You have to give the Set@Home Team their props for making a system thats scaleable and able to handle the user load from the first 100,000 users to the now 3,000,000.
I've always believed the bottleneck in Distributed Computing was the Data Packets being sent/recieved because the demand will grow exponentially the more users you aquire.
Most applications seem to remidy this problem by limiting the data packet sizes from 5 - 15k compressed packets. This has worked for projects like Distributed.net.
I can only forsee the future of this problem being the same that plagues Video Card Chipsets, which is insted of re-engineering the device to make a more robust and lower overhead solution, they'll just throw a bigger pipe on the line (much like Memory Bandwidth demand).
But again, my respect goes out to the Seti@Home team and their sponsors for architecting a technological data mining marvel.
Because they've also canceled Family Guy twice already, just to bring it back.
There's also another petition on the same site for saving Family Guy. I figure sign them both, save Fox from going from Shitty Shitty Shitty to Stinky Farty Smelly.
Programming applications is a catch 22. Here's the explination we're come up with here at our company.
Home users (Joe and Jane computer user) are all for the speed and power of Linux. They're suseptible to catch prases and love feeding into the media. When Joe computer user looks into installing Linux on his family machine, he discovers something. All his desktop applications (Both Microsoft and 3rd Party) are not on linux ! Discouraged Joe Computer User sticks with Windows because everything he wants is there.
Software Development Houses are on the other side of the coin. Jim Bob Project Development Lead is heading up a project for home users. It's going to be the most usefull tool for home users to date, now it comes time to find your target platform. Of course since over 90% of the home desktop market runs Windows, it would make sense to develop our product for that market.
Being how moronic the general computer using population is (AOL -is- the largest ISP), I have a feeling if this did catch on, it would spawn a slew of trojan key loggers.
They should have it be digitally signed or something, the secutiry risks alone are outrageous.
Keeping up with rescent trends in technology and always not to be outdone, FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE now comes with the 'Self-Power' option.
This new option allows the machine FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE is running on to be powered why the whirring sound of the hard drives alone !! All that is needed is a 9V battery to kick start the system into effect.
Canadian inventors are credited with this discovery and were quoted as saying, "So like, uh, we just did what we know, eh ?"
It's amazing to see the rate in which new techology is anounced to when it is developed. If you look at the newest processors, like a 1.3ghz Duron, you see the copyright on it is in 1999. Thats three years ago that chip was put into production.
Makes you kinda wonder what companies like HP, IBM, Intel, and AMD have in production right now that they haven't announced.
AAC.. and what it meant to me
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A few years back there wasn an AAC encoder out there (Astrid/Quartex) which outputted rather descent quality audio. It was also a unique codec because it allowed for 5 channels of audio (the ISO standard, Astrids only supported stereo) and had comperable playback at 96kbps.
We coded a small GUI frontend for it and released it for the web to use. One month later we recieve a 28 page cease and desist from Dolby.
According to them, the Astrid/Quartex encoder was illegal and violating their patent on the AAC codec. The document stated a liscencing fee of over $10,000 a year for use of the codec.
So, as far as I'm concerned, AAC will be forever buried under the fat cats over at Dolby.
I find that with some linux users (not as much with FreeBSD users, they're real men) that they started using it in the first place to take advantage of others (packeting, hacking, and whatnot).
I find this falls under "Teach a man to fish" saying. Nobody wants to loose the one skill which puts them a cut above the rest.
I honestly think the article should be called, "Do script kiddies make teaching linux harder than it really is", because I know true linux users wouldn't have this problem, and if they did it would only be because they dont have the correct skills needed to properly teach.
Thats just my opinion of course, I could be wrong.
If I were a software developer for an Anti-Virus company, I'd make a new anti-virus software called "Magic Missle". Its sole purpose would be to detect this virus, and only this virus.
You know how many paranoid, anti-government, Art Bell fans would buy it ?? Even if I sold it for $9.99, I'd be a millionare.
"The microscopic computer's input, output and software are made up of DNA molecules -- which store and process encoded information in living organisms."
If this is the case, I'm pretty sure the Animal Rights activists would be all over this shit half a minute.
Then again, where did the DNA cells come from ?? Are they human ?? If the test tube is dropped, would it be classified as an illegal abortion operation ?
Could the person who drops the vile be thrown in jail for practicing medcine without a liscence ? This kind of computer could cause quite a few sleepless nights with christian fundamentalists and anti-abortion activists. Of course, I also forgot the slime fetish pervers that are still lingering around after the last Ghostbuster movie.
I seriously think these are issues that will need to be cleared up before bio sciences merge with the technology world.
Being a Visual Basic developer, I feel who better to know its short comings as a language. For the last few months, I've been doing cross language applications for windows.
Basically, I develop the Application Interface and Simple Functions using Visual Basic Modles and ActiveX Classes.
