What I'd do in a case like that is put it somewhere near the middle. That way, it's about the same time no matter which end you start at, and if you do start in the middle, you still have to guess if mine is above or below your starting point giving yourself a 50/50 chance of starting out by going in the wrong direction.
What? You wanted something deeper without having to know anything?
Not quite. I wanted to learn enough to understand what they were talking about, even if I couldn't follow the math they used in the proof, and that you (and a few others) have given me. Thank you.
Thank you. However, one question remains: is that the maximum number of keys, or the average number. Either way, of course, it's a huge number, but it does make a difference.
Yeah; I know, and I'd not have wondered if they'd expressed it that way. It's good to know that I'm not the only reader that doesn't understand the terminology.
TFA refers (as does the summary) to complexity of 2^119, and possibly lowering it to 2^110.5. Could somebody rephrase that in a way that people like me, who aren't cryptography specialists can understand what they're talking about?
There's another small thing or two you can do. First, if it's safe to do so (Don't do this one if your job's in a Very Bad Neighborhood!) park your car at the far end of the lot. Walking back and forth from your car to work and back isn't much, but it's better than nothing. Second, whenever possible, take the stairs, not the elevator, especially if you're going up. There are a lot of little things you can do and they all add up, but the best thing you can do for your health is find a job with a company that cares enough for its employees that it doesn't require long-term 12 hour shifts.
In general, I agree with you. The drivers were buggy and work couldn't be arsed to stop buying machines with them. (Made ghosting the machines easier, donchaknow.) However, a video driver issue shouldn't halt the system, and that's what happened, every time. I'd get the infamous NT BSOD, which meant that the system was now halted and hat to be reset or power-cycled. What should have happened (and would have if the drivers weren't all in RNG 0) was that I'd get an error message and the drivers would be reloaded/restarted without all my work going to/dev/null.
If so, it's a good thing because it makes crashes more survivable. I don't know how true it is, but NT 4 is said to nave moved all the drivers into RNG 0 to speed them up. This meant that a buggy sound-card or video driver could crash the system. I do know that when I had NT 4 on my work box, it would BSOD three or four times a day, all caused by the video driver. It's nice to see that Microsoft learns from its mistakes, at least sometimes.
*Shrug.* I use Fedora 10 and Gnome. (I'm not an early adopter; I tend to wait until the bugs that got through beta-testing are ironed out before upgrading.) I find it faster and better on the same hardware than Fedora 9, but YMMV and I'll not argue the point. At the worst, I don't think the performance is noticeably slower unless you're a hard-core gamer, and I'm not.
Win7 as being faster than Vista, and generally much closer to XP
And this makes it better than XP? Man, if that's the way people judge Microsoft OSs, I'm glad I went to Fedora Linux. Every new version is better, has more features and is faster on the same hardware. If Linux can do it, why can't Microsoft?
If you're referring to, "There's a sucker born every minute and two to take him," you're attributing it to the wrong person, although Bill Fields (as his friends called him) would have agreed with the sentiment. The man you're thinking of was P.T. Barnum.
If you believe that the price of everything is just based on the costs (including taxes), you need to study a bit beyond what you've done currently.
My parents owned and ran a business, that I wasn't interested in taking over, although I did work there when I was young. I know how prices are set, not from theory, but from watching it done in practice.
With Microsoft, patches are sent out once a month, with very rare exceptions. That means, if a security issue is found on Patch Tuesday and fixed 24 hours later, it's not made available until next month. With Linux, patches are sent out as soon as they're ready, not on a fixed, arbitrary schedule.
No, it's not. When you tax a business, that tax becomes a cost of doing business. Then, the price of everything that business sells is calculated so as to recover all the costs of doing business, including taxes. In the long run, taxing business just makes them collect the money from their customers and pass it on to the state. If you don't believe this, learn something about how businesses work in The Real World.
Just because I'm christian doesn't mean that I don't believe in God, although it probably means I don't believe in Jesus. In any event, the one time our precinct was in the Sanctuary, we all treated it with the respect its congregation would have wanted, and none of us had any problems with it even though none of us were of that denomination.
You do realize, don't you, that the sea level has been rising for about 12,000 years now, with no ill effect? I live on a coastal plain, just north of Los Angeles, and I'm not worried because I think the whole thing's been greatly exaggerated because Al Gore and his friends have found a way to profit from our fear.
I take it, then, that you are not religious, and object to voting in a building devoted to the practice of a religion? I ask, because although not a christian, I not only had no problem with voting in a church, I had no problem with running a precinct in a church. I see no reason not to use a church for voting if it's convenient, and fail to understand your reluctance to enter one, even to vote.
