I thought a more interesting move was in game 3, when Fritz played 14...Bd6. In fact, in the commentary, it says this move drew a chuckle from the GM's watching, because it was such an obvious trap. Fritz was attempting to sacrifice the bishop to capture the queen in the next moves.
What I want to know is, didn't Fritz know that an obvious trap would be avoided by a champion player? Why would it play such a move? My uninformed opinion is that the possible gain in material it saw in its move search led it to make the move. Any human player would have known the opposing player would never blunder away his queen. Perhaps Fritz was "hoping" for a blunder?
This reminds me of the time a local K-Mart was going out of business, wayyyy back in the day. There were literally stacks of top-loading NES machines, and if the memory portion of my brain is not lying to me, they were marked 20 bucks each.
I'd argue that since KDE (and most unix applications, for that matter) are built by geeks, the end product is something that will appeal to geeks/power users.
Does this mean it has to be ugly, with a million useless buttons, as your example pointed out? Well, not necessarily, but that seems to be more common.
Finally, it is worth noting that Windows executables can be hosted in a window (by default) as well as in the browser. For Longhorn, desktop executables are the next version of today's Windows Forms client-side apps. On the other hand, XAML and browser-hosted applications represent an evolution of today's client-side programming model to work over the Web. Right now, existing client-side applications can rarely be deployed over the Web. If you want to embed a Windows Forms form into a browser page, you'll get a reduced feature set and have to tweak bits and pieces of your code. With Longhorn, the common application model will let you write one application and deploy it over the Web. However, the final application is Longhorn-specific--very different from a traditional Web application like ASP.NET.
Sigh. I remember when the web was based on open standards...
I burned me a knoppix cd last week, version 3.3. OpenOffice refuses to start. The OO logo comes up, but nothing else. Does anyone else have this problem? I would think they would test that before they released an ISO...
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C# 2.0 Spec Released
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C++ is insanely complicated and broken, and is popular. Perl is insanely broken and complicated, and it is popular.
What do you mean by broken? Broken implies to me "not working," and last I checked, both of those languages work predictably.
Complicated is mostly opinion-based, so I'd love you know what "not complicated" languages you're comparing them to.
I for one love the fucking horizontal scroll bar on the directory tree window on the left. It is not completely annoying, either. The fact that you cant resize that part of the window is also fucking great.
But hey, we can't ignore such amazing UI innovations as having the word "Yesterday" under the file modification date column, instead of yesterday's date.
Honestly, is the guy in charge of this a complete moron? File choosing widgets have advanced far beyond this, why don't they just copy them?
Why does the Linux community get busy with [Expose] so I can update my Suse box with it
I don't think that will be easy to copy at all. Even if you were to copy it in the linux desktop world, I don't think it would be fast enough to be useable. The reason being, on the mac, I think those kinds of effects are easier to pull off because of Quartz and all its vectory goodness. You could only pull something like this off in the X world by taking screenshots of the apps and scaling/translating them.
I could be wrong, though. Someone might be more clever than I am and pull it off.:)
Not only have we seen this in TNG, we've also seen it in the Animatrix. If you haven't seen it, you should, especially if you're a matrix fan. It gives the whole back story of the machines' uprising, with emphasis on AI/sentience.
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Is Bluetooth Dead?
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Our phones are crap, GSM is just started to be deployed, and we still have three different types of cell networks out here (CDMA, TDMA, Sprint PCS, and now GSM). It's a real mess.
I can't disagree with you there. My friend just came back from England, and he told me he had full signal strength, everywhere he went (not to mention all the other features of their networks). Compare that to our networks. (We have an ad campaign based on "Can you hear me now?" for christ's sakes. Why should that even be a selling point??)
But what I'd really like to know is why this is the case in the US. Is it due to geography? After all, European centers of population are a lot more tightly-bunched (meaning less towers needed, meaning less cost for implementation, meaning more cash for R&D).
That's just my guess, but I'd really like to read a definitive article or paper or something about the situation, but I haven't found one. Anyone?
Whoa, there's going to be two different versions of XP for each processor? I had no idea the chips were this incompatible with each other. This seems like a shitty situation to be in... The OS is one thing, but I can only hope that applications won't have to do this as well.
They asked McBride (more than once) why it wasn't just OK for the linux guys to remove the infringing code. He didn't answer the question at all, and instead danced around it. In fact, I can hardly find any question where he did answer in a straight-forward manner.
