At first, the notion of testing for drugs in chess seems foolish, but not so after a second look.
If they don't exist now, someone, somewhere will develop a drug that will improve your chess game. How do you then impliment drug testing? You could go 2 or 3 sets of olympics before the arguments are over. By then, chess would be as much of a joke as weight lifting.
Another notion is whether chess be in the olympics. I believe that it was previously stated that the olympics were origionally to display skill in military arts. And what are they now? Is hockey any more martial than chess? At least in chess, you're eliminating the opposition. (though as a Canadian, I'd hate to see hockey removed from the games). And then there's synchronised swimming (ew)
ME also has "compressed folders." It treats the zip file as a folder.
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In all likelyhood, the more you 'compress' the deeper into pi you go.
123 is found at 1924
1924 is found at 28963
28963 is found at 115863
115863 is found at 82961
82961 is found at 50461
50461 is found at 429002
429002 is found at 1591467
1591467 is found at 8184801
8184801 is found at 10840503
10840503 is found at 17594126
5 insightful? Excuse me? Somehow the mods thought it was important to note that some people want unneeded feeback from their devices?
Seriously. Remember the first generation of computer keyoards? All nice and quiet. But people didnt like using them. No clickity clickity like their old typewriter. That lead to the beast also known as the IBM Model M keyboard. Heavy and loud. Eventually keyboards got quiet. But the problem keeps popping up. My digital camera makes a shutter noise when I take a picture. A feature I dont want, but had to pay for.
I'll tell you what. If you want, let the manufacturers make quiet drives. I'll write a utility for you that makes noise when your drive is being accessed, and you can pay me for it. That way we can both be happy.
When I first heard of stealth planes, and saw those early pictures of sleek black wedges, I thought to myself, "How foolish is that?"
It was the cold war, and technology like this was more to say that we're more danerous (mostly for the sake of the general public), and to remind the "enemy" that they were inferior.
If I had my way, I'd have built vast runways, with heavily fortified hangars, and announced that I had planes that were silent, as well as invisable to radar, ir, and the naked eye.
With the money I would have saved, I could hire more interns.
Another thing that should be noted are the rather sophisticated 'recruitment' methods.
As has been mention in this and a hundred other replies, in Japan, there is a different, stronger form of company loyalty than exists in NorthAm. In NorthAm, a headhunter offers you money, in various forms (raises, car, travel expenses, paid vacations), and maybe a little prestige in the form of a title.
It doesn't work that way in Japan. Japanese headhnters are experts at what they do, using all the tools that the human psyche allow. They specialise in finding out what will work for you. If that happens to be money, then it's easy. Maybe is a new title, with a home closer to somewhere important to you. Perhaps a guarantee of work for your children. If it happens to be thinly veiled threats, they can get away with it, because it would cost you a great deal of pride to say that you were speakin with a headhunter, even though it would be very rude to refuse him a conversation.
see the problems? Japan is not NorthAm. It can be as much for the protection of the staff as the company.
... of this kind of legislation? I think I see 3 possible motives.
1. Genuine concern over how and why young people are commiting such violent actions.
2. A ploy to gather support and popularity by pandering to the masses.
3. One of many steps leading up to some other method of resticting freedom, to what purpose I cannot guess.
I'm not going to pick one, as I suppose it's all 3, and a hundred more. And that's what makes me look to the south (I'm in Canada) and wonder how long before it moves up here (it being the paranoia). Who am I kidding. It's here.
Microsoft is a business, and never was a truer word spoken.
And not only are they a near monopoly, but they have become one as a result of the buying patterns of the masses, and the fact that most competitive products were indeed quite poor during the early stages of Windows (as far as ease of use)
I'm sure it's been said before, but the growth of the PC has been in direct relationship with the growth of Windows, and related M$ products. It made the PC accessable, and as a result the PC became more available. The growth of M$ has been the growth of the PC
We all know it's not a better product, but it's growth and that of the PC are so interwoven that it will take time to seperate them. Or money. Lots of money. And no single company can raise the capitol to dethrone the king, so we're back to the first choice, time.
