Multicast is not well situated for internet content distribution because reliable multicast transport is a very difficult problem and the infrastructure to support it just isn't there.
Instead, try something like Mojo Nation or Freenet to distribute your popular content widely so that you can get it when you want without all having to access the same server.
This happens all the time people, the only truely uncommon thing is that they admitted to the public that they had a break in. Most of these are kept hidden.
As for cancelling your credit cards, why? With a database of zillions of stolen cards the chance that yours gets used is slim. It's less hassle to deal with the potential fraudlent charge appearing on your bill than to get new cards!
(Now if you used one of those silly "ATM + 'credit' card things" that lets people irreversably take money out of your bank account you'd better think again...)
1 cent is still to large to be considered a micropayment in my book.
I have a sinking feeling that marketing and media hype may be well on the way to redefining the classic definition of micropayment to mean "less than $20".. I hope not. [sigh]
Although we're pushing Mojo primarily as a bandwidth and disk space based currency right now we definately hope to see Mojo for CPU cycles software in the future.
Interested in seeing it sooner? mojonaton is an opensource project.
The most difficult part (IMHO) of writing a payment for cpu cycles type of system is sandboxing the code so that it can't intentionally or unintentionally do anything evil (ie: it needs to be MUCH more secure than Microsoft Outlook;).
Future computers may not have video cards at all. With a standard graphics bus port the current concept of a video card could exist within the display (probably a flat panel of some sort but it doesn't matter).
Unfortunately this does mean that a standard programming API for the video hardware on this bus would be needed to avoid making monitors not universally useful due to device driver issues.
At 133mbytes/sec, my current PCI matrox card is working just great and will be for a couple more years. The good old HD-15 connector is here to stay forever on CRTs.
As gross as some technical details may be, USB 2.0 isn't such a bad idea. They are aiming at making hardware costs cheap for devices.
As for bringing down your bus speed by using 1.1 low/medium speed devices, that's not a problem. The spec is setup to use a store and forward mechanism within 2.0 compliant hubs so that the bus speed was not lowered globally just to talk to old 1.1 speed devices. (this means you talk at full speed to the hub, which acts as a switch between the fast bus and the lower speed devices).
USB 2.0 vs Firewire is an EIDE/ATAPI vs SCSI debate. Wait and see what devices and controllers are cheap and ubquitous, those will "win" in the consumer market.
2.0 compliant hubs will be more expensive due to the logic, but mass produced common silicon is cheap.
Mojo Nation is aimed at providing a distributed content system that gets around these cheating human nature problems by creating a market for exchanging computer resources automatically (bandwidth is the most valuable computer resource left these days, with CPU coming in second).
Mojo Nation is open source (LGPL), check out the latest status by visiting its source forge mojonation project. It is currently in Beta.
Sorry for the lack of response here from us Mojo Nation developers.
The source code was uploaded as a tar.gz to sourceforge on Sunday afternoon. The binaries should be available tomorrow (August 1st) sometime in the afternoon or early evening. We've been without good connectivity for the weekend while at defcon (read: none of us had modems or an isp to dial into since defcon's net access had such a poor uptime).
PS I'll be surprised if anyone actually notices this comment since I posted it 36 hours later..
Yeah right. And who's going to buy them when they cost more and offer no benefit? You can already get non-encrypted "digital" speakers (usb). (the decoder is usually only in one speaker with an analog cable to the other one; no real benefit there other than doing the decoding outside of your electrically noisy computer case)
What about headphone jacks and all of the wonderful analog speakers that exist. They won't be going away so the headphone and normal lineout jacks won't either. audiophiles are also notorious for hating digital.
Any company making their content available only in a format that requires spending extra money and prevents you from doing such simple things as using headphones, making tapes, etc. will simply go out of business.
it hasn't been that long since we watched divx die for these reasons.:)
Leaving a "spare" P75 on and attached to the net in a corner will cost you $5-10/month in power bills.
Extra cpu power comes from systems that are currently being used for something but not nearly using all of their cpu (ie: most peoples desktop computers), not old ones sitting in the corner to be a cpu farm.
If a site makes it impossible to buy from them because they want unreasonably verification, then don't. They'll feel it. If you're worried about them feeling it, write them an email telling them that you enjoy shopping elsewhere.
It works in Oregon and others. Revenues can be gained from property and income taxes in the state. Think of all the sales tax paperwork that could be prevented.
I'm very happy that Mozilla is happening and that its in a pretty usable state now, but it seems that every time I actually try a new version, it is unnaturally slow. (Netscape 4.7 is -much- faster at rendering large pages).
Can any mozilla developers answer this?
I know that there is supposedly lots of debugging code enabled (which could be a big part of it), but has anyone tried an optimized build without the debugging overhead? How's the speed compare to netscape and, more importantly, IE?
It's nice to see someone working for big commercial opensource names (ie: redhat) aiming to keep things open. Commercial opensource companies should never pay the relatively tiny (in their perspective) fees rather than arguing for openness; that would destroy (or at least hurt) the opensource concept by simply giving up.
