I had a weird dream last night. <\/p>\n
Ah… all dreams are weird so that’s data redundancy already.<\/p>\n
Anyway… in my dream, Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates were playing chess in a park. The ambience was even in 3<\/font>D… surreal 3<\/font>D to be precise, sort of a distorted 3<\/font>D-like environment quite close to Pixar<\/a>‘s animated chess clip, Geri’s Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n (Speaking of Pixar, check out this latest Incredibles trailer<\/a>.)<\/p>\n But this dream’s more darker… and more violet-ish.<\/p>\n Probably Steve Jobs is behind all these ‘Microsoft versus Linux games’, eh? Sounds like an interesting conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n But no, this isn’t about conspiracy theories<\/a>… this is about my dream. <\/p>\n Besides, Steve doesn’t give an iMice arse about this, he’s too busy on his ‘chameleonic computer<\/a>‘, you know a Mac whose shell can change colors, or the second Japan Apple store opening<\/a> or the rumored Apple TabletPC<\/a>.<\/p>\n There… wandering again… back to the dream.<\/p>\n I can’t remember everything but there was a point in that dream when Linus was taunting Bill… ‘You can’t beat me, I’ve been playing this game since I was still a kid, when I was in beta version. My linux shell commands and libraries naming convention are even inspired by the way chess moves are recorded.’<\/p>\n Bill replied, ‘Are you familiar with the Windows BSOD? It has VxD written all over it.’<\/p>\n I can’t remember who won that game or how the dream ended. But I do remember it shifting places where the next ‘scene’ involves a half cyborg rabbit.<\/p>\n Speaking of chess, the 14<\/a><\/font>th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival<\/a> is being held from August 14<\/font> to August 24, 2004<\/font>. One of its main highlight is the ‘Clash of The Computer Titans’ which features the multi-champion Shredder against the Linux-powered Hydra<\/a>. <\/p>\n Yes… I think humans grew tired of watching those human versus machine chess tournaments (or probably the human versus human battles) already that they’re firing up these machine versus machine tournaments.<\/p>\n Creating a program that do those chess-move-analysis computation I know is an ultimate milestone for humans, but if you’d ask me I still think it is the uber-most-geek-iest way of having an excuse not to play the game. <\/p>\n An excuse not to think which is ironic because humans need to think.<\/p>\n I know… I know… creating such program involves a lot of thinking. But there is a big difference when you think about chess, or think about algorithms prior to the game and during the actual game of chess.<\/p>\n It’s like ‘Uh-oh, the queen is out already, let Shredder (or Deep Blue or Hydra) do the next move for me.’<\/p>\n That’s why my bet is still on Kasparov (that is if he decides to play against a computer once again), or any of his human successor.<\/p>\n