They didn't leave cave paintings or anything that indicates capacity for symbolic reasoning.

Cro-Magnon man on the other hand, left shitloads of evidence like art and jewelry. Those cave painting in France are very extremely well done, probably better drawn than 95% of current human population could do.

as a website maker (I hesitate to use the term developer on slashdot since javascript and php get a lot of hate), I load tons of pages from my own computer -- both my own coded pages and prepackaged stuff like Prestashop ecommerce software and Joomla. And loading pages from localhost is even faster than Google Gigabit fiber internet.

And guess what, it's nice but not life-changing. For example, doing ecommerce admin on a live customer website on the internet via DSL, vs. doing the same thing on my test localhost site. It's faster and less laggy but nothing I would kill for.

The difference between dialup internet and decent cable/DSL was way bigger.

Because the government decreed ActiveX as the standard for banking and other government-related things back in the 90's.

It kinda made sense back then, IE 6 and ActiveX was actually superior to Netscape and Java plug-in (or whatever it was).

The problem is that as time went by, the world moved on, but S.Korea was stuck because everybody was already using ActiveX and they had invested huge amounts of time and money into it. This demonstrates the problem with doing things by government decree. In the US, banks were free to use whatever they damn wanted for their online banking. S.Korea banks had to use ActiveX period.

Sorry, collusion and general douchebaggery is just as much of a leftist Dem characteristic as any other party.

Which party do you think Steve Jobs identified himself with? (hint: it sure as hell ain't the GOP or Tea Party)

If you choose Japanese, you need to install SQR Server 2008.

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iirc the software he's using is Many Faces of Go, which at the time (2009ish) was regarded the best commercially available program I believe.

Thanks for the info, I'll get him Crazy Stone as a birthday gift. He will go nuts over it.

Seems to me like you took a cursory glance at Go and decided it'd be simple to create an algorithm that would be good at it. Without any actual experience.

Have you actually played it? More importantly, have you ever seen a decent player play against a computer?

My dad is an amateur and is not ranked, in chess terms he's not even an expert and basically he's nothing. He stomps the living crap out of the best Go software commercially available; he wins every time. And from reading articles about the state of the art in computer Go programming, it would probably be a winning bet to say that my dad (a barely decent player) could beat any computer program ever made.

No, but being a liberal Democrat is. At least in the Bay area.

waterVapor != life

It's not so much a younger generation vs. older generation fight, it's more about ethnicity. Eastern Ukraine is heavily populated by ethnic Russians and they want the status quo. Western Ukraine has less Russians and they want to get out of the old Soviet sphere of influence and join the E.U.

At the root of the whole thing is economic problems. Ukraine is the shithole of Europe when it comes to economic development, with rampant corruption and vast inefficiencies still left over from communist days. The protesters look to Poland as a model to aspire to, since Poland was in a similar situation as Ukraine when Communism fell, but the Poles have since embraced western Europe and have developed light-years beyond the Ukrainians.

I stopped reading TFA as soon as I saw the author refer to a general as "she'.

Feminism may have its place and I would not have minded if they were talking about something modern, but come on... there were no fucking female generals in the Byzantine army.

btw Belisarius rocked, truly the last of the Romans. He was every bit as awesome as Hannibal and Caesar. Too bad he doesn't get enough recognition because the times he lived in wasn't as interesting.

You guys can cite Econ and Psych all you want, the real world has records of what really happened in the past so it behooves one to pay attention to history.

In situations where the currency was deflationary (money steadily gaining value over time, commodities steadily falling in price), people didn't stop all purchases. (you still need to buy food to live) But purchases dropped significantly and economic activity tanked. Most recent example is Japan during the Lost Decade of 90's - 00's.

This. Since you already have 15 years of C experience, you should pick this up quick. And it will set you apart from all the noob JS/php "developers" whose only knowledge of C is that it's the third letter of the alphabet.

White Knight can't take off from a ship.