It seems that everyone and their brother are trying to tie VOIP to QOS which basically means that phone companies could meter the voice packets and charge a different rate for the alleged "faster" delivery. Different networks will never be able to coordinate QOS effectively without charging a premium. And why would a customer pay a premium price for an old service (voice transmitted over a wire is not new)
So if we ditch QOS, the problems are latency and the fact that ip and ethernet packets are too big, which means if you lose one or it is delayed, then you lose noticable amounts of sound. I think the agreed standard is loss or delay of around 400 ms is the point at which you can't carry on a conversation.
I don't know what the current efforts are focused on, but QOS is a bad and expensive idea.
As an aside, it seems the only reasonable solution (besides QOS) to these is to send more udp packets over different udp ports say 3 for sending and 3 for receiving and overlap the voice data so if you lose one packet you don't lose enough to care.
p2p isn't a new technology, but just a marketing term to describe a discovery protocol. The hype surrounding the term is just the result of some people just realizing that the internet was really designed as an end-to-end communications system and not as a broadcast platform.
p2p is a solution in need of a problem. Mail servers and web servers have all come about because people turn their computers off. The term "server" has come to mean a computer that is always on. Soon people will stop turning there personal computers off and more people will be using 24/7 internet connections. So, the term server will lose some meaning.
For broadcast, wireless technologies will always be best. The internet is for end-to end communications.
Let's cut out the middlemen.
anyone know of a python implementation?
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I have been thinking about doing this as a part of the varium project. A python shell with a virtual file system.
If anyone knows of a similar project it would be helpful to see.
My suggestion implies that the employer has not signed the document. In which case there is no need to initial any changes because there is no change it should be considered a proposal. So, by being the first party to sign it is your proposal. It is a vulnerability they put themselves in by not signing the document in the first place.
Preferably, I would add to the second suggestion, that you write in the space where you are supposed to list out your works something like "Everything that I've worked on before is mine exclusively" Clearly this would contradict other parts of the "agreement" that you would sign.
Above all else, do not seek legal counsel. Because this will just come back to haunt you if it ever came to trial. The worst thing that could happen would be to make it seem like the contract was actually negotiated. In fact, you want the contract to be completely and utterly useless as a legal instrument. The worse the stated conditions the more likely it will be completely thrown out.
Just make sure you live in a civilized state which supports individuals over corporations.
a) just reword it, print it out and sign it. Don't lie about the fact that you change it, but just don't mention it. Often small word changes can make a big difference in meaning. See if they care to notice. I doubt they will ever read or sign it anyway. You won't get anywhere telling the company that the document which cost them tens of thousands of dollars to get carefully worded by high priced lawyers and a law firm is a piece of shit.
or
b) just sign it and don't alert them to any inventions. If you have something valuable, that isn't job related, then you can just quit when you are ready to make some money off of it. If they have no previous knowledge of your outside work, then there is no reason to change that. Most state courts will end up deciding this anyway and from what I hear they pretty much are fed up with these "agreements" being so rediculously one sided. If your outside work and job related work are similar in nature then you could have problems regardless.
Lastly, your outside work will only get noticed if you get published or somehow get public or industry attention. In which case just be careful to never publicly compare or link your outside work with your company's.
at least the SAT's put us through the same worthless arbitrary standards. I would like to see us eliminate grades and GPAs instead of standardized test.
In sports would you let coaches help determine the score of their own teams? Teachers should not be grading their own students except broadly by giving them recommendations and the like. Standardized tests are the only way to judge against a population of students. Grades and GPAs are always relative to those in the class and should only be used within schools.
I've heard a lot of comments that a GPL's game system will be prone to cheats.
This is true, up to a point, but soon after cheats are discovered then patches will be put to work to stop them. That is the GPL way
The real challenge will be to make a virtual world which isn't about how long you play or how many scripts....er...I mean monsters you kill. Rather a good virtual environment will be about the interactivity between players and their environment. Thus reducing the impulse to cheat, because you truly would be cheating yourself of the experience.
Just having gotten a tour of a US aircraft carrier the Computers are tagged as either secure or unsecure. People can still physically put in a disk and copy what info they want to it and transfer it to a non secure computer.
So the point is not to make it impossible to copy between systems, but to make a trained worker aware of what environment they are working in.
there is no technological reason that the "air gapped" network needs to remain as long as the virtual spaces on the machine are kept visually different and idiot proof. Only cutting and pasting from secure workspace to non secure workspace and the like....
Clients should still have separate network interfaces for secret vs. public networks.
