So... If i set up a web server, and tell my friends to download my new web page, is that p2p or http?
If it's a WEB server, it's http. Therre is no "or".
By the way, as long as HTTP isn't multicast, wouldn't it classify as a peer-to-peer protocol?
No, it's a client-server architecture as opposed to peer-to-peer. The fundamental point here, as approximately one million commenters have already pointed out, is that http is a PROTOCOL; peer-to-peer is an ARCHITECTURE or CLASS OF APPLICATIONS.
Given the size of the thing, and the speed and height it flies at, that's going to look a lot like a missile. Might not be the best thing for an already paranoid enemy to see.
Since you're posting as an anonymous coward, you don't need to be defensive if I point out that you're an ignoramus. An airplane like the one postulated looks nothing like either an ICBM or a cruise missile.
1) It's traveling some 4000 mph. An ICBM is traveling some 4 times as fast. A cruise missile is traveling about 1/7 as fast.
2) It's cruising at around 100,000 feet. An ICBM doesn't cruise at any fixed altitude, but it peaks at least 250,000 feet and is very obvious that it couldn't possibly be a plane. A cruise missile cruises at around 50-100 feet.
3) At the most the plane can climb or descend at maybe 300 feet per second; very seldom more than 50 feet per second. An ICBM dives onto the target at well over 10,000 feet per second.
4) The plane will be traveling singly. In their entire history of use, there may have been two SR-71s in the air at one time - tops. Do you really think a single object is going to look like a massive attack warranting a massive response?
You sure about that? Juries are meant to decide whether somebody is in violation of a certain law, [not] whether the law is an ass.
(This post is USA centric because I live there. Your country may differ) Call it a a side benefit. A jury's decision per se is held to be not subject to further recourse for any reason (short of a flaw in the trial such as jury tampering). This is the basis for what is called "jury nullification". The judge may "instruct" the jury, but there is no mechanism to compel them to obey. We like to think the power of the jury solely to decide for themselves what they are "meant" to do is no accident. There may be a law making it a criminal offense to buy comic books on Sunday, with a mandatory sentence of one year in prison, and it may be an open and shut case that you violated this law. The jury can just rule not guilty if the think the law is an ass. They don't have to give a reason.
You want to turn America into Iraq, all you have to do is kill all the politicians and you'll be there in no time.
I don't think it's that simple. There are plenty of politicians in Iraq and yet you still have... Iraq. Before that it was Lebanon. The problem in Lebanon wasn't lack of politicians either. And Somalia. There were plenty of politicians in Somalia, too.
When it all breaks down, politicians won't save you. When enough people are reduced to killing for simple hate, and have no problem dying for that hate, you are in big trouble. The only thing that keeps the lid on is Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. Naked force and strict regulation and to the Devil with personal rights.
Which way would you like your Hell served? Mass insanity, or brute repression? I'm afraid the happy medium we've been enjoying for so long in the US and in postwar Europe does not seem to be a stable state.
Not even 250 years ago, the founders of this country willingly committed treason and went to war over laws such as this. Life imprisonment sounds a lot worse than taxation without representation to me. The general population of the United States are not served by this law. We are not being represented. Now, we can't even get the offenders voted out of office. Never mind trying to incite a revolution.
[statement judging all politicians clipped]
Nonsense. Though your hyperbole finds great resonance in me, the situation is not comparable. The founders did not have representation; the colonies were subjects. They HAD to resport to revolution. We DO have representation. We have a representative democracy. You can certainly vote the offenders out of office. To do that you have to round up a majority of the voters. Please get busy doing this, because I agree that not only are the offenders making bad laws; they are scoundrels of the first order. The Constitution may need adjustment. There is an orderly mechanism for doing that too. It is called amendment.
We have the extreme good fortune, not shared by many others, to have the power of the ballot, and mechanisms in place to accomplish all the change that needs to be accomplished. It speaks ill of us as a people that we do not attend to this solemn business.
Novell also bought SUSE, and that has resulted in significant contributions to KDE from Novell via the SUSE staff (since SUSE was one of the major contributors of KDE code). Unfortunately (IMHO), the default desktop on SUSE has changed from KDE to Gnome since Novell took it over. I'm afraid Novell is not the friend to KDE that the old SUSE was.
The speed and decisiveness of the EU makes me wonder if they will do ANYTHING in my lifetime.
I understand your disillusionment, but dude, they're not acting in a vacuum. Compare their history in this matter with that of the US, and they're looking a lot better.
