"The 800 pound gorilla is that we're going to live in a Star Trek future with strong AI and a pure robot economy before parents leave child-rearing to AI simulations, so the 'exponential increase of intelligence' isn't going to come from this; genetic engineering or self-designing AIs are much more plausible for a trigger of a singularity."
First, parents already outsource parenting to tv and school so why not A.I?=) As for the singularity hoax (yes it is), let me do the famous car analogy, if i have a car that goes from 0-100 in 10 seconds, will it then be travelling near light speed after a week? Guess what, that so called 'singularity' is the same thing, people seeing two data points and thinking they will go on indefinitly.
well
they 'virtually' killed murdoch while the guy that outed news of the world got the same treatment, without the virtual that is.
Oh my bad, police say the death of the whistleblower wasnt suspicious, he probably died of natural causes....
Seriously, Vint Cerf? This is the best idea you can muster? This is the same problem/solution cycle the internet has been locked in for its entire existence.
you mean, it hasn't worked?;P
Oh nice, oh as long as you don't use it for anything but web and email, max 5GB/month
quote from article: Verizon's user agreement for the BroadbandAccess plan prohibits continuous streaming of audio or video and peer-to-peer file sharing, all of which generate heavy traffic.
and
It also reserves the right to disconnect or slow down traffic for anyone using too much data, but since this spring, the cap has been explicit rather than undisclosed: 5 gigabytes of data per month.
but how to split? How many patents are there in OS's? or Office suits? or Games? or almost every piece of software that does something non-trivial, oh i forgot, the trivial stuff is patented too. I guess it would be great for opensource (no profit = no patent paychecks). But would it work for MS? I saw a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition for 5.500 (Norwegian KR,about 1000$ USD). Oh you can get a brand new laptop here without OS for less than that. Anyways there is still the basic problem of huge patent portofolios (http://eupat.ffii.org/players/microsoft/) and of course obvious patents. (Yeah i know, "nothing is obvious before the fact". Well guess what, it IS obvious that if you click something something should happen).
Oh well enough ranting, but wouldn't it be a nice idea if patents couldn't be transferred to others except the common public? That would ensure the ones who file the patent get paid. Oh and it wouldn't destroy human progress in general, i think that's definitly a bonus. Secrecy + science = thousands of researchers doing the same thing over and over again. No wonder we're stuck on this rock:P
wow HOW could we have EVER survived without your insightfull comments(atleast the moderators think so). Of course not disragarding the topless sunbathing women part, i agree with that one.
Yeah that really is the big diff between capitalism and communism (you clearly still think in those terms) in communism they take your life away tax by tax and in capatlism they take it away law by law. Didn't someone already mention that golden middleway a few thousand years ago? (fill in favourite character of religion)
1. The Olympics are one of the largest media events. In Sydney in 2000 there were over 16,000 broadcasters and journalists, and an estimated 3.8 billion viewers watched the games on television.from wikipedia
Just because a lot of people do it doesn't make it legal, moral or right.
Am i really the only one seeing how this argument can easliy be turned against this? Just because alot of people sell a lot of crap doesn't make it moral or right:) I hope we're not stuck on the law==moral==ethical thing here?
Universal (TM) is a copyright of Vivendi Universal, you will be sued for this! (we'll drag your ass through court for the next 5 years unless you'll pay that $20k settlement fee of course)
Apple finally admits that beeing cocky and claiming superiority against viruses has been a major cause for all the new viruses created for mac os x, nearly crippeling the system. In other related news, symantec stocks are on the rise because of a new and exciting market in the Mac OS world
"Perhaps every car should also have a sensor to detect speeding and automatically cut the gas?" Are you CRAZY?!?! How the hell are we supposed to make tons of money out of that system? Screw cutting the gas, automatic tickets are the way to go!
Tcp/ip stack (i'm assuming you're thinking about the implementation) is NOT the same as the tcp ip protocol. They do NOT change tcp,udp, ip (v4/v6), they finally just figured out that it's time to conform to standards. Let's look at that link of yours and see what it says:
1: Dual IP layer architecture for IPv6 Well what i can make out of all this mumbojumbo is that MS will support ipv6. Nothing more. Thats the point of encapsulation, it was ALWAYS intended to work that way.
