You are obviously correct, but about a different aspect of the problem. In the context of the article, the unnamed "software experts" were talking about the threat of encryption use by criminals, terrorists, etc. In this context, the time frame allowed is usually pretty small, days, weeks on the outer reach. There is very little use for the information about some bombing plans or drug shipment after the fact.
Yes, I have read Shor's paper and the papaers about quantum secure communication.
But my point was altogether different. The so-called "software experts" were teorizing about the decryption possibilities of a future computer architecture without taking into account the encryption possibilities of the same architecture.
From the article: "Software experts said that although many new encryption systems cannot be broken, their U.S. makers are cooperating with federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Somewhere in the future, they said, are so-called quantum computers a billion times more powerful than existing home computers. These would be able to break the most sophisticated encryption systems available today."
Haven't the anonymous software experts thought that their quantum computers will also allow for the existence of encryption systems far more sophisticated than those in existence today? Or do they think we have already reached "the end of cryptograhpy" (in the same sense we had reached "the end of phisics" in 1890)?
Meyer deverses the respect of the development community. He is a very serious, very bright computer scientist, and Eiffel is a neat little language with a devouted if small following.
On the other hand, as much as the article's author doesn't know who Meyer is, he is right on the spot. From Microsoft point of view he is just "a poor guy, Eiffel author" who is there to prove MSs VM is multi-language and, of course, "he won't be there next year".
Meyer is being used by MS and getting some publicity for Eiffel in the process. Maybe he can find one or two new developers in PDC. But it is somewhat sad, nevetheless.
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The development of engines and methanol processing plant in Brazil started back in the late 70's, after the second oil crisis.
After a couple of years of producing unreliable engines, the auto-makers got their act right, and a methanol engine would be almost as good as a standard one.
But there were problems. The methanol engine would burn as much as 30/50% more methanol per kilometer than its gasoline counterpart. So the government had to offer high incentives to the consumer, even garanteing that the methanol price would never ne higher than 70% of the gasoline price. In the middle 90's this promisse was forgotten. ALso, methanol cars had fewer and lower taxes in the beggining.
The second problem was fuel availability. In Brazil, methanol is produced from sugar cane. During the late 70's/early 80's large sugar cane farms, generally backed by one or more processing plants, were developed throughout the country. But the oil price crisis went away, the state-owned oil prospecting company started to find large oil reserves under Brazil's continental platform and people started using gasoline cars again.
A more or less final strike in the methanol experiment came when methanol production felt, and some big cities started to have methanol supply problems. That scared consumers more than anything else.
Nowadays most people will not buy a methanol car, no matter how cheaper thay are, for fear of a fuel shortage.
Al in all, it was a large and successfull experience for some years. More than government or business cluelessness, the changes in the international markets were the real cause for its eventual failure.
Journalists, as a rule, are not educated in any technology field. As curiosity is a fundamental personality trait for most journalists I know, many of them will learn a lot after a couple of years working in any technical field.
But before they learn they must still work, so they will have to trust someone else on the accuracy of what they write. Here the PR machine of [your big tech company of choice] is ready to take over and "help" the poor journalist with a deadlibne to keep his/her job.
We usually see it happening in computer-related fields, but it happens all the time in all scientific-oriented area.
Please, don't take this as a flamebait, but I fail to see exactly what you are complaining about.
Yes, Windows seems to be KDE's initial inspiration. But then again, the MAc interface was Windows initial inspiration and the things Steve Jobs saw at Xerox PARC were the Mac initial inspiration. For me it is a perfectly natural evolution.
If you are out to develop a new technology, the most useful path is to look at existing technology and try to adapt it and work from there. So, as similar to Windows as KDE may be now (and even this last point may be open to discussion), it will certanly evolve in a different direction (and it will probably be leading the way, as the Mac had before it).
I would also like to know what exactly you have in mind when you say something cleaner and more user-oriented? Which are the specific usability goals you want to see addressed?
And then the whole TLD idea went to hell. With every other public entity requesting their own TLD, the public was left to deal with an more and more confusing url namespace. Not to mention the epic lawsuits for names that for a time captured the media imagination.
After a year or two, the routers came to crawl, the name servers exploded under the increasing complexity and the whole internet idea was sent to rest in the same place public awareness keeps the ham radio and the pigeon carriers.
Free speech issues aside, something like this is probably in good order. Not that it will work. Legislators still do not realize that geography is somewhat meaningless in the Internet. Maybe I can't play in Atlanta from my couch, but how will I be prevented from playing in Moldavia?
As for free speech, where do you draw the line dividing the application from the expression? An online cassino seems to be an application. They are not expressing anything, except the will to part the fool from his money.
