Nop, the ideas of ancient philosophers are still around us 2000 years later, because of they made sense.
But in a week, nobody will remember this marketing bullshit.
I have never heard of this poll before, although I am living in western Europe. Did eastern Europe knew about it? Did Asia participate in this poll? Did Africa have the internet accesses to participate?
The previous list was enumerated by a Greek philosoph of the ancient time, it was not some marketing bullshit from Realizar Marketing.
While the number of actual developers working on the Linux driver is confidential, there are over 100 people involved with the closed beta program.
Confidential meaning here "so few we are ashamed to tell you"!!...
But I am not so sure about this one : does "100 people involved with the program" means "code monkeys, managers, and coffee robots included"?;o)
Yes of course, you can check for variation. Statistics is just about number variations, and the rest is how much funds you have to implement the software.
The issue is that (lossless) compression algorithms are just a subclass of encryption algorithms (which are more focused on the size of the 'crypted' data) , so you may end up detecting all your compressed files as suspicious. But then, I suppose an analysis of the file format might be enough to discriminate between compressed files and crypted files.
I don't know how to make it any simpler. If compositing encryption functions makes things harder to break, we'd expect two applications of ROT13 to be stronger than one application of ROT13.
It is a cryptanalysis problem. Encryption scheme are designed so that your clear text will become close-to-random garbage when encrypted. Why? Because if it is not random, forensics can do statistical analysis on the crypted data 1/ to identify the encryption algorithm, 2/ to try to guess the encryption key (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis/ for more details).
If you crypt your text twice (or more) you modify the entropy of the encryption scheme, and the encrypted data will be not optimally close to random data. As a conclusion, encrypting twice made your data less robust to forensics.
Anyway, haven't you heard that the US contracts passed in Irak were paid with confiscated Iraki funds, as well as provisions on future oil exportations? Halliburton just place its ass where the money is.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1734939,00 .html
At the beginning of the Iraq war, the UN entrusted $23bn of Iraqi money to the US-led coalition to redevelop the country. With the infrastructure of the country still in ruins, where has all that money gone? Callum Macrae and Ali Fadhil on one of the greatest financial scandals of all time [...]
2006 was the warmest year ever, and in Europe the snow level in ski stations is close to the lowest level (a.k.a. nada/nichts/nothing/rien!).
You can raise doubt about how much more degrees we will have in 2050, but I would certainly remove certification to people who still claim there is no problem with the evolution of climat.
Are you joking?
It's like saying cars have two, only two advantages over bikes:
- they actually go way faster,
- they are much bigger, so that you can drive your family around, go shopping or to vacation, and don't freeze when it's raining outside.
But yeah that's it, because bikes are so much better anyway!!! Look : ringbells, fancy colors,... and wait, you also just need a manual pump when tires are flat ! Ubercool!
Common', this guy spent more time selling pizza than in the videogame industry!
To have both sides of the story, Red Herring would certainly have to interview the manager of a japanese restaurant...
Could you please remind me of the profitability rates of Microsoft Xbox division?...
Thanks for this new piece of Sony bashing, but I am quite fed up already.
Furthering speculation over whether North Korea has actually exploded a nuclear device, vk38 writes to point out a (free) article in today's Wall Street Journal claiming that the blast could have been set off by exploding fertilizer (ammonium nitrate). The article points to the Texas City disaster of 1947, in which 7,700 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in the hold of a ship with the estimated power of 2 to 4 kilotons of TNT.
What a crap? What's the interest of gathering 8ktons of fertilizer if only 4kt of TNT is needed? Do you think North Korea is so poor and dummy that they can't afford or produce TNT ??
I would rather speculate that they blew 180ktons of Mon Cheri Cherry Liqueur sweets as south-korean witnesses reported a -quote- "strong odour of chocolate just after the sound of the explosion".
Wall Street Journal, will you dare to confront with my chocolate-sweet-covered south-korean witnesses? I guess no! Shame on you!:o)
AFAIK, there is no way to compile directly Qt3 applications to Qt4.
The Qt4 does not support all previous Qt3 widgets, and their is no automatic and efficient way to transform Qt3 code to Qt4.
That said, Qt4 is certainly more memory efficient than Qt3, as it was the main development goal.
My 2 cents.
My motherboard is a MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum, I bought it ~1 year ago because it offered maximum stability and performance with the Athlon XP64 3500+.
The only ways to upgrade the BIOS are:
- floppy disk,
- updater tool under Windows only.
