I'm not sure so many people are real.
I see people on TV, hear voices on radio, but have never met these people!
Is Darl McBride real? Can he prove it? I have never met him!
What about Elmo... I have seen him dance and sing and play, but is he real?
And the Ewoks, and George Bush, and The FSM, and Saddam H, and Tom Cruise, and Mary Poppins, and Bob Geldof, and Eminem's past, and Santa (the original non-red version who is now deceased),...
Are these people real? I have never met them.
I have met thousands of people and seen tens of thousands of people, but, please, Darl, prove you exist! I think you are an afront!
Parents, for hundreds of generations, in their kindness of human nature, have always taught their children that if there is no loss to the sharer, then sharing is good.
After thousands of years of being taught this, from one generation to the next, whilst still being taught this, we are being sued by collectives of people in companies under the law now set by our granddads (55-75 year olds) in power. These laws were set so that certain collectives could make significantly extra profit without contributing more work to society, to the significant detriment of the children of today and the next generations.
And we are all part of this evolved grey goo, which have eyes evolved to discern the subtle differences in colour of this grey-goo. Therefore making it look beautifully coloured. I'm sure if you look at all the life on earth including ourselves at some other frequencies, we may look a monotonously boring grey.
All the grey-goo life on earth is still fighting the competitive evolutionary battle.
"Trying to understand the intricacies of federation politics from watching Star Trek episodes would be like an alien trying to understand the US government by watching "JAG"."
Or, its like trying to understand the intricacies of the US police force by watching Scooby Doo.
several years hence, I forecast the word 'cognitive' to be more prolificatedly used.
Just 30 seconds before reading this article, I came out of a meeting about the future of radio - it will be cognitive radio.
Basically, it means, two radio transceivers that continually and dynamically selects the best channel or frequency they can use to communicate.
But I didn't expect the word 'cognitive' to be used in such close connectivity to the word 'fruit'.
Wow, cognitive fruit. *oishiiii*, tasty.
surely many other system employ such an obvious...
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Thats obvious, A 'middle man' so to speak bringing two partners together, i.e. giving the phone numbers of each other to each other. Its ever so simple.
Hasn't ICQ been using this too? All communication doesn't go through a central server, surely not! And I really doubt ICQ would have been the first!
I can't believe how patents are being used to destroy competition and innovation. At this rate, those countries heavily restricted by patents are going to fall competitively behind those countries who compete to innovate and improve quality and efficiency.
It really is a pity that software patents continue to stifle innovation and competition.
The US alreasy became number one in software in the past. They did this because they didn't have software patents on simple obvious ideas, but they did have copyright to protect people's hard work. Now in the US, companies are employing patents to keep out competition, so the ultimate result will be technology and the high tech sector moving abroad. What is needed is the opposite of patents and restrictions on what you can invent - what is needed is liberalisation with the removal of software patents and removal of the patenting of concepts, numbers, ideas and discoveries.
Actually I measured Network Layer throughput to get that figure. So, with the TCP overhead etc on top, the overall throughput at the Application Layer would be a little less than what I measured.
...so, my measured figures must be because of MAC and Physical Layer overhead only. Still, nice figure desu ne.
Well, I have the same problem to some extent. Over here in Japan they have fiber to darn close to the home (the last few metres to the box is copper cable or something).
Anyhow, I signed up to nifty for their 100Mbps home service, it comes to about maybe 17 pounds (GBP / UK pounds) per month at the current exchange rate. But the thing is, I can only sustain up to about 70Mbps for long periods of time. Where is my missing 30Mbps I wonder...! (Actually, I usually don't wonder that, I usually think "Holy f***ing Wow!!!").
Due to a 'campaign' ("kyanpein" in Japanese language) I am getting it at 2/3 of the usual price, so really it would be about 25 pounds (GBP) per month.
