I was always under the impression that a star topology is one where you have a central hub connecting a bunch of outlying points. To get from one outlying site to another, you have a double hop: once to get from the originating site to the hub, and another to get from the hub to the destination.
With a mesh, all sites are directly connected, giving you a single hop (originating site to destination site).
The linkway product allows a mesh network. As I read the article, that's all this "space router" will do as well. *shrug*
Double hop routing is already solved... Here's an example. Notice the text about "...can support star, mesh or hybrid network topologies..."? Any site can "talk" directly to any other.
While I'm not the original poster, I'm still at a loss as for what advantage this development gives.
But they only have those free hours to spend because of modern economics making it unneccesary to spend _all_ your time feeding yourself and your family.
This is such a sad misconception. Subsistence living actually left more time free for recreation than our "gotta work for my dreams" modern economy. Just a quick look around finds http://anthro.palomar.edu/subsistence/sub_6.htm. Here's a choice quote:
"In the United States, only . 84% of the entire population are still farmers. Those farmers not only provide food and fiber for all of the non-food-producing Americans but also for millions of people elsewhere in the world. It is ironic, that this dramatically increased food production has not resulted in more leisure time. Far from it, Americans now individually work more hours during the year than almost all other nations."
I'm not saying that there are not advantages to the society we live in (be it the United States, Europe, Japan, whatever), I'm just saying that the "uncivilized" didn't really have it as bad as "civilized" people are conditioned to believe.
I can't say that I've watched the Animatrix (or played the Matrix console game for that matter), so I may be missing something...
My reasoning for sending mass sentinels towards Zion is that it keeps the illusion (for the "escaped") alive. If they "got out" of the Matrix, and the machines just let them be, there would be no sense of urgency for Neo to find the Source, and some of the escaped might just get the feeling that escape was a bit too easy. *shrug*
As for Bane, assuming that the plugged in people are being used not just as batteries, but also as distributed processing power, the Matrix is running code on all connected people, be they in pods, or on ships inserting their pirated signal. It seems reasonable that if killing the avatar can terminate the mind, then brain reprogramming is not too far fetched a possibility.
Perhaps I'm just "reading" more into the post-apocalyptic nature of the "real world, and Smith's statement that the Human's time is over, and the machines are the next dominating species of the planet, but I kind of feel that the machines had won, and Neo realized it by the end.
He had lost the one person who made his life complete, realized that he was still stuck in a pod (as were all the inhabitants of Zion), or (even better) he realized that he is just a program himself, and that ignorance truly is bliss. He takes out Smith so the people who are satisfied with their life in the Matrix can continue unassailed, and the residents of Zion can get on with rebuilding their "real" city.
Again, I shrug. I am enjoying the discourse in any case.
I like your interpretation of the Architect scene.
I do feel that in this scene there is an implication of matrices within matrices. The Architect speaks of a small percentage of people that don't take well to The Matrix, and how a failsafe had to be devised. Where you indicate that Neo/Smith is the failsafe, I like to think that failsafe is the "real world" which is not actually real, but another matrix layer. After all, once the small portion of the population that doesn't take to The Matrix break out (of The Matrix) and make it to the "real world" they seem satisfied. Problem solved. They are still in pods, and still under the machines' control, but perceive that they are free.
After all, how did Smith's persona make it into the "real world" (Bane). I concede it could be explained in the same Wi-Fi method you use to explain Neo's interaction with the squidies at the end of Reloaded. It's all a matter of perception, and preference. I don't feel that the matrix within a matrix is a cop-out.
In any case, the Architect scene is one of my absolute favorites of the second two movies, and contrary to popular opinion around here, I don't think they suck. *shrug*
Off topic to the posted story, but I have to reply to your confusion.
Secondly, the large amount of people who not only visited both the mirror and the original site, but the people who clicked through from both, seems quite high. I have to wonder why these people do such actions. Do they think that the article will be different at the different hosts?
