Forgot to mention the above becomes important in an environment where network neutrality is eliminated. ISPs could provide caching for certain types of P2P data and content, and only make this cached data available to their customers. The only question is what would be the deciding factor as to what is cached, given the issue with data that is either being distributed without the copyright holders permission or data that is being distributed with permission, but the ISP doesn't get to make a cut off. Unfortunately money and copyright issues will always be part of the equation.
I am not familiar with the internal workings of P2P software, but I wouldn't be surprised if most of the algorithms only take into account bandwidth type (modem, DSL, LAN, etc) and which peers are 'super peers' or regular peers. The one piece of information that would be important is network hierarchy, so that you give priority to local peers first. An example order would be: local LAN -> local ISP -> anyone else. The idea is that by optimising for close peers you reduce the amount of traffic going beyond the network. This is also a sort of compromise that could appease certain stingy bandwidth ISPs, since they pay less to the providers they depend on, since the amount of data leaving and entering their network is reduced.
I am not sure how you could work out which peers are considered local. Maybe hop count could do the job, but I don't know how effective that is.
The problem is that it does a poor job at having a second button. There should not be a finger anywhere near the Button1 or else the click is treated as Button1 even if the pressure is in the Button2 area. This is due to the fact that they use capacitive proximity sensing rather than pressure sensing. The entire mouse basically has one microswitch.
This is a problem with Apple's mouse, not with the OS, since the OS can use any old logitech mouse quite happily. This is what I do.
AT&T is innocent, Apple wants to opt for the console model on the iphone, a closed platform , for which they are going to play middle man who cashes in via the itunes shop.
Well there is certainly that, or that at this point in time the APIs are undocumented. As any developer can vouch, depending on undocumented APIs will break your program come some future system update.
No one really knows whether Apple, in the form of Steve Jobs, is intending to open up the iPhone at some future point, but it is fair to say that any tinkering with the iPhone in ways that aren't curretnly condoned will result in off the radar development, such that when Apple tests their system updates they won't take into account changes made by others. At the same time it should be noted, from using an iPhone myself, that much of the real value seems to be coming from third-party software.
I am living in Canada, where Apple has not yet released the iPhone and is still charging pre-dollar parity prices, so I am not going to be buying one right yet. Anyhow, I am waiting to see what the second generation will have to offer, other than 3G.
Serial Bluetooth support is certainly one feature I would look forward to.
Two problems I see are:
- Sites offering one content to Google and another to users. This is indeed something that Google frowns on, but not something that seems to be in place to be tested by the spider.
- Google's fame comes from their PageRank algorithm and unfortunately people now know how to game the results. If Google were to implement multiple algorithms then users could indicate which search type the wish to use. While it certainly makes thing more complicated for Google, it also makes it more complicated for people trying to game the system, since it is harder to know which algorithm to target.
...or McGuyver making nuclear weapons out of a cane, dentures, Bengay, and hearing aides.
From what I hear he got hired by the air force, got his name changed to O'Neil and now delegates this sort of stuff to his team, who use strange things like Naquita instead of Uranium:D
The way I see it if a person goes from work to their home, then the point of energy usage should be where the person is. So any energy that was used at work is now being used at home instead. If you leave appliances on, whether it be computers or A/Cs for example, where the person no longer is, then you have doubled the energy usage foot-print of that person. By doubling the energy requirement you also need to double the energy production.
As to your electric car example, then if energy usage has been shifted from the office to the home, then the car is being charged with electricity that is no longer being used unnecessarily at the office.
The important thing is to be able to generate as much electricity as is needed. In some places they use gravity as a form of a battery, that is the pump water up a hill to a resevoir when demand is low and then let it run down through turbines when demand is high. Using such an approach ensures that if a coal powered power station is providing more electricity than needed at night then it is not going to waste, then during peak demand you have both solution providing electricity instead of two coal powered power stations.
Even if the phone call gets redirected to deepest India, they will still help you out - as I found out when I had to revalidate my Windows install for the fourth time, due to hardware issues.
Don't you see something inherently wrong with that? Not to be snide, but why would you continue to put up with such problems?
I have no issue with it. I was just stating a fact.
Then I tried to get the export-to-PDF add-in from the Microsoft site but it proclaimed that only one copy of Office on my computer was validated so I couldn't update the other. Net result -- un-install one; un-install the other; re-install Office Standard; back in business.
What a stupid pain.
You need to realise that Microsoft is trained in the school of 'being so smart that its stupid'. Basically they have some good developers with great ideas, but they fail to think them through and ends up making something that so complicated, that a Linux kernel recompile ends up being simpler.
