you're right. $30 million is a lot to pay for a peice of crap when they could probably extort the resources needed to build a better one for a lot less.
if i can only figour out how to make it beer-aware so if a friend wants a diff brand of beer it goes to the other recepticle
you could probably wire a free cuecat to it. use it to check the upc and then it'll know which beer it has. of course, dc might get confused if you scanned multiple brands of beer so there's another plus.
A mid point has to be found betweena centralized server that databases all the files, and everyone sending the searches to everyone else.
what if...
whenever a client connects to a host they do a handshake that would exchange lists of all their shared files, and the client/host would remember all those files for as long as the connection exhists. everytime person A connects to person B, they would swap lists of all their shared files and their lists of everyone elses files. your database would have to keep track of how each person is connected to you. then you would only send lists of people fairly near you (no more than seven connections away), otherwise the databases would grow to disk filling sizes. this handshake should also include everyones connection speed (people will say their speed like in napster, not just as a ping). Then when you search, you can choose the fastest connection for your file.
whenever you do a search, say for file 123.tgz, your client would first check your database. If someone near you has 123.tgz, then you get it from them and the search is over. If your database doesn't know where to find 123.tgz, then your client asks the people farthest from you in your database (any of these shall be refered to as person C). Person C will check their database for 123.tgz. If person C knows where to find it, then they will tell you. If person C doesn't know where it is, then they ask the people who are farthest from them in their database. Those people will act in the same maner as person C, and the search will continue untill they find 123.tgz or the search becomes farther than seven person C types away. this type of search would allow you to search farther across the network than gnutella, but with the same amount of bandwidth (except when starting new connections).
the biggest problem that i can see with my idea is that if you find 123.tgz near you then you may be forced to cooperate with someone with a slower connection (or a faster person with you). Phizzy mentioned a dynamically-hierachial-by-line-speed design that may help stop this, or just make it worse depending on how you think about it. I guess the best solution would be to ask person C even if you do know where to find 123.tgz because then you would get more choices and the search threads would end when the file is found anyways.
can anyone tell me if I an making any sense? It seems like it might work in my head, but i know close to nothing about transfer protocals, networking, spelling, punctuation, and such.
isonews isn't just about the dreamcast either. they have info about many of the various systems. the main difference is that slashdot, as you said, occasionally has articles about neat new technology (especially technology that helps pirate DVDs and MP3s)
I give up, you're funnier. just one thing though, the document you have posted is the non-varifiable poperty of an undisclosed company. they have a team of lawyers, dogs, and other rabid animals heading for your location as i type this. by the time you reload the page and see this post, they will alrady be at your door.
I was using hyperbole to express my point. where will sega draw the line between legal and illegal? sites that have pirated games are illegal. sites that discuss pirated games are illegal. what about sites that link to sites that discuss pirated games? or sites that use the word dreamcast and the designation iso on the same page? or maybe saying dreamcast and the letters i and s and o? is slashdot illegal because we are here discussing information regarding pirated games?
there is no reason for a law abiding citizen, somebody that doesn't pirate games, to go on these sites
somebody at sega had to go to isonews.com to gather information, so according to your postulate, whoever did that is either not law abiding or not a citizen. if sega is hiring people that are not law abiding then maybe the people running isonews.com should apply for jobs.
Telling people about when a group has released a pirated game could be considered illegal because it helps people find and then download illegal copies (non-backups, i don't want to get into an argument about that), but sega (and the authorities) can go to that site just like anyone else can so telling people about when a group released a game could also be interpreted as assisting the affected parties in finding where the pirates are. it won't stand up very well in court, but it is strong enough to justify their actions.
if any next-gen console survives, I hope it's Sega's.
how can a system survive if nobody other than the maker is allowed to talk about it? I know that there are alot of sega loyalists out there (I bought a saturn), but no matter how loyal they are, very few will buy a system unless they can get an opinion about it from a different source. I'm sure sega believes that dreamcast is the best system out there, and I'm sure that sony believes that ps2 is the best system out there, but few people are going to believe them unless independant groups discuss them.
