The gnutella node that gave me the reassembly list didn't give me any actual infringing content, just a bunch of numbers.
At some point, this is no defense because once the tracker-file becomes sufficiently complex, we could consider it to simply be an encoding. Why is it illegal to distribute copyrighted material which have been ZIPed? After all, a ZIP file does not contain any actual infringing content, just a bunch of numbers.
"2.5GHz, four-core G5 processor (pretty comparable to the 360's 3.2GHz three-core G5 processor), 512MB of their RAM (again, like the 360), and a next-gen ATI gfx processor w/16MB of extra RAM."
None of these things are confirmed, denied or commented on by the link you give.
Can you confirm that or do you have a cite? As far as I know the RAM company only leaked a release date for the and the specs got added somewhere to the story as it was forwarded around the blog circuit. Those specs look reasonable but I don't think they've been commented on by any trustworthy source. I'd be curious to see if they had.
The XBox 360 gets unveiled; it hits the slashdot front page. The Sony PS3 gets unveiled; it hits the slashdot front page. The Nintendo Revolution gets unveiled; it goes to the games.slashdot section page.
Hmm.
Anyhow, Nintendo pretty much let down anyone who was hoping for real information today. I can shrug this off though. What matters to me though is what they do to developers.
Nintendo made quiet public statements a month or so ago that there would be more shown of the Revolution behind closed doors than there were in their E3 conference; today, they brought a Revolution prototype on stage (and apparently a functional one, since they said it wasn't as small as the final version would be) and said that they'd be showing it off in meetings later that week. I assume this means they're going to be revealing the information to developers this week that they didn't to consumers today.
And, well, they'd better. Work on PS3 games is clearly already starting or seriously underway. Nintendo can continue to cocktease consumers for another six months without it being a serious problem for them, but if they don't sell third party developers on this quickly they're going to outright miss the chance to get third parties signed on at all.
The thing that really concerns me is, Nintendo seems to be convinced they have solutions for low-budget high-concept dev houses; well, that won't really help much if nobody but the five or six massive developers Nintendo talks to behind closed doors this week are considered NDA-trustworthy enough to get dev kits, and by the time the low-budget high-concept game designers actually find out what the Revolution is they're already locked into making PS3 games.
Well, at least the new DS lineup is absolutely fantastic.
>> Also, there are plenty of benchmarks showing Java is as fast or faster than C and C++ on large datasets and long-running applications, when the environment initialization isn't a hit on performance.
If I ever found myself in such a situation, the way I would look at it is that my private space was violated by the people who put my personal information where it could be indirectly but publicly accessed, not the people who chose to take advantage of that.
The "Java market" doesn't so much exist at the moment, in the sense of a viable choice of JVMs for production use. This is, one would expect, one of the things this project would hope to fix. One would also expect this would be somewhat difficult if you select a license which precludes the bulk of important open source code out there today from linking against you. This is a problem. As a platform, one might even say a piece of middleware given the JVM's nature as a negotiator between software and operating system, one would expect the JVM to select a license which makes it as flexible as possible despite any political considerations.
The GPL is the license the market has picked. If Apache willfully chooses to spurn that, that's their problem. And we, the consumers, are the ones who have to deal with the side effects of the problem Apache has created.
This just sounds like DIVX with some buzzwords added.
I imagine if they try to productize this, they'll fail for the same reason DIVX failed; the technology demands far too much of and is far too restrictive on the consumer while offering no benefits to anyone except the producer.
If movie companies want DVDs available at the same time the movie comes out they can just bloody well sell them. It's amazing how much proposed technology serves no purpose except attempting to overcome corporate insecurity*.
* Corporate insecurity. "Insecurity" not as in "Inadequately guarded or protected; unsafe" but "insecurity" as in "Lacking self-confidence; plagued by anxiety".
How actively do they participate in it, at current? What degree of influence or voice do they have? Is the creation of the Harmony project likely to change either of these things?
So they're beginning a java project whose primary goal appears to be to cut through all the licensing nonsense surrounding java.
And what is their first decision?
To put it under a GPL-incompatible license.
Gee. Real smart there. I imagine the GPL3 will be Apache2 compatible, but still, if they wanted to make things simple, they've failed at that from day one.
Anyway, here's thing that interests me. The FAQ seems to be saying that this will be a fully qualified, certified version of Java. So is Apache now going to take active part in the JCP and such? Because I think notable open source voices in the JCP could almost be more important than the software they create itself.
So, reading your post and some other posts in this thread, this is the impression I have got, please tell me if it is correct or incorrect:
If this experiment works, it will not prove superstring theory. But if the experiment DOESN'T work, it will DISPROVE or seriously hamper superstring theory?
But that we seem to be forgetting. PJ isn't so much important in this context as a figure in the SCO case. She's important because she is a competitor to Ms. O'Gara, as both are commentators and both seem to claim to be journalists and both have frequently shown up in relation to this single ongoing news story.
