You're thinking in binary. There are more options than Linux and Microsoft. Can you imagine people having problems running on Apple computers? Even OS X is simpler than Windows. Macs for the n00bs, Linux for the engineers.
Think about it... A Mac can do everything a Desktop PC does (multimedia, web browsing, etc) and a Linux machine can do everything a CS/technical student needs (C/C++/Java compilers, technical programs like Autocad and ProE).
I think the most useless machines here at Purdue are the overpriced Windows machines that need so much security/rollback software that they are rednered useless 10% of the time!
There seems to be this mindset in large corporations that all "programs" have to be written in C, Java or another "compileable" language. In my job at a very large company (Caterpillar) we especially see ancient VAX-based apps or newer web applications that months are spent on, when a simple Perl script would do the same job in a matter of weeks or days.
You don't need more hertz (or in this case, GHz). If all you do on a system is play solitaire and MS word, you'll be ok with a 333MHz, providing you have sufficiently fast memory and disk space.
However a good deal of us actually *use* our computers. Ever try to compile XFree86 on a 333MHz CPU? I doubt it. When people use their systems for games, development, or much more than posting trolls, they can use as many GHz as AMD and Intel can crank out.
I agree with you here. I believe that there are factions in the govt (esp. the food and health adminsitration) that are trying to get rid of "big tobacco" as it is today. I wouldn't be surprised if within 10 or 20 years, they outlaw nicotine. They can just say "Sell your product without it!"
Of course, they could potentially do the same thing with caffeine...:(
If I am being DoSed by a computer (or several computers) it can cost a company thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars. If I'm a sysadmin of Yahoo! And my service is interupted, I want every means possible to shut down an attacking system. Most the time ISP's ignore pleas about DoS attacks (just ask anyone on IRC!)
The tools he's talking about use the same exploits the worm/virus/trojan does, but instead of doing something bad, it kills the flooding. If you have an insecure machine, you're lucky that you don't get sued by it.
There will come a time when you *can* be sued for having an insecure machine used as a proxy for a hack. Until then, his solution seems to be a good real-world solution.
Wow.. talk about Troll Alert! But I'll bite, since I'm bored.
First of all, if you have one drive with terabytes of data, for twice the cost (aka, linear cost) you can have another drive as a mirror. Boom, instant cheap backups.
Secondly, it would take more than the sun or an EMP weapon to bring the human race "back to square 1" since hard drives are well shielded. Not to mention the fact that all scientific data is backed up in paper, anyways (have you ever heard of books?).
Magnetic storage is very reliable.:) It will be good (and readable) in 1,000 years, don't worry:)
First of all, MS is the *only* console vender that loses money on its consoles: both Nintendo and Sony made profit for each unit sold.
Secondly, if Lexmark let consumers know that only their toner cartridges worked with Lexmark printers, it wouldn't be such a big deal. But they don't. In fact, I'd bet they even tried to supress the lawsuit beacuse of the bad publicity it causes them.
Finally, consumers haven't forced them to do anything. They chose their own business model, and now they have to lay in it.
Seeing as he is a big part of a major CPU firm Intel, is he being short-sighted (which I doubt) or is he trying to brace the market for a slowdown in CPU clock speed?
It might help the company if expectations for new CPUs aren't higher than what they can produce.
Personally, my vote goes for optical CPUs as the wave of the future. Larger than curent CPUs might not be a problem if they don't put off much heat.
They only test one resolution, 1600*1200! Maybe it's just me, but I don't see a lot of laptops with 1600* resolution. The whole review is only meant to make the card look bad, it doesn't take into consideration price, power/heat consumption, or other important factors. It is biased, shallow and not worthy of a/.ing!
A judge can reject a case if she thinks it is frivolous, *plus* a defendant can counter-sue for any bills incurred. It's not perfect, but it does work pretty well.
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You tell the original post he's lying, when he's actually quite correct: There are indeed a finite number of moves in chess. Whether or not there's a "perfect game" that guarantees a win is inconsequential.
Going onto your claim that programming a mchine to take a predetermined path is AI ( " I'm not sure such a path exists; even if it does, I would call a system built to choose this path AI.") directly contradicts the original post, but then you later say " Artifical Intelligence is about embuing a machine with the ability to go beyond it's basic programming." You're contradicting yourself.
Think more carefully before replying next time. Move along. Nothing to see here.
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Are you *sure* that they're proven that Chess is always a tuie (if played perfectly)? I thought that, due to the nature of the game mathematicians haven't been able to prove one way or another what the end of the game would be. just for my personal knowledge, can you cite a source for these claims?
