this is probably nutrition based. and there'll be an upper limit to height, because various organs will run into trouble in certain body form factors (e.g. heart cannot pump blood properly in "giants").
And then, a stronger heart / improved circulatory system will become a survival trait allowing even taller humans to develop.
Yes, Expose interacts transparently with normal mouse operations.
Pickup a file / url / picture / selection, hit a hotcorner to display all windows, point at the desired target window, wait for the window to be activated (2 seconds or so) and drop carried object on to destination element.
Of course I never use hot corners or the hover to activate feature. I have expose actions mapped to the additional mouse buttons.
Freenet is an astoundingly better concept than tor, all tor does is hide the ends of a connection from one or both peers. But tor works right now, and Freenet doesn't.
Freenet guaranties that data cannot be removed from the network once it is injected, tor hides the ends of the connection.
And yet, tor (and i2p) allows users to setup forums and wikis accessible only across the network which for the purposes of freedom of speech is not half bad.
But what if you are watching an Asian movie that is both Anal and Bukakke with a Schoolgirl theme.
Do you store it in Asian, Anal, Bukkake, Schoolgirl, Cross Genre or Mashup? And once you have stored it how do you find it again? with spotlight you could annotate the file properly then drop it into Pr0n/J/JapanAV-123.avi or Pr0n/D/Dirty Classroom - 90 minutes anal + bukkake.avi
I am going to assume you didn't read the article and provide a small description of what fslogger is doing and how it has nothing in common with tripwire.
Fslogger runs continuously and registers itself with the kernel, when a filesystem change event happens details about it are announced to all registered apps and fslogger displays the information it receives in a useful (if verbose) manner.
Tripwire is a fantastically useful app which I run on every one of the servers I admin, and perhaps the OSX version could be extended to make use of the same kernel interfaces that fslogger is using.
Tripwire runs once per day (however often you wish to run it), and scans the filesystem checking each file to see if it matches a checksum calculated at some known time in the past. This is useful on mission critical servers because outside of data / user directories changes should happen very infrequently. Tripwire is a robust way of confirming that a server has the same configuration on a day to day basis.
The startling difference between tripwire and fslogger should be obvious, tripwire has no mechinism to know when a file has changed except by looking at the file directly, fslogger has no mechinism to know if the event is important or not and no mechinism to notify an administrator of the event short of scrolling it by in a terminal.
With tripwire you could delete a file, recreate it from backup and so long as you was careful tripwire would never know. fslogger would display every step you took but would not know if the final step returned the filesystem to its original state.
Different tools with different behaviours for different target users presenting different information in a different manner.
So, to dispute your original assertation, "Actually you can get this functionality already in a long standing Unix utility called Tripwire." No, nothing fslogger does is replicated by tripwire and nothing tripwire does is replicated by fslogger.
But that user directed queue management is exactly what I was citing as an advantage. If the tracker lists 4000 peers that is 4000 peers that will start exchanging packets instantly, emule shows 4000 peers with the file in there queue, some of which will transfer some will not.
There are other advantages of torrents over traditional p2p apps directory support, multi file: one torrent can list multiple files and folders and downloaded as a single block. complete albums and TV seasons can be downloaded clean without requiring a lengthy unzip process (resulting in better seed retention as users don't need to keep large zip files around). archive fixing: download all 11 seasons of friends but one or two of the files are corrupted, it is possible to switch over to another torrent of the same files and fix the broken files.
Last night I downloaded the 700 megs re-encode of starwars III in a little over 15 minutes, when I searched emule (a friend of mine refuses to use bt) the file was not even available so I set up a direct download for him.
the previous answer is correct but long, here is the short version.
Yes!
This is the medium sized version.
If the file is identical then the torrent hash will be identical. if the file is different no matter how insignificantly (changing the file name works) then the torrent hash will be different.
Trackers use the torrent hash to link peers together, and this distributed tracker will be no different.
So peers who grab torrent files created by different people will be able to connect to each other without any difficulty.
The difference is not the number of peers, its the queue management.
