But, does anyone know how NUMA compares with, say, a beowulf cluster? Does NUMA allow you to 'bind' multiple systems into one, so that I wouldn't need to rewrite my software? Did these guys use a stock GCC or something special? I know you would need to use MPI or similar for beowulf. Is NUMA as scalable as Beowulf in terms of building huge-ass machines (of course if I was going to expend the effort to do that, I might as well want to write custom software).
If this type of system would allow 'supercomputer' performance on regular programs... well... that would be really nice. How much work is it to setup?
Well, of course America had far, far more landmass then 'western' Europe did. (and still has, I guess:P)
who were later nearly wiped out by smallpox and other diseases. When Europeans such as the Pilgrims arrived, they found cleared fields and no people, and they concluded (falsely) that the New World was a "virgin" land.
Didn't those diseases not occur until after western settlers?
A slimjim won't get you into a car with electronic locks and a cipher'd chip in the ignition.
Someone, would be able to analyze the car and possibly build an electromagnetic system to open the locks (total speculation, btw. no idea if that's actually possible) and break the crypto in the starter key. They'll need a sophisticated setup in order to replicate this.
but for software, they can just take that sophisticated setup, zip it up and throw it on Gnutella. In a few days anyone who cared will be able to do what the 'determined' person would do.
I mean, if they were willing to accept a free car, then it's patently obvious that they totally would have been willing to pay full price for it. And not only that, but that they were planning to as well.
Just think about it. You buy a $10k car, and suddenly the sum total of the human population steals $60 trillion from you!
There were several pages about each title available -- Summary, Free PDF Preview, Table of Contents, and a script generated Author Info -- and all pages. For example, the sample link here (now dead) would display a page with Free PDF Preview of the "Making Sense of the C++ Pointer" book.
The download links for preview and full version differed only by the last character before the extension -- 'p' for preview and 'e' for complete eMatter. So, an unauthorized user could download the full versions of any eMatter.
Man, you guys were MORONS!
Anyone with a hex editor and a working knowlage of javascript could have downloaded and hax0red your books for free. They wouldn't even need a p2p program, or a complex tool like DeCSS!
An analogy we used often during development was that of car door locks. A determined thief would be able to get into any car door through numerous means. All car door locks really do is prevent your average everyday person from violating your car's security and stealing your sunglasses. But it doesn't get in the way of your use of the car.
I'm not exactly sure what you were going for here. I mean sure, a determined car thief might be able to steal the car in the real world, but they can't create a simple, easy to use tool to do so and distribute it to every single person in the world (who could possibly be interested in cars).
They also can't distribute the stolen car to every single person who could want a car on earth either.
But they can do those things with e-books. Were you guys just a victim of your own analogy, or were you hoping on the DMCA to keep people from distributing cracking tools?
Actualy, it's pretty unlikely that the indians ever had a population close to that of europe. Almost all of america was vast, untouched wilderness before the europeans came. Europe, in contrast was almost all farmland, and the hands of humans are evident everywhere.
Diffrent dynasties had diffrent outlooks. The Ming dynasty was the one who built the great wall, they also retreated from the sea, ie closed all the seaports and costal cities in an attempt to starve out pirates and such
It was a really quite sad time for chinese history, before the Ming china was a great seafaring nation, hundreds of years before western european expansionism.
Verio has every right not to sell Internet service to people who want to use it to run open mail relays. John Gilmore has no right to demand Internet service form Verio.
Verio merged with Gilmore's company. So they probably are required to allow gilmore's server.
A lot of you have been saying that Gilmore is just a customer of Vero and has to abide by their service agrements. That might not be the case. According to his website:
The Little Garden (with John Romkey, David Henkel-Wallace, and Steve Crocker)
A medium-sized Internet Service Provider in the San Francisco Bay Area. now merged into Verio. We mostly sold T1 and 56K Internet connections to businesses. We were distinguished from many other early commercial providers by our common-carrier attitude: "You are free to resell the service that we provide to you, and we will not censor it." This enabled a whole crop of smaller resellers in various locales to buy from us and offer other services to the public (like modem-based Internet connections).
