Some of us who misspent a big chunk of their time on MUDs knew exactly what the end game would look like, and said "no thanks" right away. I do wonder when a major fantasy MMOG will allow area creation... then the 3D MUD GUI will be complete at last.
You want good hiking software; sometimes following coordinates alone can lead you through the bushes, when there was a perfectly good trail coming from the other direction!
I'll trust that to be up to date and complete when Hell freezes over.
But that's doing it the hard way.
Going on a roundabout walk through marked trails seems harder than making a beeline for the cache. You sound like a typical city slicker.:^)
Speaking of easy, why not just log the find without ever visiting it?
or perhaps you're just a clueless noob and dont understand why they're doing it.
I'm a clueless noob, it's true!
did you ever stop to think that if you were fxp'ing something from one dumpsite to another and one bit is corrupted the only way to fix that bit is to resend the entire file? now if that one bit is in a single 15mb rar you only need to resend the corrupt file
I think about stuff like this for a living, and if I were doing it I would use a better fucking protocol than resending megabytes of data because of, possibly, a couple of corrupted bytes. Perhaps the problem is that the twits who deal pirated movies like this are too clueless to write code.
playback of incomplete files? what the fuck is the point, just finish downloading it and then watch it
Did you ever stop to think that you might want to: - check it's the right file, - watch with some artifacts (if it's a TV show, who cares), - deal with malicious seeds who let out 99% of the file and then disappear?
Licensing is not an issue for desktop linux. Joe Shmuck doesn't care whether his OS is GPL or not as he already thinks that the OS comes free with the computer.
That's your 1% stuff. For the rest 99% apps, it's a different story.
Yes, we agree there. However, originally you suggested that people would switch away from Linux based on Vista's better features. That, I disagree with. Like you said, there is that 1% or what have you, and they won't switch either because of licensing or whatever other reason.
Don't forget the GPL. Licensing plays a huge role in the success of Linux. If it was never GPL-ed it would now be in the dustbin of history right along with a bunch of other one-off OS projects.
the fact that Vista apps would be a generation ahead of Mac and Linux apps
It sounds like you drank the MS Koolaid..NET was supposed to be a generation ahead too, and look at us today still happily coding in C.
I have a feeling the XAML stuff will be the tomorrow's tool to write yesterday's apps. Who cares if I can use XML to put up the same old radio buttons; the truly cool apps usually don't get built with RAD tools. Just look at Google Earth.
Remember when Superman reversed the Earth's spin to turn back time? Well he reversed it back too. What they didn't show is how he knew exactly how much to spin it back? Maybe he overshot, and corrected, leaving the core spinning faster.
The official name for companies in ex-Yu was WO, for "Workers' Organization." So instead of Microsoft Corp, in communist ex-Yu it would have been "WO Microsoft." These were self-governed, but eventually power structures would emerge often due to family and political connections. I'd love to know how this experiment works out.
I know, let's bring special wide-angle goggles that would reduce, or in a fancier version, vary the perceived size of the screen. This way we get both the benefits of watching a bigger screen, and not having to turn our heads from one side of the screen to the other.:^)
Good tip, thanks. The Alexa client is dead on. Abuse and privacy issues are inevitable, but I'm curious how a search engine using client-side information compares to a crawl based one.
The original search rating papers (Kleinberg's algorithm, PageRank) made the ground-breaking observation that links between pages contained lots of useful information that could be used for ranking in addition to the keywords contained in the pages themselves. This was in a time where websites were mostly personal, and there was an atmosphere of friendly sharing of information where people would link to other sites that they find interesting. However, how much have things changed today? Who still has their own web page? Aren't links mostly commercial? Like you said, there may be valuable sites out there that are getting ignored because of over-reliance on links as source of reputation.
Maybe it's time for a "people who went to site A also went to site B" technology. It would require running a client-side traffic monitor that would build these adjacency lists and send them back. If it was open sourced and anonymous, the privacy concerns would be minimal, and it would provide a usage-based source of reputation.
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I wouldn't eat those if I were you. They could give you gas.
*rimshot*
I'm really picking nits here so I can plug the MUD I play on, but it's a bit of a stretch to say LPMud has a VM; it's more like a P-code interpreter ;)
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Some of us who misspent a big chunk of their time on MUDs knew exactly what the end game would look like, and said "no thanks" right away. I do wonder when a major fantasy MMOG will allow area creation... then the 3D MUD GUI will be complete at last.
You want good hiking software; sometimes following coordinates alone can lead you through the bushes, when there was a perfectly good trail coming from the other direction!
:^)
I'll trust that to be up to date and complete when Hell freezes over.
But that's doing it the hard way.
Going on a roundabout walk through marked trails seems harder than making a beeline for the cache. You sound like a typical city slicker.
