I even touch on a possible distibuted chess player.
If you could check everyone's calculations yourself, you wouldn't need distribution.
The simplest way to perform a check is no get someone else to double check. But... this wastes time, and there still a risk that the "checker"
isn't also a cracked client.
For a chess player, a good thing to do would be for the client to perform a side calculation that can only be found be performed by actualy doing the work, but can be quickly checked by the supernode.
To release the cource code to your client or not is a controversial issue. I discuss both sides of the argument in my primer. (Makes cracking difficult vs greater participation)
Just go
read the thing, and while you are at it, tell the slashdot editors to mention it on the front page sometime.
If companies priced the hardware so that they could
turn a profit on it, it would rival the price of a personal computer and lots of people wouldn't bother.
But they want a profit somewhere along the
line, and so the consumer pays somewhere. If
console makers charged a fair price for the
hardware, they could get thier sweaty little
mits off the software market.
Developers would
not have to go cap in hand to the hardware people
for permission to sell a game, they would just do it.
What scope is there for a group of spare time
programmers to produce a console game? None,
independent programmers who just want to make
a simple little game and sell it for ten quid
would not produce enough revenue for Sony/Sega/whatever, and the last thing they want is something actually creative. It may draw
attention away from thier latest whizz-bang
yet-another-template game.
I opened an e-mail account with Hotmail in December of 1999 and used it in a single message at what was then Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service (now part of Google).
It should be pointed out that it's not Deja/Google that spam, but spammers. Email addresses get attached to articles, in a similar way to slashdot articles. Those addresses get harvested and mailed.
Slashdot Mirror
We just cannot have this! Let's change it to something trendy.
And just what sort of language is C/C++ anyway?I've heard of C and I've heard of C++, but what is C/C++?
NASA spends millions developing a pen which works in zero gravity.
Other astronaughts use pencils.
I saw the intro, and I thought "Woo hoo, someone has come up with a truely distributed mobile phone technology."
I read the article, and it's just some stupid file sharing system.
Bill, *yawn*
Well, so much for distributed computing.
I'm hoping that soon, someone will run a distributed project, paying people for work done instead of just a chart of top workers.
Idle cycles would be worth something.
Bill, ho hum.
Eric Reymond clearly isn't an embedded programmer.
Corrupt
There are various things someone organising a distributed computation project can do to protect against parasites and spoliers.
See http://www.bacchae.co.uk/docs/dist.html , my primer on building a distributed project.
I even touch on a possible distibuted chess player.
If you could check everyone's calculations yourself, you wouldn't need distribution.
The simplest way to perform a check is no get someone else to double check. But... this wastes time, and there still a risk that the "checker" isn't also a cracked client.
For a chess player, a good thing to do would be for the client to perform a side calculation that can only be found be performed by actualy doing the work, but can be quickly checked by the supernode.
To release the cource code to your client or not is a controversial issue. I discuss both sides of the argument in my primer. (Makes cracking difficult vs greater participation)
Just go read the thing, and while you are at it, tell the slashdot editors to mention it on the front page sometime.
Bill, already submitted it once.
This one covers issues such as parasite attacks, spoiler attacks, etc.
Slashdot rejected my guide when I submitted it. Whine whine gripe gripe.
Bill, plug.
Ah well, at least we have movies like U571 to correctly tell us who was involved in the war.
If companies priced the hardware so that they could turn a profit on it, it would rival the price of a personal computer and lots of people wouldn't bother.
But they want a profit somewhere along the line, and so the consumer pays somewhere. If console makers charged a fair price for the hardware, they could get thier sweaty little mits off the software market.
Developers would not have to go cap in hand to the hardware people for permission to sell a game, they would just do it.
What scope is there for a group of spare time programmers to produce a console game? None, independent programmers who just want to make a simple little game and sell it for ten quid would not produce enough revenue for Sony/Sega/whatever, and the last thing they want is something actually creative. It may draw attention away from thier latest whizz-bang yet-another-template game.
I mean, these companies make money off software license sales, and often lose money on the hardware.
Anything which forces the world to abandon this business model is (IMHO) a good thing.
I don't actually have to read the thing to take part in /. discussions, do I?
Bill, hasn't got the WPIconicSymbolsA font.
A pen then.
Give each voter a simple ballot paper and a pencil.
Get rid of all hole punches, chads, butterfly ballots, etc etc etc.
Remember the KISS principal at all times.
Responsible marketers who use unsolicited mass e-mail
Show me one...
Usenet does not cause spam, spammers, and only spammers, cause spam.
It should be pointed out that it's not Deja/Google that spam, but spammers. Email addresses get attached to articles, in a similar way to slashdot articles. Those addresses get harvested and mailed.
Bill, no spam I.
Remove me addresses, put remove in the subject, global opt out lists, etc.
Go to http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/reporting.html instead.
to change his name.
Bill, laugh... now.
If he changed his name.
Bill, *drum* *drum* *cymbals*
Hardware is constructed inside a sugar cube.
Software...
Bill, hates ants. Really hates ants.
--
Ants deserve death, death, death, death, and more death, until they are dead!
"Free operating system" is a link to linux.com.
Bill, Hmmmmm
So where are these magazines that have the boring prizes...
Hey. I just tried sending my IP datagrams through your networks? You got this firewall in place.
You are interfering with my right to free speech.
I don't care if you are a private entity. I want to send my IP datagrams though your network.
Bill, wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!