Due to resource conflicts, we were not able to schedule this [programming] contest in late March or any Saturday in April. Based on feedback, May 1st is too late. Because of this, the 2004 High School Programming Contest is officially cancelled.
Granted this is just LSU's high school but lets face it, LA is pretty much all high school, scoring 46th (out of 50, for those of you from LA) on their ACT's This is an alphabetical list, so you will need to... oh never mind.
Don't get me wrong, I am not characterizing the whole state as slack jawed, cross burning, inbred, yokels, but saying that LA is a great state for gaming companies is rather like my state, Massachusetts, saying we are a tax haven. A cursory examination of prima facie evidence suggests otherwise.
Now if the interface is an absolute paradigm shift that is an order of magnitude more efficient than the mah jhong tiles that define the top of applications in GUI's today AND it runs on Linux?
Then watch out.
Otherwise, people will put up with Office because it is what their company buys, and they don't want to learn 2 word processors/spreadsheet/groupware applications. IE: They will not want to use one application for 99% of what they do every day, and the other one for the Holiday Christmas letter.
Short of a faraday cage (around each cable) there isn't any way to prevent ALL cross talk, but it is surprising how important using quality cables (Cat 5e or better yet Cat 6) is to reducing overall network latency.
If nothing else, in an extremely complex environment, if you use a quality cable and quality connectors (skillfully attached) you can eliminate the bus as "one more thing to check" if you are getting unexplained slow downs. It is a nice way to shorten the troubleshooting to do list when you are up to your eyeballs in alligators and the pager wont stop buzzing.
ANY language isn't 100% efficient...
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There is too much fungibility in expression. I am noticing a trend to standardize on things in languages that is interesting. For instance, there appears to be a trend towards recognizing the differnece between the "assign" operator (=)and the "equality" operator (==). Most (useful) languages use the ! to negate... perhaps we are heading towards a unified syntax at least?
Wouldn't Parrot, or similar approaches that let you code in whatever idiom you feel most expressive in, while compiling down to efficient, cross platform bytecode be the pentultimate achievement? You could add a module for UML and let those crazy Visio programmers write what they wanted while leaving the C Programmers alone?
Except that it is theorized that certain types of quantum computing occupies dimensional realities which are more fungible than our own.
If Leibinz is right and time and space don't exist, AND if there are other, possible realities... the whole thermodynamic thing is moot because causality is not inviolable.
If causality is not inviolable, then simultaneous (as in photon simultanaeity) transmittal of information, or that "spooky action at a distance" Einstein talked about, as well as paralell computation is possible (maybe).
So yes, as long as you limit your argument to the confines of our 4 dimensional reality, I concede the point. However... if there is more out there and QBits can exist in multiple dimensions simultaneously, then perhaps cracking a PERFECT 256bit algorithm is possible (ie: one which isn't susceptible to statistical, birthday, or other mathematical shortcutting attack)
We are a long way off, I think they just got a quantum computer to factor the number 15 and had a party about it. See This Link
There is much that information security can learn from physical security, and a careful study across the two disciplines should strengthen both of them. One of the most interesting aspects of physical security's methodology is its ability to very closely measure both the capabilities of the attacker and the resistance of various mechanisms to specific threats, as well as to compose these metrics in useful ways (e.g., to determine the required response time of an alarm system). Nothing approaching these kinds of metrics
exists in information security.
Isn't the use of ever increasing keyspace sizes in encryption algorithms (ie SHA256, SHA512, SHAadInfinitum) at a pace slightly higher than Moore's law effectively doing this now?
I can't count how many times I have read "...will take longer than the age of the Universe itself to brute force this/insert encryption scheme of choice here/..." when reading about some new fangled encryption scheme. Naturally, that claim is based on computational power at the time, but doesn't this exactly dispute his claim?
We can be better at it, sure. But computer security systems are designed with at least SOME regard for the notional hacker's motive, opportunity, and skill level.
Ahhh, but 20 (business days) from the initial request is a shorted deadline than our government has (ours used to be 60 days, but it might have gone to 30 days back in the mid eighties IANL)
The clock starts upon receipt of the request, and must make its way through myriad, draconian bureaucracies before the actual request to pull the info, from a shelf, or off site is issued.