Forgive my ignorance but I don't really understand the problem here. Why not just activate Office? You can do it over the internet or by a toll free phone call. You can only open Office apps so many times before you must activate it, so why delay?
I found myself asking the same thing. Technically your Office license is not valid until activated. Even if the phone call gets redirected to deepest India, they will still help you out - as I found out when I had to revalidate my Windows install for the fourth time, due to hardware issues.
They shouldn't count PCs, they have many more uses than just the internet.
At night when they are left on and nobody is using them they just act as space heaters. Now consider a building that is running both A/C and is full of idle computers and you have a lot of wasted energy. I know many people say that stand-by use more energy than necessary, but it uses a heck of a lot less than one left on for no reason.
Losing the leadership of Bill is actually the devastating blow.
There is that and also the fact the guy in charge of development is throwing chairs. Not something to be done when your system is called Windows;)
Seriously, while some nay sayers might be right they are often proved wrong in the long term. I am not moving to Vista, because I have no need and I seriously have to ask myself what went so seriously wrong. I am suspecting a certain arogance and disconnect with the user base. History has shown us that Microsoft seems to get it wrong every other release and then sorts it out. The way I see it is that people who want to use Vista will and those don't won't. Sure its an obvious statement, but it is one that seems to need repeating so often.
More to the point though, I have to agree with the Parent here... Its a FREAKING RPG. Let people Role Play in the Game as they see fit.
Exactly! If they want they could just add a basic player profile where you have to indicate your real body's gender. With that any player could then check to see the if the other person behind the character is really a man or a woman. I wouldn't mind having to indicate my real age and gender, if that means I could be whoever I wanted to be in the game.
It actually makes perfect sense, and your exact reasons for being horrified at the idea are almost certainly why it was proposed, not something they didn't think of.
But this assumes that the only way of getting at the music is by knowingly passing on the songs. Stolen iPods, insecure PCs, worms and the likes would soon be a source for extracting that information. Not good.
Considering that Google is one of the major sponsors of FF, I'm not amazed. Sending the addresses to Yahoo, or MSN, well THAT would be newz.
Like every other feature I think you should be given the option of choosing where you get taken to, if anywhere. For example if I have my own anti-phishing web site then I should be able to choose that.
I support Google for many things, but I am getting more insecure about their privacy issues.
How about they let the user decide what's "too slow"? I'm perfectly content with the speed of my 500MHz iBook G3 running Panther, so what makes them so sure I won't be happy running Leopard on my dual 533MHz G4 PowerMac?
Well, Apple is all about 'user experience' and their announcement avoids people phoning them up and complaining about what they already knew. As always within a few weeks of release there will be people finding ways to run the system on older computers.
I believe any solution will require an investment on your part. What I mean is that you may need to set up a tower or lay cabling to a point where reception could be received.
One question I have for you is how far the nearest neighbour is, since it may be possible to find a solution where you could share the costs, if of course your neighbours are willing to share the cost.
You are thinking of New Zealand. Australian's have ozzie accents:) Dingo's come from Australia and Kiwis (both the bird and the fruit - well technically the latter comes from China), come from New Zealand.
However, the modular approach can have some overhead of its own (though not as much on linux as on darwin). If you really need a small kernel, you can actually disable loadable module support at compile-time, if you know exactly which drivers you need.
Certainly, but the over head comes from the 'on demand' loading approach. You could technically use a modular approach and then have all the modules loaded at the start to reduce over head. If understand rightly the extra overhead in Darwin would come from the fact the 'modules' are slightly more loosely bound, allowing them to work with most kernels, whereas linux generally requires a recompile.
Putting a bunch of #if 0's into complex, bloated code doesn't make it slim and efficient. Statements elsewhere still make assumptions about one of 1000 things happening rather than one in 10. Slow, scalable algorithms are used rather than lean but limited ones. make config is not going to turn your Linux into FreeDOS.
Another approach is to use an object-oriented model, so you just include the implementation you need for the specific interface or class. I believe Darwin (the kernel used by MacOS X) already uses such an approach for some things?
He wasn't forcing anyone to do anything. He was reserving his right to refuse business to anyone. He doesn't even need a reason.
His mistake was refusing business. Had he provided a discount for people with good grades, then chances are he would still have his job. The problem with refusing business is that people end up going elsewhere, where as providing an incentive for reduced cost doesn't prevent people handing over their money.
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If IBM can patent the checkbox, what's next? The radio button? The text box? Maybe even the address bar?!?
I wonder if this is IBM's attempt to show how screwed up the patent system is?
