You'll excuse me, I'm sure, if I refrain from panicking just yet? If this is true, we do need better algorithms, but that's still 9-10 years to find a collision! Not likely to be a problem, at least for the stuff I try to keep secure (our physical security is far, far weaker than that, for example).
I have to disagree here. There are certainly cases where Java is faster, but they're relatively few. Lets just go through that infamous benchmark again:
Point 1 - "I was sick of hearing people say Java was slow, when I know it's pretty fast". Baaaad start to any analysis - always keep an open mind about the results.
Point 2 - He used G++. So this is only valid for G++, not necessarily any other C++ compiler. Which is fair, I just feel this is worth emphasising.
Point 3 - It's rapidly determined that G++ takes much longer to execute a method call, than Java does. Given this, it shouldn't be a significant suprise that benchmarks relying heavily on recursion will be slow in C++.
For example, rewriting the Fibonnaci benchmark to use a for loop instead of recursion give a 600-times speed increase:
And for those of us that use it at home? In this case, I'm stuck renting due to the absurd house prices in the UK, and can't put extra cabling in the walls because it's not my house. Putting cables under rugs kinda works, but has a nasty tendancy to leave cable-shaped grooves in carpeting...
Would seem more useful to me, to have a portable hard disk. Cheaper, and about as easy to type on...
I have a 15" PowerBook. It's a good size. A little small, but definitely usable. I dock it to a keyboard, mouse and monitor when at work. This suits me perfectly.
Given that I walk wherever possible (any journey under a couple of miles, which includes my trip to work), with this laptop, and weight isn't a big issue, why would I want something smaller and less powerful?
I think the real problem is not discouraging the women who are good at computer science. I think if you take a random sample of men, and a random sample of women, you'll find more of the men have a natural ability for computer science.
This doesn't mean that women are incapable of computer science, just less likely to have a natural knack for it. I've met plenty of women who are good sys-admins or programmers (some of them dramatically better than my male co-workers, but that's another rant).
However, computer science has an air of geekiness, which I think puts off a lot of women, not to mention being outnumbered. I've been in groups where I'm the only guy, and it's a litle bit creepy, I'd imagine the opposite is also true!
The other thing is, some of us like the iTMS, but don't like the iPod. The iTunes phone is a nice idea, and might suit me better, we'll see. What I really want is a small device with say 256mb of flash I can store music, and whatever other files I want, on.
I'd spend the time learning to read and write that language properly, much as I'm trying to persuade you to do for english:) (and yes, I would use a different font if necessary).
Right, so I am actually, in fact, the only gamer who gets eyestrain from playing in the dark? I suspected as much...
Also, same problem someone else had, the blinds on my windows are there purely to obscure the view, and add a pale blue tinge to the sunlight streaming in through the window (one of the disadvantages of renting somewhere to live, what can I say).
Also, I've seen smoother releases. Another few months in beta, particularly balancing gameplay, would have really helped it; as it was, a lot of people left before the game actually became any good.
Also had an absolutely disastrous add-on. I loved the caverns, they were great (esp. in a mosquito), just a pity no-one else was down there...
It's not so much the fact that there's lots of higher level players, as that a lot of MMORPGs are dull unless you can devote a lot of time to them. Killing rats for hours (it's the traditional example) is not that fun, especially when you can only devote an hour or so a day.
I'm currently playing City of Heroes, which is going relatively well, but it's rapidly becoming apparent that the really interesting stuff is still months of gameplay ahead of me.
Where did PDAs come into this? Yes, a new PDA would make a lot of people happy, but that's a whole different topic at this point.
As to iPod with cellphone - is that really a good idea? I'm a little suprised they're making a phone that can only hold about 12 songs, personally I'd have given the phone a MMC/SD card slot so you could add plenty more storage later, too. Not everyone wants to carry around their entire music collection, a 128mb flash card would be plenty for me
If Motorola made a phone with iTunes support and an MMC card slot, at the same price point as the N-Gage (which has AAC playback, but not the DRM), I'd buy it. Even with the flash card it would cost around half what an iPod does...
Dang, was going to use that example myself. It's a good point though - I only started moving away from Amiga in 1998, when I needed to do stuff that wasn't worth the effort making my Amiga (upgraded with a PowerPC processor by this point). I would have bought one of the new AmigaOne systems, if I hadn't stumbled across OS X first.
People need to keep in mind, newer does not mean better, especially for certain uses. That P4 might be faster than my Amiga, but how's it's responsiveness while word processing, for example? That Palm might be smaller than a Newton, but if I carry a laptop bag anyway, how much differene does it make.
Diverging wildly from the point, I've always wanted to get a bigger mobile phone. Ideally something as big as they used to be when they first came out, but with modern features. I want to be able to make this phone part of my daily excerise:) I want to know no-one will steal it, because they can't run while carrying it! Don't suppose anyone knows of where I could get one, do they?
