... and I'll be seeing two more times this weekend. That being said, I'm downloading the torrent right now so I can just drop in and watch it when I want till I buy the DVD.
IBM has been running, in idea, bits and pieces of this ad during ther playoffs. I'm wondering if the full-on ad will run during the Super Bowl. Oh dear lord the irony.
its sick amoral greed when that profit ends up being 40000%
No, it's people BUYING products that drive profits up. I'm tired of people blaming companies for trying to make money instead of treating all these customers like the lemmings they are for buying into whatever is out there.
I've heard a lot of people say things along the same lines as you and, while I don't entirely disagree with the fact that there was tons more action than plot movement in this one, I must point something out.
Reloaded is the part of The Matrix story where they (we) believe they (again, we) are at the eleventh hour. At the eleventh hour and a make-or-break mission at hand to save the world from the machines there really isn't that much that needs to be said.
In watching the film the plot movement is the fight scenes. There are bits of clues left in most of the fights that pertain not only to the "present day" Matrix but also the prior Matrices (?) and the bugs that were in them.
I would think there will be plenty more narrative story in Revolutions given the three endings Reloaded had. (Spoiler warning) One - The Matrix loop, Two - Neo's power in The Real World, Three - the Judas character / agent.
I was very happy with Reloaded not just with the fight scenes but with the way they moved the story along. I would ask you to wait for the DVD and rent it to notice the little things - the subtle things - that the Wachowskis did with it.
To "steal" something, the original owner mustn't have it anymore.
How the hell do you make sure a company doesn't have an idea anymore?! And I'd hate to break the news to people that use this defense but Theft of Service is a real offense - I know, I was nailed for it for jumping a turnstile as a lad.
We are talking about uncontrollable urges here. Would you have a drug addict sit in front of his / her drug of choice and tell them not to use it in the hopes of a cure? Child-porn on the 'Net will not be a deterrent. Quite the contrary, it will add to the want and lead to a need to commit.
Legal prostitution won't keep rapes down either. Hell, if a rapists wanted to pay for sex he could have went to a prostitute anyways. Rapists prey on victims. Period. Child-porn and rape should never be thrown onto the shelf with other fetishes so easy. We're talking about acts that are destructive to people and are not done between two consenting adults.
That is unless the true line goes so deep into the middle that it really creates no middle at all.
For instance, there are more lines for 1. e4 than any other and some of those lines, if played right, can go 40 moves and more. At that point the opening overlaps the middle and the only way to be win by suprise (read creativity) is to find a new line. But in creating the new line - which can amount to one different move throughout the sequence that creates new possibilities, or lines - you are, as a byproduct, creating a new opening.
So I want to offer this - The game of Chess is where humans will always have the advantage. But machines can help us by figuring out which lines are well thought out and which ones have flaws. The counter to that is that we are the only ones that can think out the lines in the first place!
Chess savior?! The man that almost destroyed the Grand MAster's Association after resigning to compete in tournaments he had previously denied to people? Kasparov is the most arrogant chess player since Fischer but not nearly as talented.
Quick little tid-bit not in the savior's bio: In the late nineties there was a tournament held in Cuba to honor Capablanca. Everyone who was anyone (at the time) was there to pay their respects to one of the greatest players ever, Kasparov included. This was the last known public siting of Fischer among and by chess players. Kasparov saw him enter the room in his (Fischer's) cotton shorts and shirt and wide brimmed straw hat and decided to offer a game and his hand for a shake. Fischer just looked at him, looked at his hand and walked on by to take in a game with his old buddy Spassky
All I'm saying is while he may seem like a hero to people of the world for having the "guts" to take on the machines people in the know realize it's his ego. If he was really the mane that could pull Chess out of the swell it's in (yes, that's including throughout Europe contrary to popular belief) he would play more instead of holding out for money and endorsements and play who's ready to play not who he thinks will bring in the bucks when he does.
