You miss the point entirely, Apple tard. The point being, you payed a ridiculous (truly ridiculous) amount of money for a prestige item that functions no better than an off-the-shelf $80 MP3 player. You did it to impress yourself and your friends, and succeeded only looking like a titanic idiot.
Apple must be doing something right.. They have no trouble rounding up complete suckers to pay enormous sums of money for ordinary things.
You can hit reply if you want to, but... don't bother. Wouldn't want you to put any extra wear & tear on your $120 mouse.
...Why is so much attention being lavished on what amounts to a grossly overpriced, grossly over-hyped MP3 player? Is this some sort of attempt to make the purchaser feel better about the fact they just dropped $350 on a device who's equivalent can be bought at Wal-Mart for $80?
It's an MP3 player, for christ's sake. And an unexpandable one at that. I'd even argue that it's simply ugly.
Hah, shit, I didn't think about that -- But wait -- Wouldn't the model still compensate for that?
After all, arent the most _popular_ files the most _widespread_ fles? Suppose you flagged a piece of legitimate mail as spam. It would not propogate as quickly if only a handful of people declared it as spam. If thousands of people declare it as spam, its then its that much bigger of a target.
MD5 fingerprinting of distilled spam fragments may be the way to go -- at least that way, you have some method of identifying and categorizing them..
For example, suppose you get some Nigerian spam. There are going to be things common to all Nigeriam spam. As a percentage, the similarity between Nigerian spam variants can be reduced to a number. Variations on Nigerian spam are still successfully detected.
For example -- Take a piece of spam, and randomly select a length of text, say, 53 bytes. Calculate an MD5 sum for that 53 byte segment. Repeat the process a few dozen times. At the end of the run, you have 20 or 30 MD5 sums that represents fragments of spam.
These MD5 sums are then stored ubiquitously via P2P.
Now, a day or two later, someone on the other side of the globe is retrieving their email --- The same process occurs. The suspect email is put through the fingerprinter, and a couple dozen MD5 sums are generated. A certain percentage of those MD5 sums WILL match ones found via P2P --- So you impose a rule of sorts, saying perhaps if 75% or more of the MD5 sums match known fingerprints, nuke it.
Idea: Lets call it Spamster... a P2P trading system set up not for warez, but explicitly for spam exchange. I know, hold on, hold on. Hear me out:
The instant you come across a piece of spam in your inbox, you can flag that piece of spam to be shared. Within a few minutes, a copy of that spam (and perhaps an MD5 fingerprint taken from random but non-specific strings extracted from the spam as well) is made available to everyone via P2P.
Meanwhile, someone on the other side of the globe a few hours later fires up his email client. As part of checking his mail, his client links up with a P2P spam hub and compares suspect contents against the list of globally known spam archetypes.
Or even more fun, have that process handled at the mailserver level. Constantly parse the spool, generaring MD5 checksums, and using those checksums as search criteria in Spamster.
Net result: The instant a piece of spam in sent, the clock starts ticking. Within a matter of minutes, that piece of spam is now indexed, and known to mail clients worldwide.
Benefits: In order to defeat the process, spam would need to be sufficiently random in it's content to overcome multiple fingerprint runs.. Something that would next to impossible (or one hell of a headache) for any would-be spammer to attempt.
Considering that people, to this day, line up and pay hand-over-fist for DSL connectivity----A technology that requires absolutely no physical changes (at the consumer level) to existing telephone infrastructure, and causes no greater strain to the system to have........Yup. I'd say people will ultimately get suckered into paying for it. And people will pay for VoIP too.
Between the inately human need to have more, and the voice of advertising continually telling people that what they have isn't good enough--- yes, absolutely. People will pay for it. And beam with pride when doing so.
"This is, without a doubt, the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. Written communication was only ever "free" if you had a servant to go deliver the letter for you."
Written communication requires only a piece of mud and a sharp stick. The Babylonians loved it. You might too.
I admit that I don't know anything about the history of the telegraph, but the telephone was never cheap. In fact, in its infancy, the telephone was so expensive that some thought it would only be useful as a way of letting someone know that he had received a telegram!"
Most early telephones were hand-built, and hand-wired between towns. Its only when the need for standardization arose that the picture changed. Before then, telephone infrastructure were free to construct and deploy.
