This will kill X in the long term.
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DRI Comes to DirectFB
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· Score: -1, Flamebait
DirectFB has much more capabilities to compete with high performance desktop systems like MS Windows XP. We might get some DirectX alike stuff very soon which enables Linux to be a real gaming platform.
Many people will shout now: "Behold the holy X-protocol ! For it is network transparent and make your desktop run everywhere." But how often you really need X these days ? Most remote work done is professional admin or research stuff. All people I know working in this area use just a plain text shell. This graphics stuff is for admin job completely obsolete. And if you are kinky-winky then you could always get a secure admin-webinterface using OpenBSD.
Face it: we don't need X any longer.
The X window system has it's roots in the ole mainframe area where people had slow, cheap terminals and there was a big mainframe in the cave together with a group of homo neandertalis.
But these days are gone. Today every kiddy has the capacity of the mainframe on/under his desktop. We don't need bloated, slow graphics protocols anymore for doning work on the big iron. The big iron is under your desk.
I think the linux community should switch it's direction on the desktop completely and drop the bloated X Windows support. Just port QT to DirectFB and we are done - KDE works automatically. And this would weed out Gnome this obsolete, second desktop system which just draws resources from the KDE pool and thus slows down advancement of open source systems.
There are much nicer and more sensible things to do for recreation.
In fact, I try lobbing for a 24h mathematics channel, but I hadn't much success up to now.
If the slashdot crowd would willing to help me we might get and entertaining and intelligent TV channel all over the world in some time.
This would be much better than these childish TV comics which cripple your ability to read a decent book.
The next killer application for the internet will be govermental spyware for control of the masses.
Welcome to the beautiful world of mind control probes.
There are much more dangerous illnesses than SARS which affect much more people. There are 2000 people sick with SARS but 40 million with AIDS. And the death rates for AIDS is 100 % percent. The numbers for cancer are even higher (not the death rates).
This seems to be rather a angst-hyped PR champain instead of real science. The problems we have now are elsewhere.
I think this STAR WARS stuff should made illegal.
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Star Wars Extras Needed
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Yes, it sounds rather harsh but isn't it true ?
Star Wars is one of the science fiction series which is most ridden with illogial pseudo-science rubbish. Take some examples:
During the space fights you heard explosions and swoosh sounds of lasers. But in space there is no air to transmit sound.
We see laser "beams" slowly travel from the cannon to the target. Sub-light speed light ?
The spaceship travel around with sup light speed, but we have NO relativistic effects.
In starwars II (old series) R2D2 solves several times computational problems which are NOT turing computable.
Most alien creatures breate oxygen.
The super star destroyer is so big in Star Wars II(old series) that it's gravitational field
made asteriods revolve around it, but this isn't the case.
When the Death Star fires, we see 3 laser beams "hitting" each other an send of a 4th one in a different direction.
The Death Star has cooling shafts which have a direct connection to the vaccum, therefore have no air whatever for cooling in them.
This is just a very limited list of the rubbish you see in Star Wars.
Well, if the movie would be aimed just to grown-up, I wouldn't care. Grown-ups are grown-up, thus it's their own business what rubbish they watch and what not. But the Star Wars movies are aimed to kiddies ! Sorry, we can't G. Lucas to stupify our kids just that his company makes more and more money out of the Star Wars waste. I was even asked by kids why the US military isn't using Laser weapons in Iraq and why we use these rockets which are so slow !
This can't go one any longer. The goverment shouldn't interfere with the rights of the individual too much, but there is a line at which the goverment must protect people from themselves. I mean, drug consumption is illegal for the very same reason, too. Bush should get at least something right and outlaw this rubbish.
Modern microwave ovens are rather bad for the users health: Most of them are low quality Japanese/Korean/Chinese stuff with leaky shielding so that much microwave radition leaks out and affects the user. Using a microwave oven is only recommended in emergenies.
And now these companies develop methods which make using the microwave oven easier thus tempting incautious users to use it. (The bad user interface of old style microwave ovens was in fact a rather good protection of the users from using them.)
But this is the side effect of modern libertarian capitalism: companies do everything to satisfy their greed and sell even such potentially dangerous products.
Any mathematician knows that decent statistics can only be done with a decent amount of data.
However, we have weather data only for the last 120 years. All "data" before that comes from "environmental models" or ice cubes from Antarctica. Well, the models predict that the models are correct. A classical logic flaw - this problem was already discussed in the antics by Aristoteles and Platon. The data from ice cubes is very wacky, it's sometimes very difficult to say from which time the ice comes from and it's even harder to get it's temperature.