It is possible to go through Deus Ex without killing anyone as well. But the basic premise is still there. The one game I really enjoyed was Jak and Daxter[E]. As you notice it's not marketed to adults but it was fun nonetheless - I just wish there was a game with a gripping storyline, awesome gameplay and solid graphics that didn't have overt violence and that I didn't need to nudge some pimply-faced kid to get to.
I'm an adult. I'm a gamer. I'm a person that has, not-so-recently, come to the point that the violence in video games has become so terribly overdone that I'm bored with it. This isn't just to say, "Oh, it's everywhere and it's getting played out." I'm distressed that violence has become boring to me. Noticing this brought to my attention that I have become so numb to it that I view all these games as just the same storyline and different characters. I know it isn't that way but the adage regarding some of the more graphic anime there's-only-so-many-ways-a-demon-can-rape-a-lady is spreading to the [M]ature game market.
For me to find a non-violent game I had to play either [E]veryone or [T]een games (and some of the latter titles are questionable). I'm not trying to imply that the worlds problems fall on the doorstep of companies that make violent games. I just think that there should be more games targeted towards adults that have a mature theme and storyline that doesn't involve overt violence and / or sexuality.
I want to make this perfectly clear; I'm not trying to rid the gaming market of violence and sex. But as we all know, there is a time and a place for everything. An I'm glad that some people have decided to buck the tide and try out something "new."
I'm going to kind go around your question here, sorry in advance. You asked for a video card for Linux suggestion and here's mine:
STAY AWAY FROM nVIDIA!!!
Next to no support (as in Docs / FAQs / HOWTOs / Pixie Dust) on their site and because the drivers are proprietary the best Linux has is generic drivers that never allow the card to reach it's full potential out of the box.
Now, if going through the list to find the correct kernel driver and matching GLX driver doesn't bother you have at it, but an ATI card would probably be a better / easier bet.
then I'm heading over to Alienware'sgaming systems and drooling for a little before I buy. If money is an issue (which it is for me) then I'm going through the time to research Price Watch until my fingers bleed and building a killer box that way.
Regardless, if I'm not in the mood to build a box I think I'd trust Alienware for a gaming machine over anyone else out there.
Honestly, not to burst a bubble but (625HP!!!!) for a sport / race car isn't all _that_ swell. If you want outlandish ponies try a 4,000 HP 4-Cyl Integra!!!
. . . I can't see paying some $60,ooo for a car. If it's speed you want (aside from the looks of a Testy) I can modify a freakin'FordFocus that'll smoke that slashdotted machine to hell.
I swear this isn't flamebait or a troll. I see this as the equivelant of buying a PowerMac instead of building the comprable machine yourself. Mod it to hell if you want, but the Ford team came in second overall in World Rally for 2001 and is poised for greatness in 2002 (Go Colin!!!)
Normally from black I play, if given the option, a tight closed game (closed game based on..1. d4) from white against humans in play-play games I open with the Grob Attack (1. g4) unless I know the strength of my opponent against obscure opennings to which I fall back on the old faithful (1. e4).
Against computers there are definite ways to play them - look for a book called (by far my favorite book) Why You Lose At Chess (not that you do or that you need it) - for instance, against a human you can generally throw a monkey-wrench into your opponents good position (or at least the psyche of it) by advancing a pawn on the King side.
You don't have that option with machines. The only way to play it out is to play out your openning further than you normally do and not make emotional moves. Not to mention machines being extremely predictable.
As far as my rating goes, I don't play tourney often, actually, I rarely do - school gets in the way. Although it could be and looks like its going to be worse 'cause Chess is starting to get in the way of school again. Ooops.
Seriously, drop me an email so we can get together and playt some. I always look for new strong players.
Kasparov is the No. 1 rated player in the world right now and has been for some time but alas, he's never played Fischer (at least in Tourney / Rated play). The thing that always gets me is that Fischer hasn't played rated tourneyt chess in over a decade and he's STILL rated third in the world by the governing body.
