Perhaps I should point out the bug: the comment "//check for \" ends with a pre-processor line-entesion character (\), which effective appends the next line onto the current line, thus the code "slashfound=1" is effectively commented out and the next statment (++index) only executes if c=='\'
All the people complaining about cable prices confuse me. I have ATT cable for 45 bucks a month and get 1500-3000 Kbps upload, and 256k download. I researched every single alternative, and nothing else comes *close* to this for cost per byte. Now I am not allowed to put a server on the cable modem, so I have an IDSL line for my server. It costs 70 bucks a month and only gets 144K bps both ways. This is the cheapest thing in the area by far which allowed a server. Upgrading my bps to fractional T1 or full T1 gets exponentially more expensive.
I am annoyed that I don't have the option to pay more for putting a server on my cable line, which I'd gladly do. But on the whole, I am supremely happy with my cable service because I know they could quadruple the cost and they'd still be the best thing available.
Holograms do more than simply stereoscopic 3D. A hologram encodes the entire wavefront of the image, not just two positions like 3d goggles or other cheesy steroscopic devices.
This differences is substantial: the amount of information presented to the eye is vastly larger than simple stereoscopic methods. In a simple stereoscopic image, all objects and surfaces appear to be in the same focus plane. Holographic images essentially gain a 3rd axis of resolution by adding a very large number of focus points in 3 space.
This also allows for true perspective wherein different viewpoints provide different information. You can 'look behind' objects in a hologram, which you cannot do with steroscopic tricks.
Thus, true holograms provide a qualitativly better experience over existing 3d methods.
Even though you have not revealed your algorithm, you have revealed a sufficient imprecision in your understanding of cryptography to have a useful patent. As pointed out by others, your implication that one-time pad can be broken with 'known plaintext' implies you don't know what a one-time pad is.
Also, you claim you have a 'very large key'. If your algorithm uses a key that is as large as the data being encrypted, then in fact, it is itself a form of one-time pad..right up until you use a key-bit more than once where it necessarily becomes attackable.
You really need to consult a cryptologist about your algorithm before you waste any money on the patent. Many people before you have fallen into the trap of patenting 'unbreakable encryption' which is not.
Its really outrageous to say that being against Microsoft is part of the geek way. Microsoft engineers are as geekie as they get. They don't get all riled up about freedom and capitalism, they just sit in their offices and write code. They found a benevolent master that will gives them mountain dew and gives them free pizza. Politics are for liberal arts students, not computer geeks.
I keep looking at the photographs and can't shake the feeling that what we are really seeing is the class project for realistic computer graphics. The car is just too glossy and perfect looking, even inside.
Maybe I'm just getting paranoid, because of this Beetle
Iridium bugs me. I've seen a lot of people claim it failed because of the technology. But this just isn't the case! It *might* have failed based on the technical [de]merits, but it never made it that far. I know this because I tried to buy an Iridium phone. I spent months and months trying. I tell you they WOULD NOT SELL ME ONE. It was a joke! No resellers had them, and there was no plan. The best I ever did was find a fly-by-night in Taiwan who would sell me a phone, but not a service plan. Who would buy a phone with no service plan? It was frustrating too, reading their glossy pamphlets and their web sites. They actually gave you (the customer) examples of what type of people would use an Iridium phone. Topping the list was Saudi Oil Sheiks! I'm not kidding! I tried to tell them, im not an oil sheik, but I HAVE MONEY and I want to BUY. Iridium failed because of internal failures inside the company (and motorola). They got caught up in internal politics and self-absorbsion. Apparently they forget to do marketing and build distribution channels.
Actually, Ford is a monopoly, or was. Notice that you cannot buy a canopy for you Ford from Ford? This is because they were injuncted from doing so.
It was an issue very much like browser integration: Ford decided to integrate a canopy with thier pick-ups, but that would make the aftermarked canopy business obsolete. They sued and won.
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Notice that every single story title on the mainpage contains at least one acronym. Are we using jargon to keep our little club elite?
