Computationally, Go is far more complex. A good Go player can consistently beat the best Go computers. At the moment, the very best human players are only breaking even against the best Chess computers.
More people play Chess than Go. More people play Xiangqi than Go. More people in Japan play Shogi than Go. More people in Thailand and Cambodia play Makruk than Go.
Okay, so more people in Korea play Go than Janggi. Nonetheless, Go seems to have a reputation for being more cerebral and less popular. I play and enjoy Go and Chess and Shogi and Xiangqi and Makruk, but the different chesses (especially Shogi) are more exciting and immediately engaging than Go. Go is a better game to play more leisurely.
MediaWiki 1.4 has experimental support for PostgreSQL; I wouldn't be too surprised if Wikipedia switched over to it in the future. Ssuch a transition would probably be fairly painful, though.
Obscurity would be hiding the fact that your safety is reliant on a number between 2^0 and 2^69 (as opposed to say, a word). If you do use such a number and don't feel the need to hide this fact, then your security is not through obscurity, it's through hardness.
They are pretty forward about it. After all, PGP stands for Pretty Good Protection, not Totally Secure Protection. If you want it to be totally secure you have to use one-time pads or quantum cryptography. But 99.99% secure is enough for most people.
To be fair though, the media companies with their real-world experience don't seem to be a whole lot smarter when it comes to issues like this than a bunch of random Slashdotters. Which is pretty sad.
This is, paradoxically, because it is the best. People specifically try to get a high Pagerank in Google because it it so widely used. Any other search engine would suffer the same problem. The solution, of course, is to have diversity of search engines.
Went is an intransitive verb. Even if it were transitive, it would hardly make sense for me to be the object if I'm the one going somewhere. What the phrase means makes perfect sense, and any native English speaker will understand it without any confusion. But what the phrase actually says is nonsensical and impossible.
Say for example that someone asks, "Who here reads Slashdot?" To reply "me" is technically incorrect. Saying "I do" makes perfect sense, but saying "I" is awkward. In this case, however, one could make an argument for "me" being acceptable because it is used disjunctively (that is, not with ellipsis but rather independent of any verb). This is not standard formal usage, but there is some logical process whereby it foreseeably could be at some point in the future. But for "Me and my friend went to the store" there is no such conceivable process unless English were radically different.
I'm willing to accept changes in the language. I know that someday "alright" will be considered a perfectly cromulent word, for example. But some changes make no sense and will never catch on. "Me and my friend went to the store" will never be proper because it makes no logical sense. Likewise, the phrase "begging the question" already has a well-defined meaning disparate from "asking the question." If "begging the question" meant "asking the question" in formal speech, how would one actually say "begging the question?"
Several times on/. I've defended the use of the word "virii," not because I think it will ever be acceptable in formal speech (it won't), but because not all speech has to be formal. Still, using "begging the question" like this stems from ignorance rather than playfulness. It is similar to saying "irregardless." I don't think anyone should conceited and insult people misuses like this, but there's nothing wrong with politely pointing it out. After all, learning from mistakes on/. is a lot less embarrassing than the equivalent in real life.
This oft-spoken concern will obviously come to fruition, just as the ever expanding economic powerhouse that is Japan will overtake the U.S. in the business sector.
Mac OS X has full keyboard access as well, it just isn't enabled by default. I can see how that might be annoying, but 99% of people aren't going to use it anyway.
There is nothing wrong with preaching to governments that they are not according their people sufficient rights. A lot of people talk about "self-determination," by which they mean that governments themselves should be allowed to dictate how people live with absolute impunity. I would prefer a world where "self-determination" means that the people themselves can choose how to live, and if that means denouncing a government for their oppressive actions, so be it. Freedom is almost tautologically better than the alternative. You might disagree, but if you are free to do so, you are benefitting from it anyway. Freedom is the only system that doesn't force any values on you.
This reminds of me of something. But whatever could it be?
You don't need to be The Amazing Kreskin to predict Nintendo's future. Reuters and other news agencies have reported out of Japan that Nintendo's net profit has fallen 43 percent in the latest quarter, and that the videogame maker has also cut its forecast for the full year by more than one fifth, citing a strong yen and weak sales of the GameCube. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SIOUX basically just creates a simple MacOS 9 app with a window that acts as a console. Just add that, and standard I/O will behave almost exactly like it does on a *nix machine.
