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  1. Re:A Place to Start on Play Go - On A Mobius Strip? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's not redundant at all. Mod parent up. Sensei's Library is a very good website. It's a Wiki devoted to Go, and it's loaded with all sorts of strategy and tactics.

  2. Re:The ultimate board game on Play Go - On A Mobius Strip? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You need to score so that you can get an idea of your rank, which you need (among other reasons) so that you can play fairly even games. Of course, I pretty much only play Go online, so it's a somewhat different situation. (Everything's calculated nicely and quickly for you.)

  3. Re:I'm a big fan of Go on Play Go - On A Mobius Strip? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Go World already has readily accepted the idea of playing Go on oddly shaped boards, and considers it to be a completely valid, if a little silly, form of Go. I was chatting on KGS the other day and someone was talking about a 9x9x9 board where each stone has 24 liberties, and everyone seemed to accept that it was Go, even if it was a completely absurd form. Anyway, even in the standardized form of Go, there are a few different kinds of board, anyway. 5x5 is very different from 9x9, which is very different from 19x19, which is very different from 38x38. This merely makes experimentation much easier.

  4. Re:No such thing as "breaks the rules" on SELEX at Fermilab Discovers New Particle · · Score: 1

    Yes. As quote myself, "Just because we can't understand it doesn't mean magic elves did it."

  5. Re:Shout-outs on Nintendo Pokemon Mini LCD Game Hacked · · Score: 1

    The video game came first, actually, although the cartoon is still very very bad.

  6. Re:Yes but rare on Linux Today Founder Calls for Boycott of Linux Today · · Score: 1

    He said "has anyone online." Cesar Chavez had a very very small online presence.

  7. Re:UI matters on Shareaza 2.0 Released Under GPL · · Score: 1

    1) Don't use the phrase Aunt Tillie. You'll only encourage ESR.
    2) He wasn't saying everyone has to use it. He was saying Slashdotters should use it. Software doesn't have to be good for everyone in order to be good.
    3) MLDonkey is written in such a way so that the UI is very very seperate from the backend. It's not very hard at all for Some Guy to write a better UI for MLDonkey.

  8. Re:Understanding science doesn't eliminate art. on The Thermochemical Joy of Cooking · · Score: 1

    And that emotional experience occurs when you eat it. Knowing where to go, that's art. Knowing how to get there, that's science.

  9. Re:ahh, but curdling isn't as simple as that... on The Thermochemical Joy of Cooking · · Score: 1

    Yes, but "soft artsy" doesn't mean "magic elves." There was still science going on, it's just that, as you said, the curdling was evenly distributed and the butter helped emulsify the sauce, (Or something.) so the science which was going on was a little bit more advanced than you expected.

    Science means, first and foremost, testing theories.

  10. Re:Maybe they just don't like the truth... on Strategy Videogame Upsets Chinese, Gets Banned · · Score: 2, Insightful

    RRrrghhhhh... please don't compare "political correctness" with Orwellianism. The paralells exist, but... no, you're wrong.

    City banners are not meant to be static. Changing banners so as to have the government not endorse the Christian religion (which is an important part of the seperation of Church and State) does not, in any way shape or form, rewrite history. We're not saying the town wasn't founded by missionaries.

    Anyway, this seal is more than just saying "oh, we were founded by missionaries." The portion in question consists of a GLOWING crucifix floating above a church. The glowing of the crucifix clearly implies holiness, and that means that the banner endorses Christianity as true, something which states are forbidden from doing, due to the first amendment in conjuction with the fourteenth.

    It's not rewriting history.

    And replacing mentions of Paul Revere with mentions of some lady who did the same exact thing doesn't rewrite history. It tells the truth, just a different part of the truth.

    There's nothing wrong with rewriting history books per se. There's so much history, and our knowledge of it is constantly growing, of course books are going to change now and then. There's nothing wrong with this. Perhaps Abigail Adams is a better example of history than Paul Revere. So what? What's Orwellian and wrong is with rewriting history books to present false information.

  11. Re:twins on There Are Infinitely Many Prime Twins · · Score: 1

    One isn't a prime number. Prime numbers have two factors, itself and one. One only has one factor. Which is kind of pragmatic, because if one was a prime number, prime factorizations wouldn't work out very nicely.

  12. Re:Virii/Viruses on First IA64 Windows Virus Released · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about the "The Madness of King George III" story?

  13. Re:3D? on DVD Player Displays 2D Movies in 3D · · Score: 2, Funny

    So if you play it forwards you just see Dog?

  14. Re:alas, did icarus die for nothing? on Creator of the Gaia Hypothesis Urges Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Yes, but he's arguing that, because global warming is such a big deal, we have to use a short-term band-aid as a stopgap for until we roll out solar power.

  15. Re:Fake stereo type geek on Finally Geeks Available in Action Figure Form · · Score: 1

    Granted. But pencils are better than pens.

    1) Erasable.
    2) Full grayscale instead of monocrome.
    3) Will not leak or explode, so you don't NEED a pocket protector.
    4) Slightly cheaper.

  16. Re:Familiar pair for atheists. on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is yet another day which makes me think that there are magical elves who follow me around purely to mod me up.

  17. Re:Familiar pair for atheists. on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Larry Wall invented Perl. If that doesn't show the mind-twisting effect that religion can have on some people, I don't know what does.

    Of course, Knuth is an absolutely wonderful computer scientist, so clearly religion goes either way.

  18. Re:Interesting Observation on Microsoft Releases WTL To SourceForge · · Score: 1

    No, it's because although he is certainly doing good by donating, it's so frigging easy for him to donate money, it's hard for us to give him that much credit for it.

    That, and we just don't like Billy because he made Windows and BASIC popular.

  19. Re:Borderline waste of time on Webby Award 2004 Winners Announced · · Score: 3, Informative

    Two steps. Turing links to World War Two, which links to China.

  20. Re:Feedback loop on Forget MTV, I Want My Internet! · · Score: 1

    Full-on armed revolts are always illegal. Anti-gun laws only make them slightly more difficult. If you aren't gonna follow the anti-revolt laws, what are the odds you're gonna follow the anti-gun laws?

  21. Re:Fool me once... on E3 - Nintendo Shows DS Details, Realistic Zelda · · Score: 1

    Some scenes are in-game (with slight modification to remove the status bars) and some, (like the camera panning over the stream in the first shot) are not. The action scenes appear to be mostly in-game, but the slower scenes with the fancy atmospherics are not. Although they might still be possible to have in-game, to some degree, because Nintendo has never been big fans of pre-rendered cut scenes. (They feel that having cut scenes having better graphics than the rest of the game is stupid because it breaks the flow of the game.)

  22. Re:The braying and neighing of barnyard animals on MIT's Stata Center Dedicated · · Score: 1

    For reference, I like both Noam Chomsky and Richard Stallman. But still.

  23. Re:The braying and neighing of barnyard animals on MIT's Stata Center Dedicated · · Score: 1

    On a completely unrelated note, Noam Chomsky is also moving into the Stata Center.

  24. Re:Sigh on MIT's Stata Center Dedicated · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, I guess I should guessed that from when I walked around inside the Stata Center. Well, it looked like the actual offices were seperate from the halls when I managed to peek in there.

    They'll never be able to keep that place locked down though.

  25. Re:Mirrors: on Practical File System Design with the Be File System · · Score: 1

    You oughtta try out plain-old-text mode. There must've been an update or something, it's quite good now. It handles paragraphs just fine AND automatically parses HTML quite nicely. Although it does some weird stuff with blockquote.