RTA. This isn't about consumer grade, or even professional grade products. This is about enterprise grade products. Redhat's trying to push into the six figure+ server market, a market that you need marketing agreements to get into, as such a market doesn't want their systems to go down. Ever. Fujitsu, though they're shaking off a bad rep in the drive market, still is pretty well known for their servers.
I give a shit about ogg. It gives better sound quality than mp3s, and usually gives a bit smaller filesize. Plus, you can stream vorbis files just fine. There are several places on the internet doing so as we speak. Just because you're ignorant to them doesn't mean they don't exist.
I think this is a matter of opinion here, as to what'll be the best solution to the problem. I seem to lean toward what intel's doing and building a device that just does drive space and communications with the outside world, and another device that just does display. Yeah, the stylus/tablet interface is good now, and the small box format of the drive lends itself to being integrated with the tablet, but you're not always going to be using a PDA as your primary interface. The way I see it, head mounted displays with small head-mounted LCDs are going to take over as the primary interface as soon as someone can figure out the aesthetic issues it involves. When such a move happens, a PDA display only becomes redundant and an unneeded source of failure.
You're missing the point here. This is going to supplement the handheld market, make it easier to actually do things with it. You don't have to worry about synchronizing your data, because all your data's already in a centralized location. You've still got your PDA, only now, you've got a lot more storage space.
Additionally, I'd imagine that there are going to be many public places which have walk-up terminals where you can access your data if you need to check something and you're away from any other sort of device. Right now, hotels and the like offer some pretty nice setups as far as data ports go and free wireless go. I'd imagine that places like that will offer similar services for wireless personal servers.
You're on your plane, and chances are by the time these devices are commonplace, the airline you're flying on, in conjunction with the plane maker will have gotten 802.11 authorized for use. Boeing has already done so, so it's only a matter of time before others in the flight industry follow suit. Even if the plane maker doesn't do so, I'd imagine that such devices will have more traditional communications means, such as USB or Firewire, to facilitate higher speed transfers, or transfers with computers without wireless hookups.
As far as your security conscious client goes, once again, I never said you'd just be carrying around your portable drive. The drive's just a way to make moving data between devices a lot simpler, so that one doesn't need to swap CF or SmartMedia cards back and forth between devices. You just have one device that handles all those needs for you.
While this is "just" a wireless microdrive, a wireless microdrive is something that is extremely useful for the reasons I outlined in the previous post, and above. Yes, it's another box you have to carry around, but at the same time, it means that you have less worries about other devices running out of storage space.
Hear, hear! Going to be doing the same way. As much as it goes against my conscience, I feel that voting against Bush will be better for the country than voting for the Libertarians. I feel that Bush is doing this nation harm, and that he needs to be thrown out of office at the next election.
As for the marijuana issue, I think the best approach is to get a massive run to try to get drug decriminalization measures on the ballot next presidential election. Part of the reason Nevada's decriminalization measure failed was because of the fact that the DEA and ONDCP could use their massive propoganda machine in one place to confuse the voters into thinking that this would be a harmful measure. Were every state to have a ballot measure simultaneously, those efforts would be diluted. Yes, most of such measures would probably fail, but at the same time, if just one state passes decriminalization measures, the shaky deck of cards the drug war is based upon could begin to collapse.
Same here. 4 hours is just not enough time. 8-12 hours would be the minimum to get people thinking about using this device. It's definitely possible to do so and still keep a low power device. Subnotebooks can get up to 17, and they've got an LCD and more powerful processor in them. Weight's not that much of an issue, because it's going in your pocket and just sitting there; a one pound device would be about the limit, but 1 pound is more than enough to put in a decent power system.
The big thing about wireless, that you mentioned, is the tradeoff between power usage and bandwidth. I'm guessing that this device would have components that automatically adjust the output power of the antenna based on signal strength, so that if you're a couple feet away, it doesn't broadcast at full strength, thus conserving power. After all, why waste batteries with your high-powered antenna if you just need the bare minimum?