Much of the world uses proxies, and NAT, so you might see multiple requests for the same page from a single IP address, which actually originates at different computers. Without scanning the HTTP headers for X_Forwarded_For (assuming said information is available), it's really hard to get an acurate picture of how many end users are viewing your site.
I posted the link pretty early, and was unsure of how much traffic it would generate. Coralizing links seems to be a farily good option for slashdot traffic, as much of it originates from US universities.
It states that Linux 2.6 and NetBSD are the best performers! What part of my post (posting proof of performance in response to a person expousing the virtues of FreeBSD) leads you (in a general sence) to to belive that I'm a Linux Zelot? Three responses to my post, all very defensive.
Personally, before reading that page, I was under the impression that OpenBSD was for security, FreeBSD was for performance, and NetBSD was for portability. This shows very clearly, that (as of a year ago) NetBSD is no slouch in the performance category.
I'd think that those poor, put upon BSD proponents would be HAPPY to show off this page. So what if it's a year old (which I stated in my original post)? That just means performance has likely improved even more. So what if the hardware is old? New hardware is not going to adjust the ratio of performance.
In a story announcing the release of NetBSD, you'd think that a link to a site that shows how well it performed (a year ago) would be greated with a bit less hostility.
Whatever.
Re:Ah. Blissful clean architecture.
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Transmission over CAT5 doesn't necessarily imply TCP/IP-ready streaming. I suspect this is dedicated cabling running either to dedicated remotes or VGA/composite over CAT5 with baluns at the client end.
Sorry for replying twice. Just found this in the FAQ:
Q: What are the home networking requirements?
A: All Kaleidescape components must reside in the same broadcast domain, and be connected to a 100BaseT switched Ethernet LAN. We recommend that you have a DHCP server in your LAN so that each Kaleidescape component can automatically obtain an IP address and related information.
It could be used in a multi-user houshold, but there are pretty limited cases where you would be violating typical copyright licenses. You can watch different DVDs in every room legally, you can watch the same DVD on multiple TVs simultaneously legally. The only case I can think of is playing the same title asyncronously in multiple locations.
The unit does allow this. I'm watching the press-kit movie (available from http://www.kaleidescape.com/news/presskit.html#k-e xperience) and at about 7:30 into the movie a user of the system describes just this scenario.
Perhaps this is where the problem lies?
As for the numerous people complaining about the price tag, it covers much more than hardware. The UI is very slick, and has obviously had a lot of time put into it. I wouldn't pay $27,000 for the unit, but I can see why someone would.
Continuing the off-topic trend, you can get a HDTV 3 color (also known as "component") video out for your Gamecube. Holding down the "B" button when you start a game will give you the option (if the game supports it) of 480p output. It does make a noticable difference.
As for a component-capable A/V switch, I recently bought a Audio Authority 1154 HDTV Component Video Switcher. It is just great. Sadly it only has four inputs, and a single output, but it also switches optical digital, coax digital and RCA stereo sound. All automatically. Not a bad unit.
I'm not the seller, and am not affiliated with the company in any way. I just like the product.
If Time Warner collaborated with the MPAA and attempted to go after usenet users _downloading_ from their feed (the only thing they could track), wouldn't it be some form of entrapment?
No more so than the police masquerading as prostitutes and busting people for solicitation. Entrapment definition.
Bandwidth requirements for business quality video begin at 64Kbps--with 128kbps being the most common minimum acceptable data rate for business quality video. ViaVideo does not support transmission below 64Kbps.
You get VERY smooth conferences with just 384k of upload, and latency (even sattelite) has a suprisingly small effect on video quality.
In fact I would rather have my speedo analogue as well (it takes less time for human brain to read an analogue dial compared to a digital number).
It appears that NASA disagrees with you... PDF link
From other sources I have read, digital displays are best for showing exact information (you are going this fast), where analog is better for displaying trends (your speed is increasing).
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Will a Red vs Blue series foolow?
The new series will start shortly, and may use Halo 2.
The crew whose responsibility it was to shut down the power station actually breached the system. Prior to completing their mission, their ship and bodies in the "real world" were destroyed by squiddies. Trinity walked up to a breached system and ran the shut-down command.
