Actually, it sounds like at least Real did think of doing this. From the article:
Seattle's RealNetworks Inc., which competes with Microsoft in the streaming and downloaded media arena, said it plans to make announcements tomorrow about alliances with home-entertainment companies.
Guess they just didn't get it announced before Microsoft.
All of the people complaining about Google posting their Usenet posts that they'd rather not have made public need to go here and look and number 16.
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Is it just me or does none of the stuff he suggests need to be invented? He talks about an "Internet ID", a voluntary system where people can identify who sent the message. Um, it's called PGP - sign your messages.
He wants a way for ports to be "registered" and only opened for certaing things. Why not use a firewall, or just get Zone Alarm?
Also, what's the big deal about raw sockets? They obviously aren't needed to spread viruses as SirCam, ILoveYou, etc. have shown us.
Further searching on Google show's that yep they're the same. Here's an article about the history of Music City and Morpheus. Also, a very informative OpenP2P article which details the server structure used by Kazaa and morpheus. Also interesting to note that both use FastTrack software to build their networks. According to the FastTrack website, their software is also used in another client, Grokster (annoying pop-up warning). --
Morpheus is a program that appears to be compatible with Kazaa (on searches some usernames show up as user@kazaa and others as user@musiccity) and contains no spyware or text-altering annoyances. It has the ability to download from multiple users at once, resume downloads, search by category, etc. I've been using it for the past month or so and it's worked pretty well. --
Don't forget the Camel and Llama books! They're probably the two most important books I've read on programming and are very well written and easy to understand. You're pretty safe with almost anything O'Reilly. --
Well, even on the project's own webpage it says "Lastly, this project is not intended to be "useful". If the patches used were all "useful", they'd be in the main tree by now, or Alan Cox' branch. This is much closer to the "silly putty" end of things.". So the/. editor didn't just make it up himself. In either case, it's a cool project and hopefully it will serve as a testing grounds so that some of the more interesting patches make it into to the official kernel. --
I did a small research project on Chernobyl and was suprised at the ammount of total disregard for safety at the plant. Most of it was due to it being developed in the Soviet Union where people were more worried about deadlines and looking good than safety of the workers. The plant also had many design flaws. Just to give you an idea of how incompetant the workers were the night of the explosion, here's a quote from a book about Chernobyl:
One operator rings another and asks: 'What shall I do? In the programme there are instructions of what to do, and then a lot of things are crossed out'. His interloctuter thought for a while and then replied: 'Follow the crossed out instructions'.
The only major nuclear accident that happened in the US was at Three Mile Island and almost all of the radiation there was contained in the dome that was over the reactor (Chernobyl didn't even have a protective dome). So, I guess what I'm trying to say is that here in the US, we really don't have to be as worried an accident like Chernobyl as much as most people are. --
He makes some very interesting remarks about the bloat the many people attribute to the X server. For instance, depending on the graphics card, the X server can look like it is using an extra 8 to 64mb of space that it isn't, due to the way it maps the display card. There is also some good information on current efforts to remove some of the bloat caused by other parts of the server, such as I18N. --
After reading the article, I'd be very interested to see if they can consistently achieve the 25% or so speedups that they claim (even between RISC architectures).
Wow! If they can, I'd just keep on translating the programs back and forth and after a while, they'd start running before I told them to. One step better than quantum computing!:-) --
Couldn't agree more. I've got a real nice IRC/web server out of an old Sun SparcStation IPC. 25mhz, 32mb of RAM and a 250mb hard drive. Logging in via SSH is a little slow, but for chatting you'd think you were on a high-end Pentium. --
How hard would it be to tap a fiber line? I suppose you could just make a cut and then run it through a device that would splice it. Or would it be easier to dip the line in acid or something to take away the outer layer and then just look at the light passing through that way so it wouldn't create any delay or loss? --
Would you rather have someone who makes up some random political stuff when they're asked a question that they don't know the answer to, or admit they don't know the answer?
Also, he had a pretty good idea of what happened, just not the specifics. And if you read the rest of the paragraph, you will notice his general opinion on the subject is pretty much the same as most/. readers:
And just like people were worried about people not showing up for concerts if they could get it over the radio, well, that didn't turn out to be a problem...Or television was going to kill the movie studios; well, that didn't turn out to be a problem because people figured out how to compensate there somehow or another.
That the music industry will not loose billions of dollars if Napster is allowed. --
Or that a "telegraph company" can exist that "never makes a mistake, only the sender".
I think that he prediction there is pretty much right. Essentally, e-mail is today's telegraph. How often do people get mad at the mail server because an e-mail their friend sent them had a misspelled word? --
Some things aren't good. They should be changed. But some people wouldn't like that and it would break backwards compatibility. Maybe it shouldn't be changed. Who knows?
Is it just me or does that pretty much sum up the article? Not being a troll, but for being articles that are supposed to define what direction Perl will be headed, they don't seem to give any definite answers.
