You should check out this recent slashdot story to suggest why you might have had problems.
Basically, if both users are behind firewalls that reject externally initiated conversations, they can't talk.
What is up with moderation lately? This trolling got marked up as ''Interesting'', fake goatse.cx alerts getting modded up without even checking the links for a moment. have the trolls taken over the asylum?
Ball Semiconductor have at least as interesting a plan to deposit semiconductors on small spherical surfaces. They have some small gates working already.
I read your reply here and your other grumpy post further down. From your own FAQ:
2.2. Is Freenet searchable?
No search mechanism has yet been implemented
As I used it, you have to finsert a file with a key name, from the users point of view effectively a ''filepath'' into the ''freenet filesystem''. Then separately you have to connect to an index server and enter the same filepath so that others can retrieve the file. I have never heard of KSK@Aardvark before your post, and it is not mentioned in your FAQ. A search on Google turns nothing up either. As Joe User, how am I meant to find out that KSK@Aardvark even exists, let alone what it is? If I was a journalist, would that be enough to make me too stupid to use Freenetin your opinion?
Anyhow, consequently I have no idea what is KSK@Aardvark or really what you are going on about with offering hyperlinking in place of automated indexing. A digest of manually entered indexes wouldn't seem to solve the problem that my post was looking at, discovery of content like Google allows for the web. Imagine if Google was just this huge flat file containing a billion web page filenames that you had to download each time and then search it locally; that's what you will end up with on these key indexes.
Note I already said the developers deserve praise for what they have done so far, it is a big job and it basically works, and it is a great foundation to be taken a lot further.
Even people that you have unfortunately written off as idiots have different experiences and points of view as users to you as the developer that you should understand if a wide range of people can end up using the end product. Although you may be exhausted, and cannot resolve it by yourself, you should still admit privately that there is more to be understood and gained from this torrent of feedback telling you the same things over and over than ''they are all idiots''.
Writing people off as idiots because they are telling you how to improve your product is one warning bell, and this ''add it on later'' handwaving about the searching is the other. Generally Great things have all their legs architected in at the get-go. However, I wish you...
I had a good look at Freenet the other week; so far they have done a nice job on an interesting project. I can understand that the leader is feeling a bit moaned at and undervalued, the stuff does work at the heart of it and he and the other people working on it do deserve credit for it.
The problem that they don't seem to have addressed in their efforts to dodge censorship is that they will ultimately make the posession and propogation of the key names themselves illegal, undoing all of the good work they have planned for. For example, it will be the posession or use of the key name ''secrets/food/soylent green'' that will be used to repress people who might like to look up the document belonging to the key.
For this reason they will have to end up with a searchable filespace with an end-to-end encrypted Freenet Google equivalent. Then people can nudge-nuge wink-wink about soylent and cause people to perform research using Freenet rather than have to deliver discrete ''freenet URLs''.
(PS Reality Master 101, you're such a Karma whore)
This article at EETimes discusses plastic transistors being used as a display device, and this story is about a startup offering a transistor printing process.
The dynamic range is poor. If you have 100 'subpixels' of blue in the area that would normally be a pixel on an LCD display, you can only get 100 levels of blue intensity in that pixel.
The example of 100 subpixels is actually better than the modern colour TFT displays, which are usually 3 x 6bpp or 18bpp and give great-looking colour to my eye.
Also, the pixels' colour components can be pulse-width modulated, ie, using the time domain; if they are refreshed at, say, 75kHz then you can have 1,000 shades of each colour without flicker.
I read the book, and at one point he says that if there is one thing you take away from reading the book, it should be the concept of triage, which is abandoning the hopeless so that the viable can survive. That's a good attitude to keep in mind and you should perhaps have mentioned this ''one thing to take away'' in your review.
Also, the guy moaning about the native indians being disrespected (by disrespecting slashdot readers, calling them vaginas), the author takes care at the beginning of the book to point out he doesn't mean to draw parallels with terrible suffering of others, yet the metaphor with doomed projects on which people expend their time, good humour, sanity and in some cases actual lives is too good to pass up.
I read Fiasco, the main thing I remember aside from the gruesome emergency spacecraft lifesaver (which propels a tube down your stomach so quickly you lose all your teeth) is that it is just unrelentingly grim. Like Philip K Dick, Lem is also popular in the UK, where we apparently like to hear stories of things going, in the vernacular, ''pear shaped''.
While the ending exercised a very queer grip on me and made me remember the film as one worth staying up for, I am unable to forgive it for the interminable footage of Our Hero travelling in a Japanese Taxi through tunnels, tunnel, My God! the tunnels! Tunnels upon tunnels upon Japanese tunnels, aiiieee, the tunnels have no end! No more! I'll tesll you all I know!
