I can do little, but I hope I can help all viewpoints become / remain recognized. I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it (and be heard;).
Stay strong on your viewpoints, even in the face of the very liberal-oriented discussion on Slashdot. I fear your view is rarely delivered here, so do not lighten up!
Many people here would rather not take notice of conservative and/or right-wing views. Those people need to wake up and realize the hyprocrisy of their myopia.
UNLESS you are CmdrTaco, then you DO have the right to silence them. He can take his toys and go home if he wants, and I'm fine with that. Nice site, by the way, Taco.
Uh, OKay. So what's your point? The post isn't a troll and was incorrectly moderated as such.
I have no clue who is modding up or down the various arguments here, but it certainly would be interesting to know the opinions of Those Whose Ability To Moderate Shall Not Be Revoked...
You're not supposed to moderate arguments, you're supposed to moderate on quality. If a post is a troll, you moderate it accordingly. If a post is insightful, even if you don't agree with it, it likewise deserves to be moderated as such. If a person goes around silencing people because [s]he doesn't agree with them, they should not be moderators. And in any case, if you want to know they opnions of "Those Whose Ability To Moderate Shall Not Be Revoked", then they should post their opinions, and not moderate. If you disagree, reply, do not moderate. Period. That's how a discussion works. The following, "Person A speaks out a comment. Person B shoots them so they cannot speak the opinion" is NOT a discussion.
This thread may be the one which pushes me over the edge to ignore the comments of ACs.
I am a pro-choice advocate. Woman's body, woman's choice. There is nothing I have seen, read, or be taught that shows me abortion is wrong. I won't go into details because that's not the point.
The point is, this gentleman has made a very decent argument in favor of pro-life. There is nothing rude, offensive, or inappropriate about this posting. It's intelligent and well written.
Why the hell is he being negatively moderated?
This post is NOT a troll, you fools! Attention to moderators: just because YOU disagree with someone's ideas, DOES NOT give you the right to silence them. I am sure not everyone on/. is as pro-choice as I am. In fact, it's probably half. This post should be mod'ed up and up and up so that it gets read by everyone. If only half the posts on/. were this insightful.
But that won't stop assholes with mod points. Just note that you will be meta-moderated accordingly, and I am one of those who meta-moderates daily.
Well, the editors are being assholes again. I thought I should share this with all of you.
* 2002-05-16 05:57:50 Canada Legalizes Pot, US Being Stupid About It (articles,usa) (rejected) Not posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 16, @ 02:23a.m.
From the reefer-madness dept.
Lethyos writes, Well, we have lived long enough to see marijuana legalized on the North American continent.
What a great time to be alive! This story at canada.com reports that the Canadian parliament has lifted bans on pot. There are ev
en plans for the Canadian government to grow marijuana for medical uses. They state, "The Se
nate committee concludes there is no convincing evidence that smoking pot leads to using hard
er drugs." Needless to say, the DEA is not happy about it and the Bush administration is pla
nning to place trade restrictions on Canada for the move. So we're going to whack our friend
ly neighbor to the north with a big stick for doing both the right and smart thing, it seems.
Lucky for me, I'm going up there next week!:) At Slashdot, we're a bunch of fuckheads who don't post interesting and even historically important stories. We just beat off to hentai tentical rape!
Six of the seven slashdot editors are sitting around the flat one day when Katz rushes in and says, "Guess what guys, I've won a trip to see the Pope!" Everyone gets all excited and chants, "We finally get to ask him, we finally get to ask him."
The next day, they are standing in front of the Pope, Katz out in front of the other six. All the other six start pushing Katz and saying, "Go ahead, Katz, ask him, ask him!"
The Pope looks at Katz and asks, "Do you have a question to ask me, young man?"
Katz looks up shyly and says, "Well, yes."
The Pope tells him to go ahead and ask. Katz asks, "Well, do....do they have nuns in Alaska?"
The Pope replies, "Well, yes, I'm sure we have nuns in Alaska."
The others all keep nudging Katz and chanting, "Ask him the rest, Jon, ask him the rest!"
The Pope asks Katz if there's more to his question, and Jon continues, "Well, uh, do they have, uh, black nuns in Alaska?"
To which the Pope replies, "Well, my son, I think there must be a few black nuns in Alaska, yes."
Still not satisfied, the others keep saying, "Ask him the last part, Katz, ask him the last part!"
