Total sales of singles, including cassettes and vinyl,
which have dipped significantly since the Internet
file-sharing and CD-burning craze began in the late
1990s, fell 18.7 percent in value terms between 2002
and 2003.
Riiiight. And the introduction of the Compact Disc had absolutely no effect on the sales of cassettes and vinyl. It was clearly completely due to the "file-sharing and CD-burning craze". Uh-huh.
Of course I know this signal would be turned on only for specific programming (Superbowl, etc). But still the possibility could arise that the broadcaster/distributor is not honoring the actual copyright holder's wishes. What happens when the actual copyright owner grants an open license to freely copy a program, but nobody actually can?
Do we really need this? What will it solve? Television programming is ALREADY copyrighted. By adding this explicity copying restriction then are calling all television viewers CRIMINALS.
Also. This thing needs a new name. Just like DRM's correct name is "Digital Restrictions Management". Calling this a "broadcast flag" isn't descriptive enough to the average person. It needs to be referred to as something else. "Copy prevention flag", etc...
Also, keep in mind, it's really not preventing only copies to be made. It actually prevents you from even making a FIRST GENERATION recording of a live program as well. Guess what, no more timeshifting. TIVO just got a whole lot less useful. No more instant replays of Janet Jackson's boob.
I understand that most distros come with a packaging manager, but if I want to write a program, allow downloads from my site, then (to the best of my knowledge) there's no way for it to easily be installed and have menu shortcuts etc set up....
"Menu shortcuts setup..."? ok, for what? KDE? Gnome? Fluxbox? Afterstep? The reason there is no universal "installer" is that there can be no assumptions made about how a person chose to configure the system, since the advantage here of course is having a CHOICE. It's a bout having the FREEDOM to configure things the way that works best.
Of course you are also free choose Redhat/RPM and install software which makes assumptions based on that Redhat system and how someone at Redhat decided your system should be configured. That's perfectly acceptable.
If you want full freedom and flexibility, source code is the only way. For me personally, building from source works best for me, you however are free to CHOOSE whatever works best for you. But PLEASE don't say that every UNIX system out there should conform to meet some standard so that a single software installer will function correctly on all of them. Now THAT is is just ridiculous.
My suggestion. Develop your software. Use standard tools like autoconf, automake, etc. Then allow distribution maintainers to develop packages based on your source distribution. If you want to push the process along, for something like gentoo you could very easily write a small ebuild and submit it to them to include in portage. It's also fairly easy to make RPMs.
Multicast will solve quite a few problems actually. I've traditionally only considered sending of the actual files but small multicast packets for notifications is also a great idea. In fact UDP is good for a LOT of things like that. Why not have my mail server send a "ping" when new mail arrives rather than logging in, checking, and logging out every 10 minutes!?
Sadly multicast probably will never work as intended because there is nearly no end user connectivity. There are some ISPs which can provide multicast enabled connections but these are usually for business level connections out of the price range of average consumers.
Personally I really can't understand the reluctance to spread the availability of this. It would save many people LOTS of bandwidth. It just makes SENSE!
The Linux(R) Kernel Personality (LKP) for UnixWare 7.1.3 provides Linux environment hosted on the UnixWare kernel. This environment does not contain a Linux kernel, but does contain the RPMs needed to run most Linux applications. By invoking the UnixWare kernel to run the Linux application, the application gets all of the performance and scalability advantages that UnixWare delivers. Linux applications that are disk or database intensive, or require support for a large number of users, typically perform with greater stability, reliability, and scalability when deployed on the UnixWare LKP environment.
Access to the Linux and UNIX environments is provided for both applications and the user. Common system files, such as password files, are automatically updated between environments.
SCO understands that customers are looking for alternatives to Linux. But making changes always introduces risk. LKP is an easy and low risk tool to help the migration from Linux to UnixWare. The benefits of LKP are:
"Microsoft believes that it has patent rights (patent(s) and/or pending applications(s)) that are necessary for you to license in order to make, sell, or distribute software programs that comply with one or more aspects of the Caller ID for E-mail Specification."
I have 3Mbit of downstream bandwidth here on cable.
Ok, so lets call this 2.5 gigabit/s link roughly 800x faster than my connection.
At best, i've reached speeds of 250KB/s here.
Theoretical speed then should be somewhere around 200 MEGABYTES PER SECOND.
