A peer-to-peer Wikipedia would be a completely different project. It'd be a great project, in my opinion, but the way to go about it would be to build a P2P publishing network first, and then to just upload Wikipedia to it.
Basically, you'd need to create a version of freenet which isn't ungodly slow, and probably wouldn't have all the encryption/anonymity features so as to accomplish that goal. Once you had that, like I said, it'd be a simple matter of uploading Wikipedia (and re-uploading it on a regular basis).
I don't know of any fast alternative to freenet, which uses a web model rather than just individual files. If you know of one, let me know, and I'll upload Wikipedia:).
Yes, perhaps there are some amazing people at Yahoo! who using only MySQL can cause a database to switch schemas instantly over many tens of millions of rows whilst not being in read-only state.
Of course there are. I'm not even an amazing person, nor do I work at Yahoo!, but I could do it.
And no cheating like using multiple database servers and switching from one set to another - we don't (yet) have the hardware to achieve that.
Yeah, I was actually thinking about how that would be possible to do. But if you're going to go through that much work, isn't it possible to get the raw data from the government directly? I know for Microsoft Terraserver the data is not watermarked, and it comes right from the USGS. Of course, this is only US data, but doesn't the world data come from the US Govt too?
I mean, I've yet to see this in the Britannica yet, and that's why I use the Britannica more often than Wikipedia for serious work.
So you use Britannica more often than Wikipedia for serious work because Wikipedia contains articles on things that Britannica doesn't? That doesn't make much sense to me. If your "serious work" doesn't have anything to do with the GNAA, then you're not going to type GNAA into Wikipedia's search field, and you're never going to see that page in the first place.
Seems you could get it from the GPS coordinates, but I think maybe the resolution is going to be too small to see anything. With a really quick search I managed to get 40 40.673 N x 117 15.000 E, but after trying to put it into google I didn't find anything interesting. Did I create the URL incorrectly?
But all forms of "stealing" involve someone taking something that doesn't belong to them. In this case the camera is sold to you free and clear.
From my understanding, the camera isn't sold to you free and clear. When you return the camera to get the DVD, you don't get the camera back.
Unless you sign an agreement that the camera isn't yours, it is yours.
Based on what? In order for the title of the camera to change hands, there has to be an agreement. It doesn't have to be a signed contract, but just because some store owner hands you something doesn't mean you own it.
You clearly don't understand that contracts are formal agreements between two parties.
Of course I understand this.
When I rent a truck/trailer from U-haul I have to sign a contract stating how I can use the truck/trailer and an agreed upon price.
OK, you show me in the contract form you have to sign at CVS before they hand you the camera that they are only renting it to you and that you have to return it.
As I said, a contract does not have to be signed to be a contract. If you think it does, then show me the contract where CVS transferred the title to you.
Oh, wait, there IS no contract and you're not renting it. Not only do you NOT get your $30.00 back, you have to pay them $20.00 MORE to get your video off the camera and onto a DVD.
And when you return your camera, do you get that back? So according to you, you have to pay them $20 and give them a camera which you own, in order to get the DVD?
Yeah, like that. It's a little bit expensive (barebones it comes out to over $400), and the power consumption is a little bit more than I'd like (12 hours, with a 1 hour recharge time), but that guy pretty much had the same idea and the time and energy to actually implement it.
I guess if I did this I'd need to have it sleep at night to conserve energy. For $400 I think I'm gonna hold off for a while, though.
Is CVS only renting the camera, and you're expected to return it? I don't see any references to that anywhere.
According to this article you are only renting the camera, and are supposed to give it back when you're done.
Unless you have to sign something when you buy it saying you'll return it, that camera is yours to do with whatever you please.
So if I ask to borrow your car to drive 20 miles, and I don't sign anything, I can take your car on a 2000 mile trip, turn back your odometer, and get away with it? A contract doesn't have to be signed in order to be binding. Sure, you might get away with breaking it, but that doesn't mean you're not stealing.
Yeah, but it would be much more impressive if it used water cooling and piped the hot water to your hot water heater. But I guess I only say this because I live in Florida, rarely pay for heating, but still have to pay for hot water all year.
However, both a pair of 250GB disks or a 500GB disk will cost more than twice what this array cost the guy to build (including power, case, and controller).
