I was under the impression that the European Union is a political construct, saying the UK is not in the EU would be like saying Hawaii is not in the USA.
In some ways, a darknet is more dangerous to the participants than bittorrents. The level of trust between the participants can serve as a avenue for detection and tracking.
Only if the user trusts the darknet more than they do torrents. Anybody serving up a file on torrent is at risk from anybody who might download it - at least in the darknet you are only vulnerable to your cell and its neighboring cells.
Big cells make a better functioning, and more vulnerable, network. Personally, I'd want to limit cell size to about 5, that way you're only open to 25 nodes at a time.
I'm fine with the idea of "do it simple" if the hardware can handle it. However we are a long, long way from that in graphics.
My bigger point is just nothing Intel has produced has convinced me that ray tracing is a better way to go. Never mind that they are still talking about hardware that doesn't exist.
Ray tracing may not (or, eventually with photon mapping, may) be the way to go. If by long, long way you mean 8 years, then, yes, I'd agree.
At my age, 8 years goes pretty quick, and even when I was younger, I only replaced my computers at most every 4 years, I've had a couple of systems for 8 or more years.
And, if they weren't talking about hardware that didn't exist, I'd be pretty bored - the existing stuff is pretty well understood, and yes, on the existing stuff, realtime ray tracing is pretty sucky compared to the more clever hacks.
No, I was 15 and had never met anybody who had even heard of Usenet. What I sketched out was a mesh network with elements of priority and trust to manage traffic flow requests over the very limited bandwidth. It also included an "software update via the network" mechanism with recognition of the extreme potential for abuse of that functionality.
It was more of a thread based conversation management than Usenet's discussion boards.
The evolution I have seen, for better or worse, over the last 30 years is from impossible to barely possible to practical to so-easy you can do it with stupid simple algorithms, and most people do because the hardware is cheaper than writing clever software.
Clever software will always have a great economy of scale, but when people have the equivalent of a 1990s supercomputer in their cell phone running for 7 days on a battery that weighs 20 grams, clever software won't matter as much as it used to.
Ray tracing isn't clever, it's a straight forward stupid simple algorithm. When that's all you need, it sure helps the software delivery schedule to use it instead of something more efficient and complex.
I'm looking forward to 2020 when we will be able to have a 50 core FPGA system, not because I want to endlessly tweak the hardware designs for clever little things, but because I will be able to configure "the right sledgehammer for the job" and get it done without burning so many brain cycles.
Yes, but... this is apparently not a big part of their greater plans at the moment. Not everything that has the Intel name on it is given billion dollar backing.
I think that the realtime raytracing thing is coming, not this year, probably not with 22nm processes, but by the time 6nm processes and 3D packaging are here, there are going to be way more than 8 cards worth of transistors on a single chip.
Rent the Pixar Shorts DVD and watch what they did before Toy Story 1. Red's Dream, Tin Toy and Andre'B are all pretty crappy looking short films that demonstrate what a couple of guys in a lab could do at the time - when viewing them, you're supposed to imagine what could be done by a larger studio with funding, not bash them because a couple of guys in a lab given 3-6 months aren't producing something competitive with hundreds of people given millions of dollars and a couple of years.
If you're paranoid, you too can spend hundreds of hours changing out your ECU and tuning the new one - then it won't be vulnerable to the standard attacks, though it will probably be vulnerable to others.
Coleco 21 LED football handheld game = about 3 years total time of my life playing this game. How awesome watching a few led lights flash on a tiny screen. Could you even imagine if you handed this to a 10 year old today? They would look at you like you were stark raving insane.
Tell them it's cultural history - immortalized in SuperTramp's "Logical Song."
In 3 years of active BBSing, I think I may have spent a total of $30 on long distance fees for modem connections, it was a hobby, and if I couldn't get it with a local call, I just didn't need it.
Quality of "posts" on/. is generally higher than the BBSs of old, only thing BBSs had in their favor was the people were local so there was a possibility of real-life interaction with them, I did that a few times - never really got comfortable with it though, I was strange enough without hanging with an even stranger crowd.
