I disagree about it taking 10 years. I live in Austin, TX and I have video-on-demand now, so each cable subscriber in my neighborhood could be watching something different. I don't know or care how much it cost Time Warner to make that work, but it works.
However, I think the article still sucks, because VOD and PVR are not the same thing, no matter how much nCube tries.
If a band encodes their music into MP3 format, they have already paid for a patent license; it was included in the MP3 encoder (assuming they are using a legal one). Why should they pay once to encode their music, and then pay again to stream it?
But it seems like no one (besides MS) is working on resolution-independent GUI frameworks. If they really want to deliver a 200+ dpi display in 2 years, they better get cracking on the software so people will be able to use it without a magnifying glass.
From reading the article, it looks like the attack did use up all of the downstream bandwidth on his two T1s, so I assume the graph was of upstream bandwidth.
Even if it is possible to copyright a schema, that doesn't prevent someone else from creating documents that conform to the schema. Heck, if you build your Hailstorm clone using non-validating parsers, you won't even need MS's schemas.
In Austin, TX a company called NetSpend is selling prepaid MasterCards. You put some cash in their machine and a card comes out. I think they're adding a fee of $1/transaction. I had one (they were giving them away for free for a while) and I wasn't able to use it at a store, but I did get some cash out of it at an ATM.
There is no way in H-E-double-hockey-sticks that my ISP is going to just up and say "Okay, now there are plenty of addresses, so we'll stop charging extra for additional computers."
Why? How can you be so sure? What if a small ISP decides to differentiate itself from the competition by saying "Now that IPv6 addresses are practically free, each of our customers gets a/64 at no extra charge."? Although flat-rate pricing might not make sense if you allow that many machines to be connected...
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Data isn't any more persistent in Mojo Nation than in Freenet; they're both caches. Unless you meant something else...
AFAIK, the origin server is always willing to send you more blocks. So if there are few (or no) other Swarmcast peers currently running, you just download most of the file from the origin server.
Even in an enterprise environment where you have 10,000 machines, I would still prefer that a person decides which updates should be installed and which shouldn't be, not some expert system as the article suggests. Obviously the installation of these updates has to be automated.
Such an updater would check the upstream package catalog and apply multiple criterion on each updated package which would determine if that update is applied.
It seems easy enough to do this by hand. Whenever I have spare time, I check to see if there are new updates. If there are, then I read the release notes to see if they do anything I care about. If they do, then I install the update.
I wouldn't use automatic updates in any circumstance, even if I had some super-smart filter.
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That's odd, I read the article and got the impression that the GUI (app server) is not built into the kernel. But yeah, I'm still waiting for that innovation.
Address space and memory are not the same thing. Many OSes reserve half the address space for the kernel, so that you can check whether a pointer points to user or kernel memory just by looking at the most significant bit.
Since by definition a microkernel doesn't run core OS services like filesystems and the network stack in kernel space, in what sense is AtheOS "nearly" microkernel-based?
I'm not even sure why people still care how microkernelish every new OS is...
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I disagree about it taking 10 years. I live in Austin, TX and I have video-on-demand now, so each cable subscriber in my neighborhood could be watching something different. I don't know or care how much it cost Time Warner to make that work, but it works.
However, I think the article still sucks, because VOD and PVR are not the same thing, no matter how much nCube tries.
IIRC, Sun has a group doing usability tests on OpenOffice and GNOME. It will be interesting to see if the developers pay any attention to the results.
If a band encodes their music into MP3 format, they have already paid for a patent license; it was included in the MP3 encoder (assuming they are using a legal one). Why should they pay once to encode their music, and then pay again to stream it?
The official site for MP3 licensing details is here. As the article said, they're not actually going to release details until the 14th.
Yes, Quartz 2D supports all those whiz-bang features; too bad most OS X apps are Carbon and are using QuickDraw instead of Quartz 2D.
Somewhere in MSDN I read an article about how to make Windows apps work on high-dpi monitors; I haven't seen such docs for any other platform.
Um, this monitor sounds like it's about 200-300 pixels per inch, which seems like it would be far below the limit of perception.
But it's not resolution-independent. For example, all the widgets are bitmaps, so on a high-dpi monitor, they would become tiny.
But it seems like no one (besides MS) is working on resolution-independent GUI frameworks. If they really want to deliver a 200+ dpi display in 2 years, they better get cracking on the software so people will be able to use it without a magnifying glass.
They've been up and running for months; someone needs to send a FactCheckerBot over to visit the /. editors.
Yeah, P2P is such a worthless fad -- wait, where did all these MP3s on my computer come from?
From reading the article, it looks like the attack did use up all of the downstream bandwidth on his two T1s, so I assume the graph was of upstream bandwidth.
Even if it is possible to copyright a schema, that doesn't prevent someone else from creating documents that conform to the schema. Heck, if you build your Hailstorm clone using non-validating parsers, you won't even need MS's schemas.
In Austin, TX a company called NetSpend is selling prepaid MasterCards. You put some cash in their machine and a card comes out. I think they're adding a fee of $1/transaction. I had one (they were giving them away for free for a while) and I wasn't able to use it at a store, but I did get some cash out of it at an ATM.
There is no way in H-E-double-hockey-sticks that my ISP is going to just up and say "Okay, now there are plenty of addresses, so we'll stop charging extra for additional computers."
/64 at no extra charge."? Although flat-rate pricing might not make sense if you allow that many machines to be connected...
Why? How can you be so sure? What if a small ISP decides to differentiate itself from the competition by saying "Now that IPv6 addresses are practically free, each of our customers gets a
Data isn't any more persistent in Mojo Nation than in Freenet; they're both caches. Unless you meant something else...
The cola is pretty good. I'm not going to give up Coke, though.
AFAIK, the origin server is always willing to send you more blocks. So if there are few (or no) other Swarmcast peers currently running, you just download most of the file from the origin server.
Even in an enterprise environment where you have 10,000 machines, I would still prefer that a person decides which updates should be installed and which shouldn't be, not some expert system as the article suggests. Obviously the installation of these updates has to be automated.
Such an updater would check the upstream package catalog and apply multiple criterion on each updated package which would determine if that update is applied.
It seems easy enough to do this by hand. Whenever I have spare time, I check to see if there are new updates. If there are, then I read the release notes to see if they do anything I care about. If they do, then I install the update.
I wouldn't use automatic updates in any circumstance, even if I had some super-smart filter.
That's odd, I read the article and got the impression that the GUI (app server) is not built into the kernel. But yeah, I'm still waiting for that innovation.
Linux has dynamically-loaded drivers; that has little to do with microkernels.
Address space and memory are not the same thing. Many OSes reserve half the address space for the kernel, so that you can check whether a pointer points to user or kernel memory just by looking at the most significant bit.
Since by definition a microkernel doesn't run core OS services like filesystems and the network stack in kernel space, in what sense is AtheOS "nearly" microkernel-based?
I'm not even sure why people still care how microkernelish every new OS is...
I don't disagree with that at all. My point is that they don't run on Linux, so if you run Linux all the time on your Mac, you won't buy them.