This perspective makes things a little more interesting. This wasn't just O'Gara attacking a public figure whose stance on the she agrees with. This was her, as a media personality and analyst, directly and personally attacking another media personality and analyst she competes with. And that, frankly, to me is a little bit weirder, like CBS News running an attack piece on Stone Cold Steve Phillips or whoever that Fox newsanchor is. Journalists sometimes naturally must report on other journalists when they become in some way relevant to the story, and PJ from Groklaw has done exactly that when relevant. But one expects journalists won't use the power made available to them through the information channels they control to, you know, find the street addresses of their competitors' parents and publish them.
This thing that we are typing into right now is not journalism. It is an internet discussion board.
I personally believe that journalists and internet discussion boards should be held to vastly different minimum standards of integrity.
Meanwhile, it seems to me that-- since this person speaks with no self accountability and no evidence for his accusations-- leaving the name of the company out would be the ethical thing to do in this case, or at least more ethical than making unbacked accusations publicly against a company.
So is this the new trick, if you're in a situation where you kind of look like the bad guy and you're trying to deflect attention, just claim somebody DDOSed you?
Cringely is impressed that Google is offering a web accelerator service, something AOL has done for years; that the XBox will play music and video, something the playstations 1 and 2 did, respectively; that Yahoo is unveiling a service almost identical to the Napster service that appeared in the wake of the iTunes Music Store; and that Apple may, at some unspecified point in the future be releasing a product.
Well, that's all well and good. But I think the really important thing for the tech market is, will Gore or Bush win the election? Because Cringely doesn't weigh in on that at all.
Secondly it is antifuse-based one-time programmable ROM. It is NOT a flash which can be re-written 100,000 times. So it is more useful for storing application code but not for data storage etc.
Sounds great for something like a handheld video game system off the top of my head though. Handheld games are really hurting right now for need of some kind of compromise between hi-latency powerhungry high-capacity discs and low-latency power-cheap low-capacity ROM cartridges...
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The gnutella node that gave me the reassembly list didn't give me any actual infringing content, just a bunch of numbers.
At some point, this is no defense because once the tracker-file becomes sufficiently complex, we could consider it to simply be an encoding. Why is it illegal to distribute copyrighted material which have been ZIPed? After all, a ZIP file does not contain any actual infringing content, just a bunch of numbers.
I don't care how encrypted or advanced or "secure" it is, I don't want my credit card doing anything unless I've taken it out of my wallet.
And I would sooner change my bank to get a normal credit card than I would buy a wallet with a faraday cage built in.
The previous poster said:
"2.5GHz, four-core G5 processor (pretty comparable to the 360's 3.2GHz three-core G5 processor), 512MB of their RAM (again, like the 360), and a next-gen ATI gfx processor w/16MB of extra RAM."
None of these things are confirmed, denied or commented on by the link you give.
Can you confirm that or do you have a cite? As far as I know the RAM company only leaked a release date for the and the specs got added somewhere to the story as it was forwarded around the blog circuit. Those specs look reasonable but I don't think they've been commented on by any trustworthy source. I'd be curious to see if they had.
The XBox 360 gets unveiled; it hits the slashdot front page. The Sony PS3 gets unveiled; it hits the slashdot front page. The Nintendo Revolution gets unveiled; it goes to the games.slashdot section page.
Hmm.
Anyhow, Nintendo pretty much let down anyone who was hoping for real information today. I can shrug this off though. What matters to me though is what they do to developers.
Nintendo made quiet public statements a month or so ago that there would be more shown of the Revolution behind closed doors than there were in their E3 conference; today, they brought a Revolution prototype on stage (and apparently a functional one, since they said it wasn't as small as the final version would be) and said that they'd be showing it off in meetings later that week. I assume this means they're going to be revealing the information to developers this week that they didn't to consumers today.
And, well, they'd better. Work on PS3 games is clearly already starting or seriously underway. Nintendo can continue to cocktease consumers for another six months without it being a serious problem for them, but if they don't sell third party developers on this quickly they're going to outright miss the chance to get third parties signed on at all.
The thing that really concerns me is, Nintendo seems to be convinced they have solutions for low-budget high-concept dev houses; well, that won't really help much if nobody but the five or six massive developers Nintendo talks to behind closed doors this week are considered NDA-trustworthy enough to get dev kits, and by the time the low-budget high-concept game designers actually find out what the Revolution is they're already locked into making PS3 games.
Well, at least the new DS lineup is absolutely fantastic.
...then... uh... i guess things would be just like they are now
If someone else left the windows to my house unlocked, without my consent or knowledge
Yeah
>> Also, there are plenty of benchmarks showing Java is as fast or faster than C and C++ on large datasets and long-running applications, when the environment initialization isn't a hit on performance.
> Also known as contrived tests.
Actually it's called "J2EE".
