>> "Not the best market when the people involved have no money. However, I don't doubt that the OSS community might reap some benefit from it."
Exactly. I compare this to the Soviet Russia where they didn't have the supercomputing power of the USA, but with a pencil and advanced mathematics used their brain power to develop the principles of stealth, and a few other fringe technologies.
With 100 million laptops out there, chances are someone with one of these laptops is going to develop something revolutionary. Although there is the same chance someone will develop something that will cause catastrophe.
>> In other words, they might be able to get you hooked up at 100Mb/s, but you'd only be able to talk to your neighbors and other people on the local subnet at that speed.
As long as a neighbour has seeded the torrent you're after, it'll be freakin awesome!
>> Sony were just trying to protect their business assets from piracy - albeit is a rather misguided manner. Whereas most of the users of sites like rootkit.com are black hat hackers looking for something to put in their next spambot trojan.
.... who are just trying to protect their business assets: the spam....
This reminds me of when I was watching the cannon run on the Edinburgh tattoo a few years ago. One of the soldiers got hit on his head (#1 haircut), and cut quite badly. A medic ran out with a thing that looked like a staple gun, sprayed it with 'numbing spray', stapled the wound closed with about three staples, then wiped some kind of gel/wax on it. The guy looked a little sore, but he wasn't bleeding and his wound was closed enough that he could carry on. - all in about 10 seconds.
In many countries you get money back if you can contribute to the grid. So, all I have to do is shine a light down the fibre, perhaps using the sun as a light source, and charge them! Somehow, I doubt they'll fall for this thou'.
What about a tax break for giving back some of the light with each packet sent? - you have requests 'going out', and for each packet you receive you send back some kind of ACK.
Holly: Well, the thing about a black hole - it's main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
not only is that why they didnt notice it, but confirms exactly what parent is saying.
>> A Manhattan project-sized push for alternative energy in the West
Are you saying that if we don't need any oil, Iran wont have a market? I guess this extends to removing Iran 'legitimate' reason for needing nuclear power, cos now they've got all this spare oil hanging around to run their power stations.
It seems that if you cant catch them, you take shots at them to change peoples view, or you try to change the rules to make it harder for them to succeed. We are seeing this with the threat of a non-neutral Internet where most proponents nearly always use Google as the example.
I think the shots at Google are a little bit of 'tall poppy syndrome' kicking in. The only thing keeping Google from being resented is their 'humility' - that they aren't flaunting their position and their committed to 'not be evil' - like not handing the info to the NSA without a warrant like the 'others' did.
With reporters being the people that determine the threat, it certainly brings a new meaning to "trial by media."
If some half assed Blogger 'frames' someone he doesn't like, and the foreign tabloids pick it up and run with it (like they do), next thing the guys name is parsed into every 'terrorist' database from here to Timbuktu.
I can see this happening: "Fox News is reporting on the latest threat coming from the Automated News Analysis System (ANAS): Homeland Decurity is on a manhunt for two men deemed to be the greatest threat to America: One man is named Jack Bauer and the other, yet unidentified man who goes by the name 'Lex Luthor'. There whereabouts is unknown at present."
The chance of this could be reduced by showing the details (sender-recipient etc) of the e-mail on one page, and show contents of the e-mail on another. Of course, filming or recording the transition between the two could be incriminating.
I recall from a PGP app, the ability to show the e-mailed text in a muddy yellow box with slightly darker writing, this any compression from a screen capture makes it very hard, if not impossible to read.
All of this still doesn't address your concern though - it just makes it more difficult for the perp.
I occasionally listen to the Stanford Entrepreneurial thought leaders podcast, and Tom Byers mentioned in his presentation on 18 Jan 06 in his section on cashflow (min-36:38), the very high cost of traditional Venture Capitalist funding.
My understanding of typical Open Source projects is they're typically undertaken by smaller companies with a distributed team, sometimes with many staff working from home, and often have little corporate resources.
Why should a small company in this situation risk taking on 'expensive' VC funding over bootstrapping? (i.e trying to get money up front from a customer etc); And how do you make the actual cost of VC affordable for smaller companies and projects?
>> "72dpi to 300dpi just doesn't transition well."
(get ready for the +1 Obvious)
The hardware plays a big factor in the quality of the in-game images - for PC anyway. When I'm looking for a PC game, first I look at the cover, then at the bottom of the box for the system requirements. I don't by low-end games - i tend to buy games where my current machine is 'minimum hardware'. That way, I know if I upgrade something (such as the video card) I will see some benefit.
I have looked for the 'reply' button so I could go into a mindless flailing rant about how I didn't agree with what the author has said. Damn those authors for not including a click-reply feature.
Yeah, parents comments is such a troll. Of course everybody in the entire world *knows* of ALL the alternatives and made the same 'educated' decision. It is interesting that everybody weighed up their relative costs they could afford and their respective quality requirements and came out with the same product!
Slashdot Mirror
Its important to cache, so you can find jems like this!
>> "Not the best market when the people involved have no money. However, I don't doubt that the OSS community might reap some benefit from it."
Exactly. I compare this to the Soviet Russia where they didn't have the supercomputing power of the USA, but with a pencil and advanced mathematics used their brain power to develop the principles of stealth, and a few other fringe technologies.
With 100 million laptops out there, chances are someone with one of these laptops is going to develop something revolutionary. Although there is the same chance someone will develop something that will cause catastrophe.
>> In other words, they might be able to get you hooked up at 100Mb/s, but you'd only be able to talk to your neighbors and other people on the local subnet at that speed.
