The guys at BannedMusic.org are using a similar system to make it simple to use BitTorrent. This combination of technologies could be the kick in the butt that Open Source needs to reach the mainstream.
A quote: The best solution seemed to be a simple modification of BitTorrent: an installer that runs BitTorrent and begins download of an included torrent file. Windows users can click on the "Easy Download" button on an album's download page to get a 3mb executable. When they launch this executable it installs BitTorrent (which happens very quickly in the background) and immediately begins downloading the album they were seeking. After they've used the "easy download" once, they can simply click on the.torrent files to begin downloading. And they'll be able to use other sites that require BitTorrent.
Well that's a given but couldn't a group of musicians perform it Pro-Bono? I mean it's not like there are only 3 people in the world that know how to play the piano.
Correct me if I'm wrong but nobody owns the works of Mozart. Now if all songs were incoded in Ogg format wouldn't it be feasible to create a legitamate radio station or stations based on Classical music that would be totally legal?
With all the high resolution HDTVs out there why doesn't Sony just "zoom" all standard definition content so that it can display pixel for pixel on an HDTV? If the hype is real it would seem like an obvious application.
Hey, are there any governments, local or otherwise that are using the Slashdot moderation system to aid with the creation of legislation? Seems like a good way to focus ideas assuming you have a bunch of like minded people working on a bill.
I'm using Subversion for a project and the idea of Atomic Commits seems like an obvious direction for file systems. If that other slashdot story is correct, storage becomes less of an issue and it would be possible to roll back the system to any point in time or to only roll back one file if need be. Now throw an intuitive way to navigate files on top of that and you've got a sure winner.
In the grand scheme of things, only a very small handful of us on earth are aware of Linux or even know what an Operating System is for that matter. File systems seem to be the big stumbling block for new users. Anything that can make computers and therefore access to information easier for the coming waves of new computer users (maybe billions of people?) will be a good thing. Even if the "bloat" slows down the system by 10%.
I hate to preach but that old quote comes to mind "With great power comes great responsibility". I don't think most of the people working on the OS that will soon dominate in developing nations (that's Linux) are aware of the harm they can do by slowing down Linux development with petty personal disputes. Like it or not, Linux is no longer just an edgy hacker tool. It has the potential to change the lives of Billions of people.
1) It's not our job to enfoce copyright violations. That's why we pay taxes. Should we stop making cars alltogether? After all they might be used in bank robberies.
2) Here's the court decision, no guessing about it. In fact, unlike P2P software like Kazaa, we're not even facilitating the distribution of copyrighted material.
3) We're hoping people will help us out when the inevitable frivoulous lawsuits intended to scare us into submission appear.
4) Shame? I re-read my post and I'm not following you.
5) Who are these "people" you speak of? Racing enthusiasts? This, unlike commercial efforts isn't designed to make the most amount of money possible. Do I hate capitalism? Nope, I think it's the best system we available. Is capitalism perfect? Nope, hence the SEC, Enron, monopolies. Is proprietary software the best way to make software? I guess we'll find out but it sounds like you're fairly confident we'll succeed.
And finally 6)
I appreciate your attempt at a veiled threat in the form of legal action, scary stuff, especially with by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 01 at the top of your post.
Very good question. We're going to create an encyclopedia of cars that willing manufacturers can contribute to if they so choose. If not, there is no way we can prevent people from adding cars to the game. Racer is a quazi-open source project and has hundreds of cars available for download, just not from the author of the game.
The courts have recently ruled that "peer-to-peer software developers were not liable for any copyright infringement committed by people using their products, as long as they had no direct ability to stop the acts."
If Ferrari comes after us because some guy creates a bit torrent link which contains a bunch of unofficial cars they will be thrown out of court. I've heard there is a pretty fat fund setup to help out OSS developers being pressured by leagal tomfoolery. If car manufacturers have a beef with a car they're going to have to sue individual users which will bring plenty of bad press and simply push the "content trading" underground.
Maybe if our project gets big, they'll see it as a free marketing opportunity instead of something that cuts into their revenue. I'm not exactly hopeful about that prospect though as accountants are notoriously myopic.
We looked at the other projects out there (including Racer) and we looked at what we believe is the best way to create our vision. It would have taken more time to re-engineer a fork to our liking than to start fresh. That said, we are using ODE just like Racer is but we plan on having a much more advanced suspension system than is currently available in Racer.
I think there aren't many cross platform games because it's harder to do it that way. Our current revision compiles and runs on Linux and Windows. Haven't tried Mac yet but theoretically it should work.
