for caving in to a protection racket when the SEC and the govt. isn't even investigating it. How can SCO charge someone for services that they haven't even been legally determined they have a right to provide?
Put the prize on a sliding scale so that achieving the distance at a slower speed would still have its rewards. They could then use the working method(s)to build up to the speeds they want. Rather than trying to do it all in one miraculous leap.
I tried to upgrade to XP from 98SE. I'm not a computer science major, but I know my way around computers. I've upgraded friends computers before, but a large number of my drivers stopped working and things were just frustrating. I spent a good day and a half trying to get it to work and finally gave up and went back to 98. Personally, I think it's part of Windows deal with the computer mfg. co's to make upgrading the OS such a pain that it's easier and or cheaper for the average consumer to simply buy a new computer. MS still sells a new OS and computer mfg. co's sell a new computer everybody wins. (except the consumer).
I don't get the big deal about firefly it was a patent rip off of Farscape. All they did was get rid of the aliens for various humans and shuffle the personality quirks. Think about it.
...is that chess has been maxed out. On the level that Kasparov and the machine play they are so balanced that there are no garanteed winning or losing positions. Kasparov might err in some sublte way and the computer could take advantage or the computer plays what it sees as the statiscally safest maneuver but that doesn't make it invulnerable. I figure these matches will continue for a little while longer and then people will get tired draws and statistically insignificant wins/losses in both directions.
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for caving in to a protection racket when the SEC and the govt. isn't even investigating it. How can SCO charge someone for services that they haven't even been legally determined they have a right to provide?
Put the prize on a sliding scale so that achieving the distance at a slower speed would still have its rewards. They could then use the working method(s)to build up to the speeds they want. Rather than trying to do it all in one miraculous leap.
I tried to upgrade to XP from 98SE. I'm not a computer science major, but I know my way around computers. I've upgraded friends computers before, but a large number of my drivers stopped working and things were just frustrating. I spent a good day and a half trying to get it to work and finally gave up and went back to 98. Personally, I think it's part of Windows deal with the computer mfg. co's to make upgrading the OS such a pain that it's easier and or cheaper for the average consumer to simply buy a new computer. MS still sells a new OS and computer mfg. co's sell a new computer everybody wins. (except the consumer).
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
I don't get the big deal about firefly it was a patent rip off of Farscape. All they did was get rid of the aliens for various humans and shuffle the personality quirks. Think about it.
...is that chess has been maxed out. On the level that Kasparov and the machine play they are so balanced that there are no garanteed winning or losing positions. Kasparov might err in some sublte way and the computer could take advantage or the computer plays what it sees as the statiscally safest maneuver but that doesn't make it invulnerable. I figure these matches will continue for a little while longer and then people will get tired draws and statistically insignificant wins/losses in both directions.