Good looking maybe, but as useful and probably as painful as a splinter.
A proper tooth needs to be cultivated and grown like a proper plant, it needs roots and connections. You cannot expect to just dig a hole in your gum and shove a fully grown tooth in.
I believe they will eventually make tooth seeds which will grow naturally, but to get that far and effective will take many many years.
The controversy comes from wanting to use embryonic stem cells, which have the benefit of being more flexible, but major drawback that it takes a possible life to make use of them.
as indeed can anyone with a valid and sensible contribution to make
Slightly incorrect. Anybody can make modifications to Linux, and they are free to release the source (as indeed they must if they release the software). Only the valid and sensible contributions end up being rolled back into the main branches however:)
the figure quoted by your parent is a fairly old statistic, and was used around the time before dc++ became really popular, neomodus were more in control of the format then.
But still, hes right in what he says, the dc hub software can only reasonably hold around 2000 people max, even if each was sharing the minimum 100GB each, thats only 200TB, nowhere near the petabyte limit.
Whilst hub grouping is possible, I've never seen stats showing the combined totals, and from the figures I just worked out, would take an enormous amount of data sharing to get into the petabyte range, let alone the multi petabyte figures.
The original direct connect site lists them as having passed the 1petabyte TOTAL for data shared on all hubs, granted its an old statistic, but better to get it from the horses mouth.
Most hubs I frequent contain 25-250TB of data.
the 100gb entrance fee is reasonable. Most hubs I've been in expect between 10 and 150.
Most important thing to remember about DC, though you must have x amount of data, the greater majority of it is duplicated with at least 1 other person in the hub, making any total shared figure meaningless.
I think they fucked up!
Does anyone know which hub group it was? Most of the ones I go in are swedish (fat pipes, cold dark nights, bored teenagers!)
We orbit something thats definately not a small star.
It isn't big either, but its big enough to virtually wipe out any individual signal we can produce at this point.
Maybe in the future, we will create a source strong enough to outshine the sun, until then, any signal sent to a remote civilisation with our level of technology will be indistinguishable from background noise.
Of course, when we get telescopes that can resolve (along any part of the EM spectrum) the inner rocky planets of stars, then we will be able to interact with other species.
However, I am not very optimistic about this happening in my own lifetime.
Wireless could be the home server box sat in the corner slaving away.
Wireless could be your wristwatch sized sensors on limited power.
Wireless could be a huge network tower on the hill hooked directly into the fat pipe.
Each device has its own capabilities, and whilst (for instance) your PDA can't perform the processing, it can forward a few packets and act as a go between.
Whilst not taking up much of your precious battery life, your PDA becomes a very important link in the chain.
It is differences in scale like this that makes SETI practically impossible.
Even if we are belting out radio waves using every milliamp of power we possess, they are simply drowned out by the enormous radio source we orbit.
Thats why in the larger scheme of things, only something as large as a supernova could be used to contact other star systems, and even then, we could only ping them, then get 100% packet loss.
The problem is, TV advertising has grown into such an art form.
There can be extremely well done, tasteful, imaginitive, relivent adverts for all kinds of products, and I do not doubt their power.
Having seen a few of the ad shows your referring to, your right, they rock! Watching as something completely serious in one country having a completely different meaning or interpretation in another is great.
However, on the web, all I used to see were horrendous, invasive, garish monstrosities, like standing next to someone with a bullhorn and screaming down their ear.
No thanks, I have now restricted my online browsing to a static, fixed medium just like a magazine. I do not block adverts, but I do disable all kinds of animations (gifs get frame 1 loaded only, flash is history).
But that small fixed advert did not relate to the plot in anyway, it did not refresh and change itself. Everytime you saw it, it would still be the same flier.
Just like the games discussed previously, games released with sponsorship are one thing, and sometimes the affiliation is warranted.
Now this development wants to adapt the adverts, what I fail to see is *HOW* will it do it, will it be scanning for other open windows on my system and checking where I browsed to before playing? will it require a questionairre to advance to the next stage?
I hope this model doesn't take off, because I can see us getting stung with "adware supported" shareware titles which install Claria-4-Gamers or whatever it will be.
If you impliment everything exactly as you say, then viruses and trojans will just get packaged inside msi files.
As long as there are executable entry points, malicious code will unfortunately always find a way to run.
The best we can do is limit the damage they can cause, and requiring users to run in user space has been proven to be a good defence. Granted, its not foolproof at the moment, but we have to build on what works.