I wouldn't say that Kasparov is a better player, but he is rated higher.
Chessmaster is not a fully functioning chess program. It is really more of a DB full of a shit-load of games (at least with CM 8000) and a teaching program. While I agree with damn near every other player in the world that CM is the best commercial chess program for learing, I have huge doubts with how it would match up in competitive play. I can reguraly beat CM8000 and I'm a tentative ~1500+ rated player. (In comparison the top three players in the world are well above 2700 and two are above 28.
There were plans to hold The World's Largest chess tournament ever (via the 'Net but the record would go beyond "just a 'Net record"). The event has been put on hold due to "The present economic situation and dramatic turn down of internet sales in the aftermath of September 11."
More details are at the site and at the FIDE's network site (Fédération Internationale des Échecs).
As far as this tournament is concerened, I welcome it entirely and enthusiastically. Finally there will be a way for the greatest chess programmers (in theory) to be under the "same roof" and possibly get together to swap secrets so that the mid-level bots on-line could actually dish out something other than four variations and stumble the rest of the way through.
And to any players on/. that are also on USCL drop me an email through my link and we'll see if we can get together for some games.
I've been with them from pretty much the beginning, 2 years, and while they started off rocky, they seem to have gotten they're stuff together. 768 / 128, which, by some standards, may not be all that great, it's always consistent.
the result of the judgement of the 2600 case at all?
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All the pieces are identical but black has more of what's called "pawn islands."
Because of the positioning of the queens (Q) black has two more safe spots for pawns (P) to reside on. Safe being explained that there's a greater chance of protecting a P with other minor pieces - ie. other pawns - than black does. Because of this (and I forget the math to explain it) white goes first to even it out.
I'll look through my books for the math / averages.
Contrary to popular belief, or stated misnomers, pushing pawns forward does very little to upset an opponent. It may however give the opponent a sense of empowerment because while the only pieces you are developing are "measly pawns" you opponent is bringing out primary, or more useful pieces towards a strong(er) development.
If I were to bring out all my pawns one square at a time that would not only "just" develop 8 points (1 point per pawn (P), 3 - 3.5 due to preference per bishop (B), 3- 3.5 due to preference per knight (N), 5 per rook (R), 9 for the queen (Q) while the king (K) has no given value because the game is lost without it.) it would also give my opponent time (time = to amount of time given for development) to develop anywhere from 16 - 25 points for pieces. Not only that, but would appear to be even more amateurish, it would also block my Q and B's past the second rank completely and limit my N to two seemingly inconsequential squares behind my pawns (D2 / E2 given I'm playing white).
OTOH, while my seemingly lack of development is allowing my opponent to "take over the board" I am also given ample time to review the movements that my opponent makes and subsequently be in a better position to attack a weak line given the right time (time in development terms as well as actual minutes and seconds since this was a game of blitz). While it's not something I would suggest a novice do in competitive play (read: me) I can surely see how a GM, or higher in Fischer's case IMHO, would be able to capitalize it.
I would love to see the notation to see just what level of genius this was. IIRC, Short lost, or in his words, "was crushed" in all 6 games; that's (excuse the language) fucking huge!!! I have no idea as to whether or not it was Fischer playing but I have to say that it's a much more intriguing mystery to me than the Loch Ness Monster.
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... and I'll be seeing two more times this weekend. That being said, I'm downloading the torrent right now so I can just drop in and watch it when I want till I buy the DVD.
I first saw this with Spotlight. Everyone Searches but a Spotlight is more fine tuned or bigger depending on how it's used.
Pages. Well, the first thing that came to my mind was Microsoft may be able to do Word(s) we (Apple) do Pages.
Just a thought.
No, it's people BUYING products that drive profits up. I'm tired of people blaming companies for trying to make money instead of treating all these customers like the lemmings they are for buying into whatever is out there.
