As someone else already said: about 7 objects. (Remember, the brain is *not* a simple computer!)
And I suppose there were always times I wished my own brain had more RAM. I think I've got about 2 meg myself.
I think you've a lot more than that. Just imagine going the way from your home to you school. To *any* school you ever went to. Sure, there will be parts of the way that you can't remember, but most of it is there, isn't it?
Remember the first car crash that you ever saw? Right, that is a couple of seconds of high res video!
Just add all those things up and you'll find there is quite a lot of memory, but in some parts, no easy way to access them.
On the other hand, do you remember what were the colors of the cars in the crash? You probably don't. So the event wasn't saved as straight video, but more as tokens and events. When you then think of the "super-event" (the crash) your brain renders the corresponding pictures in real time. So, probably not so much memory, but also a very fast processing unit...
Disclaimer: I'm just some hacker that thought a little about his brain...;-)
ujans@ullisys:~ > date && traceroute www.serbia-info.com Thu May 13 18:12:43 MEST 1999 traceroute to www2.EUnet.yu (194.247.192.60), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 router.pond.sub.org (192.168.1.129) 2.309 ms 1.521 ms 1.466 ms 2 pond-gw.ilk.net (10.10.10.9) 167.92 ms 164.426 ms 153.316 ms 3 cs1.ilk.net (10.10.10.1) 173.428 ms 154.921 ms 191.488 ms 4 194.122.227.61 (194.122.227.61) 227.502 ms 155.431 ms 156.134 ms 5 frankfurt.core.xlink.net (194.122.225.42) 160.131 ms 160.496 ms 156.474 ms 6 * Ffm-ar02.eunet.com (134.222.19.1) 167.689 ms 166.677 ms 7 Asd-nr02.NL.EU.net (134.222.228.45) 170.753 ms 164.811 ms 168.695 ms 8 Asd-nr12.NL.EU.net (134.222.186.12) 164.431 ms 186.031 ms 168.671 ms 9 Belgrade1.YU.EU.net (134.222.34.2) 630.23 ms 640.8 ms 702.692 ms 10 Belgrade10-E2.EUnet.yu (194.247.193.123) 684.487 ms 669.633 ms 570.612 ms 11 www2.EUnet.yu (194.247.192.60) 658.286 ms 615.495 ms 735.829 ms
The Internet *does* route around the blockage! (Especially look at the ping time difference between hop 8 and 9, which IMHO appears as a satellite leg)
User tracking is not *that* difficult. There are records being kept about who posted what article (even if it's just to show the "by XXX" line), and what score the article got. Since all the articles are already in an SQL database, there would be *no* problem at all to do some statistics about them. (If I'd know about the table format, I'd probably be able to find some SQL statement that does just that, and I'm not that good as a database programmer!)
SAP already did port some of their suite to Linux. Currently they're looking for good Linux hackers to hire... If you're interested, go to their website and look through the jobs offers.
I'd like to request a (probably) new feature besides the reply and parent links at the bootom of an article:
'Look closely'.
This link should lead to a page containing only the article it was attached to, not at the default threshold, but at threshold 0 or a special 'look closely' threshold.
I request this feature because I usually read the comments at a threshold of 2, but don't want to post comments that have already been posted in a thread but not (yet) moderated. (Currently I refrain from posting in stories and threads with lots of articles because I'd have to scroll to the bottom or the top of the page, lower my threshold, wade through lots of lower scored articles and be finally able to find out if I contribute something really new.)
On anything but lousy headphones or low end computer speakers or stereo equipment they just sound lousy. (And that comment isn't flame bait -- people may disagree, but most people don't have even reasonable quality audio equipment...)
Well, it depends on the compression rate of the audio file. I don't claim to have exeptionally good equipment, but I think I got a reasonable system in the $3000 range. At 128 kbit the diffence is hard to discern on the speakers (for most music - there's one Led Zeppelin recording that sounds bad at anything below 256 kbit!), but on the headphones the artifacts stand out quite clearly. At 160 kbit, most music is indiscernible from the CD, even on the phones. (Tested using "Something happened on the way to heaven" by Phil Collins, from the "But Seriously" album and Bladeenc.)
Disclaimer: Yes, I own both of the mentioned CDs, but I'm too lazy to change discs every hour. (When using the music as background music, not in audiophile mode!;-))
Using NNTP, people could use whatever newsreader suits them best, and do their own filtering and/or scoring the usual way.
But one thing that wouldn't be possible is human controlled scoring. Can you show me a newsreader whose score file is maintained by over 400 people?