If I ever found myself in such a situation, the way I would look at it is that my private space was violated by the people who put my personal information where it could be indirectly but publicly accessed, not the people who chose to take advantage of that.
Just a thought.
Depends on whether people want to be a member of the open source community or outside of it.
The "Java market" doesn't so much exist at the moment, in the sense of a viable choice of JVMs for production use. This is, one would expect, one of the things this project would hope to fix. One would also expect this would be somewhat difficult if you select a license which precludes the bulk of important open source code out there today from linking against you. This is a problem. As a platform, one might even say a piece of middleware given the JVM's nature as a negotiator between software and operating system, one would expect the JVM to select a license which makes it as flexible as possible despite any political considerations.
No.
The GPL is the license the market has picked. If Apache willfully chooses to spurn that, that's their problem. And we, the consumers, are the ones who have to deal with the side effects of the problem Apache has created.
This just sounds like DIVX with some buzzwords added.
I imagine if they try to productize this, they'll fail for the same reason DIVX failed; the technology demands far too much of and is far too restrictive on the consumer while offering no benefits to anyone except the producer.
If movie companies want DVDs available at the same time the movie comes out they can just bloody well sell them. It's amazing how much proposed technology serves no purpose except attempting to overcome corporate insecurity*.
* Corporate insecurity. "Insecurity" not as in "Inadequately guarded or protected; unsafe" but "insecurity" as in "Lacking self-confidence; plagued by anxiety".
Apache alread is part of the JCP...
Okay.
How actively do they participate in it, at current? What degree of influence or voice do they have? Is the creation of the Harmony project likely to change either of these things?
So they're beginning a java project whose primary goal appears to be to cut through all the licensing nonsense surrounding java.
And what is their first decision?
To put it under a GPL-incompatible license.
Gee. Real smart there. I imagine the GPL3 will be Apache2 compatible, but still, if they wanted to make things simple, they've failed at that from day one.
Anyway, here's thing that interests me. The FAQ seems to be saying that this will be a fully qualified, certified version of Java. So is Apache now going to take active part in the JCP and such? Because I think notable open source voices in the JCP could almost be more important than the software they create itself.
For some reason reading this suggestion the phrase comes to mind "the terrorists have already won".
So, reading your post and some other posts in this thread, this is the impression I have got, please tell me if it is correct or incorrect:
If this experiment works, it will not prove superstring theory. But if the experiment DOESN'T work, it will DISPROVE or seriously hamper superstring theory?
I knew Wil Wheaton had an account somewhere on slashdot, I was WONDERING what his username was!
But that we seem to be forgetting. PJ isn't so much important in this context as a figure in the SCO case. She's important because she is a competitor to Ms. O'Gara, as both are commentators and both seem to claim to be journalists and both have frequently shown up in relation to this single ongoing news story.
This perspective makes things a little more interesting. This wasn't just O'Gara attacking a public figure whose stance on the she agrees with. This was her, as a media personality and analyst, directly and personally attacking another media personality and analyst she competes with. And that, frankly, to me is a little bit weirder, like CBS News running an attack piece on Stone Cold Steve Phillips or whoever that Fox newsanchor is. Journalists sometimes naturally must report on other journalists when they become in some way relevant to the story, and PJ from Groklaw has done exactly that when relevant. But one expects journalists won't use the power made available to them through the information channels they control to, you know, find the street addresses of their competitors' parents and publish them.
This thing that we are typing into right now is not journalism. It is an internet discussion board.
I personally believe that journalists and internet discussion boards should be held to vastly different minimum standards of integrity.
Meanwhile, it seems to me that-- since this person speaks with no self accountability and no evidence for his accusations-- leaving the name of the company out would be the ethical thing to do in this case, or at least more ethical than making unbacked accusations publicly against a company.
So is this the new trick, if you're in a situation where you kind of look like the bad guy and you're trying to deflect attention, just claim somebody DDOSed you?
So.
Cringely is impressed that Google is offering a web accelerator service, something AOL has done for years; that the XBox will play music and video, something the playstations 1 and 2 did, respectively; that Yahoo is unveiling a service almost identical to the Napster service that appeared in the wake of the iTunes Music Store; and that Apple may, at some unspecified point in the future be releasing a product.
Well, that's all well and good. But I think the really important thing for the tech market is, will Gore or Bush win the election? Because Cringely doesn't weigh in on that at all.
Secondly it is antifuse-based one-time programmable ROM. It is NOT a flash which can be re-written 100,000 times. So it is more useful for storing application code but not for data storage etc.
Sounds great for something like a handheld video game system off the top of my head though. Handheld games are really hurting right now for need of some kind of compromise between hi-latency powerhungry high-capacity discs and low-latency power-cheap low-capacity ROM cartridges...
That's about as impressive as predicting that the sun would rise this morning.
Have you ever tried to changed your internal pH to be alkaline balance? I'm sure you haven't cause you would be dead.
In which case it would most definitely be impossible for cancer to form.
The technique works!