> This idea that if you're not doing all of XP you can expect failure is offensive enough.
Well, you might not like it, but there it is. Your GF must have known it from the start (they did actually read up on XP first didn't they?), according to Beck in "XP explained" although parts of XP can be used in isolation, it really works properly when you do it all - it is "greater than the sum of the parts" (chapter 23).
Chapter 25 ("When you shouldnt try XP") is also a must read;-)
(talking about Mojo exchange) "At that time, the debtor pays up by transferring a digital coin from his account on ***the Mojo Nation token server*** to the creditor account."
For a mojo to have any value as a unit of currency, it has to be a scare resource - you can't just let users create their own. Hence, it must be controlled by an entity, in this case AZI. If AZI vanished off the face of the earth, the value of a mojo goes with it pretty quickly - although your stash amount (if signed by AZI) could be validated without AZI, it couldn't be modified. Hence, my comment that it is very close to Napster in style.
> Napster is not peer-to-peer, it is client-server architecture.
If it's wrong to call Napster p2p, it's equally wrong to call it client-server. Napster is a mix.
Traditional Client-server would be something like FTP - one server, lots of direct connections with clients. Star shaped topology.
Pure p2p is gnutella - god awful topology, connections all over the place, all nodes are "equal".
Napster is a bit of both - client-server for queries and direct communication for transfers. This is an important point, because if Napster was purely client-server, they would be hosting content, and thus clearly would have been shut down a long time ago for holding all those mp3s.
> Free Net and Mojo Nation are P2P.
Doesn't Mojo nation have a central broker for handling Mojo's (ie a bank)? It's just like napster in that sense.
There's no information about how it uses IRC in the PR guff or on the site. Does anyone have some *real* information?
If they're passing messages over IRC, either they'll have to run their own (and risk being shut down), or put the messages out over existing IRC networks (EF,Dal, whatever). In the second case, I can't imagine the guys running the IRC servers are going to be too impressed - the onus of fending off irate lawyers will then be on them, and most of the IRC servers seem to be run out of kindness as a hobby.
0.02,
Mike.
Re:I have a question...
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As long as the party in the UK is communicating in good faith, you can do the communication so that it cannot later be revealed to a third party even if the data was sniffed and the person in the UK reveals their keys.
i.e. If the communication is encrypted and sniffed in the UK, and then the person you were communicating with gives up their keys, the text of the communications still can not be decrypted. Check out the Paranoia link in my sig.
The best thing about this (from my point of view), is not Telia going with Linux, it's IBM selling a big chunk of machinery with Linux on it. As long as the deployment isn't a total distaster it'll be a real good thing both for linux (running on *big* systems), *and* for IBM, *selling* - for money using linux. Hopefully a few of these types of sales will help cement IBMs commitment to both linux and open source...
> Is antiailiased text really worth the extra processor/graphic cycles in most unix applications?
(I'm a long time linux user). Every time I boot linux from using windows, I see how ugly the fonts are. GNOME looks (IMHO) much nicer than windows, but the fonts really suck. I'm coding, so I spend a lot of time looking at text. The sooner this makes it into the distributions the better. First impressions count, and linux fonts just aren't as nice as on windows.
How can you not believe in his rule-of-thumb? Are you saying Brooks was making it up? *He* said it was *his* rule that *he* had used. Don't you believe him?
It seems that you still don't understand what I wrote - there is no dichotomy here. If Brooks had written that he liked to dance a conga before working every morning, and the people from the study *didn't* do that, would you think that one of these things wasn't true? That was your logic. If that's meant to be a joke then I'll keep my keenly underdeveloped sense of humour thanks.
If you think I'm rude then so be it. My post was an attempt to educate you a little about TMMM because it seemed (seems) that you haven't read it well, if at all, but were determined to misquote from it. Your response to this is to call me rude, say I have no sense of humour, correct a spelling mistake, and then for some reason defend your ability to write english. Now *that's* funny!
I don't criticize peoples (mis)use of language unless they ask me to, and I advise you to do the same. However, as you were so kind as to correct me, here are some for you:
you lack of a => you lack a
Touring => Turing (named after Alan Turing, not after long distance racing).
