When I was in high school we travelled to another school for a match. They had cheerleaders. Of course they weren't actually allowed to cheer or anything, but they did sit around holding their pompoms, so for that day at least, it was a sport as far as I was concerned.:-)
You can run Shredder on an Ipad. They advertise grandmaster-level play. On an Ipad.
When I was playing competitively (a long time ago) my rating was a little over 2200. Shredder on the iPad just kicks my ass and makes me looks silly. I've got to dial it down to about 2000 to give it a good game.
It's about the fact that every chessgame in the world that can beat me (and there are heaps of them) use databases.
That's not how it works. The computer is not simply looking up moves. It does very clever calculations. Databases are used for the openings and some endings. Human players also memorize openings and endings.
That's idiotic. You think it's *less* obvious that he make goofy eye contact with a teammate each move rather than that person simply sitting at some table? The pace of play is slow. It's not like he'd be hopping up and down. He would sit, look at a board or something, then get up and mill around for five or ten minutes, then find a seat at another table. The chances of somebody making a connection is pretty small. But looking at your teammate before each move?
For a posting about cheating at chess you certainly never thought things through.
Doing this gives Blackberry devices a chance to compete on merit instead of on how many apps they have.
What merits? The android apps run in what amounts to an emulator. And they have to be repackaged to do so. And no Honeycomb apps. (You know, those apps that are actually designed for a tablet.) They are only now releasing the "real" SDK, so native apps are a long way off. I can't imagine who besides a BB lover would want to buy one now.
That's fine, but what sane person would return a machine for refund, and NOT take the time to wipe their divorce papers and tax forms off the machine before doing so?
Maybe the spouse got the laptop as part of the divorce and returned it, not knowing its contents.
I'm not saying this directly applies to the GCS sitting next to you, but It's a funny thing about that kind of information. It tends to be given a lot of weight, but picture the reverse - one of your knucklehead friends (we all have them) goes traveling and while in a foreign country starts "explaining" to people what it's like in the US. Well you know this guy - his views are crazy, and he's full of "facts" that don't really hold. And yet these people talking to him will tend to think "He's from the US, so of course he really knows what's going on."
What's up with the two freshly-made accounts trying to put positive spin on Microsoft? If you're getting paid to do it you ought to put a disclaimer in your sig.
Or it could be that Nokia was going to go with WP7 anyway, but realized Microsoft's desperation and simply out-negotiated them. Nokia has become extremely bloated. Unbelievably, their R&D budget is actually higher than Apple's *entire* R&D budget. It's an entrenched bureaucratic mess. One way to get that absurd cost under control would be to bring in an outside OS. That would enable them, over time, to eliminate a large portion of that cost. It's almost like union-busting. Only an outside CEO could do it, and it's a desperate move, but Nokia as it was had no chance. They were going to fail.
I'm cynical enough to think that this is *not* the case, and that it's actually just corporate shenanigans as usual, but there's a possibility that this is what's happening.
Is Evans-Pritchard some sort of authority? It seems like he is a reporter and author of biographies. If so, I don't see the point of quoting him on the subject.
I'm asking this as a real question; I don't know the answer.
asically counteracts any argument of "openness" that Android had going for it in the first place.
Android is not open for you, it's open for the manufacturers. You get whatever they give you. If they don't want to update it then hey, screw you. The fact you can *manage* to circumvent their fucking you over doesn't make it open.
That happens in the real world too. I did some work for a company that helps low-income single parents. It was not uncommon for incoming emails to be tagged with "sent from my iPhone," which essentially meant they were spending about a month's pay per year to have one.
On American Idol this season there's one contestant that they showed scrubbing toilets in her real job. Then when she called her mother she did it on her iPhone.
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When I was in high school we travelled to another school for a match. They had cheerleaders. Of course they weren't actually allowed to cheer or anything, but they did sit around holding their pompoms, so for that day at least, it was a sport as far as I was concerned. :-)
When I was playing competitively (a long time ago) my rating was a little over 2200. Shredder on the iPad just kicks my ass and makes me looks silly. I've got to dial it down to about 2000 to give it a good game.
Also, your contention that it would be a "breeze" is a bit of an underestimation of the problem.
That is exactly how the entire middle game is played. There is no middle game database. It's pure calculation. And computers are *very* good at it.
That's not how it works. The computer is not simply looking up moves. It does very clever calculations. Databases are used for the openings and some endings. Human players also memorize openings and endings.
That's idiotic. You think it's *less* obvious that he make goofy eye contact with a teammate each move rather than that person simply sitting at some table? The pace of play is slow. It's not like he'd be hopping up and down. He would sit, look at a board or something, then get up and mill around for five or ten minutes, then find a seat at another table. The chances of somebody making a connection is pretty small. But looking at your teammate before each move?
For a posting about cheating at chess you certainly never thought things through.
What merits? The android apps run in what amounts to an emulator. And they have to be repackaged to do so. And no Honeycomb apps. (You know, those apps that are actually designed for a tablet.) They are only now releasing the "real" SDK, so native apps are a long way off. I can't imagine who besides a BB lover would want to buy one now.
He was saying that Microsoft is really worth 317B, but Ballmer is -100B, and apple only 168B, but +150B for the turtleneck.
Yeah I know. I can't stop laughing either.
Maybe the spouse got the laptop as part of the divorce and returned it, not knowing its contents.
I'm not saying this directly applies to the GCS sitting next to you, but It's a funny thing about that kind of information. It tends to be given a lot of weight, but picture the reverse - one of your knucklehead friends (we all have them) goes traveling and while in a foreign country starts "explaining" to people what it's like in the US. Well you know this guy - his views are crazy, and he's full of "facts" that don't really hold. And yet these people talking to him will tend to think "He's from the US, so of course he really knows what's going on."
Very nice.
So are you getting paid to do it?
Here's something from that page that's a bit of an understatement:
Relationship Status: It's complicated.
Why does he need a separate account? He could be subscribed with devco. (The indicator is optional. Subscribers can opt to not have it appear.)
I think you're supposed to clean it afterwards.
All peoples are filled with superstitions. Just not always the same ones. The Chinese have oodles of 'em.
I don't follow the logic. Seems almost any time someone is giving an estimate qualified with "probably," they don't know the actual answer.
I knew the Japanese had some clever shopping inventions, but wow, telekinesis!
I have mod points, but there's no "-1, space-time continuum disruptive" option. At least not in 2011.
I'm cynical enough to think that this is *not* the case, and that it's actually just corporate shenanigans as usual, but there's a possibility that this is what's happening.
Hey, the first rule of the pompatus of love is that you don't speak of the pompatus of love. Or at least it should be.
Not to mention conjugation.
I'm asking this as a real question; I don't know the answer.
Android is not open for you, it's open for the manufacturers. You get whatever they give you. If they don't want to update it then hey, screw you. The fact you can *manage* to circumvent their fucking you over doesn't make it open.
That happens in the real world too. I did some work for a company that helps low-income single parents. It was not uncommon for incoming emails to be tagged with "sent from my iPhone," which essentially meant they were spending about a month's pay per year to have one.
On American Idol this season there's one contestant that they showed scrubbing toilets in her real job. Then when she called her mother she did it on her iPhone.