Every computer programmer knows that any random number he generates programmatically is not "mathematically random". The strict definition being that the program to produce the number must be longer than the number, which, of course, is impractical. Pseudorandom is really the best we can do without special hardware.
Ah, but you are so wrong. Try a google search on "entropy gathering". There are well known ways to generate truly random sequences without any "special" hardware, using environmental noise collected from device drivers and other sources. There are Linux distros whose/dev/random implementations use these techniques. On other Unixen the EGD (Entropy Gathering Daemon) provides random sequences in a similar way.
See the Wikipedia article on/dev/random for more info.
The thing is, merely pointing a gun at a police officer is a felony. I don't think "I was just firing warning shots" would be considered a valid defence.
..and all that shows is that you are an insufferable demagogue that would have eventually been driven away by some minor annoyance anyway. They just saved all the customer service time they would have wasted on you, at essentially no cost to them at all.
Sneaky, underhanded, devious behavior is not necessarily a sign of superior intellect. It is a strategy, one of many, that might be used to counter superior physical strength.
Another strategy might be superior training, such as the use of a martial art. Or attempt to improve communication, so that the conflict can be resolved with a win/win.
Or simply avoid the conflict altogether, if possible.
Claiming that "I am devious in my dealings with you because I am more intelligent than you" merely demonstrates that you have poor ethical judgement. A devious strategy might be justified, or it might not be.
There is already a much better approach than this in use for crypto; it's called "entropy gathering". It basically amounts to sampling things like network traffic, mouse movements, &etc and using the "noisy" bits of that data plus some math to induce randomness that is unpredictable and unrepeatable.
The problem with your approach, and anything that depends purely on an algorithmic processing of data that others can access, is that it is repeatable, given the data and the algorithm. With entropy gathering the data seeding the algorithm would be extremely difficult to re-capture after the fact.
So they bought them for their customer list, which is legal as far as I know.
Not only is this legal, there are numerous examples. This particular case appears to have been executed somewhat clumsily, which is hardly shocking considering how MySpace is run.
> I found myself pulling on a door clearly marked Push.
Also, doors should be always pulled when you go in and pushed when you go out.
Note that, with standard door hardware, this would introduce a security hole. A locked door which opens outward is trivially easy to open without the key, because you can slide a credit card or other jimmy over the latching mechanism. When the door opens inward, you can't get to the latch because the door jam protects it.
It's a popular service that people will pay for; so it's priced accordingly. What counts is what people are willing to pay, not what it costs to provide or produce it.
This is exactly correct. For those of you who find this confusing or distasteful, welcome to Capitalism(tm).
What part of "He insists he didn't say anything until after the verdict" don't you understand?
And this is explicitly mentioned in the summary, you don't even have to RTFA to see it. Do you just read the first line of all your email before you respond.
Just to set the record straight: there is nothing in the bible that even remotely resembles the so-called "rapture" myth. It draws heavily from Revelations for its theoretical underpinnings, but the modern rapture myth mostly developed since the 19th century in the USA.
See wikipedia under "rapture" for a good summary.
So please don't say "biblical" rapture.
As for basing decisions on faith, that depends on exactly what you mean by faith. I personally would hope that faith in a loving compassionate God would inform the decisions of our leaders. You may not agree, but I think that is something we can have a respectful disagreement about.
That doesn't mean that they should ignore good science or avoid the use of their capacity to Reason. I think the phrase you were looking for was blind faith, as in clinging to world views derived from religious myths simply because they were written down a long time ago.
This is the rational response; wield the only power the consumer has, which is to withhold our dollars from the company until they see reason and promise to act responsibly.
Eddy Jr. may not realize it, but his position is fundamentally anti-capitalist. Goods are priced based both on their value to the buyer, and on their production cost.
Particularly for things like movies and music, where the cost to add another viewer is nearly zero, the price is entirely based on the perceived value. It has virtually nothing to do with how much it cost to make.
While it's true that different cars reach their peak MPG at different speeds, the effects due to friction far outweigh engine efficiency at speeds over 50mph. This is because friction increases exponentially relative to speed, and this effect swamps the engines power curve near that speed.
There are NO cars that get better gas mileage at 65 than they do at 55. If you think your car does, just try limiting your speed to 55 for a week, then compare the mileage you get with when you drive your normal 80.
Oh wait, you could never stay below 55 for a week; sorry.
My solution is much simpler. I use rdesktop to log into a terminal server, then mount my workarea from my Linux box (running Samba) and do the compile that way.
In fact the other day I was forced to mount the CYGWIN tools from another machine, so that the only thing coming from the Windows server was VC++ itself.
It was a little slow, but I usually test the Windows version last, so that cuts down on the iterations.
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Dude. Nice nerd honeypot!
I'd be more interested in seeing it in AGP myself.
Much as I'd like to see this myself, the brief window of time that AGP existed, means it will never happen.
Every computer programmer knows that any random number he generates programmatically is not "mathematically random". The strict definition being that the program to produce the number must be longer than the number, which, of course, is impractical. Pseudorandom is really the best we can do without special hardware.
Ah, but you are so wrong. Try a google search on "entropy gathering". There are well known ways to generate truly random sequences without any "special" hardware, using environmental noise collected from device drivers and other sources. There are Linux distros whose /dev/random implementations use these techniques. On other Unixen the EGD (Entropy Gathering Daemon) provides random sequences in a similar way.
