Enigma was broken by a Polish cryptographer named Marian Rejewski. IIRC, enigma was initially broken as you say, but that technique relied on the German army's flawed protocol of sending two encrypted copies of the same 3 letters (that formed the session key) at the start of each transmission. They soon realised that this was a security weakness and so Bletchley park had to develop new techniques. The German navy used a much tougher system again.
Like where? A licence to mix water, sugar and yeast? That's just about the stupidest thing you could ever require. Honestly officer. I was only making some bread for my poor old granny!
Let's see, what do you need to make a successful mobile console. A powerful SoC, which I don't see why Apple would stay away from, an OS that supports standard stuff for games like OpenGL ES 2.0 (the iPhone already supports Just being pedantic here, but I'm pretty sure the current iPhone 3D hardware/system (PowerVR MBX + VGP) has an OpenGL ES 1.1 interface (ie. a "fixed function" scheme) not the 2.0 ("programmable") one, but, maybe Apple might choose to add some programmable extensions.
I was just meaning they may be wanting to make it more capable, like into DS territory capable. Unless I'm very much mistaken, the iphone/iPod touch already have much better graphics hardware** than a DS.
** i.e. true 3D acceleration accessed via OpenGL ES
It's called a submarine patent. They call it that because it lurks there and lets you get all confident before it surfaces and torpedos your business.
Submarine patents were possible in the US due to, frankly, stupid rules where, IIRC, the patentor could continually tweak the patent to stop it being granted until they felt the time was right. It then had a life of (again, IIRC) 17 years from the date of grant.
Thankfully, the US caught up with the rest of the world a few years ago and changed their rules to match. Now a patent application will automatically become public 18 months after filing and (IIRC) it also expires 20 years from filing.
What I don't get is where this cost of x pence per Gb comes from. If an ISP has the wires and the routers all running, why does it cost extra to be sending more data?
Because the ISP buys "bandwidth" from another supplier who charges per bit/byte/MByte transferred. The ISPs, (well those who have "unlimited" packages) of course, bet that most won't use all of their share, but then get stung when everyone does.
Personally, I'm on a PAYG scheme where the first X MB are "free" and then I get charged a very small amount for every additional MB. It seems like a more realistic scheme.
It's static as in not dynamic (i.e. not with a capacitor that has to be regularly recharged). What I should have said was "CMOS SRAM". I suspect that other (ancient) technologies, e.g. ECL RAM might not behave the same way.
I found (admittedly some 20 years ago now) on a very simple computer with SRAM memory that, after powering it off and on again, a significant percentage of the contents of the memory were still the same. Naturally, the longer you left it the more random the results became. Of course, it was CMOS RAM, so the transistors would have some capacitance which would account for the, err, memory.
Unfortunately, the zoo made their initial estimates for the enclosure based on the ballistic characteristics of a Southern Asian tiger carrying a coconut, not an unladen Siberian tiger, so their calculations were off slightly
Now jump that fence or I shall taunt you a second time.
some video formats get a little confused when like 1 bit is bad in the wrong place *cough cough WMV* so if one cosmic ray hits that bit on magnetic media or it spontaneously flips or radio frequencies do something to it or whatever, then the whole thing is barely recoverable.
That is simple to address: You simply "wrap" the entire movie with, say, Reed-Solomon error correction using a relatively large ratio of parity bytes to data bytes. That will provide you with a huge tolerance to errors.
and my brain waves too. just in case some lawyer needs to see if I was thinking impure thoughts over the last year.
There's a simple solution to that one. We just see if any presents are left in your stocking this Christmas. "He knows if you've been bad or good...":P
I thought you were supposed to type the first and last character, but I do agree with your assessment of the pictures. They either didn't look like anything at all or were some kind of winged insect.
Can't see myself rushing to use something like this.
Besides, what's to stop another site (which is trying to hack another of your accounts) from showing the same set of images to trick you into getting your password?
Its not like it interferes with the broadcast spectrum.