Yes, yes I know... but when you're typing frantically so that your question doesn't end up 500 posts down, fingers work faster than my built-in grammar checker (and often my spell checker). I blame slashdot for a lack of an "edit" button;)
I have to say that my one of my favorite characters you've been was the villian in "Loaded Weapon." Of your many rolls, which was or which were some of the most fun or most satisfying? Do you have a particular genre (sci-fi, comedy, drama) that you most prefer?
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So, let's look at some interesting facts:
1. MS Puts back the release of its latest Server OS.
2. MS is pushing a new licensing model where companies pay annual fees regardless of upgrades, but then get "discounts" on future upgrades.
So, does the new licensing plan allow them to basically, delay new technologies? It seems that, with their latest scheme, it reduces their motivation to release newer/better products.
How about two wide receevers holding eahc other and tripping each other everyime the ball is thrown, in order to get more catches individually. But then they realize there's plenty of passing going on, stop interfering with eachother and more than double receptions!
I don't know why you think they're on opposite teams. It's not like sales in one directly correlate in losses for the other.
Yea, that's why I had my little addendum (that you might as well be guessing). Your clarification is appreciated, though.
I really should have said, since you have to check every possible combination of keys, is that *every* possible plaintext message (or binary message) is contained in the ciphertext, so it's entirely futile to even try to brute force a true one time pad.
No, OTP is very, very weak in that regard. Why uses a separate key for every communication? We generally live in the real world (with the exception of so many/. trolls) and OTP is pretty much a useless encryption scheme. The reason it's known as a "one-time pad" is that it's worthless *unless* you use it only once.
To use another metaphor, what you're saying is like saying "A gun that only fires once is just as good as a machine gun, as long as you only need one bullet." While technically true, but I'd still call the one-shot gun a weaker weapon than an automatic rifle.
It's been said before, but it's worth saying again.
Even with an unlimited amount of time and CPU power, the one time pad is absolutely unbreakable. Yes, eventually you will find the right key, and it will reveal the desired message. But even a message of length 1,024 bits you'd have to examine 2^1024 different messages. That would take a long time. You might as well be guessing at the message at random (which, essentially, is all a brute-force attack is doing.
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You're thinking in binary. There are more options than Linux and Microsoft. Can you imagine people having problems running on Apple computers? Even OS X is simpler than Windows. Macs for the n00bs, Linux for the engineers.
Think about it... A Mac can do everything a Desktop PC does (multimedia, web browsing, etc) and a Linux machine can do everything a CS/technical student needs (C/C++/Java compilers, technical programs like Autocad and ProE). I think the most useless machines here at Purdue are the overpriced Windows machines that need so much security/rollback software that they are rednered useless 10% of the time!
There seems to be this mindset in large corporations that all "programs" have to be written in C, Java or another "compileable" language. In my job at a very large company (Caterpillar) we especially see ancient VAX-based apps or newer web applications that months are spent on, when a simple Perl script would do the same job in a matter of weeks or days.
Not criminal neglect... civil neglect.
Heh.. talk about a major troll! But I'll bite.
You don't need more hertz (or in this case, GHz). If all you do on a system is play solitaire and MS word, you'll be ok with a 333MHz, providing you have sufficiently fast memory and disk space.
However a good deal of us actually *use* our computers. Ever try to compile XFree86 on a 333MHz CPU? I doubt it. When people use their systems for games, development, or much more than posting trolls, they can use as many GHz as AMD and Intel can crank out.
I agree with you here. I believe that there are factions in the govt (esp. the food and health adminsitration) that are trying to get rid of "big tobacco" as it is today. I wouldn't be surprised if within 10 or 20 years, they outlaw nicotine. They can just say "Sell your product without it!"
:(
Of course, they could potentially do the same thing with caffeine...
I've got Karma to burn...
What MORONIC moderator moderates ME down while the obvious, senseless TROLL gets modded up?
Moderation: Drawing everyone to the lowest commond denominator (read: Idiots!!!)
Q: What does any of this have to do with the review, or serial ATA?
A: Nothing. This is a karma-whoring troll!
If I am being DoSed by a computer (or several computers) it can cost a company thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars. If I'm a sysadmin of Yahoo! And my service is interupted, I want every means possible to shut down an attacking system. Most the time ISP's ignore pleas about DoS attacks (just ask anyone on IRC!)
The tools he's talking about use the same exploits the worm/virus/trojan does, but instead of doing something bad, it kills the flooding. If you have an insecure machine, you're lucky that you don't get sued by it.
There will come a time when you *can* be sued for having an insecure machine used as a proxy for a hack. Until then, his solution seems to be a good real-world solution.