Bittorrent has no queue management, if you see 4000 people on a torrent, that is 4000 people uploading and downloading data. (Azureus has some queue management but queued torrents are not listed on the trackers)
Emule manages connections in a queue, you see 1000 peers sharing or downloading a file, that only means 1000 peers have the file in their queue.
The difference this makes to a download is dramatic, with bittorrent a download starts instantly and blocks start being traded soon after, with emule the download instantly joins the end of the queue on all the peers eventually moving to the front of some and starting to trade blocks after.
I have a 100megs connection at home, upgradable to 1Gig for just $2 extra a month, given the chance to set up a free wimax hotspot I would leap at the chance, to be able to sit by the (admittedly shoddy) river and use my home internet connection would be enough value. to leave the access point open would be no extra burden to me.
Can I ask which ISP you are using, I am wanting to switch from my current provider because its international connections are so bad I might as well be using a modem.
Phone apple and say "my laptop battery gets only 90 minutes life if I am careful". After talking you through some battery refreshing techniques you tell them it still doesn't work and they will ship you a new battery and arrange collection.
Unless you are out of your warranty period, you did get the extended applecare support?
What I know having moved from London to Tokyo is that I pay less on rent, less on travel and less when eating out. I pay more for groceries, drinks and general consumables.
There are also no scale savings, the cost of a 24 can crate of beer is almost exactly 1 can x 24. I make no real saving by shopping once a week as opposed to daily.
Entertainment costs a lot more and paying $30 for an album is starting to appear cheap, in less than 9 hours I am flying back to England to visit family I expect my "value gauge" to be reset.
They only compare them against normal bulbs, and not energy bulbs, wonder why, not nearly as much good marketing maybe:D
Well 50,000 hours comes to almost 60 years of continuos operation, the usual advertising on an energy saving bulb is "10 years of normal use" so I would say that we could say that these bulbs offer 6 times more life than an energy saving bulb and are comparable on light/energy stats.
* Desktop-metaphor based GUI for a personal computer Xerox invented that one. Xerox did not invent a desktop-metaphore, they invented windows-icons-menu-pointer, look back at grandparent, apple took existing ideas and did them right. * WYSIWYG publishing with a laser printer Xerox invented that one too. Xerox invented laser printing, Apple invented Publishing. * PDAs via Newton Invented by Psion in 1984 with the Psion 1. Psion 1 was a digital diary, the Newton was a digital assistant. * AppleLink (err, AOL now) Applelink was built on AOL, not the other way around. Correct. * QuickTime (movies, QTVR, 3D, etc) Quicktime is a collection of other people's codecs with Apple extensions. QTVR was also invented outside of Apple. No, Quicktime is a video framework, a video container format AND a collection of codecs, iTunes, iMovie and Final Cut Pro all leverage Quicktime in ways totally unrelated to to the codecs and in ways impossible with any other video technology, and apple created this over 10 years ago.
The poster was listing technologies, not that apple had invented outright, but that apple had taken a base inspiration and created a market defining product.
the telecoms company (there are multiple but only NTT is regulated) own and manage the wires. It is required to provide 100% availability and not introduce artificial price differentials, in return the government gave financial aid in creating the network.
A wire is just a wire, there is no technical reason why you should pay more to the phone company for transferring 40 megabits down the wire instead of 2. so NTT offer there connections at a flat rate. adsl is $20, fibre is $40. (there are a variety of connection methods on offer but we dont need to list them all)
So I have my wire, to connect to the internet itself though I then have to subscribe to an access provider, this is where the regulation has created competition. The ISPs are not regulated in any way they can offer any speed or combination of services they wish to differentiate there service, and bill for them in any way they wish, what they don't have to do is deal with the phone company restricting them.
In the UK, because that is where my non Japanese experience is, British Telecom bill the ISP for the connection and then the ISP passes those charges on to the customer. a 512k connection costs the isp £12.50 a month a 1meg connection costs £35 a month and a 2meg costs an insane £90+ a month. If an isp wishes to offer a 2 meg connection in japan, they just configure there equipment to 2 megs for that subscriber, in England they have to bill the customer an additional £90 a month to pass on to BT.
hope that makes the distinction clearer, with the phone and fibre lines being a natural monopoly regulations are in place to protect the customer from gouging, ISPs on the other hand are in no way a monopoly and because the barriers to entry are so low, more competition than you could imagine.
