Also, heating does not consume any additional fuel, since the engine heat (and the engine gets hot anyway, since it is not 100% efficient) is used to heat the inside of the car.
The problem with electric cars is that they have short range. I can go about 700km in my petrol car on petrol and ~350km on LPG (and I also have a 5L petrol canister as reserve), so I do not really care if the range will be shorter because I had the radio on full volume or drove faster, since if I ever want to go further than 300km, I'll stop in a gas station to fill up my LPG tank.
Electric cars recharge way slower than I can fill the LPG or petrol tank, so you can't plan for a charging stop in a station half way to your destination.
Anyway, I also have the canister which would allow me to drive to the nearest fuel station if I run out of fuel because I forgot to check the level (LPG meter is in the tank itself, which is in the trunk) or reset the trip meter (so I can estimate how much LPG I have left) or just forgot to.
Not exactly. Suppose you connect to the tracker and act as a VPN server. Suppose the only people that connect to you are also VPN servers with a few peers at the edge of the cloud. Suppose everything is set up so the routing data is in RAM and will be binned once the torrent is done. Also none of the VPN servers in the middle of the cloud can decode what they're passing on.
So... TOR.
Now at that point it's extremely hard for anyone to pin any piracy on anyone. It's even hard for the peers to tell what's really going on - once you go through two more VPN servers it's probably impossible.
Except that you know what everybody is downloading - the torrent in question. Unless by "tracker" you mean a server that tracks the "VPN servers", in which case you will get TOR.
TOR is slow because of all the relaying, BitTorrent over TOR(BT) will probably be just as slow. BitTorrent is fast because everybody is downloading from everybody, once you start putting peers in chains, the speeds will drop.
But the anonymity will only matter wen you connect to the tracker. As I said, since the peers are downloading/seeding the same file, you will get no speed boost by using a peer as a VPN server (to get data from another peer) instead of downloading whatever he has. And that can be achieved today.
Also, while the combined bandwidth is quite high, a lot of users do not have good upload speed - I had 768kbps until about a year ago. If one of those is in the chain, you will get limited speed too.
Depends on the tracker rules. For example, the tracker may require upload speed at least 10 or 100 mbps to get upload rights. If you don't have it, you won't be able to upload.
Actually for a single torrent, the ideal ending is one peer with infinite ratio (the original seeder, since he does not download anything), two peers with 0.5 ratio and the rest with 1.
Or you can use TOR. The problem is bandwidth. For now, individual users are rarely prosecuted, so going to an anonymous network would only reduce the bandwidth, since now peers will also be used as relays. Since they are also downloading/seeding the same file, you can just ask them to send you whatever they have (and not fetch a piece they are not interested in to just send it to you) to have full speed but you can do that now, without any modification to the BitTorrent protocol.
Basically, connect to the tracker using a proxy, get peer IP addresses then connect to them directly. The peers don't care that the tracker thinks that you have a different IP. But you could also be connecting to a RIAA "peer".
But what if the RIAA advertises its computers as VPN servers (in your system)?
And, as to longevity, it means that as long as content is popular, there will be a seeder.
This is why I still sometimes use eMule to download some unpopular TV show or song. It may take a while, but it usually can be downloaded, since with eMule you share all your downloaded files by default, while you have to specifically keep the torrent seeding, even though you do not move or delete the file itself.
Machine: "Hi, I'm operating so completely out of allowed parameters I'm going to completely stop functioning. Here's a 'MALFUNCTION' warning to make sure you get me serviced before you continued."
Operator: "The manual does not say anything about it, also, the machine seems to be working, so it's probably some false positive. Let's continue."
Also this was a transient error - it only happened sometimes, so even if someone serviced it it could be that the failure was not triggered.
If anything this is an example of why vague error messages are bad.
Same thing with cars. Now, I understand that my car (made in 1982) does not have a computer and so it cannot detect if something is wrong, I have to do that based on the symptoms (if something is wrong with the way the car works). However, a new car, that can detect a malfunction and display "something is wrong" on the screen, should also display what it thinks is wrong, since, well, the CPU somehow detected the malfunction, why not tell the driver what is it (or, more accurately, why does it think that something is wrong).
When you are watching a movie (or a filmed real event), you are watching someone do something. Whether you agree with his actions or not, there is no way to control them. If the character chooses to use a garden hose to extract information from someone, you can only watch, whether you think that it's awful or that a soldering iron would be a better choice.
