[disclaimer: I am a developer and a Logic Nazi. The term "Logic Nazi" implies that I may not know much, but I sure like to show off.]
It's a coding system, not a cypher.
Many will shrug at the difference, but it is quite essential. Coding (at least useful coding) is meant to translate things into numbers and then back to their original form -- so that you can apply logic science to various non-trivial concepts. Cyphering is meant to add some secret to your numbers in such a way that you need the same secret to get your numbers back.
In very simplified terms, Coding is making things numbers, and Cyphering is trying to protect those numbers from getting stolen by third parties.
id, look at this one. There goes another great game idea! Completely different from SPISPOPD, here comes the SCISPOPD! Mmm, with the Doom3 engine, this one is really going to rock, requiring little more than an old 486.
Oh, maybe I'm getting old already...
And don't forget to see those legally revised season's greetings. I have them on my/. history record somewhere...
I would like to see the next issue of the GPL include a mutual-defense clause regarding patents, such that if you enforce a patent against any free software, your rights to use free software terminate
I would love to see that happen. Aren't there other licenses beside the GPL that are considered "free software" licenses? I think that clause should mention them all, one by one, specifically.
Let us run this patenting the obvious nonsense into the ground now before it bites our legs off!
Ahem! The first country to officially use some early form of this alphabet for all official documentation was Bulgaria. Check your history. The initial versions of the alphabet were developed by two scholar brothers, Cyril and Methodius, whose father was a Byzantine stategist, and their mother was a slav from the nearby lands (close to Bulgaria). The purpose was to baptize the lands of the mid-European slavs, mainly in the lands called Panonia, and give those people preachings in a language much like their own. The language was different from the one spoken in Panonia, because the brothers were fluent in the southern dialects, such as those spoken in Bulgaria and the Byzantine Empire. That made the translations of the holy scripture perfect for use in Bulgaria, and our king Boris-Michail did his best to take the alphabet and the survivors of the failed Panonian mission. Thus, he achieved some sort of independence from both the Byzantine and the Roman Churches (which were all Orthodox/Catholic at the time). When the turks arrived and wiped out every trace of the great education system here, the scholars fled to the north, to Romania and Russia. The rest is history. And yes, it is true that the present-day cyrillic has little to do with its original form from the seventh century A.D., and that the Russians introduced many widely accepted changes to the alphabet. Credit where credit is due.
Accepting such patent laws would be yet another brave step in the quest for making everyone a criminal by default. In EU this time.
I am glad Bulgaria is still some years away from becoming a member of the EU. If they do accept this... thing (pardon my language, but we are in a public forum)... I will have to move to Norway or something...
>> but this is what happens when a business is run "by the numbers" with no regard for the customers.
Or this is what happens when the business is run by idiots. We can all see that: it is Microsoft, not some entertainment company run by drugged up braindead old fucks that is the richest company in the world. Why? Well, MS employs intelligent staff. And, we should all admit it, an idiot can *never* get that rich.
I have always wandered why the Bulgarian word (approximate transcription) "naroden" was translated as "people's" in English. It sounds ridiculous, almost as if the term "people's" (certainly not common English) was devised to show the meaning of an otherwise untranslatable term. You see, if you understand the meaning of that word in Bulgarian (or, at least, what it used to mean for us during the Soviet regime over eastern Europe), you will probably understand what it means for those Chinese people as well. While the word "narod" can be translated as "all the people that form some ethnic group", "narodna prikazka" is translated roughly as a folklore fairy tale. Indeed, almost every usage of "naroden" implies some relation either to the ethnic population or the folklore of an area or a country. The so-called "People's Liberation Army" probably just means something like "The army that sets all Chinese free". The navy's name probably means "The navy that usually goes with that army". I simply think it's just not supposed to sound so ridiculous and pompous. Thus explained, you will see why the so-called "communists" (because that was not really communism, it was state-controlled feudalism) do not find the term so f*d up and how it all makes sense in some kind of a nightmarish orwellian doublethink manner.
