Well I think that by transparent they mean that you can see through it. I mean, metaphorically speaking, if Rosetta was a person and it was wearing the apps that ran using it, it would be frightening to see those apps walking around with no body. Very frightening indeed, like a ghost. 65 to 70 percent of normal speed is definitely frightening, so this must be exactly what they mean.
Oh please no. I use the term boxen, as it is a play on the word oxen, but mash-up sucks. Mash-up lacks any wit. It has no style. It reminds me of piles of pummeled starchy food. Even in the remix community I despiste the word mash-up. w00t, sure. b0xen, sure. reet, sure. Mash-up? Where on earth... Oh wait, I know. The mid-west. The south. (eg: "ah mashed'a inta' kay an' ah don' say nuthin' yit.") I'd hate to be locked in the same room as those mash-up freaks, and if it ever came to that... well... Suicide Is Painless.
I was thinking of "delivery" as a network thing, as in "media content delivery" or "software and update patch" delivery. What an incredibly vague article summary.... "delivery"...
"Digital" is an adjective. Using it as a noun makes it a buzzword. It perks interest in the ear or eye of the receiver because they have to actually think about it. They were expecting the word to describe something, but in the end the word was the thing.
Leeching your neighbors internet causes disruption of their internet service just as noise from outside causes disruption of their XM listening experience. In both cases they can still continue doing their thing, be it listening to XM or surfing the web, but they have to do it with the added noise of your actions. In both cases you are disrupting the placidity of their paid-for service.
So, in the XM scene, the neighbor can close the window and reclaim a peaceful listening experience. In the WiFi scene he can enable WEP and reclaim an unhindered web-surfing experience.
This still isn't taking into account that the Cable company wants to be compensated for this guy not paying for the internet access that he "stole" from his neighbor. That would be akin to the XM guys asking you to pay when you listen to your neighbor's XM radio when he has his windows open, and THAT is the ridiculous part.
That's assuming you're running XP SP 1 with patches applied or are running XP SP 2. Luckily everybody patches their system once a week, keeping up on all the latest trends in MS's implementations of various functionality. Luckily they're all that computer savvy and trust MS that much. Seriously, they do.
However, what about people who configured Zeroconfig so that it would connect to untrusted networks automatically (because they're sick of Mom calling them up asking for tech support or something)? And what about everybody who has the default Linksys SSID in their trusted network list? And what about people who are using 2k or ME? And what about people who use their 3rd party wifi card's management software? And what about people who are using Mac OS? And what about...
The point is that SSID broadcasting, automatic client association and DHCP work together to provide seamless networking capability. That's how it WiFi was designed. Two years about I spent countless hours making sure that whenever people plugged in one of my companies wireless cards it would automatically join the network which had the strongest signal. Now somebody wants to say that's illegal? Bullshit. That is ridiculous. If they want to bust you with roaming onto somebody's wireless network they'd have to prove that your intentions were heinous. The act itself is not wrong.
If you want to further the metaphor, your neighbor having their window open is akin to them disabling WEP, allowing interference to come in, such as the sound of the trash truck on Friday morning, or any loud noise you happen to choose to make. If they close their window/network they are effectively guarding against those interferences, allowing them to experience their service in private.
That's a terrible metaphor. You know how I first discovered what turned into war driving? My friend and I were at an OS X demo. When it was over we went out to his car, he opened his powerbook to make some notes, and "OMG, what's this?? I'm online??" It was a complete ACCIDENT. If my Grandmother can accidentally stumble onto her neighbor's "illegally shared" internet then there is something seriously wrong.
It's not like walking into somebody's house, it's more like opening your bedroom window so you can listen to your neighbor's XM radio. You're not paying for that XM... you're stealing by listening to it without your neighbor knowing. Sure, you can't change the channel just like you can't reconfigure their router settings, but you ARE leeching.... whatever. It's absurd. It's asinine. It's not stealing if people are offering it, let alone broadcasting it out with an SSID beacon, and it shouldnt' be illegal if Apple and Microsoft are setting us up for these "illegal" activities by making their OS auto-connect to open networks. Am I the only one who's found himself accidentally using his neighbors signal instead of his own? It's not stealing if I go to my friends house to watch DVD's he rented or bought. It's not stealing when I flip through the channels on his TV even when he's not home. I do agree that saturating your neighbor's pipe is out of line, and using it without their knowledge might be a bit shady, but illegal? That's ridiculous. If they don't want you on their net then they should turn on WEP. If the internet companies don't want you sharing your pipe then they should charge by megabyte.
My guess is that they expect a lot of people to buy the service but not use it to its full potential. Seriously, 100mb is overkill for things like Xbox Live, World of Warcraft, etc.. Paying per MB would not make much money in those cases. Plus, a montly fee makes it easier to plan because you have a set income that you can assure throughout the length of the contract; they know they'll get $XXX from each client over the period of the contract, minus the ones who default, of course.
