Ok fine, I have spent a good deal of the day with my family.
They are watching a movie now though, so instead of that I'm on my parents new computer (P4 1.6 for only $400, wow!) editing a proposal that I recently submitted for review on the GDF.
I'm also answering personal e-mails and surfing the good old web.
does anyone else think yahoo made this move because google has become a bit more of a portal of late, i.e. google news? there is no doubt google has the superior search technology, but i think yahoo is a little upset that google seems to be trying to be more than 'just search'.
it'll be interesting to see if any overt enmity develops between these two stanford-born businesses....
THANK YOU! gollum was WAY too cutesy. gollum is a villainous wretch of a creature, corrupted by absolute evil for over 500 years. it is true he had a pathetic, obsequious side, but jackson made him WAY too likeable....
and gimli was unfairly cast as a clown. the guy killed 49 orcs during one battle in the book but he can't keep up with aragorn and legolas during their manly run in the movie.
and how did merry and pippin not only manage to TRICK treebeard into destroying isengard, but they also ensured that the whole lot of other ents were in the woods when treebeard conveniently got hot. very cheap and prostethic, the usual hollywood crapola....
i was hoping LOTR: Two Towers would be awesome, but i was very disappointed with it. first off, it seems jackson got carried away with himself and thought he could tell a better story than tolkien. but the story in the movie sucked. and then they went and made half of the lines and events in the movie the usual hollywood cliches. bad form.
anyways, i hope matrix maintains the great story and understates any hollywood influence. but with 300 million on the line, it is hard to maintain much hope....
Seamus Blackley of MS says: "He is not helping things.... He's reinforcing stereotypes about games, not pushing them to a place where they can become something different and truly awesome."
What? All Miyamoto has done throughout his career is making truly awesome and different games!! The idea of a platform game (the original mario); the epic action adventure (zelda series); bringing videogames into 3D (mario 64). Virtually every project he has made or simply produced has been stellar. Pikmin is a great example of a 'different' game. Has anyone played the latest Metroid (Prime)- the BEST GAME ever. And the next Zelda will be out in March (Metroid may have a short-lived stay at the top).
I've been a videogamer since 85, so I know what this man has brought to every console generation. Nintendo might have to freeze this guy like Disney froze Walt;).
I liked the article in general though - this man is truly a GOD. I don't care if his games are cutesy - they are the BEST!
"Is it that perhaps this will spur new R&D in wireless devices and protocols to use this new spectrum, returning value to the economy this way? Or is there something I'm missing?"
I think most Americans agree that creating a market to handle allocation of a scarce resource is a good (best?) way to use that resource efficiently. This has been the usual thinking when it comes to auctioning spectrum - let the company that thinks it will make the most money (ie 'use') from owning the spectrum have the rights to it. But there is another line of thinking that advocates freeing up spectrum. If we could 'packet switch' spectrum, creating a commons where applications define its use (e.g. the 'end-to-end' architecture of the net), then new businesses could be built on top of this spectrum. That would generate more money in the long term than auctioning off the spectrum to *one* owner.
sounds like a gimmick but it is interesting....
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because i'm sure all these artists understand that the iPod is often used to store illegally obtained music files. can this be construed as tacit approval? what would hilary rosen say?
or perhaps musicians realize that like the VCR the iPod MAY encourage piracy but it has plenty of non-infringing uses. just like gnutella....
I think it would be useful to have a moderated discussion without having to maintain a bunch of central servers.
1) like p2p, it seems to leverage the resources of every partipant on the network. 2) like slashdot, it vests control of what is heard in a distributed way, as certain (all?) nodes will moderate what is listened to.
i agree applications currently seems non-existent, but like all research i think exploring the system is a good idea in and of itself.