The Pope asks Katz, "Is there still more to your question?"
To which Katz replies, "Well, uh, yeah.....are there, uh, are there any midget black nuns in Alaska?"
The startled Pope replies, "Well, no, my son, I really don't think there are any midget black nuns in Alaska."
At this, John Katz turns all kinds of colors, and the others start laughing, and yelling, "Katz screwed a penguin, Katz screwed a penguin!"
In otherwords, you didn't understand it. The reason I can make this statement is that the Slashdot editors only make simple, unbiased claims when they have either no interest or no understanding of the subject matter. If the editor in question here had actually read the article and gotten a grasp of its "excellent explanation", I am certain we'd have a prediction about how this will lead to Lain-eque networks and hot-grits, all the while bitching about privacy and fairness in an area of quantum computers. Meanwhile, in another browser window, the editor is bitch-slapping whole threads and black listing users who disagree with them.
Don't worry, you're not alone. Quantum physics confuses everyone.
How much time do you spend on or at the toilet on any given day? 5-10 minutes tops? Some people take a really long time in the rest room, but it still does not even begin to stack up against the amount of time we spend at our computers.
Human beings are inherently dirty creatures. We can go through the whole day, doing almost no physical activity, and all the while, we're pumping out grease and perspiration. Meanwhile, we're going around touching door handles, money, and all sorts of other unsanitary surfaces. We then proceed to touch our keyboards and mice with these filthy hands. On top of that, many of us eat at our workstations, providing an ongoing food supply to whatever may be living on our input devices.
Now, think about the toilet. We spend very little time there. We never touch the seat. When we urinate, we're dispending a liquid that contains amonia and is actually steril. When we deficate, we're not very likely to get the contents on any surface except inside the bowl, where it is promply removed by about 5 liters per second of water.
Again, it comes as no surprise that computers are just outright dirty.:)
...that when the events transcribed in Revelations begin to occur, we will build giganitic, sky-scraper sized mechs called Evangelion. These mechs will allow us to combat Angels and bring us to a higher state of evolution, assuming of course that some little brat doesn't decide to wish us all to death.
Come on. This one is just too stupid. People sometimes get silly ideas like this in their head from taking entertainment too literally. (For example, everyone was certain that we'd be living in disk-shaped houses high on poles and flying to work every day after seeing The Jetsons. Now while some things have come true, most has not.) In Serial Experiments: Lain, the Wired was an analogy. A symbolic construct that represented a higher state of consciousness. The authors were in no way suggesting that the actual Net would be a place for souls to gather. This guy needs to watch Lain again and get a better clue.
I cannot even begin to count how many times I have wanted to do something along these lines. Keeping everything nice and separated. Instead, the only way to make this work is to include Foo.cpp in main.cpp, which is well, retarded. C++ needs some serious work with templates... so is something like this fixed? Or does it contain some abiguity that I am not aware of?
/* Foo.h */ template<class T> class Foo { public: Foo(void); void doSomething(void); T bar; };
This post is targeted towards people who know the internals of a Dell Inspiron. It's kind of hard to describe, but bear with me. Basically, you have the CPU under a thick metal plate (of what type, I am not sure). Between that is the compound, and then a copper plate with a copper pipe squeezed into it. This pipe then goes about 2-3 inches to the right where it is joined to a sink and fan.
I was having some severe overheating problems with my laptop (Dell Inspiroin 3800) for a while. I opened it up and discovered a less than ideal situation for moving the heat from the CPU's metal casing to the copper pipe that lead to the exhause (another sink with a fan on it).
Betwen the Cu pipe and the CPU's casing was a piece of fabric with what appeared to be Ti-oxide (generic, crappy thermal compound) on it. I had just recently bought a tube of Arctic Silver II at a computer show, and decided to try it out. After removing the wad of junk, I put a nice glob of AS2 on the CPU casing. I wanted to make sure there wa sufficient quantity to ensure full contact between the uneven (kind of bent) and poorly designed copper piece. When putting the assembly back together, I put the frabic wad on top of the copper plate and between a bracket that held the thing together (to apply more pressure between the CPU's metal casing and the Cu).
I managed to lower my CPU's temperature by about 5-15degF on average. I noticed when my fan was on, the air coming from the remotely located heatsink facility was a little warmer than before, indicating success.
