Yeah, people who write software for sale or play music don't deserve to earn their keep. Why don't they just get a Real Job at Burger King?
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C'mon, we all know that piracy is convenient so it'd be nice for it to be legal, but passing a law forbidding airplane accidents isn't going legislate airplane disasters out of existence.
As a job, I write closed-source software. As a hobby, I write open-source software. If I was to find that a client had pirated one of my closed-source applications, I'd be incensed.
You don't think they'll be releasing signed SMB binaries? FTP servers? If it is impossible to get binaries signed, then have no fear that we'll see P2P networks and functionality emerge from "trusted" protocols and ad-hoc scripting of OS features... to cite a simple example, a batch file that searches a given series of SMB-mounted drives for a given media file (MP3) and then proceeds to download it to the local drive. Automated "automounting" of peers' filesystems, etc... if it sounds messy, no problem: just bolt on a front-end. And before you mention, that wouldn't have to be signed as a trusted binary because each and every user could run it as they please on their own machine and it would only need to interact with trusted components, but wouldn't have to be a trusted component itself. Think of the X nmap front-end.
One hopes the 10-digit codes incorporate some kind of error correction and redundancy (such as SECDED, for example).
Actually, by taking a ballpark figure of the surface area of the planet (510 million square km) and the total number of permutations (36^10), I arrived at a permutation:surface_area_in_metres_squared of about 0.1394, which is tiny.
Not to be picky, but who is going to choose where the "origin" or the "root" of this system lies? Do we really want to give Microsoft the honour of 0000AAAA or whatever? I could really do without being referenced with respect to their location.
Imagine the fun if someone could get into that system and readjust the root so the origin is at, oh I don't know, Calcutta. The world's whole mail would end up in the wrong place.
Also, what happens for blocks of flats (or, more generally, seperate entities which happen to overlap the same 1m^2 resolution of the addressing-space)?
Last but not least: when I go to the post-office to send a package, the cashier looks at the bottom line of the address and automatically knows which country I'm sending it to. Isn't that something worth preserving rather than making the poor fellow type in the relevant co-ordinates to an Internet-enabled Windows XP Geographic Edition PC, skirting his way past a couple of BSODs, and figuring out I'm sending the damned thing to all of 12 miles to the centre of town?
And don't forget that if your PC isn't Palladium-compatible, it won't be able to print addresses on envelopes!
BeOS has the unusual ability to embed one application inside another, these embedded applications are called "replicants". If you shut down the parent ("container") application, the replicants stay running, and even persist over reboot (think of it as "fork off and die" on steroids). In this case, I guess two replicant applications present themselves but are DOA for some reason.
As a matter of fact BeOS' only connection with france was the nationality of Be Inc's founder, one Jean-Louis Gassé. However the OS (and the beautiful BeBox) was entirely developed in the USA. It is true that Be Inc later opened its european regional offices in Paris, but this is a far cry from "being born in europe".
As for why old systems "go to europe to die", as a european, I guess it is down to a general appreciation of solid stuff that works as opposed to newfangled stuff driven by the corporate sphere... or maybe that's just me...
Actually we do know the Universe's smallest "pixel size": the Plank Scale. Who's to say whether this is a computational limit imposed upon our simulation by external beings or a true physical limit?
Also, it isn't actually true that a computer cannot simulate soomething more complex than itself. If time is no object, it can simulate something a million times more complex than itself in a very long period of time. Who's to say that maybe a single second in our simulated world takes a million, maybe even a billion years to compute in "real time"?
I remember that Star Bridge Systems (www.starbridgesystems.com) is developing what they call "hypercomputers", basically large collections of FPGAs attached to a Windows host. They claim they can build the world's most powerful supercomputer (in terms of MIPS, which we all know really stands for Meaningless Integer Performance Statistic). In any case, they also have a software suite called Viva for developing and compiling software to the chips. I also seem to remember that chips are dynamically readjusted, but I'm not sure. Anway it might be worth a read.
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Yeah, people who write software for sale or play music don't deserve to earn their keep. Why don't they just get a Real Job at Burger King?
