Every year the National Park Service spends millions rescuing idiots who do stuff like decide to hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon with a cell phone but no water bottle. Without wireless service in secluded areas, people who deserve to become statistics will do so without a hitch, rather than getting helivac'd out at the last minute because they happen to have their trusty microwave-emitting companion along. Anyways, who the heck goes to an isolated area to talk on the phone?
How 'bout if everyone who got a phone also plugged in a base station at their house?
Or, as Bob Cringeley suggested, your car. Your cell phone carrier could say: your service will cost $X a month, or it will cost $X-Y a month if you get a relay installed in your car or home.
"What Ever Happened to Fair Use?!...HOOOooYAH!!" - Duff Man
Clear Channel, MTV & others love to play artists that can dish out wads of cash through independent promoters, which is a very small percentage of artists out there.
To the consumer, this means that we can listen to the homogenized sludge on the radio and enjoy it because the broadcasting monopolies never play anything better, and it means we can buy ten CD's and decide that we own all the good music that there is to own because that's all we've ever heard.
You can imagine what this does to the RIAA's sales...now It's just about time that they realize that the diversity in consumer's musical tastes that is taken away by media conglomerates can be replaced by file-trading, which helps introduce people to new types of music.
"What ever happened to fair use? OOooYah!" - Duff Man
Califiornia may seem tech friendly because it contains Silicon Valley, but remember that Hollywood lies several hundred miles to the south, and that Diane Feinstein was one of the key supporters of the CBDTPA.
I think 'parasiteware' would be an adequate term for Brilliant's "product". Like a tapeworm, it sneaks its way into your system and starts absorbing nutrients.
JXTA is an open networking protocol whose development is being supported by Sun Microsystems. It is designed to bring peer-to-peer and web service functionality to anything from a handheld to a server. There are several reference implementations, including one for J2SE that can run on any handheld that supports a J2SE VM (iPaq, Yopy), and there is one for J2ME, which works on a number of Java-enabled cell phones and light PDA's. A Java 1.1.8 port also allows JXTA to be used on some of the Palm PDA's. A C reference implementation that uses the Apache portable socket library is also in the works.
The benifits to using gnutella vs fasttrack are what? Gnutella is non-proprietary. That's it.
Gnutella in order to be faster would have to be more centralized. This can easily be done, you just have to make sure that more people use software like Clip2 Reflector that makes Gnutella more scaleable. I could easily see Morpheus creating there own version of Reflector that's bolted onto a Gnutella client so that unsuspecting broadband users will turn their computers into "superpeers".
I dont know, i like decentralized technology but Gnutella is horrible, theres no security (or maybe they finally fixed this?) meaning anyone can see your IP. If you're worried about this, use FreeNet.
Its slow as hell, the design makes it difficult if not impossible to scale. Much of the scalability problems of gnutella have been solved- it's just that not enough people are running gnutella software with these improvements. Since Morpheus has such a large user base, they could easily dump software with more advanced capabilities onto the unbathed masses, making the gnutellanet bigger and faster. Better yet, if their using GPL'd software as their initial codebase, the improvements that they implement will be given back to the community so that an intrepid group of coders can remove any adware or spyware "features".
I think that this friend/foe system was really meant to filter out dumb posts, not ones that we disagree with (there is a difference). For that reason, they should really call them scholar/idiot lists so that/.r's don't get the idea that they should use this system to shield their ears from dissent.
My first experience with computer programming was building cars and stuff out of legos and programming them with Lego LOGO. It was wayyy beyond cool to be eleven years old and get to build robots. What's more, it was really easy and I'm sure just about any kid could get the hang of it in a short period of time. Right now, the descendent of Lego LOGO are the Mindstorms robotics kits. If you can afford them, they are well worth it.
Be sure to teach them about computers and how they work, not just how to use specific pieces of software. Despite the fact that they're from the inner city, I'm sure they'll be told how to search the web or format Word documents thousands of times by the time they leave high school. Instead, try demonstrating how software is written and executed, or how files are downloaded from the internet or something. It wouldn't be good for their knowledge to be worthless as soon as the next version of Netscape or Windows is released.
It's nice too see an open standard take on proprietary media heavyweights, but I think JXTA has a better chance at NBT status in that it can work with nearly any device and that you don't have to leave personal information on some big database. P2P4Ever!!
