Netsplit.de samples every 3 or 4 hours, so it has a tendency to miss large momentary spikes. It does, however, show the general relative sizes of the networks very well, and I haven't found a better source of information anywhere. IMO, their average table is the best showing of the size of networks, in which EFNet is 5th - http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/list1ua.var.
EFNet ceased to be the largest IRC network months ago. DALNet is now the largest net on average, but it's had problems with DoSes recently, so currently IRCNet is in the lead with 113,000 users and 51,000 channels. QuakeNet is also regularly larger than EFNet, which usually resides at the number 3 or 4 spot. See http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/ for the latest statistics.
I wish editors would check their facts before posting random sumbissions
Which is of course where your 3G mobile with audio support comes in. Granted today you pay hundreds of dollars per gigabyte of mobile data transfer, as with all things technological, in 8 or 10 years, you'll get 10Gb of 512kbps transfer for free with your $10 a month mobile contract. Any song ever sung, available instantly from anywhere you have mobile coverage (which is almost everywhere here in England).
I wasn't in the slightest suggesting that this idea was ready for the big time yet, I was suggesting that when it does (and the only thing to stop it will be the record companies and their unreasonable pricing schemes) our lives will change almost unrecognisably. How I wish for that day.
Well yes it does also help it's a company you can trust not to extort you:). But if there's one company doing this, there'll be more, and if there are more, then competition will keep the price down.
The goal is for you to be able to play any song, anywhere you are, in CD quality, for less per month than the price of a cd. If you're too cheap to pony up, then you can listen to ads instead, but no more than 10m worth for every hour you listen. A light DRM in place is fine provided the technology exists to stream this anyplace you are. Who wants or needs downloads if you can just stream it whenever you want. Disks are so overrated. If the tech isn't there do make that happen, then screw the DRM and let those that will pirate pirate and those that will pay pay. You'll never get them to behave otherwise anyway.
That's the goal. First person to make it happen wins everything.
Tom Pepper, Nullsoft
Think about it. If you had unlimited cheap streaming access to any music anywhere in the world, what's the point in downloading? There is none. You save many gigabytes of hard disk space too. With increasing bandwidth to the home, this is only going to get more popular. If AG can pull this off, and they can pull it off well, they will have my great respect (and my $10).
Just wanted to give a thanks for posting this. I have registered in Open Directory and on other search engines but I am sure you know how long that takes. I didn't want to get slashed so I avoided that like the plague.
Thanks again,
Scott
Well done slashdot!
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OK, if people don't read the article most of the time, they're just modded down, but if it's about Microsoft, nooooo, +4 Funny.
Microsoft representatives at LinuxWorld plan to talk about the company's ASP.Net Web Matrix Project, a collection of free tools and programming code that allows developers to build Web-based applications.
They will also highlight Microsoft's "Services for Unix," program, a set of tools intended to help businesses integrate their Unix and Windows networks.
"This isn't about trying to get people to move from Unix to Microsoft products, it's about offering ways for both systems to peacefully coexist," Houston stressed.
Now I'm not Microsoft's greatest fan, but fair play to them for trying to gain acceptance. I don't think they will, but that's beside the point:).
Alias|Wavefront have already picked up on this with Maya - they've produced Maya Personal Learning Edition, which is free, and provides all the features of Maya Complete, but it saves to it's own format and has render resolution restricted (I think).
Which is a good thing, because Maya is the most painfully hard-to-use program I have ever encountered, although the results it gives are really stunning.
With a good digital SLR, such as the EOS D-60 or the Nikon D1-X you can control at least all the settings available on a top-of-the range film SLR - such as ISO number, shutter speed, spot focus area, and so on. However, the digital bodies can be up to twice the price of the equivalent SLR, some as much as $7,000 or $8,000.
A digital SLR can certainly produce pictures equivalent to those produced by a film SLR, but they have the advantage that you can review the shots to see what you want to print before printing them.
Hrm I can see the dancing kame on the debian box which is doing the actual routing (or rather, I can't because I'm using lynx, but I'm seeing the IPv6 page:)). I can't on this box because neither IE6 nor Mozilla 1.1 appear to have IPv6 functionality on Windows. However the debian box, having been allocated a/64 by FreeNet6, assigns addresses on to the ipv6-enabled (windows) computers on the LAN, and I can ping6 www.6bone.net from my Windows box.
Still, Microsoft still hasn't got a production driver out for Windows either, so Linux isn't behind yet:) (although they're apparently going to release a production driver for.NET server).
OK, so I jumped the gun a bit there - there are bits still missing from the Linux IPv6 stack which make it non-compliant, such as IPSec and such. See the USAGI project. But the major points of IPv6 certainly work on Linux.
Exactly what isn't compliant with IPv6 in the current (2.4) kernel? I'm currently using stock unpatched 2.4 to run a web server over IPv6 quite happily. It's the applications that are lacking support. Hell, with radvd it's functioning as a full 6-to-4 router for my home network.
If you take a look at the LINX peering matrix (warning: insanely large HTML table), you'll see that JAnet (JNT) a.k.a. UKERNA is peered with many other providers, including UUNet and PSI, so no, I don't think they're going to disappear overnight.
