Although it shouldn't matter now because I've got some wonderful folks helping me out with mirrors - linked directly from the Vendetta site - Bryan Seitz and Mark Schonbach of the University of Delaware Linux Users Group and Tony Brancich from Comanche Public Schools.
Hello all. Sorry that I got slashdotted with my pants down - again.
If anyone is in the mood to mirror between 10 and 600MB of video, I will get you the files quickly - contact me at jon@binadopta.com
After the last slashdotting, I did post Vendetta in MPEG, DivX, and Real formats so that everyone could enjoy - Episode 1 is still available in those formats, but Episode 2 is not yet. We'll see what we can do.
Java is buggy? A language is buggy? What's that supposed to mean?
Okay Mr. Literal Developer, here it is in your terms: The java user experience is buggy.
Why? In my experience the biggest problem is the virtual machines. This may not directly be SUN's fault, but it was their choice to excercise virtually no control over them so the promise of cross platform development was broken. I've yet to have the same working code play completely well on any more than _one_ type of VM.
It sounds a bit like the argument between Java and Perl to me:) There are those who believe that things that are clean and orderly are "right" and there are those that believe things that are loose and flexible are "right". (There are those that believe that life here began... out there...)
In any case it's an interesting path to explore. I lean towards the loose and flexible side myself. If you saw my code you'd be able to tell;)
I'm arguing that there are better areas to focus our engergies - studies that will actually further society.
I am strongly in favor of furthering society as well - as are most people. But I think it is a fallacy to assume that the research being described in the article is somehow taking away from our resources for social research and improvement.
These people are specialists in biology and medicine. They are trying to find cures for disease and the maladies of aging. I think this is noble research.
I don't understand how cloning got such a bad rap. This research is for cloning individual cells - which is mirrored naturally every time a cell divides. This is how our body repairs itself. These scientists are trying to give us the ability to help heal things that our body wouldn't naturally be able to heal.
Imagine if you had liver disease and needed a replacement. Would you rather some other person's semi-compatible liver cells were removed from their dead body to be put into you or that some of your own cells were grown in a petri dish and then put back. Well the first is commonplace, the second is about to become illegal. I find this disturbing.
You obviously didn't read the article. They aren't cloning humans.
What they are doing is human cell cloning, which is hardly unethical. This is on the same ethical level as commonplace tissue transplants. They are not making embryos, but simply cells that can then be used to patch up damaged tissue in aging or diseased adults.
I think this sounds like a great idea - and with further research will beat the pants off the barely successful Frankenstein-like system of transplanting tissue between humans that we use now. The person instead gets their own copied cells.
Please take the time to really think about what this mean before jumping to conclusions.
the only thing I really see killing free content providers is hosting costs
Exactly! Maybe I wasn't totally clear, but as a content creator and website publisher myself, I just wish I could get the bandwidth I need paid for (or at least offset a bit).
You're right about cheating, too. But I think if ISP's were in charge of billing and paying, reasonable solutions could be worked out.
Freenet just isn't going to fly in it's current state. I wish it would, but it's just not going to happen.
Page is an undefined and quantity and is therefore exploitable by both ends of the transaction. Uncool.
How about a penny per meg(+/-)? Bandwidthis what costs, so therefore that should be the foundation for our payment system, IMHO. People pay their ISP's for the connection on their end, but the only reason they want a connection is because of those maintaining servers. Perhaps the ISP should be responsible for charging their customers for bandwidth and kicking the cost back to the sites that the user went to proportionately. There could also be a cap as this article suggested, so that it may end up being less than a penny per meg, but that it still gets distributed evenly across the sites the user went to.
This solves the porn site pop-up problem, too, as you can usually kill out of those before any substantial amount of data has been downloaded, even if 100 "pages" have popped up. Plus ISP's (moreso than single users) would address fraudulent charges.
Browsers could include a little meter on the status bar as well, so they could get an idea how much they were using.
Obviously this is not as cool for the masses as the current system of getting everything for nothing, but if something isn't done to help out the content providers soon, we'll have a tradgedy of the commons on our hands.
