Vote with your wallet, or if that isn't an option, spam'm to pieces. Most people don't complain, so you will have to complain for them. I'd guess that only 1/1000 people do actually complain about that, and the company won't take action before about 25% of customers complains. So get started, 250 complaints to go (most complainers only send only complaint, so this is the low count...).
Oh, come on. Those stacktraces are a godsend (if only someone would make the messages in them more informative). They are terribly easy to use in developments environments, and they are ton's better than any assembly code error messages (if any). Anyone that has seen a memory protection fault in a C++ windows application will know what I mean.
Of course there are applications out there that do it wrong; they use XML for their inner modules to communicate and yes, with Java and many other applications, all libraries are provided with the application. Both Java and.NET are more and more focusing on modularization to make this problem go away. But currently we are stuck with relatively high memory and CPU use for these modules. Most of the time I don't care - I'll rather use an application that is well build and reliable than that is over optimized.
But on the other hand: how many people have you heard complaining that they've run out of disk space because of application code lately? How many of them were using a web-application framework? And last of all, I don't have a feeling at all that overall code quality gets worse. Due to the internet, to better language and IDE support, better project management tools and static analysis, yes even due to XML use within projects I can see code standards rise slowly but steadily.
I've always seen so called bloated applications. Hell, when I was using the Z80 of my MSX there were games on tape that loaded a splash screen of several KB before loading the actual game. You're just getting old, granpa, and you are remembering just the good things. Bring on the HD-DVD wordprocessor, it's about time that MS puts some clip-art on the CD-ROM that is worth taking a look at.
If I tried the forum software (come on guys, just hit the web page of the submitter) it says that I've chosen an already existing password (binky). After that it says that the user already exists (also binky). I don't think this will be a great product for security, somehow. Unless the author makes it really clear what the advantages are over other products the software won't matter. I advise the author to first show the software to friends and improve the software before throwing it in the public domain.
Oh, a friend of mine had a rather rich father who bought such a thing for a 286. Don't know how they used it exactly, as a RAM drive, swap space or even some sort of main memory (I always thought the latter, but that seems extremely unlikely for a 286). For those times, it was a whopping 2 MB of memory. I guess anything beat going to the hard drive in those days. The Borland pascal IDE seemed to be working fine with it, but hell, RAM was *expensive* back then.
Software raid (using RAID 0) 4 Sandisk firewire readers. Now take 4 40MB/sec read time, 8 GB flash disks from same company. RAID is fun if you don't have big seek times, and you'll have 32 GB of storage for far less money than you are trying to spend. Use RAID 5 for less performance, but bigger reliability. Actually, I'm still waiting on someone to perform this experiment, it's still too costly for me. Anyway, I just had to wait for my drive to spinup in my fanless computer, so I'll probably but a single 8 GB card and firewire reader just to see how much it can speed up my VIA EPIA system. I'll just backup to the HDD now and then, and use it for music storage as well.
I didn't think it was lame. It took off all right, which is a pretty big feat for a hobby project of this size. It was probably the closest thing of an X-wing lift off I could witness during my lifetime. I don't think the kids were rooting for its destruction either. Just looking at the lift off would have been awesome. Of course, the thing tearing apart was a nice desert, if a bit dangerous. Looking at the rocket power left, it would not have flown much further anyway.
Don't be an idiot. The libraries that do this have been within Windows for ages. Besides, you can easily use XOR encryption if you just want to hide something. Not really secure, but you'll have to do crypto-analysis to get to the code anyway. Hell, you could use ROT-13. Are you going to look for assembly XOR or ADD routines? You'll probably find a few. Calls to this specific Windows API will be much easier to find.
I've been trying to find out what cryptographic features have been added to the FIPS security module in SP3. I'll be very surprised if there finally is some Elliptic Curve support or anything like that. It seems that.NET has some support for them, but Windows unfortunately still seems to lack support, even though the market is starting to show clear interest in EC crypto.
Anyway, the only thing I can find using Google is some page of Microsoft that's 7 years old. For the same FIPS module - for W2K of course. Does anyone have a link to more recent information? Currently there is little to discuss (unless you mention the missing PKCS#11 support by this arrogant monopolist).
Many languages have constructs for allowing multi-threaded operations (such as Java, which I use myself). I don't think that cross-language frameworks are the way to go, since they cross-language framework might not fit every language well. Maybe you could use them for some languages that are devoid from multi-threaded constructs. The (ok, rather extensive) Java API has pretty good support for parallel programming so I would not easily go for a different API. Furthermore, some languages are much more efficient when they use a certain construct than others, so choosing the same construct for each language might hinder performance.
Of course, the actual constructs used to solve a problem may be rather much the same.
