For chess, yes it is possible and has been since Big Blue. The work now is improving the prediction of what the opponent is going to do; it is easy to get a set of probable moves with 'goodness' fitted to a normal distribution - the hard part is writing a random number generator to pick the most likely move from the distribution.
For Go you need about 10 times as much storage - so Moores law says storing all the moves for about 5 more years.
I noticed that LikSang sells joypads for the consoles. They should put the modchips in them - ie. bypass the console's security through the USB port - that way Microsoft, Nintendo, et.al. won't realise. Also, you wouldn't have to void your warrenty by soldering the modchip to the processor.
My question to Greg Ballard would have been; how do you keep you work as CEO of Sonicblue and CEO of Microsoft seperate? It is becoming increasingly dangerous for an independent company to be associated with Microsoft since the anti-trust laws that Microsoft broke also extend to partners.
I think that there are some new accessibility standards in HTML 5. Mozilla should support them quite quickly once the standard is released - I hope it is soon.
Actually, women do outnumber men on the MS campus site in Redmond. Official figures from MS financial disclosures (earlier this year, they probably haven't changed much) are Women : 14987 Men : 14854 Other : 2
It should definitely not be illegal to encrypt messages; however I think the US government should start a public-information campaign to educate the world about appropriate use.
For example; personal, non-secret, communication should not be encrypted. The less encrypted traffic there is on the internet then the easier it will be for the US government to track terrorists using encryption.
This is crazy; you should never try to treat yourself for anything. You are not trained to diagnose diseases in your body. It takes 2 to 3 years to train to be a doctor - and you think you can remove a wart in a month?
How do you know it is a wart - it could be anthrax or, worse, something contagious like leprosy
You should let your elected representitives represent you in legal & governmental issues. If you have to get involved with every trivial decision that gets made then you will soon lose patience. It will only be the extreme members of society that will influence decision making - and then where will we be?
When I signed up for Civilisation III, section 5 of the agreement read
5. PLAYER DOWNLOAD The Player software is made available to you subject to the terms and conditions made accessible during the software installation process. In order to download the Player software, you must have a Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000 or XP operating system, as well as a Pentium 233MHz computer or faster, 64MB of RAM, 500MB of hard drive space, Direct X and compatible SVGA video and sound cards. You agree that it is your responsibility to review and evaluate the Player and the related terms and conditions, and that all risk associated with the use of, or reliance on, the Player rests with you. You further agree that Yahoo!, including its suppliers, shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, in any way for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of, or in connection with your use of, or reliance on, any such software, including the failure of such software to meet your needs, standards, expectations or desired specifications.
and there wasn't a section entitled "Collection and Use of Registration and Usage Information".
I expect that the presence/absence of the clause depends on how interesting you are.
I am, presumably, very boring and Yahoo doesn't care to know what I do. You must be either interesting or suspicious since Yahoo decided that they want to track you.
If you have 32-bit processor the the maximum amount of RAM you can have is 32Mb. With 64-bit processors you can have 64Mb of RAM and so everything is quicker.
RAM is the cheapest it has ever been, so being able to use more is affordable as well as performance boosting.
What on earth is the point of a programming language that you can't write apps in???
There are lots of these "WoW! Now you can use Programming Language X to do Y", but isn't the whole point of programming languages that you can do anything you want with them?
It was possibly just an explosion. Take a large metal can with a lid; punch a hole (1cm say) in the bottom and a smaller hole in the lib. Fill the can with natural gas (bung a bunsen burner pipe in the bottom and turn it on). Light the gas coming out of the top. Remove the tube from the bottom of the can and wait.
The flame will get smaller as the remaining gas is used up. At some point, however, the mixture of air and gas left in the can will reach the right ratio to be explosive - the flame will jump inside the can, there will be a loud bang and the lid will fly off.
Nb. this is not particularly safe to demonstrate to small children - at the very least the loud bang will scare some of them.
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For chess, yes it is possible and has been since Big Blue. The work now is improving the prediction of what the opponent is going to do; it is easy to get a set of probable moves with 'goodness' fitted to a normal distribution - the hard part is writing a random number generator to pick the most likely move from the distribution.
