you know, i've had this idea for quite some time, and i've seen people trying to do it, the only major problem is the lack of organization. with organization we could pull this off. and, the way to keep corporate greed out of the way is to make all domain names free. so, i say we do it. i believe that slashdot is the best place to go to get a mob of organized people. So, here's my plan. if you want to get this off of the ground, email me at chris@mactaggart.com and we'll figure out a way to bring organization to this. it can be done.
i just came up with a good question. if they're a 'company,' where's the money to be made in archiving the internet? Now, the guy said he was paying about $11/GB for twenty 75GB hard drives. that's (20 * 75) * 11 just for one setup like that, which equals $16,500 for 1.5TB and i'm willing to bet a project like this takes more than 1.5TB. Now, after spending all of this money on storage, where does a company like this make money?
Does it charge banner advertisers for future impressions when people look at the archives?:)
call me simple... and maybe i just read the response wrong, but 20 IDE drives on a PC? Do they make controllers/BIOS's that support 20? Or did you mean something else?
does anyone else see this as being "disk space intensive"? i mean sure, a 20 gig hard drive costs 150 bux, but still... how big are these snapshots, and how much does it cost to house them?
i shed a proud tear to the sixth most downloaded hip-hop group on the planet.
how does one figure this out? i imagine the beastie boys would be number one, followed by... uh... somebody else
i however, am going to become the first most downloaded "scotch-irish (with some assorted other cultures, indian included, with a strong hint of english) neoclassical techno hip hop (with just a hint of jazz and not too much scary death metal), all the while interpreting the intellectual music of the Bangles" group in the world. you just watch.
wine is emulation. when you run wine, your it allows your linux computer to run like a windows machine. think about it. if windows software runs under wine, which isn't windows, then that means that wine is emulating windows. how about we all pick up a dictionary and look up the word "emulate"
it just seems like most wine users (or all of them, for that matter) are going to be x86 linux users... now, emulation never matches the real thing (except for gran turismo on Bleem... mmmm) and dual booting windows can't be all that taxing for most people. the only good applications of wine i can see are: 1) people who need to be running linux 24/7 (although these would be mission critical applications, so you wouldn't want ANYTHING which reminded you of windows here) 2) you're too broke to afford windows (understandable) 3) you can't get a copy of windows (hard to imagine, but believable)
or maybe i'm missing something. maybe wine emulation is the F**KING BOMB and i'm just missing out. i'll dual boot for now.
honestly. i thought previously that people were just exaggerating when they typed like that in mockery on slashdot. then i learn there's a couple of idiots who actually type that way.
perhaps in certain instances in which the code is optimized for the pentium chip, the p-60 will run faster, but having owned several of both, i'd pick the dx/4 100 every time. it may just be a clock tripled 33, but it's a damn fine chip. but then again, this is the year 2000, so i don't see why i'd have to choose between the two:)
have you ever thought about the ask behind reteaching computer interfaces to everybody? It'd be nothing more than an annoyance to have to relearn how to use a computer when all you want to do is type up a document. if an interface works, you should use it. Oh my god, I've met people who didn't know how to use a mouse, and when you think about that... a radical new interface designs don't sound too appealing. especially for tech support people. however, there is going to be a time when idiot proofing the interface and making it 'friendly and familiar' is going to get too much in the way of progress. then we'll see how the morons ^H^H^H^H^H^H end-users take to new interfaces
confusious say: there's alot more to speed than megahertz (or gigahertz for that matter)
when the pentium processor was released in 1993, (so it's not really a decade, but it's been long) it was supposed to be real fast, and everyone was supposed to love it. It debuted at a whopping 60 MHz. What intel didn't tell you is that the DX/4 100, and AMD's 120 MHz 486 ran faster. The pentium was a flawed chip, but everybody still wanted one, because it was new. Ever notice how linux will run on a 386? that's not a mistake. All current x86 processors have their root in the 386, intel's first 32 bit mainstream processor. After the pentium was released, intel released the Pentium Pro. It was a fine chip in it's day, but it was basically a pentium with on chip L2 cache and higher clock speeds. Not much of an innovation. Then came the Pentium MMX. 57 new multimedia instructions for the Pentium core. Intel promised that this would make all of our lives better because code would run faster. If the code in question was MMX optimized. That's a big IF. So then came the Pentium II. The pentium 2 was a pentium pro with MMX and L2 cache that ran at half processor speed. The pentium 2 was a one step forward and two steps back from the pentium pro. But people liked it because it was cheaper! Then came the pentium 3. The pentium 3 should never have had it's own product name. It should have been called a pentium 2. Now, the pentium 4 does have potential to be a good chip, but Intel is just killing it with it's senseless branding techniques. And don't get me started on Merced. Intel has been blowing smoke up our asses about merced for the last 4 years. I remember when they were saying that the Merced would be a "64 bit processor with speeds of up to 600 MHz." Intel's roadmap doesn't leave any room for it's pissing contests.
i will concede that,yes the ppro was argueably the last major innovation from intel. however, the ppro was still released in 1995. for all of you people who haven't been paying attention, it's 2000 now. That's 5 years. we're still using the ppro core. kinda silly, no?