Exactly. Many of the people posting here just don't get it. This is about making things easier in the long run. No need to really worry about syncing your data; it's already been handled. Setup your mail program to export your iCal/vCal data every few minutes, and you've got your schedule everywhere. You don't have to remember to do it, because it's already been done. The only reason I said "stick it into your computer" is because of the charging issue. Probably a better phrasing would be stick it onto the charging cradle or the like. But now we're just picking nits here.
About the only gripe I have about the device is that it only uses 802.11b. Intel needs to step up to the plate and provide a device with 802.11a and g functionality as well; provide faster tranfer speeds so that one can stream higher quality media to their devices 11Mbps is a bit constraining when you're transferring media, but the 50Mbps+ a and g offer are better, or, like I feel will be the next thing in wireless, offer a way to use both a and g at the same time to get 100Mbps+ speeds out of wireless devices. Then one can really start to think about this device as a pervasive media server.
Think a bit outside of current usage. Lots of people have an mp3 player, a palm pilot, and a digital camera. Now they don't always carry all of them around, but they use them regularly. It's a pain in the ass to have to sync all three devices, each with its own sync program and its own subtleties involved therein. Now, throw one of these devices into the mix. You carry it around in your pocket, and you offload the storage features onto this one device. After the initial setup, you're done. It's got a pretty good processor, so integrating crypto to ensure that the 1337 d00d down the street can't run a sniffer is easier, or one could use that nice low-power processor to run a data manipulation program while you head home. You pop your pics in the device, it automatically makes thumbnails. use your audio i/o device, it automatically makes an.ogg of it.
In and of itself, this device is worthless. Combined with devices you already use, it becomes much, much more useful. Though at the same time, this device is far from revolutionary, it's more evolutionary. A terapin mine does most of this already, albeit with a bigger form factor. Intel's goal is to make this as small as possible, so that it suddenly becomes worthwhile to work with digital media makers to develop single use, efficient devices that make transferring data easier.
As far as this tech goes, it's still pretty damn fascinating, even if the submission is a bit lacking. It's a portable wireless hard drive, which is exactly the direction PDAs should take. Put one of these in your pocket, and have a very small dedicated device to play music, or play videos, or do your word processing. Once you get home, you pop it into your computer and bam, you've got the same info.
I'd say that the principal use of this technology is that it's good initial testing of new rocket engine designs. By putting the rocket on a rail, you can control the trajectory and course much easier, allowing better monitoring of such things as fuel consumption, acceleration, etc. This way, you don't have to deal with the dangers of sending a rocket up when you really don't know how it's going to behave.
If you're looking for something outright, then really, this tech would seem pretty silly. But as part of a testing regimen, it makes perfect sense.
Hey, it's a better idea than the Borg;3. Seriously. Reintroduce some of those one-off species that was good for an episode or two. The Pakkled's odd combination of being spaceworthy and simple, for example. There's got to be a story there. Probably several, actually. Similar story goes for other species that are seen once, then never again.
I think the problem here is that Berman sees the Borg as a cure-all for weak plots when that's clearly not the case. Ricky boy needs to give it up, that horse he's beating, it's not just dead, there's nothing left of it but a few pieces of fetid flesh and a bunch of bones. The best course is to let someone else guide the show for a while, it's obvious that he can't hack it.
Re:OpenBSD = Coordinated Innovation
on
OpenBSD 3.3 Released
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
I agree, and I'm not being funny here. Why the hell won't the XFree86 team bring back the old XF86Setup program? That thing is infinitely better than xf86cfg. I won't touch xf86cfg with a 10 foot bargepole.
Not really. You can't have a class-action as a countersuit. You can get a lawyer who's willing to work for a percentage of the compensation instead of a retainer, but you'd have to find one who's willing to spend potentially years in court with Time Warner. Such lawyers are difficult to find.
