Maybe you shouldn't judge films by their trailers. Firstly, for some filmes, it is simply not possible to capture what makes them special in a few minutes. Also, the people who produce the trailers often don't seem to be able to make an appropriate trailer.
So, with your attitude, you're going to miss a few great films.
with the way films like Episode I are planned and marketed, are these really "deleted scenes", or rather material filmed directly for DVD? It does make buying it a lot more attractive...
Secondly, if you increase the number of rounds in Rjindael you can effectively double the security, and even then it is still one of the fastest candidates in software.
Where did you get this? According to the
paper,
for the number of rounds specified, there is no known attack that is stronger than exhaustive key search. Hence, adding rounds will add nothing to security. You have to increase the key length to achieve this.
Actually, if you have net access (which you'll need anyway for apt-get'ting other stuff), five floppies should be enough (rescue.bin, root.bin and driver-{1,2,3}.bin). These already contain ethernet and ppp drivers/programs, allowing you to fetch the rest via net. If you don't have any exotic network card, you might actually be able to do with the three floppies from images-1.44/compact or images-1.44/idepci.
Actually, Python doesn't currently have garbage collection. It uses reference counting, leading to some problems with cyclic references. There is a patch that adds garbage collection in the current development version (Python 2.0 to be), but won't necessarily be enabled by default in the release.
But, wouldn't it make more sense for them to also offer the webified gimp for people to download and run on their own servers? It wouldn't have to be open source, just available.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but since the GIMP is GPLed, wouldn't they also have to provide the source if they let people download a non-source version?
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Ford stared at Arthur, and Arthur was astonished to find that his will was beginning to weaken. He didn't realise that this was because of an old drinking game that Ford learned to play in the hyperspace ports that served the Madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta.
The game was not unlike the Earth game called Indian Wrestling, and was played like this:
Two contestants would sit either side of a table, with a glass in front of each of them.
Between them would be placed a bottle of Janx Spirit (as immortalised in that ancient Orion mining song "Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit").
Each of the two contestants would then concentrate their will on the bottle and attempt to tip it and pour spirit into the glass of his opponent - who would then have to drink it. The bottle would then be refilled. The game would be played again. And again.
Once you started to lose you would probably keep losing, because one of the effects of Janx spirit is to depress telepsychic power.
As soon as a predetermined quantity had been consumed, the final loser would have to perform a forfeit, which was usually obscenely biological.
I think there are a few problems with this approach. Firstly, there should be some way to work with pre-compiled packages. Here, I don't think stow offers any advantages to simple.tar.gz-packages. Also, the fact that stow keeps no database of files can be rather inefficient. Have you ever removed a stowed package from a large directory tree?
But most importantly, stow doesn't deal with the classical packaging system problems of dependencies and conflicts at all, making it rather unsuitable for the job. I don't see how dependencies could be added easily without changing stow completely. It knows nothing about packages, all it cares about are directory trees. Adapting stow to deal with dependencies would be at least as hard as creating a new packaging system from scratch.
Actually, this story isn't that new. About three years ago, the Rael-sect, which is responsible for this project, held a talk in my town (in Germany), which I visited with a few friends. We went there mainly for entertainment, it was certainly worth it. At least half of the spectators were, well, skeptical, and it was lots of fun asking questions about their logically rather weak ideas on the creation of mankind. For example, they think humans were genetically engineered in the laboratories of the Elohim (some kind of aliean race) in space. Apparently, the Elohim themselves were created by another higher-level species, which obviously solves all questions;-).
Also, the way they reinterpret the bible is interesting. IIRC, Salomon's hair worked as antennae for communicating with the Elohim. It was then cut off when he annoyed them for some reason or other.
Anyway, this cloning project existed already at that time. They were planning on setting this up on some Carribean island to avoid laws on cloning.
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Maybe you shouldn't judge films by their trailers. Firstly, for some filmes, it is simply not possible to capture what makes them special in a few minutes. Also, the people who produce the trailers often don't seem to be able to make an appropriate trailer.
So, with your attitude, you're going to miss a few great films.
with the way films like Episode I are planned and marketed, are these really "deleted scenes", or rather material filmed directly for DVD? It does make buying it a lot more attractive...
I'd certainly prefer a normal banner ad to having to wait to load two gigantic pics on their home page, one of which is actually text.
about the quadrillionth binary digit of pi? If you're looking at binary digits, it should at least have been some power of 2.
Maybe you should try voting for other candidates?
But the shipping MX cards don't seem to implement this feature...
Actually, if you have net access (which you'll need anyway for apt-get'ting other stuff), five floppies should be enough (rescue.bin, root.bin and driver-{1,2,3}.bin). These already contain ethernet and ppp drivers/programs, allowing you to fetch the rest via net. If you don't have any exotic network card, you might actually be able to do with the three floppies from images-1.44/compact or images-1.44/idepci.
Actually, Python doesn't currently have garbage collection. It uses reference counting, leading to some problems with cyclic references. There is a patch that adds garbage collection in the current development version (Python 2.0 to be), but won't necessarily be enabled by default in the release.
Ford stared at Arthur, and Arthur was astonished to find that his will was
beginning to weaken. He didn't realise that this was because of an old drinking
game that Ford learned to play in the hyperspace ports that served the Madranite
mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta.
The game was not unlike the Earth game called Indian Wrestling, and was played
like this:
Two contestants would sit either side of a table, with a glass in front of each
of them.
Between them would be placed a bottle of Janx Spirit (as immortalised in that
ancient Orion mining song "Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/
No, don't you give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly,
my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more
of that sinful Old Janx Spirit").
Each of the two contestants would then concentrate their will on the bottle and
attempt to tip it and pour spirit into the glass of his opponent - who would
then have to drink it.
The bottle would then be refilled. The game would be played again. And again.
Once you started to lose you would probably keep losing, because one of the
effects of Janx spirit is to depress telepsychic power.
As soon as a predetermined quantity had been consumed, the final loser would
have to perform a forfeit, which was usually obscenely biological.
Ford Prefect usually played to lose.
I think there are a few problems with this approach. Firstly, there should be some way to work with pre-compiled packages. Here, I don't think stow offers any advantages to simple .tar.gz-packages. Also, the fact that stow keeps no database of files can be rather inefficient. Have you ever removed a stowed package from a large directory tree?
But most importantly, stow doesn't deal with the classical packaging system problems of dependencies and conflicts at all, making it rather unsuitable for the job. I don't see how dependencies could be added easily without changing stow completely. It knows nothing about packages, all it cares about are directory trees. Adapting stow to deal with dependencies would be at least as hard as creating a new packaging system from scratch.
Actually, this story isn't that new. About three years ago, the Rael-sect, which is responsible for this project, held a talk in my town (in Germany), which I visited with a few friends. We went there mainly for entertainment, it was certainly worth it. At least half of the spectators were, well, skeptical, and it was lots of fun asking questions about their logically rather weak ideas on the creation of mankind. For example, they think humans were genetically engineered in the laboratories of the Elohim (some kind of aliean race) in space. Apparently, the Elohim themselves were created by another higher-level species, which obviously solves all questions ;-).
Also, the way they reinterpret the bible is interesting. IIRC, Salomon's hair worked as antennae for communicating with the Elohim. It was then cut off when he annoyed them for some reason or other.
Anyway, this cloning project existed already at that time. They were planning on setting this up on some Carribean island to avoid laws on cloning.