Congratulations. Then you can guess how "fucking tired" Americans are of the EU. That said, in this particular case the EU is right; Microsoft is full of bull; and every day the EU leads by example and shows how vacuous the US government is in dealing with blatant misuse of monopolies. Can it be possible that the EU and the US constitute between them a vibrant competition in the arena of ideas and policy which neither of them in itself does?
I'm sure the astronauts would be oh so relieved to know that you can't see any reason why damage to their spacecraft won't endanger their lives. I'm sure you will put your livelihood on the line as proof of your earnestness. The engineers who bear actual responsibility for human lives in their decisions, on the other hand, aren't so sure there's no problem.
You're not wrong that CYA is endemic in government work. You could have added, just as much, in private enterprise. But this has nothing to do with CYA.
I dunno, sounds pretty stupid to me. NASA dudes: there are tiny meteors that strike every part of the moon constantly, completely unimpeded by any trace of atmosphere. A meteor a fraction of the size of a grain of sand would puncture this thing like tissue paper. One the size of a pea would do quite a job.
What exactly is the scientific merit of sending man to the moon/mars? Is there any useful research that can't be done at one hundredth of the cost by robots at either of these locations?
What exactly was the scientific merit of man going to the New World? Life isn't all about science, you know. There are, oh, I don't know, little things like a spirit of adventure, a refusal to settle forever for what man has now. It's all about starting at the beginning and moving forward.
how would I implement a mirror, but with 3 drives? Does linux 'md' do this? How about any controllers?
Linux md RAID-1 allows you to replicate to n number of drives, PLUS set m more drives as spares that will be automatically substituted for failed drives without intervention. You can spread the drives among as many controllers as you want.
Of course you need off site backups too (fire, theft, lightning, human error).
It's time for the obligatory Princess Bride quote. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Could it be that you intended the word "schizophrenia"? It is difficult to tell.
Someone who is autistic typically: * Is unable to start or sustain a social conversation * Develops language slowly or not at all * Repeats words or memorized passages, like commercials * Doesn't refer to self correctly (for example, says "you want water" when the child means "I want water") * Uses nonsense rhyming * Communicates with gestures instead of words
Those characteristics clearly do not describe Mr. Torvalds, who is an articulate speaker and writer. What's more, when you go on to elaborate "autistics tend to care about things that most non-autistics don't...like engaging in holy wars about which is the *one true* graphical environment, which is the *one true* text editor, or which is the *one true* license", such behavior again does not come close to describing Mr.Torvalds.
Bingo. Actually, Gnome has far more buried in gconf with no proper config dialogs available than Windows has buried in regedit. It doesn't have to be that way. KDE has sensible defaults plus a comprehensive system of understandable and highly usable config dialogs to change the defaults.
"People don't want configurability, they want something that works out of the box."
First, there is no monolithic "people" who single mindedly want something. If there were, everyone would be satisfied with the pathetic lot that the majority have voted into power in Washington.
More importantly, you are making a false dichotomy. Configurability is not the enemy of ease of use. The two properties are completely unrelated. Want to please both the dabblers and the deep tinkerers? Just give each software module intelligent defaults (pretty much like Gnome does now with some exceptions where it could be greatly improved), and add comprehensive configuration dialogs to change things. Now prominently add a single button, "restore all defaults". Presto. Now idiots (forgive me) can always instantly set everything to the One True Way which is easy to learn and easy to explain, while intelligent people can still set things up in an intelligent... and deeply personal... way. The Windows you speak of is very configurable, and the popularity of stuff like TweakUI proves that a lot of people want it even more so. The Mac is not so configurable and... golly gee whiz... it's not as popular.
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modal editors is the worst idea in the history of computing.
Insert mode. Overtype mode. That's modal. I suppose you're against that.
The Hindenburg fire was NOT caused by hydrogen, but rather by a new exterior covering that the Zeppelin company was trying out - a butyl rubber fabric coated with iron oxide and powered aluminum - in other words, a formulation very close to what the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters use for fuel.
There was no butyl rubber involved, but other than that, you have picked up on the revisionist Incendiary Paint Theory. It is voodoo science, nonsense on the face of it, and has been completely discredited through logic, investigation, and experiment; see Definitive rebuttal and many good links. The best minds in the field of airship history hashed this out in extreme detail, going over and over every angle. I know because I was involved in some of the debates.
Incendiary Paint Theory proponents who completely reject evidence and experimental findings are never able to explain away the DOZENS of other hydrogen filled airships which were lost through catastrophic hydrogen fires. None of them were doped with the Magic Incendiary Potion.