As a cultural observation, companies in japan are not used to real competition in the market place, with collusion and oligopolies the norm it normally takes a high profile upstart with deep pockets to reset the balance. Just over 2 years ago softbank (who run the Yahoo franchise in Japan) stepped into the ISP business with a vengeance, almost halving the current access charges, the complete implosion of the ISP market was predicted but as we can see from the increases in bandwidth offerings and services it didn't, ADSL has gone from 8megs to 40 megs and 1Gig over fibre is happening right now.
It is depressing to know that when I leave Japan there will have been zero progress back home, the leap from half meg adsl to 12 meg and then to 100 megs fibre has changed the way I use the internet and how I use my connection to offer services to friends and family. dropping back to ADSL 512/128 kb will mean I loose my website, forum, mail server and blog.
The fact that Japans governmental control of its largest telecoms provider has allowed hundreds of small business to offer internet services just by forcing the barrier to entry so low. who would have ever though that such a wasteful bureaucratic monster could get this so right when so many others have done so badly.
Tokyo is only 25 to 30 percent more densely populated than New York City, so though cable cost might be orders of magnitude higher in Kellar, TX I am sure residents of NY would be happy to pay $30 instead of the $20 I pay (a whole 50% increase, let the profits roll)
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this is probably nutrition based. and there'll be an upper limit to height, because various organs will run into trouble in certain body form factors (e.g. heart cannot pump blood properly in "giants").
And then, a stronger heart / improved circulatory system will become a survival trait allowing even taller humans to develop.
Yes, Expose interacts transparently with normal mouse operations.
Pickup a file / url / picture / selection,
hit a hotcorner to display all windows,
point at the desired target window,
wait for the window to be activated (2 seconds or so) and
drop carried object on to destination element.
Of course I never use hot corners or the hover to activate feature. I have expose actions mapped to the additional mouse buttons.
iTunes worked with a large number of MP3 players before the iPod was even a seed of an idea, and it still does.
It is possible that you are confusing the fact that iPod only officially works with iTunes, but that doesn't mean the reverse is automatically true.
Freenet is an astoundingly better concept than tor, all tor does is hide the ends of a connection from one or both peers. But tor works right now, and Freenet doesn't.
Freenet guaranties that data cannot be removed from the network once it is injected, tor hides the ends of the connection.
And yet, tor (and i2p) allows users to setup forums and wikis accessible only across the network which for the purposes of freedom of speech is not half bad.
But what if you are watching an Asian movie that is both Anal and Bukakke with a Schoolgirl theme.
Do you store it in Asian, Anal, Bukkake, Schoolgirl, Cross Genre or Mashup? And once you have stored it how do you find it again? with spotlight you could annotate the file properly then drop it into Pr0n/J/JapanAV-123.avi or Pr0n/D/Dirty Classroom - 90 minutes anal + bukkake.avi
I didn't notice that you was replying to somebody who suggested creating tripwire, I thought you had posted a comment specifically about flogger.
Sorry if it the reply came across as harsh.
I am going to assume you didn't read the article and provide a small description of what fslogger is doing and how it has nothing in common with tripwire.
Fslogger runs continuously and registers itself with the kernel, when a filesystem change event happens details about it are announced to all registered apps and fslogger displays the information it receives in a useful (if verbose) manner.
Tripwire is a fantastically useful app which I run on every one of the servers I admin, and perhaps the OSX version could be extended to make use of the same kernel interfaces that fslogger is using.
Tripwire runs once per day (however often you wish to run it), and scans the filesystem checking each file to see if it matches a checksum calculated at some known time in the past. This is useful on mission critical servers because outside of data / user directories changes should happen very infrequently. Tripwire is a robust way of confirming that a server has the same configuration on a day to day basis.
The startling difference between tripwire and fslogger should be obvious, tripwire has no mechinism to know when a file has changed except by looking at the file directly, fslogger has no mechinism to know if the event is important or not and no mechinism to notify an administrator of the event short of scrolling it by in a terminal.
