What we're comparing is, in this instance, two Webmail applications. One is implemented as a number of Perl-based CGI scripts. The other is written using AJAX.
But surely you can understand where all the confusion (and hostility) is coming from surrounding all your posts. You seem to be referring to AJAX as some sort of encompassing language and application framework on both client and server. An AJAX application could quite easily be Perl-based CGI scripts on the server side too.
I'm not saying you're wrong that thus far in practice AJAX applications require more server-side resources. For example perhaps what would conventionally be handled by a single request is handled by N XMLRPC calls, and so the overhead of a request (which includes gathering session data and authenticating) is done N times. But this isn't a fundamental property of AJAX.
Also, aside from the hidden iframe trick (which remains fringe), the whole asynchronous web app paradigm is still fairly young, and there is plenty to be learned. I'm happy to believe that AJAX amplifies bad programming and bad design, and since the overwhelming majority of programmers suck -- and sucky programmers tend to be the early adopters, while the experienced software engineers are far more skeptical and conservative -- we are inundated with garbage AJAX webapps, and therefore the (naive) conclusion to be drawn is that AJAX sucks. But I think that's premature.
This bug, if you want to call it that, has been fixed. In recent gtk (which is included in FC6), the location bar is again integrated into the file dialog.
Microsoft wants a piece of this action! And they are going to fail, because Apple has a huge ecosystem of hardware, software, accessories, and ever car makers putting iPod interfaces in!
Not to mention the reams of users that are vendor-locked to Apple due to DRM. I find the irony quite delicious that Microsoft, high profile DRM proponent, will, I expect, fail with the Zune because of the very technology they endorse, which in this case happens to lock people to Apple.
At 4KB/s, I'm willing to bet you're using GPRS and not HSDPA (or even EDGE). The announcement says this is for 3G networks. Cingular does have an HDSPA network (though I have no idea how good it is or what the coverage is).
I disagree that it doesn't matter. It depends on the areas of comp sci you want to get into. Cryptography? Signal processing? I say take as much math as you can.
Linear algebra and discrete math - mandatory for any computer science student IMHO.
Probability and statistics - my least favorite math, but important to know the basics.
Abstract algebra - cryptography
Numerical analysis - makes you see all the math you've been doing from an algorithmic perspective; I found it very enlightening.
Real and complex analysis - signal processing. I've been interested in video compression over the last couple of years, and I desperately wish I had paid more attention to this class (and took more of it) in school.
Children need to be protected from death and serious injury. They don't need to be protected from filing a lawsuit against someone who is watching them because the child falls down.
This isn't about protecting the children. It's the schools covering their own asses from lawsuit-happy soccer moms who who are looking to blame someone when their child falls off the teeter-totter. This ban on tag is retarded, but not nearly as retarded as some of the moronic lawsuits I've seen not just filed, but won. I am sympathetic with the schools here.
The unofficial news is that it's progressing, but slowly, as dischi (the other core developer) and I have day jobs and little time. Story of every OSS developer's life. We're looking to release a preview before the end of the year. (dischi says late October but I'm thinking early December.)
But we have set the bar pretty high. In terms of eye candy, we hope not to disappoint. (Although we'll need someone with artistic talent to do a nice theme once the canvas engine is ironed out.) For some preliminary eye candy (which is not what the final product will look like), see this video.
I can't really tell for sure, but it sounds to me like you're suggesting that decoding flac takes appreciably less memory than decoding mp3 (and that as a result, your system will perform better). Or was your second paragraph completely tangential to your first and third paragraphs?
Without digging out my copy of Practical Cryptography, CBC also suffers the same flaw or similar flaw as ECB.
It all depends on the IV. If you use a fixed IV, then CBC has the same problem as ECB for the first block. For a strong IV, I believe CBC should be strong. For encrypted filesystems, it may well be that there's no good way to generate an IV that's safe to use with CBC. I do recall dmcrypt implementing ESSIV to thwart watermarking attacks, but there may be other kind of information leakage and it happens that for disk encryption there's no great way to choose an IV that is secure with CBC.
It's been a while since I've looked into this stuff. I hadn't known aobut LRW but I'll have to read up on it. Thanks.
That's SOUTH Korea. In North Korea, only Kim Jong-Il uses email.
He's got a good reason to use email though, what with being so ronery.
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And, why do we encrypt one small block at a time. Each encrypted file usually gives many independent chances to crack the key, and in many cases, some of those blocks have known data.
They're only independent if you use ECB, and anyone using ECB deserves what they get. Cipher modes like CBC or CTR solve these problems.
Not that it really matters much -- they both yield the same result when all is said and done.
