I don't know the extent of the changes, but does anyone know if it would be possible to write a perl script that rewrote scripts for perl6 compatibility?
Not only will it be possible to write such a script, it will be part of the distribution of perl6, just as a2p and s2p are part of the current distribution. The suggestions on perl6 are listed at dev.perl.org, and any suggestion where it is approriate has a 'migration' section, on what the perl6 converter should do.
Also, and this is not yet 100% decided on, it may be that perl6 will automatically detect if it needs to run the converter, so you can continue writing perl5 code, and not worry about which version it will be running under, though of course this means you won't be able to take advantage of any of the new features.
You're wrong - we do not have a generalizable method of factorization. This means that if you factor the RSA-576 number then there is nothing which will make it any easier to factor another random 174 digit.
RSA is offering this money to show that the RSA public key method IS secure, because we can't factor these numbers.
It's not Windows which is reducing the price of Intel based hardware, it's the people buying the hardware. No-one needs a joystick, yet the funcionality has increased so that for 1/2 the price you used to pay for a 4 direction/1 button square box, you can now get a force feedback controller with 17 controls.
It's entirely possible that windows is increasing the cost of our hardware, because it all has to be compatable with the original IBM. If you can redesign the hardware to take advantage of new technology, you can use cheaper/better/faster components.
However that doesn't prevent a true increase or decrease in quality. I don't think there are many people who would disagree that the mid seventies was not as good a time for music as the mid eighties.
Isn't this more or less true for any movie which gets 2 sequels? The big name directors don't want to keep on making the same movie over and over, so you get a minor leaguer like David Fincher or Jonathan Mostow instead of Ripley Scott or James Cameron, the SFX have to remain true to original, so they look the 7 or 8 years old they are, and often the original actors have decided they want to do something else, so you either have nonsenical character changes, or unexplained changing faces.
I won't even mention what happens when you have six sequels
It worries me a lot. It you get arrested returning from Thailand, how easy would it be for you to get the evidence to prove you're innocent? The proof you might require could be half a planet away.
But it's not illegal to tell you how to break windows, break down doors etc. It is illegal to tell you how to break encryption. In both cases, there are legal uses for the information. People have had to break windows when there is a fire, or if they loose their keys. People have also had to break encryption if the encrypted version doesn't allow their fair use rights, or even to decrypt their own documents that the key has been lost for.
You can get secure OSs. Trusted Xenix is B2, though apparently unobtainable nowadays, and Trusted Solaris is B1. However, for this I'd probably want B3, where you want something like the XTS-300.
Except that everyone is lagging behind the FCC's timetable. The original timeline was that by 1 May 1999, the top 10 markets would by ready for digital, and the top 30 by November 1999, and all commercial by 2002, and PBS by 2003. Needless to say, this is not happening. In 2000, there were 24.2 million analog sets sold, against 648,429 DTV sets. Even the FCC is now saying that it's original 2006 date is unrealistic.
In the UK, 625 line TV was introduced in 1964, and 405 line broadcasting was offically obsolete in 1969. Yet it took until 1985 until it was finally switched off. This was with the upgrade being to colour, more channels, sets being valve based, and consequently with shorter lifespans, and the increasing uptake of TV.
If it takes 31 years for 405 line TV to disappear, it won't take 8 years for NTSC TV to go.
You've linked to teh Amnesty USA website. Amnesty groups never discuss their host country by policy. This is aimed at preventing reprisals. If the USA group is complianing about French abuses, the USA government has little incentive to react, and the French government little ability.
The physical laws are very well known. It's actually a very trivial thing to derive the fusion of hydrogen to helium, and it's energy output, from the basic laws. What we don't currently know is how to do it on a small scale, without putting in more energy than we get out.
Even if you got it into the SMTP standard, it would take YEARS before you could rely on it. EHLO was added in 1993, and yet still many servers do not support it.
But MX records are not meant to list outgoing mailservers, they are for incoming ones. You cannot start limiting connections based upon a misuse of the records.
You can put in more platters, and more heads. It used to be common that drives lots of platters. As storage densities went up, it became cheaper to have less platters, and more storage on each one. If we reach a limit of storage, then we can go back to adding more platters.
You cannot guarantee that the domain has it's outgoing SMTP service and it's incoming service on the same set of machines. Many large sites have dedicated outgoing and dedicated incoming servers. This allows you to tune each system to perform as best as possible for it's assigned task (incoming or outgoing) instead of having to compromise.
The other factor which has resulted in a decline in fame is that there are more of them. It's easy for 1 person of 7 to be famous. It's less easy when it's 1 person out of 200 or so.
was that the actors were relatively new to the minds of viewers
Well only if you were totally ignorant about the actors past parts. Most of the principal actors in TNG had resumes of at least 10 important parts before appearing in TNG.
