Disclaimer - I don't work for AO / File Planet or any other company related to it. I'm just a geek that signed up for the beta and thought I'd share with the rest of the class:).
Jon Katz: the public has no idea that they will be spending billions for years on things they could have -- ought to have -- for free
Normally I'd agree, but in this case, I'd have to say that the customer is getting what they pay for. Users want a easy to use environment that scales well enough for small to mid-sized businesses, yet allows them to go home and play games on it. With a common interface and easy to program api's, Windows takes the lead, at least in the public's view. Microsoft has spend untold billions in developing and continuing to develop this product, and for a vast majority of the computing public, it works. Sure everyone complains about the lock-ups and blue-screens, but for the most part, we're all fat and happy, and would be more than happy to contiune this way. Am I saying that we're all wasting our time working on Linux/*BSD/whatever, because it has the potential to prove that there is a potential for those platforms to let the public know. My point however is that after spending billions to produce something, why give it away for free? It doesn't make business sense.
Of course it can. Once a company finds out that they are losing money on something, or more likely, that they can charge a customer more money for something, they will. Its how business runs. I'd love to tell @home where they can shove it, but unforunately, for my location, other than getting an ISDN or above (with a hefty payment increase), there really is no choice for me. Until there is competition in the marketplace, there are no options, and companies that see competition on the horizon have two choices, change their policy and product to include services that the consumer would choose over the competition, or squeeze every last penny out of them while they still can. I sure hope that the local telco's / high-speed providers don't get the idea to follow suit. Secret windows code
The server is / was. The Netscape browser was just that, a browser. Since IIS doesn't run on UNIX, the two choices are Apache and Netscape iPlanet server (yes, I'm aware there are other servers out there, but iPlanet and Apache are the two market dominators). This isn't the invitation to start a flame-thread about Apache vs iPlanet, but realize for Fortune 100 companies still want a commercial entity behind their web server. Again, please rediresct all flames to/dev/null
The British suing the US/Canada/Ireland/Rest of the World for use of the English Language? The Mexican Government suing Taco Bell for Culture Infringement for their spicy delacicies? The Arabian peoples suing the Western world for use of arabic numbers?
When does culture become intellecutal property? If this is the case, when does it expire? Even Windows Source Code has an experation date.
"Innovation is being sledge-hammered out of existence by legal threats and buyouts. It's all about control -- and right now, consumers are set to lose what little gains the Internet offered them."
In other words, move over innovation, big business is here to stay.
This would definately be cool desk fodder. I already have people coming over to my desk to play with my legos. If I had one of these, we'd never be able to get any work done. Oh nevermind, I forgot that wouldn't necessarily be a *bad thing* (TM).
Thank god, that/. is, just like every other mass media source, completly impartial, that is to say its slanted so far to the left it doesn't understand how anything even slightly conservative could possibly have any value. Keep it up Taco, you're keeping people like G Gordon Liddy and Rush Limbaugh in business.
Yes - go ahead - mod this offtopic - it is, but I'm sick of seeing the preferential treatment. This, should be an open forum, generally free of politial agendas. If I wanted politial opinions, I'd read democrats today or some other BS.
In the Indianapolis complaint, Magnequench is asking a judge to recall products that infringe on the patents and to order the destruction of existing products owned by the defendants that violate the patents.
Does this mean that my shiny new, possibly copyright infringing CD-RW and DVD-ROM will be recalled, and some men in Black suits will be coming to my door to take back this hardware? I sure hope not. Secret windows code
Red Hat commercial software costs $39.99 retail at your local Best Buy (for the "End User" system). This could be the point of contention. Secret windows code
Usually there is a post of how to support this or that bill. As a Marylander, I'd like to show my support for this bill. Anyone? Roblimo? Bueller? Secret windows code
Apparently you haven't read much from Linus. This is pretty much par for the course, in fact he's usually more blatently obnoxious regarding things of this nature. Its actually refreshing in my humble opinion to have a head figure that "tells it like it is" instead of using the doublespeek of the Marketing department.
Here's a quick analogy, and it almost ties in to the earlier slashdot article about the car that runs on rotten cabbage. If the Oil community could purchace the patent on that engine and keep it from the general consumer, it would effectively keep potential users from weening ourselves off of our Oil dependencies, thus keeping them happily in business selling us fossil fuels. Conversely, if Microsoft were able to purchace the patent on Linux, they would be able to keep it from the general consumer, and maintain our dependance on Windows products. Since the GPL prevents Microsoft from doing such a thing, the next best thing they can do is try to discredit it to such a point that people don't see it as a viable option. Ergo, open source is bad, because they can't control what they can't buy. Secret windows code
USER: Yeah, I'm trying to get my Access Script to talk to two Sybase applications at the same time, and I can't seem to get it to work.