So it isn't that Gilmore is "just a customer" but rather Gilmore started a company and vero merged with it. This would imply he had a bit more sway in the way things are operated.
It's a *general purpose tool*. It's like a car or a computer. That's ok, we shouldn't outlaw that. We should outlaw *specific purpose tools* -- programs which have only one or two functions which allow the user to break laws. Spamware falls under specific purpose tools.
Uh huh. And I suppose you think we should outlaw DeCSS as well, right?
Napster, Gnutella, et can be used for legit purposes, but in most cases isn't (porn is copyrighted to:P). DeCSS is even more dubious. If you define "general purpose" as having any non-illegal use, then all you have to say is that spamware can be used to send mailling lists
A few simple rules would prevent this, like only allowing mail with a FROM: feild of a user or something, or as others do with allowing SMTP relaying after you've logged on with POP or IMAP.
Sure, his friends might be able to send mail from anywhere, but will they be able to send mail to anyone once his box gets blacklisted?
Well, I suppose it's a good thing that this has finaly turned into a partisan issue, rather thern simply a non-issue on most politictians minds (copyright control? great!). We get the whole conservative thing backing us up, ergo the FOX news artical which disses democrats because thats what fox news does. The SSSCA is just another issue for them to do it on.
I'm not a big fan of republicans in general. I'm all for fiscal responsiblity, but socialy I'm a liberal. I guess that would make me more liberatarian in outlook, but I don't have a problem with taxes and social welfare as long as their resonable and effective.
What would be really nice would be to beable to choose individual issues rather then just two groups, so someone could choose to vote for "pro-choice/anti-copyright/anti-deathpenalty/lower taxes/anti-war-on-on-drugs/etc" without being bound to things they don't want.
If anyone else out there has gotten a chance to use the PGP API, it's simply a beauituful thing for adding crypto to your application. I don't think GnuPG has anything near what PGP had as far as an API (their motto: "Use the command line program as a base for other things!", yeh, real usefull for in-memory encryption)
It sucks to see that go. GnuPG may be free, but the source was available for PGP, and the API was just fantastic.
Well, according to Bezos, the suit against B&N was just in retaliation for B&N suing them for calling themselves "The worlds biggest book store" (Since they wern't a 'real' store. the suit was for false advertizing)
Bezos has prettymuch said that they would only use patents in a defensive manner, although I'm sure they're happy to license it out to people.
Hey, lets not forget that the RIAA was bitching the same bitch and making the same kind of profits a year ago, and now. Now things couldn't be bleaker, many people are predicting the demise of the recording industry entirely.
A year ago napster was in full swing.
Also, one thing you'll notice is that the MPAA isn't making exactly the same claims that the RIAA was. And honstly movie piracy isn't such a big deal. The quality isn't as good, and the download times are insaine. Back in the modem days it used to take me just about 20 minutes or so to d/l an mp3. But snagging a 1gig divx of a new feature film off the campus lan can take an hour, and it can take days to get off filesharing services like morphius.
Movie trading just hasn't caught on the way napster has.
What the MPAA is saying is that movie piracy is going to hurt them in the future and it's also keeping them from jumping on the digital TV, movie thing (thats why we need the SSSCA!).
You'll also note that these are box-office results, not home video rentals or DVD sales. Piracy wouldn't have any affect on that anymore then music piracy would affect concert sales.
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There's all kinds of good stuff out there.
Java, with Borland Jbuilder is free(beer)
Cgywin, with allmost all the stuff for linux for windows, and you can write windows apps.
Ruby, python, etc.
But, does anyone know how NUMA compares with, say, a beowulf cluster? Does NUMA allow you to 'bind' multiple systems into one, so that I wouldn't need to rewrite my software? Did these guys use a stock GCC or something special? I know you would need to use MPI or similar for beowulf. Is NUMA as scalable as Beowulf in terms of building huge-ass machines (of course if I was going to expend the effort to do that, I might as well want to write custom software).
If this type of system would allow 'supercomputer' performance on regular programs... well... that would be really nice. How much work is it to setup?
