As a complete noob to crypto, could somebody put that in a scale of amount of computing resources and amount of time required to have a serious chance of cracking this?
It sounds like a good idea, but only if the crypto is a complete pain in the ass to break in our lifetimes. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time and effort.
It may have been a concept originally created in a short-story, but actually, it IS in Blue Mars.
It starts at Part 11: Viriditas. I have the paperback edition, and it starts on page 487.
Zo sat at the back of a room full of diplomats, looking out the window at Terminator as the oval city rolled majestically over the blasted wastelands of Mercury...
If it WAS a concept borrowed from an earlier short story, it's wonderfully integrated into the whole spread of the Martian concept across all voids.
For the price, you probably can't find a better charger, unless you're willing to buy a cheapo timer-based one.
I also use Powerex batteries with it, and I've had no problems. They last forever in my digital camera compared to alkaline, and the AAAs last nearly as long as alkaline in my mp3 player.
Just don't use them in anything you only use occassionally, like a remote or a flashlight.
Take for example, I dug up ID's Quake to play some Team Fortress a few weeks back.
The server entry requires an IPv4 address for the server. Now, how are you supposed to resolve an IPv4-compatible address out of an IPv6 without having routing issues?
Look, here's a simplification of how the energy market works:
On any given day, suppliers decide whether to fire up their generators based on demand, and offer their energy for sale on the open market.
Greenmountain guarantees that they will purchase a minimum percentage of "green" energy. This is easier than it sounds because most areas Greenmountain works with have ample supplies of hydroelectric power. And because the hydro power is extremely cheap, it is almost always one of the first used power sources.
Greenmountain "buys" the hydro power that would have been bought by any other energy broker, and also buys a few percent of it's total power from more expensive wind and solar to look good for the customers.
In the end, you pay more for the same electrons and mostly the same generation sources, but you feel less guilty!
In Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series, other planets in the solar system are settled after Mars and the Moon.
A single city is built on the surface of Mercury, and is mounted on rails that encircle the entire planet. The sheer force of the thermal expansion of the rails is enough to keep the city perpetually moving away from the light side.
And no, you DON'T want to be on the lit side of Mercury.
Most LCDs today use some form of Bilinear filtering for scaling down their image, not the greatest.
One scale-down filter I've been very impressed with is Bicubic, I have used this filter for scaling dozens of photographs, and never has the result looked blurry.
I'm wondering how much hardware it would take ti implement a real-time Bicubic filter for LCDs...
I've actually thought on this subject quite a bit, because like the author I believe it's only a matter of time before the robots take over a large percentage of the workforce.
Gentry Lee ( co-author of the Rama series ) once gave a talk at my university on the subject of this fundamental change in society.
Computers are useful for two things:
- Aiding humans - Distracting humans
The same computer technology that is powerful enough to replace an entire factory of humans is also powerful enough to create a complete virtual reality.
In the same way that people escape into multiplayer online games today, an entire welfare state could be built around a simulated world. As they said in the matrix, "we accept the world around us", so constant immersion into the world could be more satisfying than reality, where the robots do everything.
tax / regulatory systems have to be changed to end the subsidy of sprawl.
The problem today is, wherever you go, most places cater to the car, and it's not just suburbia. These days, most large cities in America have an expressway or two cutting it right down the middle, severing it like a knife.
I believe Lewis Mumford had the right idea, recognizing that the whole concept of the city vs surburbia had to be rethought into a network of garden cities.
The only problem is this dream can never be realized. Technology and capitalism drive the city; they are the reason cities filled to bursting at the turn of the 20th century, and have emptied by the turn of the 21st.
Face it, you cannot legislate this drive out of existence, not unless you close down the expressways. But you keep riding your bike, and spread the message.
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You're right about offices being the last bastion of Zip drives.
A lot of large corporations have also been holding on tight to NT 4, and are just now making the transition to 2000/XP ( including my company ). I can finally use my MuVo for more than just playing mp3s.
