No way to make that work.
You can't store that information on a centralized server, because that would defeat the whole point of P2P. Any central server in a P2P network will get shut down by the copyright lawyers rather quickly.
You can't trust a host to maintain its own feedback rating, and a fake host would simply falsely report its feedback rating to be the max.
For the same reason, you can't have superusers responsible for keeping track because eventually somebody dishonest will become a superuser, rending the feedback system meaningless because it'd only have disinformation results.
P2P requires you to trust strangers, which makes it very difficult to believe any protocol will be implamented honestly by all involved.
Yes, but is it effective? Assuming we're talking about a Linux distribution, it's legal to download it under any protocol.
Getting Linux over FTP is much more reliable because a published server is likely to have more bandwidth, be placed "closer" in network hops to you, and is more trustworthy.
Imagine if some anti-Linux organization posted trojan-containing distributions and started sending them out over P2P... all it takes is a few people too lazy to check their hashes and it will become impossible to audit back who released all the exploits into the wild.
P2P has some possilbe legal uses, but for all the legal things P2P could do, the traditional protocols are better at doing them. The only motivating reason P2P for being developed is because people want a tool that makes it harder to trace copyright violations.
But if it's going to have to be secured as it travels through the air waves, then when it gets to the remote screen it's going to have to be decrypted, meaning the monitor will have to have enough processing power to decode the encrypted message. That really starts to turn it into a "Tablet PC" instead of a "Smart Display".
Yes, but those solutions bog down whenever you put something hard to compress on the screen, such as if you open up an image-filled webpage in a web browser on the remote computer.
That's not a big issue for the remote control packages, because you can just open up such web pages on the local computer instead. But here, there is no local computer, everything has to go through the same small pipe. Yes, I can see some uses for this, but I don't think it's going to be able to do everything a wired monitor can do.
My monitor can show me full-motion video... can this thing? If it can't, then it's not a full replacement for my desktop monitor like the article claims it world be.
Yes, you can make sprites out of Windows icons and the such, but that still doesn't work when you have an.mpg file playing.
Somebody check my math here, but an 800x600 resultion display with 24 bit color depth needs 11,520,000 bits to be described uncompressed. Yeah, I know there's all sorts of compression than can be applied, but this is going to need something along the lines 40X compression effectiveness in order to fit into an 802.11b signal, or about 10X if you want to use 802.11a. Mira had better be very good at shrinking the bandwidth down.
How many of these things can work within the same office building at once before the Wi-Fi bandwidth gets saturated and ends up jamming the other wireless networking functionality as well?
It's highly likely that the 500,000,000 tags won't be delivered all at once if delivery "starts" in March, it's quite possible that this deal stretches out for multipule years.
It just won't sound as impressive if it was announced as a deal for 25,000,000 a year over the next twenty years, but that's likely closer to what happened. Gillete gets a dependable locked-in price for all of their RFID needs for the coming years, meanwhile the maker gets contractually promised revenue which they can use to finance factory upgrades now. (Just like a bank is more likely to give a person a loan if they can show they have a good-paying job, they're more likely to grant a loan to a company that can show that they will have future sales already contractually booked.)
The animated Trek lasted two seasons, which finished the "five year mission" that the live action series promised even though NBC canned them after only three. (Now, there's an example of a short-sighted network move...)
The POP3 access was never "free". Before, you had to agree to allow them to spam that POP3 account with "Yahoo Delivers!" mail, if you dropped that they'd drop your POP3 access. Additionally, anything you sent through them would have a "bottom line" ad attached to it.
Not everybody has access to an ISP e-mail accounts. Most bare-bone dialup plans come with only one POP3 account. When mom, dad, and the kids are all using the same ISP, they either have to have one e-mail box for the family, or a majority of the family members have to look elsewhere for a private e-mail box. These people will always have a need for a non-ISP e-mail account of some type.
Anti-trust law kicks in when you have a monopoly, and then try to use the advantages of that monopoly product to try to force your way into a marketplace where you're supposed to compete. You have to face your competitors on a level playing field.
It seems as if the DOJ backed off M$ as soon as G.W. Bush took office, leading to a rather ineffective settlement. It seems as if they intend on violating anti-trust laws yet again, and then trying to claim that they already settled it the first time.
Microsoft is to anti-trust law as Iraq is to dearmming resolutions?
Ironically many of the worst sites on the web are those who employ salaried writers. Principally because there's so much product placement and mis-information.
Hobbiests can have their own agenda, and they can hide it better because the connection doesn't have to be out in front of you. Besides, almost every hobbiest site now has some form of adversting link to pay the bills... if they're an Amazon.com affilate and they're recommending a book, did the webmaster read it? How do you know?
So if you have 100 clients per square mile, with ~50Gigs free harddrive space and > 100Mpbs transfer rate. That's a very potent recipe for success.
Faster isn't better. It still doesn't protect you from people jamming the frequencies or inserting false data in place of the real file being requested.
