To pull from the community, you also had to contribute to it.
Resources you could request from the community could consist of files, CPU time, the ability to place ads on others computers, streaming video or request for recorded program in another city from TV tuner cards, paypal type money transaction, etc...
Resources the community could request of you could include downloading files, CPU time, ad placement, bandwidth redirector (taking a single popluar stream and restreaming it to multiple users), TV tuner streams or files from your city, data storage of a popular file (that you don't necessarily want), paypal type money.
Assign each of these resources a karma value, make sure it's VERY explicit to the user what resources they are providing at any particular time (and give them the option to NOT offer certain resources, or only at certain levels like bandwidth caps) and let the computers trade away. Leeching no longer becomes an option, but if everyone realizes how much larger the network could grow, this network could be quite interesting.
The Karma values would have to fluctuate over time, like a free market.
I'm actually surprised with the boom in TV tuner cards no-one has tried to make a p2p program to stream or request recordings from peers in a different city. Sort of a p2p TivO. Depends on the rebroadcast rules in your country, I believe this might actually be legal here in Canada.
Add in a "Favorites" and let your computer download stuff you MIGHT find interesting, much like a TivO.
It might be possible to allow certain amounts of leeching, giving people a daily karma credit, for instance. You'd have to tweak this value to see how scalable the network should be.
I wonder what other resources computers with bandwidth can provide on their own.
I've been thinking along these lines (next generation p2p apps) for a while. If anyone finds them interesting, give me a buzz...:)
Flash + Right Mouse Button + Kid = Frustrated Kid
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Anyone else notice this one?
Some of the good toddler games have both left and right mouse buttons perform the same "click option". Kids learn that clicking does things, and click away. This is a good start.
But once they move to web sites (i.e. pbskids.org or nickjr.com), sites that rely on flash, the whole left right mouse button thing can be confusing. Especially on a flash, right clicking on it stops the flash.
Solution to this? I downloaded Intellipoint, which gives you some options on how the mouse gets used. It actually lets you turn OFF the right mouse button, which will teach kids (in a wonderfully Pavlovian way) that right clicking doesn't do anything. Good enough for kids younger than 4 browsing on IE. Once they stop doing it, you can turn it back on, and they don't right click on everything.
A few years back there was a sign in Victoria, BC, Canada going towards the ferry in Sydney back to Tsawassen. Big "garden sign" on a slope with "TRAVEL BC" in white letters, with woodchips around the letters and flowers all around. Nice touristy Victoria.
Someone had used the woodchips and covered up the T and the L and left:
Hey, I'm multi-tasking. The computer is doing noise reduction of an inverview I had with my grandfather about his experiences during WW2. Now, that's important.
Slashdot is just there to fill the gaps between life's moments.:)
It would be simple if the jokes were actually funny. Right now I'm worried the cumulative groaning effect is detrimental to my health.
The other simple solution is to not read slashdot for the day. But that's a head in the sand resolution. It seems like a large percentage of the posters (and I know that's not the readers) hate this shit. And my scheme doesn't affect Taco's other 90%, so why does it matter to the readers?
Focusing all the jokes on a single day turns laughter into a Hallmark greeting card day. Like only showing love on Valentine's Day, or only showing ramapant commercialism on Christmas Day.
Geez, and to think about 40 of my 50 mod points came through funny mods. Bloddy Malcontent...
OK, I've about had it with April Fools, and I have a suggestion to end this nonsense. I call it "The Great Slashdot Moulting"...
Every year, when April 1st comes along and the Slashdot stories are nothing but repetative joke-fare, all of us with karma > 20 should flood the system with crap, ALL POSTED AT +1 bonus. First posts, Second posts, 50th posts, Taco's wife ain't so hot, whatever...
Better yet, if you've got mod points, mod the crap UP.:)
Evryone blow all their karma IN ONE DAY... (-3 per post * 17 posts is about -50 karma). Then on April 2nd, create a new account and start over for the year.
The system will clog up with so many moderator requests it will either break the system or they'll actually HAVE TO STOP POSTING THIS CRAP on April 1st. They can't put us all in jail! Or that whatever that user flag that Taco appears to be weilding around like a penis replacement. Bwahahaha!
What the hell is karma good for if you can't burn it all in one amazing burst of glory? And imagine everyone doing it at once. An orgy of reverse karma whoring... WOOHOO!!!
As long as the cell phone makes real noise, rather than inserting a probe into your ear canal and manually manipulates your eardrum so that you hear the conversation without sound...
