I think it's possible that Deep Fritz now is better than Deep Blue then but the really important thing - as somebody already mentioned above (as joke though)- Kramnik is better at negotiating
Kasparov had some things working against him, most were his fault:
The most important thing is that he couldn't train against Deep Blue, Kramnik could simply buy the single processor version of Fritz. Second it's doubtful whether Kasparov took Deep Blue seriously. And last but not least Kramnik has a more rational approch to Chess, he wants to win against his opponent, Kasparov wants to crush his opponents humiliate them which doesn't work against a machine.
Everything they need is there, all that remains is to make a consistent interface for installation/administration which -assumed you let work some ppl full-time on that task- should be doable.
If not we'll have a delay - so what? AMD just delayed the Hammer, M$ delayed its next OS and Dungeon Keeper was more than 4 years late iirc.
We're talking about software, noone's gonna take you serious if you deliver on time =)
The trick is that modern cpus split the data in a number of instruction pipelines where a number of instructions gets processed in line.
a P4 has 4 pipelines with 20-stage pipeline, a PowerPC 7 pipelines with 4 steps afaik.
Long pipelines are better if you want high clock speeds therefore it looks like intel will be able to push the p4 design beyond the 4GHz
but the PowerPC design is more efficient; say the processor is not able to fill a pipeline at one clock cycle, the PowerPC will lose one working step for 4 cycles, the p4 for 20, the same problem occurs if the jump prediction fails.
But as AMD had to learn with the Athlon (which is afaik similar to the PowerPC in this design point) a P4 may be inferior at the same clock speed but that's meaningless if Intel is able to reach 800MHz (Athlon) to 1GHz (PowerPC) more.
As you can see two threads above most of the shorts are made by Japanese ppl and -I assume- by Japanese studios so it's animation made in Japan in the typical style and imho that qualifies them to be called Anime
Hey, this is/. - you get a "+5 insightful" for stating that bill gates is evil and an "interesting" for the discovery that XviD is DivX spelled backwards.
Perhaps someone mods me funny for "25 billion dollars more and we have a new m$" as comparisons of the current topic with m$ (notice the spelling) are always popular
Besides this, we in the US believe in a 'jury by your peers'. A world courty is hardly that.
And if Americans were accused of such crimes abroad the court could only act if its prosecutors could prove that the US judicial system was "unable or unwilling" to prosecute American forces: a legal test any moderately well-functioning democracy would be unlikely to fail. (from the guardian article)
So, if there was a American Soldier accused they could simply stop the whole affair by putting him in front of an American court with Dubya and O'Reilly in the jury. The question is not whether the court would be able to unjustly imprison brave Americans but whether it would be able to get even the worst dictators as everyone could have a "fair" tribunal in his homecountry.
I agree; most of us who configure their desktops until they don't look like anything the developers had in mind often forget that most users won't ever change the defaults. Regardless how cool Liquid, Keramik, transparent menus,... are they're useless when they aren't used
2) Putting a battery into the loop doesn't mitigate the fact that power loss is catastrophic. The battery is an attempt to stave off the effects of a power loss.
you're right, but the probability of the batteries and the track failing at the same time shouldn't be higher than the probability of the supra-conductors failing so I don't think that's a real advantage of the Japanese system.
The 10 mm gap Transrapid's approach calls for is less than 3 months worth of shifting out here.
That's a good point but the tolerance for conventional high-speed trains (for the distance between the tracks to be exact) is smaller and Japan which is probably as unstable as California in this regard is covered with them.
Of course it's a big plus for the supra-conductor system but imho that is not enough to outweigh the advantages of the "conventional approach" =)
Yeah, it would be definitely non-trivial to put something on the tracks 12feet above ground which is heavy enough not to be blown away by the enormous air-pressure in front of a 300mph train.
Thank God thats the case - otherwise, who would board one of these things voluntarily
1. According to this
there was already a patent for a maglev train in 1934
2.About the Transrapid:
Secondly, a power loss would be catastrophic.
It would not. If the power system of the tracks is failing, batteries can hold the train in the air for more than 30 min and vice versa (of course the tracks have power for more than 30min if the internal electrical system of the train fails). Also the train can land on the tracks at full speed without catastrophic damage.