2: Easier kernel mode network programming The new API, wonder if it will be backwardscompatible, it probably will since just too many applications will break if it isn't.
3: Routing compartments wow, each interface with it's own routing table, how... original...
4: Support for a strong host model Seems nice in SOME circumstances, however will it be optional?
5: New security and packet filtering APIs Wow is this for real? They made a firewall, wow! i'm impressed!
7: New support for scaling on multi-processor computers Cool, they finally got their underlying network to support smp! (Why is another question though, won't be much use in most circumstances)
8: "New extensibility The Next-Generation TCP/IP stack has an infrastructure to enable more modular components that can be dynamically inserted and removed." As i mentioned, tcp/ip is based on capsulation techniques, which imply modular components:)
9: Reconfigure without having to restart the computer No really? FINALLY! I'm impressed, NOONE has ever done that, you should get a patent...
10: "Automatic configuration of stack settings based on different network environments"... Why weren't we able to do that in win95 again?
11: Supportability enhancements No way to tell what this will be, guess some more statistics/errormsgs
As for the improvements they claim, well it's actually a SHAME that they haven' t done this YEARS ago, ALL improvements here are nothing but catching up to the rest of the OS-world...
So no, do not be afraid, this is nothing new... it's only ms trying to catch up with the rest. They still lack a few decades of experience though....
please explain why people who have spent many days/nights for many years gaining skills should have to help the newbies for free? Of course i NEVER mind giving newbies tips and tricks, however if they are NOT willing to learn themselves i don't really see the point of wasting my time... if that's arrogant i guess i am:)
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"The 800 pound gorilla is that we're going to live in a Star Trek future with strong AI and a pure robot economy before parents leave child-rearing to AI simulations, so the 'exponential increase of intelligence' isn't going to come from this; genetic engineering or self-designing AIs are much more plausible for a trigger of a singularity." First, parents already outsource parenting to tv and school so why not A.I?=) As for the singularity hoax (yes it is), let me do the famous car analogy, if i have a car that goes from 0-100 in 10 seconds, will it then be travelling near light speed after a week? Guess what, that so called 'singularity' is the same thing, people seeing two data points and thinking they will go on indefinitly.
well they 'virtually' killed murdoch while the guy that outed news of the world got the same treatment, without the virtual that is. Oh my bad, police say the death of the whistleblower wasnt suspicious, he probably died of natural causes....
Seriously, Vint Cerf? This is the best idea you can muster? This is the same problem/solution cycle the internet has been locked in for its entire existence. you mean, it hasn't worked? ;P
how many congresses do you know who actually bother fixing their mistakes?
Oh nice, oh as long as you don't use it for anything but web and email, max 5GB/month
quote from article:
Verizon's user agreement for the BroadbandAccess plan prohibits continuous streaming of audio or video and peer-to-peer file sharing, all of which generate heavy traffic.
and
It also reserves the right to disconnect or slow down traffic for anyone using too much data, but since this spring, the cap has been explicit rather than undisclosed: 5 gigabytes of data per month.
but how to split? How many patents are there in OS's? or Office suits? or Games? or almost every piece of software that does something non-trivial, oh i forgot, the trivial stuff is patented too. I guess it would be great for opensource (no profit = no patent paychecks). But would it work for MS? I saw a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition for 5.500 (Norwegian KR,about 1000$ USD). Oh you can get a brand new laptop here without OS for less than that. Anyways there is still the basic problem of huge patent portofolios (http://eupat.ffii.org/players/microsoft/) and of course obvious patents. (Yeah i know, "nothing is obvious before the fact". Well guess what, it IS obvious that if you click something something should happen).
:P
Oh well enough ranting, but wouldn't it be a nice idea if patents couldn't be transferred to others except the common public? That would ensure the ones who file the patent get paid. Oh and it wouldn't destroy human progress in general, i think that's definitly a bonus. Secrecy + science = thousands of researchers doing the same thing over and over again. No wonder we're stuck on this rock
Would be useful in many ways, especially crime/anti-crime... The struggle continues...
wow HOW could we have EVER survived without your insightfull comments(atleast the moderators think so). Of course not disragarding the topless sunbathing women part, i agree with that one.