'All Intel has to do is cut prices to squeeze transmeta out of the market'
how about: 'All Intel needs to do is keep being non-innovative to squeeze themselves out of the market.'
I like that better.
Think about it, when was the last time we heard of any ground breaking innovations from the intel camp? All they've done for the last decade is basically work on the bloated pentium chip, or race AMD for the fastest x86 processor. It's like Intel is continuously in a 'my dick is bigger' contest. When will they get back to doing things right? Intel's last major innovation was the fscking 386! Oh, but wait, they're releasing the pentium 4. How nice. I hope they get their ass beat by somebody who wants to take us forward. Look at the G3 and the G4. They are technically superior processors, but because they are not intel, they have a smaller market-share. tsk tsk.
my question, which is sorta related is this: would it be possible, in the opinions of you slashdotters, to revamp the entire domain name system, undermine ICANN, and make an entirely free domain system? think about the possibilities:
1) cybersquatting could be destroyed by taking away domain names from those who have them only to sell. this wouldn't be hard because... 2) we give the names away for free, with the only stipulation being that you cannot simply sell them for a profit. 3) the 'big brother' aspect would be taken away because, being free, we wouldn't have to worry about the alternate domain name system being just an arena for political agendas.
i don't really see this as making any difference in the music industry, because the RIAA is a 2000 pound gorilla, and it is choosing to sit on Napster. As long as we have idiots like Lars Ulrich who believe that they work for a living, the vast majority of the Technically Illiterate will say "well, i think it's wrong because that intelligent drummer from metallica said so."
> What information do you think is valuable and relevant to give future archaeologists?
i think that it would be nice to tell future archeologists some things: 1) How to read a device this small 2) How to preserve data for 10k years (wouldn't it just suck to find out that it only lasts for, say 5k years? Do we really know that it will last that long? Have we been testing this product for, say, the last 10,000 years?) 3) We could write an explanation of why we thought that we were so damned important that we had to preserve information for 10,000 years. 4) "First Post"
leave it up to nasa to spend billions of dollars in spacecraft that they crash into planets (or moons, or just lose completely) and simultaneously use a hacked together string of satellites (which have a completely unrelated reason to be in space) to do anything of any real value. YAY NASA!
honestly, having worked in an audio studio, i can tell you it really does make a serious quality difference in some situations. Even on the $3000 audio workstation i used, a single d-a-a-d conversion just about kills synthesized music. the solid bass drum loses definition, treble loses... uh... treble..ness. and static! goddamn! however, in some situations, it doesn't make any difference. i just remember trying to dub drum beats using a simple loop... and going batty cause they sounded like shit... but you probably don't care anyway! why did i waste my time?
> sooner or later a successful crypto-system to prevent all non-permitted use of materials will be developed, complete with tamper-proof hardware in your PC, and then where will we be?
as long as we have music we can hear, there will be copying. i don't think the government is going to (successfully) ban tape decks. there is nothing magical about audio. it can be recorded. sure, there'd probably be a bit of generational loss because of the d/a - a/d conversion, but after that, we just need a non crypto compression format... something like, i dunno,.mp3, and BAM! It's all done. just like that. BAM!
umm... this wasn't supposed to be 'troll-ish' this was supposed to be 'sarcastic' i mean, i guess my point is that ICQ banning 13 year olds is probably going to be a complete practice of futility.
but then again, maybe i am becoming a troll... i can just feel the transformation now...
(gargling sounds) "linux sux because microsoft rox pretty hard! well pour hot grits down my pants, i've got FIRST POST! hey taco, you're a DORK and so are the rest of you/.'ers!"
it's a good thing they did that, because we know that all 13 year olds are entirely too computer illiterate to lie about their age in an incredibly complex system such as ICQ.
Thank you, ICQ, for putting your foot down and saving america from itself.
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you know, i've had this idea for quite some time, and i've seen people trying to do it, the only major problem is the lack of organization. with organization we could pull this off. and, the way to keep corporate greed out of the way is to make all domain names free. so, i say we do it. i believe that slashdot is the best place to go to get a mob of organized people. So, here's my plan. if you want to get this off of the ground, email me at chris@mactaggart.com and we'll figure out a way to bring organization to this. it can be done.
