I propose an amendment. Keep it simple, but also cater to the experts. Power users will enjoy having SVG support in their browser. Joe Random probably will not need such complexity in the near future. Who says you cannot please everyone?
Unfortunately, it is impossible to prove anything with science. My physics teacher revealed offered this insight for someone who said they had "proved" something about electromagnetism in a lab: science is like observing two people play chess without knowing the rules. After a game or two you might be able to say, "The bishop moves diagonally." But how long would it take you to figure out the rule that a pawn can move forward twice, but only on its first move? And what happens to your theory when in the same turn a player's rook and king move? I personally have never used nor witnessed the capturing en passant rule. An observer of my games would never see such a thing, and that exact same thing can happen in science.
Proving something is, if anything, mathematical. Not scientific.
In case anybody is wondering - of course that cannot be done. While the atlantic ocean has been swum, it was done by swimming six hours a day in two hour intervals (and took almost 80 days). And the person who did it was a highly trained swimmer, not a corporate CEO.
The man who swam the Atlantic Ocean traveled from Cape Code to France. That's considerably farther than Norway to Iceland to USA, seeing as how Earth is generally spherical and all.
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices
An underlying UNIX philosophy is do one thing and do it well. Evidence can be seen in "devices" like cat, head, grep, etc. It is the amalgumation of these devices that provides the real power.
One-time pads are easily manipulated to do this. For example, say you have the ciphertext*:
EYUJO WSYCU XLMUD NADLD
If the authorities somehow forced you to reveal what the message was, you could give them the decoy key,
KQPWN CAPEL EREPB IHJNF
which decrypts into the plaintext
THEMA TRIXI STHEB ESTXX
However your partner in crime would have the key
VBTVU CDNTI LSATK FWORF
which decrypts into the plaintext
IWANT TOKIL LSLAS HDOTX
I would expect it to be difficult for many other cryptosystems (which are "imperfect") to provide the same functionality. You also run the risk of your counterpart also being caught. If you give them different keys, they'll suspect something fishy.
why ship it so it's sitting in the store room for 3 days?
Because like all things human, things can easily go wrong. Corporate probably thinks, "Well, if store X does not have the game in time because of a shipping error, they're fucked."
All the while, Store Y is quivering with anticipation with their near-future ability to add another money vault to their site.
I'm afraid a more fitting title would be "Star Wars Episode III: Death of the Franchise"..Nevermind, that was the working title of both Episodes I and II.
(Admittedly the lightsabre fight could turn out very well.)
Allied Business predicts there will be only a paltry 2,000 laptops with "micro" fuel cells shipped worldwide in 2004.
Four years later, that could spiral upward to 1 million fuel cell laptops and $150 million in revenue, growing to 120 million laptops and $1.2 billion by 2011, the firm predicts.
In a hundred years, the universe will consist of nothing but these laptops with nifty batteries.
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I propose an amendment. Keep it simple, but also cater to the experts. Power users will enjoy having SVG support in their browser. Joe Random probably will not need such complexity in the near future. Who says you cannot please everyone?
Why would the speed of epaper matter? Unless the keys are going to be changing their image every few seconds, epaper should be plenty fast.
I for one welcome our new Jedi overlords.
Apu: In fact, I can recite pi to 40,000 places. The last digit is one!
Homer: Mmmm, pi.
It's from the episode titled "Marge in Chains"
Unfortunately, it is impossible to prove anything with science. My physics teacher revealed offered this insight for someone who said they had "proved" something about electromagnetism in a lab: science is like observing two people play chess without knowing the rules. After a game or two you might be able to say, "The bishop moves diagonally." But how long would it take you to figure out the rule that a pawn can move forward twice, but only on its first move? And what happens to your theory when in the same turn a player's rook and king move? I personally have never used nor witnessed the capturing en passant rule. An observer of my games would never see such a thing, and that exact same thing can happen in science.
Proving something is, if anything, mathematical. Not scientific.
In case anybody is wondering - of course that cannot be done. While the atlantic ocean has been swum, it was done by swimming six hours a day in two hour intervals (and took almost 80 days). And the person who did it was a highly trained swimmer, not a corporate CEO. The man who swam the Atlantic Ocean traveled from Cape Code to France. That's considerably farther than Norway to Iceland to USA, seeing as how Earth is generally spherical and all.
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices
An underlying UNIX philosophy is do one thing and do it well. Evidence can be seen in "devices" like cat, head, grep, etc. It is the amalgumation of these devices that provides the real power.
How much more money do we need to throw out there to get a nice shuffling feature?
You'd be pissed if that guy in the carpool who lives half an hour out of town didn't even say "Thanks" for picking him up every morning.
Your analogy falls apart when one considers that the guy probably didn't build the huge office building to which you commute every morning.
People aren't usually expecting blockbuster games until they're part of a franchise.
They slip by unnoticed for a while then explode.
I pay for my cable every month. How come the FCC regulates my South Park, then?
If the authorities somehow forced you to reveal what the message was, you could give them the decoy key,
which decrypts into the plaintext
However your partner in crime would have the key
which decrypts into the plaintext
I would expect it to be difficult for many other cryptosystems (which are "imperfect") to provide the same functionality. You also run the risk of your counterpart also being caught. If you give them different keys, they'll suspect something fishy.
* Any errors are human.
why ship it so it's sitting in the store room for 3 days?
Because like all things human, things can easily go wrong. Corporate probably thinks, "Well, if store X does not have the game in time because of a shipping error, they're fucked."
All the while, Store Y is quivering with anticipation with their near-future ability to add another money vault to their site.
I think this is the study to which you referred: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-03 -19
When was the last time anyone saw Furby, really? I thought the military already neutralized that threat.
I'm afraid a more fitting title would be "Star Wars Episode III: Death of the Franchise" ..Nevermind, that was the working title of both Episodes I and II.
(Admittedly the lightsabre fight could turn out very well.)
Will Google's search application functions feature Clippy? Or that damned animated XP Dog?
Allied Business predicts there will be only a paltry 2,000 laptops with "micro" fuel cells shipped worldwide in 2004.
Four years later, that could spiral upward to 1 million fuel cell laptops and $150 million in revenue, growing to 120 million laptops and $1.2 billion by 2011, the firm predicts.
In a hundred years, the universe will consist of nothing but these laptops with nifty batteries.