Yes, but you are right. I think CW is a very good, very powerful development environment. Using GNU you have to dig a little for the tools. There some good cross-platform IDEs around, with good text editors (I wouldn't use emacs or vi too, so I won't bite that one:)).
CodeWarrior is also available on Winders and there's a Linux version as well
It is, but it never reached the mainstream in any of these platforms. It was always looked at as "a nice thing to have", but mainly as a Mac development tool. Also, people tend to get attached to their tools. To see the latter point in action, show a tipical Linux development enviroment to a Visual Studio developer and sit back to enjoy the reaction.
I agree with you that Inprise is well out of line saying "This is the first real development tool on the Mac for the last eight years". This is marketing in its worst microsoftian form. Probably they meant "This is the first real development tool WE DEVELOP FOR the Mac for the last eight years".
But: 2. When IDEs on "other platforms" were going for hundreds (sometimes hundreds and hundreds) of dollars, metrowerks offered a "discover" package that compiled C, C++, Java and Pascal for $100.
Last time I checked, I could still have gcc and everything else I need for much less than $100. As a matter of fact, I can have it for $0:). Even if I choose to order the CD, the price will not be much higher.
A fact to be noted is that Borlan/Inprise still has a fairly large group of faithful developers, even some from the legendary Turbo Pascal days, and that the company has been moving toward the Linux crowd for a while now. So, what Borland is really offering is a whole line of tools capable of running in all important platforms. For a developer it is a heavenly deal.
Maybe the Mac people will still keep using Code Warrior for a long time, but developers just arriving at the platform will probably choose the tools that are used to.
We, the people of the Capitol, in full control of our senses (really!), feel that the campaign contributions of half a dozen major labels is worth anything they may want from us.
So, it is our common understanting that:
I) All music in existence or to be created, or at least all music that matters to us, is the sole property of the labels that enslave and brainwash its creators;
II) Searching, linking, findind, looking at, thinking about, downloading and playing any kind of music in whatsoever format without paying the amount of money required by the said labels is a crime only comparable in cruelty with drug dealing and murder;
III)Being so mean, the crimes listed in (II) must be punished to the maximun extend of law;
IV) We so hereby decide that those considered guilty of the crimes listed in (II) are to be put to death by hearing The Metallica Collected Works in a volume no lower than 200 Db until.
Java license says that: The Software is not designed or intended for use in on-line control of aircraft,air traffic, aircraft navigation or aircraft communications; or in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility
So, as any minimally interesting space operation obviously require some kind of "aircraft navigation or aircraft communications", and the reviwer clearly states that "But this task is simplified in JavaSpaces as synchronization is built into the space operations", this technology is obviously breaking Sun's license.
I think Slashdot should not allow this kind of criminal activity in its pages.
So you tought that coming here and buying our crap merchandise ONCE, a miserable one time in your life was enough?
Look at what you acomplished, you moron! We are out of business now, thanks to you! Why haven't you come back? Why haven't you told your wife, your husband, your neighbours, your friends to come and buy from us? Why?
Know what, we will get even with you. Yes, just wait and see. We have you by the hand. We know where you live, we know your credicard number, we know your phone number.
We will go out and sell all this to highest bidder. No, I have a better idea yet. We will sell it to MEANEST bidder.
Your phone number will go to the worst direct marketeers in the country! Your address, to every church in your area. Your children's names will go directly to alt.sex.pedophilia.children.offer.themselves. Your wife's name we have already sent to a scort's online site. And your boss will be hearing about that sex toys you bought.
You made us suffer. Now taste our revenge. Next time you will thinking twice before failing to help an honest and good online store to trive.
"Cryptography : Theory and Practice" is certanly deeper in certain areas. But, and even for this very reason, I feel that Schneier's book is still a better introductory text. And for the practicioner (as opposed to the theorician), "Applied.. " is far more useful. Stinson also does not touch some subjects.
I think both books are worth the money. Specially now that Applieds CD can be ordered from outside USA.
Right. Now, kids, we all know who is Counterpane's CTO, don't we? No? Oh, I see.
Bruce Schneier is one of the most respected cryptography experts in the world. If you are at interested in code-making and code-braking you probably read his book, "Applied Cryptography" .
Bruce also projected the Solitaire algorithm used in the "Cryptonomicon", and Counterpane newsletter is a required reading for anyone interested in the field.
So, this probably is not another meaningless partnership to extract some money for nothing from scared Fortune-1000 CEOs.
