Another reason that Go is known as a Japanese game is the fact that the standard rule set we use today was developed in Japan during the Tokugawa period.
I'm not certain, but I believe that what was added in Japan was the handicapping system and the half-point komi to prevent ties.
In Korea, for instance, I know that the work 'baduk' is used to refer to Japanese-rules Go, but another word is used to refer to 'old' Go.
I don't know about China.
I remember my old sysadmin telling me that VMS is hack-proof (which is true if you have a good sysadmin). He told me this right after he gave me, a lowly operator, SYSPRIV.
I've thought for a while (ever since the G4 Cube) that cubes make for a more effiecient use of space. Unfortunately, 'efficient' here means more internal volume for less surface area. That tends to lead to heat problems, but that shouldn't be a problem here.
What I'd really like to see is a 'cluster' appliance that looks something like this, but can 'stacked' via some kind of edge connector on the sides.
Holy crap! You mean that if some ass-taco gets physical access to my network and can set up a rogue DHCP server he'll be able to get root access to my Mac (unless of course I took the 5 minutes to read the technote article and disable all my unused directory services)?
Dammit! I'm gonna' go back to my OpenVMS box!
If what this guy really wants is absolute security right out of the box, I guess he'll have to do the same.
This is just the D&D Panic of the mid-80's all over again.
When are people going to realize that if you go out and shoot up your school after playing some FPS, that there was probably somethine wrong with you to begin with?
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the leading nation in high-speed rail development is so small? Don't get me wrong, I think it's cool, just a bit odd.
What's next? Rocket cars in Luxembourg? Vatican City International Airport?
I'd like to preface my remarks by saying that I believe that Open Source is probably the best way of structuring a software development culture out there now. It's not perfect, but it is pretty darn good.
Note: I prefer to call it a culture rather than a model. I hear development model and I think of things like Structured, OOP, eXtreme Programming, Patterns, etc. Environment would be a better term, but then people think we're talking about IDEs. So, culture it is.
That having been said, I think that the real key to making good software isn't the development culture you live in, it's the professionalism of the developers in the culture. A good development culture, like OSS helps, but it's not, in and of itself, enough.
I mean, we've all seen it, right? Good developers working in a bad environment (usually one foisted on them by the PHBs upstairs) creating great software. And I'm sure we've all seen bad developers churn out, pure, unadulterated open source crap.
To sumarize:
- Closed source developement does not necesarily mean bad software.
- Open source development does not necesarily mean good software.
First of all, not all religious people are "nutcases". I, for one, am an evangelical christian and am quite sane, I assure you. I know of no formal studies on the relative level of mental illness in religious vs. non-religious people, but based on my own observations, I'd bet the numbers would come out pretty much the same accross the board.
Second, evangelical Christians are not in agreement on the details of eschatology (the theology of the end times). Many evangelicals do fall into the pre-trib/pre-millenial (i.e. "Left Behind") camp that may be troubled by something like this, but many evangelicals, esp. those of the Reformed persuasion have either no strong position, are post-millenialists, or are amillenialists.
Third of all, why exactly would you take joy in "winding the poor confused bastards up"? If it's their choise not to use this technology, why does that bother you? Do you sit up at night thinking up ways to piss off the Amish? Do you yearn for the next time you can have a cheesburger or eat ham in front of an observant Jew?
I would never begrudge you your right to say and do whatever you want whenever you want, but I will simply ask that you think about what you're doing and try to show at least a modicum of respect to those who may not believe what you believe.
This reminds me of all the cryogenics hype when somebody froze and reanimated a frog. Why in only a couple of years before we would be able to freeze astronauts and send them to the stars!
The problem? Fogs aren't people, and neither are Sea Urchins. Any real benefit to humanity is going to be a long time comming from this one.
That having been said, I'd personally like nothing more than to be proven wrong.
