Today's browsers (even the first SSL enabled browser, Netscape 2.0) recognized _dozens_ of certificate authorities. Besides Verisign and Thawte, there are RSA, Entrust, and others.
You are also mistaken that RSA started Verisign; RSA Security was the company that licensed the RSA public-key algorithm. They actually compete directly with Verisign as a CA.
To see for yourself:
(Netscape|Mozilla): Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Certificates
IE: Tools->Options->Content->Certificates
I believe you are mistaken. If you take a look into Mozilla's approot directory, you'll see that the actual binary itself is quite slim. I am not familiar with Mozilla development, but if you peruse the "components" subdirectory, you'll find dozens of independant libraries each implementing unique functionality, like mozbrwsr, webbrwsr, composer, etc.
Considering most of these libraries are shared objects or dynamic link libraries, they should only get loaded into the mozilla process memory when referenced.
My comments were slightly speculative, but I did run a google search on q=ntfs+veritas. Windows.NET magazine discusses Veritas' envolvement of writing the built-in volume management (dynamic disks) aspect of NTFS5, which sounds reasonable. Here's a complete quote from Windows 2000 magazine,
VERITAS has contributed more to Windows 2000 than you might imagine. The company wrote important parts of the Windows file system, contributed elements of the Volume Manager software (VxVM, a light version of the Microsoft Management Console--MMC--snap-in that all Windows system administrators use), and--through its acquisition of Seagate's software assets--added Windows Backup (a light version of Backup Express)
From what I understand, Veritas essentially rewrote NTFS version 5 (shipped with win2000 and winXP) and integrated built-in volume management (dynamic disks) with some abstract layer to maintain the clunky drive letter schemes.
I dont' really see the reasoning by mentioning that all Windows applications will require a rewrite; they only need to abstract the Win32::File APIs to handle the internal OFS changes... the changes that they document appear to do essentially what the Indexing services do for win2000 and winXP now. I assume it is just extra metadata strings that they associate with each file inode.
It seems a bit arrogant of MS to think they can improve (or trash and rewrite) what is essentially Veritas' domain, file systems. But then again, we're talking about MS...
Okay. Many people are submitting news stories that report on the subject second or third-hand; here is the original paper:
UCSD Sleep Study, which appeared in the February 15, 2002 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry (AMA journal).
Though I strongly believe in all of the posters who rightly point out that (causality -ne correlation), the article explicitly states that the conclusions take into consideration variables such as age, diet, exercise, previous health problems, and risk factors such as smoking, in comparing longevity among the participants
actually, from my limited understanding, Cantor's contiuum theory does _not_ conform to mathematical rules in the sense that it's never been proven, only proven that it would not destroy any exisitng axioms if proven true (independance).
i remember reading that as well, that Cantor claimed that his aleph equation was given to him by God. i believe though, that those claims were mostly out of frustation, insanity, or a little of both.
``... the essence of mathematics resides in its freedom''
From Georg Cantor, Ueber unendliche, lineare Punktmannischfaltigkeiten, Mathematische Annalen, volume 21, in 1883.
The context of which Cantor extended the natural numbers to infinite ordinal numbers, with addition and multiplication defined on them.
Es ist, wie ich glaube, nicht nöthig in diesen Grundsätzen irgendeine Gefahr für die Wissenschaft zu befürchten, wie dies von Vielen geschieht; einerseits sind die bezeichneten Bedingungen, unter welchen die Freiheit der Zahlenbildung allein geübt werden kann, derartige, dass sie der Willkür einen äussertst geringen Spielraum lassen; dann aber trägt auch jeder mathematische Begriff das nöthige Correctiv in sich selbst einher; ist er unfruchtbar oder unzweckmässig, so zeigt er es sehr bald durch seine Unbrauchbarkeit und er wird alsdann, wegen mangelnden Erfolgs, fallen gelassen. Dagegen scheint mir aber jede überflüssige Einengung des mathematischen Forschungstriebes eine viel grössere Gefahr mit sich zu bringen und eine um so grössere, als dafür aus dem Wesen der Wissenschaft wirklich keinerlei Rechtfertigung gezogen werden kann; denn das Wesen der Mathematik liegt grerade in ihrer Freiheit.
there's no technical reason for Napster to distribute mp3's only. reading the first few bytes of any binary would tell you the magic "cookie" necessary for determining the file type.
as for useability... well, many people use Napster regardless of whether it has some quality control system. i agree that it would be cool, though, to have that functionality. by performing some simple crc, the Napster server could probe different user databases for identical files. This way they could implement some necessary load balancing.
as for poor quality data... well, that should be a parameter of the particular data file. mpg is encoded with its dimensions, frame rate, etc in its frame header which is easy to extract. they already have similar mechanisms in place for mp3's, the bitrate, frequency, etc. that's all straightforward stuff that i'm sure they know about.