More specifically, you wouldn't even be safe asking each and every one of your clientele if they were affiliated with law enforcement prior to making a deal. Related Snopes link.
Alaska is a beautiful state. Good luck driving much of it (black lines are roads). What you can drive through is quite scenic, but you can't even get to the state capital (Juneau, not visible on the first map) by road (unless you count the marine highway system as a road).
Slashdot Mirror
Roosevelt E. Roosevelt? Is that really you?
I was always under the impression that a star topology is one where you have a central hub connecting a bunch of outlying points. To get from one outlying site to another, you have a double hop: once to get from the originating site to the hub, and another to get from the hub to the destination.
With a mesh, all sites are directly connected, giving you a single hop (originating site to destination site).
The linkway product allows a mesh network. As I read the article, that's all this "space router" will do as well. *shrug*
Double hop routing is already solved... Here's an example. Notice the text about "...can support star, mesh or hybrid network topologies..."? Any site can "talk" directly to any other.
While I'm not the original poster, I'm still at a loss as for what advantage this development gives.
Heh. Must be a northern thing. It's available in Alaska as well...
This is such a sad misconception. Subsistence living actually left more time free for recreation than our "gotta work for my dreams" modern economy. Just a quick look around finds http://anthro.palomar.edu/subsistence/sub_6.htm. Here's a choice quote:
"In the United States, only . 84% of the entire population are still farmers. Those farmers not only provide food and fiber for all of the non-food-producing Americans but also for millions of people elsewhere in the world. It is ironic, that this dramatically increased food production has not resulted in more leisure time. Far from it, Americans now individually work more hours during the year than almost all other nations."
I'm not saying that there are not advantages to the society we live in (be it the United States, Europe, Japan, whatever), I'm just saying that the "uncivilized" didn't really have it as bad as "civilized" people are conditioned to believe.
I can't say that I've watched the Animatrix (or played the Matrix console game for that matter), so I may be missing something...
My reasoning for sending mass sentinels towards Zion is that it keeps the illusion (for the "escaped") alive. If they "got out" of the Matrix, and the machines just let them be, there would be no sense of urgency for Neo to find the Source, and some of the escaped might just get the feeling that escape was a bit too easy. *shrug*
As for Bane, assuming that the plugged in people are being used not just as batteries, but also as distributed processing power, the Matrix is running code on all connected people, be they in pods, or on ships inserting their pirated signal. It seems reasonable that if killing the avatar can terminate the mind, then brain reprogramming is not too far fetched a possibility.
Perhaps I'm just "reading" more into the post-apocalyptic nature of the "real world, and Smith's statement that the Human's time is over, and the machines are the next dominating species of the planet, but I kind of feel that the machines had won, and Neo realized it by the end.
He had lost the one person who made his life complete, realized that he was still stuck in a pod (as were all the inhabitants of Zion), or (even better) he realized that he is just a program himself, and that ignorance truly is bliss. He takes out Smith so the people who are satisfied with their life in the Matrix can continue unassailed, and the residents of Zion can get on with rebuilding their "real" city.
Again, I shrug. I am enjoying the discourse in any case.
I like your interpretation of the Architect scene.
I do feel that in this scene there is an implication of matrices within matrices. The Architect speaks of a small percentage of people that don't take well to The Matrix, and how a failsafe had to be devised. Where you indicate that Neo/Smith is the failsafe, I like to think that failsafe is the "real world" which is not actually real, but another matrix layer. After all, once the small portion of the population that doesn't take to The Matrix break out (of The Matrix) and make it to the "real world" they seem satisfied. Problem solved. They are still in pods, and still under the machines' control, but perceive that they are free.
After all, how did Smith's persona make it into the "real world" (Bane). I concede it could be explained in the same Wi-Fi method you use to explain Neo's interaction with the squidies at the end of Reloaded. It's all a matter of perception, and preference. I don't feel that the matrix within a matrix is a cop-out.
