> Baltimore last weekend. Boulder has a race
> in May. When they report on the race in
> Boulder should they mention that there was
> a race in Baltimore a few weeks ago?
Hey, isn't Wired supposed to be hip? That's why they should mention the Boulder race. It's not as old as the Baltimore race, but it's major event. And unlike marathons, I doubt the average reader knows about the various kinetic races around the country (you probably don't need to mention the NY marathon in an article about the Boston marathon).
I was always under the impression that video cards were cheap, depressingly so if you're a hardware maker. Considering the quick rate of improvement, the complexity of graphics technology, and the fabs required to make the chipsets, they seem pretty cheap compared to say, cpu's.
Sure, the top of the line stuff has been $200 for a long time (now $300 or more). But within a 1/2 year, your top card goes down to $100 or less.
That doesn't seem much for a cutting edge part of your PC.
Of course the article is a hoax. One of the "features" of Fritz is its slightly snotty comments and it used to be marketed as "Fritz the Talking Chess Program." This was introduced several versions ago when the audio was more of a novelty.
There's some pretty open source good chess software out there:
-Tim Mann's winboard (GUI, mentioned in other post)
-If you have winboard and want to try something besides GNUchess, the most popular engine for the GUI: crafty, by Robert Hyatt. Not anywhere as user-friendly as something like Chessmaster, but a great engine. Er, and I'm not sure this has an actual open source license or if it's merely free as in beer.
-connect to an open source chess server, the Free Internet Chess server; use Winboard as an interface and play internet chess with players from around the world
-organize your game scores or study those of the greats with Shane Hudson's SCID chess database. Search the database by player name, Elo rating, openings, etc. This is an incredible program, usable, fast, and stable!