Someobdy has purchased shares of my new EyeSocket Cable Vision technology which allows you to plug ethernet into your face and see out of other people's switches, hubs!
Seriously though, as everybody has noted, there are tons of legal things to do with a fat pipe. Web-hosting is a hot one. Remote backups of my mom's computer. Audio streaming is still legal... at least I think it is. Remote desktop connections like VNC and Terminal Services. H264 multi-user video chat. Anybody who has to ask what to do with a fat pipe does not have the passion for networking that some of us do.
My biggest concern wouldn't be what to do with it, but what kind of latency comes with that fat pipe? I'd gladly trade that fat of a pipe for one a fraction of the size but has snappy response.
I read somewhere, but I can't find the story to back it up, that a large portion of Tokyo is wired with gigabit. That sort of thing works much easier in high-density populations where you have several hundred people living in one high-rise, so I can't expect to see that in the burbs any time soon...:(
I was looking for the technical side, didn't look too hard, but I was kinda thinking the same thing. I was wondering if they'd hooked up with the MOCA guys as an early adopter until I remembered that it used existing cable...
except for a $20/year "plus" versions with prettier pictures
Uh, yeah, that and the ability to communicate with external GPS receivers to manage waypoints and track logs, which is a HUGE plus for those of us who like to get out and explore the earth in meatspace. Also, there is currently no good software to do this on the Mac, and although Google Earth doesn't currently support Mac, the site does say that they are working on it, which is an even bigger bonus for me since that's one of the only reason's I use a PC outside of work. I had e-mailed Keyhole before Google bought them and they said they weren't planning on making a Mac version... Thank God that Google bought them and is setting that right. I'll definitely pay for the plus version when it comes out for Mac.
I don't know how on earth that got modded Insightful. If MS's implementation of RSS was to be exploited it would be done so with a malicious RSS feed and not with a virus that uses RSS to communicate. If the virus used RSS to communicate it wouldn't necessarily need MS to implement their own version RSS.
And only allowing select NDA partners to view portions of the closed source palladium protected proprietary schema documentation for their new Microsoft Syndication Standard which breaks compatibility with pre-existing and inferior syndication standards.
I hadn't thought of it like that but yeah, I think you're totally right. I can't believe they'd pull some shizz like this... anybody who actually does business with these guys is insane. How do they even make money??...or maybe they don't.
If only I could believe that... I really want to, I really do. I loathe SCO's underhanded business model and all the crap associated with it, but man, these guys have a way of sticking around... MS funding them certainly helps out.
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But I wasn't!! I wa srunning it in Windows XP HOme!!! Mybe I should upgrade to SP 2???
Dude, it totally is!! I ran iPhoto in OS X, then I ran it on the same box within PearPC from inside XP and it was INSANELY slow!! APPLE RULEZ!!!1
Well I think that by transparent they mean that you can see through it. I mean, metaphorically speaking, if Rosetta was a person and it was wearing the apps that ran using it, it would be frightening to see those apps walking around with no body. Very frightening indeed, like a ghost. 65 to 70 percent of normal speed is definitely frightening, so this must be exactly what they mean.
5 seconds? I don't think saving 5 seconds of every month or two is really that important. I mean, unless it's saving lives like you said...
Oh please no. I use the term boxen, as it is a play on the word oxen, but mash-up sucks. Mash-up lacks any wit. It has no style. It reminds me of piles of pummeled starchy food. Even in the remix community I despiste the word mash-up. w00t, sure. b0xen, sure. reet, sure. Mash-up? Where on earth... Oh wait, I know. The mid-west. The south. (eg: "ah mashed'a inta' kay an' ah don' say nuthin' yit.") I'd hate to be locked in the same room as those mash-up freaks, and if it ever came to that... well... Suicide Is Painless.
I was thinking of "delivery" as a network thing, as in "media content delivery" or "software and update patch" delivery. What an incredibly vague article summary.... "delivery"...
"Digital" is an adjective. Using it as a noun makes it a buzzword. It perks interest in the ear or eye of the receiver because they have to actually think about it. They were expecting the word to describe something, but in the end the word was the thing.
You missed the analogy. Let me restate it...
Leeching your neighbors internet causes disruption of their internet service just as noise from outside causes disruption of their XM listening experience. In both cases they can still continue doing their thing, be it listening to XM or surfing the web, but they have to do it with the added noise of your actions. In both cases you are disrupting the placidity of their paid-for service.
So, in the XM scene, the neighbor can close the window and reclaim a peaceful listening experience. In the WiFi scene he can enable WEP and reclaim an unhindered web-surfing experience.
This still isn't taking into account that the Cable company wants to be compensated for this guy not paying for the internet access that he "stole" from his neighbor. That would be akin to the XM guys asking you to pay when you listen to your neighbor's XM radio when he has his windows open, and THAT is the ridiculous part.
That's assuming you're running XP SP 1 with patches applied or are running XP SP 2. Luckily everybody patches their system once a week, keeping up on all the latest trends in MS's implementations of various functionality. Luckily they're all that computer savvy and trust MS that much. Seriously, they do.
