That's hardly comparable. DVDs allow random access, take less space, and last longer.
HD/BR only have capacity advantages over DVD.
I could see if they used the extra space for something smart. Like you know those box sets that come on 11 DVDs? Why not store them on a couple BR discs? But just upping the resolution? That means your boxset would still take 11 discs, just the picture would be clearer (which imho it's already clear enough).
My point was that for many people the resolution of the medium isn't usually a problem. For christ sakes millions of people watch grainy videos on YouTube!!!
Or is anyone having a hard time getting all excited about this debate? It's like they're not playing nice together solely to drag up media attention... oh... wait... I see what they're doing:-)
Crap + Higher Resolution == Shinier Crap.
Only a small niche of humanity actually require fancy technology to be entertained. Remember that people used to see "live performances", and later on "black and white" programs on the over-the-air TV, etc...
The sooner they realize this the better. Maybe then they can focus more on script and acting lessons and less on CGI and camera resolution.
On Behalf Of Canada... Get Stuff. And fix yer goddamn roads already. This is 2007 not 1932.
You want to earn some extra credit? Abolish the language laws and stop voting for the Bloc. Until then I'll view all Quebecois as two-faced liars worthy of the highest contempt.
Isn't to say I hate french culture or whatever. Just pissed off that Quebec feels so entitled to special status.
I agree there are funny/informative/etc videos. They're just the vast minority and wading through the shite is not "fun". Rather play the piano, bitch about things on/. or go for a drive instead of sit at the puter waiting for videos to download...
I never used either on any sort of regular basis... something about flash being a bitch for 64-bit Linux users...
I guess it takes "will power" not to be a sheep to fads. That and 99% of the videos on the sites are either of horrible quality [bitrate/audio/etc], horribly produced [shoddy script/camera/plot/point] or both. That and I grew up with "Americas Funniest Videos" so I have all the useful home videos memories I can stand.... am I just an old fart? Can't be!!! I'm only 24.83 years old!!!
Poutine is tasty but sick too. Only proper poutine is worth the calories and sodium, not that shit that "New York Fries" sells eegad that's craptastic.
I wouldn't mind having proper deep dish pizza make it's way north though...
Actually good point. Sorry I didn't mean to disparage the US there. It just seems quite a few of our bad ideas get media attention first in the US (may not specifically start there) like TSA regulations, DMCA ideas, etc...
Although now that some industries in the US are taking a non-DRM stance I'd like to see Canada "copy" that:-)
Delay releases? Of the shitty movies they put out?
I'd rather have more indy films than hollywood crap [which incidentally is filmed more and more in Canada anyways!].
Frankly, if the movie looks half decent I'll spend the $10 to see it in the theater, and THEN make a copy once it's out on DVD. If the movie is just mildly entertaining [re: better than watching my facial hair grow] I'll just copy it from DVD.
While I like bitching about the weather I should also point out... NOBODY said GLOBAL WARMING IS LINEAR.
Why isn't it possible to have cold days with the hypothesis of global warming floating around? it's the AVERAGE temperature that we care about. Not the incidentals. It was -3C yesterday, and +12C all through december. a few days of -22C does not undo the fact that it's been super mild.
At anyrate, I don't care because by time it's a problem I'll be dead, and frankly what did future generations do for me? They're not even born yet, slackers.
If these people really want to share their GNAA views they should start their own website and post them there.
How is it in the American spirit to support, nay, provide the means, for spreading filth and hate? These GNAA posts are nothing but mindless driven with offensive overtones. Denying them comfort, an audience, and the reaction they unjustly seek is how to not only punish them but address the issue.
Your comment about -1 browsing is akin to "if you don't like being called nigger, maybe you should stay in your part of town." Often there are good comments at -1 (for instance, my pref give AC's all -1 to start). Why should I stop reading at -1 because some malicious, most likely, adolescent prick decides that they trump our rights to a civil [albeit random] discourse?
Yeah, but clock for clock an Intel or AMD x86 processor can mop that ARM processor. ARM/AVR32/PPC/MIPS are good for when you don't need a lot of power, but flexibility [in the ISA] counts.
And when I say "low power" I mean compared to other desktop/server processors. As in, the thing runs so damn cold that even under load, overclocked by a GHz, it's still well within the temperature range.
Try overclocking an ARM by 41%, achieve the same MIPS as the Core2Duo and come back to me with a "it's low power!" rant.
