OK, fess up, how many people here have movies that occationally have the subtitle "for your consideration" pop up on them? I know my first copy of The Two Towers did. Granted I bought it as soon as it came out and I will buy the extended edition as well, so I have trouble feeling like an evil pirate (arrrr).
The point is, where do you think these movies are getting leaked from?:)
He seems happy. That is winning. By your logic anyone who engages in a hobby or even a charity is getting screwed. I would hate to live a life where I weigh every decision I make only against how much money I could make.
I am (somewhat) working with Lionshare (mostly with federating the authentication and designing an attribute based authorization and ACL system). I do not believe that anyone would ever consider charging for Lionshare use. It is intended to basically be an academic filesharing system.
And yes, the bandwith restrictions in the dorms suck. It annoys be that this is the best RESCOM and TNS can do when QoS exists.
Actually we (PSU) use DFS, which was really the next version of AFS (most of the AFS developers went on to improve it and call it DFS). AFS would be a giant (and unacceptable) step backwards for us in terms of a distributed filesystem.
It is certainly not intented to replace illegal filesharing, but use p2p technologies for something legal for once. The technologies are cool, unfortunatly though they are thought of as only piracy applications which is a shame because they move resources away from central control and to the edge of the net where they belong.
A couple of reasons. One, sharing files locally is easier than remembering to upload it to a webserver (and makes the versioning problem much simpler). Two, access controls on websites are reletivly kludgy, since http was never designed to support those concepts from the beginning. And three, p2p puts more control over resources back to the edge where they belong, rather than a central server somewhere. Being able to host files from my own pc and set the access controls locally on that machine is favorable to relying on a third party to do that for me. The only thing lionshare will rely on externally is an authentication realm.
The grant is not for the p2p program itself, a good portion of it is going toward federalizing the authentication and authorization on the p2p network.
To use Lionshare you (currently) have to log in with your PSU access account (kerberos account). Anything you share on the network will be easly tracable to you.
The funding is to federalize the authentication used in Lionshare. See Internet2's "Shibboleth" project and imagine that applied to a higher education filesharing project.
The idea is to create federations of like minded users (ie a bio professor at PSU has more in common with a bio professor at Ohio State than they do with a physics professor at PSU). Unfortunatly the current auth realms are set up as islands of universities, not islands of professions. Hopefully federated authentication can solve that and filesharing has been choses as the first non web application to try this with. Also with this fine grained acls can be applied to objects to handle authorization based on user attributes.
BitTorrent is a great app, but does not address any of these issues.
I know I won't. Anything larger than 21" I have found to be a pain to use. 19" is about the optimum size for my monitors. Remember, these are not TVs we are sitting close to them.
Nearly everyone I know who bought the Apple 23" flatpanel has regreted it for everything except watching movies on. It is just too large to sit close to and work at. (graphic artists excepted)
I notice quite a lot of people up in arms over the free speech aspects of this. So I have to assume you guys are all ok with anti-abortion internet websites listing doctor's home address and encouraging people to kill them right?
I just read the whole article (no, I'm not new here) and it sounds to me like Intel is just telling China not to create proprietary regional standards that will not interoperate with the rest of the world. No mention of "don't use Linux" or "use microsoft and be happy", so off with the tin foil hats.
The interesting thought exercise is what happens if China and their massive population suddenly get their act together and emerge as a technological powerhouse? Then they can tell intel to conform to their standards or risk losing a giant revenue stream.
Well, in alot of cases (Gates, Dell, Ellison, Bezos, The Yahoo kids, etc) they started a company from scratch and thus own a percentage of that company. If that company proves to be successful, that percentage that they own grows.
They certainly do not have that money in the bank it it is not tangible in any sense. If Gates decided today that he was going to pull his stake out of Microsoft and give it to charity it would literally destroy the company overnight and not only would he only end up with a tiny fraction of the billions he is listed at, but millions of others would lose significant portions of their "on paper" wealth. Not to mention 401ks, jobs, and the general hit to the economy would probably do more damage than Gates could repair with the few billion he would get out during the stock crumble.