First the MPAA sends letters to anyone that even mentions DeCSS, then digital convergence sends letters to anyone who mentions the cuecat, and now sega is sending letters to everyone who uses dreamcast and iso in the same sentence. I guess this means that any company who doesn't mass mail the world and doesn't try to get people to give up their rights isn't cool. we should all shun those other companies and organizations untill they decide to be cool and herass everyone too!
forget the stick. first drive/fly/walk to redmond, then... disable surveilance... no witnesses... and when rigor mortis sets in you can whack them with their own cruel leader.
the difference between M$ and a linux distribution is that the linux distros usually get fixed within a few weeks. aside from winblows, M$ generally won't go out of there way to fix anything.
actually i was just going for the first post. i didn't want to be too anoying so i skimed over the review quick, decided i wouldn't like the book, and started to post. at that time still no one had posted yet. then for reasons unknown to me, i was unable to login. after the fourth or fifth try i finaly got in but by that time someone else had already posted.
Microsoft is the king of subversive, evil, and unstable code!
M$ isn't evil, they are the bad kind of good. There are good and bad kinds of evil, and there are good and bad kinds of good. Also, there is nothing subversive about unstable code. All the major companies and government agencies make horibly unstable code every day. The ignorant masses actually like them because they don't know any better. If the ignorant masses prefered subversive programs, then M$ would still be bad, and it would be evil because it wouldn't be what the people liked anymore.
-- if schools give nicoteen patches to kids who smoke, shouldn't they give cafiene pills to those of us who drink upwards of 30 espresso shots a day?
I just want to make it clear that whoever did that post isn't as witty as one might be led to belive. It's just a few lines from a wierd al song with a few minor changes.
Slashdot Mirror
you're right. $30 million is a lot to pay for a peice of crap when they could probably extort the resources needed to build a better one for a lot less.
if i can only figour out how to make it beer-aware so if a friend wants a diff brand of beer it goes to the other recepticle
you could probably wire a free cuecat to it. use it to check the upc and then it'll know which beer it has. of course, dc might get confused if you scanned multiple brands of beer so there's another plus.
A mid point has to be found betweena centralized server that databases all the files, and everyone sending the searches to everyone else.
what if...
whenever a client connects to a host they do a handshake that would exchange lists of all their shared files, and the client/host would remember all those files for as long as the connection exhists. everytime person A connects to person B, they would swap lists of all their shared files and their lists of everyone elses files. your database would have to keep track of how each person is connected to you. then you would only send lists of people fairly near you (no more than seven connections away), otherwise the databases would grow to disk filling sizes. this handshake should also include everyones connection speed (people will say their speed like in napster, not just as a ping). Then when you search, you can choose the fastest connection for your file.
whenever you do a search, say for file 123.tgz, your client would first check your database. If someone near you has 123.tgz, then you get it from them and the search is over. If your database doesn't know where to find 123.tgz, then your client asks the people farthest from you in your database (any of these shall be refered to as person C). Person C will check their database for 123.tgz. If person C knows where to find it, then they will tell you. If person C doesn't know where it is, then they ask the people who are farthest from them in their database. Those people will act in the same maner as person C, and the search will continue untill they find 123.tgz or the search becomes farther than seven person C types away. this type of search would allow you to search farther across the network than gnutella, but with the same amount of bandwidth (except when starting new connections).
the biggest problem that i can see with my idea is that if you find 123.tgz near you then you may be forced to cooperate with someone with a slower connection (or a faster person with you). Phizzy mentioned a dynamically-hierachial-by-line-speed design that may help stop this, or just make it worse depending on how you think about it. I guess the best solution would be to ask person C even if you do know where to find 123.tgz because then you would get more choices and the search threads would end when the file is found anyways.
can anyone tell me if I an making any sense? It seems like it might work in my head, but i know close to nothing about transfer protocals, networking, spelling, punctuation, and such.
isonews isn't just about the dreamcast either. they have info about many of the various systems. the main difference is that slashdot, as you said, occasionally has articles about neat new technology (especially technology that helps pirate DVDs and MP3s)
Of course, scented /. posts would be acceptable.;)
but why would they be necessary? would one persons roll up keyboard smell different from anothers?
