Is this the end of the Slashdot effect?" haha no - only the lateral shifting of the slashdot effect to your local lan as some dope sets up a cache server in your office.
This is what coral says:
One of Coral's key goals is to avoid ever creating hot spots that might dissuade volunteers from running the software for fear of load spikes. It achieves this through a novel indexing abstraction we introduce called a distributed sloppy hash table (DSHT), and it creates self-organizing clusters of nodes that fetch information from each other to avoid communicating with more distant or heavily-loaded servers.
DDoS meets, distributed service and there's more of us than there are of you. Thanks for playing but the game is over. As thier effectiveness wanes, look for Bill to cut such things from Microsoft's expenses or to shift your workload to some other disruptive behavior which will again be defeated.
I refuse to give Microsoft any of my money, which is why I've been using Logitech mice
I've been using Logitech mice since the bus mouse because they are better. The bus mouse, by the way, still works. My current mouse is a Trackman and it's hard to go back to one that you have to move around a pad.
I can say about the same thing for there software. It's second rate.
I agree, however, that you should not give money to them for other reasons.
People on Slashdot should know better.
They do. Any initial desire to put your hand on it is quickly overcome by realizing that it's simply a stylized vagina. It might be good for the PHB and other people who don't have to use a mouse often.
Look at it! Yes, it's a vagina. That red slit down the middle, the mons veneri and labia major shape have little to do with hand comfort. Dozens of mice have been made with similar lines.
Now check out the language used to hype it:
"Give your hand a reason to celebrate"
"Left- or Right-Handed" (I'm told if you use your left hand it feels like someone else!)
"curving hemisphere, which makes it feel natural and puts left and right clicking in the palm of your hand. " (and the clit at your fingertip, joy!)
I'm afraid of what that dangling chord is supposed to be. Good thing it's not in the pictures.
The word that came to mind for me was vagina. It's a little stylized, but the general shape and red slit remind me more of a piece of ass than a museum piece. It's kind of what I'd expect to see if CP-30 pulled it's pants down.
Actually, it might be a blessing. The pressure on IT to roll out new versions puts a real burden on us.
It won't be so hard in the future. I know how bad things are because worked a fortune 500 "upgrade" to XP a few weeks ago. They figure the average tech can get two PCs done in 8 hours, how pathetic. With people feeling so well burnt about hyped stagnation ware and a failed three year "job one" effort to fix things, upgrading will be considerably simplified for your next release. It will consist of a chron job:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Packages will reside on one of several local servers, any old 486 will do, with multi year uptimes. The hired help upgrade slave gangs will be a thing of the past.
Your job will simply be to customize the installations to meet your organization's needs and to manage your company's data. You will do this by keeping abreast of software development, employee feedback and programming in your copious spare time. It will be much more fun than calling vendors and screwing around with binary crap that does not work well. Your company will be very happy.
His general theme is, "there's all this great stuff that free software can't do, but this HP thingy almost gets it if you can put up with this shit list:" The two big FUDs are software installation and WiFi. He also takes a swipe at Linux and free softare in general with "For the record, Linux doesn?t support Intel?s wireless chip. H-P?s WiFi modules work just fine." and that might be the worst of all. What he fails to mention or even think is that all that nasty non-standard junk won't work well on Winblows either without much software installation that can't happen with the next version. The fault, of course, lies with the the members of various consortiums that will litigate to hell anyone who makes software that works with their hardware.
The software installation FUD is one I've seen before. The Microsoft perspective is that people will have to buy programs to do things and make them work. They spin this endless headache as a convenience by pointing to the thousands of dinky boxed programs that litter computer stores and saying, "Look at all of this." Free software that does the same thing and installs from your chosen distribution is almost always superior and takes much less effort. Talk about permissions and locations is a throwback to proprietary Unix, and non free software like movie players which are just as big a pain in Winblows.
His swipe at wifi, by mentioning that free software has problems with WEP and other nasty add-ons to 802.11, is in the same vein. Tell me WEP does anything useful for you and I'll laugh. Of course free software does not work with that garbage. Needing to remember "locations" for "logging on" to various wifi locations is an aggravation not an advantage to winblows.