So what would you have these billionairs do? Bankrupt their companies by pulling out their stock to give it to charity?
America has huge income inequality. Some of it is certainly due to disgusting CEO salaries and the like, but I have more of a problem with reducing inheritance tax than I do with large salaries (which are basically the shareholders' problem)
Salaries probably have little to nothing to do with it. I imagine it is stock ownership in companies. I mean sure Michael Dell has a buttload of money but who is to say he shouldn't own the percentage of stock that he does in the company he started?
Technically you can live very comfortably on $25k/year. It all depends on how you want to live. Are you happy making dinner every night, renting a house (or buying a small house), and driving a Honda Civic. Or do you need to eat at fancy restaurants, have a couple of sports cars (and an SUV of course) and need a large house in an upscale neighborhood?
What we WANT drives what we consider comfortable, and some people will never be happy because there is always more stuff to buy. Unfortunatly many people find they are not happy in life and think if they could just buy a better car, or a bigger house, or a few more computer parts then they would be happy. Of course that never works. It really is no different with the middle class or the super rich.
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SCO files a court document which includes (to provide support for their claim) a link to a web page controlled by someone they KNOW to hate them?
"Your Honor, we demand he change it back. We ummm didn't know website text can be changed"
The mind boggles...
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OK, fess up, how many people here have movies that occationally have the subtitle "for your consideration" pop up on them? I know my first copy of The Two Towers did. Granted I bought it as soon as it came out and I will buy the extended edition as well, so I have trouble feeling like an evil pirate (arrrr).
:)
The point is, where do you think these movies are getting leaked from?
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I'm not here to make personal sex bots or anything.
:)
Nobody thought you were until you denied it
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You could always burn it to a CD... That functionality is built into iTunes.
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Perhaps I want battery life of more that 45 minutes (which is how long my zaurus lasts running non-stop with a wifi card)...
Plus I can convert Apple's DRM music files to unDRMed AIFF files with iMovie, or just burn them to a CD and rip them, no big deal.
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If that is really how you feel then try doing something you hate for food money. You will soon find you would rather not eat.
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He seems happy. That is winning. By your logic anyone who engages in a hobby or even a charity is getting screwed. I would hate to live a life where I weigh every decision I make only against how much money I could make.
Finkployd
Bitrorrent is indeed cool. However it does not do federated authentication, attribute based authorzation, fine grained access control on objects, etc.
Finkployd
I am (somewhat) working with Lionshare (mostly with federating the authentication and designing an attribute based authorization and ACL system). I do not believe that anyone would ever consider charging for Lionshare use. It is intended to basically be an academic filesharing system.
And yes, the bandwith restrictions in the dorms suck. It annoys be that this is the best RESCOM and TNS can do when QoS exists.
Finkployd
Really? Existing p2p applications have federated authentication? Attribute based authorization and fine grained ACLs on objects? I had no idea...
Finkployd
Actually we (PSU) use DFS, which was really the next version of AFS (most of the AFS developers went on to improve it and call it DFS). AFS would be a giant (and unacceptable) step backwards for us in terms of a distributed filesystem.
Finkployd
It is certainly not intented to replace illegal filesharing, but use p2p technologies for something legal for once. The technologies are cool, unfortunatly though they are thought of as only piracy applications which is a shame because they move resources away from central control and to the edge of the net where they belong.
Finkpoyd
A couple of reasons. One, sharing files locally is easier than remembering to upload it to a webserver (and makes the versioning problem much simpler). Two, access controls on websites are reletivly kludgy, since http was never designed to support those concepts from the beginning. And three, p2p puts more control over resources back to the edge where they belong, rather than a central server somewhere. Being able to host files from my own pc and set the access controls locally on that machine is favorable to relying on a third party to do that for me. The only thing lionshare will rely on externally is an authentication realm.
