Except that nowdays Usenet has moved to using par2 to recover files, and thus there's absolutely no reason to segment files anymore. If the file can actually be compressed, sure, but segmented? No.
A very very few people have caught up with the times, and just split AVIs, or even post the entire huge file, and you download everything you can get, put it together, and download pars to fill in the cracks. It works fine.
Clients are even including par2 support themselves, where they automatically download the smaller par2 (The empty one) and see how many blocks they need, and download that many, and magically repair the file before you knew anything was wrong.
I've heard a lot of excuses for this 'raring avis' and not one of them holds up anymore. Stop compressing the damn files.
And, yes, there are people with old crappy clients out there that won't download fiules where parts are missing. This is a) idiotic, and b) not important, as everyone has switched over to using yEnc, and thus old clients don't work at all!
So, basically, the 'small files work best on Usenet' is dead.
And small files have never worked better on FTP, because FTP has always had something called 'resume'.
rars don't have anything to do with pars. You can make pars on anything.
Right now, almost all content you find that has pars has coincidentally been compressed with rar, but that's not because they work well together or anything. I've seen both mp3s and avis that have pars.
I have 7-zip. It doesn't have drag and dtop intergration, but it does have 'Extract to here' and 'Extract to foldername', where folder name is based on the archive name.
See, the big problem is that silt settles. Putting new, unsettled silt would raise the land, but the buildings would start sinking must faster, because that silt isn't settled at all.
Or, at least, that's what I think would happen.
Although part of the problem isn't 'silt settling', per se, it's pumping water out. See, if you let the water collect, the city floods (Duh. Where would it drain to?), so they're constantly pumping water out of the water table.
However, removing the water makes the ground settle faster!
The point I am trying to make, and people seem intent on nitpicking is that 'From what I understand, their problem is they were hit with a fucking hurricane. ' is simply NOT TRUE.
It's akin to, for a silly example, someone laying on top of a car that's driving around, and getting hit by another car. Yes, the technical problem may be they got hit by a car, but the actual problem, the one that made it fifty times worse than anyone else in exactly that situtation, is that they were laying on top of the damn car instead of being safely inside it.
Likewise, New Orleans' problem is that they are under sea level, with water surrounding them, barely held back by jury-rigged levies and pumps. The hurricane just knocked over the house of cards.
Anyone else who got hit exactly the same amount by a hurricane of this power would be, at this point, holding memorial services and calculating repair costs. New Orleans is currently trying to locate people standed on roofs. There are still dead people floating around!
I've seen towns with paths through them completely demolished by hurricanes, and the rest of the town is operating the next day if it was just wind, or a few days later if water flooded in.
The problem New Orleans faces is not hurricane damage, it's not even really 'flooding', as flooding implies abnormally high water that will receed. The problem New Orleans faces is 'being under the damn ocean'.
Actually, the reason I was asking why people would want to live in the city and work elsewhere, because if they are commuting elsewhere they presumably have money, whereas the actual environs of the Atlanta housing is full of...well...poor people. And college students near GSU and GA Tech. (Whether or not you can detect the difference between 'poor people' and 'college students' is an interesting puzzle.)
However, I was kidding, because they don't actually live in Altanta proper, they live in the 'first-tier' subdivisions, places right at the Perimeter like Sandy Springs, the first subdivisions built, and commute outward from there to places like Windward, which has a lot of office parks.
Cities that get 'hit' by hurricanes do not exist after that point, as there are not any buildings there anymore, at least not in the path. 73+ mph winds are nothing for building, as evidenced by the fact there are still buildings up. It's the 170 mph winds with cars flying through them that takes out buildings.
And plenty of cities have been hit much harder by hurricanes, and continue to exist just fine. Hurricanes cut a very small path of actual destruction...people and buildings in the path end up gone, people nearby just get really wet.
The problem in New Orleans is flooding, not the hurricane. That type of extreme flooding does not normally, and in fact can't, happen during a hurricane...it requires water behind a levy.
