When traffic lights lose power, they default to flashing yellow in one direction and red in the other. This is a terrible design: if this happens during peak traffic, the cars with the flashing yellow never yield, and so the cars with the flashing red gradually creep out and make risky jumps into traffic. Accidents abound. It's worse than having a 4-way stop in a high-traffic area. The rule of fail-safey is to fail to the more restrictive condition, NOT the more permissive condition.
Of course you'll be inviting your closest 20,000 friends to the event. We'll do the Chicken Dance and drink until we love humanity again. I promise not to knock over the cake table!
Favorite quote from the manifesto page: "The information technology boom can only explode for so long before it collapses on itself in a jumble of wires, buttons and knobs." Watch out for flying information technology debris.
There have been various proposals over the years to emulate biological systems. Cybernetics in fact was all about self-regulating systems -- at a lower level than is proposed here.
I'm so glad they've got such a handle on things. I'll take shipment of the new autonomic computers in January.
From their literature it seems that Sakamura's project is influential in Japan, but it seems to be open only in the sense of having an open API. Does anyone know if their source is available?
I don't know why people act like P2P was invented yesterday. Usenet was originally built on the old UUCP network, just a peer-to-peer dialup and copy network. Fidonet was/is the same.
The old Archie databases of FTP sites worked in a way analogous to Napster, less well integrated - though clients and servers were distinguished, it is not an important distinction. Now clients and servers are together on each machine.
I've considered releasing software in the public domain as perhaps the simplest alternative to some copyrighted-yet-free approach, but I'm not clear on all the implications. Here's what I think:
1) I have to explicitly state that the source is in the public domain, otherwise it is copyrighted by default,
2) anybody else adding to or modifying the source would have to state that their mods are in the public domain (for the same reason),
3) if a person adding to or modifying the source wants to copyright their mods, they'd have to specify the extent of their changes or their copyright might be invalid, unless they substantially changed the whole thing.
If one intends for a work to be freely editable, it seems as though the only thing you give up by putting it in the public domain is some legal basis to sue. For example if somebody takes my public domain work and slaps their name and copyright notice on it, I may not have a good way to stop them although their copyright is invalid.
... especially if you need to hack the cpu to add some special hardware support. But a fpga large enough to hold a decent cpu is going to cost more than an off-the-shelf micro, and probably use more power, and will probably be slower. You'd have to go to an ASIC for better per-unit cost, and then you'd have to use a large number of them to amortize the fab costs.
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When traffic lights lose power, they default to flashing yellow in one direction and red in the other. This is a terrible design: if this happens during peak traffic, the cars with the flashing yellow never yield, and so the cars with the flashing red gradually creep out and make risky jumps into traffic. Accidents abound. It's worse than having a 4-way stop in a high-traffic area. The rule of fail-safey is to fail to the more restrictive condition, NOT the more permissive condition.
Of course you'll be inviting your closest 20,000 friends to the event. We'll do the Chicken Dance and drink until we love humanity again. I promise not to knock over the cake table!
Favorite quote from the manifesto page: "The information technology boom can only explode for so long before it collapses on itself in a jumble of wires, buttons and knobs." Watch out for flying information technology debris.
There have been various proposals over the years to emulate biological systems. Cybernetics in fact was all about self-regulating systems -- at a lower level than is proposed here.
I'm so glad they've got such a handle on things. I'll take shipment of the new autonomic computers in January.
From their literature it seems that Sakamura's project is influential in Japan, but it seems to be open only in the sense of having an open API. Does anyone know if their source is available?
The old Archie databases of FTP sites worked in a way analogous to Napster, less well integrated - though clients and servers were distinguished, it is not an important distinction. Now clients and servers are together on each machine.
1) I have to explicitly state that the source is in the public domain, otherwise it is copyrighted by default,
2) anybody else adding to or modifying the source would have to state that their mods are in the public domain (for the same reason),
3) if a person adding to or modifying the source wants to copyright their mods, they'd have to specify the extent of their changes or their copyright might be invalid, unless they substantially changed the whole thing.
If one intends for a work to be freely editable, it seems as though the only thing you give up by putting it in the public domain is some legal basis to sue. For example if somebody takes my public domain work and slaps their name and copyright notice on it, I may not have a good way to stop them although their copyright is invalid.
Is this correct? Any comments?
... especially if you need to hack the cpu to add some special hardware support. But a fpga large enough to hold a decent cpu is going to cost more than an off-the-shelf micro, and probably use more power, and will probably be slower. You'd have to go to an ASIC for better per-unit cost, and then you'd have to use a large number of them to amortize the fab costs.
It's more like Inferno, expanded to provide more supported languages.
Wrong, Mr. Smug: IPX and CLPN are Initialisms.