Sure. And why are you not using a C64 anymore? People get used to the luxuries and start to regard them as necessities.
Try to tell you typical Joe Doe computer user to use a text-terminal based editor for his letters, instead of M$ Word. Pay good attential to the look of total incredulity on his/her face. That't exactly the same look you will receive in 10 years if you suggest that a mouse and 1024x768 X screen are perfectly sufficient to get the work done and people don't need VR sets and speech recognition.
What other operating system would you base a battle bot on? What the heck does the operating system have to do with the physical vulnerability of the hardware it's being run on? Linux is perfectly capable of being run on embedded systems, meaning no acceleration-vunerable moving parts, and the chips are just as safe behind a good armor plating as anything else you could come up with.
RSA offers better encryption than all the free algorithims at the moment.
Not necessarily "better encryption". It has just been around and under scrutiny for a longer time, so people have more faith that there really are no holes in it that in some newly developed algorithm.
Uploading ads disguised as MP3s sure sounds like an "unauthorised use" to me.
Bullshit. There's nothing unauthorized about it - the user who downloads it authorizes the download quite explicitly. If he doesn't get what he wanted, tough luck - Napster sure as hell doesn't implicitly or explicitly guarantee that the content of a file is what its name might lead you to expect.
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I really don't see your point. I've been using Linux for about 2 years, and I feel pretty competent by now. Certainly not a "guru" or "wizard" (I don't know C well and have done but one trivial change to the kernel source), but I pretty much understand the system from a user and administrator point of view. Unix, from my experience, is hardly ever "user hostile" - it was just written by and for people who're really knowledgeable about computers and can appreciate a utility like sed - difficult to learn, but astonishingly powerful when used properly. And the comparison with DOS 4.0 is ridiculous - any ease of use that had was simply a result of its lack of features.
I imagine that solving the scalability problems would be the most looked-for feature in proposals for gPulp. After all, that's what it's all about - the project used to be called gnutella NG.
I've recently read somewhere that "filtering out freenet://" is not feasible, since the freenet traffic can easily be disguised as something else.
As for distributed peer-to-peer being the future of the internet, I doubt that strongly. It just has too many scalability and managability problems, and for most applications it doesn't really have benefits.
No, client server will probably remain the most important paradigm, with peer-to-peer taking over a few areas where it offers substantial benefits.
You apparently have no idea how FreeNet works. Go take a look at the project homepage. The whole point of it is that the information that is in the network can not be "tracked to a single IP address", neither on the sender not on the recipient side.
FreeNet is VERY different from Gnutella. Basically, it's designed to be COMPLETELY anonymous - nobody can find out who has which data, or who is requesting which data. There are even mechanisms to hide the fact that you are using it at all.
Yes, peer-to-peer is almost invariably inferior in regard to performance when such things as global searches are concerned. But that's the price to pay for almost total invulnerability to attacks.
However, the bad performance of Gnutella is only partially due to this - most of it is due to the relatively poor design of the protocol and poorly written client software.
Um... 3dNow is not "on
processor 3d modeling stuff". It's merely AMD's slightly improved flavor of MMX, basically a bit of SIMD computing. Of course, 3D software can benefit from it, but it's far away from being a substitute for the dedicated rendering hardware found on the newest graphics cards.
In other online bookstores. They list the same book several times, with different prices. Apparently, they come from different distributors. Though one should think they should be able to key on ISBN number and use only the cheapest distributor...
Wrong on both your statement and the underlying assumptions.
AC, meet mirror. Mirror, AC.
Taxes aren't absolutely necessary for government (there are alternative ways for
a mimimal government to raise revenue)
I'm not aware of other methods that are fair (more or less) and proven to work dependably. And a tax by any other name is still taking money from the people to do things the government thinks they need.
And governments aren't necessary for a society to function.
Define "function". If it does not mean "dog-eat-dog, whoever has more guns does whatever they want", then yes, a society of more than a few dozen people can not work without some sort of government.
If it works like the existing "tax" on blank media
like vide cassettes and (some) CDRs, then the split will be done according to some complex comparison of popularity that will actually get some money even to small publishers, but of course most to the big ones (which do have all the really popular stuff, after all).
The German government loves the IT economy with a passion. I doubt they'll risk falling behind on the road towards internet wonderland just to please some media companies.
Bull. Taxes are necessary to have a government at all, and to enable it to actually keep any amount of public services running. The devil's in the details, of course.
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Sure. And why are you not using a C64 anymore? People get used to the luxuries and start to regard them as necessities. Try to tell you typical Joe Doe computer user to use a text-terminal based editor for his letters, instead of M$ Word. Pay good attential to the look of total incredulity on his/her face. That't exactly the same look you will receive in 10 years if you suggest that a mouse and 1024x768 X screen are perfectly sufficient to get the work done and people don't need VR sets and speech recognition.
