Aww. I'm sure if their comments are needed they can dropdown a huge HD Screen and connect to them. "Were sorry, but Apple couldn't be here tonight. Anyways, thanks for the award and the such. Were here working on our next build of OSX, and couldn't make it! Sorry. Toodles.".
Perhaps they will go to the NY show, but be fashionably late.
I don't think were quite at the "Home Theatre" area yet. I mean, most of us can't even afford those [Widescreen] HDTV's and surround sound, not to mention the expensive DVD's. It won't be until around 5 years until the prices for HDTV's drop, and when 80% of TV broadcasting is actually formated for HDTV's.
If home theatre's can competete with actual theatre's, then that is very insulting to the actual movie theatre's. Maybe they should increase their quality? Make people want to come? I know of some real beautifiul movie theatre's where they have gormet dinner inside, friendly service, clean movie houses, quality sound, good seating... of course, that's the minority of movie theatre's. But that's a good buisness model others can look at for help.
Also, what about all the dates? I doubt I'll tell the girl I'm going with "Yea, lets stay home and watch this movie on my coutch". I don't think it would have the same effect. And I think parents who have birthday parties love the theatre over their house for a gathering.
Basically, the reason people go to the movies is for the service. They don't want to worry about putting in the movie, making sure the sound is good, scheduling time, etc. They just go and watch a movie. The theature is not "doomed". Well, maybe it is if it keeps it's current buisness model. But that seems to be the trend for everything these days...
Phoenix is nice, but the reason I don't use Mozilla/Phoenix is because of cosmetic and usability problems.
I like my browser to mesh with my operating system. Not so far to where the OS doesn't let you uninstall it, but to where it blends in with the look of my OS. I use Windows XP, and Mozilla does not look like XP. Sure the GUI is nice, but it looks odd with my Luna style. In addition, IE meshes with Explorer. So I can easily switch between Explorer and Internet explorer. Try typing "C:\Program Files" in Mozilla/Phoenix. Very different.
In addition, there are many usability issues. Click on the address bar, while it's highlighted, click, hold and drag towards the left or right. It attempts to drag the entire address, maybe to drag and drop in the bookmarks menu. Now try it in IE, it's different. It will highlight the portion and allow you to edit it etc. That is very annoying in Phoenix/Mozilla.
Another usability problem is the placement of the Address bar. Why is it at the same layer as the toolbar? (Back, Forward buttons). I believe there is a Bug reported in BugZilla about this in Mozilla, but of course... nobody cares about Usability issues.
Why can't I have "Selective Text on Right". And that "Toolbar Customizer" with the drag and drop has bad usability problems. It's very confusing to use. And having to "Name" your toolbars?? Err..
Also, the Bookmark Management is very sloppy. They need sidebar management for bookmarks.
What popular games were out on the PC platform in the 70's? Perhaps they're talking about Super Mario or Pacman?
Does this same age group dominate the console market too? If so, then perhaps Nintendo and Playstation should change their target demographics. Stop selling games with "FREE Bike Decals!" and replace it with "FREE Car Insurance Estimate!"
End of Tivo and rise of UltimateTV? Give me a break.
This article is pure FUD from Microsoft, who are a competetor of Tivo ("UltimateTV"). They point out that Tivo will fail because it's hard to use? Hell, Rosie O'Donnel uses the damn thing! My friend has one, and his parents know how to use it! I think the remote is very intuitive, and well designed.
We aren't giving people credit here. We act as if they can't do anything. That's the problem with us (the USA), were too much of a low-context society. In Japan, they would expect you to know how to setup a computer or program Tivo, because they set everyone on a higher threshold automatically. In the US, everyone thinks everyone are idiots! In some cases, that is true... but it's annoying when people try to explain things to me as if I'm an idiot.
What do they think is "next generation"? If you've seen Microsoft's website you'll notice they're trying to get you to watch TV on your computer and have Windows take over your TV. Um, no thanks. I like my TV and computer seperate. Why the hell would I want to watch TV on some crappy small LCD monitor when I can watch it on a specially designed [for TV] HDTV? Tivo works great because it layers over the TV, but doesn't take it over.
Signs was the scariest movie I've seen in my life. When it's 1 in the morning and I go to get some water, and come back to my pitch dark room with the window open I arm my glass of water like a weapon.
