I heard Windows has its own P2P framework to build applications and MS could use it for Windows Update anytime they wanted but they didn't enable it yet.
They also bought a relatively little known P2P company recently. I am almost sure they could be using same bandwidth as youtube for windows updates. Of course, youtube has ads, windows update hasn't.
If something like you suggest implemented on *NIX, OS level, recently tested rtorrent myself, on a 1.25 Ghz G4 Mac mini. It is absolutely the choice without question. I mean "libtorrent". 1% of CPU on full bandwidth, speechless.
Well, World's most popular video streamer has "P2P" now, in Adobe fashion, you must pay extra money for server upgrades to enable it but it exists in Flash Player 10.1.
I am sure everyone in industry is testing it in their intranets now as people really went crazy over resolution, they demand at least 720P, no matter what the content is.
Wonder what will they do about it, e.g. if Youtube enables it one day? As youtube isn't exactly piratebay, if you ban it, your customers ban you as soon as they figure their video isn't working.
I see Blizzard uses basic bittorrent, a really old client code licensed which doesn't have any kind of encyription/security features.
So, if you are customer of an evil ISP which does packet inspection and shameless enough to conspire your connection with RSET, what happens when you update WoW and try to browse web same time?
As a side note, for OS X admins who may have heart attack, one of Akamai "P2P" frameworks on OS X is actually named "RSPlug". It is not the RSPlugin virus. Guess what it comes with? 2nd hand car priced Adobe suite, CS3 or CS4, not sure.
I use G4 Mac to read your comment and reply, on Safari. It is like 4 hours of battery on laptop remaining. How? Apple, while still old good Apple, put a real, designed to accelerate 2D/3D GPU to the laptop. GeForce FX Go5200. That is some old GPU but I am sure it uses considerably less power than a integrated intel junk.
Newer nvidia stuff, with seperated/optimized mobile drivers does considerably better. That is part of magic on 13watt idling Mac minis who have significant issues even compared to a large laptop.
With Windows 7, a modern x.org based Linux&BSD and OS X, having a good GPU optimized for job is way more than "500 fps gaming".
Probably way better than their only remaining serious rival who are busy with removing a World known brand instead of fixing never ending Windows driver issues or the horrible image resulting from them.
Too cryptic? Well, it is ATI I talk about. I was thinking "oh these guys never satisfy?" while reading never ending whining (!) from their customers until I actually had to install ATI Windows drivers, control centre to a laptop and see they even linked to Microsoft.NET 2.0. Yes, 2.0.
They also seem to abandon actually working, still sold GPUs. With such rivals and Intel who tries childish tricks like excluding Geforce 2 introduced technologies (hardware T&L on i950, missing), NVidia is free to do/release anything. It will sure sell well.
You too have to right to speak with tinfoil hat mode so you can say _THEY_ brainwashed the guy/programmed the guy to change public opinion. I mean, who knows?
You also need to get rid of interference of a digital device (a chip, set of chips) next to that antenna.
I think podcasts can be used to replace the need for AM radio. Or, if device is connected type, non amazingly dumb talk radios "air" to stream in 32kbit (or even less) mono format, recently some even "discovered" "speech optimized" codecs.
In case of people thinking of "emergency radio", please, get a cheap, bulky, battery powered, old fashion analogue or digital radio and put alkaline batteries in it. Nothing can/will beat it.
How else would we figure Microsoft is still kind of a company who tries to patent shutdown enhancements instead of adapting to a future which nobody will shutdown? This sounds like not enhancing NTFS driver (note: driver, not the format itself) but "enhancing" defrag instead, making it automatic. E.g. instead of making the OS fragment LESS, lets enhance defragment process.
In such stories, I also want to hear from a developer team/gang who trusts this particular companies "word" or "promise".
If Apple and MS didn't have cross patenting/licensing deals, OS X developers, especially after launchd could have some stuff to tell them.
There is always a chance that user haven't installed X11 at all. OS X is very strict, it also allows you to remove X11 from installation via pkgutil even if you have installed it with OS X install.
Things like these gave birth to fink project and macports, especially dealing with OS X X11 libs, even if you are MS, impossible.