BOFH: What's your user name agian?
USER: user10
(Sound of BOFH tapping away busily on keyboard)
BOFH: I can see the problem right here. Its definately a ID10T problem. I can fix it though.... for a price
USER: A... price?
BOFH: Sure. No big deal, just give me your credit card number over the phone. When I fix it, I'll charge your credit card.
Here's the interesting part of the traceroute I ran from my workstation here at, well work:)
9 284.ATM7-0.XR2.DCA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.33.41) 5.685 ms 13.112 ms 4.145 ms
10 194.ATM7-0.GW3.DCA1.ALTER.NET (146.188.161.77) 5.545 ms 7.685 ms 4.475 ms
11 abovenet-dca1.ALTER.NET (157.130.37.254) 5.327 ms 6.011 ms 5.987 ms
12 core5-core1-oc48.iad1.above.net (208.185.0.146) 6.132 ms 5.715 ms 6.948 ms
13 core2-iad1-oc48.iad4.above.net (208.185.0.134) 5.818 ms 5.785 ms 6.011 ms 14 main1colo1-core2-oc12.iad4.above.net (208.185.0.66) 7.527 ms 5.400 ms 4.853 ms
15 64.124.113.173.available.google.com (64.124.113.173) 6.160 ms 5.705 ms 8.736 ms
It appears to be co-lo'd at above.net. This was ran on the www server. Secret windows code
This is actually very easy to postulate, but the actual implementation of this would wind up looking like a huge game of Pong. If two countries were trying to get this to hit each other, they would blast it back and forth, constantly changing the trajectory of the asteroid similar to the known universe's largest ping-pong ball with a catch, the asteroid could eventually explode and we'd all be in trouble.
Look on the bright side. India and Pakastan wouldn't be using it anytime soon on each other, unless they both want to go careening into the Indian Ocean.
Before you all go complaining about the "rich" and the "poor" and how everything's unfair, how true is that?
My family has been middle income for as long as I remeber, but as I married and my wife and I got jobs in the Information industry, we moved into what the legislators consider the "rich." I don't feel "rich," and having to pay more taxes (percentage-wise) I feel that I'm being punished for success. The more I make, the larger of a percentage that I lose. Being right on the bottom end of the "rich" part of the scale, I actually take home $7000 less than someone earning $2000 less than me.
Its actually quite easy. Pop your CD-ROM / DVD into your microwave, turn it on for 4 seconds and viola - instant coaster. Try getting your data off of that puppy. Secret windows code
I know that FASA was known for its vast array of RPG systems, but I always thought that Shadowrun was its more original and most fun (Ok, it stole a LOT of stuff from the original Cyberpunk Gaming system). I've been a gamer since the early 90's and played a vast array from AD&D to GURPS and everything in between. My alltime favorite games always involved playing a Decker in Shadowrun. Granted my scope is limited, I'm sad to see them go.
I honestly wouldn't care either, except I use MSN Messanger out of need, I use Hotmail to get e-mail and I play Asheron's Call online which is exclusively available for play online through the Zone. Actually - the two other things are a byproduct of the latter, but I can't stop playing. I guess the chances that they'll port to Linux are zero to none. On a similarly funny note, Asheron's Call had a bug last night and had to have an emergency patch installed. They *have* been verified to be NT Boxen. The bug allowed users with a sniffer and a DoS attack to kill servers, causing the characters attached to that box to reset to their previous save point. Interesting bug, more interesting that M$ / Turbing forgot to patch. I'm just wondering if the two were related...
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WTF does congress think that they should get involved. Lets move ICANN and all other internet governing boards to some island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Govern that one baby.
Double the size of the edge connector / number of pins to the motherboard. Assume we have a generic processor with 10 connections to the motherboard (super simple example). This allows us to pass 10 bits of data at the speed of the FSB. Now lets double it to 20. This means that you can now pass 2 x as many bits in the same clock-tick of the FSB. This may seem like you're only doubling the speed, but due to the way binary works, you're adding 2^10 number of bits can be passed. Granted, the processor's connections would be huge, but it would be a quick way to speed up the "apparent processor speed" without actually doing much in the way of work. Motherboard's would have to be totally re-worked.
