The NeXT system rasterized PostScript on the main CPU and sent the rasterized data over a high-speed serial link. So, by your logic, wouldn't printing on my NeXT have been _slower_ than his 486?
That 486 being slow was probably more about system architecture and software. My NeXT machine at the time with a 68030 could rasterize and print Postscript as fast as the printer engine would spew pages.
I imagine solar and wind and geothermal and tidal and wave and other renewable power (unless there is a break-thru in fusion soon) will take over for fossil fuels in your lifetime. I think the main impediment is the efficiency of batteries and/or creation of high-density energy storage (creating liquid fuels out of water and atmospheric CO2?) and transitioning the transportation infrastructure to use it.
Someone else may be accessing your ID, or there may be something going on with your browsers. I never have to re-login to the times (despite not being a subscriber, I've got a free account from way back when), Safari and the Times seems to work out who I am every time.
It could be worse, we don't refer to ourselves as "the real America", nor generally believe that despite his ravaging where we live with tornados on a yearly basis, we've got a direct line to God.
My "self" is simply the current pattern of my thoughts. Regardless of what "hardware/wetware" they are running on, my thought patterns and memories are my "self". If some all-powerful entity could re-arrange the atoms in my brain (assuming that's what is really running things in here:-), and replace my thoughts and memories with Rene Descartes, _my_ "self" would cease to exist, and my friends and family would testify to that, though my outward appearance would be unchanged.
Right. God, being all powerful, could create all the evidence for an old universe. In fact, the universe could have been created a minute ago with all our memories and everything. Of course, that mean that God was a deceiver, and no different from Satan.
Really, it's all ridiculous bullshit, and if you don't get to children when they are young and vulnerable, you've got a much much harder time making someone believe it.
I got the rubber-band "handle" (Padlette) for my iPad2, and it makes longer term use way better. But yeah, they are still too heavy to hold "up" for very long.
Is useless, yes. But a comment explaining why isn't. Rationale is the thing missing from the code, and the thing you need most when it goes wrong. I don't need a comment as to what the code is doing, I need a comment as to what it's trying to achieve by doing what it's doing, and why.
And comments like "returns the current time in microseconds. Can never go backward" which was patently false can fuck right off!:-)
My criteria for software: Is it correct? Is it performant (enough)? Was it produced in a timely manner? Can you or someone else go back in 6-12 months and understand it well enough to extend/fix it?
One problem I see with phone-based password managers without hardware assisted crypto is the huge difference between the CPU power on the phone and even a $3000 dedicated cracking box. One thing the PDF quantifies is the amount of CPU/GPU time it'll take to generate a key for test decryption. 1-Password (the tool I've got, but haven't started using yet due to paranoia:-) uses just a single round of MD5 to generate the key, so key generation is fast. So fast that the GPU rig can test all the passwords possible in a 12.2 character (95 possible chars) password in just a day. So, for a decently safe password, you need at least 13 chars, and that'll buy you 3 months of data protection. And, you'll have to type that on your phone every time you want to use the password manager.
It seems that password managers should use a lot more CPU in the generation of the key from the password, even to the point where the delay on the phone approaches one second after the password is typed. One of the password managers ("the best") uses 4000 rounds of PBKDF2-SHA1 and so even with the GPU the cracking system can only check 10.1 characters worth of passwords in a day. So, a 12 character password will give you ~9000 days of data protection (assuming I'm doing the math correctly:-).
The report can probably be taken at face value, but if it would be interesting if the US forces had been tracking the sub all along, but never let on that they knew, so China would be caught "flat footed" in any real conflict.
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Graphene clingfilm perhaps? :-)
In CA, Sports Bars are often restaurants, which by law, allow minors.
Please have your sarcasm detector checked :-)
Or a popup, self-connecting plug in the floor of the garage.
Ah, right. And, my comment should have probably been attached to the comment you were replying to :-)
It probably didn't have enough RAM and was swapping to death.
