I was at a rather fine presentation at a Java user conference once. It looked like a demonstration of Eclipse refactoring: everything was refactored into patterns. The guy new all the right key bindings and everything moved blindingly fast. Within half an hour fields were moved/introduced, factory methods and classes created, variables renamed: it was rather fun and impressive to look at.
Then - in the second half - he explained in depth that he just made a complete mess of a perfectly fine and simple *working* application by introducing all these patterns. Funny and a lesson people won't forget easily.
Lets hope that they will at least include an introduction that can be read by the layman. Already I can see that pages containing cryptographic protocols are squarely aimed at mathematics. This while most people looking for such pages are users of the algorithms rather than researchers. Having fully correct pages is one thing, being able to read them is another.
I've created a perfectly fine, fully HTML-4 compatible user manual (for end users) once only to see it demolished with technical terms by a manager. It was missing some parts that were part of the contract. Unfortunately nobody of the target audience would understand these terms. A completely correct and completely unreadable manual was the result (in Word-98 "HTML" no less).
In short, I'm a bit afraid of university professors and students filling in articles. Sure, they will be correct. But will the be readable (== useful)? Hopefully they will keep their target audience in mind. Even if that just consists of other professors, there's the question on what notation to use/mention.
Yes, the problem with him is that he can't be anybody else than himself. It's as much acting as Arnie did. The role in which Arnie excelled was basically himself: a muscular robot. That does not mean that the movies are not fun to watch, Will Smith can be amazingly funny. But he'll be Will Smith all of the time. Now take a look at an actor like Depp. Sure you can recognize him, but you could watch a whole movie without actually really noticing that he's in there.
So indeed, don't put him in there unless it really fits his personality. Maybe that's what they are doing though. Many SF novels are written around one or a few heroes that play out fantastic voyages.
64x SSD, probably single level, where intel just goes to 10 chips for its high end SSD devices? Multiple controllers on one board, needing active cooling? You bet it will be high priced. I would guess 600 times 6 = 3600 dollar at the minimum, but probably with a price premium of say 2400 because this is an emerging market, and they don't have too much competition on this level (yet).
6000 would be 6 times the price of my current desktop.
I don't know where I got the info, I think in some comments on the video, but there was mention that it looked to the system just like a normal drive. I don't think they mentioned that it looked like SATA/SCSI or IDE, but I don't think that would matter much.
You *are* joking right? Currently the memory bandwidth is only a minor problem against disk performance. Disk IO is either really slow or really really expensive. Even nowadays, I can download faster than that I can save / PAR2 and unrar my binaries. I won't go into playing games at the same time: impossible. Disk spaed is a slow crawl. And that's just consumer stuff, I won't go into tuning high throughput databases.
"Carbon monoxide has an indirect radiative forcing effect by elevating concentrations of methane and tropospheric ozone through chemical reactions with other atmospheric constituents (e.g., the hydroxyl radical, OH.) that would otherwise destroy them. Through natural processes in the atmosphere, it is eventually oxidized to carbon dioxide. Carbon monoxide concentrations are both short-lived in the atmosphere and spatially variable.
Anthropogenic CO from automobile and industrial emissions may contribute to the greenhouse effect and global warming. In urban areas carbon monoxide, along with aldehydes, reacts photochemically to produce peroxy radicals. Peroxy radicals react with nitrogen oxide to increase the ratio of NO2 to NO, which reduces the quantity of NO that is available to react with ozone. Carbon monoxide is also a constituent of tobacco smoke." Source: wikipedia.
I do think you wanted to refer to carbon dioxide, which is the primary greenhouse gas. Producing monoxide is stupid: it still contains energy and it will form co2 in the long term anyway.
Please try to have them spend as little money as possible and inform their relatives. They may try to influence them, or in the worst case have their accounts blocked. No reason for them to become bankrupt because of old age.
"I don't even keep a joint checking account with my wife... why the hell would I allow her access to my retirement savings?"
Because in old style marriages the husband does the work and the wife stays at home to do the work there (as well as in the neighborhood, she seems to have been pretty active). Even though she does not make money, shouldn't she have access to the savings in such a case?
"I'm also not clear on how she managed to remortgage the house without her husband's signature."
Well, maybe it was hers for starters. Maybe she fooled her husband, pretty easy to do if one can only communicate through written word and hand gestures. Or maybe he did set the signature (it doesn't say he didn't, and although it says that the family warned her, this could easily exclude her husband).
It's a pretty severe penalty for being stupid. She does not seem to be a bad person, so I certainly does not wish this for her. And I do think it might be hard for her husband and family as well. So no, IMHO she certainly does not deserve it if you look at it that way.
