ISPs could easily achieve this without changing a single bit in most bittorren implementations: Jack up the bandwidth within their backbone to whatever's possible. Instead of limiting that ADSL2+ line to 5 mbps running it at 25 and throttling traffic to/from it to 5 mbps at the edge of their network. Connections within the ISP's network would tend to max out those 25 mbps; given some fiber connectivity and recent hardware, users could seed at gigabit throughputs within the provider's network.
Going back to the previous 25 mbps example, this could reduce the outside traffic from, say, 1.4 GByte (an average movie) to some 150 MB (1.4 GB @ 20 mbps takes some 5 minutes during which some 180 MB could be retrieved thru the 5 mbps connection to the outside world) without any software optimisations. If the industry would start doing something like this, most P2P clients would probably use it. If they'd use it, ISPs would save even more bandwidth (== money).
...except some of your analogies suck: Auto insurance: The only sensible thing is to force liability insurance if unsure the driver is able to pay, for example, $500k out of pocket. Mandatory medical insurance: That's insurance companies pushing and they're pushing for a good reason. Throughout europe, health insurance is mostly mandatory or part of a socialized system. I'm all for lots and lots of personal freedoms, but a really basic mandatory health insurance covering the costs of keeping you alive after that car crash seems very, very sensible to me. Everything beyond that point (c|sh)ould be voluntary and non-governmental.
I fully agree with the Windows and sports teams examples, though. Fortunately the former ain't gonna happen and, given some reasonably intelligent (yep, that's a direct attack to sports fans' IQs) people, the latter should be preventable realisticly. Otherwise you might want to move; think of (the|your) children (if planned) and their education.;)
I guess he isn't referring to licensing costs for the various distributions not putting dents in his budget but rather the operating costs of their new cluster as a whole. The SGI machine seems to have dented the budget pretty badly while replacing it with a Linux (beowulf?) cluster polished those dents out to the extent of them being able to test various setups in addition to their cluster and still have a smoother budget.
Also, their supercomputer may just be outdated, not necessarily because of bloated software. I don't know how well SGI's products and support survived their recent bankrupcy, but I'd imagine not too well (though they seem to have built the Xeon-based #3 from the Top 500 recently).
Where's the problem with that? As long as the surveillance is clearly communicated before signing up for whatever job we're talking about, I don't see a problem.
Introduce a standard work contract in which all factors are regulated absolutely bulletproof. A section about the work hours, a section about the amount of paid and unpaid holidays, a section about how, where and when employees will be monitored and how the information gained that way is being used.
I'm sure this would make a lot of things way easier. If you don't mind being watched at work, take that high-paying, high-responsability job. If you do, take the lower paying one in the more sympathetic lower-profile company. Use the same contract for high-tier politicians. Give them a little extra money for restrictions on accepting gifts from strangers (lobbying, the modern form of bribery) and being watched 24/7. As an example, take the number of people directly affected by decisions of a certain official, divide them by the number of officials participating in said decision. Tier 1 is >1 million - no privacy. At all. Tier 2 is, say, >25k. Still highly monitored but may get some privacy. Tier 3 could be 1k. Those get private homes (comms still monitored). Everything below that would be subject to some surveillance at the work place.
By defining those aspects absolutely clear, corruption could be killed almost instantaneously. This could also act as a pre-filter for even running for higher jobs; weeding out those who are in it for personal gain and leaving only convinced people who'd sacrifice some privacy for whatever establishment they're going to lead.
Silverlight 1.0 is flash competition hurried to production. It has it's advantages and disadvantages but few things really worth noting.
The 2.0 release changes lots. Real integration with the.NET languages, LINQ,... It's where flash gets kicked into the lower back several times before being handed it's testicles on a silver(light) platter. If you're going to dislike the release schedule, hate 1.0, not the good stuff.
As long as people buy something for any given price, it's by definition "worth" that much to them. I gladly paid even more than $30 for a fast and feature-rich IM client for my blackberry because the luxury of having access to those networks while enroute without or too mobile to get my WWan-equipped notebook out is worth some $45 to me. Instead of munching a sandwich for lunch, I enjoy paying a few bucks more for a warm meal.
