I find it counter-intuitive for Sun to be advertising with gator. Are people with gator installed likely to buy a Sun, or make purchasing decisions? Most of the times gator has tried to install itself has been from sketchy websites.
Electricity was once a luxury too, as was phone service (my electricity and phone line come from a public company, but are gov't sanctioned monopolies). People within the local city limits have municipal electricity. And were thinking about municipal broadband (for gov't offices first, private residences later).
Mark my words, there will be a day when broadband access is no longer a 'luxury'.
Which zlib bug was that? The only recent one I can recall was from zlib deallocating a buffer twice, but MS wasn't affected since they checked if the handle had already been deallocated.
gcc 3.4 is slated to include a hand-written (as oppsed to yacc-built) recursive descent parser (for c++ only). That should give a nice speed bump (and fixes over 100 bugs, too).
I got a copy last month, and I've only read a few chapters, and skimmed some others, but it looks liek a good book.
Don't let the title foo you -- it contains high level descriptions of the algorithms as well as the mathematical concepts. They cover some advanced realtime techniques that older books don't (since the processing power wasn't there even 4 years ago), but also discuss optimizing for low-end systems.
I do recommend this book if you ahve any interest in graphic programming (whether you use Cg or not). If you use it with Coputer Graphics (3rd edition), you should have access to pretty much all graphic algorithms. (at least until TAOP volume 7: Computer Graphics is written:)
Actually, he is the accidental leader of the open source movement.
Let's look at life before linux...
A few people were using BSD for 386 (though not many, ATT lawsuits had rendered BSD practicaly unusable). GNU software was only available for commercial unices, and was limited to gcc, emacs, and replacements for command line utilities.
The only alternate x86 OS was minix, which was dominated by utilities with oddball licenses. Eric Raymond was, at the time, a devoted minix user (and wrote/ported a handful of minix utilities).
Linux was the key, a GPL kernel that required the GNU O/S. Whether he likes it or not, whether you like it or not, Linus Torvaldes is an open source "leader", elected by linux users.
For those of you (including myself) who were expecting an updated version of the Applied Cryptography, this book is NOT it. Based on the pre-publication blurbs here and there, I thought it may be a simple how-to book without too much theory. The book didn't turn out to be that sort of thing either.
This book is, sort of an executive summary of Applied Cryptography (AC), with some updates. It touches upon the insights that Scheneier mentioned in Secret and Lies (like crypto is the easy part and that won't solve security). It mentions some newer material, notably AES related stuff. The description is, in effect, a simplified version of AC. Also, it doesn't try to cover everything, and yes, some explanations about the practical applications are stressed slightly more than in AC.
So if you want to be practical, just go over the essential and latest stuff, this is a good book to read. But I must say that it's not as fun to read as AC. Not as many jokes, and absolutely no crazy stuff (like bio-computing and the significance of dark matters). Oh well, maybe that's what being practical means... But it doesn't give you the feeling of throughness that AC gave. Maybe this comes from my reading AC too much in detail (I actually translated the whole book into Japanese), but I think it is inherent in the book itself. In trying to cover as much ground as possible, the book hurries a lot.
So if you are in a hurry to cover just enough important stuff, get this book. And if you need some explanation on the newer stuff, get this. But I also recommend getting AC as well.
The latest opinion polls confirm it -- liberals are dieing. Let's ignore the rhetoric and look at the numbers. 73% of voters overall, and 61% of democrats approve of the George Bush Presidency. Meanwhile, Liberal leader Bill Clinton is an embarrassment to himself. And I won't even mention France, Germany, Russia, China, or North Korea.
for streaming audio, where lower quality is ok, I prefer windows media over real (shitty quality, shittier player) or mp3 (doesn't stream as well, sounds worse at low bitrates).
I wouldn't rip all my cds to wma (a friend of mine did and regretted it) -- aiff is a better answer -- but for music/audio sample downloads, I recommend it to several fortune 500 clients I've consulted for.
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I wish my phone had a 'hash' key. MY drug dealer is on speed dial, so that's almost as good.
