If he designs the ciphers, people cracking them is job security:) I don't think the guy with that job will ever design a good solution, even if it were possible.
Not that its really feasible to make an unbreakable encoding for movies. Allowing the user to have the player in their house is like giving the British an enigma machine encased in concrete during WW2; they can't immediately break your codes, but its not like they're going to refrain from cracking it out and using it.
I'm seeing it more becoming the new punting device... I'd think a laptop is safer in the hands of laptop thieves than in the hands of a bunch of drunkards who jacked your 'pizza'.
I'm talking about the games industry in general. I cited id and Epic as studios with the resources to manage release of major games on multiple platforms.
I have 50 channels of low-def right now. They all suck, and I'm not talking image quality (though also mediocre). I could have 1000, but I have a feeling that the reason the programming on the 50 channel I already have is that there really isn't enough to say to fill them.
Your software company would be glad to lease you storage space and applications served remotely. That way, whenever they need a new yacht, they just charge you more. You'd leave for another supplier, except that they own your data, and even if you get it back from them its locked in a proprietary format illegal for anyone but them to write a parser for. You want a computer that you own, running an operating system and applications that you hold an eternal license to, storing data on mass storage devices that you own, in the formats that you specify.
I've noticed this too. I was browsing some old issues of Popular Mechanics at my grandfather's, and the ads sometimes had as much information to them as the articles. Only an occasional ad that I see in modern issues of PopSci has even approached the level of those older advertisements, in telling you what the product is, what it does, and how it does it better, in a clear format without lots of marketing speak.
Everything to do with space is grossly overengineered. You need a system that does something important, so you put in three. You need it to survive for 3 months, so you build it for 12. There are so many unknowns, and such a high price of failure, that anything less than a massive margin for error is silly.
An astute observation, that people would be upset if the project only fulfilled 2/3 of its planned mission. Likewise, there's the inverse reaction to the project doing much better than expected.
It is quite simple to deduce that a game with a windows-only release was only seriously developed to run on windows. A studio that releases a game on multiple platforms, as id does, or Epic did with UT2K4, obviously invested time in the other platforms. The difference is that id and Epic are major powerhouse game studios, whereas your windows-only games are released by smaller studios with less to risk (and they thus must prioritize on things other than multiplatform support).
Their priorities are in order - they spend their time and budget doing as well as they can making the game work on Windows, where 90% of their players are. Ports to minority OSs are a low priority issue in a tight-deadline industry.
Well, provided that you kept people with, like, knowledge out of the room, you could spin a success with this thing as a demonstration of how we can make a missle shield.
Nothing in this section shall apply to any monitoring of, or interaction with, a subscriber's Internet or other network connection or service, or a protected computer, by a telecommunications carrier, cable operator, computer hardware or software provider, or provider of information service...
So... the software provider is allowed to monitor your private machine and you connection. This does absolutely nothing to stop spyware-riddled software from being sold to unwitting consumers.
Actually, $20M is pretty close to what it costs to develop and build a reusable spacecraft from the ground up... if you're the private sector, anyways.
Both the Athlon64 and the Pentium use registers rather wider than 32-bit when handling massive calculations. The ALUs in use are something like 128 bits wide, though usually that's partitioned down to several 32 or a pair of 64 bit operations, simply because the software is only asking for 32 bits worth of range. I'm so far unconvinced that there are all that many benefits to running a 64-bit processor; most of the benefits of wide registers have been exploited in MMX and SIMD, and larger memory spaces are handled through segmentation (not that I have seen a machine with more than 2GB of memory, let alone anything close to that 4GB ceiling you hear so much about).
The heterogeneity of UNIX is what has kept it relatively free of such exploits for so many years.
And also relatively free of widely used desktop software. You've got your various binary distribution formats, except that you need to match the manufacturer and version of your OS perfectly otherwise it gets flaky. Then there's the build from source option, which I so recently saw summed up by a message at the end of a (mostly) successful./configure: 'Please run make and pray'
The problem that people keep running into with turbine powered cars is that they try to hook the turbine up the rest of the drivetrain from a gasoline powered car. If you hook the turbine instead to a generator, you can run at a constant RPM (making the turbine happy), and then power electric motors at the wheels (or a single motor driving a differential). With all the electronics on a modern car, you've got the alternator in there already, just need to go all the way.
I'm not sure about the latest generation of iPods, but I know that previous iterations had proved to run too slowly for new codecs to work in real-time. The iPod uses a hardware decoder to play the formats that it supports; the CPU is there for the interface.
Actually, I think the size of an order of magnitude was implied by the way the figure was given, in base ten. If someone says "two orders greater than 450h" you can figure they mean a factor of 256, likewise "two orders greater than 450e" would indicate a factor of e^2.
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If he designs the ciphers, people cracking them is job security :) I don't think the guy with that job will ever design a good solution, even if it were possible.
Not that its really feasible to make an unbreakable encoding for movies. Allowing the user to have the player in their house is like giving the British an enigma machine encased in concrete during WW2; they can't immediately break your codes, but its not like they're going to refrain from cracking it out and using it.