Seriously, the sequence lasted 20 minutes or something, I could imagine the theaters emptying. After that it picked up again. It was as if a crazed nipponese tunnel fetishist had swapped out one of the reels.
When I first saw it was ''talk before code'' my heart sank, but some of the proposals are actually very good.
Also, I noticed at the Gnotella page that the author is pointing out that Gnutella has being going downhill - no wonder, I find it much harder to get anything useful from it than with Napster.
Anyone else noticing that some of these high traffic ''review'' sites are serving up less and less on a page?
It is getting that adverts are becoming a new form of punctuation that you use at the end of a paragraph.
At least Andandtech and Tom's Hardware give you a table of contents for the review so you can cut through filler like the exact details of the test platform.
It is all the more irritating since browsers do not have a serious problem with monstrously long pages, and the aggregation of the whole review on a single page would have raised no eyebrows.
That certainly sounds reasonable; however, as I understood the article, they are encoding their ''infinite data'' in the precise value assigned to what I think is called a scalar quantity (the phase, I assume, perhaps stupidly, expressed as an angle). So the first bit says whether it starts as 0 degrees or 180 degrees, the second bit adds 90 degrees if it is set, the third 45 degrees if set, and so on.
So this ''infinite'' data set boils down to a single infinitely precise number, say, 36.789...etc degrees. So that was one electron, perhaps full of an infinite number of Metallica albums. Now if we cp that electron to another one to give to a friend, but we added a Lene Marlin track at the beginning of it (having better taste than our friend), clearly it will end up with a different phase angle, even though it has an infinitude of contents (in different order). The phase angle will even be radically different if the first few bits of the added data are quite different.
Well, that is why I think your objection is wrong in this case:
because the ordering of the data is used to encode the result
because it is the extent of the data that is infinite, not the contents in a superposition sense.
While I bask in the warm glow of your pity for me, let me point out what is ''obvious'' to us, now, was not even known 200 years ago and the bulk of it will probably be ludicrously outmoded 200 years hence. And that's us, the same race, in pretty much the same environment just separated by 200 of your Earth years.
If there are *aliens* out there with advanced technology, there is no reason for it to even be *possible* for a human to understand or even recognize it as a system; after all, our brains are of a finite size. In the same way that a dog will never truly appreciate music (howling tunelessly along because of a certain frequency content aside), surely more advanced races than us would beat us out with no more difficulty than we lock doors in front of our pets.
Anyway, the point was that the mere fact that we are still stumbling over these epoch-making concepts tells me - maybe you more advanced mutants don't need telling - that we may well still be too pathetic to imagine what medium would be the lingua franca for interstellar beacons &c used by hypothetical superadvanced civilizations.
I didn't see it mentioned, but this must be taking place at very low temperatures.
When I hear about cool, promising advances like this is always makes me sorry for the SETI types. How the aliens will laugh themselves silly at our hopeful sifting of the *radio*/stone-age technology spectrum for traces of them, when an advanced civilization would have stupendously cooler ''magic'' at their disposal.
Hooray! I am lucky enough to use the 1400x1050 display on a Dell Inspron 7500, and it is very good. Its main problem is vertical viewing angle, no matter what it is not possible to see a block of the same colour as the same colour all the way down the screen. I hope they fixed it.
One good side effect of having such tiny pixels is that dead pixels are far less noticeable than they are on lower resolution displays.
Gnutella and Gnotella (even with the skins) still have kind of crabby user interfaces, whereas Napster beta 7 has a funky tree thing to say what you're sharing. I'm sure that's partly to blame.
Another problem is that ''56K'' modems have a maximum 33.6kbps user-to-ISP bandwidth, it does somewhat hurt your downloading prowess to have people sucking up all your ACK-ing bandwidth.
People with the broadband connections don't seem to mind sharing, so I guess this will fix itself.
Also, around the time of the hearing for Napster when things looked bleak, Gnutella fell to its knees; it was very hard to get a reasonable connection without listing a dozen peers. There's something wrong with that there scaleability!
Yeah, right.... Netmon is quite useless, and there is no way I can see to close the stupid thing either!!!
This is software that really had to be open sourced so someone could make the thing do something that was actually useful as opposed to something that merely worked.
-Andy
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On the first link, yeah, ORBS is not saying it is in the Black Hole, but that above.net has been issuing router pollution all by itself to make orbs.org unreachable to chunks of the internet. See what ORBS themselves has to say. I don't think they're going to say this stuff unless they think it is true!
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You should check out this recent slashdot story to suggest why you might have had problems. Basically, if both users are behind firewalls that reject externally initiated conversations, they can't talk.
What is up with moderation lately? This trolling got marked up as ''Interesting'', fake goatse.cx alerts getting modded up without even checking the links for a moment. have the trolls taken over the asylum?
