100 millions sounds big, but you have to take the cube-root of this to get the resolution in one axis - a whopping 465. In 2D, this is like a 465x465 display; not terribly exciting. This is the "curse of dimensionality" volume graphics needs to deal with.
This gets alot funnier. I recently attended a talk by one of the heads of Microsoft Research, and when he started to talk the Powerpoint slides would randomly change, menus would randomly pop up, etc...
20 minutes were spent trying to fix the problem, to no avail, until an astute member of the audience noticed that the microphone was on and that speech recognition was causing the problem.
There still exist much larger sites, with much more interesting content, which reject Linux browsers. Check out Shockwave, if you're using Linux you will be rejected.
It's a shame, there's good material on this site. Lots of creative Flash animation, for which Linux works just fine, but I guess Macromedia just doesn't care. Perhaps some emails might convince them otherwise?
Here's hoping whoever did this took a copy of the source code, and will release it somehow (this is a great chance to test the efficacy of Freenet). This could help conquer a whole host of reverse engineering tasks facing the linux community.
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You all might be interested to know that during the paper session for the project Escherization, an image of the penguin came up and the graphics audience of more than a thousand people went up in applause. The results of his research would make a great desktop background for a penguin head.
I did my Master's degree research with MIT LCS, and an interesting fact that has escaped this discussion is that Microsoft has just donated around $25 million dollars to LCS for their new building and research. At the 25th anniversary party last year, when Oxygen was first presented with lots of fanfare, Bill Gates gave the keynote address. So these visions are close for a reason...
Of course, most of the grad students aren't too happy about this, I remember one guy who immediately donated $100 to the FSF and posted their thank you letter on his door. Oh, and at least when I was there (1 year ago), Stallman had an office in LCS and spent alot of time there. Wonder how he feels.
PPI is aware of Gnutella and Freenet, this tidbit also came from the PPI report.
Of course, an amendment will not guarantee an end to online piracy. Cyberlibertarians are hard at work creating new software protocols for completely decentralized file swapping networks, such as Gnutella and Freenet, that connect computer users to each other directly and anonymously without going through a Napster-like searchable database. These protocols would render the DMCA moot because there is no company to sue and no central server to shut down. Because Gnutella and Freenet have no profit potential and no incentive to create user-friendly software, this new technology will probably be limited to a relatively small community of highly-skilled computer operators. If these decentralized software protocols do ever gain widespread popularity, Congress will have to revisit this issue. However, the mere threat of a future problem does not justify forestalling action to stop Napster-like services today.
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Interesting, here's hoping these systems don't stay only among "highly-skilled computer operators." Perhaps we need to consider advertising and more publicity for gnutella?
And let's not forgot the library of Alexandria, where the vast majority of Greek knowledge went up in smoke. It is certainly feasible that physical disaster could strike the Library of Congress. Digital backups could mean the difference.
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100 millions sounds big, but you have to take the cube-root of this to get the resolution in one axis - a whopping 465. In 2D, this is like a 465x465 display; not terribly exciting. This is the "curse of dimensionality" volume graphics needs to deal with.
This gets alot funnier. I recently attended a talk by one of the heads of Microsoft Research, and when he started to talk the Powerpoint slides would randomly change, menus would randomly pop up, etc...
20 minutes were spent trying to fix the problem, to no avail, until an astute member of the audience noticed that the microphone was on and that speech recognition was causing the problem.
It's a shame, there's good material on this site. Lots of creative Flash animation, for which Linux works just fine, but I guess Macromedia just doesn't care. Perhaps some emails might convince them otherwise?
Here's hoping whoever did this took a copy of the source code, and will release it somehow (this is a great chance to test the efficacy of Freenet). This could help conquer a whole host of reverse engineering tasks facing the linux community.
You all might be interested to know that during the paper session for the project Escherization, an image of the penguin came up and the graphics audience of more than a thousand people went up in applause. The results of his research would make a great desktop background for a penguin head.
Of course, most of the grad students aren't too happy about this, I remember one guy who immediately donated $100 to the FSF and posted their thank you letter on his door. Oh, and at least when I was there (1 year ago), Stallman had an office in LCS and spent alot of time there. Wonder how he feels.
PPI is aware of Gnutella and Freenet, this tidbit also came from the PPI report.
Of course, an amendment will not guarantee an end to online piracy. Cyberlibertarians are hard at work creating new software protocols for completely decentralized file swapping networks, such as Gnutella and Freenet, that connect computer users to each other directly and anonymously without going through a Napster-like searchable database. These protocols would render the DMCA moot because there is no company to sue and no central server to shut down. Because Gnutella and Freenet have no profit potential and no incentive to create user-friendly software, this new technology will probably be limited to a relatively small community of highly-skilled computer operators. If these decentralized software protocols do ever gain widespread popularity, Congress will have to revisit this issue. However, the mere threat of a future problem does not justify forestalling action to stop Napster-like services today.
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Interesting, here's hoping these systems don't stay only among "highly-skilled computer operators." Perhaps we need to consider advertising and more publicity for gnutella?
And let's not forgot the library of Alexandria, where the vast majority of Greek knowledge went up in smoke. It is certainly feasible that physical disaster could strike the Library of Congress. Digital backups could mean the difference.