The only set of rules I know of that enforce any other repetition besides a single Ko situation is the chinese ruleset which says that the same situation can not occur twice in a single game. The AGA and Japanese ruleset don't have anything like.
I work for a medical billing software vendor.... the worst part about HIPAA is listening to our clients call in and ask and complain about when we're gonna be hipaa complaint. We had to basically fill out over 200 HIPAA extention forms for them because we knew they wouldn't know what to do......but it's not that bad for software vendors right now. All we have to do (because all the changes of HIPAA aren't even set yet.... they don't have their act together) is change some code for the electronic transmission...
E.g., Gnu Go has become much better this past year, and so have others, probably.
The best computer Go program to date (The Many Faces of Go) can be easily beaten by a beginner. I play on KGS often and have talked to 20k's that have beaten it...
Play some Go seriously, you'll understand better why computers still have a long way to Go...
You seriously underestimate the history and complexity of Go.
The number of possible moves in go has nothing to do with its difficulty.
Not for a human, but to brute force it (like a computer does with Chess) would be impossible with Go.... there are an infinite number of games to be played. (It's possible to set up an endless combination of Ko... allowing the game to be played infinitely)
Go has not been analyzed and picked apart enough for us to say that it us much more difficult than chess.
Go has been around for over a thousand years. It has been studied like a religion in Asia for those thousand years, with strategy constantly evolving. It is still played with great enthusiasm there today with professional players recieving yearly sallary comparable to US professional football players.... I'd say that Go has been picked apart pretty well...
Go pieces, once placed on the board, cannot move anymore. Chess pieces can still move from one place to the other. This means that as more and more Go pieces are placed on the board, there are less and less positions the computer has to consider.
True, but the stones (go pieces) can be removed... If you've ever played Go (which I don't think you seriously have) you would know that the endgame situations, although tricky at times, have a comparible number of logical possibilities of movement as chess.
Actually, the number is infinite. It is possible to set up an endless series of Ko's (...literally translated "eternity") that will keep the game going for ever.
...worried about running out of stones? Just trade prisioners when it gets low...
SearchKing will next go after slashdot for providing a link to their site, which in turn brought enormous traffic that caused a DoS and loss of website capabilities which hurt their company financially.
...then explain the way HUDs are supposed to work.
Last time I checked, there wasn't any real set way HUDs are made to work.
You're creating a display in your line of sight out of... say a cockpit window of a jet... using a thin, clear plastic lining inside the window......how is that not a HUD?
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I think organic LCDs will take off after they get past the prototype stage. What the article forgot to mention is that this technology can be molded to clear displays in plastic casing that can bend easliy to mold lots of curves... leading the way for HUDs for your car, a TV in your sun glasses, or more likely military applications.
I'd give a link to a nice site and even news interview clip and video demonstrating the flexability and such for these displays.... but I forgot where I found it before:o\
...they are far stronger and stiffer than those used to make carbon-fibre tennis-rackets...
Yeeaaaa... Usually tennis rackets are designed to bend. They do make rackets that are intended to be stiff, but even those are supposed to bend a little...
Also, pro players brake their rackets a lot... so do amatures... I broke about 3 "carbon-fibre" rackets just by dropping them.
Importing the favorites from the Mac to the PC seemed easy... but they forgot a step...
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4)Connect the Zip drive to your PC, and insert the disk on which you just saved your Favorites.
5)On the PC, click Start, then My Computer, and then double-click Local Disk (C:). Open the Documents and Settings folder, then the folder with your user account name, and then your Favorites folder. ...
4 1/2) Restart computer 5 times. Download most recent, "authenticated" XP drivers, restart again. Restart yet another time after computer freezes. Reset BIOS because parallel or serial port was misconfigured. Reconfigure hardware because of faults in IRQ sharing. Call some computer technician. Pay money to them to fix the computer. Once fixed, continue...
(after thought), but I do totally agree with you on the arrogance of humans saying that water is NEEDED for life... if we can't imagine a world where, say, silicon is the base for life instead of carbon... then how would we even begin to imagine life in other dimensions?
Humans have a looonnggg way to go untill we can even begin to comprehend the true atomic (wave/particle duality... if that will even hold true for the next hundred years) systems of our universe
Well... as soon as you make a little telescope that can see into these other dimensions, then maybe we'll think about a search for life there after you've perfected it so much that entire planets can be detected instead of a few antiparticles in a particle accelerator.......or we can start with the "easier" task of lookin in our own universe?
hmm... choices....
Yes, it can live there... but...
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It is true that life can survive in such extreme conditions, but what is the possibility of it being CREATED in those conditions??
As I recall from the many bio classes I have had over the years about the beginning of life on earth, the creation of amino acids and the building blocks of life occurred in very warm conditions with the help of the heat/electron exciting potential from a lightning bolt...
