Except that if they're using a text-based browser such as Lynx or Linx, they won't be able to see the images. You could embed the email address into the ALT tag, but then the spambots might find it.
Evolution lets you prevent HTML mail from loading images from a web server. It still displays the HTML, but at least it doesn't hammer your net connection. Spammers use images in HTML mail to check whether you've received their crap.
I think that eventually we will get 3D displays for games. What I'd really love is a dual projector system with polarised glasses. That should look awesome - a bit like a minature version of those incredible 3D IMAX films.
"Mac Word and Mac Excel, Windows Excel and Windows Word were written in vi" and also says that Bill Gates himself used Vi.
This just goes to prove what us Emacs users have known for a long time - Vi is the tool of Satan. Well, a tool of Satan. I expect that the tool of Satan is long, pointed and greasy with sharp hairs and spurts sulphuric acid. Sorry, got a bit carried away there. Vi users - repent of your evil ways. The only path to true salvation is though Emacs.
HH
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Ray tracing isn't the only way to achieve high-quality graphics. Renderman (used for Toy Story, Monsters Inc. and plenty others) isn't a ray tracer, but a sub-pixel renderer (if I remember my computer graphics M.Sc. correctly).
We've still got a very long way to go until we get Monsters Inc. quality real-time games. As you say, current cards render triangles. Curved surface rendering (e.g. NURBS) may come next. Anti-aliasing takes a lot of power. I think that current cards are still using Gourard shading, which is the most primitive shading model there is (correct me if I'm wrong here). The next step is Phong shading for highlight effects (there are hardware-optimised Phong shading algorithms, but they're still slower than Gourard). Then there's deformation mapping (Renderman again), etc. etc.
I believe that Quake 3 etc. does use radiosity algorithms, but that doesn't need to be done in real time, just when the level is compiled.
This line in the article is probably going to benefit the 'ordinary' Linux user most:
We hear that every hardware vendor who approaches AOL is now being asked, "How is your support for Linux?" before they are even allowed to make a sales presentation
This could force hardware vendors to provide good Linux support. If so, then we should thank AOL for this, regardless of what we otherwise think of them.
My provider allows anyone to use SMTP, provided that they have first made a successful POP connection. Once the POP connection is made and the user authenticated, then their IP address is added to the relay, for a period of time (a few hours, I think).
Why doesn't Gilmore implement something like this? Then his friends could still use his relay from anywhere in the world, but spammers wouldn't be able to.
I'm inclined to agree with the comment in the article at Gilmore is "being a stubborn old fool for leaving his mail systems as open relays"
You don't need more than ~700 bits for personal use. Cracking 1024 bits is reckoned to take millions of years with current hardware. No-one is going to devote that amount of computer power to cracking your messages (unless you happen to be Bin Laden).
And if the NSA do have quantum computers that can crack 1024 bits in a fraction of a second, then don't feel safe even with 8192.
Even if the NSA has *really* big hardware, even 1024 bits is a serious challenge. About 5 years ago, it was estimated that with current hardware, 1024 bits could not be cracked before heat-death of the Sun occurs. Even with today's hardware and (perhaps) improved factoring algorithms, it's still a pretty big challenge. The NSA is only going to devote serious computing power to very, very few things (e.g. terrorism).
Unless they've already got quantum computers. IBM's best effort so far is cracking a 4 bit(!) number using quantum, but expect huge budgets to be devoted to quantum factorising now.
I'm very suspicious about the accuracy of this article. Sun have just announced that they'll be releasing their own Linux distribution (I think that they should call it 'Polaris'). My guess is that they'll provide a free downloadable version and charge for boxed CDs with documentation.
My company has just bought us developers Dell 530 dual 1.7Ghz Xeon workstations. Nice, you may think, but it feels bloody slow. 15 seconds to compile 50 lines of C, using gcc (using cygwin on NT). Something really seems wrong with this box.
