I would agree with you if the Instant Messager interface wasn't such a pain. The idea is sound, but it needs to be more modular, I don't like having 1/6 of my browser screen taken up by a sidebar.
Due to the inevitable lag and bandwidth price, it's less likely to be a huge repository on each planet, and more like a web caching server. Interplanetary bandwidth is expensive, and the telecoms won't want to waste any of it. For example, if no one on earth cares about Jupidot, and it's never requested, there's no need to replicate it. If one day it is requested, there will be a pretty hefty lag before you can see it, but for a while after that it will be part of the updated cache, until it times out.
What the people here seem to be missing is the fact that an interplanetary net wouldn't be anything like our current net. The instant access and live updates that we have grown accustomed to would remain on the intraplanet nets, but would not be possible on the interplanet nets. There would be no cross galaxy game of quake. We would be relying on batched communications very similar to the way we currently send email to the servers on the south pole.
As far as who could afford it, it would have be the ISPs that control the interplanet connections. This caching would be an inherent part of the communications system, and they would be the only ones in a position to handle it. Believe it or not, this is the way things are currently being proposed. Unless someone can figure out how to break the speed of light, there's not much choice.
Full screen also doesn't work so well using Xinerama and two monitors. Having your page spread out across two displays is a bit hard to deal with... It's a shame, it's a really nice feature, oh well.
I think that simply because Len Klienrock used the term "packet technology" instead if "packet switching" in his PhD thesis (very widely considered to be the original paper on the matter) it should not be considered as something other than packet switching, the concept, methods, and uses proposed are still the same. The fact that someone later came up with a better name is not a reason to discredit Klienrock's work.
I do agree that due to the work from many contributors in many countries, a single inventor of the Internet is hard to name. Though I do believe the original concept of transport, in it's roughest form, belongs to Mr. Klienrock. The technology as it exists today is a result of the work of scientists from all over.
I see... Would that be Len Kleinrock of MIT who conceptualized packet switching, J. C. R. Licklider of IPTO who made it work in a network, Lincoln Labs at MIT where the first packet switched communications took place, or Robert Kahn of Brooklyn who dreamed up TCP that you are considering the Brittish contribution? Now granted, MIT is in New England, so I see where you might be a little confused, but let me assure you, packet switching and TCP (/IP) were made a reality here in the US.
I love the idea of this thing, but it just smacks of vapor. We've seen a bunch of these type things lately and none of them get past the pretty website stage. This one has plenty of info, but look a little closer.
For instance, their "MCC Notebook Shell" is merely an IBM T series notebook (complete with "Intel Inside" and "Designed for Windows X" labels on the lower left corner) with a nondescript black box sitting next to it. The pic of the wearable device is ripped off another story I've read somewhere about an IBM wearable machine and I even feel like I've seen that tablet pic before, but it's probably just suspicions now...
If they're going to claim cool new devices like this, they need to at least get some genuine pictures of it before I'll get my hopes up.
You can always try the Nokia 9290. It's probably not quite what you're looking for, but it has a lot to it. I saw a friend with one of these recently, and while the thing is a little big, if you consider that you can replace your cell and your PDA with it, I guess it's not too bad. I didn't get to play with it for too long, but it had a ton of features, nice big color screen, full qwerty keyboard, MS Office file compatibility, Internet browser, multimedia, and a pretty good amount of memory from what I was told. Maybe it would hold you over until your super gadget came out...
So you want to take a thin (or shall we say "dumb") client and attach it to a central processing server containing data and applications. Seems to me like we've tried this before, and while it worked well for the times, we've moved on. I don't think the solution to the Linux community's attempts to overcome the MS barrier on the desktop market is to adopt ideas and architectures from the 80's...
Don't get me wrong, I love CYGWIN and it definitely has it's purposes, but I don't think it is the missing link to the desktop.
You really should start reading articles before coming to the discussion area to rant.
And not to pick, but you really should read things a little more closely before you take a jab. This new law, if put into effect, would give the copyright holders the right to use any DoS style attack they wish provided such attacks are not destructive to the alleged "pirate"'s computer. Just because defective content is the example given in an article that favors the industry and is trying to put them in a good light does not mean that the tactics are limited to only that. It certainly does not rule out standard DoS attacks as they do no permanent damage.
Even better, the RIAA wants to launch DoS attacks on networks full of (presumably) relatively computer savvy people with high speed connections??? Now c'mon, that's just dumb. Sure they can hit the "routers" or look for central nodes, but they're still gonna end up pinging normal users right off the net. That's going to do nothing but get the script kiddies all riled up enough to start launching packets back in the other direction.