Very true. Perhaps this means I need to hook up my video camera to my system, start archiving footage whenever I install new software. Sad day when it comes to this because of patents over a collection of 1s and 0s.
Obviously it's for casual shooting, probably would be a great vacation movie system. Take it along, videoblog your trip without having to carry around two devices wherever you go. I can definitely see the utility of this device in the amateur video editing market. Though the memory constraints lead me to believe that it probably would work better with a much smaller OS. Toss ME, throw on a very tight version of Linux and 256MB would be more than plenty RAM to handle a video editing session. From a consumer standpoint, it's simply unfortunate that MS abandoned NT4, because there's definitely a market for small OSes on devices that don't necessarily have the restrictions that CE was designed around.
Just because OS makers have sacrificed tight code to the almighty god of eye candy doesn't mean that it's not possible to live with "just" 256MB. Turn off the eye candy, and you'll see that there's a lot you can do in tight memory situations without sacrificing performance.
Not really. I guess suspension of reality helps the enjoyment of television, but at the same time, looking out the window and watching TV are not analogous. There are differences, mostly dealing with clues provided by two slightly different images. Looking out a window, the second eye gives those clues, one can tell the window's there, but that there's depth beyond the window. A television doesn't provide those clues, it just looks different. The shading is there, sure, but at the same time, there's just something "missing".
Of course, here, we start veering off into the insanely interesting tangent of perception of reality. I'm colorblind, thus my internal color set is slightly different than yours. Most of the time, it doesn't make a difference, but at the same time, I hate talking about colors because my mental crayon box has different labels than yours. How exactly do you describe the color blue, anyways?
Unfortunately, network is one of those ambiguous terms that means something hooked up to something. thus, patents are able to squirm their way into areas they otherwise wouldn't. An integrated component, such as one computer system wouldn't be considered a network, which means that if you want to create prior art, make sure that you're run the program/whatever at least once via VNC, so that you can claim that you were doing networked systems research years ago if a patent-monger comes along and creates a spurious claim as to patenting some blatently obvious piece of networking technology.
Not if you only used it locally, as part of the claim is via a network. If you can document that you used it to navigate an NFS mounted share, however, then absolutely.
It's a shakedown, plain and simple. They're going after the little guy because they know they've got better lawyers and can outspend the opponent. Unfortunately, with most of these patents, it's a matter of squashing the little guy into submission. They small businessperson would win in the end, but at the cost of their livelihood.
Now, with the evidence of prior art that's been so wonderfully described on by previous commentors, I think it may be time to go on the offensive. Wonder if the EFF would be interested in wrangling up a few lawyers, going after SBC for their blatently frivolous lawsuit.
Alternatively, the ones that haven't been broken are still going on, at least technically. They sniff the encrypted text, log it, and try to look for patterns, try to get known plaintext and attack it that way. They know it's a longshot, but in the game they're playing, they really only have to get lucky once.
Nope. All I'm talking about is file transfer. The destination doesn't need to communicate all that much to the source, so they really don't need to know who it is. They ask The Network for a file, and someone in The Network provides it. All they need to do, essentially, is open wide and wait for the file they know is coming from somewhere. As UDP is a stateless protocol - every message is whole into and of itself - UDP headers are spoofable, which is the only reason this is possible. This is ignoring aspects such as flow control and initiation of transfer for just a second, but it's enough to get a rough idea.
The fun part is the flow control, though. If you wanted total anonymity, you'd have to to broadcast flow control information to everyone, instead of just file requests. Which leads to a problem of balancing scalability with anonymity. Gnutella showed that sending broadcasts of all file requests to all clients can lead to a very slow network very quickly. Adding flow control information can only worsen that problem, though that can be mitigated by sending only a minimal amount of flow control packets, for example, one flow control packet every few hundred k or so.
Caching/collecting relays can also help mitigate that problem. The issue's still trust, but were someone to properly set up the caching protocol, and provide enough safeguards through means like migrating through different jurisdictions, the trust issue can be alleviated to some degree.
