Although, apparently, soon it may be also a sin to use uTorrent since it's not Free.
A bit of info for you: uTorrent was never Free. It was always free, and chances are it will remain free forever.
uTorrent is without a doubt the best Windows-only client, and it would hardly be a sin to use it. Hell, if you got it to run on Linux, you'd have the undying love of a few thousand people for a few days until someone else stole it. I share the sentiment of other posters when they say, "Who cares?" Mainline is pretty much irrelevant. If you want a good, Free client, you already know about Az.
/me is using Az to seed Bleach 136 ATM. LOL at the losers downloading from me; the manga is so much better.
Worst. Protocol. Ever.
And that's only skimming your description.
Besides, not being able to preview files will pretty much make it useless for anything mainstream. Like pirating crap. So, if this protocol is never used for piracy, it will never need such insane protection from the MAFIAA because it will never blip on their radar. Oh, it can be used for other things, like downloading Linux ISOs? BT already does that. Secure file transfer? LOL Traffic analysis foiling? Tor. What else?
You are coming to a sad realization: Cancel or Allow?
The fact that you dont have to change fstab is no big deal, provided you have the right util-linux package installed, with the relatime user-space patch applied which not even the latest distro devel repositories have included.
since hydro power is cheaper than other sources and provides the public relations advantage of being "greener" than coal or nuke power. I was under the impression that nuclear power was at least greener than everything else (nowadays, maybe it wasn't a while ago). Dams I thought would be hella expensive with the dam itself, and not green because they mess with the river downstream and flood so much upstream. Nukes may be not be greener than wind, but they're most likely cheaper per Watt.
Isohunt fails because it has no comment system. However, it is good as a multiple tracker source. Often I go to TPB and find a good torrent, then search for the hash on Isohunt to get a good list of trackers. Too bad Azureus doesn't trat multiple trackers te same way uTorrent does. Gather together all peers and treat them as one swarm. If it did, Az would probably be perfect in my book.
where the amount of data on plastic & aluminum discs of the sales of just ONE movie in the first week of sales exceeded the aggregate backbone capacity several fold for the same period on the Internet.
I'm sure the data calculation of the discs was easy enough, but how was the Internet backbone limit calculated? I doubt this.
A better codec will shrink that down, but you aren't going to cut it down by more than half without losing picture quality.
LOL. H.264 and Vorbis/MP3 can easily drop 4.7GB of MPEG-2 and AC3 (or whatever's on DVDs) to the size of a CD with relatively little loss in quality, and to 1GB with probably none at all. Yes, I know that a lot of movie DVDs there are DVD-9 (double-layer), but it makes little difference.
Sure current codecs are much better then mpeg1 but I think the law of diminishing returns has kicked in in the formats since mpeg2.
The "Law of Diminishing Returns" is for economics, not lossy/data compression. Since MPEG-2, XviD has halved the size of output files with even an increase in quality, and h.264 has halved it again. I would agree that H.264 may be reaching the limit of video compression, but your law certainly did not kick in at MPEG-2, which is what you meant by mpeg1 I'm sure.
AFAIK the best resolution that GPS can locate you is about 1 meter. If this is the state of the art (and I don't forsee tons of satellites flying up there any time soon), how will all these PDAs and such be able to do anything close to what you're suggesting. Even if they're outfitted with the communicators to the ultra-GPS satellites (making them quite prohibitively expensive), I'm sure they (the satellites) won't be able to take that kind of load.
Wikipedia indicates a minimum 3 meters error as the limit of physics for standard satellites. That is much worse.
I personally suspect that we already have this >Web 2.0 stuff is already here. All I thould have to say is iPhone and Google Maps.
They will if the courts start costing them big-time money (more than they do already). OK, so they're getting $3000 settlements. How much are they paying their pack of lawyers per hour? I bet it's a lot, so even the profit from that might be small.
Start having a bunch of people hitting back. Lawyers in court == more lost money. Start having them losing cases for big money == more lost money. Start having the courts perhaps decide that they lose the rights to press suites in regards to the material they're sueing for (some have indicated that it's possible). Two points.
First, I think a settlement would be out of court, not requiring lawyers to be paid (nearly as much).
Second, it's not about the money. It's about scaring people who don't know better (and some of those that do) into thinking that it's illegal to do anything that they don't say is OK. Losing cases for them is financially not a big deal. Losing cases publically for them is a big deal because it shows anyone who sees it that they are wrong.
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Too much tinfoil in your hat interfering with the brainwaves?
meh
uTorrent is without a doubt the best Windows-only client, and it would hardly be a sin to use it. Hell, if you got it to run on Linux, you'd have the undying love of a few thousand people for a few days until someone else stole it. I share the sentiment of other posters when they say, "Who cares?" Mainline is pretty much irrelevant. If you want a good, Free client, you already know about Az.
And that's only skimming your description.
Besides, not being able to preview files will pretty much make it useless for anything mainstream. Like pirating crap. So, if this protocol is never used for piracy, it will never need such insane protection from the MAFIAA because it will never blip on their radar. Oh, it can be used for other things, like downloading Linux ISOs? BT already does that. Secure file transfer? LOL Traffic analysis foiling? Tor. What else?
You are coming to a sad realization: Cancel or Allow?
What a wonderful post. Seriously, I'm a fan now.
I know it had a lot of typos, but you're getting it a lot more mixed up than that.
Isohunt fails because it has no comment system. However, it is good as a multiple tracker source. Often I go to TPB and find a good torrent, then search for the hash on Isohunt to get a good list of trackers. Too bad Azureus doesn't trat multiple trackers te same way uTorrent does. Gather together all peers and treat them as one swarm. If it did, Az would probably be perfect in my book.
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king-manic wrote: The "Law of Diminishing Returns" is for economics, not lossy/data compression. Since MPEG-2, XviD has halved the size of output files with even an increase in quality, and h.264 has halved it again. I would agree that H.264 may be reaching the limit of video compression, but your law certainly did not kick in at MPEG-2, which is what you meant by mpeg1 I'm sure.
What do you expect?
Who else Laughed Out Loud when they read this?
What are you talking about? It just turned 4 a few minutes ago!
AFAIK the best resolution that GPS can locate you is about 1 meter. If this is the state of the art (and I don't forsee tons of satellites flying up there any time soon), how will all these PDAs and such be able to do anything close to what you're suggesting. Even if they're outfitted with the communicators to the ultra-GPS satellites (making them quite prohibitively expensive), I'm sure they (the satellites) won't be able to take that kind of load.
Wikipedia indicates a minimum 3 meters error as the limit of physics for standard satellites. That is much worse.
I personally suspect that we already have this >Web 2.0 stuff is already here. All I thould have to say is iPhone and Google Maps.
If these words were people, I would embrace their genocide
You figure that out all by your little lonesome?
So apparently Wal*Mart already knows whether or not it will blend.
I would NOT want to power an 8800, much less the rest of a gaming computer...
Start having a bunch of people hitting back. Lawyers in court == more lost money. Start having them losing cases for big money == more lost money. Start having the courts perhaps decide that they lose the rights to press suites in regards to the material they're sueing for (some have indicated that it's possible). Two points.
First, I think a settlement would be out of court, not requiring lawyers to be paid (nearly as much).
Second, it's not about the money. It's about scaring people who don't know better (and some of those that do) into thinking that it's illegal to do anything that they don't say is OK. Losing cases for them is financially not a big deal. Losing cases publically for them is a big deal because it shows anyone who sees it that they are wrong.
what?
>Somehow, I doubt anyone is Van Eck Phreaking your home at the moment
Trust no one!
I'd say more like pulling strings....