The original quote is "Three can keep a secret if two are dead." and it has always been attributed to Ben Franklin... or maybe it was Poor Richard. I can never remember which one.
Jesus, man. Okay... so you didn't read the article because it is/.ed, but you can at least read the summary! It's streaming using swarming and it provides smooth progressive playback of content. Streaming itself is very old. But streaming while swarming is news.
And by 10 Mbps, you mean a bit under 1 Mbps, right?
Bluetooth has bandwidth of about 720 kbps, if I recall correctly. This makes it suitable for most applications, but lacking in several others. For example, high quality Bluetooth headphones (not phone quality Bluetooth headsets) would be possible with triple the bandwidth, but aren't really possible with current Bluetooth.
And when you say 'by all appearances', what indicates that he wasn't honorably discharged? Everything I've seen indicates that he was honorably discharged, but did some questionable things after he got out.
And you are a complete and total jackass. I didn't know that ECCs could be used to correct erasures. I was corrected, I admitted I was wrong. So, shut the fuck up, dick.
I did read their website and it looks like their revolutionary new replacement for TCP is UDP with their proprietary ECC built on top of it. However, there is a good reason why TCP never used ECC (they did exist back then).
1) The major problem a TCP packet will face is getting dropped. They mention this problem. They claim their encoding will solve this problem. It won't. No ECC algorithm will allow you to recover a dropped packet.
2) Most packets that are corrupted are corrupted well beyond the repair of most ECCs.
3) ECCs will cause packet size to increase. Not a huge problem, but why do it when ECCs don't help too much to begin with?
You should check your facts. Wikipedia has a great discussion of this. As the grandparent said, there are certainly a lot of connections to Oregon. There are also a lot of connections to a lot of other states. No mention of Indiana though. Honestly, there is no place on Earth where Springfield could exist, which is part of the joke.
Technically, it isn't AES if you are using a 256 bit key. AES specifically defines a 128 bit key. If you use anything higher than that, you're using Rijndael.
Hate to break it to you/.ers, but Linux isn't free in a corporate setting. I don't know if the TCO is mroe or less or equal than Windows, but it definitely isn't free.
Sure, you can get Linux for free off any website. However, a company is probabl going to want support for the OS. That costs money. In addition, a company is going to need people to administer the servers. Again, this costs money, both in saleries and training costs.
The only time is Linux is free is when you use it on a home machine and it is your hobby.
End up in a cell block with Worldcom and Enron execs? Last I hear, they were still living in their mansions. I'd like to go to jail if that is the kind of cell block I get.
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The comparison with the Sharp Zaurus is sort of stupid. The OQO is meant to be a compact PC, not a personal digital assistant. Comparing them is somewhat stupid.
However, if you must compare them, I think the OQO is light years ahead of the Zaurus. 1 GHz processor, lots of RAM, 10 GB HDD, Firewire, Full-size USB, the ability to run non-embedded OS, etc. I'm personally going to be very willing to shell out $1500+ for one of these. Being able to carry an actual PC (not a quasi-PC) in my pocket is beautiful.
It seems to me that Linus was just as guilty of letting that flame war go on. In fact, if I recall correctly, Linus was the one that started the 'flaming'. See, what most people don't realize is that flame wars are like dancing: it takes two people to have one.
Did you read what he had to say? Well, of course not. This is./, where no one actually reads anything. He said that there are a lot of things wrong with the book and that when it comes out, he would probably help criticize it to the fullest. He, however, is waiting for it to come out to the public out of respect for the publishing process.
Actually, they are not related. Multiple Personality Disorder (more accurately known as Dissociative Identity Disorder) is a dissociative mental disorder. Schizophrenia is a very seperate classification of mental disorders. What cause schizophrenia and dissociative disorders is very different and the symptoms are very different.
Not only are the two not the same thing, they are COMPLETELY unrelated.
Ummm, you realize this is true for ANY email service? Any mail server is hosted on a server can can go down or crash. In fact, I would trust Google or Yahoo or MSN more. They usually have clusters of servers. If one goes down, it is unlikely that the other 99 aren't going to go down. And they keep regular backups and such.
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The original quote is "Three can keep a secret if two are dead." and it has always been attributed to Ben Franklin... or maybe it was Poor Richard. I can never remember which one.
Jesus, man. Okay... so you didn't read the article because it is /.ed, but you can at least read the summary! It's streaming using swarming and it provides smooth progressive playback of content. Streaming itself is very old. But streaming while swarming is news.
And by 10 Mbps, you mean a bit under 1 Mbps, right?
Bluetooth has bandwidth of about 720 kbps, if I recall correctly. This makes it suitable for most applications, but lacking in several others. For example, high quality Bluetooth headphones (not phone quality Bluetooth headsets) would be possible with triple the bandwidth, but aren't really possible with current Bluetooth.
