After going to school in Manhattan, NY, I suspect buildings of being far worse. The wind is channelled between buildings and is much worse than outside the city.
Also, in the summer almost all of the buildings have A/C running full throttle. I think all of the waste heat that is blasted outside ends up raising the temperature an appreciable amount.
Also, the city is filthy. There are rats and cockroaches everywhere, and people are so mean.
But closing protocols reduces the number of users (standard demand curve), which reduces the value of the network a lot. IIRC, the utility of the network grows like the square of the number of peers. If you are charging for the software, revenues grow linearly with the number of paying users, and the number of users (paying or not) increases linearly with the utility of the network (that is, with the square of the number of current peers). So your best bet is to sell client software based on an open protocol, and do what everyone else does to deal with competitors: make a better product.
Look at commercial HTML, JPEG, WAV editors...all based on open standards. They get by on being better software, not by locking out competitors.
In a decade these all-in-one devices are going to be laughable. We will have cellular phones (actually voice-over-wireless-ethernet) clipped on our ears, and PDAs built into our contact lenses.
Voice and "twitch" interfaces will be the norm.
It's called ubiquitous computing, and it will herald a new era in personal technology.
These days, the web takes up far more of people's time. Email is used primarily for mailing lists (which could be replaced by webboards), chain letters, and virus propogation (neither of which should be replaced by anything!).
But email's time has come. It just doesn't scale. Personally, I never use email. IM clients are much faster, and everything else can be done through the web.
Email just wasn't designed to be used outside of a single system with mere dozens of users. Its presence in the modern Internet is due to inertia, not good design.
We will always remember email fondly, but with the knowledge that it is an archaic technology better left behind.
This is not available for Linux, is it? Napster was looking like a real de facto open standard for a little bit there. I was using MusicCity's OpenNap servers with great success until they turned into Morpheus.
I don't know what any of these people think they gain by trying to lock users out of P2P networks with closed protocols. It completely disregards the whole point of P2P. Taken to its logical extreme, the ideal P2P network consists of one person sharing files with himself.
Seriously, while I didn't ever understand their business model, I mourn the loss.
A year ago I could get any mp3 I wanted. I was just getting into a lot of music (that I have since bought on CD), so this was great.
Even six months ago, when Napster was gone, there was Kazaa.
Now, even that is gone (under Linux).
Gnutella is a nightmare.
I have to say, this is the first instance I can recall where innovation has been squelched by the twin swords of control, legislation and litigation. For some reason, I doubt it will be the last.
The revolution was fast, but the counter-revolution was furious. Let's start preparing for the next round.
Douglas Adams passed away a little over a year ago now, and as tradition will soon dictate the first Thursday after May 11th every year is International Towel Day. This happens to be this Thursday, so make sure you all show up to the 12:01 am showing of Attack of the Clones with your favorite lightsaber and a towel. Always know where your towel is.
Anyone know if this is coincidence, or if G. Lucas is paying tribute to a strong influence?
CNet, among others, informed its readers that Macromedia successfully countersued Adobe for patent infringement to the tune of $4.9 million, almost double the $2.8 million Adobe recently won from Macromedia. The article notes Macromedia has another patent suit against Adobe going to court in June 2003.
This is good news for, well, everybody. Think about it: Open Sourcers like all of us here on/. get to attract people to The Cause, and Adobe and Macromedia are just going to keep prospering under patent law, giving back value to all of their non-OSS customers.
Wired has yet another article about deep linking.
I remember I used to think deep linking was okay, but have obviously since changed my mind. If companies deep linked to/., now that/. relies heavily on ads for its revenue, we probably wouldn't have it.:(
Writing in regards to this posting on Linux on mainframes
Yum, more! If you are familiar with my business concerns, you know that I have a lot of experience with Linux on mainframe hardware. Mainframes and Linux are both a boon to the enterprise, and we will just continue to see more success in this area. You should see one of these babies run Quake, it is impressive.;)
I've always been a little baffled by the domain registration business. What exactly are you paying for? Do the registries have any costs other than advertising? IIRC, the whole thing is kind of a protected monopoly.
I don't think domain names are necessary. I'm willing to live with a single.host.thats.part.of.a.big.domain.com, and I'd be find with an IP address as well. Of course, for dynamic IPs you do need some kind of lookup, but DNS wasn't meant for that to begin with, so something like a search engine would make just as much sense.
Slashdot Mirror
Better question: how are you posting on slashdot?
Also, in the summer almost all of the buildings have A/C running full throttle. I think all of the waste heat that is blasted outside ends up raising the temperature an appreciable amount.
