Yes, but different dynamics come into play when you're sending information not just from point A to distant point B but between a large number of devices, all of which can talk to each other (or to nearby units and to a base station) and pass messages around. You can transmit the message in a bunch of low-power hops instead of one high power beam for example, or utilize a wired backbone at some point - the idea is just to design the networks smarter than just 1 Cell tower / Many Cell Phones, which has clear limitations.
Acutally, the article refers to ways in which networks of devices that not only communicate with a base station (i.e. traditional cell phone) but with each other, even repeating traffic for each other (i.e. a mobile version of the internet!) could increase total capacity while lowering power output.
Better routing (rather, using routing at all) will make all the difference.
8mb isn't a waste if you're using, say, Mapopolis with a few county maps, have a few HanDB databases cataloging your media collection, you like to have a wide variety of web sites available on the go via AvantGo or Plucker, not to mention the Kyle's Quest levels and Planetarium star DBs.
Jeez, why carry around a little computer if you're hardly going to use it?
Well, if they're not totally dead, they might put the Gigaspiral back on line. I loved that thing for finding new bands. Napster bought Gigabeat, who had a nifty site where you enter an artist name & they'd draw you a spiral with similar bands grouped around it - popular on one side, obscure on the other. Now gigabeat.com doesn't even resolve. Oh well.
He also went out with Gwen Stacey, a blonde "good girl". In ASM#90, during a fight with the Green Goblin, a chimney is knocked over and kills Capt. Stacey, Gwen's father -- which leads Gwen to hate both combatants even though Spider-Man had tried to save the policeman. Peter never got to tell Gwen his secret, because she was dropped from the Brooklyn Bridge by the Green Goblin (ish. 121) & died, again despite Spider-Man's best efforts.
The character was later ressurected in a bunch of increasingly dumb storylines involving clones of Gwen, then of Spider-Man himself.
Yeah, like a "start" screen with an integrated gecko component so we could browse slashdot inside our p2p app like I'm doing right now in KaZaALite. Tho if they put html in gnutella I'm sure we wouldn't have to map desktop.kazaa.com to/.'s IP addy in our hosts file to change the start page.
Why not throw out all the cruft your system doesn't need? It's just arrogance to oppose things like this, which make it easier for the masses to get performance boosts. I say put it in all the distros!
Read it a few months ago
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The Forever War
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· Score: 1, Interesting
It's awful strange to have the central plot device be the theory of relativity - the fighters' biggest problem is running into enemy ships from a non-dilated timeline that are centuries ahead of them in weaponry! The characters are not very well developed in my opinion. The women our hero sleeps with seem utterly interchangeable, and nobody really learns anything or changes much. Par for the course in a sci-fi military novel where people die off through random accidents all the time, I suppose. Remember when all the futuristic books (e.g., this one and Stand on Zanzibar - highly recommended) assumed marijuana would be legalized by the 1990s? Also, the ending is nice & a little bit of a political comment.
Enough dummies existed for the IT department to shut down the fileserver and exchange server while they made the rounds of PCs and searched for telltale files. And guess where everyone stores all the important files they need to work? Yup, probably pretty silly of them to use the same machine for fileserving and for exchange, but that's not my problem. You saw that little word "temp" in my post, didn't you?;^)
This is the first office I've seen grind to a halt because of an Outlook worm - but then, none of the other places I've temped have been so totally MS-centric. I think I'm the only one left with email access, as I'm using the mozilla client.
Affective this morning Cable & Wireless started de-peering with PSINET.
No, they're not REALLY de-peering - it's just an affectation. And yes, I do feel stupid about my mis-estimate of post position above. And now I'm being obnoxious about somebody else's spelling as well. Oh gee.
(OT note) anybody else find it amusing that/. itself now babbles as aimlessly as a troll about "all your base" above the top of xx% of our pageviews?
Wow you're dumb. They are still owned by AOL as stated on the index page of nullsoft's web site.
...Nullsoft, Inc. expanded in the year following and in May of 1999, Nullsoft was acquired by America Online. Since the acquisition, the structure of Nullsoft has gradually evolved into what it is today: about 20 people who work within AOL Time Warner, and share a state of mind....
SSL's been working in Mozilla for a damn long time now. Make sure you're downloading the right build (some don't come with the PSM(==Personal Security Manager) installed -- but even then you can do it seperately by just grabbing psm.xpi from netscape's or mozilla's ftp sites. I generally grab the build labeled mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz
!!Damn I can't believe I just typed that url from memory, and I think it's right too.