You're forgetting one thing....higher temperatures can be a problem as much as lower.
No, I'm not. I'm just pointing out that higher temperatures aren't the unmitigated disaster the AGW fanatics claim it is, and that lower temperatures are probably more trouble than higher.
It also means that areas in the far north that are currently too cold for agriculture will become available for crops, even if marginally. Probably, you'll be able to grow things that are currently grown in places like northern Europe, but won't grow there any more because it's too warm there. As an example, a thousand years ago, people were growing grapes for wine in Yorkshire and Scotland. Then it got too cold for that. Yorkshire is just barely getting warm enough for viticulture again, but Scotland hasn't reached that point yet.
Now is it worth severe economic consequences to lower the temperature...
Well, let's see. A higher average temperature means longer, warmer summers over more of the world, leading to longer growing seasons, bigger harvests and a larger food supply. A lower temperature leads to shorter growing seasons, smaller harvests, less food and, in extreme cases, crop failures. Granted, the one-twentieth of one degree that you refer to is probably not enough to make a difference, but I think the basic principle is clear. Cleaning up smog is good (Living near Los Angeles, I know how bad it can be.) and pouring endless amounts of CO2 into the air is probably not a good idea, but humanity has not only survived times when it was warmer than it is now, it prospered during htem.
We all know that Disney likes to play 800 pound gorilla, and I'm not defending them. If you go to the children's section of a good DVD store, you'll find animated versions of many of the classic stories that Disney's also used. You'll also see that the creators were careful to avoid making their characters look too much like the Disney ones, and there's not much anybody can do about it because it's clear, in those cases, that there's no infringement. The point is, you have to be original, and not look like you're copying what's already been done.
As far as your last question goes, IANAL, and I don't know what the limits and requirements for a trademark are. I do know, however, that MasterCard has trademarked "priceless."
Then Disney takes them and rewrites them slightly to have a Disney twist. Then Disney copyrights them.
Not so. What Disney copyrights is the animated features they create retelling those stories, and they also trademark the appearance of the characters in the features. Anybody can make their own version as long as they don't use the same script, the same images or borrow any incidents Disney created for their version. If your claim were correct, Disney couldn't have made (as an example) Alice In Wonderland, because MGM had done a live-action version that was still in copyright at the time.
You need to buy ID theft insurance because TRW, Visa and so on can't figure out to keep your personal data secure. It's exactly the same as the way you have to buy, install and use a third-party anti-virus because Microsoft can't figure out how to keep its OS secure.
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What I'd do in a case like that is put it somewhere near the middle. That way, it's about the same time no matter which end you start at, and if you do start in the middle, you still have to guess if mine is above or below your starting point giving yourself a 50/50 chance of starting out by going in the wrong direction.
Not quite. I wanted to learn enough to understand what they were talking about, even if I couldn't follow the math they used in the proof, and that you (and a few others) have given me. Thank you.
Thank you. However, one question remains: is that the maximum number of keys, or the average number. Either way, of course, it's a huge number, but it does make a difference.
Yeah; I know, and I'd not have wondered if they'd expressed it that way. It's good to know that I'm not the only reader that doesn't understand the terminology.
TFA refers (as does the summary) to complexity of 2^119, and possibly lowering it to 2^110.5. Could somebody rephrase that in a way that people like me, who aren't cryptography specialists can understand what they're talking about?
There's another small thing or two you can do. First, if it's safe to do so (Don't do this one if your job's in a Very Bad Neighborhood!) park your car at the far end of the lot. Walking back and forth from your car to work and back isn't much, but it's better than nothing. Second, whenever possible, take the stairs, not the elevator, especially if you're going up. There are a lot of little things you can do and they all add up, but the best thing you can do for your health is find a job with a company that cares enough for its employees that it doesn't require long-term 12 hour shifts.
In general, I agree with you. The drivers were buggy and work couldn't be arsed to stop buying machines with them. (Made ghosting the machines easier, donchaknow.) However, a video driver issue shouldn't halt the system, and that's what happened, every time. I'd get the infamous NT BSOD, which meant that the system was now halted and hat to be reset or power-cycled. What should have happened (and would have if the drivers weren't all in RNG 0) was that I'd get an error message and the drivers would be reloaded/restarted without all my work going to /dev/null.