It might be better to just concatenate several different checksums (using an appropriate separator).
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What astounded me was the feeling of being home. The same old concrete blocks, the same old cars from my childhood (Trabant, Zaporozhets, Moskvich, Volga, even the ZIL and Kamaz trucks). It feels as if I am walking the streets of Sofia or Burgas (the numbers of the blocks remind me of my grandparent's place in Burgas). And that Bulgarian Cement sign that strikes you twice - at the beginning of the game right after the station, and in Ravenholme. The priest's name seemed Russian, however. And the coastline is to the north, here it is to the east. Interesting, is Victor Antonov a Bulgarian or a Russian?
Actually, I tried a few months ago a GUI java app (actually, a Java IDE) which uses PGUI (my former company's Swing equivalent, AWT-based). I used the then latest Sun JVM for Linux. This IDE seemed a lot "faster" than stuff using "native" GUI on Linux (Mandrake 10 Community Edition if I remember correctly).
Strange...
Maybe has something to do with how QT/GTK and Sun AWT are implemented with regards to the X protocol... Ideas, anyone?
IAGSL (I Am a Gratuate Student in Logic), and though the halting problem is unsolvable for the theoretical computer that has infinitely many states, it is perfectly solvable in exponential time for a computer with finitely many states. See any articles on Finite Automata on Infinite Objects.
Law is only a tool. A tool is designed to help its user. When the tool no longer functions, it must be changed or discarded. The law as a tool is no longer functioning properly. Therefore, it must be changed or discarded. So, now, those whom the law serves are changing it.
Control Panel->System->Advanced->Performance Options->Optimize performance for: Click "Background services", then OK. You may have to restart. This helps greatly for programming. This setting allows each program to get equal shares of CPU time. The default setting favours the "foreground" GUI program, thus slowing down any server and/or compiler working in the background. And if the foreground program desides to compile something... You get the idea. Also, if you have more than one physical hard drive, make sure you put a swap file on each of them, and make them big - say 700 mb or so. Having at least 512 mb of memory also helps greatly.
Default KDE Fonts on MandrakeLinux 10 are blurred at the edges. I cannot read a thing without my eyes starting to hurt. Perhaps someone thinks this enhances usability or something. I have no clue. It does the opposite for me, though (I use Trinitron CRT displays - 15'' and 17'' at home, and 17'' at work). Perhaps there is an easy way to disable the blurring, but, alas, I am a lazy programmer/gamer. I think IceWM does not have this problem:) Perhaps it is the graphical toolkits? AWT also paints crisp clear letters under X. By the way, I am a big Java fan:)
No blurring in the default settings of Windows 2000. There is some blurring on the default settings of WinXP.
That is one of the things I do not like using newer versions of Acrobat Reader for - the first thing I do is try to disable the blurring. I think Acrobat Reader 5.0 had no such problem.
Actually, the complexity of trying a possible solution of an NP-Complete problem is O(p(n)), where p(n) is a polynom of n. If the number of possible solutions is pow(2, n) (2 to the power n), then the complexity of solving the problem itself is too high (and the speed is too low). Noone knows yet whether P = NP, or P NP, where P is the class of problems solvable of in polynomial time.
The article is Wrong. It says that NP-Hard problems cannot be solved. NP-Hard problems CAN be solved, it just takes too long because the only known algorithm just lists all possibilities and tests them one by one. This is slow, but impossible? Nope. Such problems are being solved every day, it just takes too much time to solve them. The article probably has a point there, though, as it speaks of real-time 3D graphics which needs all things to be as fast as possible.
At our company we are often targetting JDK 1.1.8, and Kaffee supports most of that. It is entirely possible to use those features to write just about anything you need for a decent CVS server implementation. Sure, nio, and some nice new container classes are gone, but Hashtable and Vector are there, and you have java.io, which is OK for many programs.
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[disclaimer: I am a developer and a Logic Nazi. The term "Logic Nazi" implies that I may not know much, but I sure like to show off.]
It's a coding system, not a cypher.