Yeah, the problem is that everyone thinks he/she is a skilled programmer, and all of them still make these stupid mistakes none-the-less. We did some testing with some tools that tested for memory leaks and found that all "experienced" C++ programmers made mistakes cleaning up objects or otherwise malloced memory. The number of CPU cycles needed for garbage collection is not that huge but good programmers brains are as scarce as they were 10 years ago. Lets use those brain cycles sparingly for low level jobs, and use them for something more constructive instead.
If there are an infinite number of parallel universes for each possible quantum outcome, why do we only experience -this- one? I could answer you, but I'm afraid it is equally likely that you are the one that doesn't receive my answer, so I won't.
Sheesh, this was outside the boarding area. You could easily wheel in three complete baggage trolleys loaded with explosives. But, no, the police responds to the movie threat: a big box of electronics with a lot of flashy lights. It amazes me that they did not try to defuse it by choosing between the red and green wires. Keeping her on bail and trying to press charges is just an infantile reaction because they feel they have been had.
Whats more, you are so entrenched in this whole terrorist business that you forget to listen between the lines. Note that since 9-11, there have been exactly zero terrorist attacks within the USA - largely because you don't have a large populace consisting of disgruntled Muslim extremists, probably. It's time to normalize the situation and leave the security to the specialists again, and monitor them enough to be sure that they don't screw up *again*.
- being at a library without their library card (guy got tasered _repeatedly_ after he had already accepted to leave) Interesting. I thought that the US had something of an advantage considering public institutions like that. Museums here (the Netherlands) are not free in general, but libraries are certainly free to be in, lending books just isn't. There are quite a few homeless or out-of-work people that spend some time in a library each week.
Just because it doubles because of economics (which I highly doubt), that still does not mean that it cannot run into technical difficulties. As a previous poster said: it's not like the fuel economy of cars follows anything like Moore's law, not even a seriously slowed down version of it. And you won't be able to run a car on just a few Joules at the end. In other words: there's economics, and there is the real world.
Interestingly, you may not even drive such a car in the Netherlands. You need yearly checks on cars that old, and yours would be more expensive to fix than to replace. This means that the car is going to be scrapped, so it costs resources (although most of the car will be reused). It saves a *lot* of air pollution, oil, gas, irritation and dangerous situations. Of course, the Netherlands is a small, busy place, so we need more stringent rules to keep the place good enough to live in. Our safety record is pretty good because of this. Of course classic cars over a certain age are exempt from these rules.
Oh, and don't leave your doors unlocked. Some idiot may use your car for theft or joyriding, and even if you are not suspect, it won't feel nice if your car has been involved in a serious crash or robbery. Hell, it's quite common that homeless people sleep in unlocked cars and piss and shit in it.
Document scrolling can suck in Word as well. I've had numerous problems with some pictures in Word and scrolling. A lot of times my Word or display driver (latest Nvidia) screws up and leaves artifacts on the pages. I've also lost many files that I edited with Word, or getting them back was as painful as retyping the whole thing. The crash handling in OOo is at least better than that of Word. That said, such applications should not crash so easily, and I've had stability problems with both office suites. I haven't had too much problems with slowness yet, then again, I am a developer and my machines are always rather up to date. Sometimes it (OOo) starts a bit slow, but I can live with that.
Many many things I like better in OOo. Some things I don't like at all. But especially OOo writer is a rather mature application, and I dare say that the interface and general structure of the application is *way* better than Word. Such as bookmarks, the whole table handling (ordering rows etc), updating fields, formatting - I've used both rather extensively, and OOo Writer has many advantages. Cannot say the same thing about the draw and presentation packages though - these are just too shallow if compared to their Office counterparts.
For those too lazy to read the link, PCWorld is still refusing to fix the laptop. They aren't blaming it totally on Linux, now it is a mix of Linux and saying that the warranty doesn't cover the hinge because that is basic wear and tear. Ugh, you know you cannot do this, but I would like to kick this guy in the balls, and if the police comes complaining, you'll say nothing's wrong, it's just "basic wear and tear". Hinges of laptops are notorious for breaking down. Well, tough luck for manufacturers, many of them seem to get it right nowadays. 3 years should be a minimum for a laptop. If we cannot enforce that, we'll be drifting in shitty products for the next 1000 years.
As the GP said: "There's that and the fact that 'effective' in this case still means less effective than every 'normal' form of birth control available."
Less effective in this case means: somebody is going to have kids. Sounds like you are the lucky one.
According to Wikipedia the English term is epicaricacy. So the short answer to "Can you say Schadenfreude in English?" - for most of slashdot - is: NO.
Uh, what will keep the mail man from physically opening the envelope and copying the DVD? At least with a credit card we are talking about two different deliveries.