Any online gaming community is a non-zero sum gain if you don't look at it from an individual perspective, and this is also how economics works. Economics is zero sum gain from an individuals perspective, but from macro economic and gaming perspective, the more people playing the better.
iCAST (a CMGI company) was going to be focusing on using vorbis, but now iCAST is closing its doors and vorbis is losing it's main corporate support for the moment. Seems that this may be the reason for the timing of this announcment.
Previously iCAST had spent a good deal of money on IP Lawyers to make sure that Vorbis didn't infringe on any patents. Doubt any of those lawyers will be defending Vorbis for free.
The real change in the music industry is the thousands of band web sites that have mp3s up on there own sites and can reach millions in distribution.
Aren't napster and mp3.com just trying to control and manage distribution like the good old days of vinyl? All small companies have to be nice to people in order to get started. But once they get big and established, then they start protecting what (and who) they own.
The internet was meant to be a communication network, not a broadcast network.
Books often use a non-proprietary language called ENGLISH that needn't be licensed in order to use. And like HTML any and all derivitive works based upon ENGLISH are by definition open source, since the rendering engine (sometimes called the reader) must have direct access to the source.
Sound like this thing might be costly to produce. Traditionally, console manufacturers have a high initial price when demand is high and have high margins which makes them most of their money. Then, once demand slacks off a bit, they start lowering the price to what is a much smaller margin.
So, the question is, how far can you lower the price once the "early adopters" buy your console. I see the Dreamcast selling for 149.99
on amazon.com. I think the Indrema potentially has more features that justify a higher price, but how low can you go?
I think everyone here wants you to make a healthy profit, if you are truly creating a good machine that does 95% of what you say it will do, but a game is not as fun unless you can share it with others and I want my non linux-nut friends to be able to buy these boxes a year from now at a cheaper price.
Mobile Ad-HOC Networking is being worked on by the MANET group of the IETF.
If done well, then it seems that we could bring back a little freedom back to the internet.
If a wireless network became popular enough, then we could see free(as in speech and maybe pretty cheap), cooperative, wireless networking popping up in metropolitan areas.
I was just on board the Ike and they were using NT as terminals on both their classified and unclassified networks, but their command and control systems were a mish mosh of systems from different upgrade cycles.
I heard the same story about the ship being stranded because of a blue screening NT server, but I thought it was a destroyer.
Couldn't the Military just approve certain kernels and have their own central mirror of the approved "secure" kernels.
Any Peer to peer networking (ie TCP/IP as it was meant to work) will expose the sender's address to the reciever and vice versa. Otherwise there can be no meaningful communication.
What you suggest simply puts a server in between which you will have to trust. So basically you are back to Napster with some sort of encryption.
The point of gnutella is to make all transfers peer to peer, not really anonymous. Of course you could always relay the packets from a central server on either end, but the goal should be to retain the "end-to-end" nature of the internet and you can never effectively encrypt routing information.
"The seller of the item (not a third party) can request and fill out a counter notice. If he/she does so, the complaining party who filled out the original notice has a limited period of time to file suit, or the provider can go ahead and relist the item."
What is the limited period of time? Is it days weeks or months? If the person sends the counternotice, then the CoS doesn't file suit then the seller seems to have some standing to force ebay to relist the item.
Pain in the ass, but the best thing to do about a rediculous law is to find the rediculous ways to use it. Then everyone will know how bad it is.
"One theory is that the observer is somehow interacting with the particle"
This sounds like voodoo, not physics.
It is fact that when we observe something we need physical interaction with it. Like shining a flashlight in a dark hallway. those photons from the flashlight reflect (bounce) off the walls and any other objects, thus interacting with the surface. Usually, this interaction results in chaotic heating of the surface, but when you get fewer particles and waves, then you have more exotic behavior.
the point being that the electrical activity of your brain can interact with the outside world, just like a radio signal can convey information, BUT.....there is no need to start talking about subatomic particles. Especially, in such vague and misleading terms.
The nature of the internet is 2-way not broadcast communications. This talk about broadcasted data seems a lot like the promise of satellite Internet (eg give us a big pipe to suck on, but then make us dial in to upload anything) Check out the IETF's MANET to see what the spectrum really should be used for. Wireless, high-speed, free internet for all. With little difference between router's and hosts.
let's get IPv6 working so that people can get better access, then worry about TLDs later. It's all about access!! If someone isn't satisified with the current domain scheme they can always create their own. And they should.
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It seems that everyone and their brother are trying to tie VOIP to QOS which basically means that phone companies could meter the voice packets and charge a different rate for the alleged "faster" delivery. Different networks will never be able to coordinate QOS effectively without charging a premium. And why would a customer pay a premium price for an old service (voice transmitted over a wire is not new)
So if we ditch QOS, the problems are latency and the fact that ip and ethernet packets are too big, which means if you lose one or it is delayed, then you lose noticable amounts of sound. I think the agreed standard is loss or delay of around 400 ms is the point at which you can't carry on a conversation.