It would be cool if he just answered "Greed." to every question, because that's what we're all thinking anyway.
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IIRC, I read somewhere that installing Adobe Acrobat reader also installs the Adobe SVG plugin on your system...
This is a really cool idea, actually. Two things though: it increases the document size a good deal, since the my email address (19 characters) becomes a 1383 character string. This could really add up if you had more than one email address on the page (such as a mailing list archive). Although, in the world of broadband, thats a small price to pay.
The other thing is, if you are using this, you'd be wise to change the string 'hiveware_enkoder' to something unique. The reason being, if spam harvesters really wanted to, they could recognize that string, and have their own javascript engine handy run the script to get at the email address hidden inside. That's a lot of work, but not entirely impossible. If the Hiveware system gains many users, it might be worthwhile for them.
Most geeks also understand the importance of the Mozilla project... but what I'm deeply worried about is the fact that the Mozilla project doesn't make anyone any money. Sure, you can point to Netscape, but does the number of people using Netscape put enough ad revenue (or any other revenue) into the hands of AOL?
Does AOL really intend on being Mozilla's major financer for much longer, especially since they recently solidified a deal keeping the IE renderer a core part of their client software, all but making Mozilla irrelevant? Sure, Mozilla could and would survive without AOL's dime, everything is open now. But if you take away the Netscape engineers working on the project, how many people would really pick up the slack? We think milestones are few-and-far-between now, imagine if there's a handful of developers, all across the world, not getting paid to work on it.
I hope my fears are unfounded, but in today's business world's uncertainty, I don't find it hard to imagine AOL pulling the plug completely on the project, and renting out the mostly-empty offices in Mountain View to the highest payer. Sad.
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It's just shiny buttons!
Ya, but they're realllly pretty!!
There is a FAQ about this, I don't know if you tried it, or if it applies to 0.6.2, but it worked for me a couple weeks ago.
I thought a more interesting move was in game 3, when Fritz played 14...Bd6. In fact, in the commentary, it says this move drew a chuckle from the GM's watching, because it was such an obvious trap. Fritz was attempting to sacrifice the bishop to capture the queen in the next moves.
What I want to know is, didn't Fritz know that an obvious trap would be avoided by a champion player? Why would it play such a move? My uninformed opinion is that the possible gain in material it saw in its move search led it to make the move. Any human player would have known the opposing player would never blunder away his queen. Perhaps Fritz was "hoping" for a blunder?
Everything elses is at my billable rate.
You charge your family members for support? I knew times were tough, but that's pretty harsh.
This reminds me of the time a local K-Mart was going out of business, wayyyy back in the day. There were literally stacks of top-loading NES machines, and if the memory portion of my brain is not lying to me, they were marked 20 bucks each.
Wow.
That, sir, was both relevant and hilarious.
There must be some non-technical reason behind this, because it literally makes no sense otherwise. NO SENSE.
I WISH I could SOMEHOW talk to someone in charge over, oh God how I wish...
I'd argue that since KDE (and most unix applications, for that matter) are built by geeks, the end product is something that will appeal to geeks/power users.
Does this mean it has to be ugly, with a million useless buttons, as your example pointed out? Well, not necessarily, but that seems to be more common.
From this:
Finally, it is worth noting that Windows executables can be hosted in a window (by default) as well as in the browser.
For Longhorn, desktop executables are the next version of today's Windows Forms client-side apps. On the other hand, XAML and browser-hosted applications represent an evolution of today's client-side programming model to work over the Web. Right now, existing client-side applications can rarely be deployed over the Web. If you want to embed a Windows Forms form into a browser page, you'll get a reduced feature set and have to tweak bits and pieces of your code. With Longhorn, the common application model will let you write one application and deploy it over the Web. However, the final application is Longhorn-specific--very different from a traditional Web application like ASP.NET.
Sigh. I remember when the web was based on open standards...
I burned me a knoppix cd last week, version 3.3. OpenOffice refuses to start. The OO logo comes up, but nothing else. Does anyone else have this problem? I would think they would test that before they released an ISO...
C++ is insanely complicated and broken, and is popular. Perl is insanely broken and complicated, and it is popular.
What do you mean by broken? Broken implies to me "not working," and last I checked, both of those languages work predictably.
Complicated is mostly opinion-based, so I'd love you know what "not complicated" languages you're comparing them to.
