As a matter of fact, if I understand this correctly, it's just a more efficient and faster way to search for something. So if you have any database, you could implement this search alg. for any plaintext data, or, depending on the implementation, any data at all. Not sure if it would be realistically feasible for some real-world app, but it's an idea.
How is it anti-MS? Have you ever used XP Pro as an admin? I do on my and my parents' machines. There is the Administrator account that I have access to, and then there's the regular user accounts. When putting in accounts for everyone on my parents' machine I had to manually change each user to a regular user, unless I wanted them to be an administrator. Such blatant pro-MS posts like this make me wonder how you learned to input a password.
Hmmmm, that would require the PCs to be networked, and communicating with each other almost constatntly IIRC. Plus, you don't truly get a factor of 4 increase when using networked computers unless your network is as fast or faster than the clock of your memory.
Not saying you're wrong, but from what I understand each of those problems was a specific idiosyncracy in either the driver or the hardware. Since they were (respectively) for a company's whole line of cards, I think it was an issue with the way they programmed their drivers. Probably nVidia could have fixed the first problem (skins not showing up) with a driver update if Valve did it in an industry-standard sort of way. The problem comes with the fact that stuff comes out "optimized" for a particular vendor's card and it includes non-standard graphics implementation.
Now, I know this may be a case of Valve extending the OpenGL spec cause it didn't do everything they wanted, but you saying that Valve has done this crap before (with no proof that it *was* Valve's fault) doesn't hold any water.
The reason I was going to play was because there was supposed to be so much to do. I will let it mature at least 6 months or so before playing it because it is so lacking at the moment. They promised the universe and have only delivered a fraction so far.
Besides, the point of a Star Wars galaxy is for you to be able to do Star Wars type stuff, bot play EverCrack in a different setting.
I understand you like the interacting and stuff, and don't mind the missing pieces, but many, if not most, people do mind.
The point is, you label it "encryption" in the program's help files and such, and say "under no circumstances should you open these files without our program or bad things will happen" it's a legal form of "encryption" by obfuscation, as far as the US gov is concerned.
I second this. Fucked a large portion of my MP3 collection before I decided to actually look at what the program was dong. Last time I use something without testing it.
I think I said that before, hopefully I won't say it again...
Just an aside about the last part of your post. I'm not entirely sure what crypto scheme and such Freenet uses, but sometimes the algorithm, if known, can be used to determine that 2 keys were made on the same machine, or by the same user, but it would only be about as reliable as a woman finding a short brown hair on her husband's shirt and assume it belonged to their young child with short, brown hair. And I'm not talking about comparing the hair's DNA either.
Absolutely correct. And I'd rather just download the code each time it's updated off the newsgroups anyways, since they change it every once in a while anyways.
I hope you're not saying that people in the US restrain themselves for spending loads of money on 'gadgets' because people in the US do more than in other countries for the most part, since tech seems to be cheaper in many other countries, most especially Japan and Hong Kong and those areas.
I don't see why they're making all these "all in one" devices. I want a cell phone that calls people, and maybe has SMS. I want an MP3 player that stores and plays MP3 files. I want a PDA that does all the stuff you want a PDA for. I want a digital camera by itself for the obvious reason that the ones built into phones, PDA's, etc, generally suck.
I want a few simple devices that each do their own thing and do it well. I want a PDA I can actually use, not one shaped like a phone. And I want a phone shaped like a phone, not like a PDA. And I want to leave my MP3 player in the car so I don't lose it accidentally.
I really don't get this kick on all in one devices when most of them are pretty crappy, and you have to skimp on at least one of the functions every time. I'd rather have a few devices that all work and are uncomplicated.
I have a Kenwood head unit from 2000, and it has RCA jacks on the back. Couple that with a headphone -> RCA cable that comes with most CD players and MP3 players, and you're all set. And it's not like it was the top of the line Kenwood at the time, either. It cost me about $180 installed. This was only because the previous owner of the car (my dad) had "accidentally" ripped out a bunch of the speaker wire when the old stereo died on him. You can probably get the same head unit (which has support for a CD changer) for about $70 right now, it was $90 when I looked about 6 months or so ago.
the term "encryption" literally means to make a message hard to read and disguising it's contents. This is from a book all about cryptography (Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier, one of the better boks on the subject).
In essence the people you talked to were talking about a one-way hash. You can think of it as an MD5 checksum. Running a checksum merely shows you that it's the same file, bit for bit, that it should be. But, you can't get the original file from the checksum.