As long as a neighbour has seeded the torrent you're after, it'll be freakin awesome!
>> Sony were just trying to protect their business assets from piracy - albeit is a rather misguided manner. Whereas most of the users of sites like rootkit.com are black hat hackers looking for something to put in their next spambot trojan.
.... who are just trying to protect their business assets: the spam....
This reminds me of when I was watching the cannon run on the Edinburgh tattoo a few years ago. One of the soldiers got hit on his head (#1 haircut), and cut quite badly. A medic ran out with a thing that looked like a staple gun, sprayed it with 'numbing spray', stapled the wound closed with about three staples, then wiped some kind of gel/wax on it. The guy looked a little sore, but he wasn't bleeding and his wound was closed enough that he could carry on. - all in about 10 seconds.
What the report failed to mention is that the earth is like a giant M&M - solid on the outside and filled with OIL !
In many countries you get money back if you can contribute to the grid. So, all I have to do is shine a light down the fibre, perhaps using the sun as a light source, and charge them! Somehow, I doubt they'll fall for this thou'.
What about a tax break for giving back some of the light with each packet sent? - you have requests 'going out', and for each packet you receive you send back some kind of ACK.
Holly: Well, the thing about a black hole - it's main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
not only is that why they didnt notice it, but confirms exactly what parent is saying.
>> Spamhaus are the good guys. They run a real time blacklist to help fight spam.
But when they e-mail out their notification to everyone that the spam is going to increase, that message will be treated as spam.
GooTube
eww.
>> A Manhattan project-sized push for alternative energy in the West
Are you saying that if we don't need any oil, Iran wont have a market? I guess this extends to removing Iran 'legitimate' reason for needing nuclear power, cos now they've got all this spare oil hanging around to run their power stations.
>> "Something that doesn't sound like a fly-by-night operation "
well, all the good names like were taken.
It seems that if you cant catch them, you take shots at them to change peoples view, or you try to change the rules to make it harder for them to succeed. We are seeing this with the threat of a non-neutral Internet where most proponents nearly always use Google as the example.
I think the shots at Google are a little bit of 'tall poppy syndrome' kicking in. The only thing keeping Google from being resented is their 'humility' - that they aren't flaunting their position and their committed to 'not be evil' - like not handing the info to the NSA without a warrant like the 'others' did.
I'm certain that if /. did a poll, we would see a very high number of the 9-5 poster work for the govt.
>>> "He DOES intend on distributing them online; he just wants to ensure that he has a potential market plan ready before he does so."
And by 'potential market-plan' he means 'Robust D . R . M'
>>>"That's right, if you buy one copy, you will have all levels of Vista on the disc.
Cool! That'll saves me having to download a full OS when the crack comes out.
With reporters being the people that determine the threat, it certainly brings a new meaning to "trial by media."
If some half assed Blogger 'frames' someone he doesn't like, and the foreign tabloids pick it up and run with it (like they do), next thing the guys name is parsed into every 'terrorist' database from here to Timbuktu.
I can see this happening:
"Fox News is reporting on the latest threat coming from the Automated News Analysis System (ANAS): Homeland Decurity is on a manhunt for two men deemed to be the greatest threat to America: One man is named Jack Bauer and the other, yet unidentified man who goes by the name 'Lex Luthor'. There whereabouts is unknown at present."
The chance of this could be reduced by showing the details (sender-recipient etc) of the e-mail on one page, and show contents of the e-mail on another. Of course, filming or recording the transition between the two could be incriminating.
I recall from a PGP app, the ability to show the e-mailed text in a muddy yellow box with slightly darker writing, this any compression from a screen capture makes it very hard, if not impossible to read.
All of this still doesn't address your concern though - it just makes it more difficult for the perp.
I occasionally listen to the Stanford Entrepreneurial thought leaders podcast, and Tom Byers mentioned in his presentation on 18 Jan 06 in his section on cashflow (min-36:38), the very high cost of traditional Venture Capitalist funding.
My understanding of typical Open Source projects is they're typically undertaken by smaller companies with a distributed team, sometimes with many staff working from home, and often have little corporate resources.
Why should a small company in this situation risk taking on 'expensive' VC funding over bootstrapping? (i.e trying to get money up front from a customer etc); And how do you make the actual cost of VC affordable for smaller companies and projects?
>>>"Before you mark it troll, are you doing so just because you are an American and you cant take criticism mixed with a bit of sarcasm?"
I guess so.
So how can we be sure this service isn't an NSA honeypot?
>>>"25% usage of the world's energy supplies (including oil) what does the US do with it? Create an even greater percentage of the world's goods"
Last time I checked, just about everything in America is made in China.
And I also think a large proportion the US energy is used to power those mobility chairs the morbidly obese people use.
(Before you mark it troll, are you doing so just because you are an American and you cant take criticism mixed with a bit of sarcasm?)
>> "72dpi to 300dpi just doesn't transition well."
(get ready for the +1 Obvious)
The hardware plays a big factor in the quality of the in-game images - for PC anyway. When I'm looking for a PC game, first I look at the cover, then at the bottom of the box for the system requirements. I don't by low-end games - i tend to buy games where my current machine is 'minimum hardware'. That way, I know if I upgrade something (such as the video card) I will see some benefit.
I have looked for the 'reply' button so I could go into a mindless flailing rant about how I didn't agree with what the author has said. Damn those authors for not including a click-reply feature.
Yeah, parents comments is such a troll. Of course everybody in the entire world *knows* of ALL the alternatives and made the same 'educated' decision. It is interesting that everybody weighed up their relative costs they could afford and their respective quality requirements and came out with the same product!