Are you at liberty to tell us what the code does? The Slashdot crowd probably is pretty versed in all the open source software out there. Someone on here could probably help.
It would be nice, but unfortunatly, it just isn't practical.
Why not? The food would contain a heating code and it would be up to each microwave manufacturer to ensure that their microwave will heat the food to those specs. Some microwaves it might take 5 minutes and others only 3, but it is up to the microwave to determine how long it will take based on the heating info of the product.
Be like the ISP back in my town that would send employees to set up new customer's computers for access.
Or you could be like my ISP who insisted that they install it (DSL). I told them that I can do it but they still said they had to do it. So they come in, plug a filter on the line, plug the DSL modem in and that was that. I took care of setting up my computer (I wasn't going to let them screw it up!).
It is a good service to provide for the people who aren't confortable with installing that stuff, but forcing it upon everyone (with an installation charge!) is just wrong. But living on a farm out in the middle of nowhere, there isn't much choice for broadband from anyone else so what can you do? Heck some people who live in cities can't even get broadband yet, so I shouldn't complain!!!
If I installed MS Office and found that it also installed Visual Studio without even warning, I'd start leaving horse heads in Gates' bed.
You'd better go find some horses...
Start poking around on your computer after you install MS Office. You will notice that some parts of Visual Studio are installed. I assume this is for VBA or who knows what.
Comparing JRE to Visual Studio is not a valid comparison though. Installing the JRE is more like updating DLLs on your system, which most installers will do if need be!
About 1000 years ago Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada was capable of growing grape wines. That must have indicated that the entire area was very warm.
Some reasearchers believe that what is now the nothern part of the world was once in the equatorial region. Areas that were once rainforests but are now covered with snow and ice are further evidence that supports that theory.
There were reports a while back about how Mars is experiencing global warming of it's own. If the sun is making Mars hotter it is only logical to believe that the earth is going to get warmer as well. They also never seem to mention that we are about as close to the sun as the earth gets. That has to increase the temperature of the globe at least somewhat. We also have to keep in mind that the sun is in a very active cycle. There is also the fact that there isn't all the nuclear weapons testing (nuclear winter anyone?) that there was a few decades ago.
If you can just go to: www.stuff.mp3.new.net then what is the point of this software?
You'll never be able to tell people to go to www.stuff.mp3 because you cannot assume they have NEW.NET, so you are going to end up telling them to go to www.stuff.mp3.new.net anyway!
I suspect it isn't that difficult of a protocol to reverse engineer. Would be neat to do different things with it though, like bandwidth monitoring or use it as an actual tach for racing games.
First off he said that downloading music is a bad thing. Then in the next breath he incuraged everyone to download music from RIAA approved web sites.
Second. Who uses the www to download music anyway? It's all FTP or the various P2P services. The only exceptions that I've seen is music that has already be approved for download. MP3.com is an example of that.
Third. My guess is that MP3.com would have 6000 MP3s avaliable. All you would need is wget and a small shell script to download all the songs automatically. Keep in mind that there is legally nothing wrong with downloading music from there.
I find it pretty sad that they had to go to all of the trouble of writing that speech just to try and sway the public away from downloading online audio. Was downloading the 6000 songs trying to prove a point? It just sounds to me like they were breaking their own laws. If it is okay for them to do it why can't I? The RIAA knows their current role is coming to an end and they fear this. The truth is, is that they will not become obsolete, their role will only change.
Now all the iPod needs is wireless ethernet. Then someone could hack up some software that will automatically discover and sync music collections with near-by iPods.
Could OSS and other free software being at the level it is now be a factor?
There is a free alternative to almost every commercial software package out there now. This wasn't as much the case back then. I know if there is a free software package that is viable against that of its commercial equivalent I'll use it in a minute.
Too bad I don't live near a library, or a music store for that matter (you're looking at at least a 30 minute drive).
That was the beauty of MP3s. I could download an entire album in about 10 minutes, burned in another few. Much faster than travelling somewhere to find it. I couldn't even be to town in the time that I'd be listening to it!
The funny thing is that Napster was just a search engine. Maybe we should shut down Disney for the same reasons they shut down Napster?
I could post a copyrited work on my website. The search engine would index it. Suddenly anyone can search for that copyright work and download it. Technically there is nothing different at all between how this works, and how Napster worked.