Anybody that truly knows much about cryptography knows that trying to protect your info totally is so much crap. You can only make it hard enough that spending the time and money to decipher it costs too much to be worthwhile. Such as encrypting the next week's sales prices at Target in an encryption scheme that couldn't be cracked in the time before you released the prices yourself. Now I could go on, but I know I've already said too much on the subject.
I went to the Max Payne movie site linked, went to a link off of http://www.maxpaynehero.com/download.html and it sent me to a link for an Anachronox movie. That movie wasn't too bad, but I wanted Max Payne and was confused. I finally found it though.
Except you are totally wrong. A computerclub encompasses Windows, Linux, BSD, etc while keeping the focus that you're using a computer. Most people who would see the name "Computer Club" and consider joining like doing things with computers. Yes, that's general, but I haven't found a single person interested in computers who doesn't at least cross my interests somewhere. So not everyone wants to learn linux today, not everyone has to show up. You'll get some floaters who are there once in a while but the average "computer geek" is interested in many aspects of computers and wants to learn and do more, no matter what the project.
I changed the wallpaper on a Win95 comp and almost got thrown out of school. Thing is they had a program called FoolProof that shoulda stopped it. FoolProof just isn't, though. Luckily I was taken in as someone to help with security instead when I showed them how to prevent it and a few other things I had found.
My point was that he said "top of the line" which I took to mean the best processors. Which would add to the cost to the tune of about $1200-1400 or so (the link you had doesn't even give the best processor, just the 242). That's still only $3800-4000, about $1000 shy of what I said. I still don't think anyone would buy that for anything less than a server, though.
Didn't you see the price points they were giving? the CPUs alone for that would be almost $20000, the board would probably be at least $300, with no AGP slot (Opteron boards aren't supposed to have them since they're servers), and then you have to think about memory, video network, hard drives, etc, etc. I'd imagine it would be hard to outfit a multi-proc Opteron for much les than $5000.
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You have to login with the Administrator password to use Recovery Console IIRC.
Oh, and it's MS so make sure you Capitalize Everything They Make.
As a matter of fact, if I understand this correctly, it's just a more efficient and faster way to search for something. So if you have any database, you could implement this search alg. for any plaintext data, or, depending on the implementation, any data at all. Not sure if it would be realistically feasible for some real-world app, but it's an idea.
How is it anti-MS? Have you ever used XP Pro as an admin? I do on my and my parents' machines. There is the Administrator account that I have access to, and then there's the regular user accounts. When putting in accounts for everyone on my parents' machine I had to manually change each user to a regular user, unless I wanted them to be an administrator. Such blatant pro-MS posts like this make me wonder how you learned to input a password.
Hmmmm, that would require the PCs to be networked, and communicating with each other almost constatntly IIRC. Plus, you don't truly get a factor of 4 increase when using networked computers unless your network is as fast or faster than the clock of your memory.
This just in: The upcoming Duke Nukem Forever game has been retitled "Half-Life 2"
Not saying you're wrong, but from what I understand each of those problems was a specific idiosyncracy in either the driver or the hardware. Since they were (respectively) for a company's whole line of cards, I think it was an issue with the way they programmed their drivers. Probably nVidia could have fixed the first problem (skins not showing up) with a driver update if Valve did it in an industry-standard sort of way. The problem comes with the fact that stuff comes out "optimized" for a particular vendor's card and it includes non-standard graphics implementation.
Now, I know this may be a case of Valve extending the OpenGL spec cause it didn't do everything they wanted, but you saying that Valve has done this crap before (with no proof that it *was* Valve's fault) doesn't hold any water.
The reason I was going to play was because there was supposed to be so much to do. I will let it mature at least 6 months or so before playing it because it is so lacking at the moment. They promised the universe and have only delivered a fraction so far.
Besides, the point of a Star Wars galaxy is for you to be able to do Star Wars type stuff, bot play EverCrack in a different setting.
I understand you like the interacting and stuff, and don't mind the missing pieces, but many, if not most, people do mind.
The point is, you label it "encryption" in the program's help files and such, and say "under no circumstances should you open these files without our program or bad things will happen" it's a legal form of "encryption" by obfuscation, as far as the US gov is concerned.
Way to contribute. I almost spit milk out through my nose when I saw this post :)
I second this. Fucked a large portion of my MP3 collection before I decided to actually look at what the program was dong. Last time I use something without testing it.
I think I said that before, hopefully I won't say it again...
If you don't use Winamp what do you use?
And if you say something that runs on Linux, then fuck off saying "who uses winamp anymore" because many windows users still use it.