"Regarding the Internet, you say that "soon people were paying for the priviledge?" As opposed to what? When in the history of the Internet was one able to access the Internet without either paying an ISP, or getting access through the university/one's place of work."
When? Most of the Internet's life, actually. Until very, very recently, most people didn't pay a cent out of their own pocket to have access to the internet. They had access via their employer, or their university. The whole notion of an "ISP" didn't really take shape until the early 90's. By that point, the Internet was old enough to vote and have a beer.
I didn't sidestep cellphones. I figured it would be obvious. Before cellphones, we had CB radio/walkie-talkies. Free concepts that became pay concepts once they grew sufficiently in popularity.
Written communication became popular, because it was an improvement over word of mouth. Anyone could learn how to do it. It was free at first, but as it caught on, people payed for the priveledge.
Telegraphy became popular, because it was an improvement over commication by postal mail. Anybody could set it up. At first, it was free, but soon people payed for the priveledge.
Telephones became popular, because it was an improvement over communication by telegraph--It circumvented the charges normally associated with communication by wire. And anybody could do it.
The internet became popular, because it was an improvement over communication by telephone. Relaying information from point to point over a public network was cheaper than calling long-distance, and anybody could do it. Soon, people began paying for the priveldge.
Given our own track record, what on earth makes you think your VoIP service is going to be free? Like any other service, infrastructure is paid for by those accessing it. The networks that make it happen don't build themselves, you know.
Its a novelty for now, sure, but 10-20 years from now, you're going to be doing the same thing you're doing now. Paying someone to communicate a message over their medium.
The idea that VoIP is going to remain a free-as-in-beer alternative to traditional phone networks is a pipe dream. Sure, it's a charmingly optimistic to think so, in a cute sort of pat-you-on-the-head sort of way, but..At the end of the day, the one who pays the piper calls the tune.
SVG, whether you like it or not, may very well be the future as far as graphics...at least as far as GUIs are concerned.
Scalability has become increasingly more and more important on the desktop in recent years, and it's nice to see KDE recognize that.. Beyond the savings associated with going vector over raster, it's just a better idea. A better tool for the job. Sure, it's not going to replace traditional rasterized images (i'd imagine it's pretty hard to distill a rasterized image into a decent vector) but it's a step in the right direction. The right tool for the right job.
One would think that power and influence are synonymous. I don't think the day is too far off in IT-land when individual power is surpassed by the notion of communal power.
I mean, where is the Linux community itself on that list?
With no offense to dear Linus, but Linus!=The Linux Movement. Linus=Linus. He is a member of a greater organism, the Linux community. While he may (bless his soul) have a great deal of influence over us, we, the organism, dictate our own course, and our own movements.. For example, lately, the Linux community seems to be moving more and more in the direction of replacing X11..Hardly an edict handed down from Linus, right?
Surely we, the Linux community, should at least be ahead of Palmisano on that list. Our little community seems to have enough influence over other pieces on the chess board..enough to move them without even touching them directly---Regardless of what SCO says, it's not like the Linux community went to IBM and ordered them to modify their business plan.:) We have more of an influence on Sam Palmisano than Sam Palmisano has on us.
My dad ran crypto for the Navy back in the 50's, was even given a citation from the Pentagon for his ability to pick out weak Morse Code on the fly..and decode the stuff, realtime, in his head! Spent like 6 years up in Adak, Alaska listening to Russian freighter traffic. Three cheers for Cold War paranoia!
...Does anyone else find it a little strange that Red Hat still packages i386 binaries, when the minimum requirements for installing Red Hat have long since exceeded that which you can do on a 386?
Thats a page I wish Red Hat would take out of Mandrake's book. s/i386/i586/g...at least!
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Real simple.
The future of cinema isn't gonna look anything like what this article talks about. It's obvious. Every person i've shown this to has had their chin hit the floor.
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You miss the point entirely, Apple tard. The point being, you payed a ridiculous (truly ridiculous) amount of money for a prestige item that functions no better than an off-the-shelf $80 MP3 player. You did it to impress yourself and your friends, and succeeded only looking like a titanic idiot.
Apple must be doing something right.. They have no trouble rounding up complete suckers to pay enormous sums of money for ordinary things.
You can hit reply if you want to, but... don't bother. Wouldn't want you to put any extra wear & tear on your $120 mouse.
