A fun little game where you guide a toy train around a track while your train gets longer in a manner similar to snake. Probably that falls into about that age bracket.
Includes a quiz section on the "Rights of Man" I'm not sure if that can be disabled or made an arbitrary quiz module. Seems likely, given it is OSS that is it possible at some level.
GPS isn't that useful in urban areas. The accuracy when you can't get 3 satellites is no better than using cell tower information. And many times you can't even get that. Indoors of course, nothing at all. In the country, it is better, but then, most of the time when I want directions for Google Maps I don't care if it positions me to a "mere" half a kilometre of precision (which is about as bad as it'll get - in city you can often get to within one or two hundred metres).
Battery drain and increased internal demands of GPS on the already space-tight iphone isn't worth that for my uses of it.
So. Basically, hell yeah I'll take what amounts to a UMPC - especially at a discount. And for the/. crowd - it now runs linux... (Damn Small Linux at the moment - more to come I'm sure - and still needs work on, oh, the radio and touchscreen)
ACID3 is a target. It collects all the things that make a web developer go WTF, cuss, then find a workaround.
It is good to have a target, it allows browsers to have something to aim at. Note that both WebKit and Mozilla have ACID3 tracking bugs: (Mozilla's spreadsheet below, not linking to bugzilla from/.) http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pNgBCwWdyRTT2JeiZn4B2Yw
They are working towards it and will steadily improve, allowing for fewer WTF moments in the future.
Note that IE8 brags about passing ACID2. And ACID1 did similar things for the box layout.
eep. That *should* have read. "Chess 8x8 has perhaps ~10^43, who knows." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_complexity#_note -Shannon1950 Shannon gives it as between 10^53 and 10^120. I imagine ~10^40 is a reasonable conservative estimate. Naturally the difference grows for larger board sizes.
And of course another thing that is tough about Chess trees versus Go. In Go, well, the trees terminate very predictably. The number of pieces on the board steadily increases. Chess, even when excluding loops (which are very painful for a computer to identify in tree description) has almost unimaginable permutations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_complexity#Complex ity_and_the_go_game_tree Note Go 9x9 has 10^38 complexity Chess 8x8 has perhaps ~10^30, who knows. And from looking on the Go web page, I find it interesting that it is proven that black wins with perfect play on a 15x15 - I would find it disheartening to know in Chess that white can win with perfect play - fortunately it is not known yet for the 8x8 Chess board.
I do feel this could go on forever so I will let you have any last words and leave it at that:)
I have actually played Go. And of course gotten beaten by virtually all but dumbest computer programs, or amateur players.
Your discussion of AI would be reasonable if we weren't discussing solving the game, not just writing a good AI. The tree size would simply be larger, it seems to me, for Chess. Measurements of material advantage are fine if you are trying to write an AI that does not have the entire tree stored in it.
I think the fact that Go has *ALREADY* been solved for far larger board sizes than Chess has proves that it has far simpler trees to describe.
But apart from that. Little to add. I've tried Go, I didn't like it. I'm sure you've tried Chess and didn't like it.
Yes, will have to see if there's a website up with an electronic 19x19 (or even the 16x16) Chess layouts. Would love to play you sometime.
Heh. Fair 'nuff - worth noting though that what triggered this was your note that Go was still unsolved. I argued that was just permutational complexity and that Go on a small board is trivially solved. Although it is true that a 19x19 checkers will be solved long before Go, it is also true that a 19x19 Go will be solved long before a 19x19 Chess. Chess on an 8x8 will not be solved any time soon. (I think 3x3 or 4x4 is how far that has gotten) Go has been solved on boards up to 6x7 - it simply is way easier to describe. You are right matter of taste is a factor, but is also true that reason Go and Checkers are easier to solve on larger boards is because they involve fewer rules for piece movement, thus the tree is much easier to search, that made it less fun for me. This lack of complexity in piece movement, and ability to solve Go on larger boards is the main reason I prefer Chess. Although it is mindset as well, whatever, to each his own. In the end, what I was poking fun at was your comparing a 19x19 Go to an 8x8 Checkers (and yes, Checkers is still simpler to solve than Go). An 8x8 Go will fall soon, I'm sure.
