Maintainability is much more important than optimization. If you do find a slow section of code, it can almost always be optimized in a way that leaves it maintainable. Real hand-optimization involves using a better algorithm, reducing the number of function calls, reducing branchs, and at worst, adding more variables to avoid performing the same calculations repeatedly within a loop. None of these require you to compete in an obfuscated C contest!
I monitored 2 persons holding bricks in front of pawn shops, and found that 1 of those persons threw the brick through the window and made off with some loot.
Therefore, 50% of people holding bricks are stinking thieves! Just think of the crimes we can stop if we jail all masons...
Why do companies have rights the same as people have rights? It seems odd to me that companies aren't punished like people, but they want to be treated like people. I personally would love to see a corporate death sentence. If your products kill people and someone in the company knew it, the company should be instantly disolved.
Personally, I think the US needs a corporate bill of rights, and those rights need to be seriously limited compared to my rights. Any first amendment rights should end where personal irritation begins.
Who wants to bet that a lawyer approached the family and coerced them to sue. He looking at getting a big cut of any settlement, and all he had to do was write a few letters.
It looks like they just use UDP to "send" the original data and then follow it up with parity information until the "receiving" client gets enough parity data to reconstruct any missing original data. The parity files everyone has started using on Usenet are pretty cool, and this just sounds too similar.
I have a better idea. Why not consider all internet content as inappropriate for children unless otherwise indicated. Then only go after the people who say their content is safe for children but isn't.
My problem with Gnutella is that you're never sure you're getting an original copy. This is fine for things like mp3 files, where there is no "original" copy.
While Gnutella presents you with a list of sources, you can't be sure which one is the original source, which for my investment in time, would be the only source I would trust. I would be quite upset to spend a considerable amount of time downloading a movie to find that the "copy" I downloaded was corrupt.
There are people working on Gnutella trying to add the ability to verify the content of a file before downloading it. This is primarily to allow you to resume a download from a different source, but that would also be useful in this context.
Encryption and licensing issues aside, what's the point of making the content available on Gnutella, when a web site would be much more practical. Gnutella already uses HTTP to transfer the file, and Gnutella is not as capable as Apache. And Yahoo doesn't index Gnutella, either!
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Maintainability is much more important than optimization. If you do find a slow section of code, it can almost always be optimized in a way that leaves it maintainable. Real hand-optimization involves using a better algorithm, reducing the number of function calls, reducing branchs, and at worst, adding more variables to avoid performing the same calculations repeatedly within a loop. None of these require you to compete in an obfuscated C contest!
I monitored 2 persons holding bricks in front of pawn shops, and found that 1 of those persons threw the brick through the window and made off with some loot.
Therefore, 50% of people holding bricks are stinking thieves! Just think of the crimes we can stop if we jail all masons...
Why do companies have rights the same as people have rights? It seems odd to me that companies aren't punished like people, but they want to be treated like people. I personally would love to see a corporate death sentence. If your products kill people and someone in the company knew it, the company should be instantly disolved.
Personally, I think the US needs a corporate bill of rights, and those rights need to be seriously limited compared to my rights. Any first amendment rights should end where personal irritation begins.
If there are computers in surf boards, we need computers in shoes, too. They would totally complement those Al Bundy shoe lights...
He is very sorry...
that he got caught.
And he promises he will never do it again.
Who wants to bet that a lawyer approached the family and coerced them to sue. He looking at getting a big cut of any settlement, and all he had to do was write a few letters.
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/parchive
It looks like they just use UDP to "send" the original data and then follow it up with parity information until the "receiving" client gets enough parity data to reconstruct any missing original data. The parity files everyone has started using on Usenet are pretty cool, and this just sounds too similar.
I have a better idea. Why not consider all internet content as inappropriate for children unless otherwise indicated. Then only go after the people who say their content is safe for children but isn't.
First, I'm glad to see only a few entries that may be subject to trademark status. I would prefer that none of the tld's be trademarks.
.comp, .rec, .sci, .alt, etc. Those seem like naturals to me.
Second, no one took
My problem with Gnutella is that you're never sure you're getting an original copy. This is fine for things like mp3 files, where there is no "original" copy.
While Gnutella presents you with a list of sources, you can't be sure which one is the original source, which for my investment in time, would be the only source I would trust. I would be quite upset to spend a considerable amount of time downloading a movie to find that the "copy" I downloaded was corrupt.
There are people working on Gnutella trying to add the ability to verify the content of a file before downloading it. This is primarily to allow you to resume a download from a different source, but that would also be useful in this context.
Gnutella uses ordinary HTTP to transfer files, and supports restarts, at least by adhoc specs and most implementations.
Encryption and licensing issues aside, what's the point of making the content available on Gnutella, when a web site would be much more practical. Gnutella already uses HTTP to transfer the file, and Gnutella is not as capable as Apache. And Yahoo doesn't index Gnutella, either!