Well, you may be a yungin', but I rememeber a day not too long ago where copyright protection only stood on technical merit, eg. the bad guys didn't have an advantage over the good guys. A couple years ago, this definitely was not a "well duh".
If you use shutter glasses to display Quake in 3D, then 147fps total = 73.5fps for each eye, which is clearly below the magical number of 85hz refresh that we all love and need.
(now try to find a monitor with a 170hz refresh rate)
Do you have any references to support your assertion that RSA isn't used in the XBOX, and that RC5 is? Because, so far, all the links I've seen (namely the one I gave in my earlier post) primarily mention RSA.
RSA is currently providing monitary awards for groups who can crack a larger RSA key than has been cracked before. Here's a quote from the FAQ associated with that contest:
To date, the largest number of this type to be factored is 512 bits. It was factored in 1999 as part of the previous RSA Factoring Challenge, which this challenge replaces. See the announcement for information about this factorization. The 576-bit value is likely to be factored in the next year or so,
And, on some level, they have a very good point about products of research that are released under the GPL.
So there's value for a variety of licenses. Which is good, because we have a lot of 'em.
Use BSD when the majority of time spent was in coming up with the requirements/design. Use GPL when the majority of time spent was in coming up with the implmentation.
There are a couple reasons to favor Honads/Toyotas over less established brands. Because they're more established and well known, you're more likely to get a higher resale value for those cars (though things can always change given 5 years). Also, toyota and honda in particular try very very hard to get top spots in consumer satisfaction surveys since they're neck-and-neck elsewhere, so if something really major goes wrong with those cars, even if the warranty has run out, you can get them to replace it on their dime because they don't want to lose you and your friends' loyalty.
Not that Honda/Toyota/other established brands are by any means necessarily the best, just that brand recognition can factor into a buyer's decision, and there's no reason to poo-poo that.
Ha. The first couple chapters of the book read like the start to 2001: A Space Odyssey, eg. all the events leading up the Port Chicago explosion, starting with the big bang. And then he has the gall to say things like this:
Most of the comprehensive data and analyses of those data that are
available in Government Port Chicago explosion records are
extraneous to the purpose of this book and will not be considered.
Sections of available Port Chicago explosion records, for example, that
precisely detail and mathematically dissect the "Percentage of plaster
damage to total houses damaged" and the "Frequency distribution of
number of structural members broken by buildings, area" would be
neither instructive nor interesting to a general readership.
Maybe he should have had such a clue for the rest of the book.
Since no one has posted this, I'll do so. This is a teacher's aide to the Port Chciago explosion, and is a much more succinct introduction to the explosion that happened there. This is from that site:
Just before
10:20 p.m. on July 17th, 1944, the worst home front disaster of WWII, occurred at a Naval pier in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Five thousand tons of ammunition in ships being loaded by black sailors exploded, sending a blast more than 12,000 feet into the sky.
The explosion destroyed the pier, a train, and both ships, instantly killing everyone aboard (some 320 men).
That same site also lists several nuclear-conspiracy pages about Port Chicago, and almost all of them are more succinct than the one listed in the story.:)
This page in particular is short, and has a quick list of bullet points that try to show that Port Chicago was nuclear. They may all be obviously BS (to someone more versed in its history...?), but they're not simply "the explosion was so big, it HAD to be nuclear!" as others has suggested.
And lastly, when visiting this Amazon.com page for a Port Chicago book, am I the only one who sees "Customers who wear clothes also shop for: Clean Underwear"?? Maybe I'm delerious from being up in the middle of the night.
If Target has a list of CD's that are known to not work, why don't they give that information to the consumer up front so they don't have to go through the hassle of coming back to return it?
Lotus Domino is like that too... completely nonstandard interface. Granted, some of it is really cool, but the majority of it was just a waste of someone's coding time as they ended up doing windows controls in a slightly different way.
I did a decent photoshop recreation of the eye recently, except blown up to 960x960. It's currently set as my background at work so I can discuss it when people ask what it is.
Hear hear. I work at a Fortune-100 company (well, it was last year anyway), and my current machine is sloooow and has very little memory. I've managed to make it resonably peppy by replacing Outlook with a remote Mutt (HUGE improvement, if only for the 30mb ram savings), and making it just be a dumb terminal for remote Solaris boxes. The only things I run locally are TeraTerm, VNC, Winamp, and Phoenix. Now if Phoenix wouldn't be such a hog, I'd be happy.