Well, almost. I wish there were OpenBSD drivers for them.
Bandwidth in megabits/sec isn't the big deal for wireless; its connectivity, range and compatibility that counts.
I do wish devices with crypto didn't cost more (even silly 40 or 64 bit crypto prevents casual eavesdropping). It's not like putting it in the product costs the vendors anymore (I wouldn't be surprised if non crypto enabled cards have the crypto silicon on them; just disabled)
If there are heavy restocking fees, don't return the product. Simply put it up on eBay with a minimum bid of how much you'd have gotten after the restocking fee hit.
You'll get more, almost guaranteed. (and if not, -then- return it)
No matter what you do with it, return or eBay, it'll send the manufacturer a financial message because its one less sale for them.
I've got a 250Mhz "PR333" (83mhz bus) system here that I've had for over a year. It is a CPU upgrade from a 150Mhz "PR200" that used for a year before this. I gave the PR200 to a friend to upgrade his P75 to something snazzy.
The floating point blows chunks but that's what my Alpha is for. People don't seem to remember that Cyrix was the -first- to offer a bus speed greater than 66Mhz without overclocking (the old 6x86 P200+ ran at 75*2). Bus speed / memory access speed / video-memory access speed is the limiting factor in CPUs these days for compiling and even most games these days.
If they're not already too late to market they'll do a great job of making happy cheap-pcs (a "PR533" this April sounds like it may be a bit late for any price if that's really a "Pentium Rating" rating instead of "Pentium Pro/PII/Celeron Rating")
Mhz-wise the 6x86MX/MII series performs about the same as an equivilent PPro/PII/Celeron on integer instructions.
Personally I'd buy a lower-end Athlon if this system died to satisfy my x86 needs.
I don't have time for many fancy games. That's what my cheap PlayStation has always done a better job of.
Note to anyone un-informed: A PII/PIII/Celeron is really just a Pentium Pro CPU running at a higher clock speed with a few new "matrix math" instructions added on and different memory cache and sometimes bus speed arrangements.
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Multicast is not well situated for internet content distribution because reliable multicast transport is a very difficult problem and the infrastructure to support it just isn't there.
Instead, try something like Mojo Nation or Freenet to distribute your popular content widely so that you can get it when you want without all having to access the same server.
This happens all the time people, the only truely uncommon thing is that they admitted to the public that they had a break in. Most of these are kept hidden.
As for cancelling your credit cards, why? With a database of zillions of stolen cards the chance that yours gets used is slim. It's less hassle to deal with the potential fraudlent charge appearing on your bill than to get new cards!
(Now if you used one of those silly "ATM + 'credit' card things" that lets people irreversably take money out of your bank account you'd better think again...)
1 cent is still to large to be considered a micropayment in my book.
I have a sinking feeling that marketing and media hype may be well on the way to redefining the classic definition of micropayment to mean "less than $20".. I hope not. [sigh]
Interested in seeing it sooner? mojonaton is an opensource project.
The most difficult part (IMHO) of writing a payment for cpu cycles type of system is sandboxing the code so that it can't intentionally or unintentionally do anything evil (ie: it needs to be MUCH more secure than Microsoft Outlook ;).
Paypal is not a micropayment system. Micropayments are by definition -very- small (ie: much smaller than a penny)
Look at Mojo Nation for a micropayment system. (and a distributed data haven system based upon it!)
Future computers may not have video cards at all. With a standard graphics bus port the current concept of a video card could exist within the display (probably a flat panel of some sort but it doesn't matter).
Unfortunately this does mean that a standard programming API for the video hardware on this bus would be needed to avoid making monitors not universally useful due to device driver issues.
At 133mbytes/sec, my current PCI matrox card is working just great and will be for a couple more years. The good old HD-15 connector is here to stay forever on CRTs.
As gross as some technical details may be, USB 2.0 isn't such a bad idea. They are aiming at making hardware costs cheap for devices.
As for bringing down your bus speed by using 1.1 low/medium speed devices, that's not a problem. The spec is setup to use a store and forward mechanism within 2.0 compliant hubs so that the bus speed was not lowered globally just to talk to old 1.1 speed devices. (this means you talk at full speed to the hub, which acts as a switch between the fast bus and the lower speed devices).
USB 2.0 vs Firewire is an EIDE/ATAPI vs SCSI debate. Wait and see what devices and controllers are cheap and ubquitous, those will "win" in the consumer market.
2.0 compliant hubs will be more expensive due to the logic, but mass produced common silicon is cheap.
Mojo Nation is aimed at providing a distributed content system that gets around these cheating human nature problems by creating a market for exchanging computer resources automatically (bandwidth is the most valuable computer resource left these days, with CPU coming in second).
Mojo Nation is open source (LGPL), check out the latest status by visiting its source forge mojonation project. It is currently in Beta.
Sorry for the lack of response here from us Mojo Nation developers.