Well, of course America had far, far more landmass then 'western' Europe did. (and still has, I guess :P)
who were later nearly wiped out by smallpox and other diseases. When Europeans such as the Pilgrims arrived, they found cleared fields and no people, and they concluded (falsely) that the New World was a "virgin" land.
Didn't those diseases not occur until after western settlers?
A slimjim won't get you into a car with electronic locks and a cipher'd chip in the ignition.
Someone, would be able to analyze the car and possibly build an electromagnetic system to open the locks (total speculation, btw. no idea if that's actually possible) and break the crypto in the starter key. They'll need a sophisticated setup in order to replicate this.
but for software, they can just take that sophisticated setup, zip it up and throw it on Gnutella. In a few days anyone who cared will be able to do what the 'determined' person would do.
I mean, if they were willing to accept a free car, then it's patently obvious that they totally would have been willing to pay full price for it. And not only that, but that they were planning to as well.
Just think about it. You buy a $10k car, and suddenly the sum total of the human population steals $60 trillion from you!
From the Sklyarov artical
There were several pages about each title available -- Summary, Free PDF Preview, Table of Contents, and a script generated Author Info -- and all pages. For example, the sample link here (now dead) would display a page with Free PDF Preview of the "Making Sense of the C++ Pointer" book.
http://www.mightywords.com/browse/ details_bc05.jsp?sku=MWBCBZ&private Label=false&display=preview
From the Free PDF Preview page there was a link to a PDF file with a preview exists:
http://download-prod.mightywords.com/ MW/BC/MakingSenseoftheCP_ MWBCBZ_p.pdf.
After you paid for the title, you would get the following link to download full version of the eMatter:
http://download-prod.mightywords.com/ MW/BC/MakingSenseoftheCP_ MWBCBZ_e.pdf
The download links for preview and full version differed only by the last character before the extension -- 'p' for preview and 'e' for complete eMatter. So, an unauthorized user could download the full versions of any eMatter.
Man, you guys were MORONS!
Anyone with a hex editor and a working knowlage of javascript could have downloaded and hax0red your books for free. They wouldn't even need a p2p program, or a complex tool like DeCSS!
and since when is "Open source" an OS?
An analogy we used often during development was that of car door locks. A determined thief would be able to get into any car door through numerous means. All car door locks really do is prevent your average everyday person from violating your car's security and stealing your sunglasses. But it doesn't get in the way of your use of the car.
I'm not exactly sure what you were going for here. I mean sure, a determined car thief might be able to steal the car in the real world, but they can't create a simple, easy to use tool to do so and distribute it to every single person in the world (who could possibly be interested in cars).
They also can't distribute the stolen car to every single person who could want a car on earth either.
But they can do those things with e-books. Were you guys just a victim of your own analogy, or were you hoping on the DMCA to keep people from distributing cracking tools?
(and popped like 16 boners)
Is anyone else reminded of this?
Actualy, it's pretty unlikely that the indians ever had a population close to that of europe. Almost all of america was vast, untouched wilderness before the europeans came. Europe, in contrast was almost all farmland, and the hands of humans are evident everywhere.
Diffrent dynasties had diffrent outlooks. The Ming dynasty was the one who built the great wall, they also retreated from the sea, ie closed all the seaports and costal cities in an attempt to starve out pirates and such
It was a really quite sad time for chinese history, before the Ming china was a great seafaring nation, hundreds of years before western european expansionism.
I hope this doesn't mean that they are going to claim us as a "renegade state" now...
Verio has every right not to sell Internet service to people who want to use it to run open mail relays. John Gilmore has no right to demand Internet service form Verio.
Verio merged with Gilmore's company. So they probably are required to allow gilmore's server.
If he can't get his act together, then why should his parent ISP have to suffer, too?
Because they agreed to certan terms when they merged with his company...
A lot of you have been saying that Gilmore is just a customer of Vero and has to abide by their service agrements. That might not be the case. According to his website: The Little Garden (with John Romkey, David Henkel-Wallace, and Steve Crocker) A medium-sized Internet Service Provider in the San Francisco Bay Area. now merged into Verio. We mostly sold T1 and 56K Internet connections to businesses. We were distinguished from many other early commercial providers by our common-carrier attitude: "You are free to resell the service that we provide to you, and we will not censor it." This enabled a whole crop of smaller resellers in various locales to buy from us and offer other services to the public (like modem-based Internet connections).
