A truly viable alternative network hasnt arrived. Yet. Keep watch in a couple of weeks, i've got something really interesting thats just about ready for be publicly commented on, with some demo software...
this is an unmanned balloon. It is far easier to make one of these work than a manned one, which requires all sorts of complicated (and heavy) systems.
well, in my opinion thats not really a great idea either. I dont like the thought of random things being stored on my computer (such as kiddie porn)
My idea is to have central servers that clients connect to, but the central servers are widely distributed. They can pass search requests from one another. Much like in the way IRC works (of course, its not chat being passed around)
I'm working on a protocol spec. It should be ready for comment, with some demo code available in a couple of weeks. I hope to get it posted here on slashdot and get plenty of peer review on it.
A new file distribution system is needed..less centralized than napster, slightly more centralization than gnutella (to prevent the enormous bandwidth clog that gnutella is turning into).
Something similar to the network design of IRC where you have little servers all over the world interconnected to one another...
Heh, yes i'm working on this right now. More info will be coming in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned.
I wish that schools would teach how to properly document your code. All too often I download something from sourceforge, only to find it be a horrible mess of code that has perhaps 3 or 4 lines of documentation in the entire file.
Without proper documentation, an idea or program is next to USELESS to future viewers.
All the greatest ideas have been well documented..take the RFC documents as an example. They are very rigoursly reviewed and follow a very strict code of documentation. And they form the basis for all that the internet is today.
Of course the real question is..what is Art? Anything that conveys a message, in some way, is art. Code certainly does that (to programmers it does anyway).
I'm a programmer. I consider my work to be art. Over time, my skills improve..my solutions more creative, more elegant. Am I emotionally moved by my code? Depends on what I'm doing. If its a difficult problem, or one that really matters..yes.
I'm a bachelor of arts in computer science as opposed to a bachelor of science. Personally, I cant stand sitting around taking math and physics classes. I'd much rather go out and take things that I truly enjoy..a class on music, writing or painting. I suppose this is the more typical art side of myself.
Not only was the moon landing a hoax..so was the Soviet Union! In a vast government soundstage, these "soviets" were invented as a way of uniting our racial-strife torn people against a common enemy! Oh the lengths the government goes to!
"Today MaximumLinux shut its doors after its many readers began demanding it turn into 'Open Publishing', and give away the magazine for free. When this was knocked down by the publisher as not being viable for making money, many disgruntled linux enthusiasts decided to begin their own linux magazine, which was similar to Maximum Linux but harder to read and incompatible with many readers eyes"
certainly, threatening the companies with this is a step in the right direction. But I feel its nothing more than a threat. I think hatch's true message lies in his words... "if you kill napster, it will spawn a nightmare more than you could ever imagine". Of course, threatening them with nasty legislation ensures that they listen to this.
None the less, my point was hatch is still not our friend in congress..given a viable alternative, im sure he would just as soon outlaw unauthorized music distribution on the internet.
He co-authored the DMCA, and the only reason he appears to be speaking "for" napster is because he's afraid if napster shuts down it will spawn dozens of napster clones that cant be controlled.
I bet you the RIAA and its companies take napster to the point of extinction, then invest in it and make it their puppet. Why you ask?
Look at it how a few years back microsoft infused apple with a ton of money to keep them alive. Was it because apple was an innovative company with great things and they were doing The Right Thing? Hardly. It was because if apple goes under, microsoft would have had a monopoly and would surely have been broken up.
So the same is true for the RIAA..instead of killing your ONE big enemy, make it your puppet so you dont spawn even bigger problems in the future.
worse than real viruses, are fake ones. Remember the goodtimes hoax? It's 10 years old and *still* being spread around. A few years back I read that the estimated cost of it over time was already up to over a billion..this was 2 or 3 years ago.
Why is it expensive? Because newbies who dont know any better forward it to everyone they know..that takes up bandwidth, and more expensively, storage space on e-mail servers (and 10 years ago, BBS harddrives) Can you imagine how many giga (if not terra) bytes have been consumed by that little message?
thats because the majority of the readership here is still in high school and hasnt had a real job that requires writing software for - god forbid - money.
Seriously though, do they really think thats going to change as people get older? Things like this just prolong the death of an obsolete distribution and revenue medium, only to make it much much worse in the future when it *does* die.
there was no such thing as this. These "soviets" were really actors in some vast dingy government sound stage. It was done by The Man (who was controlled by The Woman) to give us all a common enemy, so we would be united for his devious purposes of psychological domination.
there sometimes *are* very good reasons to speed. I suppose you could switch on your hazards (which some cars already use to disable the very high speed limiter)..but that would just provide and incentive for people to turn them on in everyday situations which would be a bad thing..