I say we use those big honkin' lenses to make the worlds greatest magnifying glass. Then we demand payment from certain wealthy individuals, celebrities, and heads of state. If the don't pay, we focus the sun's rays to fry them.
The UN has nothing to do with this. It's the more powerful countries that have prevented this from happening. Do you honestly think the UN could do shit if the US and China decided to go at it?
Well... The rise of nuclear weapons didn't hurt either. If the Cold War taught us one thing it's that MAD worked.
If the Gulf Wars taught us one thing, it's that the UN can't or won't do bupkis, except, of course, for passing meaningless resolutions that it won't enforce.
I don't get why everyone seems to get their panties in a wad over cameras in public places. It's a public place. It's not like you have a reasonable expectation of privacy, anyway.
The way I see it, if you're stupid enough to something illegal in broad daylight on a public street, you deserve to get caught and go to jail.
No Rendezvous does not contain a messaging component in iChat. That's like saying that TCP/IP contains a file transfer component in FTP, or a messaging component in IRC.
iChat uses the Rendezvous API to advertise and discover other iChat users on the local subnet.
... but not for the reason's this idgit stated in his predictions.
My gut tells me that Apple is waiting to see how the Itanium shakes out. It seems to me that that's much better than porting Aqua and the APIs to x86 and then having to port to IA-64 in another year or two.
I'm a mediocre Go player (not bad at tactics, but too little experience to effectively manage the whole board). I'm absolutly wretched at chess.
I've always been kind of interested in why Go seems to be so much easier for me than Chess but so much harder for computers.
I think that what's going on is that Go uses a completely different kind of logic than chess.
Any thoughts?
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The word translated "worlds" there is actually the Koine word "AION", from whence we derive the English word "aeon".
A better translation would be "ages", or "the universe".
Am I the only person left in the world who:
Another reason that Go is known as a Japanese game is the fact that the standard rule set we use today was developed in Japan during the Tokugawa period.
I'm not certain, but I believe that what was added in Japan was the handicapping system and the half-point komi to prevent ties.
In Korea, for instance, I know that the work 'baduk' is used to refer to Japanese-rules Go, but another word is used to refer to 'old' Go.
I don't know about China.
I was being sarcastic.
I remember my old sysadmin telling me that VMS is hack-proof (which is true if you have a good sysadmin). He told me this right after he gave me, a lowly operator, SYSPRIV.
Foolproof = better fools.
I've thought for a while (ever since the G4 Cube) that cubes make for a more effiecient use of space. Unfortunately, 'efficient' here means more internal volume for less surface area. That tends to lead to heat problems, but that shouldn't be a problem here.
What I'd really like to see is a 'cluster' appliance that looks something like this, but can 'stacked' via some kind of edge connector on the sides.
Lego computing!
Holy crap! You mean that if some ass-taco gets physical access to my network and can set up a rogue DHCP server he'll be able to get root access to my Mac (unless of course I took the 5 minutes to read the technote article and disable all my unused directory services)?
Dammit! I'm gonna' go back to my OpenVMS box!
If what this guy really wants is absolute security right out of the box, I guess he'll have to do the same.
This is just the D&D Panic of the mid-80's all over again.
When are people going to realize that if you go out and shoot up your school after playing some FPS, that there was probably somethine wrong with you to begin with?
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the leading nation in high-speed rail development is so small? Don't get me wrong, I think it's cool, just a bit odd.
What's next? Rocket cars in Luxembourg? Vatican City International Airport?
I'd like to preface my remarks by saying that I believe that Open Source is probably the best way of structuring a software development culture out there now. It's not perfect, but it is pretty darn good.
Note: I prefer to call it a culture rather than a model. I hear development model and I think of things like Structured, OOP, eXtreme Programming, Patterns, etc. Environment would be a better term, but then people think we're talking about IDEs. So, culture it is.
That having been said, I think that the real key to making good software isn't the development culture you live in, it's the professionalism of the developers in the culture. A good development culture, like OSS helps, but it's not, in and of itself, enough.
