Actually, I'm scarily efficient at typing ALL CAPS without a Caps Lock. I *never* use the Caps Lock. I used to remap Caps to be "Control," but these days I just don't bother.
I hate streaming, especially if I have a choppy net connection at the time. And if it's a particularly funny video, I don't want to have to download it a second or third time to show my wife or a friend.
Do any of these copycats offer actual video downloads, or are all of these guys locking up content behind various streaming schemes?
Also, is there any way to bust the video out of a Flash Video player? I'd like to view some of these videos under Linux on AMD64 w/out installing the 32-bit Firefox and Flash It seems like it should be possible to extract the streaming link from the Flash file somehow and just grab the content w/out the player. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
Maybe in your limited experience. Fixed point only means that the "binary point" (or in the case of BCD, the "decimal point") doesn't move relative to the accumulator. Fixed point vs. floating point is orthogonal to binary vs. BCD representations. You can have fixed-point BCD as well.
Floating point is more flexible, but comes with dynamic quantization issues when you add and subtract values that are wildly different in magnitude. Fixed point is more numerically predictable because you have static quantization: At any given step you decide how many fractional digits you wish to keep and how many you wish to discard. You need to make an a priori tradeoff between dynamic range and precision. If you're building, say, a controller circuit, you might prefer a fixed point implementation since its easier to predict the error terms, as it's not dependent on system inputs.
Separately, BCD vs. binary depends on the use. For fiduciary calculations, since finances were historically been computed by hand in decimal, adding machines, and later computers, are expected to perform rounding by the same methods as people computing by hand. The most efficient way to do this seems to be with BCD or some other decimal-derived representation. (The old TI Home Computer used a Radix-10000 representation, IIRC.) Binary representations make the most use of a given number of bits, and thus are the most generally useful outside the world of finance. That is, they offer the greatest amount of precision for a given number of mantissa bits. However, human-friendly decimal numbers seem to round "oddly." However, that's just an artifact of the fact we learn arithmetic in base 10, not base 2 or base 16.
Cell phones retransmit periodically, and towers keep some level of estimate of where their subscribers are, whether they're talking or not. How do you think you can receive phone calls when tooling down the Interstate at 70MPH? If you don't believe me, put your cell phone next to an amplified speaker some time. Every so often you'll hear a "bipida bipida bipida," or some other pattern, depending on what standard your carrier runs.
When you're stationary, such events are widely spaced. But, when your phone detects that it can't "hear" the tower, it'll try to hop over to a neighboring tower. Just examining hand-off patterns for idle phones along interstates should give you a reasonable estimate of overall speed when averaged over a large number of samples.
Not just mechanical output devices. I wrote a TTY driver for a Viewpoint terminal that I was driving from an 8052. That thing needed delays all over the place. (Imagine my surprise, years later, to open one up and find an 8051 sitting in there.) I actually discovered it needed delays from the UNIX side of things, because the first thing I implemented was a serial-to-serial pass through, and I had to mess w/ the various stty delay settings before I stopped losing text.
But, yes... 80 columns goes back to Hollerith, and 8-column tabs goes back to an old teletype.... and yet these standards persist.:-) I personally expand all tabs to spaces just to avoid tab damage. I've gotten some horribly dainbramaged files over the years and never like being on the receiving end of that.
Hrm. I'm an engineer (small 'e' to denote lack of RPE) that holds the job title "CPU architect." I happily use the verbs "engineer" and "architect" to describe what I do. And let me tell you: The designers do the design work. We architects? Not so much.
As for chef vs. cook... Well, "cook" is a title also.
Incidentally, not all engineers and architects need to be registered or licensed. Only certain tasks require a registered engineer to sign off on the documentation--which is why most people I know who graduated with an EE or ME degree don't bother. Building architects, yeah, they need to be licensed. CPU architects? Software architects? Network architects? Not so much. (Although for network architecture there are plenty of vendor certs you can go get.)
EFI may make its first order of business to switch out of real mode, but when the RESET signal's deasserted, I believe even the latest and greatest fire up in Real mode and jump to, effectively, FFFF:0000.
If Microsoft were pursuing a two-pronged strategy of evalute/develop on one hand and use/debug on the other, I'd expect the evaluate/develop portion to be a much smaller population and the rest of the company getting fed the corporate dog food. This is inconsistent with the data.
This is a flawed argument. Suppose I send the following message: 0em59wjwsf21hn
How would you distinguish the following possible decryptions?
attack at dawn
attack at noon
attack tuesday
retreat @ once
banana sundaes
submarine down
omg! ponies!!!
slashdot sucks
See, for a OTP message of length N, it can be "decrypted" to all possible messages of length N. You have no idea which one is right. The only information you can glean from an intercepted OTP message is an upper bound on its length.
