That's crazy, I pre-ordered my educational-priced copy on Sunday the 24th and it got here yesterday, the 28th. I'm in suburban Washington DC, and the FedEx tracking info said it came from a distribution center in Pennsylvania, which is why it got here overnight (shipped the 27th). I'll be installing tonight after I backup the old boot partition with SuperDuper.
"In 2003, the launch of Paul Allen's 127m (416ft) "Octopus" secured its number one position as the world's largest yacht.
Microsoft's "accidental billionaire" Paul Allen - worth US$20 billion according to Forbes, the third richest man in America and 7th in the world - owns two other monsters yachts such as Tatoosh ranked 3rd in the World in 2003.
Octopus cost Allen over US$200 million and has Permanent crew of 60, including several former Navy Seals. It has two helicopters, seven boats, a 10 man submarine and a remote controlled vehicle for crawling on the Ocean floor. The submarine has the capacity to sleep eight for up to two weeks underwater.
On average, owners must spend a minimum of 10 percent of the purchase price every year to keep these yachts in good working condition and cover crew salaries. Therefore "Octopus" which cost Allen US$200 million requires a US$20 million annual budget."
Dude, an 8 man submarine that can stay underwater for two weeks? Holy fucking shit on a stick.
I had someone hear in the office I work at save a circular reference in her Excel file (where a formula in a cell either directly or indirectly referrs to itself).
Excel warns you whan you start up the file something like "Warning, circular reference in cell A34, please correct", but then the message disappears and the file isn't open. So was no way to open this file with Excel, even thought it says you can, but OO did it with no trouble. It just put "circular reference" in that cell, like fucking Excel should! Hooray, problem solved.
I agree with your comment, extect that RoboCop is meant to be funny. It's a very camp movie, remember the "5000 SUX"?
I think it would have been much funnier if the ED-209 has just kept destroying that poor executive even though he was already dead; it's just about as bad as a product demo can go....still cracks me up how callus and uncaring they are about the guy that got blown away, they're just like "clean this shit up". Hehe, evil OCP.
Don't mod me offtopic, he brought up RoboCop. And yes, DVD with multiple settings would be great. The same thing is true of Braveheart; they had to cut the number of frames in half of the really bloody parts to avoid an X or NC-17 or whatever.
That's not true. First of all, there is no "general" way to crack hashes. That's like saying there is a "general" way to crack crypto algorithms. Sure, there are general cryptanalytic stratagies to reduce keyspace, or use some fancy-ass algrbra to knock NP-complete problems down to NP or something, but there's no "general" magic bullet.
So, even if you manage to crack one specific hash algorithm completely (meaning you can produce files of arbitrary size and content that produce a desired hash), you still have to crack the others the file/message is hashed in. I would consider any message/file hashed under multiple algorithms much more secure than any single one. We're not talking hashes of hashes here, but of multiple, independent hashes of a single source file/message. And they must ALL match for the file to be considered genuine.
Try producing a file that resolves to the same MD5, RIPEMD-160, SHA-1, and SHA-256 hashes as another given file. Damn near impossible.
Yes, I am saying XBox sucks, it's just a Halo/Halo2 playing device. Anyway...
Sony sells an official Linux kit for the PS2, and all you have to do to change a harddrive is pop off the network adapter and slide one in, no bullshit at all. And the PS2 has REAL USB ports that you can connect normal, USB devices to, no converter. Shit, in Gran Turismo 4 you can save pictures of your cars to any flashdrive (kinda gay application, but neat none the less). Also,
Check out the PS2 Keylauncher and see what people have done with PS2 homebrew software, it's amazing. You can install about 75% of PS2 games onto the HD and play with no mod chip whatsoever (HDLoader), also has FTP server, divix players, all sorts of stuff.
Look, I've never built a computer kit or breadboarded shit together, but I do have an MS in CS and I have built an the entire frontend of a PASCAL compiler from scratch in grad school (no LEX or YACC, not even an LL1 grammar to start with! With type checking, parameter checking, scoping, lex/syntax/semantic analyzers, all that good shit), so I do think I can hold my own in the dorky CS universe.