Rob invited those moderators exactly because there is *no* software that can be trusted with consistently killing the bad posts and promoting the good ones. If you could hack up some software that can do that, he'd welcome you quite warmly. Probably you'd even get a Nobel Prize! (It would be a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, I think);-)
It seems you didn't do your homework! Even in the Linux kernel, there were quite often large chunks of code cut out and thrown away! Look at the TCP/IP stack along with the rest of the networking code in 2.0 versus 2.2, look at the memory management subsystem (since 0.5 ist was completely exchanged at least three times!)
I'm sure there are lots of other instances of that, but i don't know them for I'm no kernel hacker.
And that KDE GNOME issue... they're both here to stay and cause holy flamewars, just like emacs and vi... so what?
...probably someone should tell them that it makes no sense to go over 1.4 MBit/sec for CD quality music, because that's the raw data rate, uncompressed;-)
Design into the system a mirroring system, and code to find the closest host (net time wise).
But make sure you patent the algorithm, even just to make it free!
Have servers be forward requests they don't know to higher up servers like what is done for DNS queries. Another thing to design into it is a language selection feature. This is for internationalization. One would be able to download titles in the language of their choice.
I was initially thinking a HTML/CGI front end would have some advantages. Use existing running WWW servers, but dedicated servers would be fastest for processing requests.
No, better use HTTP for access to the DB, because then you can use existing caches and proxies, *in addition* to that DNS like hierarchy.
One thing to think about is making sure your data is unique. This is to cover your ass copyright wise in case they try to assert copyright. Adding new fields not included in their data, and the internationalization may both help with this.
Well, afaik CDDB already uses most (if not all) available data. You'd have to devise a way to uniquely identify the disks (disc ID is not enough!) and transmit/store/access that data in a compact and fast way. Ok, if you add new fields, like language, make sure the whole thing doesn't get too complicated! Probably one new feature is the transmission of the lyrics...:-)
From the beginning have a copyleft on the DB contents.
I shouldn't read it because most people who post (1) have little regard for the fact that I am a human being [...]
Probably you should talk to John Katz. Or at least read some of his editorials on Slashdot. According to him, those flamers are just a little minority, but a very noisy one. (Just count the flames, then think about the ratio: about 10000 readers that don't flame, but don't anwer either!)
I, for myself, quite liked your article.
It is ironic and hypocritical, if not pathetic as well, that people who accuse me of not doing my homework about Linux feel free to offer their opinions about me without doing their homework about my work.
During WWII, Germany was the technologically leading nation in the world. Just think about the V2 (without Wernher von Braun there would be quite a lot less spacecraft, on either side! Also, the first American rockets were V2s, captured from the Germans. The Redstone was IIRC a direct descendant of the V2.)
Think about the Me262 (or was it the Me163?! I keep mixing them...), a jet fighter ready for deployment in 1944/45! If the Allied Forces Forces hadn't destroyed most of the manufacturing plants by then they'd been in deep trouble!
Radar was also developed by a German, but when he offered his invention to the German military, he was chased off. ("German fighter pilots need no stinking electric helpers!" or something along that lines...) So he went to the British...
Shall I now continue?!? Enough rant...
I may sound bitter, but I think it's quite good that Germany lost the war. But that's because of what the government did back then, not because of the tech. I just wanted to show that not everything came out of the US. (Wasn't Einstein born in Germany and chased off by the Nazis?! (I'm not sure...))
No problem there. Just get an SMP system (provides more heat), a bigger aquarium and some electric eels. Some big condensators, some diodes, some voltage regulators (the eels give out about 500V) and you're set!
The advantage to using more than one monitor is more desktop space. Or you could be running the 3d display on one monitor and the menus/controls on the other. Use your imagination to find out what to do with a 3200x1280 desktop...;-)
Just remember, OSS authors: Source code is a LIABILITY, not an asset. We want you to solve problems using *less* source code, not more.
Source *can* be a liability. Most of the time, it isn't. And remember: we *do* use less source code, because we can spend more time optimizing the available source and reuse it, not because we obfuscate it.
(What was that? 5E+7 LOC for NT? A similar functional OSS Distribution sould barely cross 2E+7!)
I think the different implementations of MBone and the like could be seen as prior art. If you think that there was a large partition of the IP numberspace reserved for applications like this, and that patent was filed in 1996, there is no case... (it shouldn't have been issued in the first place...)
Try grepping for video or audio in the RFCs, there probably show up some quite old mentions...
Not every prog Redhat distributes is open-source (xv, for example).
XV *is* open source, the source is just not *that* far spread. (I once downloaded the xv-3.1a source when the PNG file format was new and there existed only a patch to xv...)
