P2P covers a lot of ground, BT has a very cool way to reduce load on servers, Napter didn't, Kazzaa(sp) didn't in fact most P2P do not implement the distribution model inherent in BT.
I'm not familiar with Overnet, so I cannot comment on the way it enforces sharing. BT sharing is in the clients not the server and as far as I can figure out is not able to be fooled.
There can be moe than one tracker for a torrent, so no single point of failure.
An OS client is no good without an OS server.
Likewise, I use BT and like it because of the reasons stated. I suggest you play with BT a bit more and explore it's implementation in more detail. It's a very elegant solution that blends well with the internet idea of keeping intelligence at the ends.
But, I do not need the codes to copy a DVD! In fact the last thing I want to do is change anything if I'm planing on making a profit. Region codes have never been about stopping piracy.
It's very doubtful that either Nvida or ATI do not know what is in each others past, current and future cards. The driver would not expose anything that is not already known.
The improvement is not what most people want, they want the ability to easily support their graphics card. When Nvidia/ATI moves on to the next release of hardware do you think they are going to want to support the current stuff?
"No, I have a degree in economics. I do know what I am talking about."
The two are not related, linking the two shows a remarkable failure in logic. How can we be sure there are not other failures in logic in your arguments?
Throw the book away, if it's big it's written by somebody who doesn't understand the basics.
Ask yourself what do I gain by learning another OS. If you cannot come up with a compelling reason then don't bother.
Ask yourself can I switch 100%. If not do not bother. Save everybody from wasting their time, stick to what works for you.
The first book you should read is Unix Philosophy by Mike Gancarz. That is prehaps the only book you need to read. as a user. See http://hebb.cis.uoguelph.ca/~dave/27320/new/unixph il.html for the higlights.
*nix rewards experts and punishes novices. It ain't gonna hold yer hand, it'll probably rip your arm off and attempt to bludgeon you to death with it. So can you take the pain to reap the rewards?
Linux doesn't run natively Java is not open Apache, not sure if they prefer websphere or apache
QSHELL is half a shell PACE is an expensive add on GNU utilities are not ported
DDS/RPG only available on AS/400
The big kicker is that there is NO and I mean NONE technical hardware spces. MI is a mystical beast that is referenced in 1 manual only. OS/400 suffers from major Not Invented Here syndrome
Now I am being harsh here but that's because I've developed on the 400 for 15+ years and in all that time it's been a fight to open up the machine. It's always been a case of a little to late.
Going forward with the AS/400 and RS/6000 sharing the same hardware I hope to see a more rapid thawing of the ice wall. I would love an emulator for MI-OS/400 along the lines of the excellent Hercules mainframe emulator. I would love to see QCMD/RPG/COBOL/CL/DDS ported to linux.
It would be a shame to see the easiest development environment for character based apps disappear.
opened the architecture, thay had ISA ripped from them, I think Compaq cleaned room the BIOS which led to the clones. MCA, remember that. Token ring. SNA.
IBM in the 80s was at it's most arrogant. They had beaten everybody including the DOJ. The salesmen were insufferable. Then M$ changed the landscape by beating IBM at their own game.
Only in the last five years has IBM embraced Open Standards. Even now one of their hardware lines is still very closed, AS/400.
The real world can be analog and digital at the same time. It's red not blue. it's a sort of pinkish red. Is time discreet or continuos? What do you mean you do not know!
Fixed, what is fixed? There are a lot of fixed values in the human body. In fact most of the body is based on very fixed processes. Feed back, is a very fixed response. The complexity comes with the sheer number of feedback systems working in parrallel. We cannot model this complexity with a pre-programmed system, but it may be possible to simulate the feedback and then set those loose to model the system.
Have you _EVER_ worked with a digital robot, adding a new senosr is not easy? Adding a new response is not easy. In fact this is one of the main stumbling blocks of digital robots. Everytime you add a new sensor you have to explicity program for it. That means the robot is limited by the imagination/time of the designer.
