Do you have any plans for improvements to BitTorrent to improve some of its (few) weaknesses, such as searching for torrent files, bandwidth usage by trackers and inability to download if the tracker goes off the air?
SCO and IBM worked together on Monterey (a 64-bit UNIX for Itanic, IIRC). It tanked when IBM took their developers and left because they saw no future in it.
10 to 1 that this is what SCO is going to bring up in court.
"We looked at the agreement with Novell, we think we own the UNIX copyrights, they think they own it, we think we've got the better claim. We've got good legal backing, we're prepared for countersuits, we intend to see this through. We're not interested in going back into the Linux market, and intent to recommend our other products to Caldera Linux users as an upgrade path. We like Open Source, we think it's great, but we don't like how the code just turns up out of nowhere [sort of defeats the point if code can't just turn up out of nowhere...]. We intend to retract IBM's AIX UNIX license at the expiry of our contract with them."
The SCO weasel just said "SCO owns the contract rights to UNIX" - greasy bastard. What happened to their FUD announcements about how Linux users could be vulnerable to copyright infringement suits?
A realtime OS is one that guarantees a certain level of response time or latency - e.g., any system calls you make are guaranteed to return within a certain span, and no longer. That's hard realtime. Soft realtime is where the OS kind of provides a certain level of response time, but once in a while might go over that limit. The main reason that soft realtime exists is that it's a lot easier to build on anything more than rather limited or very specialized hardware.
Sony held a press conference on the 28th to present their 2003 corporate direction. President Kutaragi announced their new platform, the PSX. It is planned to be released domestically within the year, with a North American and European release following in 2004. The PSX uses the same chips and OS as the PS2. It will be a new platform providing not only gaming capabilities, but also containing a TV/BS analog tuner and delivering DVD recording functionality and acting as a 120GB HDD recorder. In addition to a slot-in type DVD+-RW/-R, it also has a Memory Stivk slot, an Ethernet port and a USB2.0 port. The company declared that they "aim to take advantage of the combination of electronics and gaming, and through the use of the most advanced semiconductor technology for game machines and a real-time OS, we plan to deliver this high quality, high speed response DVD/HDD recorder within the year." Kutaragi said the X is intended to indicate the machine's "crossover" role between digital home electronics and gaming, as well as show their enthusiasm for the "eXtreme" nature of this ultimate expression of the PS2 platform. He also provided a demonstration of the machine. In the demo, he displayed the machine's newly-developed interfaces, and showed it conducting video playback. He demonstrated the highly responsive menu system in an attempt to refute the reputation digital home electronics have for slowness. He explained, "we have been thinking about how far we can take the PS2 engine as a home electronics device, and we wished to demonstrate how much we can change digital home electronics by using this engine." In addition, he demonstrated the machine's interface as a photo server and discussed the machine's attractiveness as a digital media server. No details were given of the machine's implementation of I/O ports and recording methods, but regarding DRM, he said, "it is a very serious problem. Protecting the rights of copyright holders is important, but at the same time users desire to be able to enjoy (it) easily and conveniently." In order to fulfill these requirements, he explained that the latest DRM technology would be used. "We are thinking of including a signal in the analog output to prevent copying", he said, and regarding digital broadcasts, explained that "the industry has not yet come to a consensus, so we are intending to include a preliminary implementation." The PSX is not a product of SCEI, but rather the BroadBand Network Company, part of the main Sony company and headed by Kutaragi. There was no comment on the price.
Well, not quite. By the end of the war, the US had about two million troops in Europe, but most of them were too late to see real action.
The US casualties were relatively light compared to those of the European countries - around 125,000 dead compared with nearly a million for the UK, 1.3 million for France and a staggering 1.7 million for Russia. On top of that, around half the US deaths were apparently caused by influenza, rather than combat.
So, if SARS spreads to the US, would you say "Sorry, but you've got noone to blame but yourselves" if half of NYC got it because they live in an urban area with high population density?
It was their choice to have such a lifestyle, right? They did it to themselves, right?
What you're saying is that it's impossible to define a gram as the mass of a particular number of atoms, because we measure mass in grams.
Using grams to express the mass of an atom, or m/s to express c, is fine, but remember that both of these are actual physical constants, not arbitrary measures. Thus, you can measure c to be of a particular, definite and universal value, independent of the units in which it is expressed.
The units do not define the constant - the constant is just expressible in those units.
World War I? Please. The US didn't even declare war on Germany until early 1917, didn't start sending troops to Europe until mid-1917, and didn't play anything like a decisive part in the war.
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Do you have any plans for improvements to BitTorrent to improve some of its (few) weaknesses, such as searching for torrent files, bandwidth usage by trackers and inability to download if the tracker goes off the air?
SCO and IBM worked together on Monterey (a 64-bit UNIX for Itanic, IIRC). It tanked when IBM took their developers and left because they saw no future in it.
10 to 1 that this is what SCO is going to bring up in court.
OK, the call just finished...
Summary of the salient points that affect Linux:
"We looked at the agreement with Novell, we think we own the UNIX copyrights, they think they own it, we think we've got the better claim. We've got good legal backing, we're prepared for countersuits, we intend to see this through. We're not interested in going back into the Linux market, and intent to recommend our other products to Caldera Linux users as an upgrade path.