Regardless of the situation, it's still possible to track. Hell, someone who's persistent enough could track anonymous remailers. With any form of anonymous computer communication, all you have to do is make it difficult to trace the paper trail back to you, by slipping into the noise. It's tough, but at the same time, it's possible.
The only company on the Primary Contributor list that has anything to gain from this is ATI whose chips are nowhere to be found in the embedded space.
Not totally true. ATi's graphics are found in the Gamecube, which, while not embedded, is in the consumer-grade hardware sector, which is one of the main focuses of this group. Since ATI helped originate the specs, chances are, people looking to build devices with 3d framebuffers are going to look to them for the chips to make it happen. Same goes for PDAs. Just like the line between micro- and mini- computer was wiped out, the ever-increasing power of PDAs is going to mean that people are going to start to want them to display full-screen 3-d accellerated graphics; might as well provide a good open specs for folks to work on now so they just have to wait a short while for the hardware to get here.
I need a bit of insider info about UDP spoof prevention. I know most ISPs now program their routers to help prevent UDP spoofing -- one can't spoof 194.53.74.56 if one is really from 54.75.64.24 (note, examples are purely random. If you can, great, but most likely you won't). However, is it possible to spoof an addy in say, the same subnet -- would 54.75.64.24 be able to spoof 54.75.64.19. Again, I'm asking for a generalized rule of thumb -- go/no go type stuff.
Why I ask is simple. If it is possible, then one can have anonymous transmission of P2P materials simply by sending everything out via UDP. You simply spoof the UDP address, and you should be essentially untraceable. And if anyone starts spouting about the moral issues of such a system, fuck you. First off, there are a lot of legitimate uses for P2P. Second, all the uses of P2P combined for music swapping don't come near the damage to the long-term viability of the music industry the RIAA has done through downright assinine and short-sighted business practices. So, the exects of the large music studios can all curl up and die for all I care; I'll be dancing on their graves when it happens.
Because Windows fucking sucks in my opinion. Why should I have to boot into an operating environment that I don't like just so I can play a few games? I'd much rather stay into linux. For one thing, I don't have a windows partition on my main machine, and for another, all the games I want to play already work fine under Wine/WineX. Those games that don't work, I'll just wait around until they do before I buy them. I'd much rather deal with a few workarounds in getting some games to work than bump my head against the clunkiness that is Windows at every twist and turn when I'm trying to do real work.
Slashdot Mirror
RTA. This isn't about consumer grade, or even professional grade products. This is about enterprise grade products. Redhat's trying to push into the six figure+ server market, a market that you need marketing agreements to get into, as such a market doesn't want their systems to go down. Ever. Fujitsu, though they're shaking off a bad rep in the drive market, still is pretty well known for their servers.
I give a shit about ogg. It gives better sound quality than mp3s, and usually gives a bit smaller filesize. Plus, you can stream vorbis files just fine. There are several places on the internet doing so as we speak. Just because you're ignorant to them doesn't mean they don't exist.
I think this is a matter of opinion here, as to what'll be the best solution to the problem. I seem to lean toward what intel's doing and building a device that just does drive space and communications with the outside world, and another device that just does display. Yeah, the stylus/tablet interface is good now, and the small box format of the drive lends itself to being integrated with the tablet, but you're not always going to be using a PDA as your primary interface. The way I see it, head mounted displays with small head-mounted LCDs are going to take over as the primary interface as soon as someone can figure out the aesthetic issues it involves. When such a move happens, a PDA display only becomes redundant and an unneeded source of failure.
Additionally, I'd imagine that there are going to be many public places which have walk-up terminals where you can access your data if you need to check something and you're away from any other sort of device. Right now, hotels and the like offer some pretty nice setups as far as data ports go and free wireless go. I'd imagine that places like that will offer similar services for wireless personal servers.