Don't listen to these fools who say you are doomed to fail. You *can* do it, and it won't cost a million dollars. A little imagination and elbow grease and you can do anything.
Just remember that all the naysayers in the world never got a thing done. Just do it. Jump in headlong and get yourself in over your head. That is how you learn to swim, not by wading in the kiddy pool.
Flaps are unnecessary to fly a plane. The main controls on most planes are direct connections from the controls to the control surface. Some big planes use hydraulics, but they do not require electrical power to operate.
What happens to the motor in the event of lightning strike? A gas engine will not lose power after a lightning strike, but an electric engine would probably be fried.
All large jet transport flights are done "Instrument Flight Rules". This is a procedureal term which means the flight is schedule to follow a certain course and followed by air traffic control radar. The limitation in the TFR zones is that the flight must file an IFR flight plan before being cleared to take off and landing. The jets used by the terrorists DID file an IFR flight plan when they took off because that is standard procedure. The bottom line is that all the restrictions placed on General Aviation (cessnas, the like) would have done nothing to stop the terrorists on 9/11 had those rules been in place at the time, because jets are exempted from those rules!
It seems that people have not noticed the word "secret" in my post. The vote is still anonymous, since the identifier only matches the vote, not the person who made the vote.
I completely disagree. Most General Aviation pilots are VFR only. The vast majority of IFR flights are for commercial purposes. Your point about flying a "chartered" aircraft is backwards--the chilling effect is on private pilots, not commercial pilots. As you say, IFR (which are mainly commercial) flights havent changed, but VFR has. The outrageous part about the whole thing is that the terrorists used commercial jumbo jets that were flying IFR!
I got my license last july. But since I live near Seattle, I was unable to fly for months because the class B airspace over the area was extended to the ground and required instrument clearance. I havent flown as Pilot in Command since. I did however cross the country with my brother who is a commercial pilot, and we both got lots of flak by airport security for just being around the planes (our own plane!) by the FAA security guards. It is quite unpleasant to have to explain to every block-headed idiot in a uniform that yes, that is my plane, yes, I am a pilot yada yada yada. In order to get a pre-flight briefing, you are required to listen to a statement about suspicious people and terrorism. Its is stupid and inane and a real grind to listen to day in and day out. When planning our flights, we have to pay special attention to TFRs (temporary flight restrictions) or we can lose our licenses. There are several in the Seattle area which have never been lifted since Sept 11; visual flight rules cannot fly into these areas. This is a total joke since the terrorists planes were jumbo jets flying instrument rules, and those are still allowed everywhere.
One of the main problems with voting is that each individual voter doesn't know if their vote was properly counted, and has no recourse if the their vote was miscounted. One reason for this limitation is that the vote is anonymous, so you can't keep track of what happened to your vote. My idea is to give each voter a secret unique identifier randomly generated at the poll. An online database would keep track of which identifier went with what vote. Then, anybody who had doubts about thier vote could look up to see if they were counted properly. If not, they could use thier receipt to petition for a revote. In the event that enough people complained within the deadline, the entire vote would be redone.
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I think its for computer games, mainly Neverwinter Nights, where the player ends the single player game at 20th level...need somewhere for a sequel.
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Apparently the Epic (levels higher than 20) rules D&D are already designed so they have their next cash cow in the bag already. Licensing for D&D and continuing Magic sales will keep them profitable for quite some time, given they don't have any expensive employees anymore.
Its just business. Short-sited myopic business maybe, but not surprising at all. Hasbro is still in business while the much of the competition isnt. The employees can always invent a new game, become hugely popular, and sell out to Hasbro again.
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Hehe, thats a mistake. Ignore it
Accelerating this way, Howe's vessel could reach a speed of 260,000 mph
Faster than light!
Perhaps I should point out the bug: the comment "//check for \" ends with a pre-processor line-entesion character (\), which effective appends the next line onto the current line, thus the code "slashfound=1" is effectively commented out and the next statment (++index) only executes if c=='\'
Back when C++ was new, there was an insidious problem with the syntax that never showed up during compilation.
