It wouldn't make you a target to write code, it is proven in the courts(esspecially with regards to p2p) that writing code does not make you responsible for HOW that code is written. Esspecially if the plugin was an auto-discovery, IM-p2p plugin emphasis with an oh-by-the-way file transfer/search funtionality.
Exactly... In what aspect of sanity is 'one click purchasing' not an OBVIOUS idea...
Honest to god, this company scares me. Its sole purpose is to think up BS ideas, then wait for a company that wants to actually, you know, sell a product and checking if they infringe on their patents...
This is such the anti-American dream that it disgusts me. It really makes me want to be a bill gates-level billionaire, just so I cand lobby congress and sue the asses off these IP whores without them being able to wait me out... "You want to stall the courts, fine, I will write another 100 million dollar check to my lawyers you pricks, wait that out then talk to me"... I don't care how much it takes, Paul Allen should do the right humane thing and screw these guys into the ground through the courts.
Beta means it isn't final yet. Several products at google are 'beta'.. Orkut(i think), froogle, gmail, GDS, Groups2, News, Google Local...
While this is, as a whole, very discouraging, each product seperately shouldn't be taken as a final release... the GDS is the best example, they have made all of 1 initial release. Thats it. Future release will, almost unquestionably, resolve some of your(and my) issues. But give them some slack, they are still on an initial release.
P.S. looking around google, I discovered this page... Fun stuff. http://news.google.com/jobs/positions.html
Because Be did a pure-db filesystem and it doesn't scale. They didn't do it have assed, either, BeOS has (up until Mac 10.4, as far as I know) the best searchable filesystem setup on the market. The great and loved BeFS was a rewrite of the original, relying on metadata from the files, rather than on a database of the files themselves.
"More power to 'em, them -- but people PLEASE don't ask when this will be ported to Linux/Unix!"
My question is not "When will this be ported" but rather, when will Linux start making its great capabilities EASY TO ACCESS? If this has been in *nix systems for 20 years, why doesn't kde, gnome, or indy app integrate with the gui to have a SIMPLE non CL interface for the damn thing?
I know Linux can do a lot. The problem is, it takes to damn long for me to learn how to properly use each program (Locate vs. Grep, what the hell? I wan to 'search' my entire system, period.) and then get comfortable with the flags and syntax...
I know and like the CLI. But that doesn't mean it is the fastest for all tasks....
For all those Linux users saying the Desktop will be won, where is my search field box (eg. the Google bar in Firefox) in my file manager that lets me reasonably quickly search for filename + content of every file I have read-access to on the system?
Why does everything have to be so awkward to access. A simple interface to a powerful program doesn't make the program any less powerful, and it increases the exposure and 'selling points' of Linux as a system that much more.
Mod me down, I don't care. I know for a fact it is true time and time again. This comming for a FAN of Linux and Open Source.
It would be pretty badass to have a distributed file system(via Active Directory or similar) of 30 of those gigs per desktop(10 for core system/OS stuff). 9,000TB, just for the hell of it...
It would be the geeky thing to do. It would also give a light-weight kickass alternative to Outlook Express that people have had problem after problem with. They could easily make it tri-platform, making it a consistant client to take the load off their web servers, improving performance.
Did it not do well because the mathmatical APIs your calculator required to be, you know, useful get hidden from you in undocumented areas on purpose? All the while Microsoft developed their OWN calculator that used those APIs(but knew about them, since they guy that wrote those hidden APIs sits in the cube next to you).
Microsoft actually DID do some very nasty, very illegal, and VERY unethical things to make their various products trounce others... Even when they were inferior.
OR-E-GON... Seriously, we are the digital forest that can be afforded! We go by the basic rule of thumb that living expenses(cars house etc) is 1/2 of California... When a damn nice house can be had for 200-300k(350K/400k being the upperclass of virtually every community in the entire state).
It really is a fraction the cost of 'comparable' homes from the first hand accounts I have heard... Plus, we have Panic (mac shareware) Intel and OSDL(the org that pays Linus his check every month), among others.:)
Microsoft, defend them or not, have crippled the competition(and thus innovation and development) of both the OS, browser, and Office Suite market. Among others, I am sure... Is it ANY surprise that the only viable competition to these markets is based on a development model that is not tied to a company(and thus cannot be strong-armed illegaly?