I almost hope this passes just to see the logs that are going to come from this one. Maybe we can print them out and mail them to Mr. Berman demanding to be reimbursed for the downtime we have while trying to coax our overworked routers out from under the floor tiles...
My school came up with an interesting solution to this same problem. Instead of throttling the traffic on specific protocols, they monitor the individual ports' traffic. The user registered on any port that goes over (I think) 1 gig in a day is emailed a warning. If they exceed the limit again, they are throttled down temporarily (something like 24 hours), and a third time results in a "permanent" throttling down to about 28k. There has been a lot of protest, but it seems to be working for the most part. The users are still alllowed to do whatever they want, but they have to be responsible for how much they do it.
Did you ever try themes or even code tweaks? Between the two I have managed to smooth out almost everything that bothered me about Gnome. It may not be the most attractive thing out of the box (although I think it looks a lot less cluttered than KDE), but it is extremely customizable. Pick a window manager you like, add a theme and you can get Gnome to look like almost anything. A lot of the themes these days even have rounded, less angular windows. I have one friend who actually had his looking like Windows and another who duped KDE. With a little time, it's amazing what you can do to Gnome's appearance.
Combustion guns work well enough, but if you want REAL distance, try air pressure. My favorite gun that I've built so far works like this: One section of safety PVC (rated at 220 psi) capped at both ends acts as an air chamber. It has a tire valve on one end for pressurising with a tire compressor, and a valve on the other end that connects it to the barrel. The barrel is another piece of PVC, the same length as the air chamber. The two are connected with a solenoid sprinkler valve. You pressure the air chamber up to 100 psi, apply a little current to the valve, it snaps open and bang. I've gotten golf balls (special barrel attachment) almost 450 yards.
See, a standard combustion gun gets about 15-25 psi in the chamber. Plus they make a mess. The air gun gets a solid, consistent high pressure blast every time. Notes of caution: use ONLY safety PVC rated at a MUCH higher psi than you will be using. Safety PVC has a seam that will burst if the pressure is too high rather than shattering. Also note that the sprinkler valve is only rated at 110 psi, so 100 should be the absolute maximum used. Remember, these ratings are liquid psi. Air has more force when compressed, so be careful. As dangerous as it can be, it's still a hell of a lot of fun...
Ok, so 1.4 may be faster. 1.4 may be more stable on Linux. 1.4 may be more robust. But, they still didn't fix the thing that annoys me the most about Java. Why is it so freaking complicated to do a simple read from the keyboard???
The changes make it legal for them to look at your computer, that does not constitue a right. I do, however, have the right to secure my system and my network as I see fit. What the new clause does is make it OK for MS to defeat my security to "check my Windows versions", it does not mean I have to leave it open to them.
Seems to me that this only applies to the volume licenses. Any company large enough to require a volume license will almost certainly have some manner of firewall. If they have a hole large enough for MS to get in to do things like this, they have bigger problems than someone just scanning thier Windows versions.
On the other hand, it does set a very bad legal precedent...
You too can get this report as often as you'd like, you are not limited to once a year. You don't have to pay if you do it at the right time. If a bank (or someone else) runs a credit check on you, the reporting agency that they ran the check with will usually send you the same information they sent them for free (often instantly over the net). And what makes you think companies are getting it for free? The credit reporting agencies are businesses, they don't give anything away to ANYONE. Trust me, the companies that get those reports pay a lot for the services.
It is semi-relevant given the situation. He had a limited time to save the process state before shutting down the system. Sending the computer into hibernate mode would have achieved both these tasks with relative ease.
I don't have a Radeon, but I do have an ATI card, and DRI support is turned on. You're description is right though, it locks up right where the game should start. It's ok though, I don't have a problem booting to Windows to play. Hey, that partition has to be good for SOMETHING right?
Man, I tried this thing on Linux when I first got it. I've never seen my Linux system turn into a smoking mass of Windows wannabe freezage before, but that sure as hell managed to do it. We'll see if the new ones work any better after the link clears up some...
Yes, but in order for these magical judges you speak of to order you to do something, it has to have a legal purpose... Especially when it involves divulging private information about 3rd parties. They're a little touchy about that these days.
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I would agree with you if the Instant Messager interface wasn't such a pain. The idea is sound, but it needs to be more modular, I don't like having 1/6 of my browser screen taken up by a sidebar.
