Everyone has everyone's data, but the data is encrypted and pseudo-anonymous - meaning you can't get information on someone's transaction without knowing a long bitcoin-address. The latter you can recreate for each transaction for added security. For more information, use a search engine like this one: https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+introduction
What makes the encryption/privacy issue for BItcoin easier is that the data that is stored are just numbers with little or no value on them own: data like 1235.12 is absolutely meaningless when you don't know to whom and what the number applies too But data like a JPEG representing a cat or a text like 'I dated with Alice' already means something on its own. So our distributed social network would have to store only data of each-other friends. When you use Facebook or similar social networks, it stores data of *everyone*.
A distributed social network without any central server would certainly work: just look at Bitcoin. When you start up the Bitcoin client, you can securely transfer Bitcoins to other clients. The Distributed social network client would instead of transfering Bitcoins, transfer social information (pictures, messages). Instead of replicating transactions as Bitcoin does, it could replicate the state of all of the connections ('friends') of the person running the client. That friends could replicate the state of the person as well, so when you'd have enough friends you wouldn't have to worry about backups.
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Oracle joined the Eclipse foundation reluctantly and they have, as far as I know, not released an IDE based on Eclipse.
JDeveloper is more targeted for RAD development or development for software to run on Oracle software (such as JHeadstart) - although JDeveloper is certainly not limited to Oracle software. By the way, JDeveloper is based on a old version of JBuilder (I think it was JBuilder 2)
I, as many programmers, like Netbeans more then Eclipse, so changes are big Netbeans will get (more) support of Oracle.
I think, rather than donating money for a computer, we can rather donate money for internet cafes.
I worked with floppies a lot too, but for most people that isn't very usuable. Remember, that before the internet computers were much less used. Most non-tech people either didn't have a computer or only used for tekst-writing or playing games.
I think internet shops are of much greater use to very poor countries/people than these laptops. The laptops would still be broken or stolen quite fast. Also, without an internet connection and printer they would be of little use.
Internetshops with a good/fast internet connection and a low hourly rate are of much greater use imho. It would be a lot better if every village had one or two computers with a fast (wireless) connection, that the entire village can use.
As set in the article, MS Spyware was still in beta-fase. At least I didn't get it through my Windows update automatically (and do have a legal windows).
For what it's worth (the article is quite 'old' already), F-Prot seems very well. In combination it's a very low-cost mail-virusscan sollution.
You can use the personal version for free even on Linux (for personal use of course). With the new amavis (at least on Debian) you hardly have to configure anything, f-prot even has a Debian package available.
The commercial workstation version works good too, but it can be slow when you have a lot of mails (probably around 10-100 per minute, haven't checked it), because the process is started each time for every mail. The server version works in deamon mode, and does not have any per-client costs.
People aren't very good at cooperation. A lot of competing companies might seem a lot less efficient than one monopoly, but it's not.
A society were every body (should) work together and thus get a equal share will only lead to a corrupted elite and a poor mass. You might argue that *everybody* is equally poor then, but I think it's better to have just part of society poor and the rest reasonable to very rich (and the economy as a whole over long time growing in stead stagnating)
WordPerfect 8 supported somehow sgml, but it wasn't the default. It saved in it's own binary format. Besides WP 8 crashed so many times, that I'd rather spent my time converting Word 97 to Word 95 documents (if ever needed).
I give TWO BIG THUMBS UP to China and their initiative in making a non-half-assed attempt to build their system their way. They have the long-term vision to realise that they need true economic freedom from the West to achieve modern-day economic greatness and I admire their initiative. I wish we were all so lucky.
Are you very naive or just stuped saying the phrase 'Two Big Thumbs UP to China (or I'm a falling for a troll)
.. or even better a game console. With that not only the OS is optimized for games, the hardware is too. A game console is cheap, the only difference is that you have to actually *buy* your games instead of copying them.
That would be insane, HTML isn't meant for formated/word processing documents.
XML with an fine DTD (/Scheme) would work, like what is done with AbiWord. Together with gzip, it won't require much space either - and browsers can decode gzip on the fly (even Internet Explorer)
As far as I know, the Windows (Win16) SDK was given away free, maybe not on the internet but there was access to. The IDE wasn't, but that doesn't matter. WP developers still wrote everything in assembler, so there where used to writing in a less convenient (masochistic(?)) environment. Besides, if you look at what was at stake and how many WP copies were sold and were being sold, some investment in tools shouldn't be a problem.
Mugaba had in conjuction with British many chances to transfer land of the white farmers to black workers. However, he hardly cooperated and he just gave some land to 'friends', where it than left to waste, just as most the other land of farms that are taken over now.
For this reasons, Rockets are always launched above unpopulated areay like a desert or above a ocean. The Ariane also had a mechanism that automatically self-destructed it automatically when it began to drop.
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Everyone has everyone's data, but the data is encrypted and pseudo-anonymous - meaning you can't get information on someone's transaction without knowing a long bitcoin-address. The latter you can recreate for each transaction for added security. For more information, use a search engine like this one: https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+introduction
What makes the encryption/privacy issue for BItcoin easier is that the data that is stored are just numbers with little or no value on them own: data like 1235.12 is absolutely meaningless when you don't know to whom and what the number applies too But data like a JPEG representing a cat or a text like 'I dated with Alice' already means something on its own.