Mozilla/Firefox OpenOffice Linux (and, to a lesser extent, OS X in that MUCH of the core system and software is open source, a HUGE help in developing such a great OS.)
Microsoft has done some bad stuff. Illegal stuff. Stuff that has, though we cannot really quanitfy it accurately, crippled the 3 largest computer science markets out there and put a tight noose on ever legitement computer manufacturer.
They deserved to be sued. They deserve to take it hard with their pants still on, not because Sun, Apple, Novell, IBM, Sony, Gateway, Compaq, HP, Netscape, AOL, Corel and others have been given the industrial shaft, but because we, the end users, have been deprived a level playing field for the principles of the freem market to function.
Well, considering Linux.1(and point.01, and most of the 0.x branch) did not even have a networking stack in it, I would argue that v2.6 IS 1,000 times better than v0.1
AUX, apple's system 7-era Unix system, had a cool app that never got much attention. It was a bit of a GUI app called Comando. Double-clicking LS, for example(the ls command file in/bin) opens a small windows with a series of checkboxes and radio buttons that had all the LS options... at the bottom of the window there is a text field of the command that is built by adjusting the various options... When ready, you can click the LS button and execute the customized command in a terminal window...
I really wish Apple would bring this back... just because it is so damn cool an idea.
"Of course, if 200 million voted, that's $10 billion there."
But then again, it is 10 billion dollars that was payed by the people, that would be given to the people... Instead, give them a tax break that said thay could pay $50 less on there tax form.
We have gone from ~400 meg cds, to ~700 meg cds, to ~5 gig dvds, to 20+ gig blu-rays, to possibly 500+ gig discs...
What the HELL makes you think we could possibly need a new medium? Is a 1250x increase in disk space without increasing disk size not good enough for you?
Medum changes are a done due to a limitation in the current medium that is addressed by another. Co-ax to cat#, co-ax/cat# to fiber, 16 to 32 bit, cassette to cd. If compact disks ever reach mainstream 500 gig, and they are burnable at a fex X, I would think we couldn't fit enough high definition video on a single disk to make it practicle to use a disk with such capacity for movie rentals...
I mean, 20 gig for hi-def dvds is great, but 20 times that? Seriously, we are fine where we are!
IE is on 6.0 already, firefox is way back there at whay, 1? Sheesh, no matter Microsoft has all the marketshare, version 2000 versus Linux 2.6, version 6.0 browser versus Firefox's 1. Heck, even their Solitaire game is older than that mac os x chess game.
Hint, it was a joke, and I am typing this from firefox, with a 12" powerbook at home... Mod me to hell anyway, though.
No, they haven't been eliminated, they have, however, been made useless in certain situations.
If you are 'suspected' of being a terrorist, the FBI can search your, for instance, library records or bank records and put a gag order on the library/bank to not admit(publicly or privately) to ever giving the feds that information... All without a judge-signed warrant. What is the point of warrants if not for judicial oversight? If the case demands a search for certain records, like bank statements, then the judge will give the feds a warrant. If not, he won't.
Actually, given the rapid upgrading cycle of desktop-aimed distros(6 months per release) I think an in-distro gui/cli easy way to upgrade ontop of the existing system is a necesary idea. I think that having to burn X number of cds every 6 months is rediculous when we have yum or apt (or similar) already installed.
I am not saying civil disobediance is a bad thing. But take it as it is. Downloading music without permission IS illegal. Freeing the salves at the time WAS illegal. Was it right? Was it Just?
Legality has nothing to do with your moral views. It is against the law, wether you want to protest those laws or not.
What are you talking about? Copyright infringement doesn't have to involve money, making illegal copies, or redistributing copywritten material, without permission, is illegal. Doesn't matter if you make a profit, the rules are the rules.
Can it be used efficiently on smaller files, to the point of creating web caches online?
Could Bittorrent be used to mirror your Temp Internet Files and spread the network load of a web server accross all of its current users? Using an apache add-on module, some checksumming, and some smart routing/efficient protocol?
This would be the ideal way to cache web pages. Just have a the ability in the server like a nospider.txt that disables the bittorrent caching for particular directories or files, etc.