Surprise! You just lost the bet you made. You owe me an iPod, sir.
If you like, you can simply PayPal me the $350 instead, since I have no use for an overpriced, overhyped, cheap-plastic MP3 player.
You owe me an iPod.
Feel free to email me, i'll give you an address where you can ship the iPod.
bpoag@comcast.net
Be sure the subject of the email says "The iPod I lost on a bet, Bowie, because i'm a fucking idiot Mac user."
Here you go, ass-munch.
20GB MP3 player, $70 shipped. $50 with rebate coupon.
You Mac users... Jesus christ, I swear, you would buy a $500 turd with a ribbon on it if Apple put it in their catalog.
Goddamn VBulletin has me brainwashed.
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However, as you can see, the drive itself had some issues with data integrity after I applied the solution.
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It's an MP3 player, for christ's sake. And an unexpandable one at that. I'd even argue that it's simply ugly.
First, they announce they're getting out of the domain registration racket. Now, they want to "commercialize the Internet."
Smells like the same sort of necrotic-tissue stench that Sun and SCO have been giving off lately.
..But such a thing would be an isolated incident, and therefore wouldn't propogate over the network.
It's only the commonly submitted AND commonly requested spam fragment fingerprints that get queried.
Hah, shit, I didn't think about that -- But wait -- Wouldn't the model still compensate for that?
After all, arent the most _popular_ files the most _widespread_ fles? Suppose you flagged a piece of legitimate mail as spam. It would not propogate as quickly if only a handful of people declared it as spam. If thousands of people declare it as spam, its then its that much bigger of a target.
MD5 fingerprinting of distilled spam fragments may be the way to go -- at least that way, you have some method of identifying and categorizing them..
For example, suppose you get some Nigerian spam. There are going to be things common to all Nigeriam spam. As a percentage, the similarity between Nigerian spam variants can be reduced to a number. Variations on Nigerian spam are still successfully detected.
Thats what I mean -- Multiple MD5 runs.
For example -- Take a piece of spam, and randomly select a length of text, say, 53 bytes. Calculate an MD5 sum for that 53 byte segment. Repeat the process a few dozen times. At the end of the run, you have 20 or 30 MD5 sums that represents fragments of spam.
These MD5 sums are then stored ubiquitously via P2P.
Now, a day or two later, someone on the other side of the globe is retrieving their email --- The same process occurs. The suspect email is put through the fingerprinter, and a couple dozen MD5 sums are generated. A certain percentage of those MD5 sums WILL match ones found via P2P --- So you impose a rule of sorts, saying perhaps if 75% or more of the MD5 sums match known fingerprints, nuke it.
Idea: Lets call it Spamster... a P2P trading system set up not for warez, but explicitly for spam exchange. I know, hold on, hold on. Hear me out:
The instant you come across a piece of spam in your inbox, you can flag that piece of spam to be shared. Within a few minutes, a copy of that spam (and perhaps an MD5 fingerprint taken from random but non-specific strings extracted from the spam as well) is made available to everyone via P2P.
Meanwhile, someone on the other side of the globe a few hours later fires up his email client. As part of checking his mail, his client links up with a P2P spam hub and compares suspect contents against the list of globally known spam archetypes.
Or even more fun, have that process handled at the mailserver level. Constantly parse the spool, generaring MD5 checksums, and using those checksums as search criteria in Spamster.
Net result: The instant a piece of spam in sent, the clock starts ticking. Within a matter of minutes, that piece of spam is now indexed, and known to mail clients worldwide.
Benefits: In order to defeat the process, spam would need to be sufficiently random in it's content to overcome multiple fingerprint runs.. Something that would next to impossible (or one hell of a headache) for any would-be spammer to attempt.
Downsides: Net congestion.
Hmmmm..
Considering that people, to this day, line up and pay hand-over-fist for DSL connectivity----A technology that requires absolutely no physical changes (at the consumer level) to existing telephone infrastructure, and causes no greater strain to the system to have....
Between the inately human need to have more, and the voice of advertising continually telling people that what they have isn't good enough--- yes, absolutely. People will pay for it. And beam with pride when doing so.
"This is, without a doubt, the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. Written communication was only ever "free" if you had a servant to go deliver the letter for you."
Written communication requires only a piece of mud and a sharp stick. The Babylonians loved it. You might too.