I like the conditions too. I get a fixed IP address, I can use it to serve web sites, I can connect multiple computers (they even offer a router offer if thats is so), for VoIP, for watching TV here in Japan, and so much more. And they don't go screwing with my traffic. For a few extra Yennage (The local Japanese units of dough) I can get a phone that plugs in directly to one of the 100Mbps ethernet sockets and can sign up to a service just for IP phones (using SIP), or a service including SIP and to/from standard phones.
But, where is my missing sustained 30Mbps I wonder!? (well, sometimes I can peak at about 80Mbps I have to admit).
This is real competition! Real compition shoudl come to the UK, with less of this 'controlled competition' (i.e. no competition), between BT in most areas and Tele-NTL-West in some parts...
For most of human history there has been destitute poverty for a large number of people.
With the gradual discovery and transformation to Competitive Free-Market Capitalism, initially in the UK starting several hundred years ago and then in her allied and close countries followed by the rest of the world, the problem partially solved.
Many attempts at eradicating poverty have existed... Technology, communism, etc. But only Capitalism has been so successful by requiring equality and justice in trade and society as a whole, and making slight over production the norm, instead of under production. Thus leading to the solution of poverty for the masses.
However, Most haters of Capitalism ignore the fact that no other system has eradicated poverty as much as a Just, Equal, Competitive Free-market Capitalist Society, where people are free to invent and solve problems and go about their own business of creating wealth from their hard work, and keeping their wealth.
This is the solution to most of poverty. And it seems that the solution to the rest of poverty has not yet been found.
Poverty is caused by; war; lack of equal justice; barriers to free trade; very high tax (stopping from people keeping the wealth that they themselves have created); subsidies (causing those competing with the subsidised or those forced to give the subsidy to become poorer); and many more reasons.
Yeah, why produce GM food to produce proteins that we need, when instead they can go and insert these genetic modifications into humans and then we won't need to turn to certain foods to get the benefits. The benefits can be directly enjoyed without doing anything.
The necessity to eat certain foods could be overcome if this technology could be inserted directly into the human body, in addition to genetic modifications to help those with nut allergies etc. to overcome their problem. (Or at least in the next generation of children that they have...).
So, isn't RISE (Randomized Instruction Set Emulation) similar in concept to PIC (Position Independent Code)?
If you want to secure computers via the Linux route then with Hardened Gentoo is a good way (Follow the Resources links in sections 6).
PaX is a hardened Linux kernel using ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) to support applications built as a PIE (Position Independent Executable) and to provide non-executable memory (NX). PaX home.
PIE/SSP (Position Independent Executable)/(Stack Smashing Protector) (follow PaX link)
When an application is built as a PIE (Position Independent Executable) the code is able to be randomize on load up and NX bit set on certain parts of the application. At run time, when a buffer is created, SSP adds a secret random value called the 'canary' to the end of the buffer.
I just think she should spend time doing her job and stop hindering competition.
Afterall, the only that has kept the US of American and the West ahead of the World was when the England and then the UK was fortunate enough to stumble across fair free-market trade (albeit initially internally) based on the freedom to make contracts and fair and equal judgement, which then developed into the free-market competitive capitalist economy.
It is competition that brings efficiencies (people trying to getting maximum output for effort input), and it is competition that brings innovation (competiting to provide a 'better' product to your customer).
DRM (Digital Restrictions Management, otherwise sometimes known Digital Rights Management) limits peoples 'Rights' and cut competition, thus severely hurting innovation and likely efficiency over time.
The market has thrived in the past without the need for restrictive controls like excessive patents, and without unduly long copyright coverage times. But now we have these and we are beginning to see a downturn in diversity and innovation whilst the large controlling companies manage to keep hold of their ever increasing profit streams.
Its a pity that competition and innovation and efficiency is slowly being destroyed in the US. Other competitive economies like China and so on are the ones that will be setting the rules in the future if the US carries on down this path.
I'm sure when the original Copyright, Trademark, and Patent laws were originally devised, the current state of affairs were completely unforeseen.