> about a company that is saving
:)
i just came up with a good question. if they're a 'company,' where's the money to be made in archiving the internet? Now, the guy said he was paying about $11/GB for twenty 75GB hard drives. that's (20 * 75) * 11 just for one setup like that, which equals $16,500 for 1.5TB and i'm willing to bet a project like this takes more than 1.5TB. Now, after spending all of this money on storage, where does a company like this make money?
Does it charge banner advertisers for future impressions when people look at the archives?
call me simple... and maybe i just read the response wrong, but 20 IDE drives on a PC? Do they make controllers/BIOS's that support 20? Or did you mean something else?
does anyone else see this as being "disk space intensive"? i mean sure, a 20 gig hard drive costs 150 bux, but still... how big are these snapshots, and how much does it cost to house them?
i shed a proud tear to the sixth most downloaded hip-hop group on the planet.
how does one figure this out? i imagine the beastie boys would be number one, followed by... uh... somebody else
i however, am going to become the first most downloaded "scotch-irish (with some assorted other cultures, indian included, with a strong hint of english) neoclassical techno hip hop (with just a hint of jazz and not too much scary death metal), all the while interpreting the intellectual music of the Bangles" group in the world. you just watch.
wine is emulation.
when you run wine, your it allows your linux computer to run like a windows machine. think about it. if windows software runs under wine, which isn't windows, then that means that wine is emulating windows. how about we all pick up a dictionary and look up the word "emulate"
it just seems like most wine users (or all of them, for that matter) are going to be x86 linux users... now, emulation never matches the real thing (except for gran turismo on Bleem... mmmm) and dual booting windows can't be all that taxing for most people. the only good applications of wine i can see are:
1) people who need to be running linux 24/7 (although these would be mission critical applications, so you wouldn't want ANYTHING which reminded you of windows here)
2) you're too broke to afford windows (understandable)
3) you can't get a copy of windows (hard to imagine, but believable)
or maybe i'm missing something. maybe wine emulation is the F**KING BOMB and i'm just missing out. i'll dual boot for now.
honestly. i thought previously that people were just exaggerating when they typed like that in mockery on slashdot. then i learn there's a couple of idiots who actually type that way.
idiots.
being that there are many anti-windows people here on slashdot, my question is "is porting the windows API to linux a noble cause?"
if you want full windows functionality, it seems that dual-booting is a smarter option. WINE will prolly never match windows, so what's the point?
those IRC logs gave me a fucking headache trying to read them. and if i see the word 'leet' one more time, i'm going to find those kids and beat them.
okay. i'm calm again.
perhaps in certain instances in which the code is optimized for the pentium chip, the p-60 will run faster, but having owned several of both, i'd pick the dx/4 100 every time. it may just be a clock tripled 33, but it's a damn fine chip. but then again, this is the year 2000, so i don't see why i'd have to choose between the two :)
have you ever thought about the ask behind reteaching computer interfaces to everybody? It'd be nothing more than an annoyance to have to relearn how to use a computer when all you want to do is type up a document. if an interface works, you should use it. Oh my god, I've met people who didn't know how to use a mouse, and when you think about that... a radical new interface designs don't sound too appealing. especially for tech support people. however, there is going to be a time when idiot proofing the interface and making it 'friendly and familiar' is going to get too much in the way of progress. then we'll see how the morons ^H^H^H^H^H^H end-users take to new interfaces
confusious say:
there's alot more to speed than megahertz (or gigahertz for that matter)
when the pentium processor was released in 1993, (so it's not really a decade, but it's been long) it was supposed to be real fast, and everyone was supposed to love it. It debuted at a whopping 60 MHz. What intel didn't tell you is that the DX/4 100, and AMD's 120 MHz 486 ran faster. The pentium was a flawed chip, but everybody still wanted one, because it was new. Ever notice how linux will run on a 386? that's not a mistake. All current x86 processors have their root in the 386, intel's first 32 bit mainstream processor. After the pentium was released, intel released the Pentium Pro. It was a fine chip in it's day, but it was basically a pentium with on chip L2 cache and higher clock speeds. Not much of an innovation. Then came the Pentium MMX. 57 new multimedia instructions for the Pentium core. Intel promised that this would make all of our lives better because code would run faster. If the code in question was MMX optimized. That's a big IF. So then came the Pentium II. The pentium 2 was a pentium pro with MMX and L2 cache that ran at half processor speed. The pentium 2 was a one step forward and two steps back from the pentium pro. But people liked it because it was cheaper! Then came the pentium 3. The pentium 3 should never have had it's own product name. It should have been called a pentium 2. Now, the pentium 4 does have potential to be a good chip, but Intel is just killing it with it's senseless branding techniques. And don't get me started on Merced. Intel has been blowing smoke up our asses about merced for the last 4 years. I remember when they were saying that the Merced would be a "64 bit processor with speeds of up to 600 MHz." Intel's roadmap doesn't leave any room for it's pissing contests.
i will concede that,yes the ppro was argueably the last major innovation from intel. however, the ppro was still released in 1995. for all of you people who haven't been paying attention, it's 2000 now. That's 5 years. we're still using the ppro core. kinda silly, no?
