Second law of thermodynamics. The law of entropy. Order decreases in a system. But you are saying that a species is a closed system, which it is not. Order decreases in places other than genetic code, and increases there, thus resulting in evolution. ---
If one of those small patches doesn't work, for whatever reason, you can remove it. With an NT SP, it's all or nothing. If the products are seperate, the update should be seperate. ---
The idea is to perform operations with the computer to make it more likely that the state you measure is the answer. You can never get the chances of the superposition collapsing to that state to be 100%, but you can come very very close, and if the theoretically proposed speeds are accurate in practice, then multiple trials would be trivial. ---
The "device" requirements for quantum cracking grows linearly. One more qubit == one more bit of encryption that can be cracked. At the same speed as before. So time is constant, space/energy grows linearly.
The problem is, they can break the codes that banks use to communicate with each other. They can break the codes ATMs use to communicate with the bank. You'd only be completely safe if your bank uses no electronics at all, just pencil and paper and a big metal vault. ---
The way quantum computers work, it would take the same amount of time to crack 512 bits as it would to crack 56 bits, or any other value.
See, quantum computers don't do things serially like standard computers. They perform their operations on the entire data set all at once. It doesn't matter if the data set has 1 item or 1 billion items, it takes the same amount of time.
This is known as superposition. I don't know a terrible lot about the theory, but you can find out more at The Center for Quantum Computing. This Quantum Computing Tutorial is difficult to understand if you haven't done at least a little comp sci, and the one at qubit.org is better for people who've never heard of quantum computing at all. ---
We have a device that uses quantum computing to do its job. When they say that we don't have a quantum computer, they mean we don't have a general quantum computer. It's a similar situation to the one with the first mainframes, which were not programmable. ---
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Actually, the GUI setup has gone fine every time I installed Linux on my own boxes. No problems at all selecting a server, setting bpp and resolution, and getting a window manager/desktop manager up and running.
After installing Mandrake, Linux booted into X w/KDE. After installing RH5.2, Linux booted into X w/Gnome. After installing Debian, Linux booted into X w/fvwm2 (quickly changed to windowmaker).
So while X configuration still has major problems (on other people's boxes it's been icky... but with crap video cards that shouldn't exist [and sometimes don't]), it can go smoothly. ---
Good. IPP-based fax sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea to me. It'll be great for about as long as it takes spammers to figure out how to exploit it, and be useless after that.
That's what passwords and allow/deny filters are for. Just put the people you want to fax to/from in your allow/deny, or give your friends the password for your printserver... voila! phoneless faxing! ---
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I can have Windows 98 installed and running in about 45 minutes. If you're not used to UNIX, installing Linux will take at least twice as long.
Let me think, how long did my first linux install take, with no help whatsoever? Hmm... I think it was around 45minutes to an hour. How long did your first MS Windows install take you? ---
I re-installed Windows in just under three hours. Hate me, but I'll re-install when Linux is easy like Windows.
Linux may not be very easy to install, but it's a lot faster. I installed and configured Debian in under an hour, over the 'net, as in, I used no local media other than a boot disk and a file on the HD.
I've also installed NT. It took hours, and that computer *still* doesn't work as it should, mainly because the NT install is less userfriendly than the Linux install. Want to know what that option does? Too bad, cause the NT installer won't tell you. Installing NT (for the first time) was harder than installing Linux (redhat 5.1) for the first time. ---
You don't neccessarily have to pay more. In fact, you can pay less. I worked for an ISP that provided simple net access for $10/month. No tech supp for NT or Linux, but you could easily set it up, even with only the information we sent out to new signups (usually along with a cd for Win9x/NT or Mac).
This was a fairly small ISP, so it might be that only the larger ISPs make silly requirements like Qwest has.
The reason Qwest requires Win9x is to simplify support. NT is very different to configure for dial-up than 9x is, and don't even talk about Linux or Mac (or BeOS, or any other O/S). They want to be able to offer good support. What they don't seem to realize is that most Linux users won't call for tech supp, or if they do, it's because they want to know the IP of the DNS servers, or ask some other intelligent question, instead of calling up and saying "I can't connect" and expecting the tech to fix it. ---
Linux is no longer new. People know about Linux, the media doesn't need to bash them over the head with it constantly. The important part is what it does, not what it is. Important to us, important to the public, and important to the people creating this system. ---
Hmmm, let's see, the busiest site running freebsd is yahoo.com, famous for fast downloads....the busiest site running linux is slashdot.org - famous for either being down, or so slow that it isn't worth the wait.
What does that have to do with home machines? I don't think yahoo or slashdot qualify as home machines, and I don't think anyone else does either. ---
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Believe it or not, I have a friend who runs Win95b on a 386. Yes, I said a 386. It takes around 20 minutes to boot, I believe. He's going to try NT4 next. ---
True, many companies charge for GPL software, or charge for it in a package. However, they place no restrictions on what you do with it after you get it. Corel is doing just that, restricting what you do after you get it. It doesn't matter if you can get it somewhere else. ---
When companies do *internal* testing, the QA people get a copy of the pre-release product without agreeing to a license.
Entirely untrue. When you become an employee of a company, that company makes you sign a contract. That contract will generally have an NDA as part of it. So you do have to agree to a "licence". ---
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The concept and design are superior. The performance is not.
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But those are not the windows GUI. I can run kfm in windowmaker, does that make it a part of windowmaker?
Litestep involves not even running explorer.exe, so it's not even running *under* the windows GUI, but instead replacing it.
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what good windows-software is free .. as in open sourced and GPL'ed?
There's a port of GCC for windows.
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Second law of thermodynamics. The law of entropy. Order decreases in a system. But you are saying that a species is a closed system, which it is not. Order decreases in places other than genetic code, and increases there, thus resulting in evolution.
