Defensive, aren't you? Too defensive to note that the poster was attempting irony by subtly summoning the bogeyman of a right-wing Big Brother. Being an atheist surely is not unamerican, but neither is being religious, and in particular neither is being Christian. If you (and the poster you are replying to) had a more comprehensive picture of court rulings over the past 30 years, you would see that Christians have more to fear from undemocratic abuses of power than atheists or subscribers to other religions.
More people have DIED over religious wars than any political war..
From this comment alone, I'll peg you as a 19-21 year old, hot-headed undergrad who took two history classes, both taught by professors who advocate socialism, and you think you're being intellectual by stating that old canard with that kind of CAPITALIZED fervor, like you calculated it up yourself. In this you are hardly unique. You'll grow out of it.
Oh, and far more people have thrived in the propsperity of Western, Judeo-Christian societies than in any autocratically mandated atheist society.
When I write code, I can't even read what I wrote two weeks later, much less recreate it from scratch. Sodium pentathol and needles in my fingernails wouldn't make it much easier.
Ron Rivest (The "R" in RSA) wrote a paper on time locked crypto, which sounds like what you want. But really, what are the chances you have an earth shattering discovery to reveal if you can't even use Google?
I think the announcement would be more like "I've discovered how to factor large integers. I won't reveal the method for ten years so that banks, governments, and child pornographers may alter their storage and communication methods with less disruption."
Of course, You'd have to give some sort of proof, maybe breaking a secure key, and then sending the result to the key owner (encrypted!).
I shouldn't have to follow four links from an "ask/." story just to understand the question. It is good common practice in technical writing to expand acronyms upon first use, unless you're really sure the readership knows it (like "IBM"), or it's irrelevant to the purpose of the text to expand it (like "IBM").
And as far as me not having much of a chance of answering the question is concerned, I don't read Ask/. for the purpose of answering every question. Sometimes I just want to find out what other people are working on, and what other people find interesting.
Some day, the whole world will have running water and sewage. And you know who's gonna bring it to 'em? Us. The Plumbers. We're in on the ground floor, baby. I even shook hands with R. T. Rooter once, ya know the guy with the "all drainage must run downhill" theorem? That guy. I'm lucky to be alive in this era; we'll be freakin' heroes in the next century....
In the title alone, there are 11 letters worth of unexpanded acronyms, and by the end of this three line post there are an additional 5. Would it be that hard to write something like:
"Dear Slashdot, I am a PTCBADUTAIK (Poster that can't believe anyone doesn't understand the acronyms I know), and I want to post an ask Slashdot. What should I do?"
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Or if Microsoft has somewhere noted your initial agreement, is it in perpetuity? Does Microsoft permanently own that box?
Here is where many people get confused by legal definitions and concepts of property, contracts, and so forth. Allow me to attempt to clear this up: Microsoft does not "own" your box. In legal parlance, Microsoft "0wnz j00!!!!!"
Wouldn't it be possible for the GNU project, or EFF, to get an officially sanctioned watermark? Couldn't there be a universally recognized watermark that effectively says, "This Work is Freely Distributable" and the keys for {en|de}crypting would be available?
Then maybe the MPAA/RIAA and Congress would take notice if after a year or so of this mandatory watermarking, a large percentage of all content played in new DRM players was marked with the "Marca de agua libre"?
but when they actually start to target teenagers, children, and babies, they have become just as bad, if not worse than the people they are fightning.
"Just as bad, if not worse than" a democracy ensuring its continued existence. A society which actually treats the injured WOULD-BE MURDERERS who "fail" in their shahid operations in top-notch hospitals. A society that cares enough to send the remains of suicide bombers back to their families for burial. Yeah, real barbarism there. You fuckwad. Who's occupying Lebanon? Who were the "Palestinians" before they LOST THEIR LAND IN A WAR IN WHICH THEY WERE ON THE AGGRESSORS SIDE? Moral equivalence arguments about Israel and any of its neighbors are a sick, sad, joke.
The situation you describe is still consistent with frame rates mattering most. It's just that your frame rates are currently null. If NVidia provided drivers of equal quality for arbitrary kernels and versions, I don't think you would be so snooty about it.
It's been made so easy to apply to jobs that they must get flooded with crap. I mean, what is going to differentiate you from the other people applying to 300 jobs?
So why is he such a visionary if Winmodems are so bad? I hope the answer is something like "Winmodem manufacturers don't implement the optimizations he proposed, even though they could in principle." and not something like "Win-anything sux0rs, d00d."
