Kasparov, indeed any world class chess player, eliminates huge swaths of moves based on simple pattern recognition. He'll pick out a small number of candidate moves based on positional, and tactical considerations and calculate those, sometimes more deeply that the computer can.
Intuition comes into play too. Kasparov can see by the general qualities of the position that a king side attack is called for or perhaps a push to gain space on the queen side or something else. He dosen't calculate that general strategy but he'll definately take it into account.
>At best, they would hurt RedHat, destroy what's left of Mandrake's bank account, and have a luminous cloud over every little distribution out there.
I think it would probably kill most of the Linux distros out there if it were inforced. Redhat could survive and has the programmers and cash to replace SCO code in a hurry (How big a project would that be?). I don't guess that any of the others have those kinds of resources.
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>It's amazing how far it's come. I can plug in a USB drive, and have the icon show up on the desktop. Just like a mac. NO fooling with drivers, no rebooting. Very unlike windows.
Both Windows and Red hat 7.3 work just fine with my CD-Rom drive and wireless mouse. SuSE wouldn't work with either one. So yeah, it's very unlike Windows.
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Sure you're looking at the right site? I don't see a FAQ anywhere or any thing like what you're describing. Maybe they got hacked. All seems to be well now.
Yes he could. The Xbox doesn't actually care if it's connected via dialup or not, as long as it's on a network. Performance isn't great but it does work.
>If you named what, 8 zones that were free over the X years that EQ has been out - don't you think that's a bit pathetic? How many hundreds of millions of dollars later, and 8 free zones?
Does that change the fact that the zones were given away? No.
The statement was made that "verant makes you pay for every drop of new content you get".
I said that's not true. Everything else you guys have been saying is just opinion about whether the content is good or bad or whether it was enough free content or not.
If you want to prove me wrong go ahead. But don't throw out opinions (and unrelated ones at that) as if they were fact or even had anything to do with what I said.
You can't be seriously asking that question. Besides your personal opinion on the quality of the zones has nothing at all to do with them being free or not.
>As for the zones being free, I somehow remember paying a monthly fee. Yes, It's coming back to me, $9.95...no wait $12.95!
Well if *that's* your standard as to whether or not something is free then *NO!* subscription rpg ever produces anything free. Therefore the original statement I was referring too, which singled out EQ as a game where you have to pay for every drop of content, is utterly pointless then isn't it?
Well lets see when was the last time one of your family members jumped in a car totally blitzed on EQ and rammed it into a three other cars?
That'd be never I'm guessing.
When was the last time your father had too much EQ and beat the crap out of your mother on a family vacation?
Again I'm guessing never.
When was the last time one of your family members had too much EQ and beat one of their kids with a golf club?
Again, I'm guessing never.
Don't compare the horror of alcohol addiction to a video game until you've lived through it. The entire notion that they're even remotely as damaging is insane.
>Game addiction is a serious problem, one that's almost as wretched, terrible, and harmful for loved ones than drug, sex, or gambling addictions.
I call Nonsense!
Have you ever lived with someone with an addiction like drugs or alcohol? To say that game addiction is as harmful as alcohol is absolutely ludicrous!
I've been to that EQ Widows site and it's a joke. A bunch of self-absorbed women who have nothing better to do than sit around and bitch about their husbands video games, and talk about the best ways to delete thier spouses characters. It's utterly pathetic.
And again, talk to the spouse of someone with a real addiction.
Good God, video game addiction. Talk to someone who has a real addiction or their family. Trust me the family of an alcoholic would beg their family member to stop drinking and take up video games.
>Umm, right. Because all those Doom mods that we didn't convince id to help us develop were cheating too. And the quake mods. Oh wait, they were the birth of the concept of the mod community.
There's no logical connection at all between Doom mods and ShowEQ. Totally different beasts.
>Don't sit back in your armchair and dictate in 24 words the entire world of cheating as you see it, with no evidence.
ShowEQ gives those who run it an unfair and unearned advantage over those who don't. It's cheating. That should be supremely self-evident.
>But for finding monsters that are supposed to be hidden, or for gaining an unfair advantage over other players, it is bad.
As a guess that's at least 90% of the useage of ShowEQ.
>Research what you make declarations on, and speak responsibly.
Here's a declarartion needing no research what so ever. ShowEQ is cheating.
>Microsoft has nothing to lose by letting owners of a modded Xbox use the Live! service
Nonsense, they have everything to lose. This mess you posted is some of the worst incoherence I've seen on these boards. Each and every point you make is totally void of reason and is exactly opposite of reality.
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>he only trouble I've had with Knoppix are nForce boards.
And Micro$oft Wireless mouses. Knoppix shows the same up/down but not side-to-side problem that Mandrake has.
Fortunately my new baby Xandros like the mouse just fine.
Actually Atari ST first of all!
Don't know about wine, but it works well under WineX.
Kasparov, indeed any world class chess player, eliminates huge swaths of moves based on simple pattern recognition. He'll pick out a small number of candidate moves based on positional, and tactical considerations and calculate those, sometimes more deeply that the computer can. Intuition comes into play too. Kasparov can see by the general qualities of the position that a king side attack is called for or perhaps a push to gain space on the queen side or something else. He dosen't calculate that general strategy but he'll definately take it into account.
