If you're getting a good upload (server) rate. That's probably less than you'd pay for an hour of on-site service from a backbone provider. You can run a 'server' from just about any DSL service, the big question is how well will it work?
I've got standard BAnet DSL at 50 bucks a month, and I get 640/128 speeds and a static IP. This isn't fast enough on the upload to serve. It makes sense from an economic standpoint though. My download speeds are a little under half of a T1 (which isn't really acurate since most T-1's handle more than one computers connections) at about 1/30th of the price. Upload is about 1/12th the speed at 1/30th the price.
At some point in time, this hits a T-1, T-3 or something that hits the internet which does have to get paid for. For example, BAnet seems to hit a Quest backbone that they need to pay for. They probably have some sort of volume discount, but they still spend alot of what you're paying just to be able to tie into the net.
Obviously, if you can't afford 120 bucks a month, you can't afford it, but I don't think it's unreasonable if you're getting at least 384kb upload speed and a static IP address.
This could be old-school cracking where people were actually attacking telco switching stations. It could interfere with just voice calls, ISDN or some sort of T1 or fiber optic that (although possibly handled by the telco) doesn't hit the backbone. For all we know it could have been someone scanning their voice mail system trying to find a way to make free long distance calls.
Scanning voice mail is probably the only one of the above actions that was likely in 1997. Running through some sort of call out service is not only free, it adds one more level of indirection when people try and track you down. I'm sure there are some more that don't involve the internet.
It's actually probably because NT uses UNICODE for it's native character set. This is 16 bit wide characters. Practically (for those of us using english) you're just using the ANSI-subset, which leaves every other byte in a string set to 0.
Probably makes it easy to get good compression.
And just because it's slashdot- Unicode is a Good Thing(tm)
Probably the biggest example of why Open Source systems can't be trusted from a contratual standpoint. This runs contrary to the open source ideologly that you can change something completely if it makes the software better.
That's really going to be where the lines get drawn.
Given the fundimentally different design philosophies and goals between something like Amiga and something like Linux, you're comparing apples and oranges. Most people use an alternative operating system because they like it better than mainsteam OS's. Not just because the hate Windows or want to look cool.
Since Amiga and Linux have radically different purposes, they'll draw different kinds of people who want to do different kinds of things with their computers.
Anyway, the new Amiga SDK runs on Linux, so now instead feeling estatic for running NetBSD on an A3000, you'll be able to feel estatic when you get Amiga OS up and running on Linux:)
COM is independant, I believe you can even have binaries running on Solaris getting called from a Windows machine via the network.
I believe ActiveX and OLE require Win32API though.
The biggest thing is establishing a generic standard for components though. You can't just compile an OO Dynamic Link Library and expect it to work properly(for various reasons: OO name mangling, virtual functions, ect), especially if you need to release new versions of it that work with older stuff.
So you can either compile the OO code into every program that uses it, or create a generic standard so you can use OO DLL's. Once this generic standard is established, you can make platform specific librarys/toolkits for the GUI that can be resued.
These won't be API independant, but at this level you could implement a toolkit/Library that would utilize the KDE or Gnome APIs as needed without the end-user or app programmer having to write their own custom code.
You could (possibly) do something like this now, it'd just be a library of straight C calls though and would get really ugly.
Lawyers representing BT have issued a cease and desist letter to the United States Patent and Trademark Office citing "hyper-links" available via the "World Wide Web" to the USPTO "Full Text and Image Patent Database"
Has anyone had success with OCR working well? It always seems to work in a half-assed way for me. It always seems to cause more problems than it solves. You really need to PDF the documents from an electronic form to get decent results. People still think they'll be able to scan in a spreadsheet and use OCR to create a useable Excel file(formulas and all:) ).
Of course if you have thousands of sheets of paper, there's not really any choice. A happy middle-ground is to scan in the images and manually add old-school keywords to the documents.
Haven't seen the page yet, 404'ed, but I wish the team the best of luck.
I've always thought one problem with open source is that you couldn't really just do something groundbreaking, you basically just had to copy other stuff, seeing as there's alot of design by committee.
It looks like this is something that requires some vision.
