There were a lot of evil requirements before the antitrust suit - for example, manufacturers had to pay for a windows license for every computer they sold, even one with another OS (or they wouldn't get the OEM discount).
The first two are physically impossible (ie. if new physics are discovered, they may stop being impossible). The third is mathematically impossible, and you can't have different laws of math - 2 + 2 = 4 holds true in any universe.
So the college will have to pay the costs that the student would otherwise pay? You could just transfer those costs to the student, and it would be cheaper due to economies of scale. As for checking the calculators, you would have to do that regardless of who owns them.
The most powerful distributed computing system does 10^16 calculations per second. Multiply by 10^16 and you get 10^32 per second (that is, 2^106), a 128 bit key will last 2^22 seconds (about two months). A 256 bit key will last 2^150 seconds (about 10^37 years). Assuming you intend to survive until proton decay (10^31 years), you got your figure of one in a million exactly.
That third one is the only one that is truly impossible. A computer cannot calculate the universe faster that the universe does because the computer is part of the universe and thus has to out-calculate itself.
If colleges need to let students take calculators, but not calculators that are too powerful, why doesn't the college provide the calculators at the start of the exam? People can use their laptops/powerful calculators for everything else.
Microsoft doesn't support computers, they support operating systems. A more accurate analogy would be: How many people who use ubuntu on a mac make support calls to Apple?
So make the second password a security token! Make a really, long and unguessable password and put it onto a USB stick (or 2 or 3 so you don't lose your account if one breaks), something like this
I agree with short copyright but making it based on the life of the author is a bad idea. First of all, and this is the most obvious drawback, it encourages murder. Secondly, it's not well suited to handle works made by multiple people (a subset of this being a corporation).
Technically, it is possible for everyone to lose out simultaneously without a few greedy people plundering anything. See: natural disasters, droughts, wars (they do benefit some people but the total harm is far greater), resource shortages.
It's called saving up a few dozen thousand, putting money in when you're doing well and taking money out when you're doing badly. Watch how your income stabilizes if you do that.
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But does it run Linux?
There were a lot of evil requirements before the antitrust suit - for example, manufacturers had to pay for a windows license for every computer they sold, even one with another OS (or they wouldn't get the OEM discount).
Acer is clearly accepting money from Microsoft. See their advice on the netbook page: Acer recommends Windows® for everyday computing..
Indeed - this thread is part of http: //tech.slashdot.org.
There's a lot of interfaces that are extremely powerful but take a while to get used to (eg. vim, emacs).
You just need to put some small bombs in the circuitry for the sparks and it'll work.
The first two are physically impossible (ie. if new physics are discovered, they may stop being impossible). The third is mathematically impossible, and you can't have different laws of math - 2 + 2 = 4 holds true in any universe.
So the college will have to pay the costs that the student would otherwise pay? You could just transfer those costs to the student, and it would be cheaper due to economies of scale. As for checking the calculators, you would have to do that regardless of who owns them.
The most powerful distributed computing system does 10^16 calculations per second. Multiply by 10^16 and you get 10^32 per second (that is, 2^106), a 128 bit key will last 2^22 seconds (about two months). A 256 bit key will last 2^150 seconds (about 10^37 years). Assuming you intend to survive until proton decay (10^31 years), you got your figure of one in a million exactly.
That third one is the only one that is truly impossible. A computer cannot calculate the universe faster that the universe does because the computer is part of the universe and thus has to out-calculate itself.
If colleges need to let students take calculators, but not calculators that are too powerful, why doesn't the college provide the calculators at the start of the exam? People can use their laptops/powerful calculators for everything else.
Licensed not sold happened.
Microsoft doesn't support computers, they support operating systems. A more accurate analogy would be: How many people who use ubuntu on a mac make support calls to Apple?
It has to be a free OS - otherwise there would be too many copyright implications to worry about.
So make the second password a security token! Make a really, long and unguessable password and put it onto a USB stick (or 2 or 3 so you don't lose your account if one breaks), something like this
Nuclear fuel is actually quite cheap, especially if you use a proper fast breeder reactor (which also solves the waste problem).
I agree with short copyright but making it based on the life of the author is a bad idea. First of all, and this is the most obvious drawback, it encourages murder. Secondly, it's not well suited to handle works made by multiple people (a subset of this being a corporation).
Data Protection? Sounds like another DRM scheme.
Don't use the terminal, it's sexist. I have proof.
#man women
No manual entry for women
People dying from sharks is bad. But if only 10 people die from sharks every year, do we really need to worry about it?
What if they're really really good trinary only drivers?
Technically, it is possible for everyone to lose out simultaneously without a few greedy people plundering anything. See: natural disasters, droughts, wars (they do benefit some people but the total harm is far greater), resource shortages.
It's called saving up a few dozen thousand, putting money in when you're doing well and taking money out when you're doing badly. Watch how your income stabilizes if you do that.
SCO would like to have a word with you.
Which is why the majority of windows copies sold are $45 OEM licenses.