I can understand that you may not be ready to grasp the concepts, but it might be better to either provide supporting logic for your assertions, or else forego making the assertions altogether.
If you are going to assert that "exceptions are a language flaw", that flies in the face of widely accepted practice. Just about every serious language of reasonably modern vintage implements them; they are an accepted staple. If you are going to go against overwhelming mainstream thought, you are going to need some semblance of reasoned logic or your viewpoint is going to be dismissed by serious professionals.
As for your last point, comparing an error of omission where someone forgets to check an error return, to a "moron" who goes to great lengths to deliberately subvert exceptions, is just plain silly on the face of it.
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Since you're posting as an anonymous coward, you don't need to be defensive if I point out that you're an ignoramus. An airplane like the one postulated looks nothing like either an ICBM or a cruise missile.
1) It's traveling some 4000 mph. An ICBM is traveling some 4 times as fast. A cruise missile is traveling about 1/7 as fast.
2) It's cruising at around 100,000 feet. An ICBM doesn't cruise at any fixed altitude, but it peaks at least 250,000 feet and is very obvious that it couldn't possibly be a plane. A cruise missile cruises at around 50-100 feet.
3) At the most the plane can climb or descend at maybe 300 feet per second; very seldom more than 50 feet per second. An ICBM dives onto the target at well over 10,000 feet per second.
4) The plane will be traveling singly. In their entire history of use, there may have been two SR-71s in the air at one time - tops. Do you really think a single object is going to look like a massive attack warranting a massive response?
D00d, that would be the the INSIDE of the tube. There is no mercury floating around in the ambient air.
You would be wrong. Any other assumptions based on nothing?
Cvs is already done right. These would-be improvements are pointless.
(This post is USA centric because I live there. Your country may differ) Call it a a side benefit. A jury's decision per se is held to be not subject to further recourse for any reason (short of a flaw in the trial such as jury tampering). This is the basis for what is called "jury nullification". The judge may "instruct" the jury, but there is no mechanism to compel them to obey. We like to think the power of the jury solely to decide for themselves what they are "meant" to do is no accident. There may be a law making it a criminal offense to buy comic books on Sunday, with a mandatory sentence of one year in prison, and it may be an open and shut case that you violated this law. The jury can just rule not guilty if the think the law is an ass. They don't have to give a reason.
I don't think it's that simple. There are plenty of politicians in Iraq and yet you still have
When it all breaks down, politicians won't save you. When enough people are reduced to killing for simple hate, and have no problem dying for that hate, you are in big trouble. The only thing that keeps the lid on is Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. Naked force and strict regulation and to the Devil with personal rights.
Which way would you like your Hell served? Mass insanity, or brute repression? I'm afraid the happy medium we've been enjoying for so long in the US and in postwar Europe does not seem to be a stable state.
[statement judging all politicians clipped]
Nonsense. Though your hyperbole finds great resonance in me, the situation is not comparable. The founders did not have representation; the colonies were subjects. They HAD to resport to revolution. We DO have representation. We have a representative democracy. You can certainly vote the offenders out of office. To do that you have to round up a majority of the voters. Please get busy doing this, because I agree that not only are the offenders making bad laws; they are scoundrels of the first order. The Constitution may need adjustment. There is an orderly mechanism for doing that too. It is called amendment.
We have the extreme good fortune, not shared by many others, to have the power of the ballot, and mechanisms in place to accomplish all the change that needs to be accomplished. It speaks ill of us as a people that we do not attend to this solemn business.
The speed and decisiveness of the EU makes me wonder if they will do ANYTHING in my lifetime.
I understand your disillusionment, but dude, they're not acting in a vacuum. Compare their history in this matter with that of the US, and they're looking a lot better.
Congratulations. Then you can guess how "fucking tired" Americans are of the EU. That said, in this particular case the EU is right; Microsoft is full of bull; and every day the EU leads by example and shows how vacuous the US government is in dealing with blatant misuse of monopolies. Can it be possible that the EU and the US constitute between them a vibrant competition in the arena of ideas and policy which neither of them in itself does?
eh.. so what's wrnog with mplayerplug-in?
You mean, besides the fact that it constantly crashes Firefox, and doesn't support all WMV formats?
I'm sure the astronauts would be oh so relieved to know that you can't see any reason why damage to their spacecraft won't endanger their lives. I'm sure you will put your livelihood on the line as proof of your earnestness. The engineers who bear actual responsibility for human lives in their decisions, on the other hand, aren't so sure there's no problem.
You're not wrong that CYA is endemic in government work. You could have added, just as much, in private enterprise. But this has nothing to do with CYA.
