I think this quality of.NET will make it popular among web developers. There is much money to be saved and labour productivity to be gained by not having to rewrite/port code from one language to another.
Hope he's not using that thing as his webserver though...
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Subject:
true tcp/ip on the RCX
From:
"Olaf"
Olaf Christ
Newsgroups:
lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
Date:
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 20:16:29 GMT
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I ve got the very first and only tcp/ip enabled RCX in my room, cool, eh ?
I will make a webpage at the end of the week to make the very first
(rudimentary, but working) version available to the public.
Right now, the tcp/ip stack is compiled into the kernel and the stack calls
the usercode itself.
The code to pass the incoming packets to the stack and to send packets to the
pc is currently running as a simple userprogram. (*.lx).
On the pc the lnpd runs a program that acts as a gateway between the tower
and the pc.
This gateway passes the packets coming from the tower to e.g. 192.168.0.1
and sends packets from 192.168.0.1 to the rcx.
Right now the only thing you can do is pinging the RCX.
But writing e.g. a very small webserver shouldnt be that big a deal;-)
Because, lnp is still alive i had to disable the sound support to free some
RAM.
Right now i got approx. 3 KB RAM left, still enough to do a lot of useful
stuff.
I think, the best way to fully integrate the tcp/ip-stack into the
Legos-kernel would be replacing lnp by a tiny slip-driver.
On the pc we could get rid of the lnpd.
I think Wine should get with the times and follow suit in today's popular code-naming fad. eg. Whistler, Yamhill (what the heck!?), etc etc.
Friend says: "yo dude... I just installed Merlot 1.9... it's pretty sweet"
Other Guy: "yeah.... it's pretty sweet man... but I can't wait for Sauvignon Blanc comes out. I hear there's gonna be some big changes in that one"
Friend says: "sweet"
Other Guy: "yeah... super sweet"
What damages could AOL claim?
The article doesn't really elaborate on what 'damages' they've suffered.
I think the only kind of 'damages' one can claim are on ones that you can claim on your tax form.
And the only claim I know of that would fit that description would be lost revenue from sales of the netscape web browser.
Geez... if they claim lost revenue on sales of netscape because windows released IE for free, then following that train of thought... the whole open source community would be liable for other companys' 'lost revenue' and also sue developers for damages.
Like, what if MS starts suing Sun for 'damages' and lost revenue of Microsoft Office... because StarOffice is free?
I'm about middle of my course of 400 CompScis, and it took me all of five minutes to 'crack' the code, and solve the puzzle. Any kid who's done GCSE Computation (aged 14-16) should be able to work it out in less than half an hour.
Yeah, of course it's easy, you're in the middle of your 400-level compsci course. And you already know how to convert numbers around to other bases.
(It'd be really sad if you didn't)
I know people in 300-level comp sci courses who still don't know how to convert base-X numbers to base-Y numbers.
Can you believe it?? I'm still trying to get over it!
I think this challenge is supposed to give students with low grades (maybe they're bored with school or something) a fighting chance at studying something they love to study.
Heh, take me for example. I got into the University of Toronto's Engineering Science program with an 83% average. The average of the 'typical' student who gets accepted into that program is usually in the mid 90's. I got into the program with such a (relatively) low average because I ranked in the top 1.2% in the University's annual nation-wide physics competition.
So, these contests/competitions aren't supposed to pick out future comp sci phD's.... they're supposed to reward the students who show potential.
Seriously, though, what kind of a logo is a dolphin for a database? When I think of dolphins, I think of these unreliable, playful creatures that basically live the life of riley, eating fish and playing tricks on sailors all day long. Whereas an elephant...well, they never forget, do they?
Dolphins are the only animals other than humans that have sex for pleasure.
Maybe mysql is playing a sick joke and teasing all the DBA and programming geeks out there that they'll never be able to screw like Flipper.
Reading some posts from people in the states made me think of how cheap broadband in Canada is.
Here in Toronto, cable (300KB/s max downstream, ~45KB/s max upstream) is only $40.00cdn a month.