So, we don't really know if there is a global warming. Temperature changes of 0.5 degree celsius are within the error intervals of the estimators therefore totally meaningless.
There is no decent theory were this global warming should come from. Trajectory oszillations of earths orbit around sun might sound sensible, but the chaotic dynamics of the n-body systems are hardly understood, especially in 4 dimensions.
So that's just a guess.
The ecologist ideology "CO2-pollution" is just rubbish. These guys say that global warming starts around 1903 were CO2-levels couldn't have any effects. The methane levels in the 35000 feet layers of the atmosphere can't also be responsible for the very same reason - modern highly methane producing cow breed were introduced after 1934 world wide.
So I think this is just a pseudo-scientific ecologist scam to scare people away from modern technology and to keep them in the dark without information to control them better.
Such small satellites must have orbits very near to Jupiter, about 1/3 of the Earth-Moon distance.
This is similar like Mercury being the smallest planet of the solar system. (Pluto is not a planet but a moon of Uranus at a nonlinear chaotic trajectory around teh center of the Uranus/Sun dual-system.)
But Jupiter is a much larger planet than earth about 254 earth masses. So these satellites must rotate much faster around Jupiter, if they don't want to be sucked onto its surface by gravitation. A simple calculation show that they must in fact have 1/5 of light speed which is relatively unlikely. So, I suppose that these astronomer guys have an error in their calculations.
Most importantly, Apple paid Xerox millions in stock to incorporate the GUI elements it did borrow for the Lisa/Macintosh projects.
But this proves indeed that they were ripped off.
Spam can be avoided without protocol changes.
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IETF to Look at Spam
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· Score: 0, Troll
You just grab spam by its very nature.
Spam is highly redundant commercial advertisement.
And we don't want it. So the basic approach would be to exploit this redundancy to filter from the original message streams. However highly localized approaches like personal mail filters will always fail due to the high variety of spam.
How would your personal mail filter know Japanese or Chinese spam ? Not at all, it would just let the spam mails through.
So we can only solve this problem by a worlwide highly sophisticed effort. And the key component will be again the identification of redundancy.
The idea is to build up redundancy signatures of email messages. The global network of SMTP servers exchange these signatures by a grid orientated P2P network. When the distribution of a special signature is worldwide too high then it's identificated as spam and destroyed everywhere [1]. Note that a distributed annealing algorithm can do this in O(log(log(n)))+theta(n) operations (theta(n) a blotzmann distribution due to the annealing process).
Building up these signatures is a little more complicated, something like MD5 checksum won't be sufficient. After some preparsing we have to project the text into a suitable banach space for further operations. Cleckerson and Allman have proposed an infinite dimensional Lie group for this task, surely any Diffeomorphism group over a Hardy space will do [2]. In this space we can build unique (!) singnatures using a simple frequency domain transformation. However we can't of course exchange an infinite amount of data, so an approximation will have to do it. Reseach any Valdpornik and Rosé has shown that there are decent approximations for this task [3]. So we can use these thing to build up our signatures and the whole stuff works indeed.
However the highly numerical approach requires DSP coprocessors in mail servers. But I think that Intel and AMD will throw in a DSP core to their server processors in a few years anyway, so that's not a big issue.
The basic problems of cellular phone concerning the high health risks havn't been solved yet.
The code division modulation schemes used for all cellular techiques beyond 3G introduce a highly pulsed frequency spectrum. The latter is claimed responsible for mutations at the mithochondrial RNA at neural cells. A lot of people think that this mutations are responsible for the strange side effects encountered with cellular phone use: headache, visual distorsions, halluzinations, social inefficiency, rythmic depressions.
In fact in several European states the use of cellular phones in cars is illegal for exactly these side effects, which are believed to be the cause of traffic accidents in context of cellular phone use.
Several research projects with mice have had alarming results both for mice and men. And the whole chain of incidents is still very unclear down to the sources. Much research still has to be done.
I think that the industry should first concentrate on solving these issues before developing faster and faster devices. Anything else would be nonsense because noone would use a car which goes at 500 mph if driving this car is dangerous.
If modern string theory is true then most nano science applications will fail to work.
Recall that standard supersymmetry work with strings in 11 space dimensions on Yang-Calbai manifolds. At sizes below 15 angstroem you'll effects from these 11 dimensions. Especially has the wave equation non-trivial, non-analytic solutions and Hygens' principle fails (due to the topology of the Yang-Calbai manifolds, recall that the 5th deRham cohomology group is non-trivial).