The actual window to pull this data is much smaller that 20 business days might suppose. The only thing this lacks are serious consequences should the deadline pass without producing the non-exempt info. In typical British style the authorities are limited to saying "Stop! Or I shall have to say Stop! Again!" ie: this law has no real teeth, like Bobbies have no handguns.
This is going to mean a boom for the storage industry. There is no way you can keep this content on tape and pull it back in the time frame specified at the scale that this will grow to.
You might be able to use disposable media for an individual case, or a single agency, but the scalability issues that this implies mean that you will need a convenient, inexpensive medium that is also online.
Last year had the fall of Ziff Davis' GameNow--this year saw the fall of GMR, XBN, and our very own Gamestar magazine. Not to mention layoffs seen in countless publications this year. A year where many unique magazines have met their untimely end--may they rest in peace.[emphasis mine]
I feel for these people, but I can't honestly tell the difference between one mag and another. The only difference I can see is the platform they focus on... other than that they contain 90% advertising.
With that many ad's, how can they possibly lose money?
Oh wait... someone has to want to SEE the CONTENT of the magazine, to be willing to put up with the ad's
I think that the gaming magazine market may be having a "correction" that is entirely appropriate given the vacuous wasteland that is their subject matter. When all you produce are reviews, throw out the occasional spoiler, and every once and awhile interview a meaningful industry player asking stupid questions like "was coming up with the sequel to Daikatana III difficult?" it is extremely easy to see how this is happening.
I think many of these rags are the product of an industry that is so brimful of cash, that any leaky bucket of a publication was able to sop up some of the spill. Once the novelty of the magazine settled down into predictable pablum, the reader voted with their wallet, and saved the ridiculous newstand price for these mags (I mean who subscribed?) for purchasing more games that they read reviews of for free online.
As soon as these magazines lost the ability to hide behind the "We're in start-up mode and just building our readership" excuse, they dried up and blew away.
Please learn from your mistakes Gaming mag industry... please surprise me with the originality of your content, the accuracy of your acumen, the... FUCK IT, JUST COMP ME A SUBSCRIP.
Maybe with the right flower this robotic behemoth COULD enslave the crowd... perhaps that bizzarre orchid that killed off all the Aztec's in "Moonraker?"
Poppies are good for individual enslavement, and for highlighting the plight of the poor Afghani drug lords that we liberated.
I think it is important to humanity as a whole, and civilization in particular that "gracious winner" become the gold standard for closely contested elections.
As a Republican I root for the elephant's, but I am not about to go turning over flaming cars and seceding from the union if a Democrat gets in office.
What ever happened to "reasoned" debate? A legitimate difference of opinion? At the risk of sounding like we should all just get along, there is merit to the idea that if we, the left and the right, are working for the betterment of the people... then no one loses.
Of course, as long as government suckles at the teat of corrupt corporate influence peddlers, as well as letting the dog get wagged by the tail of the marginally disenfranchised then we will have partisan bickering that lowers us all.
Whoa, better step down from this soap box... it gives me such a head rush...
Maybe it was a vector that targets only the clueless? I wonder if these infected files trigger when played by a complete, drop in replacement for M$ Media Player likeMedia Player Classic
This phenomenon happens whether her music is encoded digitally, transmitted over radio spectrum, or observed live.
Going to one of her concerts is like watching those old 50's nuclear tests where they put soldiers in the desert 10 miles away from ground zero just to see what happens.
The article states that measurments in ALPHA (the fine structure constant) may have changed over time, and the easiest explanation for this is that c has changed.
Recall that the Fine Structure constant is the inverse proportional of a woman's bodytype most closely approaching the area under the curves represented by Pamela Anderson's shape to the amount of clothing she has on.
"Are there no Fallout Shelters? Are there no Subway Tunnels? Those who are wealthy should go there, and those who would rather die, let them stay on the surface, and decrease the surplus popluation..."
God Bless us Every one!