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Computationally, Go is far more complex. A good Go player can consistently beat the best Go computers. At the moment, the very best human players are only breaking even against the best Chess computers.
Actually, there was a cut down 6x6 variant of chess designed so that it would run on MANIAC.
Okay, so more people in Korea play Go than Janggi. Nonetheless, Go seems to have a reputation for being more cerebral and less popular. I play and enjoy Go and Chess and Shogi and Xiangqi and Makruk, but the different chesses (especially Shogi) are more exciting and immediately engaging than Go. Go is a better game to play more leisurely.
Many chess endgames have seen solved, however: all five piece and many six piece endings IIRC.
MediaWiki 1.4 has experimental support for PostgreSQL; I wouldn't be too surprised if Wikipedia switched over to it in the future. Ssuch a transition would probably be fairly painful, though.
Obscurity would be hiding the fact that your safety is reliant on a number between 2^0 and 2^69 (as opposed to say, a word). If you do use such a number and don't feel the need to hide this fact, then your security is not through obscurity, it's through hardness.
Perl scripts, on the other hand, are clearly far too illegible to be considered plaintext.
They are pretty forward about it. After all, PGP stands for Pretty Good Protection, not Totally Secure Protection. If you want it to be totally secure you have to use one-time pads or quantum cryptography. But 99.99% secure is enough for most people.
To be fair though, the media companies with their real-world experience don't seem to be a whole lot smarter when it comes to issues like this than a bunch of random Slashdotters. Which is pretty sad.
This is, paradoxically, because it is the best. People specifically try to get a high Pagerank in Google because it it so widely used. Any other search engine would suffer the same problem. The solution, of course, is to have diversity of search engines.
You oves scared me greatly with your prediction.
Obviously light years measure distance. Time is measured in parsecs, as any Star Wars aficionado will tell you.
Say for example that someone asks, "Who here reads Slashdot?" To reply "me" is technically incorrect. Saying "I do" makes perfect sense, but saying "I" is awkward. In this case, however, one could make an argument for "me" being acceptable because it is used disjunctively (that is, not with ellipsis but rather independent of any verb). This is not standard formal usage, but there is some logical process whereby it foreseeably could be at some point in the future. But for "Me and my friend went to the store" there is no such conceivable process unless English were radically different.
Several times on /. I've defended the use of the word "virii," not because I think it will ever be acceptable in formal speech (it won't), but because not all speech has to be formal. Still, using "begging the question" like this stems from ignorance rather than playfulness. It is similar to saying "irregardless." I don't think anyone should conceited and insult people misuses like this, but there's nothing wrong with politely pointing it out. After all, learning from mistakes on /. is a lot less embarrassing than the equivalent in real life.
This oft-spoken concern will obviously come to fruition, just as the ever expanding economic powerhouse that is Japan will overtake the U.S. in the business sector.
Gravity and, unless your orbit is high enough, air resistance. The real concern, however, is micrometeorites.
Genie? Scale? Real nerds use suck :-)
Mac OS X has full keyboard access as well, it just isn't enabled by default. I can see how that might be annoying, but 99% of people aren't going to use it anyway.
Sycophantic? I don't think you're using that word right. Truly inconceivable.
Maybe, maybe not. Either way, you get a million bucks if you figure out which one it is.
Obviously. That would be as stupid as suing IBM without any evidence.
There is nothing wrong with preaching to governments that they are not according their people sufficient rights. A lot of people talk about "self-determination," by which they mean that governments themselves should be allowed to dictate how people live with absolute impunity. I would prefer a world where "self-determination" means that the people themselves can choose how to live, and if that means denouncing a government for their oppressive actions, so be it. Freedom is almost tautologically better than the alternative. You might disagree, but if you are free to do so, you are benefitting from it anyway. Freedom is the only system that doesn't force any values on you.
You don't need to be The Amazing Kreskin to predict Nintendo's future. Reuters and other news agencies have reported out of Japan that Nintendo's net profit has fallen 43 percent in the latest quarter, and that the videogame maker has also cut its forecast for the full year by more than one fifth, citing a strong yen and weak sales of the GameCube. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SIOUX basically just creates a simple MacOS 9 app with a window that acts as a console. Just add that, and standard I/O will behave almost exactly like it does on a *nix machine.
Remember kids, the U.S. will never reject a patent, but the U..S will.