That's interesting, because Psion never released a series 4. They went from the Series 3 to the 5, skipping over 4 because of the Asian phobia against that number.
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Kernigan & Pike, The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series), do a compare. Kernigan's academic paper on it is here
Not only will it be possible to write such a script, it will be part of the distribution of perl6, just as a2p and s2p are part of the current distribution. The suggestions on perl6 are listed at dev.perl.org, and any suggestion where it is approriate has a 'migration' section, on what the perl6 converter should do.
Also, and this is not yet 100% decided on, it may be that perl6 will automatically detect if it needs to run the converter, so you can continue writing perl5 code, and not worry about which version it will be running under, though of course this means you won't be able to take advantage of any of the new features.
RSA is offering this money to show that the RSA public key method IS secure, because we can't factor these numbers.
It's entirely possible that windows is increasing the cost of our hardware, because it all has to be compatable with the original IBM. If you can redesign the hardware to take advantage of new technology, you can use cheaper/better/faster components.
However that doesn't prevent a true increase or decrease in quality. I don't think there are many people who would disagree that the mid seventies was not as good a time for music as the mid eighties.
I would have to say no, based upon the fact that no computer games have $85,000,000 budgets.
I won't even mention what happens when you have six sequels
Probably because what is 'fun' is not a very concrete thing. If you have a game which isn't fun, what would you change to make it fun?
It worries me a lot. It you get arrested returning from Thailand, how easy would it be for you to get the evidence to prove you're innocent? The proof you might require could be half a planet away.
Strong encryption cannot be broken, which makes the law redundant.
But it's not illegal to tell you how to break windows, break down doors etc. It is illegal to tell you how to break encryption. In both cases, there are legal uses for the information. People have had to break windows when there is a fire, or if they loose their keys. People have also had to break encryption if the encrypted version doesn't allow their fair use rights, or even to decrypt their own documents that the key has been lost for.
You can get secure OSs. Trusted Xenix is B2, though apparently unobtainable nowadays, and Trusted Solaris is B1. However, for this I'd probably want B3, where you want something like the XTS-300.
In the UK, 625 line TV was introduced in 1964, and 405 line broadcasting was offically obsolete in 1969. Yet it took until 1985 until it was finally switched off. This was with the upgrade being to colour, more channels, sets being valve based, and consequently with shorter lifespans, and the increasing uptake of TV.
If it takes 31 years for 405 line TV to disappear, it won't take 8 years for NTSC TV to go.
Links: http://www.videosystems.com/2001/03_mar/features/n umbers/numbers.htm
http://www.gvmag.com/issues/2001/0301/editor/0301. shtml
http://www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/405-Lines/
You've linked to teh Amnesty USA website. Amnesty groups never discuss their host country by policy. This is aimed at preventing reprisals. If the USA group is complianing about French abuses, the USA government has little incentive to react, and the French government little ability.
But PDF is a file format. You can use PDF without using any Adobe products. This makes the software license totally irrelevent.
The physical laws are very well known. It's actually a very trivial thing to derive the fusion of hydrogen to helium, and it's energy output, from the basic laws. What we don't currently know is how to do it on a small scale, without putting in more energy than we get out.
The research indicates that the 'stablizers' sold actually result in more vibration. See the cite above for details.
I take it by 'subtle', you mean 'totally non existant'? http://www.urbanlegends.com/misc/cd/marking_cds.ht ml for some discussion on the subject.
Even if you got it into the SMTP standard, it would take YEARS before you could rely on it. EHLO was added in 1993, and yet still many servers do not support it.
But MX records are not meant to list outgoing mailservers, they are for incoming ones. You cannot start limiting connections based upon a misuse of the records.
You can put in more platters, and more heads. It used to be common that drives lots of platters. As storage densities went up, it became cheaper to have less platters, and more storage on each one. If we reach a limit of storage, then we can go back to adding more platters.
You cannot guarantee that the domain has it's outgoing SMTP service and it's incoming service on the same set of machines. Many large sites have dedicated outgoing and dedicated incoming servers. This allows you to tune each system to perform as best as possible for it's assigned task (incoming or outgoing) instead of having to compromise.
The other factor which has resulted in a decline in fame is that there are more of them. It's easy for 1 person of 7 to be famous. It's less easy when it's 1 person out of 200 or so.
Well only if you were totally ignorant about the actors past parts. Most of the principal actors in TNG had resumes of at least 10 important parts before appearing in TNG.
That's interesting, because Psion never released a series 4. They went from the Series 3 to the 5, skipping over 4 because of the Asian phobia against that number.