So when a poster makes predictions like The Coral Cache (or mirrordot, or whatever else) go down faster than the website itself and Now the mirrordot cache, which will be down moments after I click submit how hard is it really to click on three little links before you go around modding hom insightful? For posterity's sake let's just say that the direct link is down hard, coral cache loads text but barfs on images and mirrordot is chugging away merrily.
Yeah, Pittsburgh hills are great, but anything sustained over 20% is just fantasy until I grow some real legs this spring. The toughest I've ever done is S. Negley at just under 16% which was quite enough. Living on the S.S. Slopes should help. The Dirty Dozen route passes right by my house.
From TFA:"Spinning and bicycling classes are a great way to burn calories and get your heart pumping, but sometimes the tunes blaring in your iPod just aren't enough to keep you enthralled for the entire session,"
For those who have trouble "[keeping] enthralled for the entire session" I would like to recommend a little game called "Biking Home In Rush Hour." My favorite level is "Down 5th Avenue and Across the Birmingham Bridge," though I'm sure that there are many other great ones.
Zappa was especially good at pointing out the stupidity of our fine elected officials (and their wives more specifically), even without being actively involved himself. He once had an instrumental album get stickered by the PMRC for explicit lyrics.
"I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?" --Frank Zappa
I propose that Activision come out with a new title called "Concentration Camp Commander" where you are in charge of using the trainloads of Jews coming into your camp for the benefit of the Reich. It'll be more of a simulation game like Railroad Tycoon. Keep the prisoners just hungry enough that most live to perform labor, while others starve. Then use the remains to make soap and candles to sell in exchange for more ovens, and VX gas. If anyone gets offended, fuck 'em, its a period piece.
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Here's a link to one review of Fritz and Chesster that has a vague mention of the jokes. Another review specifically mentions fat jokes.
I haven't personally used F & C, but I have heard the offensive banter of Fritz 7 first-hand. It's really in poor taste. As far as why no-one cares, that's easy. The world of chess is dominated by men, almost to the point of exclusion. Girls are not encouraged to play serious chess. At my local chess club I've seen precisely one female player out of dozens of players I've seen there. The only female player to ever get any traction in the "men's" league is Judit Polgar. All of the rest play in the league that is specifically for women. Hell I've even seen insulting emails posted online by GMs lambasting a strong player for trying to attain a GM title part of which said that the WIM (Women's International Master) title was not even a possibility, let alone a "real" title. Chessbase's "news" articles are especially awful. More often than not, you'll see exactly 0 articles discussing women in chess on the front page. If there are any, it's more likely to be a tounament that includes both men's and women's divisions, or glamour shots of Alexandra Kosteniuk, than a serious piece.
Perhaps I was quick to judge F & C as having sexist content, but given Chessbase's modus operandi, I'm not going to find out by sitting my daughters in front of it.
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I have found software from Chessbase (Fritz, etc) to be pretty demeaning to women. In response to moving the queen for the first time in Fritz 7, for example, the opponent replied (audibly): "A woman's place is in the kitchen." I have read reviews (can't find them now, though) that Fritz and Chesster have similar comments, especially in the multimedia sequences and that these cannot be skipped. So unless you want your daughter being repeatedly told how inferior they are, or your son exposed to such sexist views, I would stay away from F & C. If you're just looking for a means to keep your kid quiet for long periods of time without bothering you, I've heard that F & C is great.
As far as the instruction goes, you would serve your kids far better by teaching them yourself, over the board. It's a lot more fun for you too. As long as you can teach the very basics of piece movement, you should be good enough. If you feel the need to suppliment with software after teaching the basics, there is great tactics software for all skill levels; Chess Tactics for Beginners and CT-Art from ChessAssistant come to mind. Teaching strategy with software to a young child, I expect would be a lost cause, though I haven't tried that myself. You're better off learning that yourself or using a professional chess instructor. Jeremy Silman has some good books if you're up to the task of learning yourself. Otherwise call (or visit!) your local chess club and ask for referrals for a good instructor. They may have some sotware to recommend, but will add expert instruction and recommend how to use the software effectively.
"With a multiuser system that actually enforces permissions, it's your fault if you click on that attachment. And the only thing that happens is you lose your home dir."
In a perfect world, yes, this would work. The fact is that we still need a multi-layered approach to security. Let's say that the malware uses a privelege escalation exploit in the installed system, what then? You're screwed.