IE has one major feature that Netscape still doesn't even come close to approaching -- an API that can be used to make a custom browser
(which is just a shell over the HTML/Script parsing engine that offers most of the functions of a web browser).
Actually, one of the coolest things about Mozilla is it's Gecko rendering subsystem, which CAN be used just like the IE API to create, say a custom browser. NeoPlanet, one of the custom browsers designed around IE's API actually had available a "Tech Preview" that used the gecko renderer instead of the IE one.
Damn funny - I got a phone with Wireless Web capability a couple months ago, and guess what I've used it for? Yup - checking a Red Sox score!
sorry, this was a metoo.
Whoops - thought the prev. comment would link to the script I found somewhere a few weeks ago - so here it is on my little server:
Spamhurt.pl - it'll crawl the top 10-20 entries on the "Bulk Email Software" category of Goto, pretending to be a real user-agent and "visiting" all the links that cost 'em money. Run it as often as you can, and they'll all go out of business!
-MF
What if we could actually come up with a far more scalable version of the existing 802.11b "ad hoc" wireless networks, which let you connect a whole bunch of laptops w/ wifi cards together without needing a gateway or hub? Getting across oceans and wide-open spaces would still require some dependence on infrastructure (and thus on corps and govs) but in a megalopolis like the northern half of the east coast has become, we could get enough people with wireless access just roaming around to route messages pretty far without ever touching a cable. This is what'll be REALLY uncontrollable, especially once we figure out some anarchic way of bridging the vast distances that's got plenty more bandwidth than packet radio. Still problems here - you're broadcasting stuff, so you're easy to find, plus frequencies can be jammed, also that scalability thing that gnutella seems to still be having some trouble with.
OK, how about this: The "random" data had to be generated from some finite set of data. Whether the original "randomness" comes from a bunch of a pictures of lava lamps or static from the radio, it's still a finite amount of information at the beginning. Then, you apply a bunch of randomizing algorithms to it to generate a large file. If I request a file to be generated that is larger than the initial input and the source code to the randomizing algorithms. Then my problem is to find some initial input and combination of algorithms to generate the file - assuming a long time to brute-force it, you might be able to win in this way - the compressed file is then the initial randomized input, and the decompression algorithm is the exact same series of randomization algorithms that was used to create the random data.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but different dynamics come into play when you're sending information not just from point A to distant point B but between a large number of devices, all of which can talk to each other (or to nearby units and to a base station) and pass messages around. You can transmit the message in a bunch of low-power hops instead of one high power beam for example, or utilize a wired backbone at some point - the idea is just to design the networks smarter than just 1 Cell tower / Many Cell Phones, which has clear limitations.
Acutally, the article refers to ways in which networks of devices that not only communicate with a base station (i.e. traditional cell phone) but with each other, even repeating traffic for each other (i.e. a mobile version of the internet!) could increase total capacity while lowering power output.
Better routing (rather, using routing at all) will make all the difference.
8mb isn't a waste if you're using, say, Mapopolis with a few county maps, have a few HanDB databases cataloging your media collection, you like to have a wide variety of web sites available on the go via AvantGo or Plucker, not to mention the Kyle's Quest levels and Planetarium star DBs.
Jeez, why carry around a little computer if you're hardly going to use it?
Well, if they're not totally dead, they might put the Gigaspiral back on line. I loved that thing for finding new bands. Napster bought Gigabeat, who had a nifty site where you enter an artist name & they'd draw you a spiral with similar bands grouped around it - popular on one side, obscure on the other. Now gigabeat.com doesn't even resolve. Oh well.
He also went out with Gwen Stacey, a blonde "good girl". In ASM#90, during a fight with the Green Goblin, a chimney is knocked over and kills Capt. Stacey, Gwen's father -- which leads Gwen to hate both combatants even though Spider-Man had tried to save the policeman. Peter never got to tell Gwen his secret, because she was dropped from the Brooklyn Bridge by the Green Goblin (ish. 121) & died, again despite Spider-Man's best efforts.
The character was later ressurected in a bunch of increasingly dumb storylines involving clones of Gwen, then of Spider-Man himself.
Guess how I wasted my childhood.
I know the guy who makes those. I'm not gonna tell his name, but the little waving guy is called Rutherford B. Have.
Find him something else as good, without the annoyances, and I guarantee he will use it.
Okay, show him KaZaA Lite, which is the KaZaA binary with the ads & cydoor (spyware) & bonzi buddy hacked out of it.