And when you say 'by all appearances', what indicates that he wasn't honorably discharged? Everything I've seen indicates that he was honorably discharged, but did some questionable things after he got out.
And you are a complete and total jackass. I didn't know that ECCs could be used to correct erasures. I was corrected, I admitted I was wrong. So, shut the fuck up, dick.
I did not know this. Thanks! Do you have any good literature on erasure correction?
I did read their website and it looks like their revolutionary new replacement for TCP is UDP with their proprietary ECC built on top of it. However, there is a good reason why TCP never used ECC (they did exist back then).
1) The major problem a TCP packet will face is getting dropped. They mention this problem. They claim their encoding will solve this problem. It won't. No ECC algorithm will allow you to recover a dropped packet.
2) Most packets that are corrupted are corrupted well beyond the repair of most ECCs.
3) ECCs will cause packet size to increase. Not a huge problem, but why do it when ECCs don't help too much to begin with?
Not to mention, scientists will set up reserves with massive attempts to create offspring!
Only problem is... the female of the species is even rarer than a secure Windows box.
"I'm sorry sir, your bags went to Uranus."
That'd be a tight fit.
You should check your facts. Wikipedia has a great discussion of this. As the grandparent said, there are certainly a lot of connections to Oregon. There are also a lot of connections to a lot of other states. No mention of Indiana though. Honestly, there is no place on Earth where Springfield could exist, which is part of the joke.
Also, 3DES is about as good as AES with regards to security, but magnitudes slower. Thousands of cycles compared to AES's 100 cycles.
Technically, it isn't AES if you are using a 256 bit key. AES specifically defines a 128 bit key. If you use anything higher than that, you're using Rijndael.
OSS advocates often decry Microsoft for stealing ideas from everyone left and right, yet Mozilla has to steal their advertising ideas from Apple?
They aren't patenting PANs, they are patenting a particular method of implementing a PAN. Nice try at MS bashing though.
Hate to break it to you /.ers, but Linux isn't free in a corporate setting. I don't know if the TCO is mroe or less or equal than Windows, but it definitely isn't free.
Sure, you can get Linux for free off any website. However, a company is probabl going to want support for the OS. That costs money. In addition, a company is going to need people to administer the servers. Again, this costs money, both in saleries and training costs.
The only time is Linux is free is when you use it on a home machine and it is your hobby.
Anyone else find it ironic that the title of the album is "Contraband"?
To show that OS X is better than Windows AND Linux.
End up in a cell block with Worldcom and Enron execs? Last I hear, they were still living in their mansions. I'd like to go to jail if that is the kind of cell block I get.
The comparison with the Sharp Zaurus is sort of stupid. The OQO is meant to be a compact PC, not a personal digital assistant. Comparing them is somewhat stupid.
However, if you must compare them, I think the OQO is light years ahead of the Zaurus. 1 GHz processor, lots of RAM, 10 GB HDD, Firewire, Full-size USB, the ability to run non-embedded OS, etc. I'm personally going to be very willing to shell out $1500+ for one of these. Being able to carry an actual PC (not a quasi-PC) in my pocket is beautiful.
Since forever. In the English language, there are a few idioms used to describe mathematical concepts.
"times less" == division
"times greater" == multiplication
By your logic, if I say "A is 10 times greater than B" and B is 1, does that mean A is 11?
In reality, "A is 10 times greater than B" is equivalent to saying "A=B*10". As such, "A is 10 times less than B" is equivalent to saying "A=B/10".
You mean like the OQO?
It seems to me that Linus was just as guilty of letting that flame war go on. In fact, if I recall correctly, Linus was the one that started the 'flaming'. See, what most people don't realize is that flame wars are like dancing: it takes two people to have one.
Did you read what he had to say? Well, of course not. This is ./, where no one actually reads anything. He said that there are a lot of things wrong with the book and that when it comes out, he would probably help criticize it to the fullest. He, however, is waiting for it to come out to the public out of respect for the publishing process.
Actually, they are not related. Multiple Personality Disorder (more accurately known as Dissociative Identity Disorder) is a dissociative mental disorder. Schizophrenia is a very seperate classification of mental disorders. What cause schizophrenia and dissociative disorders is very different and the symptoms are very different.
Not only are the two not the same thing, they are COMPLETELY unrelated.
Ummm, you realize this is true for ANY email service? Any mail server is hosted on a server can can go down or crash. In fact, I would trust Google or Yahoo or MSN more. They usually have clusters of servers. If one goes down, it is unlikely that the other 99 aren't going to go down. And they keep regular backups and such.