EXACTLY! This guy does not seem to care for anything.
I won't question your politics or religious beliefs. I simply ask that you provide me with travel to your location plus safe, warm, comfortable accommodation for the duration of the project, and employ me at an agreed rate for my services.
No one seems to care that although this guy can make numerous things with his skill, seems bent on making cruise missles even if it can be used to harm others.
India has an advanced Cruise missle already. Its called BrahMos.
It's faster than the US cruise missle but its range is shorter. Nevertheless its range is sufficient for all its targets.
You are right about the overhead of finding a cahe in BitTorrent type systems. But the idea you propose is for each site to have 4 or 5 dedicated mirrors. The sites are slashdotted in the first place because they cannot afford a cluster (or mirrors). p2pbridge.sf.net attempts to solve using a P2P Radio type of solution.
Reg seperating static and dynamic content, there is already a provision for this in the form of Edge Side Includes. But not many pages are ESI complaint.
And instead of the server telling others, I was thinking more along the lines of each node learns of its nearby node using the JXTA protocol. You can check out p2pbridge for more information.
" With the advent of cell phones and even home phones that allow phone book storage, this already happens"
I bet people said this when he invented DNS also:)
Sheeez, a distributed database to convert web addresses into IP! With the advent of systems like Unix and hosts.txt, it is already happens.
Well, one advantage of having centralized repository of phone numbers is that you need not change your number in all the address books when it changes. But yeah, I mostly agree with what you say.
Torrents do not work well with small files (like html, jpeg etc) The overhead is too large. Moreover as a user down below in the thread pointed out, many people on the internet are behind firewall nat etc.
My project p2pbridge based on JXTA is supposed to overcome all these hurdles. If anyone is interested in working on it. Please do contribute.
"If you sign up for Spymac mail or Rediffmail you don't have the backinging of a major corporation that has an infrastructure in place to support future growth, investors looking for the company to *not* fold, and a dedicated staff just for your data. "
I dont know about Spymac but Rediff is a big corporation in India. It was founded in 1996 and is the most popular mail service there. Just because it is not in your country does'nt make it a "fly-by-night" place.
Actually, Rediff was founded in 1996 (I think the same year as Google ?). It has been quite popular since then in India. In fact I think it is the biggest Indian portal. I dont think Rediff will go down in 3 years.
Let me try to explain quantum teleportation whith what I know of it.
There is no equvvalent macro phnenomenon for quantum teleportation. But let me try this example. Quantum teleportation is something like this..
If you have a metal box that can be broken into two metal boxes. Initially there are two colored balls in the metal box. You cannot see the balls. When you break the box into two, each ball stays in one box. You can now seperate the box by a large distance. This pair of boxes is similar to entangled pair. By obeserving the first box, you can determine the color of ball in the second box.
At the quantum level, without knowing the color of the ball, it is assumed to be in a state of superposition. so Observing the first photon forces the state on the second photon.
Thanks for the interest in the project. P2P Bridge is designed so that you dont have to set up a tracker. The network itself acts as a tracker and it can also work with small files (web pages). You just have to start a proxy server on your machine which will find and communicate with other proxys near you. I could not work on this for the past few months as I was busy with something else. But I should be able to start again soon and complete it.
So actually the great grandparent is telling us that we cannot slice time beyond the resolution of our universe (planck time). And yes you are right. within our universe you need time to measure change. and change is meaningless without time.:)
OK I dont agree with the grand parent post but I think this is what he is trying to say. Actually I think the original reader proposes some kind of discrete time where objects jump from one state to another. You cannot divide the time further between events.
Hence your proposition is not true. Like A is in state 1 and since there is now time, when it goes to state 2 the time increases. We cannot talk about for how long long the object has remained in state 1 because there is no time flowing in between. In other words, a person in this universe would percive the time as we do. But to a meta universe, it apears as discrete time. For example think of a simulated universe by a gaint computer ( No not matrix...even human mind in this proposed universe is simulated ) Within the universe time flows (ok whatever time flowing is ) But to us, the meta universe, time for this universe between 2 clock cycles of the computer running the simulation, time does not exist in the simulated universe for this meta universe time.
