Could you imagine how slow Slashdot would be at one connection per second? How well could this work on high traffic sites?
If you read the article, you'll see that the limit is on OUTgoing connections, not incomming traffic. In other words, this type of AV effort will not eliminate the slashdot effect.
Put two or more linkend fliating vessels into the sea, and tap their relative kinetic energy. This has been on the drawing bord since 1980, and in the water since 199x...
I think that you fail to realize just how big an impact software has on your daily (or in som cases not-so-daily life):
* CAT/PET/whatever medical scanners * Elevators * Wind Turbine Generators * Anything that is computer controlled, that has an emergency stop (This likely includes the big red button at your local gas station).
Until recently, I used to work for one of the bigger WTG Companies, and in my current job I'm writing software for sortation systems. In both jobs, you tend to give a real notice to safety-critical issues. Otherwise, you'll eventuellay have to live the rest of your days in the knowledge that somebody was injuried or killed because there was this off-chance event that triggered a system start at just the wrong point.
Given the immediately accessible amount of API documentation available, to me it looks like this OS has captured the same spirit that AmigaOS was built upon: A lightweight microkernel, with device drivers as a separate entity.
I'll be very tempted to make the switch from Linux just to be reminded of the good old days of the Amiga.
Whenever a new technology or product (Cellular phones for instance) become available, it will increase its market share ín a rapid growing way, until the market is saturated. However, nobody seems to be able to plan ahead, so it always come as a surprise to the CEOs when they suddenly find themselves without a market. Virtually all cellphone manufacturers in Europe has been downsizing heavily within the last 4 months, simply because supply suddenly exceeded demand.
The same thing is happening all over the Open Source Service front, so it should be expected that not all will be equally able to sustain a revenue, when supply exceeds demand. This will of course not be as juicy a story to tell, so instead Darwin will be arrested as soon as somebody tells the police where he is currently. That way we will no longer have to deal with the realistic world.
Plus anyone that finds the page in a search by accident is just a new potential customer.
On the other hand, any potential customer who find the page as a result of a broader match than warranted by the page might also remeber the site as one that doesn't have what he needs. I don't claim to understand mainstream consumerism, but in my professional capacity, I tend to avoid companies that tries to make a followup sale on a completely unrelated issue.
Considering that the great renaming from dot-com to not-com has happened within the last half year or so, I'm not that surprised. After all, as long as it is a viable buisiness model to spend lots of money without generating any tangibles, why not assume that consumers would behave in the same way when it comes to appliances?
Don't forget, also, that KDE is approaching its 3.0 release and the embedded version is gaining in popularity. I won't be surprised at all if it becomes a serious contender for PDA and cell phone desktops. Porting KDE to PalmOS, WinCE, or QNX would cost some money - but on Linux, it's practically native.
Unless the embedded QT gets released under the GPL, it will take quite some time and/or investment before any of the Linux GUI's will be able to run in an embedded system. On a normal desktop machine running linux X11 is responsible for converting all the nifty QT function calls to the nitty-gritty details of individual pixels on the screen. X11 is simply too much of an memory hog, and to feature rich to run on any of the current generation of palm-sized devices.
Also, most of the Gnome/KDE software is bloated beyond belief when seen from the standpoint of an embedded SW engineer, so there are still quite a long way before WinCE and PalmOS are obsoleted.
Wouldn't it be possible to predict large trends without detailed knowledge about every spot? After all, most of the yearly variations in climate are pretty similar over a 10-25 year scale.
Is the posted list of banned songs complete? One of the more obvious candidates, "First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin" by Manfred Mann is missing.
I'm not exactly familiar with the Los Angeles Times, so I'm wondering if this article is printed under a "humorous" section, or if it's supposed to be "quality" journalism.
If it's the latter, then I really hope that we will see more articles like this in the future, and that people actually will read and understand them. I'm sick and tired of getting N hits from the Code Red worm.
I'm not entirely sure if this is the same theory, but one problem about global warming is that the salinity in arctic waters will decrease if too much ice melts at once. This will in turn lead to a reduced global circulation in the north atlantic, which in turn will lead to more extreme temperature differences on the northern hemisphere.
Currently, circulation is created by cold, salt-rich and thus heavy water in the waters around Greenland falling to the bottom of the sea to be replaced by hot surface water that originally started out in the Caribean gulf. If the incoming water gets too hot, too much ice will melt at once, and reduce the salinity to the point where it no longer sinks to the bottom of the sea.
