Re:Chess has already been conquered. Humans lose!
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Solving Chess?
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I think that 2 computers playing each other would get closer to the "perfect" game than we humans ever will.
what sort of algorithms are these machines going to use to reach this perfect game? sure, its nice to be able to compute the next 4 trillion possible moves, but i think once we get the computers playing eachother a genetic learning alorithm could be developed in order to find out what the perfect game is. by recognizing an patern, the computer could then eliminate many possible moves (with an exponential amount of following moves) from the ones it has to calculate.
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stupid little creatures
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Sim Plague
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what do you want now? oh, you're hungry. ok, fine then, don't sit in the hot tub anymore, go make dinner. what? yes, the stove is on fire. oh, go stand in the middle of the fire, yeah, that's a good idea. point at it and freak out, yep, that'll fix it. retards.
you know, given that my sim just tends to pass out on the floor when he gets tired, i doubt he could be trusted to take care of another living creature. no wonder the hamster bites them and gives them diseases.
just how fully featured is this product going to be? while i like the idea of a pda running a kernel that isn't going to fail on me (the palm is pretty good, but i've done my share of hard resets), i'm worried about the device trying to be a full featured computer. The palmOS is so successful because it's an organizer that can function like a computer... WindowsCE (and from the looks of pocketPC we're in for more of the same) is a computer that can act like an organizer.
As a power user, I think it would be cool to be able to switch to another tty on my palm and start some hacking, and I'm sure most slashdotters would too... but the majority of people who by pdas are businessmen who need the simplicity of the organizer. I hope that this device can successfully take the linux kernel, impliment it fully into the system, yet avoid the pitfalls of the almostthepriceofarealnotebookonlywithlesspower windows CE type devices
Ok, sorry to respond to my own post, but I got to thinking about it, and maybe i'm not too lazy to do this sort of a thing.
I'm wondering, has anyone heard of software that does this sort of thing already? That is, keep track of mirrors, and point users to the best one?
If creating such a piece of software isn't redundant, would anyone want to work on this project with me? I envision writing a piece of software (GPL'd, of course) that would be abstracted to any sort of file, and then a website built around it that would help people download mirrors. The software driving it could be usefull to any large, often downloaded file... where the difference of 10k/sec in transfer rates can be quite a bit.
If anyone has ideas, please post them here. If you are interested in participating in a project to do this, please email me at the address above, just remove the ALLCAPS part.
It's often difficult to find ISO images of Linux distributions to download and burn onto a CD-ROM.
Actually, I've never had a problem finding the iso, at least of the distros i've used (mandrake, redhat, suse)... but the problem was finding a mirror that was fast enough, espeically when a new version is released (for example, when Mandrake 7.0 was released i never found a site that gave me a transfer rate higher than 14k/s untill about a week later). But given that this site was denying me my anonymous login, which i hope means that the ftp was full, and not that this is a subscription service, really, what good is it? I could see this as beeing a viable and perhaps even profitable (banner ads perhaps) idea, but if the bandwidth isn't there.
What I would suggest (and write the code for, if i weren't so lazy) is a site that keeps track of the mirrors for all the distros, and have a script that will direct a user to the closest/fastest mirror for them. That would be helpful, and I wouldn't even mind looking at banner ads for it.
sue-zuh, eh? well, it's been a while since i was in the high school marching band, but we'll see if i can blow my 75 trombones.:) almost everyone i know pronounces it sue-see, but then again, many people call linux lie-nix (as opposed to lin-ix, which everyone knows is right). but knowing a bit of german i should have been able to figure that one out for myself.
a comment to all of you bitching about the possibility of your comments being used and uncredited in Jon's book: 1) if you're such a katz hater, what makes you think that your comments will even show up in the book? i doubt there will be the trolls about how much he sucks included. 2) are you actually going to spend the $15 to buy the book and carefully read though to see if any of your comments are in there? yeah right. more likely you are complaing for the sake of complaining...
ah... no more being tied to a specific vendor. back in the day, it was that you ran a specific os (windows) on a specific chip (an intel one, of course), and there really wasn't much you could do about it. I don't think that linux is fully ready for the desktop consumer (but then, neither is windows), but it is getting close. Its nice that other hardware choices can be made. Linux and BeOS both run on multiple platforms, and it looks like MacOS X will too (or at least there will be a darwin port to x86), so the only OS that doesn't seem to be jumping on the bandwagon is Windows... and given the different technologies that different chip makers are coming up with (for example, altavec was mentioned in the article), i think that microsoft is going to have to follow suit in order to stay competetive. the more different OSes will run on different machines, we'll see more room for personal choice, and more innovation both the software and hardware manufactures have to compete.
telemarketer(generally with southern accent: hello, can i speak to mr.... um... matzager?