I doubt that mobile computers will be very standardized, apart from having 2 or 3 computer vendors who produce 2 or 3 different standards for all car manufacturers. Car-computers will be nearly as compact as laptops, but since they'll be so integrated into the car (eg. they may be on the car's CAN network, may talk directly to the ECU, and have varying proprietary interfaces to varying I/O devices embeded into the console) that it will take quite a while to stndardize, if ever.
Is this just one guy's setup, or is it designed to be compatible across many different setups? There are a lot of different input methods (wireless keyboard, mouse, joystick, twiddler, touch-screen), lots of different output devices (sound only w/ text-to-speech, sound with screen, NTSC TV, true VGA, a non-standard LCD screen), several different ways to control powerup/powerdown (eg. tell the inverter to turn off after finishing powerdown, wake on LAN/802.11b, ability to tell the car to auto-start to recharge the battery). A set of software that supports a variety of these would be truly valuable and I'd gladly contribute, but this looks like it's just one guy's particular setup.
Isn't the range on ethernet only a couple hundred feet? In 1980, did we imagine that a large percentage of the country could have access to cable modem speed lines?
Well, explaining why something is funny tends to kill the humor, but here goes:
AFAIK, there's nothing that legally prevents companies from guessing a customer's income, and charge differently for any item, be it some scribbles on a piece of paper or a hunk of wood. In the past, companies don't blatantly price things differently because potential customers tend to not like that, so they instead try to find some sort of excuse like company-paid DSL connections or, in this case, quirks of a particular law. The point I was trying to make was that it seems like companies are starting to become more brazen and care less and less about consumer opinion, and in the future, may start to explicitely charge different prices based on what they know of the customer.
Users of clearcase and CVS don't completely overlap... clearcase is better suited to worldwide development with millions of lines of code, thousands of source files, and thousands of versions on each source file. CVS is better for single developers or medium size projects. From your situation, it does sound like CVS would be a better fit for you.
I don't doubt that many people's particular cable (or any other medium) connections are just fine. I'm just saying that it *can* get very annoying. Very annoying. There's probly no excuse for it, but it does happen.
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Ahh, just tweak the OS's timeout parameter. Still, the point is that it's completely ludicrous that I have to do this for a cable modem when it's never been required for POTS 56k modems.
The issue isn't that the link is automatically dropped after n seconds of being idle. The issue is that when the cable modem can't transmit anything for 30 seconds and the TCP stack has something to send, the stack keeps retrying and retrying and eventually gives up and assumes I've ripped the ethernet cable out of the back of the box or something.
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Ha. I had that at first too, until the neighbors started yearning for the cool new thing. Now my ssh connections drop at least twice a day because there are 30 second periods where 0 packets get through. It's so annoying that I was inspired to write a graphical ping so I can see in real-time just how much my connection sucks. For instance, the connection just decided to punish me with 8 seconds of silence for complaining about it here.
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Fuckedcompany.com is blocked when surving on my company's computers. Should I be worried?
Well, you may be a yungin', but I rememeber a day not too long ago where copyright protection only stood on technical merit, eg. the bad guys didn't have an advantage over the good guys. A couple years ago, this definitely was not a "well duh".
(now try to find a monitor with a 170hz refresh rate)
Do you have any references to support your assertion that RSA isn't used in the XBOX, and that RC5 is? Because, so far, all the links I've seen (namely the one I gave in my earlier post) primarily mention RSA.
RSA is currently providing monitary awards for groups who can crack a larger RSA key than has been cracked before. Here's a quote from the FAQ associated with that contest:
So there's value for a variety of licenses. Which is good, because we have a lot of 'em.
Use BSD when the majority of time spent was in coming up with the requirements/design. Use GPL when the majority of time spent was in coming up with the implmentation.
Not that Honda/Toyota/other established brands are by any means necessarily the best, just that brand recognition can factor into a buyer's decision, and there's no reason to poo-poo that.
- Most of the comprehensive data and analyses of those data that are
available in Government Port Chicago explosion records are
extraneous to the purpose of this book and will not be considered.
Sections of available Port Chicago explosion records, for example, that
precisely detail and mathematically dissect the "Percentage of plaster
damage to total houses damaged" and the "Frequency distribution of
number of structural members broken by buildings, area" would be
neither instructive nor interesting to a general readership.
Maybe he should have had such a clue for the rest of the book.- Just before
10:20 p.m. on July 17th, 1944, the worst home front disaster of WWII, occurred at a Naval pier in the San Francisco Bay Area.
That same site also lists several nuclear-conspiracy pages about Port Chicago, and almost all of them are more succinct than the one listed in the story.Five thousand tons of ammunition in ships being loaded by black sailors exploded, sending a blast more than 12,000 feet into the sky.
