Most likely because the source you're doing your FTP/HTTP downloads from isn't fast enough. Both FTP and HTTP are undeniably more efficient than Bittorrent, even in the unlikely event that the torrent you're leeching from is maxing your connection.
I don't know about you, but given adequate capacity, I prefer to get my files via FTP or HTTP. Bittorrent is fundamentally unreliable when it comes to download speed and susceptible to packet shaping and the likes. In order to slow this down, theoretically, assuming that all paths are available you'd have to throttle the native P2P as well as FTP -and- HTTP, and I don't know of many ISPs that throttle even FTP, let alone HTTP.
Bittorrent is neat and handy if you don't have the capacity or balls to exclusively host the content centrally. This is not at all Bittorrent, in that it seems to primarily target content already hosted centrally, and allow it the flexibility to spread the content across several geographically seperated sites without the need for a list of localised links, while also providing alternative protocol and multiple-host download methods, as opposed to just using a multitude of random users whom you have no control over to spread your content.
It's stunningly obvious that you're incapable of logical deduction without having it spelled out, but please keep your frustrations about that to yourself.
My fiancée and I recently played through the 14 day trial, and at the end of it, we both agreed that if the PvE elements were more organised, we would probably have bought the game and kept playing.
My question is whether or not CCP has any plans on expanding the PvE mission system to allow gang missions where all party members can participate in the same mission, as long as they all have the required standing.
The game is brilliant and it has a lot of potential to us, but what's keeping us from playing it is that playing PvE together seems less co-operative and more like we're just lending eachother a helping hand, which isn't really what we look for in games.
"Now, you'll have to set a new password once a month. You *cannot* write it down for security reasons, so make sure it's something you remember."
Walk through the offices four months later, flip the keyboards, and you'll find post-it notes with the last four passwords they've used placed underneath. Typically "1, 2, , 4." Teaching doesn't work.
Relying on unreliable things for security is a Bad Thing, and the user is always the most unreliable part of any security system.
Please stop saying that IP theft isn't theft. It is.
Physical manifestation is by definition *not* a prerequisite for theft. If you're in posession of something belonging to someone else without having permission, it is theft.
John Calvert, a retired attorney who helped found the group, accused the board of promoting atheism. And Greg Lassey, a retired Wichita-area biology teacher, said the new standards undermine families by "discrediting parents who reject materialism and the ethics and morals it fosters." Perhaps there's something I'm not getting here, but if this supposedly "undermines" families, is he advocating that parents should decide what their children think instead of letting them settle on what they find most reasonable?
I guess this guy is going all out with his conservatism.
Extortion is obtaining something by threat. A civil suit over copyright infringement is the commonly expected and arguably inevitable consequence of the illegal actions taken on the part of the defendant.
Saying that Microsoft threatened with suing them over copyright infringement is like saying that insurance companies are threatening you by offering you life insurances because you're going to die one day.
Microsoft gave them a break. Don't like the terms? They didn't have to accept it. They could have just accepted their responsibility.
It doesn't matter if it's a school, a church, a program for the disadvantaged or a multi-billion dollar corporation. Stealing is stealing. Blaming the victim because you favour the offender is stupid on too many levels to explain.
If it looks like theft, smells like theft and is punished like theft, it's probably theft, regardless of what fancy words the legal system can come up with for it. There's nothing about copyright infringement that doesn't fit into the dictionary definition of theft.
Don't be pedantic. There's a difference between caching to manage resources and caching to make copyrighted material available to the public as part of a commercial service.
If your argument depends on you being as pedantic and semantic as possible, why keep arguing? It's noise and avoiding the actual subject.
A robbery isn't necessarily violent. Copying intellectual property is stealing. Stealing doesn't necessarily involve physical objects.
I'd comment on the rest of your post, but it all seems to be based in the warped view that copying intellectual property without permission isn't stealing, and as idealistic as you might be, there's a whole legal system opposing that view.
It's been debated to death. Copying intellectual property without permission is theft. Deal with it.
We here in Denmark have the same kinds of levies on anything that could even remotely be considered a vessel for piracy. Cassettes, video tapes, CDs, DVDs, memory cards, USB pen drive, ink cartridges, hell, even printer paper IIRC.
The money goes to artists, with a bit of it being used to fund "new artists", usually meaning that a painter or a writer whose work gets exposure to no more than four or five people gets subsidised with my money. The majority of it, however, goes to all "major" Danish music artists, distributed according to who gets played most on the radio.
That means that when I buy a memory card for my camera, I'm involuntarily paying some failed liberal arts drop-out, and whoever's getting their horrible music played most by braindead radio hosts. All because my images apparently somehow, in some way may end up infringing on their intellectual property.
Despite of this, there's a very active and immoral anti-piracy campaign going on here.
I should start an organisation and impose levies on cars because there's a slight possibility that one might hit me one day. And when they do, I'll sue them anyway.
And knowing that you're autistic, you should have the experience to know that while dealing with other people's emotions is difficult for you, other people will invariably be different from you, and many will appreciate having a choice in the matter, even if you disagree.
Thank God he didn't have a choice about how to lead his own life. This is a very sound argument. Imagine the profits and scientific advances we would have missed, had we not been able to capitalise on their mental conditions.
One would think that if you have a slipstreamed install, you could just rip the offending drivers from the driver.cab cabinet file on the CD so that it won't have any alternatives.
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Most likely because the source you're doing your FTP/HTTP downloads from isn't fast enough. Both FTP and HTTP are undeniably more efficient than Bittorrent, even in the unlikely event that the torrent you're leeching from is maxing your connection.
