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  1. Re:throw new LanguageDilutionException(); on On Going Pro At Magic - The Gathering · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dude Bishop to R3? WTF does that mean? and then you go on talking about "Queen Gambit" when you mean "Queen's Gambit" and that's an opening AND THE FRIGGIN BISHOP CANT EVEN GET TO KR3 OR QR3. STFU CHESS NEWBBBBBB

  2. Re:BitTorrent and hosts.txt on Fort N.O.C.'s Security in Obscurity · · Score: 1

    if it changes 1% a day then the overall change
    is

    1.01^30 (for a thirty day month)

    Which = 1.3478blahblahblah, so does it change 1% a day or 20% a month, or what???

  3. Saturated market on Real Launches New Player, Music Store · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think the "sponge" can hold any more water. Real doesn't exactly have a positive consumer outlook with *anyone* and that is what is needed to survive. Perhaps they should concentrate and using their talent to develop a player people want to use (and pay for.. how do you comptete with WinAmp or iTunes which are free....) before worrying about this extra crap.

  4. Re:India does something & nuclear angle comes on India Plans Hypersonic Space Plane by 2007 · · Score: 1

    The Japenese during the time of WWII and before that believed the Emperor to be either God or acting by divine intervention... Therefore, the US would *NOT* accept any peace treaty until the Emperor himself told the people that he was not God.

    You may be right about the peace treaty, but I suspect that the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved many more lives than a peace treaty would have ( future japanese aggression towards US which would be all but guarenteed at the hands of a "God" emporer ).

  5. Re:Crimsonland on Best Shareware Games Of 2003 Explored · · Score: 1

    I downloaded the trial on your advice.. Very nice game, haven't seen this kind of game mechanic in a while!! Very difficult!!!

    DIE ALIEN SCUM

  6. Re:Kinda like the Matrix... on EverQuest Players Defeat 'Unkillable' Monster · · Score: 5, Funny

    if i hear another friggin matrix analogy i am going to kill myself... and have trinity kiss me to wake me back up..

  7. Re:MS's CLI preview on Microsoft's new CLI · · Score: 2, Funny

    four words: hill air ee us

  8. LokiHack 99 Flashbacks on Activision Releases Call to Power 2 Source · · Score: 4, Informative

    They released the source code a long time ago, for LokiHack 99.. For those of you who don't remember, Loki (the now dead Linux game company) had a contest where the brought in a bunch of open source hacker dudes to try to make the coolest mod to Civ:CTP in 3 days time. (This was in Atlanta during some Linux Expo-- I actually met Hemos there (and had no idea who he was) and ESR (had no idea who he was either)

    I was one of the particpants. I had never played Civilization anything AND was still wet behind the ears from my first years in college. It was embarassing how little I knew of C++.

    Anyway, I putzed around with the source code for 3 days, while sleeping in my car every 16 hours or so.

  9. Re:does the book address on Bitter EJB · · Score: 1

    Back to the Future, Part I, describely pretty plainly how to acheive recursive multivexed field divisions-- simply go to 88 MPH with a Flux Capacitor hooked up to your alternator (GREAT SCOTT).

  10. Re:Secret is stupid on PHBs Getting "Secret" IT Training · · Score: 1

    Six sigma (I assume thats what you mean by green/black betl certs) is only a "tool" to allow the top level pay themselves more.

    It's really quite funny to see someone come up with an idea that will save $1,000,000 a month by shutting the lights off at 11 am. (and then have it implemented) ((and then have them say fuck this bullshit after two days)) (((HAHAHAHAH OMFG)))

    From what I understand-- Six sigma should ONLY be used in manufacturing where there are actual tolerances and "six sigma" means something more than fucking management bonuses

  11. Re:Absolutely wrong on Man Vs Machine In Chess - Who Is Winning? · · Score: 1

    Checkers hasn't been solved yet.

  12. Re:your problem is architecture not java on Should A High-Profile Media Website Abandon Java? · · Score: 1

    Warning: ASSERTION fails for all known values in the universe

  13. Re:It's a creativity issue. on On Randomly Generated Content In Games · · Score: 1

    I can disprove you hypothesis if you allow my one Axiom .

