ISPs think BitTorrent is incredibly evil, because from the ISPs viewpoint it is VERY inefficient... Bittorrent is not about efficient file distribution (thats called Akamai), rather Bittorrent is a way for someone to provide a large file cheaply, because it puts the bandwidth costs directly on the customers of the large file.
Unless the protocol has a significant number of simultaneous users for a given file within the ISP's local network, everything is actually transfered twice: once in, and once out. This isn't an efficiency savings, it is an efficiency hit, and a big one given the volume transferred.
They can't cache it either, because so many uses are copyright violations and the protocol is not designed to be friendly to transparent caches. You could make up a cache, but you'd basically have to do a LOT of work with an IDS and a custom cache for a cache which will require many MANY terabytes of disk and that will get you sued if you deploy it.
Likewise, for a mobile use, it will suck twice the power, as you send and receive EVERYTHING twice on your local link.
And wireless bandwidth is much more valuable than the commodity internet link (there is a lot less of it), so even if items ARE staying in the ISP, the double transfer problem is a huge issue unless you have a bunch of people getting the same file right next to each other.
Bittorrent in the mobile world saves the content provider from having to provide cheap, wired bandwidth by making the recipients and/or their WISPs provide expensive wireless bandwidth instead!
For a lot of autonomic systems, you need the blocking, but a little automatic forgiveness goes a long way.
EG, in a scan detector, forgive 1 scan per minute/hour and eventually release the block. This saves a call to tech support, and papers over a lot of sins when building an automatic system.
The problem is, by the standards of a civil suit (preponderence of the evidence), the RIAA is able to kick butt on the forensics.
Its sloppy, its crappy, but when you have "Identify user's ip, user name, and the same username used on a bunch of legitimate sites", it becomes hard to contest the evidence sufficiently to establish nonresponsibility.
In order to get your $35, not only do you have to say, under penalty of perjury, that you bought the game, but that you also would NOT have bought it if you knew there was third party unlockable content of this sort...
So what Take Two should do is do some random trolling through the responses, and play a little "investigate the plaintiff" game. And then attempt to prosecute individual class members for purjury, as a way of putting a hurt on these stupid class action suits.
From the article The fundamental tenet that drives us all in the semiconductor industry is a deeply felt conviction that what matters is time to market, or time to money. But you never hear an executive from a pharmaceutical company say, "Before the end of the year I'm going to have xyz drug," the way Steve Jobs said the iPhone would be out on schedule. The heart of every high-tech executive has been, get the product into customers' hands and ramp up production. That drive is just not present in pharma; the drive to get sufficient understanding and go for it is missing.
Let me tell you, if Intel had to pay $5,000,000 to the widow of everyone killed by an FDIV bug who would have died 3 weeks later (eg, like a drug company has to do), they would be a lot more conservative about getting chips to market.
One possible translation: Watch the HDTV Transition...
Sony and Microsoft leaped ahead, probably ahead of the game, on the output resolution. Its too good (read "costs too much") for what is currently out there.
Nintendo did not. They went cheap and new UI, which has proven to be a win.
But I'd bet that Nintendo really is eyeing the HDTV transition for "Wii 2.0". They are probably taking a page from Apple and keeping it as stealthy as possible (why hurt sales on the Wii 1.0?), and waiting until 42" HDTVs become common (probably after this christmas) before releasing a performance and graphics bump designed to take advantage of the new output resolution.
An interesting part of the article was the discussion of the technique involved.
Apparently, Lindon doesn't want bots, so you can't script avatars. But items can be scripted, and items can instruct avatars to do things. So you just script an item to instruct the avatar what to do...
Trez cool. (Now if only you could make the item replicating and infectious....:) )
Any statistical deviation in the balls is going to be microscopic.
Rather, observe the following. When a progressive jackpot gets large enough, a single winner would have a positive expectation value, but multiple winners have negative value.
Thus what you need to do is not pick something that is "more likely", you need to pick combinations that normal players would NOT choose, as your odds of winning are the same, but your odds of having to share a win go way down.
EG, something like 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Given the raw stream of what numbers people choose, there are probably lots of such "less likely" patterns you could use.
All IDS RST/FIN injectors (the Bro IDS has one, the great firewall of china uses one, Sandvine uses one) get the sequence #s from the TCP packet, so the injected RST packets are in sequence.
