At a land grant university in my state, we use Packeteer Packetshaper to maintain sane bandwidth for P2P apps. It analyzes every packet at the application layer which travels in and out of the outside world pipe, and only allows P2P through if nothing else is in need of the bandwidth.
If you want to stop RIAA intervention...good luck. At our university, there is an internal sharing hub set up (blocks outside IPs), but people still manage to get caught, for better or for worse.
I've been pushing FreeNet a lot lately, since it is starting to become a useful P2P application that is so secure, it is impossible to trace the origin and destination of all content. If students were set up several large nodes, and then maintain a set of Freenet-internal content catalogs (or use the companion application Frost, you might see a drop in RIAA intervention.
The Vic-20 was a personal computer sold by Commodore Business Machines (makers of the Commodore-64), in the late 70s-early 80s which had 4k of onboard RAM. It had a cartridge slot (but could also use floppy disk or tape drives) and there were cartridges sold that contained all sorts of stuff: memory expansion, word processing, games, utilities, etc....
I think that it would be very easy to migrate the archive to a Freesite on the Freenet, and just use a dedicated node to continually upload and refresh the archive.
Its awful hard to sue for copyright infringement when you don't know where the data originates from, and you can't see who's obtaining it.
This could do wonders for many technologies. A 1:140 ratio in lifting is quite amazing. However, I see a couple of issues with large scale applications. I recently attended a seminar in which the speaker talked about how nano technology adheres to a completely different set of physical laws, since atomic attractions and various other forces start to play a huge role as size decreases. That makes development and improvement of the technology clunky and slow, and sometimes forces developers to drop it alltogether due to unforseen hurdles.
What I want to know, is exactly how big and how powerful can these be? The article says it takes 100 volts to make one flex! That puts a damper on building any type of large networks...And what kind of cycle life do they have? If they work for 100 flexes and then break...that's not terribly useful. They have a ways to go, methinks.
It may not be a coincidence, but that still doesn't make it a big deal. Since there may be a lack of traffic along the parade route, it seems to me that it would be a good time to take the system down for maintenance. There probably won't be a big need for it.
There were a number of programs that came out which allowed you to use special formatting of 3.5 inch floppies to fit 1.7-2.2 Megabytes on them. They weren't all reliable (though Microsoft had one they used to distribute their software) and by no means a standard. Some even required that you load a TSR to be able to read the discs.
This will probably flop, unless it becomes an integrated standard in all DVD +/- RW drives. No one wants to buy a special cdrom drive just to read high-density CDs, especially when better (read: DVD) technology exists.
This is why open-source is so nice. You don't need much to run 'nix OS and apps. Folks aren't as fast to scrap useful hardware when effective software is written and widely available.
This is true. I think when people hear 'adventure game', they think automatically text or 2-d. Obviously, the genre has evolved with the technology. It could quite possibly become huge again, should some developer with good ideas decide to throw all their resources at it.
I bought a relatively inexpensive Jensen MP3 CD player for $150...it has an aux/input jack on the faceplate. Nice sound quality for my mid-range speakers, too.
I think this change can be seen through the evolution of the King's Quest series. The series had its ups and downs (KQ6=up, KQ7=down), and the final game (KQ8) was more of a 3-d shooter style than adventure, and that trend continued with other games and companies as well.
I've noticed, however, that games like Splinter Cell incoroporate a lot of the 3-d transferrable characteristics of the adventure genre: Creative thinking, strategy-based playability and a plot.
I loved true adventure games because of their similarities to a book - a full plot a story which could result in a number of different endings. Text adventures and semi-graphical adventures were of the same caliber, IMHO. In fact, independent developers are still making and porting both of these types, which are easy to find and free to play. Those who seek to make a profit, however, expend their efforts elsewhere.
I would say that it is the hardware market which drives the software market, and it is this which is at least partially responsible for the decline in further commercial development of the adventure game genre.
Interesting...I hear also that they run cooler - but at the expense of floating point efficiency. I think that's a good tradeoff for the normal desktop user.
This looks pretty cool, but I'd like to know - just how compatible and reliable are these C3 processors? I've seen them advertised in cheapo laptops in a number of places - are they some sort of mobile solution? I've also seen them mounted on a couple of all-in-one motherboard solutions. Anyone have any experience with these?
In theory, TIA would enable national security analysts to detect, classify, track, understand and pre-empt terrorist attacks against the United States by drawing upon surveillance and patterns in public and private transactions.
And in theory, communism worked beautifully. Too bad no one thought it through to the nth iteration...
It would be interesting to see details on how 1.) 'Threatening' patterns and their levels are selected, and 2.) How someone could spam the system with threatening activity.
I think that the DMCA is far too open to abuse to be effective - one blatant example is how Lexmark uses it as a shield to prevent cheaply remanufactured ink cartridges from being produced.
I hope it goes down in a big flaming ball of greasy smoke. With no survivors.
I remember building a motion-detector and hooking it up to my Commodore 64 back in middle school...I also remember ripping apart my Radio Shack "Robbie the Robot" and making the door to my room automated.
This was after watching several episodes of Star Trek for the first time:o)
For charging, that is. The car had a simple little holder where you would place the external charging coil (attached to a much larger unit). No electrical contact was made.
I remember one of the pitches they made for it was that it could safely charge even underwater...