For example, Gimp on 10.5 required you to have a fresh,new X11 (unofficial by apple) named XQuartz. Not just linking, linking to a particular/new version is wrong. Of course, if you are MS, not X11 based app maintainer/developer.
Apple and Microsoft doesn't "hate" eachother or they don't conspire eachother. I bet MACBU (at MS) is one of the most privileged Developer teams on Apple's OS X Development, I mean for bug reports, help etc.
MS Office is always and always on top 10 of Amazon's best selling software. Even more interesting, in current (dynamic) list, Mac version is just 1 place below Win32 version. http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/software
I bet not using ATSUI has something to do with Apple's "font display philosophy" and "MS font display philosophy". Yes, both companies have their own take on how fonts should be displayed on screen. Apple prefers strict display, MS prefers more relaxed/looks better on monitor display. That is why first Safari for Windows looked alien on Windows (besides widgets).
While on it, as I just "cleaned Adobe font caches" of a designer running OS X, Adobe uses their own engine which wants a perfect "cache" to work right.
It is Microsoft's political/business choice not to ship a UNIX Office. They are clearly capable of doing it. Funny is, it could sell well, but you can only see from amazon top 10, like mac office which people keeps bitching but always on top 3.
Perhaps they could do some "cloud" fashion thing on Android but, would never ship a real thing on it.
If you link to that particular lib, you must be using X11. Don't link to anything X11 on OS X since it is strictly optional part of OS X install. I don't think MS would require X11 client to have their office to run.
Oh if MS woke up and adopted itself today, their "Office for UNIX" (I bet they would name linux/bsd one that way) would link to it. Of course, not a chance.
I agree to whoever you reply to, pretty ironic that Apple uses/licenses freetype too. I smiled when I saw the note on iPod touch license.
And while on it, their Mac Business unit blog is one of rare MS blogs to follow, for example they had to deal with much more strict gcc coming with XCode/Leopard while compiling MS Office. It is not a "big secret" or anything, OS X Office is truly a Mac program. I heard they experimented with the "actual MS Word on win32" port to Mac OS. Their customers went nuts. They got tricked by "Why doesn't MS Word for Mac doesn't have this?" feedback originally.
I know one guy who bought PSP for its excellent media/music capabilities and occasional browsing. It was like years ago.
Guy bought a single game in his life and it is "Loco Roco", pure 2D game. It is a freaky mix of jump&run with physics added. Graphics are hard core 2D.
Thanks to that idiotic idea of removing UMD reading hardware, we could sell our used Sony PSP (not slim even) in 15 mins on Japanese eBay (or similar) site.
It took 15 minutes. No kidding, in Japan market, people bought 2x older generation that fast. I actually laughed at Japanese friend who claimed he can sell it easier than Europe. Well, he did.
Also let me tell you even a funnier thing. If you buy the new "hi tech" PSP which relies on online store... Well, good luck since online store is not global! I mean pathetic level of USA/EU/Japan only.
It is Microsoft Windows OS which makes their laptops sell well. It is not like old good IBM which had excellent reputation for quality, company culture and support.
MS can mysteriously rise Windows 7 licensing price for them, citing anti something laws. If your business runs on x86 chips, never, ever fsck with MSFT.
So, their plan is to make a box which will naturally (by law) have strictest censoring/trojaning capabilities. I can imagine the headlines now: "Console stops functioning after 2 hours". Would look nice on Global IT news sites. Eventually some guy (perhaps hired by their competitor) using that box will do a stupid thing like blogging on "enemy sites" and end up in prison, very publicly.
Think about it Lenovo. Are you such a genius future company to come up with this idea first or companies/competitors seen the possible issues and stayed hell out of mainland China market?
Yesterday, there were a lot of feedback regarding some really mysterious cuts to popular sites. As.tr Govt. is known to censor Internet, people thought something was wrong at the boxes which does the censoring job.
That experiment really went out of hand I think. And, 1% of Internet in 2010 is... Huge. Really huge.
ZFS fits amazingly well to Apple's future and their style of computing. Right after this Netapp thing, they switched on "panic mode" and got rid of it. If they had a brain, 10.6 could be running HFSZ now.