With tripwire you could delete a file, recreate it from backup and so long as you was careful tripwire would never know. fslogger would display every step you took but would not know if the final step returned the filesystem to its original state.
Different tools with different behaviours for different target users presenting different information in a different manner.
So, to dispute your original assertation,
"Actually you can get this functionality already in a long standing Unix utility called Tripwire."
No, nothing fslogger does is replicated by tripwire and nothing tripwire does is replicated by fslogger.
But that user directed queue management is exactly what I was citing as an advantage. If the tracker lists 4000 peers that is 4000 peers that will start exchanging packets instantly, emule shows 4000 peers with the file in there queue, some of which will transfer some will not.
There are other advantages of torrents over traditional p2p apps
directory support,
multi file: one torrent can list multiple files and folders and downloaded as a single block. complete albums and TV seasons can be downloaded clean without requiring a lengthy unzip process (resulting in better seed retention as users don't need to keep large zip files around).
archive fixing: download all 11 seasons of friends but one or two of the files are corrupted, it is possible to switch over to another torrent of the same files and fix the broken files.
Last night I downloaded the 700 megs re-encode of starwars III in a little over 15 minutes, when I searched emule (a friend of mine refuses to use bt) the file was not even available so I set up a direct download for him.
the previous answer is correct but long, here is the short version.
Yes!
This is the medium sized version.
If the file is identical then the torrent hash will be identical. if the file is different no matter how insignificantly (changing the file name works) then the torrent hash will be different.
Trackers use the torrent hash to link peers together, and this distributed tracker will be no different.
So peers who grab torrent files created by different people will be able to connect to each other without any difficulty.
But when this gets ported into bt-i2p things really start to roll.
I am actually hoping somebody will make a plugin so azureus will act as an i2p router and not have to rely on and externally configured app.
Distributed tracking AND total anonymity let the party begin
The difference is not the number of peers, its the queue management.
Bittorrent has no queue management, if you see 4000 people on a torrent, that is 4000 people uploading and downloading data. (Azureus has some queue management but queued torrents are not listed on the trackers)
Emule manages connections in a queue, you see 1000 peers sharing or downloading a file, that only means 1000 peers have the file in their queue.
The difference this makes to a download is dramatic, with bittorrent a download starts instantly and blocks start being traded soon after, with emule the download instantly joins the end of the queue on all the peers eventually moving to the front of some and starting to trade blocks after.
Full high def is 7 to 8 Mbs per second compressed. uncompressed it is higher I believe.
1.5 Gbs (1920x1080x32x24) assuming the video is 32bit colour, and at 24fps.
I am sure it is possible to write an application that can translate Morse into ASCII. use Morse for input and send the ASCII.
Opera. I cannot tell you if Opera had tabbed browsing before we had tabbed text editors and tabbed terminals in KDE but it was long before Mozilla.
I have a 100megs connection at home, upgradable to 1Gig for just $2 extra a month, given the chance to set up a free wimax hotspot I would leap at the chance, to be able to sit by the (admittedly shoddy) river and use my home internet connection would be enough value. to leave the access point open would be no extra burden to me.
Can I ask which ISP you are using, I am wanting to switch from my current provider because its international connections are so bad I might as well be using a modem.
Phone apple and say "my laptop battery gets only 90 minutes life if I am careful". After talking you through some battery refreshing techniques you tell them it still doesn't work and they will ship you a new battery and arrange collection.
Unless you are out of your warranty period, you did get the extended applecare support?
What I know having moved from London to Tokyo is that I pay less on rent, less on travel and less when eating out. I pay more for groceries, drinks and general consumables.
There are also no scale savings, the cost of a 24 can crate of beer is almost exactly 1 can x 24. I make no real saving by shopping once a week as opposed to daily.
Entertainment costs a lot more and paying $30 for an album is starting to appear cheap, in less than 9 hours I am flying back to England to visit family I expect my "value gauge" to be reset.
I cant count, it comes to around 6 years of use which means
a, I am an idiot
b, not going to use these on my space ship.