That comes out to $25usd a month (assuming 1.6 exchange rate).
Maybe us canadian's are more likely to switch because it's so cheap. As for americans, is there a reason why you guys are paying 2-3 times what we pay?
... will always exist.
The problem is, big companies should accept this internet as a new form of distribution.
Look at Napster, they had ~60 million users before they tanked. Now assume that even 70% of these users cancelled their memberships when introduced with a $10/month fee, there sill leaves 18 million people paying 10 bucks a month.
Meaning 180 million usd a month... meaning over 2 billion usd gross revenue per year.
All this just by making sure their hundreds of indexing servers were online.
Royalties? Sure! Just divide the 2 billion up based on the percentage of total downloads!
More people like/trade your music? Get a bigger cut of 2 billion/year.
Gnutella? BearShare? WinMX? Comp Sci teaches that indexing saves an order of magnitude on searching/traversing.
I don't think there's any other business model that can compete with the one that could have been if the RIAA had an open mind.
Movies can be distributed the same way.
If the 50+ year old managers would just even hint at an open mind and experiment with providing a service to download mpg movies from their servers at $7/download, I bet they'd be totally content with using the internet as a distribution medium.
History has shown that they had the same reluctance when VHS tapes were available to the average joe shmoe. And look what happens, we pay $5 just to rent a freak'n movie for 24 hours! And yet they aren't so concerned with VHS pirating when it takes an equal amount of time to copy and distribute as a 650MB mpeg/divx movie.
This piracy excuse comes from older people who are panicking, the same ones who panicked about VHS. They won't see the potential for distribution until they start initiating some pilot projects using the net as a distribution channel.
It's not that 5km isn't good enough, but engineers are all too familiar with error.
When you measure something with your ruler, it isn't 5.0cm, it's 5.0cm +/- 0.005 cm.
There's always a bit of distance that you won't be able to measure with your ruler.
Same thing applies here. Even though NASA is pretty good at tracking the path of 'stuff' in space, there is a certain limit to their level of precision. So, if they can track the path of 'stuff' in space to +/- 1km precision and they find that the paths of the ISS and the junk rocket seem to intercept (or close to it), then they'll give the order to maneuver the ISS away.
Slap on a safety factor of 3 or 4, or heck... even 10, then 5km doesn't feel that *safe* anymore.
Nobody's replying to this because all this article is doing is talking about some guy developing a P2P protocol.
Gee whiz.... big news...
It's no different than making any other new protocol... the hard part is getting everyone to use it. And even though this article is titled "industrial strength", it doesn't elaborate on what makes this new protocol so "industrially strong". Does it use encryption? Respect copyrighted material? In bed with the RIAA? Who knows.... because this author certainly doesn't.
Yeah... sure... with this new protocol... a computer chip in my shoe can function as a "peer", but what the heck does that prove how robust this new protocol is going to be?
What steps are they taking to stop punks from running around the place clipping network cables? Forget clipping, even just scoring a cable in some discreet location would have a team of security specialists scratching their heads for a while. I bet a biatch with a pair of scissors or an exacto knife could do more long-lasting damage than any kind of DoS attack.
This should be a real concern, given the level of lax security given to volunteers as mentioned in the above posts.
Look at Japan. Practically every single friggn cell phone sold there has video conferencing capabilities. And they fly off the shelves!
It's all about novelty.
A cell phone is a cell phone is a cell phone, but teens don't care about cell phones. They want to dress them up like barbie dolls like they did with tamagotchi's, and be able to talk with their friends face to face when it's not physically possible. Cell phones are practically toys over there! They string them around their necks like necklaces for goodness sakes! You ever walked into a chinese mall in your city/town? Heck, there are ENTIRE STORES who's entire revenue stream relies on kids wanting to 'soup-up' their cell phones with lights, face plates, and background icons!
If there's a market for cell phone face plates, flashing keypads and antennae... there *will* be a market for video conferencing on cell phones.
There just needs to be a reliable (and cheap) way of supporting the technology.
