Today's distribution methods are far from centralized. Amazon doesn't have one warehouse. Dell doesn't assemble PCs in one location. If you mean centrally coordinated, then yes, they are.
BitTorrent is centralized. Everyone has to point to the same torrent file, which has to be stored somewhere.
P2P is about redundancy. However unecessary redundancy is waste, which is why networks centralize in the first place.
Napster centralized search because search works best as a centralized function. Only when legal troubles cropped up did it become worth it to decentralize search. Napster never centralized storage because storage was hard(legally, economically, bandwidthwise) to centralize.
Cellphone networks are distributed because the problem of Coverage is best handled in that manner. However the problem of Continuous Connectivity requires a central coordinator. In the absense of a central coordinator, the individual devices must have, and maintain, the intellect to route their own messages.
Decentralization is inevitable, as the economics of information change. P2P, however, is not inevitable. In fact it is usually only the answer when there are legal,economic, or physical constraints to control.
MP3Board is using AOL to do its defense work for them. AOL/Time-Warner will basicly have to prove that they aren't facilitating piracy. ANY defense AOL uses, will be able to be used by ALL other Napster/Gnutella/MP3Search programs.
Also since AOL/Time-Warner is part of the RIAA, they won't get sued by the RIAA. Basicly this lawsuit devides the RIAA on this issue, because conversely, any argument the RIAA uses to kill Napster/MP3Board, is one that MP3Board can use against AOL.
Democracy isn't something mystical. It is advertising. Period. If you think a person is doing, or will do, a good job, then they will get elected.
The discriminating buyer will spend their time, look at all the options, and make a well informed decision. A few people have brand(party) loyalty and will always buy the products of a certain manufacturer. Others will go to the store and just pick the cheapest/flashiest off the shelf.
However the bulk of people are content to absorb whatever is thrown at them. They assume that the choice between "Special K" and "Corn Flakes" is really excercising their right to choose, not realizing that there are only two fundamental choices(General Mills and Kellogs) when choosing their breakfast cereals(or politicians).
The internet and technology gives you more information, more options, and more choices. However it rarely gives you better choices.
The judge was citing a specific act when saying a PC doesn't constitute a Home Audio device. The judge has no leway in the definition, the Act does the defining.
Since a gene can only code for a protein, there is not always the need for genetic alteration. You could achieve the same thing with simply finding a means of supplying the protein. If it requires prolonged exposure, changing the gene would be desireable. But if you only need it for a few years or months, other arrangements could be made. Like injections, gene therepy, etc.
A specific criticism of the article. It gives people too much credit. People hate to apply their critical thinking skills too liberally. Open media has a lack of obvious trust, this requires a larger investment of critical thinking skills on the part of the reader/viewer. People don't often like to do that.
Think about all the people who take anything MacOSRumors says as gospel on the Apple platform. Think about all those people who heard about the stock market, but didn't bother to figure out how it worked. The same people who felt that reading the company website was the same as research.
Siteing technical sites as proof of a new "Open Media" is misleading. Its like going to a medical convention and using the numbers as proof that people are starting to care more about medicine. Try finding unbiases general news sites. I hope you have better luck than I did, because I didn't find any. Any site I found is so skewed in one direction or another that it is nearly worthless. THIS is the face of the new "Open Media". However two biased opinions don't make an objective viewpoint.
You give "the public" too much credit. It isn't an accident that most of the web traffic is concentrated on only a few sites. It isn't an accident that people stay with AOL. The majority of people like being on-line because it allows them to make choices that TV doesn't. But making choices does not imply critical thinking. You only have to look at election results to see the truth of that.
The new "Open Media" will mean a wealth of biased information which is only useful to those who wish to apply their critical thinking skills on a daily basis and in a wide range. This used to describe the general Internet population until about 1995, but it no longer applies. The rest of the Internet population either just doesn't care enough to read the news, or go to sites that provide an orgy of gratification for their previously held viewpoints.
India and several other countries created the term "Third World of Non-aligned nations". Which were basicly those nations who wanted nothing to do with US/USSR pissing match. Pakistan was a part of India at the time. Therefore Pakistan IS a Third World Nation.
A better solution to the problem of needing to rest every so often, is to drink lots of water. I know from experience that you HAVE to take keyboard breaks when you need to pee every 45 minutes.:-)
(Note: Mountain Dew and other beverages don't count. Water is the best.)