Key management is the difficult thing, and one time pads won't change that a bit, only make it harder. And these attacks are against public key cryptography using factorization, they do not target symmetric cryptography, which is what one time pads are used for. So although this is an interesting idea, it does not solve the problems of public cryptography discussed here.
By the way, why would you want a memory stick with random noise? It might be better to at least whiten the noise first, just like the money.
Well, according to the article (kindly provided through a link above) they've solved it for the number 15. Just like year ago using a different method. So no, they haven't gotten any further than anybody else (so far).
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Vote with your wallet, or if that isn't an option, spam'm to pieces. Most people don't complain, so you will have to complain for them. I'd guess that only 1/1000 people do actually complain about that, and the company won't take action before about 25% of customers complains. So get started, 250 complaints to go (most complainers only send only complaint, so this is the low count...).
Oh, come on. Those stacktraces are a godsend (if only someone would make the messages in them more informative). They are terribly easy to use in developments environments, and they are ton's better than any assembly code error messages (if any). Anyone that has seen a memory protection fault in a C++ windows application will know what I mean.
.NET are more and more focusing on modularization to make this problem go away. But currently we are stuck with relatively high memory and CPU use for these modules. Most of the time I don't care - I'll rather use an application that is well build and reliable than that is over optimized.
Of course there are applications out there that do it wrong; they use XML for their inner modules to communicate and yes, with Java and many other applications, all libraries are provided with the application. Both Java and
But on the other hand: how many people have you heard complaining that they've run out of disk space because of application code lately? How many of them were using a web-application framework? And last of all, I don't have a feeling at all that overall code quality gets worse. Due to the internet, to better language and IDE support, better project management tools and static analysis, yes even due to XML use within projects I can see code standards rise slowly but steadily.
I've always seen so called bloated applications. Hell, when I was using the Z80 of my MSX there were games on tape that loaded a splash screen of several KB before loading the actual game. You're just getting old, granpa, and you are remembering just the good things. Bring on the HD-DVD wordprocessor, it's about time that MS puts some clip-art on the CD-ROM that is worth taking a look at.
If I tried the forum software (come on guys, just hit the web page of the submitter) it says that I've chosen an already existing password (binky). After that it says that the user already exists (also binky). I don't think this will be a great product for security, somehow. Unless the author makes it really clear what the advantages are over other products the software won't matter. I advise the author to first show the software to friends and improve the software before throwing it in the public domain.
Oh, a friend of mine had a rather rich father who bought such a thing for a 286. Don't know how they used it exactly, as a RAM drive, swap space or even some sort of main memory (I always thought the latter, but that seems extremely unlikely for a 286). For those times, it was a whopping 2 MB of memory. I guess anything beat going to the hard drive in those days. The Borland pascal IDE seemed to be working fine with it, but hell, RAM was *expensive* back then.
Are you really a troll or are you just dense? PCIe x 16 is a lot faster than AGP in in transfer from video card to the CPU.
Software raid (using RAID 0) 4 Sandisk firewire readers. Now take 4 40MB/sec read time, 8 GB flash disks from same company. RAID is fun if you don't have big seek times, and you'll have 32 GB of storage for far less money than you are trying to spend. Use RAID 5 for less performance, but bigger reliability. Actually, I'm still waiting on someone to perform this experiment, it's still too costly for me. Anyway, I just had to wait for my drive to spinup in my fanless computer, so I'll probably but a single 8 GB card and firewire reader just to see how much it can speed up my VIA EPIA system. I'll just backup to the HDD now and then, and use it for music storage as well.
I didn't think it was lame. It took off all right, which is a pretty big feat for a hobby project of this size. It was probably the closest thing of an X-wing lift off I could witness during my lifetime. I don't think the kids were rooting for its destruction either. Just looking at the lift off would have been awesome. Of course, the thing tearing apart was a nice desert, if a bit dangerous. Looking at the rocket power left, it would not have flown much further anyway.
Don't be an idiot. The libraries that do this have been within Windows for ages. Besides, you can easily use XOR encryption if you just want to hide something. Not really secure, but you'll have to do crypto-analysis to get to the code anyway. Hell, you could use ROT-13. Are you going to look for assembly XOR or ADD routines? You'll probably find a few. Calls to this specific Windows API will be much easier to find.
.NET has some support for them, but Windows unfortunately still seems to lack support, even though the market is starting to show clear interest in EC crypto.
I've been trying to find out what cryptographic features have been added to the FIPS security module in SP3. I'll be very surprised if there finally is some Elliptic Curve support or anything like that. It seems that
Anyway, the only thing I can find using Google is some page of Microsoft that's 7 years old. For the same FIPS module - for W2K of course. Does anyone have a link to more recent information? Currently there is little to discuss (unless you mention the missing PKCS#11 support by this arrogant monopolist).
