The primary problem with Tivo is that it is a not worth its money if you do not have a listing service. Which is the common case on "pirate style" eastern european cable and SAT networks. So yes it will look nice in a media rack in the middle of nowhere. But it will be more useful out of the rack, being used as a paperweight.
My mom (who leaves in a country with this kind of pesky cable with no Tivo listings) has been pestering me for a while now for a replacement for the ageing VCR and I just could not be arsed into buying a new one. This looks like a nice solution for the problem.
Compared to this one Lord of the Rings is a child's play. I just do not see how you can make the Courts of Chaos or the GhostWheel in a movie today. Even having the budget for all Star War flicks combined with the budget for Titanic and Independence Day.
I still get shudders remembering how did they vandalise Heinlein's "Starship Troupers". Dunno about Forever War but a miniseries on the Amber Chronicles will make that debacle seem like a work of high art by comparison...
They did not intend to do reasearch. This is a sell for the paranoic-pshychotic market. Any sane person will ask himself the question "does this really work".
1. Intel chipsets are not very shiny either. BX was the last great chipset. Some 815-s are kind'a OK as long as you do not use all features, but overall current Intel chipsets are not as good as HX, BX and GX used to be.
2. Many problems are located in a pat of the chipset, more specifically in the case of most AMD mainboards this is VIA attempt at IDE. Via since the Apollo mainboards for Pentium 1 and K5 has always had problems implementing a decent IDE. If you are using linux you can simly get around this by buying a CMD649U based controller. They are usually frowned upon because of the multiple bugs in 640, but current ones are brilliant. I have used them for years on both Intel and Alpha and they solve most of the issues with having a VIA based Mainboard.Same goes for sound and network if present. In other words just ignore the Via peripherals and buy proper ones.
Either the pressdrone have misheard or this is a specific project. Something like the X10 but on the air. It is quite cool for controlling devices and collecting data and stuff but it is a different niche. It is not competing with 802.11b(a) as suggested in the post
How many of us actually have secrets to hide that we go to the bother of encrypting them with PGP any more though?
All of us. I do not consider the information on my accounst, short term and long term debt to be a matter for the public domain
My bank uses PGP (Nationwide in the UK, one of the 5 largest banks here). For all customer related communications. All email is signed (no exemption) and encrypted if needed. You should expect no less from your bank. If it does not I suggest you change it. To a bank with a clue. I know it may be problematic in some countries suffering from acute terrorism paranoia. Problematic, but not impossible.
That is just one example. We can extend the list with personal health (yours or of family members abroad), internal business matters where you work, to be continued ad naseum.
Sorry if I sounded a bit aggressive above - it wasn't really directed at you, arivanov. As you can probably guess, I can get just a bit irritated about spam.
So do I. I am one of those sad souls that does a whois every SPAM they get and chases the case down as far as possible (taking info out of the BGP table about upstream ISPs if need be).
After reading this interview the guy looks relatively tame compared to the current generation of jerks. Just my 2p.
Not really. Like any other "brilliant idea" it would have come to other "ingenious minds" as well.
He actually suggested tagging comercials and other stuff which speaks in his favour. He also acknowledges the inherent right of the individual to filter out what he does not like. This does not even compare to the current b***. They declare any filtering to be a violation of their right of free speach. If they send you an ad on P*** Enlargement by 27 inch you must read it!!!
What Schneider has overlooked that the machine in question is not a general purpose parallel machine. It is a specialised simple numerical unit matrix with flat memory architecture. Such beasts with up to 2^16 CPUs have already been designed and have been used for more then 10 years in processing of satellite data. All that is needed here is to up the numerical capabilities of the singele unit, up the number and up the memory interface bandwidth. It is something that can realistically be done in 3-5 years.
Still, it will remain a relatively specialised beast. The specialised 2^16 parallel hardware used for sat image processing has not depreciated over the last 10 years. Neither will this hardware because it will not become a commodity.
What is more worrying is that bernstein's model is close to the hardware model of the latest cray proposal (large number of CPUs on flat memory). And this is a commodity machine that money can buy now to be delivered tomorrow. It will not give you as much as the 1B price tag specialised hardware but it is sure worth a try.
I don't know what prompted them to free Darwin (even with all them requirements upon it).
They would not have been able to bring it to an OS standard that would have been a product to sell. One of the main goals of MacOS X prior to release was "update the networking to the level of current FreeBSD".Just leaching off BSD would not have worked because not all components in BSD nowdays have a BSD license (some are stricter) and BSD is mostly little-endian so keeping the code open helped hunt down portability issues.