Like I said, any normal city would picking up the pieces right now. Power would be back up at random places, crews would be trying to restore water, any flooding would be almost gone.
The problem is that New Orleans has been holding back nature so long. Now nature has arrived, and it's going to take a long time to remove it.
That's what I think we ought to say. But we can do it in a way that no one could complain. We just say:
Here's your aid check. Feel free to rebuild however you want, wherever you want.
Water? You want to know when the water is leaving?
Well, we're not rebuilding the pumps and levies, so probably in a few hundred years when the silt is built back up, we assume. But the city's open again, if you have some sort of boat...
Yes, maybe it would be easiest if you were to relocate to another city, we hadn't thought of that. Good idea.
Hey, if you turn your deed in on your way out you won't have to pay property taxes.
That's why, when you build next to the river, you make sure there's lower land on the other side of the river. Put up a ten foot high fence just in case. Tada. The river floods the other way.
As for the sinking, that's why you don't build right next to the river. Feel free to sink below river level if you've got a large hill between you and the river.
And, yes, we know they didn't plan it, but it's right at the top of stupid-ass places to locate a major town, like Los Angelos and Seattle. We certainly shouldn't rebuild it there if we can help it, or at least shouldn't pretend we can keep back the water.
The city didn't get hit with a hurricane. It barely missed them. But it passed them safely by.
Then the system of levies and pumps couldn't handle the amount of water and two levies overflowed and broke, flooding the city.
Any other city would be drying out and restoring power about now. New Orleans is stuck underwater, and will be for the forseeable future, until they fix the dikes and pump the water out.
However, you are correct in that the dead we know of now are because of the hurricane. Something like 30 people alone died in a building that blew over, and you obviously can't blame that on the flooding. Many of the dead we know about we learned about before the flooding.
However, we don't know how many people drown until the city gets back to functioning. There could be thousands of people who got trapped in their houses and drowned.
And a lot of people are going to die because of lack of drinking water and power.
Even if the Mississippi was flooding through New Orleans on a regular basis, that wouldn't magically put silt under buildings.
There is absolutely no way to stop the buildings from sinking barring some sort of thrusters attached to the sides of the building pulling them up, or digging foundations that are a few hundred feet deep.
What we could is a Rome solution. When the city sinks a story, we throw dirt down and build all the roads a floor higher.;)
In fact, I rather hope they build on top of the rubble instead of clearing it away.
What we need to do is flood it up to sea level. Construct some levies and whatnot there to control waves and stuff, but don't try to control the level.
The parts that are underwater? Build another Venice. Correctly this time.
Make sure there's a flow through the city so you don't get nasty stagent water. And make sure that people understand the base of the city will continue to sink, so they need to either have buildings that can raise up, or buildings where they can just throw away the bottom floor every once in a while.
Build pipe systems to carry a water around, and a system of bridges to drive on. Make the pipe segments more intelligent, where if pressure drops they'll immediately turn that section off, so nasty water doesn't backtrack into the system.
Aternately, we can just require everyone to build water-proof houses, and attach boats to their roofs. When bad weather is coming we can just preemptively slowly open the levies and turn off the pumps so that they don't break.
Because, seriously. We 'protect' New Orleans as long as possible, but we can't design a 'break-proof' system. We either need a system that can't break, or a system we're willing to turn off when horrible weather hits. Either way require New Orleans delibrately being underwater some of the time.
What we must not do it build the damn city back the way it was. Yes, it will probably be cheaper right now. It won't be cheaper in the long run.
It's certainly one of those 'Dear God, I could have been doing that the entire time?!?!' moments. Why the hell can't they list those options on a right click, too?
I just check my tray, and not a single icon except that one presents a different menu on single click and right click. Half of them bring up the menu that comes up on right click also, half of them bring up a window or dialog box, and one of them does nothing on a single click, but not one brings up a different menu with different choices. Not a single one.
The rule is, Microsoft, for future reference: Right click is a menu and double click is an action. Single click can either be the menu, the action, or nothing. If you want us to assume something else you have to tell us.
I hate to have to tell you how your own UI works, but apparently someone wasn't paying attention.