If that doesn't fit your definition of "Multiuser system that actually enforces permissions" then call me when there's an OS that does fit your definition, because even OpenBSD has a local root exploit found on occasion. No matter how good, no code is perfect.
No aspect of information security is going to be perfect, which is why we don't harden our systems and go home, or install a firewall and go home. In a perfect world, NIDS and Antivirus/Anti-Spyware software would be useless. As it stands now, they identify the crap that everything else misses, which is a lot.
Do look at the middle of the front page for good ideas to submit. We love dupes.
Do be sure to include some asinine commentary to the end of the submission that is nothing but uninformed drivel. (Mono running all WinFX apps).
Do report on every tiny incremental step that Intel/AMD/Nvidia/ATI make in their products.
Do bash Microsoft (duh).
Do Copy and paste from the linked article (as CmdrTaco pointed out, anything else will get distilled out unless it fits under the second item above).
Do Submit PRs to commercial products, extra points if it won't exist for at least 5 years or is a mouse or keyboard.
Don't Spell-check (The editors might get afraid that you're after their non-jobs).
Don't forget to submit the next MS-sponsored, narrowly-defined, ill-researced, and taken-out-of-context TCO study. We certainly haven't duscussed enough of those yet.
Don't you dare even think about posting something interesting, current, relevant, and important. At least wait a few days to let digg, boingboing, technocrat, etc verify that the topic is wothy of duscussion.
No, no, no. It's all right, you see. They still need until the 10th to test and patch, it's just that they did the "patch" part first. Now it's up to you to do the "test" part.
Yeah, man. I like totally dig your vibe. It's like the man is trying to... wait... what? Hey everybody, Mr. and Mrs. Smith just came out on DVD. Last one to Best Buy is a rotten egg!
There's been a late breaking change. The new score is composed entireley of hip-hop and gangsta rap. Once the producers saw this concept video it was too late for EJ and Webbah. Someone even leaked a recent dress rehearsal looks pretty bad-ass to me.
I was referring to a previous article about UK police wanting to put people in jail for 90 days while they crack the suspects hard drive. No trial, just 3 months away from your friends and family. Granted, this particular article is about the United States' feds, but we don't need any new legislation to hold our citizens in jail without trial. We just need to call them a terrorist or emamy combatant or some other vile name and pack them off to Guantanamo for over 3 years (so far). This wiretap is just a way for the police state to get more power to abuse.
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So when a poster makes predictions like The Coral Cache (or mirrordot, or whatever else) go down faster than the website itself and Now the mirrordot cache, which will be down moments after I click submit how hard is it really to click on three little links before you go around modding hom insightful? For posterity's sake let's just say that the direct link is down hard, coral cache loads text but barfs on images and mirrordot is chugging away merrily.
But what, pray tell, could be darker and more dramatic about Vader's life than 20 years moisture farming on Tattooine?
Does it really matter if you're not using the right editor?
You're not supposed to search for support. You're supposed to buy support.
DirectX 10 will make it a combined 60 to 80 times faster
Yeah, Pittsburgh hills are great, but anything sustained over 20% is just fantasy until I grow some real legs this spring. The toughest I've ever done is S. Negley at just under 16% which was quite enough. Living on the S.S. Slopes should help. The Dirty Dozen route passes right by my house.
From TFA:"Spinning and bicycling classes are a great way to burn calories and get your heart pumping, but sometimes the tunes blaring in your iPod just aren't enough to keep you enthralled for the entire session,"
For those who have trouble "[keeping] enthralled for the entire session" I would like to recommend a little game called "Biking Home In Rush Hour." My favorite level is "Down 5th Avenue and Across the Birmingham Bridge," though I'm sure that there are many other great ones.
"I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?" --Frank Zappa
I propose that Activision come out with a new title called "Concentration Camp Commander" where you are in charge of using the trainloads of Jews coming into your camp for the benefit of the Reich. It'll be more of a simulation game like Railroad Tycoon. Keep the prisoners just hungry enough that most live to perform labor, while others starve. Then use the remains to make soap and candles to sell in exchange for more ovens, and VX gas. If anyone gets offended, fuck 'em, its a period piece.