Now that they have PDA's that can detect acceleration, how long before they have airbags in 'em? Your days of painful collisions with other angry pedestrians while playing tetris would be over.
OS X is only capable of converting a narrow class of Linux users, specifically those that:
1. Use (or are willing to buy ) a Mac with a G3 or G4 chip that has a built-in vector operation unit. (any of the new pretty looking Macs)
2. Is willing to pay $129 for all that OS X offers over Linux
3. Is willing to upgrade the amount of RAM to run the system, if necessary.
4. Can put up with OS X's current lack of support for many peripherals.
Whatever LinuxPPC, MkLinux, Debian PPC, etc. users that are lost to OS X will be well made up for by the exposure that UNIX systems will get to consumer class users. If there's anything that Mac-heads are secretly jealous of, it is the amount of applications that can be run by x86 PC's. OS X will open the door to a large portion of these applications to consumer users through XFree86, and hopefully someday, WINE./\
Actually, all of the transparency, layering, and anti-aliasing of OS X's irresistable GUI relies on lots of vector calculations, which are can currently only be done effectively with G3 and G4 chips with an Altivec vector operation unit. If Apple wanted to port their OS to x86, they would have to rewrite all of this processor-specific code to work (most likely much slower) on x86 chips. It seems unlikely that Apple would go through all of this expense, especially with their history of insisting that people buy not only THEIR OS, but also THEIR hardware.
Right on. I don't care about bloat (it's just more stuff I don't have to download if I need it), but the installer should have an easy way of profiling the user and installing only what's needed. It could use a flowchart questionaire that asks more and more specific questions to figure out exactly what the user's intentions are in using a computer. If the questionaire branches off properly, it would neither insult or overtax the user's intelligence.
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Every year the National Park Service spends millions rescuing idiots who do stuff like decide to hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon with a cell phone but no water bottle.
Without wireless service in secluded areas, people who deserve to become statistics will do so without a hitch, rather than getting helivac'd out at the last minute because they happen to have their trusty microwave-emitting companion along.
Anyways, who the heck goes to an isolated area to talk on the phone?
How 'bout if everyone who got a phone also plugged in a base station at their house?
...HOOOooYAH!!" - Duff Man
Or, as Bob Cringeley suggested, your car.
Your cell phone carrier could say: your service will cost $X a month, or it will cost $X-Y a month if you get a relay installed in your car or home.
"What Ever Happened to Fair Use?!
Apple should let IEEE promote 802.11b as AirPort so that un-techies stop using that horrible "Wi-Fi" moniker.
Clear Channel, MTV & others love to play artists that can dish out wads of cash through independent promoters, which is a very small percentage of artists out there.
To the consumer, this means that we can listen to the homogenized sludge on the radio and enjoy it because the broadcasting monopolies never play anything better, and it means we can buy ten CD's and decide that we own all the good music that there is to own because that's all we've ever heard.
You can imagine what this does to the RIAA's sales...now It's just about time that they realize that the diversity in consumer's musical tastes that is taken away by media conglomerates can be replaced by file-trading, which helps introduce people to new types of music.
"What ever happened to fair use? OOooYah!" - Duff Man
Califiornia may seem tech friendly because it contains Silicon Valley, but remember that Hollywood lies several hundred miles to the south, and that Diane Feinstein was one of the key supporters of the CBDTPA.
I think 'parasiteware' would be an adequate term for Brilliant's "product". Like a tapeworm, it sneaks its way into your system and starts absorbing nutrients.
JXTA is an open networking protocol whose development is being supported by Sun Microsystems. It is designed to bring peer-to-peer and web service functionality to anything from a handheld to a server. There are several reference implementations, including one for J2SE that can run on any handheld that supports a J2SE VM (iPaq, Yopy), and there is one for J2ME, which works on a number of Java-enabled cell phones and light PDA's. A Java 1.1.8 port also allows JXTA to be used on some of the Palm PDA's. A C reference implementation that uses the Apache portable socket library is also in the works.
Now it looks like I'm going to have to change my entire wardrobe AGAIN.
The benifits to using gnutella vs fasttrack are what?
Gnutella is non-proprietary. That's it.
Gnutella in order to be faster would have to be more centralized.
