Swarm downloads with FEC coded pieces was implemented by Justin Chapweske's Swarmcast in the summer/fall of 2000 at the latest. A year before Bram Cohen even started working on BitTorrent. Bram was using FEC in the Mojo Nation system at the time. Despite this, both Justin and Bram decided not to use FEC in their next systems, WebRAID and BitTorrent.
For their next trick, Microsoft Research Cambridge is investigating how to do one-click shopping by utilizing a database of customer information and browser cookies.
The official mac client is close to release. There is a beta available here. Note that it might resume torrents running from the old client in a different spot, making them start over again. In that case you should stop the torrent, clear it, open the torrent file, and point it at your old download.
There isn't that much left to be done so release should be soon. Mostly remaining is localization, documentation, and a little more polish.
It's got an updated UI, uses a single port, resumes torrents without re-checking, fully customizable toolbar, torrent inspector/editor, and everything can be controlled from the keyboard. Also, the number one request has been filled: you can choose a location for all your torrents to go to seperate from your usual InternetConfig download folder.
Could be because the author of FLAC used to brag about how FLAC losslessly encoded all DRM into zero bits. Maybe Apple felt like it needed it's own format to "protect" the connection to AirportExpress and whatever else they have up their sleeve. Maybe it's because people at Apple are somewhat isolated in an Ivory Tower and weren't aware of FLAC. Maybe they looked at flac and decided it wasn't going anywhere. Maybe they flipped a coin.
George W. Bush told me that global warming is just some tree hugger myth perpetuated by the Enemies of Freedom. They hate our freedom to consume! We must be Firm in our National Resolve to Warm the Planet.
This guy doesn't know what he is talking about
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BitTorrent requires tracker sites to handle all the partial-fragment-negotiation (think of the madness of the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and you get an idea of the cool juggling that a tracker has to do).
If he knew anything about BT, he would know that the tracker only introduces peers to each other. The tracker only knows which peers are finished and which aren't. Each peer then manages it's own "fragment-negotiation" which is really just downloading the rarest pieces from it's own point of view. There isn't any negotiation at all, really.
This paper and all of the recent news articles that provide an estimate for BitTorrent protocol traffic use the same source. A single slide in a presentation by someone from Cache Logic shows BT using 1/2 of all P2P traffic at a "tier 1 ISP." Other sources cite P2P traffic at 66% of all 'net traffic. Therefore, BT is 33%.
I think any estimate made without measurements at many major routers would be suspect. While there is no doubt that BT is quite popular, the evidence presented thus far for the amount of traffic using BT protocol is extremely flimsy. I would take it with a grain of salt.
Not to diminish Justin's formidable skillz, but eDonkey 2000 was out and had tens of thousands of users before Swarmcast was ever finished. Furthermore, nobody ever actually used Swarmcast as it never really made it beyond Open Cola's dot.com dog and pony show.
When it comes to 4-inch refractors, there are dozens of choices available to the amateur. High color correction probably isn't that critical for the transit surveys so the scopes used probably aren't as good as the high-end apochromats available to amateurs. Astro-Physics, Takahashi, Televue, and Thomas M. Back are just a few of the better ones.
This assumes that you consider $3,500 to be an "amateur" telescope. Serious amateur, yes. Note, to get serious about high quality imaging you need to spend at least as much on your mount. Then there are the Peltier-cooled CCD cameras...
The estimate for the age of the universe has nothing at all to do with stars. Especially considering it was tens of millions of years before the first stars formed. Rather, the age was determined by observing minute irregularities in the cosmic microwave backround radiation. I believe it was determined by observations from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP.)
A larger optical telescope will not just see deeper than the HST, it will also have higher resolution. According to Rayleigh, the resolution of a telescope is directly proportional to the diameter of it's aperture. The JWT will give us prettier pictures than HST, resolving even finer details.
Mechanics are pretty safe, they need physical access to you car to fix it. Just like the way call centers are now operated in other countries, basic medical diagnosis is going to become outsourced soon too. You'll go into your local doctors office and sit in a video conference with a local nurse and a doctor in Bangalore who will examine you and make a diagnosis, write a prescription, etc... As soon as this becomes cheaper than local doctors you can count on your health insurance provider to do it.
It's nice that you think that, but you don't know what you're talking about. Jerry lived to play and played to live. He performed constantly; had several bands while the dead were broken up in the mid 70's and continued to perform regularly solo between dead tours.