Our company has standardized on the Zip disk for years for use in areas where network connectivity is impossible / unlikely. This includes moving documents between classified and unclassified networks, and moving files around in the labs and in the field.
One reason CD-R / RW never beat out Zip disks here is user friendlyness - a factory installed zip drive can be accessed exactly like any other drive via explorer. Burning a CD was not so trivial until recently, but even improvements on the format to allow seamless Read / Write like Mount Rainier are still not compatible with all PCs unless you install the software on all PCs. I'm betting on the solid-state drives, myself.
Yes, I believe the connector is purposefully removable, just like the keys. You will have to purchase one, or look up the schematic and wire it up yourself.
You can get either an AT or PS/2 version of that connector though.
You want those %54 of people to pay a larger chunk?
Fine. Start paying 10 bucks for a Big Mac and 5 bucks for a drink, and pay those guys at McDonalds better wages.
The world works the way it does BECAUSE we are greedy. Tax breaks for the poor exist because the wealthy do not want a wage slave revolt on their hands. They are rather comfortable on their thrones.
It's a tedious cycle, and whne someone upsets the cycle, all hell breaks loose.
The U-2 was not supersoinic. It was a very slow aircraft with a typical cruise speed of 475 mph.
The whole intent of the aircraft was to ride above the effective range of all Anti-Aircraft guns/missiles, and even fly too high to be cauught by enemy fighters ( Celing of 70k feet ), but even that didn't work for long.
In fact, the failure of the U-2 sparked the need for something faster and higher-altitude. the SR-71 was chosen.
This sounds to me like a much improved SR-71 with substantially improved payload. Not all that surprising.
Bad reference. Copyright violation ( in truth ) would be playing a ROM you do not own using MAME.
Your reference is flawed because the arcade machine is OWNED by somebody, and if an arcade machine is on free play that's their problem.
Either they're being very generous, or they realize what you're doing and kick your ass out on the street.
In truth, electronic music/movie distribution HAS NO COLLARY because it is a system that has no personal enforcement, and thus encourages people to take advantage of the system.
You cannot easily go into a record store and walk out with an album, it's very likely you will be caught by the owner. But you can go online and download the album and burn it, with little likelyhood of prosecution.
Direct supervision keeps theives in check, and keeps honest folks honest. Indirect supervision is a field-day for theives, and tempts honest people.
WHY IS EVERYONE SO SURPRISED AT THIS? Just look at the percentages of people who violate speed limits whn nobody's looking versus the number of people who violate speed limits WHEN COPS ARE SPEED TRAPPING, and you'll see similar numbers.
I thought it was well understood by companies, after 20 years of trying to MAKE COPY PROTECTION WORK. If there's a link in the chain you cannot supervise personally, somebody is going to break it.
Batman Returns ( 2 ) didn't have the problems of Batman Forever ( 3 ).
Michelle Pfeiffer played a combined love interest and unbalanced criminal element. Her character started shallow and stayed shallow as intended.
Danny DiVito played The Penguin with ferocity and a style only he could create, and he made a fine villian. The battle between Penguin and Batman was always the center of the picture.
You CAN -get- variables over the link port using a TI-BASIC call, you cannot send them.
Take a word from wiser, older heads ( I was programming my TI-82 before you were in middle school:)
You cannot do anything in real-time with the link cable. On top of the slow speed of the link itself, every time you 'get' a variable, the performance on both machines plummets.
I know, I tried to program a simple 2-player linked snake clone, just to see if it was feasable. It worked, but it was damn slow. You might have better luck with turn-based games.
Back in the days of ATARI, most games were constructed by a single person, or a very small team in a few months.
The fact that nearly all of these games are ports of some nature only makes it easier, as most of the brainstorming portion of the project is unnecessary.
Of course, most of ATARI's -HITS- grossed millions of dollars. That's what you get for being first.