I think that Larry took on a much bigger job than he anticipated when he decided to completely rework the language. Making a language that is entirely perfect, yet all things to all people is impossible and he will have to realize that before any real work will get done! --
(Mountain Dew == Canned Code)
I sent and e-mail to my congressmen (Jerry Moran and Sam Brownback) using mp3.com's form that they had a while back. I didn't think anything of it, but a while later I got a response back in the mail from both of them. It even seemed like Jerry Moran understood the bill and was in favor of it. The bill hadn't made it to Senate yet, so Brownback didn't know as much about it. --
I noticed in the patent, it listed out exactly what the different fields in the database were for their polling system. So, if you made a system with a slightly different layout (add or remove some features) would you still be in danger of being sued? --
I have found them to be buggy and not up all the time. The best place I have found for going around blocking proxies is www.safeweb.com. They've been advertising on Slashdot for a few weeks. It seems to work pretty well, it encrypts everything using SSL and even works with Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, etc. (which the Anti-Censorware proxies won't). --
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According to CBS, the explosions in Afghanistan were from a burning munitions dump - not any retaliation from anyone.
Is it just me or does none of the stuff he suggests need to be invented? He talks about an "Internet ID", a voluntary system where people can identify who sent the message. Um, it's called PGP - sign your messages.
He wants a way for ports to be "registered" and only opened for certaing things. Why not use a firewall, or just get Zone Alarm?
Also, what's the big deal about raw sockets? They obviously aren't needed to spread viruses as SirCam, ILoveYou, etc. have shown us.
Further searching on Google show's that yep they're the same. Here's an article about the history of Music City and Morpheus. Also, a very informative OpenP2P article which details the server structure used by Kazaa and morpheus. Also interesting to note that both use FastTrack software to build their networks. According to the FastTrack website, their software is also used in another client, Grokster (annoying pop-up warning).
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Morpheus is a program that appears to be compatible with Kazaa (on searches some usernames show up as user@kazaa and others as user@musiccity) and contains no spyware or text-altering annoyances. It has the ability to download from multiple users at once, resume downloads, search by category, etc. I've been using it for the past month or so and it's worked pretty well.
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Don't forget the Camel and Llama books! They're probably the two most important books I've read on programming and are very well written and easy to understand. You're pretty safe with almost anything O'Reilly.
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Well, even on the project's own webpage it says "Lastly, this project is not intended to be "useful". If the patches used were all "useful", they'd be in the main tree by now, or Alan Cox' branch. This is much closer to the "silly putty" end of things.". So the /. editor didn't just make it up himself. In either case, it's a cool project and hopefully it will serve as a testing grounds so that some of the more interesting patches make it into to the official kernel.
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AYBABTU = All Your Base Are Belong To Us !!!
For great justice, go to the AYBABTU history page and download a music video or two.
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He makes some very interesting remarks about the bloat the many people attribute to the X server. For instance, depending on the graphics card, the X server can look like it is using an extra 8 to 64mb of space that it isn't, due to the way it maps the display card. There is also some good information on current efforts to remove some of the bloat caused by other parts of the server, such as I18N.
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Wow! If they can, I'd just keep on translating the programs back and forth and after a while, they'd start running before I told them to. One step better than quantum computing!
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Couldn't agree more. I've got a real nice IRC/web server out of an old Sun SparcStation IPC. 25mhz, 32mb of RAM and a 250mb hard drive. Logging in via SSH is a little slow, but for chatting you'd think you were on a high-end Pentium.
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He may not know what it means, but he used it six times in the interview, which is quite a bit considering he only had nine answers!
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What's so great about a card being able to encode my entire DNA sequence? Doesn't every cell in my body already do that without any trouble?
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So is it okay to listen to them after copying, just as long as we don't view them? I promise I won't open them up in vi, really!
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How hard would it be to tap a fiber line? I suppose you could just make a cut and then run it through a device that would splice it. Or would it be easier to dip the line in acid or something to take away the outer layer and then just look at the light passing through that way so it wouldn't create any delay or loss?
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Has anyone tried the cola from OpenCola? (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/37f3.html).
It sounds like an interesting idea, open sourced beverages - but does it taste good?
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Would you rather have someone who makes up some random political stuff when they're asked a question that they don't know the answer to, or admit they don't know the answer?
Also, he had a pretty good idea of what happened, just not the specifics. And if you read the rest of the paragraph, you will notice his general opinion on the subject is pretty much the same as most /. readers:
That the music industry will not loose billions of dollars if Napster is allowed.
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I think that he prediction there is pretty much right. Essentally, e-mail is today's telegraph. How often do people get mad at the mail server because an e-mail their friend sent them had a misspelled word?
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Some things aren't good. They should be changed. But some people wouldn't like that and it would break backwards compatibility. Maybe it shouldn't be changed. Who knows?
Is it just me or does that pretty much sum up the article? Not being a troll, but for being articles that are supposed to define what direction Perl will be headed, they don't seem to give any definite answers.
I think that Larry took on a much bigger job than he anticipated when he decided to completely rework the language. Making a language that is entirely perfect, yet all things to all people is impossible and he will have to realize that before any real work will get done!
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(Mountain Dew == Canned Code)
I sent and e-mail to my congressmen (Jerry Moran and Sam Brownback) using mp3.com's form that they had a while back. I didn't think anything of it, but a while later I got a response back in the mail from both of them. It even seemed like Jerry Moran understood the bill and was in favor of it. The bill hadn't made it to Senate yet, so Brownback didn't know as much about it.
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I noticed in the patent, it listed out exactly what the different fields in the database were for their polling system. So, if you made a system with a slightly different layout (add or remove some features) would you still be in danger of being sued?
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I have found them to be buggy and not up all the time. The best place I have found for going around blocking proxies is www.safeweb.com. They've been advertising on Slashdot for a few weeks. It seems to work pretty well, it encrypts everything using SSL and even works with Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, etc. (which the Anti-Censorware proxies won't).
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