Of course this might not happen in the U.S. Being able to make video-conferencing calls may require a level of geekiness that your average joe bloe won't have.
Japan's teenagers are #1 as far as their math and science skills go... which may mean they've got more geeks per capita than the U.S. will ever have!
This doesn't make sense. The thing with quantum computing is that any group of calculations are done in one step.
ie. Finding a 2048 bit encryption key with a 2048 qubit quantum computer would take no more than ONE calculation.
So, by adding more qubits, you're not 'doubling' the processing speed because a 2049 qubit quantum computer will still solve things as fase as a 2048 qubit computer.... in one calculation.
The only difference is now the 2049 qubit quantum computer can solve a bigger problem.
... that the story of this movie doesn't revolve around it's action. This movie is a romance movie... not an action as all the trailers build it up to be. More accurately... it's a romantic tragedy... like Romeo and Juliet. Also, this movie is also only one part of a 4-part series (i think it's the third, but i'm not too sure).
This film won the People's Choice Award at the International Film Festival in Toronto. The film that won that award last year was American Beauty, which went on to win several Oscars.
One more thing... there are no Crouching tigers or hidden dragons. They're two different styles of martial arts.
I remember my atari that my parents brought back from Taiwan 15 years ago (grade 2). The games weren't even on cartridges, they were on these little fibreglass chips the size of half a credit card. The thing is... I didn't even realise it was an atari until I saw the picture for it in the link (Atari1)!
Holy fsck'n crap..... $75 U.S.D for 640K only!?
Are you kidding me??
Here in Canada, Rogers@Home has a maximum download of 300KBytes (yes! kiloBYTES) per second... and it's not like it's impossible to reach... I've maintained that download rate on many many occasions.
Maximum upload is 40KB/s... but that's the same as your 640kb/s.... static ip included as well.
All this can be had for a measly $40cdn (no cable modem rental fee either).
$40cdn = $27 U.S.
but geez... i'd never even consider paying over $100 cdn for any time of home highspeed connection.
It's illegal to traffic cocaine...
It's illegal to posess cocaine...
It's NOT illegal to tell someone where you think they can get cocaine...
It's NOT illegal to tell someone how to purify cocaine...
It's NOT illegal to give away cocaine-purifying procedures & instructions....
It's NOT illegal to teach someone how to make a nuclear bomb....
It's NOT illegal to tell someone where to get a nuclear bomb...
It's NOT illegal to tell someone where to get materials for making a bomb...
BUT...
It's illegal to display/distribute DeCSS source code...
It's illegal to TELL/SHOW someone where to get the source code...
Is it just me? Or is the MPAA so scared shitless about losing their lambourghini's that they're trying to make everyone who LINKS DeCSS source code look like felons??
You know they know NOTHING about what the internet when they start hiring people to search for DeCSS on the internet and fire off an email to each person who hosts it. I wonder how many guys they hired for that job. For every site they shut down at least 2 more will pop up within a week by the same person. Don't they realise (cdn spelling) that what they're doing is futile? They already spent 4million bucks U.S.D. on the 2600 trial to stop 2600 from posting/linking decss.... and what did that get them? NOWHERE. The people at 2600 probably just shrugged off the judge's verdict and removed the tags from their site!
The MPAA are probably kicking themselves in the ass now for wasting $4 million bucks that they could have spent on new rims for their cars.
And guess where that money came from...
I wonder how much more money they're going to spend on those guys typing in 'decss' on search engines before they realise that they're just shoving their money up their asses and shitting all over the internet.
And what about this Professor who testified? Are they going to make a criminal out of someone who has a Masters and Ph.D in computer science simply because he hosts DeCSS in many many different (& creative) forms?
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I think this quality of .NET will make it popular among web developers. There is much money to be saved and labour productivity to be gained by not having to rewrite/port code from one language to another.
Her: "Happy valentine's day!"
You: "Happy valentine's day!"
You: "Here's your valentine's day present!"
(hand her big wide, long, flat box)
Her: (looks at the wrapping) "Oh wow... you got me a pizza
You: "nonono! take off the wrapping!"