Worth can't be defined by anyone for an audience larger than him or herself. The Market's valuation of anything only reflects those participating. To you, a Google share may not be worth anything; to those who trade them, it currently is some $435.
That's not a sequel, it's the typical The asylum copycat version of a popular film. Check their filmography for other jewels like The DaVinci Treasure (The DaVinci Code), I Am Omega (I Am Legend), Transmorphers (Transformers) or 100 Million BC (10,000 BC).
A package is a bundle of stuff that can be installed using your OS' package management facility. BSD's Ports, Gentoo's portage, Debian's apt (also used by Ubuntu). The "big two" commercial OSes don't really have an equivalent to that; Windows e.g. only lets you install some optional components using a unified frontend. Counting the number of packages is easily possible and done by the repository maintainers.
A program is quite hard to define. A handwritten script could be considered a program by some, others may reserve the term for publicly available software. The number of programs is very hard to approximate and impossible to determine unless you chose an uncommon, restrictive definition and a point in time of which you possess all information.
Nobody said Windows didn't have lots of programs and software available for it; probably more than any other OS family on the planet. It does not, however, have a central facility to classify and automatically install them from. (Cue jokes about IE + ActiveX doing a great job of auto-installing all the malware from MSFT's repository called "the intertubes").
Definitely neutral. Mistakes happen, problems occur. They dealt with it the right way (positive), you're out of some time and $2 (negative), resulting in a nice and fair grey circle. Refunding your shipping expenses and hooking you up with a working DVD (same movie or of your choice) would've made that green; trouble with returning and refunding red.
Your walmart example doesn't quite fit. Change it to "Walmart accepts defective item, refunds money, doesn't pay you gas and/or expenses to get to their store".
Stupid science, having a different opinion than me again;)
Anyways, there's an easy, system-independent solution for at the very least your input troubles: Localized keyboards. You seem to be using lots of international characters (ë is french, ö is german, £ english), you may want to try the German (Switzerland) keyboard layout. It's a bit more convoluted than en-US (up to four or five characters on a single key), but it does have all the chars you get on en-US, all the chars you need for german, french, italian, conversations about english, american or european currencies.
lack of documentation (or not, you just haven't looked)
That's what I meant to say. Sorry for not having made it clear; I was talking about learning by doing without using too much documentation where unnecessary.
Those only apply to menu shortcuts and make, imo, the process a lot more intuitive and powerful. Take, for example, Windows Explorer's New File shortcut (Menu - N I think, but somebody said W in this thread). After pressing two keys, you get an extensible menu allowing you to create some 26 new Files at the press of a button or an unlimited by selecting the matching line with your cursor keys. After using the shortcut, your muscle memory will remember to add pressing Enter for a new folder or T for a new text file (assumption; I'm not near a windows box right now. It's a single key press, anyways). Menu - N - Enter is the same amount of keypresses as Apple - Option - Someletter, but Apple - Option won't get you a menu of different tasks to perform (in this case: file types to create), Menu - N will.
In the end it's probably a question of personal preference and habit (I, for one, find mac keyboard commands horribly unintuitive and couldn't see myself swapping my ThinkPad's 8-row-keyboard for a cramped (referring, in this case, to using most keys twice and thrice with modifiers. Think Arrows/Home/End/PgUp/PgDown) MacBook one.
I'm just stating from a clean slate, a new user will adapt to the OSX ways MUCH faster.
Again, I disagree. Personal preference and experience in helping others have shown the Windows way to be working quite well for many people. I'll adjust my opinion upon seeing a trustworthy, peer-reviewed case study with a sufficiently large and realistic group of participants. Feel free to do the same, insist on your opinion, but let's not make this thread a he-said-she-said style debate. Thanks.