Presumably this is because people lost faith in the UFN approach. If that's the case, comparing new designs to the faster, but generally accepted as insecure designs, is not wise nor prudent.
I'm not saying WHIRLPOOL is perfect, but it's definitely a step in the right direction. Maybe this contest will spur a faster hash which is also as mathematically sound.
Whirlpool is slower than SHA... but SHA is insecure so it's a meaningless comparison. memcpy() is faster than AES-CTR!!!:-)
Never heard of Radiogatun. To be honest i'm not really into crypto as much as I used to be. The whole debacle with the LT projects threw me off. I'd much rather play a Sonata on my piano than read a dry boring paper about cryptography.:-)
I definitely hope so. I certainly don't look forward to the deluge of non-mathematical FROGHASH style [or HPC] submissions which IMHO are a total f'ing waste of time.
I'd say if you can't prove the branch of your primitive then you need a REALLY COMPELLING reason to submit it. Otherwise, be gone!
No worries. Common mixup if you're not waist deep in it all day (most customers don't quite know what SHA-512 is or why they can't pair it up with AES-512 hehehehe).
No, SHA-224 is truncated SHA-256 and SHA-384 is a truncated SHA-512.
SHA-256 and SHA-512 are different hash functions (same basic design though). On 32-bit boxes SHA-256 is faster, and on 64-bit boxes SHA-512 is faster.
There is no point in 224 or 384, but they're there just for completeness (e.g. to comply with some specs that don't allow the arbitrary truncatage of a hash).
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First, destroying the currency is illegal last I checked.
;-)].
Second, penny slots, despite the name, don't actually take pennies [I tried
Tom
Pennies are often used only in POS transactions, not vending machines. So why not just make the damn thing smaller?
Clearly I'm a genius...
Tom
Look where the I/O ports are ... oh yeah NOT ON THE BOARD.
They're just moving the problem to somewhere else.
Tom
That's hardly comparable. DVDs allow random access, take less space, and last longer.
HD/BR only have capacity advantages over DVD.
I could see if they used the extra space for something smart. Like you know those box sets that come on 11 DVDs? Why not store them on a couple BR discs? But just upping the resolution? That means your boxset would still take 11 discs, just the picture would be clearer (which imho it's already clear enough).
My point was that for many people the resolution of the medium isn't usually a problem. For christ sakes millions of people watch grainy videos on YouTube!!!
Tom
Or is anyone having a hard time getting all excited about this debate? It's like they're not playing nice together solely to drag up media attention ... oh ... wait ... I see what they're doing :-)
Crap + Higher Resolution == Shinier Crap.
Only a small niche of humanity actually require fancy technology to be entertained. Remember that people used to see "live performances", and later on "black and white" programs on the over-the-air TV, etc...
The sooner they realize this the better. Maybe then they can focus more on script and acting lessons and less on CGI and camera resolution.
tom
On Behalf Of Canada ... Get Stuff. And fix yer goddamn roads already. This is 2007 not 1932.
You want to earn some extra credit? Abolish the language laws and stop voting for the Bloc. Until then I'll view all Quebecois as two-faced liars worthy of the highest contempt.
Isn't to say I hate french culture or whatever. Just pissed off that Quebec feels so entitled to special status.
Tom
I agree there are funny/informative/etc videos. They're just the vast minority and wading through the shite is not "fun". Rather play the piano, bitch about things on /. or go for a drive instead of sit at the puter waiting for videos to download ...
Tom
I never used either on any sort of regular basis... something about flash being a bitch for 64-bit Linux users...
... am I just an old fart? Can't be!!! I'm only 24.83 years old!!!
I guess it takes "will power" not to be a sheep to fads. That and 99% of the videos on the sites are either of horrible quality [bitrate/audio/etc], horribly produced [shoddy script/camera/plot/point] or both. That and I grew up with "Americas Funniest Videos" so I have all the useful home videos memories I can stand.
Tom
Poutine is tasty but sick too. Only proper poutine is worth the calories and sodium, not that shit that "New York Fries" sells eegad that's craptastic.
... :-)
I wouldn't mind having proper deep dish pizza make it's way north though...
Maybe some hot san diego ladies too
Tom
Actually good point. Sorry I didn't mean to disparage the US there. It just seems quite a few of our bad ideas get media attention first in the US (may not specifically start there) like TSA regulations, DMCA ideas, etc...