Thirdly, the way the Germans have approached maglev using magnets to attract each other, requires active controls.
But on the other hand it uses relatively simple systems, electro-magnets are not really high-tech and easy to control, therefore it's no big problem to regulate the fields in order to maintain the correct distance.
3. In addition using electro-magnets has the advantage that you don't need supra-conductors and the immense cooling system which is necessary for that. Therefore the Transrapid doesn't need a "landing gear" like the japanese system it's more lightweight and probably cheaper
we already have an expansive (and expensive;) high speed railway system.
ok, DB is expensive (and expensive not to forget) but don't they say time is the most precious good humans do own?
For the money you pay (did I already mention that using the train is expensive?) you get up to 40min to contemplate about your life for free, while you're waiting for the train.
I don't know the figures for Canada, but Japan produces half as much CO2 per capita as the US (for the trolls: if you compare CO2/$-GDP Japan does even better) therefore it seems only logical that it should have to reduce it's output less than other countries
they had better build a crapload of nuke plants during the next 30 years....
why would they want to build more power plants? - They got enough electricity from geothermal plants
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(why again does heat even come into play so much in Mech games? is this a factor in realistic tank sims?)
You have to see it that way - did your PC need an Arctic Master and 4 case-fans 10years ago? Does it now? (ok, perhaps not, but the probability that it does is much higher =)
So, apply Moore's Law on military hardware throw in a little fusion reactor or two and fancy stuff like some laser cannons or the Athlon XPDKYZOFHAND control hardware...see? =)
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Kasparov had some things working against him, most were his fault:
The most important thing is that he couldn't train against Deep Blue, Kramnik could simply buy the single processor version of Fritz. Second it's doubtful whether Kasparov took Deep Blue seriously. And last but not least Kramnik has a more rational approch to Chess, he wants to win against his opponent, Kasparov wants to crush his opponents humiliate them which doesn't work against a machine.
"Ok, Deep Fritz, here's the Deal Mr. Kramnik suggested, what's your opinion?"
Deep Fritz: "e4 e5 2.Sf3 Sc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Sxd4 Lc5 5.Sxc6 Df6 6.Dd2 dxc6 7.Sc3 Se7 8.Df4 Le6 9.Dxf6 gxf6 10.Sa4 Lb4+ 11.c3 Ld6 12.Le3 b6 13.f4 0-0-0 14.Kf2 c5 15.c4 Sc6 16.Sc3 f5 17.e5 Lf8 18.b3 Sb4 19.a3 Sc2 20.Tc1 Sxe3 21.Kxe3 Lg7 22.Sd5 c6 23.Sf6 Lxf6 24.exf6 The8 25.Kf3 Td2 26.h3 Ld7 27.g3 Te6 28.Tb1 Txf6 29.Le2 Te6 30.The1 Kc7 31.Lf1 b5 32.Tec1 Kb6 33.b4 cxb4 34.axb4 Te4 35.Td1 Txd1 36.Txd1 Le6 37.Ld3 Td4 38.Le2 Txd1 39.c5+ Kb7 40.Lxd1 a5 41.bxa5 Ka6 42.Ke3 Kxa5 43.Kd4 b4 44.g4 fxg4 45.hxg4 b3 46.Kc3 Ka4 47.Kb2 f6 48.Lf3 Kb5 49.g5 f5 50.Kc3 Kxc5 51.Le2 0-1"
If not we'll have a delay - so what? AMD just delayed the Hammer, M$ delayed its next OS and Dungeon Keeper was more than 4 years late iirc.
We're talking about software, noone's gonna take you serious if you deliver on time =)
How kould we? =)
a P4 has 4 pipelines with 20-stage pipeline, a PowerPC 7 pipelines with 4 steps afaik.
Long pipelines are better if you want high clock speeds therefore it looks like intel will be able to push the p4 design beyond the 4GHz
but the PowerPC design is more efficient; say the processor is not able to fill a pipeline at one clock cycle, the PowerPC will lose one working step for 4 cycles, the p4 for 20, the same problem occurs if the jump prediction fails.
But as AMD had to learn with the Athlon (which is afaik similar to the PowerPC in this design point) a P4 may be inferior at the same clock speed but that's meaningless if Intel is able to reach 800MHz (Athlon) to 1GHz (PowerPC) more.