Well, interesting-ish. It is clearly not the same game. And 9x9 is still 20% larger than 8x8, with correspondingly exponential increase in combinations, even with the simpler piece rules of Go.
The rules of Go are not that complex. The vast majority of the complexity is in the sheer number of interactions. Sorry, that's just the way it is.
Granted, the rules of chess are not that complex either. Matter of preference I suppose. Still a bit more varied than Go.
Nonsense. Obfuscation is not secure. Period. The closed source thing is ridiculous, if anyone really cared and had any monetary incentive (and with passwords there surely is) they could easily deobfuscate, closed source or not. Security through obscurity is never the answer. The smaller user base *is* legitimate, and a good argument for a browser ecology, but it is not an endorsement of any advantage to Opera's password management. You should ALWAYS assume passwords that are not encrypted are essentially in the clear for anyone with eventual access to that file to someday read.
And set a bloody master password already. On both your browsers. I'm certainly glad I did, since I lost my USB flash drive - at least I know anyone who picked it up would have no access to any private info.
Right, and that's precisely what makes Go uninteresting to me. I mean, is fun in a way, and there are tons of strategies, but the fact that the rules are so basic and it relies in large part on the size of the board to add complexity, is why I prefer chess.
I merely wanted to point out that the person comparing 8x8 checkers (not even 10x10 checkers) to Go is an unfair comparison. Not to mention checkers limits piece movement, that's just the way the pieces work. Checkers on 19x19 grid would be a lot harder to solve too.
That's why I linked to the 16x16 chess - there you have a comparable board size and actually interesting piece movement.
You just don't get it do you, as other people noted, your information is NOT secure unless a master password is set. All other options are simply obfuscation. Unless there is a piece of information you add to the mix, all the "ingredients" to reverse it are sitting right there on your HD. Your rambling commentary above boils down to simply: Opera obfuscates passwords by default. Firefox obfuscates passwords by default.
The only difference is your program you used reversed Firefox's. Again, since you did not set a master password in Opera that means that the guy who wrote the program didn't bother to deobfuscate Opera passwords. Big deal.
Your first mistake is not setting a master password in Firefox. Once you do that it won't be able to read them either. Its failure to read the Opera ones means either A) you set a master password in Opera or B) no one cares about Opera so program doesn't even look for them.
The only advantage font gives over using the style attribute (which gives far greater control) is that forum text sometimes disables CSS due to security concerns. This can be solved with moderately smarter CSS munging (whitelist the font-* stuff) or simply not allowing your users to use HTML in form posts in the first place - use bbcode instead. That can be munged by the server however it wants.
Rest of what you were saying was kinda silly so I just focused on the one legitimate one.
Oh, and target="_blank" - that's fair. The only alternative is javascript, which often is no alternative at all. On the other hand, I do find that target bloody annoying. Let me decide if I want to open a link in a new window, dammit. I'm not exactly sorry it is gone.
I've had Comcast for 6 years (thinking of switching though since their service has become even more spotty and unreliable in our area than it used to be - router keeps resetting - although maybe the cable modem just needs replacing).
Have always used Linux, if you keep pressing you can register with a MAC instead of install CD on their network, and is possible to jump over early tiers of tech support too, memorising windows sequences like output of a windows ping or winipcfg vs ifconfig helps too. Helped a lot that my cable modem could report signal strengths. Another timesaver is to ask about "outages in my area" - usually if you know what you're doing and the problem is upstream, the first tier "reboot your box" stuff is not helpful.
Took us 23h, about 8 hours on phone with Apple and AT&T both sides blaming the other and saying I'd just have to wait. Finally the magic 3701 number worked for me (was not in any FAQ or e-mail, found it on the forum). That rep was about to transfer us out again, but after explaining it, perhaps a little forcefully, got an activation in a minute or two.
I think you're being a tad optimistic with your 99.9% - even if enGadget's estimate might be a little pessimistic.