I dont have access to WinPE (thanks to microsoft licensing) and my comment about WinPE was based on the faq from Bart's site.
What is the difference between BartPE and Microsofts WinPE?
* Start-menu; Bart's builder gives you a simple, dynamic and powerful start-menu (Nu2Menu, see screenshots). Microsoft's builder does not give you a start-menu, it uses a command prompt.
So I guess that is wrong as you seem to have actually used WinPE. And no, I was not trying to spread Misinformation.
I tried bratPE. But it does not contain the windows GUI.It just contains one start menu like thinge. Sure its based on XP and you can use it for fixing disks etc. But it cannot be used for applications like browsing or desktop applications. But hey WinPE is command line based !
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SUN when ESR confirmed that SUN market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SUN has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SUN is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last samag.com in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a ESR to predict SUN's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SUN faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SUN because SUN is dying. Things are looking very bad for SUN. As many of us are already aware, SUN continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SUN Java is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Java developer Bill Joy only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SUN is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
McNealy states that there are 7000 users of Java. How many users of Solaris are there? Let's see. The number of Java versus Solaris posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Solaris users. This is consistent with the number of Solaris Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, SUN went out of business and was taken over by Microsoft who sell another troubled OS. Now Java is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Java has steadily declined in market share. SUN is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SUN is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. SUN continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SUN is dead.
The problem is bittorent cannot be used for small files like html and associated graphics. The overhead makes it an unattractive option. Also the random peer policy for downloading, does not make it a good option for small files.
Wait for 2 months when p2pbridge will be released. Its a network overlay (JXTA) based delivery system which if possible retrives data from the nearest cache within a time limit, else gets it from the server.
"Yes we strive to know where we came from, why we are here, etc. but to deny the existence of God in any of that is to deny your existence."
Who says so ? You can assert that you exist. But you can neither prove or disprove god exists. So its just faith. infact you cannot claim the existence of god.
I see the Big Bang theory try to be proven. I see evolution trying to be proven.
If you have alternative, better theories which does not involve blind faith, we would be more than happy to hear.
Its theory for a set of observed facts. You imporve the theory as you observe more facts. If we base everything on faith, we would still be in the stone ages and you would not have the computer to tye the response.
What I find funny and sad is that for those who don't believe in God and yet come to a dead end as how to explain something (like where did the ball of matter come from that became the universe?) they can't come to terms with just maybe a higher power was involved that we don't/can't understand.
Ok so we give up and assume 'higer powers' are involved as soon as we cant explain anything. The whole human species has improved so far because everytime we encounter something impossible or perplexing, we excell beyond our capablities and evolve.
Whay cant you come to terms with the fact that we MAY one day find answers to all that is uncertain today. (although we may have newer problems of that day)
Anyways if we do find out that the universe is a dream of a space alien dog in another meta universe, the dog will be your god technically but then again you would be wrong and science wins.
whew thats a lot of typing
You kids are getting it too easy to cripple your windows. Back in my days I had to I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night,half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day hacking code, and pay microsoft for permission to hack code and cripple windows, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
Its just not the money. There are other factors too.
For one, there are no labor laws governing s/w industry. You are paid one flat monthly salary and you have to work something like 80 - 100 hours per week. No overtime payments and No nice 40 hour weeks. Btw you dont get No medical insurance there. Okay the cost of medical care is relatively cheap but the company does not pay your medical bills. And the work culture is sooo difrent. Your managers will alwaqys try to overwork you. You are virtually a slave and you always have to work more than peers to get up in the ratings chart or get out. It gets insane.
Where do you think the CEO's make money if they pay the indians the same kinda money they pay here.
Stay in america and go to school if you are out of work. Do your phd instead of spending 4 years in india
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EXACTLY! This guy does not seem to care for anything.
I won't question your politics or religious beliefs. I simply ask that you provide me with travel to your location plus safe, warm, comfortable accommodation for the duration of the project, and employ me at an agreed rate for my services.
No one seems to care that although this guy can make numerous things with his skill, seems bent on making cruise missles even if it can be used to harm others.
Oh well! this is Slashdot.
