how would me running a BNETD server for me and a few friends ONLY to log in to, we all have regged clients but not fixed ip's so running in p2p mode isn't so viable.
I'd rather run a bnetd server on my co-lo box and let friends connect to it!
Verant tried to do the same Everquest did the same but at least they have the excuse of revenue stream losses (though at 35 quid a pop for the add-ons it's not like the monthly fee is the stream).
What this suggests to me is that Battle.net will stop being free once Warcraft is released and Blizzard are going to start charging for access.
the plateau I meant was demand rather than technological pace
The high end and low end workstation in retail stay roughly the same. I htink people just feel they need to get a new PC, I know I do that too. I just want this years model, like people always wanting a new car.
Also ehat I mean is we've almost reached a plateau in our delight in the novel. Do 2ghz chips give you the same thrill as 1ghz did? 5ghz? 10Ghz is the next milestone but that only seems about 5 years away.
We need a new thrill. We've got LCD panels and a ton of storage, something cool to do with lasers could probably be it. I know I'll try and buy a 3d crystal storage mechanism as soon as i can if you can whip the crystal out and show people.
Sort of like ebay, who are not responsible if you get in touch with someone for the purposes of buying stolen property.
funny you should use that as an example. Auctions in England were actually a way for stolen property to be legitimised.
An auction house advertised that they are going to have an auction of goods (this is a legal requirement). The public comes to view them, if they can prove that the items belong to them they can claim them back before the auction starts.
Once your stuff has been sold throug1060ction you cannot claim it back.
Copyright for 70 years after the death of the author? Why? They're dead. Their family should go and get jobs.
Well maybe, just maybe, that self same family worked for the author for "free". Cooking his food, washing his clothes, tidying his living space, raising his kids, looking after him when he was sick, etc.etc. So despite never having put pen/brush to paper/canvas their contribution to the works should not be ignored.
Okay so Plan 9 is cool. Useful ? Probably not as it doesn't have any support or applications of note.
It does have users & applications. It's lacking in desktop software like word processors & spreadsheets & image editors but that does not mean it's not "useful".
I have a plna9 box on my netwrok and I much prefer working on it than any of the others (FreeBSD & win2k).
It is used by non-programmers in a few instiutions for text editing and email.
The mailing list consists of about 50 active posters.
It's a research OS and the programmers that use it are happy that it is a clean sheet implementation and that it doesn't carry a lot of the hair that some of the other OS's have collected on their voyage through userland.
Why don't you just start a new thread for each of your requests?
Say it takes 30 minutes, I suspect that my ISP's in-line cache might not let me keep the connection open for that long. Plus if I'm hosted somewhere the web server might also time-out the script after a few minutes (30 secs even).
I *know* you don't have to use port 80. I *know* you can change the timeout. I *suspect* there are other solutions while keeping XMl/RPC your transport
but there are also a finite number of ports. If each one of/.'s readers wants new story notification then there aren't enough ports to keep one each open 24/7.
I would just use a different machanism for problems in this domain, that was my point. XML-RPC offers great marshalling of dynamic parameters.
I like XML/RPC and I'm looking forward to doing something in it.
However it's pretty asymmetric. It can only deal with client requests, an issue pretty much covered the other day.. The server can't delay a response or let the client know when it's finished a lengthy request. As an illustration imagine if you wanted to monitor new/. stories. With XML/RPC you need to keep polling the/. server to see if there was a new story. Using sockets you'd need to have a listener on the client end but as soon as the server wanted to tell you, you'd know.
I'm just waiting for native java in FreeBSD (*sigh* we're told Sun is stalling, come on Sun, sort it out!!!) before I can really start exploring XML/RPC (I have an app in mind already).