At least you clicked on the link and learnt something, which is more than the dumbass moderator who thinks the post is ''offtopic''
Ball Semiconductor have at least as interesting a plan to deposit semiconductors on small spherical surfaces. They have some small gates working already.
Hello Ian -
I read your reply here and your other grumpy post further down. From your own FAQ:
2.2. Is Freenet searchable?
No search mechanism has yet been implemented
As I used it, you have to finsert a file with a key name, from the users point of view effectively a ''filepath'' into the ''freenet filesystem''. Then separately you have to connect to an index server and enter the same filepath so that others can retrieve the file. I have never heard of KSK@Aardvark before your post, and it is not mentioned in your FAQ. A search on Google turns nothing up either. As Joe User, how am I meant to find out that KSK@Aardvark even exists, let alone what it is? If I was a journalist, would that be enough to make me too stupid to use Freenetin your opinion?
Anyhow, consequently I have no idea what is KSK@Aardvark or really what you are going on about with offering hyperlinking in place of automated indexing. A digest of manually entered indexes wouldn't seem to solve the problem that my post was looking at, discovery of content like Google allows for the web. Imagine if Google was just this huge flat file containing a billion web page filenames that you had to download each time and then search it locally; that's what you will end up with on these key indexes.
Note I already said the developers deserve praise for what they have done so far, it is a big job and it basically works, and it is a great foundation to be taken a lot further.
Even people that you have unfortunately written off as idiots have different experiences and points of view as users to you as the developer that you should understand if a wide range of people can end up using the end product. Although you may be exhausted, and cannot resolve it by yourself, you should still admit privately that there is more to be understood and gained from this torrent of feedback telling you the same things over and over than ''they are all idiots''.
Writing people off as idiots because they are telling you how to improve your product is one warning bell, and this ''add it on later'' handwaving about the searching is the other. Generally Great things have all their legs architected in at the get-go. However, I wish you...
Happy new year and best of luck
-Andy
I had a good look at Freenet the other week; so far they have done a nice job on an interesting project. I can understand that the leader is feeling a bit moaned at and undervalued, the stuff does work at the heart of it and he and the other people working on it do deserve credit for it.
The problem that they don't seem to have addressed in their efforts to dodge censorship is that they will ultimately make the posession and propogation of the key names themselves illegal, undoing all of the good work they have planned for. For example, it will be the posession or use of the key name ''secrets/food/soylent green'' that will be used to repress people who might like to look up the document belonging to the key.
For this reason they will have to end up with a searchable filespace with an end-to-end encrypted Freenet Google equivalent. Then people can nudge-nuge wink-wink about soylent and cause people to perform research using Freenet rather than have to deliver discrete ''freenet URLs''.
(PS Reality Master 101, you're such a Karma whore)
This article at EETimes discusses plastic transistors being used as a display device, and this story is about a startup offering a transistor printing process.
The dynamic range is poor. If you have 100 'subpixels' of blue in the area that would normally be a pixel on an LCD display, you can only get 100 levels of blue intensity in that pixel.
The example of 100 subpixels is actually better than the modern colour TFT displays, which are usually 3 x 6bpp or 18bpp and give great-looking colour to my eye.
Also, the pixels' colour components can be pulse-width modulated, ie, using the time domain; if they are refreshed at, say, 75kHz then you can have 1,000 shades of each colour without flicker.
-Andy
It seems to me if we are finding human genes inside puffer fishes, it may be due to their diet :)
I read the book, and at one point he says that if there is one thing you take away from reading the book, it should be the concept of triage, which is abandoning the hopeless so that the viable can survive. That's a good attitude to keep in mind and you should perhaps have mentioned this ''one thing to take away'' in your review.
Also, the guy moaning about the native indians being disrespected (by disrespecting slashdot readers, calling them vaginas), the author takes care at the beginning of the book to point out he doesn't mean to draw parallels with terrible suffering of others, yet the metaphor with doomed projects on which people expend their time, good humour, sanity and in some cases actual lives is too good to pass up.
-Andy
I read Fiasco, the main thing I remember aside from the gruesome emergency spacecraft lifesaver (which propels a tube down your stomach so quickly you lose all your teeth) is that it is just unrelentingly grim. Like Philip K Dick, Lem is also popular in the UK, where we apparently like to hear stories of things going, in the vernacular, ''pear shaped''.
While the ending exercised a very queer grip on me and made me remember the film as one worth staying up for, I am unable to forgive it for the interminable footage of Our Hero travelling in a Japanese Taxi through tunnels, tunnel, My God! the tunnels! Tunnels upon tunnels upon Japanese tunnels, aiiieee, the tunnels have no end! No more! I'll tesll you all I know!
Seriously, the sequence lasted 20 minutes or something, I could imagine the theaters emptying. After that it picked up again. It was as if a crazed nipponese tunnel fetishist had swapped out one of the reels.