My experience is that the perfomance gap keeps constant when you add pooling to both DBs. Also, I feel that MySQL reputation for perfomance was conquered in the wild, being used in heavy-loaded sites like/., by people with a fairly good DB/Web programming experience. Nowadays I feel pretty confortable with it in any small to medium project (where transactions are not required). For larger projects (and consequently richer clients) I tend to specify big guys (DB2 is my present darling).
I agree that MySQL badly need all those things and I also got funny feelings when I first read the section against foreign keys in the manual (that was a couple of years ago). But now most features you mentioned are planned or already under development.
As for fast being relative, it works both ways. One would think that stored procedures would make for faster access times, but MySQL gets it without SPs. Also, sometimes free as in beer is more important than full-featured memory hungry adminstrative nightmare as in Oracle.:)
As I said elsewhere, now that the license problem is solved and the features are at least under development, MySQL is probably well under way to become a really competitive player in the RDBMS arena.
Or, as is the case in point, in Kb/sec. Here is where MySQL rules. Using some sort of connection pool (so preventing reauthentication to the DB) and a well-tempered database schema, MySQL can be made to perform as fast as its big brothers (there are unoffocial benchmarks showing select times better than Oracle). The connection pool also limits the need for many open connections at any given time. The numbers in the article agree with this raw velocity advantage MySQL commands.
My take is that when some features like transaction support, sub-selects and some sort of stored procedure support (other than writing it in C and recompiling:)) reach production grade for MySQL, we will have a clear winner and a hell of a open-source competitor for the big guys.
During the last Olimpic Games, the IOC got its fingers burned by innitially disqualifying some women competitors, allegging they were men (!). Eventually, genetic tests proved the girls were really girls.
Now, jump 50 years into the future. Everybody has "artificial" genes, most of these made specially for your family or your church or your country (funny perspective, is't, it?).
How you tell a human now? chromosome count will be useless. Appearence? Are you kidding? We are talking chromosome implant here. A single chromosome can carry incountable genes, each one responsible for changes far beyond imaginable.
Which trait, which fundamental fact will make one be considered a human being and another a new kind of ocean beast?
The main candidate will probably be the culture, the inherited and learned memes that make us part of a common history.
And I have not even touched the problem of machine consciouness...:)
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Allright, I will have in.tel, nor.tel, sex.shop, book.shop and today.news. That have to be enough to retire.
You are obviously correct, but about a different aspect of the problem. In the context of the article, the unnamed "software experts" were talking about the threat of encryption use by criminals, terrorists, etc. In this context, the time frame allowed is usually pretty small, days, weeks on the outer reach. There is very little use for the information about some bombing plans or drug shipment after the fact.
Yes, I have read Shor's paper and the papaers about quantum secure communication.
But my point was altogether different. The so-called "software experts" were teorizing about the decryption possibilities of a future computer architecture without taking into account the encryption possibilities of the same architecture.
From the article:
"Software experts said that although many new encryption systems cannot be broken, their U.S. makers are cooperating with federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Somewhere in the future, they said, are so-called quantum computers a billion times more powerful than existing home computers. These would be able to break the most sophisticated encryption systems available today."
Haven't the anonymous software experts thought that their quantum computers will also allow for the existence of encryption systems far more sophisticated than those in existence today? Or do they think we have already reached "the end of cryptograhpy" (in the same sense we had reached "the end of phisics" in 1890)?
Meyer deverses the respect of the development community. He is a very serious, very bright computer scientist, and Eiffel is a neat little language with a devouted if small following.
On the other hand, as much as the article's author doesn't know who Meyer is, he is right on the spot. From Microsoft point of view he is just
"a poor guy, Eiffel author" who is there to prove MSs VM is multi-language and, of course, "he won't be there next year".
Meyer is being used by MS and getting some publicity for Eiffel in the process. Maybe he can find one or two new developers in PDC. But it is somewhat sad, nevetheless.
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I believe this answers your question.
The development of engines and methanol processing plant in Brazil started back in the late 70's, after the second oil crisis.
After a couple of years of producing unreliable engines, the auto-makers got their act right, and a methanol engine would be almost as good as a standard one.
But there were problems. The methanol engine would burn as much as 30/50% more methanol per kilometer than its gasoline counterpart. So the government had to offer high incentives to the consumer, even garanteing that the methanol price would never ne higher than 70% of the gasoline price. In the middle 90's this promisse was forgotten. ALso, methanol cars had fewer and lower taxes in the beggining.
The second problem was fuel availability. In Brazil, methanol is produced from sugar cane. During the late 70's/early 80's large sugar cane farms, generally backed by one or more processing plants, were developed throughout the country. But the oil price crisis went away, the state-owned oil prospecting company started to find large oil reserves under Brazil's continental platform and people started using gasoline cars again.