Forgot to mention the above becomes important in an environment where network neutrality is eliminated. ISPs could provide caching for certain types of P2P data and content, and only make this cached data available to their customers. The only question is what would be the deciding factor as to what is cached, given the issue with data that is either being distributed without the copyright holders permission or data that is being distributed with permission, but the ISP doesn't get to make a cut off. Unfortunately money and copyright issues will always be part of the equation.
I am not familiar with the internal workings of P2P software, but I wouldn't be surprised if most of the algorithms only take into account bandwidth type (modem, DSL, LAN, etc) and which peers are 'super peers' or regular peers. The one piece of information that would be important is network hierarchy, so that you give priority to local peers first. An example order would be: local LAN -> local ISP -> anyone else. The idea is that by optimising for close peers you reduce the amount of traffic going beyond the network. This is also a sort of compromise that could appease certain stingy bandwidth ISPs, since they pay less to the providers they depend on, since the amount of data leaving and entering their network is reduced.
I am not sure how you could work out which peers are considered local. Maybe hop count could do the job, but I don't know how effective that is.
The problem is that it does a poor job at having a second button. There should not be a finger anywhere near the Button1 or else the click is treated as Button1 even if the pressure is in the Button2 area. This is due to the fact that they use capacitive proximity sensing rather than pressure sensing. The entire mouse basically has one microswitch.
This is a problem with Apple's mouse, not with the OS, since the OS can use any old logitech mouse quite happily. This is what I do.
AT&T is innocent, Apple wants to opt for the console model on the iphone, a closed platform , for which they are going to play middle man who cashes in via the itunes shop.
Well there is certainly that, or that at this point in time the APIs are undocumented. As any developer can vouch, depending on undocumented APIs will break your program come some future system update.
No one really knows whether Apple, in the form of Steve Jobs, is intending to open up the iPhone at some future point, but it is fair to say that any tinkering with the iPhone in ways that aren't curretnly condoned will result in off the radar development, such that when Apple tests their system updates they won't take into account changes made by others. At the same time it should be noted, from using an iPhone myself, that much of the real value seems to be coming from third-party software.
I am living in Canada, where Apple has not yet released the iPhone and is still charging pre-dollar parity prices, so I am not going to be buying one right yet. Anyhow, I am waiting to see what the second generation will have to offer, other than 3G.
Serial Bluetooth support is certainly one feature I would look forward to.
Two problems I see are:
- Sites offering one content to Google and another to users. This is indeed something that Google frowns on, but not something that seems to be in place to be tested by the spider.
- Google's fame comes from their PageRank algorithm and unfortunately people now know how to game the results. If Google were to implement multiple algorithms then users could indicate which search type the wish to use. While it certainly makes thing more complicated for Google, it also makes it more complicated for people trying to game the system, since it is harder to know which algorithm to target.
...or McGuyver making nuclear weapons out of a cane, dentures, Bengay, and hearing aides.
:D
From what I hear he got hired by the air force, got his name changed to O'Neil and now delegates this sort of stuff to his team, who use strange things like Naquita instead of Uranium
iDidn't buy one so iDon't care about iT.
I haven't bought one, but I would be curious to know whether you can get AT&T to unlock your iPhone 'legally'?
The way I see it if a person goes from work to their home, then the point of energy usage should be where the person is. So any energy that was used at work is now being used at home instead. If you leave appliances on, whether it be computers or A/Cs for example, where the person no longer is, then you have doubled the energy usage foot-print of that person. By doubling the energy requirement you also need to double the energy production.
As to your electric car example, then if energy usage has been shifted from the office to the home, then the car is being charged with electricity that is no longer being used unnecessarily at the office.
The important thing is to be able to generate as much electricity as is needed. In some places they use gravity as a form of a battery, that is the pump water up a hill to a resevoir when demand is low and then let it run down through turbines when demand is high. Using such an approach ensures that if a coal powered power station is providing more electricity than needed at night then it is not going to waste, then during peak demand you have both solution providing electricity instead of two coal powered power stations.
Even if the phone call gets redirected to deepest India, they will still help you out - as I found out when I had to revalidate my Windows install for the fourth time, due to hardware issues.
Don't you see something inherently wrong with that? Not to be snide, but why would you continue to put up with such problems?
I have no issue with it. I was just stating a fact.
Then I tried to get the export-to-PDF add-in from the Microsoft site but it proclaimed that only one copy of Office on my computer was validated so I couldn't update the other. Net result -- un-install one; un-install the other; re-install Office Standard; back in business.
What a stupid pain.
You need to realise that Microsoft is trained in the school of 'being so smart that its stupid'. Basically they have some good developers with great ideas, but they fail to think them through and ends up making something that so complicated, that a Linux kernel recompile ends up being simpler.