Many will shrug at the difference, but it is quite essential. Coding (at least useful coding) is meant to translate things into numbers and then back to their original form -- so that you can apply logic science to various non-trivial concepts. Cyphering is meant to add some secret to your numbers in such a way that you need the same secret to get your numbers back.
In very simplified terms, Coding is making things numbers, and Cyphering is trying to protect those numbers from getting stolen by third parties.
id, look at this one. There goes another great game idea! Completely different from SPISPOPD, here comes the SCISPOPD! Mmm, with the Doom3 engine, this one is really going to rock, requiring little more than an old 486.
/. history record somewhere...
Oh, maybe I'm getting old already...
And don't forget to see those legally revised season's greetings. I have them on my
I would love to see that happen. Aren't there other licenses beside the GPL that are considered "free software" licenses? I think that clause should mention them all, one by one, specifically.
Let us run this patenting the obvious nonsense into the ground now before it bites our legs off!
Ahem!
The first country to officially use some early form of this alphabet for all official documentation was Bulgaria. Check your history. The initial versions of the alphabet were developed by two scholar brothers, Cyril and Methodius, whose father was a Byzantine stategist, and their mother was a slav from the nearby lands (close to Bulgaria). The purpose was to baptize the lands of the mid-European slavs, mainly in the lands called Panonia, and give those people preachings in a language much like their own. The language was different from the one spoken in Panonia, because the brothers were fluent in the southern dialects, such as those spoken in Bulgaria and the Byzantine Empire. That made the translations of the holy scripture perfect for use in Bulgaria, and our king Boris-Michail did his best to take the alphabet and the survivors of the failed Panonian mission. Thus, he achieved some sort of independence from both the Byzantine and the Roman Churches (which were all Orthodox/Catholic at the time).
When the turks arrived and wiped out every trace of the great education system here, the scholars fled to the north, to Romania and Russia. The rest is history.
And yes, it is true that the present-day cyrillic has little to do with its original form from the seventh century A.D., and that the Russians introduced many widely accepted changes to the alphabet.
Credit where credit is due.
Accepting such patent laws would be yet another brave step in the quest for making everyone a criminal by default. In EU this time.
I am glad Bulgaria is still some years away from becoming a member of the EU. If they do accept this... thing (pardon my language, but we are in a public forum)... I will have to move to Norway or something...
>> but this is what happens when a business is run "by the numbers" with no regard for the customers. Or this is what happens when the business is run by idiots. We can all see that: it is Microsoft, not some entertainment company run by drugged up braindead old fucks that is the richest company in the world. Why? Well, MS employs intelligent staff. And, we should all admit it, an idiot can *never* get that rich.
I apologise for the somewhat off-topic comment.
>> (what a f***ed up name for a navy)
I have always wandered why the Bulgarian word (approximate transcription) "naroden" was translated as "people's" in English. It sounds ridiculous, almost as if the term "people's" (certainly not common English) was devised to show the meaning of an otherwise untranslatable term. You see, if you understand the meaning of that word in Bulgarian (or, at least, what it used to mean for us during the Soviet regime over eastern Europe), you will probably understand what it means for those Chinese people as well. While the word "narod" can be translated as "all the people that form some ethnic group", "narodna prikazka" is translated roughly as a folklore fairy tale. Indeed, almost every usage of "naroden" implies some relation either to the ethnic population or the folklore of an area or a country. The so-called "People's Liberation Army" probably just means something like "The army that sets all Chinese free". The navy's name probably means "The navy that usually goes with that army". I simply think it's just not supposed to sound so ridiculous and pompous. Thus explained, you will see why the so-called "communists" (because that was not really communism, it was state-controlled feudalism) do not find the term so f*d up and how it all makes sense in some kind of a nightmarish orwellian doublethink manner.
It might be better to just concatenate several different checksums (using an appropriate separator).