:-)
Although now that some industries in the US are taking a non-DRM stance I'd like to see Canada "copy" that
Tom
Delay releases? Of the shitty movies they put out?
I'd rather have more indy films than hollywood crap [which incidentally is filmed more and more in Canada anyways!].
Frankly, if the movie looks half decent I'll spend the $10 to see it in the theater, and THEN make a copy once it's out on DVD. If the movie is just mildly entertaining [re: better than watching my facial hair grow] I'll just copy it from DVD.
Lesson: make less shitty movies.
Tom
you betcha ...
oh wait, that's fargo, that's an AMERICAN film ya hoser.
Tom
We copy all the best and worse that the US has to offer ... arrrgg ...
:-)
Maybe we'll copy the "DRM is a bad idea" that the 'mericans are coming up with now.
While we're at it maybe we could import some backbone and tell Quebec to get stuffed...
Tom
I own a Samsung laser printer because it has linux support :-)
Personally I hope both HP and Dell fail
While I like bitching about the weather I should also point out ... NOBODY said GLOBAL WARMING IS LINEAR.
Why isn't it possible to have cold days with the hypothesis of global warming floating around? it's the AVERAGE temperature that we care about. Not the incidentals. It was -3C yesterday, and +12C all through december. a few days of -22C does not undo the fact that it's been super mild.
At anyrate, I don't care because by time it's a problem I'll be dead, and frankly what did future generations do for me? They're not even born yet, slackers.
Tom
Screw the military, I want one now. ... mumbles about it being -22C outside ...
Tom
If these people really want to share their GNAA views they should start their own website and post them there.
How is it in the American spirit to support, nay, provide the means, for spreading filth and hate? These GNAA posts are nothing but mindless driven with offensive overtones. Denying them comfort, an audience, and the reaction they unjustly seek is how to not only punish them but address the issue.
Your comment about -1 browsing is akin to "if you don't like being called nigger, maybe you should stay in your part of town." Often there are good comments at -1 (for instance, my pref give AC's all -1 to start). Why should I stop reading at -1 because some malicious, most likely, adolescent prick decides that they trump our rights to a civil [albeit random] discourse?
Tom
Yeah, but clock for clock an Intel or AMD x86 processor can mop that ARM processor. ARM/AVR32/PPC/MIPS are good for when you don't need a lot of power, but flexibility [in the ISA] counts.
And when I say "low power" I mean compared to other desktop/server processors. As in, the thing runs so damn cold that even under load, overclocked by a GHz, it's still well within the temperature range.
Try overclocking an ARM by 41%, achieve the same MIPS as the Core2Duo and come back to me with a "it's low power!" rant.
Tom
Presumably this is because people lost faith in the UFN approach. If that's the case, comparing new designs to the faster, but generally accepted as insecure designs, is not wise nor prudent.
I'm not saying WHIRLPOOL is perfect, but it's definitely a step in the right direction. Maybe this contest will spur a faster hash which is also as mathematically sound.
Tom
This is why we have editors...
:-(
I don't know what's scarrier, my loose grasp of formal language, or that I'm the author of two comp.sci text books
hehehehe
Whatever, I do what I want!
Tom
Whirlpool is slower than SHA ... but SHA is insecure so it's a meaningless comparison. memcpy() is faster than AES-CTR!!! :-)
:-)
Never heard of Radiogatun. To be honest i'm not really into crypto as much as I used to be. The whole debacle with the LT projects threw me off. I'd much rather play a Sonata on my piano than read a dry boring paper about cryptography.
Tom
You're welcome.
Glad to be of service.
Tom
I definitely hope so. I certainly don't look forward to the deluge of non-mathematical FROGHASH style [or HPC] submissions which IMHO are a total f'ing waste of time.
I'd say if you can't prove the branch of your primitive then you need a REALLY COMPELLING reason to submit it. Otherwise, be gone!
Tom
No worries. Common mixup if you're not waist deep in it all day (most customers don't quite know what SHA-512 is or why they can't pair it up with AES-512 hehehehe).
Tom
No, SHA-224 is truncated SHA-256 and SHA-384 is a truncated SHA-512.
SHA-256 and SHA-512 are different hash functions (same basic design though). On 32-bit boxes SHA-256 is faster, and on 64-bit boxes SHA-512 is faster.
There is no point in 224 or 384, but they're there just for completeness (e.g. to comply with some specs that don't allow the arbitrary truncatage of a hash).
Tom