So far you had to import all of your files into calibre, it can't reference external files. So it is pretty much unusable for importing larger existing libraries, and you get locked in.
For me, I think this is a feature.
It ensures that no matter what plugins / convertors / bugs calbre has at the time, your original files don't get mucked up. So you can merge records, mess about with meta data, and not have to worry about losing anything.
The copies that are imported into calibre's own library folder are just that: plain copies. I don't get your point about "locked in". You're as locked in as you were with your original files. The directory layout may be different, but nothing gets obfuscated.
If that's all the data anyone was using, it probably wouldn't be enough to be convincing. But there's a much longer history available. For starters, look at ice core drilling...
I'd rather have a 2n length key to encrypt an n length chunk, rather than an n-length key to encrypt a 2n length chunk.
Helps spread the bits of "randomness" a little further. Why would you like it the other way around? Sounds insane.
What information have you found that proves blowfish is insecure? Links or your own cryptanalysis are welcome.
Anyone who wants some actual facts about blowfish should start here. I doubt if the AC who posted the parent will produce anything to refute the specs.
For a trivial example: take a variable swap.
I want to put the value of X into Y.
You can do it with only the X and Y variables... a few XOR operations, and voila! Done.
But it's much faster, and easier to use up a whole extra variable Z to use as a temp var...
Bigger can mean faster.
Depends on what your definition of "sophisticated computer game" is. *If* you're talking fps monsters, be they 2d or 3d, then of course Java sucks (for now).
I remember a lot of talk on this, regarding how the volume of porn on VHS was a big thing that helped that format claim shelf space from Betamax. Now? Still much porn out there, but it didn't end up becomming the only thing available... It worked out well.
MP3's will go away. Just like every other little format, it will get replaced. Columbine happend, and probably will again... unfortunately. And, would people stop calling for JK's death? Sheesh! I mean, 1: He was just giving his opinion on something. 2: Nothing wrong with hitting the bottle. Nothing too wrong seeking writing ideas while under the influence. Rob Louis Stevenson(sp) wouldn't have given us Treasure Island if it weren't for the drugs.:) And, if it weren't for caffine, we'd all still be playing space invaders.
WHy is it that keeping firearms are seen as the be-all and end-all solution to all political problems over there in the US?
I am damn well *glad* we got rid of most of our guns. Good riddence to bad rubbish.
I mean - you guys have got school kids blowing each other's brains out, and yet you keep telling every other country to give a gun to every citizen.:/ Madness.
And please - none of that "Guns don't kill - people do" crapola. People kill a lot fewer people with a knife, than if they would with a semi-automatic.
Anyway. Off topic - but I couldn't let the firearm jibe slide.
What has been stolen? What has been lost? The author's right to own the software has been lost. If someone provides a service, such as say garbage collection (not memory management - street sweeping:-), then they are entitled to receive payment in return. Otherwise no-one will keep doing it, and our streets will stink for their loss. Same with software creators. Some choose money, others choose nothing, and some choose simply to retain the right to choose in future. Only problem with software is that it isn't physical. As you say, you don't damage it but making a copy. You don't deprive the owner of it when you take it. And so all of these little-minded folks, who are always looking for an easy way out of paying, forget that they owe the guy(s) for making it in the first place. If you think the software is good enough to use, then you owe the author the payment that they are asking for - be it money, or other licence agreement. You don't think it's worth *that* much? Well too bad - that's their price. As the owner, they have the right to set that price. I'm not here to say "copying is evil", or anything evangelistic like that. People have the right to decide how they manage their lives. But it urks me when folks like yourself think that nothing is lost when you spread their software to the winds. Sometimes their right to own is as valuable as food on the table. By all means, keep copying if you want - just don't go round spouting that nothing is being lost.
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So far you had to import all of your files into calibre, it can't reference external files. So it is pretty much unusable for importing larger existing libraries, and you get locked in.
For me, I think this is a feature.
