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UDP + Math = Fast File Transfers
Wolfger writes: "A new file transfer protocol talked about in EE Times gets data from one place to another without actually transmitting the data..." Well, the information is transmitted, just not in its original form. I think there are a couple of other places working on similar ideas - wasn't there a company using this for a fast file download application? User would go to download a game demo or something, receive pieces from several different places, and knit them together? Wish I could recall the company's name.
word to the mother yo
Anything that helps me get my porn faster is an excellent development!
Prevent linux based DDOS's!
http://linux.denialofservice.org/
You win the "most innovative troll of the year"-Award on Slashdot. Nobody is more annoying than you!
The WIPO Troll now confirms: Slashdot is dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Slashdot community when recently IDC confirmed that Slashdot accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest The WIPO Troll survey which plainly states that Slashdot has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Slashdot's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Slashdot faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Slashdot because Slashdot is dying. Things are looking very bad for Slashdot. As many of us are already aware, Slashdot continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. CmdrTaco is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Hemos leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Hemos. How many users of Timothy are there? Let's see. The number of Hemos versus Timothy posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Timothy users. ChrisD posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Timothy posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of ChrisD. A recent article put CmdrTaco at about 80 percent of the Slashdot market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 CmdrTaco users. This is consistent with the number of CmdrTaco Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of VA Linux, abysmal sales and so on, CmdrTaco went out of business and was taken over by OSDN who sell another troubled OS. Now OSDN is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that Slashdot has steadily declined in market share. Slashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Slashdot is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Slashdot is dead.
This sounds a lot like how vector graphics work. They don't transmit every pixel,but only send the coordinates and the instructions how to draw the image.
Somehow they managed to do the same for applications. maybe they only send the sourcecode and compile the code on location
Now you just need to combine that with the revolutionary algorithm to compress any data to one bit and power your computer by cold fusion, and you got one heck of a file transferring machine!
why thats not a troll you stupid fucking moderator. thats a dumb post, BUT NOT A TROLL. do you guys even like oh i dunno have a fucking brain cell. this is why slashdot sucks. people like the one that modded that post a troll. have a nice day burning in hell, stupid fuck.
So they tag the packets with a "this is part XXX" tag and resend them over and over. Not a big deal
but I can see it being a bandwidth hog.
I wonder how hard it would be to highjack a UDP based session like this. What if bogus packets are injected along with the stream of valid ones. Does the math include any form on encyption? Or is this a tunnel for other protocols? Damn it, we need to move away from clear text protocols, not create new ones!
The whole problem with Microsoft is simply they want people to spend more and more on THEM. Yah, just about every business or corporation is driven by consumer spending, but when they go to the lengths to eliminate competition and restrict consumer privileges it gets totally out of hand. Restricting consumer privileges is what this whole issue is about, right? Microsoft wants consumers to spend more on their products by eliminating the option for consumers to spend on a competing product; illegal and unorthodox business practices in the US the last time I checked. Considering Microsoft has made a clone to just about every popular software product, this is obvious (I even hear in XP they threw out Java and are replacing it with C#). Like Microsoft, the music industry too would rather restrict peoples' use of mp3s--ethically or not--and see them buying CDs and such. Ultimately, Microsoft is a monopoly bent on eliminating any competition in order to increase its own revenue, it's using unfair and illegal business practices, and the computer industry would be better if there was an equal competitor.
Why did it disappear?