Well actually we can be innovative and build a tunnel under their fence!:-)
Seriously though, one place I see potential for innovation is internet protocols. Why can't the Apache people, and the Mozilla people, and Konqueror,etc all sit down and create their own compressed HTTP system, that sends data in a compressed binary format instead of plaintext. Huge amounts of bandwidth could be saved in this manner, and it would put free software miles ahead of commercial competition.
Imagine how much bandwidth would be saved if Usenet was done with compressed data, not the binaries - the're already compressed, but the headers, and bodies of text messages. There's something like 20gigs a day of plain text usenet messages. That could drop easily to 1 gig per day. And the headers of the binary posts would be smaller and everything like that.
Open Source software could save the internet providers millions of dollars in this way, and everyone would know that the hackers did this, not Microsoft or any other company.
The open source community will never stop innovating. You can't suppress people's freedoms. Governments and corporations will keep trying to enforce rules and laws on the internet, but it won't work. They will build a 6 foot fence, but the open source community will build an 8 foot ladder. They can't take away our freedom to innovate.
After reading the article again, instead of just glancing at it, I notice that it isn't a Intel standard, but an industry standard. This should be good for open source!
It would be good to see something faster for the other gear in my machine. Will this the be as fast as AGP is for video?
The other problem is that because Intel is making this, they won't release the information on how it works, and they won't let VIA make chipsets using this. Also how long will it take to get support for this in Open Source OS's? Will it be backward compatible?
The best technology doesn't always win. Ogg Vorbis is technically better than MP3, but hardly anyone uses it. HTML/Javascript are very well known and common. It will take people a long time to get to the same proficency with Curl, if ever.
Is this a free format, or is it covered by patents?
This is outrageous, an open-source GPLed program being turned into closed source. I will NEVER EVER buy anything from Sunspire Studios, and will tell other people not to as well.
We need to stand up and fight companies who think they can take GPLed software away.
It seems to me that that huge link across the pacific isn't being used. I have tracerouted my connection to USA websites heaps of times, and everytime it goes via perth then out to england and across from there. Are any ISPs using the pacific link? Wasn't it supposed to be 40 Gbps or something?
How long until we can do these sorts of things in realtime? With the NVIDIA Geforce3's and stuff we should be do something a bit better than what is in average FP games.
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Are there any open source artists around? Maybe that would be a good group to form. A group of artists that would help out open source projects.
If he posted it to Freenet, under an anonymous nickname, he could have released it without fear of being arrested next time he goes to the USA.
Post it to Freenet. Nobody will ever track it there. Except he shouldn't have said that he was the guy who first broke it. He will be blaimed anyway.
Debian is easy. I first started with Linux in 1996, using Debian stable whatever it was back then. It wasn't that hard to install.
Right on --- that what 15yr olds have that oldies dont have and thats time -- and lots of it -- Lets hope they use the time to learn wisely
Well actually we can be innovative and build a tunnel under their fence! :-)
Seriously though, one place I see potential for innovation is internet protocols. Why can't the Apache people, and the Mozilla people, and Konqueror,etc all sit down and create their own compressed HTTP system, that sends data in a compressed binary format instead of plaintext. Huge amounts of bandwidth could be saved in this manner, and it would put free software miles ahead of commercial competition.
Imagine how much bandwidth would be saved if Usenet was done with compressed data, not the binaries - the're already compressed, but the headers, and bodies of text messages. There's something like 20gigs a day of plain text usenet messages. That could drop easily to 1 gig per day. And the headers of the binary posts would be smaller and everything like that.
Open Source software could save the internet providers millions of dollars in this way, and everyone would know that the hackers did this, not Microsoft or any other company.
The open source community will never stop innovating. You can't suppress people's freedoms. Governments and corporations will keep trying to enforce rules and laws on the internet, but it won't work. They will build a 6 foot fence, but the open source community will build an 8 foot ladder. They can't take away our freedom to innovate.
After reading the article again, instead of just glancing at it, I notice that it isn't a Intel standard, but an industry standard. This should be good for open source!
It would be good to see something faster for the other gear in my machine. Will this the be as fast as AGP is for video?
The other problem is that because Intel is making this, they won't release the information on how it works, and they won't let VIA make chipsets using this. Also how long will it take to get support for this in Open Source OS's? Will it be backward compatible?
Well it sounds better, so that is good enough for me.
I use Ogg Vorbis for all my music, and I am generally very happy with the quality. I think I can hear the difference from MP3.
The thing I don't like is some of the encoders have bugs that make annoying pops in the middle of the music. If they could fix that it would be great.
The best technology doesn't always win. Ogg Vorbis is technically better than MP3, but hardly anyone uses it. HTML/Javascript are very well known and common. It will take people a long time to get to the same proficency with Curl, if ever.
Is this a free format, or is it covered by patents?
He was just lying when he said that.
Well you obviously aren't using 3D acceleration.....
This is outrageous, an open-source GPLed program being turned into closed source. I will NEVER EVER buy anything from Sunspire Studios, and will tell other people not to as well.
We need to stand up and fight companies who think they can take GPLed software away.
The DMCA is unconstituional too. It didn't stop them from passing it and using it.
Half the things you see in scifi movies are here now. Phasers, flying cars, bionic suits, mobile phones, what next? Teleportation?
What about Programming Perl?
Yes but that disables all javascript. You don't need to stop it all, only window.open. Konqueror and Mozilla are the only ones that do that.
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It seems to me that that huge link across the pacific isn't being used. I have tracerouted my connection to USA websites heaps of times, and everytime it goes via perth then out to england and across from there. Are any ISPs using the pacific link? Wasn't it supposed to be 40 Gbps or something?
Yeah, but it looks like it is frozen on 11,000.
For the fifth time, Mac OS X only runs on Macintosh hardware. It's not going to help the people who are enslaved by ms windows.
The server is still running, but the bandwidth is choked.
It only works on Mac hardware though. Macintosh is good, and should be what we are using, not the PC, but it isn't open.
How long until we can do these sorts of things in realtime? With the NVIDIA Geforce3's and stuff we should be do something a bit better than what is in average FP games.