Good point, we did excessive planning before we wrote any code. In fact we had a raging debate. The developer of OGRE, our graphics engine even pitched in his thoughts about the issue on our forum.
Maybe planning is the problem with most open source games. We went into this project knowing it would be a painful, difficult process and accepted that before hand. It's not all fun and games but it is a heck of a lot of fun.
I'm working on a driving simulator. We've using OGRE as our 3D engine, SDL for input, ODE for physics and we're making a lot of progress. I think a lot of people are reluctant to use 3rd party libs because they want all of the glory if it is successful. We're also making it cross platform because while a lot of people hate MS it's no reason to deny a game to the masses.
Regarding innovation. No driving games have been released like MS Flight simulator because there are no flying championships and new pilots every year. Developers just rename the drivers, polish the graphics and re release the same product for $40 every year. We're trying to create a driveable encyclopedia of cars and racing history. This will never be commmercial because it would be the last driving simulator ever made and that's not good for business.
I think once more people get their PCs plugged into their HDTVs open source gaming will explode. Imagine getting all of the roster updates for your favorite sport automatically instead of having to hack the system or buy next years version. I think a lot of the future Open Source games will incorporate bit torrent clients for content sharing, updates, etc.
The guys from TrackIR pro contacted us during the development of Motorsport to offer support in making their product compatible.
Bravo to TrackIR for supporting the open source community.
The funky bunch over at HD Net are forward thinking which is good but as an owner of a high definition home theater PC as well as an ardent Laker fan here's my take:
I push the source button on my remote control. Windows XP appears at a resolution of 1280X720 in widescreen format. At the top of the screen is a list of my 15 favorite movies. I grab my wireless keyboard/mouse and click on "Days of Thunder" it plays and my buddies rejoice at the marvel of technology in my living room.
I watch movies in High Definition on TNT-HD all the time and it does look better than on DVD but there is the "good enough" factor that I think they're overlooking.
Yeah go ahead and mod me troll. Seems like an awful lot of money to spend on an intellectual pursuit when a few African kids starved to death while your were reading this.
We could always build robots to battle our overlords but then the robots would inevitably evolve into super intelligent beings at which point my sig would become a reality.
Hey, if these Brains are surround stars for power they'd have to start their creation on both sides of the planet to prevent the sun from orbiting around the increasingly massive brain. If that was the case the two halves of the brain would have to orbit around the sun as they grew until they connected. So depending on the speed of their orbit, before the two halves connected, you'd get something that looked like a pulsar from our perspective.
One more thing:) Do you truely belive that the following information proves that the economy is doing well?
"US employers hired a meagre 32,000 extra workers in July, government figures showed, shocking markets worldwide and shattering hopes of a labor market rebound."
"Stunned investors sent the Dow Jones industrial average plummeting 147.70 points, or 1.48 percent, to finish at 9,815.33, the lowest close since November 2003."
More here:
http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&edition=u s&q=cluster:www%2ejsonline%2ecom%2fbym%2fnews%2fau g04%2f248841%2easp
From http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snap shots_08042004 "As shown in the figure below, for the past two quarters, the 12-month growth rate of the wage and salary component of the ECI was 2.5%, the slowest ever recorded for this series (ECI data go back to the early 1980s), and even slightly behind inflation for the last 12 months (2.8%). This component of the ECI has not fallen short of inflation since 1995. The trend in wages and salaries tracks labor market conditions fairly closely, slowing consistently throughout the recession and jobless recovery. Other wage series show a similar recent deceleration in the face of persistent slack in the job market (See the July 16 Snapshot for further analysis)."
Oh, and I did check the news today: The nation's payroll growth slowed dramatically in July with a paltry 32,000 jobs being added_ a potentially troubling sign that the rough patch the economy hit in June was no aberration.
The unemployment rate, however, dipped down a notch to 5.5 percent last month, from 5.6 percent in June, the Labor Department reported Friday. The new jobless rate was the lowest since October 2001.
The payrolls figure and the unemployment rate can sometimes go in different directions because they are derived from two separate statistical surveys.
Economists, however, look more closely at the payroll figure as a better barometer of the health of the jobs market. The 32,000 net jobs added in July represented the smallest gain in hiring since December and followed a revised gain of just 78,000 in June, even less than previously reported. May's payrolls also were revised down to show a gain of 208,000.
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I'm picturing the ten candles on the Wolf-cake in close proximity with frosting interconnects and one big flame in the middle.
The guys at BannedMusic.org are using a similar system to make it simple to use BitTorrent. This combination of technologies could be the kick in the butt that Open Source needs to reach the mainstream.
