The article states that CENTR specifically does not want ICANN running the root servers. The budget for ICANN is composed of lots of other administrative costs related to tracking domain name registrations.
As for a community-based DNS system, its just a bit expensive to run a server that takes that much traffic. Sure, you can cache and mirror stuff all over the place, but the information has to start somewhere, and you can't have the delay between the root and the millions of community DNS nodes get incredibly long.
I have an IBM laptop, shipped with Windows. A basic set of Mandrake install CDs gave me a fully functional Linux environment, working right alongside my still-working Windows install. The only questionable component was the 802.11b card, but it was flaky under Windows too, so no bias there.
If they approached the Indian government, all the better. Let's approach other governments (Chinese, Russian, Japanese... even the US) to collaborate on designing the new system. Talking with countries that already have a system like this (USA, Russia) can ensure that the systems don't interfere, and might even be able to complement one another. The more countries involved, the better. We can even apply those Lessons Learned from the ISS.
While it is true that both fossil fuel energy and nucelar energy produce extremely dangerous waste products, one is expelled into the atmosphere and one is packaged into a convenient block that can be dealt with. The pollution from fossil fuels is incredibly more damaging than that from nucelar sources because it can't be controlled. Sure, some scrubbing can be done before its expelled, but eventually you have combustion gases being expelled to the atmosphere. With a nucelar source, all of your waste is in the form of a pile of fissile material and a tank of radioactive water. The water can be reused and the fissile material can be sealed up, immobilized in something like Synrock, or perhaps used for more energy extraction (after all, if this stuff is putting out radiation, it seems there should be *some* way to harvest it)
Precisely. Setting up a cell phone to play part of a song when it rings isn't any different from setting a computer or a cd player to play a song when the alarm goes off in the morning. Are they going to sue the authors of all those alarm-clock Winamp plugins next?
It seems that a lot of really nifty things (the mouse, the desktop, and apparently Graffiti) were developed at Xerox, and never produced. Then someone else says "wow, that's stunning" and makes millions off of it. Its not like Xerox lacks the resources to go after these things, more like the ambition. It seems like a perfect case of "we want a monopoly on this, not because we have any intention of even trying to produce it" patents, as opposed to the "I've got this cool idea, but my lottery investment strategy has yet to pay off, would someone like to license it" patents.
Is it no less a waste of time to burn iTunes songs to CDs and rip them? If anything, decoding this way is more in the spirit of Fairplay than burn and rip, as it maintains the ownership info.
I mean, Google's success *must* have been due to the name. I know that the relevant results and inoffensive advertising mean nothing to me in comparison to the fact that its called Google!
Sure, personal computers will be faster in a few years, but sheer speed isn't the only thing that makes a supercomputer. What divides massive clusters of $200 Wal-Mart boxes from a mid 80's Cray (those Crays, by the way, still go for ~$20K) is that the Cray uses much faster, wider pipelines between components. With the current trend of lagging the various buses behind the processor almost by orders of magnitude, the desktop PC won't approach current-day supercomputers for a long time.
I'm thinking that the 1TB of space is constructed from some kind of RAID array; a single 1TB drive would be incredibly expensive to make at the present time. 120GB hard drives can be had for a (somewhat) reasonable price. Tied together in SATA RAID, I think that you could get something near the transfer rate you'd need. They also don't mention the quality of the recordings; when you have 7 channels piped at once it might start dropping frames and reducing resolution.
What types of applications are currently being focused on to get working under emulation? Do you target specific applications, or catagories of applications?
Now if only I had 4GB of something to burn to disc that fast... For critical files, I'm going to run at low speeds for safety, for less critical stuff I'll probably be on a CD, if for no reason other than media costs.
There was in fact a virus at one point that targeted certain Intel processors which had a flashable microcode system, whereby the instruction set was built of smaller operations, that could be rearranged through a flash operation if a more efficient system was figured out.