Mark my words, there will be a day when broadband access is no longer a 'luxury'.
but is it better than sex with a mare?
better than porn coming on you.
Compared to some companies (VA LINUX, I'm looking at you!), The RIAA's numbers are stellar.
If it was complete, there wouldn't be any comments here, now would there?
Which zlib bug was that? The only recent one I can recall was from zlib deallocating a buffer twice, but MS wasn't affected since they checked if the handle had already been deallocated.
if you've got ``Hard Memory'', I think that means your computer doesn't need any more porn...
Does slashdot have a policy about posting links to warez/pr0n/illegal content/etc sites?
Yes! We never link to them until after all the editors have verified the site is currently up, and downloaded all the goodies.
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emacs can't print color on my bw laser printer!
gcc 3.4 is slated to include a hand-written (as oppsed to yacc-built) recursive descent parser (for c++ only). That should give a nice speed bump (and fixes over 100 bugs, too).
It's called HURD. Look into it.
If you buy a CD, money goes to the composer as well as the artist, record company, store, distributor, etc. etc.
Don't let the title foo you -- it contains high level descriptions of the algorithms as well as the mathematical concepts. They cover some advanced realtime techniques that older books don't (since the processing power wasn't there even 4 years ago), but also discuss optimizing for low-end systems.
I do recommend this book if you ahve any interest in graphic programming (whether you use Cg or not). If you use it with Coputer Graphics (3rd edition), you should have access to pretty much all graphic algorithms. (at least until TAOP volume 7: Computer Graphics is written
Let's look at life before linux...
A few people were using BSD for 386 (though not many, ATT lawsuits had rendered BSD practicaly unusable). GNU software was only available for commercial unices, and was limited to gcc, emacs, and replacements for command line utilities.
The only alternate x86 OS was minix, which was dominated by utilities with oddball licenses. Eric Raymond was, at the time, a devoted minix user (and wrote/ported a handful of minix utilities).
Linux was the key, a GPL kernel that required the GNU O/S. Whether he likes it or not, whether you like it or not, Linus Torvaldes is an open source "leader", elected by linux users.
This book is, sort of an executive summary of Applied Cryptography (AC), with some updates. It touches upon the insights that Scheneier mentioned in Secret and Lies (like crypto is the easy part and that won't solve security). It mentions some newer material, notably AES related stuff. The description is, in effect, a simplified version of AC. Also, it doesn't try to cover everything, and yes, some explanations about the practical applications are stressed slightly more than in AC.
So if you want to be practical, just go over the essential and latest stuff, this is a good book to read. But I must say that it's not as fun to read as AC. Not as many jokes, and absolutely no crazy stuff (like bio-computing and the significance of dark matters). Oh well, maybe that's what being practical means... But it doesn't give you the feeling of throughness that AC gave. Maybe this comes from my reading AC too much in detail (I actually translated the whole book into Japanese), but I think it is inherent in the book itself. In trying to cover as much ground as possible, the book hurries a lot.
So if you are in a hurry to cover just enough important stuff, get this book. And if you need some explanation on the newer stuff, get this. But I also recommend getting AC as well.
Now go post a duplicate story or freeze the db or something.
The latest opinion polls confirm it -- liberals are dieing. Let's ignore the rhetoric and look at the numbers. 73% of voters overall, and 61% of democrats approve of the George Bush Presidency. Meanwhile, Liberal leader Bill Clinton is an embarrassment to himself. And I won't even mention France, Germany, Russia, China, or North Korea.
Yeah, Bermuda makes the *best* inflatable dolls.
BSD: For those that love unix (no wonder it's dieing!)
Linux: For those that hate Microsoft.
I wouldn't rip all my cds to wma (a friend of mine did and regretted it) -- aiff is a better answer -- but for music/audio sample downloads, I recommend it to several fortune 500 clients I've consulted for.
Knuth will be releasing TAOCP 6 soon, half of which will cover state machines. I think I'll wait for that.
Don't you know editors don't read slashdot, and definitely don't post to stories! Next thing you know, you won't be posting dupes!
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