Important consideration: are new phones required to work with this service, or are all of Verizon's currently-available phones (that support wireless web, which seems to be all of them) compatible?
How does this compare to AT&T's sometime-arriving mlife service, which is DoCoMo or so I hear? I am desparately wanting to buy a new phone but don't wanna get burned on getting rapidly-obsolete technology! Is Verizon's 3G equivalent to mlife?
And in recent news, Bill Gates has left Microsoft concentrate his efforts on OpenBSD. Bill Gates is generously donating his full-time efforts to this project and no extra charge. The reason cited is that he was "sick of all the evil in the closed-source world, and he wanted to stop being viewed as Satan's right-hand-man." Ironically, the mascott of BSD is a devil...
April Fools! Hahahahohohoheeheehee. I crack myself up... oh wait, no one else is laughing... [Slashdot crew finally gets it and stops posting april fools "jokes"]
Please, refrain from violently sodomizing the dead horse.
Microsoft Windows 95: The best windows yet!
Microsoft Windows 98: The best windows yet!
Microsoft Windows ME: The best windows yet!
Microsoft Windows XP: The best windows yet!
Other favorites:
Windows is more secure than ever!
Windows is easier to use than ever!
At least Linus doesn't say "Linux 2.5.5: The best kernel yet!" Maybe Linux marketing gurus should take that into consideration as to why the Linux-on-desktops marketshare is so small;)
Actually, it's easy to share above 128kbps. Look in your registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Kazaa. There's one key named "limit bitrate" and it's set to 1. Edit it and make it 0, and voila. More morpheus people had this set than Kazaa (I think one version of Morpheus disabled the limit, and it stayed that way forever), so don't expect to find many high-bitrate files. I realized that and switched back to Audiogalaxy, which is much faster than it used to be.
This smells. Not that I'm complaining, it was nice while it lasted, and it was "free" as in beer. But now I've got 2-3 GB of partially downloaded files that are useless. (shagrined is the word.)
You can install Grokster or KaZaA, remove the spyware, as some previous posts have links to websites that tell you how to do that. Then point KaZaA/Grokster's shared folder to your old morpheus one, and it will pick the unfinished downloads right up.
After all my unfinished downloads complete, though, I'm ditching fastrack in lieu of some open source projects... every user counts in making those projects better, ya know...
Heh... interesting memo. Ya gotta love the RIAA going against the DMCA or whatever that anti-reverse-engineering thing is called. There's not much proof that they tried to break the encryption, but it's suggested. From the memo:
The FastTrack network designates (perhaps automatically) certain peers - more powerful computers with high-bandwidth connections - as "supernodes." [because of the system's encrypted communication, we are unable to determine how supernodes are designated].
And:
A supernode also connects to other supernodes. [because of the system's encrypted communication, we are unable to determine how one supernode knows how to locate other supernodes]. Vidius found that when one of its machines was in supernode status, it was connected to approximately 25 other supernodes.
And this one looks particularly incriminating:
KaZaA operates another server in addition to the log-in (.37) server and the (.38) server described above. That is alpha.kazaa.com (213.248.112.34), the address of which, as with the other two, is hard-coded into the application. The (.34) server communicates with supernodes [we do not know the nature of the communication]. During an interval when a Vidius machine was acting as a supernode, there were 12 different attempts by the (.34) server to connect to the supernode. Vidius reports that in a completed transaction the (.34) server sends approximately 1600 bytes of information to the supernode. In addition, as noted above, a supernode makes periodic connection with the KaZaA log-in (.37) server. Vidius hypothesizes that there is a loop between the (.34) server, the (.37) server, and the supernode, which is highly suggestive of some sort of control mechanism - the nature of which must remain unknown until the substance of the communications can be analyzed.
While using this technology to build games on cell phones doesn't intrigue me, adapting this for our current and future crop of handheld computing devices does. What kind of future do you think there is for games development on such platforms like the Visor, the PalmPilot, and the next-generation-Gameboy that may come down the pipe in the next couple of years?
Are you talking about that the article with the "11 Unanswerable Questions"? That was indeed, at least to me, a phenomenal read. It's based on 11 questions that premier scientists came up with at a recent NASA convention for physicists and astronomers. The article is interesting not only for its mad-crazy science (that's a technical term), but also the convergence of astronomy (ultra-macroscopic) and particle physics (ultra-microscopic) and how they need each other to explain these questions.
Sadly, it is not up on Discover.com's website yet so I can not provide a link. It is in the latest (February 2002) issue and I highly reccomend it--it definitely re-piqued *my* interest in astrophysics...
The work we are doing involves Mesa? and XFree86, including both 2D and 3D multi-screen technology
If this means they can make me something similar to that [fake] multi-screen, 2D and 3D GUI in Swordfish, I will be the happiest person ever. Although I love blackbox, I would like something a little more "advanced"...
Yes, you might say that they're reinventing the wheel, but by the sounds of it, this is a reinvention of epic proportions!!! Think wooden 18th century wheel to sweet 19" aluminum one!!!
"And in recent news, the science and technology necessary for Trans-warp travel have suddenly become available. Most credit the recent takeover of NASA by Mr. PimpinMonk."