With video games, especially FPS, you are encouraged to imagine yourself in the place of the player character, also you can control your/his actions inside the game. If you play Postal, pour gasoline on someone and light them on fire it was your decision to do so. You could have avoided that or used a different method of killing. Now, it is not as realistic as would be if we had holodeck technology, but this is the best we can do for now.
Well, you can always challenge yourself - play the game without saves, do not search how to complete the game, use only one gun etc. The fact that the internet or save games exist does not force you to use them. I, for example, hate when the game only allows me to save at checkpoints or save stations. It just means that I cannot turn off the game without losing progress, which means that if I really need to do something else for a while, I'll keep the game paused and use another PC, which is less convenient. And it's not like there is not enough hard drive space to save the game.
I also like being able to look up on how to solve that puzzle or something in an adventure game if I can't do it by myself in 30 minutes and my head starts to hurt.
When I play a game, I like a challenge, but ultimately I want to complete the game, not replay the same section 100 times or replay the game up to that section 100 times. I might want to replay the game after I complete it though.
First, realise that swapping / paging just slows down access.
I know that. So, Firefox using a lot of memory will slow down other software (or at least the startting of other software) because the memory that is being used by FF will need to be paged (which is slow), unless Windows somehow finds out which part of the memory used by Firefox can be released without paging (effectively deleting the data) or Firefox detects the other process and releases the memory itself.
This is in contrast with Windows disk cache which can be released without paging.
The crack is probably already on ThePirateBay. If not, it will soon be there. You do not need to know C to use it.
Once someone finds out about TPB (and similar sites), they will be more likely to pirate games in the future. They will start by downloading a crack for the game they bought and then will figure out that they do not need to buy the game to play it. In places where breaking DRM is illegal, the option of just pirating the game is no more illegal than downloading a cracked copy after buying the game, but it saves money.
Well, LCDs can have big resolutions too, full HD is 1920x1080 and 19:10 HD is 1920x1200 (the same vertical resolution as my current one). Also, my laptop has 1280x800 and the Firefox toolbars do not bother me, even though I do not run the browser maximized.
Now, for netbooks with 600px vertical resolution I agree, but it only applies to netbooks. For all other computers there is no advantage in Chrome-style UI, but (in my opinion) it is less convenient. So, why make it the default?
As for CRT - well, I prefer the ability to change the resolution (without degrading the image) and high supported resolutions over being able to place something behind the monitor (there is not much space there, the monitor being in the corner and all).
Yea, old style FF interface wastes so much space it's barely usable on my 1600x1200 resolution. Oh wait, it doesn't. Also, I can chenge the resolution to 1920x1440 if I want more space (CRT user here).
That only applies to displays with very low resolution, 640x480 or 800x600 at most. However, most of the PCs that do not support higher resolutions cannot run current version of Firefox because they are too old and cannot run the operating systems that FF4 requires.
At least it is possible to change the interface back to how it was. I also like Opera for this feature and do not use Chrome because I hate the interface.
but as soon as the memory is required elsewhere its released and available.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I always thought that memory that was used by a process (for example Firefox) needs to be swapped to make more free memory that now can be used by another process (for example a game). Windows can free its disk read cache quickly, but how can it "know" which regions of memory that is marked as in use by Firefox (whether caching or something else) can be freed up without swapping safely and that it will not break FF? Or does Firefox detect that another process wants to use the memory and release it?
Interesting. I sometimes have a lot of tabs open, but FF only uses about 1.2GB, right now it's at ~800MB with more then 40 tabs open. Maybe it limits itself because it's on a 32 bit system where each process can only get 2GB without resorting to AWE or similar stuff.
This is Firefox 3.6.x btw, maybe they changed it in 4 to make it use more memory...
Depends on the virus. Some of them get in quite deeply and the computer might have more than one virus fighting for the system. In some cases it is faster and less painful to reinstall than to try to clean it up (and never be sure that you caught them all).
I don't know about Gentoo, but if you have a lot of software installed, reinstalling windows is still a PITA and takes a long time. Or rather, reinstalling of all the software takes a long time.
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When it's liquid, you can't compress it anymore.
Also, heating does not consume any additional fuel, since the engine heat (and the engine gets hot anyway, since it is not 100% efficient) is used to heat the inside of the car.
