What might be even more powerful is Google's ability to log spam messages and search them for relavance to the message in front of them to determine who to block as spam.
If a message is not spam, then Google can search the AdWords database...:)
I think this confirms that the address they'll be handing out will be _______@gmail.com... which safely shields the google.com name from being associated with the contents of any given e-mail. I'm pretty sure that was no accident.
I detect that Google will limit e-mails to something around 32k each, and accept only 24 e-mails per sender per day to the same account. In other words, check your PowerPoints at the door...
My first thought is that they're going to give one GB of text storage and forbid the use of the service to transfer binary attachments. (with limits on how many e-mails you can get from a particular sender per day and how big each message can be enforcing the rule so that good old usenet encoders don't work.) Therefore, they can give everybody a full GB of apparent storage, while older rarely-checked messages sit in compressed space... readable text always compresses well.:)
When a Clear Channel radio station changes formats and therefore needs a large volume of music on site quickly, they usually send a server that is pre-loaded with the new format worth of music on HDs, and the studio just plugs that into their network. This also gives them the capability to change the format overnight without anybody at the studio complex needing advanced notice, so that soon-to-be-unemployed DJs don't see it coming and therefore leave the station a few days early to ruin the transition... the UPS delivery of the new music comes in a non-descript cardboard box which can be scheduled to be on the site just hours before the changeover happens.
Has anybody bothered to compute the bandwidth represented by a typical issue of Playboy? Sure, the articles can be represented in text... but the high-resolution images is really what the magazine is about.
We might as well label April 1 as Pigeon Appreciation Day in the geek world. While networking by carrier pigeon is mostly a joke, there is some serious bandwidth potential in trained birds that we might as well remember exists just in case we ever really need it.
What this goes to show is that a cheap and somewhat reliable technology can sometimes put our high-tech stuff to shame when response time is not a factor.
NetFlix is the most commonly cited example, how they can send a DVD over USPS faster than that information more often than not faster and cheaper than it could have been delivered over the Internet.
Sometimes moving the data physically is better than moving the data by wire, and this should always be taken into account when designing an information system. The Internet's great, but it's not the solution to all data transfer needs.
I don't think we can afford to ignore such an evil force... but maybe they should be downgraded to a weekly SCO summary. That way we can keep tabs on them while denying their ability to influence every day's news cycle.
I don't think SCO should be completely ignored as long as they're still alive and kicking because their FUD machine is a dangerous thing, but maybe they should be limited to one weekly roundup instead of their near-daily coverage.
There's an interesting point. An iPod is next to useless without using iTunes. Maybe iPods phoning their serial numbers home might not be that bad a thing afterall. Report it as stolen, and then when it shows up next talking to the iTunes Music Store (or maybe just even the already Internet aware iTunes) and it's instantly located.
The real problem from the RIAA members is that they've invested millions in CD-pressing plants, and they're not interested in letting that barrier to entering the market go down so easy. If anybody with a $99/mo. simple webserver can distribute music and get their songs picked up by the radio, then the size of the pie will stay the same, but the RIAA members will each end up with smaller pieces because of all the new players that take little bits.
Really, all they'd need to do is release BitTorents of the UPN broadcast complete with the UPN logo and commerical breaks. Yeah, people could try to edit out the breaks, but that'd break the official torrent value.
TiVo's already proven that people will watch ads even with the 30 second skip enabled, you just have to get the viewer's attention during the 2 seconds they see the ad before hitting the skip.
Free over the air radio has always been considered a promotional vehicle for music artists, that hearing a song on the radio is more likely to inspire sales than prevent it.
More or less, at this 1 CD per 5,000 downloads number, downloading is being called a push, it gives just about as much as it takes away from the recording industry.
I think what the RIAA is really scared of is the fact that P2P distribution might allow an artist to gain fame and make money without going through the "major label system" and that'd be the death of that system. So, it's not that P2P threatens CD sales as much as it threatens RIAA-member CD sales by replacing them with something else.
Unfortunately, PanIP isn't going away. They've only promised not to sue the 15 defendants who all ganged up to fight back. Everybody else is still at risk...
The PanIP Group Defense Fund is saying that it's going to dissolve because the all lawsuits against group members are being discontinued, in exchange for the group willing to give up the already on the books order that PanIP pay PGDF's legal fees. Uhm...
To me, this is not a result the outside world should be cheering. It's a settlement that protects the asse(t)s of the group members, but it's not a knockout blow to PanIP. PanIP is giving up nothing but the right to pursue an appeal that they weren't likely to lose and create an even stronger precedent. The PGDF is giving up the chance to extract real money from PanIP.
Boo! Hiss! Bad move!
The PGDF shuuld not be folding. Just because their orginal case has been settled does not mean they have become pointless. They should be seeing through that the patents be invalidated, and keeping the group in existance so that anybody sued by PanIP in the future could get quick and easy access to the resources that worked before.
As their website domain has always said, you could be next to be sued by PanIP if you're doing basic e-commerce on the Web. And nothing in this settlement prevents that happening. PanIP's plan may be to just let this group fade away, and then sue another group of defendants hoping that they don't join together into a large enough group to squash them like a bug again. It's a little too early to be putting the fly swatter away.
Slashdot Mirror
Created in 1995? Wonder how many other names Google owns for future use...
Doubt it... since there's already a "Coming Soon!" page at http://www.gmail.com
What might be even more powerful is Google's ability to log spam messages and search them for relavance to the message in front of them to determine who to block as spam.
:)
If a message is not spam, then Google can search the AdWords database...
