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  1. Hydrogen goes boom. on Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft == Anti-Terrorist Device? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Hydrogen is not safe to use as a fuel(when they use them in the outer edges of warheads to give them an extra kick, you know it is explosive.) It is way too dangerous. Now if they put compressed hydrogen toward the front of the WTC and then crashed it into the building, we would see a major boom.

  2. Multiple cases on How Feasible is a Cash-Less Society? · · Score: 0

    sin(pi*X/(n*2) can equal 1 or -1

    if 1, sin(pi*x/(2*n)+sin(pi*n/2) must equal 2, 1, or 0.

    if -1, it must equal -2, -1, or 0. These are the only possibilities. Thanks.

  3. Re:I need this simplified. Need help. more on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 0

    No problem. I took 2 years of calculus and still can't do it. I might be able to if I thought about it but I really didn't want to derive it myself.

    Thanks anyways.

  4. Need help. Math. Offtopic. on How Feasible is a Cash-Less Society? · · Score: 0

    Here's what we go.

    Sin(pi*X/2*N) must equal -1

    Sin(Pi*x/(2*n) + sin(pi*n/2) must equal 0

    N only exists between 1 && X

    I don't care about 1 or X as the answers. I care about the numbers betweeen 1 && X.

    Anybody who can give me a sure fire equation would be helpful.

  5. Re:I need this simplified. Need help. more on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 0

    I found the problem to your solution. 1 will always be an answer but it is not the only answer between 0 && X. I don't care about that answer, I want the other ones.

    Anybody else capable of figuring this one out?

  6. Re:I need this simplified. Need help. more on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 0

    You are not getting me. X is a constant. N is derivable, via. moving. N only exists between 0 & X so X must stay in the formula. The height of sin(pi*x/(n*2)=-1 & sin(pi*n/2) must = 1 so that something like X=91, we get 7 or 11 and no other values work. Thanks.

  7. Re:I need this simplified. Need help. Offtopic on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 0

    Read below. sin(pi*x/2*n) must equal -1 and be between 0 & X. Thanks anyways. otherwise, you will get .66666 and -.66666 at the top and bottom if you take the square root. I did what you did. That's easy.

  8. Re:I need this simplified. Need help. more again on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 0

    Another thought. N>=0 && n=X. Anybody know of sure fire way of doing this keeping X in the problem and solving for N, keeping N in the form of a sine wave within that closed interval.

    Again,

    Anybody who wants to help me, thanks.

  9. Re:I need this simplified. Need help. more on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 0

    Oh, I also forgot sin(pi*x/(2*n))=-1

    Please help, thanks.

  10. I need this simplified. Need help. Offtopic on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 0

    X=constant
    n=derivable variable

    sin(pi*x/(2*n))+sin(pi*n/2)=0

    If anybody knows how to simplify this, it would be very helpful. Thanks.

  11. Re:Bow Down ... never on Managing Open Source Projects · · Score: 0

    It will be CPU proned. Calculation after calculation for like 10 minutes or so.

  12. Re:You don't know what you are talking about on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 0

    Blah blah blah. Missing the point is what you are good at says Yoda. We never said anything about speed. We never said it had to be fast, we said it had to work. If you put an encryption on top of an encryption, just doing that fact has made it ten times harder to decrypt because you are trying to decrypt the encryption of an encrypted file. 50K is extreme and outrageous. It would take forever to decrypt but if it is 50k different encryptions and you know which order they came in, you can pretty much guarantee the enemies spies are not going to use it. Computers are fast enough to encrypt something four or five times with different encryptions. Some of those encryptions could require keys, some would not. If you don't understand this, you should stay on something you understand. Multiple algorithms encrypting the same file make it harder to decrypt since you have nothing to fall back on.

    You could encrypt it once with a good algorithm and it won't be broken for years. It will be eventually broken. Plug a code on top of a code and now they are just guessing.. Your code would be broken before mine. Give it enough time. Encrypting one time is sufficient for mainstream communication but if you want true security, it is not good enough.

  13. Re:Bow Down ... never on Managing Open Source Projects · · Score: 0

    *krenek* What is a krenek. It'll run on BeOS if you wanted it too. It will run any and all OSes with GCC or C compiler. I have an old program I wrote about 6 months ago that is very CPU bound. As soon as I find it, I'll give you the URL.

  14. Re:Bow Down ... never on Managing Open Source Projects · · Score: 0

    ANSI C means it will run any processor in existence if the computer has a compiler supports ANSI C. Basically, it means an ugly command line unless you want it to be done in QT(for GUI) which would take more time then I'm willing to spend. I'll write one in a day or two when I have time.