So it isn't that Gilmore is "just a customer" but rather Gilmore started a company and vero merged with it. This would imply he had a bit more sway in the way things are operated.
It's a *general purpose tool*. It's like a car or a computer. That's ok, we shouldn't outlaw that. We should outlaw *specific purpose tools* -- programs which have only one or two functions which allow the user to break laws. Spamware falls under specific purpose tools.
:P). DeCSS is even more dubious. If you define "general purpose" as having any non-illegal use, then all you have to say is that spamware can be used to send mailling lists
Uh huh. And I suppose you think we should outlaw DeCSS as well, right?
Napster, Gnutella, et can be used for legit purposes, but in most cases isn't (porn is copyrighted to
FWIW I consider Yahoo and Hotmail to be open mail relays as well and block them accordingly.
Why? You can't actualy send spam through those systems... it's just that people forge mail headers.
A few simple rules would prevent this, like only allowing mail with a FROM: feild of a user or something, or as others do with allowing SMTP relaying after you've logged on with POP or IMAP.
Sure, his friends might be able to send mail from anywhere, but will they be able to send mail to anyone once his box gets blacklisted?
Well, I suppose it's a good thing that this has finaly turned into a partisan issue, rather thern simply a non-issue on most politictians minds (copyright control? great!). We get the whole conservative thing backing us up, ergo the FOX news artical which disses democrats because thats what fox news does. The SSSCA is just another issue for them to do it on.
r taxes/anti-war-on-on-drugs/etc" without being bound to things they don't want.
I'm not a big fan of republicans in general. I'm all for fiscal responsiblity, but socialy I'm a liberal. I guess that would make me more liberatarian in outlook, but I don't have a problem with taxes and social welfare as long as their resonable and effective.
What would be really nice would be to beable to choose individual issues rather then just two groups, so someone could choose to vote for "pro-choice/anti-copyright/anti-deathpenalty/lowe
Actualy it wasn't a "statement" to the press or anything, it's what he said when he was aressted. and it was a setup.
If anyone else out there has gotten a chance to use the PGP API, it's simply a beauituful thing for adding crypto to your application. I don't think GnuPG has anything near what PGP had as far as an API (their motto: "Use the command line program as a base for other things!", yeh, real usefull for in-memory encryption)
It sucks to see that go. GnuPG may be free, but the source was available for PGP, and the API was just fantastic.
Actualy, gpg works on windows. I actualy wrote a COM interface for it a while back at my old job.
For one dollar!
Hopefully it would come with at least one aeron chair.
mmm. Aeron chair...
Well, according to Bezos, the suit against B&N was just in retaliation for B&N suing them for calling themselves "The worlds biggest book store" (Since they wern't a 'real' store. the suit was for false advertizing)
Bezos has prettymuch said that they would only use patents in a defensive manner, although I'm sure they're happy to license it out to people.
Hey, lets not forget that the RIAA was bitching the same bitch and making the same kind of profits a year ago, and now. Now things couldn't be bleaker, many people are predicting the demise of the recording industry entirely.
A year ago napster was in full swing.
Also, one thing you'll notice is that the MPAA isn't making exactly the same claims that the RIAA was. And honstly movie piracy isn't such a big deal. The quality isn't as good, and the download times are insaine. Back in the modem days it used to take me just about 20 minutes or so to d/l an mp3. But snagging a 1gig divx of a new feature film off the campus lan can take an hour, and it can take days to get off filesharing services like morphius.
Movie trading just hasn't caught on the way napster has.
What the MPAA is saying is that movie piracy is going to hurt them in the future and it's also keeping them from jumping on the digital TV, movie thing (thats why we need the SSSCA!).
You'll also note that these are box-office results, not home video rentals or DVD sales. Piracy wouldn't have any affect on that anymore then music piracy would affect concert sales.