I've got a lot of PS2 games still, and I won't be getting rid of em. But there isn't space in my entertainment center housing for a PS2 and a PS3, especially since the PS3 can't have anything stacked on it because of its curvosity.
EG, I'm still using analog-only cable, even though my new Tivo HD supports CableCard. There is only one digital station I care about to date (SciFi), and not enough to be willing to pay the $10-20/month more that adding digital service will cost me (at least until I get an HDTV and want to get the HD channels)
Automatically hourly incremental backups to an external disk, with everything done readable in the filesystem as simlinks so you can look at arbitrarily hour-snapshots for the past day, day snapshots for the past month, and weekly snapshots thereafter.
Unfortunately inevitable, since there was really no defense contesting of the network forensics, or that the username in question just happened to be the same as the defendent's accounts on many other networks, that the system in question was connected to her cable modem, and using her IP address.
Without such defense, a simple "preponderence of the evidence" (the criteria for a civil case) was inevitable.
The iPhone/touch is new, remember...
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It will take months to come up with a competitor. These products were probably at manufacturing approval stage before Microsoft got their hands on an iPhone.
Still gimped "Squirt"...
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You still only get 3 plays out of stuff you transfer to friends...
The "or later" clause in most GPL/LGPL liscencing represents a deliberately undefined reference. For instance, who defines "or later", is it the issuer or the receiver of the software?
Additionally, it is putting the terms of your liscence under the control of someone else (the FSF) in case of an update. There is nothing to prevent LGPL v3 from having a patent clause which applies to not just the code in the libarary.
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To just buy a cluster of Playstation 3s, especially since they do have Gigabit ethernet and Linux toolflows.
You are coming to a sad realization, Cancel or Allow.
IS it just me, or is Wikipedia best suited for pulp culture trivia...
Eg, it is a great resource if you want to learn about say, Cop-Tur of the Go-Bots (eg, if you are wondering about a random Robot Chicken episode).
As an academic resource, it is nonciteable and nontrustable, due to the volatile nature and anonymous content.
(Admittedly, I have edited Wikipedia to add corrections. But I would never cite it, but instead use it as a smarter google for some topics)
ISPs think BitTorrent is incredibly evil, because from the ISPs viewpoint it is VERY inefficient... Bittorrent is not about efficient file distribution (thats called Akamai), rather Bittorrent is a way for someone to provide a large file cheaply, because it puts the bandwidth costs directly on the customers of the large file.
Unless the protocol has a significant number of simultaneous users for a given file within the ISP's local network, everything is actually transfered twice: once in, and once out. This isn't an efficiency savings, it is an efficiency hit, and a big one given the volume transferred.
They can't cache it either, because so many uses are copyright violations and the protocol is not designed to be friendly to transparent caches. You could make up a cache, but you'd basically have to do a LOT of work with an IDS and a custom cache for a cache which will require many MANY terabytes of disk and that will get you sued if you deploy it.
Likewise, for a mobile use, it will suck twice the power, as you send and receive EVERYTHING twice on your local link.
And wireless bandwidth is much more valuable than the commodity internet link (there is a lot less of it), so even if items ARE staying in the ISP, the double transfer problem is a huge issue unless you have a bunch of people getting the same file right next to each other.
Bittorrent in the mobile world saves the content provider from having to provide cheap, wired bandwidth by making the recipients and/or their WISPs provide expensive wireless bandwidth instead!
For a lot of autonomic systems, you need the blocking, but a little automatic forgiveness goes a long way.
EG, in a scan detector, forgive 1 scan per minute/hour and eventually release the block. This saves a call to tech support, and papers over a lot of sins when building an automatic system.
The problem is, by the standards of a civil suit (preponderence of the evidence), the RIAA is able to kick butt on the forensics.
Its sloppy, its crappy, but when you have "Identify user's ip, user name, and the same username used on a bunch of legitimate sites", it becomes hard to contest the evidence sufficiently to establish nonresponsibility.
I will not be getting either one until there is a clear winner. So a stalemate is a loss for both sides.
In order to get your $35, not only do you have to say, under penalty of perjury, that you bought the game, but that you also would NOT have bought it if you knew there was third party unlockable content of this sort...
So what Take Two should do is do some random trolling through the responses, and play a little "investigate the plaintiff" game. And then attempt to prosecute individual class members for purjury, as a way of putting a hurt on these stupid class action suits.