India has an advanced Cruise missle already. Its called BrahMos. It's faster than the US cruise missle but its range is shorter. Nevertheless its range is sufficient for all its targets.
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You are right about the overhead of finding a cahe in BitTorrent type systems. But the idea you propose is for each site to have 4 or 5 dedicated mirrors. The sites are slashdotted in the first place because they cannot afford a cluster (or mirrors). p2pbridge.sf.net attempts to solve using a P2P Radio type of solution.
Reg seperating static and dynamic content, there is already a provision for this in the form of Edge Side Includes. But not many pages are ESI complaint.
And instead of the server telling others, I was thinking more along the lines of each node learns of its nearby node using the JXTA protocol. You can check out p2pbridge for more information.
" With the advent of cell phones and even home phones that allow phone book storage, this already happens"
:)
I bet people said this when he invented DNS also
Sheeez, a distributed database to convert web addresses into IP! With the advent of systems like Unix and hosts.txt, it is already happens.
Well, one advantage of having centralized repository of phone numbers is that you need not change your number in all the address books when it changes. But yeah, I mostly agree with what you say.
Torrents do not work well with small files (like html, jpeg etc) The overhead is too large. Moreover as a user down below in the thread pointed out, many people on the internet are behind firewall nat etc.
My project p2pbridge based on JXTA is supposed to overcome all these hurdles. If anyone is interested in working on it. Please do contribute.
"If you sign up for Spymac mail or Rediffmail you don't have the backinging of a major corporation that has an infrastructure in place to support future growth, investors looking for the company to *not* fold, and a dedicated staff just for your data. "
I dont know about Spymac but Rediff is a big corporation in India. It was founded in 1996 and is the most popular mail service there. Just because it is not in your country does'nt make it a "fly-by-night" place.
Actually, Rediff was founded in 1996 (I think the same year as Google ?). It has been quite popular since then in India. In fact I think it is the biggest Indian portal. I dont think Rediff will go down in 3 years.
Let me try to explain quantum teleportation whith what I know of it.
There is no equvvalent macro phnenomenon for quantum teleportation. But let me try this example.
Quantum teleportation is something like this..
If you have a metal box that can be broken into two metal boxes. Initially there are two colored balls in the metal box. You cannot see the balls. When you break the box into two, each ball stays in one box. You can now seperate the box by a large distance. This pair of boxes is similar to entangled pair. By obeserving the first box, you can determine the color of ball in the second box.
At the quantum level, without knowing the color of the ball, it is assumed to be in a state of superposition. so Observing the first photon forces the state on the second photon.
saved. Capital punishment deters the ammount of people killed. You cant quntify that a life is worth 10 millions and argue based on that.
Thanks for the interest in the project. P2P Bridge is designed so that you dont have to set up a tracker. The network itself acts as a tracker and it can also work with small files (web pages). You just have to start a proxy server on your machine which will find and communicate with other proxys near you.
I could not work on this for the past few months as I was busy with something else. But I should be able to start again soon and complete it.
Sorry for replying to my own post ..but
:)
So actually the great grandparent is telling us that we cannot slice time beyond the resolution of our universe (planck time). And yes you are right. within our universe you need time to measure change. and change is meaningless without time.
OK I dont agree with the grand parent post but I think this is what he is trying to say.
...even human mind in this proposed universe is simulated ) Within the universe time flows (ok whatever time flowing is ) But to us, the meta universe, time for this universe between 2 clock cycles of the computer running the simulation, time does not exist in the simulated universe for this meta universe time.
Actually I think the original reader proposes some kind of discrete time where objects jump from one state to another. You cannot divide the time further between events.
Hence your proposition is not true. Like A is in state 1 and since there is now time, when it goes to state 2 the time increases. We cannot talk about for how long long the object has remained in state 1 because there is no time flowing in between. In other words, a person in this universe would percive the time as we do. But to a meta universe, it apears as discrete time. For example think of a simulated universe by a gaint computer ( No not matrix
XFree and XFree 86 returns the right results !
MSN SRCH for XFree 86
XFree
This might be a wierd bug in their system.