Sure linux is cool for computer geeks/ education, but why on earth do we need to keep Unix around? Let it die. I'm still waiting for Compaq to really give up on VMS and Open Source it, so we can see a l33t VMS hacker scene pop up.
It's time for a NG system. Imagine an OS with O-O dlls from the ground up, an OS that actually has a built in GUI. That's the real future.
The whole point of the article is that there is no absolute definition of morality or ethics. Every time the MPAA/RIAA/ M$ threads come up, there are hordes of/.'ers famously saying "Information wants to be free." The question is "said who?"
There's no way to prove that information wants to be free. It's just something that some open-source guy said and is now taken as FACT by the people who listened to him.
There's also 'the genie is out of the bottle' arguement that is used for Napster. Napster can be shut down, but there will still be some other program (like Gnutella) providing the same functionallity. This completely bypasses the ETHICAL issue of whether it's right or wrong to use/copy/distribute Copyrighted material (and whether or not Copyright is right or Wrong)
The article is basically saying that people need to take a look at what Free Software leaders are saying, and determine if the arguements made and the source they're from is credible. That's way he can say that the Autobahn isn't evil because it was built by nazis, and hey, this ERS guy is a gun nut, so you might want to consider that when he talks about other moral issues, in the same article.
Just because some guy writes a manifesto, it doesn't instantly make free software better than commercial software. And if it does, what implications does that have in the real world? Should books be free, should televison be free, should cauliflower be free?
Just take the time to think for yourself about the assumptions and agruements made that make free software ethically and morally right, and think about what happens when you apply these same assumptions and aguements to everything else in the world but software.
I'm sure you could make alot of money if you created some AI that could reconstitute the real e-mail address from slashdotter's anti-spam addresses, taking contextual clues from their.sig files if necessary.
Or perhaps you could design some stuff to help out the fellas at Echelon or Cybersitter, since they've had 10 years or so to figure out what pr0n reall means, and haven't been able to do it yet.
Remember, spam is exactly the kind of freedom of speech that needs protecting.
Top Ten Reasons why I use Napster:
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10) The record companies are ripping off artists, 9) the artists that don't get ripped off are too rich, 8) any CD played on a Linux system somewhere in the world is liscensed under GPL, 7) that song sucks, it's not worth paying for (but still worth listening to), 6) The only place I can steal from artists that haven't got that major label deal yet. 5) The Constitution is way out of date, copyright / ip serves no purpose in today's world, 4) Banning it violates my Constitutional right to free speech! 3) Go after the real culprits. I didn't steal Metallica's studio masters, I just redistributed them. 2) The genies out of the bottle! You can't stop technology (or rape or murder), anyone who tries is stupid. Who cares about right or wrong? 1) 'cause Jon Katz said so.
If you go to the link, you'll see that Metallica specifically exempted trading 'bootlegs' recorded at concerts. That means they ARE letting people trade.mp3s of stuff they recorded at concerts.
If you would read articles about this subject on anything other than slashdot, you would also know that the only reason Metallica cracked down in the first place was becuase people were trading studio masters of songs BEFORE THEY WERE RELEASED. This was even before the promo copies or a came out.
So please stop saying "but I own all the CD's" Even if you do, try this:
You guys are missing the point. Metallica isn't going to sue every user. They probably realize people can just get a new login.
But what they have proved is that Napster is basically designed to enable piracy. This wasn't some sneak attack out of nowhere.
There's been enough press lately that a majority of the people grabbing Metallica stuff realized that Metallica didn't want them doing it and considered it illegal. But that didn't stop anyone from grabbing songs.
My big problem with Napster is that I don't see what's so hard about making your own.MP3 if you own the CD.
The guy who patented (or at least 'invented' the process) the referenced 'hyperspace communication' was actually at one time the bassist for Iron Butterfly. The knowledge drove him insane.
It allegedly worked by bending gravity-waves. Since they don't actually travel, it was instantaneous.
Like I said, just thinking about this drove him crazy. Then one day he disappeared while going to pick up a business associate at an airport. There was all kinds of speculation, the russians kidnapped him (like tesla), aliens, roscotarians, you name it.
There was even an America's Most Wanted segment on it (although it wasn't as good as Unsolved Mysteries recreation of Rollin's best friend getting shot)
Last year they found his van at the bottom of a cliff. His body was in it. He probably killed himself.
