A skim of the functions looks like it is a clever implementation of bitshifting left and right (in varying amounts), as well as a block portion. May I suggest Applied Cryptography (http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html) ? While it may not cover this particular hash algorithm (perhaps recent versions do?), a lot of the actions used here are covered there. The first half of the book (third?) is non-code, and VERY informative to anyone interested in how encryption works.
You could probably buy or build a sound generator from a kit that could produce arbitrary frequencies -- effectively, a home hearing test. I imagine the parts would be relatively cheap.
[Providing them for free] Doesn't work without copyright. I'll just visit your website once, make a copy of your works, and post them on my own site. People will visit mine because it's a "book aggregator" -- all the best books in one place! I get money, you get nothing. Thanks for all your hard work!
Baen provides free copies of a huge number of their older books (often books 1 through (N-1) in an N-book series). Often they're bundled together in an ISO or a Zip file, in a variety of formats. (Epub, Mobi, HTML) Amazingly, Baen still makes lots of money selling physical books, despite their books being posted online in a manner which would be trivial to aggregate and re-post as a torrent. (Who knows, maybe someone has done that already.)
So... releasing for free would work even without copyright, I imagine. You just have to ensure that your "store" (or library) is easy to access and has some value added. (Baen's does.)
buying a cart of Super Mario Bros. and dumping it is just a silly ritual some people do to make their activities technically legal (the best kind of legal, I admit) and let them lord their imagined moral superiority over other people online.
I think it's safe to say that buying a used cartridge, and then ripping it for personal use, is not merely "imagined" moral superiority, but actual moral superiority. If you don't actually own the cartridge, the moral thing to do is to buy one. (Of course, if it's one you own and can't rip personally, I don't see a whole lot wrong with using bits someone else copied, so perhaps I'm being hypocritical.)
I'd have loved if he'd said, "I run a quad-core i7 with Plenty of ram. My SSDs are RAIDed, my GPUs fold proteins while I sleep, and I have a NAS big enough to hold virtual machine images of every version of Linux ever made", or if he'd said "I mainly use my Macbook Pro..."
No matter what he said, few would believe him -- he has a reputation that makes us believe that he'd deflect any question about his hardware with obfuscation, and he did.:) It'd have been neat if he'd have given his seal of approval for something, but oh well.
We're tired of World War 2, we're tired of self-indulgent space opera and we're tired of cover-based action games
I believe I'm not part of this "we" you refer to.
I'm not going to buy a game because it's "WW2" or "Modern", but rather if I think the mechanics look good and the story looks good. People bag on the Call of Duty games quite a bit, but I've enjoyed every single one of them (single player) because of the story, of the way you participate in (virtual) heroic deeds. There were a lot of things I didn't like about World at War, and Black Ops, but I felt they did a really good job of making a compelling story. I was glad to have played them.
Much of Modern Warfare could have been "ported" to a World War II setting (whether realistic or alternate-universe) and have survived very well, I think. I could totally have seen a similar plot presented as an alternate-universe what-if WW2-era scenario, where we explore other ways the US might have entered the war.
Then again, I've loved Human Revolution so far, and haven't played Mass Effect (which I assume is what you're referring to as self-indulgent space opera). I'm very interested in the Star Wars MMO, and thought the Dead Space plot was really cool (even if I'm not keen on actually playing it, due to mechanics and not liking to be scared). In the last five years, I consider "masterpiece" games to include: Braid, Portal (!!), Human Revolution (sorry), and COD4. (MW2 probably was in my book also). I consider them masterpieces due to game mechanics, execution, plot, and pure creativity. Sorry that you disagree, I'm probably part of a minority among gamers.
It's not purely hype. Pursuing silence, rather than quiet-enough, is probably excessive, but some computers really are too loud.
My old tower had several fans, none of them large, and it sounded like distant jet noise all the time. Anyone in the same room with it could not hear (or talk to) people who were outside the room, etc. You can imagine that my wife didn't like that. My new machine (now two years old?) was built with the goal of being Quiet. My case has multiple layers and sound-blocking materials on the inside (Antec Mini-P180, unmodified), and only a few (large) fans inside. When I boot it up, I hear fans spin up. It lasts maybe ten to 15 seconds. After that, the only sounds I hear are hard drive sounds, or a DVD spinning in the drive (occasionally). The fan on the top spins slowly enough that I have to listen hard to even notice it, and sometimes can only tell it's on by putting my hand directly above it to feel the warm air. I cannot recommend this case enough - it was a dream to work with. My next computer will have one too, I suspect.
