there are a number of ways, from deep packet inspection (studying packets and throttling those that appear BT-ish) to just cutting the uplink speed for a naughty subscriber. i think i my ISP may have done that to me already, judging by my ratios.
i do my own traffic shaping in my house with a linksys router running openwrt and x-wrt. i do all my BT stuff from a vmware machine dedicated to all things BT (a win2k workstation running uTorrent) and i told the QOS config to file all traffic to and from his internal IP as bulk. i also use QOS to give priority to all traffic to and from my VOIP telephone adapter.
in case you are not a linksys firmware freak... putting openwrt on your router is like upgrading your PC to openBSD. loading x-wrt on your openwrt router is like installing KDE on your openBSD machine.
the result is BT can leech and seed 24x7x365, the humans in the house can surf and game unimpeeded and phone calls suffer no jitter from MMORPGS or BT.
i feel sort of like a hypocrite for being a net neutrality fanboy and using QOS inside my firewall... but at least i can trust myself to not degrade my access in favor of my own proprietary offerings.
some may say i am a little too trusting, but i have known me for a long time... i think we can trust eachother.
I used to keep stacks of floppies sitting around, mostly ones conveniently sent to my home by the kind folks at America Online, to give to people when they needed some document or other. I rarely got them back, and it was understood that discs just sort of circulated around, like some sort of valueless currency. When you needed one, you just looked around until you found one (that looked disused) and did whatever you had to do.
i can't tell you how many times i would use some old disk to rawrite a linux/BSD installer on, just to find that it didn't work. the first thing they tell you is that you should use new disks with rawrite... but i wouldn't remember that until i had toasted every disc in the house. i am sure many boxes of floppies have been purchased in the middle of the night under those exact circumstances.
floppies have always been pretty much disposable, but having a bootable disk that did something important (NTFS support for dos, NTLDR and NTDetect, password "recovery", emergency virus scanner, you name it) was often what saved the day for your typical IT grunt. i would use rawread or dd to take snapshots of important floppies and stash them on the network somewhere should the need for them arise.
i suppose all of those handy utilities can be rolled into a single live cd now but my liveCD kung fu is significantly weaker than my DOS kung fu:-(
when it comes to identity or credit fraud, the amount lost each year pales in comparrison to the legitimate purchases made each year. for every poor schmoe that has a bestbuy credit card opened in his name, there are a thousand that go on thousand dollar shopping sprees every day. no one will fix the credit approval process because "impulse buying" is the only growth industry left in the USA.
well, i thought that the beauty of grid computing was that it could be made of disperate architectures and that the translating was handled by the "client"... or whatever you call the program that lets a node talk to the grid.
isn't it the same deal, only for interprocess communication? it seems that the cluster/grid engineers already solved this one and you just have to miniaturize the whole thing to work between cores instead of between nodes.
one thing i learned in the very brief dotcom era experience that i had working with a software architect is that in the interest of producing new and clever ideas, sometimes it's tough to see new ways to apply old ideas.
i'm not trying to insinuate that i know more abou this stuff than the chief architect at IBM, i'm just saying that sometimes, a simple solution is often "too simple" to be entertained at the architecture level.
can't the OS just make each new app run on it's own core?
that's my question. why not put some scheduler thing in the OS to load balance between cores?
That would probably give us some overall apparent-speed-of-computer increases, without having to completely modify all existing stuff.
with all of this talk about virtualization as the future of rock and roll, why can't you just stick your legacy apps into some container and have the container take a single core all to itself? presumably clockspeeds will continue to increase along with the ability to put more cores on a stick. if virtualization software can imitate dual processors on a single core, why can't you do the reverse as well and use virtualization to span processes intended for a single processor over multiple cores?
from what i gather, the tricky issue with the cell is that not all of it's cores are created equal, with one core that rules the others, lord of the rings style. if that is true, why would i use a cell when using a current or future iteration of an X86 multicore processor would introduce fewer problems?
i think the "dumb terminal" for the laptop crowd is the "outlook web access + citrix web apps + securID" stack where all you need is an internet connected PC and a browser. i have seen it used by folks on vacation, home sick, or when a firewall doesn't play nicely with your VPN client.
