I've always been kind of hesitant to try something like this myself because I get the feeling that once I got my "gotcha" moment and saved my job, the rest of my days working there would be tainted by my having done this. I just get the feeling that I'd be treated poorly and the management would probably be searching hard for a way to get me fired cleanly. Did you have to put up with much crap after doing this? Maybe you have to weigh the pros and cons before doing this kind of thing.
Oh, interesting! I didn't know that BT had this built in already. I guess I should have assumed that if a layperson like me had noticed the problem, the programmers would have probably been a few steps ahead of me and fixed it. Thanks for the clarification.
It isn't necessarily the 499th in sequence. It could be any segment that the least amount of people have downloaded. Let's say that you have a bunch of people using BitTorrent. The only people who have segment 499 are behind slow modems. But lots of people want those. There's a bottleneck there because there will be a lot of requests for the scarce segment eventually, but not a lot of bandwidth to serve the segment. I imagine Microsoft's referring to this when they say they're trying to alleviate the scheduling problems that BitTorrent has. At least that's how I interpret the article.
I was hoping for more. You had a good joke going there, some Matrix allusion, it was funny. Then you tacked on a worn out Slashdot meme, the NO CARRIER "joke". That just doesn't fit! In the time of The Matrix, I can assure you that technology didn't regress to the times of analog modems. It just doesn't fit, and it ruined my enjoyment of the joke. I'm not trying to be a dick here, just giving you some feedback on comedy.
Right in the introduction of your survey, it tells the reader not to use the results as an indication of P2P's popularity as a whole.
"These stats are displayed on a network-by-network basis. While they are able to demonstrate the growth [or] decline of an individual network, they do not compare or evaluate the trends of the P2P community as a whole."
It is rare that you'll find an article that goes in-depth enough with how the survey was conducted to determine if the survey was done scientifically. So you have to go by what you do know, which is who conducted the survey. With an outlook such as yours, how often do you read about surveys that you trust? There comes a time where you have to say to yourself, "Statisticians have known for a long time how to properly administer a poll, and since it doesn't take much more effort to do a poll right than to do one wrong, I guess I can trust this." I mean, it's not like you're doing something really important with the survey results, like investing your life savings on the outcome. Might as well just assume the test was done correctly.
Yeah, no shit. "Podcast" is the new "blog." Luckily, I don't hear people actually SAY these words much, I just have to read about it all the damn time on Slashdot. The day I hear someone actually talk about their podcast is the day I say "You suck" to them. Or punch them, depending on who it is.
Thanks for the link! I almost didn't click on it, because even peoples' suggestions on funny web comics are no good. This comic actually has good artwork!
And while yes you can get a slower older no-name computer for less and put Linux on it so it's usable, it's still a lot of bother. I ran Linux for a long time as well, and still do at work (on one of two computers) where it's either that or Windows. But I really enjoy not having to spend time fiddling with a computer at home and just working on it, that's what Macs excel at.
Amen, brother. That is why I prefer using my Powerbook running 10.3 to my Linux/WinXP desktop. When I don't feel like fighting with my computer to get it to do what I want, I open the lid of the laptop, enter my password (I set it to require a password when waking up) and go. I found when I switched to using a Mac as my main computer that my computing experience changed so now I tell the computer what I want it to do, rather than it telling me what it is going to do. The computer seems to be more an extension of my mind rather than a set of obstacles that I have to overcome to get something done.
If Slashdot's going to post every single article that Paul Graham writes, regardless of its nerd quotient, could we at least have Paul as a topic or author? So we can filter it out like I used to do with that other marginal fellow Jon Katz? Please?! At least shove his long-winded drivel off the front page. Save that real estate for Star Wars and dudes that shoe-horned Linux into weird shit.
Kinda hard to gain when you start out as an overwhelming leader in the industry. Nintendo dominated in the 80's. Apple has always been playing second fiddle to PCs.
India has been free of colonial rule for 50 years and is already in space. It took the US 200 years after the end of colonial rule to reach space so definitely the pace of development is faster in India.
