He specializes in games and claims that they do damage to kids. Unfortunately he is very flamboyant about his claims and he attracts a lot of press for his outlandish claims. A quick look online will give you a flavour of the way he has been operating.
but I've had Consider Phlebas and Player of Games on order with Amazon waiting for their US (re)issues for the past few months
Why not order the books you want from Amazon's UK store? I can heartily recommend both Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games. Use of Weapons is quite shocking with a couple of quite deranged twists. I also really enjoyed Look to Windward, which has a very sad and bittersweet quality to it - the more so having read Consider Phlebas.
I thought it was a bad deal because I hadn't understood that there is an alternative to buy the tracks outright. I hadn't understood what your deal was offering you.
For $15/month, I can download all the music I want. If I stop paying, the music will stop working after 3 months. For some people that's unacceptable, but for the price of a single CD, I think it's a damn good deal.
Is this for real? So you have to pay $15 per month for the rest of your life if you want to keep listening to the music you have bought? Am I misunderstanding what you said? Surely that's the worst deal of all time isn't it?
I liked how he would come out of obscurity to beat whomever was the current Grandmaster, then disappear again.
He came out of obscurity once, in 1992, to play Boris Spassky. Obviously Spassky was a grandmaster (once you've earned the title you don't lose it) but he wasn't "the" grandmaster (whatever that might mean - did you mean "world champion"?). Spassky was not a particularly strong GM by 1992 (at least by elite chess standards). There is no compelling reason to believe that Fischer was the best player ever - it's certainly possible but not "probable" by any definition which includes the Elo scale.
My approach to evaluating people is simple: I give them real problems to solve.
That doesn't sound very simple to me! What sort of problems do you give to candidates? There are lots of different kinds and some people can do some kinds of problem easily but may struggle on other kinds of problem. How can you be sure that you don't just hire good programmers who are good at the same things that you are good at?
I think that 14% reflects the number of new PCs. I suspect that the number of people who have actually upgraded is miniscule and that is the difference between the stats for the first 11 months of XP and the first 11 months of Vista. Inevitably the number of Vista installations will trend upwards because it's hard to buy a PC with XP on it these days.
From Microsoft's point of view it doesn't really matter if people don't upgrade from XP to Vista because they are guaranteed sales of Vista with new PC purchases. So it doesn't matter too much if Vista is a bit of a mess at the moment - they will get their sales anyway because of their domination of retail OS installations. Presumably they intend to get round to fixing Vista in time but it doesn't really matter if they take their time over it - most purchasers realistically don't have much choice about using MS stuff because they wouldn't want to replace the operating system on their PCs.
Why don't you read the article? The government is not paying for this - they are allowing some commercial outfit to put the receiving system on an uninhabited island. The article doesn't go into it, but I suspect that the company is paying the government. The idea is not to generate electricity for anyone - this setup is to test safety.
I know of people in the UK who have bought Wiis from Amazon in Germany or in France - there doesn't seem to be any problem with shipping to the UK. It's in stock now (ie 17:08 GMT on 29th November 2007) at Amazon.de. "Verfügbarkeit: Auf Lager." Means, "Availability: In Stock". Just at the moment it is out of stock at the French Amazon store.
You don't need to speculate about what the paper says. It's linked right in the article summary! Have a quick scan to see how she has derived her data.
Levitt's book is cited in the first paragraph of the paper, which is very interesting, but rather hard to understand on a (very) brief reading. Essentially, she says that lead contributes 56% to the drop in crime, while the availability of abortions contributes 29%.
It was a breach of trust. They told their customers that they could be notified of a patch but not have it automatically installed and then they went ahead and automatically installed a patch, even for those customers who wanted to be notified but not have it installed. I'm not sure why you're trying to continue this argument.
I didn't say that every company got an update they didn't want. I said that "Companies that didn't want automatic updates from MS had an automatic update installed.". That doesn't imply all companies, at least where I come from.
I didn't say that everyone got the update. Even if it's only a few companies or people who got an unrequested update, it's still a breach of trust, surely?
Which bit of what I said was not true? There are people (companies or individuals) who told MS not to install patches without asking and MS went ahead and installed a patch without asking. Surely that's a breach of trust?
I think you're nit-picking here. If I say, "do not install stuff on my computer unless you ask me if it's OK", it's a breach of trust if something is installed without me being asked.
I don't think you understand the issue here. The issue is that MS users who chose not to get automatic updates got an automatic update anyway. This is a matter of trust. I don't know why you are talking about NDAs. Companies that didn't want automatic updates from MS had an automatic update installed. NDAs are neither here nor there. I also don't understand the relevance of Linux to this. It's not a matter of what was in the update. It's the fact that it was installed automatically despite the fact that users had expressed a preference not to install it automatically.
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Besides that, other board games-playing computer programs do not get their strength from an exhaustive search, but from a large database of previous games. In fact, even world champions of chess do not think ahead more than 5 or 6 turns.
I don't know where you're getting this information, but you are dead wrong. To take chess as example, strong computers always have an opening book but that's only used during the opening of the game. As for the "5 or 6 turns" comment, that makes no sense at all. Even if by "turn" you mean the technical term "move" (ie one ply for white and one for ply for black), modern chess programs search far deeper than 12 plies. The world champion these days would be searching > 15 plies at World Championship time controls.
Sadly, you will have to be running Windows if you want to update the internal environment. From the Phoronix article:
This SplashTop Browser also includes Adobe's Linux Flash plug-in, so web-sites depending upon Flash will work out of the box. ASUS intends to issue free updates to Express Gate for the P5E3 Deluxe from their website in order to update the browser and enable any additional functionality or new programs. To update Express Gate though you will need to be running Windows on the hard drive in order to run the ASUS utility. The SplashTop Browser we were running was their Community Preview v0.9.0.1 edition.