Reloaded is the part of The Matrix story where they (we) believe they (again, we) are at the eleventh hour. At the eleventh hour and a make-or-break mission at hand to save the world from the machines there really isn't that much that needs to be said.
In watching the film the plot movement is the fight scenes. There are bits of clues left in most of the fights that pertain not only to the "present day" Matrix but also the prior Matrices (?) and the bugs that were in them.
I would think there will be plenty more narrative story in Revolutions given the three endings Reloaded had. (Spoiler warning) One - The Matrix loop, Two - Neo's power in The Real World, Three - the Judas character / agent.
I was very happy with Reloaded not just with the fight scenes but with the way they moved the story along. I would ask you to wait for the DVD and rent it to notice the little things - the subtle things - that the Wachowskis did with it.
How the hell do you make sure a company doesn't have an idea anymore?! And I'd hate to break the news to people that use this defense but Theft of Service is a real offense - I know, I was nailed for it for jumping a turnstile as a lad.
I'm not willing to risk the safety of children on something that "might" work.
We are talking about uncontrollable urges here. Would you have a drug addict sit in front of his / her drug of choice and tell them not to use it in the hopes of a cure? Child-porn on the 'Net will not be a deterrent. Quite the contrary, it will add to the want and lead to a need to commit.
Legal prostitution won't keep rapes down either. Hell, if a rapists wanted to pay for sex he could have went to a prostitute anyways. Rapists prey on victims. Period. Child-porn and rape should never be thrown onto the shelf with other fetishes so easy. We're talking about acts that are destructive to people and are not done between two consenting adults.
For instance, there are more lines for 1. e4 than any other and some of those lines, if played right, can go 40 moves and more. At that point the opening overlaps the middle and the only way to be win by suprise (read creativity) is to find a new line. But in creating the new line - which can amount to one different move throughout the sequence that creates new possibilities, or lines - you are, as a byproduct, creating a new opening.
So I want to offer this - The game of Chess is where humans will always have the advantage. But machines can help us by figuring out which lines are well thought out and which ones have flaws. The counter to that is that we are the only ones that can think out the lines in the first place!
Quick little tid-bit not in the savior's bio: In the late nineties there was a tournament held in Cuba to honor Capablanca. Everyone who was anyone (at the time) was there to pay their respects to one of the greatest players ever, Kasparov included. This was the last known public siting of Fischer among and by chess players. Kasparov saw him enter the room in his (Fischer's) cotton shorts and shirt and wide brimmed straw hat and decided to offer a game and his hand for a shake. Fischer just looked at him, looked at his hand and walked on by to take in a game with his old buddy Spassky
All I'm saying is while he may seem like a hero to people of the world for having the "guts" to take on the machines people in the know realize it's his ego. If he was really the mane that could pull Chess out of the swell it's in (yes, that's including throughout Europe contrary to popular belief) he would play more instead of holding out for money and endorsements and play who's ready to play not who he thinks will bring in the bucks when he does.
I'm an adult. I'm a gamer. I'm a person that has, not-so-recently, come to the point that the violence in video games has become so terribly overdone that I'm bored with it. This isn't just to say, "Oh, it's everywhere and it's getting played out." I'm distressed that violence has become boring to me. Noticing this brought to my attention that I have become so numb to it that I view all these games as just the same storyline and different characters. I know it isn't that way but the adage regarding some of the more graphic anime there's-only-so-many-ways-a-demon-can-rape-a-lady is spreading to the [M]ature game market.
For me to find a non-violent game I had to play either [E]veryone or [T]een games (and some of the latter titles are questionable). I'm not trying to imply that the worlds problems fall on the doorstep of companies that make violent games. I just think that there should be more games targeted towards adults that have a mature theme and storyline that doesn't involve overt violence and / or sexuality.