If so, it's a good thing because it makes crashes more survivable. I don't know how true it is, but NT 4 is said to nave moved all the drivers into RNG 0 to speed them up. This meant that a buggy sound-card or video driver could crash the system. I do know that when I had NT 4 on my work box, it would BSOD three or four times a day, all caused by the video driver. It's nice to see that Microsoft learns from its mistakes, at least sometimes.
*Shrug.* I use Fedora 10 and Gnome. (I'm not an early adopter; I tend to wait until the bugs that got through beta-testing are ironed out before upgrading.) I find it faster and better on the same hardware than Fedora 9, but YMMV and I'll not argue the point. At the worst, I don't think the performance is noticeably slower unless you're a hard-core gamer, and I'm not.
And this makes it better than XP? Man, if that's the way people judge Microsoft OSs, I'm glad I went to Fedora Linux. Every new version is better, has more features and is faster on the same hardware. If Linux can do it, why can't Microsoft?
If you're referring to, "There's a sucker born every minute and two to take him," you're attributing it to the wrong person, although Bill Fields (as his friends called him) would have agreed with the sentiment. The man you're thinking of was P.T. Barnum.
My parents owned and ran a business, that I wasn't interested in taking over, although I did work there when I was young. I know how prices are set, not from theory, but from watching it done in practice.
With Microsoft, patches are sent out once a month, with very rare exceptions. That means, if a security issue is found on Patch Tuesday and fixed 24 hours later, it's not made available until next month. With Linux, patches are sent out as soon as they're ready, not on a fixed, arbitrary schedule.
No, it's not. When you tax a business, that tax becomes a cost of doing business. Then, the price of everything that business sells is calculated so as to recover all the costs of doing business, including taxes. In the long run, taxing business just makes them collect the money from their customers and pass it on to the state. If you don't believe this, learn something about how businesses work in The Real World.
Just because I'm christian doesn't mean that I don't believe in God, although it probably means I don't believe in Jesus. In any event, the one time our precinct was in the Sanctuary, we all treated it with the respect its congregation would have wanted, and none of us had any problems with it even though none of us were of that denomination.
You do realize, don't you, that the sea level has been rising for about 12,000 years now, with no ill effect? I live on a coastal plain, just north of Los Angeles, and I'm not worried because I think the whole thing's been greatly exaggerated because Al Gore and his friends have found a way to profit from our fear.
I don't see it as something to worry about, personally. But then, I'm not a Canadian, so there might be something there I'm not aware of.
I take it, then, that you are not religious, and object to voting in a building devoted to the practice of a religion? I ask, because although not a christian, I not only had no problem with voting in a church, I had no problem with running a precinct in a church. I see no reason not to use a church for voting if it's convenient, and fail to understand your reluctance to enter one, even to vote.
No, I'm not. I'm just pointing out that higher temperatures aren't the unmitigated disaster the AGW fanatics claim it is, and that lower temperatures are probably more trouble than higher.
It also means that areas in the far north that are currently too cold for agriculture will become available for crops, even if marginally. Probably, you'll be able to grow things that are currently grown in places like northern Europe, but won't grow there any more because it's too warm there. As an example, a thousand years ago, people were growing grapes for wine in Yorkshire and Scotland. Then it got too cold for that. Yorkshire is just barely getting warm enough for viticulture again, but Scotland hasn't reached that point yet.
Well, let's see. A higher average temperature means longer, warmer summers over more of the world, leading to longer growing seasons, bigger harvests and a larger food supply. A lower temperature leads to shorter growing seasons, smaller harvests, less food and, in extreme cases, crop failures. Granted, the one-twentieth of one degree that you refer to is probably not enough to make a difference, but I think the basic principle is clear. Cleaning up smog is good (Living near Los Angeles, I know how bad it can be.) and pouring endless amounts of CO2 into the air is probably not a good idea, but humanity has not only survived times when it was warmer than it is now, it prospered during htem.
As far as your last question goes, IANAL, and I don't know what the limits and requirements for a trademark are. I do know, however, that MasterCard has trademarked "priceless."
Except that one.
Not so. What Disney copyrights is the animated features they create retelling those stories, and they also trademark the appearance of the characters in the features. Anybody can make their own version as long as they don't use the same script, the same images or borrow any incidents Disney created for their version. If your claim were correct, Disney couldn't have made (as an example) Alice In Wonderland, because MGM had done a live-action version that was still in copyright at the time.
You need to buy ID theft insurance because TRW, Visa and so on can't figure out to keep your personal data secure. It's exactly the same as the way you have to buy, install and use a third-party anti-virus because Microsoft can't figure out how to keep its OS secure.