Life In 19x19

Edit, more relevant to recent discussion: When one talks about earning money with poker and compares it to a job, one frequently forgets things like paid vacation, paid sick-leave, healthcare, pensions etc (of course the effect of these varies by country and legislation, in Finland it means a ...

Redundant wrote:
I see it more like wiretapping a hotel room.

You are using a server for free. It is closer to an arena than a hotel room; even if you open a separate chat window.

When you're online assume everything you write is logged/copied somewhere and you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

I've met more Go snobs than Chess snobs. I don't know any Chess players that don't appreciate Go.
I have met many more chess players who even don't know what go is. In fact, most here in the Western Hemisphere don't know what go is.

That's not my experience at all. Go isn't really a secret ...

Something that you might want to mention to your chess-snob friends is that, while professional chess players have switched over to become professional Go players, I've never heard of it happening the other way around. Or just drop in there that, while Go is orders of magnitude more complex than ...

I know of no person who became great in his art by lurking around on the Internet. There are some truly exceptional people out there, who became absolutely fantastic at what they do. If we want to mimic them, coming here is one of the first things to stop doing.

True, nobody becomes great in ...

Since I mainly play on KGS, and have recently started playing on IGS and Tygem as well, I was somwhat at a loss as to what rank I should be, as some of the rank information on http://senseis.xmp.net/?RankWorldwideComparison is pretty vague. Well, for Tygem, definitely. I started at a ...

People that feel powerless in life need these kinds of outlets. They're sad and pathetic. Try to remember that when it happens to you. I pity the fools and feel fortunate that I'm not one of them.

Why are these limited to iPads and iPhones (not even older iPhones)? Why not an application for desktops and laptops which would broaden your potential market enormously?
It might not broaden the market that much. It's not the sheer number of devices that counts, it's the number of devices that ...

Why are these limited to iPads and iPhones (not even older iPhones)? Why not an application for desktops and laptops which would broaden your potential market enormously?