It would be a sad day to lose all of our search engines because of all this non-sense. But maybe at that point the general public (most of whom rely on search engines) will realize what is really going on!
1. I remember Rogers used to run an ad campain that promoted their high-speed internet by describing how fast you can download audio off the internet (this was back in the Napster days).
2. I recently saw a commercial for some computer co. (I'm thinking Gateway, but I'm not sure) that promoted using it's built in CD-burner to record audio downloaded from the net.
3. And of course Apple.
If the people didn't want to download music and burn it themselves then these ads would not be successful. By showing that these ads are working, then what the people want is the ability to download such things. The RIAA (Disney, whoever) should just let it happen. The RIAA's role will not become obsolete even if the only means of distribution was via the net. Their role would definitly change, but it would not cease to exist. They just need to see this.
If Gnutella supports resuming downloads (I forget if it does or not, haven't used it in ages) then there is no reason why multiple sources cannot be done with ease.
Detrermining which host if the fastest so the majority of the file is downloaded from them would be a bit more tricky though. You'd have to have a test download file, or calculate who is the fastest after the file has started downloading. Either way it is all possible, and really wouldn't be that hard.
If Gnutella doesn't support resuming, then they should add it ASAP.
I haven't been able to find any MP3s I've been looking for, for months now. Sure the P2P services still exist, but if the content isn't there they they are totally useless. Even right after the demise of Napster, the vast selection wasn't there anymore. Sure you'll have no problem finding the hits, but who wants to find them anyway when you could just turn on the radio?
Maybe I'm looking for stuff that is just too obscure though?
The dream for TV was always to be able to watch any show you want, when you want. VCRs started this trend, but doesn't achive the desired results due to limitations in the technology. Due to other past technical limitations, no other device or provider could feasibly give TV on demand either.
This is all starting to change however. Instead of having all the shows in one central location, spread the shows around different homes across the world. This model was popularized by Napster and it works fairly well, ignoring the legal issues.
What the media needs to see is that things are changing. Their roles will become different, not obsolete. There is still plenty of room for them to make money if they embrace the technology and act fast. The music industry ignored online music distribution, and they lost out. Had they been a player in online music distribution then things would have been different and they wouldn't have to complain about lost CD sales after the demise of Napster.
If people use the technology to distribte media then that is obviously how they want to do it, and that is how they should get it. Otherwise they wouldn't use it. It's not fair to the consumer to be dictated on how they will enjoy their entertainment. If they want to watch a TV show recorded by someone else across the globe then it should be up to them.
It's so true. I've been writing a program that converts a file of one type to another type that a bank can read. A very trival task, or at least it should be.
They told us how they wanted the file formatted. Needless to say, it didn't work. They come back and tell us another way to format the file. Still doesn't work. The third try still didn't work. They say the file looks perfect on their end and they didn't know why it wasn't working. Finally they get back to us and tell us yet another way to do it. This file is in the process of being processed so it remains to be seen if it will work or not.
If they would have just given us the proper specs in the beginning it would have been done long ago. It is a simple task of outlining what they want. The file format isn't even complex, it's just a bunch of text!
If cost is not an issue, I would recommend Norton Antivirus Coperate Edition. It is totally managed from the server which makes it much easier to administer in a large (and even small) workplace. The server is setup to download the latest virus definitions on the schedule that you choose. The clients then update from the server.
From what I've seen of it, once it is installled there isn't anything you have to touch after. It just does its thing.
Are there any encryption algorithms that can change the content based on the key used? There is the real key, and a fake key. If the government forces you to decrypt the file then you use the fake key turning up a fake file.
An e-mail example:
Real Message: "Lets do some illegal activity"
Fake Message: "How are you today?"
Encrypt both, the first using the real key, and the second using the fake key. If the real key is used to decrypt the file then the first message is returned. If the fake key is used then the second message is returned.
With this you could hand over the fake key to whomever you please and it will not get them the real contents of the file.
Slashdot Mirror
Or is it?
Are you at liberty to tell us what the code does? The Slashdot crowd probably is pretty versed in all the open source software out there. Someone on here could probably help.
It would be nice, but unfortunatly, it just isn't practical.