So, if you're definition of "a while" is just over 2 seconds, well, then you'd be correct;-)
Even at 1 gigabit/s (the fastest readily available NIC for a desktop system) it comes in at about 5 seconds. That, I would say is an IMPRESSIVE demo.
Do this with a DVD. And don't just download them, STREAM them in realtime, like SEVERAL... that would rock. I don't know what beast of a machine would handle that though, but good luck.
I installed an email attachment virus scanner last year along with an auto-updater script. I haven't received one malicious attachment since. Gee, wish I could charge $50,000 each time a worm comes out too;-)
isn't it highly illegal to have a police radio scanner in a moving vehicle? I thought it was only legal to posess them if it was in a fixed location like your living room
It depends on the state. However "in 1993 the FCC preempted all restrictive state and local laws and ruled (FCC PR 91-36) that it is legal for licensed amateur radio operators, who have a copy of their FCC license in their possession, to operate - anywhere in the USA - an amateur radio transceiver capable of receiving police and other emergency services frequencies in their vehicle." -- http://www.rarchams.org/scanlaw.htm
It has always struck me that putting more and more power close to people is the wrong way to go. Instead, why not make these machines effectively a "dumb terminal" and hook it in the Internet through a wireless connection, where it would interact with web services? Then, you can have a supercomputer on your side, and you wouldn't even know it.
You're exactly right, that is the way things are headed. But stop to think about the local computing power that may be required. Things like sophisticated video compression algorithms, speech recognition, and in the future perhaps an intelligent agent which sifts through data and presents useful items (think advanced version of dashboard). All of these things will need power close to the cpu. After that, Sun had it right, "The Network is the Computer". Especially for storage of data, etc. But there will always be a baseline requirement for local computing power.
Also, another idea to consider. By offloading processing power... ie, the "dumb terminal" approach, you take away the power to customize your experience. You effectively end up with an advertising receiver. You'll be powerless to access the types of information that you're interested in, and the device becomes more like a television, only capable of doing what it's preprogrammed to. Most people will not go to the effort to set up their own web services to connect to.
Distributed processing power is the future. But with lots of power spread out over millions of portable devices all interconnected, it becomes more of a social appliance that a number crunching system.
(I drift off topic...)
Personally what I'm most interested in are assistive agents. I think in the future you may be considered handicapped to NOT have one of these things someone on your person allowing you to tap into the global network, maybe even subconciously. Think instant google searches based on something you're thinking about, augmenting your memory automatically. Some really cool stuff, just hope the economy keeps together so I see it happen in my lifetime.
Um, isn't that handled by branch prediction? The processor knows it has just branched the same way for the last 5,000 iterations then it will correctly predict the branch target each time. The only time it misses in your example would be at the end of the last iteration.
You should take a look at Gentoo. It takes the best concepts from *BSD and applies them to a modern Linux system. In fact it takes them a step further with innovations like USE flags instead of just a single "flavor" for packages.
Sorry, I was mistaken... it has both FM Reception, Recording, *AND* Transmitter. NICE!
And here is what babelfish thinks it says about "FMT":
FMT (Wireless) Only me small FM broadcasting station! Bold the Wireless MP3 which throws away the line!
The NHD-150D the FM thu it will be able to apply a lance meter function with the remote control. The FMT when it selects a mode, what kind of machinery and tools (car audio, groove audio, the groove shear to sprout there is a possibility which the MP3 of sensitivity, the general FM radio back) which is the FM radio it will lead and with the radio it will enjoy.
(The outside market to be supported with remote control style, with option star every plan)
On the korean page you can see "FMT" in the list of features.
On this page in the flash banner, it lists it as "FM Transmitter".
I think that's quite a cool feature. Maybe it does both? Dunno... but thats nice to have an FM link built in so I can just carry it in my pocket but listen to it on my car stereo without connecting it to another little box.
Some demo clips from Fraunhofer, classical music I think. Tried to play them with WinPlay3 but my 486-dx2/66 wouldn't play them in real time at full quality, so I remember using l3dec to decompress it first to listen to it. It only took 2-3x realtime. It was then that I first thought "Whoah! This is gonna be a killer app!".
It would be three more years till Napster came around. I remember telling everyone (family, friends) about how this new MP3 thing would revolutionize music. I was mainly thinking streaming music, since at only 56k, the thought of downloading full albums (even compressed to 50-60MB) seemed a little far off. At that time the best there was for streaming was RealAudio, which sounded like crap (and still does IMO).