  15. Re:Bow Down ... never on Managing Open Source Projects · · Score: 0

    Your point being ... This is beyond my point. My point being is that I write the program give you a URL of a location to download it. You get a C compiler. You compile it yourself and we'll compare benchmarks of execution time. Very simple. Same code.

    I know a little bit of Java myself but no one in their right mind would use a Java benchmark.

  16. Re:Muslims and Islam is the enemy. on Ultima 1 Remade & Reborn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ever heard of freedom of religion? Other countries may not have it but America does. We are above burning Mosques if they are not breaking the law. Not every Muslim is going to bomb the WTC or torture Christians, Buddhists, etc. It is not going to happen. I'm not muslim but I have friends who are Muslim and they are nice for the most part. You can't just categorize an entire group by the actions of a few. Every other religious organizations have did similiar things throughout their lifetimes and we don't judge them because they pillaged a villiage in the fourth century. Get over it. If it is every single one of them, it would be different, but it is not.

  17. Re:WTC terrorists == airline security consultants on Apple Cancels Apple Expo 2001 · · Score: 0

    Depends really. In WWII, Japan would've fought to the very last man. We would've had to wipe out Japan before the war was over. Nuking them prevented millions of American soldiers and an entire civilization from being destroyed. Sometimes the most gruesome decision is the best one but this is rarely the case.

  18. Re:Bow Down ... never on Managing Open Source Projects · · Score: 0

    I mean execution time. I write a ANSI C program that takes a relatively large time to complete, we both give the specs of our computer and we execute it and see whose computer runs faster. I know C quite well. Are we on?

  19. Re:OSS _is_ not for business use! on Managing Open Source Projects · · Score: 0

    It is due to the lack of good servers(drivers in the windows worlds). It happens on any and all operating systems and is pretty rare. I can run Quake3 for days on end before it crashes. I think it is because I have my computer overclocked. Anyways, when the manufacturer is not providing the server, you are naturally more likely to have problems. End of story. It is not frequent and only happens on my video card. I can keep windows 98 up only about 1 hour and 2000 up about 5 or 6 weeks without hardware problems and linux up for years so you have a bad arguement.

  20. Re:Bow Down ... never on Managing Open Source Projects · · Score: 0

    Photoshop is NOT a real world test since they are not using the same code. PPC sucks!!! It is overpriced and still does not give the Umph I need.

    If you want a fast chip, go buy an Alpha Processor.

    the Intel CPU is crippled by runing Windows or
    Linux.
    Well, I'll agree with Windows statement but Linux, no way. Linux has true multitasking and only requires about two megs to get up and running. Mac OS X also has true multitasking but takes something like 128M to get up. Tell me, which one do you think I would buy. PowerPC sucks.

    But to make things interesting, let's write some C code and see who gets done faster. Reply to this if you want to have a contest. I'll make the rules.

  21. Re:Bow Down ... never on Managing Open Source Projects · · Score: 0

    How much would it cost you? You can buy 256 meg ram chips for a PC for like $17 bucks a piece. It would cost you only like $68 in a PC. Not much money.

    Real benchmarks? I have yet to see a real benchmark that proves a 300 mhz PowerPC 604e can do floating point calculations as fast 500Mhz PIII. I've used both. I don't see it. Do not give me a adobe photoshop benchmark. Photoshop has been optimized for the Mac where it hasn't for the PC so it is an unfair benchmark.

  22. Re:Bow Down ... never on Managing Open Source Projects · · Score: 0

    I have 1024 megs in a machine at home in an Athlon. Ha Ha Ha. I tied. I remember talking to my brother in like 1993 about having a gig of ram. We knew we would reach it but this was in the days that a 4 MB stick cost $200. We thought it would be a big deal. Now that I have it, it really isn't that big of a deal

  23. Re:OSS _is_ not for business use! on Managing Open Source Projects · · Score: 0

    It is also cheaper and more compatible then other versions of Linux. Meant to say Unix. It is a consumer OS and is meant to be cheap and versatile.

  24. Re:OSS _is_ not for business use! on Managing Open Source Projects · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The only time Linux has ever crashed on me is when I'm accessing low-level parts of the hardware. I can run Linux for years as a server without problems. It makes an excellent server. Ten times better then win2k. More versatile. It is also cheaper and more compatible then other versions of Linux. The payoff is excellent.

  25. Re:Steve Jobs keeps his promise on Apple Cancels Apple Expo 2001 · · Score: 0

    I said support Linux, not run Linux. Steve Jobs will never support Linux. "Steve Jobs will never run Linux" means he will never support it not that the Mac can't run Linux. Learn the difference.