Do people who die in car accidents that they created deserve to die? Because you made one mistake in a split second? I think that people who think such things are incredibly stupid themselves.
She does not need $400K to dig herself out. Even though she send over that amount of money, she's got it by mortgaging her house. As long as she can pay her bills, she can keep it mortgaged. She probably had some money on the bank as well.
Personally, if I was her husband or family, I would have tried to ask for her to be marked incompetent, so she would need someones signature before making deals. Actually, I would still try and do that, with her consent if possible.
Don't forget that Lego is almost synonymous with quality. I got some "fake" Lego blocks some time ago (as a gift from a company), but the blocks were much more rigid than those from Lego and didn't sick together as well. Those kind of blocks you only buy once. My old Lego is currently used by my nephew (and I got some robotics kit myself I don't use). Of course, he's short on "lights" as well:)
Yes, Lego is expensive, but it simply won't break down as easily as other toys.
Uh, I did not know that the Dutch red light district had any competition from the Danish red light district. Unless you mean to have sex with Lego figures, that is.
Seriously, Slashdot, pointing to an article that contains a link to the 80 MB TIFF image at full resolution. Feeling a bit sadistic today, are we? Oh well, I'm rather early so I clicked it nonetheless. Feeling like a bit of a egocentric sadist myself today.
It works without a hitch in the AlternaTIFF TIFF Image Viewer. You can clearly see the galaxies, but otherwise it is a large sheet of colored dots (as expected I suppose).
We've looked at the story about the three little piggies and the bad wolf and have come to the conclusion that we don't like houses that can fly. Of course, most of Western Europe can have rather low temperatures and a lot of wetness.
Give or take a few campers, in the Netherlands there are almost *no* pre-build homes. Then again, homes are really really expensive here. Of course, we still put students in container homes...
Well, it certainly won't outperform most stream ciphers (such as RC4), at least not without hardware support. With hardware support, it won't matter too much: most of the time other factors will be the limiting factor (bus, cache size, bad software etc. etc.).
There is this story of a woman living near Amsterdam Schiphol airport that calls in if there is a plane landing or taking off that makes a sound not entirely like the other ones. She's a bit of a dafty playing a piano like instrument so I'm not sure they accept her calls just out of politeness or more seriously, but the television report seemed to be genuine. In the interview she said she normally got it right.
Whatever fan you are using, they gather dust and get noisy over time. Some of my drives have started to whine as well, including rather new WD drives, which tend to be one of the most quiet drives around. Nothing that simple, unfortunately.
From wikipedia (and my mind): "Serpent was widely viewed as taking a more conservative approach to security than the other AES finalists, opting for a larger security margin: the designers deemed 16 rounds to be sufficient against known types of attack, but specified 32 rounds as insurance against future discoveries in cryptanalysis."
Rijndael is probably better researched as well, since it became AES (and since nothing is found yet, it's probably more secure). Anyway, for additional security I would stick to AES-256 or just plain AES-128. It's very likely to be much faster and nobody with a serious mind is going to attack the crypto-protocol used (unless it is single DES or something similar).
There are some IDE controllers that can do encryption/decryption on the fly, using a password from the BIOS. I think some Lenovo systems sport such chips.
I'm waiting for the first company to standardize AES and SHA1/SHA2 within their x86 processors. VIA already has this, but I'm not sure it is ready for standardization in their form.
Then the time would be minimal for any protocol that uses the hardware encryption.
Exactly, and if you get asked, use a code name or a year (or both, such as in Ubuntu). The advantage for code names is that they can be picked up by more easily. Then add something to indicate if you have new releases within that year, or for that major version. So you would get something like:
iProduct 2008 R5 (with code name Messy Mosquito for your favorite users).
Of course, this is internally known by the development team as Messy Mosquito or version 2.6.7 build 3154. Of course, this version consists of many different components, each with their own version number. The build is probably a nightly build or something.
Internally, we use version numbers like this: Mayor, Minor, Patch, Build where Mayor means next generation of product, minor means (noticeable) interface changes, Patch means bugs and small features and build number means just that - build without any changes. Build number is not coupled to changes at all and keeps running on and on.
The trick is to couple release names with version names. As long as they stay the same, there is no worry at all.
Windows is not build to be used by command prompt too often. Although it is nice you can do runas on a command prompt, it is definately not the same as sudo is in the linux camp. The option itself is nice, but the things environment it sits in makes it much less usable.
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I was at a rather fine presentation at a Java user conference once. It looked like a demonstration of Eclipse refactoring: everything was refactored into patterns. The guy new all the right key bindings and everything moved blindingly fast. Within half an hour fields were moved/introduced, factory methods and classes created, variables renamed: it was rather fun and impressive to look at.