Yeah, that makes sense. What the hell are you talking about?! The USA signed its declaration of independence in 1776. Airplanes hadn't been invented yet, space wasn't really in anyone's sights at the time. The pace of development in India compared to the USA has no relation to the speed at which each country developed a space program.
Then the customers who use non-Windows operating systems get billed for some antivirus software they don't want and can't use. Not to mention that when something does go wrong, the customers blame the ISP because they were supposed to be protected. And they won't blame the ISP for just viruses, believe me. Whenever something breaks on their computer, they can blame their new scapegoat, their ISP. They call me all the time, I work as an ISP tech support guy. I've taken calls about broken printers! So I'm going to have to go and veto that idea.
(Sorry, part of that was venting. I didn't mean for it to be as caustic as it might read. I had a guy call in expecting for us to keep his computer clean of viruses the other day, so that's fresh in my mind.)
The article is about people being confused when confronted with geek speak in computer security articles. So, people affected by the problem that is discussed are the people reading articles about computer security.
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I think the problem with using BitTorrent for emerge is that people aren't going to want to wait around to seed once they've finished downloading packages. So downloaders would be relying on the mirrors for the most part, as I think they do currently. It might relieve a little bit of the load, since people who are downloading at that specific time would be doing a little uploading too, but I don't think it would help significantly.
From the article: "The good news now," he said, "is that what Melissa ushered in is finally waning. Mass-mailed worms and viruses reached their peak last year." It has peaked because the numbers are declining, from their peak last year. RTFA.
Tell that to Jay-Z. You'll have to yell though, he won't be able to hear you from the gates of his palatial mansion. I'm sure he's thinking, "Boy, I wish I wasn't signed to a music label."
I'm not sure about Linux, I have yet to try mounting the iPod on that. I'll try and remember to give it a shot tonight and let you know. I've got Ubuntu running on a partition, and it automounts my USB memory stick so hopefully it does the same with the iPod.
Make sure you keep your iPod formatted for Windows, not Mac. I found that my Powerbook can read Windows-formatted iPods, but my PC can't read Mac-formatted ones.
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I've always been kind of hesitant to try something like this myself because I get the feeling that once I got my "gotcha" moment and saved my job, the rest of my days working there would be tainted by my having done this. I just get the feeling that I'd be treated poorly and the management would probably be searching hard for a way to get me fired cleanly. Did you have to put up with much crap after doing this? Maybe you have to weigh the pros and cons before doing this kind of thing.
Even back then, Steve "Steven" Jobs couldn't bear to use capital letters correctly!
Why are there only 12 stripes in it? The flag has 13. Slashdot needs to fix this.
That's because Slashdot doesn't recognize New Jersey.
Because the people who aren't "consuming" the movie industry's products weren't included in the survey. Hence, consumers. Nobody's implying anything.
None yet. Because there aren't any to make. Where is the joke?
Oh, interesting! I didn't know that BT had this built in already. I guess I should have assumed that if a layperson like me had noticed the problem, the programmers would have probably been a few steps ahead of me and fixed it. Thanks for the clarification.
It isn't necessarily the 499th in sequence. It could be any segment that the least amount of people have downloaded. Let's say that you have a bunch of people using BitTorrent. The only people who have segment 499 are behind slow modems. But lots of people want those. There's a bottleneck there because there will be a lot of requests for the scarce segment eventually, but not a lot of bandwidth to serve the segment. I imagine Microsoft's referring to this when they say they're trying to alleviate the scheduling problems that BitTorrent has. At least that's how I interpret the article.
I was hoping for more. You had a good joke going there, some Matrix allusion, it was funny. Then you tacked on a worn out Slashdot meme, the NO CARRIER "joke". That just doesn't fit! In the time of The Matrix, I can assure you that technology didn't regress to the times of analog modems. It just doesn't fit, and it ruined my enjoyment of the joke. I'm not trying to be a dick here, just giving you some feedback on comedy.
Right in the introduction of your survey, it tells the reader not to use the results as an indication of P2P's popularity as a whole.
"These stats are displayed on a network-by-network basis. While they are able to demonstrate the growth [or] decline of an individual network, they do not compare or evaluate the trends of the P2P community as a whole."
