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P2P Meets Push
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Seriously, this sounds like a traditional IRC channel with XDCC bots.
The difference between this and IRC fserv bots is important: kast/konspire (I dont' know which - seems the two are related) are server push.
On fservs, you still have to go out, look for what you want, try to figure out who has it, download it, and then see if it's what you want.
The new tool in question delivers content to your computer without your interaction. The analogy to broadcasting was right on: Somebody else decides what you want to / get to see, then you tune in to the appropriate channel and the content is delivered without you having to do anything.
It has a few inherent problems, absolute trust of the sender being the biggest that I can see. I have to trust whoever's running the channel not to send me kiddie pr0n and then call the FBI on me. Disk quotas (don't send me more than m megs per n hours, or perhaps don't let my incoming directory grow to larger than x megs) would be a good thing to have, and I don't know if it's been implemented here or not.
It has potential, though. News services, shareware-of-the-day services, new-song-of-the-day services (generate buzz about new bands), etc etc. I'll look at it, but I'll be wary about it.
Intuit responds to customers to survive as a business...it really shouldn't be any different for Microsoft.
In SOVIET RUSSIA, customers respond to COMPANIES.
Microsoft has put themselves into a position that they no longer have to respond to customers - customers respond to them, end users, OEMs and third-party software authors alike. New DirectX versions (among other things) drive the video card market. New Windows versions drive new versions of other software, both MS and otherwise. New licenses on MS products drive system costs. Having a ninety-something percent market share will do that.
One, non-commercial speech doesn't have the powerful engine of money driving it, so it won't be so explosive.
Never underestimate the explosiveness of the ACLU. Those guys have made an art form out of exploding all over the media.
In recent years however, he's rather been letting down his side of the bargain. I still gave him money
I think this might be the root of the problem.
Lucas is reaping Star Wars eps 4-6 to this day. He's created SUCH a successful franchise with SO much to offer (backstory, novels, merchandising merchandising merchandising (where the real money from the movie is made) ) that he doesn't HAVE to make a good movie any more.
How many times have you heard "Yeah, I know it's gonna be crap, but it's Star Wars, so I -have- to see it"? I dig the whole universe, I loved the original three movies, and I hope against hope that the next movie will be better. I know I'm not alone in this either. The reason everybody's so hard on the "prequel episodes" is that they have so much to live up to.
The first few movies were easy to write. The story wrote itself - it's a classic fairy tale. Boy from nowhere has family killed, gets swept up in epic adventure, leads David force against Goliath evil and wins. It's compelling, it's familiar, it's what you go to the movies for. Now he has to work backwards, setting up Goliath, David, Boy, etc. It's not as easy. Plot lines get a little sketchy, character motivations aren't as obvious, and lousy acting (Hayden Christensen stands out) just compounds the problem. It feels like Lucas is just using the technical wizardry (It's not Industrial Light and MAGIC for nothing) to try to make up for it. A crappy movie's a crappy movie, but special effects can make it at least worth checking out.
It's not that Lucas or the writers are slacking off - it's that they set the bar high and can't get back there now.
Depends more on the date. Before 11 Sept 2001: a crime (harassment) After 11 Sept 2001: a vicious terrorist act orchestrated by Osama bin Laden, and supported by Saddam Hussein's totalitarian regime to undermine the Homeland Security of the US (and justify the existence of Tom Ridge)
Bombing a building is terrorism. Gassing a subway is terrorism. Holding hostages is terrorism. These acts inspire terror.
Getting too much mail is just a pain in the butt. Maybe a crime, but mostly a pain in the butt. If getting too much mail is a crime, and mail is comparable to email, then getting too much email is a crime and we need to call out the feds on spammers. Maybe not a bad idea.
I hadn't heard of him until I picked up Cryptonomicon on a whim. (Borders was running it for 20% off once upon a time) I got it for a trip I took with my girlfriend to California, and I was laughing out loud so much she complained repeatedly. The fact that we were sitting in seats next to the plane's engine at the time should be noted here to give you an idea of just how loud I was laughing.
Of his books that I've read, I think Cryptonomicon was his best, followed by Snow Crash, The Diamond Age and Zodiac. They're all worth checking out, and probably owning. They're exceptionally geek-friendly.
...which, of course, is exactly what's going to happen. The tiger can't change his stripes. I don't think we've been given any reason to believe that this might be the first in any sort of trend of Microsoft being Open-Anything. Show me the source for MSIE4 or Office9X and I'll give it a little thought. Right now, though, it stinks of step one in a three step process: Open the standard, create "extensions", close the standard thus locking everybody else out.
Of course, AOLSunNetscape (there's gotta be a shorter way to do their name) doing it is no better than MSFT, but let's not kid ourselves into actually believing that either megalith has our best interests in mind.
I got a PalmIII cuz I didn't have the money for a IIIx or a V. Personally, if I had it to do over again, I'd save for the IIIx. The screen is supposedly nicer (I've not seen it, but I'm told), the case is fine and I find myself running a little shy on memory. Admittedly, I'm an app snob and load my III up with third party datebook, memo, and to-do apps, games, utils like Teal stuff, etc etc etc. Also, the comment about replacable batteries was dead on. If you use rechargable alkalines (Rayovac Renewals work great for me), you won't dump a ton of money on batteries.
If you're really worried about memory, people make memory cards for the PalmPilot/Palm III/IIIx up to 8Mb. They can't be used in the Palm V, though, as it's sealed shut and too small to fit, IIRC.
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Seriously, this sounds like a traditional IRC channel with XDCC bots.
