Does a headline that ends in a question mark set off your red flags?
Can I convince you to buy this bridge I'm selling by hinting at it using a question?
What if I cobble together a tiny tidbit of info from groklaw with a really inflammatory headline, will slashdot publish it?
Wait and watch. The worst that can happen is the corporation will take the fall. The individuals will get off free (maybe with golden parachutes) a la SCO.
I'd like to try one that's a little more detailed. I'm using the following reasonable requirements for the proposed "mitigation": (must... not... godwin...)
1. To find "piracy" ISPs would have to use DPI (only good for unencrypted connections)
2. To find "piracy" ISPs would likely use a dragnet, catching my Fedora Core torrent as well
3. To find "piracy" Big Content would probably infiltrate P2P swarms to collect IPs
4. To block it, ISPs would likely hand over customer details without a warrant
5. To block it, ISPs would likely "shoot first, ask questions later"
So to the car analogy:
All news cars will have data recording baked into their chips and law enforcement will have easy access.
If you get pulled over, whatever the officer says is indisputable, even if you have your own GPS that contradicts their claims.
Cars will automatically report their identification and location over a satellite network, and the same network can be used to disable the car.
What cogent thinks it is accomplishing by refusing to peer IPv6, I don't know. All I can do is guess, and I guess it is so they can use it as a stick to beat other networks with to get better peering agreements.
You make a good point: airspeed is not ground speed. However, GPS can indicate ground speed, and even in a bad thunderstorm, air does not reach Mach 0.8. Thus, give your ground speed the pessimistic error bar (tailwind at 100 mph) and fly from that. Grandparent post also has a good tip: listen to the sound of the airflow and feel for the stall buffetings.
Amdahl's law is just about speedups. It doesn't imply parallel operations at all. I know the wikipedia page says it's about parallel processes. It's not.
Good point, but with my post (GGP) I really was hoping to spark this kind of discussion. Maybe manufacturers will find solutions to programming problems, you never know...
McFly! But really, the first and second movies were way better.
If you've read the article, you'll feel a little smarter today. Even if it was just a good review.
If you haven't heard of Amdahl's Law, pay attention. (Since simple.wikipedia.org doesn't have a nice, short explanation, how about a car analogy?)
Amdahl's Law
You're street racing. But there's a school zone in the middle of the course, and you always slow down for the school.
No matter how fast you go on the rest of the course, that school zone in the middle will just end up taking a larger and larger percent of your lap time, until it alone is what is keeping up your lap time.
Applying the analogy to parallel computing: after a certain number of cores, more cores doesn't make the problem go faster. Something else (probably many things) will eat up so much of the total time that it won't improve things to double, quadruple, or add a hundred more cores.
Did Apple sue for alimony?;-) Did they "take their stuff" and storm out? (By that, I mean all the DRMed stuff, but obviously not because you were able to convert it.)
I just finished trying out gyache/gyachi (Yahoo! Voice and Video chat, open source) and it doesn't work nearly as well. Also, it just runs the proprietary codecs using the relevant wine source code, so it's not truly open source.
Now, I expect you to provide at least 5 innovative projects Microsoft created within the last 10 years. (Sorry, you can't count Windows or Office, since those ideas are much older, and are no longer considered innovative.)
I think you start to get it there, but let's face it: Apple will never release Facetime for Linux and Android. Windows? Now that's funny:
Which will come first? The death of Windows or Apple elevating it to a tier-1 supported platform for their communication software? hahahahaha! *snicker*
If having hourly usage is a privacy concern, then why isn't monthly usage data a privacy concern?
Because humans operate on hourly (and 24-hourly) cycles, and monthly data is too coarse-grained to perceive these finer-grained cycles.
I agree with you that technological progress has resulted in a catch-22: dark-ages analog meters? No power at all?
I think PG&E is about to discover the two-edged nature of being a government-regulated monopoly. Although they get government regulations that protect them, now all of a sudden they can't do things, because the government is regulating them.
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PKI.
Extracting the public key does you no good at all. Oh, and it's stored in plain sight, in the BIOS image.
Building a quantum computer is about the only way to "extract" the private key.
The GP has it right.
Upgrades will not require UEFI Secure Boot. Windows 8 Logo Compliance will require it.
Wish you had recorded the call and posted it somewhere... Oh well, I can still imagine how it went.
I laughed! Thanks for that.
Does a headline that ends in a question mark set off your red flags?
Can I convince you to buy this bridge I'm selling by hinting at it using a question?
What if I cobble together a tiny tidbit of info from groklaw with a really inflammatory headline, will slashdot publish it?
I hope Oracle's lawyers get fired for this case.
Wait and watch. The worst that can happen is the corporation will take the fall. The individuals will get off free (maybe with golden parachutes) a la SCO.
Seriously, relax. goodmanj presented numbers. Let the haters hate. Stick to verifiable facts, and always do your homework.
PM sent.
Good analogy.
I'd like to try one that's a little more detailed. I'm using the following reasonable requirements for the proposed "mitigation": (must... not... godwin...)