There's also the issue of tunnelling through port 80. Some people like it (hey I can get through the firewall by using port 80!) and some people hate it (if only I could stop all that goddam non http traffic on port 80, it's killing my load balancing)
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I think that most of corba/dcom/rni etc. are particularly over complicated. They place a burden on the programmer in the wrong place. It's worth checking out plan9's approach to distributed computing. Authentication is taken care of by an authentication server. Once you've got an authentication ticket then you can access networked resources by binding remote services into your local namespace. Rights are granted by the usual mechanisms of usernames & groups.
The familair paradigm of users and groups has been deliberately leveraged because that's what is familiar, after all it's stood the 30 years test of time. This extends to which processors on the network you an run processes on etc. etc.
I did find an interesting review of Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine Clay S. Conrad
A very telling passage for me was:
----------- Instead of conceiving of it as a separate and potentially dangerous institution that is the servant or agent of the people... government has come to be conceived as embodying the will of the people itself. -----------
I have never much studied US political history, that of the is long and complicated enough to take a lot of book reading. The supplanting control through the people seems to have been particularly subverted by the longevity of governmental institution (if I'm feeling generous).
It's particularly sad that only a handful of politicians I have spoken to have the slightest clue about the history of the institution they feel compelled to enter, much less the people that choose to put their faith in them.
tbh I have little real faith that jury nullification would ever be any use in modern times. "12 good men and true forming a jury of the defendants peers" hardly ever forms. I mean, who wants to place their faith in 12 people that weren't clever enough to get out of jury duty!
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Microsoft solved that problem too
they are fucking hideous
yes, such a refreshing change from using variables to store parts of the screen :)
yeah I just *LOVE* it when asf files open web pages while I'm watching porn
bah typing dork strikes again
it's not like the monthly fee is the stream
should be
it's not like the monthly fee is the only stream
yeah, there's a big lead mirror in the warhead that reflects the blast skywards!
how would me running a BNETD server for me and a few friends ONLY to log in to, we all have regged clients but not fixed ip's so running in p2p mode isn't so viable.
I'd rather run a bnetd server on my co-lo box and let friends connect to it!
Verant tried to do the same Everquest did the same but at least they have the excuse of revenue stream losses (though at 35 quid a pop for the add-ons it's not like the monthly fee is the stream).
What this suggests to me is that Battle.net will stop being free once Warcraft is released and Blizzard are going to start charging for access.
All the other piracy stuff is just FUD
y i know all that,
the plateau I meant was demand rather than technological pace
The high end and low end workstation in retail stay roughly the same. I htink people just feel they need to get a new PC, I know I do that too. I just want this years model, like people always wanting a new car.
Also ehat I mean is we've almost reached a plateau in our delight in the novel. Do 2ghz chips give you the same thrill as 1ghz did? 5ghz? 10Ghz is the next milestone but that only seems about 5 years away.
We need a new thrill. We've got LCD panels and a ton of storage, something cool to do with lasers could probably be it. I know I'll try and buy a 3d crystal storage mechanism as soon as i can if you can whip the crystal out and show people.
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I WANT A REPLICATOR!
dos3.3 was prettier than XP
Sort of like ebay, who are not responsible if you get in touch with someone for the purposes of buying stolen property.
funny you should use that as an example. Auctions in England were actually a way for stolen property to be legitimised.
An auction house advertised that they are going to have an auction of goods (this is a legal requirement). The public comes to view them, if they can prove that the items belong to them they can claim them back before the auction starts.
Once your stuff has been sold throug1060ction you cannot claim it back.
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Copyright for 70 years after the death of the author? Why? They're dead. Their family should go and get jobs.
Well maybe, just maybe, that self same family worked for the author for "free". Cooking his food, washing his clothes, tidying his living space, raising his kids, looking after him when he was sick, etc.etc. So despite never having put pen/brush to paper/canvas their contribution to the works should not be ignored.
combine the amazing story of FF10 with the multiuser dimension of Everquest and tell me that wouldn't be an excellent application for MPEG-4.
sounds like the shittiest game ever devised,
fmv sequences in an online multiplayer game!!
I guess you've never played EQ or at least not beyond level 5!