I've actually done 3d effects and compositing for a living and I believe the photo to be real. Thanks for the analysis, though. I guess we'll know soon enough.
I understand where you are coming from. But here's something to consider: What if we are terrorists to them?
Before you throw the idea out, consider that more civilians in the Middle East have died as a result of American action than the other way around.
And as you point out, one can't just sit back and let these things continue. One must seek justice. I have a feeling that the attackers said the same things.
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
What's funny is that I hardly even follow this stuff but I remembered this quote and found it on my first google search. Despite that, the responses so far to the above comment have been either agreement that Linus should more openly thank the GPL, or that he shouldn't because it wasn't helpful. No one even suggested that he already did thank the GPL!
This isn't a counter attack simply because this act is unjustifiable.
I understand your sentiment, but do you really know about the unjustifiable acts that America is supporting in the Middle East? We support terrorism and killing of civilians and have been doing so for decades. It occured over a longer period of time, but the death toll over there is much higher than this single attack. Our media doesn't cover these things, though. You'd have to watch BBC or some other world news.
You are right, if the death rate is what is most important. It's impossible to really gauge, I guess, but decades of war and pervasive terrorism in your hometown is at least as detrimental to a society as a catastrophic single event like this. I would argue moreso.
Thanks for your well thought out reply. With regards to this being a counterstrike, however, I would ask how much you really know about the bloodshed that America funds and promotes overseas. There are real injustices perpetrated by the American government on others that surpass what was seen today. Much of it has been carrying on for decades. And yes, civilians are involved.
Today was wrong, but there is a reason that some of the people in the middle east are celebrating. It's not because they are evil, it is because they feel about us exactly how we feel about the attackers today: that justice must be served by any means necessary.
When we find the responsible party, they're going to be in a world of hurt. And anyone contemplating anything like this will think twice.
You realize that this is probably exactly what the people in charge of this attack said. America stepped on them, so they decided they'd teach us a lesson. After their attack America would think twice about stepping on others.
Well, it didn't work. We don't even know who did this and we're already ready to kill them.
And our counterattack won't stop terroroism either. So far our "tough" policy on terrorism (while ignoring the causes) has led to today.
Have you ever considered that today's attack was a counterstrike - against America?
I won't offer any trite solution - I don't know whether a counterstrike of our own would be effective or not. I'm not saying that there's an obvious path, but what I do know is that today's act was not a random act.
We don't think we're at war because our homeland is (was) so isolated from the front lines, but America is involved in many wars through funding. And wars don't happen without funding. It's almost surprising that we're not attacked more often.
Today is an awful day. I am heartsick at all the loss that has occurred. But I am even more terrified of what is to come.
Aw man! One of the reasons I love Slashdot is that it has stuck by it's guns and remained one of the gawd awfulest looking sites on the web!
Seriously, though, I'm sick of website (and application) appearance makeovers. 9 times out of 10 they decrease functionality and increase the level of annoyance.
However, I've been happy with the same woman for ten years now so I guess I'm not the average guy.
I have sent them a polite request and I suggest you do the same. I also placed instructions on the video page of my website for visitors to do the same.
Stand up for interoperability - it is always good.
:)
Re:Badass compression algorithm?
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Share The Pi!
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Distributing what could be a multi-trillion digit number to your friends.
Easy! All you have to do then is search pi for the multi-trillion digit number and then send it's offset. If that offset is still to long you can just do it again until you ended up with, like, a single digit!
