You walk into the concert arena, your iPod2 uses zeroconf (rendezvous) to identify itself to the concert host system.
anyone whos' got the 'share my compute cycles' checkbox set on their ipod2 automatically shares their ipod2's cpu cycles, again announced by rendezvous, with the rest of the system.
for the duration of that gig, the machines are all bound together, beowulf-style, to distribute the live recording of the event that is being produced for prosperity during the concert. some 'secrets and surprises' are thrown into the tracks too, just for grins.
at the end of the gig, everyone walks away with their own digital recording of the event, custom, unique, 'branded to the event'.
the whole thing was included in the price of admission, and open to anyone who walks into the concert arena with their boxes turned on...
I can totally see this happening. In fact, if I had the resources, I'd start a company that does just this service for concerts and gigs and such... now would be round about the right time to get into this market, since its infancy-stages...
While its a travesty to see such conclusions as "product == useless people" being made, its also a pointed fact that education, as a science, is incomplete.
Due to its massive industrialization, the subject of systems of education is wraught with examples of abject failure.
The most important thing to remember is that the only person who ever learns anything is you. Everyone else teaches.
This is just a justification for not doing anything about it.
Typical weak reasoning... "this is how its always been, so just live with it".
Life is yours to do what you want with it. These people are creating a future society that will be based on fear and reaction, prone to control... and people like you are letting them.
I think that you could do that with NeXT - put the apps anywhere you wanted to, of course - but the point was more that there was still an "OS disk" inside the machine.
My idea is that, with the OS and apps on a customized, bootable CD, the machine itself is -dead- and empty. The internal disk has an encrypted portion of the p2p'ized filesystem on it - not an entire copy, just distributed packets of the bigger sphere, like with the way FreeNet nodes never contain complete copies of the files they're storing, there's redundancy, and therefore take away a node and the 'net filesystem' reacts accordingly. Add a machine, and all you're doing is 'beefing up' the redundancy of the whole network, not adding a node with its own unique signature liabilities.
I don't recall much about the Andrew FS, which I haven't really played with since '94, but I'm thinking more of 'distributed p2p, load-balanced, data-redundant' style filesystems on a local level...
Well, I think Jobs just wanted to make some sort of banal point, and 'upgrade the floppy', which flopped. NeXT had nice media-based homedir config though if I remember correctly, which meant you could just buy a single disk and work from it. It was a real student machine...
The difference is, though, that I'm proposing that the role of the hard disk, internally, be no longer relegated to that of 'hosting an operating system' - in other words, the entire thing is just a big media-store. If that media store was then part of a p2p networking scheme that had a degree of redundancy, then you could turn a PC farm of 40 or so workstations into an extremely solid and stable computing -system-...
All the 'verbage' is on the CD (Apps), and the data is stored in a p2p 'cloud', redundant, which grows/expands as you add/subtract machines...
Anyway, I guess I'll think about this some more and find other places to discuss this... ')
About 4 or 5 hours of footage from an Inuit family, on the ice. I don't think it was edited too much - loooong shots of the entire days work, hunting on the ice, preserving each precious bullet, skeeting across various ice sheets in odd conditions. It was shot in what seemed to me to be extremely close digital, and it was a beautiful work. Very blue.
I'll never forget it, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called, or who did it. But the Inuit lifestyle out there on the Tundra is deeply moving. If you've ever dreamt of going to Mars, make sure you've been to the Arctic circle first...
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Yeah, uh... just a word on those critters and naming them...
Don't get too attached. In Triops world, if its organic you eat it. They are savage little fuckers.
In my last batch from one of those kits, I got a -lot- of other shrimp (fairy, brine, etc.) going. Must've been the water, but it was a totally clear little swamp of crustacea for a while...
Once those fuckers get big though, watch out. In the end, there will be only one living organism in that tank, and he will be fat.
dunno... i last had some when i lived in LA, but now i've moved to germany i have no clue where they are to be found, though i -think- i saw a triops kit in a toy store once, so i imagine they're available.
it seems to me, if there is life to be found on mars, it'll be Triops-like in nature... just a wild guess, you know, nothing educated about it at all. the fact that triops are so hardy and old and shit...
Get some Triops for that swank pad, you'll be so happy you upgraded!
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I for one welcome our new martian sea monkey overlords, and would like to remind them that, as a talented/. poster, i'm quite qualified to act as an intelligence resource in the Triops Wars which are inevitably on the horizon...
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Dude, if you can't see the -obvious business opportunity- for promoters then you're an idiot!
listen, you freakin' moron, its *THE PROMOTERS WHO ARE SELLING YOU THE TRACK*.
look, just forget it. go back into your box.
yeah, boring. i'd rather be at the beach.
You walk into the concert arena, your iPod2 uses zeroconf (rendezvous) to identify itself to the concert host system.
...
... now would be round about the right time to get into this market, since its infancy-stages ...
anyone whos' got the 'share my compute cycles' checkbox set on their ipod2 automatically shares their ipod2's cpu cycles, again announced by rendezvous, with the rest of the system.
for the duration of that gig, the machines are all bound together, beowulf-style, to distribute the live recording of the event that is being produced for prosperity during the concert. some 'secrets and surprises' are thrown into the tracks too, just for grins.
at the end of the gig, everyone walks away with their own digital recording of the event, custom, unique, 'branded to the event'.
the whole thing was included in the price of admission, and open to anyone who walks into the concert arena with their boxes turned on
I can totally see this happening. In fact, if I had the resources, I'd start a company that does just this service for concerts and gigs and such
Won't be long before sporting events and rock concerts will be able to host such supercomputers, too ...