-but- For Intense Number Crunching, I weave Visual C++ DLL's that have all the function calls that would normally chew and grind Visual Basic to a halt (Floating Point Number Calculations, Loops on Data, and Byte Cyphers).
There's a wonderful book on the topic by A! Press (I know.. I'm a Wrox man myself) called "C++ for VB Programmers" (Link) which explains the process of using Win32 DLL's and ATL COM DLL's in your VB Application.
This process leaves VB doing what it does best, looking pretty. It also lets C++ do what it does best..... all the work;-)
A cookie is just a way for the web server to save information client side. Banning Cookies would be like Banning programs that left Registry Entries on your computer. It's just information that needs to be saved.
It's these Paranoid people who have no Trust for Web Companies and their small web sites, but will more than willingly install Microsoft Products which inspect and pick apart every part of your system.
Arthur: You know all this explains a lot of things. All through my life I had this strange, unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world and no one would tell me what it was.
Slartibartfast: No, thats just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that.
For the RIAA to tell Napster which files its "Allowed To Send" is like mIRC also being hardcoded to only allow 'Blessed' files to be sent. Same thing for Outlook, Hotmail, AIM, ICQ, FTP Clients, ect., ect. The list goes on.
This can all be avoided if Napster just REMOVES the.MP3 limit on its file sharing, and just allows GLOBAL file sharing of any files. Then it would be just as accessable as ANY public FTP.
It would be insane for the RIAA to tell a college student, "Sorry, you cannot get your term paper from your home computer because its not an 'Allowed' File.
I'm a 19 year old programmer, the company I'm with hired me right out of High School. My big problem is that every top level exec. at the company treats me like I'm their son.
It gets annoying, and when I do something wrong, they talk to me like I'm an offspring of theirs. I think it's COMPLETELY unprofessional, but hey.. I need the work expierence.
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This would be true if each user only ran 1 instance of Seti@Home, but I'm sure you know that "score whores" run it on about 40 different machines.
You have to give the Set@Home Team their props for making a system thats scaleable and able to handle the user load from the first 100,000 users to the now 3,000,000.
I've always believed the bottleneck in Distributed Computing was the Data Packets being sent/recieved because the demand will grow exponentially the more users you aquire.
Most applications seem to remidy this problem by limiting the data packet sizes from 5 - 15k compressed packets. This has worked for projects like Distributed.net.
I can only forsee the future of this problem being the same that plagues Video Card Chipsets, which is insted of re-engineering the device to make a more robust and lower overhead solution, they'll just throw a bigger pipe on the line (much like Memory Bandwidth demand).
But again, my respect goes out to the Seti@Home team and their sponsors for architecting a technological data mining marvel.
I've converted the Article into a Word Document that can be found here.
Wonderful article.
Because they've also canceled Family Guy twice already, just to bring it back.
There's also another petition on the same site for saving Family Guy. I figure sign them both, save Fox from going from Shitty Shitty Shitty to Stinky Farty Smelly.
Programming applications is a catch 22. Here's the explination we're come up with here at our company.
Home users (Joe and Jane computer user) are all for the speed and power of Linux. They're suseptible to catch prases and love feeding into the media. When Joe computer user looks into installing Linux on his family machine, he discovers something. All his desktop applications (Both Microsoft and 3rd Party) are not on linux ! Discouraged Joe Computer User sticks with Windows because everything he wants is there.
Software Development Houses are on the other side of the coin. Jim Bob Project Development Lead is heading up a project for home users. It's going to be the most usefull tool for home users to date, now it comes time to find your target platform. Of course since over 90% of the home desktop market runs Windows, it would make sense to develop our product for that market.
It's a catch 22.
Lets hope it doesn't go the way of Sprint Ion.
Launching a First Generation Technology in a radically new market is hard for any company. Lets see if it actually catches on.
The only trick now is convincing the boss that getting this machine would benefit the company (as well as adding 12kkeys/sec to your RC5 score) ;-)
Being how moronic the general computer using population is (AOL -is- the largest ISP), I have a feeling if this did catch on, it would spawn a slew of trojan key loggers.
They should have it be digitally signed or something, the secutiry risks alone are outrageous.
Keeping up with rescent trends in technology and always not to be outdone, FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE now comes with the 'Self-Power' option.
This new option allows the machine FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE is running on to be powered why the whirring sound of the hard drives alone !! All that is needed is a 9V battery to kick start the system into effect.
Canadian inventors are credited with this discovery and were quoted as saying, "So like, uh, we just did what we know, eh ?"
It's amazing to see the rate in which new techology is anounced to when it is developed. If you look at the newest processors, like a 1.3ghz Duron, you see the copyright on it is in 1999. Thats three years ago that chip was put into production.
Makes you kinda wonder what companies like HP, IBM, Intel, and AMD have in production right now that they haven't announced.
