It'd be cool, but we don't have the technology to pump enough delta vee into that rock to bring it into orbit. I suppose aerobraking it would be possible, but that's a lot of mass to play with and it's probably an odd shape, so I don't think the end result would be predictable.
I wouldn't be surprised if eBay expands the charges for job listings to other neighborhoods. But if they start charging for too many other services, I suspect they're going to find competitors popping up all over the place.
People can already play with their download while seeding it, as the major BT clients reopen the file in read-only mode once the download completes. Of course, this excludes operating system distributions, which require a reboot (or expensive VMware) for use.
Or software that requires a significant amount of bandwidth or CPU, which BitTorrent could disrupt.
There are a lot of web hosts that allow distributing.torrent files (a static file) but do not permit running any server-side scripts. These include at least Angelfire, Geocities, and Tripod.
True, but you can get a PHP/SQL-capable webhost account for $5 per month or so.
Because it'd be better to create a whole new system, give it a different name, and steal parts of BitTorrent and perhaps other systems, than to try and adapt this specifically-designed system to cover a different use.
I have a few comments on your analysis of the BitTorrent protocol... My main criticism is that you are analyzing BitTorrent in combination with pirate web pages as a P2P file sharing system, when BitTorrent's real purpose is to be a file DISTRIBUTION system.
BitTorrent is designed to replace and enhance the performance of a standard http or ftp download server. Where even ten simultaneous downloads can slow the performance of most inexpensive server setups to a crawl, BitTorrent can easily handle ten thousand or more, and in this it is an enormous success.
One necessary element of a true BitTorrent distribution is a dedicated seed server. This server ought to be always working, and should have a significant amount of bandwidth behind it; I'd recommend 30KB/s minimum, but more is better. You complain that seeders are "punished" and this is why torrents die, but while long-term seeders are nice, they aren't necessary. It is better for me as a content distributor to allow people to close their torrent and play with their new download as soon as they'd like to. Having torrents die off when interest fades is an artifact of misuse of this specification.
You worry about pollution on Suprnova.org, and so do I; there's no reason why it wouldn't exist. But as BitTorrent was normally intended this isn't a problem at all. People visiting Blizzard's website to download content via BitTorrent (actually Blizzard uses a modified downloader, but the concept would be the same if users received a standard.torrent file) would obviously receive a genuine.torrent file, and the data in that file verifies the data received in the download. It's only torrent file redistributors like Suprnova.org where you'd need to be concerned about pollution.
You're also concerned about tracker availability. I recommend content distributors run their own trackers, which is an easy task given the numerous types of trackers available, including script-based trackers. There's no reason for a tracker to go down unless the web server goes down, in which case no one would probably be able to get a copy of the.torrent file anyway, and a standard download would also be blocked.
As a sharing method BitTorrent indeed has some deficiencies, but it simply wasn't designed for that. That BitTorrent is being misused for that purpose only testifies to its effectiveness. Perhaps a sharing system with elements taken from BitTorrent will someday arise; I know Suprnova.org is attempting to create one with "Exeem". But please don't badmouth BitTorrent.:-)
See, that's the problem -- it doesn't occur on any of the machines I use, which seems to indicate it's coming from a non-standard DLL somewhere. I'm not using any libraries aside from wxPython and win32all. I've tried gathering evidence to pin down a suspect DLL but I've gotten nowhere.
Being the maintainer for a fairly large and complex app written in Python, I can tell you it's a mixed blessing. It's nice and portable, extremely powerful, easy to understand. It also causes me no end of headaches, especially under Windows; engine corruption on some systems causes extremely odd and sometimes funny errors (e.g: TypeError: f() takes exactly 14391 arguments (3 given)). Memory usage, especially with the graphics library, is enormous, though still short of what Java would require. All in all, it's okay, but there's plenty of room for improvement.
And a 1,000 megawatt plant uses 4 million tons of coal a year, resulting in the release of 5.2 tons of Uranium and 12.8 tones of thorium. A 1000 megawatt light water nuclear plant of the type used in the USA uses about 25 tons of uranium a year.
True, but it doesn't eject all of that into the atmosphere. At least, not if something doesn't go horribly wrong.;-)
If you're willing to use breeder reactors and their ilk, you can actually get more power out the the uranium in the ash than you got burning the coal!