(rip rip rip)
Her: (looks at the box) "Oh wow... you got me a big box of chocolates
You: "nonono! open the box!"
(rip rip rip)
Her: (looks inside the box) "Oh WOW!!! YOU GOT ME A RACKMOUNT SERVER!! Let's have sex!!"
You: (air guitar)
Hope this isn't too offtopic.
Does postgres have any plans for database replication?
Like... Master-master (oracle), master-slave setups? (mysql)
Bob: "Check out the new server cluster we got"
John: "uh... it's a big lego model of natalie portman"
Hope he's not using that thing as his webserver though...
;-)
Here's the text for those of you who reach a "server overload" message.
Subject:
true tcp/ip on the RCX
From:
"Olaf"
Olaf Christ
Newsgroups:
lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
Date:
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 20:16:29 GMT
View Raw
Message
I ve got the very first and only tcp/ip enabled RCX in my room, cool, eh ?
I will make a webpage at the end of the week to make the very first
(rudimentary, but working) version available to the public.
Right now, the tcp/ip stack is compiled into the kernel and the stack calls
the usercode itself.
The code to pass the incoming packets to the stack and to send packets to the
pc is currently running as a simple userprogram. (*.lx).
On the pc the lnpd runs a program that acts as a gateway between the tower
and the pc.
This gateway passes the packets coming from the tower to e.g. 192.168.0.1
and sends packets from 192.168.0.1 to the rcx.
Right now the only thing you can do is pinging the RCX.
But writing e.g. a very small webserver shouldnt be that big a deal
Because, lnp is still alive i had to disable the sound support to free some
RAM.
Right now i got approx. 3 KB RAM left, still enough to do a lot of useful
stuff.
I think, the best way to fully integrate the tcp/ip-stack into the
Legos-kernel would be replacing lnp by a tiny slip-driver.
On the pc we could get rid of the lnpd.
Olaf Christ
I think Wine should get with the times and follow suit in today's popular code-naming fad. eg. Whistler, Yamhill (what the heck!?), etc etc.
... it's pretty sweet"
Friend says: "yo dude... I just installed Merlot 1.9
Other Guy: "yeah.... it's pretty sweet man... but I can't wait for Sauvignon Blanc comes out. I hear there's gonna be some big changes in that one"
Friend says: "sweet"
Other Guy: "yeah... super sweet"
[Insert Obligatory [Obligatory] here]
What damages could AOL claim?
... because StarOffice is free?
The article doesn't really elaborate on what 'damages' they've suffered.
I think the only kind of 'damages' one can claim are on ones that you can claim on your tax form.
And the only claim I know of that would fit that description would be lost revenue from sales of the netscape web browser.
Geez... if they claim lost revenue on sales of netscape because windows released IE for free, then following that train of thought... the whole open source community would be liable for other companys' 'lost revenue' and also sue developers for damages.
Like, what if MS starts suing Sun for 'damages' and lost revenue of Microsoft Office
This is totally retarded.
Yeah, of course it's easy, you're in the middle of your 400-level compsci course. And you already know how to convert numbers around to other bases.
(It'd be really sad if you didn't)
I know people in 300-level comp sci courses who still don't know how to convert base-X numbers to base-Y numbers.
Can you believe it?? I'm still trying to get over it!
I think this challenge is supposed to give students with low grades (maybe they're bored with school or something) a fighting chance at studying something they love to study.
Heh, take me for example. I got into the University of Toronto's Engineering Science program with an 83% average. The average of the 'typical' student who gets accepted into that program is usually in the mid 90's. I got into the program with such a (relatively) low average because I ranked in the top 1.2% in the University's annual nation-wide physics competition.
So, these contests/competitions aren't supposed to pick out future comp sci phD's.... they're supposed to reward the students who show potential.
Dolphins are the only animals other than humans that have sex for pleasure.
Maybe mysql is playing a sick joke and teasing all the DBA and programming geeks out there that they'll never be able to screw like Flipper.