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The article states that CENTR specifically does not want ICANN running the root servers. The budget for ICANN is composed of lots of other administrative costs related to tracking domain name registrations.
As for a community-based DNS system, its just a bit expensive to run a server that takes that much traffic. Sure, you can cache and mirror stuff all over the place, but the information has to start somewhere, and you can't have the delay between the root and the millions of community DNS nodes get incredibly long.
I have an IBM laptop, shipped with Windows. A basic set of Mandrake install CDs gave me a fully functional Linux environment, working right alongside my still-working Windows install. The only questionable component was the 802.11b card, but it was flaky under Windows too, so no bias there.
If they approached the Indian government, all the better. Let's approach other governments (Chinese, Russian, Japanese ... even the US) to collaborate on designing the new system. Talking with countries that already have a system like this (USA, Russia) can ensure that the systems don't interfere, and might even be able to complement one another. The more countries involved, the better. We can even apply those Lessons Learned from the ISS.
While it is true that both fossil fuel energy and nucelar energy produce extremely dangerous waste products, one is expelled into the atmosphere and one is packaged into a convenient block that can be dealt with. The pollution from fossil fuels is incredibly more damaging than that from nucelar sources because it can't be controlled. Sure, some scrubbing can be done before its expelled, but eventually you have combustion gases being expelled to the atmosphere. With a nucelar source, all of your waste is in the form of a pile of fissile material and a tank of radioactive water. The water can be reused and the fissile material can be sealed up, immobilized in something like Synrock, or perhaps used for more energy extraction (after all, if this stuff is putting out radiation, it seems there should be *some* way to harvest it)
Precisely. Setting up a cell phone to play part of a song when it rings isn't any different from setting a computer or a cd player to play a song when the alarm goes off in the morning. Are they going to sue the authors of all those alarm-clock Winamp plugins next?
It seems that a lot of really nifty things (the mouse, the desktop, and apparently Graffiti) were developed at Xerox, and never produced. Then someone else says "wow, that's stunning" and makes millions off of it. Its not like Xerox lacks the resources to go after these things, more like the ambition. It seems like a perfect case of "we want a monopoly on this, not because we have any intention of even trying to produce it" patents, as opposed to the "I've got this cool idea, but my lottery investment strategy has yet to pay off, would someone like to license it" patents.
Is it no less a waste of time to burn iTunes songs to CDs and rip them? If anything, decoding this way is more in the spirit of Fairplay than burn and rip, as it maintains the ownership info.
I mean, Google's success *must* have been due to the name. I know that the relevant results and inoffensive advertising mean nothing to me in comparison to the fact that its called Google!
Sure, personal computers will be faster in a few years, but sheer speed isn't the only thing that makes a supercomputer. What divides massive clusters of $200 Wal-Mart boxes from a mid 80's Cray (those Crays, by the way, still go for ~$20K) is that the Cray uses much faster, wider pipelines between components. With the current trend of lagging the various buses behind the processor almost by orders of magnitude, the desktop PC won't approach current-day supercomputers for a long time.
I'm thinking that the 1TB of space is constructed from some kind of RAID array; a single 1TB drive would be incredibly expensive to make at the present time. 120GB hard drives can be had for a (somewhat) reasonable price. Tied together in SATA RAID, I think that you could get something near the transfer rate you'd need. They also don't mention the quality of the recordings; when you have 7 channels piped at once it might start dropping frames and reducing resolution.
So, it seems that all you need to do to get a terrorist plot ignored is to frame it with the plot from a popular videogame ...
What types of applications are currently being focused on to get working under emulation? Do you target specific applications, or catagories of applications?
Now if only I had 4GB of something to burn to disc that fast ... For critical files, I'm going to run at low speeds for safety, for less critical stuff I'll probably be on a CD, if for no reason other than media costs.
There was in fact a virus at one point that targeted certain Intel processors which had a flashable microcode system, whereby the instruction set was built of smaller operations, that could be rearranged through a flash operation if a more efficient system was figured out.