And you know what? Video games have never really been that much of a homebrew thing, but it's just the way Microsoft absolutely panders to the lowest common denominator that I hate. Please excuse the post-work rambling, tequila starting to take effect.......
NCSA baby! w00t! I remember when my Dad first showed me the "Internet", consiting of about 2 web pages and was mainly used by opening Gopher or Interarchy or something to download random programs. Ah, Mosaic, those were the days.
Once upon a time, computers were only for hardcore nerds who could breadboard their own stuff up and buy chips via mailorder....even when "personal" computers became more mass-produced, they still weren't for every Tom, Dick and Harry...
Enter Microsoft, the king of "here's some interesting technology aimed at YOU, the retarded average consumer! It may not be cutting edge or well-done, but it's leaps and bounds cooler than your toaster and basic cable, which is what you're used to, so you'll be blown away!"
Same thing. I'm not saying XBox sucks (although it does), it's just Microsoft's typical "dumbing-down" for the masses. They can make more $$ from zillions of average Joes than from nerds, and as they care about $/quality, there you go..
I was thinking of the "Who killed Mr. Burns" episode, where just before he stole the sucker from Maggie, he says something like "I was just wallowing in my own crapulence"....something like that.
According to the cnnarticle, the US consumes 20 million barrels of oil per day, and this action would save extra barrels for the affected time period.
So, for 16.6% of the year (2/12), we'll be saving 0.05% of our daily oil (10K/20M)....working out to 0.0083% of annual savings (0.166*0.0005)....wow, that totally sounds worth it! NOT.
That I don't know. The new macs that came in had Jaguar on them pretty quick, and at the rate Minis are going I'd say a week or two tops. Hell, if you ordered one today you'd probably get one with 10.4, since there's a waiting list. Or, once they're in stock, roll into your local Apple store and ask them for one with 10.4. They can open the box real quick and if the install discs it comes with are 10.4, then you'll know.
I worked as a Mac Genius when Jaguar came out, and there was an official cut-off date about 5 weeks before the official release. If you purchased a mac between then and the release date, you got the free upgrade. Not the stand-alone OS install, mind you, but the "drop in" upgrade discs that they toss in the boxes of new macs at the store that don't have the OS preloaded. They do have a little give around these dates if you whine enough (hope I'm not violating my NDA...=)
You CAN install the OS from scratch (you aren't forced to do one of those nasty upgrades), but you MUST have the previous OS installed for the discs to work. Which you do, so don't worry. It just means if you ever need to reinstall your OS in the event of a disaster, you'll have to install 10.3 first, then do the format-(or archive)-and-install with 10.4.
I had a long-term girlfriend in High School that lived DIRECTLY across the street from me. Once in a while, we'd both pretend to be sick to stay home from school, and then proceed to basically have sex all day while both our sets of parents were at work...
Now, the POINT is that I would take our crappy early-90s portable phone across the street with me to her house, and with the basestation properly set up in my house, when my Mom called to check up on me (because I was 'untrustworthy'...ha!), I'd be there...good times.
After reading everything in the Ender universe I could find (Yes, I DID like Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide, so sue me), I said "Hey, this Homecoming series looks pretty cool", and the first book or two was (with all the mind control and crazy foreign culture and what not), but boy did it go downhill after that.
Once they're in space it sucks, and once they get back to Earth and discover the super-evolved moles and bats, it's really sucks. The books just went on and on and on with nothing substantial happening. Just my 2c.
It's only illegal because the DMCA is a retarded piece of legislation. You're still BUYING the music, it just isn't encumbered after you buy it. This is basically what people want, the freedom to do as they wish with their music (which DOESN'T necessarily include giving it away over P2P).
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That's crazy, I pre-ordered my educational-priced copy on Sunday the 24th and it got here yesterday, the 28th. I'm in suburban Washington DC, and the FedEx tracking info said it came from a distribution center in Pennsylvania, which is why it got here overnight (shipped the 27th). I'll be installing tonight after I backup the old boot partition with SuperDuper.
