'I do believe NSA is still ahead, but not by much -- a handful of years,' says Snow. 'I think we've got the edge still.'
Slashdot headline:
NSA Still Ahead In Crypto, But Not By Much
Sorry, Snow. But someone “thinking” that something is that way, has nothing to do with what it actually is. There are people out there who still “think” that earth is flat, the sun revolves around it, and that there is a bearded man in the sky.
Then again, if you follow the money/power, you realize quickly, why that empty and pointless quote gets thrown around the Internet... Yeees NSA... you’re still the best... mama still loves you... really! *pat-pat*;)
I wish that NO agency of any country is “ahead” in crypto. It’s like saying that Jack the Ripper is still ahead of the police. Not a world you want to live in.
You find the one with the biggest price/performance ratio!
That’s why I always buy multi-CPU mainboards.
Also don’t forget, that those CPUs with the best ratio, usually are not the newest ones, and so the production process is much more mature. So in tests they all clock very high. But since the company still wants to also sell low-end ones, they re-label them. Which means that usually you can overclock them a lot, without any problems. The biggest I ever managed, was from 533 to 933 MHz, back with the first Athlons. And the Celerons also were insanely overclockable. This is still true for most cheaper chips nowadays.
Sorry, but I call bullshit on that. I saw a huge test with many games, compression software, etc. And in the graphic showing the average performance, AMD chips always were cheaper than Intel ones. In fact your comment is the complete opposite of what I saw there.
Doom? Doom was stupid it was a total joke compared to System Shock (released at the same time). It only got the publicity.
Same as Half-life 2 and Doom 3 got the publicity, while Far Cry and Return to Butcher Bay were the much greater games.
If you want to see a great ID game, look at Quake 3 Arena. It’s still played. Over 10 years after it was released. With CPMA and Defrag, it’s still challenging and modern. Plus there are new engines for it in development, that get close to Crysis looks! (xreal!) Best. shooter. ever.
Did you even read the summary to the end? It says so right there, that this is what they will start doing now:
AMD also announced today that it will be giving away free versions of Pixelux's DMM2 physics engine, which now includes Bullet Physics, to some game developers.
You were more right with your comment, than you could imagine.:)
It’s a bit bad no say that it always is 15 years. It’s exponential. The goal is growing exponentially. That 15 years it took to raise processing power to where you could run it on a phone, is maybe a couple of weeks nowadays. That gives you a better feeling for it. ^^ Of course the 1TB in 15 years still fits.
Since when are one or two people enough to assume a globally smelt “bad aroma”??
Actually those are the first two I know, who even know or remember Opera having ads. Geeks.
Meanwhile, my whole family loves Opera. And in Poland, I hear, it’s the number one browser. Also, everybody here who tried surfing over the phone, has heard of Opera.:) So that’s what most people know of it.
I usually get two reactions from people I recommend Opera to: 1. They don’t know what it is. But since I show that I like Opera, and they can feel it, they get drawn in. 2. After a week or so, they wouldn’t want to miss it.
For some it’s Firefox, and that is just as good. Only for IE users I have no heart at all. Since I used to be a webdev. And that thing has caused my nights to be nightmares for years. I would right here sign a law that said that every person using IE past next month will get shot. Without blinking. That’s how horrible it was. Like a war wound kinda...
1. Use a proxy country. send it to a country that has no export limitations to Iran. 2. There are companies, that offer you, to open a PO box in the US, and ship anything sent there to you. At least in UAE people do that, and so can buy anything you can get as a US company. The company itself does not care for any export limitations or anything, I think.
Well, after Valve found out, that cutting prices in half is more than doubling their sales, and hence very profitable... and that it also cuts the amount of people downloading for free... they now start to realize that all that lock-in and DRM is simply not needed anymore.
Offer good prices, fair deals, and all the small things, and you don’t have to worry, since people will naturally drift towards buying it, if they can.
I really hope that this means it’s a small step towards getting it to run on Linux. Because then we have the 3 biggest gaming platforms on the PC running on Linux, and there finally is no excuse anymore.:)
No. You oversimplified it. I want a social network where you can CHOOSE who you trust with what information about you. Like a firewall for your privacy. Like in [fitting inner model] life relationships.
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Original quote:
'I do believe NSA is still ahead, but not by much -- a handful of years,' says Snow. 'I think we've got the edge still.'
Slashdot headline:
NSA Still Ahead In Crypto, But Not By Much
Sorry, Snow. But someone “thinking” that something is that way, has nothing to do with what it actually is.
There are people out there who still “think” that earth is flat, the sun revolves around it, and that there is a bearded man in the sky.
Then again, if you follow the money/power, you realize quickly, why that empty and pointless quote gets thrown around the Internet... ;)
Yeees NSA... you’re still the best... mama still loves you... really! *pat-pat*
I wish that NO agency of any country is “ahead” in crypto. It’s like saying that Jack the Ripper is still ahead of the police. Not a world you want to live in.
Non-tech guys? On my Slashdot?? ;)
You aren’t a liberal arts major by any chance? ;)
The definition of “optimal price point”!! Do you know it?!?
That’s a bad suggestion.