Conclusion: your laptop probably has a rather crappy cooling solution. Go to a computer show, get some decent thermal compound, and do a little hacking. Just make sure to test your setup a lot to make sure you actually made an improvement or at least a lateral move.
...that nowhere in any of the existing StarWars movies (don't know about Episode II yet) does there appear a "marketing droid". I mean, how could George Lucas do without such a potentially important character! "Marketing droids" would be crutial to the development of the plot line... perhaps they would be responsible for funding the Evil Empire...
...that no where in any of the StarWars movies does there appear a "marketing droid." You would think that such a character would be central to the plot-line. Perhaps it would be responsible for helping fund the Rebel Alliance...
You state a problem that will not be encountered. The states are only trying to show that Windows is modular, such that not everything bundled with Windows must be installed (such as a media player that discourages use of RealPlayer, Quicktime, whatever). That does not necessarily mean that Microsoft cannot provide these components if the consumers want them. The beaf with MS is that they install everything on your system, whether you want it or not, and the presence of that software is what stifles competition. If MS are forced to change, it would be removing the "install everything" aspect of the installer, while shipping Windows with everything it has now.
So, if you are a developer and you're writing a package that depends on MSHTML, the installer could simply state that it needs the Windows CD (which anyone with a legal copy will have) to continue installation. Programs do this all the time today - it's very common. Especially Microsoft applications (Office upgrades for instance). Basically, everything needed to satisfy dependencies will be available to the user, just not installed by default on their system.
We're not talking about MS selling stripped down Windows, we're talking about MS selling a modular Windows. You've missed the point.
I have 50 karma points, so I need to burn some. Did you ever get picked on in high school for your name? Do you still get picked on for it? I seems to me that it must be difficult to get people to treat you seriously with a name that sounds like numerous, uhm, parts.
This link was provided by someone who replied to my post. For those of you who haven't notice, CNN pulled the original article and replaced it with a more Microsoft-friendly one. Total bullshit. I am sure MS offered them a chunk of cash to keep this on the down-low.
Is Microsoft paying people off to meddle with the news? I *was* reading the article a few moments ago, but accidently closed Mozilla. When I came back, I now see something about how RealOne is so wonderful only because of Windows features. Something fishy?
A) Didn't read the article. B) Completely missed the point. C) Is the goatse.cx guy. D) A & B E) All of the above.
I believe the correct answer is D, although arguably it could be E. Why am I bitching about CmdrTaco this time? Because of quotes like this:
"I'm not sure how I would feel about being forced into 1600x1200 all the time."
Really, how much of an idiot can this guy be? First of all, it's a huge screen. The whole point of a large display is to use really high resolution (ie 1600x1200). Things do not look unusably tiny at that resolution on 19" and higher monitors. Of course, if you have a monitor that size then lower resolutions are a total waste! If that's not his complaint, then he should have noticed that it is a "MultiSync" monitor. That means it can handle different frequencies and hence, different resolutions. So you're not stuck in 1600x1200 as Taco erroneously complains. The article gives the specs, stating that it can go from 640x480 up to 1600x1200.
Please... this is a news site for nerds. At the very least CmdrTaco could not say something so stupid that he sounds like his mommy bought him a 'puter for Christmas. "Why are the icons so small? I don't like that!"
I was hoping to celebrate two things on that day. Now I can only look forward to cheering the first year with my beloved. Life is so cruel! Damn you Debian for letting me down! *sobbing*
I think we all need to get CmdrTaco to impliment a post annotation system. Something like this was talked about back in the days of the Troll Post Investigation. We really need the capsity to go back and ammend posts!
A computer stores data by the arrangement of electrons in matter. Since the state space of Chess is huge (the number of atoms in the universe), it would take that many atoms to store the state space. A computer that can store the entire space would have to be the size of the universe (or insanely dense). It may be possible with quantum computers (T&&F==T||F;), but I can't begin to comment on that.
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I can do little, but I hope I can help all viewpoints become / remain recognized. I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it (and be heard ;).
Stay strong on your viewpoints, even in the face of the very liberal-oriented discussion on Slashdot. I fear your view is rarely delivered here, so do not lighten up!
Many people here would rather not take notice of conservative and/or right-wing views. Those people need to wake up and realize the hyprocrisy of their myopia.
