I spent three frustrating hours yesterday just getting bullets to work properly in Word2000. The last bullets in the column would be larger for no reason. The were all the same character and they were all the same font size.
Now they claim they are going to alter the course of human history bla bla bla by rewriting their OS and Office to increase the personal experience??
They really should work on bullets!
You are offended by the MS icon? Read the article and see how Fortune gushes: Did you know that Mr. Gates takes singing lessons? Did you know that he has never missed a day of work in 27 years? I did not know that! = )
No, I will not participate in this Borgish cult because just because Fortune also beleives Mr. Gates to be visionary and well, amazing:
"I've always liked multitasking. But there are incredible limits to what I can do--like how much time there is in a day.."
Incredible is right. Incredible that Fortune prints this too.
It is my every day frustrations with things like bullets on Word that prove this wrong for me. Am I jealous or being childish? I don't think so. I think I'm being practical and realistic.
What the headline implies is that On2 is not helping out. This is incorrect.
"On2 will sponsor work done by the Xiph.org Foundation to combine those projects, plus On2's already open-sourced VpVision personal video recorder, into a product they believe will provide serious, free competition to the increasingly expensive MPEG-4 royalty fees."
--from NewsForge
Hats off to On2!
-b
PS. Currently listening to Oggs and ripping them too. tres nice.
1) I would think that many nodes would carry a specific subchannel and a node could 'shop around'. A node could carry a named but empty subchannel. It would carry all the metadata like song titles, but not the actual music. It should be able to go 'live' quickly. That way all nodes could 'carry' many 'dark' channels with insignificant data being sent. A node could request a subchannel, and could try-before-buy. So the bad subchannel is dropped if the prospective subchannel is faster/better. This could be seamless. (+/-) Agressiveness would be very important with that many streams.
2) I think it is possible to avoid supernodes. These should be viewed as liabilities given the legal situation. I think that a naming scheme that partitions properly could solve the namespace. Music catagories, arbitrary city names for servers or longitude and latitude plus a big random number. Where this could break down is if you had a hostile set of nodes. I haven't thought about that..
Discovery is a big issue, but if nodes are willing to share info, then it could be overcome...
underlying protocols would be files. Most of the synch would occur at the java client. Over time, the stream would have to wait for the last subchannel. If one subchannel is lagging, get another source.
Nodes will have to be aggressive with keeping good sources of subchannels because there are so many to handle.
I have no idea about royalties. I hope the artists get their fair share. -b
hmmm.. I was thinking about this... Suppose you set up a p2p system where each node streams 1/nth of a 'channel' or 'station'. n could be about 16 (16 'subchannels') which would bring down the load on each peer to 128/16 kbps, well within the means of every cable modem.
Peers could be easily written in Java and spend their time discovering other peers. Your XMMS/winamp/whatever client connects to your local java client which requests and assembles n 'subchannels' into a stream. Peers do not reveal *their* sources, only other peers. That way, the true source is obscured, but more importantly, more nodes are brought in.
Broadcasters stream to many nodes with a special arrangement/agreement. (push) Everything else is pull.
Your java client requests a channel/subchannel from some known server or requests a node where to get a channel/subchannel . They stream to you.
The underlying protocol would be based upon sending files, not a true music stream. These could be caputured by the local client if wanted. Information could describe overlap of two music files, messages, artist info, etc.
1) low bandwidth for nodes ==> many nodes. 2) dynamic hierarchy. Loose a node and the system will be able to adapt. 3) difficult to find the true source. 4) access to the files streamed. 5) Of course it would stream Ogg! ; )
No, they don't want Westerners dead--they are simply indifferent and are quite willing to sacrifice foreigners' lives to advance their own political interests.
Most countries have pretty much the same record throughout history, if you recall.
It is expediant for political leaders to claim that terrorists don't like 'freedom', 'way of life', etc., because politicians (and Fox News) have always attempted to co-opt these values. It also allows a greater 'freedom' from scrutiny in their own statements and policies. I'd bet al Qaeda terrorists are quite indifferent towards the level of freedom in the West--It couldn't be much of a motivator. "Down with Equality-Under-The-Law" doesn't have much of a ring to it, does it? Indeed, if the Middle East had the same level of freedom as we do, most would probably be more interested in their next vehicle, than their current cause celeb.
Basques want their own country. The IRA wanted the English out of Northern Ireland, Shining Path wanted a Maoist state. The al Qaeda is not much different from the rest, (albeit more exotic than a bunch of Irishmen.)
Nothing changes the fact that they all are extremely cruel, but they can join the queue along with the rest of the nasties.
Pardon my ignorance, but is it what makes the image on DVDs appear to fade in and out when connected to our old TV via the VCR? (It was the only way we could connect it and keep DirecTV as well.) We returned our DVD player because of this.
Anyone know of a list of players that don't have it/can be defeated?
I think a more effective counter argument than 'spy on your government' is that one that advocates government spying on all snail-mail, telephone conversations, crowds, car locations, and other traditional forms of espionage. There is not much difference in principle, but the issues would be clearer to non-technically minded.