PS: I've met other people who know that, but not one who claims to have discovered it themselves. Are you one of those few, or did someone tell you?
Come to think of it, I learned it here. Maybe there's just one guy who learned it, and he's spreading it around slowly.
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This was the town hit by Katrina as it came ashore.
A very very few people have caught up with the times, and just split AVIs, or even post the entire huge file, and you download everything you can get, put it together, and download pars to fill in the cracks. It works fine.
Clients are even including par2 support themselves, where they automatically download the smaller par2 (The empty one) and see how many blocks they need, and download that many, and magically repair the file before you knew anything was wrong.
I've heard a lot of excuses for this 'raring avis' and not one of them holds up anymore. Stop compressing the damn files.
And, yes, there are people with old crappy clients out there that won't download fiules where parts are missing. This is a) idiotic, and b) not important, as everyone has switched over to using yEnc, and thus old clients don't work at all!
So, basically, the 'small files work best on Usenet' is dead.
And small files have never worked better on FTP, because FTP has always had something called 'resume'.
Right now, almost all content you find that has pars has coincidentally been compressed with rar, but that's not because they work well together or anything. I've seen both mp3s and avis that have pars.
I have 7-zip. It doesn't have drag and dtop intergration, but it does have 'Extract to here' and 'Extract to foldername', where folder name is based on the archive name.
See, the big problem is that silt settles. Putting new, unsettled silt would raise the land, but the buildings would start sinking must faster, because that silt isn't settled at all.
Or, at least, that's what I think would happen.
Although part of the problem isn't 'silt settling', per se, it's pumping water out. See, if you let the water collect, the city floods (Duh. Where would it drain to?), so they're constantly pumping water out of the water table.
However, removing the water makes the ground settle faster!
It's akin to, for a silly example, someone laying on top of a car that's driving around, and getting hit by another car. Yes, the technical problem may be they got hit by a car, but the actual problem, the one that made it fifty times worse than anyone else in exactly that situtation, is that they were laying on top of the damn car instead of being safely inside it.
Likewise, New Orleans' problem is that they are under sea level, with water surrounding them, barely held back by jury-rigged levies and pumps. The hurricane just knocked over the house of cards.
Anyone else who got hit exactly the same amount by a hurricane of this power would be, at this point, holding memorial services and calculating repair costs. New Orleans is currently trying to locate people standed on roofs. There are still dead people floating around!
I've seen towns with paths through them completely demolished by hurricanes, and the rest of the town is operating the next day if it was just wind, or a few days later if water flooded in.
The problem New Orleans faces is not hurricane damage, it's not even really 'flooding', as flooding implies abnormally high water that will receed. The problem New Orleans faces is 'being under the damn ocean'.
However, I was kidding, because they don't actually live in Altanta proper, they live in the 'first-tier' subdivisions, places right at the Perimeter like Sandy Springs, the first subdivisions built, and commute outward from there to places like Windward, which has a lot of office parks.
But you still can't blame that on 'below sea level' silliness. That can happen in any coastal city that has old buildings near the shore.
A system that can't break is one that has no failure mode at all.
At least, that's what I meant.
And plenty of cities have been hit much harder by hurricanes, and continue to exist just fine. Hurricanes cut a very small path of actual destruction...people and buildings in the path end up gone, people nearby just get really wet.
The problem in New Orleans is flooding, not the hurricane. That type of extreme flooding does not normally, and in fact can't, happen during a hurricane...it requires water behind a levy.
Like I said, any normal city would picking up the pieces right now. Power would be back up at random places, crews would be trying to restore water, any flooding would be almost gone.
The problem is that New Orleans has been holding back nature so long. Now nature has arrived, and it's going to take a long time to remove it.
Well, it certainly wipes out the 'Windows is more user-friendly' idea.
Aren't all scorpions 'poisonous'? Maybe not to the extent they can kill a human being, but that is how scorpions eat, by stabbing with poison.
I fail to see the difference between those two approaches. The entire history of New Orleans has been 'delaying the problem'.