:)
UNLESS you are CmdrTaco, then you DO have the right to silence them. He can take his toys and go home if he wants, and I'm fine with that. Nice site, by the way, Taco.
Uh, OKay. So what's your point? The post isn't a troll and was incorrectly moderated as such.
I have no clue who is modding up or down the various arguments here, but it certainly would be interesting to know the opinions of Those Whose Ability To Moderate Shall Not Be Revoked...
You're not supposed to moderate arguments, you're supposed to moderate on quality. If a post is a troll, you moderate it accordingly. If a post is insightful, even if you don't agree with it, it likewise deserves to be moderated as such. If a person goes around silencing people because [s]he doesn't agree with them, they should not be moderators. And in any case, if you want to know they opnions of "Those Whose Ability To Moderate Shall Not Be Revoked", then they should post their opinions, and not moderate. If you disagree, reply, do not moderate. Period. That's how a discussion works. The following, "Person A speaks out a comment. Person B shoots them so they cannot speak the opinion" is NOT a discussion.
This thread may be the one which pushes me over the edge to ignore the comments of ACs.
Who's posting AC?
I am a pro-choice advocate. Woman's body, woman's choice. There is nothing I have seen, read, or be taught that shows me abortion is wrong. I won't go into details because that's not the point.
/. is as pro-choice as I am. In fact, it's probably half. This post should be mod'ed up and up and up so that it gets read by everyone. If only half the posts on /. were this insightful.
The point is, this gentleman has made a very decent argument in favor of pro-life. There is nothing rude, offensive, or inappropriate about this posting. It's intelligent and well written.
Why the hell is he being negatively moderated?
This post is NOT a troll, you fools! Attention to moderators: just because YOU disagree with someone's ideas, DOES NOT give you the right to silence them. I am sure not everyone on
But that won't stop assholes with mod points. Just note that you will be meta-moderated accordingly, and I am one of those who meta-moderates daily.
Well, the editors are being assholes again. I thought I should share this with all of you.
:) At Slashdot, we're a bunch of fuckheads who don't post interesting and even historically important stories. We just beat off to hentai tentical rape!
* 2002-05-16 05:57:50 Canada Legalizes Pot, US Being Stupid About It (articles,usa) (rejected)
Not posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 16, @ 02:23a.m.
From the reefer-madness dept.
Lethyos writes, Well, we have lived long enough to see marijuana legalized on the North American continent. What a great time to be alive! This story at canada.com reports that the Canadian parliament has lifted bans on pot. There are ev en plans for the Canadian government to grow marijuana for medical uses. They state, "The Se nate committee concludes there is no convincing evidence that smoking pot leads to using hard er drugs." Needless to say, the DEA is not happy about it and the Bush administration is pla nning to place trade restrictions on Canada for the move. So we're going to whack our friend ly neighbor to the north with a big stick for doing both the right and smart thing, it seems. Lucky for me, I'm going up there next week!
Six of the seven slashdot editors are sitting around the flat one day when Katz rushes in and says, "Guess what guys, I've won a trip to see the Pope!" Everyone gets all excited and chants, "We finally get to ask him, we finally get to ask him."
The next day, they are standing in front of the Pope, Katz out in front of the other six. All the other six start pushing Katz and
saying, "Go ahead, Katz, ask him, ask him!"
The Pope looks at Katz and asks, "Do you have a question to ask me, young man?"
Katz looks up shyly and says, "Well, yes."
The Pope tells him to go ahead and ask. Katz asks, "Well, do....do they have nuns in Alaska?"
The Pope replies, "Well, yes, I'm sure we have nuns in Alaska."
The others all keep nudging Katz and chanting, "Ask him the rest, Jon, ask him the rest!"
The Pope asks Katz if there's more to his question, and Jon continues, "Well, uh, do they have, uh, black nuns in Alaska?"
To which the Pope replies, "Well, my son, I think there must be a few black nuns in Alaska, yes."
Still not satisfied, the others keep saying, "Ask him the last part, Katz, ask him the last part!"
The Pope asks Katz, "Is there still more to your question?"
To which Katz replies, "Well, uh, yeah.....are there, uh, are there any midget black nuns in Alaska?"
The startled Pope replies, "Well, no, my son, I really don't think there are any midget black nuns in Alaska."
At this, John Katz turns all kinds of colors, and the others start laughing, and yelling, "Katz screwed a penguin, Katz screwed a penguin!"
