The potential for complex and intricate maneuvering seem (like chess) to be limitless.
Actually, the number of possible moves in a game of Go far outnumbers those in chess. In fact, they outnumber the number of atoms in the universe! (The estimated amount at least). Even if you discard all the really stupid moves you're still left with a ridiculous amount. This is why it is so hard for computers to play Go, since they can't really brute-force any unexpected moves.
This could be quite true. In Finland we have a completely different attitude towards math and science in high school. You are respected if you take the "harder math" in school, and even more respected if you manage to score good in the final exams. This shows in younger students (like the 15-year-olds that took this test) since they've been brought up to respect people who do good in math. They might not worry about final exams but at least their attitude is good.
And of course you might get called "nerd" now and then but that's just a convenient insult (just like using racial slurs). It's not like you're treated like a different species.
The "winner" of this test was Finland, a country with no wholly-private schools at all. (Didn't RTFA, but I read about this earlier today.) This is a very positive thing, since I've always thought that expensive private institutions are a more expensive version of daycare centers (to paraphrase a certain science fiction cartoon). Also, they tend to polarize society into "rich and poor" at a very early stage. Granted, I am Finnish myself but I do believe that it is better for everyone if every student has the same opportunity to study, regardless of social status.
I've never visited that web site before, but the article looked a bit... dodgy to me. I would say it's because of the numerous spelling errors, which sort of cheapens the whole thing. Is what the article says actually true or is it just some sensationalist BS?
People seem quite pessimistic about this codec (they might say realistic). The situation is however not the same as with Ogg Vorbis. Let's face it, the main use of video codecs like DivX etc are in pirated movies. While thousands of people might rip a CD or two into the most handy format (read: MP3 or in some cases AAC) movies are ripped by only a few people. Here it is not ease of use or availability that matters, it is simply technical performance. If Theora has a higher quality/size ratio than for example XviD then these people will use it, clear and simple. If you don't have the codec then too bad, you better get it.
Ripping movies is an endless quest for higher quality and smaller files sizes. A great example is the increasing number of videos encoded with OGG for sound instead of MP3 since that squeezes out a few megs from the final file size.
PS: I of course have never downloaded any of the aforementioned files:)
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This could be quite true. In Finland we have a completely different attitude towards math and science in high school. You are respected if you take the "harder math" in school, and even more respected if you manage to score good in the final exams. This shows in younger students (like the 15-year-olds that took this test) since they've been brought up to respect people who do good in math. They might not worry about final exams but at least their attitude is good. And of course you might get called "nerd" now and then but that's just a convenient insult (just like using racial slurs). It's not like you're treated like a different species.
The "winner" of this test was Finland, a country with no wholly-private schools at all. (Didn't RTFA, but I read about this earlier today.) This is a very positive thing, since I've always thought that expensive private institutions are a more expensive version of daycare centers (to paraphrase a certain science fiction cartoon). Also, they tend to polarize society into "rich and poor" at a very early stage. Granted, I am Finnish myself but I do believe that it is better for everyone if every student has the same opportunity to study, regardless of social status.
I've never visited that web site before, but the article looked a bit... dodgy to me. I would say it's because of the numerous spelling errors, which sort of cheapens the whole thing. Is what the article says actually true or is it just some sensationalist BS?
People seem quite pessimistic about this codec (they might say realistic). The situation is however not the same as with Ogg Vorbis. Let's face it, the main use of video codecs like DivX etc are in pirated movies. While thousands of people might rip a CD or two into the most handy format (read: MP3 or in some cases AAC) movies are ripped by only a few people. Here it is not ease of use or availability that matters, it is simply technical performance. If Theora has a higher quality/size ratio than for example XviD then these people will use it, clear and simple. If you don't have the codec then too bad, you better get it.
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Ripping movies is an endless quest for higher quality and smaller files sizes. A great example is the increasing number of videos encoded with OGG for sound instead of MP3 since that squeezes out a few megs from the final file size.
PS: I of course have never downloaded any of the aforementioned files
Is this "line of site" some internet thing I haven't heard of? ;)
Seems like the KDE group is kind of chaotic or something.