Remember kids, that's www.kazaalite.tk!
Yeah, like a "start" screen with an integrated gecko component so we could browse slashdot inside our p2p app like I'm doing right now in KaZaALite. Tho if they put html in gnutella I'm sure we wouldn't have to map desktop.kazaa.com to /.'s IP addy in our hosts file to change the start page.
Why not throw out all the cruft your system doesn't need? It's just arrogance to oppose things like this, which make it easier for the masses to get performance boosts. I say put it in all the distros!
Looks like no rebroadcasted TV for you!
It's awful strange to have the central plot device be the theory of relativity - the fighters' biggest problem is running into enemy ships from a non-dilated timeline that are centuries ahead of them in weaponry! The characters are not very well developed in my opinion. The women our hero sleeps with seem utterly interchangeable, and nobody really learns anything or changes much. Par for the course in a sci-fi military novel where people die off through random accidents all the time, I suppose. Remember when all the futuristic books (e.g., this one and Stand on Zanzibar - highly recommended) assumed marijuana would be legalized by the 1990s? Also, the ending is nice & a little bit of a political comment.
Even if the corp shut down, we'd all still be able to use the clients, right?
Enough dummies existed for the IT department to shut down the fileserver and exchange server while they made the rounds of PCs and searched for telltale files. And guess where everyone stores all the important files they need to work? Yup, probably pretty silly of them to use the same machine for fileserving and for exchange, but that's not my problem. You saw that little word "temp" in my post, didn't you? ;^)
This is the first office I've seen grind to a halt because of an Outlook worm - but then, none of the other places I've temped have been so totally MS-centric. I think I'm the only one left with email access, as I'm using the mozilla client.
of course it's real!
I don't know about Sting, but his son Joe is a really nice guy - I went to high school with him. (True!)
ok, this is way OT now... yay
(OT note) anybody else find it amusing that
You mean Slashdot?
Yeah, you're kinda right.
SSL's been working in Mozilla for a damn long time now. Make sure you're downloading the right build (some don't come with the PSM(==Personal Security Manager) installed -- but even then you can do it seperately by just grabbing psm.xpi from netscape's or mozilla's ftp sites. I generally grab the build labeled mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz
!!Damn I can't believe I just typed that url from memory, and I think it's right too.
Actually, one of the coolest things about Mozilla is it's Gecko rendering subsystem, which CAN be used just like the IE API to create, say a custom browser. NeoPlanet, one of the custom browsers designed around IE's API actually had available a "Tech Preview" that used the gecko renderer instead of the IE one.
Damn funny - I got a phone with Wireless Web capability a couple months ago, and guess what I've used it for? Yup - checking a Red Sox score! sorry, this was a metoo.
Whoops - thought the prev. comment would link to the script I found somewhere a few weeks ago - so here it is on my little server:
Spamhurt.pl - it'll crawl the top 10-20 entries on the "Bulk Email Software" category of Goto, pretending to be a real user-agent and "visiting" all the links that cost 'em money. Run it as often as you can, and they'll all go out of business! -MF
What if we could actually come up with a far more scalable version of the existing 802.11b "ad hoc" wireless networks, which let you connect a whole bunch of laptops w/ wifi cards together without needing a gateway or hub? Getting across oceans and wide-open spaces would still require some dependence on infrastructure (and thus on corps and govs) but in a megalopolis like the northern half of the east coast has become, we could get enough people with wireless access just roaming around to route messages pretty far without ever touching a cable. This is what'll be REALLY uncontrollable, especially once we figure out some anarchic way of bridging the vast distances that's got plenty more bandwidth than packet radio. Still problems here - you're broadcasting stuff, so you're easy to find, plus frequencies can be jammed, also that scalability thing that gnutella seems to still be having some trouble with.
OK, how about this: The "random" data had to be generated from some finite set of data. Whether the original "randomness" comes from a bunch of a pictures of lava lamps or static from the radio, it's still a finite amount of information at the beginning. Then, you apply a bunch of randomizing algorithms to it to generate a large file. If I request a file to be generated that is larger than the initial input and the source code to the randomizing algorithms. Then my problem is to find some initial input and combination of algorithms to generate the file - assuming a long time to brute-force it, you might be able to win in this way - the compressed file is then the initial randomized input, and the decompression algorithm is the exact same series of randomization algorithms that was used to create the random data.
How does this sound?
NB: I've not studied information theory.