OK, a couple years back (too far back for my user page to remember), I made a post about how great the past NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin was, how he had managed to keep NASA going and doing wonderful things while having to dig through miles of endless beurocracy. I got slammed from another poster as to how he had kept NASA back, how we could have been doing so much more.
So now NASA has O'Keefe. The guy who can stand up for minutes to talk about the future of NASA and not mention the word "space" once. Now we're wondering if humans really need to go up to LEO.
Booyah.:(
You could claim Goldin got NASA into this mess with bugetary problems, but I think any multi-government project is bound to be over-time and over-budget. And I think some of the cooler stuff, missions to Mars, return to the Moon (also never landed on by people in my lifetime), or even more robotic exploration of our own solar system become questionable under the lens of proper fiscal management.
Oh well. Go China. I'm serious. I'm watching for their next Shenzauo launch with great anticipation. The Chinese should be proud...
What about the centripetal forces on the snow at the outside of the disc? Is the snow going to go flying off?
30km/h ~= 10m/s
The radius sounds like it's a little less than 100m (if 300m is the circumference of a half of the circle
a=v^2/r
So acceleration at the edges will be about 1 m/s^2
You'll have to add or substract that to the 9.8m/s^2 vector.
Actually, in retrospect of this calculation, I think it will be that 9.8m/s^2 accelleration vector spinning like a top that will have the worst effect on the snow. First you're an upslope, now you're a downslope!
OK, I don't have a DVD player, but I do own a good number of CDs. You can say what you like about video tapes overstretching and wearing out over time, but there's this phase between the ages of 1 to 4 years where children love to play with everything. Video tapes, while not indestructable are fairly robust and can take some beating from kids.
CD's on the other hand are just DESTROYED by kids. Finger prints, weird scratches, you name it. If it's a kids educational CD and they have access to it and think they can play with it, it'll get wrecked.
Dunno, maybe get a client software that scans stuff from your local sattelite, cable whatever, then shares the result with everyone via P2P.
Collect up all the data on the shows showing in the next week planetwide that have clients installed, poll what's important among the clients and distribute the tasks to them from the super-nodes...
Under that kind of system, there wouldn't be any more live TV. Just a massive pulsing P2P interactive TV experience.
I'm curious about this. Obviously there's a fair amount of CPU crunching going on to render the screens and a certain amount of character refreshing, but just how much?
Could you play this on a Pentium 100, for instance? How about over a telnet or ssh session?
What would be the bps limitations?
I just have visions of labs of vt100s connected for a quick frag between class...
There seems to be quite a bit of bragging in the article.
Considering how much the present B.C. government is trying to cut back anything with a budget, it's likely the hype is an attempt to hold on to any funding that TRIUMF has whatsoever.
When the provincial government starts considering cutting whole universities you've got to scream to stay alive...
A co-worker of mine got one of these Acer laptops with fingerprint recognition several months back, perhaps around April.
The fingerprint recognition was OK for one person, but as soon as we tried to configure it to recognize two people, we had horrible problems. It seemed like there were differences between the BIOS level recognition and the software OS level recognition. We were eventually both locked out and just sent the laptop in to be reset.
I hate to say this at a time like this, but I'm not so sure about the Pearl Harbor analogy. Pearl Harbor was a military target, and the attacks on WTC were definately civilian.
I would think the better analogy would be the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with a tremendous toll on human life. Perhaps this is a step below and to the side.
No media outlet seems to mention this much, it seems.
I'm agnostic, so I can say a prayer for those in New York and Washington without being hypocritical. I'll do the same when America chooses inevitably to take it's vengeance out on other innocent civilians in retaliation.
Please let me be wrong. There's been enough death already today.
At our company, we talked about attempting to acquire a Tardis.. Not only would it help solve production deadlines (just hop inside and bo back in time), but as a bonus it would also solve that pesky space problem!!!
Slashdot Mirror
What about a peer to peer model that had karma?
:)
To pull from the community, you also had to contribute to it.
Resources you could request from the community could consist of files, CPU time, the ability to place ads on others computers, streaming video or request for recorded program in another city from TV tuner cards, paypal type money transaction, etc...
Resources the community could request of you could include downloading files, CPU time, ad placement, bandwidth redirector (taking a single popluar stream and restreaming it to multiple users), TV tuner streams or files from your city, data storage of a popular file (that you don't necessarily want), paypal type money.
Assign each of these resources a karma value, make sure it's VERY explicit to the user what resources they are providing at any particular time (and give them the option to NOT offer certain resources, or only at certain levels like bandwidth caps) and let the computers trade away. Leeching no longer becomes an option, but if everyone realizes how much larger the network could grow, this network could be quite interesting.