MS will do anything to maintain their monopoly on the desktop OS (as recent numbers have shown, it provides flexibility in OTHER markets), so you can be sure that they won't feel bad about cutting the price of Windows. In fact, as Linux becomes more attractive, there will be more pressure to drop the price to 0 (zero). Any other price and they stand to lose their monopoly, which is worth more than a few measly bucks per computer sold....
this is great news. the drug dealers in the park will be especially happy - they can create a web service infrastructure with their suppliers!.NET has its first customer!!
this news really surprises me. generally, i'd call it a bad thing. enix and square were the two RPG superhouses, and less players means less competition. i'm just confused about why it happened - was enix having monetary issues? their last dragon quest RPG sold like mad in japan, from what i remember.
great point. another type of work that is sorely needed is legal contributions. some of the idiotic bills that have been proposed or passed (DMCA, berman's p2p attack bill) are largely inconsistent with the fundamentals of technology. it is obvious that these bills were written without adequate knowledge of the technology they concern themselves with. tech people need to intimately learn the tools of the legal trade; armed with tech expertise and a law degree, these soldiers can fight the good fight from WITHIN the legal system. slashdot stories will only get us so far;) . let us contribute our valuable human capital to the EFF, rather than just our monetary resources.
been there, done that. it was just a rehashing of the whole eldred discussion. that is where this battle is being fought and will be decided - i have a lot of faith that the supreme court judges will see that the concept of 'limited times' is being flouted by congress and their coffer stuffers (disney, etc.). i'm just not sure what they can do about it - they seem to be scared that overturning the bono act could cause a recursive destruction process that will throw copyright law into a messy state. they've been creative before, so i'm still faithful. for my part, i think that the issues are clear - articles like these are good but redundant. we need to take action - contact your representative, contribute to the EFF, or join the fight yourself. i'll take option 3, just give me a few years to get my law degree....
Re:Please, Deep Blue is not AI, chess is a limited
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excellent points. if i had mod points, i'd mod you up!
i'll be impressed when a computer can take the initiative to create 'episode II - attack of the clones' or 'pride and prejudice'. the humanity and imagination put into artistic works represent true intelligence to me.
then again, some of you may not think episode II was very artistic. sorry, but i loved it.;)
as a actor you portrayed the leader of a crew that got to do an AMAZING thing - explore the galaxy/universe for new forms of life. what are your views on intelligent life? do you think there is OTHER intelligent life in the galaxy/universe? do you think humanity will last long enough to ever be able to explore the galaxy/universe? if so, do you think the 'star trek' universe captures that process accurately?
How about already here? And specifications open and visible?
Visit the GDF. You'll find info on various components of Gnutella2 - Ultrapeers, Remote Queueing, HUGE, Meta-Data Support, and GUESS. Unlike Shareaza's features, all these enhancements were cooperatively developed and open upon introduction. Shareaza has only published the IDEOLOGY behind their protocol, it is still not open - the lack of detailed specifications is startling.
At LimeWire we are definitely trying to extend Gnutella's uses. One project we are working hard on is making it easy to build private networks. Currently Gnutella is a public network, but people may want to form private groups to share private material. A 'real world' example: a Art History department may want to share digital photos of art with faculty and students but not have to maintain a dedicated server. They can utilize the power of p2p if they could easily form a private network, one that would leverage the CPU and bandwidth of all participating users. Currently it is hard to *only* connect certain nodes or only *allow* certain nodes to connect. We are working on a complete solution at LimeWire. The first iteration will allow a tech admin to easily set up a private network. The second iteration should incorporate privacy and security to keep out unwanted guests (supported by a username / password infrastructure).
Obviously, private secure networks can be utilized by criminals and terrorists to exchange potentially illegal information. Nevertheless, the same can be done with PGP, secure telephones, etc. already. There is a lot of truth in the statement that p2p networks are defined by the users, not the developers.
As a developer of open-source software for the OPEN Gnutella protocol, I find publishing of THE Gnutella2 spec by ONE development team laughable. The spec may be revealing about how the latest Shareaza client works, but to say it describes Gnutella2 is NOT true. The Shareaza guys simply use Gnutella to boostrap their new 'Shareaza1' network, they haven't redefined the Gnutella protocol.