But even a few years before that... (~1994)
Ok, technically I didn't download it, and it wasn't an MP3. My Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (PAS16) came with a demo 44.1khz 16bit wav clip of the song "I need you tonight" by INXS. What I do remember is that is the first time I heard "CD quality" sound come out of my computer. Later on I tried compressing it with l3dec and noticed it performed at aroun 5x real time;-).
I've been screaming about this for a while. Multicast is such a simple solution its a no-brainer. Like IPSEC, Multicast should (if it's not already) be a mandatory part of IPv6.
It's just ridiculous that to broadcast the SAME EXACT 128k stream to 100,000 people, you need over 100Mbit of bandwidth...
What multicast allows a single stream to be sent to multiple destinations but the splits only occur AT the routers closest to the listeners. A multicast router will simply mirror the traffic to all the ports that have listeners. It not only solves the issue of a single source need 1(N) bandwith, but at any point in the network the badwidth consumed is equal to that of a single stream.
In other words:
If 5,000 people on your local ISP listened to the same multicast stream, it would use no more bandwidth than one person.
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Riiiight. And the introduction of the Compact Disc had absolutely no effect on the sales of cassettes and vinyl. It was clearly completely due to the "file-sharing and CD-burning craze". Uh-huh.
Do we really need this? What will it solve? Television programming is ALREADY copyrighted. By adding this explicity copying restriction then are calling all television viewers CRIMINALS.
Also. This thing needs a new name. Just like DRM's correct name is "Digital Restrictions Management". Calling this a "broadcast flag" isn't descriptive enough to the average person. It needs to be referred to as something else. "Copy prevention flag", etc...
Also, keep in mind, it's really not preventing only copies to be made. It actually prevents you from even making a FIRST GENERATION recording of a live program as well. Guess what, no more timeshifting. TIVO just got a whole lot less useful. No more instant replays of Janet Jackson's boob.
"Menu shortcuts setup..."? ok, for what? KDE? Gnome? Fluxbox? Afterstep? The reason there is no universal "installer" is that there can be no assumptions made about how a person chose to configure the system, since the advantage here of course is having a CHOICE. It's a bout having the FREEDOM to configure things the way that works best.
Of course you are also free choose Redhat/RPM and install software which makes assumptions based on that Redhat system and how someone at Redhat decided your system should be configured. That's perfectly acceptable.
If you want full freedom and flexibility, source code is the only way. For me personally, building from source works best for me, you however are free to CHOOSE whatever works best for you. But PLEASE don't say that every UNIX system out there should conform to meet some standard so that a single software installer will function correctly on all of them. Now THAT is is just ridiculous.
My suggestion. Develop your software. Use standard tools like autoconf, automake, etc. Then allow distribution maintainers to develop packages based on your source distribution. If you want to push the process along, for something like gentoo you could very easily write a small ebuild and submit it to them to include in portage. It's also fairly easy to make RPMs.
Ximian Evolution (Features)
Ximian Connector
Yeah, not for long...
Sadly multicast probably will never work as intended because there is nearly no end user connectivity. There are some ISPs which can provide multicast enabled connections but these are usually for business level connections out of the price range of average consumers.
Personally I really can't understand the reluctance to spread the availability of this. It would save many people LOTS of bandwidth. It just makes SENSE!
Maybe we'll get it when IPv6 is common. HA!
The Linux(R) Kernel Personality (LKP) for UnixWare 7.1.3 provides Linux environment hosted on the UnixWare kernel. This environment does not contain a Linux kernel, but does contain the RPMs needed to run most Linux applications. By invoking the UnixWare kernel to run the Linux application, the application gets all of the performance and scalability advantages that UnixWare delivers. Linux applications that are disk or database intensive, or require support for a large number of users, typically perform with greater stability, reliability, and scalability when deployed on the UnixWare LKP environment.
Access to the Linux and UNIX environments is provided for both applications and the user. Common system files, such as password files, are automatically updated between environments.
SCO understands that customers are looking for alternatives to Linux. But making changes always introduces risk. LKP is an easy and low risk tool to help the migration from Linux to UnixWare. The benefits of LKP are:
Yeah SCO... you /really/ understand alright!
Ok, so lets call this 2.5 gigabit/s link roughly 800x faster than my connection.
