Git is a means of sharing and tracking changes to source code for a software project. Formerly, you needed a central server to do that. Now, with GitTorrent, it can be distributed among individual machines.
GitTorrent is designed to lower the bar for starting a multi-person software project, making it easier and cheaper for developers to collaborate with each other.
As a side effect, since there's no central server, it will be difficult for an authority to take down or block GitTorrent projects. I suspect GitTorrent will be popular with people developing software that is politically or legally troublesome in their country.
To be fair, activation-requiring games haven't been around very long. You might have a different opinion in a few years when EA decides old games are past their "support date" and turns off the activation servers, or you've upgraded your PC a few times and run out of re-activations.
Many game publishers regularly shut down all online support for their games a few years after release. Services like Direct2Drive and the Microsoft Store limit your activations or remove downloads after a certain period of time. Steam is the exception in this case, as they explicitly state that they will never remove or disable your games, but many publishers insist on adding their own activation scheme on top of Steam's DRM.
Claiming that DRM hasn't bothered you reminds me of the optimist falling from the skyscraper: Every few floors he tells himself "I'm feeling fine, so far!"
> "However, I now live 5 minutes from the center of a capital city and due to archaic telephone infrastructure cannot get ADSL, and even line noise is too great for dialup!"
Must have taken hours just to type that sentence. That's what I call d e d i c a t i o n!!
Actually, with a little practice you can get pretty fast with a telegraph. But tapping out the http headers probably slowed things down a bit.
SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo were purely sub-orbital; they were glorified rocket planes that didn't carry anywhere near the fuel necessary to reach orbital velocity. SpaceShipThree, on the other hand, will reach orbit, but it will almost certainly be a multi-stage craft.
And while discarding empty fuel tanks may be wasteful, it would be far more wasteful to expend the enormous amount of fuel required to carry the entire craft to orbit.
Until we find a better means of propulsion than rocket fuel, multi-stage craft are the most resource-efficient means of attaining orbit.
The counter-argument is that dissatisfaction drives innovation. If everybody figured what they had now was good enough and learned to live within their means, there'd be no reason to advance technology. We'd still be connecting to the Internet with 300 baud modems. Or we'd still be naked, huddling in caves.
As a far more eloquent man put it—
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I think you forgot to convert square miles to square feet. The odds would be less than one in a quadrillion. The chance the debris will hit *any* human is more like one in 100,000.
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/me runs off to patent the "Space Canoe".
Just when you thought it was safe to form new memories...
The nyud.net links weren't working for me. Here's a pic on DVICE, at least.
Not at all.
Git is a means of sharing and tracking changes to source code for a software project. Formerly, you needed a central server to do that. Now, with GitTorrent, it can be distributed among individual machines.
GitTorrent is designed to lower the bar for starting a multi-person software project, making it easier and cheaper for developers to collaborate with each other.
As a side effect, since there's no central server, it will be difficult for an authority to take down or block GitTorrent projects. I suspect GitTorrent will be popular with people developing software that is politically or legally troublesome in their country.
To be fair, activation-requiring games haven't been around very long. You might have a different opinion in a few years when EA decides old games are past their "support date" and turns off the activation servers, or you've upgraded your PC a few times and run out of re-activations.
Many game publishers regularly shut down all online support for their games a few years after release. Services like Direct2Drive and the Microsoft Store limit your activations or remove downloads after a certain period of time. Steam is the exception in this case, as they explicitly state that they will never remove or disable your games, but many publishers insist on adding their own activation scheme on top of Steam's DRM.
Claiming that DRM hasn't bothered you reminds me of the optimist falling from the skyscraper: Every few floors he tells himself "I'm feeling fine, so far!"
I thought the quotation marks were self-explanatory. He was referring to figurative concrete. Abstract concrete.
So I assume you also avoid any open source software that runs on Windows or OS X?
Erect a vortex generator instead of groins and you can control flow and generate electricity.
Yes, but you completely ignore the benefits of erecting groins.
Yes, what horrible parent would buy their child such a thing?
Is that a joke?
I'm fairly certain that if you looked at the Earth and kept panning east or west, you'd see the same image over and over. Try it with Google Maps.
> "However, I now live 5 minutes from the center of a capital city and due to archaic telephone infrastructure cannot get ADSL, and even line noise is too great for dialup!"
Must have taken hours just to type that sentence. That's what I call d e d i c a t i o n!!
Actually, with a little practice you can get pretty fast with a telegraph. But tapping out the http headers probably slowed things down a bit.
The summary is misleading. TFA says that the source is available on their web site.
FWIW, you can't use the GPL if you don't make the source available.
Oops, yeah, I meant to say "are".
Maybe after I heard the SS2 won't be pushing the envelope any further than the SS1 I subconsciously started considering it old news.
CENSORSHIP!
SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo were purely sub-orbital; they were glorified rocket planes that didn't carry anywhere near the fuel necessary to reach orbital velocity. SpaceShipThree, on the other hand, will reach orbit, but it will almost certainly be a multi-stage craft.
And while discarding empty fuel tanks may be wasteful, it would be far more wasteful to expend the enormous amount of fuel required to carry the entire craft to orbit.
Until we find a better means of propulsion than rocket fuel, multi-stage craft are the most resource-efficient means of attaining orbit.
There goes a man with his own theme music.
The counter-argument is that dissatisfaction drives innovation. If everybody figured what they had now was good enough and learned to live within their means, there'd be no reason to advance technology. We'd still be connecting to the Internet with 300 baud modems. Or we'd still be naked, huddling in caves.
As a far more eloquent man put it—
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw
I think you forgot to convert square miles to square feet. The odds would be less than one in a quadrillion. The chance the debris will hit *any* human is more like one in 100,000.
But then how would they call themselves Republicans?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you're voting for Obama, not McCain?
To be fair, Epsilon Eridani is featured in quite a few works of fiction.
Frighteningly, I seem to be even more of a Trek geek than you are — Vulcan is in the 40 Eridani star system, aka Omicron Eridani, not Epsilon Eridani.
Poor Zathras. Never any rest for Zathras.
You are familiar with that whole square-cube thing, right?
Birds are amazing athletes, but there's a reason why the largest flying species is around 20 kilos.
Then you call Tom Selleck?