I dunno if this answers your questions, but I try to give some useful links:
There's an (annual?) computer olympiad where computer games play against each other. 2002 Brutus won bronce in chess... http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/Olympiad2002/re sults.html 2003 it will be held in Graz, Austria http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/olympiad2003/
For testing chess programs against each other: the only occasion I know about was made by heise (http://www.heise.de/ct/schachduell/ ) but with opponents of the same leage (Shredder and Fritz), I think it was mentioned on/. when it was held...
I don't think anyone bothered to let a good program run hundreds of games against a really poor one to see if there's a chance to win for the latter. But I think that it's like a chess novice playing against Kramnik or Kasparov: he'd need a hell lot of luck to win....
There has to be a kernel patch for the Athlon (at least some old kernels (for example the RH6.? install disk...) refuse to work with it).
I've heard that this is because the Athlon doesn't have the CPU serial number of Intels PIII and if the kernel wants to disable it it generates an error....
In germany you can go to the police or your district attorney and tell them that you think something is illegal and they should look who is responsible and sue them.
It's just the same as if you have an hit-and-run offence with your car. Of course it's much faster done if you name the responsibles of a crime;-)
And if it's going to the court the defendants must be named - just like anywhere else in the civilized world...
Here in germany the EULAs are the bytes not worth they're written with.
Why? Simply because in germany you must have to accept a contract before you buy something - and the EULAs (or those sweet papers *in* the box of the software) are only visible *after* buying:-)
Another point is that some EULAs have parts that are simply not legal in germany - for example that you are not allowed to resell an OEM-version of Windows. Microsoft recently lost two lawsuits in this case!:)
Slashdot Mirror
I dunno if this answers your questions, but I try to give some useful links:
e sults.html
/. when it was held...
There's an (annual?) computer olympiad where computer games play against each other. 2002 Brutus won bronce in chess...
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/Olympiad2002/r
2003 it will be held in Graz, Austria
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/olympiad2003/
For testing chess programs against each other: the only occasion I know about was made by heise (http://www.heise.de/ct/schachduell/ ) but with opponents of the same leage (Shredder and Fritz), I think it was mentioned on
I don't think anyone bothered to let a good program run hundreds of games against a really poor one to see if there's a chance to win for the latter. But I think that it's like a chess novice playing against Kramnik or Kasparov: he'd need a hell lot of luck to win....
There has to be a kernel patch for the Athlon (at least some old kernels (for example the RH6.? install disk...) refuse to work with it). I've heard that this is because the Athlon doesn't have the CPU serial number of Intels PIII and if the kernel wants to disable it it generates an error ....
In germany you can go to the police or your district attorney and tell them that you think something is illegal and they should look who is responsible and sue them. It's just the same as if you have an hit-and-run offence with your car. Of course it's much faster done if you name the responsibles of a crime ;-)
And if it's going to the court the defendants must be named - just like anywhere else in the civilized world...
Here in germany the EULAs are the bytes not worth they're written with. Why? Simply because in germany you must have to accept a contract before you buy something - and the EULAs (or those sweet papers *in* the box of the software) are only visible *after* buying :-)
Another point is that some EULAs have parts that are simply not legal in germany - for example that you are not allowed to resell an OEM-version of Windows. Microsoft recently lost two lawsuits in this case! :)