Thinking for the least tiny bit makes everything really simple and clear. Ctrl makes you control whatever object's selected or active. Used with C, it's copy, A selects All, F finds within. Doesn't usually affect the window as such, just it's contents. Alt Interacts with the window menu and the window itself. Try Alt + F for the former, Alt + F4 for the latter. The windows key is used by most people who work with computers (as opposed to play. Those folks either don't have a windows key (victims of Steve's RDF) or are really cool 'cause their keyboard's got a switch to turn it off (Logitech G15 Gamer keyboard)). Opens the start menu when used on it's own, affects the system as a whole (R(un) and E(xplorer) launch apps, D takes you to the desktop and back). Ctrl + Alt tend to be user- as well as a few pre-defined, system-wide shortcuts. Think CAD, think CA + Anything user-defined.
Most of my experience with MSFT products is very consistent in this regard; beating anything but a console and maybe ratpoison by far. I haven't really worked with Vista, YMMV there. I also haven't spent more than a few quick eval sessions with Mac OS X, but the "shortcuts" over there seemed extremely crowded to the point of near-unusability. Seven-key shortcuts may seem intuitive for an emacs user; they aren't for me. With the same amount of documentation (none) available, Windows is my clear favourite for keyboard-only input. OS X doesn't really cut it, quite similar to both Gnome and KDE.
It usually boils down to scalability referring to the amount of memory used and performance meaning the time taken. Or, to explain it Ted Stevens Style: The computer's not a big truck you just dump something on, it's a tube of a given length and diameter. Applications are cylinders. Performant apps are flat cylinders, scalable apps are thin cylinders. A long cylinder with a big diameter will require the tube's full capacity for a long time; during which lots of big-diametered cylinders could pass thru sequentially or lots of thin, long cylinders in parallel.
I second the first part of that. Even with limited resources, I chose to buy several Thinkpads during the last years and haven't regretted those decisions once. I could've gone with slow (think OLPC, Eee), low-quality (Acer), toyish (Apple) products for less money each time and enjoyed paying more for fast, light ntoebooks with great keyboards and the build quality of WW2 bunkers. Works for me, why shouldn't it work for others?
On another note, much of Sony's notebooks have been and will continue to be luxurious products. Buying a Sony TZ simply ain't the result of going for the best value, it's either showing off or requiring extreme mobility. I don't like their cramped keyboards and low-res (SXGA+ on a 12" ftw) screens, so I don't buy em.
"The SPI namespace is subject to change with future OS releases, minor as well as major. Changes will be made public on this site at least two weeks prior to shipping an update with any SPI modifications. Enter your e-mail address to be auto-notified about all changes, grouped into two e-mails per week at most."
Developers have documented access to the additional performance those libraries might give them while knowing they might change. For safety's sake, the versioning could be included into the interface, allowing thoughtful devs to fall back to the (slower) API on a version number update. Also, the documentation could include some sort of discussion plattform allowing qualified devs to propose changes that might, after approved by the Steve and his Turtleneck, improve Apple's SPI (and, trickling down, the "stable" API).
Unfortunately both target audiences (that's 1. Supercomputing/clustering big/experimental stuff and 2. being a Tier 1 backbone provider) for this kind of technology don't need their ISP to provide it. Your average SoHo couldn't even deliberately use a single Gigabit link; even well-connected datacentres don't (yet) need 100 Gbps outside connectivity.
All IP is auctioned off five-yearly, the date of invention being regarded as the starting point.
The inventor gets to keep his IP five years completely free, after which the market determines it's value by bidding on it. Bidding runs for 30 days and will be automatically prolonged to five work days after the last bid came in. Whomever ends up being the highest bidder pays the full amount to the inventor, gets assigned ownership of the IP and pays property tax according to his own valuation.
A mechanism for the general public to ask for a certain piece of IP to be auctioned off (or even force it) and the current holder to start an auction before his 5 years are over would probably be a good idea. Also, the bidding should be straightforward and quick so small-time entrepreneurs won't need to hire staff just to bid. An eBay-style ("Enter your maximum bid") could do that. Also, holding on to some IP should be easily doable (click a button somewhere and auto-value your property at the highest bid plus a dollar or let the current owner decide to keep (at the new market value and taxation) or sell).