So our distributed social network would have to store only data of each-other friends. When you use Facebook or similar social networks, it stores data of *everyone*.
A distributed social network without any central server would certainly work: just look at Bitcoin.
When you start up the Bitcoin client, you can securely transfer Bitcoins to other clients. The Distributed social network client would instead of transfering Bitcoins, transfer social information (pictures, messages). Instead of replicating transactions as Bitcoin does, it could replicate the state of all of the connections ('friends') of the person running the client. That friends could replicate the state of the person as well, so when you'd have enough friends you wouldn't have to worry about backups.
Oracle joined the Eclipse foundation reluctantly and they have, as far as I know, not released an IDE based on Eclipse.
JDeveloper is more targeted for RAD development or development for software to run on Oracle software (such as JHeadstart) - although JDeveloper is certainly not limited to Oracle software. By the way, JDeveloper is based on a old version of JBuilder (I think it was JBuilder 2)
I, as many programmers, like Netbeans more then Eclipse, so changes are big Netbeans will get (more) support of Oracle.
I think, rather than donating money for a computer, we can rather donate money for internet cafes.
I worked with floppies a lot too, but for most people that isn't very usuable. Remember, that before the internet computers were much less used. Most non-tech people either didn't have a computer or only used for tekst-writing or playing games.
I think internet shops are of much greater use to very poor countries/people than these laptops.
The laptops would still be broken or stolen quite fast. Also, without an internet connection and printer they would be of little use.
Internetshops with a good/fast internet connection and a low hourly rate are of much greater use imho. It would be a lot better if every village had one or two computers with a fast (wireless) connection, that the entire village can use.
I think there should be a law that forbids making any analogy between software and cars.
As set in the article, MS Spyware was still in beta-fase. At least I didn't get it through my Windows update automatically (and do have a legal windows).
If the API is closed, people can't write applications for your OS, meaning they're won't be any except the applications you write yourself.
This way, people wouldn't use your os if there aren't any applications for it.
For what it's worth (the article is quite 'old' already), F-Prot seems very well. In combination it's a very low-cost mail-virusscan sollution.
You can use the personal version for free even on Linux (for personal use of course). With the new amavis (at least on Debian) you hardly have to configure anything, f-prot even has a Debian package available.
The commercial workstation version works good too, but it can be slow when you have a lot of mails (probably around 10-100 per minute, haven't checked it), because the process is started each time for every mail.
The server version works in deamon mode, and does not have any per-client costs.
Pixar *is* owned by Disney (wasn't that obvious).
You obiously don't know anything about micropayments.
Go back to the stone-age.
Has the RIAA threatened to kill you or your familiy?
Do they blow up your house, torture your?
Ask that Intel
People aren't very good at cooperation. A lot of competing companies might seem a lot less efficient than one monopoly, but it's not.
A society were every body (should) work together and thus get a equal share will only lead to a corrupted elite and a poor mass.
You might argue that *everybody* is equally poor then, but I think it's better to have just part of society poor and the rest reasonable to very rich (and the economy as a whole over long time growing in stead stagnating)
WordPerfect 8 supported somehow sgml, but it wasn't the default. It saved in it's own binary format.
Besides WP 8 crashed so many times, that I'd rather spent my time converting Word 97 to Word 95 documents (if ever needed).
Windows 2000 and Windows XP support the Remote Desktop Protocol, which does this exactly. Basically Windows GDI-API are sent over the net.
I can login from any other computer at my own Windows XP computer and applications don't 'notice' any difference.
Of course that is not the point he wanted to make.
Are you very naive or just stuped saying the phrase 'Two Big Thumbs UP to China (or I'm a falling for a troll)
.. or even better a game console. With that not only the OS is optimized for games, the hardware is too. A game console is cheap, the only difference is that you have to actually *buy* your games instead of copying them.
That would be insane, HTML isn't meant for formated/word processing documents.
XML with an fine DTD (/Scheme) would work, like what is done with AbiWord. Together with gzip, it won't require much space either - and browsers can decode gzip on the fly (even Internet Explorer)
As far as I know, the Windows (Win16) SDK was given away free, maybe not on the internet but there was access to. The IDE wasn't, but that doesn't matter.
WP developers still wrote everything in assembler, so there where used to writing in a less convenient (masochistic(?)) environment. Besides, if you look at what was at stake and how many WP copies were sold and were being sold, some investment in tools shouldn't be a problem.
I have 100Mbit 8-) at my home, for 10,--, excluding the money I pay for going to the university.
Mugaba had in conjuction with British many chances to transfer land of the white farmers to black workers. However, he hardly cooperated and he just gave some land to 'friends', where it than left to waste, just as most the other land of farms that are taken over now.
For this reasons, Rockets are always launched above unpopulated areay like a desert or above a ocean. The Ariane also had a mechanism that automatically self-destructed it automatically when it began to drop.