And I agree with another poster, I still use the old version of winamp, not 3.
Just an aside about the last part of your post. I'm not entirely sure what crypto scheme and such Freenet uses, but sometimes the algorithm, if known, can be used to determine that 2 keys were made on the same machine, or by the same user, but it would only be about as reliable as a woman finding a short brown hair on her husband's shirt and assume it belonged to their young child with short, brown hair. And I'm not talking about comparing the hair's DNA either.
I may be blind, and probably get modded down for this, but how is this trolling? It seems he's relaying an anecdote of sorts.
Absolutely correct. And I'd rather just download the code each time it's updated off the newsgroups anyways, since they change it every once in a while anyways.
So much for your sig. You're responding to an AC.
I hope you're not saying that people in the US restrain themselves for spending loads of money on 'gadgets' because people in the US do more than in other countries for the most part, since tech seems to be cheaper in many other countries, most especially Japan and Hong Kong and those areas.
I thought he meant coffee and beer, but I didn't read the post too thoroughly. Never heard of warm milk going with pizza.
I don't see why they're making all these "all in one" devices. I want a cell phone that calls people, and maybe has SMS. I want an MP3 player that stores and plays MP3 files. I want a PDA that does all the stuff you want a PDA for. I want a digital camera by itself for the obvious reason that the ones built into phones, PDA's, etc, generally suck.
I want a few simple devices that each do their own thing and do it well. I want a PDA I can actually use, not one shaped like a phone. And I want a phone shaped like a phone, not like a PDA. And I want to leave my MP3 player in the car so I don't lose it accidentally.
I really don't get this kick on all in one devices when most of them are pretty crappy, and you have to skimp on at least one of the functions every time. I'd rather have a few devices that all work and are uncomplicated.
I have a Kenwood head unit from 2000, and it has RCA jacks on the back. Couple that with a headphone -> RCA cable that comes with most CD players and MP3 players, and you're all set. And it's not like it was the top of the line Kenwood at the time, either. It cost me about $180 installed. This was only because the previous owner of the car (my dad) had "accidentally" ripped out a bunch of the speaker wire when the old stereo died on him. You can probably get the same head unit (which has support for a CD changer) for about $70 right now, it was $90 when I looked about 6 months or so ago.
the term "encryption" literally means to make a message hard to read and disguising it's contents. This is from a book all about cryptography (Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier, one of the better boks on the subject).
In essence the people you talked to were talking about a one-way hash. You can think of it as an MD5 checksum. Running a checksum merely shows you that it's the same file, bit for bit, that it should be. But, you can't get the original file from the checksum.
Anybody that truly knows much about cryptography knows that trying to protect your info totally is so much crap. You can only make it hard enough that spending the time and money to decipher it costs too much to be worthwhile. Such as encrypting the next week's sales prices at Target in an encryption scheme that couldn't be cracked in the time before you released the prices yourself. Now I could go on, but I know I've already said too much on the subject.
By the way, you spelled placebo right.
I went to the Max Payne movie site linked, went to a link off of http://www.maxpaynehero.com/download.html and it sent me to a link for an Anachronox movie. That movie wasn't too bad, but I wanted Max Payne and was confused. I finally found it though.
Except you are totally wrong. A computerclub encompasses Windows, Linux, BSD, etc while keeping the focus that you're using a computer. Most people who would see the name "Computer Club" and consider joining like doing things with computers. Yes, that's general, but I haven't found a single person interested in computers who doesn't at least cross my interests somewhere. So not everyone wants to learn linux today, not everyone has to show up. You'll get some floaters who are there once in a while but the average "computer geek" is interested in many aspects of computers and wants to learn and do more, no matter what the project.
I changed the wallpaper on a Win95 comp and almost got thrown out of school. Thing is they had a program called FoolProof that shoulda stopped it. FoolProof just isn't, though. Luckily I was taken in as someone to help with security instead when I showed them how to prevent it and a few other things I had found.
My point was that he said "top of the line" which I took to mean the best processors. Which would add to the cost to the tune of about $1200-1400 or so (the link you had doesn't even give the best processor, just the 242). That's still only $3800-4000, about $1000 shy of what I said. I still don't think anyone would buy that for anything less than a server, though.
Didn't you see the price points they were giving? the CPUs alone for that would be almost $20000, the board would probably be at least $300, with no AGP slot (Opteron boards aren't supposed to have them since they're servers), and then you have to think about memory, video network, hard drives, etc, etc. I'd imagine it would be hard to outfit a multi-proc Opteron for much les than $5000.