The NeXT system rasterized PostScript on the main CPU and sent the rasterized data over a high-speed serial link. So, by your logic, wouldn't printing on my NeXT have been _slower_ than his 486?
That 486 being slow was probably more about system architecture and software. My NeXT machine at the time with a 68030 could rasterize and print Postscript as fast as the printer engine would spew pages.
Shouldn't that be: "Sent from _your_ Mac Mini"?
And flying is throwing yourself at the ground and missing.
I think you've got it!
Possum is "the other white meat". Squirrel is the other other white meat.
I imagine solar and wind and geothermal and tidal and wave and other renewable power (unless there is a break-thru in fusion soon) will take over for fossil fuels in your lifetime. I think the main impediment is the efficiency of batteries and/or creation of high-density energy storage (creating liquid fuels out of water and atmospheric CO2?) and transitioning the transportation infrastructure to use it.
Could you please imagine Charlize Theron and Milla Jovovich coming to my house to have their way with me?
Someone else may be accessing your ID, or there may be something going on with your browsers. I never have to re-login to the times (despite not being a subscriber, I've got a free account from way back when), Safari and the Times seems to work out who I am every time.
It could be worse, we don't refer to ourselves as "the real America", nor generally believe that despite his ravaging where we live with tornados on a yearly basis, we've got a direct line to God.
My "self" is simply the current pattern of my thoughts. Regardless of what "hardware/wetware" they are running on, my thought patterns and memories are my "self". If some all-powerful entity could re-arrange the atoms in my brain (assuming that's what is really running things in here :-), and replace my thoughts and memories with Rene Descartes, _my_ "self" would cease to exist, and my friends and family would testify to that, though my outward appearance would be unchanged.
Right. God, being all powerful, could create all the evidence for an old universe. In fact, the universe could have been created a minute ago with all our memories and everything. Of course, that mean that God was a deceiver, and no different from Satan.
Really, it's all ridiculous bullshit, and if you don't get to children when they are young and vulnerable, you've got a much much harder time making someone believe it.
I got the rubber-band "handle" (Padlette) for my iPad2, and it makes longer term use way better. But yeah, they are still too heavy to hold "up" for very long.
As to the style issue, I find that _underscores_ or -hyphens- work to emphasize a word without SHOUTING.
/* Add one to the count */
Is useless, yes. But a comment explaining why isn't. Rationale is the thing missing from the code, and the thing you need most when it goes wrong. I don't need a comment as to what the code is doing, I need a comment as to what it's trying to achieve by doing what it's doing, and why.
And comments like "returns the current time in microseconds. Can never go backward" which was patently false can fuck right off! :-)
My criteria for software:
Is it correct?
Is it performant (enough)?
Was it produced in a timely manner?
Can you or someone else go back in 6-12 months and understand it well enough to extend/fix it?
One problem I see with phone-based password managers without hardware assisted crypto is the huge difference between the CPU power on the phone and even a $3000 dedicated cracking box. One thing the PDF quantifies is the amount of CPU/GPU time it'll take to generate a key for test decryption. 1-Password (the tool I've got, but haven't started using yet due to paranoia :-) uses just a single round of MD5 to generate the key, so key generation is fast. So fast that the GPU rig can test all the passwords possible in a 12.2 character (95 possible chars) password in just a day. So, for a decently safe password, you need at least 13 chars, and that'll buy you 3 months of data protection. And, you'll have to type that on your phone every time you want to use the password manager.
It seems that password managers should use a lot more CPU in the generation of the key from the password, even to the point where the delay on the phone approaches one second after the password is typed. One of the password managers ("the best") uses 4000 rounds of PBKDF2-SHA1 and so even with the GPU the cracking system can only check 10.1 characters worth of passwords in a day. So, a 12 character password will give you ~9000 days of data protection (assuming I'm doing the math correctly :-).
TimeCubeGuy, is that you?
So that we can have people to repair them.
The report can probably be taken at face value, but if it would be interesting if the US forces had been tracking the sub all along, but never let on that they knew, so China would be caught "flat footed" in any real conflict.