It is also slower. In one well known 3rd world country, I saw a DVD and VCDs of the Phantom Menace 2 weeks after it was on screen (before it even came to Europe).
It took just one week after one of the reels got stolen in the US for the first copies to appear;-)
If they are starting to bust pirate DVDs now this means that the pirates have been printing for two years with no control. Unfortunately in order to tell somene that he/she is a laughing stock in the modern world you need to own the media. Hence, you cannot tell the ones that own the media that they are laughing stock.
The interesting bit is that it does not inherit from Buran. Buran was more shuttle like. This looks like one of the earlier prototypes that landed on water not on airfield. There used to be some pictures taken from a New Zeland navy fregate in the South Pacific of one of these craft taken after it did a full automated test flight. This was at least several years before the Buran test flight.
Also, an interesting detail of the design of the Buran and the prototyopes is a F111/SU35 style full cabin eject.
And one wrong detail in the article. Buran flew with a crew, but the flight was aborted and the crew ejected successfully. Which many of the earlier test pilots could not (and anyone on the shuttle cannot as we probably all know). There was a reasonably good movie by one of the russian TV stations about Buran. And a very scary gallery of portraits of test pilots who were not so lucky.
No text only mode will help you if the rating is influenced by direct payment to altavista. Altavista has been doing this for quite a while. And for some topics like porn not even hiding that they do it.
They can still be seen in Europe. That is in countries where the Cartoon Network is not distributed so you get them on local TV. Unfortunately in the UK you can no longer see them. Same happens in other countries as the afore mentioned cable parasite spreads across EU.
If the validator is a private 2048 bit key no way in hell it can be hacked in a reasonable amount of time. This also means that only Blizzard's servers will work anyway unless someone finds a way to introduce the public key into the Warcraft client.
In other battlenet and warcraft are both written without even elementary knowledge of cryptography and security. Otherwise there would have been no need to keep the algorithm secret.
I will not comment on the other flawed ariguments, but this cought my attention:
They need to keep the CD key algorithm secret in order to be secure
This sound like yet another amateur cryptography to me. If they used a proper public key algo they would have no need to keep it secret.In other words: reading crypto books helps.
Are you telling me its illegal for me to put my network card in promiscious mode and look at the packets flying around my local network?
In civilised countries it is illegal. EU regulations specifically deny you the right to intercept any traffic more than you need for debugging and diagnostic purposes.Any intercept beyond that may lead to the loss of a telecom operators license.
Not entirely unexpected considering that Solaris s**ks on laptops due to lack of APM support and Sun's policy forbids using Linux or BSD for presenting anything to an external audience.
So sun's unix geeks have no choice but to present with Soffice under windows presentations that have been written on a unix system.
2.4.17 still crashes when tasks try to run semi-realtime. A good combination is ISDN and cdrecording. Crashes it 100% within the first 15 minutes or so.
If you need a 2.4 (I need for my hardware), use 2.4.9. The last kernel before the new VM. It may not be the fastest kernel out there, but it is quite stable. But definitely not anything between 2.4.10 and 2.4.17.
There is a reason for this: the design of the earliest gotic cathedrals had to be modified several times because they could not withstand wind pressure and developed cracks. As a result we have the gotic architecture as we know it. All these side arches across the roof are nothing but cleverly hidden beams that distribute pressure evenly.
There was a good article on this in Scientific American in the mid-80es.Dunno if it is available on lines.
So, in other words, it took around a 100 years to debug this "minor problem"
They do not want internet aandthey do not understand it.
What they want is a tightly controlled ATT style network. Telco shit for brains need a telco network. The difference is instead of ATT having a Micro$hit telco.
Sorry to say that but this is typical US thinking. It took ten years to forget what "a Bush" means. It took ten years to forget what "an ATT monopoly" means. There was NO F***ING business uder ATT for third party ISVs. There will be no third party business for ISVs under.Net.
Why asteroid. Kinetic harpoons which are a recent hit in some british sci fi will do nicely.
All you need is a high polar orbit platform. Minor orbit correction, and a delivery vehicle detaches and starts to deccelerate. After it has deccelerated enough it launches several properly shaped tungsten charges proteced by ceramics or composite material so that they can be slammed into the ground at proper speed without burning in the atmosphere. They hit the ground preheated to melting temperature and flying at several kilometers per second.
Precise when used versus stationary targets.
Deadly.
No fallout.
Very low maintenance costs once the platform launched. The platform if it is in polar orbit can hit any place on the globe within 24 hours. 12 platforms can cover the entire globe within the requirements of a tactical strike.