They're sort of a baby Fry's, but more expensive and nowhere near as good.
:)
If you think Fry's is good, I'm going to have to disregard your whole message, and perhaps even put you on my Foes list.
I for one love the fucking horizontal scroll bar on the directory tree window on the left. It is not completely annoying, either. The fact that you cant resize that part of the window is also fucking great.
But hey, we can't ignore such amazing UI innovations as having the word "Yesterday" under the file modification date column, instead of yesterday's date.
Honestly, is the guy in charge of this a complete moron? File choosing widgets have advanced far beyond this, why don't they just copy them?
Ya, the last one sucked, but I doubt the entire state is going to boycott Revolutions... that's just not possible.
Why does the Linux community get busy with [Expose] so I can update my Suse box with it
:)
I don't think that will be easy to copy at all. Even if you were to copy it in the linux desktop world, I don't think it would be fast enough to be useable. The reason being, on the mac, I think those kinds of effects are easier to pull off because of Quartz and all its vectory goodness. You could only pull something like this off in the X world by taking screenshots of the apps and scaling/translating them.
I could be wrong, though. Someone might be more clever than I am and pull it off.
Did anyone else stop reading this after like the 15th paragraph?
Not only have we seen this in TNG, we've also seen it in the Animatrix. If you haven't seen it, you should, especially if you're a matrix fan. It gives the whole back story of the machines' uprising, with emphasis on AI/sentience.
Our phones are crap, GSM is just started to be deployed, and we still have three different types of cell networks out here (CDMA, TDMA, Sprint PCS, and now GSM). It's a real mess.
I can't disagree with you there. My friend just came back from England, and he told me he had full signal strength, everywhere he went (not to mention all the other features of their networks). Compare that to our networks. (We have an ad campaign based on "Can you hear me now?" for christ's sakes. Why should that even be a selling point??)
But what I'd really like to know is why this is the case in the US. Is it due to geography? After all, European centers of population are a lot more tightly-bunched (meaning less towers needed, meaning less cost for implementation, meaning more cash for R&D).
That's just my guess, but I'd really like to read a definitive article or paper or something about the situation, but I haven't found one. Anyone?
Whoa, there's going to be two different versions of XP for each processor? I had no idea the chips were this incompatible with each other. This seems like a shitty situation to be in... The OS is one thing, but I can only hope that applications won't have to do this as well.
If you wanted to be a prick, you could just do this. :)
They asked McBride (more than once) why it wasn't just OK for the linux guys to remove the infringing code. He didn't answer the question at all, and instead danced around it. In fact, I can hardly find any question where he did answer in a straight-forward manner.
It would be cool if he just answered "Greed." to every question, because that's what we're all thinking anyway.
IIRC, I read somewhere that installing Adobe Acrobat reader also installs the Adobe SVG plugin on your system...
This is a really cool idea, actually. Two things though: it increases the document size a good deal, since the my email address (19 characters) becomes a 1383 character string. This could really add up if you had more than one email address on the page (such as a mailing list archive). Although, in the world of broadband, thats a small price to pay.
The other thing is, if you are using this, you'd be wise to change the string 'hiveware_enkoder' to something unique. The reason being, if spam harvesters really wanted to, they could recognize that string, and have their own javascript engine handy run the script to get at the email address hidden inside. That's a lot of work, but not entirely impossible. If the Hiveware system gains many users, it might be worthwhile for them.
Wow, that was a *lot* quicker than the web site would have been. Bless you, BT.
I'm going to leave it running overnight, so other's can leech with juicy speed.
Most geeks also understand the importance of the Mozilla project... but what I'm deeply worried about is the fact that the Mozilla project doesn't make anyone any money. Sure, you can point to Netscape, but does the number of people using Netscape put enough ad revenue (or any other revenue) into the hands of AOL?
Does AOL really intend on being Mozilla's major financer for much longer, especially since they recently solidified a deal keeping the IE renderer a core part of their client software, all but making Mozilla irrelevant? Sure, Mozilla could and would survive without AOL's dime, everything is open now. But if you take away the Netscape engineers working on the project, how many people would really pick up the slack? We think milestones are few-and-far-between now, imagine if there's a handful of developers, all across the world, not getting paid to work on it.
I hope my fears are unfounded, but in today's business world's uncertainty, I don't find it hard to imagine AOL pulling the plug completely on the project, and renting out the mostly-empty offices in Mountain View to the highest payer. Sad.