Finkployd
The grant is not for the p2p program itself, a good portion of it is going toward federalizing the authentication and authorization on the p2p network.
Finkployd
To use Lionshare you (currently) have to log in with your PSU access account (kerberos account). Anything you share on the network will be easly tracable to you.
Finkployd
The funding is to federalize the authentication used in Lionshare. See Internet2's "Shibboleth" project and imagine that applied to a higher education filesharing project.
The idea is to create federations of like minded users (ie a bio professor at PSU has more in common with a bio professor at Ohio State than they do with a physics professor at PSU). Unfortunatly the current auth realms are set up as islands of universities, not islands of professions. Hopefully federated authentication can solve that and filesharing has been choses as the first non web application to try this with. Also with this fine grained acls can be applied to objects to handle authorization based on user attributes.
BitTorrent is a great app, but does not address any of these issues.
Finkployd
I know I won't. Anything larger than 21" I have found to be a pain to use. 19" is about the optimum size for my monitors. Remember, these are not TVs we are sitting close to them.
Nearly everyone I know who bought the Apple 23" flatpanel has regreted it for everything except watching movies on. It is just too large to sit close to and work at. (graphic artists excepted)
Finkployd
I notice quite a lot of people up in arms over the free speech aspects of this. So I have to assume you guys are all ok with anti-abortion internet websites listing doctor's home address and encouraging people to kill them right?
Finkployd
However it has the advantage of not looking like it was designed by a second grade class. :)
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If you only have on interface into your machine, yes :)
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I just read the whole article (no, I'm not new here) and it sounds to me like Intel is just telling China not to create proprietary regional standards that will not interoperate with the rest of the world. No mention of "don't use Linux" or "use microsoft and be happy", so off with the tin foil hats.
The interesting thought exercise is what happens if China and their massive population suddenly get their act together and emerge as a technological powerhouse? Then they can tell intel to conform to their standards or risk losing a giant revenue stream.
Finkployd
Well, in alot of cases (Gates, Dell, Ellison, Bezos, The Yahoo kids, etc) they started a company from scratch and thus own a percentage of that company. If that company proves to be successful, that percentage that they own grows.
They certainly do not have that money in the bank it it is not tangible in any sense. If Gates decided today that he was going to pull his stake out of Microsoft and give it to charity it would literally destroy the company overnight and not only would he only end up with a tiny fraction of the billions he is listed at, but millions of others would lose significant portions of their "on paper" wealth. Not to mention 401ks, jobs, and the general hit to the economy would probably do more damage than Gates could repair with the few billion he would get out during the stock crumble.
So what would you have these billionairs do? Bankrupt their companies by pulling out their stock to give it to charity?
Finkployd
America has huge income inequality. Some of it is certainly due to disgusting CEO salaries and the like, but I have more of a problem with reducing inheritance tax than I do with large salaries (which are basically the shareholders' problem)
Salaries probably have little to nothing to do with it. I imagine it is stock ownership in companies. I mean sure Michael Dell has a buttload of money but who is to say he shouldn't own the percentage of stock that he does in the company he started?
Finkployd
Technically you can live very comfortably on $25k/year. It all depends on how you want to live. Are you happy making dinner every night, renting a house (or buying a small house), and driving a Honda Civic. Or do you need to eat at fancy restaurants, have a couple of sports cars (and an SUV of course) and need a large house in an upscale neighborhood?
What we WANT drives what we consider comfortable, and some people will never be happy because there is always more stuff to buy. Unfortunatly many people find they are not happy in life and think if they could just buy a better car, or a bigger house, or a few more computer parts then they would be happy. Of course that never works. It really is no different with the middle class or the super rich.
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Please name one software package other than StarOffice/OpenOffice that has announced their product will be able to read and write OOo XML.
KOffice. Did you have any further questions?
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