Sure, xv is not free (like free beer), but it comes with quite a lax license: Only commercial use has to be paid, IIRC. So what is your problem? It is a rather similar license to netscapes, except you can get the source.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
As someone else already said: about 7 objects. (Remember, the brain is *not* a simple computer!)
And I suppose there were always times I wished my own brain had more RAM. I think I've got about 2 meg myself.
I think you've a lot more than that. Just imagine going the way from your home to you school. To *any* school you ever went to. Sure, there will be parts of the way that you can't remember, but most of it is there, isn't it?
Remember the first car crash that you ever saw? Right, that is a couple of seconds of high res video!
Just add all those things up and you'll find there is quite a lot of memory, but in some parts, no easy way to access them.
On the other hand, do you remember what were the colors of the cars in the crash? You probably don't. So the event wasn't saved as straight video, but more as tokens and events. When you then think of the "super-event" (the crash) your brain renders the corresponding pictures in real time. So, probably not so much memory, but also a very fast processing unit...
Disclaimer: I'm just some hacker that thought a little about his brain... ;-)
ujans@ullisys:~ > date && traceroute www.serbia-info.com Thu May 13 18:12:43 MEST 1999
traceroute to www2.EUnet.yu (194.247.192.60), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 router.pond.sub.org (192.168.1.129) 2.309 ms 1.521 ms 1.466 ms
2 pond-gw.ilk.net (10.10.10.9) 167.92 ms 164.426 ms 153.316 ms
3 cs1.ilk.net (10.10.10.1) 173.428 ms 154.921 ms 191.488 ms
4 194.122.227.61 (194.122.227.61) 227.502 ms 155.431 ms 156.134 ms
5 frankfurt.core.xlink.net (194.122.225.42) 160.131 ms 160.496 ms 156.474 ms
6 * Ffm-ar02.eunet.com (134.222.19.1) 167.689 ms 166.677 ms
7 Asd-nr02.NL.EU.net (134.222.228.45) 170.753 ms 164.811 ms 168.695 ms
8 Asd-nr12.NL.EU.net (134.222.186.12) 164.431 ms 186.031 ms 168.671 ms
9 Belgrade1.YU.EU.net (134.222.34.2) 630.23 ms 640.8 ms 702.692 ms
10 Belgrade10-E2.EUnet.yu (194.247.193.123) 684.487 ms 669.633 ms 570.612 ms
11 www2.EUnet.yu (194.247.192.60) 658.286 ms 615.495 ms 735.829 ms
The Internet *does* route around the blockage! (Especially look at the ping time difference between hop 8 and 9, which IMHO appears as a satellite leg)
User tracking is not *that* difficult. There are records being kept about who posted what article (even if it's just to show the "by XXX" line), and what score the article got. Since all the articles are already in an SQL database, there would be *no* problem at all to do some statistics about them. (If I'd know about the table format, I'd probably be able to find some SQL statement that does just that, and I'm not that good as a database programmer!)
NSI starts looking like Micro$oft, so probably we should use a DNS that looks and acts like some free OS... :-)
'Look closely'.
This link should lead to a page containing only the article it was attached to, not at the default threshold, but at threshold 0 or a special 'look closely' threshold.
I request this feature because I usually read the comments at a threshold of 2, but don't want to post comments that have already been posted in a thread but not (yet) moderated. (Currently I refrain from posting in stories and threads with lots of articles because I'd have to scroll to the bottom or the top of the page, lower my threshold, wade through lots of lower scored articles and be finally able to find out if I contribute something really new.)
Well, it depends on the compression rate of the audio file. I don't claim to have exeptionally good equipment, but I think I got a reasonable system in the $3000 range. At 128 kbit the diffence is hard to discern on the speakers (for most music - there's one Led Zeppelin recording that sounds bad at anything below 256 kbit!), but on the headphones the artifacts stand out quite clearly. At 160 kbit, most music is indiscernible from the CD, even on the phones. (Tested using "Something happened on the way to heaven" by Phil Collins, from the "But Seriously" album and Bladeenc.)
Disclaimer: Yes, I own both of the mentioned CDs, but I'm too lazy to change discs every hour. (When using the music as background music, not in audiophile mode! ;-))
But one thing that wouldn't be possible is human controlled scoring. Can you show me a newsreader whose score file is maintained by over 400 people?
Rob invited those moderators exactly because there is *no* software that can be trusted with consistently killing the bad posts and promoting the good ones. If you could hack up some software that can do that, he'd welcome you quite warmly. Probably you'd even get a Nobel Prize! (It would be a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, I think) ;-)
It seems you didn't do your homework! Even in the Linux kernel, there were quite often large chunks of code cut out and thrown away! Look at the TCP/IP stack along with the rest of the networking code in 2.0 versus 2.2, look at the memory management subsystem (since 0.5 ist was completely exchanged at least three times!)