Nice! I didn't know that. That's just about the only reason I can think of to do it, then, but it's a pretty solid one if you have a TV setup good enough to be called a "home theater".
Sometimes, quiet-ish is effectively silent at the distance you're sitting. In a home theater setup, you're sitting a LOT farther away from a machine than you do at a desk, usually, so a "quiet-ish" machine (sound baffles, large-slow fans, etc) might be sufficient.
I shudder to think about how that would affect the cost of new airplanes. We already spend bizarro-world numbers on designing and testing new airplanes, let alone purchasing them from a production line.
The AC parent makes a good point, in case it's lost in moderation: Why do you want to emulate the Wii? It's likely cheaper to just BUY one, and then put some Wii-specific NES/SNES emulators on it. Substantially cheaper than building your own silent gaming(emulation) PC.
Silent PC Review's articles, while not always about the latest hardware, are REALLY well written. They do lots of sound related testing (decibels up close, decibels from far away, etc), and often have lots of very detailed pictures. Their article is the primary reason I bought my Antec Mini P180 (which, granted, is likely not at ALL what the original poster wants).
To the original poster: Build a silent PC yourself, with the hardware necessary to meet the performance needs of your emulators. Large fans that spin slowly are your friend, as would be water cooling. Note that frequently the cost of doing this is noticeably more than "Buy a used XBox" or "Buy a Mac Mini", as you will end up buying parts that are of relatively high quality, and perhaps investing in something expensive like water cooling. Emulating things is likely a lot more processor intensive than watching HD movies, these days, as so many chipsets now support the movies in hardware, whereas emulation is often about CPU mojo.
Generally speaking, making sure that your case uses large heat sinks and large-diameter fans (which can throttle their speed) makes for a nearly-silent PC system. My Mini P180 probably meets your sound requirements, though I expect you want something in a smaller form factor.
Looking at their site, you might like some of these articles. For the older ones, which are from nine months ago, you can likely use the same case/fans/PSU and drop in a similarly priced newer-generation motherboard and processor pairing and get similar results.
Fanless i5 (£1223): http://www.silentpcreview.com/aleutia-h3r - Basically, an i5 system in a small form factor box which is effectively a giant heat sink. They don't recommend it for a media pc but it looks like it'd have plenty of mojo for emulation. (I assume, as I haven't done any emulation of recent systems ever.)
Mid-level gaming build ($1000): http://www.silentpcreview.com/Silent_Mid_Gaming_PC - Tower form factor. You probably want something smaller. - Note the Really Large heat sink on the CPU, and the very large fan on that. It's worth it.
Small Form Factor gaming rig ($1000 to $1200): http://www.silentpcreview.com/Silent_Gaming_System_Build_Guide - Another i5 system, with aftermarket cooling accessories for the video card and so on. - Stays cool and relatively quiet at a 1 meter distance even under sustained heavy load (Crysis). - This is probably the one most like what you want.
Either way, there shouldn't be an "art" to ensuring that my shoes stay on. I should be able to put my shoes on with minimal hassle and forget about them.
It's called "learn to tie a square knot" -- it's not an art, and it's not something you have to actively think about once you learn to Do It Right. Well, you might think a little, but not much more than you have to actively think about the order in which you take off your parking brake or operate the clutch in a manual transmission (if you know how). You practice it until that way feels "right", and then from then on when you tie your shoes, you'll get big mental warning signs when you tie them backwards.
If square knots are unraveling, that's a different issue. There are also lots of joining-wet-ropes-together knots that your local sailors will know, and you could in theory use those instead.
Same goes for tying a necktie. You can buy fake ones, or clip-on ones, or have your wife tie it, but there's no substitute for knowing how to tie it yourself, well, in a way that you prefer. The next level is being able to do it right the first time, and then to be able to do it without looking at it.;) (I can't do either of those yet.) You may rarely need to do it, but it's pretty nice to have the skill.
That brings up an interesting point. You can learn a lot by asking an experienced developer not just what they did, but what they wish they had NOT done, or wished they had done differently.
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Thank you for posting the first informative post I saw, rather than mocking or trolling ones. :)
Bah -- fixing my link. http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html
A skim of the functions looks like it is a clever implementation of bitshifting left and right (in varying amounts), as well as a block portion. May I suggest Applied Cryptography (http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html) ? While it may not cover this particular hash algorithm (perhaps recent versions do?), a lot of the actions used here are covered there. The first half of the book (third?) is non-code, and VERY informative to anyone interested in how encryption works.