Unless it was edited at 30fps and then inverse telecined before mastered to DVD, which seems to happen a lot, the result of which is that you run into broken telecine patterns which even the smartest pullup filters aren't able to lock onto. Veronica Mars seems to suffer from this considerably. It drives me batty.
Another problem is if it's mixed interlaced/progressive. The first few seasons of 24 were mainly progressive but had interlaced bits thrown in (like during the opening sequences where they introduce the characters and their names whirl across the screen). The best you can do is treat it as progressive and use a filter that tries to guess if a frame is actually two interlaced fields and deinterlace it -- but even in that case it's going to have jerky motion during the interlaced bits. Or worse, mixed interlaced, broken telecine, and progressive. You're pretty screwed in that case. I just want 5 minutes in a room alone with people who produce these broken DVDs.
As Carlin so aptly said: I don't have pet peeves, I have major psychotic fucking hatreds.
When DVDs first came out, almost all the widescreen DVDs were non-anamorphic. Thankfully nowadays the situation isn't as bad and most almost all widescreen DVDs are anamorphic. But yeah, every now and then you still run into one of those buggers. I was seriously annoyed when I picked up season 6 of Buffy to discover that not only did they not bother to cut Once More With Feeling with DD5.1 audio, but it was also nonanamorphic widescreen. Grrr indeed!
The vast majority of movies on DVD are indeed ~24p. Occasionally you will come across mixed telecined and progressive (often enough with broken telecine patterns), and also occasionally mixed interlaced and progressive (truly, truly evil), but rarely are they completely telecined. I'm quite skeptical that all the DVDs you've ripped from your collection are hard telecined (but I suppose it's possible if your collection is primarily non-mainstream films).
As I understand it, in my jurisidiction (Canada), the typical payout is around $1000 for every day you are unjustly incarcerated. People who are winning Miscarriage of Justice suits are in some cases getting millions. I personally think that's a bit on the low side, but at least it's some acknowledgement that they fucked up.
For clearly bullshit arrests, especially ones that are so public, I think you should be eligible for similar damages, but I do think $1000/hour is quite excessive. I believe the guy is entitled to some restitution, but let's also remember that we (fellow taxpayers) are the ones paying for it. It's in everyone's interests to come up with a reasonable figure.
Israel believes their enemy has taken base in civilian locations. Perhaps Israel should just toss in the towel? "We'd like to bomb our enemies but, crap, they're living in grandma's basement. Guess we concede." Instead, they seem to be making an effort to tell civilians to get the hell out of dodge because the bombs will soon be dropping.
Yeah, it sure sucks for the families in Lebanon who likely don't really have anywhere else to go. Innocents are dying on both sides of the border and it's terrible. But it's pretty bold -- and, from what I've seen at least, wrong -- to say that Israel "doesn't actually try to avoid civilian casualties."
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Depends on the location. Some stores will push a service charge if the purchase is under a certain amount (usually $5.00).
But surely you can understand where all the confusion (and hostility) is coming from surrounding all your posts. You seem to be referring to AJAX as some sort of encompassing language and application framework on both client and server. An AJAX application could quite easily be Perl-based CGI scripts on the server side too.
I'm not saying you're wrong that thus far in practice AJAX applications require more server-side resources. For example perhaps what would conventionally be handled by a single request is handled by N XMLRPC calls, and so the overhead of a request (which includes gathering session data and authenticating) is done N times. But this isn't a fundamental property of AJAX.
Also, aside from the hidden iframe trick (which remains fringe), the whole asynchronous web app paradigm is still fairly young, and there is plenty to be learned. I'm happy to believe that AJAX amplifies bad programming and bad design, and since the overwhelming majority of programmers suck -- and sucky programmers tend to be the early adopters, while the experienced software engineers are far more skeptical and conservative -- we are inundated with garbage AJAX webapps, and therefore the (naive) conclusion to be drawn is that AJAX sucks. But I think that's premature.
Damn. I need to make every effort to work "super hyper-relative process optimization" into my next departmental meeting. It's genius.
This bug, if you want to call it that, has been fixed. In recent gtk (which is included in FC6), the location bar is again integrated into the file dialog.
GP is talking about h264.
It had me interested until I read "perforce."
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
Not to mention the reams of users that are vendor-locked to Apple due to DRM. I find the irony quite delicious that Microsoft, high profile DRM proponent, will, I expect, fail with the Zune because of the very technology they endorse, which in this case happens to lock people to Apple.
At 4KB/s, I'm willing to bet you're using GPRS and not HSDPA (or even EDGE). The announcement says this is for 3G networks. Cingular does have an HDSPA network (though I have no idea how good it is or what the coverage is).