I dunno, sounds pretty stupid to me. NASA dudes: there are tiny meteors that strike every part of the moon constantly, completely unimpeded by any trace of atmosphere. A meteor a fraction of the size of a grain of sand would puncture this thing like tissue paper. One the size of a pea would do quite a job.
What exactly was the scientific merit of man going to the New World? Life isn't all about science, you know. There are, oh, I don't know, little things like a spirit of adventure, a refusal to settle forever for what man has now. It's all about starting at the beginning and moving forward.
Linux md RAID-1 allows you to replicate to n number of drives, PLUS set m more drives as spares that will be automatically substituted for failed drives without intervention. You can spread the drives among as many controllers as you want.
Of course you need off site backups too (fire, theft, lightning, human error).
It's time for the obligatory Princess Bride quote. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Could it be that you intended the word "schizophrenia"? It is difficult to tell.
Someone who is autistic typically:
* Is unable to start or sustain a social conversation
* Develops language slowly or not at all
* Repeats words or memorized passages, like commercials
* Doesn't refer to self correctly (for example, says "you want water" when the child means "I want water")
* Uses nonsense rhyming
* Communicates with gestures instead of words
Those characteristics clearly do not describe Mr. Torvalds, who is an articulate speaker and writer. What's more, when you go on to elaborate "autistics tend to care about things that most non-autistics don't...like engaging in holy wars about which is the *one true* graphical environment, which is the *one true* text editor, or which is the *one true* license", such behavior again does not come close to describing Mr.Torvalds.
Bingo. Actually, Gnome has far more buried in gconf with no proper config dialogs available than Windows has buried in regedit. It doesn't have to be that way. KDE has sensible defaults plus a comprehensive system of understandable and highly usable config dialogs to change the defaults.
"People don't want configurability, they want something that works out of the box."
... and deeply personal ... way. The Windows you speak of is very configurable, and the popularity of stuff like TweakUI proves that a lot of people want it even more so. The Mac is not so configurable and ... golly gee whiz ... it's not as popular.
First, there is no monolithic "people" who single mindedly want something. If there were, everyone would be satisfied with the pathetic lot that the majority have voted into power in Washington.
More importantly, you are making a false dichotomy. Configurability is not the enemy of ease of use. The two properties are completely unrelated. Want to please both the dabblers and the deep tinkerers? Just give each software module intelligent defaults (pretty much like Gnome does now with some exceptions where it could be greatly improved), and add comprehensive configuration dialogs to change things. Now prominently add a single button, "restore all defaults". Presto. Now idiots (forgive me) can always instantly set everything to the One True Way which is easy to learn and easy to explain, while intelligent people can still set things up in an intelligent
modal editors is the worst idea in the history of computing.
Insert mode. Overtype mode. That's modal. I suppose you're against that.
Dear NTP:
Please eat excrement and die.
Not only that, but has anyone actually used CD-RWs (or even DVD+-RWs) since they were a novelty when the priginally came out?
The Hindenburg fire was NOT caused by hydrogen, but rather by a new exterior covering that the Zeppelin company was trying out - a butyl rubber fabric coated with iron oxide and powered aluminum - in other words, a formulation very close to what the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters use for fuel.
There was no butyl rubber involved, but other than that, you have picked up on the revisionist Incendiary Paint Theory. It is voodoo science, nonsense on the face of it, and has been completely discredited through logic, investigation, and experiment; see Definitive rebuttal and many good links. The best minds in the field of airship history hashed this out in extreme detail, going over and over every angle. I know because I was involved in some of the debates.
Incendiary Paint Theory proponents who completely reject evidence and experimental findings are never able to explain away the DOZENS of other hydrogen filled airships which were lost through catastrophic hydrogen fires. None of them were doped with the Magic Incendiary Potion.
If they make it virtually impossible to pirate the OS (which it sounds like their goal is with Vista), will the cost of the OS come down at all?
I think we all know the answer to that question.
I can understand that you may not be ready to grasp the concepts, but it might be better to either provide supporting logic for your assertions, or else forego making the assertions altogether.
If you are going to assert that "exceptions are a language flaw", that flies in the face of widely accepted practice. Just about every serious language of reasonably modern vintage implements them; they are an accepted staple. If you are going to go against overwhelming mainstream thought, you are going to need some semblance of reasoned logic or your viewpoint is going to be dismissed by serious professionals.
As for your last point, comparing an error of omission where someone forgets to check an error return, to a "moron" who goes to great lengths to deliberately subvert exceptions, is just plain silly on the face of it.