Williams => William (was that irony?)
Mike the oh-I'm-so-rude-for-pointing-out-peoples-mistakes how-will-I-live-with-myself? Wo! Wo!
> As in the true copyright protection that lets billions of stolen mp3s get downloaded each day?
> As in the copyright protection that cheats artists out of the fruits of their labors?
> As in the copyright protection of p2p tools, which are essentially tools of theft, analagous to slim jims or other criminal tools.
Yes - exactly those freedoms. The freedom to have a choice: to commit a crime, or not, that is an important freedom.
Regulation isn't the way to turn the criminals into good citizens. Go read A Clockwork Orange.
These are Brooks figures given after this sentence "For some years I have been successfully using the following rule of thumb for scheduling a software task:".
So the answer is, It's a rule of thumb, giving general quanities. An even more pedantic answer would be to point out that the values are for *scheduled* work, and therefore he is free to leave a certain amount of time un-scheduled to allow for project flexability.
> One of the figures lies, or we work more than 11 man months a year or we don't drink coffes at all.
I hate to be rude, but another alternative is that you can't read. What you didn't quote is the sentence immediately preceding Brook's list. It reads "For some years I have been seccessfully using the following rule of thumb for scheduling a software task:". You'll note he says "I", not "most people", or "the industry in general". If most poeple followed more of the advice in TMMM then perhaps we'd all be better off, and the figures in the survery would be rather different.
I wouldn't mind if that was patentable. In fact I'd *like* all bugs ('>' instead of '<') to be patented. That way I wouldn't have to debug, I could just release code and wait for the patent infringment claims to come rolling in. At least the laywers would be useful then...;-)
Mike.
Re:The future of file sharing... (plug)
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The idea of groups of people sharing files is the one used behind Paranoia (link in my sig). Use it for groups of friends, or groups of people sharing a common interest, who can then talk and exchange files over Paranoia.
Major updates (generic access lists and distributed karma/trust calculations) coming next week...
> I need more information on wireless broadband
> before I take the plunge and get rid of
> something that works for something that might
> not.
I don't know anything about the wireless broadband stuff, but I can offer you some very good if very obvious advice - DONT GET RID OF WHAT YOU'VE GOT UNTIL YOU'RE *SURE* THAT THE NEW STUFF WORKS.
If you've already waited 11 weeks, keeping the old dialup around a few more weeks after you change (if you do) won't (I hope) kill you...
(Ok, it's only $30, people will expect it to be not-very-good, and no, I haven't tried it).
We have some expensive VR kit, including head trackers. Guess what, they have noticable lag - this is custom hardware, and not cheap. How fast is a software program that tries to analyse the position of your head from a webcam going to be? My guess - not very.
I wonder how much CPU it needs to do it too (whilst you're playing Quake III)...
Mike.
ps) Would still be fun to get for Christmas though, I guess they are releasing at the right time.
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> This idea that if you're not doing all of XP you can expect failure is offensive enough.
;-)
Well, you might not like it, but there it is. Your GF must have known it from the start (they did actually read up on XP first didn't they?), according to Beck in "XP explained" although parts of XP can be used in isolation, it really works properly when you do it all - it is "greater than the sum of the parts" (chapter 23).
Chapter 25 ("When you shouldnt try XP") is also a must read
best wishes,
Mike.
To the first person to remove the "internet only" part so we can just download the damn thing!
Mike.
Actually, H&K is a part of Royal Ordnance (a UK company), which is itself part of British Aerospace.
Mike.
(From the Jargon file)...
. ht ml
;-)
http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/v/vadding
#include "us hackers did it first.h"
Mike.
From the article:
> Edel, which recently reported poor results and cut its 2000 earnings forecast, [...]
So, just maybe, Edel don't have that much to lose. I can see the big boys watching to see what happens; will they sink or will they swim?
Just my very cynical 0.02 widgets.
