Maybe this is superficial, but the question that has been nagging me is... How will the information on freenet be presented to its users?
Will clients be plaintext, FTP-like in that retrieval of a key will net the user a file, or akin to a web browser capable of understanding hrefs to freenet keys rather than URLs, etc?
Reading the information on the protocol left me with a few questions, but I think this one is foremost amongst those I don't think anyone has brought up yet. This may determine, at least in part, what is possible using the network.
--- Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Am I the only one who noticed that an mp3 search&retrieve application was being hailed as a distributed anonymous information network?:-P --- --- Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
It's hard enough to perform realtime computing, let alone finding one processor better at it than another.
AFAIK, there aren't currently any consumer processors capable of performing this task. They've all got latency barriers that would prove a major hinderance, if not make the task outright impossible.
This is just speculation based on what I know, though. I'd love to see some more info on the subject.
--- Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
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I haven't seen this problem under 2000 in VMWare, though I use the newest nightly build every week or so. It could be a glitch in the particular build you're using. If not that, then maybe it's something to do with how NT is running under VM... or the differences between NT and 2000. --- Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Your argument is well thought out, but you forgot something of key importance; The very cables and lines that make up the internet are privately owned by numerous companies. These are the roads and rails of the net and are not government-owned like their counterparts in the brick and mortar world. Companies sell usage of these lines to us already in the form of ISP fees. I suppose that's our internet "tax" right there if you'd rather not call it a fee. --- Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Information also doesn't take up any appreciable resources. The bandwidth and storage "resources" are themselves increasing at an explosive pace, something which can't be said for our biosphere's resources here in meatspace.
Just to pick another nit, Open Source does not neccessarily have anything to do with decentralization... and Napster is anything BUT decentralized. It may be a peer-to-peer man in the middle, but it's most certainly a centralized entity. You can't attack a decentralized system with lawsuits, after all.:)
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Maybe this is superficial, but the question that has been nagging me is... How will the information on freenet be presented to its users?
Will clients be plaintext, FTP-like in that retrieval of a key will net the user a file, or akin to a web browser capable of understanding hrefs to freenet keys rather than URLs, etc?
Reading the information on the protocol left me with a few questions, but I think this one is foremost amongst those I don't think anyone has brought up yet. This may determine, at least in part, what is possible using the network.
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Am I the only one who noticed that an mp3 search&retrieve application was being hailed as a distributed anonymous information network? :-P ---
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
It's hard enough to perform realtime computing, let alone finding one processor better at it than another.
AFAIK, there aren't currently any consumer processors capable of performing this task. They've all got latency barriers that would prove a major hinderance, if not make the task outright impossible.
This is just speculation based on what I know, though. I'd love to see some more info on the subject.
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I haven't seen this problem under 2000 in VMWare, though I use the newest nightly build every week or so. It could be a glitch in the particular build you're using. If not that, then maybe it's something to do with how NT is running under VM... or the differences between NT and 2000.
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Your argument is well thought out, but you forgot something of key importance; The very cables and lines that make up the internet are privately owned by numerous companies. These are the roads and rails of the net and are not government-owned like their counterparts in the brick and mortar world. Companies sell usage of these lines to us already in the form of ISP fees. I suppose that's our internet "tax" right there if you'd rather not call it a fee.
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Information also doesn't take up any appreciable resources. The bandwidth and storage "resources" are themselves increasing at an explosive pace, something which can't be said for our biosphere's resources here in meatspace.
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Just to pick another nit, Open Source does not neccessarily have anything to do with decentralization... and Napster is anything BUT decentralized. It may be a peer-to-peer man in the middle, but it's most certainly a centralized entity. You can't attack a decentralized system with lawsuits, after all.