* Please note something folks. A lot of you talk about the appeal of "retro" gaming, but take a good look at what you're referring to.
15 years ago, a gameboy was considered quite an acceptable gaming platform, even with it's miserable early-80s quality grayscale graphics.
Most people won't play games with atari-style graphics anymore, but if you take the SAME GAME and add large, detailed sprites, and colorful, detailed backgrounds, smooth scrolling, etc., you've got an audience.
The standard now is SNES / NEO-GEO quality 2D graphics. Try to tell me you'd enjoy your favorite "simple" game as much if you reduced the resolution and limited the pallette to 16 colors or grayscales.
Oh, you mean like the Satellaview for the Super Famicom ( Japan only )? Or how about the Sega Channel subscription cable gaming service launched in the US?
Hardly a unique concept, and never a smashing success.
I suppose you could make it fly today, but until you sell your gaming console CHEAP AND COMPLETE with internet access, you cannot get rid of the traditional distribution model.
"I still think it's possible for record companies to make money off free music; radio stations do it for them every day."
You know, every time your local radio station plays "SongA" by ArtistA, they pay a set fee to RecordCompanyA, who then gives a percentage to ArtistA and the writer of SongA. The record companies can, of course, give incentives to play certain songs by certain artists...
The record companies do the same with CD sales.
The record companies DO NOT WANT TO LOSE this level of control. Not with the radio, not with CD sales. No quantum leap will do it. The record companies themselves will have to collapse before this becomes reality.
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You mean like:
"NT Technology" reads "New Technology Technology"
or how about:
"NTFS File System"
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As a complete noob to crypto, could somebody put that in a scale of amount of computing resources and amount of time required to have a serious chance of cracking this?
It sounds like a good idea, but only if the crypto is a complete pain in the ass to break in our lifetimes. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time and effort.
It may have been a concept originally created in a short-story, but actually, it IS in Blue Mars.
It starts at Part 11: Viriditas. I have the paperback edition, and it starts on page 487.
Zo sat at the back of a room full of diplomats, looking out the window at Terminator as the oval city rolled majestically over the blasted wastelands of Mercury...
If it WAS a concept borrowed from an earlier short story, it's wonderfully integrated into the whole spread of the Martian concept across all voids.
For the price, you probably can't find a better charger, unless you're willing to buy a cheapo timer-based one.
I also use Powerex batteries with it, and I've had no problems. They last forever in my digital camera compared to alkaline, and the AAAs last nearly as long as alkaline in my mp3 player.
Just don't use them in anything you only use occassionally, like a remote or a flashlight.
So how does that work exactly?
Take for example, I dug up ID's Quake to play some Team Fortress a few weeks back.
The server entry requires an IPv4 address for the server. Now, how are you supposed to resolve an IPv4-compatible address out of an IPv6 without having routing issues?
Look, here's a simplification of how the energy market works:
On any given day, suppliers decide whether to fire up their generators based on demand, and offer their energy for sale on the open market.
Greenmountain guarantees that they will purchase a minimum percentage of "green" energy. This is easier than it sounds because most areas Greenmountain works with have ample supplies of hydroelectric power. And because the hydro power is extremely cheap, it is almost always one of the first used power sources.
Greenmountain "buys" the hydro power that would have been bought by any other energy broker, and also buys a few percent of it's total power from more expensive wind and solar to look good for the customers.
In the end, you pay more for the same electrons and mostly the same generation sources, but you feel less guilty!
Could I expect them to work under IPv6, if the client and the server have an IPv6 address?
In Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series, other planets in the solar system are settled after Mars and the Moon.
A single city is built on the surface of Mercury, and is mounted on rails that encircle the entire planet. The sheer force of the thermal expansion of the rails is enough to keep the city perpetually moving away from the light side.
And no, you DON'T want to be on the lit side of Mercury.
Most LCDs today use some form of Bilinear filtering for scaling down their image, not the greatest.