The truth is that Gnutella2 is on the way, but not from Shareaza. Gnutella2 is a loose connection of various enhancements to the Gnutella network that have been implemented over the last year or so by SEVERAL COOPERATING Gnutella vendors. The latest enhancement is GUESS, which was introduced before Shareaza's new searching methodology and seems to be Shareaza's inspiration.
The Shareaza people continue to attempt to preempt Gnutella as THEIR protocol, when in fact they are pretty much branching off from the network. Shareaza should feel free to leave the OPEN Gnutella network, but please don't try to steal a name that belongs to the users and developers of Gnutella.
i'm a (not so proud;) ) xbox owner, and while i'm excited about various applications (sega's games, xbox live), the xbox is already #3 in this console war and will stay that way. the main reason is their DISAPPOINTING presence in japan (which is virtually non-existent). you simply can't win a console war without support from nihongo developers and users.
that said, i don't this MS really cares. for a first iteration console they've done well, and you can kind of think of xbox as a testbed for future MS consoles (especially xbox live). also, they only have some 50 billion left in the bank (oh, the convenience a desktop OS provides!).
my bet is that xbox2 will come out BEFORE ps3 simply because first-mover momentum in the industry has become more important. the ps2 is hard to develop for, but the installed base is NUTS so developers flock to the ps2. MS realizes this so i wouldn't be surprised xbox2 comes out by 2004ish.
the bush administration should not be wasting our tax dollars on seeking an appeal to the lower court ruling by escalating this case to the supreme court. CIPA is OBVIOUSLY flawed and the supreme court will quickly affirm the lower court ruling. instead of wasting our tax dollars and the justices time they should be thinking of better ways to combat this issue (ie use the money to educate parents and/or children).
lets hope for a favorable conclusion to the eldred case.
well, since i know neil (he is my brother) i can vouch that his motives are good. he is very opposed to the berman anti-p2p hacking bill and he feels that any attempt to hack p2p networks will just be foiled by better p2p infrastructure. also, i'm not positive who is funding his research (that info is all public, if you look you can find out for sure), but i think it isn't corporate in nature - i think it is the defense dept. the US defense element has a high interest in securing p2p networks from attack since future military operations might be based on p2p technologies.
"the typical Linux enthusiast is very vocal in his/her choice of free (beer/speech, irrelevant really), therefore such a paying service would, really, just induce laughter in the Linux community."
i think this is a incorrect generalization. i'm a big supporter of OSS, GPL, free speech, etc., but i'm also very willing to pay for content i appreciate. not *everything* has to or should be free, and i gladly pay for content i could get for free (ie music). i do this because i understand that an efficient way to encourage content production (code, art, etc.) is through monetary support.
i'm not overly familiar with p3p (p2p i understand;) ), but my ex-girlfriend has a website devoted to viewpoints on p3p (http://www.p3p-viewpoints.org/). from what i understand, the major issue with p3p is that it is overly complex. some user studies have shown that users don't effectively understand what p3p means or how it affects them. more info at the website...
I'm talking Transformers, GI Joe, Voltron, Looney Tunes, Spiderman and His Amazing Friends, etc.? I try to watch saturday morning cartoons these days (yes, I'm 26), but they lack the magic of yore.
Question: Is Transformers considered Anime? If not, why not? What exactly qualifies a cartoon as Anime?
Gnutella2 - The real story!
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I'm a engineer at Lime Wire LLC so I can debunk much of this submission. Shareaza's Gnutella2 isn't so much the second iteration of Gnutella - instead, think of it as a improved Gnutella . In fact, the improvements were actually proposed by Lime Wire LLC (consult the GDF and look for messages about 'GUESS'). The GUESS protocol is a UDP based protocol we developed to allow for Gnutella network crawls/walks. We introduced it for public comment on the GDF *before* releasing it because we understand that Gnutella, as a open protocol, needs support from all Gnutella developers. I'm not sure what exactly Shareaza has implemented (because they HAVE NOT released the specs yet), but it sounds a lot like GUESS.
So this isn't so much Gnutella2 as a improved Gnutella. Perhaps one day it will evolve into Gnutella2 more formally, but at the moment this talk of Gnutella2 is premature.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok fine, I have spent a good deal of the day with my family.