Just because the content that ABC Corporation has on their "presence" in the OceanStore is replicated all over the internet-sub-3, doesn't mean that its less succeptable to "hacker" attacks. From what I gleam from that article, the information that you publish still has to have an entry point onto the net in the form of an ISP. So, what is to stop "Cracker Joe" from cracking into ABC Corp's ISP and cracking the original page, then allowing it to be replicated all over the net? Since bandwith and storage is going to be so cheap, I'm guessing that this will be nothing more than high level proxying with encryption.
My second point is that this is supposed to be available in 10 years. According to Moore's Law (which we all know and love) the computing power (presumably meaning what any consumer has access to) doubles every 18 months. Well 10 * 12 = 120 / 18 = 6.67. Todays technology allows 1.2 Ghz computers for the masses. Multiply 1.2 Ghz * 2^6.67 ~= 122 Ghz computers. Lets be conservative and say that the 1 Mb Ram available on Intel processors is equally as ambitious; meaning we have 104 MB L2 Cache on board. What levels of encryption are we talking about here. Given the distributed.net statistics, less people are cracking rc5 / des / csc / ogr blocks daily, but the keyrate keeps going up. Why is this? Because the microcode in the newer processors enables the small bitwise rotations and xor's and other little commands that are quite confusing to non-geeks enable the basic functions that crack encryption to be greatly accellerated through caching of code in L2 Cache and processor speed. Now I'm not saying that we'll still be using this technology as its cludgy at higher speeds, but we'll have something roughly equivalent. (As an aside - I just thought of the possibility of playing Quake XII or whatever! Imagine the frags at that speed!!!) The point is the average user will have access to the power of todays supercomputers. For the encryption to be strong, even with something like PGP keys, a brute force attack isn't entirely out of the question. Granted that encryption will most likely increase to some insane level like 2^16304 or whatever, but still given enough time, eventually it will fall.
Now for those of us stuck in the windows world, the wait begins for it to be ported to the Windoze C Libraries and recompiled. I hope I can have my GIMP up and running in the next week.
Its a great thing that GM did. As a member of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, I can tell you that it was a great relief to see that Baltimore and other large cities are going back to utilizing the "Light rail" which is nothing more than an updated version of the 1930's Peter Witts that were in use throughout the United States and possibly abroad (you'll have to excuse my lack of international Cable car history). They're a joy to ride in as unlike the popular Subway system in Baltimore, you can actually *see* the surroundings instead of the inside of a cement tube 30 feet below the surface of the city. I hope that Baltimore actually manages to make it more effecient (double tracking the entire line would be a nice start) and to expand the trolly service more than the extra line that goes to the local Airport (Baltimore-Washington International).
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Just FYI for those of us having a hard time getting this file. Fileplanet has it here.
:).
Disclaimer - I don't work for AO / File Planet or any other company related to it. I'm just a geek that signed up for the beta and thought I'd share with the rest of the class
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From the article:
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Jon Katz: the public has no idea that they will be spending billions for years on things they could have -- ought to have -- for free
Normally I'd agree, but in this case, I'd have to say that the customer is getting what they pay for. Users want a easy to use environment that scales well enough for small to mid-sized businesses, yet allows them to go home and play games on it. With a common interface and easy to program api's, Windows takes the lead, at least in the public's view. Microsoft has spend untold billions in developing and continuing to develop this product, and for a vast majority of the computing public, it works. Sure everyone complains about the lock-ups and blue-screens, but for the most part, we're all fat and happy, and would be more than happy to contiune this way. Am I saying that we're all wasting our time working on Linux/*BSD/whatever, because it has the potential to prove that there is a potential for those platforms to let the public know. My point however is that after spending billions to produce something, why give it away for free? It doesn't make business sense.
As always, redirect flames to
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Of course it can. Once a company finds out that they are losing money on something, or more likely, that they can charge a customer more money for something, they will. Its how business runs. I'd love to tell @home where they can shove it, but unforunately, for my location, other than getting an ISDN or above (with a hefty payment increase), there really is no choice for me. Until there is competition in the marketplace, there are no options, and companies that see competition on the horizon have two choices, change their policy and product to include services that the consumer would choose over the competition, or squeeze every last penny out of them while they still can. I sure hope that the local telco's / high-speed providers don't get the idea to follow suit.
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The server is / was. The Netscape browser was just that, a browser. Since IIS doesn't run on UNIX, the two choices are Apache and Netscape iPlanet server (yes, I'm aware there are other servers out there, but iPlanet and Apache are the two market dominators). This isn't the invitation to start a flame-thread about Apache vs iPlanet, but realize for Fortune 100 companies still want a commercial entity behind their web server. /dev/null
Again, please rediresct all flames to
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The British suing the US/Canada/Ireland/Rest of the World for use of the English Language?