Okay so Plan 9 is cool. Useful ? Probably not as it doesn't have any support or applications of note.
It does have users & applications.
It's lacking in desktop software like word processors & spreadsheets & image editors but that does not mean it's not "useful".
I have a plna9 box on my netwrok and I much prefer working on it than any of the others (FreeBSD & win2k).
It is used by non-programmers in a few instiutions for text editing and email.
The mailing list consists of about 50 active posters.
It's a research OS and the programmers that use it are happy that it is a clean sheet implementation and that it doesn't carry a lot of the hair that some of the other OS's have collected on their voyage through userland.
some words seem too new for my dictionary!
Keep in mind it's coming with a libertarian slant.
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Oh yes, thanks for the warning.
Funny how NY Times stories don't get tagged
"watch out, they are ardent free market capitalists"
or the diet of ZDnet and CNet stories don;t get tagged or any of the others.
You may as well put "here's a work of fiction from a bunch of liars and fraudsters"
jeesh!
duh,
you have the bit set off for all attachments
you have to manually set it to make it run
it's how unix executables "work"
yeah
*cough* bsd *cough*
Why don't you just start a new thread for each of your requests?
/.'s readers wants new story notification then there aren't enough ports to keep one each open 24/7.
Say it takes 30 minutes, I suspect that my ISP's in-line cache might not let me keep the connection open for that long. Plus if I'm hosted somewhere the web server might also time-out the script after a few minutes (30 secs even).
I *know* you don't have to use port 80.
I *know* you can change the timeout.
I *suspect* there are other solutions while keeping XMl/RPC your transport
but there are also a finite number of ports. If each one of
I would just use a different machanism for problems in this domain, that was my point. XML-RPC offers great marshalling of dynamic parameters.
I like XML/RPC and I'm looking forward to doing something in it.
/. stories. With XML/RPC you need to keep polling the /. server to see if there was a new story. Using sockets you'd need to have a listener on the client end but as soon as the server wanted to tell you, you'd know.
However it's pretty asymmetric. It can only deal with client requests, an issue pretty much covered the other day.. The server can't delay a response or let the client know when it's finished a lengthy request. As an illustration imagine if you wanted to monitor new
I'm just waiting for native java in FreeBSD (*sigh* we're told Sun is stalling, come on Sun, sort it out!!!) before I can really start exploring XML/RPC (I have an app in mind already).
There's also the issue of tunnelling through port 80. Some people like it (hey I can get through the firewall by using port 80!) and some people hate it (if only I could stop all that goddam non http traffic on port 80, it's killing my load balancing)
I think that most of corba/dcom/rni etc. are particularly over complicated. They place a burden on the programmer in the wrong place. It's worth checking out plan9's approach to distributed computing. Authentication is taken care of by an authentication server. Once you've got an authentication ticket then you can access networked resources by binding remote services into your local namespace. Rights are granted by the usual mechanisms of usernames & groups.
The familair paradigm of users and groups has been deliberately leveraged because that's what is familiar, after all it's stood the 30 years test of time. This extends to which processors on the network you an run processes on etc. etc.
It's worth studying if nothing else.
s/that of the is long a/ that of the UK is long a
bah
thanks.
:
... government has come to be conceived as embodying the will of the people itself.
I did find an interesting review of Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine Clay S. Conrad
A very telling passage for me was
-----------
Instead of conceiving of it as a separate and potentially dangerous institution that is the servant or agent of the people
-----------
I have never much studied US political history, that of the is long and complicated enough to take a lot of book reading. The supplanting control through the people seems to have been particularly subverted by the longevity of governmental institution (if I'm feeling generous).
It's particularly sad that only a handful of politicians I have spoken to have the slightest clue about the history of the institution they feel compelled to enter, much less the people that choose to put their faith in them.
tbh I have little real faith that jury nullification would ever be any use in modern times. "12 good men and true forming a jury of the defendants peers" hardly ever forms. I mean, who wants to place their faith in 12 people that weren't clever enough to get out of jury duty!