Not only that, but the idiot who ordered these PC's really overspecced them for development work (mostly editing & compiling), but ordered the bottom-of-the-range monitors for them (17" 60hz @ 1280x1024). People are complaining of eyestrain and headaches. I kept the 19" monitor from my old PC, but I'm so close to quitting this job.
'The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology,' Jack Valenti said, threatens an entire industry's 'economic vitality and future security.'
Mr. Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, and he was ready for a rhetorical rumble. The new technology, he said, 'is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.'
It was 1982, and he was talking about videocassette recorders.
And they're still as paranoid and as utterly wrong now as they were 20 years ago.
I can't get it to work with either Netscape or Galleon (using the Mozilla plugin). Haven't tried Moz itself yet. Any tips for getting it to work with Linux (or alternatively stealing the URL so that the video can be saved)?
Mandrake might be a good fit, seeing as their distro is similar to RH. Then again, the fact that they have centralized their development out of France might not be a good deal for him...
Why not? France is a hell of a lot closer to him than the US. The major difference is the language.
I'd buy an N'Sync CD to get a piece of that pie, although I'd probably have to hire someone to test it for me. I don't think I can stand to actually hear it myself.
Just rip and burn. Rip the CD using your cd-rom drive - you don't need to actually listen to the mp3's and if the disc is protected then you won't be able to rip it anyway. Then burn the N'Sync CD. The choice of bonfire or incinerator is up to you.
In SI units, a Megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes. They've come up with the word Mebibyte to mean 1048576 as some definition of 2^20 is still needed by computer scientists (& kernel hackers)
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Except that if they're using a text-based browser such as Lynx or Linx, they won't be able to see the images. You could embed the email address into the ALT tag, but then the spambots might find it.
HH
Viagra and Britneybots? Surely you mean sledgehammer and Britneybots. Though Willowbots are something that I could get very excited about.
HH
Evolution lets you prevent HTML mail from loading images from a web server. It still displays the HTML, but at least it doesn't hammer your net connection. Spammers use images in HTML mail to check whether you've received their crap.
HH
The manufacturers web site.
An article in the Electronic Engineering Times.
I think that eventually we will get 3D displays for games. What I'd really love is a dual projector system with polarised glasses. That should look awesome - a bit like a minature version of those incredible 3D IMAX films.
HH
My guess is Albacore. Of course, if may be one of bluefin, bigeye, yellowfin, blackfin, or bonito.
Look all ye unbelievers. The article states:
"Mac Word and Mac Excel, Windows Excel and Windows Word were written in vi"
and also says that Bill Gates himself used Vi.
This just goes to prove what us Emacs users have known for a long time - Vi is the tool of Satan. Well, a tool of Satan. I expect that the tool of Satan is long, pointed and greasy with sharp hairs and spurts sulphuric acid. Sorry, got a bit carried away there. Vi users - repent of your evil ways. The only path to true salvation is though Emacs.
HH
Ray tracing isn't the only way to achieve high-quality graphics. Renderman (used for Toy Story, Monsters Inc. and plenty others) isn't a ray tracer, but a sub-pixel renderer (if I remember my computer graphics M.Sc. correctly).
We've still got a very long way to go until we get Monsters Inc. quality real-time games. As you say, current cards render triangles. Curved surface rendering (e.g. NURBS) may come next. Anti-aliasing takes a lot of power. I think that current cards are still using Gourard shading, which is the most primitive shading model there is (correct me if I'm wrong here). The next step is Phong shading for highlight effects (there are hardware-optimised Phong shading algorithms, but they're still slower than Gourard). Then there's deformation mapping (Renderman again), etc. etc.
I believe that Quake 3 etc. does use radiosity algorithms, but that doesn't need to be done in real time, just when the level is compiled.
HH
And remember that money paid to Codeweavers also helps to fund open-source development.
This line in the article is probably going to benefit the 'ordinary' Linux user most:
We hear that every hardware vendor who approaches AOL is now being asked, "How is your support for Linux?" before they are even allowed to make a sales presentation
This could force hardware vendors to provide good Linux support. If so, then we should thank AOL for this, regardless of what we otherwise think of them.
