I remember when the MPA tried to shut down the online guitar archive which is home to tons of ways to play popular music on a guitar - all interpretations, like someone showing you how they figured a song out from listening to the radio. The MPA used the lyric argument there, too. (this was in the pre-Napster time) Then, P2P happened. All I gotta say is, you reap what you sow.
I've always been a fan of having a spammer hunting season, to include spammer hunting licenses and special 'crossbow-and-steak-knife-only' pre-firearm hunting week.
No. 'Supernodes' take care of the cataloguing of files on KazAa. New Gnutella distros use 'SuperPeers' for the same thing. And any user can turn their computer into a supernode or superpeer (at considerable bandwidth expense). So there's no central server keeping the network afloat.
I played the original Quake multiplayer on a 14.4k with a Pentium I 160...I was using an external USR modem, and I got some pretty good pings, wherever there were less than 5 players and no one was grenade spamming.
I can talk from experience about hardware:
You'd need to get into one of the semiconductor houses that do design work for the gaming companies in order to be a part of this. Not sure who does what for Sony, Nintendo and M$, but you can bet that whoever did the design work (and whoever has a manufacturing contract) has a place to work overseas, quite possibly in China or Japan.
I used to be a Saturday morning TV addict...but a number of things contributed toward stopping that habit:
1.) Bad cartoons. I loved Bugs Bunny, but I couldn't stand most of the new crap that the networks kept throwing at me. With the exception of Captain Planet.:oD
2.) Short runs. Those new cartoons usually had runs of one season or less (Remember 'Hypernauts'? Didn't think so). Not much room to get into it, and took no time for it to fade away. Its pretty hard to get interested in anything that way.
3.) The computer, the internet. Completely took over my mornings and days. I replaced one addiction with two more...and now I spend my Saturday mornings compiling custom kernels.
The State Department report on global terrorism...says "some U.S. law enforcement officers have expressed concern" about Canadian privacy laws. ...
"Also, Canadian laws and regulations intended to protect Canadian citizens and landed immigrants from government intrusion sometimes limit the depth of investigations."
I find this rather frightening.
I generally think that Canada has the right idea, and the United States doesn't. I'm not a Canadian citizen yet because I have faith that the US can change, or at least start moving away from this dangerous spiral toward being a police state. Hoping, praying it could be so...
Actually, I was working on control displays for a steam turbine/recovery boiler at a paper mill. They require large numbers of operators to see them simultaneously, or things go *BOOM!*
I had to sit clear across the room from those bad boys...it was nice:o)
Thursday's announcement won't translate into products for quite some time, Avouris said.
Yes. The article doesn't mention much about how light will be recieved (though I suspect it will just happen in the reverse - light will generate electricity), and it also fails to point out that with the immense complexity of today's chips, it wouldn't be just an easy jump to convert existing designs to accept light pathways over silicon. This would require a new industry apart from the semiconductor sector, with new designs following different physics and fabrication techniques. That may be a great thing, but 'years' is most certainly how far away it is right now.
Could it be that development in another country fosters a better involvement with that nation's younger group of budding enthusiasts? I'm curious if anyone has seen such a thing.
They could have uploaded it into Freenet and then posted a link to it there. You can link to all sorts of content that way - and the/. effect is reversed: The more hits it gets, the more available it becomes.
I've found wide-view Plasma displays hard to beat (I worked with dual 48 inchers on my work PC for several months!). They are extremely expensive though. I'm waiting until OLED becomes mainstream before I upgrade my home PC monitor.
If you're from Texas and reading/., you need to do something about this.
Being Patriotic means being informed, being active, and knowing what your government is doing. As Americans, you can stand for the advancement of science and technology, and against the corporate tyranny which threatens that which we hold dear. So use your rights (while you still have them) and let the government know that they serve people America, not the whim of mass greed.
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Then, P2P happened. All I gotta say is, you reap what you sow.