To defeat (or effectively compete) with M$, will take a business plan based on slow, steady business growth, focussing on strengths over M$'s weaknesses. The sudden growth of the Linux dist markets got them a little too eager, and they over-reached.
A new plan is needed, and sadly, one of these dists needs to be run like a ruthless company, something we nerds don't take well too. Either that or we have to settle for a smaller piece of the market.
Any how, I live for the day I can shout, "The king is dead, long live the king!"
I'm sure at least some of you have done over the phone tech-support (even a litle).
Ever have trouble getting someone to right-click and drag? Try this:
"OK, now close your current window by holding down the right and middle mouse button, while making a square, clockwise, aterting from the top left corner. Now, open a new konsole by holding down the right mouse button, and then moving right a short distance, then down, then right for a short distance, then up."
DarkWinter, part-time gesture phone support expert, fulltime psychotic.
To a degree, this is about research, but for the most part, the media (and therefore the general populace) will see it as Slashdot portays it, a bullet to save the Earth. Something in here makes me think of a child in a large family looking for some attention.
That does make some sense though. I think we all would agree that NASA has had some bad luck lately, and there isn't alot of popular support for the space program in the US right now, AFAIK. "Blowing stuff up" is more interesting to the average American when compared with research. Broadcasting the collision could make for a good media event, if done better than the J. Glen launch or the Mars landing. Potentially more... spectacular. I know I'll be watching.
that I keep seeing asked is why would anyone cheat. There's another assumed question of why this article is important: Is distributed computing worthwhile when opened to the masses?
Open distributed computing good:
Much CPU idle-time devoted to some useful(?) endeavor, as well as more minds working to build a better program (better being one that is more efficient, more user-friendly, prettier, whatever)
Open distributed computing bad:
Due to the nature of man, someone's going to try to mess up the data, thus forcing everything to be checked and cross-referenced, reducing overall effectiveness.
Since these problems exist, the next question is, "Is open distributed computing worth it?" I don't know how much the SETI@Home project costs, but I can't imagine it's cheap. What's to be gained?
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If they don't exist now, someone, somewhere will develop a drug that will improve your chess game. How do you then impliment drug testing? You could go 2 or 3 sets of olympics before the arguments are over. By then, chess would be as much of a joke as weight lifting.
Another notion is whether chess be in the olympics. I believe that it was previously stated that the olympics were origionally to display skill in military arts. And what are they now? Is hockey any more martial than chess? At least in chess, you're eliminating the opposition. (though as a Canadian, I'd hate to see hockey removed from the games). And then there's synchronised swimming (ew)
ME also has "compressed folders." It treats the zip file as a folder.
123 is found at 1924
1924 is found at 28963
28963 is found at 115863
115863 is found at 82961
82961 is found at 50461
50461 is found at 429002
429002 is found at 1591467
1591467 is found at 8184801
8184801 is found at 10840503
10840503 is found at 17594126
and so on. Not very efficient so far.
How about "-1 Redundant" ?
I'm sorry man, Bobby is a freak. George may not be the best host, but our British friend tries WAY to hard.
Seriously. Remember the first generation of computer keyoards? All nice and quiet. But people didnt like using them. No clickity clickity like their old typewriter. That lead to the beast also known as the IBM Model M keyboard. Heavy and loud. Eventually keyboards got quiet. But the problem keeps popping up. My digital camera makes a shutter noise when I take a picture. A feature I dont want, but had to pay for.
I'll tell you what. If you want, let the manufacturers make quiet drives. I'll write a utility for you that makes noise when your drive is being accessed, and you can pay me for it. That way we can both be happy.
Geez, I'm crusty today
It was the cold war, and technology like this was more to say that we're more danerous (mostly for the sake of the general public), and to remind the "enemy" that they were inferior.