Funny is, they will eventually switch to something which has ZFS features, don't forget "be nice to Apple if you want to deal with Disney/Pixar" factor. Some suits will really wonder if it was really worth it when World's trend leader uses something instead of their patents.
They could license it for cheap without hurting their main line of business. It is not like soon World will switch to Xserve blades you know. Apple is a company who can even license "Arial" from MS, a cheap mock up of Helvetica. SJobs isn't exactly rms.
They got burned too. It was openly joked about. Kodak could have spent billion dollars but they had some amazing revenue to cover it. Apple didn't. It is more like MS, they don't bother whether XBox loses money or Silverlight is considered as a joke, they can always cover it. They (and Google) can always gamble.
Slashdot isn't "digg". I didn't read about that story until today, I don't care whether it was written in 2007 or even 1997.
Story fits well to today where trendy idiots think Kodak is some patent trolling company who didn't invent anything. Perhaps, it may educate them a bit.
Funny that, one of their "failed" "old" devices format is still in use today, completely open and there is no way you will do anything without using that format in pro/movie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cineon
It was some amazing technology for that time but was way too high end, only Hollywood could afford it. Its format, which was always open/documented is still in use today.
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Number stations work in a very different way than you may think. It is close to the way Bin Laden is said to communicate with his cells. You know, if he really uses basic "snail mail" carried with donkeys, good luck with your satellites.
Only 2 guys on whole universe can understand the message. Sender and receiver as they are the only ones who knows/have access to the particular "one time pad" used.
It doesn't really matter how many billions of people can have a SW radio. There is no computer/technology to break it.
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I heard Windows has its own P2P framework to build applications and MS could use it for Windows Update anytime they wanted but they didn't enable it yet.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb545868.aspx
They also bought a relatively little known P2P company recently. I am almost sure they could be using same bandwidth as youtube for windows updates. Of course, youtube has ads, windows update hasn't.
If something like you suggest implemented on *NIX, OS level, recently tested rtorrent myself, on a 1.25 Ghz G4 Mac mini. It is absolutely the choice without question. I mean "libtorrent". 1% of CPU on full bandwidth, speechless.
Well, World's most popular video streamer has "P2P" now, in Adobe fashion, you must pay extra money for server upgrades to enable it but it exists in Flash Player 10.1.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/
I am sure everyone in industry is testing it in their intranets now as people really went crazy over resolution, they demand at least 720P, no matter what the content is.
Wonder what will they do about it, e.g. if Youtube enables it one day? As youtube isn't exactly piratebay, if you ban it, your customers ban you as soon as they figure their video isn't working.
I see Blizzard uses basic bittorrent, a really old client code licensed which doesn't have any kind of encyription/security features.
So, if you are customer of an evil ISP which does packet inspection and shameless enough to conspire your connection with RSET, what happens when you update WoW and try to browse web same time?
As a side note, for OS X admins who may have heart attack, one of Akamai "P2P" frameworks on OS X is actually named "RSPlug". It is not the RSPlugin virus. Guess what it comes with? 2nd hand car priced Adobe suite, CS3 or CS4, not sure.
I use G4 Mac to read your comment and reply, on Safari. It is like 4 hours of battery on laptop remaining. How? Apple, while still old good Apple, put a real, designed to accelerate 2D/3D GPU to the laptop. GeForce FX Go5200. That is some old GPU but I am sure it uses considerably less power than a integrated intel junk.
Newer nvidia stuff, with seperated/optimized mobile drivers does considerably better. That is part of magic on 13watt idling Mac minis who have significant issues even compared to a large laptop.
With Windows 7, a modern x.org based Linux&BSD and OS X, having a good GPU optimized for job is way more than "500 fps gaming".
Probably way better than their only remaining serious rival who are busy with removing a World known brand instead of fixing never ending Windows driver issues or the horrible image resulting from them.
Too cryptic? Well, it is ATI I talk about. I was thinking "oh these guys never satisfy?" while reading never ending whining (!) from their customers until I actually had to install ATI Windows drivers, control centre to a laptop and see they even linked to Microsoft .NET 2.0. Yes, 2.0.
They also seem to abandon actually working, still sold GPUs. With such rivals and Intel who tries childish tricks like excluding Geforce 2 introduced technologies (hardware T&L on i950, missing), NVidia is free to do/release anything. It will sure sell well.