I'm seeing it more becoming the new punting device ... I'd think a laptop is safer in the hands of laptop thieves than in the hands of a bunch of drunkards who jacked your 'pizza'.
I'm talking about the games industry in general. I cited id and Epic as studios with the resources to manage release of major games on multiple platforms.
I have 50 channels of low-def right now. They all suck, and I'm not talking image quality (though also mediocre). I could have 1000, but I have a feeling that the reason the programming on the 50 channel I already have is that there really isn't enough to say to fill them.
Your software company would be glad to lease you storage space and applications served remotely. That way, whenever they need a new yacht, they just charge you more. You'd leave for another supplier, except that they own your data, and even if you get it back from them its locked in a proprietary format illegal for anyone but them to write a parser for. You want a computer that you own, running an operating system and applications that you hold an eternal license to, storing data on mass storage devices that you own, in the formats that you specify.
I've noticed this too. I was browsing some old issues of Popular Mechanics at my grandfather's, and the ads sometimes had as much information to them as the articles. Only an occasional ad that I see in modern issues of PopSci has even approached the level of those older advertisements, in telling you what the product is, what it does, and how it does it better, in a clear format without lots of marketing speak.
Everything to do with space is grossly overengineered. You need a system that does something important, so you put in three. You need it to survive for 3 months, so you build it for 12. There are so many unknowns, and such a high price of failure, that anything less than a massive margin for error is silly.
An astute observation, that people would be upset if the project only fulfilled 2/3 of its planned mission. Likewise, there's the inverse reaction to the project doing much better than expected.
The "liberal" will almost always be some kind of fuck up who puts up a weak fight in any arguement.
Yeah, he's a liberal. What's your point?
It is quite simple to deduce that a game with a windows-only release was only seriously developed to run on windows. A studio that releases a game on multiple platforms, as id does, or Epic did with UT2K4, obviously invested time in the other platforms. The difference is that id and Epic are major powerhouse game studios, whereas your windows-only games are released by smaller studios with less to risk (and they thus must prioritize on things other than multiplatform support).
... and then we just need to set up a thermocouple across the increased temperature difference, for even MORE energy!
Their priorities are in order - they spend their time and budget doing as well as they can making the game work on Windows, where 90% of their players are. Ports to minority OSs are a low priority issue in a tight-deadline industry.
Well, provided that you kept people with, like, knowledge out of the room, you could spin a success with this thing as a demonstration of how we can make a missle shield.
Nothing in this section shall apply to any monitoring of, or interaction with, a subscriber's Internet or other network connection or service, or a protected computer, by a telecommunications ...
... the software provider is allowed to monitor your private machine and you connection. This does absolutely nothing to stop spyware-riddled software from being sold to unwitting consumers.
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Actually, $20M is pretty close to what it costs to develop and build a reusable spacecraft from the ground up ... if you're the private sector, anyways.
Hence the nuclear option ... 500 billion tons of vapor wouldn't hit the water very fast at all.
... and the rift between the Mac user and the PC user is revealed.
OS X has the most of the features of *nix yet it has very few of the down falls(drivers, okay that's all I can think of).
No, you still have the driver diversity issue, just that now you've picked up a hardware diversity issue as well.
This is exactly why their work is so cool. They've compensated both for the time shift between cameras and the location shift between cameras.
Both the Athlon64 and the Pentium use registers rather wider than 32-bit when handling massive calculations. The ALUs in use are something like 128 bits wide, though usually that's partitioned down to several 32 or a pair of 64 bit operations, simply because the software is only asking for 32 bits worth of range. I'm so far unconvinced that there are all that many benefits to running a 64-bit processor; most of the benefits of wide registers have been exploited in MMX and SIMD, and larger memory spaces are handled through segmentation (not that I have seen a machine with more than 2GB of memory, let alone anything close to that 4GB ceiling you hear so much about).
The heterogeneity of UNIX is what has kept it relatively free of such exploits for so many years.
./configure: 'Please run make and pray'
And also relatively free of widely used desktop software. You've got your various binary distribution formats, except that you need to match the manufacturer and version of your OS perfectly otherwise it gets flaky. Then there's the build from source option, which I so recently saw summed up by a message at the end of a (mostly) successful
The problem that people keep running into with turbine powered cars is that they try to hook the turbine up the rest of the drivetrain from a gasoline powered car. If you hook the turbine instead to a generator, you can run at a constant RPM (making the turbine happy), and then power electric motors at the wheels (or a single motor driving a differential). With all the electronics on a modern car, you've got the alternator in there already, just need to go all the way.
I'm not sure about the latest generation of iPods, but I know that previous iterations had proved to run too slowly for new codecs to work in real-time. The iPod uses a hardware decoder to play the formats that it supports; the CPU is there for the interface.
I'd take a picture of the sign ... but some hooligan snatched it.
Puritanism (adj) 1: The gnawing, fearful sensation that someone, somewhere, is happy.
Same thing here.
Actually, I think the size of an order of magnitude was implied by the way the figure was given, in base ten. If someone says "two orders greater than 450h" you can figure they mean a factor of 256, likewise "two orders greater than 450e" would indicate a factor of e^2.