In any case, the Architect scene is one of my absolute favorites of the second two movies, and contrary to popular opinion around here, I don't think they suck. *shrug*
Much of the world uses proxies, and NAT, so you might see multiple requests for the same page from a single IP address, which actually originates at different computers. Without scanning the HTTP headers for X_Forwarded_For (assuming said information is available), it's really hard to get an acurate picture of how many end users are viewing your site.
Just a thought.
FWIW, the phish-alike mirror, is a feature... http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/.
I posted the link pretty early, and was unsure of how much traffic it would generate. Coralizing links seems to be a farily good option for slashdot traffic, as much of it originates from US universities.
*shrug*
Thanks for pointing it out all the same.
You people are so funny. READ THE PAGE!
It states that Linux 2.6 and NetBSD are the best performers! What part of my post (posting proof of performance in response to a person expousing the virtues of FreeBSD) leads you (in a general sence) to to belive that I'm a Linux Zelot? Three responses to my post, all very defensive.
Personally, before reading that page, I was under the impression that OpenBSD was for security, FreeBSD was for performance, and NetBSD was for portability. This shows very clearly, that (as of a year ago) NetBSD is no slouch in the performance category.
I'd think that those poor, put upon BSD proponents would be HAPPY to show off this page. So what if it's a year old (which I stated in my original post)? That just means performance has likely improved even more. So what if the hardware is old? New hardware is not going to adjust the ratio of performance.
In a story announcing the release of NetBSD, you'd think that a link to a site that shows how well it performed (a year ago) would be greated with a bit less hostility.
Whatever.
Proof of performance (Coralized for politeness) http://bulk.fefe.de.nyud.net:8090/scalability/
The benchmarks on this page are a year old, but still show a very interesting picture of network socket performance.
Sorry for replying twice. Just found this in the FAQ:
The unit does allow this. I'm watching the press-kit movie (available from http://www.kaleidescape.com/news/presskit.html#k-
Perhaps this is where the problem lies?
As for the numerous people complaining about the price tag, it covers much more than hardware. The UI is very slick, and has obviously had a lot of time put into it. I wouldn't pay $27,000 for the unit, but I can see why someone would.
FWIW, the hotel is called Atlantis.
Continuing the off-topic trend, you can get a HDTV 3 color (also known as "component") video out for your Gamecube. Holding down the "B" button when you start a game will give you the option (if the game supports it) of 480p output. It does make a noticable difference.
As for a component-capable A/V switch, I recently bought a Audio Authority 1154 HDTV Component Video Switcher. It is just great. Sadly it only has four inputs, and a single output, but it also switches optical digital, coax digital and RCA stereo sound. All automatically. Not a bad unit.
I'm not the seller, and am not affiliated with the company in any way. I just like the product.
No more so than the police masquerading as prostitutes and busting people for solicitation. Entrapment definition.
Nice try though.
You get VERY smooth conferences with just 384k of upload, and latency (even sattelite) has a suprisingly small effect on video quality.
It appears that NASA disagrees with you... PDF link
From other sources I have read, digital displays are best for showing exact information (you are going this fast), where analog is better for displaying trends (your speed is increasing).
The new series will start shortly, and may use Halo 2.
Q: Is Season 3 going to be stupid and immature like Season 1 or story-driven and boring like Season 2?
A: We promise to disappoint you in all new ways.
In other words, what you are looking for is something like this?
I know no one cares, but I have to reiterate:
TRINITY DIDN'T USE NMAP IN THE MATRIX!
The crew whose responsibility it was to shut down the power station actually breached the system. Prior to completing their mission, their ship and bodies in the "real world" were destroyed by squiddies. Trinity walked up to a breached system and ran the shut-down command.
*sigh*
Those disclaimers have no legal value.
More specifically, you wouldn't even be safe asking each and every one of your clientele if they were affiliated with law enforcement prior to making a deal. Related Snopes link.
Alaska is a beautiful state. Good luck driving much of it (black lines are roads). What you can drive through is quite scenic, but you can't even get to the state capital (Juneau, not visible on the first map) by road (unless you count the marine highway system as a road).
Your confidence might be a bit misplaced.