However, what about people who configured Zeroconfig so that it would connect to untrusted networks automatically (because they're sick of Mom calling them up asking for tech support or something)? And what about everybody who has the default Linksys SSID in their trusted network list? And what about people who are using 2k or ME? And what about people who use their 3rd party wifi card's management software? And what about people who are using Mac OS? And what about...
The point is that SSID broadcasting, automatic client association and DHCP work together to provide seamless networking capability. That's how it WiFi was designed. Two years about I spent countless hours making sure that whenever people plugged in one of my companies wireless cards it would automatically join the network which had the strongest signal. Now somebody wants to say that's illegal? Bullshit. That is ridiculous. If they want to bust you with roaming onto somebody's wireless network they'd have to prove that your intentions were heinous. The act itself is not wrong.
If you want to further the metaphor, your neighbor having their window open is akin to them disabling WEP, allowing interference to come in, such as the sound of the trash truck on Friday morning, or any loud noise you happen to choose to make. If they close their window/network they are effectively guarding against those interferences, allowing them to experience their service in private.
That's a terrible metaphor. You know how I first discovered what turned into war driving? My friend and I were at an OS X demo. When it was over we went out to his car, he opened his powerbook to make some notes, and "OMG, what's this?? I'm online??" It was a complete ACCIDENT. If my Grandmother can accidentally stumble onto her neighbor's "illegally shared" internet then there is something seriously wrong.
It's not like walking into somebody's house, it's more like opening your bedroom window so you can listen to your neighbor's XM radio. You're not paying for that XM... you're stealing by listening to it without your neighbor knowing. Sure, you can't change the channel just like you can't reconfigure their router settings, but you ARE leeching.... whatever. It's absurd. It's asinine. It's not stealing if people are offering it, let alone broadcasting it out with an SSID beacon, and it shouldnt' be illegal if Apple and Microsoft are setting us up for these "illegal" activities by making their OS auto-connect to open networks. Am I the only one who's found himself accidentally using his neighbors signal instead of his own? It's not stealing if I go to my friends house to watch DVD's he rented or bought. It's not stealing when I flip through the channels on his TV even when he's not home. I do agree that saturating your neighbor's pipe is out of line, and using it without their knowledge might be a bit shady, but illegal? That's ridiculous. If they don't want you on their net then they should turn on WEP. If the internet companies don't want you sharing your pipe then they should charge by megabyte.
My guess is that they expect a lot of people to buy the service but not use it to its full potential. Seriously, 100mb is overkill for things like Xbox Live, World of Warcraft, etc.. Paying per MB would not make much money in those cases. Plus, a montly fee makes it easier to plan because you have a set income that you can assure throughout the length of the contract; they know they'll get $XXX from each client over the period of the contract, minus the ones who default, of course.
Someobdy has purchased shares of my new EyeSocket Cable Vision technology which allows you to plug ethernet into your face and see out of other people's switches, hubs!
Seriously though, as everybody has noted, there are tons of legal things to do with a fat pipe. Web-hosting is a hot one. Remote backups of my mom's computer. Audio streaming is still legal... at least I think it is. Remote desktop connections like VNC and Terminal Services. H264 multi-user video chat. Anybody who has to ask what to do with a fat pipe does not have the passion for networking that some of us do.
My biggest concern wouldn't be what to do with it, but what kind of latency comes with that fat pipe? I'd gladly trade that fat of a pipe for one a fraction of the size but has snappy response.
I read somewhere, but I can't find the story to back it up, that a large portion of Tokyo is wired with gigabit. That sort of thing works much easier in high-density populations where you have several hundred people living in one high-rise, so I can't expect to see that in the burbs any time soon... :(
I was looking for the technical side, didn't look too hard, but I was kinda thinking the same thing. I was wondering if they'd hooked up with the MOCA guys as an early adopter until I remembered that it used existing cable...
I don't know how on earth that got modded Insightful. If MS's implementation of RSS was to be exploited it would be done so with a malicious RSS feed and not with a virus that uses RSS to communicate. If the virus used RSS to communicate it wouldn't necessarily need MS to implement their own version RSS.
And only allowing select NDA partners to view portions of the closed source palladium protected proprietary schema documentation for their new Microsoft Syndication Standard which breaks compatibility with pre-existing and inferior syndication standards.
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3) Delay release until after Longhorn.
4) PROFIT!!
5) Patch Critical Security Flaws.
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That get updates every hour on new ways to exploit your system.
Sorta Simple Syndication Supporting Lengthy Ordered Lists So Users Can Keep Track Of What's New.
Yes we will.
I hadn't thought of it like that but yeah, I think you're totally right. I can't believe they'd pull some shizz like this... anybody who actually does business with these guys is insane. How do they even make money?? ...or maybe they don't.
If only I could believe that... I really want to, I really do. I loathe SCO's underhanded business model and all the crap associated with it, but man, these guys have a way of sticking around... MS funding them certainly helps out.