And to add an eerie prophetic note:
Won't this be approximately 2000 years after the crucifiction of Jesus? Give or take the rounding errors attributed to various sources? It will even be within 2 weeks of Easter!
Maybe we will get lucky, it will hit Jerusalem, strike an infinite supply of oil and solve several problems at once! Now that is optimism!
And you know what? I hate it too, but THERE IS NOT ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE! There simply isn't another, supportable, enterprise class Exchange replacement, open source or otherwise. If there is, then tell us please so we can move to something better.
All of the things mentioned in this thread might be true... except that Outlook keeps gaining ground, and no clear OSS alternative has gained even a significant portion of Outlook's market share.
The parent thread makes the statement that sometime in the middle of the year, thunderbird/sunbird clients will challenge outlook. This isn't fait accompli.
Think back on the previous outlook "killers" like Ximian. Are the trade rags going on about how much marketshare it has captured? Or is the smoking powerdive into a waiting desert that is Novell going to be saved by this would be Outlook contender?
I am not saying that Outlook can't be toppled from it's throne, what I am saying is that, to paraphrase Mark Twain: "The reports of MS Outlook's death are premature."
FYI, I would like nothing more than a well written alternative to Outlook that gives me the same, solid user experience. It may be that Thunderbird with Sunbird represents a step forward in that direction, but I think that a full featured Thunderbird/Sunbird duo may only kill Outlook Express. Please God let it kill Outlook Express.
In a pure Outlook versus Anything Else contest it would be possible to eventually give a richer client experience than the Microsoft product, it would take a long time, because Outlook is remarkably mature, but it would be possible.
But the thing that makes the Microsoft offering so strong is not Outlook by itself, but the combination of Outlook and Exchange Server.
You could cobble together an IMAP server and some other OSS pieces and approximate the Outlook/Exchange experience, but since they are not all seamlessly integrated, you would have an administrative nightmare if you ever migrated to another server, found a security hole in one of the pieces, or had to change any piece in any way.
Make Thunderbird and Sunbird (and something that intelligently managed tasks, workflow, and sticky notes) 100% compatible with Exchange. THAT would be an Outlook killer. Though all MS would have to do is break it in the next patch.
Zooey DesChanel's web domain name expired due to non payment. Zooey plays Trillian.
I was initially excited, 2 YEARS AGO. Now I don't give a F**K.
That last one at least isn't entirely true, I really hope that this movie is as great as the book(s). Even the BBC Radio and television series were all well done, and entertaining, and I remember fondly comparing (heatedly) the differences in all of them with my friends like bible scholars compare the different gospels
But with DA gone, I wonder if the spark went with him. I hope not.
I saw a trailer for this at the beginning of "National Treasure" this last weekend. It showed the earth in space, while Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" played in the background. Then the earth blows up... and they say the tagline "The greatest adventure in the unverse begins when the world ends." Enter H2G2 logo, cut, print.
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I am not sure that this is entirely fair. It is a legitimate "hack" to learn from the "l33t" how something is done so that you can get farther, faster. You might as well say "Why go to college? Just go to Google and search for 'knowledge'."
That being said, I agree with you it would be nice to have seen a little more effort. Lousy newb's.
He complains about a dialog box (7-zip)that died because he lost his net connection... He also states that he was using a "virtual" machine which, since he is a Microsoftie, means "Virtual PC 2004."
I think, unless he yanked his RJ-45, that we can safely blame either the virtual or actual MS OS that was used to attempt an install of Firefox.
I can hang an unpatched copy of Windows on the internet for a few minutes and then attempt to install Firefox and experience the same crappy bugginess... but it isn't Firefox's fault.
This is like blaming the ground for causing 100% of all airplane crash related deaths.
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Don't get me wrong, I am not characterizing the whole state as slack jawed, cross burning, inbred, yokels, but saying that LA is a great state for gaming companies is rather like my state, Massachusetts, saying we are a tax haven. A cursory examination of prima facie evidence suggests otherwise.
Now if the interface is an absolute paradigm shift that is an order of magnitude more efficient than the mah jhong tiles that define the top of applications in GUI's today AND it runs on Linux?
Then watch out.