Why not? The food would contain a heating code and it would be up to each microwave manufacturer to ensure that their microwave will heat the food to those specs. Some microwaves it might take 5 minutes and others only 3, but it is up to the microwave to determine how long it will take based on the heating info of the product.
Be like the ISP back in my town that would send employees to set up new customer's computers for access.
Or you could be like my ISP who insisted that they install it (DSL). I told them that I can do it but they still said they had to do it. So they come in, plug a filter on the line, plug the DSL modem in and that was that. I took care of setting up my computer (I wasn't going to let them screw it up!).
It is a good service to provide for the people who aren't confortable with installing that stuff, but forcing it upon everyone (with an installation charge!) is just wrong. But living on a farm out in the middle of nowhere, there isn't much choice for broadband from anyone else so what can you do? Heck some people who live in cities can't even get broadband yet, so I shouldn't complain!!!
Any advertising is good advertising though. That would be a huge benifit to Microsoft.
If I installed MS Office and found that it also installed Visual Studio without even warning, I'd start leaving horse heads in Gates' bed.
You'd better go find some horses...
Start poking around on your computer after you install MS Office. You will notice that some parts of Visual Studio are installed. I assume this is for VBA or who knows what.
Comparing JRE to Visual Studio is not a valid comparison though.
Installing the JRE is more like updating DLLs on your system, which most installers will do if need be!
I think HAL must have been the project leader
You mean IBM!
About 1000 years ago Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada was capable of growing grape wines. That must have indicated that the entire area was very warm.
Some reasearchers believe that what is now the nothern part of the world was once in the equatorial region. Areas that were once rainforests but are now covered with snow and ice are further evidence that supports that theory.
There were reports a while back about how Mars is experiencing global warming of it's own. If the sun is making Mars hotter it is only logical to believe that the earth is going to get warmer as well. They also never seem to mention that we are about as close to the sun as the earth gets. That has to increase the temperature of the globe at least somewhat. We also have to keep in mind that the sun is in a very active cycle. There is also the fact that there isn't all the nuclear weapons testing (nuclear winter anyone?) that there was a few decades ago.
I don't get it.
If you can just go to: www.stuff.mp3.new.net then what is the point of this software?
You'll never be able to tell people to go to www.stuff.mp3 because you cannot assume they have NEW.NET, so you are going to end up telling them to go to www.stuff.mp3.new.net anyway!
I suspect it isn't that difficult of a protocol to reverse engineer.
Would be neat to do different things with it though, like bandwidth monitoring or use it as an actual tach for racing games.
I found that speech rather humourous.
First off he said that downloading music is a bad thing. Then in the next breath he incuraged everyone to download music from RIAA approved web sites.
Second. Who uses the www to download music anyway? It's all FTP or the various P2P services. The only exceptions that I've seen is music that has already be approved for download. MP3.com is an example of that.
Third. My guess is that MP3.com would have 6000 MP3s avaliable. All you would need is wget and a small shell script to download all the songs automatically. Keep in mind that there is legally nothing wrong with downloading music from there.
I find it pretty sad that they had to go to all of the trouble of writing that speech just to try and sway the public away from downloading online audio. Was downloading the 6000 songs trying to prove a point? It just sounds to me like they were breaking their own laws. If it is okay for them to do it why can't I? The RIAA knows their current role is coming to an end and they fear this. The truth is, is that they will not become obsolete, their role will only change.
Now all the iPod needs is wireless ethernet. Then someone could hack up some software that will automatically discover and sync music collections with near-by iPods.
Could OSS and other free software being at the level it is now be a factor?
There is a free alternative to almost every commercial software package out there now. This wasn't as much the case back then. I know if there is a free software package that is viable against that of its commercial equivalent I'll use it in a minute.
Too bad I don't live near a library, or a music store for that matter (you're looking at at least a 30 minute drive).
That was the beauty of MP3s. I could download an entire album in about 10 minutes, burned in another few. Much faster than travelling somewhere to find it. I couldn't even be to town in the time that I'd be listening to it!
The funny thing is that Napster was just a search engine. Maybe we should shut down Disney for the same reasons they shut down Napster?
I could post a copyrited work on my website. The search engine would index it. Suddenly anyone can search for that copyright work and download it. Technically there is nothing different at all between how this works, and how Napster worked.
It would be a sad day to lose all of our search engines because of all this non-sense. But maybe at that point the general public (most of whom rely on search engines) will realize what is really going on!