One scale-down filter I've been very impressed with is Bicubic, I have used this filter for scaling dozens of photographs, and never has the result looked blurry.
I'm wondering how much hardware it would take ti implement a real-time Bicubic filter for LCDs...
I've actually thought on this subject quite a bit, because like the author I believe it's only a matter of time before the robots take over a large percentage of the workforce.
Gentry Lee ( co-author of the Rama series ) once gave a talk at my university on the subject of this fundamental change in society.
Computers are useful for two things:
- Aiding humans
- Distracting humans
The same computer technology that is powerful enough to replace an entire factory of humans is also powerful enough to create a complete virtual reality.
In the same way that people escape into multiplayer online games today, an entire welfare state could be built around a simulated world. As they said in the matrix, "we accept the world around us", so constant immersion into the world could be more satisfying than reality, where the robots do everything.
tax / regulatory systems have to be changed to end the subsidy of sprawl.
The problem today is, wherever you go, most places cater to the car, and it's not just suburbia. These days, most large cities in America have an expressway or two cutting it right down the middle, severing it like a knife.
I believe Lewis Mumford had the right idea, recognizing that the whole concept of the city vs surburbia had to be rethought into a network of garden cities.
The only problem is this dream can never be realized. Technology and capitalism drive the city; they are the reason cities filled to bursting at the turn of the 20th century, and have emptied by the turn of the 21st.
Face it, you cannot legislate this drive out of existence, not unless you close down the expressways. But you keep riding your bike, and spread the message.
You're right about offices being the last bastion of Zip drives.
A lot of large corporations have also been holding on tight to NT 4, and are just now making the transition to 2000/XP ( including my company ). I can finally use my MuVo for more than just playing mp3s.
Our company has standardized on the Zip disk for years for use in areas where network connectivity is impossible / unlikely. This includes moving documents between classified and unclassified networks, and moving files around in the labs and in the field.
One reason CD-R / RW never beat out Zip disks here is user friendlyness - a factory installed zip drive can be accessed exactly like any other drive via explorer. Burning a CD was not so trivial until recently, but even improvements on the format to allow seamless Read / Write like Mount Rainier are still not compatible with all PCs unless you install the software on all PCs. I'm betting on the solid-state drives, myself.
How about "The Matrices"?
No, no no. The entire purpose of Newspeak is to render unnecessary extension of the language ( such as "gooder" ) obsolete.
You have good.
"better" ( or your mangled version, "gooder" )would be "plus good"
"best" would be "double-plus good"
"double-plus gooder" does not make any sense.
LEARN YOUR NEWSPEAK COMRADE, Big Brother is watching. The consequences of neglecting your duties could be double-plus bad.
Yes, I believe the connector is purposefully removable, just like the keys. You will have to purchase one, or look up the schematic and wire it up yourself.
You can get either an AT or PS/2 version of that connector though.
You want those %54 of people to pay a larger chunk?
Fine. Start paying 10 bucks for a Big Mac and 5 bucks for a drink, and pay those guys at McDonalds better wages.
The world works the way it does BECAUSE we are greedy. Tax breaks for the poor exist because the wealthy do not want a wage slave revolt on their hands. They are rather comfortable on their thrones.
It's a tedious cycle, and whne someone upsets the cycle, all hell breaks loose.
"Remember the U2?"
Just to clarify the point:
The U-2 was not supersoinic. It was a very slow aircraft with a typical cruise speed of 475 mph.
The whole intent of the aircraft was to ride above the effective range of all Anti-Aircraft guns/missiles, and even fly too high to be cauught by enemy fighters ( Celing of 70k feet ), but even that didn't work for long.
In fact, the failure of the U-2 sparked the need for something faster and higher-altitude. the SR-71 was chosen.
This sounds to me like a much improved SR-71 with substantially improved payload. Not all that surprising.