It really looks like hypocricy[1], when one day people lament any "special" internet-this and internet-that laws like the DMCA, CIPA, buisiness method patents etc. as unconstitutionally, illogical or down right stupid, and the next day a discussion about taxation of internet trade will spawn a whole lot of special-case advocates.
That aside, goverments who are basing a large part of their income on a sales tax need to be able to tax the internet trade. Otherwise they will simply need to find another place to get their income. One option is to raise the non-internet sales tax in order to maintain revenues, but that will quickly break down to the point where only the poorest and the dyslexic are paying taxes, which isn't exactly the biggest revenue source. Not to mention the inherent imbalance in burdens.
Another way for sales tax-dependant governments is to begin taxation on income. And trust me, you do NOT!>/B> wan't to go that way, if at all possible. I live in a country with a tax system that basically works this way: Confiscate all income, and pay out welfare to all. A significant fraction of my income is taxed at 68 percent. In addition to that comes a 25 percent sales tax and various scams as 350 percent tax on cars, but that's beside the point. The main issue is that given the choice between sales tax on internet trade and income tax, I'd happily accept the first. At least that is proportionate to my consumption, not to my income.
Any way, the bottom line is that the government money has to come from somewhere and if sales tax is the answer, I don't see why internet trade has to be treated special.
My company is about to implement a VPN solution that is base on some sort of SSL. I'm not into the details, and I don't really care, as long as we get rid of the dial-up connection as the only way into the system.
The important thing about the setup is that it is encrypted to the point where it doesn't matter if we hook up to a customers network and use their internet connection, not even if we have to discuss exactly how much they are going to pay for an Ad-Hoc change to the system while we are onsite. Anybody can see the benefits of this setup, or rather the problems of not securing the communication.
But when it comes to home broadband access, it's a totally different matter. Here in Denmark, most of the cable companies are also providing a network connection of some sort. In most cases, the setup is such that anybody within a block of flats can sniff the traffic to and from the rest of the flats in the same block. In such a setup, it is vitally important that you believe really much in the integrity of your neighbours, or cover up your network traffic.
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It's a hell of a lot different than an Interstate in a number of important ways that will doom it to instant failure.
The most important being:
1) The Interstate already goes everywhere, and already has convenient access.
Except that the interstate highways have to be built before they go anywhere. But the real kicker is the increased transport density in already-congested spots. At a typical highway into a large city will not give you a speed of 70 MPH, sometimes not even half that.
2) I can merge onto the Interstate at 70 MPH.
Did you check out the information on the website that explains the concept? Each "station" is a place where individual vehicles can merge on and off the track without stopping.
3) My existing car works on the Interstate.
Sure - that's probably the biggest obstacle. But if the infrastructure already was in place, would you then consider bying a RUF as a second car?
4) I can exit the Interstate without every other car for three miles in either direction having to stop.
Exiting is pretty much the reverse of merging onto the track, as described above, so that's probably not an issue, unless of course the driver falls asleep during transit.
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I'm not cold, mostly cynical with a sideorder of disbelief of the American habit of making conversational pieces out of grief.
Do YOU remeber where you was when you heard ...
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Besides NASA cleaning up their act, did the catastrophe mean much beyond beeing just another reference point in the social game of "Where was you when... ?"
Honestly, the hardware features seem much better than the palm's, but I'd always prefer a PDA with less features but better (that is, less likely to crash) software.
I'm not that impressed with the HW specs. Granted, they seem impressive enough when marketing has compared it to the Palm. But! Unless the screen is around double the size of the Palm, the extra resolution will not earn much beyond more bloated graphics. So instead of a measly 100 bytes for an icon on the palm, we're probably talking about half a K for a monochrome image of the same size, and 4 K for a color image.
Not to mention that there are 4(64) times as much data to manipulate in the screen handling itself, which probably will make quite a dent in the difference between a 20 MHz dragonball and a 200 MHz RISC.
Not to mention the fact that a comparision in raw MHz is totally ridiculous between differenct CPUs. One of the nifty things about the dragonball is that it has 16 CPU registers, which reduces the need for memory access a lot. Somehow I doubt that the 200 MHz figure has any resemblance to the RAM speed.
Lets all hope that RMS is wrong...
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Other wise we might end up in a real bad situation. Back in 1997 or so, RMS wrote this short story about a society where the use of books was licensed.
It's somewhat scary to see that this story, which I first rejected as "far beyond reality" has become too realistic for comfort within 3 years. Unfortunately, I have no doubt that the next 3 years will complete the picture. After all, we already have "Pay-per-view" websites with monopoly on information, and I seem to recall that the next generation of DVD will have an unique key for each player.