The problem with electric cars is that they have short range. I can go about 700km in my petrol car on petrol and ~350km on LPG (and I also have a 5L petrol canister as reserve), so I do not really care if the range will be shorter because I had the radio on full volume or drove faster, since if I ever want to go further than 300km, I'll stop in a gas station to fill up my LPG tank.
Electric cars recharge way slower than I can fill the LPG or petrol tank, so you can't plan for a charging stop in a station half way to your destination.
Anyway, I also have the canister which would allow me to drive to the nearest fuel station if I run out of fuel because I forgot to check the level (LPG meter is in the tank itself, which is in the trunk) or reset the trip meter (so I can estimate how much LPG I have left) or just forgot to.
10F = -12C, I wonder how far would the car go in -30C (-22F)...
Not exactly. Suppose you connect to the tracker and act as a VPN server. Suppose the only people that connect to you are also VPN servers with a few peers at the edge of the cloud. Suppose everything is set up so the routing data is in RAM and will be binned once the torrent is done. Also none of the VPN servers in the middle of the cloud can decode what they're passing on.
So... TOR.
Now at that point it's extremely hard for anyone to pin any piracy on anyone. It's even hard for the peers to tell what's really going on - once you go through two more VPN servers it's probably impossible.
Except that you know what everybody is downloading - the torrent in question. Unless by "tracker" you mean a server that tracks the "VPN servers", in which case you will get TOR.
TOR is slow because of all the relaying, BitTorrent over TOR(BT) will probably be just as slow. BitTorrent is fast because everybody is downloading from everybody, once you start putting peers in chains, the speeds will drop.
But the anonymity will only matter wen you connect to the tracker. As I said, since the peers are downloading/seeding the same file, you will get no speed boost by using a peer as a VPN server (to get data from another peer) instead of downloading whatever he has. And that can be achieved today.
Also, while the combined bandwidth is quite high, a lot of users do not have good upload speed - I had 768kbps until about a year ago. If one of those is in the chain, you will get limited speed too.
Depends on the tracker rules. For example, the tracker may require upload speed at least 10 or 100 mbps to get upload rights. If you don't have it, you won't be able to upload.
Actually for a single torrent, the ideal ending is one peer with infinite ratio (the original seeder, since he does not download anything), two peers with 0.5 ratio and the rest with 1.
Or you can use TOR. The problem is bandwidth. For now, individual users are rarely prosecuted, so going to an anonymous network would only reduce the bandwidth, since now peers will also be used as relays. Since they are also downloading/seeding the same file, you can just ask them to send you whatever they have (and not fetch a piece they are not interested in to just send it to you) to have full speed but you can do that now, without any modification to the BitTorrent protocol.
Basically, connect to the tracker using a proxy, get peer IP addresses then connect to them directly. The peers don't care that the tracker thinks that you have a different IP. But you could also be connecting to a RIAA "peer".
But what if the RIAA advertises its computers as VPN servers (in your system)?
And, as to longevity, it means that as long as content is popular, there will be a seeder.
This is why I still sometimes use eMule to download some unpopular TV show or song. It may take a while, but it usually can be downloaded, since with eMule you share all your downloaded files by default, while you have to specifically keep the torrent seeding, even though you do not move or delete the file itself.
No, it was more like:
Machine: "Hi, I'm operating so completely out of allowed parameters I'm going to completely stop functioning. Here's a 'MALFUNCTION' warning to make sure you get me serviced before you continued."
Operator: "The manual does not say anything about it, also, the machine seems to be working, so it's probably some false positive. Let's continue."
Also this was a transient error - it only happened sometimes, so even if someone serviced it it could be that the failure was not triggered.
If anything this is an example of why vague error messages are bad.
Same thing with cars. Now, I understand that my car (made in 1982) does not have a computer and so it cannot detect if something is wrong, I have to do that based on the symptoms (if something is wrong with the way the car works). However, a new car, that can detect a malfunction and display "something is wrong" on the screen, should also display what it thinks is wrong, since, well, the CPU somehow detected the malfunction, why not tell the driver what is it (or, more accurately, why does it think that something is wrong).
By pressing the button.
When you are watching a movie (or a filmed real event), you are watching someone do something. Whether you agree with his actions or not, there is no way to control them. If the character chooses to use a garden hose to extract information from someone, you can only watch, whether you think that it's awful or that a soldering iron would be a better choice.
With video games, especially FPS, you are encouraged to imagine yourself in the place of the player character, also you can control your/his actions inside the game. If you play Postal, pour gasoline on someone and light them on fire it was your decision to do so. You could have avoided that or used a different method of killing. Now, it is not as realistic as would be if we had holodeck technology, but this is the best we can do for now.