The only huge weight on Jerry's shoulders was the avoirdupois that coated his body. He weighed over 300 lbs and smoked cigarettes! Is it any wonder he had a heart attack and died at 63 years? Being a junkie is hard on the body when you're homeless and live on the streets. Being a rich junkie like Jerry isn't hard on your body since you can still afford food and a soft bed (not to mention clean junk).
We think those meteorites came from Mars but we are not certian. A sample return mission would provide certainty and may authenticate meteorites found on Earth. Further, the returned samples could be selected for how interesting the appear, rather than the random selection that falls on Earth.
A) yes, once connected data flows in either direction B) 57/73 really isn't that bad
Open your port. The more peers you can connect to the better. Everyone else is connecting to the same peers as you. Since you'll only get a download if you're one of the top X uploaders for a peer, you won't get much connecting to the same peers as everyone else. If your port was open then all the firewalled peers will connect to you and you'll get much more speed.
The difference is that once you download BitTorrent, your relationship with Bram Cohen and the rest of the people that work on BitTorrent ends. Bram does not operate a "network." There are no accounts. It's software that you use entirely on your own accord with zero input from anyone else. Bram has no knowledge or control over what goes on.
Compare to Kazaa. (forgive me if I am not an expert on Kazaa) They operate servers that the clients connect to. They sell advertisements that appear in the clients. There is spyware that reports back to Kazaa and other companies. They make money from the continued use of the software, not just the initial copy. In other words, Kazaa has an ongoing relationship with the people that use it's software.
If you read the Universal vs. Sony decision (the Betamax decision) you'll see that a key factor is that once you bought a VCR your relationship with Sony was over. Sony wasn't in a position to know or control what people were doing with their VCRs. The decision to infringe with a VCR was made wholly by the owner of the VCR without any input from or knowledge of Sony. That, along with the fact that there was substantial (in quality, not quantity) non-infringing use (time-shifting), meant that Sony was not guilty of contributory or vicarious infringement.
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Swarm downloads with FEC coded pieces was implemented by Justin Chapweske's Swarmcast in the summer/fall of 2000 at the latest. A year before Bram Cohen even started working on BitTorrent. Bram was using FEC in the Mojo Nation system at the time. Despite this, both Justin and Bram decided not to use FEC in their next systems, WebRAID and BitTorrent.
For their next trick, Microsoft Research Cambridge is investigating how to do one-click shopping by utilizing a database of customer information and browser cookies.
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Nonsense, a license is only needed to make copies. No license is necessary to use a legitimate copy of software.
Maybe the reason people only check their stocks, headlines, and weather with their handhelds is because it's not worth the pain to do anything more.
There is a beta available and release should be very soon. Mostly remaining is documentation, localization, and polish.
The official mac client is close to release. There is a beta available here. Note that it might resume torrents running from the old client in a different spot, making them start over again. In that case you should stop the torrent, clear it, open the torrent file, and point it at your old download.
There isn't that much left to be done so release should be soon. Mostly remaining is localization, documentation, and a little more polish.
It's got an updated UI, uses a single port, resumes torrents without re-checking, fully customizable toolbar, torrent inspector/editor, and everything can be controlled from the keyboard. Also, the number one request has been filled: you can choose a location for all your torrents to go to seperate from your usual InternetConfig download folder.
burris
Could be because the author of FLAC used to brag about how FLAC losslessly encoded all DRM into zero bits. Maybe Apple felt like it needed it's own format to "protect" the connection to AirportExpress and whatever else they have up their sleeve. Maybe it's because people at Apple are somewhat isolated in an Ivory Tower and weren't aware of FLAC. Maybe they looked at flac and decided it wasn't going anywhere. Maybe they flipped a coin.
Make backups, use BitTorrent.
George W. Bush told me that global warming is just some tree hugger myth perpetuated by the Enemies of Freedom. They hate our freedom to consume! We must be Firm in our National Resolve to Warm the Planet.
BitTorrent requires tracker sites to handle all the partial-fragment-negotiation (think of the madness of the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and you get an idea of the cool juggling that a tracker has to do).
If he knew anything about BT, he would know that the tracker only introduces peers to each other. The tracker only knows which peers are finished and which aren't. Each peer then manages it's own "fragment-negotiation" which is really just downloading the rarest pieces from it's own point of view. There isn't any negotiation at all, really.
burris
This paper and all of the recent news articles that provide an estimate for BitTorrent protocol traffic use the same source. A single slide in a presentation by someone from Cache Logic shows BT using 1/2 of all P2P traffic at a "tier 1 ISP." Other sources cite P2P traffic at 66% of all 'net traffic. Therefore, BT is 33%.