The worst thing the author is doing here is leading people into non free addons to Linux. The user is much better off with all free drivers and software. Recommending non free junk is very clever because it invites people to point out downsides that sound much like the Winblows nighmare.
The user is better off with Linux than Winblows on this thousand dollar laptop. Me? I'll stick to the $175 P2 thinkpad and Debian I picked up last month. The few joys I miss from not being able to play DVDs and the slight trouble of setting up sound is more than made up for by the low price of the hardware, the better use of that hardware to get what I actually want done and the much lower headache factor I'll face from not getting 0wned.
However, can you explain how outsourcing is an example of the broken window parable?
Outsourcing is vandalism, like breaking glass, that ends up costing everyone. Caroline argues that outsourcing (dollars spent somewhere else) benefits everyone, including the programmer who's picking his nose and filling out resumes instead of being paid for the same work. It is clear that the programmer would differ. The programmer would also argue that the outsourced work is inferior in quality and that he's not allowed to compete effectively due to further government vandalism though insane IP laws. The supposed work that's created is click and drool upkeep of Winblows, which pays very poorly, while others do the brain work. Everyone pays the price for this, if they are not sensible enough to use free software, by paying monopoly fees for software that could and does cost much less. These hidden costs are carried by all in the form of higher general costs lower efficiency and inconvenience. The situation with non free software is much closer to the case of the boy who's paid by the glazier to break windows. That's what the upgrade train is.
I don't think they expected it so early. XM adoption is about the same place cable TV was in the early 1980s, the early su^H^H adopter phase. At this time, there will be no commercials as well as excellent and diversified content to boost the reputation and build hype. Media types are less disturbed by looser control at this phase because early adopters are their real bread and butter. Time shifting directly onto computers was probably part of their plan, but for much later when commercials and a lack of content would make it worthless.
If this program, legal as it is, can withstand the judicial extortion just launched, the world's four music publishers will have to accelerate things and that could be a serious set back to them. Chances are that they will move right to content free, commercial radio right away. This might impede the transition to a subscription model. That's where cable TV is today, right? Can you tell me that it's any better now than broadcast TV used to be? Oh, poor greed heads, trapped between current music models and taking it to the next level: subscription based, DRM'd broadcasts.
No, Wall Street believes SCO is worth its "market capitalization" of about $56 MM. If this is "worthless," perhaps you would be so kind as to issue me a check for a small fraction of that amount to prove it.
OK, OK, Wall Street thinks SCO is worth less than the sum of their assets. This is because SCO is busy racking up legal bills instead of selling anything real, and Wall Street understands that investors will not be first in line when the bills come due. If you want a small fraction of SCO, I suggest you go work for Boils.
The F.B.I. conducted a covert investigation by loading two computers with copyrighted material and joining the Underground Network, a move that let it identify five hub computers that coordinated the file sharing. An F.B.I. agent then downloaded 84 movies, 40 software programs, 13 games and 178 songs from the network.
The network operates a Web site - www.udgnet.com - that is registered to an address in San Antonio. A man who answered the telephone at the number associated with the domain, who declined to give his name, said the government's charges were baseless. The Underground Network, he said, is an online community that is used for social communication and to share tips. It is used by people involved in file sharing and others, he said, but the network itself is not involved in trading files.
From the above, it looks like some members AND the FBI uploaded files to a common space then the FBI blamed the network. The implications are that any network must monitor it's content and may be responsible for what people do there.
The potential for abuse is large. Imagine if I were able to walk into a building, do something wrong, and then use that as grounds to obtain warrent to search everyone in the building! I also wonder if it is possible to anonymously share any kind of material without being harassed. If you can't, then there is no anonymous speech on the internet and the internet is not free.
The F.B.I. conducted a covert investigation by loading two computers with copyrighted material and joining the Underground Network, a move that let it identify five hub computers that coordinated the file sharing. An F.B.I. agent then downloaded 84 movies, 40 software programs, 13 games and 178 songs from the network.
The network operates a Web site - www.udgnet.com - that is registered to an address in San Antonio. A man who answered the telephone at the number associated with the domain, who declined to give his name, said the government's charges were baseless. The Underground Network, he said, is an online community that is used for social communication and to share tips. It is used by people involved in file sharing and others, he said, but the network itself is not involved in trading files.