If just one guy in your city refreshed the "newest" copy of Slashdot, that means you only have to hop over to his box to get a copy...rather than making 45 hops to get to the source. There could be designated super-nodes and repeaters for this kind of thing...not hard to do.
And even cooler if we design a high-bandwidth and long-distances protocol especially for linking the super-nodes to each other. Hey, wait a second, we're basically reinventing the MAEs! I thought P2P stood for peer-to-peer... and now where running into why the Internet was built to support P2P, but usually operates as client-server instead.
What you're working on is basically a complex sales presentation. Make sure your company owns the copyright on the design, and that the client can't use it without paying you (i.e. can't ship your design to somebody cheaper). If that's the case, at least you're doing something productive rather than sitting on your hands on slow days, and your employer recognizes that they have to pay for slow days to have you on busy days.
When employeers let us go, it's because they think there is no longer a need for them. Now they're realizing they need us on short notice, but they don't have a relationship with us anymore.
If they expect you to come back and work 8 hours at your old rate and then go home, they've gotta be joking. If they want your $25/hr. rate, they have to buy that in a subscription package of 40 hours per week. Maybe they only need you for 8 hours once a month, but if they want you on call, they have to pay for the hours that you're sitting doing nothing waiting for that call.
It's a zero-sum game. Either pay for us when we're working during the slow times, or pay a multipule of our normal rate to bring us in as ad-hoc consultants.
It's amazing how bad computer networks can get messed up when you have a full staff of users but nobody doing the preventative maintainance.
Slashdot would be dead in such a world. The whole point is that we are all accessing the same database, therefore can read and respond to everybody else's comments on the issues of the day. Just how many hops will it take to get back to a centralized server? Imagine the "can't-get-there-from-here" situations. You'll get 10 mbps connections to your neighbors, not 10 mbps connections to the content you want to see. There's a reason why 99% of the server load falls to 1% of the machines, they're the ones where the good new content is being published.
The real price in web content isn't the delivery, it's in obtaining the content. It takes a decent staff to put together a magazine, and those same people need the same pay of they're going to do it as an e-zine too! The problem is not in the delivery, it's in the cost of content creation. Decentralizing to a P2P structure that carries no ads will take away the incentive to write in the first place.
Yes, but they're already asking for a driver's license or state ID card at the airport. Most states now have variants of their license under-21 drivers, so there's hundreds of possible card formats that have to be accepted. Do you know where the holigram is supposed to be on an MA under-21 state ID card?
Payola is illegal when it is paid to the DJ. If the money is paid to the station owner, and there's a mention of the payment so that the lister knows what happens, that's advertising.
You're buying back the ad space on your own screen./. serves you ad-free pages with exactly the same content as the freeloaders.
But we all know/.'s real business is directing us all towards ThinkGeek.com.
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No way to make that work. You can't store that information on a centralized server, because that would defeat the whole point of P2P. Any central server in a P2P network will get shut down by the copyright lawyers rather quickly. You can't trust a host to maintain its own feedback rating, and a fake host would simply falsely report its feedback rating to be the max. For the same reason, you can't have superusers responsible for keeping track because eventually somebody dishonest will become a superuser, rending the feedback system meaningless because it'd only have disinformation results. P2P requires you to trust strangers, which makes it very difficult to believe any protocol will be implamented honestly by all involved.
Yes, but is it effective? Assuming we're talking about a Linux distribution, it's legal to download it under any protocol.
Getting Linux over FTP is much more reliable because a published server is likely to have more bandwidth, be placed "closer" in network hops to you, and is more trustworthy.
Imagine if some anti-Linux organization posted trojan-containing distributions and started sending them out over P2P... all it takes is a few people too lazy to check their hashes and it will become impossible to audit back who released all the exploits into the wild.
P2P has some possilbe legal uses, but for all the legal things P2P could do, the traditional protocols are better at doing them. The only motivating reason P2P for being developed is because people want a tool that makes it harder to trace copyright violations.
But if it's going to have to be secured as it travels through the air waves, then when it gets to the remote screen it's going to have to be decrypted, meaning the monitor will have to have enough processing power to decode the encrypted message. That really starts to turn it into a "Tablet PC" instead of a "Smart Display".
Yes, but those solutions bog down whenever you put something hard to compress on the screen, such as if you open up an image-filled webpage in a web browser on the remote computer. That's not a big issue for the remote control packages, because you can just open up such web pages on the local computer instead. But here, there is no local computer, everything has to go through the same small pipe. Yes, I can see some uses for this, but I don't think it's going to be able to do everything a wired monitor can do.
My monitor can show me full-motion video... can this thing? If it can't, then it's not a full replacement for my desktop monitor like the article claims it world be.
.mpg file playing.
Yes, you can make sprites out of Windows icons and the such, but that still doesn't work when you have an
Somebody check my math here, but an 800x600 resultion display with 24 bit color depth needs 11,520,000 bits to be described uncompressed. Yeah, I know there's all sorts of compression than can be applied, but this is going to need something along the lines 40X compression effectiveness in order to fit into an 802.11b signal, or about 10X if you want to use 802.11a. Mira had better be very good at shrinking the bandwidth down.
