Who will run these servers? Who will actually do it? How can a small group of even dedicated people run a service comperable to the internet?
Anyone with any extra bandwidth could atcually run one. And with his comments on setting the cache size I could see many people just allocating 50 MB or so so they could serve their local area with information in high demand. Also, using a small size would effectively disable much of the "unwanted" content that the media always cries about.
Your other comment about how could it be comparable to the internet shows, not to flame you, but a lack of understanding about what the Internet is. The Internet is not the "web" that is just the http protocol just as Freenet has a protocol of its own. The Freenet would be just one small PART of the Internet.
While Tolkien steadfastly denied any metaphor for WWII politics, many scholars tied the Shire to England, the Elves to France, Mordor to Germany, Saruman's Orthanc to Japan, and the Rohirrim/Gondor pair as USA's two-fronted war.
May be a bit off topic, but I've heard that LOTR is a favorite read among neonazis. Probably a result of the very clear differences between wrong and right, good and bad etc...
It might also have to do with the obvious skin colour of elves and orcs, but I've never asked a neonazi...
If it is I wouldn't be surprised. Since it is also a favorite read among, sci-fi fans, musicians, writers, programmers, teenagers, role players, historians, etc etc.... These books are loved by neary everyone and that doens't just include people that are considered good.
to take on The Enemy directly would have been too risky
What, risky compared to the "Frodo Solo strategy"? They could have given him one bodyguard, or a magic sword of his own, or at the very least a freakin' map, but they actually hung him out to dry.
In any case, there is an actual explanation of why it has to be Frodo Solo, in the book, and it isn't that one. I'd remember something like that.
Well, first off, he wasn't solo he had his companion Sam with him, and a good thing he did too. Also, he did have a "magical" sword (more like a dagger to a person) named Sting. He also received (as well as other companions) a wonderful Cloak to help disguise him.
Also, the humans did send a some what large force to assault Mordor's gates. It was only a trick though to draw Sauron's attention towards them so Frodo would have a greater chance of success.
But when it comes down to it, any large force, I mean even 10 people, would have easily of been discovered and the war would have bee lost. Stealth was the ONLY way in.
One comment on some other posts on why a group of Elves and Ents wouldn't have attacked. I dealt with the Elves already so as to the Ents there is NO way they would have gotten involved. If you read the books it is VERY clear they do not get involved in the matters of humans. To them, the world outside their forest is of little concern except finding the location of the Entwives.
They also will have an mp3 player for it... Is there a new law that says hardware devices expand until they can play mp3's?
Well, I just checked, and the paperclip sitting on my desk cannot yet play mp3s. As it isn't expanding at the moment, I think that it disproves your conjecture by demonstrating the existance of a hardware device which is neither expanding nor capable of playing mp3s.
Come on, we all know that the only cool devices that size are tiny web servers (finding that old article is left for the reader). However, you should check out that stapler on the other side of your desk. My bet is that it holds at least 32MB of MP3s. Maybe even an infrared port to transfer data if ya got a good one.
This isn't the first highly accurate warning of impending computerized doom from the Weekly World News. If your computer was built after 1985, then it has enough hard drive space to accommodate one of Satan's minions (and that doesn't count any stuff from MS). The Register has a little something gleaned from the Weekly World News. One Reverend Jim Peasboro, author of an upcoming book, The Devil in the Machine, says that demons can possess anything with a brain. Apparently that now includes computers. According to the Georgia clergyman, "...many members of my congregation became in touch with a dark force whenever they used their computers", (and again I emphasize that he made no mention of Microsoft). That Print job you thought was screwed up by the wrong printer driver may have actually been "...a stream of obscenities written in a 2,800-year-old Mesopotamian dialect!" This happens right after the spontaneous Turing test.
Hmm, I should look into that article, I'd be real curious to see how the schedualer sets up instructions to be run by The Devil along side everything else. Or maybe, The Devil takes control of that too so his will is executed first leaving everything else to fight over a few spare CPU cycles.