I want to make this perfectly clear; I'm not trying to rid the gaming market of violence and sex. But as we all know, there is a time and a place for everything. An I'm glad that some people have decided to buck the tide and try out something "new."
STAY AWAY FROM nVIDIA!!!
Next to no support (as in Docs / FAQs / HOWTOs / Pixie Dust) on their site and because the drivers are proprietary the best Linux has is generic drivers that never allow the card to reach it's full potential out of the box.
Now, if going through the list to find the correct kernel driver and matching GLX driver doesn't bother you have at it, but an ATI card would probably be a better / easier bet.
Regardless, if I'm not in the mood to build a box I think I'd trust Alienware for a gaming machine over anyone else out there.
I swear this isn't flamebait or a troll. I see this as the equivelant of buying a PowerMac instead of building the comprable machine yourself. Mod it to hell if you want, but the Ford team came in second overall in World Rally for 2001 and is poised for greatness in 2002 (Go Colin!!!)
Against computers there are definite ways to play them - look for a book called (by far my favorite book) Why You Lose At Chess (not that you do or that you need it) - for instance, against a human you can generally throw a monkey-wrench into your opponents good position (or at least the psyche of it) by advancing a pawn on the King side.
You don't have that option with machines. The only way to play it out is to play out your openning further than you normally do and not make emotional moves. Not to mention machines being extremely predictable.
As far as my rating goes, I don't play tourney often, actually, I rarely do - school gets in the way. Although it could be and looks like its going to be worse 'cause Chess is starting to get in the way of school again. Ooops.
Seriously, drop me an email so we can get together and playt some. I always look for new strong players.
I wouldn't say that Kasparov is a better player, but he is rated higher.
More details are at the site and at the FIDE's network site (Fédération Internationale des Échecs).
As far as this tournament is concerened, I welcome it entirely and enthusiastically. Finally there will be a way for the greatest chess programmers (in theory) to be under the "same roof" and possibly get together to swap secrets so that the mid-level bots on-line could actually dish out something other than four variations and stumble the rest of the way through.
And to any players on /. that are also on USCL drop me an email through my link and we'll see if we can get together for some games.
See you on board :o)
I've been with them from pretty much the beginning, 2 years, and while they started off rocky, they seem to have gotten they're stuff together. 768 / 128, which, by some standards, may not be all that great, it's always consistent.
Because of the positioning of the queens (Q) black has two more safe spots for pawns (P) to reside on. Safe being explained that there's a greater chance of protecting a P with other minor pieces - ie. other pawns - than black does. Because of this (and I forget the math to explain it) white goes first to even it out.
I'll look through my books for the math / averages.
If I were to bring out all my pawns one square at a time that would not only "just" develop 8 points (1 point per pawn (P), 3 - 3.5 due to preference per bishop (B), 3- 3.5 due to preference per knight (N), 5 per rook (R), 9 for the queen (Q) while the king (K) has no given value because the game is lost without it.) it would also give my opponent time (time = to amount of time given for development) to develop anywhere from 16 - 25 points for pieces. Not only that, but would appear to be even more amateurish, it would also block my Q and B's past the second rank completely and limit my N to two seemingly inconsequential squares behind my pawns (D2 / E2 given I'm playing white).
OTOH, while my seemingly lack of development is allowing my opponent to "take over the board" I am also given ample time to review the movements that my opponent makes and subsequently be in a better position to attack a weak line given the right time (time in development terms as well as actual minutes and seconds since this was a game of blitz). While it's not something I would suggest a novice do in competitive play (read: me) I can surely see how a GM, or higher in Fischer's case IMHO, would be able to capitalize it.
I would love to see the notation to see just what level of genius this was. IIRC, Short lost, or in his words, "was crushed" in all 6 games; that's (excuse the language) fucking huge!!! I have no idea as to whether or not it was Fischer playing but I have to say that it's a much more intriguing mystery to me than the Loch Ness Monster.