Step aside Caltech and CERN, your record of 1.1 Terabytes of data at a rate of 5.44 Gbps has already been broken. From this article:
UIC's National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) and Laboratory for Advanced Computing flashed a set of astronomy data from Chicago to Amsterdam at 6.8 gigabits per second
and
The test used Amsterdam's SURFnet and Chicago's Abilene networks.
During a 30 minute test, the researchers transmitted approximately 1.4 terabytes of data
Microsoft told a judge they couldn't remove IE from Windows, so if they can't
distribue IE they can't ship Windows, can they? So no Wintel machines could be sold. Might ruin somebody's day.:)
The text would evolve into something that could not be purchased from *any* publisher.
I don''t see what's in it for the author, other than publicity and a warm fuzzy feeling. If an author's book can't be purchased she'll never get any royalties.
So, that's 48 km/s relative to what? If it's correct to assume the writer meant "relative to Jupiter," then that is ridiculously fast. IIRC, typical orbits around Earth manage only ~8-10km/s.
Metis [MEE-tis] is the innermost known satellite of Jupiter. According to this page Metis orbits at a mean distance of 127,969 km with a Mean orbital velocity of 31.57 km/sec. So 48 km/sec is not so ridiculous.
People will not stop trading music, they will just change the way they do it, if it becomes too "risky" under current conditions.
I totally agree. I recently talked to an eighteen year old I know who was setting up a WASTE group with his buddies. How is the RIAA going to root out the many thousands of such private groups that are forming?
JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security -- with help from the Transportation Security Administration.
The contractor, Torch Concepts, then augmented that data with Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information, including income level, to develop what looks to be a study of whether passenger-profiling systems such as CAPPS II are feasible.
Note that JetBlue has a privacy policy on their website that includes this statement:
The financial and personal information collected on this site is not shared with any third parties, and is protected by secure servers.
JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security -- with help from the Transportation Security Administration.
The contractor, Torch Concepts, then augmented that data with Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information, including income level, to develop what looks to be a study of whether passenger-profiling systems such as CAPPS II are feasible.
Software, including anything that can be encoded such as music or movies, is absolutely made for the Internet and p2p. The cost of distribution is zero. The marginal cost per unit is zero.
Distribution costs are not zero. Go to a web hosting site and price out the difference between 1 Gigabyte per month (10,000 hits on a 100KB jpeg) versus 1 Terabyte a month (10,000 hits on a 100MB mpeg). There will be a big difference. And 1 TB/month wouldn't be anywhere near enough to distribute millions of copies of HDTV quality feature films per month.
yet American scientists who refuse military work are exceedingly rare today
I'm inclined to doubt that statement. I was at a meeting last spring where a guy who was high in the NSF directorate charged with funding computer science gave a presentation to a group of computer science profs and research staff at a major research university. He said that they were seeing more grant proposals from profs who had who had traditionally taken DARPA money but who were now looking toward NSF, and that NSF's numbers showed that the NSF's share as a percentage of Computer Science research funding was rising as DARPA's was falling. There was muttered agreement among some of the professors. The reason seemed to be growing discontent with DARPA, but was clearly unwilling to elaborate on this in public.
The WNU is a further recognition that the nuclear industry needs to educate a new generation of workers, so that nuclear power can continue to provide electricity without the production of greenhouse gases.
Instead of greenhouse gases nuclear power produces radioactive wastet that will be dangerous for tens of thousands of years.
Of course, "everyone" is saying that the desicion to standarize on Win2k is wrong because it ties you to a single software vendor (Microsoft). Wouldn't the adoption of Apple tie you down to a single software *and* hardware vendor?
Only if you had a "Mac only" policy. It is better to allow the best tool for the job rather than mandate a monoculture.
To show that they're better than Open Source MS would like to keep Longhorn as vaporware longer than Mozilla was.
