As other people have pointed out, I didn't know what I was talking about. I forgot that SSH transfered a public key from server to client, then the client would send a public key, encrypted, to the server.
I dunno about you, but I'm a poor college student; I can't afford a computer fast enough to decode DivX;-) and compile my latest kernel at the same time.
But then, what good is television? It's just a computer game you can't interact with.
I think you're mistaking "non-standard" with "proprietary."
While "proprietary" should imply "non-standard," it really can't. At the moment, Microsoft is the de-facto standard for desktop operating systems and office productivity software.
I should also point out that POSIX is a set of standards, and FreeBSD's ports system is a standard, and the Linux kernel supports the UNIX98 pty system. PDF is a decent standard, and I don't think TeX should be counted out.
I thought _Al Gore_ invented fuzzy math and the internet... The RIAA and MPAA are attacking use of the Internet (remember that ISP tax that was in discussion a year or so ago?), and are using fuzzy numbers. You'd think they were trying to stick it to him.
(Not stating views...just making humorous reference to 2000 campaigns.)
As a volunteer department, it takes us between two and ten minutes to get to the scene. When we get there, we have to appraise the situation, even before parking apparatus. (What good is an engine if powerlines detach from a home and fall on it?)
We don't make split-second decisions. If you rush, you make mistakes. Even if the mistakes seem minor, people can die. Including you.
You follow every procedure you're taught.
Right down to feeling doors with the back of your hand before opening them. If you forget, you're going to get hit with a backdraft.
Forget to wear latex gloves before treating a bloody accident victim? You better hope they're not HIV positive.
Did you remember to put the spanners back in their mounts? (A spanner is a firefighter's wrench.) If not, how are the people running the engine going to know where to get the spanners to tighten the leaky coupling between the hose and the engine itself?
Did you remember to turn the coupling between that 200psi hose in the right direction, to tighten it? No? I wouldn't want to be in your shoes when it whips around like a possesed snake. (For reference, a 2 1/2" uncapped hoseline expels enough force to accelerate a 50' charged section of hose at 12 m/s^2.)
The bottom line is, you don't come up with a solution to the problem halfway through, you need to spend some time coming up with a plan. For large public locations, like a Best Buy or a Sears, the fire department responsible for the area will usually work out a plan ahead of time for handling anticipatable situations.
Treaties, especially those related to criminal court interfacing, can have a huge effect on how the laws of one country affect another.
Take, for example, the ruling in Australia that (for example) American companies aren't subject to American free speech protection, if their content is available elsewhere.
Expect self-rightous countries to start imposing their own laws on foreign bodies. Wait a second...We saw that happen with the Taliban's support of Osama Bin Laden, and, wait...what was this Elcomsoft case about again?
I'm concerned over the fact that the judge's instruction could apparently have so much weight in the outcome.
Could the prosecutors claim the judge was biased and interfered, and demand a retrial?
Regardless of the outcome, a retrial would be a disasterous effect on subsequent juries, since it implies that the original outcome may very well have been faulty. And a lot of people assume may==is.
Actually there's something called ex post facto, but I guess that's probably the next thing to go out the window. All within the guidelines of the Constitution, of course.
(In otherwords, a 1.4kilopage law will be passed with strange wording, and one of our beloved Supreme Court Justices will rule it constitutional when someone finally has the guts to challenge it. )
Aside from that, it's certainly an educational experience using an architecture you're not accustomed to. Aside from learning that architecture, you get a feel for the significance between different environments.
Better clock speed, yes. Better performance? I dunno. I would assume it depends on how much the programs in question are optimized for the extensions available on that architecture.
I heard once that there is a lot of vector-based functionality in the PPC processor line...That probably rocks for physics simulations ranging from star collisions to FPS games.
Also, the silicon circuit elements were less affected by heat than the germanium counterparts.
Too bad one of our main goals is now to reduce power loss...otherwise, the heat would be an acceptable, even welcome price to pay for increased CPU complexity.