This can easily be done, you just have to make sure that more people use software like Clip2 Reflector that makes Gnutella more scaleable. I could easily see Morpheus creating there own version of Reflector that's bolted onto a Gnutella client so that unsuspecting broadband users will turn their computers into "superpeers".
I dont know, i like decentralized technology but Gnutella is horrible, theres no security (or maybe they finally fixed this?) meaning anyone can see your IP.
If you're worried about this, use FreeNet.
Its slow as hell, the design makes it difficult if not impossible to scale.
Much of the scalability problems of gnutella have been solved- it's just that not enough people are running gnutella software with these improvements. Since Morpheus has such a large user base, they could easily dump software with more advanced capabilities onto the unbathed masses, making the gnutellanet bigger and faster. Better yet, if their using GPL'd software as their initial codebase, the improvements that they implement will be given back to the community so that an intrepid group of coders can remove any adware or spyware "features".
And they should outlaw those pesky optical fbers for allowing people to get the digital data they payed for off of copy-protected CD's.
I think that this friend/foe system was really meant to filter out dumb posts, not ones that we disagree with (there is a difference). For that reason, they should really call them scholar/idiot lists so that /.r's don't get the idea that they should use this system to shield their ears from dissent.
The JuxtaProse Project, a self-organizing peer-to-peer discussion forum
..as the Chinese populace finds out how freakin' good a golfer the Dalai Lama is.
My first experience with computer programming was building cars and stuff out of legos and programming them with Lego LOGO. It was wayyy beyond cool to be eleven years old and get to build robots. What's more, it was really easy and I'm sure just about any kid could get the hang of it in a short period of time. Right now, the descendent of Lego LOGO are the Mindstorms robotics kits. If you can afford them, they are well worth it.
Be sure to teach them about computers and how they work, not just how to use specific pieces of software. Despite the fact that they're from the inner city, I'm sure they'll be told how to search the web or format Word documents thousands of times by the time they leave high school. Instead, try demonstrating how software is written and executed, or how files are downloaded from the internet or something. It wouldn't be good for their knowledge to be worthless as soon as the next version of Netscape or Windows is released.
Too expensive and low resolution. I'll just get some shutterglasses and wait around for the day when dual retinal scanning displays become affordable.
It's nice too see an open standard take on proprietary media heavyweights, but I think JXTA has a better chance at NBT status in that it can work with nearly any device and that you don't have to leave personal information on some big database. P2P4Ever!!
Now that they have PDA's that can detect acceleration, how long before they have airbags in 'em? Your days of painful collisions with other angry pedestrians while playing tetris would be over.
OS X is only capable of converting a narrow class of Linux users, specifically those that: 1. Use (or are willing to buy ) a Mac with a G3 or G4 chip that has a built-in vector operation unit. (any of the new pretty looking Macs) 2. Is willing to pay $129 for all that OS X offers over Linux 3. Is willing to upgrade the amount of RAM to run the system, if necessary. 4. Can put up with OS X's current lack of support for many peripherals. Whatever LinuxPPC, MkLinux, Debian PPC, etc. users that are lost to OS X will be well made up for by the exposure that UNIX systems will get to consumer class users. If there's anything that Mac-heads are secretly jealous of, it is the amount of applications that can be run by x86 PC's. OS X will open the door to a large portion of these applications to consumer users through XFree86, and hopefully someday, WINE. /\
Actually, all of the transparency, layering, and anti-aliasing of OS X's irresistable GUI relies on lots of vector calculations, which are can currently only be done effectively with G3 and G4 chips with an Altivec vector operation unit. If Apple wanted to port their OS to x86, they would have to rewrite all of this processor-specific code to work (most likely much slower) on x86 chips. It seems unlikely that Apple would go through all of this expense, especially with their history of insisting that people buy not only THEIR OS, but also THEIR hardware.
Right on. I don't care about bloat (it's just more stuff I don't have to download if I need it), but the installer should have an easy way of profiling the user and installing only what's needed. It could use a flowchart questionaire that asks more and more specific questions to figure out exactly what the user's intentions are in using a computer. If the questionaire branches off properly, it would neither insult or overtax the user's intelligence.
Somebody's gonna have to write an RTS that's programmable like that - then there'd be so much less frantic clicking