With out new experience, I think it could be possible to redesign these laws to better help a innovation and efficiency in the free market economy. But, this is certainly a big job that I certainly am unable to go into detail and secondly it is unlikely to happen, as the largest companies and hence the largest lobbyists have only their self-interest of profits in mind, and so this means making copyrighted works to be copyrighted for ever longer periods, and to make Patents ever more restrictive to keep out competition.
Well said, I totally agree that although copyright law is good, the continual extension to which copyrighted works are covered is too long.
As Disney amongst other copyright holders lobby for a longer and longer extension, it is becoming effectual perpetual, therefore with no works entering the public domain and indeed hurting the way in which previous works can be used to produce diversity and innovation.
Amongst the so-called collection of 'Intellectual Property' law, it seems that this continual extension to the good copyright law and the ever more restricting Patent law is very bad for innovation and competiton and will thus only help to stifle an otherwise successful competitive free market capitalist economy.
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I'm not sure so many people are real.
...
I see people on TV, hear voices on radio, but have never met these people!
Is Darl McBride real? Can he prove it? I have never met him!
What about Elmo... I have seen him dance and sing and play, but is he real?
And the Ewoks, and George Bush, and The FSM, and Saddam H, and Tom Cruise, and Mary Poppins, and Bob Geldof, and Eminem's past, and Santa (the original non-red version who is now deceased),
Are these people real? I have never met them.
I have met thousands of people and seen tens of thousands of people, but, please, Darl, prove you exist! I think you are an afront!
I read slashdot, and copied titles!
"'Tower of Babel' Translator Under Development"
"Lab Created Diamonds Come to Market"
"Oracle to Compete Wth Red Hat"
"NASA STEREO Spacecraft Set to Launch"
"Is the Game Media Being Oblivious?"
"Male Blood Elves Get Pumped Up"
"Canadian Music Industry Says Downloading Declining"
He said six words not enough!
Well, its an 'OR' question as opposed to a 'XOR' question...
___OR__
0 | 0 = 0
0 | 1 = 1
1 | 1 = 1
1 | 1 = 1
__XOR__
0 | 0 = 0
0 | 1 = 1
1 | 1 = 1
1 | 1 = 0
Parents, for hundreds of generations, in their kindness of human nature, have always taught their children that if there is no loss to the sharer, then sharing is good.
After thousands of years of being taught this, from one generation to the next, whilst still being taught this, we are being sued by collectives of people in companies under the law now set by our granddads (55-75 year olds) in power. These laws were set so that certain collectives could make significantly extra profit without contributing more work to society, to the significant detriment of the children of today and the next generations.
It would be best if the linked to a torrent of Firefox Beta, then it wouldn't go down heavily on the servers.
Why is it still not standard to torrent the file? Any extra users would/should help to increase the ease of download for the incoming downloaders.
BitTorrent it!
Great post!
And we are all part of this evolved grey goo, which have eyes evolved to discern the subtle differences in colour of this grey-goo. Therefore making it look beautifully coloured. I'm sure if you look at all the life on earth including ourselves at some other frequencies, we may look a monotonously boring grey.
All the grey-goo life on earth is still fighting the competitive evolutionary battle.
" Trying to understand the intricacies of federation politics from watching Star Trek episodes would be like an alien trying to understand the US government by watching "JAG". "
Or, its like trying to understand the intricacies of the US police force by watching Scooby Doo.
I like my windows rectangular, except when I'm repositioning them and I give them permission to wobble into their new location.
;)
XGL
several years hence, I forecast the word 'cognitive' to be more prolificatedly used.
Just 30 seconds before reading this article, I came out of a meeting about the future of radio - it will be cognitive radio.
Basically, it means, two radio transceivers that continually and dynamically selects the best channel or frequency they can use to communicate.
But I didn't expect the word 'cognitive' to be used in such close connectivity to the word 'fruit'.
Wow, cognitive fruit. *oishiiii*, tasty.
Thats obvious, A 'middle man' so to speak bringing two partners together, i.e. giving the phone numbers of each other to each other. Its ever so simple.
3 49064 Instead of using restrictive patents to keep others from competing in an area.
