true, true...(oops)... that never stopped dumb people, tho. I know lots of people who were running 'Windows 97' (aka Office 97) until the 'upgraded to windows 2000' (again, office... all of this on win95)...
Guess I'll have to open-source my latest work... I copied the following from a GPL'd program:
#include
int main(void) {
int rc;
/* my stuff here */
return rc; }
Ok, just kidding around (these are basic constructs, after all), but there's gotta be some reasonable limit on this. I suppose an argument like that would suggest that the GPL is somewhat weak - well, if *he* can take 2% without problem and they could take 6% of the program without problem, I can 10%... and so on...
You need to be either absolute or you'll get nit-picked...
POWER processors would probably be used instead of the PowerPC procs... a subtle difference, but they *are* different chips... if you are going to go parallel, you gotta use the best available.
With statistics and the right sample population, I could show that typing on a TI-92 with only my left foot is 600% faster than qwerty or dvorak... ;-)
The chips *are* SMP compatable - we're waiting for the chipset (AMD gave guidlines and specs, but won't fab it). The Spitfire can beat the Athlon in some performace tests (like the Celery/P-II).
It was never supposed to be a hack... these were just a few dumb, drunk guys. Whoever submitted this (very old, even previously on/.) story doesn't get it, and it's creating some big backlash.
The people in this post certainly aren't a good representation of RPI, and your hockey comment is pretty far off-base. After all, only management majors play hockey;-) Us engineers have real work to do.
>Just what you'd expect from a second-rate institution like that.
A condescending attitude is a wonderfully desirable quality - keep going with that.
I chose RPI over MIT because of the attitude associated with it, and the fact that, when I was entering school, the computer engineering program at RPI was rated as high as the same at MIT, but being at RPI also offered me a lot of other opportunities (undergrad research, etc)... Granted, all of the humanities suck, but that's never been the undergrad focus - that's the reason US News ranked us so low - we aren't a university, and (until recently) we never pretended to be. I'd hardly call it second-rate though.
Please don't make blanket statements about subjects you know little about.
Yeah, but this is old and not horribly creative.... I was @ RPI from 95-99, and this was all over well before I ever set foot on campus...
I know a few people still there who have been far more creative... I almost found my car inside of a residence hall lounge... that would have been pretty good...
personally, the IOP was always the best thing going... did they have any entries for GM this year?
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>I see this accursed mistake all over the Internet and I ABSOLUTELY CAN'T STAND IT!
You and me three...
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Java Ring? Is that like a circular queue (only slower)?;-)
Well, you send one photon per bit, and you could layer an ECC structure on that - say one ECC byte for each 8 bytes transferred. You can then correct single-bit errors(1 of 8 wrong), and detect double-bit errors(2 of 8 wrong), which should be fairly rare. More complex encoding could be used to correct double-bit errors, if you are concerned about that, or you could selectively re-transmit a section in error.
Thanks for the link. 4% could be easily taken care of. I would have put the error correction in my diagram, so people wouldn't ask silly questions like mine;-)
From what I gather on this subject, the location of the bug is not easily detected... there may be ways, but it would be extremely difficult (timing and what not). Of course, my quantum is a little bit rusty right now... I'll have to pull out my textbooks 8^)
does the image in the diagram not come out exactly as it went in? There seem to be a number of funny blips in there. For an image, this isn't so bad (unless you can't tell which building is the Chinese Embassy), but for a normal datastream, it looks like a lot would be garbled...
I hope that's just the example picture. The article doesn't mention and 'acceptable data loss'. Since any snooping would be detected, I'd think you'd have the exact replica key, so you wouldn't have any errors.
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true, true...(oops)... that never stopped dumb people, tho. I know lots of people who were running 'Windows 97' (aka Office 97) until the 'upgraded to windows 2000' (again, office... all of this on win95)...
Guess I'll have to open-source my latest work... I copied the following from a GPL'd program:
#include
int main(void)
{
int rc;
/* my stuff here */
return rc;
}
Ok, just kidding around (these are basic constructs, after all), but there's gotta be some reasonable limit on this. I suppose an argument like that would suggest that the GPL is somewhat weak - well, if *he* can take 2% without problem and they could take 6% of the program without problem, I can 10%... and so on...
You need to be either absolute or you'll get nit-picked...
POWER processors would probably be used instead of the PowerPC procs... a subtle difference, but they *are* different chips... if you are going to go parallel, you gotta use the best available.