Speaking of easy, why not just log the find without ever visiting it?
Spring water, huh? Guess what Evian spells backwards?
Long Island? Programming contest? USB???
...sexist... Judge McMahon is a woman... "I'd love... a mom..." ...foot into your mouth...
Damnit now you got me distracted!
Makes sense, thanks for explaining to this clueless n00b!
or perhaps you're just a clueless noob and dont understand why they're doing it.
I'm a clueless noob, it's true!
did you ever stop to think that if you were fxp'ing something from one dumpsite to another and one bit is corrupted the only way to fix that bit is to resend the entire file? now if that one bit is in a single 15mb rar you only need to resend the corrupt file
I think about stuff like this for a living, and if I were doing it I would use a better fucking protocol than resending megabytes of data because of, possibly, a couple of corrupted bytes. Perhaps the problem is that the twits who deal pirated movies like this are too clueless to write code.
playback of incomplete files? what the fuck is the point, just finish downloading it and then watch it
Did you ever stop to think that you might want to:
- check it's the right file,
- watch with some artifacts (if it's a TV show, who cares),
- deal with malicious seeds who let out 99% of the file and then disappear?
I wish archiver fanboys would stop using rar to compress movies... it's not like it saves a whole lot and it prevents replay of incomplete files.
Yeah, and then like the parent said, the new guy confuses 'if' and 'of' and bye-bye evidence... does the AF tool have some reasonable sanity checks?
$50 is a lot, you can get an actual gasoline rental car for around $100 for a whole day, or a Zipcar for around $5 an hour.
Yeah, dysprosium somehow just doesn't have that same ring to it.
Licensing is not an issue for desktop linux. Joe Shmuck doesn't care whether his OS is GPL or not as he already thinks that the OS comes free with the computer.
That's your 1% stuff. For the rest 99% apps, it's a different story.
Yes, we agree there. However, originally you suggested that people would switch away from Linux based on Vista's better features. That, I disagree with. Like you said, there is that 1% or what have you, and they won't switch either because of licensing or whatever other reason.
How do you decide amongst them ? Features !!!
.NET was supposed to be a generation ahead too, and look at us today still happily coding in C.
Don't forget the GPL. Licensing plays a huge role in the success of Linux. If it was never GPL-ed it would now be in the dustbin of history right along with a bunch of other one-off OS projects.
the fact that Vista apps would be a generation ahead of Mac and Linux apps
It sounds like you drank the MS Koolaid.
I have a feeling the XAML stuff will be the tomorrow's tool to write yesterday's apps. Who cares if I can use XML to put up the same old radio buttons; the truly cool apps usually don't get built with RAD tools. Just look at Google Earth.
What the hell do 99.999999% of potential customers want with "monad" and "a new file system"
Hey, now. Without the new monad shell, they will be alienating all the Haskell users out there!
Remember when Superman reversed the Earth's spin to turn back time? Well he reversed it back too. What they didn't show is how he knew exactly how much to spin it back? Maybe he overshot, and corrected, leaving the core spinning faster.
I wonder how they intend to extort those logs from a website ran out of Slovenia...
The official name for companies in ex-Yu was WO, for "Workers' Organization." So instead of Microsoft Corp, in communist ex-Yu it would have been "WO Microsoft." These were self-governed, but eventually power structures would emerge often due to family and political connections. I'd love to know how this experiment works out.
I know, let's bring special wide-angle goggles that would reduce, or in a fancier version, vary the perceived size of the screen. This way we get both the benefits of watching a bigger screen, and not having to turn our heads from one side of the screen to the other. :^)
Robot: You have 20 seconds to drop your guns. 20... 19... 18...
Burglar: drops gun.
Robot: 17... 16... 15...
It uses a different source of reputation, one that seems more in tune with what the Web content looks like today.
There is always the issue of abuse, no matter what the method.
Good tip, thanks. The Alexa client is dead on. Abuse and privacy issues are inevitable, but I'm curious how a search engine using client-side information compares to a crawl based one.
Interesting.
The original search rating papers (Kleinberg's algorithm, PageRank) made the ground-breaking observation that links between pages contained lots of useful information that could be used for ranking in addition to the keywords contained in the pages themselves. This was in a time where websites were mostly personal, and there was an atmosphere of friendly sharing of information where people would link to other sites that they find interesting. However, how much have things changed today? Who still has their own web page? Aren't links mostly commercial? Like you said, there may be valuable sites out there that are getting ignored because of over-reliance on links as source of reputation.
Maybe it's time for a "people who went to site A also went to site B" technology. It would require running a client-side traffic monitor that would build these adjacency lists and send them back. If it was open sourced and anonymous, the privacy concerns would be minimal, and it would provide a usage-based source of reputation.
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