//check for \ //found one, handle path
if(c=='\')
slashfound=1;
++index;
Code similar to this delayed shipment of a commercial product because it caused serious instability.
To increase altitude in an aircraft, you add power, not pull up. Pulling up slows the aircraft down and decreases altitude.
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
All the people complaining about cable prices confuse me. I have ATT cable for 45 bucks a month and get 1500-3000 Kbps upload, and 256k download. I researched every single alternative, and nothing else comes *close* to this for cost per byte.
Now I am not allowed to put a server on the cable modem, so I have an IDSL line for my server. It costs 70 bucks a month and only gets 144K bps both ways. This is the cheapest thing in the area by far which allowed a server. Upgrading my bps to fractional T1 or full T1 gets exponentially more expensive.
I am annoyed that I don't have the option to pay more for putting a server on my cable line, which I'd gladly do. But on the whole, I am supremely happy with my cable service because I know they could quadruple the cost and they'd still be the best thing available.
Holograms do more than simply stereoscopic 3D. A hologram encodes the entire wavefront of the image, not just two positions like 3d goggles or other cheesy steroscopic devices.
This differences is substantial: the amount of information presented to the eye is vastly larger than simple stereoscopic methods. In a simple stereoscopic image, all objects and surfaces appear to be in the same focus plane. Holographic images essentially gain a 3rd axis of resolution by adding a very large number of focus points in 3 space.
This also allows for true perspective wherein different viewpoints provide different information. You can 'look behind' objects in a hologram, which you cannot do with steroscopic tricks.
Thus, true holograms provide a qualitativly better experience over existing 3d methods.
Even though you have not revealed your algorithm, you have revealed a sufficient imprecision in your understanding of cryptography to have a useful patent.
As pointed out by others, your implication that one-time pad can be broken with 'known plaintext' implies you don't know what a one-time pad is.
Also, you claim you have a 'very large key'. If your algorithm uses a key that is as large as the data being encrypted, then in fact, it is itself a form of one-time pad..right up until you use a key-bit more than once where it necessarily becomes attackable.
You really need to consult a cryptologist about your algorithm before you waste any money on the patent. Many people before you have fallen into the trap of patenting 'unbreakable encryption' which is not.
Its really outrageous to say that being against Microsoft is part of the geek way. Microsoft engineers are as geekie as they get.
They don't get all riled up about freedom and capitalism, they just sit in their offices and write code. They found a benevolent master that will gives them mountain dew and gives them free pizza.
Politics are for liberal arts students, not computer geeks.
I keep looking at the photographs and can't shake the feeling that what we are really seeing is the class project for realistic computer graphics. The car is just too glossy and perfect looking, even inside.
Maybe I'm just getting paranoid, because of this Beetle
Iridium bugs me. I've seen a lot of people claim it failed because of the technology. But this just isn't the case! It *might* have failed based on the technical [de]merits, but it never made it that far.
I know this because I tried to buy an Iridium phone. I spent months and months trying. I tell you they WOULD NOT SELL ME ONE. It was a joke! No resellers had them, and there was no plan. The best I ever did was find a fly-by-night in Taiwan who would sell me a phone, but not a service plan. Who would buy a phone with no service plan?
It was frustrating too, reading their glossy pamphlets and their web sites. They actually gave you (the customer) examples of what type of people would use an Iridium phone. Topping the list was Saudi Oil Sheiks! I'm not kidding! I tried to tell them, im not an oil sheik, but I HAVE MONEY and I want to BUY.
Iridium failed because of internal failures inside the company (and motorola). They got caught up in internal politics and self-absorbsion. Apparently they forget to do marketing and build distribution channels.
Actually, Ford is a monopoly, or was. Notice that you cannot buy a canopy for you Ford from Ford? This is because they were injuncted from doing so.