I wonder, though, what the increased power availability from fuel cells will do to our concern about power usage in laptops.
IRC, diamond's quite hard to grow in single crystal form (as how we use silicon).
If I recall correctly, we used to use germanium a lot, since it was too difficult to grow silicon wafers. Same difference, then?
The diode drop that you noted is a function of doping, IIRC, and not so much the intrinsic bandgap (keep in mind, intrinsic diamond and silicon don't conduct).
Hmm. Even a tunneling diode (which is very heavily doped) has an initial voltage drop of.7 volts. So are different doping materials used?
As for the physical properties, diamond's already the perfect substrate, if only we could grow it reliably in single crystal form. By the way, my semiconductor processing professor once mentioned that IC's made for the military are generally fabricated on sapphire--you get less desirable qualities then silicon, but you get great ruggedness.
My instructor told me that that was the same situation they were in when they switched to silicon...some less desirable properties (like a higher voltage drop), but there were still some advantages. (Don't remember what they were.)
Only in the presence of an oxidant. Most silicon integrated circuits are sealed in ceramic, glass, or plastic. LSI and up are almost always in glass or ceramic.
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As other people have pointed out, I didn't know what I was talking about. I forgot that SSH transfered a public key from server to client, then the client would send a public key, encrypted, to the server.
It could be enough for someone to snag the SSH private keys for a connection.
Of course, since you have to read ethernet packets, they'd either be listening to traffic on a VPN, or they'd be on their target's LAN.
More reasons to be afraid of your company's BOFH.
There's always Mosaic, with HTML 1.0. ;)
I dunno about you, but I'm a poor college student; I can't afford a computer fast enough to decode DivX ;-) and compile my latest kernel at the same time.
But then, what good is television? It's just a computer game you can't interact with.
I think you're mistaking "non-standard" with "proprietary."
While "proprietary" should imply "non-standard," it really can't. At the moment, Microsoft is the de-facto standard for desktop operating systems and office productivity software.
I should also point out that POSIX is a set of standards, and FreeBSD's ports system is a standard, and the Linux kernel supports the UNIX98 pty system. PDF is a decent standard, and I don't think TeX should be counted out.
Your name doesn't happen to be Dan Bowen, does it?
Are you a moderator?! Wow! I've never seen one post before.
But seriously, he was trying to be funny. There's a difference of only a couple of bits between being considered funny or offtopic.
Yeah. Last I heard, he was on a committee regarding its design.
I thought _Al Gore_ invented fuzzy math and the internet... The RIAA and MPAA are attacking use of the Internet (remember that ISP tax that was in discussion a year or so ago?), and are using fuzzy numbers. You'd think they were trying to stick it to him.
(Not stating views...just making humorous reference to 2000 campaigns.)
Naw...but when they keep pointing out I have feelings for CowboyNeal...
Yeah...there was this huge UPS behind the displays, and I was fiddling with the menu...
And you've never fought a fire.
As a volunteer department, it takes us between two and ten minutes to get to the scene. When we get there, we have to appraise the situation, even before parking apparatus. (What good is an engine if powerlines detach from a home and fall on it?)
We don't make split-second decisions. If you rush, you make mistakes. Even if the mistakes seem minor, people can die. Including you.
You follow every procedure you're taught.
Right down to feeling doors with the back of your hand before opening them. If you forget, you're going to get hit with a backdraft.
Forget to wear latex gloves before treating a bloody accident victim? You better hope they're not HIV positive.
Did you remember to put the spanners back in their mounts? (A spanner is a firefighter's wrench.) If not, how are the people running the engine going to know where to get the spanners to tighten the leaky coupling between the hose and the engine itself?
Did you remember to turn the coupling between that 200psi hose in the right direction, to tighten it? No? I wouldn't want to be in your shoes when it whips around like a possesed snake. (For reference, a 2 1/2" uncapped hoseline expels enough force to accelerate a 50' charged section of hose at 12 m/s^2.)