We like Open Source, we think it's great, but we don't like how the code just turns up out of nowhere [sort of defeats the point if code can't just turn up out of nowhere...].
We intend to retract IBM's AIX UNIX license at the expiry of our contract with them."
They just said that SCO has the UNIX copyrights!!!
(Premonition of law suit...)
Yeah - after 7 on their last one...
He just said they had 7 callers on their last conference call... 244 this time.
The SCO weasel just said "SCO owns the contract rights to UNIX" - greasy bastard. What happened to their FUD announcements about how Linux users could be vulnerable to copyright infringement suits?
Must be - 728447 got me in.
They just asked me "what affiliation" I have - I gave them my company's name and there was no problem getting in.
Nah, I'm in on it (using the non-1800 number). They're in listen-only mode at the moment.
Thanks for that post - Slashdot's time of posting let me know the local time for the call. I'm in on it now.
Hmmm... an "Overrated" mod for an apology... that's just so /.-like.
Funny - it's late here, I'm tired and I've got work to finish that's due tomorrow... seems to be going around ;)
Ah, I see. Sorry, from your first post it wasn't clear whether you were disgusted that it didn't have one, or pleased that it did.
A realtime OS is one that guarantees a certain level of response time or latency - e.g., any system calls you make are guaranteed to return within a certain span, and no longer.
That's hard realtime. Soft realtime is where the OS kind of provides a certain level of response time, but once in a while might go over that limit.
The main reason that soft realtime exists is that it's a lot easier to build on anything more than rather limited or very specialized hardware.
It has a Memory Stick slot. See my translation.
Sony held a press conference on the 28th to present their 2003 corporate direction. President Kutaragi announced their new platform, the PSX. It is planned to be released domestically within the year, with a North American and European release following in 2004.
The PSX uses the same chips and OS as the PS2. It will be a new platform providing not only gaming capabilities, but also containing a TV/BS analog tuner and delivering DVD recording functionality and acting as a 120GB HDD recorder.
In addition to a slot-in type DVD+-RW/-R, it also has a Memory Stivk slot, an Ethernet port and a USB2.0 port.
The company declared that they "aim to take advantage of the combination of electronics and gaming, and through the use of the most advanced semiconductor technology for game machines and a real-time OS, we plan to deliver this high quality, high speed response DVD/HDD recorder within the year."
Kutaragi said the X is intended to indicate the machine's "crossover" role between digital home electronics and gaming, as well as show their enthusiasm for the "eXtreme" nature of this ultimate expression of the PS2 platform. He also provided a demonstration of the machine.
In the demo, he displayed the machine's newly-developed interfaces, and showed it conducting video playback. He demonstrated the highly responsive menu system in an attempt to refute the reputation digital home electronics have for slowness. He explained, "we have been thinking about how far we can take the PS2 engine as a home electronics device, and we wished to demonstrate how much we can change digital home electronics by using this engine."
In addition, he demonstrated the machine's interface as a photo server and discussed the machine's attractiveness as a digital media server.
No details were given of the machine's implementation of I/O ports and recording methods, but regarding DRM, he said, "it is a very serious problem. Protecting the rights of copyright holders is important, but at the same time users desire to be able to enjoy (it) easily and conveniently." In order to fulfill these requirements, he explained that the latest DRM technology would be used. "We are thinking of including a signal in the analog output to prevent copying", he said, and regarding digital broadcasts, explained that "the industry has not yet come to a consensus, so we are intending to include a preliminary implementation."
The PSX is not a product of SCEI, but rather the BroadBand Network Company, part of the main Sony company and headed by Kutaragi. There was no comment on the price.
A larger version.
Or this one, or this one, or this one, or this one, or my favourite: this one.
Artists seem to like to portray asteroids as being sveral hundred kilometres in size.
There's already been a BIOS announced that contains a full web browser - why not this?
They're VCD/SVCD files. Play them with MPlayer.
Well, not quite. By the end of the war, the US had about two million troops in Europe, but most of them were too late to see real action.
The US casualties were relatively light compared to those of the European countries - around 125,000 dead compared with nearly a million for the UK, 1.3 million for France and a staggering 1.7 million for Russia. On top of that, around half the US deaths were apparently caused by influenza, rather than combat.
So, if SARS spreads to the US, would you say "Sorry, but you've got noone to blame but yourselves" if half of NYC got it because they live in an urban area with high population density?
It was their choice to have such a lifestyle, right? They did it to themselves, right?
I guess you don't know classical Greek either, because "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" is Latin.
What you're saying is that it's impossible to define a gram as the mass of a particular number of atoms, because we measure mass in grams.
Using grams to express the mass of an atom, or m/s to express c, is fine, but remember that both of these are actual physical constants, not arbitrary measures. Thus, you can measure c to be of a particular, definite and universal value, independent of the units in which it is expressed.
The units do not define the constant - the constant is just expressible in those units.
World War I? Please. The US didn't even declare war on Germany until early 1917, didn't start sending troops to Europe until mid-1917, and didn't play anything like a decisive part in the war.