Unless you have a MS wireless mouse, then it just dosen't work.
I think it would probably kill most of the Linux distros out there if it were inforced. Redhat could survive and has the programmers and cash to replace SCO code in a hurry (How big a project would that be?). I don't guess that any of the others have those kinds of resources.
Both Windows and Red hat 7.3 work just fine with my CD-Rom drive and wireless mouse. SuSE wouldn't work with either one. So yeah, it's very unlike Windows.
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Sure you're looking at the right site? I don't see a FAQ anywhere or any thing like what you're describing. Maybe they got hacked. All seems to be well now.
I kind of liked this one . . .
http://www.gucomics.com/d/20021111.html
Mickey would be public domain now if it wasn't for Sonny Bono wouldn't he?
Damn, I'd hate to work for a weasel like you.
>Surely you don't mean one of the greatest games of all time, Dungeons of Dagorath [tripod.com] do you?
Memories of getting up from the computer at 5:30am, birds chirping, sun rising, me staggering off to bed after playing DoD all night long.
Yes he could. The Xbox doesn't actually care if it's connected via dialup or not, as long as it's on a network. Performance isn't great but it does work.
X-Box Live was neither poorly test or filled with pervasive bugs.
Looks like you're giving an opinion on something you don't know anything about.
I think Morrowind is probably the worst game I've ever played. I couldn't uninstall that hideous mass of digital horrificness fast enough.
Morrowind is in it's own "Great Old Ones" class of incredible badness.
>If you named what, 8 zones that were free over the X years that EQ has been out - don't you think that's a bit pathetic? How many hundreds of millions of dollars later, and 8 free zones?
Does that change the fact that the zones were given away? No.
The statement was made that "verant makes you pay for every drop of new content you get".
I said that's not true. Everything else you guys have been saying is just opinion about whether the content is good or bad or whether it was enough free content or not.
If you want to prove me wrong go ahead. But don't throw out opinions (and unrelated ones at that) as if they were fact or even had anything to do with what I said.
>I'll just wait ten minutes while Windows sorts itself out and sets itself up?
41 seconds. It takes longer for Linux to shut down than it takes for XP to come up.
>Have you ever been to The Warrens or Stonebrunt?
You can't be seriously asking that question. Besides your personal opinion on the quality of the zones has nothing at all to do with them being free or not.
>As for the zones being free, I somehow remember paying a monthly fee. Yes, It's coming back to me, $9.95...no wait $12.95!
Well if *that's* your standard as to whether or not something is free then *NO!* subscription rpg ever produces anything free. Therefore the original statement I was referring too, which singled out EQ as a game where you have to pay for every drop of content, is utterly pointless then isn't it?
>verant makes you pay for every drop of new content you get,
Which is completely untrue of course.
Free Zones:
Paineel
Stonebrunt Mountains
The Warrens
Marauder's Mire
Jagged Pine
Well lets see when was the last time one of your family members jumped in a car totally blitzed on EQ and rammed it into a three other cars?
That'd be never I'm guessing.
When was the last time your father had too much EQ and beat the crap out of your mother on a family vacation?
Again I'm guessing never.
When was the last time one of your family members had too much EQ and beat one of their kids with a golf club?
Again, I'm guessing never.
Don't compare the horror of alcohol addiction to a video game until you've lived through it. The entire notion that they're even remotely as damaging is insane.
>Game addiction is a serious problem, one that's almost as wretched, terrible, and harmful for loved ones than drug, sex, or gambling addictions.
I call Nonsense!
Have you ever lived with someone with an addiction like drugs or alcohol? To say that game addiction is as harmful as alcohol is absolutely ludicrous!
I've been to that EQ Widows site and it's a joke. A bunch of self-absorbed women who have nothing better to do than sit around and bitch about their husbands video games, and talk about the best ways to delete thier spouses characters. It's utterly pathetic.
And again, talk to the spouse of someone with a real addiction.
Good God, video game addiction. Talk to someone who has a real addiction or their family. Trust me the family of an alcoholic would beg their family member to stop drinking and take up video games.
>Umm, right. Because all those Doom mods that we didn't convince id to help us develop were cheating too. And the quake mods. Oh wait, they were the birth of the concept of the mod community.
There's no logical connection at all between Doom mods and ShowEQ. Totally different beasts.
>Don't sit back in your armchair and dictate in 24 words the entire world of cheating as you see it, with no evidence.
ShowEQ gives those who run it an unfair and unearned advantage over those who don't. It's cheating. That should be supremely self-evident.
>But for finding monsters that are supposed to be hidden, or for gaining an unfair advantage over other players, it is bad.
As a guess that's at least 90% of the useage of ShowEQ.
>Research what you make declarations on, and speak responsibly.
Here's a declarartion needing no research what so ever. ShowEQ is cheating.
>Microsoft has nothing to lose by letting owners of a modded Xbox use the Live! service
Nonsense, they have everything to lose. This mess you posted is some of the worst incoherence I've seen on these boards. Each and every point you make is totally void of reason and is exactly opposite of reality.
>The company does this by denying the user his rights.
You don't have the right to access MS's system with a hacked box. Isn't it really that simple?