Forgive my ignorance but I don't really understand the problem here. Why not just activate Office? You can do it over the internet or by a toll free phone call. You can only open Office apps so many times before you must activate it, so why delay?
I found myself asking the same thing. Technically your Office license is not valid until activated. Even if the phone call gets redirected to deepest India, they will still help you out - as I found out when I had to revalidate my Windows install for the fourth time, due to hardware issues.
They shouldn't count PCs, they have many more uses than just the internet.
At night when they are left on and nobody is using them they just act as space heaters. Now consider a building that is running both A/C and is full of idle computers and you have a lot of wasted energy. I know many people say that stand-by use more energy than necessary, but it uses a heck of a lot less than one left on for no reason.
Losing the leadership of Bill is actually the devastating blow.
;)
There is that and also the fact the guy in charge of development is throwing chairs. Not something to be done when your system is called Windows
Seriously, while some nay sayers might be right they are often proved wrong in the long term. I am not moving to Vista, because I have no need and I seriously have to ask myself what went so seriously wrong. I am suspecting a certain arogance and disconnect with the user base. History has shown us that Microsoft seems to get it wrong every other release and then sorts it out. The way I see it is that people who want to use Vista will and those don't won't. Sure its an obvious statement, but it is one that seems to need repeating so often.
Toilet seat: Up/Down
;)
How insensitive. We have squat toilers here!
More to the point though, I have to agree with the Parent here... Its a FREAKING RPG. Let people Role Play in the Game as they see fit.
Exactly! If they want they could just add a basic player profile where you have to indicate your real body's gender. With that any player could then check to see the if the other person behind the character is really a man or a woman. I wouldn't mind having to indicate my real age and gender, if that means I could be whoever I wanted to be in the game.
It actually makes perfect sense, and your exact reasons for being horrified at the idea are almost certainly why it was proposed, not something they didn't think of.
But this assumes that the only way of getting at the music is by knowingly passing on the songs. Stolen iPods, insecure PCs, worms and the likes would soon be a source for extracting that information. Not good.
Considering that Google is one of the major sponsors of FF, I'm not amazed. Sending the addresses to Yahoo, or MSN, well THAT would be newz.
Like every other feature I think you should be given the option of choosing where you get taken to, if anywhere. For example if I have my own anti-phishing web site then I should be able to choose that.
I support Google for many things, but I am getting more insecure about their privacy issues.
How about they let the user decide what's "too slow"? I'm perfectly content with the speed of my 500MHz iBook G3 running Panther, so what makes them so sure I won't be happy running Leopard on my dual 533MHz G4 PowerMac?
Well, Apple is all about 'user experience' and their announcement avoids people phoning them up and complaining about what they already knew. As always within a few weeks of release there will be people finding ways to run the system on older computers.
I believe any solution will require an investment on your part. What I mean is that you may need to set up a tower or lay cabling to a point where reception could be received.
One question I have for you is how far the nearest neighbour is, since it may be possible to find a solution where you could share the costs, if of course your neighbours are willing to share the cost.
Whoosh
;)
The sound of the joke as it passes over your head.
So that wasn't my PC's fan acting up.
kiwi accents
:) Dingo's come from Australia and Kiwis (both the bird and the fruit - well technically the latter comes from China), come from New Zealand.
You are thinking of New Zealand. Australian's have ozzie accents
However, the modular approach can have some overhead of its own (though not as much on linux as on darwin). If you really need a small kernel, you can actually disable loadable module support at compile-time, if you know exactly which drivers you need.
Certainly, but the over head comes from the 'on demand' loading approach. You could technically use a modular approach and then have all the modules loaded at the start to reduce over head. If understand rightly the extra overhead in Darwin would come from the fact the 'modules' are slightly more loosely bound, allowing them to work with most kernels, whereas linux generally requires a recompile.
Putting a bunch of #if 0's into complex, bloated code doesn't make it slim and efficient. Statements elsewhere still make assumptions about one of 1000 things happening rather than one in 10. Slow, scalable algorithms are used rather than lean but limited ones. make config is not going to turn your Linux into FreeDOS.
Another approach is to use an object-oriented model, so you just include the implementation you need for the specific interface or class. I believe Darwin (the kernel used by MacOS X) already uses such an approach for some things?
He wasn't forcing anyone to do anything. He was reserving his right to refuse business to anyone. He doesn't even need a reason.
His mistake was refusing business. Had he provided a discount for people with good grades, then chances are he would still have his job. The problem with refusing business is that people end up going elsewhere, where as providing an incentive for reduced cost doesn't prevent people handing over their money.