Agreed, I was actually thinking from a business data perspective, and the servers here seem more geared towards web content.
Servers hosted with the HavenCo network may be open to the public. The customer is solely responsible for usage of the HavenCo network and any data made publicly available on servers hosted within the HavenCo network may be deemed a "publication" of the information entered.
So my reading is, whilst you may have physical data security due to location etc, the actual data may be publically accessible.
They talk more about Acceptable USE rather than acceptable content, regarding spamming and hacking from the servers themselves.
Theres no protection at all, everything you do is public, and the best part:
If a customer is found to have violated the AUP, HavenCo reserves the right to take appropriate action, possibly including permanent filters on a customer's network connection (inbound/outbound mail and web), disconnection, and recovery of costs related to the AUP investigation from the customer prior to return of customer equipment or remaining credit balance. HavenCo also may turn over the results of an AUP violation investigation to law enforcement, other network administrators, or others.
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I am not American, but your comeback of "Name five you've lost." with regard to rights seems contempable.
To lose one right is enough.
When you fail to stand up for your rights, you pay the consequences down the line.
I do not know which rights (if any) the grandparent was refering to, but the general feeling remains.
My company logo is going to change to be a Hopscotch board.
I shall send out thousands of chalk blocks to schools and get free advertising.
There will ALWAYS be a need for an outside reference time source.
Whilst the device will keep track of time with an accuracy of 1 second in 300 years, what it can't do is keep time without power.
The effect means a video recorder still shows 00:00, just a lot more accurately than before.
Good looking maybe, but as useful and probably as painful as a splinter.
A proper tooth needs to be cultivated and grown like a proper plant, it needs roots and connections. You cannot expect to just dig a hole in your gum and shove a fully grown tooth in.
I believe they will eventually make tooth seeds which will grow naturally, but to get that far and effective will take many many years.
This was grown from his own marrow.
The stem cells were all his to give.
The controversy comes from wanting to use embryonic stem cells, which have the benefit of being more flexible, but major drawback that it takes a possible life to make use of them.
I instinctively cringe whenever I see something like this:
1st annual software Freedom Day
It might end up being a total flop, and not be bothered with again.
(I do of course hope its a success)
Next year I would be willing to consider it the 2nd Annual software freedom day, but lets get past the first one ummmmm first.
Its just one example of illogical phrases.
as indeed can anyone with a valid and sensible contribution to make
:)
Slightly incorrect.
Anybody can make modifications to Linux, and they are free to release the source (as indeed they must if they release the software).
Only the valid and sensible contributions end up being rolled back into the main branches however
the figure quoted by your parent is a fairly old statistic, and was used around the time before dc++ became really popular, neomodus were more in control of the format then.
But still, hes right in what he says, the dc hub software can only reasonably hold around 2000 people max, even if each was sharing the minimum 100GB each, thats only 200TB, nowhere near the petabyte limit.
Whilst hub grouping is possible, I've never seen stats showing the combined totals, and from the figures I just worked out, would take an enormous amount of data sharing to get into the petabyte range, let alone the multi petabyte figures.
The original direct connect site lists them as having passed the 1petabyte TOTAL for data shared on all hubs, granted its an old statistic, but better to get it from the horses mouth.
Most hubs I frequent contain 25-250TB of data.
the 100gb entrance fee is reasonable. Most hubs I've been in expect between 10 and 150.
Most important thing to remember about DC, though you must have x amount of data, the greater majority of it is duplicated with at least 1 other person in the hub, making any total shared figure meaningless.
I think they fucked up!
Does anyone know which hub group it was?
Most of the ones I go in are swedish (fat pipes, cold dark nights, bored teenagers!)
We orbit something thats definately not a small star.
It isn't big either, but its big enough to virtually wipe out any individual signal we can produce at this point.
Maybe in the future, we will create a source strong enough to outshine the sun, until then, any signal sent to a remote civilisation with our level of technology will be indistinguishable from background noise.
Of course, when we get telescopes that can resolve (along any part of the EM spectrum) the inner rocky planets of stars, then we will be able to interact with other species.
However, I am not very optimistic about this happening in my own lifetime.
Remember: Wireless != Portable.
Wireless could be the home server box sat in the corner slaving away.
Wireless could be your wristwatch sized sensors on limited power.
Wireless could be a huge network tower on the hill hooked directly into the fat pipe.
