The endgame (yose) is the subject of many mathematical researches, but this is the least interesting part of the game. "Normally" when players arrived at this stage, the player who is behind resigns. It is impolite to oblige your oponent to play until the very end of the game when you are far behind.
The mathematical study of endgame has succeded in finding some mistakes in professional games that changed the score by up to 4 points and that changed the result of the game in very very rare cases.
Except for the endgame, we have no clue of how mathematic can help playing go effectively.
... and you will see how using internet can be nice.
I remember the good old days (1991, 92, 93). There was xhtalk to know when my girfriend was online (her school was 500 km away). There was also xarchie to find softwares. Using gopher I have read some security notes concerning SunOS vulnerabilities and was able to become root. Finger was also marvellous. I remember having used a server (accesible via telnet) in autralia to find the email address of a friend only from its name and the name of its school. During the nights, the computer rooms were closed, but one friend had a PC with linux (release 0.97, then 0.99pl10 12 14) in his room. This PC was connected to the network. I learned the word SPAM in 1993 on some newsgroup, slightly before the word troll.
All this is crap: wind turbines cost a lot to produce, need a lot of copper which production is very poluting and the amount of energy produced is always bellow estimations. The only purpose of wind turbine farms is to get subventions and fiscal advantages, there is no ecological justification and once this will become obvious to everybody, the subventions and fiscal advantages will disapear and we will stop this nonsense.
For unlicensed users, just put a big nag screen with a delay (5s or 10s).
For licensed users, do not put any copy protection but gives them a different registration key for each user. This key shall clearly contain their name. Tell them that they are responsible if their key is divulgated to internet.
There is no burden for legitimate users, this should frighten illegal users and it is really trivial to implement.
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The endgame (yose) is the subject of many mathematical researches, but this is the least interesting part of the game. "Normally" when players arrived at this stage, the player who is behind resigns. It is impolite to oblige your oponent to play until the very end of the game when you are far behind.
The mathematical study of endgame has succeded in finding some mistakes in professional games that changed the score by up to 4 points and that changed the result of the game in very very rare cases.
Except for the endgame, we have no clue of how mathematic can help playing go effectively.
... and you will see how using internet can be nice.
I remember the good old days (1991, 92, 93). There was xhtalk to know when my girfriend was online (her school was 500 km away). There was also xarchie to find softwares. Using gopher I have read some security notes concerning SunOS vulnerabilities and was able to become root. Finger was also marvellous. I remember having used a server (accesible via telnet) in autralia to find the email address of a friend only from its name and the name of its school. During the nights, the computer rooms were closed, but one friend had a PC with linux (release 0.97, then 0.99pl10 12 14) in his room. This PC was connected to the network. I learned the word SPAM in 1993 on some newsgroup, slightly before the word troll.
lost eden :-(
Are you joking ? On percentage of votes, Bush was behind.
All this is crap: wind turbines cost a lot to produce, need a lot of copper which production is very poluting and the amount of energy produced is always bellow estimations. The only purpose of wind turbine farms is to get subventions and fiscal advantages, there is no ecological justification and once this will become obvious to everybody, the subventions and fiscal advantages will disapear and we will stop this nonsense.
For unlicensed users, just put a big nag screen with a delay (5s or 10s). For licensed users, do not put any copy protection but gives them a different registration key for each user. This key shall clearly contain their name. Tell them that they are responsible if their key is divulgated to internet. There is no burden for legitimate users, this should frighten illegal users and it is really trivial to implement.