You find the one with the biggest price/performance ratio!
That’s why I always buy multi-CPU mainboards.
Also don’t forget, that those CPUs with the best ratio, usually are not the newest ones, and so the production process is much more mature. So in tests they all clock very high. But since the company still wants to also sell low-end ones, they re-label them. Which means that usually you can overclock them a lot, without any problems.
The biggest I ever managed, was from 533 to 933 MHz, back with the first Athlons. And the Celerons also were insanely overclockable.
This is still true for most cheaper chips nowadays.
So: Buy a slower one, get a high-end one. :)
Sorry, but I call bullshit on that. I saw a huge test with many games, compression software, etc.
And in the graphic showing the average performance, AMD chips always were cheaper than Intel ones.
In fact your comment is the complete opposite of what I saw there.
Look at the actual names that their engineers use internally, instead of the marketing names disguised as “cool technical model numbers”
Ok, at least simple in theory. In practice you first have to find those actual names.
“Leaving research exclusively in the hands of engineers, we would have perfectly functioning oil lamps, but no electricity.”
Same thing with combustion engines.
...in a BURNING suitcase that is! ^^
Doom? Doom was stupid it was a total joke compared to System Shock (released at the same time). It only got the publicity.
Same as Half-life 2 and Doom 3 got the publicity, while Far Cry and Return to Butcher Bay were the much greater games.
If you want to see a great ID game, look at Quake 3 Arena. It’s still played. Over 10 years after it was released. With CPMA and Defrag, it’s still challenging and modern. Plus there are new engines for it in development, that get close to Crysis looks! (xreal!) Best. shooter. ever.
Did you even read the summary to the end? It says so right there, that this is what they will start doing now:
AMD also announced today that it will be giving away free versions of Pixelux's DMM2 physics engine, which now includes Bullet Physics, to some game developers.
You were more right with your comment, than you could imagine. :)
Bah. My Lion battery still eats your puny Zebra batteries for dinner!
But the specification does not mean anything, since the actual layout on the chip is much harder to get right, than you might imagine.
So since it doesn’t help to get the spec for free: Where can I buy a version that will run my games? (The only resource-intensive processes I run.)
It’s a bit bad no say that it always is 15 years. It’s exponential. The goal is growing exponentially. That 15 years it took to raise processing power to where you could run it on a phone, is maybe a couple of weeks nowadays. That gives you a better feeling for it. ^^
Of course the 1TB in 15 years still fits.
Since when are one or two people enough to assume a globally smelt “bad aroma”??
Actually those are the first two I know, who even know or remember Opera having ads. Geeks.
Meanwhile, my whole family loves Opera. And in Poland, I hear, it’s the number one browser. :)
Also, everybody here who tried surfing over the phone, has heard of Opera.
So that’s what most people know of it.
I usually get two reactions from people I recommend Opera to:
1. They don’t know what it is. But since I show that I like Opera, and they can feel it, they get drawn in.
2. After a week or so, they wouldn’t want to miss it.
For some it’s Firefox, and that is just as good.
Only for IE users I have no heart at all. Since I used to be a webdev. And that thing has caused my nights to be nightmares for years. I would right here sign a law that said that every person using IE past next month will get shot. Without blinking. That’s how horrible it was. Like a war wound kinda...
Well, some people here still prefer KISS to actual efficiency and elegance. As if it were something good.
Idiocracy here we come, indeed...
This is an ELEGANT and efficent solution. Elegance and efficiency are good. Simple “stupid” is just.. stupid. Especially KISS.
Yeah. Five-year-olds. Not grown ups.
But from the comments I see here, it seems that that is exactly Slashdot’s target group. ;)
Uuum, it’s called fertilizer! Look it up!
In most of the world, people use manure (liquid or solid) as the main fertilizer. There’s nothing wrong with it.
As long as you’re not doing it ON the plants. And you should always wash your food before eating it anyway.
(Protip: If washing it would destroy it, it’s processed/industry food, and should be avoided. ^^)
Two easy and proven solutions:
1. Use a proxy country. send it to a country that has no export limitations to Iran.
2. There are companies, that offer you, to open a PO box in the US, and ship anything sent there to you. At least in UAE people do that, and so can buy anything you can get as a US company. The company itself does not care for any export limitations or anything, I think.
Well, after Valve found out, that cutting prices in half is more than doubling their sales, and hence very profitable... and that it also cuts the amount of people downloading for free... they now start to realize that all that lock-in and DRM is simply not needed anymore.
Offer good prices, fair deals, and all the small things, and you don’t have to worry, since people will naturally drift towards buying it, if they can.
I really hope that this means it’s a small step towards getting it to run on Linux. Because then we have the 3 biggest gaming platforms on the PC running on Linux, and there finally is no excuse anymore. :)
No. You oversimplified it. I want a social network where you can CHOOSE who you trust with what information about you.
Like a firewall for your privacy. Like in [fitting inner model] life relationships.
Hmm, you are right. Thank you! That was a thing I was wondering about for a long time! :)
Well, depends if you look at it from the 4chan realm. ;)
Well, I’m no expert, but it’s not very hard to get a building water tight, now is it?