me: (talking to someone in room) ya gook amaton telefona goanooa ga foona (to telemarketer) he is not speaking the english, i will to be translating for you
telemarketer: i'm calling today to tell you about our low introductory rate for the discover gold platinum card... (etc)
me: (to someone in room) yamma dinnga og la ponuma gaylay discover ye plantuim gold alkaka fon dingadingadinga do par qoo (etc) (hold phone away, now the other person in room talking) kaka holaapop! yohga harlima goarboopa lamerasay godda dingaliglalinga fart! danka tochinea gooka joibers! (to telemarketer) mr metzger is wishing me to be informing you that he wishes you to take card and stick it in your bumhole
... you can't take revenge on spammers like that. if you reply they just take it as a sign that your email address is active and then they spam it some more
on one hand, i kinda dislike having to toss out junkmail the snailmailman brings me, i dislike having to filter though spam email, and i *hate* it when telemarketers call me when i'm eating/bathing/playing quake. on the other hand, i don't like the idea of the government stepping in and telling people what they can an cannot say and do. this is a form of censorship, and while it would be to my benefit, i fear that allowing one form of censorship will lead to another. one thing that isn't legal, nor a protect freedom, is harassment. i would say that if a company is repeatedly calling me, even after i have requested that they not, then it is harrassment. we need to treat spammers and telemarketers in the same way. they should have the freedom to contact us, but they should have to clearly identify who they are, and if asked to stop, they should. if they continue then a person (or group of peoples) should be able to file suit in civil court. the same should apply to the direct marketing lists. if i ask company X to remove me from their list and no longer email or call me, then they should not be able to sell or publish my phone number/email address. it is this sort of balance that is needed to keep people from being harassed, while at the same time maintaining liberties.
maybe i'm just being paraniod, but doesn't it just seem like the japanese government is helping sony protect their own interests by stoping export? sony would be protecting their profits in the united states and elsewhere by keeping the japanese ps2 in japan. the question is, do large corporations really have that much control over the japense government? i guess i could see the US congress cutting a deal for certain american corps
you know what? i don't think i'm going down with any ship, and i don't own stock in them. i'm a geek and a programmer, and i care about the quality of a product, not the stock price of a company that makes it
Where I live (University of North Dakota) there isn't WAP or the Palm VII service available. In fact, cell/digital phones are the only sort of wireless service around here, and judging from the service maps i see on the website of some major wireless providers, there isn't going to be service around here for quite some time. And why should there be? There are plenty of people in the midwest, but we are scattered out enough that wireless really isn't cost effective. So why bother? Like the saleman at office max here said, it is silly for them to even carry the palm VII. All adding wireless onto these devices is going to do is drive up the price. I mean, people in areas with service are still going to want palms for what they were desgined as -- organizers. If there is going to be wireless hardware on the new palms, it should be available as an ad on... then again, that may be the line of thinking that comes from being a handspring visor owner.
if nintendo can patent the game dr mario, then what other sorts of software can be patented? The patent on Dr Mario explained in detail how the game was played, but could one apply the same sort of thing to say, a web browser? I mean, they all work the same, basically - right down the the UI. Spreadsheets, word processors, and even OS GUI layers all look alike... if patents can be issued for a piece of software, what will stop the "inventor" of the next killer app from getting a patent and stopping people from cloning it? Could you imagine if VisuCalc (or whatever it was called) was the only spreadsheet program that existed?
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what sort of algorithms are these machines going to use to reach this perfect game? sure, its nice to be able to compute the next 4 trillion possible moves, but i think once we get the computers playing eachother a genetic learning alorithm could be developed in order to find out what the perfect game is. by recognizing an patern, the computer could then eliminate many possible moves (with an exponential amount of following moves) from the ones it has to calculate.
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you know, given that my sim just tends to pass out on the floor when he gets tired, i doubt he could be trusted to take care of another living creature. no wonder the hamster bites them and gives them diseases.
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As a power user, I think it would be cool to be able to switch to another tty on my palm and start some hacking, and I'm sure most slashdotters would too... but the majority of people who by pdas are businessmen who need the simplicity of the organizer. I hope that this device can successfully take the linux kernel, impliment it fully into the system, yet avoid the pitfalls of the almostthepriceofarealnotebookonlywithlesspower windows CE type devices
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I'm wondering, has anyone heard of software that does this sort of thing already? That is, keep track of mirrors, and point users to the best one?
If creating such a piece of software isn't redundant, would anyone want to work on this project with me? I envision writing a piece of software (GPL'd, of course) that would be abstracted to any sort of file, and then a website built around it that would help people download mirrors. The software driving it could be usefull to any large, often downloaded file... where the difference of 10k/sec in transfer rates can be quite a bit.
If anyone has ideas, please post them here. If you are interested in participating in a project to do this, please email me at the address above, just remove the ALLCAPS part.
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Actually, I've never had a problem finding the iso, at least of the distros i've used (mandrake, redhat, suse)... but the problem was finding a mirror that was fast enough, espeically when a new version is released (for example, when Mandrake 7.0 was released i never found a site that gave me a transfer rate higher than 14k/s untill about a week later). But given that this site was denying me my anonymous login, which i hope means that the ftp was full, and not that this is a subscription service, really, what good is it? I could see this as beeing a viable and perhaps even profitable (banner ads perhaps) idea, but if the bandwidth isn't there.
What I would suggest (and write the code for, if i weren't so lazy) is a site that keeps track of the mirrors for all the distros, and have a script that will direct a user to the closest/fastest mirror for them. That would be helpful, and I wouldn't even mind looking at banner ads for it.
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me: (talking to someone in room) ya gook amaton telefona goanooa ga foona
(to telemarketer) he is not speaking the english, i will to be translating for you
telemarketer: i'm calling today to tell you about our low introductory rate for the discover gold platinum card... (etc)
me: (to someone in room) yamma dinnga og la ponuma gaylay discover ye plantuim gold alkaka fon dingadingadinga do par qoo (etc)
(hold phone away, now the other person in room talking) kaka holaapop! yohga harlima goarboopa lamerasay godda dingaliglalinga fart! danka tochinea gooka joibers!
(to telemarketer) mr metzger is wishing me to be informing you that he wishes you to take card and stick it in your bumhole
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