There is exactly the same chance of finding the key in the last two percent as there is in the first two percent, the middle two percent or whatever. Your statement that there is only 2% chance of the key being over 98% is meaningless - there's only a 2% chance of the key being within any 2% range of keys.
Well, I don't agree with you about Slackware, but FreeBSD is, admittedly, a truly masochistic experience.
An installer that refuses to continue because your mouse IRQ conflicts with the keyboard is not, in my opinion, something that should be inflicted on the general populace.
Slackware is, IMNSHO, one of the easiest distributions to install - simply because it's very, very hard to get yourself into a situation that you can't get out of. I've had RH and TurboLinux (bletch!) stop in mid-install more times than I can remember. Debian took me forever to figure out (this was, admittedly, the 1.3 release, I believe). The graphical installers of the latest distros just annoy me. But Slackware works every time - and there's always some way to shoehorn it onto whatever hardware you have.
"Native operating system widgets"? Since when does Linux have those? All X Window widget sets are "non-native" in the sense that no particular set is required for operation.
Considering that half the so-called "article" was the same items repeated two or three times, was there really much point in just throwing it up on a web page? How about some commentary, extra info, clarification - you know, all that stuff that real journalists do.
I hate to say it, but that article was nearly unintelligible. Browserwatch could have done better by summarizing the content themselves, rather than being lazy and slapping the entire mail in via cut-and-paste.
Um... sorry to burst your bubble, but Australia has a long-running fight with Indonesia, for a variety of reasons (including the whole Irian Jaya (sp?) mess).
What really interests me is that they have left out a really BIG chunk of the Asian market - of course Indonesia (5th or 6th largest country in the world by population), Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. (Of course, I'm presuming that RH's "South Asia" comment doesn't include South-East Asia).
I believe he is. I remember something about this - digitizing pictures of a lava lamp and using them as seed values for random number generation. Apparently, lava lamps are really, really random.
Since the air you're already breathing (presumably) is 70% nitrogen, and you don't talk squeaky (at least, no-one I know does), then I fail to see how you reached that particular conclusion. I think you have it confused with helium...
BTW, there's no fridge built for the commercial market that could get low enough temperatures to liquify nitrogen (-176C?).
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Hey, with my full name I got Misunderstood Excitable Genius:)
Apple cannot, I repeat, CANNOT open source OS X in its entirety - its licensing agreements with thrird-parties would prevent it. I'm willing to bet that Jobs was just rehashing Darwin again (and we all know how far that has gone since it was released...)
One other point - anyone lese think that the Dock at the bottom of the screen that shows minimized windows looks almost exactly like the same feature in any number of X Window WMs (Window Maker comes to mind)?
Ignoring the fact that your post was most likely an attempt at trolling, you are correct, in a way.
Unfortunately, the kind of person you're talking about (and I've known a few of that type) often has difficulty in communicating with other people on anything other than a technical level, meaning that they get jack shit in the way of promotions, etc., in any medium-to-large corporate structure. They're usually best at coding alone or in a small team, limiting their usefulness in a larger organization.
Of course, not many geeks really give a shit about corporate thinking...
Is it just me, or has Sharky been infected with the "suck up to our advertisers" disease that hit Tom a while back? Get this quote from here:
...the MAXX is a direct contender once again with the SDR card, however it almost overtakes the DDR board as well in high resolutions. Once again, the raw power of the two Rage 128 Pro chips stands up well to the extra high bandwidth and T&L of the DDR GeForce.
Well, excuse me, since ATI has thrown two chips at the problem compared with one for the NVidia card, I would expect the words "raw power" to be applied to the GeForce. On top of that, he says that the ATI card "almost overtakes" the GeForce DDR; the framerate differences between the ATI and the SDR card on the three tests on this page were 0.4 FPS, 0.1 FPS and 0.4 FPS again, whereas the gaps between the ATI and the DDR card were, respectively, 5 FPS, 5.4 FPS and 5.1 FPS. Since we're talking about a nearly 20% difference in F/R between the ATI and the DDR cards, his comments strike me as being just this side of dishonest. He then goes on to say that the DDR GeForce card has better bandwidth and T&L, as if NVidia were cheating or something.
If you look at the tests, many of them show the ATI card getting its ass well and truly kicked by the GeForce cards, sometimes by margins of 100% or more, yet Sharky skims by these figures as if they were of little importance, even though he's the one who did the tests. Faugh. Show us your list of advertisers, Sharky.
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ARRGGGHHH!!! NO NO NO NO!!!!
There is exactly the same chance of finding the key in the last two percent as there is in the first two percent, the middle two percent or whatever. Your statement that there is only 2% chance of the key being over 98% is meaningless - there's only a 2% chance of the key being within any 2% range of keys.
Well, duh. That's what I was talking about in my original post.
FUD = Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. I hardly see how my comment qualifies.
BTW, if you'd bothered to check, both comments were mine.
