As far as I've heard, quantum computing will reduce an applicable problem's complexity to its square root, e.g. something that takes O(n^2) now takes O(n). In other words, your 2048 bit keys will still have a relative 1024-bit strength, which for all intents and purposes is still computationally impossible.
If a user can install Linux on their machine, it implies the following:
* Isn't afraid of computers * Willing to use a command line * Knows what a partition/hard drive is * Comfortable with various GUIs
Now, imaging a world where everybody had at least this amount of technical knowledge. It should be quite easy to instruct them about the concept of security, even if it only meant being wary of untrusted binaries.
I still know a few people who have problems distinguishing left from right click, and have a hard time double clicking. Prime candidates for people who systems are easily infected.
Hey, interesting idea. If I'm wearing SPF 45 sunblock on my body, what kind of added protection do I have from radiation?
Re:Pushing the limits of computing
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Those who think paying attention to resource constraints is useless are frankly a danger, and shouldn't be near a compiler. It's like haphazardly designing a car, and thinking that the airbags will save the passengers if there is an accident.
However, there's a limit to optimizing code for efficiency's sake (both size and speed). From years of experience developing software, assembler up to Java, keeping your algorithm general allows it to be adaptable and maintainable. Nothing sucks more than spending days rewriting code because one number changes in the spec (yes, you can optimize that far).
As for writing "bloat" code, writing huge software systems in a timely manner in today's marketplace **implies** this situation. When you don't have to perform mundane chores in your code, you are free to produce more faster, and this is what companies want, and in fact, pay you for. It's a sad situation, but it's a dog-eat-dog world, and the consumer cares less about quality these days.
You also bring up an interesting point about when we'll hit the ceiling for computing power. I'm sure there's a real physical OPS/cm^3 limit (the only way to make it faster is to make it larger) but who knows what that is, or when we'll hit it. It'll be interesting to see how it'll affect the code produced. I'm hoping it's some type of golden age, where everbody has the same amount of standard computing hardware, and all code is made to this perfect, end-all spec.
-- If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. (Knuth)
For the love of Linux, give me a kernel without the SCO filth. I don't care even it's mission critical section of code. I'll redo it myself!
The magnitude of their gall, to even suggest $699, is absolutely apalling. Even if their claim is legit, this has removed any respect for SCO that I once had.
SCO is now that old-man who doesn't bathe, drinks whiskey all day, and constantly complains for all his problems. There's nothing left to respect, and you only hope that the end comes sooner rather than later.
You inadvertantly brigh up the point of what's going to happen when the masses (with Microsoft's software) discover that there are extreme volumes of Porn, Warez, and Music on USENET? I don't look forward to the day when the RIAA et al. decide to crunch down on one of the last bastions of freedom on the NET.
IMHO, one of the best science-fiction movies of all time is Gattaca. It focuses on humanity's potential problem with genetics determining our future rather than our accomplishments or choices we make in life. However, Gattaca does not incorporate all the whiz-bang effects like you see today in typical hollywood cinema. Instead, we're presented with an inspirational story where a man becomes more than he was destined to be. What's more, the directing and cinemetography were also memorable in their own right, futher adding to the film's professionalism. I'd pay $15, perhaps $20 to see another movie of its callibre in the theatres. I'm simply tired of t&a, explosions, and sfx beinf the forumale for movies today.
To further add to your comment, I've heard that this Summer's movie-going crowds were not as high as they were during previous years. Perhaps people are finally getting tired of watching movies that functionaly equivalent to pornography. Another statistic that caught my ear is that only 40% of all movies nowadays turn a profit. Doesn't it seem flatout stupid and ignorant to simply throw money at a film and hope that it sells? Hopefully these morons will wake up soon, and return to traditional film values.
"There once was a master programmer who wrote unstructured programs. A novice programmer, seeking to imitate him, also began to write unstructured programs. When the novice asked the master to evaluate his progress, the master criticized him for writing unstructured programs, saying, `What is appropriate for the master is not appropriate for the novice. You must understand the Tao before transcending structure.'"
When an image is put on the web, does that mean that the image must always be presented in the same context that the author intended?
In other words, what's the definitive answer to the following questions (references appreciated):
1. If I have a web page that displays an image via URL poiting back the original source of the image, is that fair-use since I have not actually copied the image, but rather referenced to it?
2. If I have a program that displays an image downloaded via URL pointing back to the original source, is that fair-use for the same above reason?
3 & 4. The same questions as the above, but add caching to improve performance.
5. If the any of the above has been answered no, then suppose the following: Mozilla has a feature where you can right-click on an image, select "View-Image", and then view the image alone with out its surrounding context. Mozilla has also most likely cached the image. Is this legal?