What I don't like are the games that masquerade as goods, but want to suck you into services after you're hooked. It's more obvious (and acceptable) when it's a free to play teaser, but paying a $50 entry fee for something that doesn't clearly spell out what you'll be spending later on, or that the service will be shut down at some future date, (GT5 online racing, I'm looking at you) is wrong.
I refine the standard Atari 400/800 BBS code (mostly in BASIC, I think I wrote one FIFO in assembly) and got it fast enough to keep the 300 baud modem fully saturated. Before I massaged it, throughput averaged less than 100 baud.
The circles I traveled in were not much interested in monthly fees, they'd drop $300 for a 1200 baud modem, but a $9.95/month service fee made most of us retch at the thought.
I used Dutch Minitel a couple of times in the '90s - it wasn't much, but it was available in the lobby of most hotels, sort of an extension of the cable TV service.
in short bursts, yes (30 characters per second), comprehension goes out the window after a few lines, but I used to watch BBS posts scroll in at 30cps and would often just let them scroll by when they weren't very interesting, pause the feed when I actually wanted to read what was there.
Consider, also, the competition for advertising: bulk mailed glossy brochures - for less than $1, they could reach a customer with 100 pages of color photos and text - most of the marketing departments couldn't think fast enough to need to change their message more than once every few months, and plain text still is unable to grab the attention of 99% of the buying public.
By 1985, FidoNet was going strong, and I think the bulk of its traffic was grabbing free rides on the early internet - I remember a strong mirror between Indiana and Miami that was just one or two hops... this was pretty typical for FidoNet - I think these guys had access to University networks.
There were other networks that ran off of "phone phreaks'" stolen credit card numbers and other billing dodge tricks, but those links tended to be more like ham radio, unpredictable and short lived, not that the operators got busted often, just that "the man" shut down the links within a few days to a few weeks.
No, in the 1980s, desktop computers took about 1 second to boot up: Click, beep! and you are going.
Those systems were ROM chip based, and they only executed about 2KB of code at bootup (dedicated, unchanging hardware, means the OS hardly could be called an OS today.)
Try then loading something off your cassette tape drive, on a good day I could type faster than the tape drive.
You know how fast are the network connections in between cities back in the early 1980's?
300 baud - that's the speed for an "ultra fast" modem
Yes, we do have "networks" back then, it's called "FidoNet", and it's the sysops (system operators) who are carrying out all those internode connections
I was a hobby sysop in 1983-4, the main concern then was shuttling data about efficiently under the phone company tariff structures (~$20/hr for any call over about 50 miles distance, at 300 baud that's about $0.20 per page (1KB) of text transferred.) I sketched out a system to transfer data between nodes in a pattern of overlapping free local calling zones, but organizing a network of any size was difficult, and even a minimal BBS node was costing around $1000 to buy plus $15ish per month for a dedicated phone line, so there were plenty of cheaper, and frankly more interesting, hobbies around.
I imagine from the phone company's perspective, the main concern was maximizing return on their investment in infrastructure (cable, switching offices), at that time AT&T stock had been one of the best investments available for several decades.
Eurorail is a good way to get around the Europe it's a shame the US has nothing like it.
Absolutely, and you can thank GM, Ford, Chrysler, Mack, Peterbilt, Exxon, Shell, BP and the Eisenhower Interstate system for that.
I see a stretch analogy to phone systems in South America, especially 10 years ago - they're mostly cell based because the higher cost wired infrastructure wasn't rolled out yet when cellphones arrived.
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I was under the impression that the European Union is a political construct, saying the UK is not in the EU would be like saying Hawaii is not in the USA.
UK is not in the EU?
In some ways, a darknet is more dangerous to the participants than bittorrents. The level of trust between the participants can serve as a avenue for detection and tracking.
Only if the user trusts the darknet more than they do torrents. Anybody serving up a file on torrent is at risk from anybody who might download it - at least in the darknet you are only vulnerable to your cell and its neighboring cells.
Big cells make a better functioning, and more vulnerable, network. Personally, I'd want to limit cell size to about 5, that way you're only open to 25 nodes at a time.