Not really. Would be too inflexible, nearly impossible to upgrade or fix bugs.
What other operating system would you base a battle bot on? What the heck does the operating system have to do with the physical vulnerability of the hardware it's being run on? Linux is perfectly capable of being run on embedded systems, meaning no acceleration-vunerable moving parts, and the chips are just as safe behind a good armor plating as anything else you could come up with.
Not necessarily "better encryption". It has just been around and under scrutiny for a longer time, so people have more faith that there really are no holes in it that in some newly developed algorithm.
Ads are not music.
Wrong. You lose.
Is anything?
Bullshit. There's nothing unauthorized about it - the user who downloads it authorizes the download quite explicitly. If he doesn't get what he wanted, tough luck - Napster sure as hell doesn't implicitly or explicitly guarantee that the content of a file is what its name might lead you to expect.
I really don't see your point. I've been using Linux for about 2 years, and I feel pretty competent by now. Certainly not a "guru" or "wizard" (I don't know C well and have done but one trivial change to the kernel source), but I pretty much understand the system from a user and administrator point of view. Unix, from my experience, is hardly ever "user hostile" - it was just written by and for people who're really knowledgeable about computers and can appreciate a utility like sed - difficult to learn, but astonishingly powerful when used properly. And the comparison with DOS 4.0 is ridiculous - any ease of use that had was simply a result of its lack of features.
Um... the gPulp project is in an extremely early stage. Nothing about it is fixed, they are still asking for proposlas about the protocal.
I imagine that solving the scalability problems would be the most looked-for feature in proposals for gPulp. After all, that's what it's all about - the project used to be called gnutella NG.
As for distributed peer-to-peer being the future of the internet, I doubt that strongly. It just has too many scalability and managability problems, and for most applications it doesn't really have benefits.
No, client server will probably remain the most important paradigm, with peer-to-peer taking over a few areas where it offers substantial benefits.
You apparently have no idea how FreeNet works. Go take a look at the project homepage. The whole point of it is that the information that is in the network can not be "tracked to a single IP address", neither on the sender not on the recipient side.
FreeNet is VERY different from Gnutella. Basically, it's designed to be COMPLETELY anonymous - nobody can find out who has which data, or who is requesting which data. There are even mechanisms to hide the fact that you are using it at all.
Yes, peer-to-peer is almost invariably inferior in regard to performance when such things as global searches are concerned. But that's the price to pay for almost total invulnerability to attacks. However, the bad performance of Gnutella is only partially due to this - most of it is due to the relatively poor design of the protocol and poorly written client software.
Um... 3dNow is not "on processor 3d modeling stuff". It's merely AMD's slightly improved flavor of MMX, basically a bit of SIMD computing. Of course, 3D software can benefit from it, but it's far away from being a substitute for the dedicated rendering hardware found on the newest graphics cards.
If he'd writtne about it as if it was something invented yesterday, I'd have laughed at it just as loudly.
If I had to choose who would rule the world, RPGers or anime-kiddies, I'd choose the anime-kiddies. Their dimmness makes them easy to manipulate...
This belief is what will make taking over the world a piece of cheese. Go on feeling safe...
RPGers would waste the rest of the world's time by arguing over game mechanics and dice rolls.
Apparently you've never been to an anime NG or newsgroup. We can endlessly discuss minor details with the best of them!
... not news by any stretch of imagination.
Same difference. For small publishers, the effort needed to hunt down copyright violators is even more prohibitive than applying for their share.
In other online bookstores. They list the same book several times, with different prices. Apparently, they come from different distributors. Though one should think they should be able to key on ISBN number and use only the cheapest distributor...
AC, meet mirror. Mirror, AC.
Taxes aren't absolutely necessary for government (there are alternative ways for a mimimal government to raise revenue)
I'm not aware of other methods that are fair (more or less) and proven to work dependably. And a tax by any other name is still taking money from the people to do things the government thinks they need.
And governments aren't necessary for a society to function.
Define "function". If it does not mean "dog-eat-dog, whoever has more guns does whatever they want", then yes, a society of more than a few dozen people can not work without some sort of government.
You do realize that this kind of stupid racism makes you more similar to Adolf Hitler than the average German today?
If it works like the existing "tax" on blank media like vide cassettes and (some) CDRs, then the split will be done according to some complex comparison of popularity that will actually get some money even to small publishers, but of course most to the big ones (which do have all the really popular stuff, after all).
The German government loves the IT economy with a passion. I doubt they'll risk falling behind on the road towards internet wonderland just to please some media companies.
Bull. Taxes are necessary to have a government at all, and to enable it to actually keep any amount of public services running. The devil's in the details, of course.
Couldn't you just have said "the US patent system sucks donkey balls" and be done with it?