It ensures that no matter what plugins / convertors / bugs calbre has at the time, your original files don't get mucked up. So you can merge records, mess about with meta data, and not have to worry about losing anything.
The copies that are imported into calibre's own library folder are just that: plain copies. I don't get your point about "locked in". You're as locked in as you were with your original files. The directory layout may be different, but nothing gets obfuscated.
If that's all the data anyone was using, it probably wouldn't be enough to be convincing. But there's a much longer history available. For starters, look at ice core drilling...
http://www.flud.org ...but it seems to have been sleeping since March 2008. :(
Ok. Seems that we're in violent agreement. :)
The way I read your comment, "so long as it remains voluntary", it sounded like you thought there were currently plans to *keep* it voluntary.
Just wanted to make sure no-one was in any doubt there are no such plans at the moment.
Apologies for misinterpreting.
Only the *testing* is voluntary.
When (if, hopefully) the real thing goes live, "Filtering will be mandatory in all homes and schools across the country".
See: http://nocleanfeed.com
Helps spread the bits of "randomness" a little further. Why would you like it the other way around? Sounds insane.
Gods! The only thing worse than a troll who finds a thesaurus, is an argument with nothing to back it up.
Smaller doesn't necessarily mean faster.
For a trivial example: take a variable swap.
I want to put the value of X into Y.
You can do it with only the X and Y variables... a few XOR operations, and voila! Done.
But it's much faster, and easier to use up a whole extra variable Z to use as a temp var...
Bigger can mean faster.
Depends on what your definition of "sophisticated computer game" is. *If* you're talking fps monsters, be they 2d or 3d, then of course Java sucks (for now).
I remember a lot of talk on this, regarding how the volume of porn on VHS was a big thing that helped that format claim shelf space from Betamax. Now? Still much porn out there, but it didn't end up becomming the only thing available... It worked out well.
MP3's will go away. Just like every other little format, it will get replaced. :) And, if it weren't for caffine, we'd all still be playing space invaders.
Columbine happend, and probably will again... unfortunately.
And, would people stop calling for JK's death? Sheesh! I mean, 1: He was just giving his opinion on something. 2: Nothing wrong with hitting the bottle. Nothing too wrong seeking writing ideas while under the influence. Rob Louis Stevenson(sp) wouldn't have given us Treasure Island if it weren't for the drugs.
I know the old saying "good things come to those who wait"... But I just got one word: FINALLY! :))
WHy is it that keeping firearms are seen as the be-all and end-all solution to all political problems over there in the US?
:/ Madness.
I am damn well *glad* we got rid of most of our guns. Good riddence to bad rubbish.
I mean - you guys have got school kids blowing each other's brains out, and yet you keep telling every other country to give a gun to every citizen.
And please - none of that "Guns don't kill - people do" crapola. People kill a lot fewer people with a knife, than if they would with a semi-automatic.
Anyway. Off topic - but I couldn't let the firearm jibe slide.
What has been stolen? What has been lost? The author's right to own the software has been lost. If someone provides a service, such as say garbage collection (not memory management - street sweeping :-), then they are entitled to receive payment in return. Otherwise no-one will keep doing it, and our streets will stink for their loss. Same with software creators. Some choose money, others choose nothing, and some choose simply to retain the right to choose in future. Only problem with software is that it isn't physical. As you say, you don't damage it but making a copy. You don't deprive the owner of it when you take it. And so all of these little-minded folks, who are always looking for an easy way out of paying, forget that they owe the guy(s) for making it in the first place. If you think the software is good enough to use, then you owe the author the payment that they are asking for - be it money, or other licence agreement. You don't think it's worth *that* much? Well too bad - that's their price. As the owner, they have the right to set that price. I'm not here to say "copying is evil", or anything evangelistic like that. People have the right to decide how they manage their lives. But it urks me when folks like yourself think that nothing is lost when you spread their software to the winds. Sometimes their right to own is as valuable as food on the table. By all means, keep copying if you want - just don't go round spouting that nothing is being lost.