You can legally sue eachother and ask for no damages. Two companies can sue each other in a friendly fashion so as to get a legal ruling on something. Sometimes companies do this to get an official ruling on certain business practices, mergers, etc. It can also be used to test the legality of a contract.
Perhaps the introns are really nature's way of saying, "Hmmm... This isn't useful now, but I might like it in the future.":-) OK, so that probably isn't it.
Perhaps God is using our Intron DNA sequences as a large distributed storage for his pr0n and mp3 collections?
If this is using the technology I think it is(the article wasn't very specific) interference actually helps. The reciever uses the signal reflections, caused by the obstructions, as a type of error checking. Basicly the reciever recieves 10-20 copies of the transmission because of signal reflections. Most other applications try to filter this out, but this technology uses it as error checking.
At least if this is the same technology I am thinking of. I think it is, because they made such a large point out of obstructions.
All of the Anti-Missile projects I have seen actually are designed to hit the target extremely high in the atmosphere, over the ocean, or over the launching country. Part of the theory is that a country won't launch a nuke if we can shoot it down over their country and drop their own radiation back at them.
You seem to forget that Hemp(and Marijuana) were leagal in the US until the 30s. Hemp makes very poor and extremely coarse paper. Trees are a much better, and extremely sense source of pulp. It is easier for them to Geneticly engineer better trees(for tree farms), than it is for them to make hemp paper.
Part of the reason NASA is sending several satillites(Climate Explorer and Surveyor)is to have a little redundancy. Polar Lander can use the antenna of Mars Global Surveyor to relay info back to earth. In addition, Polar Lander will have an orbital component which can relay I believe.
I used to hang out with the Sysadmins of the IRC servers on EFNet(Like 5 years ago), and I can tell you, they WERE BSD nuts. However they also wouldn't link Solaris server either(only SunOS) because Solaris had some sort of limit in their networking stack. I remember hearing over and over again about how bad Solaris was, just because of this one problem. If a person with a @sun.com address came on-channel, they would spam and bombard them with comments like, "fix your sucky OS", etc.
I agree that IRC servers take a pounding, but much of their pounding is due to poor initial design of the ServerToServer/Client protocols.(The coding is good, but you can only improve a protocol so much through code optimizations)
IRC ops, especially EFNet and Undernet have very long memories and hold grudges like you wouldn't believe.:-) Petty-Power-Trippers comes to mind as a description.:-)
They will use quantum processors. They can work faster and use similar materials. You don't have the same problems as electrons(wide wires, electrical interference, etc). You can also use different wavelengths of light to trigger a quantum logic gate. There is also little heat.
You will also move into parallel processing on the chip. Multiple execution paths etc.
We still have a long way to go to get the most out of silicon.
The whole Community ownership of property idea is because of scarce resources. Communism is attempting to address the same problems as capitalism, just in a different way.(Planned economy as opposed to market economy).
Since it costs nearly nothing to make 10, 100, or 100,000 copies of software, the capitalist/communist argument doesn't fly.(The scarce resources aren't there) Keeping source code secret does nothing but prevent the user(if they choose) from using their software tools to their fullest extent. The argument is against closed and open ideas here, not about money and resources(which is what capitalism and communism is about).
Alan would probably take over. As for democratic development model, that might be good for some thing, but I don't think the kernel is a good idea. Things designed by comitee bloat at the drop of a hat.
Think about it, how many of the programs of your distribution do you really use? The kernel isn't a place to play political games and democracy encourages compromise and horse trading.
Once it is released, I am sure things will work at quite a furious pace. Cygnus has signed the NDA and will make the compiler for Merced. Linux has always said Linux can be ported to any platform that gcc can run on, so don't sweat it.
Since the Bible is one of the most influential books on Western Civilization, I'm more than a little suprised that biblical quotes aren't in greater use.;-)
They probably aren't in greater use because some people feel that if you mention the bible, or religion, in daily use, you must be a missionary or a bible-thumper. hehe
Everyone was either Scottish or English, with a few exceptions.:-)
Was this a British film? It seems to have gone overboard on the "Naval-Submarine" imagry. In the US, our Space Ships seem to be more Pilot-Airforce related, while this movie was all about Submarines, torpedoes, and such. I felt like I was watching a really bad WWII sub flick.
P.S. Why in God's Name did they make cool computer animation, but make the Kilrathi out of cheesy foam rubber?
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Today's distribution methods are far from centralized. Amazon doesn't have one warehouse. Dell doesn't assemble PCs in one location. If you mean centrally coordinated, then yes, they are.