I haven't personally used F & C, but I have heard the offensive banter of Fritz 7 first-hand. It's really in poor taste. As far as why no-one cares, that's easy. The world of chess is dominated by men, almost to the point of exclusion. Girls are not encouraged to play serious chess. At my local chess club I've seen precisely one female player out of dozens of players I've seen there. The only female player to ever get any traction in the "men's" league is Judit Polgar. All of the rest play in the league that is specifically for women. Hell I've even seen insulting emails posted online by GMs lambasting a strong player for trying to attain a GM title part of which said that the WIM (Women's International Master) title was not even a possibility, let alone a "real" title. Chessbase's "news" articles are especially awful. More often than not, you'll see exactly 0 articles discussing women in chess on the front page. If there are any, it's more likely to be a tounament that includes both men's and women's divisions, or glamour shots of Alexandra Kosteniuk, than a serious piece.
Perhaps I was quick to judge F & C as having sexist content, but given Chessbase's modus operandi, I'm not going to find out by sitting my daughters in front of it.
As far as the instruction goes, you would serve your kids far better by teaching them yourself, over the board. It's a lot more fun for you too. As long as you can teach the very basics of piece movement, you should be good enough. If you feel the need to suppliment with software after teaching the basics, there is great tactics software for all skill levels; Chess Tactics for Beginners and CT-Art from ChessAssistant come to mind. Teaching strategy with software to a young child, I expect would be a lost cause, though I haven't tried that myself. You're better off learning that yourself or using a professional chess instructor. Jeremy Silman has some good books if you're up to the task of learning yourself. Otherwise call (or visit!) your local chess club and ask for referrals for a good instructor. They may have some sotware to recommend, but will add expert instruction and recommend how to use the software effectively.
Duped articles are bad enough, but duped comments are simply plagiarism.
In a perfect world, yes, this would work. The fact is that we still need a multi-layered approach to security. Let's say that the malware uses a privelege escalation exploit in the installed system, what then? You're screwed.
If that doesn't fit your definition of "Multiuser system that actually enforces permissions" then call me when there's an OS that does fit your definition, because even OpenBSD has a local root exploit found on occasion. No matter how good, no code is perfect.
No aspect of information security is going to be perfect, which is why we don't harden our systems and go home, or install a firewall and go home. In a perfect world, NIDS and Antivirus/Anti-Spyware software would be useless. As it stands now, they identify the crap that everything else misses, which is a lot.
Do be sure to include some asinine commentary to the end of the submission that is nothing but uninformed drivel. (Mono running all WinFX apps).
Do report on every tiny incremental step that Intel/AMD/Nvidia/ATI make in their products.
Do bash Microsoft (duh).
Do Copy and paste from the linked article (as CmdrTaco pointed out, anything else will get distilled out unless it fits under the second item above).
Do Submit PRs to commercial products, extra points if it won't exist for at least 5 years or is a mouse or keyboard.
Don't Spell-check (The editors might get afraid that you're after their non-jobs).
Don't forget to submit the next MS-sponsored, narrowly-defined, ill-researced, and taken-out-of-context TCO study. We certainly haven't duscussed enough of those yet.
Don't you dare even think about posting something interesting, current, relevant, and important. At least wait a few days to let digg, boingboing, technocrat, etc verify that the topic is wothy of duscussion.
No, no, no. It's all right, you see. They still need until the 10th to test and patch, it's just that they did the "patch" part first. Now it's up to you to do the "test" part.
Oh, please. Our public school system might be going downhill, but that's still not right to unsult our third graders that way.
Just implement RFC 2795.
Yeah, man. I like totally dig your vibe. It's like the man is trying to... wait... what? Hey everybody, Mr. and Mrs. Smith just came out on DVD. Last one to Best Buy is a rotten egg!
What exactly are "pirate stimulating late-night conversations?" and why would I want to have them?
Leaked photos of the upcoming P-p-p-powerbook
There's been a late breaking change. The new score is composed entireley of hip-hop and gangsta rap. Once the producers saw this concept video it was too late for EJ and Webbah. Someone even leaked a recent dress rehearsal looks pretty bad-ass to me.
I was referring to a previous article about UK police wanting to put people in jail for 90 days while they crack the suspects hard drive. No trial, just 3 months away from your friends and family. Granted, this particular article is about the United States' feds, but we don't need any new legislation to hold our citizens in jail without trial. We just need to call them a terrorist or emamy combatant or some other vile name and pack them off to Guantanamo for over 3 years (so far). This wiretap is just a way for the police state to get more power to abuse.
Student goes to jail for 90 days while the feds crack his interwebs