HH
My provider allows anyone to use SMTP, provided that they have first made a successful POP connection. Once the POP connection is made and the user authenticated, then their IP address is added to the relay, for a period of time (a few hours, I think).
Why doesn't Gilmore implement something like this? Then his friends could still use his relay from anywhere in the world, but spammers wouldn't be able to.
I'm inclined to agree with the comment in the article at Gilmore is "being a stubborn old fool for leaving his mail systems as open relays"
HH
Didn't Shor say that quantum computers would be able to decrypt faster than convention computers could encrypt?
You don't need more than ~700 bits for personal use. Cracking 1024 bits is reckoned to take millions of years with current hardware. No-one is going to devote that amount of computer power to cracking your messages (unless you happen to be Bin Laden).
And if the NSA do have quantum computers that can crack 1024 bits in a fraction of a second, then don't feel safe even with 8192.
HH
Even if the NSA has *really* big hardware, even 1024 bits is a serious challenge. About 5 years ago, it was estimated that with current hardware, 1024 bits could not be cracked before heat-death of the Sun occurs. Even with today's hardware and (perhaps) improved factoring algorithms, it's still a pretty big challenge. The NSA is only going to devote serious computing power to very, very few things (e.g. terrorism).
Unless they've already got quantum computers. IBM's best effort so far is cracking a 4 bit(!) number using quantum, but expect huge budgets to be devoted to quantum factorising now.
HH
The 128 bit DES key is then encrypted using RSA (I think). Not sure how many bits the RSA key is.
HH
can't be broken (yet).
:-)
Not until we get quantum computers, that will break it almost instantly
I'm very suspicious about the accuracy of this article. Sun have just announced that they'll be releasing their own Linux distribution (I think that they should call it 'Polaris'). My guess is that they'll provide a free downloadable version and charge for boxed CDs with documentation.
HH
My company has just bought us developers Dell 530 dual 1.7Ghz Xeon workstations. Nice, you may think, but it feels bloody slow. 15 seconds to compile 50 lines of C, using gcc (using cygwin on NT). Something really seems wrong with this box.
Not only that, but the idiot who ordered these PC's really overspecced them for development work (mostly editing & compiling), but ordered the bottom-of-the-range monitors for them (17" 60hz @ 1280x1024). People are complaining of eyestrain and headaches. I kept the 19" monitor from my old PC, but I'm so close to quitting this job.
HH
Courtesy of the New York Times:
'The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology,' Jack Valenti said, threatens an entire industry's 'economic vitality and future security.'
Mr. Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, and he was ready for a rhetorical rumble. The new technology, he said, 'is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.'
It was 1982, and he was talking about videocassette recorders.
And they're still as paranoid and as utterly wrong now as they were 20 years ago.
HH
I can't get it to work with either Netscape or Galleon (using the Mozilla plugin). Haven't tried Moz itself yet. Any tips for getting it to work with Linux (or alternatively stealing the URL so that the video can be saved)?
HH
Let's see...
Oracle are saying that big servers will eventually die and be replaced by clusters of smaller servers running Linux.
IBM are saying that clusters of smaller servers will be replaced by mainframe-class servers running Linux.
Place your bets please, ladies and gentlemen.
Mandrake might be a good fit, seeing as their distro is similar to RH. Then again, the fact that they have centralized their development out of France might not be a good deal for him...
Why not? France is a hell of a lot closer to him than the US. The major difference is the language.
For some reason, that sounds . . . arousing.
Just think what it could do to Bill Gates.
I'd buy an N'Sync CD to get a piece of that pie, although I'd probably have to hire someone to test it for me. I don't think I can stand to actually hear it myself.
Just rip and burn. Rip the CD using your cd-rom drive - you don't need to actually listen to the mp3's and if the disc is protected then you won't be able to rip it anyway. Then burn the N'Sync CD. The choice of bonfire or incinerator is up to you.
HH
In SI units, a Megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes. They've come up with the word Mebibyte to mean 1048576 as some definition of 2^20 is still needed by computer scientists (& kernel hackers)
HH