One time I spilled it on the floor when I heard something jump up at my window, but it was only my dog.
MD5 Checksums have a higher rate of collisions, both in the wild and artifically. A machine can be built for only around $100k or less which can find collisions in less than 24 hours. Hell, in a few years standard computers could probably generate collisions easily. SHA1 (Simple Hash Algorithm) is a much better alternative over MD5.
SHA1, while of the same family of hashes as MD4 and MD5, remains uncompromised by any research discoveries, and is widely used in many applications requiring the highest levels of security.
Gnutella, the File Sharing Protocol, uses SHA1 over MD5 for the same reasons I state here. A developer of Bitzi (the Metadata/Hash catalog) has also recommended to the Gnutella Developer Forum not to use MD5, but SHA1 instead. Thus, people should be using SHA1 instead of MD5. I've noticed some major websites and companies are using MD5 hash's now, such as Adobe and Roxio. I would recommend to them to change them to SHA1 instead, since Gnutella supports it (and the fact that it is a much more secure and stronger hash algorithm)... and they can use MAGNET URI's to link to the files on Gnutella.
It's website is in English. It's software is in English, and it does not have a Norwegian version of the software and probably never will. Take a look at their Languages page. It doesn't even have plans to open a Norweigan version of their software, but yet they want to release it in Spanish, French and German? Spanish is basically the second most spoken language in the United States, not Norway. Now, if we take a look at the most common languages in Norway, we can see here and here that hardly anyone speaks English in Norway. Most speak, um, Norwegian (most common dialect is Bokmål).
So, as we can plainly see, Kazaa is targeting the US demographic, not Norway/Denmark/Estonia. Yet their servers and establishments are in Denmark? Why? It's to gain marketshare and profit from the American people, yet not contribute the US. In fact, they're taking money away from the American government. There are no US taxes on the products, so your basically throwing your money away. (Yes, Money, there is now "Kazaa Plus" which costs $$$). Kazaa's advertisments target US customers, it's product is made for US customers and it's only intrest is in the US customer base.
Kazaa is obviously not interested in P2P technology or it's future. It stole Gntuella's technology spec and re-wrote it. Kazaa also has Network Supernodes (dedicated nodes, always on) and other centralized components. So if you took those away, expect drastic changes in performance. The RIAA has pretty much presumed Kazaa was built just like that for a while. Kazaa is all about money. Take away the money, watch the developers flee. The "developers" of Kazaa have already started up similar companies. They know Kazaa will be shut down eventually, and of course they need to keep making their un-deserved millions.
Kazaa will eventually be shut down, even if it means Jennifer Gardner running out of an exploding building in the Netherlands.
I don't expect MTV to actually come up with good^H^H^H^H any ideas, I 'm just impressed that they decided to rip off an intruiging one!
Well, I think The Osbournes is a pretty good show. Real World is also a good show where I've seen many seasons, and has been on the air for a long time... probably one of the first "reality shows" to really go on air.
Road Rules used to be good, but now they have that "Voting off" thing which totally blows. TRL (Total Request Live) is also a pretty good show also, though Carson Daily can get a bit annoying at times.
MTV does pretty good for itself, VH1 pretty much sucks and tries hard to grab MTV's marketshare/mindshare.
wouldn't it be more useful right now to focus on creating some more down to earth services that aren't going to shut down or be bought out every other month?
I thought Wireless MESH Networks were the next big thing?
Well, I can certainly understand how expensive it would be to launch a service like this, and it would probably only be used by Governments. It's ideal for them because satellite is not subject to storms, natural disasters, or localized military actions. It would also provide pretty high-bandwidth audio and video, so it would be ideal in war etc.
Anyways, I heard the satellite would have a version of Windows in it. So maybe it's good it was never launched, eh?
I can't WAIT to chat with a Plutarian Micro-organism! Oh the stories they must have! Hey, do you think they've found the secret of life yet? A good weight-loss pill? Cure for cancer?!
It may also be good to mention that CHORD is being developed by Limewirehere. A release is being expected any day now... should be pretty soon, as they've released their spec for GUESS in the GDF, which is a global search method.
With GUESS and CHORD, perhaps Gnutella can finally stand up to FastTrack, WinMX etc.