For Go you need about 10 times as much storage - so Moores law says storing all the moves for about 5 more years.
I use FAT32.
The diskspace used by the journal file in NTFS and this new filesystem can be put to much better use.
I noticed that LikSang sells joypads for the consoles. They should put the modchips in them - ie. bypass the console's security through the USB port - that way Microsoft, Nintendo, et.al. won't realise. Also, you wouldn't have to void your warrenty by soldering the modchip to the processor.
My question to Greg Ballard would have been; how do you keep you work as CEO of Sonicblue and CEO of Microsoft seperate? It is becoming increasingly dangerous for an independent company to be associated with Microsoft since the anti-trust laws that Microsoft broke also extend to partners.
I think that there are some new accessibility standards in HTML 5. Mozilla should support them quite quickly once the standard is released - I hope it is soon.
I don't think broadcasting music on the Internet could work, so I don't know why all these people are complaining about not being allowed to try.
It takes me 10 minutes to download a 3 minute song
Some things would sound okay slower, but other stuff wouldn't - the voices would be deeper and women would sound like men.
Actually, women do outnumber men on the MS campus site in Redmond.
Official figures from MS financial disclosures (earlier this year, they probably haven't changed much) are
Women : 14987
Men : 14854
Other : 2
Hey everyone, stop clicking on the links. I'm trying to download the source to
Thanks,
How do we know the Anonymous Poster isn't an employee of Linux and is just trying to discredit their biggest competitor?
The constitution requires you to own guns. The constitution does not require you to own video games.
Hundreds of people died in a multi-car pileup in Wisconsin last week - it was probably because the person at the front modded their car.
It should definitely not be illegal to encrypt messages; however I think the US government should start a public-information campaign to educate the world about appropriate use.
For example; personal, non-secret, communication should not be encrypted. The less encrypted traffic there is on the internet then the easier it will be for the US government to track terrorists using encryption.
What are they going to do about languages? Linux doesn't support any of the Indian dialects; only European languages.
Lots of people in India speak English; but it seems kind of unfair to lock them out of using their native language.
This is crazy; you should never try to treat yourself for anything. You are not trained to diagnose diseases in your body. It takes 2 to 3 years to train to be a doctor - and you think you can remove a wart in a month?
How do you know it is a wart - it could be anthrax or, worse, something contagious like leprosy
See a doctor before it is too late!
You should let your elected representitives represent you in legal & governmental issues. If you have to get involved with every trivial decision that gets made then you will soon lose patience. It will only be the extreme members of society that will influence decision making - and then where will we be?
Actually it's only 63-bit. values of 0x8000000000000000 and higher aren't valid.
This puts the max date at 14th Sept 30828
I expect that the presence/absence of the clause depends on how interesting you are.
I am, presumably, very boring and Yahoo doesn't care to know what I do. You must be either interesting or suspicious since Yahoo decided that they want to track you.
It's all to do with the amount of RAM.
If you have 32-bit processor the the maximum amount of RAM you can have is 32Mb. With 64-bit processors you can have 64Mb of RAM and so everything is quicker.
RAM is the cheapest it has ever been, so being able to use more is affordable as well as performance boosting.
Switch to Windows. Windows had a bug with Year 2000, and that is passed.
Anyway, it is still a long to to 2032.
So it starts off a full GHz behind Intel? That's just great!
... why couldn't you write apps in Python before?
What on earth is the point of a programming language that you can't write apps in???
There are lots of these "WoW! Now you can use Programming Language X to do Y", but isn't the whole point of programming languages that you can do anything you want with them?
You also get what you pay for.
No
It was possibly just an explosion. Take a large metal can with a lid; punch a hole (1cm say) in the bottom and a smaller hole in the lib.
Fill the can with natural gas (bung a bunsen burner pipe in the bottom and turn it on). Light the gas coming out of the top. Remove the tube from the bottom of the can and wait.
The flame will get smaller as the remaining gas is used up. At some point, however, the mixture of air and gas left in the can will reach the right ratio to be explosive - the flame will jump inside the can, there will be a loud bang and the lid will fly off.
Nb. this is not particularly safe to demonstrate to small children - at the very least the loud bang will scare some of them.
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