Slashdot Mirror
7563512 - 01_Santas_Cottage.mov
Although it shouldn't matter now because I've got some wonderful folks helping me out with mirrors - linked directly from the Vendetta site - Bryan Seitz and Mark Schonbach of the University of Delaware Linux Users Group and Tony Brancich from Comanche Public Schools.8119656 - 02_The_Chase.mov
7479552 - 03_Courtship.mov
5012681 - 04_Confrontation.mov
11057457 - 05_Finale.mov
8246026 - 06_Jesus_and_Santa.mov
6614752 - 07_Back_at_Headquarters.mov
8615730 - 08_Position_23H15.mov
4297252 - 09_Blaze_of_Glory.mov
7537006 - 10_Resolution.mov
39335090 - Vendetta_Part_1.mov
115479023 - Vendetta_Part_1_Large.mov
35308283 - Vendetta_Part_2.mov
85137408 - Vendetta_Part_2_Large.mov
6780948 - Vendetta_Pilot.mov
Hello all. Sorry that I got slashdotted with my pants down - again.
If anyone is in the mood to mirror between 10 and 600MB of video, I will get you the files quickly - contact me at jon@binadopta.com
After the last slashdotting, I did post Vendetta in MPEG, DivX, and Real formats so that everyone could enjoy - Episode 1 is still available in those formats, but Episode 2 is not yet. We'll see what we can do.
Take care,
Jonathan Field
Java is buggy? A language is buggy? What's that supposed to mean?
Okay Mr. Literal Developer, here it is in your terms: The java user experience is buggy.
Why? In my experience the biggest problem is the virtual machines. This may not directly be SUN's fault, but it was their choice to excercise virtually no control over them so the promise of cross platform development was broken. I've yet to have the same working code play completely well on any more than _one_ type of VM.
It sounds a bit like the argument between Java and Perl to me :) There are those who believe that things that are clean and orderly are "right" and there are those that believe things that are loose and flexible are "right". (There are those that believe that life here began... out there...)
;)
In any case it's an interesting path to explore. I lean towards the loose and flexible side myself. If you saw my code you'd be able to tell
You're welcome. That's what open discussions are for: sharing opinions.
I'm arguing that there are better areas to focus our engergies - studies that will actually further society.
I am strongly in favor of furthering society as well - as are most people. But I think it is a fallacy to assume that the research being described in the article is somehow taking away from our resources for social research and improvement.
These people are specialists in biology and medicine. They are trying to find cures for disease and the maladies of aging. I think this is noble research.
I don't understand how cloning got such a bad rap. This research is for cloning individual cells - which is mirrored naturally every time a cell divides. This is how our body repairs itself. These scientists are trying to give us the ability to help heal things that our body wouldn't naturally be able to heal.
Imagine if you had liver disease and needed a replacement. Would you rather some other person's semi-compatible liver cells were removed from their dead body to be put into you or that some of your own cells were grown in a petri dish and then put back. Well the first is commonplace, the second is about to become illegal. I find this disturbing.
Peace
You obviously didn't read the article. They aren't cloning humans.
What they are doing is human cell cloning, which is hardly unethical. This is on the same ethical level as commonplace tissue transplants. They are not making embryos, but simply cells that can then be used to patch up damaged tissue in aging or diseased adults.
I think this sounds like a great idea - and with further research will beat the pants off the barely successful Frankenstein-like system of transplanting tissue between humans that we use now. The person instead gets their own copied cells.
Please take the time to really think about what this mean before jumping to conclusions.
the only thing I really see killing free content providers is hosting costs
Exactly! Maybe I wasn't totally clear, but as a content creator and website publisher myself, I just wish I could get the bandwidth I need paid for (or at least offset a bit).
You're right about cheating, too. But I think if ISP's were in charge of billing and paying, reasonable solutions could be worked out.
Freenet just isn't going to fly in it's current state. I wish it would, but it's just not going to happen.
Page is an undefined and quantity and is therefore exploitable by both ends of the transaction. Uncool.
How about a penny per meg(+/-)? Bandwidthis what costs, so therefore that should be the foundation for our payment system, IMHO. People pay their ISP's for the connection on their end, but the only reason they want a connection is because of those maintaining servers. Perhaps the ISP should be responsible for charging their customers for bandwidth and kicking the cost back to the sites that the user went to proportionately. There could also be a cap as this article suggested, so that it may end up being less than a penny per meg, but that it still gets distributed evenly across the sites the user went to.