You're on your plane, and chances are by the time these devices are commonplace, the airline you're flying on, in conjunction with the plane maker will have gotten 802.11 authorized for use. Boeing has already done so, so it's only a matter of time before others in the flight industry follow suit. Even if the plane maker doesn't do so, I'd imagine that such devices will have more traditional communications means, such as USB or Firewire, to facilitate higher speed transfers, or transfers with computers without wireless hookups.
As far as your security conscious client goes, once again, I never said you'd just be carrying around your portable drive. The drive's just a way to make moving data between devices a lot simpler, so that one doesn't need to swap CF or SmartMedia cards back and forth between devices. You just have one device that handles all those needs for you.
While this is "just" a wireless microdrive, a wireless microdrive is something that is extremely useful for the reasons I outlined in the previous post, and above. Yes, it's another box you have to carry around, but at the same time, it means that you have less worries about other devices running out of storage space.
As for the marijuana issue, I think the best approach is to get a massive run to try to get drug decriminalization measures on the ballot next presidential election. Part of the reason Nevada's decriminalization measure failed was because of the fact that the DEA and ONDCP could use their massive propoganda machine in one place to confuse the voters into thinking that this would be a harmful measure. Were every state to have a ballot measure simultaneously, those efforts would be diluted. Yes, most of such measures would probably fail, but at the same time, if just one state passes decriminalization measures, the shaky deck of cards the drug war is based upon could begin to collapse.
The big thing about wireless, that you mentioned, is the tradeoff between power usage and bandwidth. I'm guessing that this device would have components that automatically adjust the output power of the antenna based on signal strength, so that if you're a couple feet away, it doesn't broadcast at full strength, thus conserving power. After all, why waste batteries with your high-powered antenna if you just need the bare minimum?
About the only gripe I have about the device is that it only uses 802.11b. Intel needs to step up to the plate and provide a device with 802.11a and g functionality as well; provide faster tranfer speeds so that one can stream higher quality media to their devices 11Mbps is a bit constraining when you're transferring media, but the 50Mbps+ a and g offer are better, or, like I feel will be the next thing in wireless, offer a way to use both a and g at the same time to get 100Mbps+ speeds out of wireless devices. Then one can really start to think about this device as a pervasive media server.
In and of itself, this device is worthless. Combined with devices you already use, it becomes much, much more useful. Though at the same time, this device is far from revolutionary, it's more evolutionary. A terapin mine does most of this already, albeit with a bigger form factor. Intel's goal is to make this as small as possible, so that it suddenly becomes worthwhile to work with digital media makers to develop single use, efficient devices that make transferring data easier.
As far as this tech goes, it's still pretty damn fascinating, even if the submission is a bit lacking. It's a portable wireless hard drive, which is exactly the direction PDAs should take. Put one of these in your pocket, and have a very small dedicated device to play music, or play videos, or do your word processing. Once you get home, you pop it into your computer and bam, you've got the same info.
Because they already have
If you're looking for something outright, then really, this tech would seem pretty silly. But as part of a testing regimen, it makes perfect sense.
I think the problem here is that Berman sees the Borg as a cure-all for weak plots when that's clearly not the case. Ricky boy needs to give it up, that horse he's beating, it's not just dead, there's nothing left of it but a few pieces of fetid flesh and a bunch of bones. The best course is to let someone else guide the show for a while, it's obvious that he can't hack it.
I agree, and I'm not being funny here. Why the hell won't the XFree86 team bring back the old XF86Setup program? That thing is infinitely better than xf86cfg. I won't touch xf86cfg with a 10 foot bargepole.
Not really. You can't have a class-action as a countersuit. You can get a lawyer who's willing to work for a percentage of the compensation instead of a retainer, but you'd have to find one who's willing to spend potentially years in court with Time Warner. Such lawyers are difficult to find.
Very true. Perhaps this means I need to hook up my video camera to my system, start archiving footage whenever I install new software. Sad day when it comes to this because of patents over a collection of 1s and 0s.