Go to pricewatch. You can get a 400 gig for $244. A little bit smaller, but slightly less expensive. If you want 2x250 gigs you can get it for about $200. The hard drive companies have started a price war recently, and it's probably going to last a while.
Seriously though, there is way more than 500 gigs of free content (including source code) available on the web. If you've got a DSL connection or faster, you can easily fill up half a terabyte.
For someone on a small budget, $30 ($20 with coupon) is actually affordable, where $200-$300 for a real digital camcorder isn't at all.
Yeah but you can only use it for 20 minutes unless you steal it from CVS. If you're going to do that, just go to rent-a-center and get a nice camcorder for free.
No it doesn't. Do you know anything about how operating systems work? Which part do you think matters here? I/O? Just hook up a serial cable - I/O is built into the bios. Memory allocation? I seriously doubt this software is allocating memory on the fly. Process management? Why bother having more than one process? The operating system is completely meaningless. Unless you're saying Linux now has chess playing system calls built in.
Why even mention the Operating System in something like this? It's pretty much irrelevant what operating system you're using, in fact you could probably spend two days or so converting the program to run without any operating system at all.
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Try running voice over IP or file sharing on one of these services and you will get the idea.
So is this something specific to EV-DO, or is it built in to the cell phone network? I'd guess it must be something EV-DO specific, because I make phone calls all the time with my cell phone, and while it's not perfect, it is good enough.
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A peer-to-peer Wikipedia would be a completely different project. It'd be a great project, in my opinion, but the way to go about it would be to build a P2P publishing network first, and then to just upload Wikipedia to it.
Basically, you'd need to create a version of freenet which isn't ungodly slow, and probably wouldn't have all the encryption/anonymity features so as to accomplish that goal. Once you had that, like I said, it'd be a simple matter of uploading Wikipedia (and re-uploading it on a regular basis).
I don't know of any fast alternative to freenet, which uses a web model rather than just individual files. If you know of one, let me know, and I'll upload Wikipedia :).
hey, come and help doing that! all input is greatly appreciated.
Not mine. Wikipedia's arbitration committee has already made it clear that they don't want my input.
Why are the US servers located in Tampa? Why not?
Yes, perhaps there are some amazing people at Yahoo! who using only MySQL can cause a database to switch schemas instantly over many tens of millions of rows whilst not being in read-only state.
Of course there are. I'm not even an amazing person, nor do I work at Yahoo!, but I could do it.
And no cheating like using multiple database servers and switching from one set to another - we don't (yet) have the hardware to achieve that.
You don't have two servers?
Someone came up with a Perl script...
Yeah, I was actually thinking about how that would be possible to do. But if you're going to go through that much work, isn't it possible to get the raw data from the government directly? I know for Microsoft Terraserver the data is not watermarked, and it comes right from the USGS. Of course, this is only US data, but doesn't the world data come from the US Govt too?
I mean, I've yet to see this in the Britannica yet, and that's why I use the Britannica more often than Wikipedia for serious work.
So you use Britannica more often than Wikipedia for serious work because Wikipedia contains articles on things that Britannica doesn't? That doesn't make much sense to me. If your "serious work" doesn't have anything to do with the GNAA, then you're not going to type GNAA into Wikipedia's search field, and you're never going to see that page in the first place.
GlobalXplorer still walks all over Google maps for zoom and clarity.
Man, those watermarks are annoying, though. I know Google has watermarks too, but Google's are much more subtle.
Seems you could get it from the GPS coordinates, but I think maybe the resolution is going to be too small to see anything. With a really quick search I managed to get 40 40.673 N x 117 15.000 E, but after trying to put it into google I didn't find anything interesting. Did I create the URL incorrectly?
But all forms of "stealing" involve someone taking something that doesn't belong to them. In this case the camera is sold to you free and clear.
From my understanding, the camera isn't sold to you free and clear. When you return the camera to get the DVD, you don't get the camera back.
Unless you sign an agreement that the camera isn't yours, it is yours.
Based on what? In order for the title of the camera to change hands, there has to be an agreement. It doesn't have to be a signed contract, but just because some store owner hands you something doesn't mean you own it.
You clearly don't understand that contracts are formal agreements between two parties.
Of course I understand this.
When I rent a truck/trailer from U-haul I have to sign a contract stating how I can use the truck/trailer and an agreed upon price.
No you don't.
OK, you show me in the contract form you have to sign at CVS before they hand you the camera that they are only renting it to you and that you have to return it.