Yes, it can survive... but how would the CREATION of life occur on pluto?
I wouldn't think it would be practical to try to graft a whole arm on, unless you sample the patients DNA and encode the stemcells with it to oppose rejection problems.
When they are creating the stem cells (specifically from embryos), they take a nucleus from your own body and make a "clone" of you to grow from, then they can continue manipulating the stem cells to grow into the organ/organs they want.
Just slapping on some stem cells on to the stub that used to be your arm doesn't do the trick...
Surgical Steel (at least recently) isn't ferromagnetic. My brother has huge plates in his arm and leg, along with a pole in his femur. He doesn't have a problem with magnets or metal detectors. I even stuck a neodymium magnet up to his plate and it didnt stick....
Umm... the Earth's magnetic field is pretty damn weak. They should have compared it to the magnet in an MRI, or just given the gauss or tesla rating.... but then again, bigger numbers are more impressive to the people who dont know better....but it is pretty strong...
*BSD.... frekin Linux freaks...::nerdy laugh:: im gonna make a l33t0r bawx with linux!!! Then have it hacked the next day because its security sucks!!!::nerdy laugh::
its sad that a SCREEN SHOT update made the MAIN NEWS PAGE.... just because linux was it in.......get a life man.... linux isn't as great as you all think it is.... expand you vocab to other unix variants....
It's called superconductors (for electromagnets)... along with very powerful permanent magnets (neodymium anyone?)....
Florida has daily rain, coupled with the heat, that will corrode coils and short stuff out. Not to mention the hurricanes.
Why would they expose the coils directly to the weather?? Don't you think there could be some sort of a coating on the coils?
ya know those high voltage lines arent exactly covered by anything..... they survive the weather... Since the potential difference within the superconducting electromagnets will be very small to obtain the most current, there really won't be that much of an "urge" for the power to short out like in those uncovered high voltage lines that we seem not to have a problem with...
If you have ever seen the matrix, and caught the ramble of one of the agents about how humans are a virus, spreading out and distroying the earth for it's own good.... it is true. And now to think (although this isn't a new and fresh idea) that humans took that step because of a virus... could some of the disposition of that virus or any virus effect our behavior?
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The only set of rules I know of that enforce any other repetition besides a single Ko situation is the chinese ruleset which says that the same situation can not occur twice in a single game. The AGA and Japanese ruleset don't have anything like.
I work for a medical billing software vendor.... the worst part about HIPAA is listening to our clients call in and ask and complain about when we're gonna be hipaa complaint. We had to basically fill out over 200 HIPAA extention forms for them because we knew they wouldn't know what to do... ...but it's not that bad for software vendors right now. All we have to do (because all the changes of HIPAA aren't even set yet.... they don't have their act together) is change some code for the electronic transmission...
E.g., Gnu Go has become much better this past year, and so have others, probably.
The best computer Go program to date (The Many Faces of Go) can be easily beaten by a beginner. I play on KGS often and have talked to 20k's that have beaten it...
Play some Go seriously, you'll understand better why computers still have a long way to Go...
Amen...
hahahah...
You seriously underestimate the history and complexity of Go.
The number of possible moves in go has nothing to do with its difficulty.
Not for a human, but to brute force it (like a computer does with Chess) would be impossible with Go.... there are an infinite number of games to be played. (It's possible to set up an endless combination of Ko... allowing the game to be played infinitely)
Go has not been analyzed and picked apart enough for us to say that it us much more difficult than chess.
Go has been around for over a thousand years. It has been studied like a religion in Asia for those thousand years, with strategy constantly evolving. It is still played with great enthusiasm there today with professional players recieving yearly sallary comparable to US professional football players.... I'd say that Go has been picked apart pretty well...
Go pieces, once placed on the board, cannot move anymore. Chess pieces can still move from one place to the other. This means that as more and more Go pieces are placed on the board, there are less and less positions the computer has to consider.
True, but the stones (go pieces) can be removed... If you've ever played Go (which I don't think you seriously have) you would know that the endgame situations, although tricky at times, have a comparible number of logical possibilities of movement as chess.
10^720 distinct games that you can play in go
...worried about running out of stones? Just trade prisioners when it gets low...
Actually, the number is infinite. It is possible to set up an endless series of Ko's (...literally translated "eternity") that will keep the game going for ever.
SearchKing will next go after slashdot for providing a link to their site, which in turn brought enormous traffic that caused a DoS and loss of website capabilities which hurt their company financially.
Successful Launch of Integral
In other news, the opposing rocket launch named Derivative has seemed to have malfunctioned...
the reasons for NOT doing it in consumer cars is totally different than for military aspects.....
...then explain the way HUDs are supposed to work.
...how is that not a HUD?
Last time I checked, there wasn't any real set way HUDs are made to work.