Due to the inevitable lag and bandwidth price, it's less likely to be a huge repository on each planet, and more like a web caching server. Interplanetary bandwidth is expensive, and the telecoms won't want to waste any of it. For example, if no one on earth cares about Jupidot, and it's never requested, there's no need to replicate it. If one day it is requested, there will be a pretty hefty lag before you can see it, but for a while after that it will be part of the updated cache, until it times out.
What the people here seem to be missing is the fact that an interplanetary net wouldn't be anything like our current net. The instant access and live updates that we have grown accustomed to would remain on the intraplanet nets, but would not be possible on the interplanet nets. There would be no cross galaxy game of quake. We would be relying on batched communications very similar to the way we currently send email to the servers on the south pole.
As far as who could afford it, it would have be the ISPs that control the interplanet connections. This caching would be an inherent part of the communications system, and they would be the only ones in a position to handle it. Believe it or not, this is the way things are currently being proposed. Unless someone can figure out how to break the speed of light, there's not much choice.
Full screen also doesn't work so well using Xinerama and two monitors. Having your page spread out across two displays is a bit hard to deal with... It's a shame, it's a really nice feature, oh well.
I think that simply because Len Klienrock used the term "packet technology" instead if "packet switching" in his PhD thesis (very widely considered to be the original paper on the matter) it should not be considered as something other than packet switching, the concept, methods, and uses proposed are still the same. The fact that someone later came up with a better name is not a reason to discredit Klienrock's work.
I do agree that due to the work from many contributors in many countries, a single inventor of the Internet is hard to name. Though I do believe the original concept of transport, in it's roughest form, belongs to Mr. Klienrock. The technology as it exists today is a result of the work of scientists from all over.
I see... Would that be Len Kleinrock of MIT who conceptualized packet switching, J. C. R. Licklider of IPTO who made it work in a network, Lincoln Labs at MIT where the first packet switched communications took place, or Robert Kahn of Brooklyn who dreamed up TCP that you are considering the Brittish contribution? Now granted, MIT is in New England, so I see where you might be a little confused, but let me assure you, packet switching and TCP (/IP) were made a reality here in the US.
I love the idea of this thing, but it just smacks of vapor. We've seen a bunch of these type things lately and none of them get past the pretty website stage. This one has plenty of info, but look a little closer.
For instance, their "MCC Notebook Shell" is merely an IBM T series notebook (complete with "Intel Inside" and "Designed for Windows X" labels on the lower left corner) with a nondescript black box sitting next to it. The pic of the wearable device is ripped off another story I've read somewhere about an IBM wearable machine and I even feel like I've seen that tablet pic before, but it's probably just suspicions now...
If they're going to claim cool new devices like this, they need to at least get some genuine pictures of it before I'll get my hopes up.
You can always try the Nokia 9290. It's probably not quite what you're looking for, but it has a lot to it. I saw a friend with one of these recently, and while the thing is a little big, if you consider that you can replace your cell and your PDA with it, I guess it's not too bad. I didn't get to play with it for too long, but it had a ton of features, nice big color screen, full qwerty keyboard, MS Office file compatibility, Internet browser, multimedia, and a pretty good amount of memory from what I was told. Maybe it would hold you over until your super gadget came out...
"Yeah, but it goes down in a more stable sort of way than the old ones did."
Oh, I see, so it crashes better than previous versions. That makes is all ok...we can all go home now...
Phew... You didn't have the foresight to also patent RECREATIONAL coitus, so I guess most of us are in the clear!
So you want to take a thin (or shall we say "dumb") client and attach it to a central processing server containing data and applications. Seems to me like we've tried this before, and while it worked well for the times, we've moved on. I don't think the solution to the Linux community's attempts to overcome the MS barrier on the desktop market is to adopt ideas and architectures from the 80's...
Don't get me wrong, I love CYGWIN and it definitely has it's purposes, but I don't think it is the missing link to the desktop.
You really should start reading articles before coming to the discussion area to rant.
And not to pick, but you really should read things a little more closely before you take a jab. This new law, if put into effect, would give the copyright holders the right to use any DoS style attack they wish provided such attacks are not destructive to the alleged "pirate"'s computer. Just because defective content is the example given in an article that favors the industry and is trying to put them in a good light does not mean that the tactics are limited to only that. It certainly does not rule out standard DoS attacks as they do no permanent damage.