'All Intel has to do is cut prices to squeeze transmeta out of the market'
how about:
'All Intel needs to do is keep being non-innovative to squeeze themselves out of the market.'
I like that better.
Think about it, when was the last time we heard of any ground breaking innovations from the intel camp? All they've done for the last decade is basically work on the bloated pentium chip, or race AMD for the fastest x86 processor. It's like Intel is continuously in a 'my dick is bigger' contest. When will they get back to doing things right? Intel's last major innovation was the fscking 386! Oh, but wait, they're releasing the pentium 4. How nice. I hope they get their ass beat by somebody who wants to take us forward. Look at the G3 and the G4. They are technically superior processors, but because they are not intel, they have a smaller market-share. tsk tsk.
i really don't see anyone DOING anything about it. thats what we need. an organized effort.
my question, which is sorta related is this:
would it be possible, in the opinions of you slashdotters, to revamp the entire domain name system, undermine ICANN, and make an entirely free domain system? think about the possibilities:
1) cybersquatting could be destroyed by taking away domain names from those who have them only to sell. this wouldn't be hard because...
2) we give the names away for free, with the only stipulation being that you cannot simply sell them for a profit.
3) the 'big brother' aspect would be taken away because, being free, we wouldn't have to worry about the alternate domain name system being just an arena for political agendas.
but then again... maybe its a bad idea.
... wherever it damn well pleases.
i don't really see this as making any difference in the music industry, because the RIAA is a 2000 pound gorilla, and it is choosing to sit on Napster. As long as we have idiots like Lars Ulrich who believe that they work for a living, the vast majority of the Technically Illiterate will say "well, i think it's wrong because that intelligent drummer from metallica said so."
> What information do you think is valuable and relevant to give future archaeologists?
i think that it would be nice to tell future archeologists some things:
1) How to read a device this small
2) How to preserve data for 10k years (wouldn't it just suck to find out that it only lasts for, say 5k years? Do we really know that it will last that long? Have we been testing this product for, say, the last 10,000 years?)
3) We could write an explanation of why we thought that we were so damned important that we had to preserve information for 10,000 years.
4) "First Post"
leave it up to nasa to spend billions of dollars in spacecraft that they crash into planets (or moons, or just lose completely) and simultaneously use a hacked together string of satellites (which have a completely unrelated reason to be in space) to do anything of any real value. YAY NASA!
honestly, having worked in an audio studio, i can tell you it really does make a serious quality difference in some situations. Even on the $3000 audio workstation i used, a single d-a-a-d conversion just about kills synthesized music. the solid bass drum loses definition, treble loses... uh... treble..ness. and static! goddamn! however, in some situations, it doesn't make any difference. i just remember trying to dub drum beats using a simple loop... and going batty cause they sounded like shit... but you probably don't care anyway! why did i waste my time?
> sooner or later a successful crypto-system to prevent all non-permitted use of materials will be developed, complete with tamper-proof hardware in your PC, and then where will we be?
.mp3, and BAM! It's all done. just like that. BAM!
as long as we have music we can hear, there will be copying. i don't think the government is going to (successfully) ban tape decks. there is nothing magical about audio. it can be recorded. sure, there'd probably be a bit of generational loss because of the d/a - a/d conversion, but after that, we just need a non crypto compression format... something like, i dunno,
BAM!
umm... this wasn't supposed to be 'troll-ish' this was supposed to be 'sarcastic' i mean, i guess my point is that ICQ banning 13 year olds is probably going to be a complete practice of futility.
/.'ers!"
but then again, maybe i am becoming a troll... i can just feel the transformation now...
(gargling sounds) "linux sux because microsoft rox pretty hard! well pour hot grits down my pants, i've got FIRST POST! hey taco, you're a DORK and so are the rest of you
Jesus! did i say that?
it's a good thing they did that, because we know that all 13 year olds are entirely too computer illiterate to lie about their age in an incredibly complex system such as ICQ.
Thank you, ICQ, for putting your foot down and saving america from itself.
you'd think that people would notice the problem as soon as they were asked to write a check for their free computers.
but then again, their customers are probably born every minute.