9mAH means it can supply 9mA for 1 Hour ... 9mA is enough to light a standard LED to half brightness. For an hour.
Please don't offer me a lift in your new car, ''Reality Master''.
Guilty as charged. My name being Andy, my fingers' hidden Markov modelling strongly suggests that 'An' is going to be followed by 'd'.
... a Roland MDX-15 for $3000, which is capable of similar feats, although on a smaller (6" x 4") scale.
There are some very interesting proposals for the next version listed on the gPulp site.
When I first saw it was ''talk before code'' my heart sank, but some of the proposals are actually very good.
Also, I noticed at the Gnotella page that the author is pointing out that Gnutella has being going downhill - no wonder, I find it much harder to get anything useful from it than with Napster.
Anyone else noticing that some of these high traffic ''review'' sites are serving up less and less on a page?
It is getting that adverts are becoming a new form of punctuation that you use at the end of a paragraph.
At least Andandtech and Tom's Hardware give you a table of contents for the review so you can cut through filler like the exact details of the test platform.
It is all the more irritating since browsers do not have a serious problem with monstrously long pages, and the aggregation of the whole review on a single page would have raised no eyebrows.
the union of two infinite sets is always infinite
That certainly sounds reasonable; however, as I understood the article, they are encoding their ''infinite data'' in the precise value assigned to what I think is called a scalar quantity (the phase, I assume, perhaps stupidly, expressed as an angle). So the first bit says whether it starts as 0 degrees or 180 degrees, the second bit adds 90 degrees if it is set, the third 45 degrees if set, and so on.
So this ''infinite'' data set boils down to a single infinitely precise number, say, 36.789...etc degrees. So that was one electron, perhaps full of an infinite number of Metallica albums. Now if we cp that electron to another one to give to a friend, but we added a Lene Marlin track at the beginning of it (having better taste than our friend), clearly it will end up with a different phase angle, even though it has an infinitude of contents (in different order). The phase angle will even be radically different if the first few bits of the added data are quite different.
Well, that is why I think your objection is wrong in this case:
-Andy
Each electron could hold the same set of infinite data but in a different order.
Hello Pete,
While I bask in the warm glow of your pity for me, let me point out what is ''obvious'' to us, now, was not even known 200 years ago and the bulk of it will probably be ludicrously outmoded 200 years hence. And that's us, the same race, in pretty much the same environment just separated by 200 of your Earth years.
If there are *aliens* out there with advanced technology, there is no reason for it to even be *possible* for a human to understand or even recognize it as a system; after all, our brains are of a finite size. In the same way that a dog will never truly appreciate music (howling tunelessly along because of a certain frequency content aside), surely more advanced races than us would beat us out with no more difficulty than we lock doors in front of our pets.
Anyway, the point was that the mere fact that we are still stumbling over these epoch-making concepts tells me - maybe you more advanced mutants don't need telling - that we may well still be too pathetic to imagine what medium would be the lingua franca for interstellar beacons &c used by hypothetical superadvanced civilizations.
I didn't see it mentioned, but this must be taking place at very low temperatures.
When I hear about cool, promising advances like this is always makes me sorry for the SETI types. How the aliens will laugh themselves silly at our hopeful sifting of the *radio*/stone-age technology spectrum for traces of them, when an advanced civilization would have stupendously cooler ''magic'' at their disposal.
Hooray! I am lucky enough to use the 1400x1050 display on a Dell Inspron 7500, and it is very good. Its main problem is vertical viewing angle, no matter what it is not possible to see a block of the same colour as the same colour all the way down the screen. I hope they fixed it.
:D
One good side effect of having such tiny pixels is that dead pixels are far less noticeable than they are on lower resolution displays.
I know what I want for Christmas
Gnutella and Gnotella (even with the skins) still have kind of crabby user interfaces, whereas Napster beta 7 has a funky tree thing to say what you're sharing. I'm sure that's partly to blame.
Another problem is that ''56K'' modems have a maximum 33.6kbps user-to-ISP bandwidth, it does somewhat hurt your downloading prowess to have people sucking up all your ACK-ing bandwidth.
People with the broadband connections don't seem to mind sharing, so I guess this will fix itself.
Also, around the time of the hearing for Napster when things looked bleak, Gnutella fell to its knees; it was very hard to get a reasonable connection without listing a dozen peers. There's something wrong with that there scaleability!
-Andy
Yeah, right.... Netmon is quite useless, and there is no way I can see to close the stupid thing either!!!
This is software that really had to be open sourced so someone could make the thing do something that was actually useful as opposed to something that merely worked.
-Andy
On the first link, yeah, ORBS is not saying it is in the Black Hole, but that above.net has been issuing router pollution all by itself to make orbs.org unreachable to chunks of the internet. See what ORBS themselves has to say. I don't think they're going to say this stuff unless they think it is true!
-Andy