I think the equivalent of a "musical thumbnail" would be a snippit from that song ( 10 seconds or so). In that snippit, you get the feel of what the soung is about, it's general sound & riff, and it serves to entice the customer to want to check out the full version.
You have 720MB of data, or some other amount that's just over the 700MB limit where it feels wasteful to burn another CD. I bet the 110% setting will produce burned cdrs that will work in most any drive. Anything more merits burning two discs or buying a DVD+/-R(W) burner.
Consider "overclocking". Overclocking in the 486 era was marginally useful. Overclocking today belongs in the same category as car stereo loudness competitions.
You can buy an 2.4Ghz P4 (800Mhz FSB) processor for ~$170 (pricewatch) right now.
These things have been reported to do 800 to 1000Mhz overclocks without water/pelitier/anything extreme cooling. Never mind that the 3.4Ghz doesn't even exist yet, but note that the 3.2Ghz costs $700 (pricewatch).
You do the math.
Re:Good Timing on the review
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May the Others take you! It's in the middle of Summer here in AZ with > 110F temperatures. I pray for the comming of Winter!
Re:Jumping in on the discussion early.
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I think the "main" character is Tyrion simply because he deals with everything and everyone deals with him at one time or another.
But as you say, the level of character development in this series makes it impossible to choose.
Can you name me a commerical app that's well known and written in C#? I always get that question when I tell people that I program in Java.
Also, to somebody who knows Swing well, can you recommend a book that concentrates on advanced GUI building using C#? I'm the type that doesn't do point-and-click programming.
1. Open up your application creator. 2. Drag over your favorite editor component. 3. Drag over your favorite spell checker. 4. Drag over all your other favorite features. 5. Click "Go."
and tada:
One word processor, custom made to your specifications. It only has the features you want and paid for! What a concept!
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As far as I've heard, quantum computing will reduce an applicable problem's complexity to its square root, e.g. something that takes O(n^2) now takes O(n). In other words, your 2048 bit keys will still have a relative 1024-bit strength, which for all intents and purposes is still computationally impossible.
Slashdot needs to add a "-2 cliche". That'll serve as a sharp warning.
If a user can install Linux on their machine, it implies the following:
* Isn't afraid of computers
* Willing to use a command line
* Knows what a partition/hard drive is
* Comfortable with various GUIs
Now, imaging a world where everybody had at least this amount of technical knowledge. It should be quite easy to instruct them about the concept of security, even if it only meant being wary of untrusted binaries.
I still know a few people who have problems distinguishing left from right click, and have a hard time double clicking. Prime candidates for people who systems are easily infected.
The key word here is supercomputer. A PS2 is not a supercomputer.
Hey, interesting idea. If I'm wearing SPF 45 sunblock on my body, what kind of added protection do I have from radiation?
Those who think paying attention to resource constraints is useless are frankly a danger, and shouldn't be near a compiler. It's like haphazardly designing a car, and thinking that the airbags will save the passengers if there is an accident.
However, there's a limit to optimizing code for efficiency's sake (both size and speed). From years of experience developing software, assembler up to Java, keeping your algorithm general allows it to be adaptable and maintainable. Nothing sucks more than spending days rewriting code because one number changes in the spec (yes, you can optimize that far).
As for writing "bloat" code, writing huge software systems in a timely manner in today's marketplace **implies** this situation. When you don't have to perform mundane chores in your code, you are free to produce more faster, and this is what companies want, and in fact, pay you for. It's a sad situation, but it's a dog-eat-dog world, and the consumer cares less about quality these days.
You also bring up an interesting point about when we'll hit the ceiling for computing power. I'm sure there's a real physical OPS/cm^3 limit (the only way to make it faster is to make it larger) but who knows what that is, or when we'll hit it. It'll be interesting to see how it'll affect the code produced. I'm hoping it's some type of golden age, where everbody has the same amount of standard computing hardware, and all code is made to this perfect, end-all spec.
-- If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. (Knuth)
Seriously!
For the love of Linux, give me a kernel without the SCO filth. I don't care even it's mission critical section of code. I'll redo it myself!
The magnitude of their gall, to even suggest $699, is absolutely apalling. Even if their claim is legit, this has removed any respect for SCO that I once had.
SCO is now that old-man who doesn't bathe, drinks whiskey all day, and constantly complains for all his problems. There's nothing left to respect, and you only hope that the end comes sooner rather than later.
You inadvertantly brigh up the point of what's going to happen when the masses (with Microsoft's software) discover that there are extreme volumes of Porn, Warez, and Music on USENET? I don't look forward to the day when the RIAA et al. decide to crunch down on one of the last bastions of freedom on the NET.