However the cost per listener for terrestrial radio is far lower. Running a net station means reaching fewer people and paying more per listener. Having more net stations helps ensure a roughly equivalent user base to terrestrial. I like the "hard to apply payola" theory.
My understanding is most of these proposals include the idea of continuously replacing atmosphere. The geological scales over which Mars would lose its atmosphere are not that important to humans anyway. So, wouldn't make Mars a natural planet.
Agreed. I do this with comcast as well. BTW, another time saver if his ISP is Comcast is to purchase a cable modem that can report upstream/downstream signal strengths and its own internal rated levels. That can also be compared against Comcast's own guarantees on that front. That saved some time, and once after a storm when some Comcast TV idiot cranked it up so high that my modem started failing, I was literally able to "fix" the problem by throwing an extra splitter in to knock it down by a few dbmv (not pretending to understand why that would work, but it did).
Oh, and also can save some time on script if you tell them you are remote and just want to know if any failures have been reported in your area since you can't remote desktop in to your machine anymore.
Not to mention the cron job I added to automatically reset the modem if I got dropped by upstream - that improved Comcast reliability a lot too.
That is precisely the problem with Dragon - the algorithm by its very nature will not create typos - it is matching speech against known words. So it is helpless with new vocab (although you can train it) and it makes for devilish subtle typos that take longer to pick out than it would have to run a spell check after a typist finished with their 93% accuracy.
Hey, I lost moderation years ago due to modding up a post critical of/. policies. They can do whatever the heck they want on their site. But then, makes me feel not-at-all guilty to make/. one of the only sites I advocate adblockers on.
Your point? The pack ice is just chunks of ice driven together by high winds. Ice chunks in part broken off the main ice fields as temperatures warm. Are you saying the winds were caused by record low temperatures?
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A fun little game where you guide a toy train around a track while your train gets longer in a manner similar to snake.
Probably that falls into about that age bracket.
Includes a quiz section on the "Rights of Man"
I'm not sure if that can be disabled or made an arbitrary quiz module.
Seems likely, given it is OSS that is it possible at some level.
GPS isn't that useful in urban areas.
/. crowd - it now runs linux... (Damn Small Linux at the moment - more to come I'm sure - and still needs work on, oh, the radio and touchscreen)
The accuracy when you can't get 3 satellites is no better than using cell tower information.
And many times you can't even get that. Indoors of course, nothing at all.
In the country, it is better, but then, most of the time when I want directions for Google Maps I don't care if it positions me to a "mere" half a kilometre of precision (which is about as bad as it'll get - in city you can often get to within one or two hundred metres).
Battery drain and increased internal demands of GPS on the already space-tight iphone isn't worth that for my uses of it.
So. Basically, hell yeah I'll take what amounts to a UMPC - especially at a discount.
And for the
ACID3 is a target.
/.)
It collects all the things that make a web developer go WTF, cuss, then find a workaround.
It is good to have a target, it allows browsers to have something to aim at.
Note that both WebKit and Mozilla have ACID3 tracking bugs:
(Mozilla's spreadsheet below, not linking to bugzilla from
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pNgBCwWdyRTT2JeiZn4B2Yw
They are working towards it and will steadily improve, allowing for fewer WTF moments in the future.
Note that IE8 brags about passing ACID2. And ACID1 did similar things for the box layout.
These tests are a good thing.
This (extreme) approach might help.
http://m8y.org/gentoosync.txt
eep.e -Shannon1950
That *should* have read.
"Chess 8x8 has perhaps ~10^43, who knows."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_complexity#_not
Shannon gives it as between 10^53 and 10^120.
I imagine ~10^40 is a reasonable conservative estimate.
Naturally the difference grows for larger board sizes.
And of course another thing that is tough about Chess trees versus Go.x ity_and_the_go_game_tree
:)
In Go, well, the trees terminate very predictably. The number of pieces on the board steadily increases.
Chess, even when excluding loops (which are very painful for a computer to identify in tree description) has almost unimaginable permutations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_complexity#Comple
Note Go 9x9 has 10^38 complexity
Chess 8x8 has perhaps ~10^30, who knows.