Also, the city is filthy. There are rats and cockroaches everywhere, and people are so mean.
In retrospect, BBS-ing looks like...1990.
Look at commercial HTML, JPEG, WAV editors...all based on open standards. They get by on being better software, not by locking out competitors.
Voice and "twitch" interfaces will be the norm.
It's called ubiquitous computing, and it will herald a new era in personal technology.
These days, the web takes up far more of people's time. Email is used primarily for mailing lists (which could be replaced by webboards), chain letters, and virus propogation (neither of which should be replaced by anything!).
But email's time has come. It just doesn't scale. Personally, I never use email. IM clients are much faster, and everything else can be done through the web.
Email just wasn't designed to be used outside of a single system with mere dozens of users. Its presence in the modern Internet is due to inertia, not good design.
We will always remember email fondly, but with the knowledge that it is an archaic technology better left behind.
Just my $0.02.
I don't know what any of these people think they gain by trying to lock users out of P2P networks with closed protocols. It completely disregards the whole point of P2P. Taken to its logical extreme, the ideal P2P network consists of one person sharing files with himself.
Seriously, while I didn't ever understand their business model, I mourn the loss.
A year ago I could get any mp3 I wanted. I was just getting into a lot of music (that I have since bought on CD), so this was great.
Even six months ago, when Napster was gone, there was Kazaa.
Now, even that is gone (under Linux).
Gnutella is a nightmare.
I have to say, this is the first instance I can recall where innovation has been squelched by the twin swords of control, legislation and litigation. For some reason, I doubt it will be the last.
The revolution was fast, but the counter-revolution was furious. Let's start preparing for the next round.
"Uber" is not an adjective. It is an adverb that is wishing for something other than "Monkeys" to describe.
This is bullshit. Cuba has been hydrogen-fuel-cell powered for decades.
Tell me about it.
Douglas Adams passed away a little over a year ago now, and as tradition will soon dictate the first Thursday after May 11th every year is International Towel Day. This happens to be this Thursday, so make sure you all show up to the 12:01 am showing of Attack of the Clones with your favorite lightsaber and a towel. Always know where your towel is.
Anyone know if this is coincidence, or if G. Lucas is paying tribute to a strong influence?
CNet, among others, informed its readers that Macromedia successfully countersued Adobe for patent infringement to the tune of $4.9 million, almost double the $2.8 million Adobe recently won from Macromedia. The article notes Macromedia has another patent suit against Adobe going to court in June 2003.
This is good news for, well, everybody. Think about it: Open Sourcers like all of us here on /. get to attract people to The Cause, and Adobe and Macromedia are just going to keep prospering under patent law, giving back value to all of their non-OSS customers.
Wired has yet another article about deep linking.
I remember I used to think deep linking was okay, but have obviously since changed my mind. If companies deep linked to /., now that /. relies heavily on ads for its revenue, we probably wouldn't have it. :(
Writing in regards to this posting on Linux on mainframes
Yum, more! If you are familiar with my business concerns, you know that I have a lot of experience with Linux on mainframe hardware. Mainframes and Linux are both a boon to the enterprise, and we will just continue to see more success in this area. You should see one of these babies run Quake, it is impressive. ;)
That was almost as funny as my joke.
You won't be able to read porn on it anyway.
I would like to use this technology to fly through space and live my dream.
Electronics use electrons, so spintronics must use...spintrons?
Aren't "weight" and "levity" opposites?
One moment, Tiger needs something.
Well, I'm disappointed. Everything else about this looks really nice, obviously.
Hm, thinking about famous systems that use IDE drives...think they're trying to appeal to Google?
...is to hang out on an asteroid.
I have already had the idea to combine Linux and BSD to create LSD. This sounds similar.
Sunux? Solarux? Linaris?
Why doesn't the magician just keep track of everything with magic?
I've always been a little baffled by the domain registration business. What exactly are you paying for? Do the registries have any costs other than advertising? IIRC, the whole thing is kind of a protected monopoly. I don't think domain names are necessary. I'm willing to live with a single.host.thats.part.of.a.big.domain.com, and I'd be find with an IP address as well. Of course, for dynamic IPs you do need some kind of lookup, but DNS wasn't meant for that to begin with, so something like a search engine would make just as much sense.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply I am a parent. I'm not. I meant "if I were a parent."
Online chat rooms are very scary to me.
As a parent I would be extremely wary about letting my children participate in such things in the big-name systems like AOL and Yahoo.
Ironically, I'm sure any legislation would go after the "unsupervised" systems like IRC, while leaving AOL chat rooms to their own devices.