Quatum computers have plenty of uses. For example my lab requires genuine random number production. Pseudo-RNG's, even as good as Mersenne Twisters, are simply not good enough.
I have designed an algorithm that uses a QC in combination with the Rand() function to generate a stream of truly random numbers. How does it work? Simply, each number output by Rand() is only added to the stream if the QC says the number is random enough. Here is the pseudocode:
Damn right. I just realised the other day that your Quartz Composer patches also show up in the Screen Savers system preference, which is pretty fucking cool.
Easy to use operating systems like Windows are inherently insecure. However, on Linux users must manually resolve library dependencies in any malware they download, and many also require the user to compile malware themselves. Only a very small amount of malware comes with a GUI for installation but even then they must navigate a cumbersome, ugly interface. It must be said in this regard that Linux is far more secure in this regard.
Anything with a G4 will support CoreImage. The CPU will do the grunt work if your GPU isn't capable. The CPU doing the work isn't as bad as it sounds though, a mini's G4 will actually outperform some of the lower-end CI capable chips.
No, calling C++ an extension of C is like calling a battleship bedecked in faeces and urine, rusting away in a disused shipyard lived in by pissed up tramps and whores an extension of a yacht.
When has anyone said Microsoft's undocumented API's are evil? Are you trolling or just a twat? I guess if you see every Apple article as being a threat to your nerdy little world then making up bullshit arguments and playing the 'Mac Zealot' card is pretty much all you can do I guess. Are you this pathetically defensive in real life?
-- Last time I set fire to some petrol it burnt with a fire, what, is the petrol they used not flammable or something
- You burnt petrol on earth with oxygen. There is no oxygen on the moon!!
So the moon rocket just sprayed petrol out the back and used that for thrust? If there was no oxygen there would be no combustion and no thrust, if there was oxygen then where is the flames from the burning petrol?
-- We can see stars literally hundreds of miles away
- hundreds of miles?? the sun which is the nearest start is 93 million miles away!!
Well that just makes my point even stronger.
.NET - We get API updates for free too. 10.3.9 for example brought some very nice WebKit API additions
DirectX 9 - We get OpenGL updates for free
IPv6 - Nice of you to join us, your a few years late though
Firewall - We've had one from the start.
Updates - Ditto, ours has been fine from the beginning.
WMP10 - Quicktime updates have always been free
MSN Updates - Likewise with iChat
Security Centre - Thats basically a fix, not a feature
Simpler Wireless - It doesnt get any simpler than OSX
I use Windows more than I use OSX, its my primary platform, but if you seriously think Tiger is just a 'service pack' then you are either being deliberately stupid or you don't know much about OSX.
We didn't go to the moon! The shadows aren't parallel! The Van-Allen belt would have fried them all instantly! Why is there no huge flame coming out of the bottom of the lander? Last time I set fire to some petrol it burnt with a fire, what, is the petrol they used not flammable or something? Why no photographs of the stars? Why not point a telescope at the moon and look at the flag? We can see stars literally hundreds of miles away, why not a flag on the moon?
Windows is hopelessly shit, unstable, jam packed full of viruses and most of them are written by Micro$o£t because they get paid to do so by Norten so people have a reason to buy it! Now I'm going to get attacked by rabid Windows zealots who insist that M$ does not write viruses.
Oh, I do apologise! I had in fact heard about that before, and in fact the lab next door built a device like this. Unfortunately one of the other professors was looking at the light too closely and accidentally dipped his beard into the Bose-Einstein condensate, ruining the device.
What in shitting-crikey are you on about? Do you know what is actually meant by 'slowing light down'? How exactly does this 'hint at moving backwards in time'?
Oh I see, you're one of those idiots. I like the way you insterted the key and the BPM, as if it makes any difference whatsoever.