Many languages have constructs for allowing multi-threaded operations (such as Java, which I use myself). I don't think that cross-language frameworks are the way to go, since they cross-language framework might not fit every language well. Maybe you could use them for some languages that are devoid from multi-threaded constructs. The (ok, rather extensive) Java API has pretty good support for parallel programming so I would not easily go for a different API. Furthermore, some languages are much more efficient when they use a certain construct than others, so choosing the same construct for each language might hinder performance.
Of course, the actual constructs used to solve a problem may be rather much the same.
AES-256 is thought to be quite indifferent to quantum computing. It's mostly the regular asymmetric algorithms that are targeted by quantum computing.
Yes, but I suppose they still have to be disks. Maybe we should name them Redundant Array of Independent Drives, what the hey...
Yeah, the problem is that everyone thinks he/she is a skilled programmer, and all of them still make these stupid mistakes none-the-less. We did some testing with some tools that tested for memory leaks and found that all "experienced" C++ programmers made mistakes cleaning up objects or otherwise malloced memory. The number of CPU cycles needed for garbage collection is not that huge but good programmers brains are as scarce as they were 10 years ago. Lets use those brain cycles sparingly for low level jobs, and use them for something more constructive instead.
Sheesh, this was outside the boarding area. You could easily wheel in three complete baggage trolleys loaded with explosives. But, no, the police responds to the movie threat: a big box of electronics with a lot of flashy lights. It amazes me that they did not try to defuse it by choosing between the red and green wires. Keeping her on bail and trying to press charges is just an infantile reaction because they feel they have been had.
Whats more, you are so entrenched in this whole terrorist business that you forget to listen between the lines. Note that since 9-11, there have been exactly zero terrorist attacks within the USA - largely because you don't have a large populace consisting of disgruntled Muslim extremists, probably. It's time to normalize the situation and leave the security to the specialists again, and monitor them enough to be sure that they don't screw up *again*.
Just because it doubles because of economics (which I highly doubt), that still does not mean that it cannot run into technical difficulties. As a previous poster said: it's not like the fuel economy of cars follows anything like Moore's law, not even a seriously slowed down version of it. And you won't be able to run a car on just a few Joules at the end. In other words: there's economics, and there is the real world.
Interestingly, you may not even drive such a car in the Netherlands. You need yearly checks on cars that old, and yours would be more expensive to fix than to replace. This means that the car is going to be scrapped, so it costs resources (although most of the car will be reused). It saves a *lot* of air pollution, oil, gas, irritation and dangerous situations. Of course, the Netherlands is a small, busy place, so we need more stringent rules to keep the place good enough to live in. Our safety record is pretty good because of this. Of course classic cars over a certain age are exempt from these rules.
Oh, and don't leave your doors unlocked. Some idiot may use your car for theft or joyriding, and even if you are not suspect, it won't feel nice if your car has been involved in a serious crash or robbery. Hell, it's quite common that homeless people sleep in unlocked cars and piss and shit in it.
Document scrolling can suck in Word as well. I've had numerous problems with some pictures in Word and scrolling. A lot of times my Word or display driver (latest Nvidia) screws up and leaves artifacts on the pages. I've also lost many files that I edited with Word, or getting them back was as painful as retyping the whole thing. The crash handling in OOo is at least better than that of Word. That said, such applications should not crash so easily, and I've had stability problems with both office suites. I haven't had too much problems with slowness yet, then again, I am a developer and my machines are always rather up to date. Sometimes it (OOo) starts a bit slow, but I can live with that.
Many many things I like better in OOo. Some things I don't like at all. But especially OOo writer is a rather mature application, and I dare say that the interface and general structure of the application is *way* better than Word. Such as bookmarks, the whole table handling (ordering rows etc), updating fields, formatting - I've used both rather extensively, and OOo Writer has many advantages. Cannot say the same thing about the draw and presentation packages though - these are just too shallow if compared to their Office counterparts.
As the GP said: "There's that and the fact that 'effective' in this case still means less effective than every 'normal' form of birth control available."
Less effective in this case means: somebody is going to have kids. Sounds like you are the lucky one.
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Uh, what will keep the mail man from physically opening the envelope and copying the DVD? At least with a credit card we are talking about two different deliveries.
Key management is the difficult thing, and one time pads won't change that a bit, only make it harder. And these attacks are against public key cryptography using factorization, they do not target symmetric cryptography, which is what one time pads are used for. So although this is an interesting idea, it does not solve the problems of public cryptography discussed here.
By the way, why would you want a memory stick with random noise? It might be better to at least whiten the noise first, just like the money.
Well, according to the article (kindly provided through a link above) they've solved it for the number 15. Just like year ago using a different method. So no, they haven't gotten any further than anybody else (so far).