    Axiom 1. A human can take any turing machine and within a finite amount of time determine if it halts or not.

    Theorem : Humans are not deterministic machines.

    Proof:
    See Turing.

  14. Re:Another bug.. on Anniversary of the First Computer Bug · · Score: 1

    I used to work for a large company that makes yellow tractors. We put the spider there and in thousands of your other tractors too! Eat that Deere!

  15. Holy Megabytes Batman on Java 1.4.1 Update 1 for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    39.7 MB update!! WTF!!

    Yahoo! games better work now so I can finally delete explorer!! WOOHOO.

  16. Re:Is that 1.999 repeating? on Introducing Probability into Chip Design · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How do we know 1/3 = .3333 infinite????? Your proof is flawed!!

    Instead just take the infinite sum of

    Sum[ 9 / (10^i), {i, 1, Infinity}]

  17. Re:12 bits for a move, 276 bits for a board on Codename Brutus: Chess-Playing FPGA PCI Card · · Score: 1

    Ignoring flags for the moment....

    If you have the start position of say, a rook,

    bits 0-5, bits 6-7 bits 8-11
    xxxyyy dir squares moved (up to 7!)

    So that is still 12 :-). Also, most computer chess programs don't try for minimal encoding since they also pack in enough information to "undo" the move after it is made as well as ordering information (since alpha/beta is heavily dependant on move order). My crappy chess engine fits it in (barely) with 32 bits.

    As for flags, you only need 4 for castling, 4 for enpassant. For three-fold repeition, if you even bother keeping track, you need to keep track of all moves previous to the last un-reversible move (i.e., capture, pawn move, castling, etc), as that can go on for 100 "half-moves", you will need 12*100 bits for that :-)

  18. Re:Fits in a standard PCI slot. on Codename Brutus: Chess-Playing FPGA PCI Card · · Score: 2, Informative

    You need more than 12 bits to store a move-- en passant captures, castling and pawn promotions have to be handled seperately.

  19. Re:And poor me on Codename Brutus: Chess-Playing FPGA PCI Card · · Score: 2, Informative

    tarquin $> xboard -size small

    That will do the trick

  20. API Reference on Microsoft's Smartphone 2003 SDK Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    bool makeCall(long phoneNumber) - Calls phonenumber. Must be in (xxx)xxx-xxxx format. Returns true on success.

    void hangUp() - Hang up the phone. Has no effect if phone is already hung up.

    void blueScreen(double p) - Crash the phone with probability p, sampled every 100 cycles, or whenever the user is on phone with his boss. This is determined by the address book.

  21. Re:It's a Manipulation Tactic on Insurance Claims to be Tested by Lie Detector · · Score: 1

    Blame the courts/laws that would convict based on what you said there and *not* the insurance company. Who is to say they wouldn't have investigated your claim without the voice analysis with the same results? It is simply a tool they will be using-- if it fails, business as usual, if it passes, they will launch a full investigation. No big deal.

  22. Re:Society's laws grow from its mores on Pew Study: File Traders Don't Care About Copyright · · Score: 1

    Are you really Katz?

  23. Another basis in fiction, much earlier.... on The Beast of Brussels · · Score: 1

    Isaac Asimov once wrote short stories about an uber-computer called "Multivac" that controlled all world trade, education, science, etc.

  24. Can my car go really fast? on Can .NET Really Scale? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This entire story is lacking units.. I am so confused, it is like this...

    "I bought a 400 car from my dealer, who said it could go 0-1200 in 57, but I talked to an auto mechanic and he said that the rpm throttled at 4.5 billion, so I don't know if I should get a turbo charger which would at least boost the speed to 1295!!"

    If you are talking about 100 concurrent request per second: Any DB worth its salt should handle that IFF the database queries aren't too complex. If they are, your schemas suck. This is doubly true on a 3 GHz machine.

  25. Re:cha ching .. on Matrix Reloaded on DVD Before Revolutions · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not disturbing that you've watched it so many times.. It is disturbing that you would think we would care what formats you watched it in.