What are the short term plans, if any, for increasing the connectivity between the Gnome desktop and other platforms? Most of all, I would like to know how much more support I will see for synchronizing with a Palm pilot, but I'm sure that people with laptops would be just as interested in something similar to the briefcase on the Windows desktop.
As far as the usefulness of the product now, I don't see much being there. What legitimate reasons exist for this product? Figuring out where employees go on the internet is easier done via a proxy.
A product like this would be usefull in cases where some arbitrary keyboard input is worth repeating. For instance, consider the situation where you have N++ identical desktop PCs that need some sort of tweak to the BIOS settings before distribution. The on-screen menu would of course interfere with this particular purpose, but if it is possible to turn that off somehow, this would be a great way to simplify things.
Another use would be regression tests. Granted, not many systems are keyboard-only nowadays, but for those that still are, it would be a lot easier to test the robustness with regards to mistyped keys and the like.
Slashdot Mirror
Slartibartfast designed the Norwegian fjords, not the Icelandic.
Could you imagine how slow Slashdot would be at one connection per second? How well could this work on high traffic sites?
If you read the article, you'll see that the limit is on OUTgoing connections, not incomming traffic. In other words, this type of AV effort will not eliminate the slashdot effect.
Go away!
Read up on the facts of kinetics before posting such a blatant karma-whoring piece of drivel.
Or even, try to understand the physics beind the whole setup!
Exactly what's new?
Put two or more linkend fliating vessels into the sea, and tap their relative kinetic energy. This has been on the drawing bord since 1980, and in the water since 199x...
Baaaaad submittter, now go back to the cave.
I think that you fail to realize just how big an impact software has on your daily (or in som cases not-so-daily life):
* CAT/PET/whatever medical scanners
* Elevators
* Wind Turbine Generators
* Anything that is computer controlled, that has an emergency stop (This likely includes the big red button at your local gas station).
Until recently, I used to work for one of the bigger WTG Companies, and in my current job I'm writing software for sortation systems.
In both jobs, you tend to give a real notice to safety-critical issues. Otherwise, you'll eventuellay have to live the rest of your days in the knowledge that somebody was injuried or killed because there was this off-chance event that triggered a system start at just the wrong point.
I'll be very tempted to make the switch from Linux just to be reminded of the good old days of the Amiga.
As to whether or not I'm using OSS, the answer is yes, although not as much as I would like to.
The same thing is happening all over the Open Source Service front, so it should be expected that not all will be equally able to sustain a revenue, when supply exceeds demand. This will of course not be as juicy a story to tell, so instead Darwin will be arrested as soon as somebody tells the police where he is currently. That way we will no longer have to deal with the realistic world.
On the other hand, any potential customer who find the page as a result of a broader match than warranted by the page might also remeber the site as one that doesn't have what he needs. I don't claim to understand mainstream consumerism, but in my professional capacity, I tend to avoid companies that tries to make a followup sale on a completely unrelated issue.
Considering that the great renaming from dot-com to not-com has happened within the last half year or so, I'm not that surprised. After all, as long as it is a viable buisiness model to spend lots of money without generating any tangibles, why not assume that consumers would behave in the same way when it comes to appliances?
Unless the embedded QT gets released under the GPL, it will take quite some time and/or investment before any of the Linux GUI's will be able to run in an embedded system. On a normal desktop machine running linux X11 is responsible for converting all the nifty QT function calls to the nitty-gritty details of individual pixels on the screen. X11 is simply too much of an memory hog, and to feature rich to run on any of the current generation of palm-sized devices.
Also, most of the Gnome/KDE software is bloated beyond belief when seen from the standpoint of an embedded SW engineer, so there are still quite a long way before WinCE and PalmOS are obsoleted.
Wouldn't it be possible to predict large trends without detailed knowledge about every spot? After all, most of the yearly variations in climate are pretty similar over a 10-25 year scale.
Is the posted list of banned songs complete? One of the more obvious candidates, "First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin" by Manfred Mann is missing.
I'm not exactly familiar with the Los Angeles Times, so I'm wondering if this article is printed under a "humorous" section, or if it's supposed to be "quality" journalism.
If it's the latter, then I really hope that we will see more articles like this in the future, and that people actually will read and understand them. I'm sick and tired of getting N hits from the Code Red worm.
Currently, circulation is created by cold, salt-rich and thus heavy water in the waters around Greenland falling to the bottom of the sea to be replaced by hot surface water that originally started out in the Caribean gulf. If the incoming water gets too hot, too much ice will melt at once, and reduce the salinity to the point where it no longer sinks to the bottom of the sea.
