"elektronische Post" is just the translation! It's never used in common language! As some other poster pointed out "admin" can mean a lot of things in English - not just "network administrator"; in German we also use the word "Admin" and it always means "Netzwerkadministrator" here.
In Germany we don't have the "tradition" to invent our own words for these things. We just use English words mostly. Unlike the French who translate almost everything.
In Germany a company cannot hold up a lottery where only users of it's product can participate.
So if for example Coca-Cola puts some random numbers on the inside of their bottles and makes some kind of lottery of it, it must provide the same winnning chance to people who just call in though they haven't bougth the product (and not obtained a number).
So Microsoft would need to provide the same chance for getting the bucks to everyone who's using another IM as well.
Don't know how it's handled in other countries, but I think it's like that in many European countries.
They didn't shut down the phone system, just the encryption! The 'standard FBI procedure' would probably be the same, but without letting anybody know. So nobody would riot - most of the people wouldn't even notice the encryption shut off.
It's probably because the framerate is not constant, but is going down in graphics intensive scenes. I think an average of 130 fps in Q3A will sometimes go down to about 20-25 fps while a 200 fps system will still provide more than 30-40 fps. So that's probably the difference you're talking about. You probably couldn't tell the difference between constant 130 vs. constant 200 frames. We're getting a little bit off-topic here, though.
Well, it's not entirely correct, but it's not incorrect either. The Yugoslav republic of Montenegro uses the Euro as its official currency (although they are a federal state of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Dinar is not an official currency there).
This has nothing to do with DLLs, but with.NET components. Read the article carefully! A.NET application can bind to a specific version of a component, but that's not even news - it already exists in.NET 1.0 and some aspects of it were already available in COM years ago.
The only aspect of it that has to do with DLLs is that.NET components are usually exported from DLLs, but this won't solve any of the problems with 'normal' DLLs.
Hm, if you use BeOS, you will have shared objects (.so files) like many other unix like systems (Linux, FreeBSD, QNX,...).
Shared objects are almost the same as DLLs.
One of the main points in M$'s argumentation is that the GPL hurts the industry, because you cannot write commercial apps based on GPL software, but the GPL is not the only Open Source license and most reasonable OS libraries are licensed under the LGPL or similar licenses that allow developing commercial software.
Open source developers simply have to choose an appropriate license for their project when they start. And if they find out that they chose wrong there is still the possibility to change the licensing terms. A very prominent example for such a license change is the Wine project that changed it's license from X11-like to LGPL recently.
If a company finds an OS library useful for their own project, but they cannot use it, 'cause it's GPL, they can still contact the author and ask for different licensing terms. They'll probably have to pay for that then, but they'd have to pay for a commercial product, too. So even GPL'd libraries are not really a hurdle for commercial software development. A good example for such dual licensing is ReiserFS, which is published under the GPL, but sold under different licensing terms to companies that want to use it commercially.
MacOS X is based on GNU/Darwin which is currently being ported to x86. Darwin is a BSD-like kernel based on Mach 3.0. So there shouldn't be a lack of apps or so.
I've found an English page on which they desribe that a RSA key was cracked using 400 MIPS-years in 1995 and that they think a company spending big efforts on it can crack every 512 bit RSA encryption. Look at: PGP Attacks
I think you should have a look at the following (German) page: http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/security/pgpfaq .html#3.5 I didn't find an english page so fast, sorry. They say something about the 'blacknet' key (a PGP key) which was cracked in 3 months (and that was 5 years ago).
I've heard that they cracked a PGP enc file in a few weeks on a cluster in Germany. Take a few years of development and every little i12x86 can do this in a few hours. Or take the El'Gamal encryption - it was said to be as secure as PGP and now - cracked!
I downloaded the code and will have a look at it (which might result in me porting it to GCC, but that's not really probable). If it's not too hard to port I might cope with it. But it'll probably be a CygWin port (which then should be easy to port to Linux or so). But don't count on me at all for now! We'll see.
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"elektronische Post" is just the translation! It's never used in common language!
As some other poster pointed out "admin" can mean a lot of things in English - not just "network administrator"; in German we also use the word "Admin" and it always means "Netzwerkadministrator" here.
In Germany we don't have the "tradition" to invent our own words for these things. We just use English words mostly. Unlike the French who translate almost everything.
