With TV, you can't really "go elsewhere" when you're watching a show. With the web, the first thing I'll do after seeing such an ad is close the browser (maybe even clean all cookies), and never go to that site again!
I can't think of anything that's sooooo good on the web that I'd tolerate a 15 second full screen pop-up (that's probably blinking in my face with irritating colors).
I don't get it. You can send your ashes to space for $5,300, but a letter is nearly 4 times more expensive?
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The CPU won't run unsigned code?
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I didn't get some points in the post either.
For example, wasn't the whole point of signing binaries was that the CPU itself wouldn't run an unsigned one? (Palladium?) Else what's to stop me from compiling the sources myself?
Or are they saying that my compiler (and my compiled linux kernel) will all of a sudden stop playing downloaded MP3 just for the fact that it wasn't signed by Linus?
And who signs things in the first place? (Linus or Bill Gates?)
Hmm... 2-5 phones on a line are unlikely to hurt anyone. But try connecting 10-20, and you'll notice how the line drops dead from time to time. There is only so much power in the line to feed all those phones (and get them to ring, etc.)
Most music on kazaa is low quality 128 mp3s. I can seriously tell the difference between a well encoded song and some crap on kazaa. If people would just encode things properly, I wouldn't buy CDs! There is only so much trouble I'm willing to go through to download a good encoding of a song... after that, I usually end up paying for the CD.
In my opinion, 128 MP3s work to their advatage as asvertising. You like the song, you wanna hear a good non-crap version of it, you go buy a CD and encode yourself a good copy.
What they should do is give away 100% free unlimited 128 MP3s (like Kazaa ones), and actually sell VBR or some high encoded stuff.
Also those are not some "temporary" optimizations. There are simply better (but more complex) methods of doing numerical things - so in 10 years, they'll still be faster.
AND, people will always find better uses for CPU power IF it is available (if you don't use it up by bloated code).
Can you say ray-traced true-live-movie-quality DOOM 7? (I'm sure that can bring down to its knees any computer we can come up with in the next 10 years).
Readability of such things often sacrifices speed. Ie: multiplication can be done in like maybe 7 or so lines of C, yet if you use FFT the code (& its speed) increases.
A very good straight forward implementation of most basic algorithms (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) can be found in BigInteger class in Java source code (one that comes with the SDK). Basically they took word-for-word what's in the Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming Vol. 2, and implemented it in Java.
His book, Applied Cryptography is widely regarded as the most accessible, and one of the most important books on cryptographic algorithms ever published.
"A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography" - Bruce Schneier (author of Applied Cryptography).
Quote from Secrets & Lies.
"Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around."
The point is that there are ways of being a good capitalist, and ways of being a bad capitalist. If you start a company, employ people, provide opportunities, improve the economy, etc., then you're doing a service to the world. Ie: Ethics!
If you screw the people (like exporting their jobs, and selling them things you're now manufacturing abroad!), have no ethics (lie, steal, cheat - Enron; screw the people!), pump and dump, use monopoly powers to drive competition out of business, intentionally create situations that lead to hardships (so you can favorably dump some stock), etc., then capitalism starts looking less and less attractive.
There used to be this concept: if you work hard you make a good living. If you have the will and desire to work hard to succeed, you will succeed. The idea that you can make anything of yourself; rise up through the ranks from a McJob to a millionare, etc. Well, now a days, it's been less and less true. The rich are getting richer, and the poor (a VAST majority) is getting poorer (and if you have less than 1 million, you're poor - and will sooner or later get seriously screwed by the rich).
I've seen people loose their HOMES in the last few years! (ie: think of the prospect of living a stable life, and then going homeless - then think of Enron)
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On top of the fact that XP runs FASTER without the SP1...
...allows ISPs ban every computer using non-Intel CPUs and non-MS software
Most ISPs indirectly imply a certain OS, and will not support others.
When was the last time you saw an AOL disk for Linux?
With TV, you can't really "go elsewhere" when you're watching a show. With the web, the first thing I'll do after seeing such an ad is close the browser (maybe even clean all cookies), and never go to that site again!
I can't think of anything that's sooooo good on the web that I'd tolerate a 15 second full screen pop-up (that's probably blinking in my face with irritating colors).
Well if people were more helpful, maybe that $25 millions from that country would find its rightful owner and provide a fair share to everyone.
But no, first we don't help them, then we call it spam, and now we unite against them! What is the world coming to?