The source code was uploaded as a tar.gz to sourceforge on Sunday afternoon. The binaries should be available tomorrow (August 1st) sometime in the afternoon or early evening. We've been without good connectivity for the weekend while at defcon (read: none of us had modems or an isp to dial into since defcon's net access had such a poor uptime).
PS I'll be surprised if anyone actually notices this comment since I posted it 36 hours later..
Yeah right. And who's going to buy them when they cost more and offer no benefit? You can already get non-encrypted "digital" speakers (usb). (the decoder is usually only in one speaker with an analog cable to the other one; no real benefit there other than doing the decoding outside of your electrically noisy computer case)
:)
What about headphone jacks and all of the wonderful analog speakers that exist. They won't be going away so the headphone and normal lineout jacks won't either. audiophiles are also notorious for hating digital.
Any company making their content available only in a format that requires spending extra money and prevents you from doing such simple things as using headphones, making tapes, etc. will simply go out of business.
it hasn't been that long since we watched divx die for these reasons.
Leaving a "spare" P75 on and attached to the net in a corner will cost you $5-10/month in power bills.
Extra cpu power comes from systems that are currently being used for something but not nearly using all of their cpu (ie: most peoples desktop computers), not old ones sitting in the corner to be a cpu farm.
Many people (myself included) don't like the pay to play approach. But have you ever stopped to consider why this is?
If the amount you paid to play was miniscule as opposed to the rates companies currently try and charge it would make sense. (think micropayments)
If a site makes it impossible to buy from them because they want unreasonably verification, then don't. They'll feel it. If you're worried about them feeling it, write them an email telling them that you enjoy shopping elsewhere.
Auctioning off an Evil Thing!
That sounded like his pocket book speaking. Of course those are probably one and the same for someone in his position.
do items 1, 2 and 3 there seem like fluff comments to annoy microsofts lawyers rather than have any legal significance?
IDE harddrives are cheaper per gigabyte and hold -much- more at once than DVD-RAM media.
Yes, it does! I was about to post the exact same observation (but an Alt-F "disney" led me to yours).
It works in Oregon and others. Revenues can be gained from property and income taxes in the state. Think of all the sales tax paperwork that could be prevented.
I'm very happy that Mozilla is happening and that its in a pretty usable state now, but it seems that every time I actually try a new version, it is unnaturally slow. (Netscape 4.7 is -much- faster at rendering large pages).
Can any mozilla developers answer this?
I know that there is supposedly lots of debugging code enabled (which could be a big part of it), but has anyone tried an optimized build without the debugging overhead? How's the speed compare to netscape and, more importantly, IE?
(all my testing has been done on Linux)
Thank you!
It's nice to see someone working for big commercial opensource names (ie: redhat) aiming to keep things open. Commercial opensource companies should never pay the relatively tiny (in their perspective) fees rather than arguing for openness; that would destroy (or at least hurt) the opensource concept by simply giving up.
One bus to rule them all
One bus to find them
One bus to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them
There's some discussion of the specs being closed going on over on the usb.org developers webboard.
Well, almost. I wish there were OpenBSD drivers for them.
Bandwidth in megabits/sec isn't the big deal for wireless; its connectivity, range and compatibility that counts.
I do wish devices with crypto didn't cost more (even silly 40 or 64 bit crypto prevents casual eavesdropping). It's not like putting it in the product costs the vendors anymore (I wouldn't be surprised if non crypto enabled cards have the crypto silicon on them; just disabled)
If there are heavy restocking fees, don't return the product. Simply put it up on eBay with a minimum bid of how much you'd have gotten after the restocking fee hit.
You'll get more, almost guaranteed. (and if not, -then- return it)
No matter what you do with it, return or eBay, it'll send the manufacturer a financial message because its one less sale for them.
I've got a 250Mhz "PR333" (83mhz bus) system here that I've had for over a year. It is a CPU upgrade from a 150Mhz "PR200" that used for a year before this. I gave the PR200 to a friend to upgrade his P75 to something snazzy.
The floating point blows chunks but that's what my Alpha is for. People don't seem to remember that Cyrix was the -first- to offer a bus speed greater than 66Mhz without overclocking (the old 6x86 P200+ ran at 75*2). Bus speed / memory access speed / video-memory access speed is the limiting factor in CPUs these days for compiling and even most games these days.
If they're not already too late to market they'll do a great job of making happy cheap-pcs (a "PR533" this April sounds like it may be a bit late for any price if that's really a "Pentium Rating" rating instead of "Pentium Pro/PII/Celeron Rating")
Mhz-wise the 6x86MX/MII series performs about the same as an equivilent PPro/PII/Celeron on integer instructions.
Personally I'd buy a lower-end Athlon if this system died to satisfy my x86 needs.
I don't have time for many fancy games. That's what my cheap PlayStation has always done a better job of.
Note to anyone un-informed: A PII/PIII/Celeron is really just a Pentium Pro CPU running at a higher clock speed with a few new "matrix math" instructions added on and different memory cache and sometimes bus speed arrangements.