I admit that I don't know anything about the history of the telegraph, but the telephone was never cheap. In fact, in its infancy, the telephone was so expensive that some thought it would only be useful as a way of letting someone know that he had received a telegram!"
Most early telephones were hand-built, and hand-wired between towns. Its only when the need for standardization arose that the picture changed. Before then, telephone infrastructure were free to construct and deploy.
"Regarding the Internet, you say that "soon people were paying for the priviledge?" As opposed to what? When in the history of the Internet was one able to access the Internet without either paying an ISP, or getting access through the university/one's place of work."
When? Most of the Internet's life, actually. Until very, very recently, most people didn't pay a cent out of their own pocket to have access to the internet. They had access via their employer, or their university. The whole notion of an "ISP" didn't really take shape until the early 90's. By that point, the Internet was old enough to vote and have a beer.
I didn't sidestep cellphones. I figured it would be obvious. Before cellphones, we had CB radio/walkie-talkies. Free concepts that became pay concepts once they grew sufficiently in popularity.
Can you hear me now?
Written communication became popular, because it was an improvement over word of mouth. Anyone could learn how to do it. It was free at first, but as it caught on, people payed for the priveledge.
Telegraphy became popular, because it was an improvement over commication by postal mail. Anybody could set it up. At first, it was free, but soon people payed for the priveledge.
Telephones became popular, because it was an improvement over communication by telegraph--It circumvented the charges normally associated with communication by wire. And anybody could do it.
The internet became popular, because it was an improvement over communication by telephone. Relaying information from point to point over a public network was cheaper than calling long-distance, and anybody could do it. Soon, people began paying for the priveldge.
Given our own track record, what on earth makes you think your VoIP service is going to be free? Like any other service, infrastructure is paid for by those accessing it. The networks that make it happen don't build themselves, you know.
Its a novelty for now, sure, but 10-20 years from now, you're going to be doing the same thing you're doing now. Paying someone to communicate a message over their medium.
The idea that VoIP is going to remain a free-as-in-beer alternative to traditional phone networks is a pipe dream. Sure, it's a charmingly optimistic to think so, in a cute sort of pat-you-on-the-head sort of way, but..At the end of the day, the one who pays the piper calls the tune.
SVG, whether you like it or not, may very well be the future as far as graphics...at least as far as GUIs are concerned.
Scalability has become increasingly more and more important on the desktop in recent years, and it's nice to see KDE recognize that.. Beyond the savings associated with going vector over raster, it's just a better idea. A better tool for the job. Sure, it's not going to replace traditional rasterized images (i'd imagine it's pretty hard to distill a rasterized image into a decent vector) but it's a step in the right direction. The right tool for the right job.
Cheers,
Actually, no. I *did* mean to phrase it in an assignment operator, and not as a comparator. So nyah.
Jesus H we're a bunch of fscking geeks..
One would think that power and influence are synonymous. I don't think the day is too far off in IT-land when individual power is surpassed by the notion of communal power.
I mean, where is the Linux community itself on that list?
With no offense to dear Linus, but Linus!=The Linux Movement. Linus=Linus. He is a member of a greater organism, the Linux community. While he may (bless his soul) have a great deal of influence over us, we, the organism, dictate our own course, and our own movements.. For example, lately, the Linux community seems to be moving more and more in the direction of replacing X11..Hardly an edict handed down from Linus, right?
Surely we, the Linux community, should at least be ahead of Palmisano on that list. Our little community seems to have enough influence over other pieces on the chess board..enough to move them without even touching them directly---Regardless of what SCO says, it's not like the Linux community went to IBM and ordered them to modify their business plan.
Something to think about, at least.
My dad ran crypto for the Navy back in the 50's, was even given a citation from the Pentagon for his ability to pick out weak Morse Code on the fly..and decode the stuff, realtime, in his head! Spent like 6 years up in Adak, Alaska listening to Russian freighter traffic. Three cheers for Cold War paranoia!
:)
I'll pass this along to him.
Thats a page I wish Red Hat would take out of Mandrake's book. s/i386/i586/g
Doesn't Gates drive a Ford?
Hmmm..
Definitely needs more Pogo.
And worth every fucking byte.
Real simple.
The future of cinema isn't gonna look anything like what this article talks about. It's obvious. Every person i've shown this to has had their chin hit the floor.