1. To find "piracy" ISPs would have to use DPI (only good for unencrypted connections)
2. To find "piracy" ISPs would likely use a dragnet, catching my Fedora Core torrent as well
3. To find "piracy" Big Content would probably infiltrate P2P swarms to collect IPs
4. To block it, ISPs would likely hand over customer details without a warrant
5. To block it, ISPs would likely "shoot first, ask questions later"
So to the car analogy:
All news cars will have data recording baked into their chips and law enforcement will have easy access.
If you get pulled over, whatever the officer says is indisputable, even if you have your own GPS that contradicts their claims.
Cars will automatically report their identification and location over a satellite network, and the same network can be used to disable the car.
+1 Wish I had mod points right now
What cogent thinks it is accomplishing by refusing to peer IPv6, I don't know. All I can do is guess, and I guess it is so they can use it as a stick to beat other networks with to get better peering agreements.
You make a good point: airspeed is not ground speed. However, GPS can indicate ground speed, and even in a bad thunderstorm, air does not reach Mach 0.8. Thus, give your ground speed the pessimistic error bar (tailwind at 100 mph) and fly from that. Grandparent post also has a good tip: listen to the sound of the airflow and feel for the stall buffetings.
I am my project manager, you insensitive clod. :-)
People are like cars. The faster you drive them, the more hot air you get out their rear end.
Amdahl's law is just about speedups. It doesn't imply parallel operations at all. I know the wikipedia page says it's about parallel processes. It's not.
Good point, but with my post (GGP) I really was hoping to spark this kind of discussion. Maybe manufacturers will find solutions to programming problems, you never know...
McFly! But really, the first and second movies were way better.
If you've read the article, you'll feel a little smarter today. Even if it was just a good review.
If you haven't heard of Amdahl's Law, pay attention. (Since simple.wikipedia.org doesn't have a nice, short explanation, how about a car analogy?)
Amdahl's Law
You're street racing. But there's a school zone in the middle of the course, and you always slow down for the school.
No matter how fast you go on the rest of the course, that school zone in the middle will just end up taking a larger and larger percent of your lap time, until it alone is what is keeping up your lap time.
Applying the analogy to parallel computing: after a certain number of cores, more cores doesn't make the problem go faster. Something else (probably many things) will eat up so much of the total time that it won't improve things to double, quadruple, or add a hundred more cores.
Wow, the imagery! I like it.
;-) Did they "take their stuff" and storm out? (By that, I mean all the DRMed stuff, but obviously not because you were able to convert it.)
Did Apple sue for alimony?
Yes. Empathy
I just finished trying out gyache/gyachi (Yahoo! Voice and Video chat, open source) and it doesn't work nearly as well. Also, it just runs the proprietary codecs using the relevant wine source code, so it's not truly open source.
I'm sure somebody will eventually write a de-DRM tool... someday...
Tracking the damage... it's currently taking from < 1 to > 30 seconds for parts of the page to load.
Individual products ARE technologies, unless you're ready to dismiss Kinect.
..." ???
And government funded technologies like NASA aren't innovation? C'mon, enough with the ad hominems.
You may not think LLVM, VLC, or Joomla are innovative. That doesn't mean they aren't.
You might want to finish your rants before hitting submit: "Now how about something like A
I'd do it if I had mod points
This is tired old FUD that you Microsoft shills trot out all the time.
Can you name one technology that Microsoft innovated? And by the way, it doesn't count if they bought it from someone else.
Ok, now to your original question:
1. Alchemy
2. Bespin
3. Bitcoin
4. eyeOS
5. KDE Social Desktop
6. Ksplice
7. Unity
8. HTTP, the Web, TCP/IP, and ARPAnet
9. X Windows
10. Perl
11. Slashdot
12. Google keeps playing with open source, but can't make up their minds. Here are some
13. Microsoft plays with open source, here are some. This must just eat you up. Too bad, Open Source is everywhere.
14. Here are some more innovative open source projects.
Now, I expect you to provide at least 5 innovative projects Microsoft created within the last 10 years. (Sorry, you can't count Windows or Office, since those ideas are much older, and are no longer considered innovative.)
Failing that, at least read what I wrote.
Briefly: yes.
It's actually a bit more complicated than it sounds, though: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/
hahahahahaha!
hahahahahah!!!
I think you start to get it there, but let's face it: Apple will never release Facetime for Linux and Android. Windows? Now that's funny:
Which will come first? The death of Windows or Apple elevating it to a tier-1 supported platform for their communication software? hahahahaha! *snicker*
Because humans operate on hourly (and 24-hourly) cycles, and monthly data is too coarse-grained to perceive these finer-grained cycles.
I agree with you that technological progress has resulted in a catch-22: dark-ages analog meters? No power at all?
I think PG&E is about to discover the two-edged nature of being a government-regulated monopoly. Although they get government regulations that protect them, now all of a sudden they can't do things, because the government is regulating them.