From the above, it looks like some members AND the FBI uploaded files to a common space then the FBI blamed the network. The implications are that any network must monitor it's content and may be responsible for what people do there.
The potential for abuse is large. Imagine if I were able to walk into a building, do something wrong, and then use that as grounds to obtain warrent to search everyone in the building! I also wonder if it is possible to anonymously share any kind of material without being harassed. If you can't, then there is no anonymous speech on the internet and the internet is not free.
If you look at the 2 year chart, you will see that they still have quite a bit to dip before they even hit the low point.
You mean the perceived market value before they started this pump and dump exercise? What exactly will that tell you? What the three month dive means to me is that even Wall Street realizes that there is no SCO case, there will be no further buyouts and SCO is worthless. People who bought into SCO are sorry they did, including Baystar who recommend that SCO fire their remaining technical staff and become a full time IP scam house.
[criminalizing judicial extortion though false copyright claims] This would limit the rights of those who truly are wronged. GlobalMegaCorpX has hundreds of lawyers, you only have you and the lawyer that you can afford with which to battle them (to sue them). Do you also want the fact that it might be a criminal offense if you loose your suit
Yeah, I'm starting to think that the whole "IP" scam should be done away with. Obviously, "the little guy" is screwed any way you look at it. Why not remove the whole crooked structure? Free software is making it obvious that the underlying assumptions of copyright and patent law are flawed. People will continue to invent and don't mind sharing their inventions. The reward is a body of excellent work that can be used.
This war will be fought with new ideas, not ignorance. Being the squillionth Slashdotter to parrot the old "civil, not criminal" meme will not help things. If you truly believe that artists have too many rights and it's high time to put them in their place, the first thing to do is to understand how the law works, so you can work to change it.
I prefer to parrot RMS, laws should follow morals not the other way around. The threshold of criminality has sunk lower without regard to public opinion of the matter. That so many knowledgable people here can be mistaken is evidence the law is out of wack, not of general ignorance.
The most important thing is that this is a fight for, not against the artist. It was particularly fitting and satisfying to see this ruling today, especially when you read the 1945 songbook by the author. There can be no question that Woody would not have liked his own work being owned forever by "music monopolists", "big money boys", sissys and others.
Wow, actually it sounds like they are starting to target the correct people.
Yeah, like Ted Kennedy!
Do you really think these clowns are going to get this right? What evidence do they have? How did they get it?
I'd rather they put the effort into shutting down the local crank factory, cocaine and heroine importation or the thriving slave/prostitution markets in Mexico which export to the US. The world is filled with many more horrible things than music sharing.
Neo-Modus, the software maker, claims only 12,000 TB shared over their network from ALL of their clients. Each of these "hubs" would have way more than that.
Buying drives would not be the only expensive part. If we assume each of your 100,000 or so drives consumes 5W, you are looking at half a megawatt of power consumption before you plug them into computers! At the bargain rate of $0.03/kWh this would cost you about $11,000 a month to run. That's not the kind of spare change most people have for their file shares. That cost would be joined by what it costs to run other hardware, bandwith, HVAC, and floor space.
... the "average" user really does not care to... save a Word document in plain text.
Nor does the average user care to save their work in.DOC format. They simply want something that changes their format and looks the same the next time they open it. Word fails both, but it's what most users get with their PC so it's what they use. It's up to us to get them something that meet their actual wants. OO, Kword, AbiWord, even Mozilla's editor do a better job. Enough Word users, such as Dvorak, have had enough of Word's problems.
They might also object to using Word as their email editor, if they knew better. Microsoft, however, strongly suggest that with Office XP.
FUD...pure and simple. Why don't you learn a little about Word?
Gigantic troll.
I've worked for a state agency that moved from Word Perfect to Word and I've worked for a fortune 500 company where Word was mandatory. The move from Word Perfect ruined year's worth of publications which had never had a problem but then had to be reformatted every time Word changed versions, printers or computers. The people who had to edit, maintain and print those things hated Word with a passion. The fortune 500 company had given up on Word as an archival format four years ago, but still inflicted it on everyone as an editor. I used two versions of it and can say that Office XP was worse than the one before it. I can also say that it is the worst word processor I'd ever used.
