Writing code: It does not matter at all. Reading code, symbols are hugely superior as they provide visual separation. And none of this is research-worthy, as it is obvious. There is a reason mathematics has been using symbols for a long, long time.
That said, symbol sets available on a computer are limited dues to input limitations (PC Keyboards). So logical operators will often be written out. That is inferior to symbols, but as they are full words, it is less of a problem. Human beings are great at recognizing full words. (No, "gt" does not qualify as a full word.)
Incidentally, it also depends on what people are used to. For example, when I use set operators in code, I use that LaTeX names.That works reasonably well.
No, it cannot. It can be used to create some half-assed (and today likely insecure) stream cipher, but that is it. It is not a cipher by itself. Look up what a cipher, an one-time-pad, a stream cipher and counter-mode is before posting something that is wrong in every regard.
Good news. The original is a real classic story and atmosphere wise. The music is great! The graphics and controls are just far to bad to be playable today due to the limitations when it was made.
I have them and I did run real-world benchmarks. For non-FP you get the performance of 8 cores. I do not see anything misleading here. I do see a lot of stupidity from people that have no clue what they are talking about.
Run an integer-benchmark on them some time. These are 8 full cores performance-wise. HT cannot do that. It gives you something like 40% in addition. If you are lucky.
I fully agree. AMD never glossed over anything here and gave all details that matter from the start. This lawsuit has no merit. They are probably hoping that AMD will give them money because it could still take a long time to find that this has no merit (the law not only being blind, but also stupid and slow as a snail).
It is not hyperthreading at all. It is two full integer CPUs sharing one FPU. Hyperthreading gives you one additional brain-damaged CPU at maybe 40% the main speed. For integer loads, AMD gives you the performance of 8 full cores.
AMD has 8 full integer cores in there. HT gives you one full and one 40% core (at best). This gives you 8 as long as you do integer loads. For float-loads things are different, but AMD never hid that at all. And it is not so long ago that floating-point units came as external add-on.
Incidentally, the complaint is self-contradictory, as a non-expert cannot interpret a number like "8 cores" either as these may be slow or fast cores and have different architectures. The only thing a non-expert can go by is benchmarks, and AMD did not lie on any of them.
I think the only way email surveillance is going to help against "terrorists" is that it makes it easier to find idiots that the FBI can then turn into fake terrorists. No actual terrorists will or was ever be caught this way. They do know that the NSA/GCHQ/Stasi/GeStaPo can read email, you know.
Just use layered encryption. If they come after you, you know they have been snooping on you. Then just reveal harmless data. If the do not come after you, they get nothing. So, as so often, outlawing secure crypto or mandating backdoors only means that only the criminals will have secure crypto. In a sane state of affairs, everybody will have it. And the clinically paranoid "servants of the people" will just have to get over themselves and realize people are not so willing anymore to accommodate them after they have been revealed to be criminal and the law means nothing to them.
Recently, several of these scum have refined their business model and actually deliver decryption keys. In an utterly immoral move, possibly designed to inflate the perception of threat, the FBI has even recommended to pay: http://uk.businessinsider.com/...
Blaming the messenger is quite common in Germany as well. Labor laws do not help one bit when you suddenly find yourself assigned only to projects that are in bas shape, cut out from anything important and factually become excluded from promotion. This situation was extremely punishing and only somebody completely naive with regards to how things work in the real world would claim otherwise.
I completely agree. And creating that non-punishing situation is the duty and responsibility of the CEO in this case. He failed to get basic sane management practices right and deserves _all_ blame and punishment.
Governments and their organizations are routinely completely incompetent with regards to technology. They are used to being able to solve everything the cave-man way: With being able to dish out more violence. As soon as that fails, they come unarmed to a battle of wits.
This is also why any kind of backdoors and intentional weaknesses introduced into IT systems is such a bad idea: No government will be able to keep these safe and very soon they are will be available to the criminal world.
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Writing code: It does not matter at all. Reading code, symbols are hugely superior as they provide visual separation. And none of this is research-worthy, as it is obvious. There is a reason mathematics has been using symbols for a long, long time.
That said, symbol sets available on a computer are limited dues to input limitations (PC Keyboards). So logical operators will often be written out. That is inferior to symbols, but as they are full words, it is less of a problem. Human beings are great at recognizing full words. (No, "gt" does not qualify as a full word.)