Reading some posts from people in the states made me think of how cheap broadband in Canada is.
Here in Toronto, cable (300KB/s max downstream, ~45KB/s max upstream) is only $40.00cdn a month.
That comes out to $25usd a month (assuming 1.6 exchange rate).
Maybe us canadian's are more likely to switch because it's so cheap. As for americans, is there a reason why you guys are paying 2-3 times what we pay?
... will always exist.
The problem is, big companies should accept this internet as a new form of distribution.
Look at Napster, they had ~60 million users before they tanked. Now assume that even 70% of these users cancelled their memberships when introduced with a $10/month fee, there sill leaves 18 million people paying 10 bucks a month.
Meaning 180 million usd a month... meaning over 2 billion usd gross revenue per year.
All this just by making sure their hundreds of indexing servers were online.
Royalties? Sure! Just divide the 2 billion up based on the percentage of total downloads!
More people like/trade your music? Get a bigger cut of 2 billion/year.
Gnutella? BearShare? WinMX? Comp Sci teaches that indexing saves an order of magnitude on searching/traversing.
I don't think there's any other business model that can compete with the one that could have been if the RIAA had an open mind.
Movies can be distributed the same way.
If the 50+ year old managers would just even hint at an open mind and experiment with providing a service to download mpg movies from their servers at $7/download, I bet they'd be totally content with using the internet as a distribution medium.
History has shown that they had the same reluctance when VHS tapes were available to the average joe shmoe. And look what happens, we pay $5 just to rent a freak'n movie for 24 hours! And yet they aren't so concerned with VHS pirating when it takes an equal amount of time to copy and distribute as a 650MB mpeg/divx movie.
This piracy excuse comes from older people who are panicking, the same ones who panicked about VHS. They won't see the potential for distribution until they start initiating some pilot projects using the net as a distribution channel.
It's not that 5km isn't good enough, but engineers are all too familiar with error.
When you measure something with your ruler, it isn't 5.0cm, it's 5.0cm +/- 0.005 cm.
There's always a bit of distance that you won't be able to measure with your ruler.
Same thing applies here. Even though NASA is pretty good at tracking the path of 'stuff' in space, there is a certain limit to their level of precision. So, if they can track the path of 'stuff' in space to +/- 1km precision and they find that the paths of the ISS and the junk rocket seem to intercept (or close to it), then they'll give the order to maneuver the ISS away.
Slap on a safety factor of 3 or 4, or heck... even 10, then 5km doesn't feel that *safe* anymore.
Nobody's replying to this because all this article is doing is talking about some guy developing a P2P protocol.
... with this new protocol... a computer chip in my shoe can function as a "peer", but what the heck does that prove how robust this new protocol is going to be?
Gee whiz.... big news...
It's no different than making any other new protocol... the hard part is getting everyone to use it. And even though this article is titled "industrial strength", it doesn't elaborate on what makes this new protocol so "industrially strong". Does it use encryption? Respect copyrighted material? In bed with the RIAA? Who knows.... because this author certainly doesn't.
Yeah... sure
What steps are they taking to stop punks from running around the place clipping network cables? Forget clipping, even just scoring a cable in some discreet location would have a team of security specialists scratching their heads for a while. I bet a biatch with a pair of scissors or an exacto knife could do more long-lasting damage than any kind of DoS attack.
This should be a real concern, given the level of lax security given to volunteers as mentioned in the above posts.
Look at Japan. Practically every single friggn cell phone sold there has video conferencing capabilities. And they fly off the shelves!
It's all about novelty.
A cell phone is a cell phone is a cell phone, but teens don't care about cell phones. They want to dress them up like barbie dolls like they did with tamagotchi's, and be able to talk with their friends face to face when it's not physically possible. Cell phones are practically toys over there! They string them around their necks like necklaces for goodness sakes! You ever walked into a chinese mall in your city/town? Heck, there are ENTIRE STORES who's entire revenue stream relies on kids wanting to 'soup-up' their cell phones with lights, face plates, and background icons!