Well, Mandrake is at 7.1 now, and I think slack is above 7, too...
Debian is still in pre-potato... or something...
With statistics and the right sample population, I could show that typing on a TI-92 with only my left foot is 600% faster than qwerty or dvorak...
;-)
TAPU pre-dated IOP...
My favs were the spork, and Warren109b (I think) - some dead X-station... that was good stuff.
Of course, the inflatable whale (Arthur Galpin?) might just come and kick some butt 8^)
Figures, and I'll admit it wasn't nearly as good the last couple of years as before... but isn't that always the way - 'back in my day...'
of course, a couple of the people responsible were *supposed* to graduate a year ahead (98) of me (99), but somehow...
Silly PsiU...
The chips *are* SMP compatable - we're waiting for the chipset (AMD gave guidlines and specs, but won't fab it). The Spitfire can beat the Athlon in some performace tests (like the Celery/P-II).
It was never supposed to be a hack... these were just a few dumb, drunk guys. Whoever submitted this (very old, even previously on /.) story doesn't get it, and it's creating some big backlash.
Hmmm... nice troll, ass.
;-) Us engineers have real work to do.
The people in this post certainly aren't a good representation of RPI, and your hockey comment is pretty far off-base. After all, only management majors play hockey
>Just what you'd expect from a second-rate institution like that.
A condescending attitude is a wonderfully desirable quality - keep going with that.
I chose RPI over MIT because of the attitude associated with it, and the fact that, when I was entering school, the computer engineering program at RPI was rated as high as the same at MIT, but being at RPI also offered me a lot of other opportunities (undergrad research, etc)... Granted, all of the humanities suck, but that's never been the undergrad focus - that's the reason US News ranked us so low - we aren't a university, and (until recently) we never pretended to be. I'd hardly call it second-rate though.
Please don't make blanket statements about subjects you know little about.
Yeah, I was an RPI frosh in 95... heard about the first week... I though it funny, but nowhere near the same hackish quality...
Well... it's funny the first time you see it, but not really a 'hack'...
We repelled down those stairs a few times, and the campus-wide laser tags games were more fun... as was frisbee golf...
Yeah, but this is old and not horribly creative.... I was @ RPI from 95-99, and this was all over well before I ever set foot on campus...
I know a few people still there who have been far more creative... I almost found my car inside of a residence hall lounge... that would have been pretty good...
personally, the IOP was always the best thing going... did they have any entries for GM this year?
>I see this accursed mistake all over the Internet and I ABSOLUTELY CAN'T STAND IT!
You and me three...
Java Ring? Is that like a circular queue (only slower)? ;-)
Oops! egg on my face (better than grits down your pants, I would guess) - blamed the wrong large shoe corp 8^)
Thanks for the correction.
>And what did you get on your SAT II's?
since you asked...
Chem: 750
Math II: 770
Bio: 750
I think I took some writing or literature one too... it was over 700, but I don't remember exactly.
I like didactium myself 8^) It has what the french call a certain... I-don't-know-what...
Haven't been fed lately?
A while back, Nike had the 'Air Incubus', a women's sneaker... they changed that one pretty quick once they figured it out...
incubus n. 1) an evil spirit supposed to descend on sleeping persons. (often to rape women)
Oops!
Well, you send one photon per bit, and you could layer an ECC structure on that - say one ECC byte for each 8 bytes transferred. You can then correct single-bit errors(1 of 8 wrong), and detect double-bit errors(2 of 8 wrong), which should be fairly rare. More complex encoding could be used to correct double-bit errors, if you are concerned about that, or you could selectively re-transmit a section in error.
yeah, but /. karma is the only grade scale around here, and we all know how much *that* counts ;-)
Thanks for the link. 4% could be easily taken care of. I would have put the error correction in my diagram, so people wouldn't ask silly questions like mine ;-)
From what I gather on this subject, the location of the bug is not easily detected... there may be ways, but it would be extremely difficult (timing and what not). Of course, my quantum is a little bit rusty right now... I'll have to pull out my textbooks 8^)
does the image in the diagram not come out exactly as it went in? There seem to be a number of funny blips in there. For an image, this isn't so bad (unless you can't tell which building is the Chinese Embassy), but for a normal datastream, it looks like a lot would be garbled...
I hope that's just the example picture. The article doesn't mention and 'acceptable data loss'. Since any snooping would be detected, I'd think you'd have the exact replica key, so you wouldn't have any errors.
Anyone else notice this?