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A truly viable alternative network hasnt arrived. Yet. Keep watch in a couple of weeks, i've got something really interesting thats just about ready for be publicly commented on, with some demo software...
this is an unmanned balloon. It is far easier to make one of these work than a manned one, which requires all sorts of complicated (and heavy) systems.
My idea is to have central servers that clients connect to, but the central servers are widely distributed. They can pass search requests from one another. Much like in the way IRC works (of course, its not chat being passed around)
I'm working on a protocol spec. It should be ready for comment, with some demo code available in a couple of weeks. I hope to get it posted here on slashdot and get plenty of peer review on it.
A new file distribution system is needed..less centralized than napster, slightly more centralization than gnutella (to prevent the enormous bandwidth clog that gnutella is turning into).
Something similar to the network design of IRC where you have little servers all over the world interconnected to one another...
Heh, yes i'm working on this right now. More info will be coming in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned.
Without proper documentation, an idea or program is next to USELESS to future viewers.
All the greatest ideas have been well documented..take the RFC documents as an example. They are very rigoursly reviewed and follow a very strict code of documentation. And they form the basis for all that the internet is today.
Document your code!
I'm a programmer. I consider my work to be art. Over time, my skills improve..my solutions more creative, more elegant. Am I emotionally moved by my code? Depends on what I'm doing. If its a difficult problem, or one that really matters..yes.
I'm a bachelor of arts in computer science as opposed to a bachelor of science. Personally, I cant stand sitting around taking math and physics classes. I'd much rather go out and take things that I truly enjoy..a class on music, writing or painting. I suppose this is the more typical art side of myself.
Not only was the moon landing a hoax..so was the Soviet Union! In a vast government soundstage, these "soviets" were invented as a way of uniting our racial-strife torn people against a common enemy! Oh the lengths the government goes to!
"Today MaximumLinux shut its doors after its many readers began demanding it turn into 'Open Publishing', and give away the magazine for free. When this was knocked down by the publisher as not being viable for making money, many disgruntled linux enthusiasts decided to begin their own linux magazine, which was similar to Maximum Linux but harder to read and incompatible with many readers eyes"
None the less, my point was hatch is still not our friend in congress..given a viable alternative, im sure he would just as soon outlaw unauthorized music distribution on the internet.
I bet you the RIAA and its companies take napster to the point of extinction, then invest in it and make it their puppet. Why you ask?
Look at it how a few years back microsoft infused apple with a ton of money to keep them alive. Was it because apple was an innovative company with great things and they were doing The Right Thing? Hardly. It was because if apple goes under, microsoft would have had a monopoly and would surely have been broken up.
So the same is true for the RIAA..instead of killing your ONE big enemy, make it your puppet so you dont spawn even bigger problems in the future.
same reason we went to the moon. Because we can.
and that footstep you just took caused an earthquake in china, killing millions of people, you heartless bastard.
A month ago it wouldnt have landed, now would it?
Why is it expensive? Because newbies who dont know any better forward it to everyone they know..that takes up bandwidth, and more expensively, storage space on e-mail servers (and 10 years ago, BBS harddrives) Can you imagine how many giga (if not terra) bytes have been consumed by that little message?
how dare you bring common sense to the paranoid zealots??!! shame on you!
thats because the majority of the readership here is still in high school and hasnt had a real job that requires writing software for - god forbid - money.
Think about that for a minute.
Welcome to reality kiddos, you're not anonymous online no more than you're anonymous walking down the street. Nor should you be.
Mein schuh ist in den Kartoffelsalat. Danke.
Go watch THX 1168, one of george lucas' earliest movies. It shows a society so bent on keeping costs down that nothing ever changes or progresses.
ive always wondered, what is "gattaca" the sequence for?
Go rent it. See what the future is like if genetic testing becomes commonplace.
Seriously though, do they really think thats going to change as people get older? Things like this just prolong the death of an obsolete distribution and revenue medium, only to make it much much worse in the future when it *does* die.
there was no such thing as this. These "soviets" were really actors in some vast dingy government sound stage. It was done by The Man (who was controlled by The Woman) to give us all a common enemy, so we would be united for his devious purposes of psychological domination.
there sometimes *are* very good reasons to speed. I suppose you could switch on your hazards (which some cars already use to disable the very high speed limiter)..but that would just provide and incentive for people to turn them on in everyday situations which would be a bad thing..