The Karma values would have to fluctuate over time, like a free market.
I'm actually surprised with the boom in TV tuner cards no-one has tried to make a p2p program to stream or request recordings from peers in a different city. Sort of a p2p TivO. Depends on the rebroadcast rules in your country, I believe this might actually be legal here in Canada.
Add in a "Favorites" and let your computer download stuff you MIGHT find interesting, much like a TivO.
It might be possible to allow certain amounts of leeching, giving people a daily karma credit, for instance. You'd have to tweak this value to see how scalable the network should be.
I wonder what other resources computers with bandwidth can provide on their own.
I've been thinking along these lines (next generation p2p apps) for a while. If anyone finds them interesting, give me a buzz...
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grits
Anyone else notice this one?
Some of the good toddler games have both left and right mouse buttons perform the same "click option". Kids learn that clicking does things, and click away. This is a good start.
But once they move to web sites (i.e. pbskids.org or nickjr.com), sites that rely on flash, the whole left right mouse button thing can be confusing. Especially on a flash, right clicking on it stops the flash.
Solution to this? I downloaded Intellipoint, which gives you some options on how the mouse gets used. It actually lets you turn OFF the right mouse button, which will teach kids (in a wonderfully Pavlovian way) that right clicking doesn't do anything. Good enough for kids younger than 4 browsing on IE. Once they stop doing it, you can turn it back on, and they don't right click on everything.
A few years back there was a sign in Victoria, BC, Canada going towards the ferry in Sydney back to Tsawassen. Big "garden sign" on a slope with "TRAVEL BC" in white letters, with woodchips around the letters and flowers all around. Nice touristy Victoria.
Someone had used the woodchips and covered up the T and the L and left:
RAVE BC
Hey, I'm multi-tasking. The computer is doing noise reduction of an inverview I had with my grandfather about his experiences during WW2. Now, that's important.
:)
Slashdot is just there to fill the gaps between life's moments.
Geez, and to think about 40 of my 50 mod points came through funny mods.
Yes! I get 40-50 mod points every time I moderate. BWAHAHAHA!
40-50 karma... loser...
Where the hell is the edit button when you need it? The Preview button and these "Eye" organs don't seem to work well enough.
It would be simple if the jokes were actually funny. Right now I'm worried the cumulative groaning effect is detrimental to my health.
The other simple solution is to not read slashdot for the day. But that's a head in the sand resolution. It seems like a large percentage of the posters (and I know that's not the readers) hate this shit. And my scheme doesn't affect Taco's other 90%, so why does it matter to the readers?
Focusing all the jokes on a single day turns laughter into a Hallmark greeting card day. Like only showing love on Valentine's Day, or only showing ramapant commercialism on Christmas Day.
Geez, and to think about 40 of my 50 mod points came through funny mods. Bloddy Malcontent...
OK, I've about had it with April Fools, and I have a suggestion to end this nonsense. I call it "The Great Slashdot Moulting"...
:)
... WOOHOO!!!
Every year, when April 1st comes along and the Slashdot stories are nothing but repetative joke-fare, all of us with karma > 20 should flood the system with crap, ALL POSTED AT +1 bonus. First posts, Second posts, 50th posts, Taco's wife ain't so hot, whatever...
Better yet, if you've got mod points, mod the crap UP.
Evryone blow all their karma IN ONE DAY... (-3 per post * 17 posts is about -50 karma). Then on April 2nd, create a new account and start over for the year.
The system will clog up with so many moderator requests it will either break the system or they'll actually HAVE TO STOP POSTING THIS CRAP on April 1st. They can't put us all in jail! Or that whatever that user flag that Taco appears to be weilding around like a penis replacement. Bwahahaha!
What the hell is karma good for if you can't burn it all in one amazing burst of glory? And imagine everyone doing it at once. An orgy of reverse karma whoring
Let the modding war on this post begin.
As long as the cell phone makes real noise, rather than inserting a probe into your ear canal and manually manipulates your eardrum so that you hear the conversation without sound...
I wonder if mouse gesturing (ala Black and White) would make a good password protection system?
:)
I guess you could enforce a certain complexity to the password (no mouse up, mouse down).
This would have the great advantage that it would be tremendously difficult to teach to someone else...
Just a flawed thought. Find the flaws...
The details of the fight scenes between Yoda and the Count
What, are Henson and co. running out of muppets or something?
One! Two! Three!!! Three Jedi Hah hah hah hah!