See the Wikipedia article on /dev/random for more info.
The thing is, merely pointing a gun at a police officer is a felony. I don't think "I was just firing warning shots" would be considered a valid defence.
On the other hand, this laissez faire approach has apparently damaged your ability to spell.
..and all that shows is that you are an insufferable demagogue that would have eventually been driven away by some minor annoyance anyway. They just saved all the customer service time they would have wasted on you, at essentially no cost to them at all.
Sneaky, underhanded, devious behavior is not necessarily a sign of superior intellect. It is a strategy, one of many, that might be used to counter superior physical strength.
Another strategy might be superior training, such as the use of a martial art. Or attempt to improve communication, so that the conflict can be resolved with a win/win.
Or simply avoid the conflict altogether, if possible.
Claiming that "I am devious in my dealings with you because I am more intelligent than you" merely demonstrates that you have poor ethical judgement. A devious strategy might be justified, or it might not be.
Except I can find redeeming content on various parts of other websites that provide actual information. I don't with twitter, or facebook.
Then your friends are boring. I guess I just hang out with more interesting people.
...or you're easily amused. Just sayin'
There is already a much better approach than this in use for crypto; it's called "entropy gathering". It basically amounts to sampling things like network traffic, mouse movements, &etc and using the "noisy" bits of that data plus some math to induce randomness that is unpredictable and unrepeatable.
The problem with your approach, and anything that depends purely on an algorithmic processing of data that others can access, is that it is repeatable, given the data and the algorithm. With entropy gathering the data seeding the algorithm would be extremely difficult to re-capture after the fact.
The Ultimate Maker Convention is where all con-goers construct together the convention grounds themselves.
It's called "Burning Man".
This might explain why people who voted for Bush twice in a row.
What about the ones who voted for him the second time but not the first? Remember he got more of the popular vote the second time.
So they bought them for their customer list, which is legal as far as I know.
Not only is this legal, there are numerous examples. This particular case appears to have been executed somewhat clumsily, which is hardly shocking considering how MySpace is run.
I'm not arguing against closed source vs open, more about the many advantages of security through obscurity.
There, "fixed" that for you.
> I found myself pulling on a door clearly marked Push.
Also, doors should be always pulled when you go in and pushed when you go out.
Note that, with standard door hardware, this would introduce a security hole. A locked door which opens outward is trivially easy to open without the key, because you can slide a credit card or other jimmy over the latching mechanism. When the door opens inward, you can't get to the latch because the door jam protects it.
Only in a marketing meeting would this seem like a good idea to anybody.
OOh!! I know! Next we'll have the attack of the 40-foot iPhone!
In the 25+ years I've been in the Software industry, I've heard this over and over again.
Meaning that buying M$ products was always a safe bet in terms of job security. Apparently that is no longer true. This is the real story here.
Oblig Simpsons:
I used to be "with it". But then they changed what "it" was. And now what I have isn't "it". And what is "it", is weird and scary to me!
Let's assume for the moment that you're right.
Explain the cost of SMS.
It's a popular service that people will pay for; so it's priced accordingly. What counts is what people are willing to pay, not what it costs to provide or produce it.
This is exactly correct. For those of you who find this confusing or distasteful, welcome to Capitalism(tm).
What part of "He insists he didn't say anything until after the verdict" don't you understand?
And this is explicitly mentioned in the summary, you don't even have to RTFA to see it. Do you just read the first line of all your email before you respond.
Now who is the idiot?
... New York Times is out of touch with reality when it comes to computer games.
The New York Times is out of touch with reality.
Fixed that for you.
So please don't say "biblical" rapture.
As for basing decisions on faith, that depends on exactly what you mean by faith. I personally would hope that faith in a loving compassionate God would inform the decisions of our leaders. You may not agree, but I think that is something we can have a respectful disagreement about.
That doesn't mean that they should ignore good science or avoid the use of their capacity to Reason. I think the phrase you were looking for was blind faith, as in clinging to world views derived from religious myths simply because they were written down a long time ago.
This is the rational response; wield the only power the consumer has, which is to withhold our dollars from the company until they see reason and promise to act responsibly.
Eddy Jr. may not realize it, but his position is fundamentally anti-capitalist. Goods are priced based both on their value to the buyer, and on their production cost.
Particularly for things like movies and music, where the cost to add another viewer is nearly zero, the price is entirely based on the perceived value. It has virtually nothing to do with how much it cost to make.
While it's true that different cars reach their peak MPG at different speeds, the effects due to friction far outweigh engine efficiency at speeds over 50mph. This is because friction increases exponentially relative to speed, and this effect swamps the engines power curve near that speed.
There are NO cars that get better gas mileage at 65 than they do at 55. If you think your car does, just try limiting your speed to 55 for a week, then compare the mileage you get with when you drive your normal 80.
Oh wait, you could never stay below 55 for a week; sorry.
My solution is much simpler. I use rdesktop to log into a terminal server, then mount my workarea from my Linux box (running Samba) and do the compile that way. In fact the other day I was forced to mount the CYGWIN tools from another machine, so that the only thing coming from the Windows server was VC++ itself. It was a little slow, but I usually test the Windows version last, so that cuts down on the iterations.