As others have pointed out, the OTP is unbreakable if you never reuse a pad, and the pad is truly random. Once you reuse a pad, you now have something to guide you when "decrypting:" For a given pad X, the two separate ciphertexts both have to decode to something meaningful. If the pad's not truly random, you shrink the search space. Wikipedia lists some successful exploits of OTP systems.
It's a balance. I haven't found enough unique opinions expressed amongst the noise to make it worthwhile to me. I *did* try it for a month and just found my eyes bleeding after awhile.
I personally read at 0 with moderation hidden, all posts exposed. (Elsewhere recently I said I read at +1, but I double-checked and found I was mistaken. Somewhere along the line I decided I was missing too much.) There's just a little too much noise at -1.
BINGO! And that time not spent driving around hells half acre to get some chores done leads to a less stressed, happier employee. And, in the case of teachers, more time at home to grade papers.:-) It's not like teachers do all their work on site between 8AM and 5PM.
Sure, he made that comment when he was running for President in 2000, but realize he had left the Senate 8 years prior. So sure, you might've been using the Internet for 9 years, but any biils he championed in Congress undoubtedly came about before you got online. And the Internet of 1991 was quite a bit different than the ARPANET that was around when Gore was first elected Senator in 1984.
I'm inclined to believe the guys who actually designed the Internet's infrastructure (such as Vint Cerf) when they agree publicly that Al Gore had a strong positive impact on the Internet we know today. He was, after all, on the Commerce, Science and Transportation committee in the Senate, and eventually became chairman of that committee.
Ok, I know you're trying to be clever with your "Content Restriction, Annulment and Protection" acronym, but it doesn't make any sense. Why not just "Consumer Rights Annulment Provision"? Much less ambiguous, and much more direct.
That said... Yes. The Cayman Islands and a couple other small nations serve as fiduciary havens, not infrastructure.
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How long are these defines? I lose maybe 1-2 WPM just parking my pinky on the shift key for most things I'd type in ALL CAPS.
--JoeActually, I'm scarily efficient at typing ALL CAPS without a Caps Lock. I *never* use the Caps Lock. I used to remap Caps to be "Control," but these days I just don't bother.
I hate streaming, especially if I have a choppy net connection at the time. And if it's a particularly funny video, I don't want to have to download it a second or third time to show my wife or a friend.
--JoeDo any of these copycats offer actual video downloads, or are all of these guys locking up content behind various streaming schemes?
Also, is there any way to bust the video out of a Flash Video player? I'd like to view some of these videos under Linux on AMD64 w/out installing the 32-bit Firefox and Flash It seems like it should be possible to extract the streaming link from the Flash file somehow and just grab the content w/out the player. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
Maybe in your limited experience. Fixed point only means that the "binary point" (or in the case of BCD, the "decimal point") doesn't move relative to the accumulator. Fixed point vs. floating point is orthogonal to binary vs. BCD representations. You can have fixed-point BCD as well.
Floating point is more flexible, but comes with dynamic quantization issues when you add and subtract values that are wildly different in magnitude. Fixed point is more numerically predictable because you have static quantization: At any given step you decide how many fractional digits you wish to keep and how many you wish to discard. You need to make an a priori tradeoff between dynamic range and precision. If you're building, say, a controller circuit, you might prefer a fixed point implementation since its easier to predict the error terms, as it's not dependent on system inputs.
Separately, BCD vs. binary depends on the use. For fiduciary calculations, since finances were historically been computed by hand in decimal, adding machines, and later computers, are expected to perform rounding by the same methods as people computing by hand. The most efficient way to do this seems to be with BCD or some other decimal-derived representation. (The old TI Home Computer used a Radix-10000 representation, IIRC.) Binary representations make the most use of a given number of bits, and thus are the most generally useful outside the world of finance. That is, they offer the greatest amount of precision for a given number of mantissa bits. However, human-friendly decimal numbers seem to round "oddly." However, that's just an artifact of the fact we learn arithmetic in base 10, not base 2 or base 16.
--JoeCell phones retransmit periodically, and towers keep some level of estimate of where their subscribers are, whether they're talking or not. How do you think you can receive phone calls when tooling down the Interstate at 70MPH? If you don't believe me, put your cell phone next to an amplified speaker some time. Every so often you'll hear a "bipida bipida bipida," or some other pattern, depending on what standard your carrier runs.
When you're stationary, such events are widely spaced. But, when your phone detects that it can't "hear" the tower, it'll try to hop over to a neighboring tower. Just examining hand-off patterns for idle phones along interstates should give you a reasonable estimate of overall speed when averaged over a large number of samples.
--JoeIt wasn't the frame buffer, but, as others have pointed out, the memory local to the RSX. Definitely a non-concern.