*The* Robert Morris
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The professor in charge of the Roofnet project is Robert Morris. The article mentions that congestion on the mesh network is one thing they're working on. For some reason Professor Morris doesn't mention on his web page that he created the 1988 internet worm that brought the then (relatively) small internet to a near standstill, so he certainly knows something about network congestion.
That's the problem with many software licensing systems, you can suddenly be in violation without knowing it.
Like the GPL?
I know that sounds like a troll, but R. Stallman once told me in an email that I'd be violating GPL by putting a parser generated by GNU's bison in a commercial product if I wouldn't release source. I switched to Berkeley yacc and the FSF later changed their policy on bison.
I got the impression that he thought y.tab.c was GPLed. Maybe it was, which seems weird. It was at least 12 years ago so my memory of the reasoning may be off, but I remember his conclusion.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a friend spent 2000 US dollars on a PC and software. He had been staying late at work doing some writing and one of the files was in a format from some MS product that the version of Word or Works that he'd bought claimed to read. When he tried to open the file his computer crashed. He was afraid that he'd bought a bad or infected computer. He asked me to check it out and after an hour or two of checking various things I told him his computer was fine and that he should retype the file (he had a hard copy) and get on with his life. He was very happy to hear the news.
The story is kind of boring except that the following January I was at a Super Bowl party hosted by a Microsoft guy I knew. I told this story and the MS people looked at this guy who they said wrote converters for the piece of software in question and someone told me to ask him why the conversion crashed Windows. He stared into his beer for awhile and finally said, "Sometimes they don't work."
My friend now happily writes on his dual 1 GHz G4 Mac.
But the developers need to start writing the real-world applications people need to run a business...engineering, art and design tools, that kind of stuff...They're all trying to build servers that already exist and do a whole bunch of stuff that's already out there...I think there's a lot of room to not just create an alternative to Microsoft but really take the next step and do something new.
His point is that business people need to run a business, but that most open source programmers are writing stuff for programmers.
Given that Apple has added video to iChat, and that MS is planning to fold video messaging into Longhorn (or whatever) why not let AOL compete in the market?
The problem, they say, is teenagers who instant message their friends with their verdict on new films - sometimes while they are still in the cinema watching
Maybe the theater owners will install cell phone jammers to at least slow down the instant messagers. That would have the benefit (for me) of not having idiots take calls during a movie.
If even a tiny group of all the people who receive spam would give feedback by making a phone call, I think it could make many spammers to reconsider their business.
I have an email filter rule that looks for toll-free numbers and puts them in a folder. Every morning I call the (usually 2 or 3) that have come in the last 24 hours and say politely, "I got your email about (whatever) and just wanted to let you know I'm not interested" and then hang up. No abuse, just waste their time and probably confuse them.
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UIC's National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) and Laboratory for Advanced Computing flashed a set of astronomy data from Chicago to Amsterdam at 6.8 gigabits per second
and
The test used Amsterdam's SURFnet and Chicago's Abilene networks. During a 30 minute test, the researchers transmitted approximately 1.4 terabytes of data
Stallman declined to be interviewed unless this article used his nomenclature throughout.
Yes, I know it won't come to that.
I don''t see what's in it for the author, other than publicity and a warm fuzzy feeling. If an author's book can't be purchased she'll never get any royalties.
C-SPAN just showed end of vote 95-0
Metis [MEE-tis] is the innermost known satellite of Jupiter. According to this page Metis orbits at a mean distance of 127,969 km with a Mean orbital velocity of 31.57 km/sec. So 48 km/sec is not so ridiculous.
And here I thought MS having forty billion dollars in cash and short term securities was an advantage. My mistake.
I totally agree. I recently talked to an eighteen year old I know who was setting up a WASTE group with his buddies. How is the RIAA going to root out the many thousands of such private groups that are forming?
Quoting:
JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security -- with help from the Transportation Security Administration.
The contractor, Torch Concepts, then augmented that data with Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information, including income level, to develop what looks to be a study of whether passenger-profiling systems such as CAPPS II are feasible.