Without this ability, there is practically no difference between this and hooking a tape recorder up to the headphone out jack of an XM receiver.
you seem to be stuck on the fact that you can't record individual tracks and create your own playlists. you might also think that it matters the songs cannot be copied from or otherwise accessed by any means other than the playback unit. it all seems very logical but i think that you are missing some key music industry logic.
the device records MP3's from music broadcast on satellite radio. according to the music industry, all MP3's are stolen, including those that that are created for fair use and stored on a device that it is physically impossible to copy them from. er go, the machine encourages the theft of music and threatens the very fabric of civilization.
your argument breaks down because tape recorders record to tapes rather than destroying america with mp3's.
exhibit the same power over users of the printing press? The very thing tthat started this whole IP mess to begin with.
Actually, it was invented by publishers, to preserve an information ownership monopoly based on a government censorship policy. quote taken from the question copyright webiste.
the beta is restricted to a platform for which i only have one working machine and that machine is not up to the challenge hardware wise. i wish i couldi have seen is the splash screen. but it is quite a splash screen!
or rather, it would have it's place if it's current implementations didn't suck so bad.
i wish that some provider (other than bittorrent) could come up with a way to get releases out on par and on time with a DVD release. most movies i want to watch once or twice and then move on. renting from the video store is ok, but there are logistical hurdles such as avalaibility. if there were a service that could put movies on my HTPC within a day or two of their respective DVDs dropping, i would be quite interested.
the way the system works now, i have to get a disc from netflix/blockbuster online or go to the video store and rent it, which would work if i could get the disc when i walked into the store, but if it is a very recent release (less than a week) it's out of stock and i have to wait. my alternatives are to get a rip of some sort from bit torrent, but there are 0dayz issues with that much akin to the avalability issues i have with physical media. unless there is a screener or the DVDrip hits the scene before the retail release, the wait is shorter, but involves a bit more work (download, seed, extract, maybe even patch and/or encode, then burn) which is fine for something you want to keep, but is a bit involved for something i'm gong to watch once and hand off to friend.
so, if i could get a cheap stream with little or no wait, within a day or two of the video hitting store shelves i would be interested. if the quality of the film warrants it, i can obtain a copy later by other means and under other terms based on convenience and price (BT, rent and rip, used/bargain bin, or gaffle a friend's copy), and in the rare case of an epic classic, pay retail for a copy or a kewl box set. but for TV series and disposable releases like "dude where's my car?" i just want to watch it when it becomes available and move on to the next thing. that seems to be where streaming from the internet comes into play.
the problem with the current crop of stream/dowload.on demand services is that they all suck. they either lack selection (vongo), lack timely release (in the case of PPV and VOD from the cable company) or require some sort of phone home player that i don't want on my HTPC (everything else), and/or cost as much as a video store rental.
Being intelligent doesn't mean that you'll be rich. Becoming rich takes a certain amount of business acumen or just plain luck.
i object. the purest measure of something is the money that it produces. intelligence, charm, good looks, it can all be measured by money.
look at AOL, the backstreet boys, and donald trump. these are all things that have produced tons of cash and are therefore brilliant!
look at ideas that haven't made any money: mozilla, woodstock, the red cross. these are all terrible ideas. if they were good ideas, they would have made lots of money.
the more articles like this scare joe and jane sixpack off of the internet, the sooner it can stop being a means for all people to connect and share data of all kinds and revert back to it's intended purpose: a place for nerds to argue about star trek.
wasn't it apple in the late 90's that apple sued eMachines for marketing a blue computer with a built in monitor, called the eOne?
does anyone else think that apple, the biggest trademark troll in recent history, being sued over a trademark that they don't really own is fairly iRonic?
it's a sad day for MS when i'm more likely to believe they are up to no good than i am to believe they had a good idea.
i hate all the shite that comes installed on an OEM pc, and i am sort of glad that someone like MS does too. since they have the testicles of every major PC manufaturer firmly in their grasp, perhaps something can be done to stop the spread of "craptastic free offers". but in my heart, i am pretty sure that MS is just using this leverage to push one of it's apps or services instead of someone else's. if someone from google or the FSF said the same thing, i would probably accept that there is no sinister motive, but with MS, i have real trouble.