Hasn't ICQ been using this too? All communication doesn't go through a central server, surely not! And I really doubt ICQ would have been the first!
I can't believe how patents are being used to destroy competition and innovation. At this rate, those countries heavily restricted by patents are going to fall competitively behind those countries who compete to innovate and improve quality and efficiency.
It really is a pity that software patents continue to stifle innovation and competition.
More freedom and liberalisation is needed to create wealth: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185961&cid=15
The US alreasy became number one in software in the past. They did this because they didn't have software patents on simple obvious ideas, but they did have copyright to protect people's hard work. Now in the US, companies are employing patents to keep out competition, so the ultimate result will be technology and the high tech sector moving abroad. What is needed is the opposite of patents and restrictions on what you can invent - what is needed is liberalisation with the removal of software patents and removal of the patenting of concepts, numbers, ideas and discoveries.
Actually I measured Network Layer throughput to get that figure. So, with the TCP overhead etc on top, the overall throughput at the Application Layer would be a little less than what I measured.
...so, my measured figures must be because of MAC and Physical Layer overhead only. Still, nice figure desu ne.
Well, I have the same problem to some extent. Over here in Japan they have fiber to darn close to the home (the last few metres to the box is copper cable or something).
Anyhow, I signed up to nifty for their 100Mbps home service, it comes to about maybe 17 pounds (GBP / UK pounds) per month at the current exchange rate. But the thing is, I can only sustain up to about 70Mbps for long periods of time. Where is my missing 30Mbps I wonder...! (Actually, I usually don't wonder that, I usually think "Holy f***ing Wow!!!").
Due to a 'campaign' ("kyanpein" in Japanese language) I am getting it at 2/3 of the usual price, so really it would be about 25 pounds (GBP) per month.
I like the conditions too. I get a fixed IP address, I can use it to serve web sites, I can connect multiple computers (they even offer a router offer if thats is so), for VoIP, for watching TV here in Japan, and so much more. And they don't go screwing with my traffic. For a few extra Yennage (The local Japanese units of dough) I can get a phone that plugs in directly to one of the 100Mbps ethernet sockets and can sign up to a service just for IP phones (using SIP), or a service including SIP and to/from standard phones.
But, where is my missing sustained 30Mbps I wonder!? (well, sometimes I can peak at about 80Mbps I have to admit).
This is real competition! Real compition shoudl come to the UK, with less of this 'controlled competition' (i.e. no competition), between BT in most areas and Tele-NTL-West in some parts...
Nifty!
For most of human history there has been destitute poverty for a large number of people.
With the gradual discovery and transformation to Competitive Free-Market Capitalism, initially in the UK starting several hundred years ago and then in her allied and close countries followed by the rest of the world, the problem partially solved.
Many attempts at eradicating poverty have existed... Technology, communism, etc. But only Capitalism has been so successful by requiring equality and justice in trade and society as a whole, and making slight over production the norm, instead of under production. Thus leading to the solution of poverty for the masses.
However, Most haters of Capitalism ignore the fact that no other system has eradicated poverty as much as a Just, Equal, Competitive Free-market Capitalist Society, where people are free to invent and solve problems and go about their own business of creating wealth from their hard work, and keeping their wealth.
This is the solution to most of poverty. And it seems that the solution to the rest of poverty has not yet been found.
See links:
The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire
What is Capitalism?
The Destitution of Pre-Capitalist Europe
Poverty is caused by; war; lack of equal justice; barriers to free trade; very high tax (stopping from people keeping the wealth that they themselves have created); subsidies (causing those competing with the subsidised or those forced to give the subsidy to become poorer); and many more reasons.
Yeah, why produce GM food to produce proteins that we need, when instead they can go and insert these genetic modifications into humans and then we won't need to turn to certain foods to get the benefits. The benefits can be directly enjoyed without doing anything.
The necessity to eat certain foods could be overcome if this technology could be inserted directly into the human body, in addition to genetic modifications to help those with nut allergies etc. to overcome their problem. (Or at least in the next generation of children that they have...).
no, but really, I am just passing... And still use my PC Ordinarily. :D
errr...