I dont have access to WinPE (thanks to microsoft licensing) and my comment about WinPE was based on the faq from Bart's site.
What is the difference between BartPE and Microsofts WinPE?
* Start-menu; Bart's builder gives you a simple, dynamic and powerful start-menu (Nu2Menu, see screenshots). Microsoft's builder does not give you a start-menu, it uses a command prompt.
So I guess that is wrong as you seem to have actually used WinPE. And no, I was not trying to spread Misinformation.
I tried bratPE. But it does not contain the windows GUI.It just contains one start menu like thinge. Sure its based on XP and you can use it for fixing disks etc. But it cannot be used for applications like browsing or desktop applications.
But hey WinPE is command line based !
It is official; ESR confirms: SUN is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SUN when ESR confirmed that SUN market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SUN has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SUN is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last samag.com in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a ESR to predict SUN's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SUN faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SUN because SUN is dying. Things are looking very bad for SUN. As many of us are already aware, SUN continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SUN Java is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Java developer Bill Joy only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SUN is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
McNealy states that there are 7000 users of Java. How many users of Solaris are there? Let's see. The number of Java versus Solaris posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Solaris users. This is consistent with the number of Solaris Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, SUN went out of business and was taken over by Microsoft who sell another troubled OS. Now Java is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Java has steadily declined in market share. SUN is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SUN is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. SUN continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SUN is dead.
Fact: SUN is dying
Actually I posted something about this here
The problem is bittorent cannot be used for small files like html and associated graphics. The overhead makes it an unattractive option. Also the random peer policy for downloading, does not make it a good option for small files.
Wait for 2 months when p2pbridge will be released. Its a network overlay (JXTA) based delivery system which if possible retrives data from the nearest cache within a time limit, else gets it from the server.
"Yes we strive to know where we came from, why we are here, etc. but to deny the existence of God in any of that is to deny your existence."
Who says so ? You can assert that you exist. But you can neither prove or disprove god exists. So its just faith. infact you cannot claim the existence of god.
I see the Big Bang theory try to be proven. I see evolution trying to be proven.
If you have alternative, better theories which does not involve blind faith, we would be more than happy to hear.
Its theory for a set of observed facts. You imporve the theory as you observe more facts. If we base everything on faith, we would still be in the stone ages and you would not have the computer to tye the response.
What I find funny and sad is that for those who don't believe in God and yet come to a dead end as how to explain something (like where did the ball of matter come from that became the universe?) they can't come to terms with just maybe a higher power was involved that we don't/can't understand.
Ok so we give up and assume 'higer powers' are involved as soon as we cant explain anything. The whole human species has improved so far because everytime we encounter something impossible or perplexing, we excell beyond our capablities and evolve.
Whay cant you come to terms with the fact that we MAY one day find answers to all that is uncertain today. (although we may have newer problems of that day)
Anyways if we do find out that the universe is a dream of a space alien dog in another meta universe, the dog will be your god technically but then again you would be wrong and science wins.
whew thats a lot of typing
No its 155 USD per Week !
Check the grand parent post.
It works out to $7500 approx.
We would all be rolling in dollars, if it was $155 a day. And 40k USD per year works out to 20 lakh rupees per year. Thats insane !
You kids are getting it too easy to cripple your windows. Back in my days I had to I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night,half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day hacking code, and pay microsoft for permission to hack code and cripple windows, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
Its just not the money. There are other factors too.
For one, there are no labor laws governing s/w industry. You are paid one flat monthly salary and you have to work something like 80 - 100 hours per week. No overtime payments and No nice 40 hour weeks.
Btw you dont get No medical insurance there. Okay the cost of medical care is relatively cheap but the company does not pay your medical bills.
And the work culture is sooo difrent. Your managers will alwaqys try to overwork you.
You are virtually a slave and you always have to work more than peers to get up in the ratings chart or get out. It gets insane.
Where do you think the CEO's make money if they pay the indians the same kinda money they pay here.
Stay in america and go to school if you are out of work. Do your phd instead of spending 4 years in india
Mod Parent Wrong
Check your facts
For posting news about windows on slashdot. ;)
Okay now mod me up