I think this confirms that the address they'll be handing out will be _______@gmail.com... which safely shields the google.com name from being associated with the contents of any given e-mail. I'm pretty sure that was no accident.
I detect that Google will limit e-mails to something around 32k each, and accept only 24 e-mails per sender per day to the same account. In other words, check your PowerPoints at the door...
My first thought is that they're going to give one GB of text storage and forbid the use of the service to transfer binary attachments. (with limits on how many e-mails you can get from a particular sender per day and how big each message can be enforcing the rule so that good old usenet encoders don't work.) Therefore, they can give everybody a full GB of apparent storage, while older rarely-checked messages sit in compressed space... readable text always compresses well. :)
I can't wait to see what Google's anti-spam technology is going to look like. You can't do a webmail service these days without one...
When a Clear Channel radio station changes formats and therefore needs a large volume of music on site quickly, they usually send a server that is pre-loaded with the new format worth of music on HDs, and the studio just plugs that into their network. This also gives them the capability to change the format overnight without anybody at the studio complex needing advanced notice, so that soon-to-be-unemployed DJs don't see it coming and therefore leave the station a few days early to ruin the transition... the UPS delivery of the new music comes in a non-descript cardboard box which can be scheduled to be on the site just hours before the changeover happens.
Has anybody bothered to compute the bandwidth represented by a typical issue of Playboy? Sure, the articles can be represented in text... but the high-resolution images is really what the magazine is about.
I'd make sure that you send messages in large packets because droppings can be messy to have to clean up...
We might as well label April 1 as Pigeon Appreciation Day in the geek world. While networking by carrier pigeon is mostly a joke, there is some serious bandwidth potential in trained birds that we might as well remember exists just in case we ever really need it.
What this goes to show is that a cheap and somewhat reliable technology can sometimes put our high-tech stuff to shame when response time is not a factor.
NetFlix is the most commonly cited example, how they can send a DVD over USPS faster than that information more often than not faster and cheaper than it could have been delivered over the Internet.
Sometimes moving the data physically is better than moving the data by wire, and this should always be taken into account when designing an information system. The Internet's great, but it's not the solution to all data transfer needs.
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Via pipe? Ew... gross...
It's not illegal... it's just a violation of a contract, and you know how SCO loves to go looking for legal loopholes in contracts...
I don't think we can afford to ignore such an evil force... but maybe they should be downgraded to a weekly SCO summary. That way we can keep tabs on them while denying their ability to influence every day's news cycle.
I don't think SCO should be completely ignored as long as they're still alive and kicking because their FUD machine is a dangerous thing, but maybe they should be limited to one weekly roundup instead of their near-daily coverage.
Mugger: I SAID, your I-POD or your LIFE!
iGeek: Uhm, what's the difference?
There's an interesting point. An iPod is next to useless without using iTunes. Maybe iPods phoning their serial numbers home might not be that bad a thing afterall. Report it as stolen, and then when it shows up next talking to the iTunes Music Store (or maybe just even the already Internet aware iTunes) and it's instantly located.
The real problem from the RIAA members is that they've invested millions in CD-pressing plants, and they're not interested in letting that barrier to entering the market go down so easy. If anybody with a $99/mo. simple webserver can distribute music and get their songs picked up by the radio, then the size of the pie will stay the same, but the RIAA members will each end up with smaller pieces because of all the new players that take little bits.
Really, all they'd need to do is release BitTorents of the UPN broadcast complete with the UPN logo and commerical breaks. Yeah, people could try to edit out the breaks, but that'd break the official torrent value.
TiVo's already proven that people will watch ads even with the 30 second skip enabled, you just have to get the viewer's attention during the 2 seconds they see the ad before hitting the skip.
Free over the air radio has always been considered a promotional vehicle for music artists, that hearing a song on the radio is more likely to inspire sales than prevent it.
More or less, at this 1 CD per 5,000 downloads number, downloading is being called a push, it gives just about as much as it takes away from the recording industry.
I think what the RIAA is really scared of is the fact that P2P distribution might allow an artist to gain fame and make money without going through the "major label system" and that'd be the death of that system. So, it's not that P2P threatens CD sales as much as it threatens RIAA-member CD sales by replacing them with something else.
Fruitless? FRUITLESS?!
If the patents get invalidated, I'd hardly call that fruitless.
This group of defendants is folding before seeing it to that end...
In fact, they're missing their chance to set a legal precedent by letting PanIP go through with their foolish appeal and losing...
Unfortunately, PanIP isn't going away. They've only promised not to sue the 15 defendants who all ganged up to fight back. Everybody else is still at risk...
The PanIP Group Defense Fund is saying that it's going to dissolve because the all lawsuits against group members are being discontinued, in exchange for the group willing to give up the already on the books order that PanIP pay PGDF's legal fees. Uhm...
To me, this is not a result the outside world should be cheering. It's a settlement that protects the asse(t)s of the group members, but it's not a knockout blow to PanIP. PanIP is giving up nothing but the right to pursue an appeal that they weren't likely to lose and create an even stronger precedent. The PGDF is giving up the chance to extract real money from PanIP.
Boo! Hiss! Bad move!
The PGDF shuuld not be folding. Just because their orginal case has been settled does not mean they have become pointless. They should be seeing through that the patents be invalidated, and keeping the group in existance so that anybody sued by PanIP in the future could get quick and easy access to the resources that worked before.
As their website domain has always said, you could be next to be sued by PanIP if you're doing basic e-commerce on the Web. And nothing in this settlement prevents that happening. PanIP's plan may be to just let this group fade away, and then sue another group of defendants hoping that they don't join together into a large enough group to squash them like a bug again. It's a little too early to be putting the fly swatter away.