It makes quite a bit of sense actually. Consider the large contributions that the mozilla team have developed:
bugzilla
gecko
xul also considering that the above elements of mozilla are just a few of their major developements and that they are all highly modular, in addition to being open sourced, it becomes apparent why the target is aimed at developers. a side-effect of the above elements is an incredibly robust, consistent, and all-around very cool web browser for the end-user.
a bit longer: each piece of work that Disney releases has its own specialized staff, whose skillsets were evaluated for the task, but for the most part, each movie shares many of the same designers.
There are a few thinktanks, (Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, CA is one of them) that primarilly attack the movies at the design stage, throwing out wild sequences and ideas. While most of these guys only work on a single project at a time, their collective expertise touches most all of the Disney movies. IMHO, these are the folk who do the magic. The higher you go, the more brute work is done, hacking out frame-by-frame cels.
As for employee turn-around... I'm sure the peon animators may want to jump around among studios, but the top designers are probably treated pretty well; I'm sure the incentives to stay are high.
I find it very reasonable for organizations to want the demographic of men-to-women engineers to be a bit more balanced. But Dr. Anita Borg does not bring any insight into this discussion. Her arguments are just as subjective as the argument that women aren't interested in engineering disciplines.
. programs for women are "too small and under-funded". I have yet to hear of any engineering program for boys. As far as I know IEEE, USENIX, SAGE, and other such groups are open to both sexes.
. "a great little book called Does Jane Compute?" shows how girls won't fight back against the wild and aggressive boys for computer time. Does this sound absurd to anybody else besides me?
Although this it is an interesting issue to comtemplate, Dr. Borg, despite being the pres. of the Institute for Women and Technology, doesn't seem to have a handle on this problem. nor does she give us any clues to its causes or solutions.
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Actually, you are mistaken.
Today's browsers (even the first SSL enabled browser, Netscape 2.0) recognized _dozens_ of certificate authorities. Besides Verisign and Thawte, there are RSA, Entrust, and others.
You are also mistaken that RSA started Verisign; RSA Security was the company that licensed the RSA public-key algorithm. They actually compete directly with Verisign as a CA.
To see for yourself:
(Netscape|Mozilla): Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Certificates
IE: Tools->Options->Content->Certificates
I believe you are mistaken. If you take a look into Mozilla's approot directory, you'll see that the actual binary itself is quite slim. I am not familiar with Mozilla development, but if you peruse the "components" subdirectory, you'll find dozens of independant libraries each implementing unique functionality, like mozbrwsr, webbrwsr, composer, etc.
Considering most of these libraries are shared objects or dynamic link libraries, they should only get loaded into the mozilla process memory when referenced.
My comments were slightly speculative, but I did run a google search on q=ntfs+veritas. Windows .NET magazine discusses Veritas' envolvement of writing the built-in volume management (dynamic disks) aspect of NTFS5, which sounds reasonable. Here's a complete quote from Windows 2000 magazine,
VERITAS has contributed more to Windows 2000 than you might imagine. The company wrote important parts of the Windows file system, contributed elements of the Volume Manager software (VxVM, a light version of the Microsoft Management Console--MMC--snap-in that all Windows system administrators use), and--through its acquisition of Seagate's software assets--added Windows Backup (a light version of Backup Express)
From what I understand, Veritas essentially rewrote NTFS version 5 (shipped with win2000 and winXP) and
integrated built-in volume management (dynamic disks) with some abstract layer to maintain the clunky drive letter schemes.
I dont' really see the reasoning by mentioning that all Windows applications will require a rewrite; they only need to abstract the Win32::File APIs to handle the internal OFS changes... the changes that they document appear to do essentially what the Indexing services do for win2000 and winXP now. I assume it is just extra metadata strings that they associate with each file inode.
It seems a bit arrogant of MS to think they can improve (or trash and rewrite) what is essentially Veritas' domain, file systems. But then again, we're talking about MS...