I don't know about you, but given adequate capacity, I prefer to get my files via FTP or HTTP. Bittorrent is fundamentally unreliable when it comes to download speed and susceptible to packet shaping and the likes. In order to slow this down, theoretically, assuming that all paths are available you'd have to throttle the native P2P as well as FTP -and- HTTP, and I don't know of many ISPs that throttle even FTP, let alone HTTP.
Bittorrent is neat and handy if you don't have the capacity or balls to exclusively host the content centrally. This is not at all Bittorrent, in that it seems to primarily target content already hosted centrally, and allow it the flexibility to spread the content across several geographically seperated sites without the need for a list of localised links, while also providing alternative protocol and multiple-host download methods, as opposed to just using a multitude of random users whom you have no control over to spread your content.
Thank the Schengen agreement.
Actually, he did validate his point.
It's stunningly obvious that you're incapable of logical deduction without having it spelled out, but please keep your frustrations about that to yourself.
My fiancée and I recently played through the 14 day trial, and at the end of it, we both agreed that if the PvE elements were more organised, we would probably have bought the game and kept playing.
My question is whether or not CCP has any plans on expanding the PvE mission system to allow gang missions where all party members can participate in the same mission, as long as they all have the required standing.
The game is brilliant and it has a lot of potential to us, but what's keeping us from playing it is that playing PvE together seems less co-operative and more like we're just lending eachother a helping hand, which isn't really what we look for in games.
What's with the TTL? Interplanetary routers? That's pretty ambitious!
"Now, you'll have to set a new password once a month. You *cannot* write it down for security reasons, so make sure it's something you remember."
Walk through the offices four months later, flip the keyboards, and you'll find post-it notes with the last four passwords they've used placed underneath. Typically "1, 2, , 4." Teaching doesn't work.
Relying on unreliable things for security is a Bad Thing, and the user is always the most unreliable part of any security system.
Amusing considering that North America was built on immigration.
Please stop saying that IP theft isn't theft. It is.
Physical manifestation is by definition *not* a prerequisite for theft. If you're in posession of something belonging to someone else without having permission, it is theft.
I guess this guy is going all out with his conservatism.
Microsoft made them an offer.
Extortion is obtaining something by threat. A civil suit over copyright infringement is the commonly expected and arguably inevitable consequence of the illegal actions taken on the part of the defendant.
Saying that Microsoft threatened with suing them over copyright infringement is like saying that insurance companies are threatening you by offering you life insurances because you're going to die one day.
Microsoft gave them a break. Don't like the terms? They didn't have to accept it. They could have just accepted their responsibility.
It doesn't matter if it's a school, a church, a program for the disadvantaged or a multi-billion dollar corporation. Stealing is stealing. Blaming the victim because you favour the offender is stupid on too many levels to explain.
A new take on an old concept? Using nanotubes?! Who'da thunk it!
Luckily "theft" doesn't necessitate that the victim is deprived. The term is ambiguous enough to work with modern day crimes.
If it looks like theft, smells like theft and is punished like theft, it's probably theft, regardless of what fancy words the legal system can come up with for it. There's nothing about copyright infringement that doesn't fit into the dictionary definition of theft.
Good thing I don't cache pages.
Don't be pedantic. There's a difference between caching to manage resources and caching to make copyrighted material available to the public as part of a commercial service.
If your argument depends on you being as pedantic and semantic as possible, why keep arguing? It's noise and avoiding the actual subject.
A robbery isn't necessarily violent. Copying intellectual property is stealing. Stealing doesn't necessarily involve physical objects.
I'd comment on the rest of your post, but it all seems to be based in the warped view that copying intellectual property without permission isn't stealing, and as idealistic as you might be, there's a whole legal system opposing that view.
It's been debated to death. Copying intellectual property without permission is theft. Deal with it.
If they lose money, it's one in the same. A nitpicking AC? Your post failed.
Hey, that's a great idea.
If you don't want your music copied, don't release it.
If you don't want your book copied, don't release it.
If you don't want your trademarks infringed, don't publicise them.
If you don't want to be robbed, don't walk the streets at night.
Don't complain if you actually decide to do any of these things, 'cause you gave people the opportunity to abuse it.
We here in Denmark have the same kinds of levies on anything that could even remotely be considered a vessel for piracy. Cassettes, video tapes, CDs, DVDs, memory cards, USB pen drive, ink cartridges, hell, even printer paper IIRC.
The money goes to artists, with a bit of it being used to fund "new artists", usually meaning that a painter or a writer whose work gets exposure to no more than four or five people gets subsidised with my money. The majority of it, however, goes to all "major" Danish music artists, distributed according to who gets played most on the radio.
That means that when I buy a memory card for my camera, I'm involuntarily paying some failed liberal arts drop-out, and whoever's getting their horrible music played most by braindead radio hosts. All because my images apparently somehow, in some way may end up infringing on their intellectual property.
Despite of this, there's a very active and immoral anti-piracy campaign going on here.
I should start an organisation and impose levies on cars because there's a slight possibility that one might hit me one day. And when they do, I'll sue them anyway.
And knowing that you're autistic, you should have the experience to know that while dealing with other people's emotions is difficult for you, other people will invariably be different from you, and many will appreciate having a choice in the matter, even if you disagree.
Woooooosh.
Oh definitely.
Thank God he didn't have a choice about how to lead his own life. This is a very sound argument. Imagine the profits and scientific advances we would have missed, had we not been able to capitalise on their mental conditions.
One would think that if you have a slipstreamed install, you could just rip the offending drivers from the driver.cab cabinet file on the CD so that it won't have any alternatives.
Performance enhancing drugs are the cheat codes of physical sports, and the number of avid computer gamers are in the millions as well.
They aren't really comparable, but they do have that much.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.