Your comparison is misleading and invalid.
It is rare that you'll find an article that goes in-depth enough with how the survey was conducted to determine if the survey was done scientifically. So you have to go by what you do know, which is who conducted the survey. With an outlook such as yours, how often do you read about surveys that you trust? There comes a time where you have to say to yourself, "Statisticians have known for a long time how to properly administer a poll, and since it doesn't take much more effort to do a poll right than to do one wrong, I guess I can trust this." I mean, it's not like you're doing something really important with the survey results, like investing your life savings on the outcome. Might as well just assume the test was done correctly.
Yeah, no shit. "Podcast" is the new "blog." Luckily, I don't hear people actually SAY these words much, I just have to read about it all the damn time on Slashdot. The day I hear someone actually talk about their podcast is the day I say "You suck" to them. Or punch them, depending on who it is.
Thanks for the link! I almost didn't click on it, because even peoples' suggestions on funny web comics are no good. This comic actually has good artwork!
Your AIM e-mail address is screenname@aim.com.
And while yes you can get a slower older no-name computer for less and put Linux on it so it's usable, it's still a lot of bother. I ran Linux for a long time as well, and still do at work (on one of two computers) where it's either that or Windows. But I really enjoy not having to spend time fiddling with a computer at home and just working on it, that's what Macs excel at.
Amen, brother. That is why I prefer using my Powerbook running 10.3 to my Linux/WinXP desktop. When I don't feel like fighting with my computer to get it to do what I want, I open the lid of the laptop, enter my password (I set it to require a password when waking up) and go. I found when I switched to using a Mac as my main computer that my computing experience changed so now I tell the computer what I want it to do, rather than it telling me what it is going to do. The computer seems to be more an extension of my mind rather than a set of obstacles that I have to overcome to get something done.
OK, how do you reinstall it then?
If Slashdot's going to post every single article that Paul Graham writes, regardless of its nerd quotient, could we at least have Paul as a topic or author? So we can filter it out like I used to do with that other marginal fellow Jon Katz? Please?! At least shove his long-winded drivel off the front page. Save that real estate for Star Wars and dudes that shoe-horned Linux into weird shit.
Kinda hard to gain when you start out as an overwhelming leader in the industry. Nintendo dominated in the 80's. Apple has always been playing second fiddle to PCs.
India has been free of colonial rule for 50 years and is already in space. It took the US 200 years after the end of colonial rule to reach space so definitely the pace of development is faster in India.
Yeah, that makes sense. What the hell are you talking about?! The USA signed its declaration of independence in 1776. Airplanes hadn't been invented yet, space wasn't really in anyone's sights at the time. The pace of development in India compared to the USA has no relation to the speed at which each country developed a space program.
(Sorry, part of that was venting. I didn't mean for it to be as caustic as it might read. I had a guy call in expecting for us to keep his computer clean of viruses the other day, so that's fresh in my mind.)
The article is about people being confused when confronted with geek speak in computer security articles. So, people affected by the problem that is discussed are the people reading articles about computer security.
I think the problem with using BitTorrent for emerge is that people aren't going to want to wait around to seed once they've finished downloading packages. So downloaders would be relying on the mirrors for the most part, as I think they do currently. It might relieve a little bit of the load, since people who are downloading at that specific time would be doing a little uploading too, but I don't think it would help significantly.
From the article:
"The good news now," he said, "is that what Melissa ushered in is finally waning. Mass-mailed worms and viruses reached their peak last year."
It has peaked because the numbers are declining, from their peak last year. RTFA.
Tell that to Jay-Z. You'll have to yell though, he won't be able to hear you from the gates of his palatial mansion. I'm sure he's thinking, "Boy, I wish I wasn't signed to a music label."
I'm not sure about Linux, I have yet to try mounting the iPod on that. I'll try and remember to give it a shot tonight and let you know. I've got Ubuntu running on a partition, and it automounts my USB memory stick so hopefully it does the same with the iPod.
Make sure you keep your iPod formatted for Windows, not Mac. I found that my Powerbook can read Windows-formatted iPods, but my PC can't read Mac-formatted ones.