This solves the porn site pop-up problem, too, as you can usually kill out of those before any substantial amount of data has been downloaded, even if 100 "pages" have popped up. Plus ISP's (moreso than single users) would address fraudulent charges.
Browsers could include a little meter on the status bar as well, so they could get an idea how much they were using.
Obviously this is not as cool for the masses as the current system of getting everything for nothing, but if something isn't done to help out the content providers soon, we'll have a tradgedy of the commons on our hands.
Peace.
Aw Jeez.
The iPod has 5 GB of storage.
It also does not have any copy protection, but it won't auto-sync between two machines, you have to do it manually (just drag & drop the files).
Hope that clears things up just a little.
I've actually done 3d effects and compositing for a living and I believe the photo to be real. Thanks for the analysis, though. I guess we'll know soon enough.
Before you throw the idea out, consider that more civilians in the Middle East have died as a result of American action than the other way around.
And as you point out, one can't just sit back and let these things continue. One must seek justice. I have a feeling that the attackers said the same things.
Wish I had a solution to offer.
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
What's funny is that I hardly even follow this stuff but I remembered this quote and found it on my first google search. Despite that, the responses so far to the above comment have been either agreement that Linus should more openly thank the GPL, or that he shouldn't because it wasn't helpful. No one even suggested that he already did thank the GPL!
Peace, all.
Okay then, let's just kill his family and friends and people who look like him.
There are more similarities than differences.
Good idea. Now let's blow up Timothy McVeigh's country too.
Amen. It is reassuring to know that there are some people out there who see the bigger picture on this.
I understand your sentiment, but do you really know about the unjustifiable acts that America is supporting in the Middle East? We support terrorism and killing of civilians and have been doing so for decades. It occured over a longer period of time, but the death toll over there is much higher than this single attack. Our media doesn't cover these things, though. You'd have to watch BBC or some other world news.
You are right, if the death rate is what is most important. It's impossible to really gauge, I guess, but decades of war and pervasive terrorism in your hometown is at least as detrimental to a society as a catastrophic single event like this. I would argue moreso.
Thanks for your well thought out reply. With regards to this being a counterstrike, however, I would ask how much you really know about the bloodshed that America funds and promotes overseas. There are real injustices perpetrated by the American government on others that surpass what was seen today. Much of it has been carrying on for decades. And yes, civilians are involved.
Today was wrong, but there is a reason that some of the people in the middle east are celebrating. It's not because they are evil, it is because they feel about us exactly how we feel about the attackers today: that justice must be served by any means necessary.
I wish I there was a way out.
You realize that this is probably exactly what the people in charge of this attack said. America stepped on them, so they decided they'd teach us a lesson. After their attack America would think twice about stepping on others.
Well, it didn't work. We don't even know who did this and we're already ready to kill them.
And our counterattack won't stop terroroism either. So far our "tough" policy on terrorism (while ignoring the causes) has led to today.
Have you ever considered that today's attack was a counterstrike - against America?
I won't offer any trite solution - I don't know whether a counterstrike of our own would be effective or not. I'm not saying that there's an obvious path, but what I do know is that today's act was not a random act.
We don't think we're at war because our homeland is (was) so isolated from the front lines, but America is involved in many wars through funding. And wars don't happen without funding. It's almost surprising that we're not attacked more often.
Today is an awful day. I am heartsick at all the loss that has occurred. But I am even more terrified of what is to come.
Seriously, though, I'm sick of website (and application) appearance makeovers. 9 times out of 10 they decrease functionality and increase the level of annoyance.
However, I've been happy with the same woman for ten years now so I guess I'm not the average guy.
Heck, you'd probably be doing that anyway :)
Microsoft Suggestion Form
I have sent them a polite request and I suggest you do the same. I also placed instructions on the video page of my website for visitors to do the same.
Stand up for interoperability - it is always good.
Easy! All you have to do then is search pi for the multi-trillion digit number and then send it's offset. If that offset is still to long you can just do it again until you ended up with, like, a single digit!