I think all that integration is really important to them when it comes to consumer machines, but I wouldn't rule out running OS X Server on Intel.
They could make a nice rackmounted, no Aqua, machine....and if it was ported, they can potentially break into all those hosting environments where all they have is x86 boxes.
Personally, I didn't go to college to learn what companies want from me, and I'm pretty happy about that.
I was a CS major, and I learned a lot about algorithmic designs, etc. More importantly, I spent those 4 years with other students from all over the country, I spent a year in Germany, and I took classes outside the core CS curriculum. I sucked at them, but I took them anyway.
College isn't about learning a skill, as some one else pointed out: Tech schools are about learning technical skills. College is about broadening yourself beyond the ability to read slashdot, and understanding why other people might not read it. For a lot of people its about getting out of home and not living with their parents: learning self sufficiency. It's about people who don't come from the same little burb they live in, and it's about learning to deal with people who have vastly different experiences and backgrounds from themselves.
I'm all for a broader educational experience. Six years after school, I wish I had learned more history, I wish i had learned more writing skills (as this post is witness to), and I wish I had learned more about other non-CS related sciences.
If you don't want to learn that stuff, then good. Don't go to college. Learn your skill, and be a grunt for the next 20 years of your life. If you want to learn, and understand , why you're doing something, then accept that the whole situation has to be a little more broad.
I think we just need to produce an "encryption" product that requires one of Adobe's Photoshop plug-ins for decryption. Then we could use the DMCA to sue them for illegally cracking our encryption....:)
In this light, Blowfish becomes attractive. Its advantage over Twofish et al. is age. Its advantage over 3DES is its freedom. This is part of the reason why Blowfish is ubiquitous in the real world.
more so than freedom, is speed...3DES is just encrypting something three times with DES, which was slow to start with...the freedom comes into play more when comparing agiainst IDEA, or other proprietary and/or patented algorithms.
Think about the advantages they'd have. The human mind is an extremely powerful tool, but it has it's limitations. We don't multitask very well. We can't do basic math at mind-boggling speeds. The list goes on and on.
I don't know...I find I get my best ideas by sticking a problem in my mind and then forgetting about it. I check back ever day or so, and eventually I usually find out I've come up with a pretty good answer...it's amazing feats of multi-tasking like this that allow me to drink beer and use that bar time to get my work out of the way.
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I think this is the first time I've seen a journalist use the term "beleaguered" regarding any company that isn't Apple....
They could make a nice rackmounted, no Aqua, machine....and if it was ported, they can potentially break into all those hosting environments where all they have is x86 boxes.
I was a CS major, and I learned a lot about algorithmic designs, etc. More importantly, I spent those 4 years with other students from all over the country, I spent a year in Germany, and I took classes outside the core CS curriculum. I sucked at them, but I took them anyway.
College isn't about learning a skill, as some one else pointed out: Tech schools are about learning technical skills. College is about broadening yourself beyond the ability to read slashdot, and understanding why other people might not read it. For a lot of people its about getting out of home and not living with their parents: learning self sufficiency. It's about people who don't come from the same little burb they live in, and it's about learning to deal with people who have vastly different experiences and backgrounds from themselves.
I'm all for a broader educational experience. Six years after school, I wish I had learned more history, I wish i had learned more writing skills (as this post is witness to), and I wish I had learned more about other non-CS related sciences.
If you don't want to learn that stuff, then good. Don't go to college. Learn your skill, and be a grunt for the next 20 years of your life. If you want to learn, and understand , why you're doing something, then accept that the whole situation has to be a little more broad.
In this light, Blowfish becomes attractive. Its advantage over Twofish et al. is age. Its advantage over 3DES is its freedom. This is part of the reason why Blowfish is ubiquitous in the real world.
more so than freedom, is speed...3DES is just encrypting something three times with DES, which was slow to start with...the freedom comes into play more when comparing agiainst IDEA, or other proprietary and/or patented algorithms.
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like the first step towards the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's Nutri-Matic?
I don't know...I find I get my best ideas by sticking a problem in my mind and then forgetting about it. I check back ever day or so, and eventually I usually find out I've come up with a pretty good answer...it's amazing feats of multi-tasking like this that allow me to drink beer and use that bar time to get my work out of the way.