Shhhhhhhh! Don't say anything... we can just sue them under the DMCA for reverse-engineering our p2p software! (How is it encrypted? Well, ah, Morpheus does use multiple, uh, sources to assemble the file, Your Honor...) Then it'll be unrestricted file sharing for all!
Well, you could buy them a new server/bandwidth. Judging by their site's responsiveness they could use it. (Or, judging by their software, they may be using a MS OS, which would be the problem). I don't think they would be offended at all, and they'd resist the/. effect better.
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Important consideration: are new phones required to work with this service, or are all of Verizon's currently-available phones (that support wireless web, which seems to be all of them) compatible?
How does this compare to AT&T's sometime-arriving mlife service, which is DoCoMo or so I hear? I am desparately wanting to buy a new phone but don't wanna get burned on getting rapidly-obsolete technology! Is Verizon's 3G equivalent to mlife?
.5 gigaunits is huge. Congratulations SETI. But I think that just 1 ET would, ironically, be about a million times bigger!
Actually, I'd say XBox XP will probably be the first good version.
And in recent news, Bill Gates has left Microsoft concentrate his efforts on OpenBSD. Bill Gates is generously donating his full-time efforts to this project and no extra charge. The reason cited is that he was "sick of all the evil in the closed-source world, and he wanted to stop being viewed as Satan's right-hand-man." Ironically, the mascott of BSD is a devil... April Fools! Hahahahohohoheeheehee. I crack myself up... oh wait, no one else is laughing... [Slashdot crew finally gets it and stops posting april fools "jokes"] Please, refrain from violently sodomizing the dead horse.
If you want something to be *really* secure, you gotta write it on a sticky note and hand it to the addressee.
As seen while installing MS Windows
;)
Microsoft Windows 95: The best windows yet!
Microsoft Windows 98: The best windows yet!
Microsoft Windows ME: The best windows yet!
Microsoft Windows XP: The best windows yet!
Other favorites:
Windows is more secure than ever!
Windows is easier to use than ever!
At least Linus doesn't say "Linux 2.5.5: The best kernel yet!" Maybe Linux marketing gurus should take that into consideration as to why the Linux-on-desktops marketshare is so small
I think that they should also put ads on the gravestones of first posters...
Nope, check your address bar. This is the website that's obsessed with watching Cartoon Network at 3am for "rarely seen" Anime shows :(
Actually, it's easy to share above 128kbps. Look in your registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Kazaa. There's one key named "limit bitrate" and it's set to 1. Edit it and make it 0, and voila. More morpheus people had this set than Kazaa (I think one version of Morpheus disabled the limit, and it stayed that way forever), so don't expect to find many high-bitrate files. I realized that and switched back to Audiogalaxy, which is much faster than it used to be.
You can install Grokster or KaZaA, remove the spyware, as some previous posts have links to websites that tell you how to do that. Then point KaZaA/Grokster's shared folder to your old morpheus one, and it will pick the unfinished downloads right up.
After all my unfinished downloads complete, though, I'm ditching fastrack in lieu of some open source projects... every user counts in making those projects better, ya know...
Anyone ever played HALO?
Now that Aunt Tillie has become one of the obligatory post topics...
"You know what'd be awesome? A Beowulf Cluster of Aunt Tillies!"
Sounds great and all... but does it come with a scroll wheel?
(Score:-1, Offtopic)
It's not Lexuses, it's Lexi :o)
Are you talking about that the article with the "11 Unanswerable Questions"? That was indeed, at least to me, a phenomenal read. It's based on 11 questions that premier scientists came up with at a recent NASA convention for physicists and astronomers. The article is interesting not only for its mad-crazy science (that's a technical term), but also the convergence of astronomy (ultra-macroscopic) and particle physics (ultra-microscopic) and how they need each other to explain these questions.
Sadly, it is not up on Discover.com's website yet so I can not provide a link. It is in the latest (February 2002) issue and I highly reccomend it--it definitely re-piqued *my* interest in astrophysics...
If this means they can make me something similar to that [fake] multi-screen, 2D and 3D GUI in Swordfish, I will be the happiest person ever. Although I love blackbox, I would like something a little more "advanced"...
...and you can get it if you try!
God I love Frank Sinatra. Was this an intended quote?
No, I don't think they are that intelligent. Their server uses java server pages!
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http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=4500024
No, I haven't seen it yet, it's totally slashdotted.
Yes, you might say that they're reinventing the wheel, but by the sounds of it, this is a reinvention of epic proportions!!! Think wooden 18th century wheel to sweet 19" aluminum one!!!
Simple answer! Trans-warp.
"And in recent news, the science and technology necessary for Trans-warp travel have suddenly become available. Most credit the recent takeover of NASA by Mr. PimpinMonk."
Shhhhhhhh! Don't say anything... we can just sue them under the DMCA for reverse-engineering our p2p software! (How is it encrypted? Well, ah, Morpheus does use multiple, uh, sources to assemble the file, Your Honor...) Then it'll be unrestricted file sharing for all!
Well, you could buy them a new server/bandwidth. Judging by their site's responsiveness they could use it. (Or, judging by their software, they may be using a MS OS, which would be the problem). I don't think they would be offended at all, and they'd resist the /. effect better.