Note that JetBlue has a privacy policy on their website that includes this statement:
The financial and personal information collected on this site is not shared with any third parties, and is protected by secure servers.
JetBlue has admitted it according to this article.
Quoting:
JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security -- with help from the Transportation Security Administration.
The contractor, Torch Concepts, then augmented that data with Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information, including income level, to develop what looks to be a study of whether passenger-profiling systems such as CAPPS II are feasible.
Distribution costs are not zero. Go to a web hosting site and price out the difference between 1 Gigabyte per month (10,000 hits on a 100KB jpeg) versus 1 Terabyte a month (10,000 hits on a 100MB mpeg). There will be a big difference. And 1 TB/month wouldn't be anywhere near enough to distribute millions of copies of HDTV quality feature films per month.
I'm inclined to doubt that statement. I was at a meeting last spring where a guy who was high in the NSF directorate charged with funding computer science gave a presentation to a group of computer science profs and research staff at a major research university. He said that they were seeing more grant proposals from profs who had who had traditionally taken DARPA money but who were now looking toward NSF, and that NSF's numbers showed that the NSF's share as a percentage of Computer Science research funding was rising as DARPA's was falling. There was muttered agreement among some of the professors. The reason seemed to be growing discontent with DARPA, but was clearly unwilling to elaborate on this in public.
Instead of greenhouse gases nuclear power produces radioactive wastet that will be dangerous for tens of thousands of years.
Only if you had a "Mac only" policy. It is better to allow the best tool for the job rather than mandate a monoculture.
To show that they're better than Open Source MS would like to keep Longhorn as vaporware longer than Mozilla was.
The professor in charge of the Roofnet project is Robert Morris. The article mentions that congestion on the mesh network is one thing they're working on. For some reason Professor Morris doesn't mention on his web page that he created the 1988 internet worm that brought the then (relatively) small internet to a near standstill, so he certainly knows something about network congestion.
If you really want to know what Bush and Ashcroft will do look here.
Until Linux gets more stable, not changing libraries willy-nilly, it is still just a hobbyist's OS.
Like the GPL?
I know that sounds like a troll, but R. Stallman once told me in an email that I'd be violating GPL by putting a parser generated by GNU's bison in a commercial product if I wouldn't release source. I switched to Berkeley yacc and the FSF later changed their policy on bison.
I got the impression that he thought y.tab.c was GPLed. Maybe it was, which seems weird. It was at least 12 years ago so my memory of the reasoning may be off, but I remember his conclusion.
The story is kind of boring except that the following January I was at a Super Bowl party hosted by a Microsoft guy I knew. I told this story and the MS people looked at this guy who they said wrote converters for the piece of software in question and someone told me to ask him why the conversion crashed Windows. He stared into his beer for awhile and finally said, "Sometimes they don't work."
My friend now happily writes on his dual 1 GHz G4 Mac.
But the developers need to start writing the real-world applications people need to run a business...engineering, art and design tools, that kind of stuff...They're all trying to build servers that already exist and do a whole bunch of stuff that's already out there...I think there's a lot of room to not just create an alternative to Microsoft but really take the next step and do something new.
His point is that business people need to run a business, but that most open source programmers are writing stuff for programmers.
While I'm sure it's a good program, none of the humans was in the top 100 human players.
That said, it is almost certain that computers will dominate humans in chess at some point.
Given that Apple has added video to iChat, and that MS is planning to fold video messaging into Longhorn (or whatever) why not let AOL compete in the market?
Maybe the theater owners will install cell phone jammers to at least slow down the instant messagers. That would have the benefit (for me) of not having idiots take calls during a movie.
I have an email filter rule that looks for toll-free numbers and puts them in a folder. Every morning I call the (usually 2 or 3) that have come in the last 24 hours and say politely, "I got your email about (whatever) and just wanted to let you know I'm not interested" and then hang up. No abuse, just waste their time and probably confuse them.