At best, i've reached speeds of 250KB/s here.
Theoretical speed then should be somewhere around 200 MEGABYTES PER SECOND.
So, if you're definition of "a while" is just over 2 seconds, well, then you'd be correct ;-)
Even at 1 gigabit/s (the fastest readily available NIC for a desktop system) it comes in at about 5 seconds. That, I would say is an IMPRESSIVE demo.
Do this with a DVD. And don't just download them, STREAM them in realtime, like SEVERAL... that would rock. I don't know what beast of a machine would handle that though, but good luck.
I wish I got to play with such toys :-(
I installed an email attachment virus scanner last year along with an auto-updater script. I haven't received one malicious attachment since. Gee, wish I could charge $50,000 each time a worm comes out too ;-)
Damn... I AM in the wrong job. *sigh*
You're exactly right, that is the way things are headed. But stop to think about the local computing power that may be required. Things like sophisticated video compression algorithms, speech recognition, and in the future perhaps an intelligent agent which sifts through data and presents useful items (think advanced version of dashboard). All of these things will need power close to the cpu. After that, Sun had it right, "The Network is the Computer". Especially for storage of data, etc. But there will always be a baseline requirement for local computing power.
Also, another idea to consider. By offloading processing power... ie, the "dumb terminal" approach, you take away the power to customize your experience. You effectively end up with an advertising receiver. You'll be powerless to access the types of information that you're interested in, and the device becomes more like a television, only capable of doing what it's preprogrammed to. Most people will not go to the effort to set up their own web services to connect to.
Distributed processing power is the future. But with lots of power spread out over millions of portable devices all interconnected, it becomes more of a social appliance that a number crunching system.
(I drift off topic...)
Personally what I'm most interested in are assistive agents. I think in the future you may be considered handicapped to NOT have one of these things someone on your person allowing you to tap into the global network, maybe even subconciously. Think instant google searches based on something you're thinking about, augmenting your memory automatically. Some really cool stuff, just hope the economy keeps together so I see it happen in my lifetime.
Of course not, thats what grammar checking is for...
Um, isn't that handled by branch prediction? The processor knows it has just branched the same way for the last 5,000 iterations then it will correctly predict the branch target each time. The only time it misses in your example would be at the end of the last iteration.
http://www.gentoo.org
And here is what babelfish thinks it says about "FMT":
On this page in the flash banner, it lists it as "FM Transmitter".
I think that's quite a cool feature. Maybe it does both? Dunno... but thats nice to have an FM link built in so I can just carry it in my pocket but listen to it on my car stereo without connecting it to another little box.
USB 2.0 == 480Mbit/s
Firewire == 400Mbit/s
It would be three more years till Napster came around. I remember telling everyone (family, friends) about how this new MP3 thing would revolutionize music. I was mainly thinking streaming music, since at only 56k, the thought of downloading full albums (even compressed to 50-60MB) seemed a little far off. At that time the best there was for streaming was RealAudio, which sounded like crap (and still does IMO).
But even a few years before that... (~1994)
Ok, technically I didn't download it, and it wasn't an MP3. My Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (PAS16) came with a demo 44.1khz 16bit wav clip of the song "I need you tonight" by INXS. What I do remember is that is the first time I heard "CD quality" sound come out of my computer. Later on I tried compressing it with l3dec and noticed it performed at aroun 5x real time ;-).
MOD PARENT UP!!
I've been screaming about this for a while. Multicast is such a simple solution its a no-brainer. Like IPSEC, Multicast should (if it's not already) be a mandatory part of IPv6.
It's just ridiculous that to broadcast the SAME EXACT 128k stream to 100,000 people, you need over 100Mbit of bandwidth...
What multicast allows a single stream to be sent to multiple destinations but the splits only occur AT the routers closest to the listeners. A multicast router will simply mirror the traffic to all the ports that have listeners. It not only solves the issue of a single source need 1(N) bandwith, but at any point in the network the badwidth consumed is equal to that of a single stream.
In other words:
If 5,000 people on your local ISP listened to the same multicast stream, it would use no more bandwidth than one person.
To put it in pretty ascii art:
(sorry... can't... STUPID LAMENESS FILTER @*(#$^@#)
You get charged based on bandwidth usage? Oh... I'm sorry... *shiver* Going by those rates, I would have spent roughly $200 this month ;-)