There are thousands upon thousands of these reports archived on network drives. How likely is it that a CEO/CFO/etc.. is going to mandate the transfer of all these documents to OpenOffice/Abiword/Etc.. ?
Most companies are already archiving those as Portable Document Format (pdf) files. This preserves print format much better than Word ever did. IBM would be happy to show you how and yes, you can search the text.
If your company was dumb enough to archive things in Word format and is not looking for reliable methods to get the information out, you might as well throw the things away. New Word itself has a hard time opening older Word documents, especially "complicated" ones with OLE from visio and other programs that your company might not have anymore.
Hopefully, people will learn and use reasonable text editors and type setters for future work.
But Word is still a better program for the average user.
Average crack user, maybe.
Did you read Dvorak's article? He had a laundry list of stupid features and plaid bugs that made the program difficult to use. From the usual format insanity and inability to do so much as ASCI, to new, confounding bugs and dialog boxes no user should suffer through. His biggest complaint was from malfunctioning VBA, which was proably a virus or worm (also something that's been around Work for ever). The "average" user should never be pestered by scripting. The average person's editor should have a few common options that just work.
Let me spell it out for you, it will make the internet one of the least free publishing methods ever. If a US court allows France to tell a US website what not to do, every country can tell US websites what to do. It is, of course, impossible to make a website that satisfies the laws of every country, so US courts will be able to pick and chose what UnAmerican laws they want to govern the internet. The result will be censorship by unelected court officials and those they appoint to enforce decisions which can be made and unmade at whim.
The French position may be unenforceable, and even wrong, but it sure as hell has nothing to do with the 1st amendment.
Unless a US court tells a US citizen what they can't say in another country. Other countries can try to shut people us, but the US government is NOT supposed to.
Slashdot Mirror
Is this the end of the Slashdot effect?" haha no - only the lateral shifting of the slashdot effect to your local lan as some dope sets up a cache server in your office.
This is what coral says:
One of Coral's key goals is to avoid ever creating hot spots that might dissuade volunteers from running the software for fear of load spikes. It achieves this through a novel indexing abstraction we introduce called a distributed sloppy hash table (DSHT), and it creates self-organizing clusters of nodes that fetch information from each other to avoid communicating with more distant or heavily-loaded servers.
DDoS meets, distributed service and there's more of us than there are of you. Thanks for playing but the game is over. As thier effectiveness wanes, look for Bill to cut such things from Microsoft's expenses or to shift your workload to some other disruptive behavior which will again be defeated.
I've been using Logitech mice since the bus mouse because they are better. The bus mouse, by the way, still works. My current mouse is a Trackman and it's hard to go back to one that you have to move around a pad.
I can say about the same thing for there software. It's second rate.
I agree, however, that you should not give money to them for other reasons.
People on Slashdot should know better.
They do. Any initial desire to put your hand on it is quickly overcome by realizing that it's simply a stylized vagina. It might be good for the PHB and other people who don't have to use a mouse often.
Now check out the language used to hype it:
I'm afraid of what that dangling chord is supposed to be. Good thing it's not in the pictures.
It won't be so hard in the future. I know how bad things are because worked a fortune 500 "upgrade" to XP a few weeks ago. They figure the average tech can get two PCs done in 8 hours, how pathetic. With people feeling so well burnt about hyped stagnation ware and a failed three year "job one" effort to fix things, upgrading will be considerably simplified for your next release. It will consist of a chron job:
Packages will reside on one of several local servers, any old 486 will do, with multi year uptimes. The hired help upgrade slave gangs will be a thing of the past.
Your job will simply be to customize the installations to meet your organization's needs and to manage your company's data. You will do this by keeping abreast of software development, employee feedback and programming in your copious spare time. It will be much more fun than calling vendors and screwing around with binary crap that does not work well. Your company will be very happy.
The software installation FUD is one I've seen before. The Microsoft perspective is that people will have to buy programs to do things and make them work. They spin this endless headache as a convenience by pointing to the thousands of dinky boxed programs that litter computer stores and saying, "Look at all of this." Free software that does the same thing and installs from your chosen distribution is almost always superior and takes much less effort. Talk about permissions and locations is a throwback to proprietary Unix, and non free software like movie players which are just as big a pain in Winblows.