Why should they? Maybe they don't want to put it online? Maybe they want to keep their source closed so corperations can't steal their code and make money off their blood, sweat and tears?
I don't nessassarly understand all this hysteria about "they may take over with shell access". Give me a break! What about all that other closed software you use? Wake up. Not every bit of software out there is open source you know. There are profitable/reliable/good software that isn't opensourced.
It's "Shareaza". And yes, it is a very nice client. No Spyware, Pop-up ads, or any of that crap. It uses far more Gntuella technologies than Gnucleus, and is updated monthly or less.
I currently work on the development team, and we have many nice suprises coming up which will allow Gnutella to hold it's own against Kazaa/WinMX etc.
BTW, Shareaza is [url=http://www.shareaza.com/]Shareaza[/url], not at the false URL you reported.
This is probably too late to for anyone to mod up/read but...
I can remember writing my handle (screename) on my Math Homework in the "Name" column. Then my Math teacher began to read it and I quickly grabbed it from him and changed it. That was close =)
Would allow me to make copies of any avaliable DVD on the market, easily - 1, 2, 3. Prefreably in less than a half hour.
Can it do that? What use does it have, I doubt anyone is going to buy this so they can burn their home movies onto them... please. With the Windows software avaliable, you'll need a CS degree to do even the simplist things.
I don't know about the rest of you, who are probably a lot older than me (I'm barely 18), but Enterprise is the only Star Trek series I can bear to watch. And I actually enjoy it, and have planned to watch it tonight.
The reason a lot of you probably don't like it is because it's different from the geeky Star Trek you know and love. This one is more humble, down to earth - more "Human" and contemporary. The technology is actually feasable, and I'm being introduced to the new races and themes. When I would watch Deep Space Nine or Voyager, I would be confused. There was just too much going on, and too much plot which requires you to already know something about Star Trek.
But in Enterprise, it is much more enjoyable. I am actually being introduced into the Star Trek universe just as the cast "Crew" are. And that's why I enjoy it, and continue to watch it.
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Aww. I'm sure if their comments are needed they can dropdown a huge HD Screen and connect to them. "Were sorry, but Apple couldn't be here tonight. Anyways, thanks for the award and the such. Were here working on our next build of OSX, and couldn't make it! Sorry. Toodles.".
Perhaps they will go to the NY show, but be fashionably late.
I don't think were quite at the "Home Theatre" area yet. I mean, most of us can't even afford those [Widescreen] HDTV's and surround sound, not to mention the expensive DVD's. It won't be until around 5 years until the prices for HDTV's drop, and when 80% of TV broadcasting is actually formated for HDTV's.
If home theatre's can competete with actual theatre's, then that is very insulting to the actual movie theatre's. Maybe they should increase their quality? Make people want to come? I know of some real beautifiul movie theatre's where they have gormet dinner inside, friendly service, clean movie houses, quality sound, good seating... of course, that's the minority of movie theatre's. But that's a good buisness model others can look at for help.
Also, what about all the dates? I doubt I'll tell the girl I'm going with "Yea, lets stay home and watch this movie on my coutch". I don't think it would have the same effect. And I think parents who have birthday parties love the theatre over their house for a gathering.
Basically, the reason people go to the movies is for the service. They don't want to worry about putting in the movie, making sure the sound is good, scheduling time, etc. They just go and watch a movie. The theature is not "doomed". Well, maybe it is if it keeps it's current buisness model. But that seems to be the trend for everything these days...
Phoenix is nice, but the reason I don't use Mozilla/Phoenix is because of cosmetic and usability problems.
I like my browser to mesh with my operating system. Not so far to where the OS doesn't let you uninstall it, but to where it blends in with the look of my OS. I use Windows XP, and Mozilla does not look like XP. Sure the GUI is nice, but it looks odd with my Luna style. In addition, IE meshes with Explorer. So I can easily switch between Explorer and Internet explorer. Try typing "C:\Program Files" in Mozilla/Phoenix. Very different.
In addition, there are many usability issues. Click on the address bar, while it's highlighted, click, hold and drag towards the left or right. It attempts to drag the entire address, maybe to drag and drop in the bookmarks menu. Now try it in IE, it's different. It will highlight the portion and allow you to edit it etc. That is very annoying in Phoenix/Mozilla.
