civilengineer - Slashdot User

Comment Lending library (Score 1) 276

by civilengineer on Thursday March 13, 2014 @06:24PM (#46478081) Attached to: Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee

The only reason I considered prime was for the lending library which is advertised as having 500k books to borrow. Turns out you have buy a Kindle device to use the library. You cannot use the Kindle app on your phone or non-Amazon tablet for it. So, I bought a Kindle and then realized they only let you borrow one book a month. So, the whole 500k books to borrow ad is a little misleading. Cancelled my trial of Prime and returned the Kindle. Netflix has better content for online videos and we don't need the free 2-day shipping enough to justify even $79 per year.

Comment It's cheaper at Amazon than at BN (Score 5, Informative) 228

by civilengineer on Wednesday October 06, 2004 @04:54PM (#10454107) Attached to: Beginning PHP and MySQL

$26.39 at Amazon.com. $31.99 at BN.com

Journal Journal: The move 5...a6

Journal by civilengineer on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @06:07PM

The series ended in a draw essentialy because of one move. The move 5. ...a6 in game 3 by the computer is very interesting/controversial. A computer needs to be programmed to play to its strength, i.e open positions. This move reveals a fundamental flaw in the program. The computer chose this even though 6. c5 is among possible replies which forcibly closes the position. So, the programmers did not incorporate best algorithms to avoid closed positions. Instead of 5....a6 why d

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