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Hmm, XviD is a mpeg4 codec so you got patents, license fees and other big no-no's for the FSF
Perhaps someone mods me funny for "25 billion dollars more and we have a new m$" as comparisons of the current topic with m$ (notice the spelling) are always popular
You stop asking and start demanding when you got at least 10 times more money than your adversary
and when you have 100 times more money, you don't even say "please" =)
But wouldn't be the FSF the first in line to sue Sigma to defend the credibility and enforceability of the GPL?
And if Americans were accused of such crimes abroad the court could only act if its prosecutors could prove that the US judicial system was "unable or unwilling" to prosecute American forces: a legal test any moderately well-functioning democracy would be unlikely to fail. (from the guardian article)
So, if there was a American Soldier accused they could simply stop the whole affair by putting him in front of an American court with Dubya and O'Reilly in the jury. The question is not whether the court would be able to unjustly imprison brave Americans but whether it would be able to get even the worst dictators as everyone could have a "fair" tribunal in his homecountry.
If you still want to learn German here is an article about it
and the airlines who bought Airbus (approximately 53% of aircraft orders in 2001 were won by Airbus and they're near 50% with aircraft deliveries)
flys american made planes.
I agree; most of us who configure their desktops until they don't look like anything the developers had in mind often forget that most users won't ever change the defaults. Regardless how cool Liquid, Keramik, transparent menus, ... are they're useless when they aren't used
I doubt the KDE-project added a paragraph to the GPL "you only may use themes which look like Aqua"
Quake (and the infinite variants) can hardly be good for one's brain.
And so on. On both sides of the Pacific you find demanding (due to their level of complexity) games but people simply prefer junk food.
I don't want to open my video-files with winamp neither do I want to listen mp3s with bsplayer
There's a good reason that the current implementation to include video-streams in .ogg-files uses the extension .ogm
Imagine two 1200ft building tipping over to one side and burying everything beneath.
I'm deeply impressed by whoever built them 30 years ago
you're right, but the probability of the batteries and the track failing at the same time shouldn't be higher than the probability of the supra-conductors failing so I don't think that's a real advantage of the Japanese system.
The 10 mm gap Transrapid's approach calls for is less than 3 months worth of shifting out here.
That's a good point but the tolerance for conventional high-speed trains (for the distance between the tracks to be exact) is smaller and Japan which is probably as unstable as California in this regard is covered with them.
Of course it's a big plus for the supra-conductor system but imho that is not enough to outweigh the advantages of the "conventional approach" =)
Thank God thats the case - otherwise, who would board one of these things voluntarily
1. According to this there was already a patent for a maglev train in 1934
2.About the Transrapid:
Secondly, a power loss would be catastrophic.
It would not. If the power system of the tracks is failing, batteries can hold the train in the air for more than 30 min and vice versa (of course the tracks have power for more than 30min if the internal electrical system of the train fails). Also the train can land on the tracks at full speed without catastrophic damage.
Thirdly, the way the Germans have approached maglev using magnets to attract each other, requires active controls.
But on the other hand it uses relatively simple systems, electro-magnets are not really high-tech and easy to control, therefore it's no big problem to regulate the fields in order to maintain the correct distance.
3. In addition using electro-magnets has the advantage that you don't need supra-conductors and the immense cooling system which is necessary for that. Therefore the Transrapid doesn't need a "landing gear" like the japanese system it's more lightweight and probably cheaper
ok, DB is expensive (and expensive not to forget) but don't they say time is the most precious good humans do own?
For the money you pay (did I already mention that using the train is expensive?) you get up to 40min to contemplate about your life for free, while you're waiting for the train.
I don't know the figures for Canada, but Japan produces half as much CO2 per capita as the US (for the trolls: if you compare CO2/$-GDP Japan does even better) therefore it seems only logical that it should have to reduce it's output less than other countries
why would they want to build more power plants? - They got enough electricity from geothermal plants
You have to see it that way - did your PC need an Arctic Master and 4 case-fans 10years ago? Does it now? (ok, perhaps not, but the probability that it does is much higher =)
So, apply Moore's Law on military hardware throw in a little fusion reactor or two and fancy stuff like some laser cannons or the Athlon XPDKYZOFHAND control hardware...see? =)