Most of the workings of government ought to be transparent in any event.
lol. I'm an unemployed programmer! I appreciate what you have done--Mosix *is* wonderful, but appreciating financially is not in the cards right now. We have to pay off our stylin' Volvo.
Further to this, humans have a strong interest in believing in God/gods because:
1) we are mortal. We want to know that we'll be OK when we croak.
2) rulers like to co-opt religion for 'devine authority', because it reinforces their powerful position within society. Spiritual/ethical rule is much cheaper than physical rule. Bin Laden does explicitly. George Bush does implicitly. Technically, communist countries are not religious, but communism is not just an economic theory of production--in some ways it has to be so pervasive because it has to provide many of the same ethical underpinnings of religion.
3) provides a foundation for ethical behaviour, justice. Not all evil deeds/events are punishable, such as children getting cancer--this is a social escape valve because bad deeds are either 'God's plan' or bad dooers will be punished in an 'afterlife'. There are many 'injustices' in life but riots do not ensue b/c of people's belief in ethical/religious 'levelling' effects.
4) provide emotional support, because 'God cares about each and every one of you!!'
Religion performs such an important function in every society, it is not suprising that so many diverse societies have so many religious beliefs. Is there some indiginous society that doesn't have a set of religious beliefs? I don't think so. Religions are often diverse, but they all perform the same role.
Incidently, why do you keep that poor martian in your cellar?
I think he is very skilled (whether he admits it or not), and for my money the ability to create new, useful things is soooo much more valuable to society than deciding how to distribute existing resources.
In any event, I have to thank him for his past contributions. Thanks!
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Java would never do that!
At least those Al Q'aida cells spending their time surf'n pr0n are going to get busted!
Yeesh. What a waste of resources.
-b
I spent three frustrating hours yesterday just getting bullets to work properly in Word2000. The last bullets in the column would be larger for no reason. The were all the same character and they were all the same font size.
Now they claim they are going to alter the course of human history bla bla bla by rewriting their OS and Office to increase the personal experience??
They really should work on bullets!
You are offended by the MS icon? Read the article and see how Fortune gushes: Did you know that Mr. Gates takes singing lessons? Did you know that he has never missed a day of work in 27 years? I did not know that! = )
No, I will not participate in this Borgish cult because just because Fortune also beleives Mr. Gates to be visionary and well, amazing:
"I've always liked multitasking. But there are incredible limits to what I can do--like how much time there is in a day.."
Incredible is right. Incredible that Fortune prints this too.
It is my every day frustrations with things like bullets on Word that prove this wrong for me. Am I jealous or being childish? I don't think so. I think I'm being practical and realistic.
Sorry if that makes you unhappy.
-b
What the headline implies is that On2 is not helping out. This is incorrect.
"On2 will sponsor work done by the Xiph.org Foundation to combine those projects, plus On2's already open-sourced VpVision personal video recorder, into a product they believe will provide serious, free competition to the increasingly expensive MPEG-4 royalty fees." --from NewsForge
Hats off to On2!
-b
PS. Currently listening to Oggs and ripping them too. tres nice.
Wow. look at the moderation on this story.
("I'm so very SORRY!"
Whap!)
-b
Agreed. Terrible movie.
I kept waiting for something--anything--to happen.
By the time something does, you just don't care any more due to exhaustion.
They owe me four hours too.
Cheers,
-b
You are right... this is a serious problem. : (
Where am I going to get my SomaFM????
-b
1) I would think that many nodes would carry a specific subchannel and a node could 'shop around'.
A node could carry a named but empty subchannel. It would carry all the metadata like song titles, but not the actual music. It should be able to go 'live' quickly. That way all nodes could 'carry' many 'dark' channels with insignificant data being sent.
A node could request a subchannel, and could try-before-buy. So the bad subchannel is dropped if the prospective subchannel is faster/better. This could be seamless. (+/-) Agressiveness would be very important with that many streams.
2) I think it is possible to avoid supernodes. These should be viewed as liabilities given the legal situation.
I think that a naming scheme that partitions properly could solve the namespace.
Music catagories, arbitrary city names for servers or longitude and latitude plus a big random number.
Where this could break down is if you had a hostile set of nodes. I haven't thought about that..
Discovery is a big issue, but if nodes are willing to share info, then it could be overcome...
Cheers,
-b
underlying protocols would be files. Most of the synch would occur at the java client. Over time, the stream would have to wait for the last subchannel.
If one subchannel is lagging, get another source.
Nodes will have to be aggressive with keeping good sources of subchannels because there are so many to handle.
I have no idea about royalties. I hope the artists get their fair share.
-b
hmmm.. I was thinking about this...
Suppose you set up a p2p system where each node streams 1/nth of a 'channel' or 'station'. n could be about 16 (16 'subchannels') which would bring down the load on each peer to 128/16 kbps, well within the means of every cable modem.