I think this is a shame (to put it mildly). Hopefully the specifications for the update process will be published so that a Linux solution can be produced.
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I presume Apple maintain support for 10.5.x for some time yet?
He specializes in games and claims that they do damage to kids. Unfortunately he is very flamboyant about his claims and he attracts a lot of press for his outlandish claims. A quick look online will give you a flavour of the way he has been operating.
Most PCs come with Vista by default (it is a bit of a hassle to buy without) so new PCs are sellng well.
Norway is not a member of the EU.
Why not order the books you want from Amazon's UK store? I can heartily recommend both Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games. Use of Weapons is quite shocking with a couple of quite deranged twists. I also really enjoyed Look to Windward, which has a very sad and bittersweet quality to it - the more so having read Consider Phlebas.
I thought it was a bad deal because I hadn't understood that there is an alternative to buy the tracks outright. I hadn't understood what your deal was offering you.
Is this for real? So you have to pay $15 per month for the rest of your life if you want to keep listening to the music you have bought? Am I misunderstanding what you said? Surely that's the worst deal of all time isn't it?
He came out of obscurity once, in 1992, to play Boris Spassky. Obviously Spassky was a grandmaster (once you've earned the title you don't lose it) but he wasn't "the" grandmaster (whatever that might mean - did you mean "world champion"?). Spassky was not a particularly strong GM by 1992 (at least by elite chess standards). There is no compelling reason to believe that Fischer was the best player ever - it's certainly possible but not "probable" by any definition which includes the Elo scale.
That doesn't sound very simple to me! What sort of problems do you give to candidates? There are lots of different kinds and some people can do some kinds of problem easily but may struggle on other kinds of problem. How can you be sure that you don't just hire good programmers who are good at the same things that you are good at?
I think that 14% reflects the number of new PCs. I suspect that the number of people who have actually upgraded is miniscule and that is the difference between the stats for the first 11 months of XP and the first 11 months of Vista. Inevitably the number of Vista installations will trend upwards because it's hard to buy a PC with XP on it these days.
From Microsoft's point of view it doesn't really matter if people don't upgrade from XP to Vista because they are guaranteed sales of Vista with new PC purchases. So it doesn't matter too much if Vista is a bit of a mess at the moment - they will get their sales anyway because of their domination of retail OS installations. Presumably they intend to get round to fixing Vista in time but it doesn't really matter if they take their time over it - most purchasers realistically don't have much choice about using MS stuff because they wouldn't want to replace the operating system on their PCs.
I think you're just getting older!
Why don't you read the article? The government is not paying for this - they are allowing some commercial outfit to put the receiving system on an uninhabited island. The article doesn't go into it, but I suspect that the company is paying the government. The idea is not to generate electricity for anyone - this setup is to test safety.
I mean, you can't have your stuff taken away just because somebody accuses you of some crime, can you?
I know of people in the UK who have bought Wiis from Amazon in Germany or in France - there doesn't seem to be any problem with shipping to the UK. It's in stock now (ie 17:08 GMT on 29th November 2007) at Amazon.de. "Verfügbarkeit: Auf Lager." Means, "Availability: In Stock". Just at the moment it is out of stock at the French Amazon store.
There is a report on engadget that ASUS has uploaded some source code for the Asus_ACPI module.
You don't need to speculate about what the paper says. It's linked right in the article summary! Have a quick scan to see how she has derived her data.
Levitt's book is cited in the first paragraph of the paper, which is very interesting, but rather hard to understand on a (very) brief reading. Essentially, she says that lead contributes 56% to the drop in crime, while the availability of abortions contributes 29%.
It didn't happen to me.
It was a breach of trust. They told their customers that they could be notified of a patch but not have it automatically installed and then they went ahead and automatically installed a patch, even for those customers who wanted to be notified but not have it installed. I'm not sure why you're trying to continue this argument.
I didn't say that every company got an update they didn't want. I said that "Companies that didn't want automatic updates from MS had an automatic update installed.". That doesn't imply all companies, at least where I come from.
I didn't say that everyone got the update. Even if it's only a few companies or people who got an unrequested update, it's still a breach of trust, surely?
Which bit of what I said was not true? There are people (companies or individuals) who told MS not to install patches without asking and MS went ahead and installed a patch without asking. Surely that's a breach of trust?
I think you're nit-picking here. If I say, "do not install stuff on my computer unless you ask me if it's OK", it's a breach of trust if something is installed without me being asked.
I don't think you understand the issue here. The issue is that MS users who chose not to get automatic updates got an automatic update anyway. This is a matter of trust. I don't know why you are talking about NDAs. Companies that didn't want automatic updates from MS had an automatic update installed. NDAs are neither here nor there. I also don't understand the relevance of Linux to this. It's not a matter of what was in the update. It's the fact that it was installed automatically despite the fact that users had expressed a preference not to install it automatically.
I don't know where you're getting this information, but you are dead wrong. To take chess as example, strong computers always have an opening book but that's only used during the opening of the game. As for the "5 or 6 turns" comment, that makes no sense at all. Even if by "turn" you mean the technical term "move" (ie one ply for white and one for ply for black), modern chess programs search far deeper than 12 plies. The world champion these days would be searching > 15 plies at World Championship time controls.
I think this is a shame (to put it mildly). Hopefully the specifications for the update process will be published so that a Linux solution can be produced.