I give up, you're funnier. just one thing though, the document you have posted is the non-varifiable poperty of an undisclosed company. they have a team of lawyers, dogs, and other rabid animals heading for your location as i type this. by the time you reload the page and see this post, they will alrady be at your door.
I was using hyperbole to express my point. where will sega draw the line between legal and illegal? sites that have pirated games are illegal. sites that discuss pirated games are illegal. what about sites that link to sites that discuss pirated games? or sites that use the word dreamcast and the designation iso on the same page? or maybe saying dreamcast and the letters i and s and o? is slashdot illegal because we are here discussing information regarding pirated games?
there is no reason for a law abiding citizen, somebody that doesn't pirate games, to go on these sites
somebody at sega had to go to isonews.com to gather information, so according to your postulate, whoever did that is either not law abiding or not a citizen. if sega is hiring people that are not law abiding then maybe the people running isonews.com should apply for jobs.
Telling people about when a group has released a pirated game could be considered illegal because it helps people find and then download illegal copies (non-backups, i don't want to get into an argument about that), but sega (and the authorities) can go to that site just like anyone else can so telling people about when a group released a game could also be interpreted as assisting the affected parties in finding where the pirates are. it won't stand up very well in court, but it is strong enough to justify their actions.
if any next-gen console survives, I hope it's Sega's.
how can a system survive if nobody other than the maker is allowed to talk about it? I know that there are alot of sega loyalists out there (I bought a saturn), but no matter how loyal they are, very few will buy a system unless they can get an opinion about it from a different source. I'm sure sega believes that dreamcast is the best system out there, and I'm sure that sony believes that ps2 is the best system out there, but few people are going to believe them unless independant groups discuss them.
First the MPAA sends letters to anyone that even mentions DeCSS, then digital convergence sends letters to anyone who mentions the cuecat, and now sega is sending letters to everyone who uses dreamcast and iso in the same sentence. I guess this means that any company who doesn't mass mail the world and doesn't try to get people to give up their rights isn't cool. we should all shun those other companies and organizations untill they decide to be cool and herass everyone too!
2 years ago we had the bad kind of hacker: he rooted the whole damn system and never told us how they gained entry.
maybe the old hacker should sue nohican and {} for violating his intellectual property
forget the stick. first drive/fly/walk to redmond, then ... disable surveilance ... no witnesses ... and when rigor mortis sets in you can whack them with their own cruel leader.
the difference between M$ and a linux distribution is that the linux distros usually get fixed within a few weeks. aside from winblows, M$ generally won't go out of there way to fix anything.
were you thinking of "Pretender"? I think it was on NBC but I haven't seen it in quite a while.
actually i was just going for the first post. i didn't want to be too anoying so i skimed over the review quick, decided i wouldn't like the book, and started to post. at that time still no one had posted yet. then for reasons unknown to me, i was unable to login. after the fourth or fifth try i finaly got in but by that time someone else had already posted.
Microsoft is the king of subversive, evil, and unstable code!
M$ isn't evil, they are the bad kind of good. There are good and bad kinds of evil, and there are good and bad kinds of good. Also, there is nothing subversive about unstable code. All the major companies and government agencies make horibly unstable code every day. The ignorant masses actually like them because they don't know any better. If the ignorant masses prefered subversive programs, then M$ would still be bad, and it would be evil because it wouldn't be what the people liked anymore.
-- if schools give nicoteen patches to kids who smoke, shouldn't they give
cafiene pills to those of us who drink upwards of 30 espresso shots a day?
being the fastest one to the finish generaly won't satisfy anyone either, especialy if they have to pay for it.
never trust anonymous cowards. they lie
I just want to make it clear that whoever did that post isn't as witty as one might be led to belive. It's just a few lines from a wierd al song with a few minor changes.