This is talking about 300ppi technology. LCD displays for PCs (and laptops) already have the kind of resolution you're talking about, and it's only about 120ppi. If you scaled 300ppi technology up to 15" you'd be talking about 5000 pixel wide displays. At 21" it would be more like 7200x5400. But I get a sneaking suspicion that this technology doesn't scale to nearly that size, at least not for anything resembling a reasonable price. 39 million pixels is a lot.:)
Mmm hmm. I got a new laptop recently, and it's got a 1400x1050 LCD. Not quite a 30" Apple flatpanel, but still pretty smooth. It's actually more than 100ppi, but X seems to overcompensate, so I tell it I have 100. "Normal" sized fonts look better than ever, and because I do have pretty good eyesight (corrected), smaller fonts now have enough pixels in them to be readable.
On the other hand, I've noticed that some fonts are really pretty nice when they're small and hinted, but when they're displaying at a decent resolution, they start to look like crap.
Make me a 15.4" screen out of this stuff. 5200x4300, 20mpix display. Gotta be good for the video editing. Of course it would take some incredibly fast RAM just to drive the screen at 60Hz 2D, let alone allowing you to draw to it.
So if the majority of slashdotters decide that everyone with an account named after a roman emperor is evil and should be banned, they're somehow right, because they're a majority, and you'll be happy to go along with it?
If you had agreed to such when you joined slashdot, then you wouldn't have the right to argue, anyway. But most people who are citizens of these various governments, and therefore forced at gunpoint to obey the whims of "majorities", got that way not by choice, but by the accident of having been born on a particular piece of land.
Why should they go along with their "democracy", then, if they never asked to be governed by it? Because the wonderful allure of the system is that it gives the illusion that if they become part of the majority, do their thing and vote, then they get to exercise power over the people they don't like.
So sad. I grabbed DOSBox a few days back, and have been re-playing a lot of my old favorites, and Sierra / Dynamix did a lot of quality stuff during the 90s. So did a lot of companies that aren't around anymore. Oh well.
It's "sort of" playable on a Radeon Mobility 9000, if you set the quality option in the ATI driver all the way to performance. It looks like about 320x200 resolution, mind you, but it pulls enough FPS for single play.
On the first part -- really, people just like to whine. I know from experience that the thing runs on a GF2 MX400. Sure, it runs at 640x480 "low", but even that looks damn good. I mean, it could look like counterstrike!;)
It has everything configured exactly as I want it, it runs everything I want it to run without complaint or prompting. I can download or buy whatever software I need for it. Things are exactly where they should be.
I am productive on this machine.
Food for thought: how long would it take you to go from a fresh install to that setup? Sure, you can make a comfy environment in just about anything if you're competent, but my criterion for choosing a distribution (or an OS) is: How much work is it to get from "out of the box" to "comfy"?
Not that it significantly alters your argument, but I'd say that 48-bit color is significantly closer to "high definition" than 24-bit. 8 bits per channel can be quite limiting. Ask anyone who does professional work with digital cameras.
Yeah. Earlier I ran into a quote from Bruce Sterling asking "When did Cold War become cold war?" Cold war is a phenomenon, not an event. It didn't end with the end of the Cold War and it won't be over anytime soon.
Books, man, books. But the bit with the satellites in PG is pretty much straight out of the books. If I'm right it's where Jack is a little freaked out about watching these guys get wiped out live on overhead imagery.
Er? Mozilla is fast, and in my experience KHTML takes up more memory on complex pages than any renderer I've seen. That said, I use Konqueror because of the integration. But I'd love to see it using Gecko.:)
By which you mean "6111 has been out for a month but we haven't managed to package it yet" ?
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that P=NP. Of course some of them are. But almost every other mathematician with at least three brain cells is reasonably convinced of the opposite. The article covers the "consequences" of P=NP that anyone who's read an introductory text already understands, but fails to mention that a single NP-complete problem inside P is about as likely as finding a number without Goldbach property. It's just silly sensationalism for the sake of... um, something about uninformed people that starts with 's'.
I probably shouldn't write this here as I haven't yet found time to submit a decent bug report, but -- stay away from convertfs unless your drive has quite a bit of free space, or you don't care about your data. There is a bug in the way it uses 'mv' that means that it may eat your data in spectacular ways if it doesn't like your directory structure. It certainly did for me; I'm running on a system I reinstalled two days ago after my/boot and/etc got eaten, among other things.
The point is not that md5 has collisions; that's a matter of "duh". The point is that methods are now coming to light which allow an attacker to find a collision with less work than a brute-force search would require. Which means that now MD5 is less secure than its output length (128 bits) would lead you to believe. Granted, the current attack is not especially applicable to much of anything, but there's no reason to expect that further ones won't be developed now that the foundation is laid.
The point is non-random collisions. MD5 has been proven to have at least some weakness, and there's no reason to expect more won't be found in the near future, now that the methods have been developed.
One could argue that while government is there to be a consumer of any sort, let along the main one, that there is no private industry, only higher and lower degrees of fascism. Most percieved problems with a market economy stem from the fact that we don't have one, and people work on the assumption that we do.