You too have to right to speak with tinfoil hat mode so you can say _THEY_ brainwashed the guy/programmed the guy to change public opinion. I mean, who knows?
You also need to get rid of interference of a digital device (a chip, set of chips) next to that antenna.
I think podcasts can be used to replace the need for AM radio. Or, if device is connected type, non amazingly dumb talk radios "air" to stream in 32kbit (or even less) mono format, recently some even "discovered" "speech optimized" codecs.
In case of people thinking of "emergency radio", please, get a cheap, bulky, battery powered, old fashion analogue or digital radio and put alkaline batteries in it. Nothing can/will beat it.
How else would we figure Microsoft is still kind of a company who tries to patent shutdown enhancements instead of adapting to a future which nobody will shutdown? This sounds like not enhancing NTFS driver (note: driver, not the format itself) but "enhancing" defrag instead, making it automatic. E.g. instead of making the OS fragment LESS, lets enhance defragment process.
In such stories, I also want to hear from a developer team/gang who trusts this particular companies "word" or "promise".
If Apple and MS didn't have cross patenting/licensing deals, OS X developers, especially after launchd could have some stuff to tell them.
How many developers keep confusing gnu iconv with iConv on OS X and their compile fails.
If I wasn`t living in one of countries which Apple/MPAA/RIAA whatever makes impossible to buy/rent stuff from iTMS, I would order Apple TV right now.
If it has no hidden evil terms, 100 dollars, quicktime/itms, I am sold.
There is always a chance that user haven't installed X11 at all. OS X is very strict, it also allows you to remove X11 from installation via pkgutil even if you have installed it with OS X install.
Things like these gave birth to fink project and macports, especially dealing with OS X X11 libs, even if you are MS, impossible.
For example, Gimp on 10.5 required you to have a fresh,new X11 (unofficial by apple) named XQuartz. Not just linking, linking to a particular/new version is wrong. Of course, if you are MS, not X11 based app maintainer/developer.
Apple and Microsoft doesn't "hate" eachother or they don't conspire eachother. I bet MACBU (at MS) is one of the most privileged Developer teams on Apple's OS X Development, I mean for bug reports, help etc.
MS Office is always and always on top 10 of Amazon's best selling software. Even more interesting, in current (dynamic) list, Mac version is just 1 place below Win32 version.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/software
I bet not using ATSUI has something to do with Apple's "font display philosophy" and "MS font display philosophy". Yes, both companies have their own take on how fonts should be displayed on screen. Apple prefers strict display, MS prefers more relaxed/looks better on monitor display. That is why first Safari for Windows looked alien on Windows (besides widgets).
While on it, as I just "cleaned Adobe font caches" of a designer running OS X, Adobe uses their own engine which wants a perfect "cache" to work right.
MS and Apple hit the panic button when they have seen relying on Adobe postscript technology to display text may have serious consequences.
Adobe validated the panic by asking for ridiculous amount of money. They also managed to drive SJobs and Apple nuts, yes both. Rest is Truetype :)
http://truetype-typography.com/tthist.htm
It is Microsoft's political/business choice not to ship a UNIX Office. They are clearly capable of doing it. Funny is, it could sell well, but you can only see from amazon top 10, like mac office which people keeps bitching but always on top 3.
Perhaps they could do some "cloud" fashion thing on Android but, would never ship a real thing on it.
That is the part of MS which needs to change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER7
IBM settled around 4.25 Ghz now. Their original promise (which seems to be very expensive) is around 5+ Ghz speeds.
Don't get me wrong, that is a high end/enterprise UNIX server chip, I don't say Apple should be shipping POWER7 now.
If they just... took consumer desktop&portable CPU business serious...
If you link to that particular lib, you must be using X11. Don't link to anything X11 on OS X since it is strictly optional part of OS X install. I don't think MS would require X11 client to have their office to run.
Oh if MS woke up and adopted itself today, their "Office for UNIX" (I bet they would name linux/bsd one that way) would link to it. Of course, not a chance.
I agree to whoever you reply to, pretty ironic that Apple uses/licenses freetype too. I smiled when I saw the note on iPod touch license.