"An excellent explanation of a complex subject."
In otherwords, you didn't understand it. The reason I can make this statement is that the Slashdot editors only make simple, unbiased claims when they have either no interest or no understanding of the subject matter. If the editor in question here had actually read the article and gotten a grasp of its "excellent explanation", I am certain we'd have a prediction about how this will lead to Lain-eque networks and hot-grits, all the while bitching about privacy and fairness in an area of quantum computers. Meanwhile, in another browser window, the editor is bitch-slapping whole threads and black listing users who disagree with them.
Don't worry, you're not alone. Quantum physics confuses everyone.
How much time do you spend on or at the toilet on any given day? 5-10 minutes tops? Some people take a really long time in the rest room, but it still does not even begin to stack up against the amount of time we spend at our computers.
:)
Human beings are inherently dirty creatures. We can go through the whole day, doing almost no physical activity, and all the while, we're pumping out grease and perspiration. Meanwhile, we're going around touching door handles, money, and all sorts of other unsanitary surfaces. We then proceed to touch our keyboards and mice with these filthy hands. On top of that, many of us eat at our workstations, providing an ongoing food supply to whatever may be living on our input devices.
Now, think about the toilet. We spend very little time there. We never touch the seat. When we urinate, we're dispending a liquid that contains amonia and is actually steril. When we deficate, we're not very likely to get the contents on any surface except inside the bowl, where it is promply removed by about 5 liters per second of water.
Again, it comes as no surprise that computers are just outright dirty.
Scratch that. Both the article's author and the /. editors need to get clues. What a bunch of tards.
The editors don't have the clue, not the author of the article this story links to. Sorry.
...that when the events transcribed in Revelations begin to occur, we will build giganitic, sky-scraper sized mechs called Evangelion. These mechs will allow us to combat Angels and bring us to a higher state of evolution, assuming of course that some little brat doesn't decide to wish us all to death.
Come on. This one is just too stupid. People sometimes get silly ideas like this in their head from taking entertainment too literally. (For example, everyone was certain that we'd be living in disk-shaped houses high on poles and flying to work every day after seeing The Jetsons. Now while some things have come true, most has not.) In Serial Experiments: Lain, the Wired was an analogy. A symbolic construct that represented a higher state of consciousness. The authors were in no way suggesting that the actual Net would be a place for souls to gather. This guy needs to watch Lain again and get a better clue.
I cannot even begin to count how many times I have wanted to do something along these lines. Keeping everything nice and separated. Instead, the only way to make this work is to include Foo.cpp in main.cpp, which is well, retarded. C++ needs some serious work with templates... so is something like this fixed? Or does it contain some abiguity that I am not aware of?
/* Do magic here. */ } /* Do magic here. */ }
/* Foo.h */
template<class T>
class Foo {
public:
Foo(void);
void doSomething(void);
T bar;
};
/* Foo.cpp */
#include"Foo.h"
template<class T>
Foo<T>::Foo(void) {
template<class T>
void Foo<T>::doSomething(void) {
/* main.cpp */
#include"Foo.h"
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
Foo<int> *foo;
foo=new Foo<int>();
foo->doSomething();
}
This post is targeted towards people who know the internals of a Dell Inspiron. It's kind of hard to describe, but bear with me. Basically, you have the CPU under a thick metal plate (of what type, I am not sure). Between that is the compound, and then a copper plate with a copper pipe squeezed into it. This pipe then goes about 2-3 inches to the right where it is joined to a sink and fan.
I was having some severe overheating problems with my laptop (Dell Inspiroin 3800) for a while. I opened it up and discovered a less than ideal situation for moving the heat from the CPU's metal casing to the copper pipe that lead to the exhause (another sink with a fan on it).
Betwen the Cu pipe and the CPU's casing was a piece of fabric with what appeared to be Ti-oxide (generic, crappy thermal compound) on it. I had just recently bought a tube of Arctic Silver II at a computer show, and decided to try it out. After removing the wad of junk, I put a nice glob of AS2 on the CPU casing. I wanted to make sure there wa sufficient quantity to ensure full contact between the uneven (kind of bent) and poorly designed copper piece. When putting the assembly back together, I put the frabic wad on top of the copper plate and between a bracket that held the thing together (to apply more pressure between the CPU's metal casing and the Cu).