.torrent files to begin downloading. And they'll be able to use other sites that require BitTorrent.
A quote:
The best solution seemed to be a simple modification of BitTorrent: an installer that runs BitTorrent and begins download of an included torrent file. Windows users can click on the "Easy Download" button on an album's download page to get a 3mb executable. When they launch this executable it installs BitTorrent (which happens very quickly in the background) and immediately begins downloading the album they were seeking. After they've used the "easy download" once, they can simply click on the
Well that's a given but couldn't a group of musicians perform it Pro-Bono? I mean it's not like there are only 3 people in the world that know how to play the piano.
Correct me if I'm wrong but nobody owns the works of Mozart. Now if all songs were incoded in Ogg format wouldn't it be feasible to create a legitamate radio station or stations based on Classical music that would be totally legal?
With all the high resolution HDTVs out there why doesn't Sony just "zoom" all standard definition content so that it can display pixel for pixel on an HDTV? If the hype is real it would seem like an obvious application.
Michael Moore is encouraging people to download his movie. Here's the torrent.
h eit.911.DVDRiP.XViD-DvP.torrent
http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2523/Fahren
Hey, are there any governments, local or otherwise that are using the Slashdot moderation system to aid with the creation of legislation? Seems like a good way to focus ideas assuming you have a bunch of like minded people working on a bill.
I'm using Subversion for a project and the idea of Atomic Commits seems like an obvious direction for file systems. If that other slashdot story is correct, storage becomes less of an issue and it would be possible to roll back the system to any point in time or to only roll back one file if need be. Now throw an intuitive way to navigate files on top of that and you've got a sure winner.
In the grand scheme of things, only a very small handful of us on earth are aware of Linux or even know what an Operating System is for that matter. File systems seem to be the big stumbling block for new users. Anything that can make computers and therefore access to information easier for the coming waves of new computer users (maybe billions of people?) will be a good thing. Even if the "bloat" slows down the system by 10%.
I hate to preach but that old quote comes to mind "With great power comes great responsibility". I don't think most of the people working on the OS that will soon dominate in developing nations (that's Linux) are aware of the harm they can do by slowing down Linux development with petty personal disputes. Like it or not, Linux is no longer just an edgy hacker tool. It has the potential to change the lives of Billions of people.
1) It's not our job to enfoce copyright violations. That's why we pay taxes. Should we stop making cars alltogether? After all they might be used in bank robberies.
2) Here's the court decision, no guessing about it. In fact, unlike P2P software like Kazaa, we're not even facilitating the distribution of copyrighted material.
3) We're hoping people will help us out when the inevitable frivoulous lawsuits intended to scare us into submission appear.
4) Shame? I re-read my post and I'm not following you.
5) Who are these "people" you speak of? Racing enthusiasts? This, unlike commercial efforts isn't designed to make the most amount of money possible. Do I hate capitalism? Nope, I think it's the best system we available. Is capitalism perfect? Nope, hence the SEC, Enron, monopolies. Is proprietary software the best way to make software? I guess we'll find out but it sounds like you're fairly confident we'll succeed.
And finally 6)
I appreciate your attempt at a veiled threat in the form of legal action, scary stuff, especially with by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 01 at the top of your post.
Very good question. We're going to create an encyclopedia of cars that willing manufacturers can contribute to if they so choose. If not, there is no way we can prevent people from adding cars to the game. Racer is a quazi-open source project and has hundreds of cars available for download, just not from the author of the game.
The courts have recently ruled that "peer-to-peer software developers were not liable for any copyright infringement committed by people using their products, as long as they had no direct ability to stop the acts."
If Ferrari comes after us because some guy creates a bit torrent link which contains a bunch of unofficial cars they will be thrown out of court. I've heard there is a pretty fat fund setup to help out OSS developers being pressured by leagal tomfoolery. If car manufacturers have a beef with a car they're going to have to sue individual users which will bring plenty of bad press and simply push the "content trading" underground.
Maybe if our project gets big, they'll see it as a free marketing opportunity instead of something that cuts into their revenue. I'm not exactly hopeful about that prospect though as accountants are notoriously myopic.
We looked at the other projects out there (including Racer) and we looked at what we believe is the best way to create our vision. It would have taken more time to re-engineer a fork to our liking than to start fresh. That said, we are using ODE just like Racer is but we plan on having a much more advanced suspension system than is currently available in Racer. I think there aren't many cross platform games because it's harder to do it that way. Our current revision compiles and runs on Linux and Windows. Haven't tried Mac yet but theoretically it should work.
Good point, we did excessive planning before we wrote any code. In fact we had a raging debate. The developer of OGRE, our graphics engine even pitched in his thoughts about the issue on our forum.