If I had my way, I'd have built vast runways, with heavily fortified hangars, and announced that I had planes that were silent, as well as invisable to radar, ir, and the naked eye.
With the money I would have saved, I could hire more interns.
As has been mention in this and a hundred other replies, in Japan, there is a different, stronger form of company loyalty than exists in NorthAm. In NorthAm, a headhunter offers you money, in various forms (raises, car, travel expenses, paid vacations), and maybe a little prestige in the form of a title.
It doesn't work that way in Japan. Japanese headhnters are experts at what they do, using all the tools that the human psyche allow. They specialise in finding out what will work for you. If that happens to be money, then it's easy. Maybe is a new title, with a home closer to somewhere important to you. Perhaps a guarantee of work for your children. If it happens to be thinly veiled threats, they can get away with it, because it would cost you a great deal of pride to say that you were speakin with a headhunter, even though it would be very rude to refuse him a conversation.
see the problems? Japan is not NorthAm. It can be as much for the protection of the staff as the company.
1. Genuine concern over how and why young people are commiting such violent actions.
2. A ploy to gather support and popularity by pandering to the masses.
3. One of many steps leading up to some other method of resticting freedom, to what purpose I cannot guess.
I'm not going to pick one, as I suppose it's all 3, and a hundred more. And that's what makes me look to the south (I'm in Canada) and wonder how long before it moves up here (it being the paranoia). Who am I kidding. It's here.
dunno. seems alot like a sweeping generalization.
"The Internet is now the backbone of most computing"? Seriously. Think about that statement.
And not only are they a near monopoly, but they have become one as a result of the buying patterns of the masses, and the fact that most competitive products were indeed quite poor during the early stages of Windows (as far as ease of use)
I'm sure it's been said before, but the growth of the PC has been in direct relationship with the growth of Windows, and related M$ products. It made the PC accessable, and as a result the PC became more available. The growth of M$ has been the growth of the PC
We all know it's not a better product, but it's growth and that of the PC are so interwoven that it will take time to seperate them. Or money. Lots of money. And no single company can raise the capitol to dethrone the king, so we're back to the first choice, time.
To defeat (or effectively compete) with M$, will take a business plan based on slow, steady business growth, focussing on strengths over M$'s weaknesses. The sudden growth of the Linux dist markets got them a little too eager, and they over-reached.
A new plan is needed, and sadly, one of these dists needs to be run like a ruthless company, something we nerds don't take well too. Either that or we have to settle for a smaller piece of the market.
Any how, I live for the day I can shout, "The king is dead, long live the king!"
Ever have trouble getting someone to right-click and drag? Try this:
"OK, now close your current window by holding down the right and middle mouse button, while making a square, clockwise, aterting from the top left corner. Now, open a new konsole by holding down the right mouse button, and then moving right a short distance, then down, then right for a short distance, then up."
DarkWinter, part-time gesture phone support expert, fulltime psychotic.
hmmm, not quite annoying enough... maybe Bob Sagat if he were shorter... or maybe Bobcat Goldthwait, hmmmm?
That does make some sense though. I think we all would agree that NASA has had some bad luck lately, and there isn't alot of popular support for the space program in the US right now, AFAIK. "Blowing stuff up" is more interesting to the average American when compared with research. Broadcasting the collision could make for a good media event, if done better than the J. Glen launch or the Mars landing. Potentially more... spectacular. I know I'll be watching.
- Open distributed computing good:
Much CPU idle-time devoted to some useful(?) endeavor, as well as more minds working to build a better program (better being one that is more efficient, more user-friendly, prettier, whatever)- Open distributed computing bad:
Due to the nature of man, someone's going to try to mess up the data, thus forcing everything to be checked and cross-referenced, reducing overall effectiveness.Since these problems exist, the next question is, "Is open distributed computing worth it?" I don't know how much the SETI@Home project costs, but I can't imagine it's cheap. What's to be gained?