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Who will run these servers? Who will actually do it? How can a small group of even dedicated people run a service comperable to the internet?
Anyone with any extra bandwidth could atcually run one. And with his comments on setting the cache size I could see many people just allocating 50 MB or so so they could serve their local area with information in high demand. Also, using a small size would effectively disable much of the "unwanted" content that the media always cries about.
Your other comment about how could it be comparable to the internet shows, not to flame you, but a lack of understanding about what the Internet is. The Internet is not the "web" that is just the http protocol just as Freenet has a protocol of its own. The Freenet would be just one small PART of the Internet.
While Tolkien steadfastly denied any metaphor for WWII politics, many scholars tied the Shire to England, the Elves to France, Mordor to Germany, Saruman's Orthanc to Japan, and the Rohirrim/Gondor pair as USA's two-fronted war.
May be a bit off topic, but I've heard that LOTR is a favorite read among neonazis. Probably a result of the very clear differences between wrong and right, good and bad etc...
It might also have to do with the obvious skin colour of elves and orcs, but I've never asked a neonazi...
If it is I wouldn't be surprised. Since it is also a favorite read among, sci-fi fans, musicians, writers, programmers, teenagers, role players, historians, etc etc....
These books are loved by neary everyone and that doens't just include people that are considered good.
to take on The Enemy directly would have been too risky
What, risky compared to the "Frodo Solo strategy"? They could have given him one bodyguard, or a magic sword of his own, or at the very least a freakin' map, but they actually hung him out to dry.
In any case, there is an actual explanation of why it has to be Frodo Solo, in the book, and it isn't that one. I'd remember something like that.
Well, first off, he wasn't solo he had his companion Sam with him, and a good thing he did too. Also, he did have a "magical" sword (more like a dagger to a person) named Sting. He also received (as well as other companions) a wonderful Cloak to help disguise him.
Also, the humans did send a some what large force to assault Mordor's gates. It was only a trick though to draw Sauron's attention towards them so Frodo would have a greater chance of success.
But when it comes down to it, any large force, I mean even 10 people, would have easily of been discovered and the war would have bee lost. Stealth was the ONLY way in.
One comment on some other posts on why a group of Elves and Ents wouldn't have attacked. I dealt with the Elves already so as to the Ents there is NO way they would have gotten involved. If you read the books it is VERY clear they do not get involved in the matters of humans. To them, the world outside their forest is of little concern except finding the location of the Entwives.
They also will have an mp3 player for it... Is there a new law that says hardware devices expand until they can play mp3's?
Well, I just checked, and the paperclip sitting on my desk cannot yet play mp3s. As it isn't expanding at the moment, I think that it disproves your conjecture by demonstrating the existance of a hardware device which is neither expanding nor capable of playing mp3s.
Come on, we all know that the only cool devices that size are tiny web servers (finding that old article is left for the reader). However, you should check out that stapler on the other side of your desk. My bet is that it holds at least 32MB of MP3s. Maybe even an infrared port to transfer data if ya got a good one.
This isn't the first highly accurate warning of impending computerized doom from the Weekly World News. If your computer was built after 1985, then it has enough hard drive space to accommodate one of Satan's minions (and that doesn't count any stuff from MS). The Register has a little something gleaned from the Weekly World News. One Reverend Jim Peasboro, author of an upcoming book, The Devil in the Machine, says that demons can possess anything with a brain. Apparently that now includes computers. According to the Georgia clergyman, "...many members of my congregation became in touch with a dark force whenever they used their computers", (and again I emphasize that he made no mention of Microsoft). That Print job you thought was screwed up by the wrong printer driver may have actually been "...a stream of obscenities written in a 2,800-year-old Mesopotamian dialect!" This happens right after the spontaneous Turing test.
Hmm, I should look into that article, I'd be real curious to see how the schedualer sets up instructions to be run by The Devil along side everything else. Or maybe, The Devil takes control of that too so his will is executed first leaving everything else to fight over a few spare CPU cycles.
Load? My prediction: 7.47