In response to your last paragraph, take a look at beam robots. See how they can do tasks with a few components that complex digital robots cannot. See how they deal with component failures. Think about how this ties back to nature. See that tieing into a feedback circuit is easy, but ultimately unpredictable.
This whole area is opening up after 50+ years of going in the wrong direction and achieving only predictable systems. AI/AL is embracing simple systems that combine automatically to implement complexity.
Read Stephen Wolfram, Steve Grand and Mark Tilden. All three are showing that unpredictable complexity can be modeled by designing simple feedback systems and then letting them interfere with each other. Chaos theory is the underlying mathamatics.
To cast aside this arena as just a cheap toy is to be blind to the sheer scope of the undertaking.
Orville, Wilbour put down that paper plane it's just a toy.
I'm sort of an amateur AI/AL person, unlike the MIT clowns I admit to it:-)
There is a great deal in common between this and the game/work of Steve Grand. Steve has started to work with robotics and I think this a mistake. He could have taken his software to the next level.
Both Grand and Tilden feel that you can create life with very simple processes. You do not need to spell about how something is to behave but what something is. This is a fundamental change from the traditional AI/AL approach.
The exciting thing is that the approach of using simple processes is paying dividends. Where Grand might explain conciousness, Tilden can explain physiology.
Where is computing going in the future, take a look at the work of these two gentlemen and see for your self.
If only I could buy a large monochrome screened laptop 800x600, low power cpu 200mhz. Battery life over 12hrs.
I'll probably get a Netbook, install Linux. Sounds like psion will do the same thing.
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You dolt,
you were meant to be testing them to dis-traction. That's why they got rid of you after six months. I had to take over and believe me it took a long time to get the line workers to go any where near the machines.
It's a shame we can no longer shoot little kids, I feel the whole country has gone down the tubes since then. Take you for instance, a quick dose of buck shot and you'd think twice before trespassing wouldn't you?
The first politician to run for office promising to abolish laws on murder gets my vote. A nice polite, peaceable society.
Why is it when people use the word respectfully they mean exactly the opposite:-)
So were the people giving the unlawful/unauthorised orders court martialed? Ever? Did every sailor respond in the same manner as you?
Not all service personnel are as you paint them, prehaps somewhere between our two view points the majority reside. I hope they are closer to your view point but history and my experience speak otherwise.
For the record I've never seen Universal Soldier, anything like All Quiet on the Western Front? I guess not.
WWII where the US turned up years late but did indeed help liberate Europe and end the pacific war.
The person who pulls the trigger is the person waging war. I write the military off as evil and terrible because they choose to invade other countries and kill people. There are many generals who dis-agreed with the war yet went right ahead and did their duty.
While it was the ATF, FBI and DOJ show they asked and recieved military aid in the shape of National Guard and Active duty personnel, Tanks, Bradleys and Engineer vehicles. Interestingly Wesley Clark was in charge of the base that the regulars came from.
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Even for accounting systems, because they might touch the data.
Even for grade III systems that might touch the data, eventually, next year, maybe...
Let's dis-regard the techies opinion because after all 100% computer security is easy to achieve with written procedures.
I've trained my whole working life to write programs when I should have been training how to write documentation.
P2P covers a lot of ground, BT has a very cool way to reduce load on servers, Napter didn't, Kazzaa(sp) didn't in fact most P2P do not implement the distribution model inherent in BT.
I'm not familiar with Overnet, so I cannot comment on the way it enforces sharing. BT sharing is in the clients not the server and as far as I can figure out is not able to be fooled.
There can be moe than one tracker for a torrent, so no single point of failure.
An OS client is no good without an OS server.
Likewise, I use BT and like it because of the reasons stated. I suggest you play with BT a bit more and explore it's implementation in more detail. It's a very elegant solution that blends well with the internet idea of keeping intelligence at the ends.
It's an elegant soultion to the problem of serving lots of data simultaneously to geographically diverse clients.