Incidentally, it also depends on what people are used to. For example, when I use set operators in code, I use that LaTeX names.That works reasonably well.
No, it cannot. It can be used to create some half-assed (and today likely insecure) stream cipher, but that is it. It is not a cipher by itself. Look up what a cipher, an one-time-pad, a stream cipher and counter-mode is before posting something that is wrong in every regard.
Hehehehehe....
Brings back memories!
Good news. The original is a real classic story and atmosphere wise. The music is great! The graphics and controls are just far to bad to be playable today due to the limitations when it was made.
First good information here. Thanks! So GoG and Night Dive are essentially working together.
There is not only AMD64 in the world. But what would an idiot like you know.
Addendum: You are stupid. Because if AMD goes away. Intel will become much, much worse than you perceive (wrongly) AMD to be.
Not if you dedicate cores to VMs. Which is obviously what this statement was about.
I have them and I did run real-world benchmarks. For non-FP you get the performance of 8 cores. I do not see anything misleading here. I do see a lot of stupidity from people that have no clue what they are talking about.
Run an integer-benchmark on them some time. These are 8 full cores performance-wise. HT cannot do that. It gives you something like 40% in addition. If you are lucky.
And than you run it single core vs. 8 core for integer benchmarks and get, surprise!, 8x the performance. So your point is?
It it not. It is 8 integer cores and 4 FPUs. And that is the performance you see. And that is what AMD gave in information.
I fully agree. AMD never glossed over anything here and gave all details that matter from the start. This lawsuit has no merit. They are probably hoping that AMD will give them money because it could still take a long time to find that this has no merit (the law not only being blind, but also stupid and slow as a snail).
It is not hyperthreading at all. It is two full integer CPUs sharing one FPU. Hyperthreading gives you one additional brain-damaged CPU at maybe 40% the main speed. For integer loads, AMD gives you the performance of 8 full cores.
AMD has 8 full integer cores in there. HT gives you one full and one 40% core (at best). This gives you 8 as long as you do integer loads. For float-loads things are different, but AMD never hid that at all. And it is not so long ago that floating-point units came as external add-on.
Incidentally, the complaint is self-contradictory, as a non-expert cannot interpret a number like "8 cores" either as these may be slow or fast cores and have different architectures. The only thing a non-expert can go by is benchmarks, and AMD did not lie on any of them.
I think the only way email surveillance is going to help against "terrorists" is that it makes it easier to find idiots that the FBI can then turn into fake terrorists. No actual terrorists will or was ever be caught this way. They do know that the NSA/GCHQ/Stasi/GeStaPo can read email, you know.
Aehm, SHA1 is not a cipher, hence no key?
Other than that, I fully agree.
Just use layered encryption. If they come after you, you know they have been snooping on you. Then just reveal harmless data. If the do not come after you, they get nothing. So, as so often, outlawing secure crypto or mandating backdoors only means that only the criminals will have secure crypto. In a sane state of affairs, everybody will have it. And the clinically paranoid "servants of the people" will just have to get over themselves and realize people are not so willing anymore to accommodate them after they have been revealed to be criminal and the law means nothing to them.
Naaa, just let him pay for all the damage he has done. Should take him a few lifetimes.
Recently, several of these scum have refined their business model and actually deliver decryption keys. In an utterly immoral move, possibly designed to inflate the perception of threat, the FBI has even recommended to pay: http://uk.businessinsider.com/...
That depends on society, not on technology. No such problems here. At all.
Blaming the messenger is quite common in Germany as well. Labor laws do not help one bit when you suddenly find yourself assigned only to projects that are in bas shape, cut out from anything important and factually become excluded from promotion. This situation was extremely punishing and only somebody completely naive with regards to how things work in the real world would claim otherwise.
I completely agree. And creating that non-punishing situation is the duty and responsibility of the CEO in this case. He failed to get basic sane management practices right and deserves _all_ blame and punishment.
Governments and their organizations are routinely completely incompetent with regards to technology. They are used to being able to solve everything the cave-man way: With being able to dish out more violence. As soon as that fails, they come unarmed to a battle of wits.
This is also why any kind of backdoors and intentional weaknesses introduced into IT systems is such a bad idea: No government will be able to keep these safe and very soon they are will be available to the criminal world.
Seriously? Well, with lack of insight like that it is no surprise so much code sucks.