Do I think that Gnutella will move in where Napster stopped? I personally don't, the reason being that Gnutella requires you to set up a direct connection with an individual you've never met.
This man is ignorant.
So where the dangers surrounding Napster, regarding viruses and child molesters, were moderately nebulous, they're going to be very severe with Gnutella.
I stopped reading this article after I got to this statement. If this man really thinks that child molestation goes hand in hand with mp3 sharing, then I have no respect for him, dissertation on audio compression or not.
The last thing I want to see is government/law stepping in.
The second-to-last thing I want to see is legal action between pissed-off companies attempting to undercut each other for more market share.
What I really want to see is the users deciding for themselves. As I have already explained, I am beginning to dislike napster. I feel that they are using a good thing (music sharing) for nothing more than a financial opportunity, morality questions-be-dammed. Personally, I support Gnutella; it is versatile and anonymous to start with, neither of which Napster can claim. My hopes are that everybody will realize that the product they use is inferior and morally questionable, and that they will switch over to a better alternative. (Any of this sound familiar?)
Fortunately, open source gnutella can adapt.
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You make a good point; however, Gnutella's open nature will be a positive factor. For instance, I can think of a few ways to help to combat this problem off the top of my head. Soon, I believe, Gnutella will offer the freedom to effortlessly exchange any file, and the smarts to evade spamm.
I am beginning to agree with you more and more, day by day.
Laws and technicalities are one thing, but every damned employee of Napster knows that his company is successful right now because everybody uses it to get free music. Yes, it broadens people's tastes. God yes, free, available music is very healthy for the spread of culture and such. But napster is still exploiting a very questionable legal loophole.
I'm starting to think that Napster is doing nothing more than using the mp3 idealism in all of our hearts as a cash cow. Shame on them!
I wish I could suggest a good beginner's book, but I really don't remember any of them. What I do remember is that, on any level, hacking on code from an interesting program is the best way to remain interested. The reason open source works is because people will spend time hacking on an interesting project. This extends to all experience levels. For instance, when I was young, I learned far more BASIC tweaking (read 'cheating') Apple ][ video games.
So, you might want to make sure that whichever language you choose, there is enough simple, hackable, code out there already, from which they may learn. That's how most of us did it.
Quickbasic (a Microsoft product with which I never really had any problems) is a nice setup. It's the ease of learning BASIC, but line numbers are optional, and the language supports structure, subroutines, and functions. Thus one can learn a high-level language without picking up the bad habbits of a spaghetti language.
The French court's reason is best explained while in a French frame of reference.
To a French judge, Yahoo's actions could be viewed as Yahoo's business interest expanding into French homes and pocketbooks. Additionally, Yahoo could be seen as expanding with disregard towards French customs and laws. The court might well feel as if it is biting back.
I don't agree with this, however. But it is an under-represented viewpoint.
I think that Yahoo should auction what it pleases, and if you don't like it, that's too bad; you don't buy it. But of course I'm an American, and I come from an American political foundation. Yahoo is American, as well. But France is not America.
This is yet another case of legal problems sprouting up because, at the creation of customs, cultures, and laws, nobody bothered to consider future TCP/IP complications.
With all the advancements in our technology, our environment is getting worse and worse for everyone and everything
Our life expectancy is double or triple what it used to be. Medicine has saved, extended, and enriched countless lives. Technology is allowing our cultures to interact and teach each other. In general, man today has a higher quality of life. I think that these advancements are great. To me, mankind is in a bit of an adolescent phase. There will be growing pains, and we will adjust and learn to handle our creations responsibly. Personally, I have faith in mankind not to blow off his head with the gun of his making. That is why I strongly support AI development (not to mention space exploration and genetic research as well).
That people have to release useful, open codes anonymously in order to avoid terrible corporate punishment is a very sad thought.
I should hope that I would have more sense, but I would be very tempted to release such codes with my name on them. To me, the support of the hacker community is worth the price of corporate crackdown. Then there's that whole ego thing a la esr.
The common thread in articles already posted is old DOS games. A lot of us were into (/getting into) computers during the DOS 5.x heyday, or thereabouts. And there were some really neat games from that era.
Some games I'd like to see: Test Drive 2/3 Stunts (please!) Golden Axe The Keen series *'s Quest, especially the old ones. And maybe some Starcon.
That would rule. Also, while I'm wishing, TAPPER, and all the classic arcade games (Joust, *Pacman*, Gallaga, Space Invaders, etc.)