I mean, we've all seen it, right? Good developers working in a bad environment (usually one foisted on them by the PHBs upstairs) creating great software. And I'm sure we've all seen bad developers churn out, pure, unadulterated open source crap.
To sumarize:
- Closed source developement does not necesarily mean bad software.
- Open source development does not necesarily mean good software.
Crap!
I finally figured out vi!
Most modern translations render it as "on", rather.
;-)
Typing problems.
The Greek actually says "epi". That can mean "in", but it normally means "on".
Most modern translations render it "in".
First of all, not all religious people are "nutcases". I, for one, am an evangelical christian and am quite sane, I assure you. I know of no formal studies on the relative level of mental illness in religious vs. non-religious people, but based on my own observations, I'd bet the numbers would come out pretty much the same accross the board.
Second, evangelical Christians are not in agreement on the details of eschatology (the theology of the end times). Many evangelicals do fall into the pre-trib/pre-millenial (i.e. "Left Behind") camp that may be troubled by something like this, but many evangelicals, esp. those of the Reformed persuasion have either no strong position, are post-millenialists, or are amillenialists.
Third of all, why exactly would you take joy in "winding the poor confused bastards up"? If it's their choise not to use this technology, why does that bother you? Do you sit up at night thinking up ways to piss off the Amish? Do you yearn for the next time you can have a cheesburger or eat ham in front of an observant Jew?
I would never begrudge you your right to say and do whatever you want whenever you want, but I will simply ask that you think about what you're doing and try to show at least a modicum of respect to those who may not believe what you believe.
This reminds me of all the cryogenics hype when somebody froze and reanimated a frog. Why in only a couple of years before we would be able to freeze astronauts and send them to the stars!
The problem? Fogs aren't people, and neither are Sea Urchins. Any real benefit to humanity is going to be a long time comming from this one.
That having been said, I'd personally like nothing more than to be proven wrong.
In other news...
The major console companies all had a post-peak cigarette today. Nintendo was quoted as saying, "Hold me."
Unfortunatly, the lovefest came to a quick end when Sony and Microsoft got into a fight over who would have to sleep in the wet spot.
um... Mad Max?
I say we use those big honkin' lenses to make the worlds greatest magnifying glass. Then we demand payment from certain wealthy individuals, celebrities, and heads of state. If the don't pay, we focus the sun's rays to fry them.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
So am I the only person left that only uses his phone for talking to people?
What's next? NetHack for my toaster?
Well... The rise of nuclear weapons didn't hurt either. If the Cold War taught us one thing it's that MAD worked.
If the Gulf Wars taught us one thing, it's that the UN can't or won't do bupkis, except, of course, for passing meaningless resolutions that it won't enforce.
Let the mod-down fest begin!
I don't get why everyone seems to get their panties in a wad over cameras in public places. It's a public place. It's not like you have a reasonable expectation of privacy, anyway.
The way I see it, if you're stupid enough to something illegal in broad daylight on a public street, you deserve to get caught and go to jail.
No Rendezvous does not contain a messaging component in iChat. That's like saying that TCP/IP contains a file transfer component in FTP, or a messaging component in IRC. iChat uses the Rendezvous API to advertise and discover other iChat users on the local subnet.
RDF = Reality Distortion Field.
80% sure.
... but not for the reason's this idgit stated in his predictions.
My gut tells me that Apple is waiting to see how the Itanium shakes out. It seems to me that that's much better than porting Aqua and the APIs to x86 and then having to port to IA-64 in another year or two.
Any thoughts from the gallery?
I'm a mediocre Go player (not bad at tactics, but too little experience to effectively manage the whole board). I'm absolutly wretched at chess. I've always been kind of interested in why Go seems to be so much easier for me than Chess but so much harder for computers. I think that what's going on is that Go uses a completely different kind of logic than chess. Any thoughts?