Life In 19x19

I should note that presently my solution is not working because somehow Java managed to modify the container with the patch. When I get time I'll try to fix it and report on my results.

kas

Amelia:

I'm imagining a scene one doesn't see in the cinema. A group of older samurai in a long meeting with the daimyo are sitting in seiza and fidgeting to the point that the younger samurai start wondering if a coup is about to occur.

kas

Thanks for the insight, penfold:

It was interesting in the Hikaru no Go series that while the Insei all sat in seiza, the older tournament players sat on floor height chairs like those in post 4, with the consequence that their legs had to be crossed. My take-away was that modern Japanese have ...

Years ago after I had trained for [amateur] cross-country ski racing for several years and became fairly flexible, I could sit in seiza for up to 30 minutes on a cushion. But for the last 10 minutes it was pretty distracting. Close inspection of modern Japanese anime, which presents some visual ...

boldhre: I wasn't trying by my comments to suggest an algorithm for transforming violations to consequences. I was observing that "shunning" by suppressing comments for some period as a penalty would be less drastic than outright banning, and that it would perhaps better retain the purpose of the ...

EdLee:

By sit on the floor, should I assume you mean posterior on the floor and not on your heels (seiza position)?

kas

I guess it is worth clarifying that if a particular comment zone is intended for discussion about anything, then only bad manners sould be an issue within that zone. Games, however, should have comments limited to the game and by extension to related games and potential past and future moves ...

I think that there is a cultural divide in play that requires admins to keep one faction from dominating the other faction. The divide is between people who want to concentrate on go, and those who -- like the twitter generation -- believe their every thought is important to the rest of the world. I ...

Thank you boglesan and Bill Spight. The meager consensus so far is coffee table height, plus or minus a few inches. I too have found regular height tables to be a bit awkward for go, although leaning on elbows becomes feasible (a no-no in good manners) while scoping out the n-1 critical positions I ...

This seems to be the perfect audience to ask a related question for my go study space to be.

In the "classic" setup of cthomas on page 1 (post 4), the player's knees are about at goban top surface height and outside of the perimeter of the goban. In some AGA published tournament photographs, the ...

I can understand that view; I hope he has fun and I wish him well.

Judging only from what I observe, complaints have been raised that fall into the insufficient maintenance category. Certainly the client of a service has to take what he gets when the service is free or modest in cost, particularly ...

When one has a house project he wants to do himself, or has to do himself, but has to stay employed to pay for it, or to eat, progress will be slow. Anyone who doubts this should spend a lifetime living in and maintaining a house.

If KGS is not economically sustaining but the project is too large ...

Java web start downloads new instances of Cgoban into new folder hierarchies, so each new instance wouldn't have a way to be exposed to the Big Ugly Hack package. However, that is not all bad; I have found that I need to use this mode to hear the sensei on recorded lectures.

kas

If you Mac guys can bear to look, the thread "stone clicking sound missing - windows 7" has a "big ugly hack" java solution by Nick23 that generally works on Linux based OSs as well as Windows. In my experience on Mint, it only works for java running the downloadable resident .jar file, but not with ...

Alternative resolution.

Rather than hacking the source code, I used the "big ugly hack" that Nick23 documented in post 29 in the thread: stone clicking sound missing - windows 7.

The only difference is that for Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon, there are four folders after /jvm, each with a /jre. I chose ...