P.S. Random 'quotes' make anything 'sound' like a 'conspiracy'
Revealed that the library in question actually contained the string "Bruce Perens is a weenie!"
fps determines passes, not actual fps
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FPS doesn't necessarily determine the actual outputted frames in the gaming world. If you run multiple passes you can use '100 fps' without getting 100 fps out. A twin-texel video card can combine two textures in one pass. That gives you the generic texture and the world lightmap. If you want to add the light from a rocket or motion blur or something you need to do another pass. So you draw the scene twice before you put it on the screen. So even though you're drawing 100 frames you're only displaying 50. If you need to add another pass for some other crazy effect, now you're only getting 33 fps. Even still, you're right, the eye can't really process alot of this information. Last week there was a thread here where John C. said the same thing, and gamers started arguing saying he wasn't right. The funny thing was he wasn't talking opinion, he actually rendered out two different AVI's and asked people to tell him which one looked better [but he was still wrong:) ] To get even further off-topic, people will frequently bring up that movies only run at 24 fps, so that's all you need. A true 24 fps will flicker (like old movies do) To get around this motion picture projectors have a five-bladed shutter, which means every 'real' frame get's shown four times with black-space in between. You're still seeing blank screen 1/2 the time, but the brain can't figure it out.
They invented home broadband access. Remember the Sega Channel? Pay five dollars a month and plug your cable tv into the genesis, download games. That was crazy.
There was a genesis web browser. too.
It even had parallel multiprocessers. A Z80 slapped on to run an independent sound system.
A mere ten years ago, this was all too insane for your small minds to comprehend.
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If you're getting a good upload (server) rate. That's probably less than you'd pay for an hour of on-site service from a backbone provider. You can run a 'server' from just about any DSL service, the big question is how well will it work?
I've got standard BAnet DSL at 50 bucks a month, and I get 640/128 speeds and a static IP. This isn't fast enough on the upload to serve. It makes sense from an economic standpoint though. My download speeds are a little under half of a T1 (which isn't really acurate since most T-1's handle more than one computers connections) at about 1/30th of the price. Upload is about 1/12th the speed at 1/30th the price.
At some point in time, this hits a T-1, T-3 or something that hits the internet which does have to get paid for. For example, BAnet seems to hit a Quest backbone that they need to pay for. They probably have some sort of volume discount, but they still spend alot of what you're paying just to be able to tie into the net.
Obviously, if you can't afford 120 bucks a month, you can't afford it, but I don't think it's unreasonable if you're getting at least 384kb upload speed and a static IP address.
Despite the original posters intentions I'm sure.
I couldn't for the life of me figure out why traceroute was an invalid command on my 98 box.
This could be old-school cracking where people were actually attacking telco switching stations. It could interfere with just voice calls, ISDN or some sort of T1 or fiber optic that (although possibly handled by the telco) doesn't hit the backbone. For all we know it could have been someone scanning their voice mail system trying to find a way to make free long distance calls.
Scanning voice mail is probably the only one of the above actions that was likely in 1997. Running through some sort of call out service is not only free, it adds one more level of indirection when people try and track you down. I'm sure there are some more that don't involve the internet.
For hiring 8 year old pakistanis as sysadmins.
It's actually probably because NT uses UNICODE for it's native character set. This is 16 bit wide characters. Practically (for those of us using english) you're just using the ANSI-subset, which leaves every other byte in a string set to 0.
Probably makes it easy to get good compression.
And just because it's slashdot- Unicode is a Good Thing(tm)
Probably the biggest example of why Open Source systems can't be trusted from a contratual standpoint. This runs contrary to the open source ideologly that you can change something completely if it makes the software better.
That's really going to be where the lines get drawn.
:)
Given the fundimentally different design philosophies and goals between something like Amiga and something like Linux, you're comparing apples and oranges. Most people use an alternative operating system because they like it better than mainsteam OS's. Not just because the hate Windows or want to look cool.
Since Amiga and Linux have radically different purposes, they'll draw different kinds of people who want to do different kinds of things with their computers.