I don't know what the current efforts are focused on, but QOS is a bad and expensive idea.
As an aside, it seems the only reasonable solution (besides QOS) to these is to send more udp packets over different udp ports say 3 for sending and 3 for receiving and overlap the voice data so if you lose one packet you don't lose enough to care.
Address schemes should be a seperate issue
p2p isn't a new technology, but just a marketing term to describe a discovery protocol. The hype surrounding the term is just the result of some people just realizing that the internet was really designed as an end-to-end communications system and not as a broadcast platform.
p2p is a solution in need of a problem. Mail servers and web servers have all come about because people turn their computers off. The term "server" has come to mean a computer that is always on. Soon people will stop turning there personal computers off and more people will be using 24/7 internet connections. So, the term server will lose some meaning.
For broadcast, wireless technologies will always be best. The internet is for end-to end communications.
Let's cut out the middlemen.
I have been thinking about doing this as a part of the varium project. A python shell with a virtual file system.
If anyone knows of a similar project it would be helpful to see.
Just because a person is "impartial" meaning not associated with one side, that doesn't mean they won't have some inherent bias.
everyone is biased
My suggestion implies that the employer has not signed the document. In which case there is no need to initial any changes because there is no change it should be considered a proposal. So, by being the first party to sign it is your proposal. It is a vulnerability they put themselves in by not signing the document in the first place.
Preferably, I would add to the second suggestion, that you write in the space where you are supposed to list out your works something like "Everything that I've worked on before is mine exclusively" Clearly this would contradict other parts of the "agreement" that you would sign.
Above all else, do not seek legal counsel. Because this will just come back to haunt you if it ever came to trial. The worst thing that could happen would be to make it seem like the contract was actually negotiated. In fact, you want the contract to be completely and utterly useless as a legal instrument. The worse the stated conditions the more likely it will be completely thrown out.
Just make sure you live in a civilized state which supports individuals over corporations.
Assuming you want the Job you can:
a) just reword it, print it out and sign it. Don't lie about the fact that you change it, but just don't mention it. Often small word changes can make a big difference in meaning. See if they care to notice. I doubt they will ever read or sign it anyway. You won't get anywhere telling the company that the document which cost them tens of thousands of dollars to get carefully worded by high priced lawyers and a law firm is a piece of shit.
or
b) just sign it and don't alert them to any inventions. If you have something valuable, that isn't job related, then you can just quit when you are ready to make some money off of it. If they have no previous knowledge of your outside work, then there is no reason to change that. Most state courts will end up deciding this anyway and from what I hear they pretty much are fed up with these "agreements" being so rediculously one sided. If your outside work and job related work are similar in nature then you could have problems regardless.
Lastly, your outside work will only get noticed if you get published or somehow get public or industry attention. In which case just be careful to never publicly compare or link your outside work with your company's.
at least the SAT's put us through the same worthless arbitrary standards. I would like to see us eliminate grades and GPAs instead of standardized test.
In sports would you let coaches help determine the score of their own teams? Teachers should not be grading their own students except broadly by giving them recommendations and the like. Standardized tests are the only way to judge against a population of students. Grades and GPAs are always relative to those in the class and should only be used within schools.
The system is corrupting.
I've heard a lot of comments that a GPL's game system will be prone to cheats.
....er ...I mean monsters you kill. Rather a good virtual environment will be about the interactivity between players and their environment. Thus reducing the impulse to cheat, because you truly would be cheating yourself of the experience.
This is true, up to a point, but soon after cheats are discovered then patches will be put to work to stop them. That is the GPL way
The real challenge will be to make a virtual world which isn't about how long you play or how many scripts
I bet he has four walls around his bedroom too. Just like me.
I bet he sometimes uses motor vehicles to get around. Just like me.
I bet he even uses paper from time to time to plan out his horrible deeds.
The pen is mightier than the sword. So why not make the pen illegal? I'll keep my encryption.
Just having gotten a tour of a US aircraft carrier the Computers are tagged as either secure or unsecure. People can still physically put in a disk and copy what info they want to it and transfer it to a non secure computer.
So the point is not to make it impossible to copy between systems, but to make a trained worker aware of what environment they are working in.
there is no technological reason that the "air gapped" network needs to remain as long as the virtual spaces on the machine are kept visually different and idiot proof. Only cutting and pasting from secure workspace to non secure workspace and the like....