The bottom line is, you don't come up with a solution to the problem halfway through, you need to spend some time coming up with a plan. For large public locations, like a Best Buy or a Sears, the fire department responsible for the area will usually work out a plan ahead of time for handling anticipatable situations.
I've read this in several places, but it's also mentioned that retrial can occur if the judge or jury committed gross misconduct.
So, the question is, does leaving the jury with such a potent instruction constitute gross misconduct?
You should be safe if you statically link the DeCSS code into your media player software.
But if you try to release DeCSS as sourcecode + linkable library, you're jumping into a shark pool wearing a seal suit.
Treaties, especially those related to criminal court interfacing, can have a huge effect on how the laws of one country affect another.
Take, for example, the ruling in Australia that (for example) American companies aren't subject to American free speech protection, if their content is available elsewhere.
Expect self-rightous countries to start imposing their own laws on foreign bodies. Wait a second...We saw that happen with the Taliban's support of Osama Bin Laden, and, wait...what was this Elcomsoft case about again?
I'm concerned over the fact that the judge's instruction could apparently have so much weight in the outcome.
Could the prosecutors claim the judge was biased and interfered, and demand a retrial?
Regardless of the outcome, a retrial would be a disasterous effect on subsequent juries, since it implies that the original outcome may very well have been faulty. And a lot of people assume may==is.
Actually there's something called ex post facto, but I guess that's probably the next thing to go out the window. All within the guidelines of the Constitution, of course.
(In otherwords, a 1.4kilopage law will be passed with strange wording, and one of our beloved Supreme Court Justices will rule it constitutional when someone finally has the guts to challenge it. )
A lot of us are zealots? (myself included.)
Aside from that, it's certainly an educational experience using an architecture you're not accustomed to. Aside from learning that architecture, you get a feel for the significance between different environments.
Better clock speed, yes. Better performance? I dunno. I would assume it depends on how much the programs in question are optimized for the extensions available on that architecture.
I heard once that there is a lot of vector-based functionality in the PPC processor line...That probably rocks for physics simulations ranging from star collisions to FPS games.
Are there any of these available(especially OSS) for the more common motherboards? I've never heard any.
:)
Granted, I'd hate to be a beta tester.
I don't think it serves any purpose in controlling content, if your average human can learn to read it without tools.
(And believe me, learning the ROT13 alphabet is a heck of a lot easier than learning a new spoken language.)
Also, the silicon circuit elements were less affected by heat than the germanium counterparts.
Too bad one of our main goals is now to reduce power loss...otherwise, the heat would be an acceptable, even welcome price to pay for increased CPU complexity.
I wonder, though, what the increased power availability from fuel cells will do to our concern about power usage in laptops.
IRC, diamond's quite hard to grow in single crystal form (as how we use silicon).
.7 volts. So are different doping materials used?
If I recall correctly, we used to use germanium a lot, since it was too difficult to grow silicon wafers. Same difference, then?
The diode drop that you noted is a function of doping, IIRC, and not so much the intrinsic bandgap (keep in mind, intrinsic diamond and silicon don't conduct).
Hmm. Even a tunneling diode (which is very heavily doped) has an initial voltage drop of
As for the physical properties, diamond's already the perfect substrate, if only we could grow it reliably in single crystal form. By the way, my semiconductor processing professor once mentioned that IC's made for the military are generally fabricated on sapphire--you get less desirable qualities then silicon, but you get great ruggedness.
My instructor told me that that was the same situation they were in when they switched to silicon...some less desirable properties (like a higher voltage drop), but there were still some advantages. (Don't remember what they were.)
Inventors: Polifka, Francis D.; (Hays, KS)
:P
Notice that Francis is from Kansas.
Only in the presence of an oxidant. Most silicon integrated circuits are sealed in ceramic, glass, or plastic. LSI and up are almost always in glass or ceramic.