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If one of those small patches doesn't work, for whatever reason, you can remove it. With an NT SP, it's all or nothing. If the products are seperate, the update should be seperate.
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The idea is to perform operations with the computer to make it more likely that the state you measure is the answer. You can never get the chances of the superposition collapsing to that state to be 100%, but you can come very very close, and if the theoretically proposed speeds are accurate in practice, then multiple trials would be trivial.
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I meant we in the same sense as the previous poster did IIRC. I am not involved in this project.
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heck, if windows was right hte first time, why would we need win2k? if linux 1.0 was had been perfect...why would we need 2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0?
Because the technology it is built on has changed, so the software needs to adapt.
Or maybe... you don't! After all, you *can* run 1.0 today. If you want to. But it won't be able to do a lot of the things that, say, 2.2.12 can do.
Feature creep is not the only effect that features can have. It is possible to have a useful new feature.
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The "device" requirements for quantum cracking grows linearly. One more qubit == one more bit of encryption that can be cracked. At the same speed as before. So time is constant, space/energy grows linearly.
Be very very worried, oh paranoid one.
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The problem is, they can break the codes that banks use to communicate with each other. They can break the codes ATMs use to communicate with the bank. You'd only be completely safe if your bank uses no electronics at all, just pencil and paper and a big metal vault.
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The way quantum computers work, it would take the same amount of time to crack 512 bits as it would to crack 56 bits, or any other value.
See, quantum computers don't do things serially like standard computers. They perform their operations on the entire data set all at once. It doesn't matter if the data set has 1 item or 1 billion items, it takes the same amount of time.
This is known as superposition. I don't know a terrible lot about the theory, but you can find out more at The Center for Quantum Computing. This Quantum Computing Tutorial is difficult to understand if you haven't done at least a little comp sci, and the one at qubit.org is better for people who've never heard of quantum computing at all.
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We have a device that uses quantum computing to do its job. When they say that we don't have a quantum computer, they mean we don't have a general quantum computer. It's a similar situation to the one with the first mainframes, which were not programmable.
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Actually, the GUI setup has gone fine every time I installed Linux on my own boxes. No problems at all selecting a server, setting bpp and resolution, and getting a window manager/desktop manager up and running.
After installing Mandrake, Linux booted into X w/KDE. After installing RH5.2, Linux booted into X w/Gnome. After installing Debian, Linux booted into X w/fvwm2 (quickly changed to windowmaker).
So while X configuration still has major problems (on other people's boxes it's been icky... but with crap video cards that shouldn't exist [and sometimes don't]), it can go smoothly.
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Good. IPP-based fax sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea to me. It'll be great for about as long as it takes spammers to figure out how to exploit it, and be useless after that.
That's what passwords and allow/deny filters are for. Just put the people you want to fax to/from in your allow/deny, or give your friends the password for your printserver... voila! phoneless faxing!
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I can have Windows 98 installed and running in about 45 minutes. If you're not used to UNIX, installing Linux will take at least twice as long.
Let me think, how long did my first linux install take, with no help whatsoever? Hmm... I think it was around 45minutes to an hour. How long did your first MS Windows install take you?
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I re-installed Windows in just under three hours. Hate me, but I'll re-install when Linux is easy like Windows.
Linux may not be very easy to install, but it's a lot faster. I installed and configured Debian in under an hour, over the 'net, as in, I used no local media other than a boot disk and a file on the HD.
I've also installed NT. It took hours, and that computer *still* doesn't work as it should, mainly because the NT install is less userfriendly than the Linux install. Want to know what that option does? Too bad, cause the NT installer won't tell you. Installing NT (for the first time) was harder than installing Linux (redhat 5.1) for the first time.
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You don't neccessarily have to pay more. In fact, you can pay less. I worked for an ISP that provided simple net access for $10/month. No tech supp for NT or Linux, but you could easily set it up, even with only the information we sent out to new signups (usually along with a cd for Win9x/NT or Mac).
This was a fairly small ISP, so it might be that only the larger ISPs make silly requirements like Qwest has.
The reason Qwest requires Win9x is to simplify support. NT is very different to configure for dial-up than 9x is, and don't even talk about Linux or Mac (or BeOS, or any other O/S). They want to be able to offer good support. What they don't seem to realize is that most Linux users won't call for tech supp, or if they do, it's because they want to know the IP of the DNS servers, or ask some other intelligent question, instead of calling up and saying "I can't connect" and expecting the tech to fix it.
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Linux is no longer new. People know about Linux, the media doesn't need to bash them over the head with it constantly. The important part is what it does, not what it is. Important to us, important to the public, and important to the people creating this system.
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Will you guys cut it out with the "gay script kiddie" shit? WTF does being gay have to do with being a script kiddie?
::sigh::
And I used to think that the nerd community was accepting... now I see how wrong I was. Bigotry, bigotry, everywhere I go.
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Hmmm, let's see, the busiest site running freebsd is yahoo.com, famous for fast downloads....the busiest site running linux is slashdot.org - famous for either being down, or so slow that it isn't worth the wait.
What does that have to do with home machines? I don't think yahoo or slashdot qualify as home machines, and I don't think anyone else does either.
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Believe it or not, I have a friend who runs Win95b on a 386. Yes, I said a 386. It takes around 20 minutes to boot, I believe. He's going to try NT4 next.
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True, many companies charge for GPL software, or charge for it in a package. However, they place no restrictions on what you do with it after you get it. Corel is doing just that, restricting what you do after you get it. It doesn't matter if you can get it somewhere else.
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When companies do *internal* testing, the QA people get a copy of the pre-release product without agreeing to a license.
Entirely untrue. When you become an employee of a company, that company makes you sign a contract. That contract will generally have an NDA as part of it. So you do have to agree to a "licence".
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