Yeah that really is the big diff between capitalism and communism (you clearly still think in those terms) in communism they take your life away tax by tax and in capatlism they take it away law by law. Didn't someone already mention that golden middleway a few thousand years ago? (fill in favourite character of religion)
Wow really, you don't like microsoft? You must be like... one sovjet russia away from the Oh-So-Mighty moderators group...
:)
oh and don't forget to hate puppets! Especially those with those big cute monkey ears
This is just the first part of the plan, just wait till they start playin mmorpg's, they'll be rich i tell yA BLOODY rich !
if they succeed everything they have thought of will probably be abused :)
1. The Olympics are one of the largest media events. In Sydney in 2000 there were over 16,000 broadcasters and journalists, and an estimated 3.8 billion viewers watched the games on television.from wikipedia
alice+voice synthesizer+skype need i say more? :) Go edit those alice-content files :D
I'm probably one of those who should get a tinfoil hat but this smells government pressure all over...
Just because a lot of people do it doesn't make it legal, moral or right.
:) I hope we're not stuck on the law==moral==ethical thing here?
Am i really the only one seeing how this argument can easliy be turned against this? Just because alot of people sell a lot of crap doesn't make it moral or right
did you even bother to look at those graphs?
Universal (TM) is a copyright of Vivendi Universal, you will be sued for this! (we'll drag your ass through court for the next 5 years unless you'll pay that $20k settlement fee of course)
"[...] and most importantly, the confidence of customers who count on the integrity and quality of their products.'" You mean both of them?
Apple finally admits that beeing cocky and claiming superiority against viruses has been a major cause for all the new viruses created for mac os x, nearly crippeling the system. In other related news, symantec stocks are on the rise because of a new and exciting market in the Mac OS world
"Perhaps every car should also have a sensor to detect speeding and automatically cut the gas?" Are you CRAZY?!?! How the hell are we supposed to make tons of money out of that system? Screw cutting the gas, automatic tickets are the way to go!
considering recent development (at&t thingy), what makes you so sure that they're not doing it already?
yup, keep up the good work! It's good to know we live in a world were only serious laws are passed!
Tcp/ip stack (i'm assuming you're thinking about the implementation) is NOT the same as the tcp ip protocol. They do NOT change tcp,udp, ip (v4/v6), they finally just figured out that it's time to conform to standards. Let's look at that link of yours and see what it says:
p ers/mogul/mogul.pdf (PDF)
:)
... Why weren't we able to do that in win95 again?
1: Dual IP layer architecture for IPv6
Well what i can make out of all this mumbojumbo is that MS will support ipv6. Nothing more. Thats the point of encapsulation, it was ALWAYS intended to work that way.
2: Easier kernel mode network programming
The new API, wonder if it will be backwardscompatible, it probably will since just too many applications will break if it isn't.
3: Routing compartments
wow, each interface with it's own routing table, how... original...
4: Support for a strong host model
Seems nice in SOME circumstances, however will it be optional?
5: New security and packet filtering APIs
Wow is this for real? They made a firewall, wow! i'm impressed!
6: New mechanisms for protocol stack offload
http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_pa
Not big, just shows WHY this is a bad idea....
7: New support for scaling on multi-processor computers
Cool, they finally got their underlying network to support smp! (Why is another question though, won't be much use in most circumstances)
8: "New extensibility
The Next-Generation TCP/IP stack has an infrastructure to enable more modular components that can be dynamically inserted and removed."
As i mentioned, tcp/ip is based on capsulation techniques, which imply modular components
9: Reconfigure without having to restart the computer
No really? FINALLY! I'm impressed, NOONE has ever done that, you should get a patent...
10: "Automatic configuration of stack settings based on different network environments"
11: Supportability enhancements
No way to tell what this will be, guess some more statistics/errormsgs
As for the improvements they claim, well it's actually a SHAME that they haven'
t done this YEARS ago, ALL improvements here are nothing but catching up to the rest of the OS-world...
So no, do not be afraid, this is nothing new... it's only ms trying to catch up with the rest. They still lack a few decades of experience though....
please explain why people who have spent many days/nights for many years gaining skills should have to help the newbies for free? Of course i NEVER mind giving newbies tips and tricks, however if they are NOT willing to learn themselves i don't really see the point of wasting my time... if that's arrogant i guess i am :)