... good enough node spec for me! ;)
Imagine, iPod2 has WLAN
Its not whether the freedom is -enforced- it is whether the freedom is -allowed for in the existing laws- ...
There is a big difference between those two states, and the lines between are being drawn by your current legislators.
Whats that? A "Simpsons" quote?
Gee, whats that worth to ya?!
... put together a 'small and light GUI/SDK', I mean. For small and light computing.
Hold on, its going to get better. SDL+Paragui/gtkfb+fb/&etc...
While its a travesty to see such conclusions as "product == useless people" being made, its also a pointed fact that education, as a science, is incomplete.
Due to its massive industrialization, the subject of systems of education is wraught with examples of abject failure.
The most important thing to remember is that the only person who ever learns anything is you. Everyone else teaches.
I know you're a troll, so I will say this: there is no such thing as a pointless /. post.
This is just a justification for not doing anything about it.
... and people like you are letting them.
Typical weak reasoning... "this is how its always been, so just live with it".
Life is yours to do what you want with it. These people are creating a future society that will be based on fear and reaction, prone to control
Thats not the movie I saw, but Atanarjuat is a beautiful movie as well.
... There were looong moments of Arctic void, from the eyes of the sleigh ...
The film I saw had more of an 'art-school documentary' vibe about it
Drats. I'll find it one day. Definitely worth posessing.
I think that you could do that with NeXT - put the apps anywhere you wanted to, of course - but the point was more that there was still an "OS disk" inside the machine.
...
My idea is that, with the OS and apps on a customized, bootable CD, the machine itself is -dead- and empty. The internal disk has an encrypted portion of the p2p'ized filesystem on it - not an entire copy, just distributed packets of the bigger sphere, like with the way FreeNet nodes never contain complete copies of the files they're storing, there's redundancy, and therefore take away a node and the 'net filesystem' reacts accordingly. Add a machine, and all you're doing is 'beefing up' the redundancy of the whole network, not adding a node with its own unique signature liabilities.
I don't recall much about the Andrew FS, which I haven't really played with since '94, but I'm thinking more of 'distributed p2p, load-balanced, data-redundant' style filesystems on a local level
The proper response to terrorism is to do nothing in response.
Those who are waving the terrorism banner right now are using it to distract us all from the other, real, serious problems.
Such as the U.S. National Debt, &etc. That is not Freedom.
No, definitely wasn't that. I remember that movie distinctly differently. :)
NeXT had a similar philosophy with MO discs.
...
...
Well, I think Jobs just wanted to make some sort of banal point, and 'upgrade the floppy', which flopped. NeXT had nice media-based homedir config though if I remember correctly, which meant you could just buy a single disk and work from it. It was a real student machine...
The difference is, though, that I'm proposing that the role of the hard disk, internally, be no longer relegated to that of 'hosting an operating system' - in other words, the entire thing is just a big media-store. If that media store was then part of a p2p networking scheme that had a degree of redundancy, then you could turn a PC farm of 40 or so workstations into an extremely solid and stable computing -system-
All the 'verbage' is on the CD (Apps), and the data is stored in a p2p 'cloud', redundant, which grows/expands as you add/subtract machines
Anyway, I guess I'll think about this some more and find other places to discuss this... ')
... at a MOCA (LA) exhibit ...
...
About 4 or 5 hours of footage from an Inuit family, on the ice. I don't think it was edited too much - loooong shots of the entire days work, hunting on the ice, preserving each precious bullet, skeeting across various ice sheets in odd conditions. It was shot in what seemed to me to be extremely close digital, and it was a beautiful work. Very blue.
I'll never forget it, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called, or who did it. But the Inuit lifestyle out there on the Tundra is deeply moving. If you've ever dreamt of going to Mars, make sure you've been to the Arctic circle first
Yeah, uh ... just a word on those critters and naming them ...
Don't get too attached. In Triops world, if its organic you eat it. They are savage little fuckers.
In my last batch from one of those kits, I got a -lot- of other shrimp (fairy, brine, etc.) going. Must've been the water, but it was a totally clear little swamp of crustacea for a while...
Once those fuckers get big though, watch out. In the end, there will be only one living organism in that tank, and he will be fat.
I can't honestly think of a non-pervy use for this technology.
...
... Loads and Loads ...
Well, maybe it'd be interesting to get a 'smell-o-gram' that summarizes my e-mail filters, that could be interesting
"Mmmm... Peach!"
Alright, I change my mind. I can think of lots of uses for this
dunno ... i last had some when i lived in LA, but now i've moved to germany i have no clue where they are to be found, though i -think- i saw a triops kit in a toy store once, so i imagine they're available.
... just a wild guess, you know, nothing educated about it at all. the fact that triops are so hardy and old and shit ...
it seems to me, if there is life to be found on mars, it'll be Triops-like in nature
Get some Triops for that swank pad, you'll be so happy you upgraded!
I for one welcome our new martian sea monkey overlords, and would like to remind them that, as a talented /. poster, i'm quite qualified to act as an intelligence resource in the Triops Wars which are inevitably on the horizon ...
so ... what ... you're telling me that these million dollar tinkertoys are really just up there sniffing rat piss?
damnit. i want my money back! i already -know- enough about rat piss and i don't care if there's any on mars!
Marlaphants rock. I want some on my pyjama's!
... all we need now is to find the secret Sea Monkey bases, and we're set ... ;)