I managed to lower my CPU's temperature by about 5-15degF on average. I noticed when my fan was on, the air coming from the remotely located heatsink facility was a little warmer than before, indicating success.
Conclusion: your laptop probably has a rather crappy cooling solution. Go to a computer show, get some decent thermal compound, and do a little hacking. Just make sure to test your setup a lot to make sure you actually made an improvement or at least a lateral move.
"This [Canadian] beer sucks!"
*crowd goes silent*
...that nowhere in any of the existing StarWars movies (don't know about Episode II yet) does there appear a "marketing droid". I mean, how could George Lucas do without such a potentially important character! "Marketing droids" would be crutial to the development of the plot line... perhaps they would be responsible for funding the Evil Empire...
...that no where in any of the StarWars movies does there appear a "marketing droid." You would think that such a character would be central to the plot-line. Perhaps it would be responsible for helping fund the Rebel Alliance...
Couldn't resist. :)
You state a problem that will not be encountered. The states are only trying to show that Windows is modular, such that not everything bundled with Windows must be installed (such as a media player that discourages use of RealPlayer, Quicktime, whatever). That does not necessarily mean that Microsoft cannot provide these components if the consumers want them. The beaf with MS is that they install everything on your system, whether you want it or not, and the presence of that software is what stifles competition. If MS are forced to change, it would be removing the "install everything" aspect of the installer, while shipping Windows with everything it has now.
So, if you are a developer and you're writing a package that depends on MSHTML, the installer could simply state that it needs the Windows CD (which anyone with a legal copy will have) to continue installation. Programs do this all the time today - it's very common. Especially Microsoft applications (Office upgrades for instance). Basically, everything needed to satisfy dependencies will be available to the user, just not installed by default on their system.
We're not talking about MS selling stripped down Windows, we're talking about MS selling a modular Windows. You've missed the point.
I have 50 karma points, so I need to burn some. Did you ever get picked on in high school for your name? Do you still get picked on for it? I seems to me that it must be difficult to get people to treat you seriously with a name that sounds like numerous, uhm, parts.
Bug fixes?
This link was provided by someone who replied to my post. For those of you who haven't notice, CNN pulled the original article and replaced it with a more Microsoft-friendly one. Total bullshit. I am sure MS offered them a chunk of cash to keep this on the down-low.
. html
Go grab it here: http://sage.che.pitt.edu/~harrold/tmp/73B9A1D4d01
Is Microsoft paying people off to meddle with the news? I *was* reading the article a few moments ago, but accidently closed Mozilla. When I came back, I now see something about how RealOne is so wonderful only because of Windows features. Something fishy?
A) Didn't read the article.
B) Completely missed the point.
C) Is the goatse.cx guy.
D) A & B
E) All of the above.
I believe the correct answer is D, although arguably it could be E. Why am I bitching about CmdrTaco this time? Because of quotes like this:
"I'm not sure how I would feel about being forced into 1600x1200 all the time."
Really, how much of an idiot can this guy be? First of all, it's a huge screen. The whole point of a large display is to use really high resolution (ie 1600x1200). Things do not look unusably tiny at that resolution on 19" and higher monitors. Of course, if you have a monitor that size then lower resolutions are a total waste! If that's not his complaint, then he should have noticed that it is a "MultiSync" monitor. That means it can handle different frequencies and hence, different resolutions. So you're not stuck in 1600x1200 as Taco erroneously complains. The article gives the specs, stating that it can go from 640x480 up to 1600x1200.
Please... this is a news site for nerds. At the very least CmdrTaco could not say something so stupid that he sounds like his mommy bought him a 'puter for Christmas. "Why are the icons so small? I don't like that!"
I was hoping to celebrate two things on that day. Now I can only look forward to cheering the first year with my beloved. Life is so cruel! Damn you Debian for letting me down! *sobbing*
j/k
I think we all need to get CmdrTaco to impliment a post annotation system. Something like this was talked about back in the days of the Troll Post Investigation. We really need the capsity to go back and ammend posts!
A computer stores data by the arrangement of electrons in matter. Since the state space of Chess is huge (the number of atoms in the universe), it would take that many atoms to store the state space. A computer that can store the entire space would have to be the size of the universe (or insanely dense). It may be possible with quantum computers (T&&F==T||F ;), but I can't begin to comment on that.