Yes! Clearly, this story was written by the 1% who wishes everyone's shoulders were like theirs.

It took just one Dennis Ritchie to do that back in the 70s, and he used much less water in the process!

*turns feature on* Thanks for the tip!

Both are played with white and black stones, but they play very differently. In go your object is to surround territory. If a group of stones is completely surrounded, then they are captured and taken off the board and counted toward your score. You can place a stone anywhere on the board so long as that stone has at least one liberty (a blank spot next to it or next to a line of adjacent stones of the same color) and so long as you don’t recreate a prior board position with the same player to play.

So really, the rules are simpler than Othello but the play is much more challenging. You get all sorts of abstract battle field type tactics, building supply chains, making converging forces, all sorts of stuff.

Nah, once you get into it you start wanting luxury rocks. Thick kaya wood boards with their own legs with shell and slate stones that make the "pa-chick" sound just so. Oh, and that kaya board needs to have the bottom hand carved by a master to get just the perfect resonance. Well worth the $3,000.00 price tag! (Provided you have someone to play with on the regular.)

But alas, I do not have a go playing friend. At least not in meat space. So I have a few cheap boards and play online.

Ok, so that's not the "go" the article is talking about.

Go, the game, should catch on IMHO. I find it to be much richer than chess, both to play and to watch. Also, it has a kickass manga to go with it, so what's not to love?

I love that line. In the DVD Commentary that I have, Adam West playfully quipped at that moment "Well, that about sums up my post-Batman career."

I think I'll break out the old boxed set this evening and have some campy fun. Penguin for Mayor! Pengy, the people's pick!

Ok, so I have a favorite character; stemming from the fact that Burgess Meredith is one of my all time favorite actors. In fact, the movie they shot between seasons 1 and 2 is where my screen name came from. Want to buy a diesel powered surplus pre-atomic submarine but you're a super villain? You'll need a clever alias, Mr. P. N. Gwen :D

I’ve never been one to idle well. Back when I worked in industry, I would take on consulting work because I was pretty bored by Sunday, but then I became an academic. There’s an infinite supply of work to do! I can teach, research, code, and plot subterfuge to my heart’s content. I do that six days a week and then read and binge watch stuff on Saturdays. It’s great, and AI will have to pry those two days out of my cold dead hands if it wants to make me work four days only!

Then again, I could compromise. Perhaps I could plot subterfuge with the AI. Hmmm

Itâ(TM)s time we addressed these important issues. Now US diplomacy is great again. Weâ(TM)ll make peace bigly with the best words in the best fonts.

Ok, thatâ(TM)s my sarcasm quota for the day taken care of.

... that they have changed it to 'Louvre1'

Thank you! I'll see myself out.

Did you pay money for it? If the answer is no, then you are not the customer; you are the product! So applying that, this browser is designed for you to train the AI.

This works for everything online. Though I suppose there are some additional grades. Did you pay ENOUGH to sustain your usage? If the answer is no then you are partially the product. Companies that offer "free" things are evil little spies. Companies that offer subscription services that cost money are potentially not stealing your data or tricking you into doing things for them.

While I applaud the effort to try to keep Android open, I think it is futile. Even if this campaign succeeds, google will just continue to chip away at androidâ(TM)s openness until they achieve the closed off system they want. That, in turn, means that it is dying.

The thing is, googleâ(TM)s Android is an inferior product both in terms of capability and user experience. The only value proposition it held for me was its openness, and since that is a deprecated feature I decided to jump ship while my Android devices still had value. I sold my flagship galaxy lineup (ultra, tablet, watch, and ring) and bought the Apple equivalents.

I had to kick in about $50 to rebuy apps that did not have transferable subscriptions, but apart from that little annoyance the transition has been very smooth. The transfer of my last Google Drive file completed last week and now I am fully in Appleâ(TM)s clutches.

To say that this has improved my life is an understatement. The integration between Mac, iPad, and iPhone is just wonderful. Granted I no longer have a device with a usable shell in my pocket, but it does have an ssh client and that is almost just as good. That iCloud encrypts files at rest and has the ability to be configured in a way where apple does not possess the keys was a pleasant surprise. They are certainly selling privacy as a feature!

So there it is. I have given up. The walled garden is delightful. Appleâ(TM)s garden is green and is a joy to wander through. Googleâ(TM)s is more like a prison camp with muck raked over every surface and machine gun equipped cameras watching your every move.

Choose the pleasant prison. Itâ(TM)s better.

Ha! Made ya look!

99% of what I do on my phone is done through open source F-Droid applications. I have very little from the play store. Essentially, I have my built-in apps, Hearthstone, and then a few apps forced on me by modern society. Otherwise, my phone is a pocket linux machine with a bunch of F-Droid apps thrown in. So essentially, my platform is about to die. It's not so much that I am changing ecosystems as it is that Google is about to poison my ecosystem. So I'll simply be starting fresh in a new environment, and I would not choose Android over iOS.