In Arabic, I think you can say something along the lines of "my meat is sour" to mean that you're pissed off.
I don't think Savage would ever support a red commie diaper doper baby OS such as Linux.
IMHO, one of the best science-fiction movies of all time is Gattaca. It focuses on humanity's potential problem with genetics determining our future rather than our accomplishments or choices we make in life. However, Gattaca does not incorporate all the whiz-bang effects like you see today in typical hollywood cinema. Instead, we're presented with an inspirational story where a man becomes more than he was destined to be. What's more, the directing and cinemetography were also memorable in their own right, futher adding to the film's professionalism. I'd pay $15, perhaps $20 to see another movie of its callibre in the theatres. I'm simply tired of t&a, explosions, and sfx beinf the forumale for movies today.
To further add to your comment, I've heard that this Summer's movie-going crowds were not as high as they were during previous years. Perhaps people are finally getting tired of watching movies that functionaly equivalent to pornography. Another statistic that caught my ear is that only 40% of all movies nowadays turn a profit. Doesn't it seem flatout stupid and ignorant to simply throw money at a film and hope that it sells? Hopefully these morons will wake up soon, and return to traditional film values.
Tao of Programming, 3.2:
"There once was a master programmer who wrote unstructured programs. A novice programmer, seeking to imitate him, also began to write unstructured programs. When the novice asked the master to evaluate his progress, the master criticized him for writing unstructured programs, saying, `What is appropriate for the master is not appropriate for the novice. You must understand the Tao before transcending structure.'"
Blog comes from shortening of the term web-log. You refering to writing in his journal is correct, since of course, the int4rw3b didn't exist yet.
When an image is put on the web, does that mean that the image must always be presented in the same context that the author intended?
In other words, what's the definitive answer to the following questions (references appreciated):
1. If I have a web page that displays an image via URL poiting back the original source of the image, is that fair-use since I have not actually copied the image, but rather referenced to it?
2. If I have a program that displays an image downloaded via URL pointing back to the original source, is that fair-use for the same above reason?
3 & 4. The same questions as the above, but add caching to improve performance.
5. If the any of the above has been answered no, then suppose the following: Mozilla has a feature where you can right-click on an image, select "View-Image", and then view the image alone with out its surrounding context. Mozilla has also most likely cached the image. Is this legal?
I think the equivalent of a "musical thumbnail" would be a snippit from that song ( 10 seconds or so). In that snippit, you get the feel of what the soung is about, it's general sound & riff, and it serves to entice the customer to want to check out the full version.
You have 720MB of data, or some other amount that's just over the 700MB limit where it feels wasteful to burn another CD. I bet the 110% setting will produce burned cdrs that will work in most any drive. Anything more merits burning two discs or buying a DVD+/-R(W) burner.
Consider "overclocking". Overclocking in the 486 era was marginally useful. Overclocking today belongs in the same category as car stereo loudness competitions.
You can buy an 2.4Ghz P4 (800Mhz FSB) processor for ~$170 (pricewatch) right now.
These things have been reported to do 800 to 1000Mhz overclocks without water/pelitier/anything extreme cooling. Never mind that the 3.4Ghz doesn't even exist yet, but note that the 3.2Ghz costs $700 (pricewatch).
You do the math.
May the Others take you! It's in the middle of Summer here in AZ with > 110F temperatures. I pray for the comming of Winter!
I think the "main" character is Tyrion simply because he deals with everything and everyone deals with him at one time or another.
But as you say, the level of character development in this series makes it impossible to choose.
Just another nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand more million-man-lan parties to actually get a real million head count!
Can you name me a commerical app that's well known and written in C#? I always get that question when I tell people that I program in Java.
Also, to somebody who knows Swing well, can you recommend a book that concentrates on advanced GUI building using C#? I'm the type that doesn't do point-and-click programming.
Let's make a word processor!
1. Open up your application creator.
2. Drag over your favorite editor component.
3. Drag over your favorite spell checker.
4. Drag over all your other favorite features.
5. Click "Go."
and tada:
One word processor, custom made to your specifications. It only has the features you want and paid for! What a concept!
The Roman Empire was pretty fricken large too, wasn't it?
This reminds of a lot of Chinese restaurant menus. I swear they do it on purpose. Just they other day I saw the following:
"Eat our magically delicious food to make tummy happy."
"Succulent tasty bites with choice ingredient and orange."
It makes me want to open up a restaurant with descriptions like:
"Disgusting old meat that make you barf long time."
"Like dog shit on hot road it make you gag."
Hint: if you want to sell a product, hire somebody to check your grammar and spelling.
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