So you'll get the effect of string resonance - strings are coupled together the 3rd order Laplace equation which overrules strong and weak
interaction. This means that control of dynamical systems below the 15 angstroem barrier is impossible - you'll always get 5th order resonance which collapses the control Lie-algebra.
So all these nifty little nano-machines won't work, they'll be just little protein blob wiggling around and doing nothing useful.
As an example see this example.
(Cue BOFH) and they are always so surprised so come in on Monday to a reformatted machine...
Pretty stupid. This means that they will start collecting rubbish immediately again and clog up the network. A wise BOFH fills their whole harddisk with pron and deletes all p2p programs - so they can't share any more and more importantly they don't want any more.
What we whitness with the crash of these dot.com era online journals is basically the demise to libertarian semantics and ideals in the post 9/11 world.
With terrorist attacks all over the globe most people chease to understand the "freedom for all" and "technology for everyone" slogans. Their very lifes being threatend their come back to their basic moral values represented by conservatives. It's no surprise to Bush gained so much popularity after 9/11. John Average has less and less understanding for people who just want to give money or free information to underpriviledged countries instead of exporting their moral values which made the US successful to them. So publications like Red Herring are not favored any longer by the majority of their readers. However, the core libertarian followers don't impose a decent customer base. Especially with their everything-for-free attitude. So for journals like Red Herring the market is simply evaporating which kills them in long term.
Poor has no clue. It's a trivial insight that the routing with such multihop systems is very problematic, especially if you want optimal routing. A second problem is the non-static structure of the network with hops coming into "existence" (= connection to the networks) and vanishing (= leaving it). This fucks up routing majorly. I don't think that I have to extend this further.
I think this is very sad. I wanted to troll this story by posting that Poor has no clue and the superior mesh network theory is rubbish, but then I had to notice that this is in fact the case.
is that it uses an linear object/message distribution sheme versus the highly nonlinear sheme used in KDE.
The Gnome developer say that the linear sheme is easier to analyze and therefore bottlenecks and instabilities can be easier discovered. This is indeed true. But on the other hand the growth of of linear systems is exponentially limited and the realignment rates to new configurations is very slow. That's a basic fact from systems theory. You can even prove that a continuous, linear system can only asymptotically realigned, but the discrete configuration space for Gnome gives convergence in finite time.
KDE uses a much more complicated nonlinear systems. While these system don't contain stable trajectories, it's nevertheless possible to get realignment by analysis of the system with chaos theory. Additionally nonlinear systems have supexponential growth, in fact any configuration can met in the fixed controll-access time eta_0.
This explains KDE capability to react much faster at high load peaks. And you get even better stability than Gnome.
I don't think that Gnome will get very far unless the change the object/messaging system dramatically. Well, even Microsoft has learned that lesson.
Linux has a reputation as a rock-stable, high quality professional server system. Also the Linux admin crowd is well known to be creative, intelligent, professional and reliable. This is the main reason for Linux raising market share in the server business.
However with more and more game applications like Quake and such mutlimedia entertaintment stuff appearing on Linux this all might change. People will regard it as a toy system of some CS students from Finland and chease to take it seriously. It don't have to mention the obvious effect and the open source community and the freedom of information at whole.
Really I doubt that such "applications" are a good idea. I won't be surprised if Microsoft is sponsoring them with Windows pushing more and more to the server market.
While it might seem cool at the first sight to produce such a tool which creates recommandations from other people's playlists, it's in fact counterproductive at pratical applications.
What we have here is a stabilizing feedback loop,
songs often heard will be heard more often. This can be described by the following simple equation (h(t) - hear rate):
dh(t)/dt = h(t) * c + sin(h(t)) * phi(dt,H(t))
where the last term is a stochastic diffusion corrector which models connection drops etc.
This means that after a 3c/pi annealing time new injected songs (c1,...,ck) have no chance to be heard at all, because the system reenforces to old songs. The only possibility to get something new into the playlists, is to get an external stimulation at e.g. t0: phi(c-h(t0). Such a high current can be only injected be a very strong source covering a large part of the system.
In simple words: after some iterations an equlibrium is reached and all new song turning up in the recommendations are the top 24 played at MTV.
In fact, you are just replaying the shitty MTV mainstream taste.
I can't think that this is very good, first you don't need a computer program to recommend the MTV top 30 when you have a TV and secondly you only get boring mainstream stuff and nothing like exciting french chansons or so.