It was an issue very much like browser integration: Ford decided to integrate a canopy with thier pick-ups, but that would make the aftermarked canopy business obsolete. They sued and won.
Notice that every single story title on the mainpage contains at least one acronym. Are we using jargon to keep our little club elite?
Don't listen to these fools who say you are doomed to fail. You *can* do it, and it won't cost a million dollars. A little imagination and elbow grease and you can do anything.
Just remember that all the naysayers in the world never got a thing done. Just do it. Jump in headlong and get yourself in over your head. That is how you learn to swim, not by wading in the kiddy pool.
Clive Sinclair's C5 from 1985.
The idea was a huge loser then, and its a huge loser now. People will buy cars that do more, not less.
Flaps are unnecessary to fly a plane. The main controls on most planes are direct connections from the controls to the control surface. Some big planes use hydraulics, but they do not require electrical power to operate.
What happens to the motor in the event of lightning strike? A gas engine will not lose power after a lightning strike, but an electric engine would probably be fried.
All large jet transport flights are done "Instrument Flight Rules". This is a procedureal term which means the flight is schedule to follow a certain course and followed by air traffic control radar. The limitation in the TFR zones is that the flight must file an IFR flight plan before being cleared to take off and landing. The jets used by the terrorists DID file an IFR flight plan when they took off because that is standard procedure.
The bottom line is that all the restrictions placed on General Aviation (cessnas, the like) would have done nothing to stop the terrorists on 9/11 had those rules been in place at the time, because jets are exempted from those rules!
It seems that people have not noticed the word "secret" in my post. The vote is still anonymous, since the identifier only matches the vote, not the person who made the vote.
I completely disagree. Most General Aviation pilots are VFR only. The vast majority of IFR flights are for commercial purposes. Your point about flying a "chartered" aircraft is backwards--the chilling effect is on private pilots, not commercial pilots. As you say, IFR (which are mainly commercial) flights havent changed, but VFR has. The outrageous part about the whole thing is that the terrorists used commercial jumbo jets that were flying IFR!
I got my license last july. But since I live near Seattle, I was unable to fly for months because the class B airspace over the area was extended to the ground and required instrument clearance.
I havent flown as Pilot in Command since.
I did however cross the country with my brother who is a commercial pilot, and we both got lots of flak by airport security for just being around the planes (our own plane!) by the FAA security guards. It is quite unpleasant to have to explain to every block-headed idiot in a uniform that yes, that is my plane, yes, I am a pilot yada yada yada.
In order to get a pre-flight briefing, you are required to listen to a statement about suspicious people and terrorism. Its is stupid and inane and a real grind to listen to day in and day out.
When planning our flights, we have to pay special attention to TFRs (temporary flight restrictions) or we can lose our licenses. There are several in the Seattle area which have never been lifted since Sept 11; visual flight rules cannot fly into these areas. This is a total joke since the terrorists planes were jumbo jets flying instrument rules, and those are still allowed everywhere.
One of the main problems with voting is that each individual voter doesn't know if their vote was properly counted, and has no recourse if the their vote was miscounted. One reason for this limitation is that the vote is anonymous, so you can't keep track of what happened to your vote.
My idea is to give each voter a secret unique identifier randomly generated at the poll. An online database would keep track of which identifier went with what vote. Then, anybody who had doubts about thier vote could look up to see if they were counted properly. If not, they could use thier receipt to petition for a revote. In the event that enough people complained within the deadline, the entire vote would be redone.
I think its for computer games, mainly Neverwinter Nights, where the player ends the single player game at 20th level...need somewhere for a sequel.
Apparently the Epic (levels higher than 20) rules D&D are already designed so they have their next cash cow in the bag already. Licensing for D&D and continuing Magic sales will keep them profitable for quite some time, given they don't have any expensive employees anymore.
Its just business. Short-sited myopic business maybe, but not surprising at all. Hasbro is still in business while the much of the competition isnt. The employees can always invent a new game, become hugely popular, and sell out to Hasbro again.