Maybe planning is the problem with most open source games. We went into this project knowing it would be a painful, difficult process and accepted that before hand. It's not all fun and games but it is a heck of a lot of fun.
I'm working on a driving simulator. We've using OGRE as our 3D engine, SDL for input, ODE for physics and we're making a lot of progress. I think a lot of people are reluctant to use 3rd party libs because they want all of the glory if it is successful. We're also making it cross platform because while a lot of people hate MS it's no reason to deny a game to the masses. Regarding innovation. No driving games have been released like MS Flight simulator because there are no flying championships and new pilots every year. Developers just rename the drivers, polish the graphics and re release the same product for $40 every year. We're trying to create a driveable encyclopedia of cars and racing history. This will never be commmercial because it would be the last driving simulator ever made and that's not good for business. I think once more people get their PCs plugged into their HDTVs open source gaming will explode. Imagine getting all of the roster updates for your favorite sport automatically instead of having to hack the system or buy next years version. I think a lot of the future Open Source games will incorporate bit torrent clients for content sharing, updates, etc.
The guys from TrackIR pro contacted us during the development of Motorsport to offer support in making their product compatible. Bravo to TrackIR for supporting the open source community.
The funky bunch over at HD Net are forward thinking which is good but as an owner of a high definition home theater PC as well as an ardent Laker fan here's my take: I push the source button on my remote control. Windows XP appears at a resolution of 1280X720 in widescreen format. At the top of the screen is a list of my 15 favorite movies. I grab my wireless keyboard/mouse and click on "Days of Thunder" it plays and my buddies rejoice at the marvel of technology in my living room. I watch movies in High Definition on TNT-HD all the time and it does look better than on DVD but there is the "good enough" factor that I think they're overlooking.
Courage - "a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger of pain without showing fear"
If you're fearless you're still not showing fear. In this case simply doing the right thing would be courageous.
Yeah go ahead and mod me troll. Seems like an awful lot of money to spend on an intellectual pursuit when a few African kids starved to death while your were reading this.
We could always build robots to battle our overlords but then the robots would inevitably evolve into super intelligent beings at which point my sig would become a reality.
Hey, if these Brains are surround stars for power they'd have to start their creation on both sides of the planet to prevent the sun from orbiting around the increasingly massive brain. If that was the case the two halves of the brain would have to orbit around the sun as they grew until they connected. So depending on the speed of their orbit, before the two halves connected, you'd get something that looked like a pulsar from our perspective.
There is a slim chance that this could be the first nanotech RAM product. Any wagers?
One more thing :) Do you truely belive that the following information proves that the economy is doing well?
"US employers hired a meagre 32,000 extra workers in July, government figures showed, shocking markets worldwide and shattering hopes of a labor market rebound."
"Stunned investors sent the Dow Jones industrial average plummeting 147.70 points, or 1.48 percent, to finish at 9,815.33, the lowest close since November 2003."
More here:
http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&edition=u s&q=cluster:www%2ejsonline%2ecom%2fbym%2fnews%2fau g04%2f248841%2easp
You're logic would apply if two jobs were added.
From http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snap shots_08042004
"As shown in the figure below, for the past two quarters, the 12-month growth rate of the wage and salary component of the ECI was 2.5%, the slowest ever recorded for this series (ECI data go back to the early 1980s), and even slightly behind inflation for the last 12 months (2.8%). This component of the ECI has not fallen short of inflation since 1995. The trend in wages and salaries tracks labor market conditions fairly closely, slowing consistently throughout the recession and jobless recovery. Other wage series show a similar recent deceleration in the face of persistent slack in the job market (See the July 16 Snapshot for further analysis)."
Oh, and I did check the news today:
The nation's payroll growth slowed dramatically in July with a paltry 32,000 jobs being added_ a potentially troubling sign that the rough patch the economy hit in June was no aberration. The unemployment rate, however, dipped down a notch to 5.5 percent last month, from 5.6 percent in June, the Labor Department reported Friday. The new jobless rate was the lowest since October 2001. The payrolls figure and the unemployment rate can sometimes go in different directions because they are derived from two separate statistical surveys. Economists, however, look more closely at the payroll figure as a better barometer of the health of the jobs market. The 32,000 net jobs added in July represented the smallest gain in hiring since December and followed a revised gain of just 78,000 in June, even less than previously reported. May's payrolls also were revised down to show a gain of 208,000.
What license will it be released under and why? Nice rocket BTW.
This will last a few days untill the waves of lobbyists show up and the FCC and demand a better return on investment.