IIRC, in the UK the analogue and digital TV are all assigned in the same basic range of frequencies. Currently I guess there are enough free "slots" for Standard Definition, but there is not enough free bandwidth to support HD. Presumably, the sooner the analogue channels are killed off, the sooner terrestrial HD can start.
Also, I think there are power saving benefits moving to digital, at least, it seems that way given the listings of "reception predictors" given here.
Earlier today the New South Wales Police, together with Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) raided the home of an illegal trader of country music in Kelso near Bathurst, seizing in excess of 2,000 pirated CDs,...
Could his defence be, perhaps, to plead insanity?:D
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IIRC, they would have to do several as there are 2 or 3 backups - possibly both electrical and mechanical.
** i.e. true 3D acceleration accessed via OpenGL ES
Submarine patents were possible in the US due to, frankly, stupid rules where, IIRC, the patentor could continually tweak the patent to stop it being granted until they felt the time was right. It then had a life of (again, IIRC) 17 years from the date of grant.
Thankfully, the US caught up with the rest of the world a few years ago and changed their rules to match. Now a patent application will automatically become public 18 months after filing and (IIRC) it also expires 20 years from filing.
Well, "Gigantor's a space age robot", so it'd be appropriate. Gosh I amazed that I could remember that.
Bleach as in an oxidising agent, in this case, oxygen, not chlorine. I guess you nodded off in chemistry
Now the question is, can it be adapted into a shampoo for the "peroxide blondes"?
Sorry, I can't recall where I read it. It might have been a situation unique to a few ISPs in the UK
But it still costs money to upgrade the existing network and laying new fibre through the middle of a city to the exchanges is not going to be cheap.
Because the ISP buys "bandwidth" from another supplier who charges per bit/byte/MByte transferred. The ISPs, (well those who have "unlimited" packages) of course, bet that most won't use all of their share, but then get stung when everyone does.
Personally, I'm on a PAYG scheme where the first X MB are "free" and then I get charged a very small amount for every additional MB. It seems like a more realistic scheme.
Yes, I'm well aware of what the "S" means.
It's static as in not dynamic (i.e. not with a capacitor that has to be regularly recharged). What I should have said was "CMOS SRAM". I suspect that other (ancient) technologies, e.g. ECL RAM might not behave the same way.
I found (admittedly some 20 years ago now) on a very simple computer with SRAM memory that, after powering it off and on again, a significant percentage of the contents of the memory were still the same. Naturally, the longer you left it the more random the results became. Of course, it was CMOS RAM, so the transistors would have some capacitance which would account for the, err, memory.
Now jump that fence or I shall taunt you a second time.
That is simple to address: You simply "wrap" the entire movie with, say, Reed-Solomon error correction using a relatively large ratio of parity bytes to data bytes. That will provide you with a huge tolerance to errors.
There's a simple solution to that one. We just see if any presents are left in your stocking this Christmas. "He knows if you've been bad or good..."
I thought you were supposed to type the first and last character, but I do agree with your assessment of the pictures. They either didn't look like anything at all or were some kind of winged insect.
Can't see myself rushing to use something like this.
Besides, what's to stop another site (which is trying to hack another of your accounts) from showing the same set of images to trick you into getting your password?
Assuming you're in the US, then you have a damn good chance of being part of a second bubonic plague.
Yes, it's a Bachelor of Surgery... unless I guess you are in North America.
Sane people, OTOH, do a B.Sc.
Well, I would hazard a guess that this is his home page and that links to a far more informative paper.
IIRC, in the UK the analogue and digital TV are all assigned in the same basic range of frequencies. Currently I guess there are enough free "slots" for Standard Definition, but there is not enough free bandwidth to support HD. Presumably, the sooner the analogue channels are killed off, the sooner terrestrial HD can start.
Also, I think there are power saving benefits moving to digital, at least, it seems that way given the listings of "reception predictors" given here.
Could his defence be, perhaps, to plead insanity?