If there's a market for cell phone face plates, flashing keypads and antennae... there *will* be a market for video conferencing on cell phones.
There just needs to be a reliable (and cheap) way of supporting the technology.
Of course this might not happen in the U.S. Being able to make video-conferencing calls may require a level of geekiness that your average joe bloe won't have.
Japan's teenagers are #1 as far as their math and science skills go... which may mean they've got more geeks per capita than the U.S. will ever have!
Looks like their article was their server's achille's heel....
very ironic.
This doesn't make sense. The thing with quantum computing is that any group of calculations are done in one step.
.... in one calculation.
ie. Finding a 2048 bit encryption key with a 2048 qubit quantum computer would take no more than ONE calculation.
So, by adding more qubits, you're not 'doubling' the processing speed because a 2049 qubit quantum computer will still solve things as fase as a 2048 qubit computer
The only difference is now the 2049 qubit quantum computer can solve a bigger problem.
Doesn't Pluto and it's moon Charon orbit around each other? I'm pretty certain they do.
I know... I work there. - Ben
... that the story of this movie doesn't revolve around it's action. This movie is a romance movie... not an action as all the trailers build it up to be. More accurately... it's a romantic tragedy ... like Romeo and Juliet. Also, this movie is also only one part of a 4-part series (i think it's the third, but i'm not too sure).
This film won the People's Choice Award at the International Film Festival in Toronto. The film that won that award last year was American Beauty, which went on to win several Oscars.
One more thing... there are no Crouching tigers or hidden dragons. They're two different styles of martial arts.
I remember my atari that my parents brought back from Taiwan 15 years ago (grade 2). The games weren't even on cartridges, they were on these little fibreglass chips the size of half a credit card. The thing is... I didn't even realise it was an atari until I saw the picture for it in the link (Atari1)!
Why would they need programmers for the ps2?
Holy fsck'n crap..... $75 U.S.D for 640K only!? Are you kidding me??
Here in Canada, Rogers@Home has a maximum download of 300KBytes (yes! kiloBYTES) per second... and it's not like it's impossible to reach... I've maintained that download rate on many many occasions.
Maximum upload is 40KB/s... but that's the same as your 640kb/s.... static ip included as well.
All this can be had for a measly $40cdn (no cable modem rental fee either). $40cdn = $27 U.S.
but geez... i'd never even consider paying over $100 cdn for any time of home highspeed connection.
It's illegal to traffic cocaine... It's illegal to posess cocaine... It's NOT illegal to tell someone where you think they can get cocaine... It's NOT illegal to tell someone how to purify cocaine... It's NOT illegal to give away cocaine-purifying procedures & instructions.... It's NOT illegal to teach someone how to make a nuclear bomb.... It's NOT illegal to tell someone where to get a nuclear bomb... It's NOT illegal to tell someone where to get materials for making a bomb... BUT... It's illegal to display/distribute DeCSS source code... It's illegal to TELL/SHOW someone where to get the source code... Is it just me? Or is the MPAA so scared shitless about losing their lambourghini's that they're trying to make everyone who LINKS DeCSS source code look like felons?? You know they know NOTHING about what the internet when they start hiring people to search for DeCSS on the internet and fire off an email to each person who hosts it. I wonder how many guys they hired for that job. For every site they shut down at least 2 more will pop up within a week by the same person. Don't they realise (cdn spelling) that what they're doing is futile? They already spent 4million bucks U.S.D. on the 2600 trial to stop 2600 from posting/linking decss.... and what did that get them? NOWHERE. The people at 2600 probably just shrugged off the judge's verdict and removed the tags from their site! The MPAA are probably kicking themselves in the ass now for wasting $4 million bucks that they could have spent on new rims for their cars. And guess where that money came from... I wonder how much more money they're going to spend on those guys typing in 'decss' on search engines before they realise that they're just shoving their money up their asses and shitting all over the internet. And what about this Professor who testified? Are they going to make a criminal out of someone who has a Masters and Ph.D in computer science simply because he hosts DeCSS in many many different (& creative) forms?