On an additional point, those of us using the PS2 Linux kit Sony sell will continue to happily coding with it. Okay, more expensive than a modchip, but I feel it's worth it, and a lot easier to fit...
Rats, forgot my actual point! Which is, if advertisers paid based on how popular a page is (difficult to tell, but hey, TV's harder), rather than per-click, this wouldn't be a problem!
It is _exceptional_ for me to click adverts at the time. It would be equivalent to me seeing an advert on TV, and deciding to stop what I was doing and go find more information on that product.
Obviously, if I'm Googling for something and a paid link appears referring to what I'm looking for, I'll probably click that, but that's about it. If I see an advert that intruiges, I'll make a mental note to go look into it later.
Another example; adverts also affect future decisions. For example, my personal belongings insurance (spot the guy stuck in rented accomodation) was coming up for renewal. I remembered seeing an advert for a company (Endsleigh), and looked into that company. This company, which I hadn't found when initially looking for insurance, about halved my premiums and the cover suits me better. The thing is though, I'd seen the advert about 2 months before...
Advertisers need to get over this idea of adverts being an instant draw, they're not, and never have been...
I would (and do) buy all in one gadgets, but this one is ridiculous. If I wanted a gaming PVR (my experiences of surfing the web with TVs are painful, so lets skip that feature), I'd buy a PSX, at probably around $1000 once they're released.
This box is just a joke, frankly. They're saying "If we take a PC, remove the advantages like higher resolution and individual display (so you're not tying up a shared TV), remove the need to click "Okay" a couple of times during installation and leave the disadvantages of cost and needing to upgrade, clearly people will want to buy more of them"
Maybe I'm living in the wrong place, but an extra room here would cost me around $300/month extra in rent. It seems a little strange to try validating a $50 purchase by spending $300 (assuming a game a month, which seems reasonable to me), before furniture costs...
Exactly. Rather than playing computer games out of the way in my room, I'll tie up the TV, meaning none of my flatmates can either play games or watch TV. That's a good idea.
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"It required approximatively 80 000 CPU hours"
You'll excuse me, I'm sure, if I refrain from panicking just yet? If this is true, we do need better algorithms, but that's still 9-10 years to find a collision! Not likely to be a problem, at least for the stuff I try to keep secure (our physical security is far, far weaker than that, for example).
I have to disagree here. There are certainly cases where Java is faster, but they're relatively few. Lets just go through that infamous benchmark again:
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Java faster than C++ benchmark
Point 1 - "I was sick of hearing people say Java was slow, when I know it's pretty fast".
Baaaad start to any analysis - always keep an open mind about the results.
Point 2 - He used G++. So this is only valid for G++, not necessarily any other C++ compiler. Which is fair, I just feel this is worth emphasising.
Point 3 - It's rapidly determined that G++ takes much longer to execute a method call, than Java does. Given this, it shouldn't be a significant suprise that benchmarks relying heavily on recursion will be slow in C++.
For example, rewriting the Fibonnaci benchmark to use a for loop instead of recursion give a 600-times speed increase:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11
Rewriting it into constant-space gave an almost 10 times increase over that:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11
Moral of the story? Java is great for method calls , but I'm not so convinced about everything else...
And for those of us that use it at home? In this case, I'm stuck renting due to the absurd house prices in the UK, and can't put extra cabling in the walls because it's not my house. Putting cables under rugs kinda works, but has a nasty tendancy to leave cable-shaped grooves in carpeting...
Would seem more useful to me, to have a portable hard disk. Cheaper, and about as easy to type on...
I have a 15" PowerBook. It's a good size. A little small, but definitely usable. I dock it to a keyboard, mouse and monitor when at work. This suits me perfectly.
Given that I walk wherever possible (any journey under a couple of miles, which includes my trip to work), with this laptop, and weight isn't a big issue, why would I want something smaller and less powerful?
Realising the device you left on the train contained absolutely everything... priceless :)
I think the real problem is not discouraging the women who are good at computer science. I think if you take a random sample of men, and a random sample of women, you'll find more of the men have a natural ability for computer science.
This doesn't mean that women are incapable of computer science, just less likely to have a natural knack for it. I've met plenty of women who are good sys-admins or programmers (some of them dramatically better than my male co-workers, but that's another rant).
However, computer science has an air of geekiness, which I think puts off a lot of women, not to mention being outnumbered. I've been in groups where I'm the only guy, and it's a litle bit creepy, I'd imagine the opposite is also true!
The other thing is, some of us like the iTMS, but don't like the iPod. The iTunes phone is a nice idea, and might suit me better, we'll see. What I really want is a small device with say 256mb of flash I can store music, and whatever other files I want, on.
Like, the Creative Muvo, for example.
I'd spend the time learning to read and write that language properly, much as I'm trying to persuade you to do for english :) (and yes, I would use a different font if necessary).
Hangon, what is it with capitilising only proper nouns? That's just confusing me!
Also, my brain is used to seeing full stops, and capitals, not just one or the other. Oh, and perhaps the problem is your typing, not my font choice!