Malbolge is a child's plaything compared to Vogon poetry.
On the bright side, it means you can file DMCA takedowns for content named Remotely Similarly to content that you hold the copyright for, right?
Wouldn't the magnetic guns in a CRT produce EM?
You could probably buy or build a sound generator from a kit that could produce arbitrary frequencies -- effectively, a home hearing test. I imagine the parts would be relatively cheap.
[Providing them for free] Doesn't work without copyright. I'll just visit your website once, make a copy of your works, and post them on my own site. People will visit mine because it's a "book aggregator" -- all the best books in one place! I get money, you get nothing. Thanks for all your hard work!
Baen provides free copies of a huge number of their older books (often books 1 through (N-1) in an N-book series). Often they're bundled together in an ISO or a Zip file, in a variety of formats. (Epub, Mobi, HTML) Amazingly, Baen still makes lots of money selling physical books, despite their books being posted online in a manner which would be trivial to aggregate and re-post as a torrent. (Who knows, maybe someone has done that already.)
So ... releasing for free would work even without copyright, I imagine. You just have to ensure that your "store" (or library) is easy to access and has some value added. (Baen's does.)
Unfortunately, it's only in the spectrums that Geordi can see... ;)
buying a cart of Super Mario Bros. and dumping it is just a silly ritual some people do to make their activities technically legal (the best kind of legal, I admit) and let them lord their imagined moral superiority over other people online.
I think it's safe to say that buying a used cartridge, and then ripping it for personal use, is not merely "imagined" moral superiority, but actual moral superiority. If you don't actually own the cartridge, the moral thing to do is to buy one. (Of course, if it's one you own and can't rip personally, I don't see a whole lot wrong with using bits someone else copied, so perhaps I'm being hypocritical.)
Given his history, I can't blame him. :)
I'd have loved if he'd said, "I run a quad-core i7 with Plenty of ram. My SSDs are RAIDed, my GPUs fold proteins while I sleep, and I have a NAS big enough to hold virtual machine images of every version of Linux ever made", or if he'd said "I mainly use my Macbook Pro..."
No matter what he said, few would believe him -- he has a reputation that makes us believe that he'd deflect any question about his hardware with obfuscation, and he did. :) It'd have been neat if he'd have given his seal of approval for something, but oh well.
I think there's probably one lying around near the parking lot where you work. ;)
We're tired of World War 2, we're tired of self-indulgent space opera and we're tired of cover-based action games
I believe I'm not part of this "we" you refer to.
I'm not going to buy a game because it's "WW2" or "Modern", but rather if I think the mechanics look good and the story looks good. People bag on the Call of Duty games quite a bit, but I've enjoyed every single one of them (single player) because of the story, of the way you participate in (virtual) heroic deeds. There were a lot of things I didn't like about World at War, and Black Ops, but I felt they did a really good job of making a compelling story. I was glad to have played them.
Much of Modern Warfare could have been "ported" to a World War II setting (whether realistic or alternate-universe) and have survived very well, I think. I could totally have seen a similar plot presented as an alternate-universe what-if WW2-era scenario, where we explore other ways the US might have entered the war.
Then again, I've loved Human Revolution so far, and haven't played Mass Effect (which I assume is what you're referring to as self-indulgent space opera). I'm very interested in the Star Wars MMO, and thought the Dead Space plot was really cool (even if I'm not keen on actually playing it, due to mechanics and not liking to be scared). In the last five years, I consider "masterpiece" games to include: Braid, Portal (!!), Human Revolution (sorry), and COD4. (MW2 probably was in my book also). I consider them masterpieces due to game mechanics, execution, plot, and pure creativity. Sorry that you disagree, I'm probably part of a minority among gamers.
It's not purely hype. Pursuing silence, rather than quiet-enough, is probably excessive, but some computers really are too loud.
My old tower had several fans, none of them large, and it sounded like distant jet noise all the time. Anyone in the same room with it could not hear (or talk to) people who were outside the room, etc. You can imagine that my wife didn't like that. My new machine (now two years old?) was built with the goal of being Quiet. My case has multiple layers and sound-blocking materials on the inside (Antec Mini-P180, unmodified), and only a few (large) fans inside. When I boot it up, I hear fans spin up. It lasts maybe ten to 15 seconds. After that, the only sounds I hear are hard drive sounds, or a DVD spinning in the drive (occasionally). The fan on the top spins slowly enough that I have to listen hard to even notice it, and sometimes can only tell it's on by putting my hand directly above it to feel the warm air. I cannot recommend this case enough - it was a dream to work with. My next computer will have one too, I suspect.