From the PowerPoint presentation:
"In 2003, the launch of Paul Allen's 127m (416ft) "Octopus" secured its number one position as the world's largest yacht.
Microsoft's "accidental billionaire" Paul Allen - worth US$20 billion according to Forbes, the third richest man in America and 7th in the world - owns two other monsters yachts such as Tatoosh ranked 3rd in the World in 2003.
Octopus cost Allen over US$200 million and has Permanent crew of 60, including several former Navy Seals. It has two helicopters, seven boats, a 10 man submarine and a remote controlled vehicle for crawling on the Ocean floor. The submarine has the capacity to sleep eight for up to two weeks underwater.
On average, owners must spend a minimum of 10 percent of the purchase price every year to keep these yachts in good working condition and cover crew salaries. Therefore "Octopus" which cost Allen US$200 million requires a US$20 million annual budget."
Dude, an 8 man submarine that can stay underwater for two weeks? Holy fucking shit on a stick.
I had someone hear in the office I work at save a circular reference in her Excel file (where a formula in a cell either directly or indirectly referrs to itself).
Excel warns you whan you start up the file something like "Warning, circular reference in cell A34, please correct", but then the message disappears and the file isn't open. So was no way to open this file with Excel, even thought it says you can, but OO did it with no trouble. It just put "circular reference" in that cell, like fucking Excel should! Hooray, problem solved.
I agree with your comment, extect that RoboCop is meant to be funny. It's a very camp movie, remember the "5000 SUX"?
I think it would have been much funnier if the ED-209 has just kept destroying that poor executive even though he was already dead; it's just about as bad as a product demo can go....still cracks me up how callus and uncaring they are about the guy that got blown away, they're just like "clean this shit up". Hehe, evil OCP.
Don't mod me offtopic, he brought up RoboCop. And yes, DVD with multiple settings would be great. The same thing is true of Braveheart; they had to cut the number of frames in half of the really bloody parts to avoid an X or NC-17 or whatever.
That's not true. First of all, there is no "general" way to crack hashes. That's like saying there is a "general" way to crack crypto algorithms. Sure, there are general cryptanalytic stratagies to reduce keyspace, or use some fancy-ass algrbra to knock NP-complete problems down to NP or something, but there's no "general" magic bullet.
So, even if you manage to crack one specific hash algorithm completely (meaning you can produce files of arbitrary size and content that produce a desired hash), you still have to crack the others the file/message is hashed in. I would consider any message/file hashed under multiple algorithms much more secure than any single one. We're not talking hashes of hashes here, but of multiple, independent hashes of a single source file/message. And they must ALL match for the file to be considered genuine.
Try producing a file that resolves to the same MD5, RIPEMD-160, SHA-1, and SHA-256 hashes as another given file. Damn near impossible.
I guess no one works there, check out the nearly empty parking lot.
Anyone know who does the music in the demo movie or what the name of the song/mix/whatever is? Pretty cool...
Yes, I am saying XBox sucks, it's just a Halo/Halo2 playing device. Anyway...
Sony sells an official Linux kit for the PS2, and all you have to do to change a harddrive is pop off the network adapter and slide one in, no bullshit at all. And the PS2 has REAL USB ports that you can connect normal, USB devices to, no converter. Shit, in Gran Turismo 4 you can save pictures of your cars to any flashdrive (kinda gay application, but neat none the less). Also,
Check out the PS2 Keylauncher and see what people have done with PS2 homebrew software, it's amazing. You can install about 75% of PS2 games onto the HD and play with no mod chip whatsoever (HDLoader), also has FTP server, divix players, all sorts of stuff.
Look, I've never built a computer kit or breadboarded shit together, but I do have an MS in CS and I have built an the entire frontend of a PASCAL compiler from scratch in grad school (no LEX or YACC, not even an LL1 grammar to start with! With type checking, parameter checking, scoping, lex/syntax/semantic analyzers, all that good shit), so I do think I can hold my own in the dorky CS universe.
And you know what? Video games have never really been that much of a homebrew thing, but it's just the way Microsoft absolutely panders to the lowest common denominator that I hate. Please excuse the post-work rambling, tequila starting to take effect.......
