He apparently holds the delusion that gold somehow has an "intrinsic" value that is fixed (yeah, like the gold price never changes), and that it's "accepted everywhere" (yeah, sure) and thus is different than any other currency (which it, of course, isn't).
It's still rare, pretty and shiny and people still like that. Also, it has some relatively unique chemical properties that make it valuable as a resource.
In case you're referring to "Nadia", it was pretty much a ripoff of "Nausicaa" and "Laputa", which were, in turn ripoffs of something else.
Everybody is ripping of everyone else. The last truly original story was throught up sometime during the late stone age. Live with it.
Interesting how half the Merkin here are claiming that the US can't implement a decent service because it's so densely populated, and the other half says it's because it's so sparsely populated... And cost is also a strawman, because while the cost is proportional to the number of users you want to reach, so are the profits. Face it: the fault lies with people
Well, Tezuka had extensively borrowed ideas from Disney as well, that's why his wife refused to sue Disney: she said her husband would have been flattered, not angry.
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Now if I were paranoid, I'd believe that the name was chosen specifically to make me look like a fool here...
Anyway, it's not really a play on words, it just sounds nonsensical.
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Apparently you're a moron too, since you switched the two M-words...
Trust me, if you didn't use any shared libraries at all, you'd very quickly bump against the limits of the 4 Gig of memory that a 32bit machine can physically address. Besides, why buy more meory if there's a simple way of making do with less?
It stops when hardware capacity and speed doesn't anymore increase exponentially. As long as it does, it's simply cheaper to make bloated software, because coding efficiently takes more time, and time is money.
That's not DLL hell because you don't risk an application overwriting the new version with an old version, breaking other applications in the process. And when they are not being actively used (i.e. most of the time), the libraries only take up disk space, which is dirt cheap. They don't slow down the whole system, like they seem to do in Windows.
Wrong, actually. The c't magazine once did experiments with MP3s encoded with a *good* encoder vs. CD on different channels of a really expensive sound studio, testers could switch at will. At 256kbps, most testers couldn't anymore tell them apart consistently, and those who could were far from 100%. If your MP3s sound like crap, don't use a crappy encoder.
The question is, what if you forgot to check the weekly listings, or couldn't do it for some other reason? Maybe you don't think you have to safeguard against that, but obviously, a lot of people think that the conveniente is woth $10 / month.
Actually, it's standard policy for successful game programmers in Japan. The japanese market for games is huge and hot programmers are an incredibly sought-after resource. In fact, the programmers most likely perfer it that way; otherwise they'd constantly be harassed by headhunters.
I don't think your first point is valid; though it depends on what a school would be doing with those machines. Let kids learn how to do stuff with them, I'd imagine. And for that, it doesn't matter if they have to be configured individually and reinstalled - it may be an admin's nightmare, but for the kids, it's a learning experience. If you had the choice between letting your kid learn how to install and configure Linux on a 486 versus how to operate Micro$oft Office on a 1.2GHz system, what would you prefer?
The problem is that you need a couple of dozen 468 to theoretically get the performance of a recent chip on a certain, narrow class of tasks, and for the time and effort it takes to get the whole thing running, you could easily afford to simply buy a brand new system, not to talk of the amount of power all those old ones together would consume.
First, the whole thing with domain names has of course nothing to do with technical barriers. If it were about technology, we wouldn't need DNS in the first place and still ise IP addresses. The point of domain names is to be 1) easy to remember 2) a logical hierarchy 3) and administrative hierarchy. Maybe it would actually be better to have a larger number of TLDs, if they were organized logically, but having an "infinite" number of them would make the concept useless.
As for the current taxonomy, that's totally a matter of debate. It does work. And anyway, what kind of system would you prefer? A more restrictive hiearchy or a less restrictive one? Can't have both.
The point is that ICANN is a step into the right direction (though perhaps only a small one), away from Network Solutions and towards putting the IP numbers and domain names into the hands of an organization with the aim to keep it working well instead of getting the most money out of it.
As for the rest, perhaps you should read a basic CS text on how hierarchical structures are the only way to efficiently organize large amounts of data, and also something on how DNS works.
No, there was no more specific data; and since it would take much longer to decrypt real 128bit encryption, I suspect that quote was just made up on the spot by some marketroid to impress unknowledgeable people with some large numbers.
No, you can't choose a key, that "punching" part is just about the button you have to press to
get an encrypted connection instead of a normal one.