It enforces a share and share a like policy, no leeches.
It's impervious to legal challenges, well as much as any other protocol.
It's open source, no vendor lock in.
It's newish, let's not forget the importance of something shiny.
It works.
Oh yeah, how do you know?
It depends on what type of shooting you're doing.
Twitch as in skeet or practical pistol, will probably be helped by anything that improves reaction time and hand eye co-ordination.
Logic as in 1500yd or three positional will probably not be helped by having a lightning reflex.
The important question of shoot or not shoot is probably fucked up beyond all recognition in those that play FPS.
"Well officer, the victim suddenly popped up from behind a crate so I fired a warning shot through her chest. Better safe than sorry"
Nope.
Sevrity of Bug * Number of users affected, is the usual way to assign priority.
How many users are going to experience that crash of yours?
But, I do not need the codes to copy a DVD! In fact the last thing I want to do is change anything if I'm planing on making a profit. Region codes have never been about stopping piracy.
It's very doubtful that either Nvida or ATI do not know what is in each others past, current and future cards. The driver would not expose anything that is not already known.
The improvement is not what most people want, they want the ability to easily support their graphics card. When Nvidia/ATI moves on to the next release of hardware do you think they are going to want to support the current stuff?
I'm still waiting to run Linux from CD on an unmodified XBOX.
Hmmm, ExDebIan might be a good name then.
"No, I have a degree in economics. I do know what I am talking about."
The two are not related, linking the two shows a remarkable failure in logic. How can we be sure there are not other failures in logic in your arguments?
It's not funny, it's sad. /. sold out for page hits.
:-) But Mickey and Timmy are still here :-(
/. actually had some questions that took longer than 60 seconds on Google to answer!
The only high spot was when they ditched Katz
I remember when Ask
So you want to learn *nix ?
h il.html for the higlights.
Throw the book away, if it's big it's written by somebody who doesn't understand the basics.
Ask yourself what do I gain by learning another OS. If you cannot come up with a compelling reason then don't bother.
Ask yourself can I switch 100%. If not do not bother. Save everybody from wasting their time, stick to what works for you.
The first book you should read is Unix Philosophy by Mike Gancarz. That is prehaps the only book you need to read. as a user. See http://hebb.cis.uoguelph.ca/~dave/27320/new/unixp
*nix rewards experts and punishes novices. It ain't gonna hold yer hand, it'll probably rip your arm off and attempt to bludgeon you to death with it. So can you take the pain to reap the rewards?
Linux doesn't run natively
Java is not open
Apache, not sure if they prefer websphere or apache
QSHELL is half a shell
PACE is an expensive add on
GNU utilities are not ported
DDS/RPG only available on AS/400
The big kicker is that there is NO and I mean NONE technical hardware spces. MI is a mystical beast that is referenced in 1 manual only. OS/400 suffers from major Not Invented Here syndrome
Now I am being harsh here but that's because I've developed on the 400 for 15+ years and in all that time it's been a fight to open up the machine. It's always been a case of a little to late.
Going forward with the AS/400 and RS/6000 sharing the same hardware I hope to see a more rapid thawing of the ice wall. I would love an emulator for MI-OS/400 along the lines of the excellent Hercules mainframe emulator. I would love to see QCMD/RPG/COBOL/CL/DDS ported to linux.
It would be a shame to see the easiest development environment for character based apps disappear.
Jesus,
h p
10seconds on google gives http://www.elandigitalsystems.com/adapter/index.p
Now go away and stop pretending to be a geek.
Hah,
opened the architecture, thay had ISA ripped from them, I think Compaq cleaned room the BIOS which led to the clones. MCA, remember that. Token ring. SNA.
IBM in the 80s was at it's most arrogant. They had beaten everybody including the DOJ. The salesmen were insufferable. Then M$ changed the landscape by beating IBM at their own game.
Only in the last five years has IBM embraced Open Standards. Even now one of their hardware lines is still very closed, AS/400.