His swipe at wifi, by mentioning that free software has problems with WEP and other nasty add-ons to 802.11, is in the same vein. Tell me WEP does anything useful for you and I'll laugh. Of course free software does not work with that garbage. Needing to remember "locations" for "logging on" to various wifi locations is an aggravation not an advantage to winblows.
The worst thing the author is doing here is leading people into non free addons to Linux. The user is much better off with all free drivers and software. Recommending non free junk is very clever because it invites people to point out downsides that sound much like the Winblows nighmare.
The user is better off with Linux than Winblows on this thousand dollar laptop. Me? I'll stick to the $175 P2 thinkpad and Debian I picked up last month. The few joys I miss from not being able to play DVDs and the slight trouble of setting up sound is more than made up for by the low price of the hardware, the better use of that hardware to get what I actually want done and the much lower headache factor I'll face from not getting 0wned.
Then you don't believe in copyright or patents, do you. Those have been distorted so far as to be worthless.
Outsourcing is vandalism, like breaking glass, that ends up costing everyone. Caroline argues that outsourcing (dollars spent somewhere else) benefits everyone, including the programmer who's picking his nose and filling out resumes instead of being paid for the same work. It is clear that the programmer would differ. The programmer would also argue that the outsourced work is inferior in quality and that he's not allowed to compete effectively due to further government vandalism though insane IP laws. The supposed work that's created is click and drool upkeep of Winblows, which pays very poorly, while others do the brain work. Everyone pays the price for this, if they are not sensible enough to use free software, by paying monopoly fees for software that could and does cost much less. These hidden costs are carried by all in the form of higher general costs lower efficiency and inconvenience. The situation with non free software is much closer to the case of the boy who's paid by the glazier to break windows. That's what the upgrade train is.
If this program, legal as it is, can withstand the judicial extortion just launched, the world's four music publishers will have to accelerate things and that could be a serious set back to them. Chances are that they will move right to content free, commercial radio right away. This might impede the transition to a subscription model. That's where cable TV is today, right? Can you tell me that it's any better now than broadcast TV used to be? Oh, poor greed heads, trapped between current music models and taking it to the next level: subscription based, DRM'd broadcasts.
OK, OK, Wall Street thinks SCO is worth less than the sum of their assets. This is because SCO is busy racking up legal bills instead of selling anything real, and Wall Street understands that investors will not be first in line when the bills come due. If you want a small fraction of SCO, I suggest you go work for Boils.
The F.B.I. conducted a covert investigation by loading two computers with copyrighted material and joining the Underground Network, a move that let it identify five hub computers that coordinated the file sharing. An F.B.I. agent then downloaded 84 movies, 40 software programs, 13 games and 178 songs from the network.
The network operates a Web site - www.udgnet.com - that is registered to an address in San Antonio. A man who answered the telephone at the number associated with the domain, who declined to give his name, said the government's charges were baseless. The Underground Network, he said, is an online community that is used for social communication and to share tips. It is used by people involved in file sharing and others, he said, but the network itself is not involved in trading files.
From the above, it looks like some members AND the FBI uploaded files to a common space then the FBI blamed the network. The implications are that any network must monitor it's content and may be responsible for what people do there.
The potential for abuse is large. Imagine if I were able to walk into a building, do something wrong, and then use that as grounds to obtain warrent to search everyone in the building! I also wonder if it is possible to anonymously share any kind of material without being harassed. If you can't, then there is no anonymous speech on the internet and the internet is not free.
The F.B.I. conducted a covert investigation by loading two computers with copyrighted material and joining the Underground Network, a move that let it identify five hub computers that coordinated the file sharing. An F.B.I. agent then downloaded 84 movies, 40 software programs, 13 games and 178 songs from the network.
The network operates a Web site - www.udgnet.com - that is registered to an address in San Antonio. A man who answered the telephone at the number associated with the domain, who declined to give his name, said the government's charges were baseless. The Underground Network, he said, is an online community that is used for social communication and to share tips. It is used by people involved in file sharing and others, he said, but the network itself is not involved in trading files.