And from looking on the Go web page, I find it interesting that it is proven that black wins with perfect play on a 15x15 - I would find it disheartening to know in Chess that white can win with perfect play - fortunately it is not known yet for the 8x8 Chess board.
I do feel this could go on forever so I will let you have any last words and leave it at that
I have actually played Go. And of course gotten beaten by virtually all but dumbest computer programs, or amateur players.
Your discussion of AI would be reasonable if we weren't discussing solving the game, not just writing a good AI. The tree size would simply be larger, it seems to me, for Chess. Measurements of material advantage are fine if you are trying to write an AI that does not have the entire tree stored in it.
I think the fact that Go has *ALREADY* been solved for far larger board sizes than Chess has proves that it has far simpler trees to describe.
But apart from that. Little to add. I've tried Go, I didn't like it. I'm sure you've tried Chess and didn't like it.
Yes, will have to see if there's a website up with an electronic 19x19 (or even the 16x16) Chess layouts.
Would love to play you sometime.
Heh. Fair 'nuff - worth noting though that what triggered this was your note that Go was still unsolved.
I argued that was just permutational complexity and that Go on a small board is trivially solved.
Although it is true that a 19x19 checkers will be solved long before Go, it is also true that a 19x19 Go will be solved long before a 19x19 Chess.
Chess on an 8x8 will not be solved any time soon. (I think 3x3 or 4x4 is how far that has gotten)
Go has been solved on boards up to 6x7 - it simply is way easier to describe.
You are right matter of taste is a factor, but is also true that reason Go and Checkers are easier to solve on larger boards is because they involve fewer rules for piece movement, thus the tree is much easier to search, that made it less fun for me.
This lack of complexity in piece movement, and ability to solve Go on larger boards is the main reason I prefer Chess.
Although it is mindset as well, whatever, to each his own. In the end, what I was poking fun at was your comparing a 19x19 Go to an 8x8 Checkers (and yes, Checkers is still simpler to solve than Go). An 8x8 Go will fall soon, I'm sure.
Well, interesting-ish.
It is clearly not the same game.
And 9x9 is still 20% larger than 8x8, with correspondingly exponential increase in combinations, even with the simpler piece rules of Go.
The rules of Go are not that complex. The vast majority of the complexity is in the sheer number of interactions. Sorry, that's just the way it is.
Granted, the rules of chess are not that complex either. Matter of preference I suppose.
Still a bit more varied than Go.
Nonsense.
Obfuscation is not secure. Period.
The closed source thing is ridiculous, if anyone really cared and had any monetary incentive (and with passwords there surely is) they could easily deobfuscate, closed source or not.
Security through obscurity is never the answer.
The smaller user base *is* legitimate, and a good argument for a browser ecology, but it is not an endorsement of any advantage to Opera's password management.
You should ALWAYS assume passwords that are not encrypted are essentially in the clear for anyone with eventual access to that file to someday read.
And set a bloody master password already. On both your browsers.
I'm certainly glad I did, since I lost my USB flash drive - at least I know anyone who picked it up would have no access to any private info.
Right, and that's precisely what makes Go uninteresting to me.
I mean, is fun in a way, and there are tons of strategies, but the fact that the rules are so
basic and it relies in large part on the size of the board to add complexity, is why I prefer
chess.
I merely wanted to point out that the person comparing 8x8 checkers (not even 10x10 checkers)
to Go is an unfair comparison. Not to mention checkers limits piece movement, that's just
the way the pieces work. Checkers on 19x19 grid would be a lot harder to solve too.
That's why I linked to the 16x16 chess - there you have a comparable board size and actually interesting
piece movement.
You just don't get it do you, as other people noted, your information is NOT secure unless a master password is set.
All other options are simply obfuscation. Unless there is a piece of information you add to the mix, all the "ingredients" to reverse it are sitting right there on your HD.
Your rambling commentary above boils down to simply:
Opera obfuscates passwords by default.
Firefox obfuscates passwords by default.
The only difference is your program you used reversed Firefox's. Again, since you did not set a master password
in Opera that means that the guy who wrote the program didn't bother to deobfuscate Opera passwords. Big deal.