It says that a new key is chosen each time out of 10^38 (i.e. 2^128) possible ones; no word on how it defends against eavesdroppers. Sounds like it's actually only negligibly more secure than no encryption at all.
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He apparently holds the delusion that gold somehow has an "intrinsic" value that is fixed (yeah, like the gold price never changes), and that it's "accepted everywhere" (yeah, sure) and thus is different than any other currency (which it, of course, isn't).
It's still rare, pretty and shiny and people still like that. Also, it has some relatively unique chemical properties that make it valuable as a resource.
In case you're referring to "Nadia", it was pretty much a ripoff of "Nausicaa" and "Laputa", which were, in turn ripoffs of something else. Everybody is ripping of everyone else. The last truly original story was throught up sometime during the late stone age. Live with it.
Interesting how half the Merkin here are claiming that the US can't implement a decent service because it's so densely populated, and the other half says it's because it's so sparsely populated... And cost is also a strawman, because while the cost is proportional to the number of users you want to reach, so are the profits. Face it: the fault lies with people
That's old news, and it's not the only textbook they approved. There are others, non-revisionist ones.
Well, Tezuka had extensively borrowed ideas from Disney as well, that's why his wife refused to sue Disney: she said her husband would have been flattered, not angry.
Anyway, it's not really a play on words, it just sounds nonsensical.
Apparently you're a moron too, since you switched the two M-words...
Trust me, if you didn't use any shared libraries at all, you'd very quickly bump against the limits of the 4 Gig of memory that a 32bit machine can physically address. Besides, why buy more meory if there's a simple way of making do with less?
It stops when hardware capacity and speed doesn't anymore increase exponentially. As long as it does, it's simply cheaper to make bloated software, because coding efficiently takes more time, and time is money.
That's not DLL hell because you don't risk an application overwriting the new version with an old version, breaking other applications in the process. And when they are not being actively used (i.e. most of the time), the libraries only take up disk space, which is dirt cheap. They don't slow down the whole system, like they seem to do in Windows.
Wrong, actually. The c't magazine once did experiments with MP3s encoded with a *good* encoder vs. CD on different channels of a really expensive sound studio, testers could switch at will. At 256kbps, most testers couldn't anymore tell them apart consistently, and those who could were far from 100%. If your MP3s sound like crap, don't use a crappy encoder.
Actually, Java is a cleaned up version of the ugly, ugly mess that C++ is.
Wrong. Java passes primitive types (integers, floats, etc.) by value, but objects by reference.
I'm still certain that the whole thing was at least half fake.
The question is, what if you forgot to check the weekly listings, or couldn't do it for some other reason? Maybe you don't think you have to safeguard against that, but obviously, a lot of people think that the conveniente is woth $10 / month.
Yeah, and that never happens in the US, does it?
I believe its called karo-jisatsu
"Suicide through overwork"? Interesting idea, but wrong.
Actually, it's standard policy for successful game programmers in Japan. The japanese market for games is huge and hot programmers are an incredibly sought-after resource. In fact, the programmers most likely perfer it that way; otherwise they'd constantly be harassed by headhunters.
I don't think your first point is valid; though it depends on what a school would be doing with those machines. Let kids learn how to do stuff with them, I'd imagine. And for that, it doesn't matter if they have to be configured individually and reinstalled - it may be an admin's nightmare, but for the kids, it's a learning experience. If you had the choice between letting your kid learn how to install and configure Linux on a 486 versus how to operate Micro$oft Office on a 1.2GHz system, what would you prefer?
The problem is that you need a couple of dozen 468 to theoretically get the performance of a recent chip on a certain, narrow class of tasks, and for the time and effort it takes to get the whole thing running, you could easily afford to simply buy a brand new system, not to talk of the amount of power all those old ones together would consume.
As for the current taxonomy, that's totally a matter of debate. It does work. And anyway, what kind of system would you prefer? A more restrictive hiearchy or a less restrictive one? Can't have both.
As for the rest, perhaps you should read a basic CS text on how hierarchical structures are the only way to efficiently organize large amounts of data, and also something on how DNS works.
No, there was no more specific data; and since it would take much longer to decrypt real 128bit encryption, I suspect that quote was just made up on the spot by some marketroid to impress unknowledgeable people with some large numbers.
At $3000, this one's hardly cheap...
No, you can't choose a key, that "punching" part is just about the button you have to press to get an encrypted connection instead of a normal one.
It says that a new key is chosen each time out of 10^38 (i.e. 2^128) possible ones; no word on how it defends against eavesdroppers. Sounds like it's actually only negligibly more secure than no encryption at all.