Windmills do not operate in a hurricane, no. That would be extremely goofy.
Here's your aid check. Feel free to rebuild however you want, wherever you want.
Water? You want to know when the water is leaving?
Well, we're not rebuilding the pumps and levies, so probably in a few hundred years when the silt is built back up, we assume. But the city's open again, if you have some sort of boat...
Yes, maybe it would be easiest if you were to relocate to another city, we hadn't thought of that. Good idea.
Hey, if you turn your deed in on your way out you won't have to pay property taxes.
Or if they're going off body heat, why not just heat up some water filled bags in roughly the right shape?
New Orleans, in it's present form, has only been there about 170. And it's not going to be there in 100 no matter what.
500 years would be great.
As for the sinking, that's why you don't build right next to the river. Feel free to sink below river level if you've got a large hill between you and the river.
And, yes, we know they didn't plan it, but it's right at the top of stupid-ass places to locate a major town, like Los Angelos and Seattle. We certainly shouldn't rebuild it there if we can help it, or at least shouldn't pretend we can keep back the water.
Morbo says, "Windmills do not work that way!"
Then the system of levies and pumps couldn't handle the amount of water and two levies overflowed and broke, flooding the city.
Any other city would be drying out and restoring power about now. New Orleans is stuck underwater, and will be for the forseeable future, until they fix the dikes and pump the water out.
However, you are correct in that the dead we know of now are because of the hurricane. Something like 30 people alone died in a building that blew over, and you obviously can't blame that on the flooding. Many of the dead we know about we learned about before the flooding.
However, we don't know how many people drown until the city gets back to functioning. There could be thousands of people who got trapped in their houses and drowned.
And a lot of people are going to die because of lack of drinking water and power.
Why? Because the land is sinking. Raising it is just delaying solving the problem.
There is absolutely no way to stop the buildings from sinking barring some sort of thrusters attached to the sides of the building pulling them up, or digging foundations that are a few hundred feet deep.
What we could is a Rome solution. When the city sinks a story, we throw dirt down and build all the roads a floor higher. ;)
In fact, I rather hope they build on top of the rubble instead of clearing it away.
What we need to do is flood it up to sea level. Construct some levies and whatnot there to control waves and stuff, but don't try to control the level.
The parts that are underwater? Build another Venice. Correctly this time.
Make sure there's a flow through the city so you don't get nasty stagent water. And make sure that people understand the base of the city will continue to sink, so they need to either have buildings that can raise up, or buildings where they can just throw away the bottom floor every once in a while.
Build pipe systems to carry a water around, and a system of bridges to drive on. Make the pipe segments more intelligent, where if pressure drops they'll immediately turn that section off, so nasty water doesn't backtrack into the system.
Aternately, we can just require everyone to build water-proof houses, and attach boats to their roofs. When bad weather is coming we can just preemptively slowly open the levies and turn off the pumps so that they don't break.
Because, seriously. We 'protect' New Orleans as long as possible, but we can't design a 'break-proof' system. We either need a system that can't break, or a system we're willing to turn off when horrible weather hits. Either way require New Orleans delibrately being underwater some of the time.
What we must not do it build the damn city back the way it was. Yes, it will probably be cheaper right now. It won't be cheaper in the long run.
I just check my tray, and not a single icon except that one presents a different menu on single click and right click. Half of them bring up the menu that comes up on right click also, half of them bring up a window or dialog box, and one of them does nothing on a single click, but not one brings up a different menu with different choices. Not a single one.
The rule is, Microsoft, for future reference: Right click is a menu and double click is an action. Single click can either be the menu, the action, or nothing. If you want us to assume something else you have to tell us.
I hate to have to tell you how your own UI works, but apparently someone wasn't paying attention.
PS: I've met other people who know that, but not one who claims to have discovered it themselves. Are you one of those few, or did someone tell you?
Come to think of it, I learned it here. Maybe there's just one guy who learned it, and he's spreading it around slowly.
In fact, USB helped that, because most USB devices have a 'low power' mode.