From the above, it looks like some members AND the FBI uploaded files to a common space then the FBI blamed the network. The implications are that any network must monitor it's content and may be responsible for what people do there.
The potential for abuse is large. Imagine if I were able to walk into a building, do something wrong, and then use that as grounds to obtain warrent to search everyone in the building! I also wonder if it is possible to anonymously share any kind of material without being harassed. If you can't, then there is no anonymous speech on the internet and the internet is not free.
You mean the perceived market value before they started this pump and dump exercise? What exactly will that tell you? What the three month dive means to me is that even Wall Street realizes that there is no SCO case, there will be no further buyouts and SCO is worthless. People who bought into SCO are sorry they did, including Baystar who recommend that SCO fire their remaining technical staff and become a full time IP scam house.
Yeah, I'm starting to think that the whole "IP" scam should be done away with. Obviously, "the little guy" is screwed any way you look at it. Why not remove the whole crooked structure? Free software is making it obvious that the underlying assumptions of copyright and patent law are flawed. People will continue to invent and don't mind sharing their inventions. The reward is a body of excellent work that can be used.
I prefer to parrot RMS, laws should follow morals not the other way around. The threshold of criminality has sunk lower without regard to public opinion of the matter. That so many knowledgable people here can be mistaken is evidence the law is out of wack, not of general ignorance.
The most important thing is that this is a fight for, not against the artist. It was particularly fitting and satisfying to see this ruling today, especially when you read the 1945 songbook by the author. There can be no question that Woody would not have liked his own work being owned forever by "music monopolists", "big money boys", sissys and others.
Yeah, like Ted Kennedy!
Do you really think these clowns are going to get this right? What evidence do they have? How did they get it?
I'd rather they put the effort into shutting down the local crank factory, cocaine and heroine importation or the thriving slave/prostitution markets in Mexico which export to the US. The world is filled with many more horrible things than music sharing.
Buying drives would not be the only expensive part. If we assume each of your 100,000 or so drives consumes 5W, you are looking at half a megawatt of power consumption before you plug them into computers! At the bargain rate of $0.03/kWh this would cost you about $11,000 a month to run. That's not the kind of spare change most people have for their file shares. That cost would be joined by what it costs to run other hardware, bandwith, HVAC, and floor space.
Nor does the average user care to save their work in .DOC format. They simply want something that changes their format and looks the same the next time they open it. Word fails both, but it's what most users get with their PC so it's what they use. It's up to us to get them something that meet their actual wants. OO, Kword, AbiWord, even Mozilla's editor do a better job. Enough Word users, such as Dvorak, have had enough of Word's problems.
They might also object to using Word as their email editor, if they knew better. Microsoft, however, strongly suggest that with Office XP.
Gigantic troll.
I've worked for a state agency that moved from Word Perfect to Word and I've worked for a fortune 500 company where Word was mandatory. The move from Word Perfect ruined year's worth of publications which had never had a problem but then had to be reformatted every time Word changed versions, printers or computers. The people who had to edit, maintain and print those things hated Word with a passion. The fortune 500 company had given up on Word as an archival format four years ago, but still inflicted it on everyone as an editor. I used two versions of it and can say that Office XP was worse than the one before it. I can also say that it is the worst word processor I'd ever used.
Most companies are already archiving those as Portable Document Format (pdf) files. This preserves print format much better than Word ever did. IBM would be happy to show you how and yes, you can search the text.
If your company was dumb enough to archive things in Word format and is not looking for reliable methods to get the information out, you might as well throw the things away. New Word itself has a hard time opening older Word documents, especially "complicated" ones with OLE from visio and other programs that your company might not have anymore.
Hopefully, people will learn and use reasonable text editors and type setters for future work.
Average crack user, maybe.
Did you read Dvorak's article? He had a laundry list of stupid features and plaid bugs that made the program difficult to use. From the usual format insanity and inability to do so much as ASCI, to new, confounding bugs and dialog boxes no user should suffer through. His biggest complaint was from malfunctioning VBA, which was proably a virus or worm (also something that's been around Work for ever). The "average" user should never be pestered by scripting. The average person's editor should have a few common options that just work.
Unless a US court tells a US citizen what they can't say in another country. Other countries can try to shut people us, but the US government is NOT supposed to.