I'm fine with the idea of "do it simple" if the hardware can handle it. However we are a long, long way from that in graphics.
My bigger point is just nothing Intel has produced has convinced me that ray tracing is a better way to go. Never mind that they are still talking about hardware that doesn't exist.
Ray tracing may not (or, eventually with photon mapping, may) be the way to go. If by long, long way you mean 8 years, then, yes, I'd agree.
At my age, 8 years goes pretty quick, and even when I was younger, I only replaced my computers at most every 4 years, I've had a couple of systems for 8 or more years.
And, if they weren't talking about hardware that didn't exist, I'd be pretty bored - the existing stuff is pretty well understood, and yes, on the existing stuff, realtime ray tracing is pretty sucky compared to the more clever hacks.
So, you reinvented Usenet?
No, I was 15 and had never met anybody who had even heard of Usenet. What I sketched out was a mesh network with elements of priority and trust to manage traffic flow requests over the very limited bandwidth. It also included an "software update via the network" mechanism with recognition of the extreme potential for abuse of that functionality.
It was more of a thread based conversation management than Usenet's discussion boards.
The evolution I have seen, for better or worse, over the last 30 years is from impossible to barely possible to practical to so-easy you can do it with stupid simple algorithms, and most people do because the hardware is cheaper than writing clever software.
Clever software will always have a great economy of scale, but when people have the equivalent of a 1990s supercomputer in their cell phone running for 7 days on a battery that weighs 20 grams, clever software won't matter as much as it used to.
Ray tracing isn't clever, it's a straight forward stupid simple algorithm. When that's all you need, it sure helps the software delivery schedule to use it instead of something more efficient and complex.
I'm looking forward to 2020 when we will be able to have a 50 core FPGA system, not because I want to endlessly tweak the hardware designs for clever little things, but because I will be able to configure "the right sledgehammer for the job" and get it done without burning so many brain cycles.
That Intel is not just some small outfit,...
Yes, but... this is apparently not a big part of their greater plans at the moment. Not everything that has the Intel name on it is given billion dollar backing.
I think that the realtime raytracing thing is coming, not this year, probably not with 22nm processes, but by the time 6nm processes and 3D packaging are here, there are going to be way more than 8 cards worth of transistors on a single chip.
> The number of abandoned puzzles (started but never finished) was also significantly higher for IE users
As usual, Microsoft products users show more common sense: they are the ones that figure out quickly that the puzzles are a waste of time!
I'd have to point out that they are also the slowest to realize that using the default browser that came with their computer is a waste of time.
Rent the Pixar Shorts DVD and watch what they did before Toy Story 1. Red's Dream, Tin Toy and Andre'B are all pretty crappy looking short films that demonstrate what a couple of guys in a lab could do at the time - when viewing them, you're supposed to imagine what could be done by a larger studio with funding, not bash them because a couple of guys in a lab given 3-6 months aren't producing something competitive with hundreds of people given millions of dollars and a couple of years.
Car flash-mob! Well, not until we have Google driving for us.
It is possible, and even practical in some cases, to replace the ECU with another device, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaSquirt
If you're paranoid, you too can spend hundreds of hours changing out your ECU and tuning the new one - then it won't be vulnerable to the standard attacks, though it will probably be vulnerable to others.
Easily feasible if you allow every node in a serverclient relationship to be a server.
I really like this idea/structure - as long as users care, the data will be preserved, when nobody truly cares anymore, it will vanish.
Coleco 21 LED football handheld game = about 3 years total time of my life playing this game. How awesome watching a few led lights flash on a tiny screen. Could you even imagine if you handed this to a 10 year old today? They would look at you like you were stark raving insane.
Tell them it's cultural history - immortalized in SuperTramp's "Logical Song."
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Movies/LogicalSong.htm
In 3 years of active BBSing, I think I may have spent a total of $30 on long distance fees for modem connections, it was a hobby, and if I couldn't get it with a local call, I just didn't need it.
Quality of "posts" on /. is generally higher than the BBSs of old, only thing BBSs had in their favor was the people were local so there was a possibility of real-life interaction with them, I did that a few times - never really got comfortable with it though, I was strange enough without hanging with an even stranger crowd.