The real world can be analog and digital at the same time. It's red not blue. it's a sort of pinkish red. Is time discreet or continuos? What do you mean you do not know!
Fixed, what is fixed? There are a lot of fixed values in the human body. In fact most of the body is based on very fixed processes. Feed back, is a very fixed response. The complexity comes with the sheer number of feedback systems working in parrallel. We cannot model this complexity with a pre-programmed system, but it may be possible to simulate the feedback and then set those loose to model the system.
Have you _EVER_ worked with a digital robot, adding a new senosr is not easy? Adding a new response is not easy. In fact this is one of the main stumbling blocks of digital robots. Everytime you add a new sensor you have to explicity program for it. That means the robot is limited by the imagination/time of the designer.
In response to your last paragraph, take a look at beam robots. See how they can do tasks with a few components that complex digital robots cannot. See how they deal with component failures. Think about how this ties back to nature. See that tieing into a feedback circuit is easy, but ultimately unpredictable.
This whole area is opening up after 50+ years of going in the wrong direction and achieving only predictable systems. AI/AL is embracing simple systems that combine automatically to implement complexity.
Read Stephen Wolfram, Steve Grand and Mark Tilden. All three are showing that unpredictable complexity can be modeled by designing simple feedback systems and then letting them interfere with each other. Chaos theory is the underlying mathamatics.
To cast aside this arena as just a cheap toy is to be blind to the sheer scope of the undertaking.
Orville, Wilbour put down that paper plane it's just a toy.
I'm sort of an amateur AI/AL person, unlike the MIT clowns I admit to it :-)
There is a great deal in common between this and the game/work of Steve Grand. Steve has started to work with robotics and I think this a mistake. He could have taken his software to the next level.
Both Grand and Tilden feel that you can create life with very simple processes. You do not need to spell about how something is to behave but what something is. This is a fundamental change from the traditional AI/AL approach.
The exciting thing is that the approach of using simple processes is paying dividends. Where Grand might explain conciousness, Tilden can explain physiology.
Where is computing going in the future, take a look at the work of these two gentlemen and see for your self.
If only I could buy a large monochrome screened laptop 800x600, low power cpu 200mhz. Battery life over 12hrs.
I'll probably get a Netbook, install Linux. Sounds like psion will do the same thing.
You dolt,
you were meant to be testing them to dis-traction. That's why they got rid of you after six months. I had to take over and believe me it took a long time to get the line workers to go any where near the machines.
It's a shame we can no longer shoot little kids, I feel the whole country has gone down the tubes since then. Take you for instance, a quick dose of buck shot and you'd think twice before trespassing wouldn't you?
The first politician to run for office promising to abolish laws on murder gets my vote. A nice polite, peaceable society.
Why is it when people use the word respectfully they mean exactly the opposite :-)
So were the people giving the unlawful/unauthorised orders court martialed? Ever? Did every sailor respond in the same manner as you?
Not all service personnel are as you paint them, prehaps somewhere between our two view points the majority reside. I hope they are closer to your view point but history and my experience speak otherwise.
For the record I've never seen Universal Soldier, anything like All Quiet on the Western Front? I guess not.
WWII where the US turned up years late but did indeed help liberate Europe and end the pacific war.
The person who pulls the trigger is the person waging war. I write the military off as evil and terrible because they choose to invade other countries and kill people. There are many generals who dis-agreed with the war yet went right ahead and did their duty.
As a sailor you would have done as ordered.
While it was the ATF, FBI and DOJ show they asked and recieved military aid in the shape of National Guard and Active duty personnel, Tanks, Bradleys and Engineer vehicles. Interestingly Wesley Clark was in charge of the base that the regulars came from.
We will forever dis-agree on your last point.
In the US soldiers forgo the bill of rights.
In the US soldiers are used in civil matters, e.g. Waco.
Keeping our peace seems to entail invading other countries.
Freedom is only measured in the size of your cage.