Well I'm pretty sure that the blurb on slashdot did say 10mm before somebody changed it. I offer into evidence this post from earlier in the comments.
But this "fix" is wrong too. As you can see from my original quote of the article, this new technique allow for a couple millimeters of transparency. 1/10mm is what doctors can currently do.
Thus far, the transparency extends only a couple of millimeters deep, but that's at least five times and as much as 20 times deeper into the body than doctors can currently see with optical devices such as lasers. Doctors can now see only about a tenth of a millimeter deep with light.
I know this has been discussed many times before, but do they even read the articles they post? It's just a couple millimeters, not 10. Where the hell did 10 millimeters come from anyways? Slashdot has been pretty bad on getting the facts right recently. I expect better that this.
Gnutella is a tool, and like any other tool it can be used both for good and bad purposes.
There is a way to combat this kind of abuse. Ignore the ads. And be vocal about it. If customers of flatplanet find that gnutella users don't respond to such advertisements, they won't use flatplanet's product.
Of course there are a few issue with this. It doesn't cost much to use this system, so even if it draws in a few people, it will be justified to the advertisers. Also, in some cases where a product is selective advertised (Only on searches where certain keywords come up) it may be effective. Links to Brittney porn may go over well with people who search for her mp3. I also doubt it will be long before this program shows up on warez sites and people start using it to throw garbage and flame into the search result. I think this could end up being the biggest problem.
A real-time system is one that guarantees certain processes a certain amount of computation per unit of time, or that a certain process will finish by a certain time. This can be used to guarantee that a sound gets played without skipping, or that a video gets played without any pauses. People doing embedded stuff can use it to guarentee that their device does what it needs to do at the right time. Bad things can happen if an embedded system doesn't do something fast enough because of processor load. Basically, it is a system that is aware that somethings need to be done in a certain amount of time to be correct.
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Well I'm pretty sure that the blurb on slashdot did say 10mm before somebody changed it. I offer into evidence this post from earlier in the comments.
But this "fix" is wrong too. As you can see from my original quote of the article, this new technique allow for a couple millimeters of transparency. 1/10mm is what doctors can currently do.
Thus far, the transparency extends only a couple of millimeters deep, but that's at least five times and as much as 20 times deeper into the body than doctors can currently see with optical devices such as lasers. Doctors can now see only about a tenth of a millimeter deep with light.
I know this has been discussed many times before, but do they even read the articles they post? It's just a couple millimeters, not 10. Where the hell did 10 millimeters come from anyways? Slashdot has been pretty bad on getting the facts right recently. I expect better that this.
Gnutella is a tool, and like any other tool it can be used both for good and bad purposes.
There is a way to combat this kind of abuse. Ignore the ads. And be vocal about it. If customers of flatplanet find that gnutella users don't respond to such advertisements, they won't use flatplanet's product.
Of course there are a few issue with this. It doesn't cost much to use this system, so even if it draws in a few people, it will be justified to the advertisers. Also, in some cases where a product is selective advertised (Only on searches where certain keywords come up) it may be effective. Links to Brittney porn may go over well with people who search for her mp3. I also doubt it will be long before this program shows up on warez sites and people start using it to throw garbage and flame into the search result. I think this could end up being the biggest problem.
A real-time system is one that guarantees certain processes a certain amount of computation per unit of time, or that a certain process will finish by a certain time. This can be used to guarantee that a sound gets played without skipping, or that a video gets played without any pauses. People doing embedded stuff can use it to guarentee that their device does what it needs to do at the right time. Bad things can happen if an embedded system doesn't do something fast enough because of processor load. Basically, it is a system that is aware that somethings need to be done in a certain amount of time to be correct.