Volume. Trust me, I worked in one and saw the sales report. Average cost per is about $10-20 range, some more, some less. Alot of the units when they get pulled of the shelf to move to the lower prices and we sell some off have only been rented two or three times. That's a few bucks short of making our money back. But in the long run, you usually break even due to the sheer volume of what you move. And if you want to start a Video store, it's not cheap. Figure a box of DVD/VHS the size of your average CPU Tower will push you back atleast $750+
Intel has a 10GigE controller and it has begun sampling the industry's first 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter that fits in a standard PCI-X slot. Model # is 82597EX if you want to look it up:)
Take a look at the bottom of any of the ARDA pages. See the little webmaster mail link? See the domain it goes to? ardaweb@nsa.gov. I think that since the NSA has gotten a hold of it, there's not much you can do about it . . unless you want to disappear.
ARDA's mission is to sponsor high-risk high-payoff research designed to leverage leading edge technology in the solution of some of the most critical poblems facing the intelligence community (IC).
The Enigma machine was a simple cipher machine. It had several components: a plug board, a light board, a keyboard, a set of rotors, and a reflector (half rotor). The original machine looked a lot like a typewriter.
The machine has several variable settings that affect the operation of the machine. The user must select three rotors from a set of rotors to be used in the machine. A rotor contains one-to-one mappings of all the letters. Some Enigma machines had more than 3 rotors which just added to the number of possible encryption combinations. The other variable element in the machine is the plug board. The plug board allowed for pairs of letters to be remapped before the encryption process started and after it ended.
When a key is pressed, an electrical current is sent through the machine. The current first passes through the plug board, then through the three rotors, through the reflector which reverses the current, back through the three rotors, back through the plug board and then the encrypted letter is lit on the display. After the display is lit up, the rotors rotate. The rotors rotate similar to an odometer where the right most rotor must complete one revolution before the middle rotor rotated one position and so on.
As the current passes through each component in the Enigma machine, the letter gets remapped to another letter. The plug board performed the first remapping. If there is a connection between two letters, the letters are remapped to each other. For example if there is a connection between "A" and "F", "A" would get remapped to "F" and "F" would get remapped to "A". If this isn't a connection for a particular letter, the letter doesn't get remapped. After the plug board, the letters are remapped through the rotors. Each rotor contains one-to-one mappings of letters but since the rotors rotate on each key press, the mappings of the rotors change on every key press. Once the current passes through the rotors, it goes into the reflector. The reflector is very similar to a rotor except that it doesn't rotate so the one-to-one mappings are always the same. The whole encryption process for a single letter contains a minimum of 7 remappings (the current passes through the rotors twice) and a maximum of 9 remappings (if the letter has a connection in the plug board).
In order to decrypt a message, the receiver must have the encrypted message, and know which rotors were used, the connections on the plug board and the initial settings of the rotors. To decrypt a message, the receiver would set up the machine identically to the way the sender initially had it and would type in the encrypted message. The output of typing in the encrypted message would be the original message. Without the knowledge of the state of the machine when the original message was typed in, it is extremely difficult to decode a message.
Well considering the Earth's magnetic field near the planet's surface is about 0.0001 T. I dont think we'll have to worry much about a big magnet killing us all.
I'd be much happier if companies were forced to release good, unhindered specs/APIs... I don't care if you didn't give out your specific implementation, fine... whatever... but give me the means to create my own implementation that can function the same as theirs. Is that soo much to ask?
Many may, and probably will, complain that Freenet is slow, doesn't work, etc. This is why Freenet needs your donations. Matt has brought Freenet's speed back up to where it used to be before all the routing problems. I remember when you used to be able to DL movies off of Freenet at reasonable speeds. And it's a given the 'child porn on my computer' argument is going to be brought up with the Free Speech for everything but that! vs the Free Speech Perdiod zealots fighting it out.
Living in the country that tried to introduce CAPPS and CAPPS II and did pass PATRIOT but thankfully not TIA or PATRIOT II, or am I just the only one that could see the government trying to do this?
Slashdot Mirror
If I would of known that just about anything get's posted to /. I would of submitted Project CRAC. . . Hey atleast it has a catchy name!
to switch to Vorbis/FLAC/et al
No I'm saying on some videos yes we do loose money, but we make it up on the profitable movies due to volume.
You know what the buddists say.. If you meet Buddha waking down the road Kill Him. He will only be a distraction on your road to enlightement.
Think before you speak. I cant even count how many times that violates their beliefs.
Volume. Trust me, I worked in one and saw the sales report. Average cost per is about $10-20 range, some more, some less. Alot of the units when they get pulled of the shelf to move to the lower prices and we sell some off have only been rented two or three times. That's a few bucks short of making our money back. But in the long run, you usually break even due to the sheer volume of what you move. And if you want to start a Video store, it's not cheap. Figure a box of DVD/VHS the size of your average CPU Tower will push you back atleast $750+
If only it'd work for PMS too . . .