Coleco 21 LED football handheld game: good.
WoW: service.
What I don't like are the games that masquerade as goods, but want to suck you into services after you're hooked. It's more obvious (and acceptable) when it's a free to play teaser, but paying a $50 entry fee for something that doesn't clearly spell out what you'll be spending later on, or that the service will be shut down at some future date, (GT5 online racing, I'm looking at you) is wrong.
I refine the standard Atari 400/800 BBS code (mostly in BASIC, I think I wrote one FIFO in assembly) and got it fast enough to keep the 300 baud modem fully saturated. Before I massaged it, throughput averaged less than 100 baud.
This was a service...
The circles I traveled in were not much interested in monthly fees, they'd drop $300 for a 1200 baud modem, but a $9.95/month service fee made most of us retch at the thought.
I used Dutch Minitel a couple of times in the '90s - it wasn't much, but it was available in the lobby of most hotels, sort of an extension of the cable TV service.
And coke was always too expensive for most people to do much of; coke was mostly a yuppie thing.
Too expensive for people with any self control... most cocaine users I ever met lacked self control when thinking about their powder.
can you READ at a speed of greater than 300 baud?
in short bursts, yes (30 characters per second), comprehension goes out the window after a few lines, but I used to watch BBS posts scroll in at 30cps and would often just let them scroll by when they weren't very interesting, pause the feed when I actually wanted to read what was there.
Consider, also, the competition for advertising: bulk mailed glossy brochures - for less than $1, they could reach a customer with 100 pages of color photos and text - most of the marketing departments couldn't think fast enough to need to change their message more than once every few months, and plain text still is unable to grab the attention of 99% of the buying public.
By 1985, FidoNet was going strong, and I think the bulk of its traffic was grabbing free rides on the early internet - I remember a strong mirror between Indiana and Miami that was just one or two hops... this was pretty typical for FidoNet - I think these guys had access to University networks.
There were other networks that ran off of "phone phreaks'" stolen credit card numbers and other billing dodge tricks, but those links tended to be more like ham radio, unpredictable and short lived, not that the operators got busted often, just that "the man" shut down the links within a few days to a few weeks.
No, in the 1980s, desktop computers took about 1 second to boot up: Click, beep! and you are going.
Those systems were ROM chip based, and they only executed about 2KB of code at bootup (dedicated, unchanging hardware, means the OS hardly could be called an OS today.)
Try then loading something off your cassette tape drive, on a good day I could type faster than the tape drive.
The system's total storage was around 2 million pages!
Its basically an interactive teletext http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext service.
Which was freakin' huge for the time - lots of BBSs in 1983 ran off of a single floppy drive, less than 100KB of storage.
You know how fast are the network connections in between cities back in the early 1980's?
300 baud - that's the speed for an "ultra fast" modem
Yes, we do have "networks" back then, it's called "FidoNet", and it's the sysops (system operators) who are carrying out all those internode connections
I was a hobby sysop in 1983-4, the main concern then was shuttling data about efficiently under the phone company tariff structures (~$20/hr for any call over about 50 miles distance, at 300 baud that's about $0.20 per page (1KB) of text transferred.) I sketched out a system to transfer data between nodes in a pattern of overlapping free local calling zones, but organizing a network of any size was difficult, and even a minimal BBS node was costing around $1000 to buy plus $15ish per month for a dedicated phone line, so there were plenty of cheaper, and frankly more interesting, hobbies around.
I imagine from the phone company's perspective, the main concern was maximizing return on their investment in infrastructure (cable, switching offices), at that time AT&T stock had been one of the best investments available for several decades.
Eurorail is a good way to get around the Europe it's a shame the US has nothing like it.
Absolutely, and you can thank GM, Ford, Chrysler, Mack, Peterbilt, Exxon, Shell, BP and the Eisenhower Interstate system for that.
I see a stretch analogy to phone systems in South America, especially 10 years ago - they're mostly cell based because the higher cost wired infrastructure wasn't rolled out yet when cellphones arrived.