The Mexican Government suing Taco Bell for Culture Infringement for their spicy delacicies?
The Arabian peoples suing the Western world for use of arabic numbers?
When does culture become intellecutal property? If this is the case, when does it expire? Even Windows Source Code has an experation date.
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This would definately be cool desk fodder. I already have people coming over to my desk to play with my legos. If I had one of these, we'd never be able to get any work done. Oh nevermind, I forgot that wouldn't necessarily be a *bad thing* (TM).
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Thank god, that /. is, just like every other mass media source, completly impartial, that is to say its slanted so far to the left it doesn't understand how anything even slightly conservative could possibly have any value. Keep it up Taco, you're keeping people like G Gordon Liddy and Rush Limbaugh in business.
Yes - go ahead - mod this offtopic - it is, but I'm sick of seeing the preferential treatment. This, should be an open forum, generally free of politial agendas. If I wanted politial opinions, I'd read democrats today or some other BS.
Please forgive the rant.
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Red Hat commercial software costs $39.99 retail at your local Best Buy (for the "End User" system). This could be the point of contention.
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Usually there is a post of how to support this or that bill. As a Marylander, I'd like to show my support for this bill. Anyone? Roblimo? Bueller?
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Apparently you haven't read much from Linus. This is pretty much par for the course, in fact he's usually more blatently obnoxious regarding things of this nature. Its actually refreshing in my humble opinion to have a head figure that "tells it like it is" instead of using the doublespeek of the Marketing department.
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Here's a quick analogy, and it almost ties in to the earlier slashdot article about the car that runs on rotten cabbage. If the Oil community could purchace the patent on that engine and keep it from the general consumer, it would effectively keep potential users from weening ourselves off of our Oil dependencies, thus keeping them happily in business selling us fossil fuels. Conversely, if Microsoft were able to purchace the patent on Linux, they would be able to keep it from the general consumer, and maintain our dependance on Windows products. Since the GPL prevents Microsoft from doing such a thing, the next best thing they can do is try to discredit it to such a point that people don't see it as a viable option. Ergo, open source is bad, because they can't control what they can't buy.
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USER: Yeah, I'm trying to get my Access Script to talk to two Sybase applications at the same time, and I can't seem to get it to work.
BOFH: What's your user name agian?
USER: user10
(Sound of BOFH tapping away busily on keyboard)
BOFH: I can see the problem right here. Its definately a ID10T problem. I can fix it though.... for a price
USER: A... price?
BOFH: Sure. No big deal, just give me your credit card number over the phone. When I fix it, I'll charge your credit card.
I'm sure you get the gist.
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Here's the interesting part of the traceroute I ran from my workstation here at, well work :)
9 284.ATM7-0.XR2.DCA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.33.41) 5.685 ms 13.112 ms 4.145 ms
10 194.ATM7-0.GW3.DCA1.ALTER.NET (146.188.161.77) 5.545 ms 7.685 ms 4.475 ms
11 abovenet-dca1.ALTER.NET (157.130.37.254) 5.327 ms 6.011 ms 5.987 ms
12 core5-core1-oc48.iad1.above.net (208.185.0.146) 6.132 ms 5.715 ms 6.948 ms
13 core2-iad1-oc48.iad4.above.net (208.185.0.134) 5.818 ms 5.785 ms 6.011 ms
14 main1colo1-core2-oc12.iad4.above.net (208.185.0.66) 7.527 ms 5.400 ms 4.853 ms
15 64.124.113.173.available.google.com (64.124.113.173) 6.160 ms 5.705 ms 8.736 ms
It appears to be co-lo'd at above.net. This was ran on the www server.
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This is actually very easy to postulate, but the actual implementation of this would wind up looking like a huge game of Pong. If two countries were trying to get this to hit each other, they would blast it back and forth, constantly changing the trajectory of the asteroid similar to the known universe's largest ping-pong ball with a catch, the asteroid could eventually explode and we'd all be in trouble.
Look on the bright side. India and Pakastan wouldn't be using it anytime soon on each other, unless they both want to go careening into the Indian Ocean.
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Before you all go complaining about the "rich" and the "poor" and how everything's unfair, how true is that?
My family has been middle income for as long as I remeber, but as I married and my wife and I got jobs in the Information industry, we moved into what the legislators consider the "rich." I don't feel "rich," and having to pay more taxes (percentage-wise) I feel that I'm being punished for success. The more I make, the larger of a percentage that I lose. Being right on the bottom end of the "rich" part of the scale, I actually take home $7000 less than someone earning $2000 less than me.
Sounds fair to me.