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The primary problem with Tivo is that it is a not worth its money if you do not have a listing service. Which is the common case on "pirate style" eastern european cable and SAT networks. So yes it will look nice in a media rack in the middle of nowhere. But it will be more useful out of the rack, being used as a paperweight.
My mom (who leaves in a country with this kind of pesky cable with no Tivo listings) has been pestering me for a while now for a replacement for the ageing VCR and I just could not be arsed into buying a new one. This looks like a nice solution for the problem.
They will not you silly. It is being done in a civilized country (in terms of copyright laws that is).
In either case it will suck.
Compared to this one Lord of the Rings is a child's play. I just do not see how you can make the Courts of Chaos or the GhostWheel in a movie today. Even having the budget for all Star War flicks combined with the budget for Titanic and Independence Day.
I still get shudders remembering how did they vandalise Heinlein's "Starship Troupers". Dunno about Forever War but a miniseries on the Amber Chronicles will make that debacle seem like a work of high art by comparison...
Shudder... Shudder...
They did not intend to do reasearch. This is a sell for the paranoic-pshychotic market. Any sane person will ask himself the question "does this really work".
1. Intel chipsets are not very shiny either. BX was the last great chipset. Some 815-s are kind'a OK as long as you do not use all features, but overall current Intel chipsets are not as good as HX, BX and GX used to be.
2. Many problems are located in a pat of the chipset, more specifically in the case of most AMD mainboards this is VIA attempt at IDE. Via since the Apollo mainboards for Pentium 1 and K5 has always had problems implementing a decent IDE. If you are using linux you can simly get around this by buying a CMD649U based controller. They are usually frowned upon because of the multiple bugs in 640, but current ones are brilliant. I have used them for years on both Intel and Alpha and they solve most of the issues with having a VIA based Mainboard.Same goes for sound and network if present. In other words just ignore the Via peripherals and buy proper ones.
Either the pressdrone have misheard or this is a specific project. Something like the X10 but on the air. It is quite cool for controlling devices and collecting data and stuff but it is a different niche. It is not competing with 802.11b(a) as suggested in the post
All of us. I do not consider the information on my accounst, short term and long term debt to be a matter for the public domain
My bank uses PGP (Nationwide in the UK, one of the 5 largest banks here). For all customer related communications. All email is signed (no exemption) and encrypted if needed. You should expect no less from your bank. If it does not I suggest you change it. To a bank with a clue. I know it may be problematic in some countries suffering from acute terrorism paranoia. Problematic, but not impossible.
That is just one example. We can extend the list with personal health (yours or of family members abroad), internal business matters where you work, to be continued ad naseum.
So do I. I am one of those sad souls that does a whois every SPAM they get and chases the case down as far as possible (taking info out of the BGP table about upstream ISPs if need be).
After reading this interview the guy looks relatively tame compared to the current generation of jerks. Just my 2p.
He actually suggested tagging comercials and other stuff which speaks in his favour. He also acknowledges the inherent right of the individual to filter out what he does not like. This does not even compare to the current b***. They declare any filtering to be a violation of their right of free speach. If they send you an ad on P*** Enlargement by 27 inch you must read it!!!
In this case you would not.
What Schneider has overlooked that the machine in question is not a general purpose parallel machine. It is a specialised simple numerical unit matrix with flat memory architecture. Such beasts with up to 2^16 CPUs have already been designed and have been used for more then 10 years in processing of satellite data. All that is needed here is to up the numerical capabilities of the singele unit, up the number and up the memory interface bandwidth. It is something that can realistically be done in 3-5 years.
Still, it will remain a relatively specialised beast. The specialised 2^16 parallel hardware used for sat image processing has not depreciated over the last 10 years. Neither will this hardware because it will not become a commodity.
What is more worrying is that bernstein's model is close to the hardware model of the latest cray proposal (large number of CPUs on flat memory). And this is a commodity machine that money can buy now to be delivered tomorrow. It will not give you as much as the 1B price tag specialised hardware but it is sure worth a try.
They would not have been able to bring it to an OS standard that would have been a product to sell. One of the main goals of MacOS X prior to release was "update the networking to the level of current FreeBSD".Just leaching off BSD would not have worked because not all components in BSD nowdays have a BSD license (some are stricter) and BSD is mostly little-endian so keeping the code open helped hunt down portability issues.
It is also slower. In one well known 3rd world country, I saw a DVD and VCDs of the Phantom Menace 2 weeks after it was on screen (before it even came to Europe).