If these software optimizations are possible, then the open source winmodem drivers should eventually eclipse RS232-attached modems in low latency, right? (though this may be moot these days) Are {ISA,PCI,USB}-attached modems not hampered with these latency issues? Why don't more hardware tasks get moved into the CPU core if such optimizations are possible?
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"Odds are, unlikely things will happen."
Defensive, aren't you? Too defensive to note that the poster was attempting irony by subtly summoning the bogeyman of a right-wing Big Brother. Being an atheist surely is not unamerican, but neither is being religious, and in particular neither is being Christian. If you (and the poster you are replying to) had a more comprehensive picture of court rulings over the past 30 years, you would see that Christians have more to fear from undemocratic abuses of power than atheists or subscribers to other religions.
More people have DIED over religious wars than any political war..
From this comment alone, I'll peg you as a 19-21 year old, hot-headed undergrad who took two history classes, both taught by professors who advocate socialism, and you think you're being intellectual by stating that old canard with that kind of CAPITALIZED fervor, like you calculated it up yourself. In this you are hardly unique. You'll grow out of it.
Oh, and far more people have thrived in the propsperity of Western, Judeo-Christian societies than in any autocratically mandated atheist society.
I like the sound of
chmod DVD+R
better than
chmod DVD-R
When I write code, I can't even read what I wrote two weeks later, much less recreate it from scratch. Sodium pentathol and needles in my fingernails wouldn't make it much easier.
See my other post in this thread.
Ron Rivest (The "R" in RSA) wrote a paper on time locked crypto, which sounds like what you want. But really, what are the chances you have an earth shattering discovery to reveal if you can't even use Google?
Of course, You'd have to give some sort of proof, maybe breaking a secure key, and then sending the result to the key owner (encrypted!).
And as far as me not having much of a chance of answering the question is concerned, I don't read Ask /. for the purpose of answering every question. Sometimes I just want to find out what other people are working on, and what other people find interesting.
Mathematica 4.1 for Linux
Copyright 1988-2000 Wolfram Research, Inc.
-- Motif graphics initialized --
In[1]:= PrimeQ[1]
Out[1]= False
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Where can I find the compiler that changes FFTs on complex doubles into integer instructions? That would sure speed things up a bit around here....
\documentclass{article}
\title{The P/NP Shit}
\author{airmax31}
\begin{document}
"Dear Slashdot, I am a PTCBADUTAIK (Poster that can't believe anyone doesn't understand the acronyms I know), and I want to post an ask Slashdot. What should I do?"
Mod this up. Seriously.
two divisors : 1 and itself.
1 only has one divisor = 1
But you didn't say "exactly two unique divisors," so:
- Is 1 divisible by 1? Yes.
- Is 1 divisble by itself? Yes.
- Is 1 divisible by any other natural number? No.
Therefore, 1 is prime.Since when does Zippy post AC?
Here is where many people get confused by legal definitions and concepts of property, contracts, and so forth. Allow me to attempt to clear this up: Microsoft does not "own" your box. In legal parlance, Microsoft "0wnz j00!!!!!"
Then maybe the MPAA/RIAA and Congress would take notice if after a year or so of this mandatory watermarking, a large percentage of all content played in new DRM players was marked with the "Marca de agua libre"?
Are you kidding? This is slashdot. The only way anyone here would look at the source is if it was available as a Think Geek T-shirt or xmms skin.
"Just as bad, if not worse than" a democracy ensuring its continued existence. A society which actually treats the injured WOULD-BE MURDERERS who "fail" in their shahid operations in top-notch hospitals. A society that cares enough to send the remains of suicide bombers back to their families for burial. Yeah, real barbarism there. You fuckwad. Who's occupying Lebanon? Who were the "Palestinians" before they LOST THEIR LAND IN A WAR IN WHICH THEY WERE ON THE AGGRESSORS SIDE? Moral equivalence arguments about Israel and any of its neighbors are a sick, sad, joke.
The situation you describe is still consistent with frame rates mattering most. It's just that your frame rates are currently null. If NVidia provided drivers of equal quality for arbitrary kernels and versions, I don't think you would be so snooty about it.
Lying. Good old-fashioned fabrication.
It ust be that the "good old Steve is back to his old self" comment means "back to his old self" in the sense of being sued.
and yet...
There is no "Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these!" post.
If these software optimizations are possible, then the open source winmodem drivers should eventually eclipse RS232-attached modems in low latency, right? (though this may be moot these days) Are {ISA,PCI,USB}-attached modems not hampered with these latency issues? Why don't more hardware tasks get moved into the CPU core if such optimizations are possible?