Bad reference. Copyright violation ( in truth ) would be playing a ROM you do not own using MAME.
Your reference is flawed because the arcade machine is OWNED by somebody, and if an arcade machine is on free play that's their problem.
Either they're being very generous, or they realize what you're doing and kick your ass out on the street.
In truth, electronic music/movie distribution HAS NO COLLARY because it is a system that has no personal enforcement, and thus encourages people to take advantage of the system.
You cannot easily go into a record store and walk out with an album, it's very likely you will be caught by the owner. But you can go online and download the album and burn it, with little likelyhood of prosecution.
Direct supervision keeps theives in check, and keeps honest folks honest. Indirect supervision is a field-day for theives, and tempts honest people.
WHY IS EVERYONE SO SURPRISED AT THIS? Just look at the percentages of people who violate speed limits whn nobody's looking versus the number of people who violate speed limits WHEN COPS ARE SPEED TRAPPING, and you'll see similar numbers.
I thought it was well understood by companies, after 20 years of trying to MAKE COPY PROTECTION WORK. If there's a link in the chain you cannot supervise personally, somebody is going to break it.
Honestly, the point of groups like the EFF is to proactively seek to change things NOW.
But does anyone honestly believe we will see MAJOR change in the entertainment industry in even 20 years? It takes times for behemoths to fall.
Batman Returns ( 2 ) didn't have the problems of Batman Forever ( 3 ).
Michelle Pfeiffer played a combined love interest and unbalanced criminal element. Her character started shallow and stayed shallow as intended.
Danny DiVito played The Penguin with ferocity and a style only he could create, and he made a fine villian. The battle between Penguin and Batman was always the center of the picture.
What film were you wathing?
Indy, you mustn't run away!
You CAN -get- variables over the link port using a TI-BASIC call, you cannot send them.
:)
Take a word from wiser, older heads ( I was programming my TI-82 before you were in middle school
You cannot do anything in real-time with the link cable. On top of the slow speed of the link itself, every time you 'get' a variable, the performance on both machines plummets.
I know, I tried to program a simple 2-player linked snake clone, just to see if it was feasable. It worked, but it was damn slow. You might have better luck with turn-based games.
Back in the days of ATARI, most games were constructed by a single person, or a very small team in a few months.
The fact that nearly all of these games are ports of some nature only makes it easier, as most of the brainstorming portion of the project is unnecessary.
Of course, most of ATARI's -HITS- grossed millions of dollars. That's what you get for being first.
* Please note something folks. A lot of you talk about the appeal of "retro" gaming, but take a good look at what you're referring to.
15 years ago, a gameboy was considered quite an acceptable gaming platform, even with it's miserable early-80s quality grayscale graphics.
Most people won't play games with atari-style graphics anymore, but if you take the SAME GAME and add large, detailed sprites, and colorful, detailed backgrounds, smooth scrolling, etc., you've got an audience.
The standard now is SNES / NEO-GEO quality 2D graphics. Try to tell me you'd enjoy your favorite "simple" game as much if you reduced the resolution and limited the pallette to 16 colors or grayscales.
Oh, you mean like the Satellaview for the Super Famicom ( Japan only )? Or how about the Sega Channel subscription cable gaming service launched in the US?
Hardly a unique concept, and never a smashing success.
I suppose you could make it fly today, but until you sell your gaming console CHEAP AND COMPLETE with internet access, you cannot get rid of the traditional distribution model.
"I still think it's possible for record companies to make money off free music; radio stations do it for them every day."
You know, every time your local radio station plays "SongA" by ArtistA, they pay a set fee to RecordCompanyA, who then gives a percentage to ArtistA and the writer of SongA. The record companies can, of course, give incentives to play certain songs by certain artists...
The record companies do the same with CD sales.
The record companies DO NOT WANT TO LOSE this level of control. Not with the radio, not with CD sales. No quantum leap will do it. The record companies themselves will have to collapse before this becomes reality.