Peers could be easily written in Java and spend their time discovering other peers. Your XMMS/winamp/whatever client connects to your local java client which requests and assembles n 'subchannels' into a stream. Peers do not reveal *their* sources, only other peers. That way, the true source is obscured, but more importantly, more nodes are brought in.
Broadcasters stream to many nodes with a special arrangement/agreement. (push) Everything else is pull.
Your java client requests a channel/subchannel from some known server or requests a node where to get a channel/subchannel . They stream to you.
The underlying protocol would be based upon sending files, not a true music stream. These could be caputured by the local client if wanted. Information could describe overlap of two music files, messages, artist info, etc.
1) low bandwidth for nodes ==> many nodes.
2) dynamic hierarchy. Loose a node and the system will be able to adapt.
3) difficult to find the true source.
4) access to the files streamed.
5) Of course it would stream Ogg! ; )
What do you think?
Cheers,
-b
No, they don't want Westerners dead--they are simply indifferent and are quite willing to sacrifice foreigners' lives to advance their own political interests.
Most countries have pretty much the same record throughout history, if you recall.
It is expediant for political leaders to claim that terrorists don't like 'freedom', 'way of life', etc., because politicians (and Fox News) have always attempted to co-opt these values. It also allows a greater 'freedom' from scrutiny in their own statements and policies. I'd bet al Qaeda terrorists are quite indifferent towards the level of freedom in the West--It couldn't be much of a motivator. "Down with Equality-Under-The-Law" doesn't have much of a ring to it, does it? Indeed, if the Middle East had the same level of freedom as we do, most would probably be more interested in their next vehicle, than their current cause celeb.
Basques want their own country. The IRA wanted the English out of Northern Ireland, Shining Path wanted a Maoist state. The al Qaeda is not much different from the rest, (albeit more exotic than a bunch of Irishmen.)
Nothing changes the fact that they all are extremely cruel, but they can join the queue along with the rest of the nasties.
Cheers,
-b
Silly Rabbit!
Laws are for the Little People!
-b
Pardon my ignorance, but is it what makes the image on DVDs appear to fade in and out when connected to our old TV via the VCR? (It was the only way we could connect it and keep DirecTV as well.)
We returned our DVD player because of this.
Anyone know of a list of players that don't have it/can be defeated?
Cheers,
-b
I think a more effective counter argument than 'spy on your government' is that one that advocates government spying on all snail-mail, telephone conversations, crowds, car locations, and other traditional forms of espionage. There is not much difference in principle, but the issues would be clearer to non-technically minded.
Most of the workings of government ought to be transparent in any event.
Cheers,
-b
Our governments are finally beginning to listen to us!
; )
suck!
Thanks.
-b
lol. I'm an unemployed programmer! I appreciate what you have done--Mosix *is* wonderful, but appreciating financially is not in the cards right now. We have to pay off our stylin' Volvo.
See ya on the highway! ; )
Cheers,
-b
Further to this, humans have a strong interest in believing in God/gods because:
1) we are mortal. We want to know that we'll be OK when we croak.
2) rulers like to co-opt religion for 'devine authority', because it reinforces their powerful position within society. Spiritual/ethical rule is much cheaper than physical rule. Bin Laden does explicitly. George Bush does implicitly. Technically, communist countries are not religious, but communism is not just an economic theory of production--in some ways it has to be so pervasive because it has to provide many of the same ethical underpinnings of religion.
3) provides a foundation for ethical behaviour, justice. Not all evil deeds/events are punishable, such as children getting cancer--this is a social escape valve because bad deeds are either 'God's plan' or bad dooers will be punished in an 'afterlife'. There are many 'injustices' in life but riots do not ensue b/c of people's belief in ethical/religious 'levelling' effects.
4) provide emotional support, because 'God cares about each and every one of you!!'
Religion performs such an important function in every society, it is not suprising that so many diverse societies have so many religious beliefs. Is there some indiginous society that doesn't have a set of religious beliefs? I don't think so. Religions are often diverse, but they all perform the same role.
Incidently, why do you keep that poor martian in your cellar?
Cheers,
-b
..especially Mr. Bar.
I think he is very skilled (whether he admits it or not), and for my money the ability to create new, useful things is soooo much more valuable to society than deciding how to distribute existing resources.
In any event, I have to thank him for his past contributions. Thanks!
Cheers,
-b
Hey. Does anyone know if accomidating the lossyness of tape would make the copy protection scheme weaker?
I kinda think it would, but am interested in what others think...
Cheers,
-b
Personally I like my cops walking the beat, not watching TV.
Cheers,
-b
Hey. We're all in this together!
-b
...Now that Iraq is off the hook.
; )
-b
Can I lie to my bank or the taxman and pay no penalty if I promise (when caught) not to do it again in future? Pleeeeeeeeease???? Just this once!!!!!!
Life must be sweet.
-b
Please mod parent up!
So few know that this is a warmed over version of a very good movie.
Robin Williams... Bah!
-b