I think any estimate made without measurements at many major routers would be suspect. While there is no doubt that BT is quite popular, the evidence presented thus far for the amount of traffic using BT protocol is extremely flimsy. I would take it with a grain of salt.
burris
Not to diminish Justin's formidable skillz, but eDonkey 2000 was out and had tens of thousands of users before Swarmcast was ever finished. Furthermore, nobody ever actually used Swarmcast as it never really made it beyond Open Cola's dot.com dog and pony show.
And yes, I did try Linux, but I always wound up at the same point after installing it: "Ok, now what?" and never having an answer to that question.
Compile a new kernel, of course.
This assumes that you consider $3,500 to be an "amateur" telescope. Serious amateur, yes. Note, to get serious about high quality imaging you need to spend at least as much on your mount. Then there are the Peltier-cooled CCD cameras...
burris
BitTorrent. That one has no chance.
The Little Schemer is what I also recommend to folks who want to learn to program. Unfortunately, I do not think it is available for free online.
burris
Fortunately, it is preserved on the Internet Archive.
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Don't forget, at the time 8 years ago there was a popular application for video conferencing called "SeeYouSeeMe"
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burris
The estimate for the age of the universe has nothing at all to do with stars. Especially considering it was tens of millions of years before the first stars formed. Rather, the age was determined by observing minute irregularities in the cosmic microwave backround radiation. I believe it was determined by observations from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP.)
A larger optical telescope will not just see deeper than the HST, it will also have higher resolution. According to Rayleigh, the resolution of a telescope is directly proportional to the diameter of it's aperture. The JWT will give us prettier pictures than HST, resolving even finer details.
burris
Mechanics are pretty safe, they need physical access to you car to fix it. Just like the way call centers are now operated in other countries, basic medical diagnosis is going to become outsourced soon too. You'll go into your local doctors office and sit in a video conference with a local nurse and a doctor in Bangalore who will examine you and make a diagnosis, write a prescription, etc... As soon as this becomes cheaper than local doctors you can count on your health insurance provider to do it.
burris
It's nice that you think that, but you don't know what you're talking about. Jerry lived to play and played to live. He performed constantly; had several bands while the dead were broken up in the mid 70's and continued to perform regularly solo between dead tours.
The only huge weight on Jerry's shoulders was the avoirdupois that coated his body. He weighed over 300 lbs and smoked cigarettes! Is it any wonder he had a heart attack and died at 63 years? Being a junkie is hard on the body when you're homeless and live on the streets. Being a rich junkie like Jerry isn't hard on your body since you can still afford food and a soft bed (not to mention clean junk).
We think those meteorites came from Mars but we are not certian. A sample return mission would provide certainty and may authenticate meteorites found on Earth. Further, the returned samples could be selected for how interesting the appear, rather than the random selection that falls on Earth.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
A) yes, once connected data flows in either direction
B) 57/73 really isn't that bad
Open your port. The more peers you can connect to the better. Everyone else is connecting to the same peers as you. Since you'll only get a download if you're one of the top X uploaders for a peer, you won't get much connecting to the same peers as everyone else. If your port was open then all the firewalled peers will connect to you and you'll get much more speed.
burris
The difference is that once you download BitTorrent, your relationship with Bram Cohen and the rest of the people that work on BitTorrent ends. Bram does not operate a "network." There are no accounts. It's software that you use entirely on your own accord with zero input from anyone else. Bram has no knowledge or control over what goes on.
Compare to Kazaa. (forgive me if I am not an expert on Kazaa) They operate servers that the clients connect to. They sell advertisements that appear in the clients. There is spyware that reports back to Kazaa and other companies. They make money from the continued use of the software, not just the initial copy. In other words, Kazaa has an ongoing relationship with the people that use it's software.
If you read the Universal vs. Sony decision (the Betamax decision) you'll see that a key factor is that once you bought a VCR your relationship with Sony was over. Sony wasn't in a position to know or control what people were doing with their VCRs. The decision to infringe with a VCR was made wholly by the owner of the VCR without any input from or knowledge of Sony. That, along with the fact that there was substantial (in quality, not quantity) non-infringing use (time-shifting), meant that Sony was not guilty of contributory or vicarious infringement.
burris
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