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Ah. So it was an implicit warning about the evils of the loose morals of the government of the Netherlands. I see. Good point.

I was making the point that the parenthetical statement was totally non-sequitur. What does euthanasia have to do with body modification?

I assume this has been passed on to the relevant lead developers for the expansions.

Hee hee, I think it's more a case of the actors trying to duplicate the Newfie accent. )

Yeah, Girls > Computers.

I couldn't tell if they were trying to speak with an Irish accent half the time.

Caption contest? "Oh!" said God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly disappeared in a puff of logic.

It is a trade-off: user-friendliness versus complexity of the toolset.

Just watched The Shipping News: I knew this film had a good pedigree, but I had not seen it until now. Superb cast. (The plot is a bit silly.)

I'll stick it if it needs it.

Why do you want a booting copy of your old drive (data)?

(Always nice to be appreciated.)

CONSPIRACY

I do get a perverse sense of enjoyment at reading the destructive power of munitions. :">

Never got any earlier requests.

It's dead. You keep beating the poor beast. Even if Obsidian aren't bored with reading it, I am.

Deep Blue was also a supercomputer, so it could do pretty well in those moments.

They should have the same system as the sports news on tv: "If you don't want to know the score, look away now ..!" )

Perhaps they are projections? Certainly not cost averaging ...

Deep Blue did not make its moves immediately. In the first game it was a bit more mechanistic, not using more than 3 minutes for a move, but as the game came to a close, there were moves that were taking as many as 6 minutes. Some moves took as much as 15 minutes. Kasparov's issue was that Deep Blue wasn't designed to be a good chess player, but rather it was designed specifically to be Kasparov. He also regretted playing the final game, as he wasn't really mentally into it (as evidence by his conceding defeat after only 19 moves). The big advantage Deep Blue had was that it didn't get fatigued. Kasparov spent more time analyzing the games than any other game he had taken part in, and by the end he had lost his fighting spirit. He also admits that his prior experience with computer chess players led him to some false assumptions about Deep Blue. This was part of the reason why he lost Game 2 (it also led to him speculating that Deep Blue was being tampered with, since Game 1 was more in line with how computer chess players tend to play). The fact that it was making moves that he absolutely did not expect shocked him, and added to the pressure. That's what psyched him out. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I suspect your expansion on my point was concerning my poetic licence over "immediate" ... I don't know about you, but I've played many computer chess opponents that take hours, days ... even PBEM games.

Easy to say especially for someone who doesn't indulge in "what-if" thinking. You really think the US is invulnerable to the world, don't you? That's just amazing.

Wow, well done Mus?. I couldn't beat those eunuchs with barbeques.

Mainline heroine, it's quicker.

I am cleverer.