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Its actually quite easy. Pop your CD-ROM / DVD into your microwave, turn it on for 4 seconds and viola - instant coaster. Try getting your data off of that puppy.
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I know that FASA was known for its vast array of RPG systems, but I always thought that Shadowrun was its more original and most fun (Ok, it stole a LOT of stuff from the original Cyberpunk Gaming system). I've been a gamer since the early 90's and played a vast array from AD&D to GURPS and everything in between. My alltime favorite games always involved playing a Decker in Shadowrun. Granted my scope is limited, I'm sad to see them go.
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I honestly wouldn't care either, except I use MSN Messanger out of need, I use Hotmail to get e-mail and I play Asheron's Call online which is exclusively available for play online through the Zone. Actually - the two other things are a byproduct of the latter, but I can't stop playing. I guess the chances that they'll port to Linux are zero to none.
On a similarly funny note, Asheron's Call had a bug last night and had to have an emergency patch installed. They *have* been verified to be NT Boxen. The bug allowed users with a sniffer and a DoS attack to kill servers, causing the characters attached to that box to reset to their previous save point. Interesting bug, more interesting that M$ / Turbing forgot to patch. I'm just wondering if the two were related...
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WTF does congress think that they should get involved. Lets move ICANN and all other internet governing boards to some island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Govern that one baby.
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Double the size of the edge connector / number of pins to the motherboard. Assume we have a generic processor with 10 connections to the motherboard (super simple example). This allows us to pass 10 bits of data at the speed of the FSB. Now lets double it to 20. This means that you can now pass 2 x as many bits in the same clock-tick of the FSB. This may seem like you're only doubling the speed, but due to the way binary works, you're adding 2^10 number of bits can be passed. Granted, the processor's connections would be huge, but it would be a quick way to speed up the "apparent processor speed" without actually doing much in the way of work. Motherboard's would have to be totally re-worked.
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Just because the content that ABC Corporation has on their "presence" in the OceanStore is replicated all over the internet-sub-3, doesn't mean that its less succeptable to "hacker" attacks. From what I gleam from that article, the information that you publish still has to have an entry point onto the net in the form of an ISP. So, what is to stop "Cracker Joe" from cracking into ABC Corp's ISP and cracking the original page, then allowing it to be replicated all over the net? Since bandwith and storage is going to be so cheap, I'm guessing that this will be nothing more than high level proxying with encryption.
My second point is that this is supposed to be available in 10 years. According to Moore's Law (which we all know and love) the computing power (presumably meaning what any consumer has access to) doubles every 18 months. Well 10 * 12 = 120 / 18 = 6.67. Todays technology allows 1.2 Ghz computers for the masses. Multiply 1.2 Ghz * 2^6.67 ~= 122 Ghz computers. Lets be conservative and say that the 1 Mb Ram available on Intel processors is equally as ambitious; meaning we have 104 MB L2 Cache on board. What levels of encryption are we talking about here. Given the distributed.net statistics, less people are cracking rc5 / des / csc / ogr blocks daily, but the keyrate keeps going up. Why is this? Because the microcode in the newer processors enables the small bitwise rotations and xor's and other little commands that are quite confusing to non-geeks enable the basic functions that crack encryption to be greatly accellerated through caching of code in L2 Cache and processor speed. Now I'm not saying that we'll still be using this technology as its cludgy at higher speeds, but we'll have something roughly equivalent. (As an aside - I just thought of the possibility of playing Quake XII or whatever! Imagine the frags at that speed!!!) The point is the average user will have access to the power of todays supercomputers. For the encryption to be strong, even with something like PGP keys, a brute force attack isn't entirely out of the question. Granted that encryption will most likely increase to some insane level like 2^16304 or whatever, but still given enough time, eventually it will fall.
Just my buck-o-five.
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Now for those of us stuck in the windows world, the wait begins for it to be ported to the Windoze C Libraries and recompiled. I hope I can have my GIMP up and running in the next week.
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Its a great thing that GM did. As a member of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, I can tell you that it was a great relief to see that Baltimore and other large cities are going back to utilizing the "Light rail" which is nothing more than an updated version of the 1930's Peter Witts that were in use throughout the United States and possibly abroad (you'll have to excuse my lack of international Cable car history). They're a joy to ride in as unlike the popular Subway system in Baltimore, you can actually *see* the surroundings instead of the inside of a cement tube 30 feet below the surface of the city. I hope that Baltimore actually manages to make it more effecient (double tracking the entire line would be a nice start) and to expand the trolly service more than the extra line that goes to the local Airport (Baltimore-Washington International).
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