How many of these things can work within the same office building at once before the Wi-Fi bandwidth gets saturated and ends up jamming the other wireless networking functionality as well?
It's highly likely that the 500,000,000 tags won't be delivered all at once if delivery "starts" in March, it's quite possible that this deal stretches out for multipule years.
It just won't sound as impressive if it was announced as a deal for 25,000,000 a year over the next twenty years, but that's likely closer to what happened. Gillete gets a dependable locked-in price for all of their RFID needs for the coming years, meanwhile the maker gets contractually promised revenue which they can use to finance factory upgrades now. (Just like a bank is more likely to give a person a loan if they can show they have a good-paying job, they're more likely to grant a loan to a company that can show that they will have future sales already contractually booked.)
The animated Trek lasted two seasons, which finished the "five year mission" that the live action series promised even though NBC canned them after only three. (Now, there's an example of a short-sighted network move...)
Yep, pefect example of "free as in beer".
The POP3 access was never "free". Before, you had to agree to allow them to spam that POP3 account with "Yahoo Delivers!" mail, if you dropped that they'd drop your POP3 access. Additionally, anything you sent through them would have a "bottom line" ad attached to it.
Not everybody has access to an ISP e-mail accounts. Most bare-bone dialup plans come with only one POP3 account. When mom, dad, and the kids are all using the same ISP, they either have to have one e-mail box for the family, or a majority of the family members have to look elsewhere for a private e-mail box. These people will always have a need for a non-ISP e-mail account of some type.
It's a whole lot better than the business plan followed by other portals who couldn't get ads to pay the bills, bankruptcy.
I forget what the legal term for this is Preemptive injunction.
Remember, it's not a crime to have a monopoly.
Anti-trust law kicks in when you have a monopoly, and then try to use the advantages of that monopoly product to try to force your way into a marketplace where you're supposed to compete. You have to face your competitors on a level playing field.
I don't think you can upgrade a Windows-based mobile phone to Linux very easily.
Mod that as funny, it sure isn't informative.
The goal isn't to cripple Microsoft, just to make it play by the rules.
It seems as if the DOJ backed off M$ as soon as G.W. Bush took office, leading to a rather ineffective settlement. It seems as if they intend on violating anti-trust laws yet again, and then trying to claim that they already settled it the first time.
Microsoft is to anti-trust law as Iraq is to dearmming resolutions?
What you're working on is basically a complex sales presentation. Make sure your company owns the copyright on the design, and that the client can't use it without paying you (i.e. can't ship your design to somebody cheaper). If that's the case, at least you're doing something productive rather than sitting on your hands on slow days, and your employer recognizes that they have to pay for slow days to have you on busy days.
Just like the original situation, depends on the status of the breakup...
When employeers let us go, it's because they think there is no longer a need for them. Now they're realizing they need us on short notice, but they don't have a relationship with us anymore. If they expect you to come back and work 8 hours at your old rate and then go home, they've gotta be joking. If they want your $25/hr. rate, they have to buy that in a subscription package of 40 hours per week. Maybe they only need you for 8 hours once a month, but if they want you on call, they have to pay for the hours that you're sitting doing nothing waiting for that call. It's a zero-sum game. Either pay for us when we're working during the slow times, or pay a multipule of our normal rate to bring us in as ad-hoc consultants. It's amazing how bad computer networks can get messed up when you have a full staff of users but nobody doing the preventative maintainance.
Wireless P2P to save the day? I don't think so...
Slashdot would be dead in such a world. The whole point is that we are all accessing the same database, therefore can read and respond to everybody else's comments on the issues of the day. Just how many hops will it take to get back to a centralized server? Imagine the "can't-get-there-from-here" situations. You'll get 10 mbps connections to your neighbors, not 10 mbps connections to the content you want to see. There's a reason why 99% of the server load falls to 1% of the machines, they're the ones where the good new content is being published.
The real price in web content isn't the delivery, it's in obtaining the content. It takes a decent staff to put together a magazine, and those same people need the same pay of they're going to do it as an e-zine too! The problem is not in the delivery, it's in the cost of content creation. Decentralizing to a P2P structure that carries no ads will take away the incentive to write in the first place.
This just isn't gonna happen, dream on...
Yes, but they're already asking for a driver's license or state ID card at the airport. Most states now have variants of their license under-21 drivers, so there's hundreds of possible card formats that have to be accepted. Do you know where the holigram is supposed to be on an MA under-21 state ID card?
Payola is illegal when it is paid to the DJ. If the money is paid to the station owner, and there's a mention of the payment so that the lister knows what happens, that's advertising.
You're buying back the ad space on your own screen. /. serves you ad-free pages with exactly the same content as the freeloaders.
But we all know /.'s real business is directing us all towards ThinkGeek.com.