Yes, but to my knowledge (and the article you linked to didn't seem to indicate differently), there is still a tariff on blank media.
This is certainly counter to my experience. Do cat > C:\foo.txt in one window, and in another window:
Hmm, looks suspiciously like you're full of shit.
The unofficial news is that it's progressing, but slowly, as dischi (the other core developer) and I have day jobs and little time. Story of every OSS developer's life. We're looking to release a preview before the end of the year. (dischi says late October but I'm thinking early December.)
But we have set the bar pretty high. In terms of eye candy, we hope not to disappoint. (Although we'll need someone with artistic talent to do a nice theme once the canvas engine is ironed out.) For some preliminary eye candy (which is not what the final product will look like), see this video.
I can't really tell for sure, but it sounds to me like you're suggesting that decoding flac takes appreciably less memory than decoding mp3 (and that as a result, your system will perform better). Or was your second paragraph completely tangential to your first and third paragraphs?
It all depends on the IV. If you use a fixed IV, then CBC has the same problem as ECB for the first block. For a strong IV, I believe CBC should be strong. For encrypted filesystems, it may well be that there's no good way to generate an IV that's safe to use with CBC. I do recall dmcrypt implementing ESSIV to thwart watermarking attacks, but there may be other kind of information leakage and it happens that for disk encryption there's no great way to choose an IV that is secure with CBC.
It's been a while since I've looked into this stuff. I hadn't known aobut LRW but I'll have to read up on it. Thanks.
He's got a good reason to use email though, what with being so ronery.
They're only independent if you use ECB, and anyone using ECB deserves what they get. Cipher modes like CBC or CTR solve these problems.
Unless it was edited at 30fps and then inverse telecined before mastered to DVD, which seems to happen a lot, the result of which is that you run into broken telecine patterns which even the smartest pullup filters aren't able to lock onto. Veronica Mars seems to suffer from this considerably. It drives me batty.
Another problem is if it's mixed interlaced/progressive. The first few seasons of 24 were mainly progressive but had interlaced bits thrown in (like during the opening sequences where they introduce the characters and their names whirl across the screen). The best you can do is treat it as progressive and use a filter that tries to guess if a frame is actually two interlaced fields and deinterlace it -- but even in that case it's going to have jerky motion during the interlaced bits. Or worse, mixed interlaced, broken telecine, and progressive. You're pretty screwed in that case. I just want 5 minutes in a room alone with people who produce these broken DVDs.
As Carlin so aptly said: I don't have pet peeves, I have major psychotic fucking hatreds.
When DVDs first came out, almost all the widescreen DVDs were non-anamorphic. Thankfully nowadays the situation isn't as bad and most almost all widescreen DVDs are anamorphic. But yeah, every now and then you still run into one of those buggers. I was seriously annoyed when I picked up season 6 of Buffy to discover that not only did they not bother to cut Once More With Feeling with DD5.1 audio, but it was also nonanamorphic widescreen. Grrr indeed!
The vast majority of movies on DVD are indeed ~24p. Occasionally you will come across mixed telecined and progressive (often enough with broken telecine patterns), and also occasionally mixed interlaced and progressive (truly, truly evil), but rarely are they completely telecined. I'm quite skeptical that all the DVDs you've ripped from your collection are hard telecined (but I suppose it's possible if your collection is primarily non-mainstream films).
As I understand it, in my jurisidiction (Canada), the typical payout is around $1000 for every day you are unjustly incarcerated. People who are winning Miscarriage of Justice suits are in some cases getting millions. I personally think that's a bit on the low side, but at least it's some acknowledgement that they fucked up.
For clearly bullshit arrests, especially ones that are so public, I think you should be eligible for similar damages, but I do think $1000/hour is quite excessive. I believe the guy is entitled to some restitution, but let's also remember that we (fellow taxpayers) are the ones paying for it. It's in everyone's interests to come up with a reasonable figure.
Download audacity and recreate it. I assume it's just a sine wave at about 15KHz.
Really?
Israel believes their enemy has taken base in civilian locations. Perhaps Israel should just toss in the towel? "We'd like to bomb our enemies but, crap, they're living in grandma's basement. Guess we concede." Instead, they seem to be making an effort to tell civilians to get the hell out of dodge because the bombs will soon be dropping.
Yeah, it sure sucks for the families in Lebanon who likely don't really have anywhere else to go. Innocents are dying on both sides of the border and it's terrible. But it's pretty bold -- and, from what I've seen at least, wrong -- to say that Israel "doesn't actually try to avoid civilian casualties."
What things did she have to do on Windows as admin that she was able to do on Linux as non-root?