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This is talking about 300ppi technology. LCD displays for PCs (and laptops) already have the kind of resolution you're talking about, and it's only about 120ppi. If you scaled 300ppi technology up to 15" you'd be talking about 5000 pixel wide displays. At 21" it would be more like 7200x5400. But I get a sneaking suspicion that this technology doesn't scale to nearly that size, at least not for anything resembling a reasonable price. 39 million pixels is a lot. :)
Mmm hmm. I got a new laptop recently, and it's got a 1400x1050 LCD. Not quite a 30" Apple flatpanel, but still pretty smooth. It's actually more than 100ppi, but X seems to overcompensate, so I tell it I have 100. "Normal" sized fonts look better than ever, and because I do have pretty good eyesight (corrected), smaller fonts now have enough pixels in them to be readable.
On the other hand, I've noticed that some fonts are really pretty nice when they're small and hinted, but when they're displaying at a decent resolution, they start to look like crap.
Make me a 15.4" screen out of this stuff. 5200x4300, 20mpix display. Gotta be good for the video editing. Of course it would take some incredibly fast RAM just to drive the screen at 60Hz 2D, let alone allowing you to draw to it.
Whoops. Looking back I don't know why that ended up scare-quoted. Completely not my point.
So if the majority of slashdotters decide that everyone with an account named after a roman emperor is evil and should be banned, they're somehow right, because they're a majority, and you'll be happy to go along with it?
If you had agreed to such when you joined slashdot, then you wouldn't have the right to argue, anyway. But most people who are citizens of these various governments, and therefore forced at gunpoint to obey the whims of "majorities", got that way not by choice, but by the accident of having been born on a particular piece of land.
Why should they go along with their "democracy", then, if they never asked to be governed by it? Because the wonderful allure of the system is that it gives the illusion that if they become part of the majority, do their thing and vote, then they get to exercise power over the people they don't like.
That's funny, I thought a Sig was a gun. Anyway, clue me in: which is which?
So sad. I grabbed DOSBox a few days back, and have been re-playing a lot of my old favorites, and Sierra / Dynamix did a lot of quality stuff during the 90s. So did a lot of companies that aren't around anymore. Oh well.
But will it be like Windows, where the source provided isn't complete or compilable? Then it doesn't mean diddly for security.
It's "sort of" playable on a Radeon Mobility 9000, if you set the quality option in the ATI driver all the way to performance. It looks like about 320x200 resolution, mind you, but it pulls enough FPS for single play.
On the first part -- really, people just like to whine. I know from experience that the thing runs on a GF2 MX400. Sure, it runs at 640x480 "low", but even that looks damn good. I mean, it could look like counterstrike! ;)
Food for thought: how long would it take you to go from a fresh install to that setup? Sure, you can make a comfy environment in just about anything if you're competent, but my criterion for choosing a distribution (or an OS) is: How much work is it to get from "out of the box" to "comfy"?
If you look for them in a structured way, then you only find the ones that your structure is looking for ;)
Not that it significantly alters your argument, but I'd say that 48-bit color is significantly closer to "high definition" than 24-bit. 8 bits per channel can be quite limiting. Ask anyone who does professional work with digital cameras.
When was the last time you gave a damn about the last commercial you saw?
Funny, I've been seeing the opposite around here; a few cable companies around me went from 1mbit down / 1mbit up to 3mbit down / 384kbit up
Yeah. Earlier I ran into a quote from Bruce Sterling asking "When did Cold War become cold war?" Cold war is a phenomenon, not an event. It didn't end with the end of the Cold War and it won't be over anytime soon.
Books, man, books. But the bit with the satellites in PG is pretty much straight out of the books. If I'm right it's where Jack is a little freaked out about watching these guys get wiped out live on overhead imagery.
Er? Mozilla is fast, and in my experience KHTML takes up more memory on complex pages than any renderer I've seen. That said, I use Konqueror because of the integration. But I'd love to see it using Gecko. :)
By which you mean "6111 has been out for a month but we haven't managed to package it yet" ?
that P=NP. Of course some of them are. But almost every other mathematician with at least three brain cells is reasonably convinced of the opposite. The article covers the "consequences" of P=NP that anyone who's read an introductory text already understands, but fails to mention that a single NP-complete problem inside P is about as likely as finding a number without Goldbach property. It's just silly sensationalism for the sake of ... um, something about uninformed people that starts with 's'.
Why would I want to watch a movie with 5^(-10) pixels per frame?
I probably shouldn't write this here as I haven't yet found time to submit a decent bug report, but -- stay away from convertfs unless your drive has quite a bit of free space, or you don't care about your data. There is a bug in the way it uses 'mv' that means that it may eat your data in spectacular ways if it doesn't like your directory structure. It certainly did for me; I'm running on a system I reinstalled two days ago after my /boot and /etc got eaten, among other things.
The point is not that md5 has collisions; that's a matter of "duh". The point is that methods are now coming to light which allow an attacker to find a collision with less work than a brute-force search would require. Which means that now MD5 is less secure than its output length (128 bits) would lead you to believe. Granted, the current attack is not especially applicable to much of anything, but there's no reason to expect that further ones won't be developed now that the foundation is laid.
The point is non-random collisions. MD5 has been proven to have at least some weakness, and there's no reason to expect more won't be found in the near future, now that the methods have been developed.
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One could argue that while government is there to be a consumer of any sort, let along the main one, that there is no private industry, only higher and lower degrees of fascism. Most percieved problems with a market economy stem from the fact that we don't have one, and people work on the assumption that we do.