An interesting question, is what the most disadvantageous position known, that can still lead to a win is. If that is less than a 5.12 difference, I'd say he has a point in discarding those positions. Otherwise it is demonstrably not a certain conclusion.
I remember one famous game, where the winning side spends the last turns throwing away pieces, only to force a mate through to position gained. I wonder if that play would have been discarded with this approach?

While I agree that claiming a better picture from more expensive HDMI cables is just empty sales-talk, there is a valid point which is often/always overlooked in the HDMI debate: You *can* make a better digital cable. Just look at the different grades of network cables (CAT5, CAT6, etc). So there is a very real reason to make better HDMI cables - they will work over longer distances.

I'm not sure that higher price equals better quality, but no matter what, there is such a thing as a "good" and a "bad" HDMI cable. And since none of us really have any idea of the characteristics of the different cables being discussed here, we can't judge whether the cheap ones are as good as the expensive ones. They may very well be, but it isn't a god-given truth, that only simple, non-technical people would doubt.

There are many. many good reasons to laugh at the pricing of many HDMI-cables and the outrageous claims about what they will do, but I feel that a few more nuances in the debate would suit it.

Looks like a lot of fun to play around with, but is it all youtube videos, or can you actually get to try it on your own? Wouldn't mind buying the game to have a chance to see what a modern multicore CPU could pull off.

They didn't find a trillion numbers - they found all numbers up to a trillion.

FtFP (From the F***ing Paper):

The article is a year old, and basicly just rehashes part of this paper from 2004...

It reminds me of the main character's job rectifying old articles. Except today it's not archived issues of the paper, but web pages. That makes it so much easier to modify content without a trace.

From chapter 4:
"Winston dialled 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to rectify. For example, it appeared from The Times of the seventeenth of March that Big Brother, in his speech of the previous day, had predicted that the South Indian front would remain quiet but that a Eurasian offensive would shortly be launched in North Africa. As it happened, the Eurasian Higher Command had launched its offensive in South India and left North Africa alone. It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother's speech, in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened."
http://www.readprint.com/chapter-7603/George-Orwel l