Well, you can always challenge yourself - play the game without saves, do not search how to complete the game, use only one gun etc. The fact that the internet or save games exist does not force you to use them. I, for example, hate when the game only allows me to save at checkpoints or save stations. It just means that I cannot turn off the game without losing progress, which means that if I really need to do something else for a while, I'll keep the game paused and use another PC, which is less convenient. And it's not like there is not enough hard drive space to save the game.
I also like being able to look up on how to solve that puzzle or something in an adventure game if I can't do it by myself in 30 minutes and my head starts to hurt.
When I play a game, I like a challenge, but ultimately I want to complete the game, not replay the same section 100 times or replay the game up to that section 100 times. I might want to replay the game after I complete it though.
First, realise that swapping / paging just slows down access.
I know that. So, Firefox using a lot of memory will slow down other software (or at least the startting of other software) because the memory that is being used by FF will need to be paged (which is slow), unless Windows somehow finds out which part of the memory used by Firefox can be released without paging (effectively deleting the data) or Firefox detects the other process and releases the memory itself.
This is in contrast with Windows disk cache which can be released without paging.
The crack is probably already on ThePirateBay. If not, it will soon be there. You do not need to know C to use it.
Once someone finds out about TPB (and similar sites), they will be more likely to pirate games in the future. They will start by downloading a crack for the game they bought and then will figure out that they do not need to buy the game to play it. In places where breaking DRM is illegal, the option of just pirating the game is no more illegal than downloading a cracked copy after buying the game, but it saves money.
Well, LCDs can have big resolutions too, full HD is 1920x1080 and 19:10 HD is 1920x1200 (the same vertical resolution as my current one). Also, my laptop has 1280x800 and the Firefox toolbars do not bother me, even though I do not run the browser maximized.
Now, for netbooks with 600px vertical resolution I agree, but it only applies to netbooks. For all other computers there is no advantage in Chrome-style UI, but (in my opinion) it is less convenient. So, why make it the default?
As for CRT - well, I prefer the ability to change the resolution (without degrading the image) and high supported resolutions over being able to place something behind the monitor (there is not much space there, the monitor being in the corner and all).
Yea, old style FF interface wastes so much space it's barely usable on my 1600x1200 resolution. Oh wait, it doesn't. Also, I can chenge the resolution to 1920x1440 if I want more space (CRT user here).
That only applies to displays with very low resolution, 640x480 or 800x600 at most. However, most of the PCs that do not support higher resolutions cannot run current version of Firefox because they are too old and cannot run the operating systems that FF4 requires.
At least it is possible to change the interface back to how it was. I also like Opera for this feature and do not use Chrome because I hate the interface.
but as soon as the memory is required elsewhere its released and available.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I always thought that memory that was used by a process (for example Firefox) needs to be swapped to make more free memory that now can be used by another process (for example a game). Windows can free its disk read cache quickly, but how can it "know" which regions of memory that is marked as in use by Firefox (whether caching or something else) can be freed up without swapping safely and that it will not break FF? Or does Firefox detect that another process wants to use the memory and release it?
Interesting. I sometimes have a lot of tabs open, but FF only uses about 1.2GB, right now it's at ~800MB with more then 40 tabs open. Maybe it limits itself because it's on a 32 bit system where each process can only get 2GB without resorting to AWE or similar stuff.
This is Firefox 3.6.x btw, maybe they changed it in 4 to make it use more memory...
Yes, but you might want to replay the game a few years later, just like rewatching a movie.
Why not?
New cars cost much more than used ones, but are not that much better to justify the price.
FIY: My car was made in 1982, my dad gave it to me (he now drives a car made in 1994, he got it used) and my dad bought it in 1996, well, used.
For the price of a new car I can buy a used car and a lot of fuel, or just buy a better (more features, faster etc) car.
Depends on the virus. Some of them get in quite deeply and the computer might have more than one virus fighting for the system. In some cases it is faster and less painful to reinstall than to try to clean it up (and never be sure that you caught them all).
Say "go to TPB, download a CD image for your version of Windows and burn it to a CD".
I don't know about Gentoo, but if you have a lot of software installed, reinstalling windows is still a PITA and takes a long time. Or rather, reinstalling of all the software takes a long time.
Or, scan the user data with an antivirus after reinstalling Windows.