Now I am running Linux, and don't have this ancient piece of hardware called a floppy drive.
How should I upgrade the BIOS? For the timing being, I found no working method. So yes : FreeDOS is definitely useful and I am waiting for a live CD of Freedos to flash my BIOS!
Not exactly... it would be more accurate this way: Steal from the rich, keep lots of money for you and use some more to buy politics and influence foreign policy, use your influence to distort fair trade regulations, force economy of the third world to stay in poor development, support some wars that cause millions of refugees to die in camps, disease to expand in one of those zone of very poor health condition... and then give to the poor (with a smile on your face).
Additionaly, the complete PS2 hardware could also be integrated in a single chip, and then the price would be tide very low. The PS2 functions can certainly use the same DRAM as the PS3, and several functions could be shared this way.
Furthermore, the PS2 hardware could also be integrated in the same chip as one of Cell's chipset. So the price jump would be ~ZERO (just a problem of chip per waffer, and production yield).
10.5M transistors (if true) is less than 3M ASIC Gates (the real unit in the EDA industry), and I can tell you it's not large at all.
But it is all about speculation, as the article doesn't have any clue to support its piece of speculative fiction. So why is this news published in Slashdot, really ?
From the US, this wave of critics and pessimism around the PS3 may look like realistic (which I doubt anyway).Sony blahblah is dead, Sony blahblah will block second-hand PS3 games, Sony blahblah puts poison in pirated games! I am not a Sony zealot, but honestly, stop this crappy FUD around the PS3, please!
From the rest of the world, PS3 gathers LOTS LOTS more expectation than Xbox360 will ever have. Have you seen the number of Xbox360 sold in Japan or even in Europe?? Xbox360 in Japan : 50000 units sold since its launch. 1242 sold this week. On the other, 20000 PS2 units (I really mean PStwo) were sold this single week! In the same week, 300000 Nintendo DS and 30000 PSP!
Since a couple of weeks, and especially since E3 show, there are lots of FUD about the PS3 and Sony. I am not a Sony zealot, I don't have any console from them. But honnestly, do you feel like this news is something more than F.U.D. coming Microsoft or Nintendo.
I don't feel like an anonymous guy repeating stuff heard from a UK retailer is something like a trusted source. Sounds more like Microsoft try to kill the PS3 beast before it's awaken...
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You did not understand! McDonald's CEO was referring to this specific obesity-enhancing video game :
http://www.mcvideogame.com/
... shipping is not selling.
Especially when your name happens to be "Anonymous Coward", right? O you, shameful worllld!
Nop, the ideas of ancient philosophers are still around us 2000 years later, because of they made sense.
But in a week, nobody will remember this marketing bullshit.
I have never heard of this poll before, although I am living in western Europe. Did eastern Europe knew about it? Did Asia participate in this poll? Did Africa have the internet accesses to participate?
The previous list was enumerated by a Greek philosoph of the ancient time, it was not some marketing bullshit from Realizar Marketing.
try "man 1 shar"
http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/
AT least the "third-party closed-source code" excuse is BS.v er/hw/xfree86/vga256/drivers/nv/Attic/nv3driver.c. diff?r1=1.1.2.5&r2=1.1.2.6&hideattic=0&only_with_t ag=xf-3_3_3
if one looks at the last version of nv driver before it got obfuscated (upon nVidia request), you will see that the driver code was actually doing close to nothing:
http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xser
But I am not so sure about this one : does "100 people involved with the program" means "code monkeys, managers, and coffee robots included"?
Yes of course, you can check for variation. Statistics is just about number variations, and the rest is how much funds you have to implement the software.
The issue is that (lossless) compression algorithms are just a subclass of encryption algorithms (which are more focused on the size of the 'crypted' data) , so you may end up detecting all your compressed files as suspicious. But then, I suppose an analysis of the file format might be enough to discriminate between compressed files and crypted files.
It is a cryptanalysis problem. Encryption scheme are designed so that your clear text will become close-to-random garbage when encrypted. Why? Because if it is not random, forensics can do statistical analysis on the crypted data 1/ to identify the encryption algorithm, 2/ to try to guess the encryption key (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis/ for more details).
If you crypt your text twice (or more) you modify the entropy of the encryption scheme, and the encrypted data will be not optimally close to random data. As a conclusion, encrypting twice made your data less robust to forensics.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1734939,0
At the beginning of the Iraq war, the UN entrusted $23bn of Iraqi money to the US-led coalition to redevelop the country. With the infrastructure of the country still in ruins, where has all that money gone? Callum Macrae and Ali Fadhil on one of the greatest financial scandals of all time [...]