Wow.. talk about Troll Alert! But I'll bite, since I'm bored. First of all, if you have one drive with terabytes of data, for twice the cost (aka, linear cost) you can have another drive as a mirror. Boom, instant cheap backups. Secondly, it would take more than the sun or an EMP weapon to bring the human race "back to square 1" since hard drives are well shielded. Not to mention the fact that all scientific data is backed up in paper, anyways (have you ever heard of books?). Magnetic storage is very reliable. :) It will be good (and readable) in 1,000 years, don't worry :)
First of all, MS is the *only* console vender that loses money on its consoles: both Nintendo and Sony made profit for each unit sold.
Secondly, if Lexmark let consumers know that only their toner cartridges worked with Lexmark printers, it wouldn't be such a big deal. But they don't. In fact, I'd bet they even tried to supress the lawsuit beacuse of the bad publicity it causes them.
Finally, consumers haven't forced them to do anything. They chose their own business model, and now they have to lay in it.
Seeing as he is a big part of a major CPU firm Intel, is he being short-sighted (which I doubt) or is he trying to brace the market for a slowdown in CPU clock speed?
It might help the company if expectations for new CPUs aren't higher than what they can produce.
Personally, my vote goes for optical CPUs as the wave of the future. Larger than curent CPUs might not be a problem if they don't put off much heat.
They only test one resolution, 1600*1200! Maybe it's just me, but I don't see a lot of laptops with 1600* resolution. The whole review is only meant to make the card look bad, it doesn't take into consideration price, power/heat consumption, or other important factors. It is biased, shallow and not worthy of a /.ing!
Someone post a mirror or download site, they haven't updated their driver download page yet.
(And then other people mod it up!)
A judge can reject a case if she thinks it is frivolous, *plus* a defendant can counter-sue for any bills incurred. It's not perfect, but it does work pretty well.
You tell the original post he's lying, when he's actually quite correct: There are indeed a finite number of moves in chess. Whether or not there's a "perfect game" that guarantees a win is inconsequential.
Going onto your claim that programming a mchine to take a predetermined path is AI ( " I'm not sure such a path exists; even if it does, I would call a system built to choose this path AI.") directly contradicts the original post, but then you later say " Artifical Intelligence is about embuing a machine with the ability to go beyond it's basic programming." You're contradicting yourself.
Think more carefully before replying next time. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Are you *sure* that they're proven that Chess is always a tuie (if played perfectly)? I thought that, due to the nature of the game mathematicians haven't been able to prove one way or another what the end of the game would be. just for my personal knowledge, can you cite a source for these claims?
Yes, yes I know... but when you're typing frantically so that your question doesn't end up 500 posts down, fingers work faster than my built-in grammar checker (and often my spell checker). I blame slashdot for a lack of an "edit" button ;)
I have to say that my one of my favorite characters you've been was the villian in "Loaded Weapon." Of your many rolls, which was or which were some of the most fun or most satisfying? Do you have a particular genre (sci-fi, comedy, drama) that you most prefer?
So, let's look at some interesting facts:
1. MS Puts back the release of its latest Server OS.
2. MS is pushing a new licensing model where companies pay annual fees regardless of upgrades, but then get "discounts" on future upgrades.
So, does the new licensing plan allow them to basically, delay new technologies? It seems that, with their latest scheme, it reduces their motivation to release newer/better products.
You mean you don't check the checksum before you install software now? There's a reason that they provide the md5 for the compressed code!
How about two wide receevers holding eahc other and tripping each other everyime the ball is thrown, in order to get more catches individually. But then they realize there's plenty of passing going on, stop interfering with eachother and more than double receptions!
I don't know why you think they're on opposite teams. It's not like sales in one directly correlate in losses for the other.
Yea, that's why I had my little addendum (that you might as well be guessing). Your clarification is appreciated, though.
I really should have said, since you have to check every possible combination of keys, is that *every* possible plaintext message (or binary message) is contained in the ciphertext, so it's entirely futile to even try to brute force a true one time pad.
No, OTP is very, very weak in that regard. Why uses a separate key for every communication? We generally live in the real world (with the exception of so many /. trolls) and OTP is pretty much a useless encryption scheme. The reason it's known as a "one-time pad" is that it's worthless *unless* you use it only once.
To use another metaphor, what you're saying is like saying "A gun that only fires once is just as good as a machine gun, as long as you only need one bullet." While technically true, but I'd still call the one-shot gun a weaker weapon than an automatic rifle.
It's been said before, but it's worth saying again.
Even with an unlimited amount of time and CPU power, the one time pad is absolutely unbreakable. Yes, eventually you will find the right key, and it will reveal the desired message. But even a message of length 1,024 bits you'd have to examine 2^1024 different messages. That would take a long time. You might as well be guessing at the message at random (which, essentially, is all a brute-force attack is doing.