I must admit to never having really used Dijjer, but what you're describing ain't peer-to-peer. Prepending http://dijjer.net/ to any url will make your browser send an HTTP request to the server at dijjer.net (client-server, here we go) causing it to retrieve the file (by whatever means, peer-to-peer or direct download) and transmit it over to you.
As oppossed to directly downloading, this will cause at least twice, probably more traffic. The dijjer server needs to retrieve it, file's transmitted once; you need to receive it - file's transmitted twice. Even if it's free now, it won't be when Dijjer's VC runs out. They need to monetize double the traffic by showing you double the ads the original provider would have (and still will; he'll probably be chosing his site for ad delivery, Dijjer will have to come up with a way to get you to see even more ads). The coral cache does something similar, but seems more like a research project (non-profit, easier to get funds, easier to get inexpensive (universities) participation and bandwidth).
Your "Homepage" link contains a referral id granting you privileges whenever someone signs up using it. How very, very non-capitalist. (Sarcasm, can you tell it?)
In other news: While Russia isn't all that communisty today, Cuba and China still are. Other common things are extreme government control, censorship, poverty, corruption and so on. To get to the point: Ask an immigration official of either country to grant you citizenship over there while handing over a year worth of your earnings back here and you won't be forced to live in this evil system. You may want to say goodbye to the internet and computers in general first. And your car. And eating warm food twice a day. And to your own room, let alone apartment. And freedom of speech. You'll still be able to publicly criticize your government, just like you can today. Once, for a few minutes.
Since you're not going to emigrate anyways, I have another request: Move your lower back back to MySpace and don't come back 'till out of puberty. Thanks.
AMD has started open-sourcing their documentation which is great, but don't forget about the competition:
Intel has built some great tools and is becoming more open-source friendly all the time. Think PowerTop and their whole LessWatts stuff, think their linux drivers.
nVidia hasn't produced any open source drivers. However, their blob drivers have always worked like a charm for me. This may be somewhat of a clash between ideology and practicability here, but I prefer the nVidia/Linus/"DO STUFF" approach to the AMD/RMS/"Ideology is important" one. While not being completely open, nVidia graphics hardware has enjoyed great linux support for quite some time and that's what counts to me.
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ISPs could easily achieve this without changing a single bit in most bittorren implementations: Jack up the bandwidth within their backbone to whatever's possible. Instead of limiting that ADSL2+ line to 5 mbps running it at 25 and throttling traffic to/from it to 5 mbps at the edge of their network. Connections within the ISP's network would tend to max out those 25 mbps; given some fiber connectivity and recent hardware, users could seed at gigabit throughputs within the provider's network.
Going back to the previous 25 mbps example, this could reduce the outside traffic from, say, 1.4 GByte (an average movie) to some 150 MB (1.4 GB @ 20 mbps takes some 5 minutes during which some 180 MB could be retrieved thru the 5 mbps connection to the outside world) without any software optimisations. If the industry would start doing something like this, most P2P clients would probably use it. If they'd use it, ISPs would save even more bandwidth (== money).
I guess sometime around here. :)
INSANE? This! is! SPA^H^H^HEA!
...except some of your analogies suck:
;)
Auto insurance: The only sensible thing is to force liability insurance if unsure the driver is able to pay, for example, $500k out of pocket.
Mandatory medical insurance: That's insurance companies pushing and they're pushing for a good reason. Throughout europe, health insurance is mostly mandatory or part of a socialized system. I'm all for lots and lots of personal freedoms, but a really basic mandatory health insurance covering the costs of keeping you alive after that car crash seems very, very sensible to me. Everything beyond that point (c|sh)ould be voluntary and non-governmental.
I fully agree with the Windows and sports teams examples, though. Fortunately the former ain't gonna happen and, given some reasonably intelligent (yep, that's a direct attack to sports fans' IQs) people, the latter should be preventable realisticly. Otherwise you might want to move; think of (the|your) children (if planned) and their education.