Mike
From the link you quoted, my emphasis:
;-)
(talking about Mojo exchange) "At that time, the debtor pays up by transferring a digital coin from his account on ***the Mojo Nation token server*** to the creditor account."
For a mojo to have any value as a unit of currency, it has to be a scare resource - you can't just let users create their own. Hence, it must be controlled by an entity, in this case AZI. If AZI vanished off the face of the earth, the value of a mojo goes with it pretty quickly - although your stash amount (if signed by AZI) could be validated without AZI, it couldn't be modified. Hence, my comment that it is very close to Napster in style.
Better than Mojo (IMHO), is karma
Mike.
> Napster is not peer-to-peer, it is client-server architecture.
If it's wrong to call Napster p2p, it's equally wrong to call it client-server. Napster is a mix.
Traditional Client-server would be something like FTP - one server, lots of direct connections with clients. Star shaped topology.
Pure p2p is gnutella - god awful topology, connections all over the place, all nodes are "equal".
Napster is a bit of both - client-server for queries and direct communication for transfers. This is an important point, because if Napster was purely client-server, they would be hosting content, and thus clearly would have been shut down a long time ago for holding all those mp3s.
> Free Net and Mojo Nation are P2P.
Doesn't Mojo nation have a central broker for handling Mojo's (ie a bank)? It's just like napster in that sense.
Mike
There's no information about how it uses IRC in the PR guff or on the site. Does anyone have some *real* information?
If they're passing messages over IRC, either they'll have to run their own (and risk being shut down), or put the messages out over existing IRC networks (EF,Dal, whatever). In the second case, I can't imagine the guys running the IRC servers are going to be too impressed - the onus of fending off irate lawyers will then be on them, and most of the IRC servers seem to be run out of kindness as a hobby.
0.02,
Mike.
As long as the party in the UK is communicating in good faith, you can do the communication so that it cannot later be revealed to a third party even if the data was sniffed and the person in the UK reveals their keys.
i.e. If the communication is encrypted and sniffed in the UK, and then the person you were communicating with gives up their keys, the text of the communications still can not be decrypted. Check out the Paranoia link in my sig.
Mike.
The best thing about this (from my point of view), is not Telia going with Linux, it's IBM selling a big chunk of machinery with Linux on it. As long as the deployment isn't a total distaster it'll be a real good thing both for linux (running on *big* systems), *and* for IBM, *selling* - for money using linux. Hopefully a few of these types of sales will help cement IBMs commitment to both linux and open source...
Win win win!
Mike.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this - I just downloaded the installer version for windows, and it's 6,666 Kb.
;-)
I also thought it would be IE that had that size
Mike.
> Is antiailiased text really worth the extra processor/graphic cycles in most unix applications?
(I'm a long time linux user). Every time I boot linux from using windows, I see how ugly the fonts are. GNOME looks (IMHO) much nicer than windows, but the fonts really suck. I'm coding, so I spend a lot of time looking at text. The sooner this makes it into the distributions the better. First impressions count, and linux fonts just aren't as nice as on windows.
So, I think it's great.
0.02,
Mike.
> I'm going to start meta-moderating a lot more and see if I can do my bit to fix this.
;-)
Be prepared to lose karma over it. Rationality is not in vogue on slashdot (sad to say).
I will say "I bet I lose karma over saying this". The question is, do I mean it, or am I just saying it because I'm a karma whore?
Mike.
> And I have no idea what you're on, let alone what you're "on about". Is that a valid construction in some English variant from another dimension? ;)
;-)
;-)
Yes, it's a contraction of "going on about". I don't know if it's a valid construction in any English variant, but it is valid [0] in English
Mike
[0] Valid meaning common usage. You'd be flayed for using it in a school essay though
> Well, they're calling it a vrisu, but its a trojan
Well, whatever it is, it certainly isn't a "vrisu". Isn't that a Hindu God for something?
Mike.
How can you not believe in his rule-of-thumb? Are you saying Brooks was making it up? *He* said it was *his* rule that *he* had used. Don't you believe him?