PS: You are truly a small-minded jerkoff. Go crawl back under your rock, scum.
Got Woody?
Woohah. I'm impressed.
I run NetBSD on my Mac and a roll-your-own system on my Alpha. What's your point?
Well, I don't agree with you about Slackware, but FreeBSD is, admittedly, a truly masochistic experience.
An installer that refuses to continue because your mouse IRQ conflicts with the keyboard is not, in my opinion, something that should be inflicted on the general populace.
Slackware is, IMNSHO, one of the easiest distributions to install - simply because it's very, very hard to get yourself into a situation that you can't get out of.
I've had RH and TurboLinux (bletch!) stop in mid-install more times than I can remember. Debian took me forever to figure out (this was, admittedly, the 1.3 release, I believe). The graphical installers of the latest distros just annoy me. But Slackware works every time - and there's always some way to shoehorn it onto whatever hardware you have.
How about "Woody is as solid as a rock"
And how do you know he is not?
"Native operating system widgets"? Since when does Linux have those? All X Window widget sets are "non-native" in the sense that no particular set is required for operation.
Yes, I did read the whole thing.
No, I didn't think that it was worth it.
Considering that half the so-called "article" was the same items repeated two or three times, was there really much point in just throwing it up on a web page? How about some commentary, extra info, clarification - you know, all that stuff that real journalists do.
I hate to say it, but that article was nearly unintelligible. Browserwatch could have done better by summarizing the content themselves, rather than being lazy and slapping the entire mail in via cut-and-paste.
I can't see anyone slapping together a tool to replace make any time soon... that's one piece of heavy parsing code.
Not to mention theoretical...
Hey, I wouldn't mind getting my name on the list of people who've discovered Mersenne primes, especially since it includes people like Euler.
Um... sorry to burst your bubble, but Australia has a long-running fight with Indonesia, for a variety of reasons (including the whole Irian Jaya (sp?) mess).
What really interests me is that they have left out a really BIG chunk of the Asian market - of course Indonesia (5th or 6th largest country in the world by population), Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. (Of course, I'm presuming that RH's "South Asia" comment doesn't include South-East Asia).
Wow! I know the meaning of every word in that comment (except "Pholus"), and I still couldn't understand a thing you said.
Ah - found the link. Try looking here.
I believe he is. I remember something about this - digitizing pictures of a lava lamp and using them as seed values for random number generation. Apparently, lava lamps are really, really random.
Since the air you're already breathing (presumably) is 70% nitrogen, and you don't talk squeaky (at least, no-one I know does), then I fail to see how you reached that particular conclusion. I think you have it confused with helium...
BTW, there's no fridge built for the commercial market that could get low enough temperatures to liquify nitrogen (-176C?).
Hey, with my full name I got Misunderstood Excitable Genius :)
Apple cannot, I repeat, CANNOT open source OS X in its entirety - its licensing agreements with thrird-parties would prevent it. I'm willing to bet that Jobs was just rehashing Darwin again (and we all know how far that has gone since it was released...)
One other point - anyone lese think that the Dock at the bottom of the screen that shows minimized windows looks almost exactly like the same feature in any number of X Window WMs (Window Maker comes to mind)?
Ignoring the fact that your post was most likely an attempt at trolling, you are correct, in a way.
Unfortunately, the kind of person you're talking about (and I've known a few of that type) often has difficulty in communicating with other people on anything other than a technical level, meaning that they get jack shit in the way of promotions, etc., in any medium-to-large corporate structure. They're usually best at coding alone or in a small team, limiting their usefulness in a larger organization.
Of course, not many geeks really give a shit about corporate thinking...
Is it just me, or has Sharky been infected with the "suck up to our advertisers" disease that hit Tom a while back? Get this quote from here:
Well, excuse me, since ATI has thrown two chips at the problem compared with one for the NVidia card, I would expect the words "raw power" to be applied to the GeForce. On top of that, he says that the ATI card "almost overtakes" the GeForce DDR; the framerate differences between the ATI and the SDR card on the three tests on this page were 0.4 FPS, 0.1 FPS and 0.4 FPS again, whereas the gaps between the ATI and the DDR card were, respectively, 5 FPS, 5.4 FPS and 5.1 FPS. Since we're talking about a nearly 20% difference in F/R between the ATI and the DDR cards, his comments strike me as being just this side of dishonest. He then goes on to say that the DDR GeForce card has better bandwidth and T&L, as if NVidia were cheating or something.
If you look at the tests, many of them show the ATI card getting its ass well and truly kicked by the GeForce cards, sometimes by margins of 100% or more, yet Sharky skims by these figures as if they were of little importance, even though he's the one who did the tests. Faugh. Show us your list of advertisers, Sharky.
Not particularly, asshole. I was correcting his acronym error, not indicating that USB support wasn't available yet.
BTW, USB support is included in the standard 2.2 kernel. Look under linux/drivers/usb.
PS: Go crawl back under your rock and die, you stupid piece of shit.