A more or less final strike in the methanol experiment came when methanol production felt, and some big cities started to have methanol supply problems. That scared consumers more than anything else.
Nowadays most people will not buy a methanol car, no matter how cheaper thay are, for fear of a fuel shortage.
Al in all, it was a large and successfull experience for some years. More than government or business cluelessness, the changes in the international markets were the real cause for its eventual failure.
Journalists, as a rule, are not educated in any technology field. As curiosity is a fundamental personality trait for most journalists I know, many of them will learn a lot after a couple of years working in any technical field.
But before they learn they must still work, so they will have to trust someone else on the accuracy of what they write. Here the PR machine of [your big tech company of choice] is ready to take over and "help" the poor journalist with a deadlibne to keep his/her job.
We usually see it happening in computer-related fields, but it happens all the time in all scientific-oriented area.
Please, don't take this as a flamebait, but I fail to see exactly what you are complaining about.
Yes, Windows seems to be KDE's initial inspiration. But then again, the MAc interface was Windows initial inspiration and the things Steve Jobs saw at Xerox PARC were the Mac initial inspiration. For me it is a perfectly natural evolution.
If you are out to develop a new technology, the most useful path is to look at existing technology and try to adapt it and work from there. So, as similar to Windows as KDE may be now (and even this last point may be open to discussion), it will certanly evolve in a different direction (and it will probably be leading the way, as the Mac had before it).
I would also like to know what exactly you have in mind when you say something cleaner and more user-oriented? Which are the specific usability goals you want to see addressed?
And then the whole TLD idea went to hell. With every other public entity requesting their own
TLD, the public was left to deal with an more and more confusing url namespace. Not to mention the epic lawsuits for names that for a time captured the media imagination.
After a year or two, the routers came to crawl, the name servers exploded under the increasing complexity and the whole internet idea was sent to rest in the same place public awareness keeps the ham radio and the pigeon carriers.
Free speech issues aside, something like this is probably in good order. Not that it will work. Legislators still do not realize that geography is somewhat meaningless in the Internet. Maybe I can't play in Atlanta from my couch, but how will I be prevented from playing in Moldavia?
As for free speech, where do you draw the line dividing the application from the expression? An online cassino seems to be an application. They are not expressing anything, except the will to part the fool from his money.
Is it obvious that I'm a hopeless fan?
:)).
Yes, but you are right. I think CW is a very good, very powerful development environment. Using GNU you have to dig a little for the tools. There some good cross-platform IDEs around, with good text editors (I wouldn't use emacs or vi too, so I won't bite that one
CodeWarrior is also available on Winders and there's a Linux version as well
It is, but it never reached the mainstream in any of these platforms. It was always looked at as "a nice thing to have", but mainly as a Mac development tool. Also, people tend to get attached to their tools. To see the latter point in action, show a tipical Linux development enviroment to a Visual Studio developer and sit back to enjoy the reaction.
I agree with you that Inprise is well out of line saying "This is the first real development tool on the Mac for the last eight years". This is marketing in its worst microsoftian form. Probably they meant "This is the first real development tool WE DEVELOP FOR the Mac for the last eight years".
:). Even if I choose to order the CD, the price will not be much higher.
But:
2. When IDEs on "other platforms" were going for hundreds (sometimes hundreds and hundreds) of dollars, metrowerks offered a "discover" package that compiled C, C++, Java and Pascal for $100.
Last time I checked, I could still have gcc and everything else I need for much less than $100. As a matter of fact, I can have it for $0
A fact to be noted is that Borlan/Inprise still has a fairly large group of faithful developers, even some from the legendary Turbo Pascal days, and that the company has been moving toward the Linux crowd for a while now. So, what Borland is really offering is a whole line of tools capable of running in all important platforms. For a developer it is a heavenly deal.
Maybe the Mac people will still keep using Code Warrior for a long time, but developers just arriving at the platform will probably choose the tools that are used to.
We, the people of the Capitol, in full control of our senses (really!), feel that the campaign contributions of half a dozen major labels is worth anything they may want from us.
So, it is our common understanting that:
I) All music in existence or to be created, or at least all music that matters to us, is the sole property of the labels that enslave and brainwash its creators;
II) Searching, linking, findind, looking at, thinking about, downloading and playing any kind of music in whatsoever format without paying the amount of money required by the said labels is a crime only comparable in cruelty with drug dealing and murder;
III)Being so mean, the crimes listed in (II) must be punished to the maximun extend of law;
IV) We so hereby decide that those considered guilty of the crimes listed in (II) are to be put to death by hearing The Metallica Collected Works in a volume no lower than 200 Db until.