I'm sure there are lots of other instances of that, but i don't know them for I'm no kernel hacker.
And that KDE GNOME issue... they're both here to stay and cause holy flamewars, just like emacs and vi... so what?
Forget it!
You would get lots of acesses form some webcaches and on't see quite a lot of people (hiding behind them).
But make sure you patent the algorithm, even just to make it free!
Have servers be forward requests they don't know to higher up servers like what is done for DNS queries. Another thing to design into it is a language selection feature. This is for internationalization. One would be able to download titles in the language of their choice.
I was initially thinking a HTML/CGI front end would have some advantages. Use existing running WWW servers, but dedicated servers would be fastest for processing requests.
No, better use HTTP for access to the DB, because then you can use existing caches and proxies, *in addition* to that DNS like hierarchy.
One thing to think about is making sure your data is unique. This is to cover your ass copyright wise in case they try to assert copyright. Adding new fields not included in their data, and the internationalization may both help with this.
Well, afaik CDDB already uses most (if not all) available data. You'd have to devise a way to uniquely identify the disks (disc ID is not enough!) and transmit/store/access that data in a compact and fast way. Ok, if you add new fields, like language, make sure the whole thing doesn't get too complicated! Probably one new feature is the transmission of the lyrics... :-)
From the beginning have a copyleft on the DB contents.
Fine with me :-)
Probably you should talk to John Katz. Or at least read some of his editorials on Slashdot. According to him, those flamers are just a little minority, but a very noisy one. (Just count the flames, then think about the ratio: about 10000 readers that don't flame, but don't anwer either!)
I, for myself, quite liked your article.
It is ironic and hypocritical, if not pathetic as well, that people who accuse me of not doing my homework about Linux feel free to offer their opinions about me without doing their homework about my work.
Just flaming is sooo much easier! ;-)
Sure. Why not? ;-)
During WWII, Germany was the technologically leading nation in the world. Just think about the V2 (without Wernher von Braun there would be quite a lot less spacecraft, on either side! Also, the first American rockets were V2s, captured from the Germans. The Redstone was IIRC a direct descendant of the V2.)
Think about the Me262 (or was it the Me163?! I keep mixing them...), a jet fighter ready for deployment in 1944/45! If the Allied Forces Forces hadn't destroyed most of the manufacturing plants by then they'd been in deep trouble!
Radar was also developed by a German, but when he offered his invention to the German military, he was chased off. ("German fighter pilots need no stinking electric helpers!" or something along that lines...) So he went to the British...
Shall I now continue?!? Enough rant...
I may sound bitter, but I think it's quite good that Germany lost the war. But that's because of what the government did back then, not because of the tech. I just wanted to show that not everything came out of the US. (Wasn't Einstein born in Germany and chased off by the Nazis?! (I'm not sure...))
No problem there. Just get an SMP system (provides more heat), a bigger aquarium and some electric eels. Some big condensators, some diodes, some voltage regulators (the eels give out about 500V) and you're set!
;-)
HTH...
The advantage to using more than one monitor is more desktop space. Or you could be running the 3d display on one monitor and the menus/controls on the other. Use your imagination to find out what to do with a 3200x1280 desktop...
Source *can* be a liability. Most of the time, it isn't. And remember: we *do* use less source code, because we can spend more time optimizing the available source and reuse it, not because we obfuscate it.
(What was that? 5E+7 LOC for NT? A similar functional OSS Distribution sould barely cross 2E+7!)
Try man tune2fs! (And don't forget to look at the time between checks!)
No, it doesn't. At least its not based on NT. (Read the press release!) Except you mean the thing that they say comes out '01 or '02...
Well, they could use them as wallpaper. :-)
They wouldn't even need glue!
I think the different implementations of MBone and the like could be seen as prior art. If you think that there was a large partition of the IP numberspace reserved for applications like this, and that patent was filed in 1996, there is no case... (it shouldn't have been issued in the first place...)
Try grepping for video or audio in the RFCs, there probably show up some quite old mentions...
This BBC writer appears to have got the meaning of hackers and crackers correct this time. Neat. :-)
(I don't think he made the headline graphic, where it's wrong...)
XV *is* open source, the source is just not *that* far spread. (I once downloaded the xv-3.1a source when the PNG file format was new and there existed only a patch to xv...)
Sure, xv is not free (like free beer), but it comes with quite a lax license: Only commercial use has to be paid, IIRC. So what is your problem? It is a rather similar license to netscapes, except you can get the source. :-)