It doesn't really seem to me that MS's PC-OS monopoly really gets them much traction in the console world. Aside from slight ease of porting PC games (which isn't that major of an issue. PC and console games are for the most part quite different) there isn't much it gets them
What Microsoft wants is to get one of the 'duopoly' positions in the console world, since they can use that as a 'foot in the door' for online content, etc. Of course, Nintendo has been trying that since the mid-80s without much success, so we'll see.
The geek community has been quick to organize protests in favor of Dmitry Skylarov -- why not protest the DoJ caving to Microsoft. Even people who *like* Microsoft products have been saying that they don't like the corporate behavior of MS.
You know, there is a gradient here. Dmitry Sklarov was a huge travesty of justice. And while the M$ thing may be bad, no one is being deprived of their liberty here.
There is a difference between bad software and people being jailed for their words.
And absolute control was definitely one of his priorities. Mathworld was protected by some of the most stringent anti-mirroring measures I have seen. If the web server thought too large of fraction of the archive had gone to any IP or group of IP's, they banned the entire network. With a few rare exceptions, such bannings were without appeal. Yes, this meant that if someone else at your school attempted to mirror mathworld and got caught, you were banned from it until if and when your sysadmin managed to make nice with Eric.
According to the "detailed narrative" of the legal fiasco, Eric claims that those systems were put into place to appease CRC.
However, in November 1998, against my better judgment, I began to comply with Mr. Stern's request. At first I did this by randomly choosing a set of letters of the alphabet each day and blocking all entries starting with those letters. That way, some inconvenience was introduced into use of the web site, but no material remained blocked for long....this struck me as a poor device for dealing with irresponsible internet users who might attempt to bulk-download large portions of on-line material....If the problem was the user who wants to own a snapshot of the web site but, to avoid purchasing the CRC book, downloads major portions of the web site's content, then why not inconvenience only those exhibiting such patterns of use? So I began to improve my monitoring and access system
Wouldn't it make more sense for them to stop adding to it, and start another project whose ownership weren't in dispute? Sure, it would mean starting over, but I'll bet the whole thing could be reproduced in a couple of years, particularly if they were to GPL (or similar) everything to encourage submissions
Unfortunetly, the contract dosn't allow him to work on anything that could harm CRCs book sales. So while Wolfram Research could do new site, Eric couldn't work on it. Which would suck.
You have to read the whole document, not just one paragraph. The contract spesificaly didn't allow the author to work on anything that could compete with sales of the book. Since CRC believed (erroneously) that the website hampered sales, they have the legal right to pull the site.
If you read the agreement, you'll see that they aren't going to accept submissions from people who don't sign their rights over, so that they don't have to go through the trouble of reproducing them if CRC wants them.
But then you're still going to be producing the same carbon that you'd get from burning gasoline (but not in CO2, necessarily). And you won't be Breaking OPEC, because a lot of the same countries with Oil are the ones with natural gas reserves.
Ultimately, under that situation, you're really not switching from Oil to Hydrogen, but switching from Oil to Natural Gas/Methane. You're just spreading out the processing stage.
Another problem with using hydrogen instead of batteries is the volume it takes up. And ultra-high-pressure hydrogen is not something want to have near you:P
Um, you realize that putting solar cells on cars to crack hydrogen would produce the exact same result as putting solar cells on cars to charge batteries?
As in, you wouldn't get nearly enough energy to do anything unless your car was like 20 pounds.
Also, adding hydrogen cracking and recomposition would only make the system less efficient then using a normal battery.
I suppose storing the water would be pretty easy. Water is *way* more dense then Hydrogen. Burning a galon of h2 and o2 would only create a few drops of water.
Anyway, you probably wouldn't create much more water vapor then evaporation off lakes, and such.
If you're going to flame someone, you should probably do it directly, in a followup thread, rather then just launching a 'general' flame in a root comment. I don't know if you'r reading at -1 or what, but I have no idea who you're talking too...
If you just want to setup a web server, you don't really need to do a Beowulf cluster. There are a lot of ways to split web traffic load among different servers.
The easiest would be to separate your program out serially, rather then in parallel. (So, for example if you needed a database, you could run the database on one machine, and the HTTP logic on another). If you had three or more machines, you could use one of them as a 'dispatcher' as a sort of proxy server that would send requests to different machines to split up the traffic. With just two machines, I suppose you could use round robin DNS where different computers would get different IP addresses for your domain name, so the load is distributed among your boxes. You'd probably have to run your own DNS server, though.
