make an advanced and extremely gory FPS thats only available on Linux, and Joe Sixpack will have the newest copy of Redhat (or any other Distro) with 2 hours of the announcement.
I don't see why this would be the case; the releases of Marathon and Marathon 2 certainly didn't help Apple's market share any...
It is true that the fifty-move rule and the three-time-repetition rule can provide a sort of limit to the length of a game of chess, but note also that one side must actually claim a draw; just because the necessary conditions occur does not automatically mean that the game stops. Thus, a game could theoretically last forever, even if it would likely stop being of interest at some point.
I'd love to see someone actually claim that they were forcing a win in the KRB vs KNN endgame...
This way, the robot could protect the bank vault- and if the robber threatened injury, then it could pop it a few. If the robot gets cracked and the intruder instructs it on a wanton rampage, the robot would freeze as soon as it is about to comit a crime- just as it would under Asimov's.
Say we're playing chess, and I let you take one of my rooks "because it's fun". Where's your satisfaction in playing? You didn't earn the rook.
I think you've got that wrong-way-round. I mean, you're the one who just gave up a rook for nothing, rather than playing to win.
More seriously... I can't claim to speak for the original poster, but it sounded like what e was advocating was more along the lines of (continuing in the chess vein) attempting a speculative middlegame attack rather than pursuing a more sound (and boring) strategy of swapping off pieces and making the most of eir queenside pawn majority, just to see if the attack is really as good as it looks.
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If I'd engineered most of the people today, I'd be embarrased to admit it.
Is it any wonder, then, that we're having to search for intelligent life?
make an advanced and extremely gory FPS thats only available on Linux, and Joe Sixpack will have the newest copy of Redhat (or any other Distro) with 2 hours of the announcement.
I don't see why this would be the case; the releases of Marathon and Marathon 2 certainly didn't help Apple's market share any...
It is true that the fifty-move rule and the three-time-repetition rule can provide a sort of limit to the length of a game of chess, but note also that one side must actually claim a draw; just because the necessary conditions occur does not automatically mean that the game stops. Thus, a game could theoretically last forever, even if it would likely stop being of interest at some point.
I'd love to see someone actually claim that they were forcing a win in the KRB vs KNN endgame...
This way, the robot could protect the bank vault- and if the robber threatened injury, then it could pop it a few. If the robot gets cracked and the intruder instructs it on a wanton rampage, the robot would freeze as soon as it is about to comit a crime- just as it would under Asimov's.
Asimov's laws were consistent.
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That would be markedly less funny if it weren't for your .sig at the bottom there. ;-)
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All right, who's the sarcastic so-and-so who moderated that one up to +4? ;->
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How the hell does Dell's stock price dictate the stability of tectonic plates?!?!?
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Careful what you ask... the Men In Black may not be amused...
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Say we're playing chess, and I let you take one of my rooks "because it's fun". Where's your satisfaction in playing? You didn't earn the rook.
I think you've got that wrong-way-round. I mean, you're the one who just gave up a rook for nothing, rather than playing to win.
More seriously... I can't claim to speak for the original poster, but it sounded like what e was advocating was more along the lines of (continuing in the chess vein) attempting a speculative middlegame attack rather than pursuing a more sound (and boring) strategy of swapping off pieces and making the most of eir queenside pawn majority, just to see if the attack is really as good as it looks.
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what precisely makes gravity weak?
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It cannot describe itself, and thus can be both "complete" (for some small value of "complete") and consistent.
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640K ought to be enough for anybody. ;-)
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