Otherwise, people will put up with Office because it is what their company buys, and they don't want to learn 2 word processors/spreadsheet/groupware applications. IE: They will not want to use one application for 99% of what they do every day, and the other one for the Holiday Christmas letter.
If nothing else, in an extremely complex environment, if you use a quality cable and quality connectors (skillfully attached) you can eliminate the bus as "one more thing to check" if you are getting unexplained slow downs. It is a nice way to shorten the troubleshooting to do list when you are up to your eyeballs in alligators and the pager wont stop buzzing.
Wouldn't Parrot, or similar approaches that let you code in whatever idiom you feel most expressive in, while compiling down to efficient, cross platform bytecode be the pentultimate achievement? You could add a module for UML and let those crazy Visio programmers write what they wanted while leaving the C Programmers alone?
If Leibinz is right and time and space don't exist, AND if there are other, possible realities... the whole thermodynamic thing is moot because causality is not inviolable.
If causality is not inviolable, then simultaneous (as in photon simultanaeity) transmittal of information, or that "spooky action at a distance" Einstein talked about, as well as paralell computation is possible (maybe).
So yes, as long as you limit your argument to the confines of our 4 dimensional reality, I concede the point. However... if there is more out there and QBits can exist in multiple dimensions simultaneously, then perhaps cracking a PERFECT 256bit algorithm is possible (ie: one which isn't susceptible to statistical, birthday, or other mathematical shortcutting attack)
We are a long way off, I think they just got a quantum computer to factor the number 15 and had a party about it. See This Link
Whoooopeee!
Or run by Dick Cheney from a secure location?
What is it with Vice Presidents getting all the crap jobs?
Isn't the use of ever increasing keyspace sizes in encryption algorithms (ie SHA256, SHA512, SHAadInfinitum) at a pace slightly higher than Moore's law effectively doing this now?
I can't count how many times I have read "...will take longer than the age of the Universe itself to brute force this /insert encryption scheme of choice here/..." when reading about some new fangled encryption scheme. Naturally, that claim is based on computational power at the time, but doesn't this exactly dispute his claim?
We can be better at it, sure. But computer security systems are designed with at least SOME regard for the notional hacker's motive, opportunity, and skill level.
The clock starts upon receipt of the request, and must make its way through myriad, draconian bureaucracies before the actual request to pull the info, from a shelf, or off site is issued.
The actual window to pull this data is much smaller that 20 business days might suppose. The only thing this lacks are serious consequences should the deadline pass without producing the non-exempt info. In typical British style the authorities are limited to saying "Stop! Or I shall have to say Stop! Again!" ie: this law has no real teeth, like Bobbies have no handguns.
You might be able to use disposable media for an individual case, or a single agency, but the scalability issues that this implies mean that you will need a convenient, inexpensive medium that is also online.
I feel for these people, but I can't honestly tell the difference between one mag and another. The only difference I can see is the platform they focus on... other than that they contain 90% advertising.
With that many ad's, how can they possibly lose money?
Oh wait... someone has to want to SEE the CONTENT of the magazine, to be willing to put up with the ad's
I think that the gaming magazine market may be having a "correction" that is entirely appropriate given the vacuous wasteland that is their subject matter. When all you produce are reviews, throw out the occasional spoiler, and every once and awhile interview a meaningful industry player asking stupid questions like "was coming up with the sequel to Daikatana III difficult?" it is extremely easy to see how this is happening.
I think many of these rags are the product of an industry that is so brimful of cash, that any leaky bucket of a publication was able to sop up some of the spill. Once the novelty of the magazine settled down into predictable pablum, the reader voted with their wallet, and saved the ridiculous newstand price for these mags (I mean who subscribed?) for purchasing more games that they read reviews of for free online.
As soon as these magazines lost the ability to hide behind the "We're in start-up mode and just building our readership" excuse, they dried up and blew away.
Please learn from your mistakes Gaming mag industry... please surprise me with the originality of your content, the accuracy of your acumen, the ... FUCK IT, JUST COMP ME A SUBSCRIP.
Poppies are good for individual enslavement, and for highlighting the plight of the poor Afghani drug lords that we liberated.