What astounded me was the feeling of being home. The same old concrete blocks, the same old cars from my childhood (Trabant, Zaporozhets, Moskvich, Volga, even the ZIL and Kamaz trucks). It feels as if I am walking the streets of Sofia or Burgas (the numbers of the blocks remind me of my grandparent's place in Burgas). And that Bulgarian Cement sign that strikes you twice - at the beginning of the game right after the station, and in Ravenholme. The priest's name seemed Russian, however. And the coastline is to the north, here it is to the east. Interesting, is Victor Antonov a Bulgarian or a Russian?
Actually, I tried a few months ago a GUI java app (actually, a Java IDE) which uses PGUI (my former company's Swing equivalent, AWT-based). I used the then latest Sun JVM for Linux. This IDE seemed a lot "faster" than stuff using "native" GUI on Linux (Mandrake 10 Community Edition if I remember correctly). Strange... Maybe has something to do with how QT/GTK and Sun AWT are implemented with regards to the X protocol... Ideas, anyone?
I thought this might be interesting...
System.loadLibrary() is used for loading native code. If you wish to load a class file at runtime, you may have to implement your own ClassLoader.
erm... whatever...
IAGSL (I Am a Gratuate Student in Logic), and though the halting problem is unsolvable for the theoretical computer that has infinitely many states, it is perfectly solvable in exponential time for a computer with finitely many states. See any articles on Finite Automata on Infinite Objects.
Law is only a tool. A tool is designed to help its user. When the tool no longer functions, it must be changed or discarded. The law as a tool is no longer functioning properly. Therefore, it must be changed or discarded. So, now, those whom the law serves are changing it.
I stand corrected :)
>> Why can't the defence find say 10 well-known
>> cases of prior art, present them, and win?
Someone at Sun who is inside the matters, please respond to parent! This is a very good question, I think we would all like to know the answer.
Mod parent informative.
Mod this up!
Control Panel->System->Advanced->Performance Options->Optimize performance for:
Click "Background services", then OK.
You may have to restart.
This helps greatly for programming. This setting allows each program to get equal shares of CPU time. The default setting favours the "foreground" GUI program, thus slowing down any server and/or compiler working in the background. And if the foreground program desides to compile something... You get the idea.
Also, if you have more than one physical hard drive, make sure you put a swap file on each of them, and make them big - say 700 mb or so.
Having at least 512 mb of memory also helps greatly.
Default KDE Fonts on MandrakeLinux 10 are blurred at the edges. I cannot read a thing without my eyes starting to hurt. Perhaps someone thinks this enhances usability or something. I have no clue. It does the opposite for me, though (I use Trinitron CRT displays - 15'' and 17'' at home, and 17'' at work). Perhaps there is an easy way to disable the blurring, but, alas, I am a lazy programmer/gamer. I think IceWM does not have this problem :) Perhaps it is the graphical toolkits? AWT also paints crisp clear letters under X. By the way, I am a big Java fan :)
No blurring in the default settings of Windows 2000. There is some blurring on the default settings of WinXP.
That is one of the things I do not like using newer versions of Acrobat Reader for - the first thing I do is try to disable the blurring. I think Acrobat Reader 5.0 had no such problem.
Please, mod this up. This is entirely true.
Actually, the complexity of trying a possible solution of an NP-Complete problem is O(p(n)), where p(n) is a polynom of n. If the number of possible solutions is pow(2, n) (2 to the power n), then the complexity of solving the problem itself is too high (and the speed is too low). Noone knows yet whether P = NP, or P NP, where P is the class of problems solvable of in polynomial time.
The article is Wrong. It says that NP-Hard problems cannot be solved. NP-Hard problems CAN be solved, it just takes too long because the only known algorithm just lists all possibilities and tests them one by one. This is slow, but impossible? Nope. Such problems are being solved every day, it just takes too much time to solve them. The article probably has a point there, though, as it speaks of real-time 3D graphics which needs all things to be as fast as possible.
At our company we are often targetting JDK 1.1.8, and Kaffee supports most of that. It is entirely possible to use those features to write just about anything you need for a decent CVS server implementation. Sure, nio, and some nice new container classes are gone, but Hashtable and Vector are there, and you have java.io, which is OK for many programs.