it's also a sad day when i, the leader of the "anything but microsoft" camp, am feeling sort of bad for MS and the position they have gotten themselves into. many of us distrust them and always assume that there is a malicious reason for everything that they do. this mistrust is far from unfounded. they got to where they are with their questionable business practices and anti-competitive behavior, it's not like we all woke up one morning and said "i suddenly hate microsoft".
vista is one of two things: proof positive that MS can't make anything but dancing bologna, or proof positive that they have seen the error of their ways. i'm pretty sure that it's the former. the problem is, even if it is the latter, won't we all just reject it any way? and if we do, will any of us even care?
seeing as how this is the same company that let you rip CD's to the original XBOX harddrive but couldn't do anything else with the resulting files. plus, seeing as how TV over the internets is different than real TV (it's over the internets after all!) and DVR is a tool that criminals use to "steal" TV (remove advertisments)... well you don't have to be a fortune teller to see the restrictions coming.
it's very entertaining that people think that just because you can get a TV show from the internet to appear on a device that has a harddrive that you are therefore able to store the TV show on said hard drive and view it at your leisure. i doubt seriously that the 360's IPTV will afford you the kind freedoms that you are so accustomed to with digital TV... especially when you take into consideration the rather large amount of hollywood semen that MS had to swallow in order to move forward with it's crop of media offerings.
yeah, i have had to "find" people's favorites in IE7 that are now "hidden" under the yellow star. i can hardly wait to re-teach 400 people how to use excel.
it depends on the tracker. i am part of a private one that watches your ratio very closely and assigns you "slots" (concurrent downloads) based on your ratio. 'course i didn't realize that my first day or so and i was downloading using the default gnomeBT client on my ubuntu box which is not very tracker friendly. long story short i had been seeding like a good boy for 48 hours but my ratio was not improving and i got my hands slapped. now that i am using azureus for ubuntu i am going just fine.
i agree. i rent from blockbuster online. i get 3 dvd's at a time, which i can then take to the local video store to swap for a dvd there. plus i get one free coupon per week to take to the local store for another free rental of a video or a game. i pay something like $20 a month. i use the online stuff to rent TV series (so i get them in right order) then go to the store for new releases with my discs/coupon. that's a potential for 7 movies a week, which i really don't have time to watch.
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there are a number of ways, from deep packet inspection (studying packets and throttling those that appear BT-ish) to just cutting the uplink speed for a naughty subscriber. i think i my ISP may have done that to me already, judging by my ratios.
i do my own traffic shaping in my house with a linksys router running openwrt and x-wrt. i do all my BT stuff from a vmware machine dedicated to all things BT (a win2k workstation running uTorrent) and i told the QOS config to file all traffic to and from his internal IP as bulk. i also use QOS to give priority to all traffic to and from my VOIP telephone adapter.
in case you are not a linksys firmware freak... putting openwrt on your router is like upgrading your PC to openBSD. loading x-wrt on your openwrt router is like installing KDE on your openBSD machine.
the result is BT can leech and seed 24x7x365, the humans in the house can surf and game unimpeeded and phone calls suffer no jitter from MMORPGS or BT.
i feel sort of like a hypocrite for being a net neutrality fanboy and using QOS inside my firewall... but at least i can trust myself to not degrade my access in favor of my own proprietary offerings.
some may say i am a little too trusting, but i have known me for a long time... i think we can trust eachother.
i will: you're whiner.
sorry, i couldn't resist :-)
seriously tho, you are spot on about the junk accounts problem. i would imagine that 75% of those accounts are used by bots and spammers.
i quit using yahoo when the email/IM spam became unbearable and then my account got hijacked.
nah, stallman is god the father, torvolds is god the son, and the GPL is god the holy spirit.
i can't tell you how many times i would use some old disk to rawrite a linux/BSD installer on, just to find that it didn't work. the first thing they tell you is that you should use new disks with rawrite... but i wouldn't remember that until i had toasted every disc in the house. i am sure many boxes of floppies have been purchased in the middle of the night under those exact circumstances.
floppies have always been pretty much disposable, but having a bootable disk that did something important (NTFS support for dos, NTLDR and NTDetect, password "recovery", emergency virus scanner, you name it) was often what saved the day for your typical IT grunt. i would use rawread or dd to take snapshots of important floppies and stash them on the network somewhere should the need for them arise.