Then - in the second half - he explained in depth that he just made a complete mess of a perfectly fine and simple *working* application by introducing all these patterns. Funny and a lesson people won't forget easily.
Lets hope that they will at least include an introduction that can be read by the layman. Already I can see that pages containing cryptographic protocols are squarely aimed at mathematics. This while most people looking for such pages are users of the algorithms rather than researchers. Having fully correct pages is one thing, being able to read them is another.
I've created a perfectly fine, fully HTML-4 compatible user manual (for end users) once only to see it demolished with technical terms by a manager. It was missing some parts that were part of the contract. Unfortunately nobody of the target audience would understand these terms. A completely correct and completely unreadable manual was the result (in Word-98 "HTML" no less).
In short, I'm a bit afraid of university professors and students filling in articles. Sure, they will be correct. But will the be readable (== useful)? Hopefully they will keep their target audience in mind. Even if that just consists of other professors, there's the question on what notation to use/mention.
OK, haven't seen that one, I'll try and give it a look. I'm not a movie buff, but it is a bit boding that I haven't heard from it up till now.
Yes, the problem with him is that he can't be anybody else than himself. It's as much acting as Arnie did. The role in which Arnie excelled was basically himself: a muscular robot. That does not mean that the movies are not fun to watch, Will Smith can be amazingly funny. But he'll be Will Smith all of the time. Now take a look at an actor like Depp. Sure you can recognize him, but you could watch a whole movie without actually really noticing that he's in there.
So indeed, don't put him in there unless it really fits his personality. Maybe that's what they are doing though. Many SF novels are written around one or a few heroes that play out fantastic voyages.
64x SSD, probably single level, where intel just goes to 10 chips for its high end SSD devices? Multiple controllers on one board, needing active cooling? You bet it will be high priced. I would guess 600 times 6 = 3600 dollar at the minimum, but probably with a price premium of say 2400 because this is an emerging market, and they don't have too much competition on this level (yet).
6000 would be 6 times the price of my current desktop.
I don't know where I got the info, I think in some comments on the video, but there was mention that it looked to the system just like a normal drive. I don't think they mentioned that it looked like SATA/SCSI or IDE, but I don't think that would matter much.
You *are* joking right? Currently the memory bandwidth is only a minor problem against disk performance. Disk IO is either really slow or really really expensive. Even nowadays, I can download faster than that I can save / PAR2 and unrar my binaries. I won't go into playing games at the same time: impossible. Disk spaed is a slow crawl. And that's just consumer stuff, I won't go into tuning high throughput databases.
"Since the plant was privately owned, and wanted run themselves, they had to let a lot of the power go as heat."
I think both your (ex-)boss and those politicians should be shot, actually.
"Carbon monoxide has an indirect radiative forcing effect by elevating concentrations of methane and tropospheric ozone through chemical reactions with other atmospheric constituents (e.g., the hydroxyl radical, OH.) that would otherwise destroy them. Through natural processes in the atmosphere, it is eventually oxidized to carbon dioxide. Carbon monoxide concentrations are both short-lived in the atmosphere and spatially variable.
Anthropogenic CO from automobile and industrial emissions may contribute to the greenhouse effect and global warming. In urban areas carbon monoxide, along with aldehydes, reacts photochemically to produce peroxy radicals. Peroxy radicals react with nitrogen oxide to increase the ratio of NO2 to NO, which reduces the quantity of NO that is available to react with ozone. Carbon monoxide is also a constituent of tobacco smoke." Source: wikipedia.
I do think you wanted to refer to carbon dioxide, which is the primary greenhouse gas. Producing monoxide is stupid: it still contains energy and it will form co2 in the long term anyway.
Please try to have them spend as little money as possible and inform their relatives. They may try to influence them, or in the worst case have their accounts blocked. No reason for them to become bankrupt because of old age.
"I don't even keep a joint checking account with my wife... why the hell would I allow her access to my retirement savings?"
Because in old style marriages the husband does the work and the wife stays at home to do the work there (as well as in the neighborhood, she seems to have been pretty active). Even though she does not make money, shouldn't she have access to the savings in such a case?
"I'm also not clear on how she managed to remortgage the house without her husband's signature."
Well, maybe it was hers for starters. Maybe she fooled her husband, pretty easy to do if one can only communicate through written word and hand gestures. Or maybe he did set the signature (it doesn't say he didn't, and although it says that the family warned her, this could easily exclude her husband).
It's a pretty severe penalty for being stupid. She does not seem to be a bad person, so I certainly does not wish this for her. And I do think it might be hard for her husband and family as well. So no, IMHO she certainly does not deserve it if you look at it that way.