And while on it, their Mac Business unit blog is one of rare MS blogs to follow, for example they had to deal with much more strict gcc coming with XCode/Leopard while compiling MS Office. It is not a "big secret" or anything, OS X Office is truly a Mac program. I heard they experimented with the "actual MS Word on win32" port to Mac OS. Their customers went nuts. They got tricked by "Why doesn't MS Word for Mac doesn't have this?" feedback originally.
I know one guy who bought PSP for its excellent media/music capabilities and occasional browsing. It was like years ago.
Guy bought a single game in his life and it is "Loco Roco", pure 2D game. It is a freaky mix of jump&run with physics added. Graphics are hard core 2D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loco_Roco
Of course, it didn't wake up game companies... It also seems Japanese game companies didn't lose the magic.
Thanks to that idiotic idea of removing UMD reading hardware, we could sell our used Sony PSP (not slim even) in 15 mins on Japanese eBay (or similar) site.
It took 15 minutes. No kidding, in Japan market, people bought 2x older generation that fast. I actually laughed at Japanese friend who claimed he can sell it easier than Europe. Well, he did.
Also let me tell you even a funnier thing. If you buy the new "hi tech" PSP which relies on online store... Well, good luck since online store is not global! I mean pathetic level of USA/EU/Japan only.
It is Microsoft Windows OS which makes their laptops sell well. It is not like old good IBM which had excellent reputation for quality, company culture and support.
MS can mysteriously rise Windows 7 licensing price for them, citing anti something laws. If your business runs on x86 chips, never, ever fsck with MSFT.
So, their plan is to make a box which will naturally (by law) have strictest censoring/trojaning capabilities. I can imagine the headlines now: "Console stops functioning after 2 hours". Would look nice on Global IT news sites. Eventually some guy (perhaps hired by their competitor) using that box will do a stupid thing like blogging on "enemy sites" and end up in prison, very publicly.
Think about it Lenovo. Are you such a genius future company to come up with this idea first or companies/competitors seen the possible issues and stayed hell out of mainland China market?
Yesterday, there were a lot of feedback regarding some really mysterious cuts to popular sites. As .tr Govt. is known to censor Internet, people thought something was wrong at the boxes which does the censoring job.
That experiment really went out of hand I think. And, 1% of Internet in 2010 is... Huge. Really huge.
ZFS fits amazingly well to Apple's future and their style of computing. Right after this Netapp thing, they switched on "panic mode" and got rid of it. If they had a brain, 10.6 could be running HFSZ now.
Funny is, they will eventually switch to something which has ZFS features, don't forget "be nice to Apple if you want to deal with Disney/Pixar" factor. Some suits will really wonder if it was really worth it when World's trend leader uses something instead of their patents.
They could license it for cheap without hurting their main line of business. It is not like soon World will switch to Xserve blades you know. Apple is a company who can even license "Arial" from MS, a cheap mock up of Helvetica. SJobs isn't exactly rms.
Perhaps you know, Apple did one of the first digital cameras in days when they were really in bad shape (no SJobs).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake
They got burned too. It was openly joked about. Kodak could have spent billion dollars but they had some amazing revenue to cover it. Apple didn't. It is more like MS, they don't bother whether XBox loses money or Silverlight is considered as a joke, they can always cover it. They (and Google) can always gamble.
Slashdot isn't "digg". I didn't read about that story until today, I don't care whether it was written in 2007 or even 1997.
Story fits well to today where trendy idiots think Kodak is some patent trolling company who didn't invent anything. Perhaps, it may educate them a bit.
Funny that, one of their "failed" "old" devices format is still in use today, completely open and there is no way you will do anything without using that format in pro/movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cineon
It was some amazing technology for that time but was way too high end, only Hollywood could afford it. Its format, which was always open/documented is still in use today.
Number stations work in a very different way than you may think. It is close to the way Bin Laden is said to communicate with his cells. You know, if he really uses basic "snail mail" carried with donkeys, good luck with your satellites.
Only 2 guys on whole universe can understand the message. Sender and receiver as they are the only ones who knows/have access to the particular "one time pad" used.
It doesn't really matter how many billions of people can have a SW radio. There is no computer/technology to break it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_time_pad