They only compare them against normal bulbs, and not energy bulbs, wonder why, not nearly as much good marketing maybe :D
Well 50,000 hours comes to almost 60 years of continuos operation, the usual advertising on an energy saving bulb is "10 years of normal use" so I would say that we could say that these bulbs offer 6 times more life than an energy saving bulb and are comparable on light/energy stats.
As did I, if I had mod points you would get them.
I will do you one better.
* Desktop-metaphor based GUI for a personal computer
Xerox invented that one.
Xerox did not invent a desktop-metaphore, they invented windows-icons-menu-pointer, look back at grandparent, apple took existing ideas and did them right.
* WYSIWYG publishing with a laser printer
Xerox invented that one too.
Xerox invented laser printing, Apple invented Publishing.
* PDAs via Newton
Invented by Psion in 1984 with the Psion 1.
Psion 1 was a digital diary, the Newton was a digital assistant.
* AppleLink (err, AOL now)
Applelink was built on AOL, not the other way around.
Correct.
* QuickTime (movies, QTVR, 3D, etc)
Quicktime is a collection of other people's codecs with Apple extensions. QTVR was also invented outside of Apple.
No, Quicktime is a video framework, a video container format AND a collection of codecs, iTunes, iMovie and Final Cut Pro all leverage Quicktime in ways totally unrelated to to the codecs and in ways impossible with any other video technology, and apple created this over 10 years ago.
The poster was listing technologies, not that apple had invented outright, but that apple had taken a base inspiration and created a market defining product.
of course, a clarification.
the telecoms company (there are multiple but only NTT is regulated) own and manage the wires. It is required to provide 100% availability and not introduce artificial price differentials, in return the government gave financial aid in creating the network.
A wire is just a wire, there is no technical reason why you should pay more to the phone company for transferring 40 megabits down the wire instead of 2. so NTT offer there connections at a flat rate. adsl is $20, fibre is $40. (there are a variety of connection methods on offer but we dont need to list them all)
So I have my wire, to connect to the internet itself though I then have to subscribe to an access provider, this is where the regulation has created competition. The ISPs are not regulated in any way they can offer any speed or combination of services they wish to differentiate there service, and bill for them in any way they wish, what they don't have to do is deal with the phone company restricting them.
In the UK, because that is where my non Japanese experience is, British Telecom bill the ISP for the connection and then the ISP passes those charges on to the customer.
a 512k connection costs the isp £12.50 a month
a 1meg connection costs £35 a month
and a 2meg costs an insane £90+ a month.
If an isp wishes to offer a 2 meg connection in japan, they just configure there equipment to 2 megs for that subscriber, in England they have to bill the customer an additional £90 a month to pass on to BT.
hope that makes the distinction clearer, with the phone and fibre lines being a natural monopoly regulations are in place to protect the customer from gouging, ISPs on the other hand are in no way a monopoly and because the barriers to entry are so low, more competition than you could imagine.
As a cultural observation, companies in japan are not used to real competition in the market place, with collusion and oligopolies the norm it normally takes a high profile upstart with deep pockets to reset the balance.
Just over 2 years ago softbank (who run the Yahoo franchise in Japan) stepped into the ISP business with a vengeance, almost halving the current access charges, the complete implosion of the ISP market was predicted but as we can see from the increases in bandwidth offerings and services it didn't, ADSL has gone from 8megs to 40 megs and 1Gig over fibre is happening right now.
It is depressing to know that when I leave Japan there will have been zero progress back home, the leap from half meg adsl to 12 meg and then to 100 megs fibre has changed the way I use the internet and how I use my connection to offer services to friends and family. dropping back to ADSL 512/128 kb will mean I loose my website, forum, mail server and blog.
The fact that Japans governmental control of its largest telecoms provider has allowed hundreds of small business to offer internet services just by forcing the barrier to entry so low. who would have ever though that such a wasteful bureaucratic monster could get this so right when so many others have done so badly.
Tokyo is only 25 to 30 percent more densely populated than New York City, so though cable cost might be orders of magnitude higher in Kellar, TX I am sure residents of NY would be happy to pay $30 instead of the $20 I pay (a whole 50% increase, let the profits roll)