1. I remember Rogers used to run an ad campain that promoted their high-speed internet by describing how fast you can download audio off the internet (this was back in the Napster days).
2. I recently saw a commercial for some computer co. (I'm thinking Gateway, but I'm not sure) that promoted using it's built in CD-burner to record audio downloaded from the net.
3. And of course Apple.
If the people didn't want to download music and burn it themselves then these ads would not be successful. By showing that these ads are working, then what the people want is the ability to download such things. The RIAA (Disney, whoever) should just let it happen. The RIAA's role will not become obsolete even if the only means of distribution was via the net. Their role would definitly change, but it would not cease to exist. They just need to see this.
If Gnutella supports resuming downloads (I forget if it does or not, haven't used it in ages) then there is no reason why multiple sources cannot be done with ease.
Detrermining which host if the fastest so the majority of the file is downloaded from them would be a bit more tricky though. You'd have to have a test download file, or calculate who is the fastest after the file has started downloading. Either way it is all possible, and really wouldn't be that hard.
If Gnutella doesn't support resuming, then they should add it ASAP.
That may not be too far from the truth.
I haven't been able to find any MP3s I've been looking for, for months now. Sure the P2P services still exist, but if the content isn't there they they are totally useless. Even right after the demise of Napster, the vast selection wasn't there anymore. Sure you'll have no problem finding the hits, but who wants to find them anyway when you could just turn on the radio?
Maybe I'm looking for stuff that is just too obscure though?
Needless to say they changed the name soon after.
The name does sum up what the party is about quite nicely though, I might admit.
I just saw it as well, great ad!
It says:
This is a box. -- the ad is inside a border (a box)
Then it says:
You may think outside of it. -- And what is outside of the box? Well the Slashdot page is.
MS might want to rethink that ad.
The dream for TV was always to be able to watch any show you want, when you want. VCRs started this trend, but doesn't achive the desired results due to limitations in the technology. Due to other past technical limitations, no other device or provider could feasibly give TV on demand either.
This is all starting to change however. Instead of having all the shows in one central location, spread the shows around different homes across the world. This model was popularized by Napster and it works fairly well, ignoring the legal issues.
What the media needs to see is that things are changing. Their roles will become different, not obsolete. There is still plenty of room for them to make money if they embrace the technology and act fast. The music industry ignored online music distribution, and they lost out. Had they been a player in online music distribution then things would have been different and they wouldn't have to complain about lost CD sales after the demise of Napster.
If people use the technology to distribte media then that is obviously how they want to do it, and that is how they should get it. Otherwise they wouldn't use it. It's not fair to the consumer to be dictated on how they will enjoy their entertainment. If they want to watch a TV show recorded by someone else across the globe then it should be up to them.
It's so true. I've been writing a program that converts a file of one type to another type that a bank can read. A very trival task, or at least it should be.
They told us how they wanted the file formatted. Needless to say, it didn't work.
They come back and tell us another way to format the file. Still doesn't work.
The third try still didn't work. They say the file looks perfect on their end and they didn't know why it wasn't working.
Finally they get back to us and tell us yet another way to do it. This file is in the process of being processed so it remains to be seen if it will work or not.
If they would have just given us the proper specs in the beginning it would have been done long ago. It is a simple task of outlining what they want. The file format isn't even complex, it's just a bunch of text!
If cost is not an issue, I would recommend Norton Antivirus Coperate Edition. It is totally managed from the server which makes it much easier to administer in a large (and even small) workplace. The server is setup to download the latest virus definitions on the schedule that you choose. The clients then update from the server.
From what I've seen of it, once it is installled there isn't anything you have to touch after. It just does its thing.
Turn your brand new (read: expensive) Intel CPU into 32, 386 processors.
What a deal!!!
Are there any encryption algorithms that can change the content based on the key used? There is the real key, and a fake key. If the government forces you to decrypt the file then you use the fake key turning up a fake file.
An e-mail example:
Real Message: "Lets do some illegal activity"
Fake Message: "How are you today?"
Encrypt both, the first using the real key, and the second using the fake key. If the real key is used to decrypt the file then the first message is returned. If the fake key is used then the second message is returned.
With this you could hand over the fake key to whomever you please and it will not get them the real contents of the file.