Are you forgetting this?
You're confusing this with the IT industry...
http://www.starwars.com/databank/droid/c3po/index. html
C-3PO (See-Threepio) is NOT in Episode III. (it's the only episode that is not grayed out).
(then again, they might not have had time to gray it out yet).
Anyone who can afford this can probably afford to launch their own satellite...
The weird thing is that instead of a few such mails, you can send your own satellite up...
Delivery of one kilo of cargo... ...
id donate to a fund to have lance take an hour space walk w/ no space suit!
Or how about have'em sent there a kilo at a time...
I don't get it. You can send your ashes to space for $5,300, but a letter is nearly 4 times more expensive?
The CPU won't run unsigned code?
I didn't get some points in the post either.
For example, wasn't the whole point of signing binaries was that the CPU itself wouldn't run an unsigned one? (Palladium?) Else what's to stop me from compiling the sources myself?
Or are they saying that my compiler (and my compiled linux kernel) will all of a sudden stop playing downloaded MP3 just for the fact that it wasn't signed by Linus?
And who signs things in the first place? (Linus or Bill Gates?)
That's exactly what I was thinking. At least large Matrix trailer was large enough to make my machine cry...
Oh, yeah, and Don Knuth books never had an 8bit byte. I think he used 5 bits.
Hmm... 2-5 phones on a line are unlikely to hurt anyone. But try connecting 10-20, and you'll notice how the line drops dead from time to time. There is only so much power in the line to feed all those phones (and get them to ring, etc.)
Most music on kazaa is low quality 128 mp3s. I can seriously tell the difference between a well encoded song and some crap on kazaa. If people would just encode things properly, I wouldn't buy CDs! There is only so much trouble I'm willing to go through to download a good encoding of a song... after that, I usually end up paying for the CD.
In my opinion, 128 MP3s work to their advatage as asvertising. You like the song, you wanna hear a good non-crap version of it, you go buy a CD and encode yourself a good copy.
What they should do is give away 100% free unlimited 128 MP3s (like Kazaa ones), and actually sell VBR or some high encoded stuff.
Are there more people using the project than developers? If so, it's successful.
Hmm...
If in 10 years...
A lot of things can happen in 10 years...
Also those are not some "temporary" optimizations. There are simply better (but more complex) methods of doing numerical things - so in 10 years, they'll still be faster.
AND, people will always find better uses for CPU power IF it is available (if you don't use it up by bloated code).
Can you say ray-traced true-live-movie-quality DOOM 7? (I'm sure that can bring down to its knees any computer we can come up with in the next 10 years).
Readability of such things often sacrifices speed. Ie: multiplication can be done in like maybe 7 or so lines of C, yet if you use FFT the code (& its speed) increases.
A very good straight forward implementation of most basic algorithms (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) can be found in BigInteger class in Java source code (one that comes with the SDK). Basically they took word-for-word what's in the Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming Vol. 2, and implemented it in Java.
And strangely enough, his pants grow with him! Must get kind of tight though... Ouch!
His book, Applied Cryptography is widely regarded as the most accessible, and one of the most important books on cryptographic algorithms ever published. "A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography" - Bruce Schneier (author of Applied Cryptography). Quote from Secrets & Lies.
Imagine how expensive it would be if they used Windows!?
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Sure glad they're "saving us money" by using Linux...
Good luck with that "become a professor or researcher in computer science" thing.
"Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around."
The point is that there are ways of being a good capitalist, and ways of being a bad capitalist. If you start a company, employ people, provide opportunities, improve the economy, etc., then you're doing a service to the world. Ie: Ethics!
If you screw the people (like exporting their jobs, and selling them things you're now manufacturing abroad!), have no ethics (lie, steal, cheat - Enron; screw the people!), pump and dump, use monopoly powers to drive competition out of business, intentionally create situations that lead to hardships (so you can favorably dump some stock), etc., then capitalism starts looking less and less attractive.
There used to be this concept: if you work hard you make a good living. If you have the will and desire to work hard to succeed, you will succeed. The idea that you can make anything of yourself; rise up through the ranks from a McJob to a millionare, etc. Well, now a days, it's been less and less true. The rich are getting richer, and the poor (a VAST majority) is getting poorer (and if you have less than 1 million, you're poor - and will sooner or later get seriously screwed by the rich).
I've seen people loose their HOMES in the last few years! (ie: think of the prospect of living a stable life, and then going homeless - then think of Enron)