They are watching a movie now though, so instead of that I'm on my parents new computer (P4 1.6 for only $400, wow!) editing a proposal that I recently submitted for review on the GDF.
I'm also answering personal e-mails and surfing the good old web.
Merry Christmas Slashdot!!
does anyone else think yahoo made this move because google has become a bit more of a portal of late, i.e. google news? there is no doubt google has the superior search technology, but i think yahoo is a little upset that google seems to be trying to be more than 'just search'.
it'll be interesting to see if any overt enmity develops between these two stanford-born businesses....
THANK YOU!
gollum was WAY too cutesy. gollum is a villainous wretch of a creature, corrupted by absolute evil for over 500 years. it is true he had a pathetic, obsequious side, but jackson made him WAY too likeable....
and gimli was unfairly cast as a clown. the guy killed 49 orcs during one battle in the book but he can't keep up with aragorn and legolas during their manly run in the movie.
and how did merry and pippin not only manage to TRICK treebeard into destroying isengard, but they also ensured that the whole lot of other ents were in the woods when treebeard conveniently got hot. very cheap and prostethic, the usual hollywood crapola....
i was hoping LOTR: Two Towers would be awesome, but i was very disappointed with it. first off, it seems jackson got carried away with himself and thought he could tell a better story than tolkien. but the story in the movie sucked. and then they went and made half of the lines and events in the movie the usual hollywood cliches. bad form.
anyways, i hope matrix maintains the great story and understates any hollywood influence. but with 300 million on the line, it is hard to maintain much hope....
Seamus Blackley of MS says: .... He's reinforcing stereotypes about games, not pushing them to a place where they can become something different and truly awesome."
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"He is not helping things
What? All Miyamoto has done throughout his career is making truly awesome and different games!! The idea of a platform game (the original mario); the epic action adventure (zelda series); bringing videogames into 3D (mario 64). Virtually every project he has made or simply produced has been stellar.
Pikmin is a great example of a 'different' game. Has anyone played the latest Metroid (Prime)- the BEST GAME ever. And the next Zelda will be out in March (Metroid may have a short-lived stay at the top).
I've been a videogamer since 85, so I know what this man has brought to every console generation. Nintendo might have to freeze this guy like Disney froze Walt
I liked the article in general though - this man is truly a GOD. I don't care if his games are cutesy - they are the BEST!
"Is it that perhaps this will spur new R&D in wireless devices and protocols to use this new spectrum, returning value to the economy this way? Or is there something I'm missing?"
I think most Americans agree that creating a market to handle allocation of a scarce resource is a good (best?) way to use that resource efficiently. This has been the usual thinking when it comes to auctioning spectrum - let the company that thinks it will make the most money (ie 'use') from owning the spectrum have the rights to it. But there is another line of thinking that advocates freeing up spectrum. If we could 'packet switch' spectrum, creating a commons where applications define its use (e.g. the 'end-to-end' architecture of the net), then new businesses could be built on top of this spectrum. That would generate more money in the long term than auctioning off the spectrum to *one* owner.
because i'm sure all these artists understand that the iPod is often used to store illegally obtained music files. can this be construed as tacit approval? what would hilary rosen say?
or perhaps musicians realize that like the VCR the iPod MAY encourage piracy but it has plenty of non-infringing uses. just like gnutella....
I think it would be useful to have a moderated discussion without having to maintain a bunch of central servers.
1) like p2p, it seems to leverage the resources of every partipant on the network.
2) like slashdot, it vests control of what is heard in a distributed way, as certain (all?) nodes will moderate what is listened to.
i agree applications currently seems non-existent, but like all research i think exploring the system is a good idea in and of itself.