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It wouldn't make you a target to write code, it is proven in the courts(esspecially with regards to p2p) that writing code does not make you responsible for HOW that code is written. Esspecially if the plugin was an auto-discovery, IM-p2p plugin emphasis with an oh-by-the-way file transfer/search funtionality.
Exactly... In what aspect of sanity is 'one click purchasing' not an OBVIOUS idea...
Honest to god, this company scares me. Its sole purpose is to think up BS ideas, then wait for a company that wants to actually, you know, sell a product and checking if they infringe on their patents...
This is such the anti-American dream that it disgusts me. It really makes me want to be a bill gates-level billionaire, just so I cand lobby congress and sue the asses off these IP whores without them being able to wait me out... "You want to stall the courts, fine, I will write another 100 million dollar check to my lawyers you pricks, wait that out then talk to me"... I don't care how much it takes, Paul Allen should do the right humane thing and screw these guys into the ground through the courts.
Beta means it isn't final yet. Several products at google are 'beta'.. Orkut(i think), froogle, gmail, GDS, Groups2, News, Google Local... While this is, as a whole, very discouraging, each product seperately shouldn't be taken as a final release... the GDS is the best example, they have made all of 1 initial release. Thats it. Future release will, almost unquestionably, resolve some of your(and my) issues. But give them some slack, they are still on an initial release. P.S. looking around google, I discovered this page... Fun stuff. http://news.google.com/jobs/positions.html
Why not make a db fs?
Because Be did a pure-db filesystem and it doesn't scale. They didn't do it have assed, either, BeOS has (up until Mac 10.4, as far as I know) the best searchable filesystem setup on the market. The great and loved BeFS was a rewrite of the original, relying on metadata from the files, rather than on a database of the files themselves.
"More power to 'em, them -- but people PLEASE don't ask when this will be ported to Linux/Unix!"
My question is not "When will this be ported" but rather, when will Linux start making its great capabilities EASY TO ACCESS? If this has been in *nix systems for 20 years, why doesn't kde, gnome, or indy app integrate with the gui to have a SIMPLE non CL interface for the damn thing?
I know Linux can do a lot. The problem is, it takes to damn long for me to learn how to properly use each program (Locate vs. Grep, what the hell? I wan to 'search' my entire system, period.) and then get comfortable with the flags and syntax...
I know and like the CLI. But that doesn't mean it is the fastest for all tasks....
For all those Linux users saying the Desktop will be won, where is my search field box (eg. the Google bar in Firefox) in my file manager that lets me reasonably quickly search for filename + content of every file I have read-access to on the system?
Why does everything have to be so awkward to access. A simple interface to a powerful program doesn't make the program any less powerful, and it increases the exposure and 'selling points' of Linux as a system that much more.
Mod me down, I don't care. I know for a fact it is true time and time again. This comming for a FAN of Linux and Open Source.
It would be pretty badass to have a distributed file system(via Active Directory or similar) of 30 of those gigs per desktop(10 for core system/OS stuff). 9,000TB, just for the hell of it...
Try running Google Desktop Search on THAT thing.
Well, I am sure they have Wal-Marts in Alaska...
It would be the geeky thing to do. It would also give a light-weight kickass alternative to Outlook Express that people have had problem after problem with. They could easily make it tri-platform, making it a consistant client to take the load off their web servers, improving performance.
Did it not do well because the mathmatical APIs your calculator required to be, you know, useful get hidden from you in undocumented areas on purpose? All the while Microsoft developed their OWN calculator that used those APIs(but knew about them, since they guy that wrote those hidden APIs sits in the cube next to you).
Microsoft actually DID do some very nasty, very illegal, and VERY unethical things to make their various products trounce others... Even when they were inferior.
OR-E-GON... Seriously, we are the digital forest that can be afforded! We go by the basic rule of thumb that living expenses(cars house etc) is 1/2 of California... When a damn nice house can be had for 200-300k(350K/400k being the upperclass of virtually every community in the entire state).
:)
It really is a fraction the cost of 'comparable' homes from the first hand accounts I have heard... Plus, we have Panic (mac shareware) Intel and OSDL(the org that pays Linus his check every month), among others.
Microsoft, defend them or not, have crippled the competition(and thus innovation and development) of both the OS, browser, and Office Suite market. Among others, I am sure... Is it ANY surprise that the only viable competition to these markets is based on a development model that is not tied to a company(and thus cannot be strong-armed illegaly?