;)
I was just passing. Honest!
But, hey, I use my PC ordinarily!
I'm an Ordinary PC User. I Ditched Windows for Linux.
Now only at least one more person is necessary to bring an answer to the title: "Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux?"
Its all in the plurality!
" But researchers in New York now say they've pushed light into reverse. "
Ah, when I were a lad, back in the days before this backwards superluminal light was deeply researched it was known more commonly as reflection.
What ever happened to the Be Filesystem (BeFS)?
I read a few years ago people were doing a GPL'd open version for linux, but since that day have heard nothing...
Is it dead? The BeOS FS was supposed to be absolutely fabulous.
So, isn't RISE (Randomized Instruction Set Emulation) similar in concept to PIC (Position Independent Code)?
.
If you want to secure computers via the Linux route then with Hardened Gentoo is a good way (Follow the Resources links in sections 6).
PaX is a hardened Linux kernel using ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) to support applications built as a PIE (Position Independent Executable) and to provide non-executable memory (NX).
PaX home.
PIE/SSP (Position Independent Executable)/(Stack Smashing Protector) (follow PaX link)
When an application is built as a PIE (Position Independent Executable) the code is able to be randomize on load up and NX bit set on certain parts of the application. At run time, when a buffer is created, SSP adds a secret random value called the 'canary' to the end of the buffer.
MAC (Mandatory Access Control) (follow Hardened Gentoo link)
Hardened Gentoo supports 3 access control solutions, SELinux , grsecurity , and RSBAC
PIC Introduction and Internals.
Other references:
Hardened Gentoo Primer
SeLinux is supported by the NSA (National Security Agency) of the USA.
I just think she should spend time doing her job and stop hindering competition.
Afterall, the only that has kept the US of American and the West ahead of the World was when the England and then the UK was fortunate enough to stumble across fair free-market trade (albeit initially internally) based on the freedom to make contracts and fair and equal judgement, which then developed into the free-market competitive capitalist economy.
It is competition that brings efficiencies (people trying to getting maximum output for effort input), and it is competition that brings innovation (competiting to provide a 'better' product to your customer).
DRM (Digital Restrictions Management, otherwise sometimes known Digital Rights Management) limits peoples 'Rights' and cut competition, thus severely hurting innovation and likely efficiency over time.
The market has thrived in the past without the need for restrictive controls like excessive patents, and without unduly long copyright coverage times. But now we have these and we are beginning to see a downturn in diversity and innovation whilst the large controlling companies manage to keep hold of their ever increasing profit streams.
Its a pity that competition and innovation and efficiency is slowly being destroyed in the US. Other competitive economies like China and so on are the ones that will be setting the rules in the future if the US carries on down this path.
Yeah, - Dissolves in air, in moisture, in direct sunlight, and on Tuesdays tea time.
But except for that, what has the worlds strongest glue provided us...?
Indeed. You speak wisely.
I'm sure when the original Copyright, Trademark, and Patent laws were originally devised, the current state of affairs were completely unforeseen.
With out new experience, I think it could be possible to redesign these laws to better help a innovation and efficiency in the free market economy. But, this is certainly a big job that I certainly am unable to go into detail and secondly it is unlikely to happen, as the largest companies and hence the largest lobbyists have only their self-interest of profits in mind, and so this means making copyrighted works to be copyrighted for ever longer periods, and to make Patents ever more restrictive to keep out competition.
Well said, I totally agree that although copyright law is good, the continual extension to which copyrighted works are covered is too long. As Disney amongst other copyright holders lobby for a longer and longer extension, it is becoming effectual perpetual, therefore with no works entering the public domain and indeed hurting the way in which previous works can be used to produce diversity and innovation. Amongst the so-called collection of 'Intellectual Property' law, it seems that this continual extension to the good copyright law and the ever more restricting Patent law is very bad for innovation and competiton and will thus only help to stifle an otherwise successful competitive free market capitalist economy.