OK, a couple years back (too far back for my user page to remember), I made a post about how great the past NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin was, how he had managed to keep NASA going and doing wonderful things while having to dig through miles of endless beurocracy. I got slammed from another poster as to how he had kept NASA back, how we could have been doing so much more.
:(
So now NASA has O'Keefe. The guy who can stand up for minutes to talk about the future of NASA and not mention the word "space" once. Now we're wondering if humans really need to go up to LEO.
Booyah.
You could claim Goldin got NASA into this mess with bugetary problems, but I think any multi-government project is bound to be over-time and over-budget. And I think some of the cooler stuff, missions to Mars, return to the Moon (also never landed on by people in my lifetime), or even more robotic exploration of our own solar system become questionable under the lens of proper fiscal management.
Oh well. Go China. I'm serious. I'm watching for their next Shenzauo launch with great anticipation. The Chinese should be proud...
What about the centripetal forces on the snow at the outside of the disc? Is the snow going to go flying off?
30km/h ~= 10m/s
The radius sounds like it's a little less than 100m (if 300m is the circumference of a half of the circle
a=v^2/r
So acceleration at the edges will be about 1 m/s^2
You'll have to add or substract that to the 9.8m/s^2 vector.
Actually, in retrospect of this calculation, I think it will be that 9.8m/s^2 accelleration vector spinning like a top that will have the worst effect on the snow. First you're an upslope, now you're a downslope!
Hope they groom it well.
First all woman space crew... 2002
Um, wasn't this already done in 1963???
OK, I don't have a DVD player, but I do own a good number of CDs. You can say what you like about video tapes overstretching and wearing out over time, but there's this phase between the ages of 1 to 4 years where children love to play with everything. Video tapes, while not indestructable are fairly robust and can take some beating from kids.
CD's on the other hand are just DESTROYED by kids. Finger prints, weird scratches, you name it. If it's a kids educational CD and they have access to it and think they can play with it, it'll get wrecked.
I guess it's all perspective on longevity...
I don't know answers, I just do eyes. You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.
J.F. Sebastian. He's the one you want....
Dunno, maybe get a client software that scans stuff from your local sattelite, cable whatever, then shares the result with everyone via P2P.
Collect up all the data on the shows showing in the next week planetwide that have clients installed, poll what's important among the clients and distribute the tasks to them from the super-nodes...
Under that kind of system, there wouldn't be any more live TV. Just a massive pulsing P2P interactive TV experience.
I'm curious about this. Obviously there's a fair amount of CPU crunching going on to render the screens and a certain amount of character refreshing, but just how much?
Could you play this on a Pentium 100, for instance? How about over a telnet or ssh session?
What would be the bps limitations?
I just have visions of labs of vt100s connected for a quick frag between class...
The Offspring are "old farts"?
Hey.. I listen to the Offspring, and they're about the same age as...
OH MY GOD!!! I'm almost 30!!!
/me hides his head in shame, knowing it's all true.
;)
There seems to be quite a bit of bragging in the article.
Considering how much the present B.C. government is trying to cut back anything with a budget, it's likely the hype is an attempt to hold on to any funding that TRIUMF has whatsoever.
When the provincial government starts considering cutting whole universities you've got to scream to stay alive...
Would you have to build a railway track all the way around the moon so that the telescope could move around always stay on the dark side?
;)
Ohh, the FAR side of the moon. Or perhaps dark in the radio spectrum...
A co-worker of mine got one of these Acer laptops with fingerprint recognition several months back, perhaps around April.
The fingerprint recognition was OK for one person, but as soon as we tried to configure it to recognize two people, we had horrible problems. It seemed like there were differences between the BIOS level recognition and the software OS level recognition. We were eventually both locked out and just sent the laptop in to be reset.
I hate to say this at a time like this, but I'm not so sure about the Pearl Harbor analogy. Pearl Harbor was a military target, and the attacks on WTC were definately civilian.
I would think the better analogy would be the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with a tremendous toll on human life. Perhaps this is a step below and to the side.
No media outlet seems to mention this much, it seems.
I'm agnostic, so I can say a prayer for those in New York and Washington without being hypocritical. I'll do the same when America chooses inevitably to take it's vengeance out on other innocent civilians in retaliation.
Please let me be wrong. There's been enough death already today.
For anyone who plays a lot of Diablo.. Do you find it amusing that the characters are either:
1) Standing Still
2) Fighting
3) RUNNING!
A lot like Diablo II...
Doesn't anyone walk anymore?
At our company, we talked about attempting to acquire a Tardis.. Not only would it help solve production deadlines (just hop inside and bo back in time), but as a bonus it would also solve that pesky space problem!!!