Sounds great, but it's not going to be something 'off the shelf' or downloadable is it? Meanwhile whatever governmental agency (of whatever government) will be able to afford and use these things....
To be honest I don't think the government are out to get me. I am more concerned that Mr S. Kiddie is going to get hold of one and start snooping on bank transactions.
If they manage to get quantum computing working soon, and working well, we can forget these planned anti-crypto laws. Most crypto algorithms would go useless.
With quantum computers, the only way to do crypto would be transferring huge XOR mask keys physically (or possibly with quantum encryption channels). Pretty hard.
For those people who don't know about quantum encryption:
If you can quantum entangle two particles and move them apart, then doing something to one, has the same effect on the other. The trick is to keep them entangled for long enough, and far enough away, for this to be useful.
If you do manage to do it though, you will have a totally secure encryption channel (you can't snoop it) with no latency. Useful stuff...
Well I suppose now somebody is going to have to update the Quantum modules so they use this stuff:)
if (any(@value) is very useful, but the inclusion into Perl 6 is (AFAIK) currently under RFC . The thought of quantum Perl on a quantum computer makes me feel all tingley...
The article actually says that the drives write at DVD 2.4x, which is approximately 20x in CD language. The CD and DVD speeds are not the same since a 1x CD is the speed required to play an audio / video CD, and a 1x DVD is the speed required to watch a DVD movie.
According to the above ratio 1x DVD is about the same as 8.3x CD.
Jabber could always adapt to sit next to Gnutella... You would still need a log-in server, but that is all, and you could have several, and the bandwidth would be low. You will just end up with a protocol that relays messages around the network until they reach their intended destination, and then set up direct connections as required. Clients only need a central server to get the address of a pear to bounce messages off.
The reason why the GeForce 3 is slower in a lot of tests is it doesn't push pixels as fast out of the 3d pipeline as the current crop of cards do. This is not all bad, because chances are that it will manage to actually have a pixel to push every clock because the rendering pipeline is a lot faster. This does not show with current games because they are rendering quite simple scenes, with games like Doom 3 the story will be quite different because cards like the GeForce 2 (and variants) won't manage to push a pixel every clock, while the GeForce 3 will.
There are big speed improvements to be had on the GeForce 3 - the memory access for instance is using a crossbar switch (which they use in Cray's to keep the pipeline happy). There is a lot of special stuff in there, you just won't notice it until you start trying to render the amazing stuff being shown off on the GeForce 3 demos and videos (like the Apple / GeForce 3 / Doom 3 vid).
There is loads of technical info on this if you look for it, mine came from http://www.tomshardware.com if you are interested.
I am not going to make all the same points that he has but if you have a look at thethe.com you can see that at least one band is fighting the corporate monster. Matt Johnson is giving away his music now because he has been screwed by Vivendi / Seagrams / Universal / Interscope / nothing. The second track from the new album is available at the moment with a new track every week.
The line probing thing is probably just line amplificatoin, which my ISP will change for me if I ask. More is not better in this case, the right ammount will get the best out of a 56k modem. All this modem does (if your ISP has their tech) is do this on-the-fly. I think.
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To be honest I don't think the government are out to get me. I am more concerned that Mr S. Kiddie is going to get hold of one and start snooping on bank transactions.
-- Dooferlad
If you can quantum entangle two particles and move them apart, then doing something to one, has the same effect on the other. The trick is to keep them entangled for long enough, and far enough away, for this to be useful.
If you do manage to do it though, you will have a totally secure encryption channel (you can't snoop it) with no latency. Useful stuff...
-- Dooferlad
Well I suppose now somebody is going to have to update the Quantum modules so they use this stuff :)
if (any(@value) is very useful, but the inclusion into Perl 6 is (AFAIK) currently under RFC . The thought of quantum Perl on a quantum computer makes me feel all tingley...
-- Dooferlad
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"You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services
Did you misunderstand the article or just assume CmdrTaco was talking crap?
-- Dooferlad
Your dream exists: Freenet.
-- Dooferlad
And this evening my brain will start working... just about... now.
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-- Dooferlad
The article actually says that the drives write at DVD 2.4x, which is approximately 20x in CD language. The CD and DVD speeds are not the same since a 1x CD is the speed required to play an audio / video CD, and a 1x DVD is the speed required to watch a DVD movie.
According to the above ratio 1x DVD is about the same as 8.3x CD.
-- Dooferlad
Jabber could always adapt to sit next to Gnutella... You would still need a log-in server, but that is all, and you could have several, and the bandwidth would be low. You will just end up with a protocol that relays messages around the network until they reach their intended destination, and then set up direct connections as required. Clients only need a central server to get the address of a pear to bounce messages off.
The reason why the GeForce 3 is slower in a lot of tests is it doesn't push pixels as fast out of the 3d pipeline as the current crop of cards do. This is not all bad, because chances are that it will manage to actually have a pixel to push every clock because the rendering pipeline is a lot faster. This does not show with current games because they are rendering quite simple scenes, with games like Doom 3 the story will be quite different because cards like the GeForce 2 (and variants) won't manage to push a pixel every clock, while the GeForce 3 will.
There are big speed improvements to be had on the GeForce 3 - the memory access for instance is using a crossbar switch (which they use in Cray's to keep the pipeline happy). There is a lot of special stuff in there, you just won't notice it until you start trying to render the amazing stuff being shown off on the GeForce 3 demos and videos (like the Apple / GeForce 3 / Doom 3 vid).
There is loads of technical info on this if you look for it, mine came from http://www.tomshardware.com if you are interested.
I am not going to make all the same points that he has but if you have a look at thethe.com you can see that at least one band is fighting the corporate monster. Matt Johnson is giving away his music now because he has been screwed by Vivendi / Seagrams / Universal / Interscope / nothing. The second track from the new album is available at the moment with a new track every week.
The line probing thing is probably just line amplificatoin, which my ISP will change for me if I ask. More is not better in this case, the right ammount will get the best out of a 56k modem. All this modem does (if your ISP has their tech) is do this on-the-fly. I think.