You're creating a display in your line of sight out of... say a cockpit window of a jet... using a thin, clear plastic lining inside the window...
I think organic LCDs will take off after they get past the prototype stage. What the article forgot to mention is that this technology can be molded to clear displays in plastic casing that can bend easliy to mold lots of curves... leading the way for HUDs for your car, a TV in your sun glasses, or more likely military applications.
:o\
I'd give a link to a nice site and even news interview clip and video demonstrating the flexability and such for these displays.... but I forgot where I found it before
...they are far stronger and stiffer than those used to make carbon-fibre tennis-rackets...
...maybe that simile could use a little work?
Yeeaaaa... Usually tennis rackets are designed to bend. They do make rackets that are intended to be stiff, but even those are supposed to bend a little...
Also, pro players brake their rackets a lot... so do amatures... I broke about 3 "carbon-fibre" rackets just by dropping them.
Importing the favorites from the Mac to the PC seemed easy... but they forgot a step...
...
...
4)Connect the Zip drive to your PC, and insert the disk on which you just saved your Favorites.
5)On the PC, click Start, then My Computer, and then double-click Local Disk (C:). Open the Documents and Settings folder, then the folder with your user account name, and then your Favorites folder.
4 1/2) Restart computer 5 times. Download most recent, "authenticated" XP drivers, restart again. Restart yet another time after computer freezes. Reset BIOS because parallel or serial port was misconfigured. Reconfigure hardware because of faults in IRQ sharing. Call some computer technician. Pay money to them to fix the computer. Once fixed, continue...
(after thought), but I do totally agree with you on the arrogance of humans saying that water is NEEDED for life... if we can't imagine a world where, say, silicon is the base for life instead of carbon... then how would we even begin to imagine life in other dimensions?
Humans have a looonnggg way to go untill we can even begin to comprehend the true atomic (wave/particle duality... if that will even hold true for the next hundred years) systems of our universe
Well... as soon as you make a little telescope that can see into these other dimensions, then maybe we'll think about a search for life there after you've perfected it so much that entire planets can be detected instead of a few antiparticles in a particle accelerator... ....or we can start with the "easier" task of lookin in our own universe?
hmm... choices....
It is true that life can survive in such extreme conditions, but what is the possibility of it being CREATED in those conditions??
As I recall from the many bio classes I have had over the years about the beginning of life on earth, the creation of amino acids and the building blocks of life occurred in very warm conditions with the help of the heat/electron exciting potential from a lightning bolt...
Yes, it can survive... but how would the CREATION of life occur on pluto?
I wouldn't think it would be practical to try to graft a whole arm on, unless you sample the patients DNA and encode the stemcells with it to oppose rejection problems.
When they are creating the stem cells (specifically from embryos), they take a nucleus from your own body and make a "clone" of you to grow from, then they can continue manipulating the stem cells to grow into the organ/organs they want.
Just slapping on some stem cells on to the stub that used to be your arm doesn't do the trick...
Surgical Steel (at least recently) isn't ferromagnetic. My brother has huge plates in his arm and leg, along with a pole in his femur. He doesn't have a problem with magnets or metal detectors. I even stuck a neodymium magnet up to his plate and it didnt stick....
too bad that copper isn't attracted to magnets... In fact, I don't think any of the US currency is....
260,000 times stronger than that of Earth
...but it is pretty strong...
Umm... the Earth's magnetic field is pretty damn weak. They should have compared it to the magnet in an MRI, or just given the gauss or tesla rating.... but then again, bigger numbers are more impressive to the people who dont know better.
*BSD.... frekin Linux freaks... ::nerdy laugh:: im gonna make a l33t0r bawx with linux!!! Then have it hacked the next day because its security sucks!!! ::nerdy laugh::
its (it's) called typos and not giving a damn
its sad that a SCREEN SHOT update made the MAIN NEWS PAGE.... just because linux was it in... ....get a life man.... linux isn't as great as you all think it is.... expand you vocab to other unix variants....
It's called superconductors (for electromagnets)... along with very powerful permanent magnets (neodymium anyone?)....
Florida has daily rain, coupled with the heat, that will corrode coils and short stuff out. Not to mention the hurricanes.
Why would they expose the coils directly to the weather?? Don't you think there could be some sort of a coating on the coils?
ya know those high voltage lines arent exactly covered by anything..... they survive the weather... Since the potential difference within the superconducting electromagnets will be very small to obtain the most current, there really won't be that much of an "urge" for the power to short out like in those uncovered high voltage lines that we seem not to have a problem with...
It is interesting, this step of evolution.
If you have ever seen the matrix, and caught the ramble of one of the agents about how humans are a virus, spreading out and distroying the earth for it's own good.... it is true. And now to think (although this isn't a new and fresh idea) that humans took that step because of a virus... could some of the disposition of that virus or any virus effect our behavior?
not everywhere