From the article
The fundamental tenet that drives us all in the semiconductor industry is a deeply felt conviction that what matters is time to market, or time to money. But you never hear an executive from a pharmaceutical company say, "Before the end of the year I'm going to have xyz drug," the way Steve Jobs said the iPhone would be out on schedule. The heart of every high-tech executive has been, get the product into customers' hands and ramp up production. That drive is just not present in pharma; the drive to get sufficient understanding and go for it is missing.
Let me tell you, if Intel had to pay $5,000,000 to the widow of everyone killed by an FDIV bug who would have died 3 weeks later (eg, like a drug company has to do), they would be a lot more conservative about getting chips to market.
One possible translation: Watch the HDTV Transition...
Sony and Microsoft leaped ahead, probably ahead of the game, on the output resolution. Its too good (read "costs too much") for what is currently out there.
Nintendo did not. They went cheap and new UI, which has proven to be a win.
But I'd bet that Nintendo really is eyeing the HDTV transition for "Wii 2.0". They are probably taking a page from Apple and keeping it as stealthy as possible (why hurt sales on the Wii 1.0?), and waiting until 42" HDTVs become common (probably after this christmas) before releasing a performance and graphics bump designed to take advantage of the new output resolution.
An interesting part of the article was the discussion of the technique involved.
:) )
Apparently, Lindon doesn't want bots, so you can't script avatars. But items can be scripted, and items can instruct avatars to do things. So you just script an item to instruct the avatar what to do...
Trez cool. (Now if only you could make the item replicating and infectious....
Any statistical deviation in the balls is going to be microscopic.
Rather, observe the following. When a progressive jackpot gets large enough, a single winner would have a positive expectation value, but multiple winners have negative value.
Thus what you need to do is not pick something that is "more likely", you need to pick combinations that normal players would NOT choose, as your odds of winning are the same, but your odds of having to share a win go way down.
EG, something like 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Given the raw stream of what numbers people choose, there are probably lots of such "less likely" patterns you could use.
All IDS RST/FIN injectors (the Bro IDS has one, the great firewall of china uses one, Sandvine uses one) get the sequence #s from the TCP packet, so the injected RST packets are in sequence.
The drive to the airport.
Flying is so much safer than driving to the airport it is not even funny.
That is the price for a legal, court ordered wiretap.
I guess they are looking for L337 AG3NTZ to be W007
a: My 3.5 year old Series 2 is not that happy
b: I wanted the much larger capacity, and I'll throw a TB on it once the eSATA is formally supported.
c: Dual tuners == (Stuff I Want && Stuff the GF wants)
c: I WILL be getting an HDTV around January, when you can probably get a 40"+ 1080P for $1000.
Sorry, no backwards compatibilty == No Thanks.
I've got a lot of PS2 games still, and I won't be getting rid of em. But there isn't space in my entertainment center housing for a PS2 and a PS3, especially since the PS3 can't have anything stacked on it because of its curvosity.
EG, I'm still using analog-only cable, even though my new Tivo HD supports CableCard. There is only one digital station I care about to date (SciFi), and not enough to be willing to pay the $10-20/month more that adding digital service will cost me (at least until I get an HDTV and want to get the HD channels)
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html
Automatically hourly incremental backups to an external disk, with everything done readable in the filesystem as simlinks so you can look at arbitrarily hour-snapshots for the past day, day snapshots for the past month, and weekly snapshots thereafter.
COOL!
Unfortunately inevitable, since there was really no defense contesting of the network forensics, or that the username in question just happened to be the same as the defendent's accounts on many other networks, that the system in question was connected to her cable modem, and using her IP address.
Without such defense, a simple "preponderence of the evidence" (the criteria for a civil case) was inevitable.
It will take months to come up with a competitor. These products were probably at manufacturing approval stage before Microsoft got their hands on an iPhone.
You still only get 3 plays out of stuff you transfer to friends...
The "or later" clause in most GPL/LGPL liscencing represents a deliberately undefined reference. For instance, who defines "or later", is it the issuer or the receiver of the software?
Additionally, it is putting the terms of your liscence under the control of someone else (the FSF) in case of an update. There is nothing to prevent LGPL v3 from having a patent clause which applies to not just the code in the libarary.
Google maps happily takes kml
EG, see here:
Cool Eyecandy Map
is from the kml file http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/dad.kml