So... the fact I had it running in windows, fairly easily, yesterday morning (and then i wrote an article about it here) despite not exactly being a code monkey (to be honest, I find those that have the time for all that, should find a proper use for their time) and yet it works great.
TWENTY, not 25. did you actually bother to research it? The reasoning was also NOT "that the people who created the stuff would be encouraged to create more" but that "the people who created in the 1950s are about to run out of royalties". That includes Cliff Rochard. Oh look, I did cover this in detail in the past too...
God, I hate pseudo-arguments like this; taking one aspect of the argument and spinning it, but ok, I'll bite
a) worked on many different TV shows b) worked for a record company c) have a couple of patents and d) I write.
Of course, you'd know of d alrady - I wrote the piece for TorrentFreak.
The point of the pieces through, isn't abolishing copyright, returning to anarchy, but instead that attempting to criminalise a large section of the population, because an industry hasn't moved on, nor learned from past attempts (with the VCR and MP3 players specifically mentioned).
I just hope your writing is a damned sight better than your reading comprehension.
Hardly. SETI@home is not 'SETI' - it is one small subgroup of it. If anything, it's more of a publicity stunt than serious science. As i've posted elsewhere, the processing power of SETI@home is dwarfed by a system Harvard retired in 1995, for a more powerfull system. The other problem is that the Aracebo telescope is not the best scope to be using for SETI work. It's not very steerable, it's a fixed dish in a depresion in Puerto Rico - the only aiming that can be done is by moving the receiver (the bit they fought on in GoldenEye)
If Berkley was really serious about SETI, they'd have fitted a META (MillionChannel, Extra-Terrestrial Array - http://seti.harvard.edu/seti/meta.html) or a BETA (BillionChannel Extra-Terrestrial Array - http://seti.harvard.edu/seti/setihist.html) to process it. It actually takes about as much hardware for a META as is needed for the backend of the BOINC client.
If you really want to help space exploration, and science, and communication, you'd be better off with a project like the Muon1 DPAD (http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/ ), working on the Neutreno, which may be a viable communicative method when understood, as it appears to not generally interact with matter. imagine Europe-Japan communication direct, beamed through the earth, rather than via satelites, or cables run on the surface/ocean floor.
It's called Baseline interferometry. You combine the signals from multiple scopes, to get a scope with the effective size of the distance between them. There have been plans for years to put some in Earth's solar orbit, at various points ahead and behind. this would give a dish that, parallel to the plane of the ecliptic, has an effective size of about 1AU (8 light minutes) radius.
There are other mutli-telescope arrays, apart from the VLA in New Mexico (made famous by films like Contact) although few are grouped together. One of them is MERLIN (http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/booklet/Merlin.html) which was established in 1980.
Now, if only I can finish my designs for a fairly cheap BLI capable road-mobile telescope of sufficient size, we might get even more data.
I wonder if this new publicised technology is better than seti@home, which was eclipsed by the jarvard META array, before it was even launched (the META array could do the job of SETI@home, in real time, and was retired in 1995 for the BETA, which has orders of magnitude more power).
As long as SETI is dominated by PR stunts like seti@home, however, it'll never go anywhere
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So... the fact I had it running in windows, fairly easily, yesterday morning (and then i wrote an article about it here) despite not exactly being a code monkey (to be honest, I find those that have the time for all that, should find a proper use for their time) and yet it works great.
We actually did a preview piece on it a week or two earlier - http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-on-tv-080321/
regard
Ben Jones
TWENTY, not 25. did you actually bother to research it? The reasoning was also NOT "that the people who created the stuff would be encouraged to create more" but that "the people who created in the 1950s are about to run out of royalties". That includes Cliff Rochard. Oh look, I did cover this in detail in the past too...
http://neuron2neuron.blogspot.com/2006/04/royalty-deadlines-told-to-move-it.html first and then http://torrentfreak.com/uk-conservatives-plan-to-extend-copyright/
Since then, Cliff Richard has trialed a pay-by-demand system for his last album, back in November. Please, do try and keep up
Ben Jones
http://torrentfreak.com/author/bjones/
http://neuron2neuron.blogspot.com/
http://www.piracyisnotacrime.com/
God, I hate pseudo-arguments like this; taking one aspect of the argument and spinning it, but ok, I'll bite
a) worked on many different TV shows
b) worked for a record company
c) have a couple of patents
and d) I write.
Of course, you'd know of d alrady - I wrote the piece for TorrentFreak.
The point of the pieces through, isn't abolishing copyright, returning to anarchy, but instead that attempting to criminalise a large section of the population, because an industry hasn't moved on, nor learned from past attempts (with the VCR and MP3 players specifically mentioned).
I just hope your writing is a damned sight better than your reading comprehension.
Hardly. SETI@home is not 'SETI' - it is one small subgroup of it. If anything, it's more of a publicity stunt than serious science. As i've posted elsewhere, the processing power of SETI@home is dwarfed by a system Harvard retired in 1995, for a more powerfull system. The other problem is that the Aracebo telescope is not the best scope to be using for SETI work. It's not very steerable, it's a fixed dish in a depresion in Puerto Rico - the only aiming that can be done is by moving the receiver (the bit they fought on in GoldenEye)
If Berkley was really serious about SETI, they'd have fitted a META (MillionChannel, Extra-Terrestrial Array - http://seti.harvard.edu/seti/meta.html) or a BETA (BillionChannel Extra-Terrestrial Array - http://seti.harvard.edu/seti/setihist.html) to process it. It actually takes about as much hardware for a META as is needed for the backend of the BOINC client.
If you really want to help space exploration, and science, and communication, you'd be better off with a project like the Muon1 DPAD (http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/ ), working on the Neutreno, which may be a viable communicative method when understood, as it appears to not generally interact with matter. imagine Europe-Japan communication direct, beamed through the earth, rather than via satelites, or cables run on the surface/ocean floor.
It's called Baseline interferometry. You combine the signals from multiple scopes, to get a scope with the effective size of the distance between them. There have been plans for years to put some in Earth's solar orbit, at various points ahead and behind. this would give a dish that, parallel to the plane of the ecliptic, has an effective size of about 1AU (8 light minutes) radius.
There are other mutli-telescope arrays, apart from the VLA in New Mexico (made famous by films like Contact) although few are grouped together. One of them is MERLIN (http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/booklet/Merlin.html) which was established in 1980.
Now, if only I can finish my designs for a fairly cheap BLI capable road-mobile telescope of sufficient size, we might get even more data.
I wonder if this new publicised technology is better than seti@home, which was eclipsed by the jarvard META array, before it was even launched (the META array could do the job of SETI@home, in real time, and was retired in 1995 for the BETA, which has orders of magnitude more power). As long as SETI is dominated by PR stunts like seti@home, however, it'll never go anywhere