Intel has a 10GigE controller and it has begun sampling the industry's first 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter that fits in a standard PCI-X slot. Model # is 82597EX if you want to look it up :)
Man that was tough ;)
Quasi-Mirror Didn't get the style-sheets, so the formatting is a bit whack.
It's not released under the Apache/BSD License . . .
It's released under an Apache Style license.
Google Cache since the site seems to be dying as we speak.
Take a look at the bottom of any of the ARDA pages. See the little webmaster mail link? See the domain it goes to? ardaweb@nsa.gov. I think that since the NSA has gotten a hold of it, there's not much you can do about it . . unless you want to disappear.
ARDA's mission is to sponsor high-risk high-payoff research designed to leverage leading edge technology in the solution of some of the most critical poblems facing the intelligence community (IC).
High Risk as in 'Public Backlash'?
The Enigma machine was a simple cipher machine. It had several components: a plug board, a light board, a keyboard, a set of rotors, and a reflector (half rotor). The original machine looked a lot like a typewriter.
The machine has several variable settings that affect the operation of the machine. The user must select three rotors from a set of rotors to be used in the machine. A rotor contains one-to-one mappings of all the letters. Some Enigma machines had more than 3 rotors which just added to the number of possible encryption combinations. The other variable element in the machine is the plug board. The plug board allowed for pairs of letters to be remapped before the encryption process started and after it ended.
When a key is pressed, an electrical current is sent through the machine. The current first passes through the plug board, then through the three rotors, through the reflector which reverses the current, back through the three rotors, back through the plug board and then the encrypted letter is lit on the display. After the display is lit up, the rotors rotate. The rotors rotate similar to an odometer where the right most rotor must complete one revolution before the middle rotor rotated one position and so on.
As the current passes through each component in the Enigma machine, the letter gets remapped to another letter. The plug board performed the first remapping. If there is a connection between two letters, the letters are remapped to each other. For example if there is a connection between "A" and "F", "A" would get remapped to "F" and "F" would get remapped to "A". If this isn't a connection for a particular letter, the letter doesn't get remapped. After the plug board, the letters are remapped through the rotors. Each rotor contains one-to-one mappings of letters but since the rotors rotate on each key press, the mappings of the rotors change on every key press. Once the current passes through the rotors, it goes into the reflector. The reflector is very similar to a rotor except that it doesn't rotate so the one-to-one mappings are always the same. The whole encryption process for a single letter contains a minimum of 7 remappings (the current passes through the rotors twice) and a maximum of 9 remappings (if the letter has a connection in the plug board).
In order to decrypt a message, the receiver must have the encrypted message, and know which rotors were used, the connections on the plug board and the initial settings of the rotors. To decrypt a message, the receiver would set up the machine identically to the way the sender initially had it and would type in the encrypted message. The output of typing in the encrypted message would be the original message. Without the knowledge of the state of the machine when the original message was typed in, it is extremely difficult to decode a message.
Here's my Electronic Enigma Machine.
One day americans will rule the world from their couches thanks to their robot slaves . . .
Well considering the Earth's magnetic field near the planet's surface is about 0.0001 T. I dont think we'll have to worry much about a big magnet killing us all.
open(DEAD,"BSDisdying.txt);
my @text = <DEAD>;
for $ohnoes (@text) {
$ohnoes =~ s/BSD/Bluetooth/g;
print $ohnoes;
}
close(DEAD);
die "Bluetooth is dead";
*whew* Since I'm running Debian Stable I wont have to worry about learning Perl 6, till Perl 7 is ready to hit the shelves.
I'd be much happier if companies were forced to release good, unhindered specs/APIs... I don't care if you didn't give out your specific implementation, fine... whatever... but give me the means to create my own implementation that can function the same as theirs. Is that soo much to ask?
Many may, and probably will, complain that Freenet is slow, doesn't work, etc. This is why Freenet needs your donations. Matt has brought Freenet's speed back up to where it used to be before all the routing problems. I remember when you used to be able to DL movies off of Freenet at reasonable speeds. And it's a given the 'child porn on my computer' argument is going to be brought up with the Free Speech for everything but that! vs the Free Speech Perdiod zealots fighting it out.
If anybody Can seed it'd be much appreciated :)
Tracker is dead can you oblige?
Damn that must of been a big book then.
I fail to see the Humor in this.
Living in the country that tried to introduce CAPPS and CAPPS II and did pass PATRIOT but thankfully not TIA or PATRIOT II, or am I just the only one that could see the government trying to do this?
Completely ignoring the point that this reactor can function on alot higher water->ethanol ratio then normal ethanol combustion engines