Java license says that:
The Software is not designed or intended for use in on-line control of aircraft,air traffic, aircraft navigation or aircraft communications; or in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility
So, as any minimally interesting space operation obviously require some kind of "aircraft navigation or aircraft communications", and the reviwer clearly states that "But this task is simplified in JavaSpaces as synchronization is built into the space operations", this technology is obviously breaking Sun's license.
I think Slashdot should not allow this kind of criminal activity in its pages.
The Culture was exactly what I was thinking about when I added the last line... :))
So you tought that coming here and buying our crap merchandise ONCE, a miserable one time in your life was enough?
Look at what you acomplished, you moron! We are out of business now, thanks to you! Why haven't you come back? Why haven't you told your wife, your husband, your neighbours, your friends to come and buy from us? Why?
Know what, we will get even with you. Yes, just wait and see. We have you by the hand. We know where you live, we know your credicard number, we know your phone number.
We will go out and sell all this to highest bidder. No, I have a better idea yet. We will sell it to MEANEST bidder.
Your phone number will go to the worst direct marketeers in the country! Your address, to every church in your area. Your children's names will go directly to alt.sex.pedophilia.children.offer.themselves. Your wife's name we have already sent to a scort's online site. And your boss will be hearing about that sex toys you bought.
You made us suffer. Now taste our revenge. Next time you will thinking twice before failing to help an honest and good online store to trive.
"Cryptography : Theory and Practice" is certanly deeper in certain areas. But, and even for this very reason, I feel that Schneier's book is still a better introductory text. And for the practicioner (as opposed to the theorician), "Applied.. " is far more useful. Stinson also does not touch some subjects.
I think both books are worth the money. Specially now that Applieds CD can be ordered from outside USA.
Right. Now, kids, we all know who is Counterpane's CTO, don't we? No? Oh, I see.
Bruce Schneier is one of the most respected cryptography experts in the world. If you are at interested in code-making and code-braking you probably read his book, "Applied Cryptography" .
Bruce also projected the Solitaire algorithm used in the "Cryptonomicon", and Counterpane newsletter is a required reading for anyone interested in the field.
So, this probably is not another meaningless partnership to extract some money for nothing from scared Fortune-1000 CEOs.
My experience is that the perfomance gap keeps constant when you add pooling to both DBs. Also, I feel that MySQL reputation for perfomance was conquered in the wild, being used in heavy-loaded sites like /., by people with a fairly good DB/Web programming experience. Nowadays I feel pretty confortable with it in any small to medium project (where transactions are not required). For larger projects (and consequently richer clients) I tend to specify big guys (DB2 is my present darling).
I agree that MySQL badly need all those things and I also got funny feelings when I first read the section against foreign keys in the manual (that was a couple of years ago). But now most features you mentioned are planned or already under development.
:)
As for fast being relative, it works both ways. One would think that stored procedures would make for faster access times, but MySQL gets it without SPs. Also, sometimes free as in beer is more important than full-featured memory hungry adminstrative nightmare as in Oracle.
As I said elsewhere, now that the license problem is solved and the features are at least under development, MySQL is probably well under way to become a really competitive player in the RDBMS arena.
Or, as is the case in point, in Kb/sec. Here is where MySQL rules. Using some sort of connection pool (so preventing reauthentication to the DB) and a well-tempered database schema, MySQL can be made to perform as fast as its big brothers (there are unoffocial benchmarks showing select times better than Oracle). The connection pool also limits the need for many open connections at any given time. The numbers in the article agree with this raw velocity advantage MySQL commands.
:)) reach production grade for MySQL, we will have a clear winner and a hell of a open-source competitor for the big guys.
My take is that when some features like transaction support, sub-selects and some sort of stored procedure support (other than writing it in C and recompiling
DON'T FEED THE TROLLS!
:)
PS: Yeah, I noticed the recursion. Did you?
During the last Olimpic Games, the IOC got its fingers burned by innitially disqualifying some women competitors, allegging they were men (!). Eventually, genetic tests proved the girls were really girls.
:)
Now, jump 50 years into the future. Everybody has "artificial" genes, most of these made specially for your family or your church or your country (funny perspective, is't, it?).
How you tell a human now? chromosome count will be useless. Appearence? Are you kidding? We are talking chromosome implant here. A single chromosome can carry incountable genes, each one responsible for changes far beyond imaginable.
Which trait, which fundamental fact will make one be considered a human being and another a new kind of ocean beast?
The main candidate will probably be the culture, the inherited and learned memes that make us part of a common history.
And I have not even touched the problem of machine consciouness...
Remember, it is not enough to press the Preview button, one should actually read and correct the text... :))