A chess solution may be possible if you consider that most algorithms aimed at this problem are only going to consider reasonable moves and plausible board positions. Kind of like "guided" brute force.
Checkers on the other hand, - I've read somewhere that there are over 10^120 plausible board positions: orders of magnitude greater than the estimated number of particles in the universe ; )
Well: I seem to recall that the "Custom" Win95 install has an option to use the Win 3.1 file manager interface rather than the Win95 interface. I've never actually tried it, so I don't know if its 100% transparent, but it may be a viable solution.
People are good at different things, and that tends to guide what they do in life. There are those that end up in the sci/tech industry: we tend to call them intelligent, but we do so, I think, to the exclusion of other "intelligences" that people can exhibit.
Its not just ugly, it looks like someone's "I like Quake" site. If there is going to be real progress made as a result of telling these stories, then it has to be done in a more somber way - it has to grab and keep the attention of those who *need* to know this stuff: administrators, legislators, parents, etc.
This brings up a very good point: What enables others to abuse geeks/goths/nerds/etc in high school is the administrative blind eye.
(Another sob story I know . ..): In my school it was routine for disciplinarians and teachers to either not see violence or pass it off as "just playing around." I never understood it until now, but, more than the abusers themselves, it is those who chose not to invervene that are the true criminals in the situation of students abusing one another.
So I'll one-up you: Write to the district offices, write to the teachers unions, write to the governor and the state legislature. Write to the US Board of Education.
Although I am the son of educators, and must give my parents respect for their often thankless line of work, teachers and administrators KNOW what is happening to their students and aren't always doing the right thing. It may be the time to think bigger and appeal to higher authorities.
This brings up a very good point: What enables others to abuse geeks/goths/nerds/etc in high school is the administrative blind eye.
(Another sob story I know . ..): In my school it was routine for disciplinarians and teachers to either not see violence or pass it off as "just playing around." I never understood it until now, but, more than the abusers themselves, it is those who chose not to invervene that are the true criminals in the situation of students abusing one another.
So I'll one-up you: Write to the district offices, write to the teachers unions, write to the governor and the state legislature. Write to the US Board of Education.
Although I am the son of educators, and must give my parents respect for their often thankless line of work, teachers and administrators KNOW what is happening to their students and aren't always doing the right thing. It may be the time to think bigger and appeal to higher authorities.
Its comforting to hear that someone else feels sypathy for the kids that did the shooting. Whatever it was that gave them the neo-Nazi ideal and detachment from violence is still up for debate: its an corollary of the problems that we have as a violent society.
The rage, though, came from the hate and disdain that they faced every day. The have and have-not system is something that young students can't excape from, and (as I remember anyway . ..) can't see through or reason away.
It *is* alright to feel a small measure of sympathy for the shooters because they were outcasts and have-nots, and because many of us were as well, or still are.
I guess the link from CSOTD will make this a busy place. Hm. . . The Meta-Salshdot-Effect. I wonder if THAT will make it into the Jargon dictionary . . .
Slashdot Mirror
A chess solution may be possible if you consider that most algorithms aimed at this problem are only going to consider reasonable moves and plausible board positions. Kind of like "guided" brute force.
Checkers on the other hand, - I've read somewhere that there are over 10^120 plausible board positions: orders of magnitude greater than the estimated number of particles in the universe ; )
-q
Well: I seem to recall that the "Custom" Win95 install has an option to use the Win 3.1 file manager interface rather than the Win95 interface. I've never actually tried it, so I don't know if its 100% transparent, but it may be a viable solution.
-q
People are good at different things, and that tends to guide what they do in life. There are those that end up in the sci/tech industry: we tend to call them intelligent, but we do so, I think, to the exclusion of other "intelligences" that people can exhibit.
Its not just ugly, it looks like someone's "I like Quake" site. If there is going to be real progress made as a result of telling these stories, then it has to be done in a more somber way - it has to grab and keep the attention of those who *need* to know this stuff: administrators, legislators, parents, etc.
Its a neat idea but it won't be free. The browser home
page will be burgerking.com, there'll be scrolling ad banners, popups, etc.
This looks like neat stuff, I might pick up a copy on an Edu. discount - but for those of you who've used it: what's the cost to performance?
I imagine that wedging an abstraction layer between the OS and the hardware slows things down a bit.
-q
Of course this begs the question: at $5000 a pop, what is TWINKLE's cost/RC-5-64 block/second?
First Dvorak, and now this. . .
This brings up a very good point: What enables others to abuse geeks/goths/nerds/etc in high school is the administrative blind eye.
.): In my school it was routine for disciplinarians and teachers to either not see violence or pass it off as "just playing around." I never understood it until now, but, more than the abusers themselves, it is those who chose not to invervene that are the true criminals in the situation of students abusing one another.
(Another sob story I know . .
So I'll one-up you: Write to the district offices, write to the teachers unions, write to the governor and the state legislature. Write to the US Board of Education.
Although I am the son of educators, and must give my parents respect for their often thankless line of work, teachers and administrators KNOW what is happening to their students and aren't always doing the right thing. It may be the time to think bigger and appeal to higher authorities.
-q
This brings up a very good point: What enables others to abuse geeks/goths/nerds/etc in high school is the administrative blind eye.
(Another sob story I know . .
So I'll one-up you: Write to the district offices, write to the teachers unions, write to the governor and the state legislature. Write to the US Board of Education.
Although I am the son of educators, and must give my parents respect for their often thankless line of work, teachers and administrators KNOW what is happening to their students and aren't always doing the right thing. It may be the time to think bigger and appeal to higher authorities.
-q
Wow, remember when see-through plastic telephones were THE coolest thing on the planet?
Now what *I'm* waitng for are the Transformers, Thundercats, and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cases.
As a linux user I'm still working my way out of the newbie phase, but I still don't think I'd buy it preinstalled on my next PC.
What attracts me most to linux is the DIY attitude needed to get it *really* working for you and support you get from others that already have.
Dell may be good for Linux, but is it a good thing for the user?
-q
Its comforting to hear that someone else feels
.)
sypathy for the kids that did the shooting.
Whatever it was that gave them the neo-Nazi
ideal and detachment from violence is still
up for debate: its an corollary of the problems
that we have as a violent society.
The rage, though, came from the hate and disdain
that they faced every day. The have and have-not
system is something that young students can't excape
from, and (as I remember anyway . .
can't see through or reason away.
It *is* alright to feel a small measure of sympathy for the
shooters because they were outcasts and have-nots,
and because many of us were as well, or still are.
I guess the link from CSOTD will make this a busy place. Hm. . .
The Meta-Salshdot-Effect.
I wonder if THAT will make it into the Jargon dictionary . . .