The difference between this and IRC fserv bots is important: kast/konspire (I dont' know which - seems the two are related) are server push.
On fservs, you still have to go out, look for what you want, try to figure out who has it, download it, and then see if it's what you want.
The new tool in question delivers content to your computer without your interaction. The analogy to broadcasting was right on: Somebody else decides what you want to / get to see, then you tune in to the appropriate channel and the content is delivered without you having to do anything.
It has a few inherent problems, absolute trust of the sender being the biggest that I can see. I have to trust whoever's running the channel not to send me kiddie pr0n and then call the FBI on me. Disk quotas (don't send me more than m megs per n hours, or perhaps don't let my incoming directory grow to larger than x megs) would be a good thing to have, and I don't know if it's been implemented here or not.
It has potential, though. News services, shareware-of-the-day services, new-song-of-the-day services (generate buzz about new bands), etc etc. I'll look at it, but I'll be wary about it.
I was led to believe by the faculty of my university that "bit" was derived from "binary digit". But what do they know?
Intuit responds to customers to survive as a business...it really shouldn't be any different for Microsoft.
In SOVIET RUSSIA, customers respond to COMPANIES.
Microsoft has put themselves into a position that they no longer have to respond to customers - customers respond to them, end users, OEMs and third-party software authors alike. New DirectX versions (among other things) drive the video card market. New Windows versions drive new versions of other software, both MS and otherwise. New licenses on MS products drive system costs. Having a ninety-something percent market share will do that.
One, non-commercial speech doesn't have the powerful engine of money driving it, so it won't be so explosive. Never underestimate the explosiveness of the ACLU. Those guys have made an art form out of exploding all over the media.
I think this might be the root of the problem.
Lucas is reaping Star Wars eps 4-6 to this day. He's created SUCH a successful franchise with SO much to offer (backstory, novels, merchandising merchandising merchandising (where the real money from the movie is made) ) that he doesn't HAVE to make a good movie any more.
How many times have you heard "Yeah, I know it's gonna be crap, but it's Star Wars, so I -have- to see it"? I dig the whole universe, I loved the original three movies, and I hope against hope that the next movie will be better. I know I'm not alone in this either. The reason everybody's so hard on the "prequel episodes" is that they have so much to live up to.
The first few movies were easy to write. The story wrote itself - it's a classic fairy tale. Boy from nowhere has family killed, gets swept up in epic adventure, leads David force against Goliath evil and wins. It's compelling, it's familiar, it's what you go to the movies for. Now he has to work backwards, setting up Goliath, David, Boy, etc. It's not as easy. Plot lines get a little sketchy, character motivations aren't as obvious, and lousy acting (Hayden Christensen stands out) just compounds the problem. It feels like Lucas is just using the technical wizardry (It's not Industrial Light and MAGIC for nothing) to try to make up for it. A crappy movie's a crappy movie, but special effects can make it at least worth checking out.
It's not that Lucas or the writers are slacking off - it's that they set the bar high and can't get back there now.
Depends on the perpetrator.
Depends more on the date.
Before 11 Sept 2001: a crime (harassment)
After 11 Sept 2001: a vicious terrorist act orchestrated by Osama bin Laden, and supported by Saddam Hussein's totalitarian regime to undermine the Homeland Security of the US (and justify the existence of Tom Ridge)
Bombing a building is terrorism. Gassing a subway is terrorism. Holding hostages is terrorism. These acts inspire terror.
Getting too much mail is just a pain in the butt. Maybe a crime, but mostly a pain in the butt. If getting too much mail is a crime, and mail is comparable to email, then getting too much email is a crime and we need to call out the feds on spammers. Maybe not a bad idea.
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Guests of Exceptional Size? I don't think they exist.
*gets mauled by Guest of Exceptional Size*
I hadn't heard of him until I picked up Cryptonomicon on a whim. (Borders was running it for 20% off once upon a time) I got it for a trip I took with my girlfriend to California, and I was laughing out loud so much she complained repeatedly. The fact that we were sitting in seats next to the plane's engine at the time should be noted here to give you an idea of just how loud I was laughing. Of his books that I've read, I think Cryptonomicon was his best, followed by Snow Crash, The Diamond Age and Zodiac. They're all worth checking out, and probably owning. They're exceptionally geek-friendly.
...which, of course, is exactly what's going to happen. The tiger can't change his stripes. I don't think we've been given any reason to believe that this might be the first in any sort of trend of Microsoft being Open-Anything. Show me the source for MSIE4 or Office9X and I'll give it a little thought. Right now, though, it stinks of step one in a three step process: Open the standard, create "extensions", close the standard thus locking everybody else out.
Of course, AOLSunNetscape (there's gotta be a shorter way to do their name) doing it is no better than MSFT, but let's not kid ourselves into actually believing that either megalith has our best interests in mind.
I got a PalmIII cuz I didn't have the money for a IIIx or a V. Personally, if I had it to do over again, I'd save for the IIIx. The screen is supposedly nicer (I've not seen it, but I'm told), the case is fine and I find myself running a little shy on memory. Admittedly, I'm an app snob and load my III up with third party datebook, memo, and to-do apps, games, utils like Teal stuff, etc etc etc. Also, the comment about replacable batteries was dead on. If you use rechargable alkalines (Rayovac Renewals work great for me), you won't dump a ton of money on batteries.
If you're really worried about memory, people make memory cards for the PalmPilot/Palm III/IIIx up to 8Mb. They can't be used in the Palm V, though, as it's sealed shut and too small to fit, IIRC.