BitTorrent is centralized. Everyone has to point to the same torrent file, which has to be stored somewhere.
P2P is about redundancy. However unecessary redundancy is waste, which is why networks centralize in the first place.
Napster centralized search because search works best as a centralized function. Only when legal troubles cropped up did it become worth it to decentralize search. Napster never centralized storage because storage was hard(legally, economically, bandwidthwise) to centralize.
Cellphone networks are distributed because the problem of Coverage is best handled in that manner. However the problem of Continuous Connectivity requires a central coordinator. In the absense of a central coordinator, the individual devices must have, and maintain, the intellect to route their own messages.
Decentralization is inevitable, as the economics of information change. P2P, however, is not inevitable. In fact it is usually only the answer when there are legal,economic, or physical constraints to control.
MP3Board is using AOL to do its defense work for them. AOL/Time-Warner will basicly have to prove that they aren't facilitating piracy. ANY defense AOL uses, will be able to be used by ALL other Napster/Gnutella/MP3Search programs.
Also since AOL/Time-Warner is part of the RIAA, they won't get sued by the RIAA. Basicly this lawsuit devides the RIAA on this issue, because conversely, any argument the RIAA uses to kill Napster/MP3Board, is one that MP3Board can use against AOL.
Ta Da.
Democracy isn't something mystical. It is advertising. Period. If you think a person is doing, or will do, a good job, then they will get elected.
The discriminating buyer will spend their time, look at all the options, and make a well informed decision. A few people have brand(party) loyalty and will always buy the products of a certain manufacturer. Others will go to the store and just pick the cheapest/flashiest off the shelf.
However the bulk of people are content to absorb whatever is thrown at them. They assume that the choice between "Special K" and "Corn Flakes" is really excercising their right to choose, not realizing that there are only two fundamental choices(General Mills and Kellogs) when choosing their breakfast cereals(or politicians).
The internet and technology gives you more information, more options, and more choices. However it rarely gives you better choices.
The judge was citing a specific act when saying a PC doesn't constitute a Home Audio device. The judge has no leway in the definition, the Act does the defining.
There is also the fact that they can measure the effect of wave and tidal power on the rotation of the earth. :-)
Since a gene can only code for a protein, there is not always the need for genetic alteration. You could achieve the same thing with simply finding a means of supplying the protein. If it requires prolonged exposure, changing the gene would be desireable. But if you only need it for a few years or months, other arrangements could be made. Like injections, gene therepy, etc.
A specific criticism of the article. It gives people too much credit. People hate to apply their critical thinking skills too liberally. Open media has a lack of obvious trust, this requires a larger investment of critical thinking skills on the part of the reader/viewer. People don't often like to do that.
Think about all the people who take anything MacOSRumors says as gospel on the Apple platform. Think about all those people who heard about the stock market, but didn't bother to figure out how it worked. The same people who felt that reading the company website was the same as research.
Siteing technical sites as proof of a new "Open Media" is misleading. Its like going to a medical convention and using the numbers as proof that people are starting to care more about medicine. Try finding unbiases general news sites. I hope you have better luck than I did, because I didn't find any. Any site I found is so skewed in one direction or another that it is nearly worthless. THIS is the face of the new "Open Media". However two biased opinions don't make an objective viewpoint.
You give "the public" too much credit. It isn't an accident that most of the web traffic is concentrated on only a few sites. It isn't an accident that people stay with AOL. The majority of people like being on-line because it allows them to make choices that TV doesn't. But making choices does not imply critical thinking. You only have to look at election results to see the truth of that.
The new "Open Media" will mean a wealth of biased information which is only useful to those who wish to apply their critical thinking skills on a daily basis and in a wide range. This used to describe the general Internet population until about 1995, but it no longer applies. The rest of the Internet population either just doesn't care enough to read the news, or go to sites that provide an orgy of gratification for their previously held viewpoints.
India and several other countries created the term "Third World of Non-aligned nations". Which were basicly those nations who wanted nothing to do with US/USSR pissing match. Pakistan was a part of India at the time. Therefore Pakistan IS a Third World Nation.
A better solution to the problem of needing to rest every so often, is to drink lots of water. I know from experience that you HAVE to take keyboard breaks when you need to pee every 45 minutes. :-)
(Note: Mountain Dew and other beverages don't count. Water is the best.)