Finally, if you're just serving static pages, you don't really need to worry about anything. Just about any PC on the market today can do thousands of hits per second of static HTML. More then you'd probably ever need.
I didn't see any analytical papers from you detailing how to detect old and/or new attacks. Of course people are going to spend more time on a real problem then a theoretical, or minor one. I mean, duh.
Linus works for transmeta. Also, they were very secretive before their first product came to market, so much of the excitement is 'residual' from the great expectation that their silence fueled.
Geocities sites die quick if they get hit with much bandwidth. Somethingawful.com can take a geocities site down in minutes by linking from the front page. Slashdot would probably kill one in seconds...
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Whenever I buy a PC, the first thing I do, before I even plug it in, is take the case apart and have a look inside. Am I the only one who does this ? I doubt it:-)
I've only ever purchaced one PC in my life. The rest of them have been 'cycled through' with continual upgrades. (that is, eventualy you'll upgrade you're PC enough that you'll be able to build another from used parts and a few extras, like cases/power supplies). So, when I get a 'new' There's no real reason to open it back up, since I just closed it:P
8mm? don't you mean cm?
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8mm cds would be pretty small. (actualy, there wouldn't even be room for a data track).
You have demonstrated an amazing lack understanding in current Chinese politics... First of all, the University is in Hong-Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region), which while technically a part of the PRC has it's own economic system, and is pretty independent from the central government.
Also, the mainland Chinese don't have any real problem with Taiwan, and they believe that it is in fact a part of their country. Taiwanese citizens can buy land in China, for example. They aren't happy with the current government, though. But they wouldn't have much of a problem with Taiwanese motherboards (especially since Taiwan is the only country in the world where motherboards are made... which was the point of your joke, I know)
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I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but have these public comments ever actually accomplished anything?
Whenever I see a call for public comments on slashdot (or wherever) I always see a story a couple of weeks later telling everyone how screwed we are.
Have these comments ever really done any good? I'm really wondering. Does anyone know of any instances of these having any effect?
It doesn't really seem to me that MS's PC-OS monopoly really gets them much traction in the console world. Aside from slight ease of porting PC games (which isn't that major of an issue. PC and console games are for the most part quite different) there isn't much it gets them
What Microsoft wants is to get one of the 'duopoly' positions in the console world, since they can use that as a 'foot in the door' for online content, etc. Of course, Nintendo has been trying that since the mid-80s without much success, so we'll see.
The geek community has been quick to organize protests in favor of Dmitry Skylarov -- why not protest the DoJ caving to Microsoft. Even people who *like* Microsoft products have been saying that they don't like the corporate behavior of MS.
You know, there is a gradient here. Dmitry Sklarov was a huge travesty of justice. And while the M$ thing may be bad, no one is being deprived of their liberty here.
There is a difference between bad software and people being jailed for their words.
And Sony's policies forced movie companies to release on VHS...
The slashdot writeup here is pretty terrible. doing what at 144 petabytes?
From the text, it seemed as though someone build a Linux machine with 144pb of Ram or something.
And absolute control was definitely one of his priorities. Mathworld was protected by some of the most stringent anti-mirroring measures I have seen. If the web server thought too large of fraction of the archive had gone to any IP or group of IP's, they banned the entire network. With a few rare exceptions, such bannings were without appeal. Yes, this meant that if someone else at your school attempted to mirror mathworld and got caught, you were banned from it until if and when your sysadmin managed to make nice with Eric.
According to the "detailed narrative" of the legal fiasco, Eric claims that those systems were put into place to appease CRC.
However, in November 1998, against my better judgment, I began to comply with Mr. Stern's request. At first I did this by randomly choosing a set of letters of the alphabet each day and blocking all entries starting with those letters. That way, some inconvenience was introduced into use of the web site, but no material remained blocked for long....this struck me as a poor device for dealing with irresponsible internet users who might attempt to bulk-download large portions of on-line material....If the problem was the user who wants to own a snapshot of the web site but, to avoid purchasing the CRC book, downloads major portions of the web site's content, then why not inconvenience only those exhibiting such patterns of use? So I began to improve my monitoring and access system
Wouldn't it make more sense for them to stop adding to it, and start another project whose ownership weren't in dispute? Sure, it would mean starting over, but I'll bet the whole thing could be reproduced in a couple of years, particularly if they were to GPL (or similar) everything to encourage submissions
Unfortunetly, the contract dosn't allow him to work on anything that could harm CRCs book sales. So while Wolfram Research could do new site, Eric couldn't work on it. Which would suck.