;-)
It took just one week after one of the reels got stolen in the US for the first copies to appear
If they are starting to bust pirate DVDs now this means that the pirates have been printing for two years with no control. Unfortunately in order to tell somene that he/she is a laughing stock in the modern world you need to own the media. Hence, you cannot tell the ones that own the media that they are laughing stock.
The interesting bit is that it does not inherit from Buran. Buran was more shuttle like. This looks like one of the earlier prototypes that landed on water not on airfield. There used to be some pictures taken from a New Zeland navy fregate in the South Pacific of one of these craft taken after it did a full automated test flight. This was at least several years before the Buran test flight.
Also, an interesting detail of the design of the Buran and the prototyopes is a F111/SU35 style full cabin eject.
And one wrong detail in the article. Buran flew with a crew, but the flight was aborted and the crew ejected successfully. Which many of the earlier test pilots could not (and anyone on the shuttle cannot as we probably all know). There was a reasonably good movie by one of the russian TV stations about Buran. And a very scary gallery of portraits of test pilots who were not so lucky.
No text only mode will help you if the rating is influenced by direct payment to altavista. Altavista has been doing this for quite a while. And for some topics like porn not even hiding that they do it.
They can still be seen in Europe. That is in countries where the Cartoon Network is not distributed so you get them on local TV. Unfortunately in the UK you can no longer see them. Same happens in other countries as the afore mentioned cable parasite spreads across EU.
In other battlenet and warcraft are both written without even elementary knowledge of cryptography and security. Otherwise there would have been no need to keep the algorithm secret.
They need to keep the CD key algorithm secret in order to be secure
This sound like yet another amateur cryptography to me. If they used a proper public key algo they would have no need to keep it secret.In other words: reading crypto books helps.
In civilised countries it is illegal. EU regulations specifically deny you the right to intercept any traffic more than you need for debugging and diagnostic purposes.Any intercept beyond that may lead to the loss of a telecom operators license.
Some of them use it.
Under Windows.
Seen that quite a few times.
Not entirely unexpected considering that Solaris s**ks on laptops due to lack of APM support and Sun's policy forbids using Linux or BSD for presenting anything to an external audience.
So sun's unix geeks have no choice but to present with Soffice under windows presentations that have been written on a unix system.
It is a supply and demand you silly ;-)
If some marketdroid will decide that he wants "exclusive" over someone else and pays for it there is nothing you will able to do about it.
C'est la vie
2.4.17 still crashes when tasks try to run semi-realtime. A good combination is ISDN and cdrecording. Crashes it 100% within the first 15 minutes or so.
If you need a 2.4 (I need for my hardware), use 2.4.9. The last kernel before the new VM. It may not be the fastest kernel out there, but it is quite stable. But definitely not anything between 2.4.10 and 2.4.17.
There is a reason for this: the design of the earliest gotic cathedrals had to be modified several times because they could not withstand wind pressure and developed cracks. As a result we have the gotic architecture as we know it. All these side arches across the roof are nothing but cleverly hidden beams that distribute pressure evenly.
There was a good article on this in Scientific American in the mid-80es.Dunno if it is available on lines.
So, in other words, it took around a 100 years to debug this "minor problem"
Browse the MIB supplied by Linksys on their web site and do the same with scotty. No real rocket science here. It is as elementary as it can get.
No need of the windows executable
They do not want internet aandthey do not understand it.
What they want is a tightly controlled ATT style network. Telco shit for brains need a telco network. The difference is instead of ATT having a Micro$hit telco.
Sorry to say that but this is typical US thinking. It took ten years to forget what "a Bush" means. It took ten years to forget what "an ATT monopoly" means. There was NO F***ING business uder ATT for third party ISVs. There will be no third party business for ISVs under .Net.
Same situation as with Bushes and environment.
Why asteroid. Kinetic harpoons which are a recent hit in some british sci fi will do nicely.
All you need is a high polar orbit platform. Minor orbit correction, and a delivery vehicle detaches and starts to deccelerate. After it has deccelerated enough it launches several properly shaped tungsten charges proteced by ceramics or composite material so that they can be slammed into the ground at proper speed without burning in the atmosphere. They hit the ground preheated to melting temperature and flying at several kilometers per second.
Precise when used versus stationary targets.
Deadly.
No fallout.
Very low maintenance costs once the platform launched. The platform if it is in polar orbit can hit any place on the globe within 24 hours. 12 platforms can cover the entire globe within the requirements of a tactical strike.
Yummy...