Another usability problem is the placement of the Address bar. Why is it at the same layer as the toolbar? (Back, Forward buttons). I believe there is a Bug reported in BugZilla about this in Mozilla, but of course... nobody cares about Usability issues.
Why can't I have "Selective Text on Right". And that "Toolbar Customizer" with the drag and drop has bad usability problems. It's very confusing to use. And having to "Name" your toolbars?? Err..
Also, the Bookmark Management is very sloppy. They need sidebar management for bookmarks.
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What popular games were out on the PC platform in the 70's? Perhaps they're talking about Super Mario or Pacman?
Does this same age group dominate the console market too? If so, then perhaps Nintendo and Playstation should change their target demographics. Stop selling games with "FREE Bike Decals!" and replace it with "FREE Car Insurance Estimate!"
Journalism?! This is Slashdot!!
Hmmm... I don't know about that. Suspects include: (but not limited to) Orcs, Night Elfs, Zerglings, Hydras...
End of Tivo and rise of UltimateTV? Give me a break.
This article is pure FUD from Microsoft, who are a competetor of Tivo ("UltimateTV"). They point out that Tivo will fail because it's hard to use? Hell, Rosie O'Donnel uses the damn thing! My friend has one, and his parents know how to use it! I think the remote is very intuitive, and well designed.
We aren't giving people credit here. We act as if they can't do anything. That's the problem with us (the USA), were too much of a low-context society. In Japan, they would expect you to know how to setup a computer or program Tivo, because they set everyone on a higher threshold automatically. In the US, everyone thinks everyone are idiots! In some cases, that is true... but it's annoying when people try to explain things to me as if I'm an idiot.
What do they think is "next generation"? If you've seen Microsoft's website you'll notice they're trying to get you to watch TV on your computer and have Windows take over your TV. Um, no thanks. I like my TV and computer seperate. Why the hell would I want to watch TV on some crappy small LCD monitor when I can watch it on a specially designed [for TV] HDTV? Tivo works great because it layers over the TV, but doesn't take it over.
Signs was the scariest movie I've seen in my life. When it's 1 in the morning and I go to get some water, and come back to my pitch dark room with the window open I arm my glass of water like a weapon.
One time I spilled it on the floor when I heard something jump up at my window, but it was only my dog.
MD5 Checksums have a higher rate of collisions, both in the wild and artifically. A machine can be built for only around $100k or less which can find collisions in less than 24 hours. Hell, in a few years standard computers could probably generate collisions easily. SHA1 (Simple Hash Algorithm) is a much better alternative over MD5.
The previous version of MD5, MD4, was so flawed it is now considered "broken". "Dobbertin [Dob95] has shown how collisions for the full version of MD4 can be found in under a minute on a typical PC... Clearly, MD4 should now be considered broken.".
SHA1, while of the same family of hashes as MD4 and MD5, remains uncompromised by any research discoveries, and is widely used in many applications requiring the highest levels of security.
Gnutella, the File Sharing Protocol, uses SHA1 over MD5 for the same reasons I state here. A developer of Bitzi (the Metadata/Hash catalog) has also recommended to the Gnutella Developer Forum not to use MD5, but SHA1 instead. Thus, people should be using SHA1 instead of MD5. I've noticed some major websites and companies are using MD5 hash's now, such as Adobe and Roxio. I would recommend to them to change them to SHA1 instead, since Gnutella supports it (and the fact that it is a much more secure and stronger hash algorithm)... and they can use MAGNET URI's to link to the files on Gnutella.
MD5 Hash's suck, SHA1 Hash's are a lot better.
Well, lets look at Kazaa.
It's website is in English. It's software is in English, and it does not have a Norwegian version of the software and probably never will. Take a look at their Languages page. It doesn't even have plans to open a Norweigan version of their software, but yet they want to release it in Spanish, French and German? Spanish is basically the second most spoken language in the United States, not Norway. Now, if we take a look at the most common languages in Norway, we can see here and here that hardly anyone speaks English in Norway. Most speak, um, Norwegian (most common dialect is Bokmål).