Do people who die in car accidents that they created deserve to die? Because you made one mistake in a split second? I think that people who think such things are incredibly stupid themselves.
She does not need $400K to dig herself out. Even though she send over that amount of money, she's got it by mortgaging her house. As long as she can pay her bills, she can keep it mortgaged. She probably had some money on the bank as well.
Personally, if I was her husband or family, I would have tried to ask for her to be marked incompetent, so she would need someones signature before making deals. Actually, I would still try and do that, with her consent if possible.
Don't forget that Lego is almost synonymous with quality. I got some "fake" Lego blocks some time ago (as a gift from a company), but the blocks were much more rigid than those from Lego and didn't sick together as well. Those kind of blocks you only buy once. My old Lego is currently used by my nephew (and I got some robotics kit myself I don't use). Of course, he's short on "lights" as well :)
Yes, Lego is expensive, but it simply won't break down as easily as other toys.
Uh, I did not know that the Dutch red light district had any competition from the Danish red light district. Unless you mean to have sex with Lego figures, that is.
Seriously, Slashdot, pointing to an article that contains a link to the 80 MB TIFF image at full resolution. Feeling a bit sadistic today, are we? Oh well, I'm rather early so I clicked it nonetheless. Feeling like a bit of a egocentric sadist myself today.
It works without a hitch in the AlternaTIFF TIFF Image Viewer. You can clearly see the galaxies, but otherwise it is a large sheet of colored dots (as expected I suppose).
"Why? What do you put in your walls?"
Stone or concrete.
We've looked at the story about the three little piggies and the bad wolf and have come to the conclusion that we don't like houses that can fly. Of course, most of Western Europe can have rather low temperatures and a lot of wetness.
Give or take a few campers, in the Netherlands there are almost *no* pre-build homes. Then again, homes are really really expensive here. Of course, we still put students in container homes...
Well, it certainly won't outperform most stream ciphers (such as RC4), at least not without hardware support. With hardware support, it won't matter too much: most of the time other factors will be the limiting factor (bus, cache size, bad software etc. etc.).
Or two steps.....?????
There is this story of a woman living near Amsterdam Schiphol airport that calls in if there is a plane landing or taking off that makes a sound not entirely like the other ones. She's a bit of a dafty playing a piano like instrument so I'm not sure they accept her calls just out of politeness or more seriously, but the television report seemed to be genuine. In the interview she said she normally got it right.
Whatever fan you are using, they gather dust and get noisy over time. Some of my drives have started to whine as well, including rather new WD drives, which tend to be one of the most quiet drives around. Nothing that simple, unfortunately.
Serpent? What the hack are you using Serpent for?
From wikipedia (and my mind):
"Serpent was widely viewed as taking a more conservative approach to security than the other AES finalists, opting for a larger security margin: the designers deemed 16 rounds to be sufficient against known types of attack, but specified 32 rounds as insurance against future discoveries in cryptanalysis."
Rijndael is probably better researched as well, since it became AES (and since nothing is found yet, it's probably more secure). Anyway, for additional security I would stick to AES-256 or just plain AES-128. It's very likely to be much faster and nobody with a serious mind is going to attack the crypto-protocol used (unless it is single DES or something similar).
There are some IDE controllers that can do encryption/decryption on the fly, using a password from the BIOS. I think some Lenovo systems sport such chips.
I'm waiting for the first company to standardize AES and SHA1/SHA2 within their x86 processors. VIA already has this, but I'm not sure it is ready for standardization in their form.
Then the time would be minimal for any protocol that uses the hardware encryption.
Exactly, and if you get asked, use a code name or a year (or both, such as in Ubuntu). The advantage for code names is that they can be picked up by more easily. Then add something to indicate if you have new releases within that year, or for that major version. So you would get something like:
iProduct 2008 R5 (with code name Messy Mosquito for your favorite users).
Of course, this is internally known by the development team as Messy Mosquito or version 2.6.7 build 3154. Of course, this version consists of many different components, each with their own version number. The build is probably a nightly build or something.
Internally, we use version numbers like this:
Mayor, Minor, Patch, Build where Mayor means next generation of product, minor means (noticeable) interface changes, Patch means bugs and small features and build number means just that - build without any changes. Build number is not coupled to changes at all and keeps running on and on.
The trick is to couple release names with version names. As long as they stay the same, there is no worry at all.
Windows is not build to be used by command prompt too often. Although it is nice you can do runas on a command prompt, it is definately not the same as sudo is in the linux camp. The option itself is nice, but the things environment it sits in makes it much less usable.