...of course, that car was never put into full production, as a recent/. post detailed.
I've also heard of artificial hearts being charged using this method, eliminating the need for wires running outside of the body.
Read the life story. His immune system was crippled by overuse of prescribed antibiotics during childhood, a key development time for any human. This still happens to people today, sadly.
Without a good immune system, you're susceptible to all sorts of strange problems, especially at point-of-contact with the world: sinus, ears, throat, lungs. Chemicals in the air can weaken a struggling system further, making it easy to be overrun with even the most primitive bacteria, which most of us resist easily.
Those quick to say 'Its in his head' likely take their fully-functional immune systems for granted.
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There's a program out there called 'peer guardian' which links to a maintained list. I don't have the link with me though :o/
If you want to stop RIAA intervention...good luck. At our university, there is an internal sharing hub set up (blocks outside IPs), but people still manage to get caught, for better or for worse.
I've been pushing FreeNet a lot lately, since it is starting to become a useful P2P application that is so secure, it is impossible to trace the origin and destination of all content. If students were set up several large nodes, and then maintain a set of Freenet-internal content catalogs (or use the companion application Frost, you might see a drop in RIAA intervention.
The Vic-20 was a personal computer sold by Commodore Business Machines (makers of the Commodore-64), in the late 70s-early 80s which had 4k of onboard RAM. It had a cartridge slot (but could also use floppy disk or tape drives) and there were cartridges sold that contained all sorts of stuff: memory expansion, word processing, games, utilities, etc....
Its awful hard to sue for copyright infringement when you don't know where the data originates from, and you can't see who's obtaining it.
Freenet a good fix for crap like this.
What I want to know, is exactly how big and how powerful can these be? The article says it takes 100 volts to make one flex! That puts a damper on building any type of large networks...And what kind of cycle life do they have? If they work for 100 flexes and then break...that's not terribly useful. They have a ways to go, methinks.
It may not be a coincidence, but that still doesn't make it a big deal. Since there may be a lack of traffic along the parade route, it seems to me that it would be a good time to take the system down for maintenance. There probably won't be a big need for it.
There were a number of programs that came out which allowed you to use special formatting of 3.5 inch floppies to fit 1.7-2.2 Megabytes on them. They weren't all reliable (though Microsoft had one they used to distribute their software) and by no means a standard. Some even required that you load a TSR to be able to read the discs.
This will probably flop, unless it becomes an integrated standard in all DVD +/- RW drives. No one wants to buy a special cdrom drive just to read high-density CDs, especially when better (read: DVD) technology exists.
I'm beginning to think CPUs might be effective kitchen appliances.
This is why open-source is so nice. You don't need much to run 'nix OS and apps. Folks aren't as fast to scrap useful hardware when effective software is written and widely available.
This is true. I think when people hear 'adventure game', they think automatically text or 2-d. Obviously, the genre has evolved with the technology. It could quite possibly become huge again, should some developer with good ideas decide to throw all their resources at it.
I bought a relatively inexpensive Jensen MP3 CD player for $150...it has an aux/input jack on the faceplate. Nice sound quality for my mid-range speakers, too.
I've noticed, however, that games like Splinter Cell incoroporate a lot of the 3-d transferrable characteristics of the adventure genre: Creative thinking, strategy-based playability and a plot.
I loved true adventure games because of their similarities to a book - a full plot a story which could result in a number of different endings. Text adventures and semi-graphical adventures were of the same caliber, IMHO. In fact, independent developers are still making and porting both of these types, which are easy to find and free to play. Those who seek to make a profit, however, expend their efforts elsewhere.
I would say that it is the hardware market which drives the software market, and it is this which is at least partially responsible for the decline in further commercial development of the adventure game genre.
Interesting...I hear also that they run cooler - but at the expense of floating point efficiency. I think that's a good tradeoff for the normal desktop user.
This looks pretty cool, but I'd like to know - just how compatible and reliable are these C3 processors? I've seen them advertised in cheapo laptops in a number of places - are they some sort of mobile solution? I've also seen them mounted on a couple of all-in-one motherboard solutions. Anyone have any experience with these?
Idiot! *slap*
I'd be Catherine Zeta Jones' toothbrush.
What you need is...A MEAT COMPUTER!
I'm .001mm thick, you insensitive clod!!!
And in theory, communism worked beautifully. Too bad no one thought it through to the nth iteration...
It would be interesting to see details on how
1.) 'Threatening' patterns and their levels are selected, and
2.) How someone could spam the system with threatening activity.
Mmmm...spam...
*ducks*
Classify war drivers as enemy combatants!
I hope it goes down in a big flaming ball of greasy smoke. With no survivors.
This was after watching several episodes of Star Trek for the first time :o)
I remember one of the pitches they made for it was that it could safely charge even underwater...
I've also heard of artificial hearts being charged using this method, eliminating the need for wires running outside of the body.
Read the life story. His immune system was crippled by overuse of prescribed antibiotics during childhood, a key development time for any human. This still happens to people today, sadly.
Without a good immune system, you're susceptible to all sorts of strange problems, especially at point-of-contact with the world: sinus, ears, throat, lungs. Chemicals in the air can weaken a struggling system further, making it easy to be overrun with even the most primitive bacteria, which most of us resist easily.
Those quick to say 'Its in his head' likely take their fully-functional immune systems for granted.