As a Republican I root for the elephant's, but I am not about to go turning over flaming cars and seceding from the union if a Democrat gets in office.
What ever happened to "reasoned" debate? A legitimate difference of opinion? At the risk of sounding like we should all just get along, there is merit to the idea that if we, the left and the right, are working for the betterment of the people... then no one loses.
Of course, as long as government suckles at the teat of corrupt corporate influence peddlers, as well as letting the dog get wagged by the tail of the marginally disenfranchised then we will have partisan bickering that lowers us all.
Whoa, better step down from this soap box... it gives me such a head rush...
I would bet they don't.
Going to one of her concerts is like watching those old 50's nuclear tests where they put soldiers in the desert 10 miles away from ground zero just to see what happens.
mod this whole thread troll.
Recall that the Fine Structure constant is the inverse proportional of a woman's bodytype most closely approaching the area under the curves represented by Pamela Anderson's shape to the amount of clothing she has on.
Wait wtf were we talking about?
Dude... that was awesome
No I am not 12, why do you ask?
And to add an eerie prophetic note:
Won't this be approximately 2000 years after the crucifiction of Jesus? Give or take the rounding errors attributed to various sources? It will even be within 2 weeks of Easter!
Maybe we will get lucky, it will hit Jerusalem, strike an infinite supply of oil and solve several problems at once! Now that is optimism!
And you know what? I hate it too, but THERE IS NOT ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE! There simply isn't another, supportable, enterprise class Exchange replacement, open source or otherwise. If there is, then tell us please so we can move to something better.
Don't say Notes, please don't say Notes
The parent thread makes the statement that sometime in the middle of the year, thunderbird/sunbird clients will challenge outlook. This isn't fait accompli.
Think back on the previous outlook "killers" like Ximian. Are the trade rags going on about how much marketshare it has captured? Or is the smoking powerdive into a waiting desert that is Novell going to be saved by this would be Outlook contender?
I am not saying that Outlook can't be toppled from it's throne, what I am saying is that, to paraphrase Mark Twain: "The reports of MS Outlook's death are premature."
FYI, I would like nothing more than a well written alternative to Outlook that gives me the same, solid user experience. It may be that Thunderbird with Sunbird represents a step forward in that direction, but I think that a full featured Thunderbird/Sunbird duo may only kill Outlook Express. Please God let it kill Outlook Express.
But the thing that makes the Microsoft offering so strong is not Outlook by itself, but the combination of Outlook and Exchange Server.
You could cobble together an IMAP server and some other OSS pieces and approximate the Outlook/Exchange experience, but since they are not all seamlessly integrated, you would have an administrative nightmare if you ever migrated to another server, found a security hole in one of the pieces, or had to change any piece in any way.
Make Thunderbird and Sunbird (and something that intelligently managed tasks, workflow, and sticky notes) 100% compatible with Exchange. THAT would be an Outlook killer. Though all MS would have to do is break it in the next patch.
That last one at least isn't entirely true, I really hope that this movie is as great as the book(s). Even the BBC Radio and television series were all well done, and entertaining, and I remember fondly comparing (heatedly) the differences in all of them with my friends like bible scholars compare the different gospels
But with DA gone, I wonder if the spark went with him. I hope not.
I saw a trailer for this at the beginning of "National Treasure" this last weekend. It showed the earth in space, while Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" played in the background. Then the earth blows up... and they say the tagline "The greatest adventure in the unverse begins when the world ends." Enter H2G2 logo, cut, print.
That being said, I agree with you it would be nice to have seen a little more effort. Lousy newb's.
Or perhaps when the exothermic reaction gets hot enough to ignite the cup in your hand, then you could sue.
Or if you are American... Then you could sue.
I think, unless he yanked his RJ-45, that we can safely blame either the virtual or actual MS OS that was used to attempt an install of Firefox.
I can hang an unpatched copy of Windows on the internet for a few minutes and then attempt to install Firefox and experience the same crappy bugginess... but it isn't Firefox's fault.
This is like blaming the ground for causing 100% of all airplane crash related deaths.