Man, I have missed that site... it is (how sweet to use the present tense!) the best reference math site in the world.
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Not to be an ass, but that's the past tense. Present tense would be "man I do miss that site"
You have to read the whole document, not just one paragraph. The contract spesificaly didn't allow the author to work on anything that could compete with sales of the book. Since CRC believed (erroneously) that the website hampered sales, they have the legal right to pull the site.
If you read the agreement, you'll see that they aren't going to accept submissions from people who don't sign their rights over, so that they don't have to go through the trouble of reproducing them if CRC wants them.
There's a big diffrence betwen the liquid and gas forms of h2. I don't think people are going to be putting fluid h2 in their cars for a while...
But then you're still going to be producing the same carbon that you'd get from burning gasoline (but not in CO2, necessarily). And you won't be Breaking OPEC, because a lot of the same countries with Oil are the ones with natural gas reserves.
:P
Ultimately, under that situation, you're really not switching from Oil to Hydrogen, but switching from Oil to Natural Gas/Methane. You're just spreading out the processing stage.
Another problem with using hydrogen instead of batteries is the volume it takes up. And ultra-high-pressure hydrogen is not something want to have near you
Um, you realize that putting solar cells on cars to crack hydrogen would produce the exact same result as putting solar cells on cars to charge batteries?
As in, you wouldn't get nearly enough energy to do anything unless your car was like 20 pounds.
Also, adding hydrogen cracking and recomposition would only make the system less efficient then using a normal battery.
I suppose storing the water would be pretty easy. Water is *way* more dense then Hydrogen. Burning a galon of h2 and o2 would only create a few drops of water.
Anyway, you probably wouldn't create much more water vapor then evaporation off lakes, and such.
where it actually makes sense because of the massive amounts of processing power.
Actually, you should probably say "where it's easy because IBM hardware can already to massive parallelism"
There could be a lot of uses for this on less-then-mainframe machines out there. Especially in the web hosting world.
If you're going to flame someone, you should probably do it directly, in a followup thread, rather then just launching a 'general' flame in a root comment. I don't know if you'r reading at -1 or what, but I have no idea who you're talking too...
If you just want to setup a web server, you don't really need to do a Beowulf cluster. There are a lot of ways to split web traffic load among different servers.
The easiest would be to separate your program out serially, rather then in parallel. (So, for example if you needed a database, you could run the database on one machine, and the HTTP logic on another). If you had three or more machines, you could use one of them as a 'dispatcher' as a sort of proxy server that would send requests to different machines to split up the traffic. With just two machines, I suppose you could use round robin DNS where different computers would get different IP addresses for your domain name, so the load is distributed among your boxes. You'd probably have to run your own DNS server, though. Finally, if you're just serving static pages, you don't really need to worry about anything. Just about any PC on the market today can do thousands of hits per second of static HTML. More then you'd probably ever need.
I didn't see any analytical papers from you detailing how to detect old and/or new attacks. Of course people are going to spend more time on a real problem then a theoretical, or minor one. I mean, duh.
Linus works for transmeta. Also, they were very secretive before their first product came to market, so much of the excitement is 'residual' from the great expectation that their silence fueled.
AMD's 'product numbers' are based on the next revision of the p4, so it isn't surprising that a AMD '1900' would be faster then a current 2ghz p4.
Geocities sites die quick if they get hit with much bandwidth. Somethingawful.com can take a geocities site down in minutes by linking from the front page. Slashdot would probably kill one in seconds...
Whenever I buy a PC, the first thing I do, before I even plug it in, is take the case apart and have a look inside. Am I the only one who does this ? I doubt it :-)
:P
I've only ever purchaced one PC in my life. The rest of them have been 'cycled through' with continual upgrades. (that is, eventualy you'll upgrade you're PC enough that you'll be able to build another from used parts and a few extras, like cases/power supplies). So, when I get a 'new' There's no real reason to open it back up, since I just closed it
8mm cds would be pretty small. (actualy, there wouldn't even be room for a data track).
You have demonstrated an amazing lack understanding in current Chinese politics... First of all, the University is in Hong-Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region), which while technically a part of the PRC has it's own economic system, and is pretty independent from the central government. Also, the mainland Chinese don't have any real problem with Taiwan, and they believe that it is in fact a part of their country. Taiwanese citizens can buy land in China, for example. They aren't happy with the current government, though. But they wouldn't have much of a problem with Taiwanese motherboards (especially since Taiwan is the only country in the world where motherboards are made... which was the point of your joke, I know)
That was like, the lamest joke ever...