I don't believe you could play a blues shuffle at 110 bpm in the key of A on a drumkit, are you saying that isn't a valid instrument? You wouldn't be able to on a sitar either. Or any one of hundreds of instruments that don't use our twelve tone scale. Or what about the hundreds of instruments that can't play chords, or can't play well-defined scales?
Saying the turntable can't be used as an instrument is an incredibly narrowminded and plain dumb thing to say.
If you read the article carefully, it does actually say. Basically they've optimised the printf() and scanf() functions, from the standard C libraries, to a very high degree. Using these optimised functions allows them to literally run the processor backwards, with a little help from Euler Integration to approximate the execution path. Its very clever indeed.
Using find and waiting ten minutes for the results isn't quite as nice as having a 'smart' folder that contains the results the moment you double click. Don't be stupid.
Read the fucking article - it exploits a flaw in Windows to propogate itself once it finds a vulnerable system. MySQL on *nix is vulnerable to the MySQL flaw, but not the part that does the damage. This is why the parent is not a troll, and you are an idiot.
FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME WIDGETS ARE NOT A FUCKING RIP OFF OF KONFABULATOR YOU FUCKING FUCK FUCK TWAT CUNT.
Konfabulator is a series of annoying, stupid, pointless little apps that clultter up your desktop and make you go 'ooh thats pretty' for about ten minutes before you realise how irritating they are and throw the whole lot in the trash.
Widgets are a series of useful apps that *dont* clutter up my desktop, a sort of virtual desktop for your utilities, if you will.
Widgets are way way better than Konfabulator, and Apple had the idea first anyway, back in the 80's with Desktop Accesories.
SO FUCK OFF.
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Quatum computers have plenty of uses. For example my lab requires genuine random number production. Pseudo-RNG's, even as good as Mersenne Twisters, are simply not good enough.
I have designed an algorithm that uses a QC in combination with the Rand() function to generate a stream of truly random numbers. How does it work? Simply, each number output by Rand() is only added to the stream if the QC says the number is random enough. Here is the pseudocode:
U32 NextRandomNumber(void)
{
U32 result;
U32 tries = 64;
do
{
result = rand();
}while(!QC_NumberIsRandom(result) && tries--)
if(!tries) panic("Couldn't generate truly random number");
return result;
}
Damn right. I just realised the other day that your Quartz Composer patches also show up in the Screen Savers system preference, which is pretty fucking cool.
Its WWDC this week. Go back to polishing your tinfoil hat, you fucking retard.
Easy to use operating systems like Windows are inherently insecure. However, on Linux users must manually resolve library dependencies in any malware they download, and many also require the user to compile malware themselves. Only a very small amount of malware comes with a GUI for installation but even then they must navigate a cumbersome, ugly interface. It must be said in this regard that Linux is far more secure in this regard.
Anything with a G4 will support CoreImage. The CPU will do the grunt work if your GPU isn't capable. The CPU doing the work isn't as bad as it sounds though, a mini's G4 will actually outperform some of the lower-end CI capable chips.
My main issue with Windows is consistency. I am glad to see they are making progress here, with only three differently themed folder icons.
No, calling C++ an extension of C is like calling a battleship bedecked in faeces and urine, rusting away in a disused shipyard lived in by pissed up tramps and whores an extension of a yacht.
When has anyone said Microsoft's undocumented API's are evil? Are you trolling or just a twat? I guess if you see every Apple article as being a threat to your nerdy little world then making up bullshit arguments and playing the 'Mac Zealot' card is pretty much all you can do I guess. Are you this pathetically defensive in real life?
-- Last time I set fire to some petrol it burnt with a fire, what, is the petrol they used not flammable or something
- You burnt petrol on earth with oxygen. There is no oxygen on the moon!!
So the moon rocket just sprayed petrol out the back and used that for thrust? If there was no oxygen there would be no combustion and no thrust, if there was oxygen then where is the flames from the burning petrol?
-- We can see stars literally hundreds of miles away
- hundreds of miles?? the sun which is the nearest start is 93 million miles away!!