</sarcasm>
C'mon, we all know that piracy is convenient so it'd be nice for it to be legal, but passing a law forbidding airplane accidents isn't going legislate airplane disasters out of existence.
As a job, I write closed-source software. As a hobby, I write open-source software. If I was to find that a client had pirated one of my closed-source applications, I'd be incensed.
Lets try to be sensible.
...as if their guessing game was accurate enough to discern fluctuations of 1%... puh...
You don't think they'll be releasing signed SMB binaries? FTP servers? If it is impossible to get binaries signed, then have no fear that we'll see P2P networks and functionality emerge from "trusted" protocols and ad-hoc scripting of OS features... to cite a simple example, a batch file that searches a given series of SMB-mounted drives for a given media file (MP3) and then proceeds to download it to the local drive. Automated "automounting" of peers' filesystems, etc... if it sounds messy, no problem: just bolt on a front-end. And before you mention, that wouldn't have to be signed as a trusted binary because each and every user could run it as they please on their own machine and it would only need to interact with trusted components, but wouldn't have to be a trusted component itself. Think of the X nmap front-end.
One hopes the 10-digit codes incorporate some kind of error correction and redundancy (such as SECDED, for example).
Actually, by taking a ballpark figure of the surface area of the planet (510 million square km) and the total number of permutations (36^10), I arrived at a permutation:surface_area_in_metres_squared of about 0.1394, which is tiny.
So, what's wrong with what I did...?
Not to be picky, but who is going to choose where the "origin" or the "root" of this system lies? Do we really want to give Microsoft the honour of 0000AAAA or whatever? I could really do without being referenced with respect to their location.
Imagine the fun if someone could get into that system and readjust the root so the origin is at, oh I don't know, Calcutta. The world's whole mail would end up in the wrong place.
Also, what happens for blocks of flats (or, more generally, seperate entities which happen to overlap the same 1m^2 resolution of the addressing-space)?
Last but not least: when I go to the post-office to send a package, the cashier looks at the bottom line of the address and automatically knows which country I'm sending it to. Isn't that something worth preserving rather than making the poor fellow type in the relevant co-ordinates to an Internet-enabled Windows XP Geographic Edition PC, skirting his way past a couple of BSODs, and figuring out I'm sending the damned thing to all of 12 miles to the centre of town?
And don't forget that if your PC isn't Palladium-compatible, it won't be able to print addresses on envelopes!
BeOS has the unusual ability to embed one application inside another, these embedded applications are called "replicants". If you shut down the parent ("container") application, the replicants stay running, and even persist over reboot (think of it as "fork off and die" on steroids). In this case, I guess two replicant applications present themselves but are DOA for some reason.
As a matter of fact BeOS' only connection with france was the nationality of Be Inc's founder, one Jean-Louis Gassé. However the OS (and the beautiful BeBox) was entirely developed in the USA. It is true that Be Inc later opened its european regional offices in Paris, but this is a far cry from "being born in europe".
As for why old systems "go to europe to die", as a european, I guess it is down to a general appreciation of solid stuff that works as opposed to newfangled stuff driven by the corporate sphere... or maybe that's just me...
Actually we do know the Universe's smallest "pixel size": the Plank Scale. Who's to say whether this is a computational limit imposed upon our simulation by external beings or a true physical limit?
Also, it isn't actually true that a computer cannot simulate soomething more complex than itself. If time is no object, it can simulate something a million times more complex than itself in a very long period of time. Who's to say that maybe a single second in our simulated world takes a million, maybe even a billion years to compute in "real time"?
I remember that Star Bridge Systems (www.starbridgesystems.com) is developing what they call "hypercomputers", basically large collections of FPGAs attached to a Windows host. They claim they can build the world's most powerful supercomputer (in terms of MIPS, which we all know really stands for Meaningless Integer Performance Statistic). In any case, they also have a software suite called Viva for developing and compiling software to the chips. I also seem to remember that chips are dynamically readjusted, but I'm not sure. Anway it might be worth a read.