In this case, "masochistic" might be the better word for it - you will need to reinstall your whole system from scratch (and that's no fun if you use windows)
You underestimate your abilities by far - ever seen robots playing soccer? To hit a slowly rolling ball needs several MFLOPS, and every 2-year-old can easily do this.
If you compare the the abilities of the robots to those of the average soccer player, you will see how easily the human brain can outperform a computer.
On the other hand: Every time I listen to the interviews after a soccer match, I doubt if the statement above is true.
For everyone interested in cryptographic stuff, I always suggest to read the publications of Bruce Schneier (http://www.counterpane.com). His monthly newsletter "crypto-gram" is very interesting and really fun to read (at least most times) and he produced several books I like very much (especially "secrets and lies", or "Applied Cryptography", if you are interested in mathematics of cryptography)
The longer Keys you mention (>1024) are usually used for asymmetric encryption (with different keys for encryption and decryption).
The algorithms used for this are totally different and the key size is in no way comparable.
Furthermore, if a weakness is discovered that makes it possible to break the encryption, a longer key probably wouldn't help much. I remember the example of an important software from a major company, where only 20 bits of a 128 bit key where really used...
This seems to be a US-centric view...
Diesel cars are quite popular in Europe, where every gas station carries diesel. Due to taxation, diesel fuel is much cheaper in most european countries.
Furthermore - if you ever test a modern diesel engine (e.g. BMWs 740d with 600 Nm torque at 1900/min) you will probably feel a sort of addiction and reconsider the number of truck stops in your area...
Perhaps his main aim is an extrajudicial agreement? In this case he is not forced to reveal the owner of the trademark.
I would guess the owner of the trademark is someone well known who prefers to stay anonymous. (just imagine it would be another linux distributer), and a settlement outside court is quite likely. SuSE looses a lot of money every day they can't sell boxes, so they can't wait for a court decision to long.
Times are changing - in my last job I had a 20 year old comp.sci student from france as an intern. I gave him a windows box, and he was obviously incapable of doing anything useful with it, because he had virtually no experience with windows (fortunately SOME features were similar to KDE;-)).
Next day he installed Mandrake and did fine... obviously not everyone is accustomed to windows better than linux, at least not the younger people and not in europe.
I personally use linux at home, but I can get along with the windows boxes at work, as long as xemacs is installed.
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In this case, "masochistic" might be the better word for it - you will need to reinstall your whole system from scratch (and that's no fun if you use windows)
You underestimate your abilities by far - ever seen robots playing soccer? To hit a slowly rolling ball needs several MFLOPS, and every 2-year-old can easily do this. If you compare the the abilities of the robots to those of the average soccer player, you will see how easily the human brain can outperform a computer. On the other hand: Every time I listen to the interviews after a soccer match, I doubt if the statement above is true.
For everyone interested in cryptographic stuff, I always suggest to read the publications of Bruce Schneier (http://www.counterpane.com). His monthly newsletter "crypto-gram" is very interesting and really fun to read (at least most times) and he produced several books I like very much (especially "secrets and lies", or "Applied Cryptography", if you are interested in mathematics of cryptography)
The longer Keys you mention (>1024) are usually used for asymmetric encryption (with different keys for encryption and decryption). The algorithms used for this are totally different and the key size is in no way comparable. Furthermore, if a weakness is discovered that makes it possible to break the encryption, a longer key probably wouldn't help much. I remember the example of an important software from a major company, where only 20 bits of a 128 bit key where really used...
This seems to be a US-centric view... Diesel cars are quite popular in Europe, where every gas station carries diesel. Due to taxation, diesel fuel is much cheaper in most european countries. Furthermore - if you ever test a modern diesel engine (e.g. BMWs 740d with 600 Nm torque at 1900/min) you will probably feel a sort of addiction and reconsider the number of truck stops in your area...
Perhaps his main aim is an extrajudicial agreement? In this case he is not forced to reveal the owner of the trademark. I would guess the owner of the trademark is someone well known who prefers to stay anonymous. (just imagine it would be another linux distributer), and a settlement outside court is quite likely. SuSE looses a lot of money every day they can't sell boxes, so they can't wait for a court decision to long.
[students accustomed to windows]
;-)).
Times are changing - in my last job I had a 20 year old comp.sci student from france as an intern. I gave him a windows box, and he was obviously incapable of doing anything useful with it, because he had virtually no experience with windows (fortunately SOME features were similar to KDE
Next day he installed Mandrake and did fine... obviously not everyone is accustomed to windows better than linux, at least not the younger people and not in europe.
I personally use linux at home, but I can get along with the windows boxes at work, as long as xemacs is installed.