Nice! I didn't know that. That's just about the only reason I can think of to do it, then, but it's a pretty solid one if you have a TV setup good enough to be called a "home theater".
Sometimes, quiet-ish is effectively silent at the distance you're sitting. In a home theater setup, you're sitting a LOT farther away from a machine than you do at a desk, usually, so a "quiet-ish" machine (sound baffles, large-slow fans, etc) might be sufficient.
I shudder to think about how that would affect the cost of new airplanes. We already spend bizarro-world numbers on designing and testing new airplanes, let alone purchasing them from a production line.
Or perhaps the author has no background or experience with statistics, and wouldn't know what is meaningful about one or the other.
The AC parent makes a good point, in case it's lost in moderation:
Why do you want to emulate the Wii? It's likely cheaper to just BUY one, and then put some Wii-specific NES/SNES emulators on it. Substantially cheaper than building your own silent gaming(emulation) PC.
Silent PC Review's articles, while not always about the latest hardware, are REALLY well written. They do lots of sound related testing (decibels up close, decibels from far away, etc), and often have lots of very detailed pictures. Their article is the primary reason I bought my Antec Mini P180 (which, granted, is likely not at ALL what the original poster wants).
To the original poster: Build a silent PC yourself, with the hardware necessary to meet the performance needs of your emulators. Large fans that spin slowly are your friend, as would be water cooling. Note that frequently the cost of doing this is noticeably more than "Buy a used XBox" or "Buy a Mac Mini", as you will end up buying parts that are of relatively high quality, and perhaps investing in something expensive like water cooling. Emulating things is likely a lot more processor intensive than watching HD movies, these days, as so many chipsets now support the movies in hardware, whereas emulation is often about CPU mojo.
Generally speaking, making sure that your case uses large heat sinks and large-diameter fans (which can throttle their speed) makes for a nearly-silent PC system. My Mini P180 probably meets your sound requirements, though I expect you want something in a smaller form factor.
Looking at their site, you might like some of these articles. For the older ones, which are from nine months ago, you can likely use the same case/fans/PSU and drop in a similarly priced newer-generation motherboard and processor pairing and get similar results.
Fanless i5 (£1223): http://www.silentpcreview.com/aleutia-h3r
- Basically, an i5 system in a small form factor box which is effectively a giant heat sink. They don't recommend it for a media pc but it looks like it'd have plenty of mojo for emulation. (I assume, as I haven't done any emulation of recent systems ever.)
Mid-level gaming build ($1000): http://www.silentpcreview.com/Silent_Mid_Gaming_PC
- Tower form factor. You probably want something smaller.
- Note the Really Large heat sink on the CPU, and the very large fan on that. It's worth it.
Small Form Factor gaming rig ($1000 to $1200): http://www.silentpcreview.com/Silent_Gaming_System_Build_Guide
- Another i5 system, with aftermarket cooling accessories for the video card and so on.
- Stays cool and relatively quiet at a 1 meter distance even under sustained heavy load (Crysis).
- This is probably the one most like what you want.
I wish that I had not posted, and had mod points. I'd forgotten about how awesome that site is. Thanks!
Either way, there shouldn't be an "art" to ensuring that my shoes stay on. I should be able to put my shoes on with minimal hassle and forget about them.
It's called "learn to tie a square knot" -- it's not an art, and it's not something you have to actively think about once you learn to Do It Right. Well, you might think a little, but not much more than you have to actively think about the order in which you take off your parking brake or operate the clutch in a manual transmission (if you know how). You practice it until that way feels "right", and then from then on when you tie your shoes, you'll get big mental warning signs when you tie them backwards.
If square knots are unraveling, that's a different issue. There are also lots of joining-wet-ropes-together knots that your local sailors will know, and you could in theory use those instead.
They could always learn how to do Perl closures ... ;)
Same goes for tying a necktie. You can buy fake ones, or clip-on ones, or have your wife tie it, but there's no substitute for knowing how to tie it yourself, well, in a way that you prefer. The next level is being able to do it right the first time, and then to be able to do it without looking at it. ;) (I can't do either of those yet.) You may rarely need to do it, but it's pretty nice to have the skill.
That brings up an interesting point. You can learn a lot by asking an experienced developer not just what they did, but what they wish they had NOT done, or wished they had done differently.