MS will do anything to maintain their monopoly on the desktop OS (as recent numbers have shown, it provides flexibility in OTHER markets), so you can be sure that they won't feel bad about cutting the price of Windows. In fact, as Linux becomes more attractive, there will be more pressure to drop the price to 0 (zero). Any other price and they stand to lose their monopoly, which is worth more than a few measly bucks per computer sold....
this is great news. the drug dealers in the park will be especially happy - they can create a web service infrastructure with their suppliers! .NET has its first customer!!
this news really surprises me. generally, i'd call it a bad thing. enix and square were the two RPG superhouses, and less players means less competition. i'm just confused about why it happened - was enix having monetary issues? their last dragon quest RPG sold like mad in japan, from what i remember.
great point. another type of work that is sorely needed is legal contributions. some of the idiotic bills that have been proposed or passed (DMCA, berman's p2p attack bill) are largely inconsistent with the fundamentals of technology. it is obvious that these bills were written without adequate knowledge of the technology they concern themselves with. tech people need to intimately learn the tools of the legal trade; armed with tech expertise and a law degree, these soldiers can fight the good fight from WITHIN the legal system. slashdot stories will only get us so far ;) . let us contribute our valuable human capital to the EFF, rather than just our monetary resources.
been there, done that. it was just a rehashing of the whole eldred discussion. that is where this battle is being fought and will be decided - i have a lot of faith that the supreme court judges will see that the concept of 'limited times' is being flouted by congress and their coffer stuffers (disney, etc.).
i'm just not sure what they can do about it - they seem to be scared that overturning the bono act could cause a recursive destruction process that will throw copyright law into a messy state. they've been creative before, so i'm still faithful.
for my part, i think that the issues are clear - articles like these are good but redundant. we need to take action - contact your representative, contribute to the EFF, or join the fight yourself. i'll take option 3, just give me a few years to get my law degree....
excellent points. if i had mod points, i'd mod you up!
;)
i'll be impressed when a computer can take the initiative to create 'episode II - attack of the clones' or 'pride and prejudice'. the humanity and imagination put into artistic works represent true intelligence to me.
then again, some of you may not think episode II was very artistic. sorry, but i loved it.
as a actor you portrayed the leader of a crew that got to do an AMAZING thing - explore the galaxy/universe for new forms of life. what are your views on intelligent life? do you think there is OTHER intelligent life in the galaxy/universe? do you think humanity will last long enough to ever be able to explore the galaxy/universe? if so, do you think the 'star trek' universe captures that process accurately?
How about already here? And specifications open and visible?
Visit the GDF. You'll find info on various components of Gnutella2 - Ultrapeers, Remote Queueing, HUGE, Meta-Data Support, and GUESS. Unlike Shareaza's features, all these enhancements were cooperatively developed and open upon introduction. Shareaza has only published the IDEOLOGY behind their protocol, it is still not open - the lack of detailed specifications is startling.
At LimeWire we are definitely trying to extend Gnutella's uses. One project we are working hard on is making it easy to build private networks. Currently Gnutella is a public network, but people may want to form private groups to share private material.
A 'real world' example: a Art History department may want to share digital photos of art with faculty and students but not have to maintain a dedicated server. They can utilize the power of p2p if they could easily form a private network, one that would leverage the CPU and bandwidth of all participating users.
Currently it is hard to *only* connect certain nodes or only *allow* certain nodes to connect. We are working on a complete solution at LimeWire. The first iteration will allow a tech admin to easily set up a private network. The second iteration should incorporate privacy and security to keep out unwanted guests (supported by a username / password infrastructure).
Obviously, private secure networks can be utilized by criminals and terrorists to exchange potentially illegal information. Nevertheless, the same can be done with PGP, secure telephones, etc. already. There is a lot of truth in the statement that p2p networks are defined by the users, not the developers.
As a developer of open-source software for the OPEN Gnutella protocol, I find publishing of THE Gnutella2 spec by ONE development team laughable. The spec may be revealing about how the latest Shareaza client works, but to say it describes Gnutella2 is NOT true. The Shareaza guys simply use Gnutella to boostrap their new 'Shareaza1' network, they haven't redefined the Gnutella protocol.