You can legally sue eachother and ask for no damages. Two companies can sue each other in a friendly fashion so as to get a legal ruling on something. Sometimes companies do this to get an official ruling on certain business practices, mergers, etc. It can also be used to test the legality of a contract.
Perhaps the introns are really nature's way of saying, "Hmmm... This isn't useful now, but I might like it in the future." :-) OK, so that probably isn't it.
Perhaps God is using our Intron DNA sequences as a large distributed storage for his pr0n and mp3 collections?
If this is using the technology I think it is(the article wasn't very specific) interference actually helps. The reciever uses the signal reflections, caused by the obstructions, as a type of error checking. Basicly the reciever recieves 10-20 copies of the transmission because of signal reflections. Most other applications try to filter this out, but this technology uses it as error checking.
At least if this is the same technology I am thinking of. I think it is, because they made such a large point out of obstructions.
All of the Anti-Missile projects I have seen actually are designed to hit the target extremely high in the atmosphere, over the ocean, or over the launching country. Part of the theory is that a country won't launch a nuke if we can shoot it down over their country and drop their own radiation back at them.
You seem to forget that Hemp(and Marijuana) were leagal in the US until the 30s. Hemp makes very poor and extremely coarse paper. Trees are a much better, and extremely sense source of pulp. It is easier for them to Geneticly engineer better trees(for tree farms), than it is for them to make hemp paper.
Part of the reason NASA is sending several satillites(Climate Explorer and Surveyor)is to have a little redundancy. Polar Lander can use the antenna of Mars Global Surveyor to relay info back to earth. In addition, Polar Lander will have an orbital component which can relay I believe.
I used to hang out with the Sysadmins of the IRC servers on EFNet(Like 5 years ago), and I can tell you, they WERE BSD nuts. However they also wouldn't link Solaris server either(only SunOS) because Solaris had some sort of limit in their networking stack. I remember hearing over and over again about how bad Solaris was, just because of this one problem. If a person with a @sun.com address came on-channel, they would spam and bombard them with comments like, "fix your sucky OS", etc.
:-) Petty-Power-Trippers comes to mind as a description. :-)
I agree that IRC servers take a pounding, but much of their pounding is due to poor initial design of the ServerToServer/Client protocols.(The coding is good, but you can only improve a protocol so much through code optimizations)
IRC ops, especially EFNet and Undernet have very long memories and hold grudges like you wouldn't believe.
If it has a legitamite purpose, then MS can't really just "ban" it. :-) They might have to actually fix the security holes.
They will use quantum processors. They can work faster and use similar materials. You don't have the same problems as electrons(wide wires, electrical interference, etc). You can also use different wavelengths of light to trigger a quantum logic gate. There is also little heat.
You will also move into parallel processing on the chip. Multiple execution paths etc.
We still have a long way to go to get the most out of silicon.
The whole Community ownership of property idea is because of scarce resources. Communism is attempting to address the same problems as capitalism, just in a different way.(Planned economy as opposed to market economy).
Since it costs nearly nothing to make 10, 100, or 100,000 copies of software, the capitalist/communist argument doesn't fly.(The scarce resources aren't there) Keeping source code secret does nothing but prevent the user(if they choose) from using their software tools to their fullest extent. The argument is against closed and open ideas here, not about money and resources(which is what capitalism and communism is about).
Alan would probably take over. As for democratic development model, that might be good for some thing, but I don't think the kernel is a good idea. Things designed by comitee bloat at the drop of a hat.
Think about it, how many of the programs of your distribution do you really use? The kernel isn't a place to play political games and democracy encourages compromise and horse trading.
Once it is released, I am sure things will work at quite a furious pace. Cygnus has signed the NDA and will make the compiler for Merced. Linux has always said Linux can be ported to any platform that gcc can run on, so don't sweat it.
Since the Bible is one of the most influential books on Western Civilization, I'm more than a little suprised that biblical quotes aren't in greater use. ;-)
They probably aren't in greater use because some people feel that if you mention the bible, or religion, in daily use, you must be a missionary or a bible-thumper. hehe
:-)
Everyone was either Scottish or English, with a few exceptions. :-)
Was this a British film? It seems to have gone overboard on the "Naval-Submarine" imagry. In the US, our Space Ships seem to be more Pilot-Airforce related, while this movie was all about Submarines, torpedoes, and such. I felt like I was watching a really bad WWII sub flick.
P.S. Why in God's Name did they make cool computer animation, but make the Kilrathi out of cheesy foam rubber?