The explosion destroyed the pier, a train, and both ships, instantly killing everyone aboard (some 320 men).
This page in particular is short, and has a quick list of bullet points that try to show that Port Chicago was nuclear. They may all be obviously BS (to someone more versed in its history...?), but they're not simply "the explosion was so big, it HAD to be nuclear!" as others has suggested.
And lastly, when visiting this Amazon.com page for a Port Chicago book, am I the only one who sees "Customers who wear clothes also shop for: Clean Underwear"?? Maybe I'm delerious from being up in the middle of the night.
If Target has a list of CD's that are known to not work, why don't they give that information to the consumer up front so they don't have to go through the hassle of coming back to return it?
*grin* Thank you for the clarification. It's been like 4 years since I used it.
Lotus Domino is like that too... completely nonstandard interface. Granted, some of it is really cool, but the majority of it was just a waste of someone's coding time as they ended up doing windows controls in a slightly different way.
It's geocities, they'll only let me have so much bandwidth. It's up now.
I did a decent photoshop recreation of the eye recently, except blown up to 960x960. It's currently set as my background at work so I can discuss it when people ask what it is.
- Most businesses do not build game machines.
Hear hear. I work at a Fortune-100 company (well, it was last year anyway), and my current machine is sloooow and has very little memory. I've managed to make it resonably peppy by replacing Outlook with a remote Mutt (HUGE improvement, if only for the 30mb ram savings), and making it just be a dumb terminal for remote Solaris boxes. The only things I run locally are TeraTerm, VNC, Winamp, and Phoenix. Now if Phoenix wouldn't be such a hog, I'd be happy.I doubt that mobile computers will be very standardized, apart from having 2 or 3 computer vendors who produce 2 or 3 different standards for all car manufacturers. Car-computers will be nearly as compact as laptops, but since they'll be so integrated into the car (eg. they may be on the car's CAN network, may talk directly to the ECU, and have varying proprietary interfaces to varying I/O devices embeded into the console) that it will take quite a while to stndardize, if ever.
Is this just one guy's setup, or is it designed to be compatible across many different setups? There are a lot of different input methods (wireless keyboard, mouse, joystick, twiddler, touch-screen), lots of different output devices (sound only w/ text-to-speech, sound with screen, NTSC TV, true VGA, a non-standard LCD screen), several different ways to control powerup/powerdown (eg. tell the inverter to turn off after finishing powerdown, wake on LAN/802.11b, ability to tell the car to auto-start to recharge the battery). A set of software that supports a variety of these would be truly valuable and I'd gladly contribute, but this looks like it's just one guy's particular setup.
Two watts? Are you on crack? Try 600 - 125 milliwatts.
Isn't the range on ethernet only a couple hundred feet? In 1980, did we imagine that a large percentage of the country could have access to cable modem speed lines?
AFAIK, there's nothing that legally prevents companies from guessing a customer's income, and charge differently for any item, be it some scribbles on a piece of paper or a hunk of wood. In the past, companies don't blatantly price things differently because potential customers tend to not like that, so they instead try to find some sort of excuse like company-paid DSL connections or, in this case, quirks of a particular law. The point I was trying to make was that it seems like companies are starting to become more brazen and care less and less about consumer opinion, and in the future, may start to explicitely charge different prices based on what they know of the customer.
Users of clearcase and CVS don't completely overlap... clearcase is better suited to worldwide development with millions of lines of code, thousands of source files, and thousands of versions on each source file. CVS is better for single developers or medium size projects. From your situation, it does sound like CVS would be a better fit for you.
I don't doubt that many people's particular cable (or any other medium) connections are just fine. I'm just saying that it *can* get very annoying. Very annoying. There's probly no excuse for it, but it does happen.
Ahh, just tweak the OS's timeout parameter. Still, the point is that it's completely ludicrous that I have to do this for a cable modem when it's never been required for POTS 56k modems.
The issue isn't that the link is automatically dropped after n seconds of being idle. The issue is that when the cable modem can't transmit anything for 30 seconds and the TCP stack has something to send, the stack keeps retrying and retrying and eventually gives up and assumes I've ripped the ethernet cable out of the back of the box or something.
Ha. I had that at first too, until the neighbors started yearning for the cool new thing. Now my ssh connections drop at least twice a day because there are 30 second periods where 0 packets get through. It's so annoying that I was inspired to write a graphical ping so I can see in real-time just how much my connection sucks. For instance, the connection just decided to punish me with 8 seconds of silence for complaining about it here.