I'd be more likely to bet there's SMP locking issues in the driver. The performance of XOR is negligible in the equation here.
--JoeNot just mechanical output devices. I wrote a TTY driver for a Viewpoint terminal that I was driving from an 8052. That thing needed delays all over the place. (Imagine my surprise, years later, to open one up and find an 8051 sitting in there.) I actually discovered it needed delays from the UNIX side of things, because the first thing I implemented was a serial-to-serial pass through, and I had to mess w/ the various stty delay settings before I stopped losing text.
But, yes... 80 columns goes back to Hollerith, and 8-column tabs goes back to an old teletype.... and yet these standards persist. :-) I personally expand all tabs to spaces just to avoid tab damage. I've gotten some horribly dainbramaged files over the years and never like being on the receiving end of that.
--JoeAnd then follow up on it a few days later with a Slashback on the Backslash about Backslash on Slashdot....
So, what this tells me is that the SWF file doesn't need any of the features of Flash 8, just the bug-fixes. Got it.
Hrm. I'm an engineer (small 'e' to denote lack of RPE) that holds the job title "CPU architect." I happily use the verbs "engineer" and "architect" to describe what I do. And let me tell you: The designers do the design work. We architects? Not so much. As for chef vs. cook... Well, "cook" is a title also. Incidentally, not all engineers and architects need to be registered or licensed. Only certain tasks require a registered engineer to sign off on the documentation--which is why most people I know who graduated with an EE or ME degree don't bother. Building architects, yeah, they need to be licensed. CPU architects? Software architects? Network architects? Not so much. (Although for network architecture there are plenty of vendor certs you can go get.)
EFI may make its first order of business to switch out of real mode, but when the RESET signal's deasserted, I believe even the latest and greatest fire up in Real mode and jump to, effectively, FFFF:0000.
Yeah, just like Microsoft owns all of Adobe's code, because it runs on Windows.
If Microsoft were pursuing a two-pronged strategy of evalute/develop on one hand and use/debug on the other, I'd expect the evaluate/develop portion to be a much smaller population and the rest of the company getting fed the corporate dog food. This is inconsistent with the data.
--Joe*sigh*
These are RF frequencies, not CPU frequencies folks.
--JoeThis is a flawed argument. Suppose I send the following message: 0em59wjwsf21hn
How would you distinguish the following possible decryptions?
attack at dawn
attack at noon
attack tuesday
retreat @ once
banana sundaes
submarine down
omg! ponies!!!
slashdot sucks
See, for a OTP message of length N, it can be "decrypted" to all possible messages of length N. You have no idea which one is right. The only information you can glean from an intercepted OTP message is an upper bound on its length.
As others have pointed out, the OTP is unbreakable if you never reuse a pad, and the pad is truly random. Once you reuse a pad, you now have something to guide you when "decrypting:" For a given pad X, the two separate ciphertexts both have to decode to something meaningful. If the pad's not truly random, you shrink the search space. Wikipedia lists some successful exploits of OTP systems.
--JoeWhich reminds me... Captain Hook died of jock itch.
It's a balance. I haven't found enough unique opinions expressed amongst the noise to make it worthwhile to me. I *did* try it for a month and just found my eyes bleeding after awhile.
I personally read at 0 with moderation hidden, all posts exposed. (Elsewhere recently I said I read at +1, but I double-checked and found I was mistaken. Somewhere along the line I decided I was missing too much.) There's just a little too much noise at -1.
--JoeI dunno. Facts seem like a good place to start.
BINGO! And that time not spent driving around hells half acre to get some chores done leads to a less stressed, happier employee. And, in the case of teachers, more time at home to grade papers. :-) It's not like teachers do all their work on site between 8AM and 5PM.
--JoeSure, he made that comment when he was running for President in 2000, but realize he had left the Senate 8 years prior. So sure, you might've been using the Internet for 9 years, but any biils he championed in Congress undoubtedly came about before you got online. And the Internet of 1991 was quite a bit different than the ARPANET that was around when Gore was first elected Senator in 1984.
I'm inclined to believe the guys who actually designed the Internet's infrastructure (such as Vint Cerf) when they agree publicly that Al Gore had a strong positive impact on the Internet we know today. He was, after all, on the Commerce, Science and Transportation committee in the Senate, and eventually became chairman of that committee.
--JoeSeriously, got a link? I mean, I've heard that tea has other, different good properties. If FOX really did report it this way.... ::facepalm::
--JoeOk, I know you're trying to be clever with your "Content Restriction, Annulment and Protection" acronym, but it doesn't make any sense. Why not just "Consumer Rights Annulment Provision"? Much less ambiguous, and much more direct.
That said... Yes. The Cayman Islands and a couple other small nations serve as fiduciary havens, not infrastructure.
--Joe