I guess he isn't referring to licensing costs for the various distributions not putting dents in his budget but rather the operating costs of their new cluster as a whole. The SGI machine seems to have dented the budget pretty badly while replacing it with a Linux (beowulf?) cluster polished those dents out to the extent of them being able to test various setups in addition to their cluster and still have a smoother budget.
Also, their supercomputer may just be outdated, not necessarily because of bloated software. I don't know how well SGI's products and support survived their recent bankrupcy, but I'd imagine not too well (though they seem to have built the Xeon-based #3 from the Top 500 recently).
Where's the problem with that? As long as the surveillance is clearly communicated before signing up for whatever job we're talking about, I don't see a problem.
Introduce a standard work contract in which all factors are regulated absolutely bulletproof. A section about the work hours, a section about the amount of paid and unpaid holidays, a section about how, where and when employees will be monitored and how the information gained that way is being used.
I'm sure this would make a lot of things way easier. If you don't mind being watched at work, take that high-paying, high-responsability job. If you do, take the lower paying one in the more sympathetic lower-profile company. Use the same contract for high-tier politicians. Give them a little extra money for restrictions on accepting gifts from strangers (lobbying, the modern form of bribery) and being watched 24/7. As an example, take the number of people directly affected by decisions of a certain official, divide them by the number of officials participating in said decision. Tier 1 is >1 million - no privacy. At all. Tier 2 is, say, >25k. Still highly monitored but may get some privacy. Tier 3 could be 1k. Those get private homes (comms still monitored). Everything below that would be subject to some surveillance at the work place.
By defining those aspects absolutely clear, corruption could be killed almost instantaneously. This could also act as a pre-filter for even running for higher jobs; weeding out those who are in it for personal gain and leaving only convinced people who'd sacrifice some privacy for whatever establishment they're going to lead.
Silverlight 1.0 is flash competition hurried to production. It has it's advantages and disadvantages but few things really worth noting. .NET languages, LINQ, ... It's where flash gets kicked into the lower back several times before being handed it's testicles on a silver(light) platter. If you're going to dislike the release schedule, hate 1.0, not the good stuff.
The 2.0 release changes lots. Real integration with the
As long as people buy something for any given price, it's by definition "worth" that much to them. I gladly paid even more than $30 for a fast and feature-rich IM client for my blackberry because the luxury of having access to those networks while enroute without or too mobile to get my WWan-equipped notebook out is worth some $45 to me. Instead of munching a sandwich for lunch, I enjoy paying a few bucks more for a warm meal.
Worth can't be defined by anyone for an audience larger than him or herself. The Market's valuation of anything only reflects those participating. To you, a Google share may not be worth anything; to those who trade them, it currently is some $435.
That's not a sequel, it's the typical The asylum copycat version of a popular film. Check their filmography for other jewels like The DaVinci Treasure (The DaVinci Code), I Am Omega (I Am Legend), Transmorphers (Transformers) or 100 Million BC (10,000 BC).
A package is a bundle of stuff that can be installed using your OS' package management facility. BSD's Ports, Gentoo's portage, Debian's apt (also used by Ubuntu). The "big two" commercial OSes don't really have an equivalent to that; Windows e.g. only lets you install some optional components using a unified frontend. Counting the number of packages is easily possible and done by the repository maintainers.
A program is quite hard to define. A handwritten script could be considered a program by some, others may reserve the term for publicly available software. The number of programs is very hard to approximate and impossible to determine unless you chose an uncommon, restrictive definition and a point in time of which you possess all information.
Nobody said Windows didn't have lots of programs and software available for it; probably more than any other OS family on the planet. It does not, however, have a central facility to classify and automatically install them from. (Cue jokes about IE + ActiveX doing a great job of auto-installing all the malware from MSFT's repository called "the intertubes").
...on slashdot, apple.com and kernel.org.