Even better, the RIAA wants to launch DoS attacks on networks full of (presumably) relatively computer savvy people with high speed connections??? Now c'mon, that's just dumb. Sure they can hit the "routers" or look for central nodes, but they're still gonna end up pinging normal users right off the net. That's going to do nothing but get the script kiddies all riled up enough to start launching packets back in the other direction.
I almost hope this passes just to see the logs that are going to come from this one. Maybe we can print them out and mail them to Mr. Berman demanding to be reimbursed for the downtime we have while trying to coax our overworked routers out from under the floor tiles...
My school came up with an interesting solution to this same problem. Instead of throttling the traffic on specific protocols, they monitor the individual ports' traffic. The user registered on any port that goes over (I think) 1 gig in a day is emailed a warning. If they exceed the limit again, they are throttled down temporarily (something like 24 hours), and a third time results in a "permanent" throttling down to about 28k. There has been a lot of protest, but it seems to be working for the most part. The users are still alllowed to do whatever they want, but they have to be responsible for how much they do it.
Did you ever try themes or even code tweaks? Between the two I have managed to smooth out almost everything that bothered me about Gnome. It may not be the most attractive thing out of the box (although I think it looks a lot less cluttered than KDE), but it is extremely customizable. Pick a window manager you like, add a theme and you can get Gnome to look like almost anything. A lot of the themes these days even have rounded, less angular windows. I have one friend who actually had his looking like Windows and another who duped KDE. With a little time, it's amazing what you can do to Gnome's appearance.
Combustion guns work well enough, but if you want REAL distance, try air pressure. My favorite gun that I've built so far works like this: One section of safety PVC (rated at 220 psi) capped at both ends acts as an air chamber. It has a tire valve on one end for pressurising with a tire compressor, and a valve on the other end that connects it to the barrel. The barrel is another piece of PVC, the same length as the air chamber. The two are connected with a solenoid sprinkler valve. You pressure the air chamber up to 100 psi, apply a little current to the valve, it snaps open and bang. I've gotten golf balls (special barrel attachment) almost 450 yards.
See, a standard combustion gun gets about 15-25 psi in the chamber. Plus they make a mess. The air gun gets a solid, consistent high pressure blast every time. Notes of caution: use ONLY safety PVC rated at a MUCH higher psi than you will be using. Safety PVC has a seam that will burst if the pressure is too high rather than shattering. Also note that the sprinkler valve is only rated at 110 psi, so 100 should be the absolute maximum used. Remember, these ratings are liquid psi. Air has more force when compressed, so be careful. As dangerous as it can be, it's still a hell of a lot of fun...
Ok, so 1.4 may be faster. 1.4 may be more stable on Linux. 1.4 may be more robust. But, they still didn't fix the thing that annoys me the most about Java. Why is it so freaking complicated to do a simple read from the keyboard???
The changes make it legal for them to look at your computer, that does not constitue a right. I do, however, have the right to secure my system and my network as I see fit. What the new clause does is make it OK for MS to defeat my security to "check my Windows versions", it does not mean I have to leave it open to them.
Seems to me that this only applies to the volume licenses. Any company large enough to require a volume license will almost certainly have some manner of firewall. If they have a hole large enough for MS to get in to do things like this, they have bigger problems than someone just scanning thier Windows versions.
On the other hand, it does set a very bad legal precedent...
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Well, if you want to be a complete pain in the ass, it actually runs Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP...
You too can get this report as often as you'd like, you are not limited to once a year. You don't have to pay if you do it at the right time. If a bank (or someone else) runs a credit check on you, the reporting agency that they ran the check with will usually send you the same information they sent them for free (often instantly over the net). And what makes you think companies are getting it for free? The credit reporting agencies are businesses, they don't give anything away to ANYONE. Trust me, the companies that get those reports pay a lot for the services.
It is semi-relevant given the situation. He had a limited time to save the process state before shutting down the system. Sending the computer into hibernate mode would have achieved both these tasks with relative ease.
I don't have a Radeon, but I do have an ATI card, and DRI support is turned on. You're description is right though, it locks up right where the game should start. It's ok though, I don't have a problem booting to Windows to play. Hey, that partition has to be good for SOMETHING right?
Man, I tried this thing on Linux when I first got it. I've never seen my Linux system turn into a smoking mass of Windows wannabe freezage before, but that sure as hell managed to do it. We'll see if the new ones work any better after the link clears up some...
Yes, but in order for these magical judges you speak of to order you to do something, it has to have a legal purpose... Especially when it involves divulging private information about 3rd parties. They're a little touchy about that these days.