Clients should still have separate network interfaces for secret vs. public networks.
Any online gaming community is a non-zero sum gain if you don't look at it from an individual perspective, and this is also how economics works. Economics is zero sum gain from an individuals perspective, but from macro economic and gaming perspective, the more people playing the better.
My old Mac SE only had about a 20 Meg hard drive, so this seems quite reasonable.
More importantly, this is an open hardware architecture
iCAST (a CMGI company) was going to be focusing on using vorbis, but now iCAST is closing its doors and vorbis is losing it's main corporate support for the moment. Seems that this may be the reason for the timing of this announcment.
Previously iCAST had spent a good deal of money on IP Lawyers to make sure that Vorbis didn't infringe on any patents. Doubt any of those lawyers will be defending Vorbis for free.
Sometimes it is all about money.
The real change in the music industry is the thousands of band web sites that have mp3s up on there own sites and can reach millions in distribution.
Aren't napster and mp3.com just trying to control and manage distribution like the good old days of vinyl? All small companies have to be nice to people in order to get started. But once they get big and established, then they start protecting what (and who) they own.
The internet was meant to be a communication network, not a broadcast network.
Books often use a non-proprietary language called ENGLISH that needn't be licensed in order to use. And like HTML any and all derivitive works based upon ENGLISH are by definition open source, since the rendering engine (sometimes called the reader) must have direct access to the source.
Sound like this thing might be costly to produce. Traditionally, console manufacturers have a high initial price when demand is high and have high margins which makes them most of their money. Then, once demand slacks off a bit, they start lowering the price to what is a much smaller margin.
So, the question is, how far can you lower the price once the "early adopters" buy your console. I see the Dreamcast selling for 149.99 on amazon.com. I think the Indrema potentially has more features that justify a higher price, but how low can you go?
I think everyone here wants you to make a healthy profit, if you are truly creating a good machine that does 95% of what you say it will do, but a game is not as fun unless you can share it with others and I want my non linux-nut friends to be able to buy these boxes a year from now at a cheaper price.
Mobile Ad-HOC Networking is being worked on by the MANET group of the IETF.
If done well, then it seems that we could bring back a little freedom back to the internet.
If a wireless network became popular enough, then we could see free(as in speech and maybe pretty cheap), cooperative, wireless networking popping up in metropolitan areas.
I was just on board the Ike and they were using NT as terminals on both their classified and unclassified networks, but their command and control systems were a mish mosh of systems from different upgrade cycles. I heard the same story about the ship being stranded because of a blue screening NT server, but I thought it was a destroyer. Couldn't the Military just approve certain kernels and have their own central mirror of the approved "secure" kernels.
Any Peer to peer networking (ie TCP/IP as it was meant to work) will expose the sender's address to the reciever and vice versa. Otherwise there can be no meaningful communication.
What you suggest simply puts a server in between which you will have to trust. So basically you are back to Napster with some sort of encryption.
The point of gnutella is to make all transfers peer to peer, not really anonymous. Of course you could always relay the packets from a central server on either end, but the goal should be to retain the "end-to-end" nature of the internet and you can never effectively encrypt routing information.
"The seller of the item (not a third party) can request and fill out a counter notice. If he/she does so, the complaining party who filled out the original notice has a limited period of time to file suit, or the provider can go ahead and relist the item."
What is the limited period of time? Is it days weeks or months? If the person sends the counternotice, then the CoS doesn't file suit then the seller seems to have some standing to force ebay to relist the item.
Pain in the ass, but the best thing to do about a rediculous law is to find the rediculous ways to use it. Then everyone will know how bad it is.
"One theory is that the observer is somehow interacting with the particle"
This sounds like voodoo, not physics.
It is fact that when we observe something we need physical interaction with it. Like shining a flashlight in a dark hallway. those photons from the flashlight reflect (bounce) off the walls and any other objects, thus interacting with the surface. Usually, this interaction results in chaotic heating of the surface, but when you get fewer particles and waves, then you have more exotic behavior.
the point being that the electrical activity of your brain can interact with the outside world, just like a radio signal can convey information, BUT.....there is no need to start talking about subatomic particles. Especially, in such vague and misleading terms.
The nature of the internet is 2-way not broadcast communications. This talk about broadcasted data seems a lot like the promise of satellite Internet (eg give us a big pipe to suck on, but then make us dial in to upload anything) Check out the IETF's MANET to see what the spectrum really should be used for. Wireless, high-speed, free internet for all. With little difference between router's and hosts.
let's get IPv6 working so that people can get better access, then worry about TLDs later. It's all about access!! If someone isn't satisified with the current domain scheme they can always create their own. And they should.