Just because OS makers have sacrificed tight code to the almighty god of eye candy doesn't mean that it's not possible to live with "just" 256MB. Turn off the eye candy, and you'll see that there's a lot you can do in tight memory situations without sacrificing performance.
Of course, here, we start veering off into the insanely interesting tangent of perception of reality. I'm colorblind, thus my internal color set is slightly different than yours. Most of the time, it doesn't make a difference, but at the same time, I hate talking about colors because my mental crayon box has different labels than yours. How exactly do you describe the color blue, anyways?
Unfortunately, network is one of those ambiguous terms that means something hooked up to something. thus, patents are able to squirm their way into areas they otherwise wouldn't. An integrated component, such as one computer system wouldn't be considered a network, which means that if you want to create prior art, make sure that you're run the program/whatever at least once via VNC, so that you can claim that you were doing networked systems research years ago if a patent-monger comes along and creates a spurious claim as to patenting some blatently obvious piece of networking technology.
Not if you only used it locally, as part of the claim is via a network. If you can document that you used it to navigate an NFS mounted share, however, then absolutely.
Now, with the evidence of prior art that's been so wonderfully described on by previous commentors, I think it may be time to go on the offensive. Wonder if the EFF would be interested in wrangling up a few lawyers, going after SBC for their blatently frivolous lawsuit.
Alternatively, the ones that haven't been broken are still going on, at least technically. They sniff the encrypted text, log it, and try to look for patterns, try to get known plaintext and attack it that way. They know it's a longshot, but in the game they're playing, they really only have to get lucky once.
The fun part is the flow control, though. If you wanted total anonymity, you'd have to to broadcast flow control information to everyone, instead of just file requests. Which leads to a problem of balancing scalability with anonymity. Gnutella showed that sending broadcasts of all file requests to all clients can lead to a very slow network very quickly. Adding flow control information can only worsen that problem, though that can be mitigated by sending only a minimal amount of flow control packets, for example, one flow control packet every few hundred k or so.
Caching/collecting relays can also help mitigate that problem. The issue's still trust, but were someone to properly set up the caching protocol, and provide enough safeguards through means like migrating through different jurisdictions, the trust issue can be alleviated to some degree.
Regardless of the situation, it's still possible to track. Hell, someone who's persistent enough could track anonymous remailers. With any form of anonymous computer communication, all you have to do is make it difficult to trace the paper trail back to you, by slipping into the noise. It's tough, but at the same time, it's possible.
Not totally true. ATi's graphics are found in the Gamecube, which, while not embedded, is in the consumer-grade hardware sector, which is one of the main focuses of this group. Since ATI helped originate the specs, chances are, people looking to build devices with 3d framebuffers are going to look to them for the chips to make it happen. Same goes for PDAs. Just like the line between micro- and mini- computer was wiped out, the ever-increasing power of PDAs is going to mean that people are going to start to want them to display full-screen 3-d accellerated graphics; might as well provide a good open specs for folks to work on now so they just have to wait a short while for the hardware to get here.
Why I ask is simple. If it is possible, then one can have anonymous transmission of P2P materials simply by sending everything out via UDP. You simply spoof the UDP address, and you should be essentially untraceable. And if anyone starts spouting about the moral issues of such a system, fuck you. First off, there are a lot of legitimate uses for P2P. Second, all the uses of P2P combined for music swapping don't come near the damage to the long-term viability of the music industry the RIAA has done through downright assinine and short-sighted business practices. So, the exects of the large music studios can all curl up and die for all I care; I'll be dancing on their graves when it happens.
Because Windows fucking sucks in my opinion. Why should I have to boot into an operating environment that I don't like just so I can play a few games? I'd much rather stay into linux. For one thing, I don't have a windows partition on my main machine, and for another, all the games I want to play already work fine under Wine/WineX. Those games that don't work, I'll just wait around until they do before I buy them. I'd much rather deal with a few workarounds in getting some games to work than bump my head against the clunkiness that is Windows at every twist and turn when I'm trying to do real work.