How will the RIAA react to this, seeing as this is legitimizing one of the oldest forms of music pirating?
You would notice that ClearChannel probably paid for the right to do this. That mean that they give money to the copyright holders. And the copyright holder gives them the permission to do this in return.
Which is not the case with people bootlegging.
I hope this wasn't too hard to understand.
Sorry, but comments like this one in the story give the impression that you can get any rubbish comments on the frontpage, provided it's anti-RIAA stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
Many people will shout now: "Behold the holy X-protocol ! For it is network transparent and make your desktop run everywhere." But how often you really need X these days ? Most remote work done is professional admin or research stuff. All people I know working in this area use just a plain text shell. This graphics stuff is for admin job completely obsolete. And if you are kinky-winky then you could always get a secure admin-webinterface using OpenBSD.
Face it: we don't need X any longer.
The X window system has it's roots in the ole mainframe area where people had slow, cheap terminals and there was a big mainframe in the cave together with a group of homo neandertalis.
But these days are gone. Today every kiddy has the capacity of the mainframe on/under his desktop. We don't need bloated, slow graphics protocols anymore for doning work on the big iron. The big iron is under your desk.
I think the linux community should switch it's direction on the desktop completely and drop the bloated X Windows support. Just port QT to DirectFB and we are done - KDE works automatically. And this would weed out Gnome this obsolete, second desktop system which just draws resources from the KDE pool and thus slows down advancement of open source systems.
There are much nicer and more sensible things to do for recreation.
In fact, I try lobbing for a 24h mathematics channel, but I hadn't much success up to now.
If the slashdot crowd would willing to help me we might get and entertaining and intelligent TV channel all over the world in some time.
This would be much better than these childish TV comics which cripple your ability to read a decent book.
The next killer application for the internet will be govermental spyware for control of the masses.
Welcome to the beautiful world of mind control probes.
There are much more dangerous illnesses than SARS which affect much more people. There are 2000 people sick with SARS but 40 million with AIDS. And the death rates for AIDS is 100 % percent. The numbers for cancer are even higher (not the death rates).
This seems to be rather a angst-hyped PR champain instead of real science. The problems we have now are elsewhere.
Star Wars is one of the science fiction series which is most ridden with illogial pseudo-science rubbish. Take some examples:
- During the space fights you heard explosions and swoosh sounds of lasers. But in space there is no air to transmit sound.
- We see laser "beams" slowly travel from the cannon to the target. Sub-light speed light ?
- The spaceship travel around with sup light speed, but we have NO relativistic effects.
- In starwars II (old series) R2D2 solves several times computational problems which are NOT turing computable.
- Most alien creatures breate oxygen.
- The super star destroyer is so big in Star Wars II(old series) that it's gravitational field
made asteriods revolve around it, but this isn't the case.
- When the Death Star fires, we see 3 laser beams "hitting" each other an send of a 4th one in a different direction.
- The Death Star has cooling shafts which have a direct connection to the vaccum, therefore have no air whatever for cooling in them.
This is just a very limited list of the rubbish you see in Star Wars. Well, if the movie would be aimed just to grown-up, I wouldn't care. Grown-ups are grown-up, thus it's their own business what rubbish they watch and what not. But the Star Wars movies are aimed to kiddies ! Sorry, we can't G. Lucas to stupify our kids just that his company makes more and more money out of the Star Wars waste.I was even asked by kids why the US military isn't using Laser weapons in Iraq and why we use these rockets which are so slow !
This can't go one any longer. The goverment shouldn't interfere with the rights of the individual too much, but there is a line at which the goverment must protect people from themselves. I mean, drug consumption is illegal for the very same reason, too.
Bush should get at least something right and outlaw this rubbish.
Exploration of space is much more important than monopoly issues on the entertainment market.
Modern microwave ovens are rather bad for the users health: Most of them are low quality Japanese/Korean/Chinese stuff with leaky shielding so that much microwave radition leaks out and affects the user. Using a microwave oven is only recommended in emergenies.
And now these companies develop methods which make using the microwave oven easier thus tempting incautious users to use it. (The bad user interface of old style microwave ovens was in fact a rather good protection of the users from using them.)
But this is the side effect of modern libertarian capitalism: companies do everything to satisfy their greed and sell even such potentially dangerous products.