The truth is that Gnutella2 is on the way, but not from Shareaza. Gnutella2 is a loose connection of various enhancements to the Gnutella network that have been implemented over the last year or so by SEVERAL COOPERATING Gnutella vendors. The latest enhancement is GUESS, which was introduced before Shareaza's new searching methodology and seems to be Shareaza's inspiration.
The Shareaza people continue to attempt to preempt Gnutella as THEIR protocol, when in fact they are pretty much branching off from the network. Shareaza should feel free to leave the OPEN Gnutella network, but please don't try to steal a name that belongs to the users and developers of Gnutella.
i'm a (not so proud ;) ) xbox owner, and while i'm excited about various applications (sega's games, xbox live), the xbox is already #3 in this console war and will stay that way. the main reason is their DISAPPOINTING presence in japan (which is virtually non-existent). you simply can't win a console war without support from nihongo developers and users.
that said, i don't this MS really cares. for a first iteration console they've done well, and you can kind of think of xbox as a testbed for future MS consoles (especially xbox live). also, they only have some 50 billion left in the bank (oh, the convenience a desktop OS provides!).
my bet is that xbox2 will come out BEFORE ps3 simply because first-mover momentum in the industry has become more important. the ps2 is hard to develop for, but the installed base is NUTS so developers flock to the ps2. MS realizes this so i wouldn't be surprised xbox2 comes out by 2004ish.
the bush administration should not be wasting our tax dollars on seeking an appeal to the lower court ruling by escalating this case to the supreme court. CIPA is OBVIOUSLY flawed and the supreme court will quickly affirm the lower court ruling. instead of wasting our tax dollars and the justices time they should be thinking of better ways to combat this issue (ie use the money to educate parents and/or children).
lets hope for a favorable conclusion to the eldred case.
well, since i know neil (he is my brother) i can vouch that his motives are good. he is very opposed to the berman anti-p2p hacking bill and he feels that any attempt to hack p2p networks will just be foiled by better p2p infrastructure.
also, i'm not positive who is funding his research (that info is all public, if you look you can find out for sure), but i think it isn't corporate in nature - i think it is the defense dept. the US defense element has a high interest in securing p2p networks from attack since future military operations might be based on p2p technologies.
"the typical Linux enthusiast is very vocal in his/her choice of free (beer/speech, irrelevant really), therefore such a paying service would, really, just induce laughter in the Linux community."
i think this is a incorrect generalization. i'm a big supporter of OSS, GPL, free speech, etc., but i'm also very willing to pay for content i appreciate. not *everything* has to or should be free, and i gladly pay for content i could get for free (ie music). i do this because i understand that an efficient way to encourage content production (code, art, etc.) is through monetary support.
i'm not overly familiar with p3p (p2p i understand ;) ), but my ex-girlfriend has a website devoted to viewpoints on p3p (http://www.p3p-viewpoints.org/). from what i understand, the major issue with p3p is that it is overly complex. some user studies have shown that users don't effectively understand what p3p means or how it affects them. more info at the website...
I'm talking Transformers, GI Joe, Voltron, Looney Tunes, Spiderman and His Amazing Friends, etc.? I try to watch saturday morning cartoons these days (yes, I'm 26), but they lack the magic of yore.
Question: Is Transformers considered Anime? If not, why not? What exactly qualifies a cartoon as Anime?
I'm a engineer at Lime Wire LLC so I can debunk much of this submission. Shareaza's Gnutella2 isn't so much the second iteration of Gnutella - instead, think of it as a improved Gnutella . In fact, the improvements were actually proposed by Lime Wire LLC (consult the GDF and look for messages about 'GUESS'). The GUESS protocol is a UDP based protocol we developed to allow for Gnutella network crawls/walks. We introduced it for public comment on the GDF *before* releasing it because we understand that Gnutella, as a open protocol, needs support from all Gnutella developers. I'm not sure what exactly Shareaza has implemented (because they HAVE NOT released the specs yet), but it sounds a lot like GUESS.
So this isn't so much Gnutella2 as a improved Gnutella. Perhaps one day it will evolve into Gnutella2 more formally, but at the moment this talk of Gnutella2 is premature.