Mozilla/Firefox
OpenOffice
Linux (and, to a lesser extent, OS X in that MUCH of the core system and software is open source, a HUGE help in developing such a great OS.)
Microsoft has done some bad stuff. Illegal stuff. Stuff that has, though we cannot really quanitfy it accurately, crippled the 3 largest computer science markets out there and put a tight noose on ever legitement computer manufacturer.
They deserved to be sued. They deserve to take it hard with their pants still on, not because Sun, Apple, Novell, IBM, Sony, Gateway, Compaq, HP, Netscape, AOL, Corel and others have been given the industrial shaft, but because we, the end users, have been deprived a level playing field for the principles of the freem market to function.
Well, ya, but ARPA is now DARPA. Shouldn't it be the DARPANET?
Well, considering Linux .1(and point .01, and most of the 0.x branch) did not even have a networking stack in it, I would argue that v2.6 IS 1,000 times better than v0.1
I really wish Apple would bring this back... just because it is so damn cool an idea.
This page has more information, halfway down.
"Of course, if 200 million voted, that's $10 billion there."
But then again, it is 10 billion dollars that was payed by the people, that would be given to the people... Instead, give them a tax break that said thay could pay $50 less on there tax form.
DRM, meet PRM.
Physical Rights Management... hell, share all you want, it will degrade away as you do.
We have gone from ~400 meg cds, to ~700 meg cds, to ~5 gig dvds, to 20+ gig blu-rays, to possibly 500+ gig discs...
What the HELL makes you think we could possibly need a new medium? Is a 1250x increase in disk space without increasing disk size not good enough for you?
Medum changes are a done due to a limitation in the current medium that is addressed by another. Co-ax to cat#, co-ax/cat# to fiber, 16 to 32 bit, cassette to cd. If compact disks ever reach mainstream 500 gig, and they are burnable at a fex X, I would think we couldn't fit enough high definition video on a single disk to make it practicle to use a disk with such capacity for movie rentals...
I mean, 20 gig for hi-def dvds is great, but 20 times that? Seriously, we are fine where we are!
IE is on 6.0 already, firefox is way back there at whay, 1? Sheesh, no matter Microsoft has all the marketshare, version 2000 versus Linux 2.6, version 6.0 browser versus Firefox's 1. Heck, even their Solitaire game is older than that mac os x chess game.
Hint, it was a joke, and I am typing this from firefox, with a 12" powerbook at home... Mod me to hell anyway, though.
The large cluster of users that don't know what an "SP2" is, let alone regularly update their OS.
No, they haven't been eliminated, they have, however, been made useless in certain situations.
If you are 'suspected' of being a terrorist, the FBI can search your, for instance, library records or bank records and put a gag order on the library/bank to not admit(publicly or privately) to ever giving the feds that information... All without a judge-signed warrant. What is the point of warrants if not for judicial oversight? If the case demands a search for certain records, like bank statements, then the judge will give the feds a warrant. If not, he won't.
Actually, given the rapid upgrading cycle of desktop-aimed distros(6 months per release) I think an in-distro gui/cli easy way to upgrade ontop of the existing system is a necesary idea. I think that having to burn X number of cds every 6 months is rediculous when we have yum or apt (or similar) already installed.
NASA doesn't want to outsource innovation? Call it good ol' fashioned greed.
I am not saying civil disobediance is a bad thing. But take it as it is. Downloading music without permission IS illegal. Freeing the salves at the time WAS illegal. Was it right? Was it Just?
Legality has nothing to do with your moral views. It is against the law, wether you want to protest those laws or not.
What are you talking about? Copyright infringement doesn't have to involve money, making illegal copies, or redistributing copywritten material, without permission, is illegal. Doesn't matter if you make a profit, the rules are the rules.
What is the future of bittorrent?
Can it be used efficiently on smaller files, to the point of creating web caches online?
Could Bittorrent be used to mirror your Temp Internet Files and spread the network load of a web server accross all of its current users? Using an apache add-on module, some checksumming, and some smart routing/efficient protocol?
This would be the ideal way to cache web pages. Just have a the ability in the server like a nospider.txt that disables the bittorrent caching for particular directories or files, etc.
Could this work?