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Do I think that Gnutella will move in where Napster stopped? I personally don't, the reason being that Gnutella requires you to set up a direct connection with an individual you've never met.
This man is ignorant.
So where the dangers surrounding Napster, regarding viruses and child molesters, were moderately nebulous, they're going to be very severe with Gnutella.
I stopped reading this article after I got to this statement. If this man really thinks that child molestation goes hand in hand with mp3 sharing, then I have no respect for him, dissertation on audio compression or not.
I agree with you.
The last thing I want to see is government/law stepping in.
The second-to-last thing I want to see is legal action between pissed-off companies attempting to undercut each other for more market share.
What I really want to see is the users deciding for themselves. As I have already explained, I am beginning to dislike napster. I feel that they are using a good thing (music sharing) for nothing more than a financial opportunity, morality questions-be-dammed. Personally, I support Gnutella; it is versatile and anonymous to start with, neither of which Napster can claim. My hopes are that everybody will realize that the product they use is inferior and morally questionable, and that they will switch over to a better alternative. (Any of this sound familiar?)
You make a good point; however, Gnutella's open nature will be a positive factor. For instance, I can think of a few ways to help to combat this problem off the top of my head. Soon, I believe, Gnutella will offer the freedom to effortlessly exchange any file, and the smarts to evade spamm.
I am beginning to agree with you more and more, day by day.
Laws and technicalities are one thing, but every damned employee of Napster knows that his company is successful right now because everybody uses it to get free music. Yes, it broadens people's tastes. God yes, free, available music is very healthy for the spread of culture and such. But napster is still exploiting a very questionable legal loophole.
I'm starting to think that Napster is doing nothing more than using the mp3 idealism in all of our hearts as a cash cow. Shame on them!
Come to think of it, I think this problem sounds familiar
I wish I could suggest a good beginner's book, but I really don't remember any of them. What I do remember is that, on any level, hacking on code from an interesting program is the best way to remain interested. The reason open source works is because people will spend time hacking on an interesting project. This extends to all experience levels. For instance, when I was young, I learned far more BASIC tweaking (read 'cheating') Apple ][ video games.
So, you might want to make sure that whichever language you choose, there is enough simple, hackable, code out there already, from which they may learn. That's how most of us did it.
Quickbasic (a Microsoft product with which I never really had any problems) is a nice setup. It's the ease of learning BASIC, but line numbers are optional, and the language supports structure, subroutines, and functions. Thus one can learn a high-level language without picking up the bad habbits of a spaghetti language.
The French court's reason is best explained while in a French frame of reference.
To a French judge, Yahoo's actions could be viewed as Yahoo's business interest expanding into French homes and pocketbooks. Additionally, Yahoo could be seen as expanding with disregard towards French customs and laws. The court might well feel as if it is biting back.
I don't agree with this, however. But it is an under-represented viewpoint.
I think that Yahoo should auction what it pleases, and if you don't like it, that's too bad; you don't buy it. But of course I'm an American, and I come from an American political foundation. Yahoo is American, as well. But France is not America.
This is yet another case of legal problems sprouting up because, at the creation of customs, cultures, and laws, nobody bothered to consider future TCP/IP complications.
With all the advancements in our technology, our environment is getting worse and worse for everyone and everything
Our life expectancy is double or triple what it used to be. Medicine has saved, extended, and enriched countless lives. Technology is allowing our cultures to interact and teach each other. In general, man today has a higher quality of life. I think that these advancements are great. To me, mankind is in a bit of an adolescent phase. There will be growing pains, and we will adjust and learn to handle our creations responsibly. Personally, I have faith in mankind not to blow off his head with the gun of his making. That is why I strongly support AI development (not to mention space exploration and genetic research as well).
Third, release it anonymously.
That people have to release useful, open codes anonymously in order to avoid terrible corporate punishment is a very sad thought.
I should hope that I would have more sense, but I would be very tempted to release such codes with my name on them. To me, the support of the hacker community is worth the price of corporate crackdown. Then there's that whole ego thing a la esr.
The common thread in articles already posted is old DOS games. A lot of us were into (/getting into) computers during the DOS 5.x heyday, or thereabouts. And there were some really neat games from that era.
Some games I'd like to see:
Test Drive 2/3
Stunts (please!)
Golden Axe
The Keen series
*'s Quest, especially the old ones.
And maybe some Starcon.
That would rule. Also, while I'm wishing, TAPPER, and all the classic arcade games (Joust, *Pacman*, Gallaga, Space Invaders, etc.)