Either that, or I lack the self-reflection needed to hit the Preview button :-/
That aside, goverments who are basing a large part of their income on a sales tax need to be able to tax the internet trade. Otherwise they will simply need to find another place to get their income. One option is to raise the non-internet sales tax in order to maintain revenues, but that will quickly break down to the point where only the poorest and the dyslexic are paying taxes, which isn't exactly the biggest revenue source. Not to mention the inherent imbalance in burdens.
Another way for sales tax-dependant governments is to begin taxation on income. And trust me, you do NOT!>/B> wan't to go that way, if at all possible. I live in a country with a tax system that basically works this way: Confiscate all income, and pay out welfare to all. A significant fraction of my income is taxed at 68 percent. In addition to that comes a 25 percent sales tax and various scams as 350 percent tax on cars, but that's beside the point. The main issue is that given the choice between sales tax on internet trade and income tax, I'd happily accept the first. At least that is proportionate to my consumption, not to my income.
Any way, the bottom line is that the government money has to come from somewhere and if sales tax is the answer, I don't see why internet trade has to be treated special.
[1] English is NOT my native language.
The important thing about the setup is that it is encrypted to the point where it doesn't matter if we hook up to a customers network and use their internet connection, not even if we have to discuss exactly how much they are going to pay for an Ad-Hoc change to the system while we are onsite. Anybody can see the benefits of this setup, or rather the problems of not securing the communication.
But when it comes to home broadband access, it's a totally different matter. Here in Denmark, most of the cable companies are also providing a network connection of some sort. In most cases, the setup is such that anybody within a block of flats can sniff the traffic to and from the rest of the flats in the same block. In such a setup, it is vitally important that you believe really much in the integrity of your neighbours, or cover up your network traffic.
The most important being:
1) The Interstate already goes everywhere, and already has convenient access.
Except that the interstate highways have to be built before they go anywhere. But the real kicker is the increased transport density in already-congested spots. At a typical highway into a large city will not give you a speed of 70 MPH, sometimes not even half that.2) I can merge onto the Interstate at 70 MPH.
Did you check out the information on the website that explains the concept? Each "station" is a place where individual vehicles can merge on and off the track without stopping.
3) My existing car works on the Interstate.
Sure - that's probably the biggest obstacle. But if the infrastructure already was in place, would you then consider bying a RUF as a second car?
4) I can exit the Interstate without every other car for three miles in either direction having to stop.
Exiting is pretty much the reverse of merging onto the track, as described above, so that's probably not an issue, unless of course the driver falls asleep during transit.
I'm not cold, mostly cynical with a sideorder of disbelief of the American habit of making conversational pieces out of grief.
Besides NASA cleaning up their act, did the catastrophe mean much beyond beeing just another reference point in the social game of "Where was you when ... ?"
I'm not that impressed with the HW specs. Granted, they seem impressive enough when marketing has compared it to the Palm. But! Unless the screen is around double the size of the Palm, the extra resolution will not earn much beyond more bloated graphics. So instead of a measly 100 bytes for an icon on the palm, we're probably talking about half a K for a monochrome image of the same size, and 4 K for a color image.
Not to mention that there are 4(64) times as much data to manipulate in the screen handling itself, which probably will make quite a dent in the difference between a 20 MHz dragonball and a 200 MHz RISC.
Not to mention the fact that a comparision in raw MHz is totally ridiculous between differenct CPUs. One of the nifty things about the dragonball is that it has 16 CPU registers, which reduces the need for memory access a lot. Somehow I doubt that the 200 MHz figure has any resemblance to the RAM speed.
It's somewhat scary to see that this story, which I first rejected as "far beyond reality" has become too realistic for comfort within 3 years. Unfortunately, I have no doubt that the next 3 years will complete the picture. After all, we already have "Pay-per-view" websites with monopoly on information, and I seem to recall that the next generation of DVD will have an unique key for each player.
What are the short term plans, if any, for increasing the connectivity between the Gnome desktop and other platforms? Most of all, I would like to know how much more support I will see for synchronizing with a Palm pilot, but I'm sure that people with laptops would be just as interested in something similar to the briefcase on the Windows desktop.
A product like this would be usefull in cases where some arbitrary keyboard input is worth repeating. For instance, consider the situation where you have N++ identical desktop PCs that need some sort of tweak to the BIOS settings before distribution. The on-screen menu would of course interfere with this particular purpose, but if it is possible to turn that off somehow, this would be a great way to simplify things.
Another use would be regression tests. Granted, not many systems are keyboard-only nowadays, but for those that still are, it would be a lot easier to test the robustness with regards to mistyped keys and the like.