So, as we can plainly see, Kazaa is targeting the US demographic, not Norway/Denmark/Estonia. Yet their servers and establishments are in Denmark? Why? It's to gain marketshare and profit from the American people, yet not contribute the US. In fact, they're taking money away from the American government. There are no US taxes on the products, so your basically throwing your money away. (Yes, Money, there is now "Kazaa Plus" which costs $$$). Kazaa's advertisments target US customers, it's product is made for US customers and it's only intrest is in the US customer base.
Kazaa is obviously not interested in P2P technology or it's future. It stole Gntuella's technology spec and re-wrote it. Kazaa also has Network Supernodes (dedicated nodes, always on) and other centralized components. So if you took those away, expect drastic changes in performance. The RIAA has pretty much presumed Kazaa was built just like that for a while. Kazaa is all about money. Take away the money, watch the developers flee. The "developers" of Kazaa have already started up similar companies. They know Kazaa will be shut down eventually, and of course they need to keep making their un-deserved millions.
Kazaa will eventually be shut down, even if it means Jennifer Gardner running out of an exploding building in the Netherlands.
Well, I think The Osbournes is a pretty good show. Real World is also a good show where I've seen many seasons, and has been on the air for a long time... probably one of the first "reality shows" to really go on air.
Road Rules used to be good, but now they have that "Voting off" thing which totally blows. TRL (Total Request Live) is also a pretty good show also, though Carson Daily can get a bit annoying at times.
MTV does pretty good for itself, VH1 pretty much sucks and tries hard to grab MTV's marketshare/mindshare.
Well, I can certainly understand how expensive it would be to launch a service like this, and it would probably only be used by Governments. It's ideal for them because satellite is not subject to storms, natural disasters, or localized military actions. It would also provide pretty high-bandwidth audio and video, so it would be ideal in war etc.
Anyways, I heard the satellite would have a version of Windows in it. So maybe it's good it was never launched, eh?
Gives a whole new meaning to "never got off the ground".
I can't WAIT to chat with a Plutarian Micro-organism! Oh the stories they must have! Hey, do you think they've found the secret of life yet? A good weight-loss pill? Cure for cancer?!
You know you read Slashdot too much if you can identify duplicate posts :P
It may also be good to mention that CHORD is being developed by Limewire here. A release is being expected any day now... should be pretty soon, as they've released their spec for GUESS in the GDF, which is a global search method.
With GUESS and CHORD, perhaps Gnutella can finally stand up to FastTrack, WinMX etc.
Why should they? Maybe they don't want to put it online? Maybe they want to keep their source closed so corperations can't steal their code and make money off their blood, sweat and tears?
I don't nessassarly understand all this hysteria about "they may take over with shell access". Give me a break! What about all that other closed software you use? Wake up. Not every bit of software out there is open source you know. There are profitable/reliable/good software that isn't opensourced.
It's "Shareaza". And yes, it is a very nice client. No Spyware, Pop-up ads, or any of that crap. It uses far more Gntuella technologies than Gnucleus, and is updated monthly or less.
I currently work on the development team, and we have many nice suprises coming up which will allow Gnutella to hold it's own against Kazaa/WinMX etc.
BTW, Shareaza is [url=http://www.shareaza.com/]Shareaza[/url], not at the false URL you reported.
This is probably too late to for anyone to mod up/read but...
I can remember writing my handle (screename) on my Math Homework in the "Name" column. Then my Math teacher began to read it and I quickly grabbed it from him and changed it. That was close =)
Would allow me to make copies of any avaliable DVD on the market, easily - 1, 2, 3. Prefreably in less than a half hour.
Can it do that? What use does it have, I doubt anyone is going to buy this so they can burn their home movies onto them... please. With the Windows software avaliable, you'll need a CS degree to do even the simplist things.
I don't know about the rest of you, who are probably a lot older than me (I'm barely 18), but Enterprise is the only Star Trek series I can bear to watch. And I actually enjoy it, and have planned to watch it tonight.
The reason a lot of you probably don't like it is because it's different from the geeky Star Trek you know and love. This one is more humble, down to earth - more "Human" and contemporary. The technology is actually feasable, and I'm being introduced to the new races and themes. When I would watch Deep Space Nine or Voyager, I would be confused. There was just too much going on, and too much plot which requires you to already know something about Star Trek.
But in Enterprise, it is much more enjoyable. I am actually being introduced into the Star Trek universe just as the cast "Crew" are. And that's why I enjoy it, and continue to watch it.