As I said, a contract does not have to be signed to be a contract. If you think it does, then show me the contract where CVS transferred the title to you.
Oh, wait, there IS no contract and you're not renting it. Not only do you NOT get your $30.00 back, you have to pay them $20.00 MORE to get your video off the camera and onto a DVD.
And when you return your camera, do you get that back? So according to you, you have to pay them $20 and give them a camera which you own, in order to get the DVD?
I thought stealing meant someone took something from you without you giving it to them, or selling it to them.
There is more than one form of stealing, you know.
Since CVS is actually selling these things to consumers, there's no "theft" involved.
It seems quite clear to me that they aren't selling these things to consumers, which I've already explained in my previous post.
If you want to co-opt the word theft to your own personal definition, fine. But don't go around using it that way and expect people to agree with you.
Right, so if I rent a u-haul for 150 miles, drive it for 1500 miles, and then turn back the odometer, that's not stealing, right?
Yeah, like that. It's a little bit expensive (barebones it comes out to over $400), and the power consumption is a little bit more than I'd like (12 hours, with a 1 hour recharge time), but that guy pretty much had the same idea and the time and energy to actually implement it.
I guess if I did this I'd need to have it sleep at night to conserve energy. For $400 I think I'm gonna hold off for a while, though.
Is CVS only renting the camera, and you're expected to return it? I don't see any references to that anywhere.
According to this article you are only renting the camera, and are supposed to give it back when you're done.
Unless you have to sign something when you buy it saying you'll return it, that camera is yours to do with whatever you please.
So if I ask to borrow your car to drive 20 miles, and I don't sign anything, I can take your car on a 2000 mile trip, turn back your odometer, and get away with it? A contract doesn't have to be signed in order to be binding. Sure, you might get away with breaking it, but that doesn't mean you're not stealing.
Yeah, but it would be much more impressive if it used water cooling and piped the hot water to your hot water heater. But I guess I only say this because I live in Florida, rarely pay for heating, but still have to pay for hot water all year.
However, both a pair of 250GB disks or a 500GB disk will cost more than twice what this array cost the guy to build (including power, case, and controller).
Go to pricewatch. You can get a 400 gig for $244. A little bit smaller, but slightly less expensive. If you want 2x250 gigs you can get it for about $200. The hard drive companies have started a price war recently, and it's probably going to last a while.
Spam, of course.
Seriously though, there is way more than 500 gigs of free content (including source code) available on the web. If you've got a DSL connection or faster, you can easily fill up half a terabyte.
For someone on a small budget, $30 ($20 with coupon) is actually affordable, where $200-$300 for a real digital camcorder isn't at all.
Yeah but you can only use it for 20 minutes unless you steal it from CVS. If you're going to do that, just go to rent-a-center and get a nice camcorder for free.
In case you don't know, that's a quote from hemos, followed shortly by CmdrTaco saying "I wish people wouldn't steal."
This applies to software as it does to hardware.
No it doesn't. Do you know anything about how operating systems work? Which part do you think matters here? I/O? Just hook up a serial cable - I/O is built into the bios. Memory allocation? I seriously doubt this software is allocating memory on the fly. Process management? Why bother having more than one process? The operating system is completely meaningless. Unless you're saying Linux now has chess playing system calls built in.
That's awesome. I wish people's complaints to Congress would get solved this quickly.
Why even mention the Operating System in something like this? It's pretty much irrelevant what operating system you're using, in fact you could probably spend two days or so converting the program to run without any operating system at all.
He might have gotten charged with a felony.
Try running voice over IP or file sharing on one of these services and you will get the idea.
So is this something specific to EV-DO, or is it built in to the cell phone network? I'd guess it must be something EV-DO specific, because I make phone calls all the time with my cell phone, and while it's not perfect, it is good enough.
Comparible in terms of bandwidth, and that's about it.
As for price, DSL is about $55/month if you don't already have a phone line.
There is one other drawback, though.
Pinging www.slashdot.org [66.35.250.151] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 66.35.250.151: bytes=32 time=290ms TTL=45
Reply from 66.35.250.151: bytes=32 time=262ms TTL=45
Reply from 66.35.250.151: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=45
Reply from 66.35.250.151: bytes=32 time=268ms TTL=45
Try that from your DSL connection. (I would, but I just moved to a new apartment a month ago and they still haven't set up the DSL.