In Germany a company cannot hold up a lottery where only users of it's product can participate.
So if for example Coca-Cola puts some random numbers on the inside of their bottles and makes some kind of lottery of it, it must provide the same winnning chance to people who just call in though they haven't bougth the product (and not obtained a number).
So Microsoft would need to provide the same chance for getting the bucks to everyone who's using another IM as well.
Don't know how it's handled in other countries, but I think it's like that in many European countries.
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It's 10^9 of course. The universe is about 14*10^9 years old, so it cannot be 10^12.
I agree that one should stop the confusion about what billion or trillion actually mean, though.
In German a billion is 10^12 and a trillion is 10^18. In English it's 10^9 and 10^12. Don't know how other languages handle this.
They didn't shut down the phone system, just the encryption!
The 'standard FBI procedure' would probably be the same, but without letting anybody know. So nobody would riot - most of the people wouldn't even notice the encryption shut off.
It's probably because the framerate is not constant, but is going down in graphics intensive scenes.
I think an average of 130 fps in Q3A will sometimes go down to about 20-25 fps while a 200 fps system will still provide more than 30-40 fps. So that's probably the difference you're talking about.
You probably couldn't tell the difference between constant 130 vs. constant 200 frames.
We're getting a little bit off-topic here, though.
Well, it's not entirely correct, but it's not incorrect either.
The Yugoslav republic of Montenegro uses the Euro as its official currency (although they are a federal state of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Dinar is not an official currency there).
Have a look at the Factbook page for Yugoslavia.
This has nothing to do with DLLs, but with .NET components. Read the article carefully! .NET application can bind to a specific version of a component, but that's not even news - it already exists in .NET 1.0 and some aspects of it were already available in COM years ago. .NET components are usually exported from DLLs, but this won't solve any of the problems with 'normal' DLLs.
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Hm, if you use BeOS, you will have shared objects (.so files) like many other unix like systems (Linux, FreeBSD, QNX, ...).
Shared objects are almost the same as DLLs.
One of the main points in M$'s argumentation is that the GPL hurts the industry, because you cannot write commercial apps based on GPL software, but the GPL is not the only Open Source license and most reasonable OS libraries are licensed under the LGPL or similar licenses that allow developing commercial software.
Open source developers simply have to choose an appropriate license for their project when they start. And if they find out that they chose wrong there is still the possibility to change the licensing terms. A very prominent example for such a license change is the Wine project that changed it's license from X11-like to LGPL recently.
If a company finds an OS library useful for their own project, but they cannot use it, 'cause it's GPL, they can still contact the author and ask for different licensing terms. They'll probably have to pay for that then, but they'd have to pay for a commercial product, too. So even GPL'd libraries are not really a hurdle for commercial software development. A good example for such dual licensing is ReiserFS, which is published under the GPL, but sold under different licensing terms to companies that want to use it commercially.
MacOS X is based on GNU/Darwin which is currently being ported to x86.
Darwin is a BSD-like kernel based on Mach 3.0. So there shouldn't be a lack of apps or so.
GCC 2.96 is an ALPHA compiler. They shouldn't have used it in their distribution - ther are too many bugs in it.
Look at gcc.gnu.org for more info.
I write eMail! Looks nice!
Didn't we talk about OPTICAL BLACK HOLES. RTAF - read the announcement first! I think a bucket would do for containment.
I've found an English page on which they desribe that a RSA key was cracked using 400 MIPS-years in 1995 and that they think a company spending big efforts on it can crack every 512 bit RSA encryption. Look at: PGP Attacks
I think you should have a look at the following (German) page: http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/security/pgpfaq .html#3.5 I didn't find an english page so fast, sorry. They say something about the 'blacknet' key (a PGP key) which was cracked in 3 months (and that was 5 years ago).
I've heard that they cracked a PGP enc file in a few weeks on a cluster in Germany. Take a few years of development and every little i12x86 can do this in a few hours. Or take the El'Gamal encryption - it was said to be as secure as PGP and now - cracked!
I think that everything can be hacked (what did they say about DVD?) and that therefore it's somewhat dangerous to can sign everything digitally.
I downloaded the code and will have a look at it (which might result in me porting it to GCC, but that's not really probable). If it's not too hard to port I might cope with it. But it'll probably be a CygWin port (which then should be easy to port to Linux or so). But don't count on me at all for now! We'll see.