Okay. Many people are submitting news stories that report on the subject second or third-hand; here is the original paper:
UCSD Sleep Study, which appeared in the February 15, 2002 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry (AMA journal).
Though I strongly believe in all of the posters who rightly point out that (causality -ne correlation), the article explicitly states that the conclusions take into consideration variables such as age, diet, exercise, previous health problems, and risk factors such as smoking, in comparing longevity among the participants
actually, from my limited understanding, Cantor's contiuum theory does _not_ conform to mathematical rules in the sense that it's never been proven, only proven that it would not destroy any exisitng axioms if proven true (independance).
i remember reading that as well, that Cantor claimed that his aleph equation was given to him by God. i believe though, that those claims were mostly out of frustation, insanity, or a little of both.
``... the essence of mathematics resides in its freedom''
From Georg Cantor, Ueber unendliche, lineare Punktmannischfaltigkeiten, Mathematische Annalen, volume 21, in 1883.
The context of which Cantor extended the natural numbers to infinite ordinal numbers, with addition and multiplication defined on them.
Es ist, wie ich glaube, nicht nöthig in diesen Grundsätzen irgendeine Gefahr für die Wissenschaft zu befürchten, wie dies von Vielen geschieht; einerseits sind die bezeichneten Bedingungen, unter welchen die Freiheit der Zahlenbildung allein geübt werden kann, derartige, dass sie der Willkür einen äussertst geringen Spielraum lassen; dann aber trägt auch jeder mathematische Begriff das nöthige Correctiv in sich selbst einher; ist er unfruchtbar oder unzweckmässig, so zeigt er es sehr bald durch seine Unbrauchbarkeit und er wird alsdann, wegen mangelnden Erfolgs, fallen gelassen. Dagegen scheint mir aber jede überflüssige Einengung des mathematischen Forschungstriebes eine viel grössere Gefahr mit sich zu bringen und eine um so grössere, als dafür aus dem Wesen der Wissenschaft wirklich keinerlei Rechtfertigung gezogen werden kann; denn das Wesen der Mathematik liegt grerade in ihrer Freiheit.
babelfish at will.
there's no technical reason for Napster to distribute mp3's only. reading the first few bytes of any binary would tell you the magic "cookie" necessary for determining the file type.
as for useability... well, many people use Napster regardless of whether it has some quality control system. i agree that it would be cool, though, to have that functionality. by performing some simple crc, the Napster server could probe different user databases for identical files. This way they could implement some necessary load balancing.
as for poor quality data... well, that should be a parameter of the particular data file. mpg is encoded with its dimensions, frame rate, etc in its frame header which is easy to extract. they already have similar mechanisms in place for mp3's, the bitrate, frequency, etc. that's all straightforward stuff that i'm sure they know about.
bugzilla
gecko
xul
also considering that the above elements of mozilla are just a few of their major developements and that they are all highly modular, in addition to being open sourced, it becomes apparent why the target is aimed at developers. a side-effect of the above elements is an incredibly robust, consistent, and all-around very cool web browser for the end-user.
short answer: yes and no.
a bit longer: each piece of work that Disney releases has its own specialized staff, whose skillsets were evaluated for the task, but for the most part, each movie shares many of the same designers.
There are a few thinktanks, (Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, CA is one of them) that primarilly attack the movies at the design stage, throwing out wild sequences and ideas. While most of these guys only work on a single project at a time, their collective expertise touches most all of the Disney movies. IMHO, these are the folk who do the magic. The higher you go, the more brute work is done, hacking out frame-by-frame cels.
As for employee turn-around... I'm sure the peon animators may want to jump around among studios, but the top designers are probably treated pretty well; I'm sure the incentives to stay are high.
I find it very reasonable for organizations to want the demographic of men-to-women engineers to be a bit more balanced. But Dr. Anita Borg does not bring any insight into this discussion. Her arguments are just as subjective as the argument that women aren't interested in engineering disciplines.
. programs for women are "too small and under-funded". I have yet to hear of any engineering program for boys. As far as I know IEEE, USENIX, SAGE, and other such groups are open to both sexes.
. "a great little book called Does Jane Compute?" shows how girls won't fight back against the wild and aggressive boys for computer time. Does this sound absurd to anybody else besides me?
Although this it is an interesting issue to comtemplate, Dr. Borg, despite being the pres. of the Institute for Women and Technology, doesn't seem to have a handle on this problem. nor does she give us any clues to its causes or solutions.