NCSA baby! w00t! I remember when my Dad first showed me the "Internet", consiting of about 2 web pages and was mainly used by opening Gopher or Interarchy or something to download random programs. Ah, Mosaic, those were the days.
Once upon a time, computers were only for hardcore nerds who could breadboard their own stuff up and buy chips via mailorder....even when "personal" computers became more mass-produced, they still weren't for every Tom, Dick and Harry...
Enter Microsoft, the king of "here's some interesting technology aimed at YOU, the retarded average consumer! It may not be cutting edge or well-done, but it's leaps and bounds cooler than your toaster and basic cable, which is what you're used to, so you'll be blown away!"
Same thing. I'm not saying XBox sucks (although it does), it's just Microsoft's typical "dumbing-down" for the masses. They can make more $$ from zillions of average Joes than from nerds, and as they care about $/quality, there you go..
Sony Rapee?
I was thinking of the "Who killed Mr. Burns" episode, where just before he stole the sucker from Maggie, he says something like "I was just wallowing in my own crapulence"....something like that.
crapulent, crapulous
a. (sick through) eating or drinking to excess. crapulence, n.
Wow, and I thought it was just a Simpsons word!
According to the cnnarticle, the US consumes 20 million barrels of oil per day, and this action would save extra barrels for the affected time period. So, for 16.6% of the year (2/12), we'll be saving 0.05% of our daily oil (10K/20M)....working out to 0.0083% of annual savings (0.166*0.0005)....wow, that totally sounds worth it! NOT.
As early as 6:45? Try 30 minutes earlier, if they have to go to bus stop, wait for bus, and get to school at least 10 minutes before stuff starts.
Beyond a certain point, key length doesn't really matter. It's the alrogithm that produces those keys that will get cracked.
Man, a dupe when the original is still on the front page! Yeesh!
It's obvious that tiger^tiger is the most powerful result one can yield with the two operands.
Speaking of which...
That I don't know. The new macs that came in had Jaguar on them pretty quick, and at the rate Minis are going I'd say a week or two tops. Hell, if you ordered one today you'd probably get one with 10.4, since there's a waiting list. Or, once they're in stock, roll into your local Apple store and ask them for one with 10.4. They can open the box real quick and if the install discs it comes with are 10.4, then you'll know.
I worked as a Mac Genius when Jaguar came out, and there was an official cut-off date about 5 weeks before the official release. If you purchased a mac between then and the release date, you got the free upgrade. Not the stand-alone OS install, mind you, but the "drop in" upgrade discs that they toss in the boxes of new macs at the store that don't have the OS preloaded. They do have a little give around these dates if you whine enough (hope I'm not violating my NDA...=)
You CAN install the OS from scratch (you aren't forced to do one of those nasty upgrades), but you MUST have the previous OS installed for the discs to work. Which you do, so don't worry. It just means if you ever need to reinstall your OS in the event of a disaster, you'll have to install 10.3 first, then do the format-(or archive)-and-install with 10.4.
I had a long-term girlfriend in High School that lived DIRECTLY across the street from me. Once in a while, we'd both pretend to be sick to stay home from school, and then proceed to basically have sex all day while both our sets of parents were at work...
Now, the POINT is that I would take our crappy early-90s portable phone across the street with me to her house, and with the basestation properly set up in my house, when my Mom called to check up on me (because I was 'untrustworthy'...ha!), I'd be there...good times.
After reading everything in the Ender universe I could find (Yes, I DID like Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide, so sue me), I said "Hey, this Homecoming series looks pretty cool", and the first book or two was (with all the mind control and crazy foreign culture and what not), but boy did it go downhill after that. Once they're in space it sucks, and once they get back to Earth and discover the super-evolved moles and bats, it's really sucks. The books just went on and on and on with nothing substantial happening. Just my 2c.
It's only illegal because the DMCA is a retarded piece of legislation. You're still BUYING the music, it just isn't encumbered after you buy it. This is basically what people want, the freedom to do as they wish with their music (which DOESN'T necessarily include giving it away over P2P).