However, we have weather data only for the last 120 years. All "data" before that comes from "environmental models" or ice cubes from Antarctica. Well, the models predict that the models are correct. A classical logic flaw - this problem was already discussed in the antics by Aristoteles and Platon. The data from ice cubes is very wacky, it's sometimes very difficult to say from which time the ice comes from and it's even harder to get it's temperature.
So, we don't really know if there is a global warming. Temperature changes of 0.5 degree celsius are within the error intervals of the estimators therefore totally meaningless.
There is no decent theory were this global warming should come from. Trajectory oszillations of earths orbit around sun might sound sensible, but the chaotic dynamics of the n-body systems are hardly understood, especially in 4 dimensions. So that's just a guess.
The ecologist ideology "CO2-pollution" is just rubbish. These guys say that global warming starts around 1903 were CO2-levels couldn't have any effects. The methane levels in the 35000 feet layers of the atmosphere can't also be responsible for the very same reason - modern highly methane producing cow breed were introduced after 1934 world wide.
So I think this is just a pseudo-scientific ecologist scam to scare people away from modern technology and to keep them in the dark without information to control them better.
Such small satellites must have orbits very near to Jupiter, about 1/3 of the Earth-Moon distance. This is similar like Mercury being the smallest planet of the solar system. (Pluto is not a planet but a moon of Uranus at a nonlinear chaotic trajectory around teh center of the Uranus/Sun dual-system.)
But Jupiter is a much larger planet than earth about 254 earth masses. So these satellites must rotate much faster around Jupiter, if they don't want to be sucked onto its surface by gravitation. A simple calculation show that they must in fact have 1/5 of light speed which is relatively unlikely.
So, I suppose that these astronomer guys have an error in their calculations.
The disabled-disk-anti-defamation-act.
But this proves indeed that they were ripped off.
Spam is highly redundant commercial advertisement. And we don't want it. So the basic approach would be to exploit this redundancy to filter from the original message streams. However highly localized approaches like personal mail filters will always fail due to the high variety of spam.
How would your personal mail filter know Japanese or Chinese spam ? Not at all, it would just let the spam mails through.
So we can only solve this problem by a worlwide highly sophisticed effort. And the key component will be again the identification of redundancy.
The idea is to build up redundancy signatures of email messages. The global network of SMTP servers exchange these signatures by a grid orientated P2P network. When the distribution of a special signature is worldwide too high then it's identificated as spam and destroyed everywhere [1]. Note that a distributed annealing algorithm can do this in O(log(log(n)))+theta(n) operations (theta(n) a blotzmann distribution due to the annealing process).
Building up these signatures is a little more complicated, something like MD5 checksum won't be sufficient. After some preparsing we have to project the text into a suitable banach space for further operations. Cleckerson and Allman have proposed an infinite dimensional Lie group for this task, surely any Diffeomorphism group over a Hardy space will do [2]. In this space we can build unique (!) singnatures using a simple frequency domain transformation. However we can't of course exchange an infinite amount of data, so an approximation will have to do it. Reseach any Valdpornik and Rosé has shown that there are decent approximations for this task [3]. So we can use these thing to build up our signatures and the whole stuff works indeed.
However the highly numerical approach requires DSP coprocessors in mail servers. But I think that Intel and AMD will throw in a DSP core to their server processors in a few years anyway, so that's not a big issue.
The code division modulation schemes used for all cellular techiques beyond 3G introduce a highly pulsed frequency spectrum. The latter is claimed responsible for mutations at the mithochondrial RNA at neural cells. A lot of people think that this mutations are responsible for the strange side effects encountered with cellular phone use: headache, visual distorsions, halluzinations, social inefficiency, rythmic depressions.
In fact in several European states the use of cellular phones in cars is illegal for exactly these side effects, which are believed to be the cause of traffic accidents in context of cellular phone use.
Several research projects with mice have had alarming results both for mice and men. And the whole chain of incidents is still very unclear down to the sources. Much research still has to be done.
I think that the industry should first concentrate on solving these issues before developing faster and faster devices. Anything else would be nonsense because noone would use a car which goes at 500 mph if driving this car is dangerous.
Not often enough:o rn" -l -r /usr/src/Linux/* | wc -l
einstien@mensa> grep -e "31337|h4x0r|0wned|phear|ph34r|r00tk17|sex|pr0n|p
237
If modern string theory is true then most nano science applications will fail to work.
Recall that standard supersymmetry work with strings in 11 space dimensions on Yang-Calbai manifolds. At sizes below 15 angstroem you'll effects from these 11 dimensions. Especially has the wave equation non-trivial, non-analytic solutions and Hygens' principle fails (due to the topology of the Yang-Calbai manifolds, recall that the 5th deRham cohomology group is non-trivial).