Well that just makes my point even stronger.
.NET - We get API updates for free too. 10.3.9 for example brought some very nice WebKit API additions DirectX 9 - We get OpenGL updates for free IPv6 - Nice of you to join us, your a few years late though Firewall - We've had one from the start. Updates - Ditto, ours has been fine from the beginning. WMP10 - Quicktime updates have always been free MSN Updates - Likewise with iChat Security Centre - Thats basically a fix, not a feature Simpler Wireless - It doesnt get any simpler than OSX I use Windows more than I use OSX, its my primary platform, but if you seriously think Tiger is just a 'service pack' then you are either being deliberately stupid or you don't know much about OSX.
Wow. I guess my little play on words there flew over some heads.
We didn't go to the moon! The shadows aren't parallel! The Van-Allen belt would have fried them all instantly! Why is there no huge flame coming out of the bottom of the lander? Last time I set fire to some petrol it burnt with a fire, what, is the petrol they used not flammable or something? Why no photographs of the stars? Why not point a telescope at the moon and look at the flag? We can see stars literally hundreds of miles away, why not a flag on the moon?
Really? Like to name some examples?
Windows is hopelessly shit, unstable, jam packed full of viruses and most of them are written by Micro$o£t because they get paid to do so by Norten so people have a reason to buy it! Now I'm going to get attacked by rabid Windows zealots who insist that M$ does not write viruses.
Konfabulator clutters up my desktop with shite. Dashboard does not. That is why I will be using Dashboard, and not Konfabulator. Do you see?
Oh, I do apologise! I had in fact heard about that before, and in fact the lab next door built a device like this. Unfortunately one of the other professors was looking at the light too closely and accidentally dipped his beard into the Bose-Einstein condensate, ruining the device.
What in shitting-crikey are you on about? Do you know what is actually meant by 'slowing light down'? How exactly does this 'hint at moving backwards in time'?
Was that just an intentionally terrible example, or did you not actaully understand a good portion of the book?
Oh I see, you're one of those idiots. I like the way you insterted the key and the BPM, as if it makes any difference whatsoever.
I don't believe you could play a blues shuffle at 110 bpm in the key of A on a drumkit, are you saying that isn't a valid instrument? You wouldn't be able to on a sitar either. Or any one of hundreds of instruments that don't use our twelve tone scale. Or what about the hundreds of instruments that can't play chords, or can't play well-defined scales?
Saying the turntable can't be used as an instrument is an incredibly narrowminded and plain dumb thing to say.
If you read the article carefully, it does actually say. Basically they've optimised the printf() and scanf() functions, from the standard C libraries, to a very high degree. Using these optimised functions allows them to literally run the processor backwards, with a little help from Euler Integration to approximate the execution path. Its very clever indeed.
Using find and waiting ten minutes for the results isn't quite as nice as having a 'smart' folder that contains the results the moment you double click. Don't be stupid.
The answer is 'yes' actually, Spotlight isn't just 'some sort of search' either.
Your name, your sig, and your entire personality = twat
Read the fucking article - it exploits a flaw in Windows to propogate itself once it finds a vulnerable system. MySQL on *nix is vulnerable to the MySQL flaw, but not the part that does the damage. This is why the parent is not a troll, and you are an idiot.
FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME WIDGETS ARE NOT A FUCKING RIP OFF OF KONFABULATOR YOU FUCKING FUCK FUCK TWAT CUNT. Konfabulator is a series of annoying, stupid, pointless little apps that clultter up your desktop and make you go 'ooh thats pretty' for about ten minutes before you realise how irritating they are and throw the whole lot in the trash. Widgets are a series of useful apps that *dont* clutter up my desktop, a sort of virtual desktop for your utilities, if you will. Widgets are way way better than Konfabulator, and Apple had the idea first anyway, back in the 80's with Desktop Accesories. SO FUCK OFF.