Anyway, the new Amiga SDK runs on Linux, so now instead feeling estatic for running NetBSD on an A3000, you'll be able to feel estatic when you get Amiga OS up and running on Linux
COM is independant, I believe you can even have binaries running on Solaris getting called from a Windows machine via the network.
I believe ActiveX and OLE require Win32API though.
The biggest thing is establishing a generic standard for components though. You can't just compile an OO Dynamic Link Library and expect it to work properly(for various reasons: OO name mangling, virtual functions, ect), especially if you need to release new versions of it that work with older stuff.
So you can either compile the OO code into every program that uses it, or create a generic standard so you can use OO DLL's. Once this generic standard is established, you can make platform specific librarys/toolkits for the GUI that can be resued.
These won't be API independant, but at this level you could implement a toolkit/Library that would utilize the KDE or Gnome APIs as needed without the end-user or app programmer having to write their own custom code.
You could (possibly) do something like this now, it'd just be a library of straight C calls though and would get really ugly.
RMS specifically ordered that the wheel should not be allowed in Linux.
See man su for details.
Lawyers representing BT have issued a cease and desist letter to the United States Patent and Trademark Office citing "hyper-links" available via the "World Wide Web" to the USPTO "Full Text and Image Patent Database"
Just leave the case off and disconnect the fan.
Has anyone had success with OCR working well? It always seems to work in a half-assed way for me. It always seems to cause more problems than it solves. You really need to PDF the documents from an electronic form to get decent results. People still think they'll be able to scan in a spreadsheet and use OCR to create a useable Excel file(formulas and all :) ).
Of course if you have thousands of sheets of paper, there's not really any choice. A happy middle-ground is to scan in the images and manually add old-school keywords to the documents.
Little-endian architecture is clearly much more elegant and the way of the future.
The article says it'd cost $120,000 a year to run a T-3 600 miles to Alberqerque. Isn't that what a T-3 would coust anywhere?
$10,000 bucks a month isn't unreasonable. Find ten local companies who need(or think they need) T-1 access and you've already payed for the line.
Haven't seen the page yet, 404'ed, but I wish the team the best of luck.
I've always thought one problem with open source is that you couldn't really just do something groundbreaking, you basically just had to copy other stuff, seeing as there's alot of design by committee.
It looks like this is something that requires some vision.
Sure linux is cool for computer geeks/ education, but why on earth do we need to keep Unix around? Let it die. I'm still waiting for Compaq to really give up on VMS and Open Source it, so we can see a l33t VMS hacker scene pop up.
It's time for a NG system. Imagine an OS with O-O dlls from the ground up, an OS that actually has a built in GUI. That's the real future.
It's about ethics and morality.
/.'ers famously saying "Information wants to be free." The question is "said who?"
The whole point of the article is that there is no absolute definition of morality or ethics. Every time the MPAA/RIAA/ M$ threads come up, there are hordes of
There's no way to prove that information wants to be free. It's just something that some open-source guy said and is now taken as FACT by the people who listened to him.
There's also 'the genie is out of the bottle' arguement that is used for Napster. Napster can be shut down, but there will still be some other program (like Gnutella) providing the same functionallity. This completely bypasses the ETHICAL issue of whether it's right or wrong to use/copy/distribute Copyrighted material (and whether or not Copyright is right or Wrong)
The article is basically saying that people need to take a look at what Free Software leaders are saying, and determine if the arguements made and the source they're from is credible. That's way he can say that the Autobahn isn't evil because it was built by nazis, and hey, this ERS guy is a gun nut, so you might want to consider that when he talks about other moral issues, in the same article.
Just because some guy writes a manifesto, it doesn't instantly make free software better than commercial software. And if it does, what implications does that have in the real world? Should books be free, should televison be free, should cauliflower be free?
Just take the time to think for yourself about the assumptions and agruements made that make free software ethically and morally right, and think about what happens when you apply these same assumptions and aguements to everything else in the world but software.
I'm sure you could make alot of money if you created some AI that could reconstitute the real e-mail address from slashdotter's anti-spam addresses, taking contextual clues from their .sig files if necessary.
Or perhaps you could design some stuff to help out the fellas at Echelon or Cybersitter, since they've had 10 years or so to figure out what pr0n reall means, and haven't been able to do it yet.