Unicode IS valid in domains now, so the Russians and the Chineese, etc. can have domains in their own character set, instead of having to live with latin characters.
It's £112 (which is about $160) per household per year - so it doesn't matter how many TVs you have.
Personally I think it's well worth the money, although some of the BBC's programming has gone downhill in recent years. It's remarkably satisfying to be able to watch a 1 hour program with NO BREAKS in it at all.
Classic Spellchecker Mistake...
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You've got to love this quote from the eBay info:
Day Two: Driving tour of the major highlights of Moscow. After lunch you'll travel to Star City for a tour of the Yuri Garaging Cosmonaut Training Center, and begin the program.
Re:disconnecting from Delphi and Compuserve
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When I disconnected from Compuserve (in the UK) back in 1997 when we changed to a real ISP, it was simply a matter of typing in the right keyword, entering why you were cancelling (as if anyone reads it), and hitting the cancel button.
Still, it shows standards have gone downhill since AOL bought them....
No, here in the rest of the world we use 10^12 for one billion, and 10^9 is one thousand million. If anyone knows how the Americans lost 3 powers of ten I'd love to know;)
I dispute that: there's a certain very well-defined set of circumstances in which using a frameset is beneficial. Although I agree that 99% of the frameset usage on the web is inappropriate, in certain circumstances framesets can be used for efficient navigation and still look good - the main advantage of frames is that they only need loading once - it's a frivolous waste of bandwidth to put the same graphical navigation bar on each page, for example (not that I'm a huge fan of graphical navbars).
Still, the rule for frames is: If in doubt, don't use them.
There's very little that distinguishes the base image-editing capability of Photoshop ($600) from Paint Shop Pro ($99) and the GIMP ($0). The main differences being good CYMK and colour-matching support (and, personally, I find the GIMP's interface an absolute pain to use).
The rangeofdifferent Photoshop plugins is what makes it what it is, and nobody's managed to beat it yet.
Light waves do not interfere with each other. It's not like sound where you can do active noise cancelling..light waves 180 degrees out of phase will not cancel each other out.
Erm... yes they very much do interfere.
Interference is a property of any wave, and light does exhibit it. Non-coherent light doesn't disappear because there are many small coherent streams of light energy - there is some cancellation (destructive interference), but there is also some constructive interference, and in the end the whole beam averages out - actually flickering millions of times a second.
This gives rise to the famous Young's Fringes and Newton's Rings. Young's Fringes form when two sources of coherent waves (light, sound, anything) interfere to produce light (loud) and dark (quiet) bands.
Slashdot Mirror
From http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html:
Audio
What was that again?
Netsplit.de samples every 3 or 4 hours, so it has a tendency to miss large momentary spikes. It does, however, show the general relative sizes of the networks very well, and I haven't found a better source of information anywhere. IMO, their average table is the best showing of the size of networks, in which EFNet is 5th - http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/list1ua.var.
EFNet ceased to be the largest IRC network months ago. DALNet is now the largest net on average, but it's had problems with DoSes recently, so currently IRCNet is in the lead with 113,000 users and 51,000 channels. QuakeNet is also regularly larger than EFNet, which usually resides at the number 3 or 4 spot. See http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/ for the latest statistics.
I wish editors would check their facts before posting random sumbissions
Which is of course where your 3G mobile with audio support comes in. Granted today you pay hundreds of dollars per gigabyte of mobile data transfer, as with all things technological, in 8 or 10 years, you'll get 10Gb of 512kbps transfer for free with your $10 a month mobile contract. Any song ever sung, available instantly from anywhere you have mobile coverage (which is almost everywhere here in England).
I wasn't in the slightest suggesting that this idea was ready for the big time yet, I was suggesting that when it does (and the only thing to stop it will be the record companies and their unreasonable pricing schemes) our lives will change almost unrecognisably. How I wish for that day.
Well yes it does also help it's a company you can trust not to extort you :). But if there's one company doing this, there'll be more, and if there are more, then competition will keep the price down.
It's not radio. You can choose to play any file at any time. It's audio-on-demand. And if done well, that's a great idea.
Think about it. If you had unlimited cheap streaming access to any music anywhere in the world, what's the point in downloading? There is none. You save many gigabytes of hard disk space too. With increasing bandwidth to the home, this is only going to get more popular. If AG can pull this off, and they can pull it off well, they will have my great respect (and my $10).
From the article:
Just wanted to give a thanks for posting this. I have registered in Open Directory and on other search engines but I am sure you know how long that takes. I didn't want to get slashed so I avoided that like the plague.
Thanks again,
Scott
Well done slashdot!
OK, if people don't read the article most of the time, they're just modded down, but if it's about Microsoft, nooooo, +4 Funny.
Microsoft representatives at LinuxWorld plan to talk about the company's ASP.Net Web Matrix Project, a collection of free tools and programming code that allows developers to build Web-based applications.
They will also highlight Microsoft's "Services for Unix," program, a set of tools intended to help businesses integrate their Unix and Windows networks.