2006 was the warmest year ever, and in Europe the snow level in ski stations is close to the lowest level (a.k.a. nada/nichts/nothing/rien!).
You can raise doubt about how much more degrees we will have in 2050, but I would certainly remove certification to people who still claim there is no problem with the evolution of climat.
Are you joking? :
... and wait, you also just need a manual pump when tires are flat ! Ubercool!
It's like saying cars have two, only two advantages over bikes
- they actually go way faster,
- they are much bigger, so that you can drive your family around, go shopping or to vacation, and don't freeze when it's raining outside.
But yeah that's it, because bikes are so much better anyway!!! Look : ringbells, fancy colors,
Common', this guy spent more time selling pizza than in the videogame industry!
To have both sides of the story, Red Herring would certainly have to interview the manager of a japanese restaurant...
Could you please remind me of the profitability rates of Microsoft Xbox division?...
Thanks for this new piece of Sony bashing, but I am quite fed up already.
I would rather speculate that they blew 180ktons of Mon Cheri Cherry Liqueur sweets as south-korean witnesses reported a -quote- "strong odour of chocolate just after the sound of the explosion".
Wall Street Journal, will you dare to confront with my chocolate-sweet-covered south-korean witnesses? I guess no! Shame on you!:o)
AFAIK, there is no way to compile directly Qt3 applications to Qt4. The Qt4 does not support all previous Qt3 widgets, and their is no automatic and efficient way to transform Qt3 code to Qt4. That said, Qt4 is certainly more memory efficient than Qt3, as it was the main development goal. My 2 cents.
My motherboard is a MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum, I bought it ~1 year ago because it offered maximum stability and performance with the Athlon XP64 3500+. :
The only ways to upgrade the BIOS are
- floppy disk,
- updater tool under Windows only.
Now I am running Linux, and don't have this ancient piece of hardware called a floppy drive.
How should I upgrade the BIOS? For the timing being, I found no working method.
So yes : FreeDOS is definitely useful and I am waiting for a live CD of Freedos to flash my BIOS!
Not exactly... it would be more accurate this way
Steal from the rich, keep lots of money for you and use some more to buy politics and influence foreign policy, use your influence to distort fair trade regulations, force economy of the third world to stay in poor development, support some wars that cause millions of refugees to die in camps, disease to expand in one of those zone of very poor health condition
Some may wonder why OSDL, [...] does not include Oracle as a member.
...
Really? No, I don't wonder. Because I certainly don't care.
Next interesting Slashdot topic : "Some may wonder why Intel never went in the screwdriver business"
Additionaly, the complete PS2 hardware could also be integrated in a single chip, and then the price would be tide very low. The PS2 functions can certainly use the same DRAM as the PS3, and several functions could be shared this way.
Furthermore, the PS2 hardware could also be integrated in the same chip as one of Cell's chipset. So the price jump would be ~ZERO (just a problem of chip per waffer, and production yield).
10.5M transistors (if true) is less than 3M ASIC Gates (the real unit in the EDA industry), and I can tell you it's not large at all. But it is all about speculation, as the article doesn't have any clue to support its piece of speculative fiction. So why is this news published in Slashdot, really ?
From the US, this wave of critics and pessimism around the PS3 may look like realistic (which I doubt anyway).Sony blahblah is dead, Sony blahblah will block second-hand PS3 games, Sony blahblah puts poison in pirated games! I am not a Sony zealot, but honestly, stop this crappy FUD around the PS3, please!
From the rest of the world, PS3 gathers LOTS LOTS more expectation than Xbox360 will ever have. Have you seen the number of Xbox360 sold in Japan or even in Europe?? Xbox360 in Japan : 50000 units sold since its launch. 1242 sold this week. On the other, 20000 PS2 units (I really mean PStwo) were sold this single week! In the same week, 300000 Nintendo DS and 30000 PSP!
Since a couple of weeks, and especially since E3 show, there are lots of FUD about the PS3 and Sony. I am not a Sony zealot, I don't have any console from them. But honnestly, do you feel like this news is something more than F.U.D. coming Microsoft or Nintendo.
I don't feel like an anonymous guy repeating stuff heard from a UK retailer is something like a trusted source. Sounds more like Microsoft try to kill the PS3 beast before it's awaken...
What the fsck happened to "Stalker : Oblivion Lost"???
This is the Curse of Chernobyl!!