Your first mistake is not setting a master password in Firefox.
Once you do that it won't be able to read them either.
Its failure to read the Opera ones means either A) you set a master password in Opera or B) no one cares about Opera so program doesn't even look for them.
The only advantage font gives over using the style attribute (which gives far greater control) is that forum text sometimes disables CSS due to security concerns.
This can be solved with moderately smarter CSS munging (whitelist the font-* stuff) or simply not allowing your users to use HTML in form posts in the first place - use bbcode instead.
That can be munged by the server however it wants.
Rest of what you were saying was kinda silly so I just focused on the one legitimate one.
Oh, and target="_blank" - that's fair. The only alternative is javascript, which often is no alternative at all. On the other hand, I do find that target bloody annoying. Let me decide if I want to open a link in a new window, dammit. I'm not exactly sorry it is gone.
'course, Go would be kind of dull too on an 4x8 board (checkers only uses half the squares)1 6.html
http://www.chessvariants.com/d.betza/chessvar/16x
I've had Comcast for 6 years (thinking of switching though since their service has become even more spotty and unreliable in our area than it used to be - router keeps resetting - although maybe the cable modem just needs replacing).
Have always used Linux, if you keep pressing you can register with a MAC instead of install CD on their network, and is possible to jump over early tiers of tech support too, memorising windows sequences like output of a windows ping or winipcfg vs ifconfig helps too. Helped a lot that my cable modem could report signal strengths.
Another timesaver is to ask about "outages in my area" - usually if you know what you're doing and the problem is upstream, the first tier "reboot your box" stuff is not helpful.
http://uboat.net/boats/u110.htm
Google for U-110.
Took us 23h, about 8 hours on phone with Apple and AT&T both sides blaming the other and saying I'd just have to wait. Finally the magic 3701 number worked for me (was not in any FAQ or e-mail, found it on the forum). That rep was about to transfer us out again, but after explaining it, perhaps a little forcefully, got an activation in a minute or two.
I think you're being a tad optimistic with your 99.9% - even if enGadget's estimate might be a little pessimistic.
However the cost per listener for terrestrial radio is far lower.
0
Running a net station means reaching fewer people and paying more per listener.
Having more net stations helps ensure a roughly equivalent user base to terrestrial.
I like the "hard to apply payola" theory.
They probably just want less choices on the internet.
I'm sure getting royalties that they don't deserve:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/24/141326/87
doesn't hurt either.
My understanding is most of these proposals include the idea of continuously replacing atmosphere.
The geological scales over which Mars would lose its atmosphere are not that important to humans anyway.
So, wouldn't make Mars a natural planet.
Agreed. I do this with comcast as well.
BTW, another time saver if his ISP is Comcast is to purchase a cable modem that can report upstream/downstream signal strengths and its own internal rated levels. That can also be compared against Comcast's own guarantees on that front. That saved some time, and once after a storm when some Comcast TV idiot cranked it up so high that my modem started failing, I was literally able to "fix" the problem by throwing an extra splitter in to knock it down by a few dbmv (not pretending to understand why that would work, but it did).
Oh, and also can save some time on script if you tell them you are remote and just want to know if any failures have been reported in your area since you can't remote desktop in to your machine anymore.
Not to mention the cron job I added to automatically reset the modem if I got dropped by upstream - that improved Comcast reliability a lot too.
Well, they did put a notice on their site, just not exactly in a prominent place.
https://registerfly.com/help/
That is precisely the problem with Dragon - the algorithm by its very nature will not create typos - it is matching speech against known words. So it is helpless with new vocab (although you can train it) and it makes for devilish subtle typos that take longer to pick out than it would have to run a spell check after a typist finished with their 93% accuracy.
Hey, I lost moderation years ago due to modding up a post critical of /. policies. /. one of the only sites I advocate adblockers on.
They can do whatever the heck they want on their site.
But then, makes me feel not-at-all guilty to make
Your point? The pack ice is just chunks of ice driven together by high winds.
Ice chunks in part broken off the main ice fields as temperatures warm.
Are you saying the winds were caused by record low temperatures?