Remember, spam is exactly the kind of freedom of speech that needs protecting.
10) The record companies are ripping off artists,
9) the artists that don't get ripped off are too rich,
8) any CD played on a Linux system somewhere in the world is liscensed under GPL,
7) that song sucks, it's not worth paying for (but still worth listening to),
6) The only place I can steal from artists that haven't got that major label deal yet.
5) The Constitution is way out of date, copyright / ip serves no purpose in today's world,
4) Banning it violates my Constitutional right to free speech!
3) Go after the real culprits. I didn't steal Metallica's studio masters, I just redistributed them.
2) The genies out of the bottle! You can't stop technology (or rape or murder), anyone who tries is stupid. Who cares about right or wrong?
1) 'cause Jon Katz said so.
If you go to the link, you'll see that Metallica specifically exempted trading 'bootlegs' recorded at concerts. That means they ARE letting people trade .mp3s of stuff they recorded at concerts.
If you would read articles about this subject on anything other than slashdot, you would also know that the only reason Metallica cracked down in the first place was becuase people were trading studio masters of songs BEFORE THEY WERE RELEASED. This was even before the promo copies or a came out.
So please stop saying "but I own all the CD's" Even if you do, try this:
1) Put CD in CD-ROM Drive
2) Run MP3 Program
wasn't too hard, was it?
You guys are missing the point. Metallica isn't going to sue every user. They probably realize people can just get a new login.
.MP3 if you own the CD.
But what they have proved is that Napster is basically designed to enable piracy. This wasn't some sneak attack out of nowhere.
There's been enough press lately that a majority of the people grabbing Metallica stuff realized that Metallica didn't want them doing it and considered it illegal. But that didn't stop anyone from grabbing songs.
My big problem with Napster is that I don't see what's so hard about making your own
The guy who patented (or at least 'invented' the process) the referenced 'hyperspace communication' was actually at one time the bassist for Iron Butterfly. The knowledge drove him insane.
It allegedly worked by bending gravity-waves. Since they don't actually travel, it was instantaneous.
Like I said, just thinking about this drove him crazy. Then one day he disappeared while going to pick up a business associate at an airport. There was all kinds of speculation, the russians kidnapped him (like tesla), aliens, roscotarians, you name it.
There was even an America's Most Wanted segment on it (although it wasn't as good as Unsolved Mysteries recreation of Rollin's best friend getting shot)
Last year they found his van at the bottom of a cliff. His body was in it. He probably killed himself.
P.S. Random 'quotes' make anything 'sound' like a 'conspiracy'
... how many people brought up the fact that Be Inc had shelled out six figures to use some non-proprietary code.
Revealed that the library in question actually contained the string "Bruce Perens is a weenie!"
FPS doesn't necessarily determine the actual outputted frames in the gaming world. If you run multiple passes you can use '100 fps' without getting 100 fps out. A twin-texel video card can combine two textures in one pass. That gives you the generic texture and the world lightmap. If you want to add the light from a rocket or motion blur or something you need to do another pass. So you draw the scene twice before you put it on the screen. So even though you're drawing 100 frames you're only displaying 50. If you need to add another pass for some other crazy effect, now you're only getting 33 fps. Even still, you're right, the eye can't really process alot of this information. Last week there was a thread here where John C. said the same thing, and gamers started arguing saying he wasn't right. The funny thing was he wasn't talking opinion, he actually rendered out two different AVI's and asked people to tell him which one looked better [but he was still wrong :) ] To get even further off-topic, people will frequently bring up that movies only run at 24 fps, so that's all you need. A true 24 fps will flicker (like old movies do) To get around this motion picture projectors have a five-bladed shutter, which means every 'real' frame get's shown four times with black-space in between. You're still seeing blank screen 1/2 the time, but the brain can't figure it out.
The Genesis had it all.
There was a modem for online multiplayer games.
They invented home broadband access. Remember the Sega Channel? Pay five dollars a month and plug your cable tv into the genesis, download games. That was crazy.
There was a genesis web browser. too.
It even had parallel multiprocessers. A Z80 slapped on to run an independent sound system.
A mere ten years ago, this was all too insane for your small minds to comprehend.