You know, am I the only person here who swears up and down I've seen Jasker on BattleBots ?!
Well, doesn't this bring us one step closer to the Infinite Improbability Drive ?? Hmm ??
"Yes, I only need a few more aborted fetus' and my stem cells would have cloned me my own Shakeys Pizza !"
Link to an article on mp3.com
Thats the cover letter to the care package.
A few years back there wasn an AAC encoder out there (Astrid/Quartex) which outputted rather descent quality audio. It was also a unique codec because it allowed for 5 channels of audio (the ISO standard, Astrids only supported stereo) and had comperable playback at 96kbps.
We coded a small GUI frontend for it and released it for the web to use. One month later we recieve a 28 page cease and desist from Dolby.
According to them, the Astrid/Quartex encoder was illegal and violating their patent on the AAC codec. The document stated a liscencing fee of over $10,000 a year for use of the codec.
So, as far as I'm concerned, AAC will be forever buried under the fat cats over at Dolby.
I find that with some linux users (not as much with FreeBSD users, they're real men) that they started using it in the first place to take advantage of others (packeting, hacking, and whatnot).
I find this falls under "Teach a man to fish" saying. Nobody wants to loose the one skill which puts them a cut above the rest.
I honestly think the article should be called, "Do script kiddies make teaching linux harder than it really is", because I know true linux users wouldn't have this problem, and if they did it would only be because they dont have the correct skills needed to properly teach.
Thats just my opinion of course, I could be wrong.
If I were a software developer for an Anti-Virus company, I'd make a new anti-virus software called "Magic Missle". Its sole purpose would be to detect this virus, and only this virus.
You know how many paranoid, anti-government, Art Bell fans would buy it ?? Even if I sold it for $9.99, I'd be a millionare.
"The microscopic computer's input, output and software are made up of DNA molecules -- which store and process encoded information in living organisms."
If this is the case, I'm pretty sure the Animal Rights activists would be all over this shit half a minute.
Then again, where did the DNA cells come from ?? Are they human ?? If the test tube is dropped, would it be classified as an illegal abortion operation ?
Could the person who drops the vile be thrown in jail for practicing medcine without a liscence ? This kind of computer could cause quite a few sleepless nights with christian fundamentalists and anti-abortion activists. Of course, I also forgot the slime fetish pervers that are still lingering around after the last Ghostbuster movie.
I seriously think these are issues that will need to be cleared up before bio sciences merge with the technology world.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
Being a Visual Basic developer, I feel who better to know its short comings as a language. For the last few months, I've been doing cross language applications for windows.
;-)
Basically, I develop the Application Interface and Simple Functions using Visual Basic Modles and ActiveX Classes.
-but- For Intense Number Crunching, I weave Visual C++ DLL's that have all the function calls that would normally chew and grind Visual Basic to a halt (Floating Point Number Calculations, Loops on Data, and Byte Cyphers).
There's a wonderful book on the topic by A! Press (I know.. I'm a Wrox man myself) called "C++ for VB Programmers" (Link) which explains the process of using Win32 DLL's and ATL COM DLL's in your VB Application.
This process leaves VB doing what it does best, looking pretty. It also lets C++ do what it does best..... all the work
/me takes his QBasic compiler and runs home crying !!!
A cookie is just a way for the web server to save information client side. Banning Cookies would be like Banning programs that left Registry Entries on your computer. It's just information that needs to be saved.
It's these Paranoid people who have no Trust for Web Companies and their small web sites, but will more than willingly install Microsoft Products which inspect and pick apart every part of your system.
Arthur: You know all this explains a lot of things. All through my life I had this strange, unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world and no one would tell me what it was.
Slartibartfast: No, thats just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that.
This NAMBLA virus really rules, and holds true to its name.
Pounds ya right in the ass.
But they derserve it after blocking my port 80 !!
TIME TO KICK 'EM DOWN A NOTCH !
-BAM!
This is freakin insane.
.MP3 limit on its file sharing, and just allows GLOBAL file sharing of any files. Then it would be just as accessable as ANY public FTP.
For the RIAA to tell Napster which files its "Allowed To Send" is like mIRC also being hardcoded to only allow 'Blessed' files to be sent. Same thing for Outlook, Hotmail, AIM, ICQ, FTP Clients, ect., ect. The list goes on.
This can all be avoided if Napster just REMOVES the
It would be insane for the RIAA to tell a college student, "Sorry, you cannot get your term paper from your home computer because its not an 'Allowed' File.
1984 here we come...
I'm a 19 year old programmer, the company I'm with hired me right out of High School. My big problem is that every top level exec. at the company treats me like I'm their son.
It gets annoying, and when I do something wrong, they talk to me like I'm an offspring of theirs. I think it's COMPLETELY unprofessional, but hey.. I need the work expierence.