i suppose all of those handy utilities can be rolled into a single live cd now but my liveCD kung fu is significantly weaker than my DOS kung fu :-(
when it comes to identity or credit fraud, the amount lost each year pales in comparrison to the legitimate purchases made each year. for every poor schmoe that has a bestbuy credit card opened in his name, there are a thousand that go on thousand dollar shopping sprees every day. no one will fix the credit approval process because "impulse buying" is the only growth industry left in the USA.
well, i thought that the beauty of grid computing was that it could be made of disperate architectures and that the translating was handled by the "client"... or whatever you call the program that lets a node talk to the grid.
isn't it the same deal, only for interprocess communication? it seems that the cluster/grid engineers already solved this one and you just have to miniaturize the whole thing to work between cores instead of between nodes.
one thing i learned in the very brief dotcom era experience that i had working with a software architect is that in the interest of producing new and clever ideas, sometimes it's tough to see new ways to apply old ideas.
i'm not trying to insinuate that i know more abou this stuff than the chief architect at IBM, i'm just saying that sometimes, a simple solution is often "too simple" to be entertained at the architecture level.
that's my question. why not put some scheduler thing in the OS to load balance between cores?
with all of this talk about virtualization as the future of rock and roll, why can't you just stick your legacy apps into some container and have the container take a single core all to itself? presumably clockspeeds will continue to increase along with the ability to put more cores on a stick. if virtualization software can imitate dual processors on a single core, why can't you do the reverse as well and use virtualization to span processes intended for a single processor over multiple cores?
from what i gather, the tricky issue with the cell is that not all of it's cores are created equal, with one core that rules the others, lord of the rings style. if that is true, why would i use a cell when using a current or future iteration of an X86 multicore processor would introduce fewer problems?
i think the "dumb terminal" for the laptop crowd is the "outlook web access + citrix web apps + securID" stack where all you need is an internet connected PC and a browser. i have seen it used by folks on vacation, home sick, or when a firewall doesn't play nicely with your VPN client.
done and done.
you forgot ugly, lazy, and disrespectful.
you seem to be stuck on the fact that you can't record individual tracks and create your own playlists. you might also think that it matters the songs cannot be copied from or otherwise accessed by any means other than the playback unit. it all seems very logical but i think that you are missing some key music industry logic.
the device records MP3's from music broadcast on satellite radio. according to the music industry, all MP3's are stolen, including those that that are created for fair use and stored on a device that it is physically impossible to copy them from. er go, the machine encourages the theft of music and threatens the very fabric of civilization.
your argument breaks down because tape recorders record to tapes rather than destroying america with mp3's.
Actually, it was invented by publishers, to preserve an information ownership monopoly based on a government censorship policy. quote taken from the question copyright webiste.
the beta is restricted to a platform for which i only have one working machine and that machine is not up to the challenge hardware wise. i wish i couldi have seen is the splash screen. but it is quite a splash screen!
or rather, it would have it's place if it's current implementations didn't suck so bad.
i wish that some provider (other than bittorrent) could come up with a way to get releases out on par and on time with a DVD release. most movies i want to watch once or twice and then move on. renting from the video store is ok, but there are logistical hurdles such as avalaibility. if there were a service that could put movies on my HTPC within a day or two of their respective DVDs dropping, i would be quite interested.
the way the system works now, i have to get a disc from netflix/blockbuster online or go to the video store and rent it, which would work if i could get the disc when i walked into the store, but if it is a very recent release (less than a week) it's out of stock and i have to wait. my alternatives are to get a rip of some sort from bit torrent, but there are 0dayz issues with that much akin to the avalability issues i have with physical media. unless there is a screener or the DVDrip hits the scene before the retail release, the wait is shorter, but involves a bit more work (download, seed, extract, maybe even patch and/or encode, then burn) which is fine for something you want to keep, but is a bit involved for something i'm gong to watch once and hand off to friend.
so, if i could get a cheap stream with little or no wait, within a day or two of the video hitting store shelves i would be interested. if the quality of the film warrants it, i can obtain a copy later by other means and under other terms based on convenience and price (BT, rent and rip, used/bargain bin, or gaffle a friend's copy), and in the rare case of an epic classic, pay retail for a copy or a kewl box set. but for TV series and disposable releases like "dude where's my car?" i just want to watch it when it becomes available and move on to the next thing. that seems to be where streaming from the internet comes into play.