Definitely neutral. Mistakes happen, problems occur. They dealt with it the right way (positive), you're out of some time and $2 (negative), resulting in a nice and fair grey circle. Refunding your shipping expenses and hooking you up with a working DVD (same movie or of your choice) would've made that green; trouble with returning and refunding red.
Your walmart example doesn't quite fit. Change it to "Walmart accepts defective item, refunds money, doesn't pay you gas and/or expenses to get to their store".
Stupid science, having a different opinion than me again ;)
Anyways, there's an easy, system-independent solution for at the very least your input troubles: Localized keyboards. You seem to be using lots of international characters (ë is french, ö is german, £ english), you may want to try the German (Switzerland) keyboard layout. It's a bit more convoluted than en-US (up to four or five characters on a single key), but it does have all the chars you get on en-US, all the chars you need for german, french, italian, conversations about english, american or european currencies.
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In the end it's probably a question of personal preference and habit (I, for one, find mac keyboard commands horribly unintuitive and couldn't see myself swapping my ThinkPad's 8-row-keyboard for a cramped (referring, in this case, to using most keys twice and thrice with modifiers. Think Arrows/Home/End/PgUp/PgDown) MacBook one. Again, I disagree. Personal preference and experience in helping others have shown the Windows way to be working quite well for many people. I'll adjust my opinion upon seeing a trustworthy, peer-reviewed case study with a sufficiently large and realistic group of participants. Feel free to do the same, insist on your opinion, but let's not make this thread a he-said-she-said style debate. Thanks.
Thinking for the least tiny bit makes everything really simple and clear.
Ctrl makes you control whatever object's selected or active. Used with C, it's copy, A selects All, F finds within. Doesn't usually affect the window as such, just it's contents.
Alt Interacts with the window menu and the window itself. Try Alt + F for the former, Alt + F4 for the latter.
The windows key is used by most people who work with computers (as opposed to play. Those folks either don't have a windows key (victims of Steve's RDF) or are really cool 'cause their keyboard's got a switch to turn it off (Logitech G15 Gamer keyboard)). Opens the start menu when used on it's own, affects the system as a whole (R(un) and E(xplorer) launch apps, D takes you to the desktop and back).
Ctrl + Alt tend to be user- as well as a few pre-defined, system-wide shortcuts. Think CAD, think CA + Anything user-defined.
Most of my experience with MSFT products is very consistent in this regard; beating anything but a console and maybe ratpoison by far. I haven't really worked with Vista, YMMV there. I also haven't spent more than a few quick eval sessions with Mac OS X, but the "shortcuts" over there seemed extremely crowded to the point of near-unusability. Seven-key shortcuts may seem intuitive for an emacs user; they aren't for me. With the same amount of documentation (none) available, Windows is my clear favourite for keyboard-only input. OS X doesn't really cut it, quite similar to both Gnome and KDE.
It usually boils down to scalability referring to the amount of memory used and performance meaning the time taken. Or, to explain it Ted Stevens Style: The computer's not a big truck you just dump something on, it's a tube of a given length and diameter. Applications are cylinders. Performant apps are flat cylinders, scalable apps are thin cylinders. A long cylinder with a big diameter will require the tube's full capacity for a long time; during which lots of big-diametered cylinders could pass thru sequentially or lots of thin, long cylinders in parallel.
I second the first part of that. Even with limited resources, I chose to buy several Thinkpads during the last years and haven't regretted those decisions once. I could've gone with slow (think OLPC, Eee), low-quality (Acer), toyish (Apple) products for less money each time and enjoyed paying more for fast, light ntoebooks with great keyboards and the build quality of WW2 bunkers. Works for me, why shouldn't it work for others?
On another note, much of Sony's notebooks have been and will continue to be luxurious products. Buying a Sony TZ simply ain't the result of going for the best value, it's either showing off or requiring extreme mobility. I don't like their cramped keyboards and low-res (SXGA+ on a 12" ftw) screens, so I don't buy em.
What about the other option?
"The SPI namespace is subject to change with future OS releases, minor as well as major. Changes will be made public on this site at least two weeks prior to shipping an update with any SPI modifications. Enter your e-mail address to be auto-notified about all changes, grouped into two e-mails per week at most."