So you'll get the effect of string resonance - strings are coupled together the 3rd order Laplace equation which overrules strong and weak interaction. This means that control of dynamical systems below the 15 angstroem barrier is impossible - you'll always get 5th order resonance which collapses the control Lie-algebra.
So all these nifty little nano-machines won't work, they'll be just little protein blob wiggling around and doing nothing useful.
As an example see this example.
Sony announces Flippo the first mechanical dolphin.
Très useful.
Pretty stupid. This means that they will start collecting rubbish immediately again and clog up the network. A wise BOFH fills their whole harddisk with pron and deletes all p2p programs - so they can't share any more and more importantly they don't want any more.
What we whitness with the crash of these dot.com era online journals is basically the demise to libertarian semantics and ideals in the post 9/11 world.
With terrorist attacks all over the globe most people chease to understand the "freedom for all" and "technology for everyone" slogans. Their very lifes being threatend their come back to their basic moral values represented by conservatives. It's no surprise to Bush gained so much popularity after 9/11. John Average has less and less understanding for people who just want to give money or free information to underpriviledged countries instead of exporting their moral values which made the US successful to them. So publications like Red Herring are not favored any longer by the majority of their readers. However, the core libertarian followers don't impose a decent customer base. Especially with their everything-for-free attitude. So for journals like Red Herring the market is simply evaporating which kills them in long term.
I think this is very sad. I wanted to troll this story by posting that Poor has no clue and the superior mesh network theory is rubbish, but then I had to notice that this is in fact the case.
The Gnome developer say that the linear sheme is easier to analyze and therefore bottlenecks and instabilities can be easier discovered. This is indeed true. But on the other hand the growth of of linear systems is exponentially limited and the realignment rates to new configurations is very slow. That's a basic fact from systems theory. You can even prove that a continuous, linear system can only asymptotically realigned, but the discrete configuration space for Gnome gives convergence in finite time.
KDE uses a much more complicated nonlinear systems. While these system don't contain stable trajectories, it's nevertheless possible to get realignment by analysis of the system with chaos theory. Additionally nonlinear systems have supexponential growth, in fact any configuration can met in the fixed controll-access time eta_0. This explains KDE capability to react much faster at high load peaks. And you get even better stability than Gnome.
I don't think that Gnome will get very far unless the change the object/messaging system dramatically. Well, even Microsoft has learned that lesson.
In Europe you can't buy the judge or impress the jury to get the verdict you wanted.
Old but sane legal system.
However with more and more game applications like Quake and such mutlimedia entertaintment stuff appearing on Linux this all might change. People will regard it as a toy system of some CS students from Finland and chease to take it seriously. It don't have to mention the obvious effect and the open source community and the freedom of information at whole.
Really I doubt that such "applications" are a good idea. I won't be surprised if Microsoft is sponsoring them with Windows pushing more and more to the server market.
While it might seem cool at the first sight to produce such a tool which creates recommandations from other people's playlists, it's in fact counterproductive at pratical applications.
What we have here is a stabilizing feedback loop, songs often heard will be heard more often. This can be described by the following simple equation (h(t) - hear rate):
dh(t)/dt = h(t) * c + sin(h(t)) * phi(dt,H(t)) where the last term is a stochastic diffusion corrector which models connection drops etc. This means that after a 3c/pi annealing time new injected songs (c1,...,ck) have no chance to be heard at all, because the system reenforces to old songs. The only possibility to get something new into the playlists, is to get an external stimulation at e.g. t0: phi(c-h(t0). Such a high current can be only injected be a very strong source covering a large part of the system.
In simple words: after some iterations an equlibrium is reached and all new song turning up in the recommendations are the top 24 played at MTV.
In fact, you are just replaying the shitty MTV mainstream taste.
I can't think that this is very good, first you don't need a computer program to recommend the MTV top 30 when you have a TV and secondly you only get boring mainstream stuff and nothing like exciting french chansons or so.
You must be dead to become a saint.
You would notice that ClearChannel probably paid for the right to do this. That mean that they give money to the copyright holders. And the copyright holder gives them the permission to do this in return.
Which is not the case with people bootlegging.
I hope this wasn't too hard to understand.
Sorry, but comments like this one in the story give the impression that you can get any rubbish comments on the frontpage, provided it's anti-RIAA stuff.