Each device has its own capabilities, and whilst (for instance) your PDA can't perform the processing, it can forward a few packets and act as a go between.
Whilst not taking up much of your precious battery life, your PDA becomes a very important link in the chain.
You can just see their long nights pouring over the data, trying to match it up.
prof1: Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.
prof2: Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky.
prof1: Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.
It is differences in scale like this that makes SETI practically impossible.
Even if we are belting out radio waves using every milliamp of power we possess, they are simply drowned out by the enormous radio source we orbit.
Thats why in the larger scheme of things, only something as large as a supernova could be used to contact other star systems, and even then, we could only ping them, then get 100% packet loss.
Considering how this was posted at least yesterday, and I read it last night, I think we are safe.
Incidentally, it will be good to see the google zeitgeist next month.
Top searches: Water, Food, Blankets.
People will have been stocking up on the essentials in case the net does go down!
The problem is, TV advertising has grown into such an art form.
There can be extremely well done, tasteful, imaginitive, relivent adverts for all kinds of products, and I do not doubt their power.
Having seen a few of the ad shows your referring to, your right, they rock! Watching as something completely serious in one country having a completely different meaning or interpretation in another is great.
However, on the web, all I used to see were horrendous, invasive, garish monstrosities, like standing next to someone with a bullhorn and screaming down their ear.
No thanks, I have now restricted my online browsing to a static, fixed medium just like a magazine. I do not block adverts, but I do disable all kinds of animations (gifs get frame 1 loaded only, flash is history).
But that small fixed advert did not relate to the plot in anyway, it did not refresh and change itself. Everytime you saw it, it would still be the same flier.
Just like the games discussed previously, games released with sponsorship are one thing, and sometimes the affiliation is warranted.
Now this development wants to adapt the adverts, what I fail to see is *HOW* will it do it, will it be scanning for other open windows on my system and checking where I browsed to before playing? will it require a questionairre to advance to the next stage?
I hope this model doesn't take off, because I can see us getting stung with "adware supported" shareware titles which install Claria-4-Gamers or whatever it will be.
We the consumers will lose out.
Why not deal with it in exactly the same way as copyright matter.
The person who has a problem with content [XYZ], they go to the content provider, complain, if its a valid complaint, then it gets taken down.
sysInternals do a nice windows based rpc suite with software injection :)
s .shtml
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstool
Pah!
In old fashioned computers, the OS was the keyboard!
Just plug into your tv and away you go.
Computers are meant to be better now than then, to me they have just got larger, noisier, and more fragile.
Isn't it more ecenomical to just give you a marker pen?
Having said that, I would love a keyboard where every key was a little 8x8 lcd/led matrix, we could design/change the keys to suit the app/OS.
Holding down Shift changes the display, or loading a game and having everything mapped out.
"Non violent" it may be, but sadistic it isn't.
;)
I've had endless fun winding up the missus by finding new and inventive ways to kill off her people.
From building them into rooms without doors, or even more evil intent, removing the ladders from the pool.
Making the Goths into toast was purely accidental though
If you impliment everything exactly as you say, then viruses and trojans will just get packaged inside msi files.
As long as there are executable entry points, malicious code will unfortunately always find a way to run.
The best we can do is limit the damage they can cause, and requiring users to run in user space has been proven to be a good defence. Granted, its not foolproof at the moment, but we have to build on what works.
Your absolutely right.
As I just pointed out in another post near here, I was thinking entirely from an offsite business data backup rather than as a webserver.
Agreed, I was actually thinking from a business data perspective, and the servers here seem more geared towards web content.
Servers hosted with the HavenCo network may be open to the public. The customer is solely responsible for usage of the HavenCo network and any data made publicly available on servers hosted within the HavenCo network may be deemed a "publication" of the information entered.
So my reading is, whilst you may have physical data security due to location etc, the actual data may be publically accessible.
They talk more about Acceptable USE rather than acceptable content, regarding spamming and hacking from the servers themselves.
No.
Reading HavenCo's User Policy is like a joke.
Theres no protection at all, everything you do is public, and the best part:
If a customer is found to have violated the AUP, HavenCo reserves the right to take appropriate action, possibly including permanent filters on a customer's network connection (inbound/outbound mail and web), disconnection, and recovery of costs related to the AUP investigation from the customer prior to return of customer equipment or remaining credit balance. HavenCo also may turn over the results of an AUP violation investigation to law enforcement, other network administrators, or others.
Would you give your sensitive data to them?