the problem with the current crop of stream/dowload.on demand services is that they all suck. they either lack selection (vongo), lack timely release (in the case of PPV and VOD from the cable company) or require some sort of phone home player that i don't want on my HTPC (everything else), and/or cost as much as a video store rental.
i object. the purest measure of something is the money that it produces. intelligence, charm, good looks, it can all be measured by money.
look at AOL, the backstreet boys, and donald trump. these are all things that have produced tons of cash and are therefore brilliant!
look at ideas that haven't made any money: mozilla, woodstock, the red cross. these are all terrible ideas. if they were good ideas, they would have made lots of money.
i think it's more like playing chicken with a train.
the more articles like this scare joe and jane sixpack off of the internet, the sooner it can stop being a means for all people to connect and share data of all kinds and revert back to it's intended purpose: a place for nerds to argue about star trek.
wasn't it apple in the late 90's that apple sued eMachines for marketing a blue computer with a built in monitor, called the eOne?
does anyone else think that apple, the biggest trademark troll in recent history, being sued over a trademark that they don't really own is fairly iRonic?
that's the name they will use for the new apple car, endorsed by adam west. "quickly robin! to the iMobile!"
but just kinda.
it's a sad day for MS when i'm more likely to believe they are up to no good than i am to believe they had a good idea.
i hate all the shite that comes installed on an OEM pc, and i am sort of glad that someone like MS does too. since they have the testicles of every major PC manufaturer firmly in their grasp, perhaps something can be done to stop the spread of "craptastic free offers". but in my heart, i am pretty sure that MS is just using this leverage to push one of it's apps or services instead of someone else's. if someone from google or the FSF said the same thing, i would probably accept that there is no sinister motive, but with MS, i have real trouble.
it's also a sad day when i, the leader of the "anything but microsoft" camp, am feeling sort of bad for MS and the position they have gotten themselves into. many of us distrust them and always assume that there is a malicious reason for everything that they do. this mistrust is far from unfounded. they got to where they are with their questionable business practices and anti-competitive behavior, it's not like we all woke up one morning and said "i suddenly hate microsoft".
vista is one of two things: proof positive that MS can't make anything but dancing bologna, or proof positive that they have seen the error of their ways. i'm pretty sure that it's the former. the problem is, even if it is the latter, won't we all just reject it any way? and if we do, will any of us even care?
on what grounds?
on the grounds that it's disasterous to my case.
seeing as how this is the same company that let you rip CD's to the original XBOX harddrive but couldn't do anything else with the resulting files. plus, seeing as how TV over the internets is different than real TV (it's over the internets after all!) and DVR is a tool that criminals use to "steal" TV (remove advertisments)... well you don't have to be a fortune teller to see the restrictions coming.
it's very entertaining that people think that just because you can get a TV show from the internet to appear on a device that has a harddrive that you are therefore able to store the TV show on said hard drive and view it at your leisure. i doubt seriously that the 360's IPTV will afford you the kind freedoms that you are so accustomed to with digital TV... especially when you take into consideration the rather large amount of hollywood semen that MS had to swallow in order to move forward with it's crop of media offerings.
yeah, i have had to "find" people's favorites in IE7 that are now "hidden" under the yellow star. i can hardly wait to re-teach 400 people how to use excel.
it depends on the tracker. i am part of a private one that watches your ratio very closely and assigns you "slots" (concurrent downloads) based on your ratio. 'course i didn't realize that my first day or so and i was downloading using the default gnomeBT client on my ubuntu box which is not very tracker friendly. long story short i had been seeding like a good boy for 48 hours but my ratio was not improving and i got my hands slapped. now that i am using azureus for ubuntu i am going just fine.
i agree. i rent from blockbuster online. i get 3 dvd's at a time, which i can then take to the local video store to swap for a dvd there. plus i get one free coupon per week to take to the local store for another free rental of a video or a game. i pay something like $20 a month. i use the online stuff to rent TV series (so i get them in right order) then go to the store for new releases with my discs/coupon. that's a potential for 7 movies a week, which i really don't have time to watch.