Right, so I am actually, in fact, the only gamer who gets eyestrain from playing in the dark? I suspected as much...
Also, same problem someone else had, the blinds on my windows are there purely to obscure the view, and add a pale blue tinge to the sunlight streaming in through the window (one of the disadvantages of renting somewhere to live, what can I say).
Also, I kinda want to see how long it takes demons to struggle their way out of duct tape. Quick, someone add it as a mod!
I need more sleep...
I kinda figure, if the console junkies want to play Doom 3, they'll probably do it on the X-Box...
Also, I've seen smoother releases. Another few months in beta, particularly balancing gameplay, would have really helped it; as it was, a lot of people left before the game actually became any good.
Also had an absolutely disastrous add-on. I loved the caverns, they were great (esp. in a mosquito), just a pity no-one else was down there...
It's not so much the fact that there's lots of higher level players, as that a lot of MMORPGs are dull unless you can devote a lot of time to them. Killing rats for hours (it's the traditional example) is not that fun, especially when you can only devote an hour or so a day.
I'm currently playing City of Heroes, which is going relatively well, but it's rapidly becoming apparent that the really interesting stuff is still months of gameplay ahead of me.
Where did PDAs come into this? Yes, a new PDA would make a lot of people happy, but that's a whole different topic at this point.
As to iPod with cellphone - is that really a good idea? I'm a little suprised they're making a phone that can only hold about 12 songs, personally I'd have given the phone a MMC/SD card slot so you could add plenty more storage later, too. Not everyone wants to carry around their entire music collection, a 128mb flash card would be plenty for me
If Motorola made a phone with iTunes support and an MMC card slot, at the same price point as the N-Gage (which has AAC playback, but not the DRM), I'd buy it. Even with the flash card it would cost around half what an iPod does...
I'd be suprised if it cost much more than most MP3 playing phones, of which there are plenty at the moment (Nokia N-Gage, for example).
There's an Ogg player for some Symbian phones at :
http://symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/
Dang, was going to use that example myself. It's a good point though - I only started moving away from Amiga in 1998, when I needed to do stuff that wasn't worth the effort making my Amiga (upgraded with a PowerPC processor by this point). I would have bought one of the new AmigaOne systems, if I hadn't stumbled across OS X first.
:) I want to know no-one will steal it, because they can't run while carrying it! Don't suppose anyone knows of where I could get one, do they?
People need to keep in mind, newer does not mean better, especially for certain uses. That P4 might be faster than my Amiga, but how's it's responsiveness while word processing, for example? That Palm might be smaller than a Newton, but if I carry a laptop bag anyway, how much differene does it make.
Diverging wildly from the point, I've always wanted to get a bigger mobile phone. Ideally something as big as they used to be when they first came out, but with modern features. I want to be able to make this phone part of my daily excerise
On an additional point, those of us using the PS2 Linux kit Sony sell will continue to happily coding with it. Okay, more expensive than a modchip, but I feel it's worth it, and a lot easier to fit...
Rats, forgot my actual point! Which is, if advertisers paid based on how popular a page is (difficult to tell, but hey, TV's harder), rather than per-click, this wouldn't be a problem!
(So yes, you can mod this redundant :) )
It is _exceptional_ for me to click adverts at the time. It would be equivalent to me seeing an advert on TV, and deciding to stop what I was doing and go find more information on that product.
Obviously, if I'm Googling for something and a paid link appears referring to what I'm looking for, I'll probably click that, but that's about it. If I see an advert that intruiges, I'll make a mental note to go look into it later.
Another example; adverts also affect future decisions. For example, my personal belongings insurance (spot the guy stuck in rented accomodation) was coming up for renewal. I remembered seeing an advert for a company (Endsleigh), and looked into that company. This company, which I hadn't found when initially looking for insurance, about halved my premiums and the cover suits me better. The thing is though, I'd seen the advert about 2 months before...
Advertisers need to get over this idea of adverts being an instant draw, they're not, and never have been...
My experience suggests that updating critical systems will always go wrong, while non-critical systems will work great first time...
I would (and do) buy all in one gadgets, but this one is ridiculous. If I wanted a gaming PVR (my experiences of surfing the web with TVs are painful, so lets skip that feature), I'd buy a PSX, at probably around $1000 once they're released.
This box is just a joke, frankly. They're saying "If we take a PC, remove the advantages like higher resolution and individual display (so you're not tying up a shared TV), remove the need to click "Okay" a couple of times during installation and leave the disadvantages of cost and needing to upgrade, clearly people will want to buy more of them"
Maybe I'm living in the wrong place, but an extra room here would cost me around $300/month extra in rent. It seems a little strange to try validating a $50 purchase by spending $300 (assuming a game a month, which seems reasonable to me), before furniture costs...
Exactly. Rather than playing computer games out of the way in my room, I'll tie up the TV, meaning none of my flatmates can either play games or watch TV. That's a good idea.
No, wait...