"This isn't about trying to get people to move from Unix to Microsoft products, it's about offering ways for both systems to peacefully coexist," Houston stressed.
Now I'm not Microsoft's greatest fan, but fair play to them for trying to gain acceptance. I don't think they will, but that's beside the point :).
Alias|Wavefront have already picked up on this with Maya - they've produced Maya Personal Learning Edition, which is free, and provides all the features of Maya Complete, but it saves to it's own format and has render resolution restricted (I think).
Which is a good thing, because Maya is the most painfully hard-to-use program I have ever encountered, although the results it gives are really stunning.
With a good digital SLR, such as the EOS D-60 or the Nikon D1-X you can control at least all the settings available on a top-of-the range film SLR - such as ISO number, shutter speed, spot focus area, and so on. However, the digital bodies can be up to twice the price of the equivalent SLR, some as much as $7,000 or $8,000.
A digital SLR can certainly produce pictures equivalent to those produced by a film SLR, but they have the advantage that you can review the shots to see what you want to print before printing them.
Hrm I can see the dancing kame on the debian box which is doing the actual routing (or rather, I can't because I'm using lynx, but I'm seeing the IPv6 page :)). I can't on this box because neither IE6 nor Mozilla 1.1 appear to have IPv6 functionality on Windows. However the debian box, having been allocated a /64 by FreeNet6, assigns addresses on to the ipv6-enabled (windows) computers on the LAN, and I can ping6 www.6bone.net from my Windows box.
:) (although they're apparently going to release a production driver for .NET server).
Still, Microsoft still hasn't got a production driver out for Windows either, so Linux isn't behind yet
OK, so I jumped the gun a bit there - there are bits still missing from the Linux IPv6 stack which make it non-compliant, such as IPSec and such. See the USAGI project. But the major points of IPv6 certainly work on Linux.
Full compliance with IPv6
Exactly what isn't compliant with IPv6 in the current (2.4) kernel? I'm currently using stock unpatched 2.4 to run a web server over IPv6 quite happily. It's the applications that are lacking support. Hell, with radvd it's functioning as a full 6-to-4 router for my home network.
If you take a look at the LINX peering matrix (warning: insanely large HTML table), you'll see that JAnet (JNT) a.k.a. UKERNA is peered with many other providers, including UUNet and PSI, so no, I don't think they're going to disappear overnight.
Unicode IS valid in domains now, so the Russians and the Chineese, etc. can have domains in their own character set, instead of having to live with latin characters.
It's £112 (which is about $160) per household per year - so it doesn't matter how many TVs you have.
Personally I think it's well worth the money, although some of the BBC's programming has gone downhill in recent years. It's remarkably satisfying to be able to watch a 1 hour program with NO BREAKS in it at all.
You've got to love this quote from the eBay info:
Day Two: Driving tour of the major highlights of Moscow. After lunch you'll travel to Star City for a tour of the Yuri Garaging Cosmonaut Training Center, and begin the program.
When I disconnected from Compuserve (in the UK) back in 1997 when we changed to a real ISP, it was simply a matter of typing in the right keyword, entering why you were cancelling (as if anyone reads it), and hitting the cancel button.
Still, it shows standards have gone downhill since AOL bought them....
mail.ru
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Includes POP access for free, and a much nicer webmail interface than hotmail. Don't slashdot it too much, I'd like it to remain free. Please
No, here in the rest of the world we use 10^12 for one billion, and 10^9 is one thousand million. If anyone knows how the Americans lost 3 powers of ten I'd love to know ;)
Especially since you NEVER need to use frames
I dispute that: there's a certain very well-defined set of circumstances in which using a frameset is beneficial. Although I agree that 99% of the frameset usage on the web is inappropriate, in certain circumstances framesets can be used for efficient navigation and still look good - the main advantage of frames is that they only need loading once - it's a frivolous waste of bandwidth to put the same graphical navigation bar on each page, for example (not that I'm a huge fan of graphical navbars).
Still, the rule for frames is: If in doubt, don't use them.
The upper limit of PGP 7 is 4096 currently, which is currently looking quite insecure...
One word: Plugins.
There's very little that distinguishes the base image-editing capability of Photoshop ($600) from Paint Shop Pro ($99) and the GIMP ($0). The main differences being good CYMK and colour-matching support (and, personally, I find the GIMP's interface an absolute pain to use).
The range of different Photoshop plugins is what makes it what it is, and nobody's managed to beat it yet.
Light waves do not interfere with each other.
It's not like sound where you can do active noise cancelling..light waves 180 degrees out of phase will not cancel each other out.
Erm... yes they very much do interfere.
Interference is a property of any wave, and light does exhibit it. Non-coherent light doesn't disappear because there are many small coherent streams of light energy - there is some cancellation (destructive interference), but there is also some constructive interference, and in the end the whole beam averages out - actually flickering millions of times a second.
This gives rise to the famous Young's Fringes and Newton's Rings. Young's Fringes form when two sources of coherent waves (light, sound, anything) interfere to produce light (loud) and dark (quiet) bands.