Developers have documented access to the additional performance those libraries might give them while knowing they might change. For safety's sake, the versioning could be included into the interface, allowing thoughtful devs to fall back to the (slower) API on a version number update. Also, the documentation could include some sort of discussion plattform allowing qualified devs to propose changes that might, after approved by the Steve and his Turtleneck, improve Apple's SPI (and, trickling down, the "stable" API).
Unfortunately both target audiences (that's 1. Supercomputing/clustering big/experimental stuff and 2. being a Tier 1 backbone provider) for this kind of technology don't need their ISP to provide it. Your average SoHo couldn't even deliberately use a single Gigabit link; even well-connected datacentres don't (yet) need 100 Gbps outside connectivity.
There's an extremely simple way to solve this:
All IP is auctioned off five-yearly, the date of invention being regarded as the starting point.
The inventor gets to keep his IP five years completely free, after which the market determines it's value by bidding on it. Bidding runs for 30 days and will be automatically prolonged to five work days after the last bid came in. Whomever ends up being the highest bidder pays the full amount to the inventor, gets assigned ownership of the IP and pays property tax according to his own valuation.
A mechanism for the general public to ask for a certain piece of IP to be auctioned off (or even force it) and the current holder to start an auction before his 5 years are over would probably be a good idea. Also, the bidding should be straightforward and quick so small-time entrepreneurs won't need to hire staff just to bid. An eBay-style ("Enter your maximum bid") could do that. Also, holding on to some IP should be easily doable (click a button somewhere and auto-value your property at the highest bid plus a dollar or let the current owner decide to keep (at the new market value and taxation) or sell).
The answer is YAML. Human-readable, lean, easily parsed, somewhat integrated.
I must admit to never having really used Dijjer, but what you're describing ain't peer-to-peer. Prepending http://dijjer.net/ to any url will make your browser send an HTTP request to the server at dijjer.net (client-server, here we go) causing it to retrieve the file (by whatever means, peer-to-peer or direct download) and transmit it over to you.
As oppossed to directly downloading, this will cause at least twice, probably more traffic. The dijjer server needs to retrieve it, file's transmitted once; you need to receive it - file's transmitted twice. Even if it's free now, it won't be when Dijjer's VC runs out. They need to monetize double the traffic by showing you double the ads the original provider would have (and still will; he'll probably be chosing his site for ad delivery, Dijjer will have to come up with a way to get you to see even more ads).
The coral cache does something similar, but seems more like a research project (non-profit, easier to get funds, easier to get inexpensive (universities) participation and bandwidth).
Your "Homepage" link contains a referral id granting you privileges whenever someone signs up using it. How very, very non-capitalist. (Sarcasm, can you tell it?)
In other news: While Russia isn't all that communisty today, Cuba and China still are. Other common things are extreme government control, censorship, poverty, corruption and so on. To get to the point: Ask an immigration official of either country to grant you citizenship over there while handing over a year worth of your earnings back here and you won't be forced to live in this evil system. You may want to say goodbye to the internet and computers in general first. And your car. And eating warm food twice a day. And to your own room, let alone apartment. And freedom of speech. You'll still be able to publicly criticize your government, just like you can today. Once, for a few minutes.
Since you're not going to emigrate anyways, I have another request: Move your lower back back to MySpace and don't come back 'till out of puberty. Thanks.
AMD has started open-sourcing their documentation which is great, but don't forget about the competition:
Intel has built some great tools and is becoming more open-source friendly all the time. Think PowerTop and their whole LessWatts stuff, think their linux drivers.
nVidia hasn't produced any open source drivers. However, their blob drivers have always worked like a charm for me. This may be somewhat of a clash between ideology and practicability here, but I prefer the nVidia/Linus/"DO STUFF" approach to the AMD/RMS/"Ideology is important" one. While not being completely open, nVidia graphics hardware has enjoyed great linux support for quite some time and that's what counts to me.