Czuch: Is this any help?

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BlueScreen Screen Saver v3.2

Until I saw this, I thought MS always took themselves seriously.

Here's a comic book version for you, MadMonkey:

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

anastasia:

YouTube does allow "private" settings:    Sharing Videos: Make my video private

If the Menu Bar is already showing (with items such as "File", "Edit", "View", etc.), it's pretty easy:  View --> Text Size --> (and take your pick from the 5 choices)

If the Menu Bar items aren't already displayed, I think a right click up "near" the top of a browser page should bring up a little menu--just check "Menu Bar" there.

Andersp: Have you tried switching the connections from the hub?  Just to make sure that's not the problem.  I've had a couple of Linksys devices that have lost some (but not all) of their ports due to nearby lightning strikes and associated power surges--despite their being connected behind a decent battery backup system that offers pretty good clamping.  Kaboom!  And 4 port devices became 2 port devices.

I hope this might help someone...

One thing that's helped my BrainKing page loading:  preventing 400 or so smiley files from having to be re-downloaded from nearly every page I visit here.

In IE7:  Tools --> Internet Options --> General --> Browsing History --> Settings --> Check for newer versions of stored pages

If "Every time I visit the webpage" is currently checked on your system, you might want to consider changing that to: "Every time I start Internet Explorer".

I suppose it's possible that something similar could help users of other browsers.

I suppose it's also possible that I'm just an idiot...and no one else would ever set up their browser the way I did!   

ellieoop:

     I can't figure that out.  I'm running IE 7.0.5730.11 here, and I still see the current number of games whee it's my turn to move--both on the tab's label, and also on the browser window (whenever the BK tab is the active one).  But I'll keep looking...

That's the title of an article in the current issue of Science, by Jonathan Schaeffer, Neil Burch, Yngvi Björnsson, et al, from the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta.

Article abstract:
The game of checkers has roughly 500 billion billion possible positions (5 x 10²⁰). The task of solving the game, determining the final result in a game with no mistakes made by either player, is daunting. Since 1989, almost continuously, dozens of computers have been working on solving checkers, applying state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques to the proving process. This paper announces that checkers is now solved: perfect play by both sides leads to a draw. This is the most challenging popular game to be solved to date, roughly one million times more complex than Connect Four. Artificial intelligence technology has been used to generate strong heuristic-based game-playing programs, such as DEEP BLUE for chess. Solving a game takes this to the next level, by replacing the heuristics with perfection.