It seems that you still don't understand what I wrote - there is no dichotomy here. If Brooks had written that he liked to dance a conga before working every morning, and the people from the study *didn't* do that, would you think that one of these things wasn't true? That was your logic. If that's meant to be a joke then I'll keep my keenly underdeveloped sense of humour thanks.
If you think I'm rude then so be it. My post was an attempt to educate you a little about TMMM because it seemed (seems) that you haven't read it well, if at all, but were determined to misquote from it. Your response to this is to call me rude, say I have no sense of humour, correct a spelling mistake, and then for some reason defend your ability to write english. Now *that's* funny!
I don't criticize peoples (mis)use of language unless they ask me to, and I advise you to do the same. However, as you were so kind as to correct me, here are some for you:
you lack of a => you lack a
Touring => Turing (named after Alan Turing, not after long distance racing).
Williams => William (was that irony?)
Mike the oh-I'm-so-rude-for-pointing-out-peoples-mistakes how-will-I-live-with-myself? Wo! Wo!
Regulation: A principle, rule, or law designed to control or govern conduct.
I'd say that applies to Alex fairly well.
> If you use your "freedom to commit a crime," don't be suprised if you lose that freedom and many more.
Thank you. That was exactly my point.
Mike.
> As in the true copyright protection that lets billions of stolen mp3s get downloaded each day?
> As in the copyright protection that cheats artists out of the fruits of their labors?
> As in the copyright protection of p2p tools, which are essentially tools of theft, analagous to slim jims or other criminal tools.
Yes - exactly those freedoms. The freedom to have a choice: to commit a crime, or not, that is an important freedom.
Regulation isn't the way to turn the criminals into good citizens. Go read A Clockwork Orange.
Mike.
> What other 1/6th were you talking about?
These are Brooks figures given after this sentence "For some years I have been successfully using the following rule of thumb for scheduling a software task:".
So the answer is, It's a rule of thumb, giving general quanities. An even more pedantic answer would be to point out that the values are for *scheduled* work, and therefore he is free to leave a certain amount of time un-scheduled to allow for project flexability.
Mike.
> One of the figures lies, or we work more than 11 man months a year or we don't drink coffes at all.
I hate to be rude, but another alternative is that you can't read. What you didn't quote is the sentence immediately preceding Brook's list. It reads "For some years I have been seccessfully using the following rule of thumb for scheduling a software task:". You'll note he says "I", not "most people", or "the industry in general". If most poeple followed more of the advice in TMMM then perhaps we'd all be better off, and the figures in the survery would be rather different.
Mike.
> ...for (i=0;i>iMax;i++) {...
;-)
I wouldn't mind if that was patentable. In fact I'd *like* all bugs ('>' instead of '<') to be patented. That way I wouldn't have to debug, I could just release code and wait for the patent infringment claims to come rolling in. At least the laywers would be useful then...
Mike.
The idea of groups of people sharing files is the one used behind Paranoia (link in my sig). Use it for groups of friends, or groups of people sharing a common interest, who can then talk and exchange files over Paranoia.
Major updates (generic access lists and distributed karma/trust calculations) coming next week...
Mike.
> I need more information on wireless broadband
> before I take the plunge and get rid of
> something that works for something that might
> not.
I don't know anything about the wireless broadband stuff, but I can offer you some very good if very obvious advice - DONT GET RID OF WHAT YOU'VE GOT UNTIL YOU'RE *SURE* THAT THE NEW STUFF WORKS.
If you've already waited 11 weeks, keeping the old dialup around a few more weeks after you change (if you do) won't (I hope) kill you...
0.02,
Mike.
How can this be redundant? It's #18! There was nothing here like this when it was posted...
Think moderators!
Mike.
(Ok, it's only $30, people will expect it to be not-very-good, and no, I haven't tried it).
We have some expensive VR kit, including head trackers. Guess what, they have noticable lag - this is custom hardware, and not cheap. How fast is a software program that tries to analyse the position of your head from a webcam going to be? My guess - not very.
I wonder how much CPU it needs to do it too (whilst you're playing Quake III)...
Mike.
ps) Would still be fun to get for Christmas though, I guess they are releasing at the right time.