That is all.
I'd run one! :oD
I've always been a fan of having a spammer hunting season, to include spammer hunting licenses and special 'crossbow-and-steak-knife-only' pre-firearm hunting week.
With a 'blog-blog' here,
and a 'blog-blog' there,
here a blog, there a blog,
everywhere a blog-blog!
No. 'Supernodes' take care of the cataloguing of files on KazAa. New Gnutella distros use 'SuperPeers' for the same thing. And any user can turn their computer into a supernode or superpeer (at considerable bandwidth expense). So there's no central server keeping the network afloat.
It may, in the end, come down a choice: Free speech or copyright enforcement. I know what I'd pick.
I played the original Quake multiplayer on a 14.4k with a Pentium I 160...I was using an external USR modem, and I got some pretty good pings, wherever there were less than 5 players and no one was grenade spamming.
I can talk from experience about hardware:
You'd need to get into one of the semiconductor houses that do design work for the gaming companies in order to be a part of this. Not sure who does what for Sony, Nintendo and M$, but you can bet that whoever did the design work (and whoever has a manufacturing contract) has a place to work overseas, quite possibly in China or Japan.
Good luck.
1.) Bad cartoons. I loved Bugs Bunny, but I couldn't stand most of the new crap that the networks kept throwing at me. With the exception of Captain Planet. :oD
2.) Short runs. Those new cartoons usually had runs of one season or less (Remember 'Hypernauts'? Didn't think so). Not much room to get into it, and took no time for it to fade away. Its pretty hard to get interested in anything that way.
3.) The computer, the internet. Completely took over my mornings and days. I replaced one addiction with two more...and now I spend my Saturday mornings compiling custom kernels.
Whups, maybe I've said too much!
WHAT??? I thought 'poke 53281,0' and 'poke 53280,0' made for a better contrast setting...
Minesweeper.
Whups...I didn't mean to post the parent anonymously...oh well. hehe
AOL: How are you gentlemen!! All your content are belong to us.
User: WHAT YOU SAY!!!
Science can be a beautiful thing...
"Also, Canadian laws and regulations intended to protect Canadian citizens and landed immigrants from government intrusion sometimes limit the depth of investigations."
I find this rather frightening.
I generally think that Canada has the right idea, and the United States doesn't. I'm not a Canadian citizen yet because I have faith that the US can change, or at least start moving away from this dangerous spiral toward being a police state. Hoping, praying it could be so...
I bet the gadgets would win.
I referred your question...
I had to sit clear across the room from those bad boys...it was nice :o)
Yes. The article doesn't mention much about how light will be recieved (though I suspect it will just happen in the reverse - light will generate electricity), and it also fails to point out that with the immense complexity of today's chips, it wouldn't be just an easy jump to convert existing designs to accept light pathways over silicon. This would require a new industry apart from the semiconductor sector, with new designs following different physics and fabrication techniques. That may be a great thing, but 'years' is most certainly how far away it is right now.
Could it be that development in another country fosters a better involvement with that nation's younger group of budding enthusiasts? I'm curious if anyone has seen such a thing.
They could have uploaded it into Freenet and then posted a link to it there. You can link to all sorts of content that way - and the /. effect is reversed: The more hits it gets, the more available it becomes.
Hmmm yes. Previous post was written in a hazy...state. Disregard my previous voltage comments :oD
I've found wide-view Plasma displays hard to beat (I worked with dual 48 inchers on my work PC for several months!). They are extremely expensive though. I'm waiting until OLED becomes mainstream before I upgrade my home PC monitor.
Maybe I'll even make Aristos and start my own little Radiance War.
read Catherine Asaro.
Being Patriotic means being informed, being active, and knowing what your government is doing. As Americans, you can stand for the advancement of science and technology, and against the corporate tyranny which threatens that which we hold dear. So use your rights (while you still have them) and let the government know that they serve people America, not the whim of mass greed.