This is why professional photographers are deserting to digital cameras in droves. Apart from a few die-hards (who mostly use MF and LF cameras anyway), people find it's just plain easier to work with digital cameras, especially when most of the time their work needs to be digitized in order to be sent to the printer anyway. A sub-$1000 SLR doesn't have the same absolute resolution as film, but if you add up the cost of the camera body, the slide scanner (and yeah, you're never going to get decent results from that flatbed adapter), and all the time and trouble either having film developed or developing it yourself, it's worthwhile to either get a cheap digicam and deal with the reduced quality or invest in a pro-grade SLR set-up.
Something over a year ago I came up with an alternative to the Pons-Fleischman testing apparatus that eliminated some of the problems with their design. (The biggest problem is that the operation of the cell pumps large amounts of heat into it, orders of magnitude larger than the amount being measured, making it difficult to detect the effect.) I was too lazy to set it up as an experiment so I made it available to the public. I also sent it to a few of labs doing research in cold fusion. Never heard back, so I guess they're deluged with ideas from other crackpots too.:-D
If you've installed any programs from Download.com, Cnet.com or ZDnet.com, beware.
I started getting reports of malware being attached to a program I work on and discovered the affected parties had obtained their copies of the program from Download.com. I had never submitted the program to them, but someone else had -- and they'd contaminated it with malware while they were at it. I complained, and the program was removed. (Actually, they first switched the links to the official server, but removed it when I complained further that they needed to tighten up their submission procedures.)
While Download.com is no longer distributing my program, they are still distributing malware attached to other programs (just went to their site to confirm it) via xeol.net and probably others. They don't seem too interested in fixing the problem. I also sent a complaint to the FBI's cybercrime division, and they apparently weren't interested, either.
Interesting... This would be even more efficient in solar or cogeneration applications, where a solar furnace or waste heat from the generation plant could be used to heat the electrolytic vessel.
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Adding an extra couple megabytes to the built-in storage would solve any upgrade problems. As for slower access, I think it's worthwhile considering it makes the memory non-volatile, don't you?
It'd be stupid for small businesses, unless all those businesses had identical machines. A small business would be in dire straits if an update came along that wasn't compatible with their hardware. They'd still need the equivalent of a MIS department, someone who sold them the machine and double-checked the updates' compatibility.
I don't think having systems update automatically based on a distro manager would be that smart. I do think the auto-update function would be very useful if distribution were controlled locally, say by a company's MIS department. They'd have a better handle on what hardware was out there, and could test and make sure updates won't start breaking things. It'd also work if a computer manufacturer and distributor did it, assuming owners limited what changes they made to hardware.
This is a wonderful style guide to building icons meant for Windows XP, and the techniques are good for icons of all sorts. You can figure out how to build good looking icons out of simple design elements.
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It'd be cool, but we don't have the technology to pump enough delta vee into that rock to bring it into orbit. I suppose aerobraking it would be possible, but that's a lot of mass to play with and it's probably an odd shape, so I don't think the end result would be predictable.
I wouldn't be surprised if eBay expands the charges for job listings to other neighborhoods. But if they start charging for too many other services, I suspect they're going to find competitors popping up all over the place.
Look at the web page, that's still REALLY friggin' close. I think that's well inside geosynchronous orbit.
People can already play with their download while seeding it, as the major BT clients reopen the file in read-only mode once the download completes. Of course, this excludes operating system distributions, which require a reboot (or expensive VMware) for use.
.torrent files (a static file) but do not permit running any server-side scripts. These include at least Angelfire, Geocities, and Tripod.
Or software that requires a significant amount of bandwidth or CPU, which BitTorrent could disrupt.
There are a lot of web hosts that allow distributing
True, but you can get a PHP/SQL-capable webhost account for $5 per month or so.
Because it'd be better to create a whole new system, give it a different name, and steal parts of BitTorrent and perhaps other systems, than to try and adapt this specifically-designed system to cover a different use.
I have a few comments on your analysis of the BitTorrent protocol... My main criticism is that you are analyzing BitTorrent in combination with pirate web pages as a P2P file sharing system, when BitTorrent's real purpose is to be a file DISTRIBUTION system.
.torrent file) would obviously receive a genuine .torrent file, and the data in that file verifies the data received in the download. It's only torrent file redistributors like Suprnova.org where you'd need to be concerned about pollution.
.torrent file anyway, and a standard download would also be blocked.
:-)
BitTorrent is designed to replace and enhance the performance of a standard http or ftp download server. Where even ten simultaneous downloads can slow the performance of most inexpensive server setups to a crawl, BitTorrent can easily handle ten thousand or more, and in this it is an enormous success.
One necessary element of a true BitTorrent distribution is a dedicated seed server. This server ought to be always working, and should have a significant amount of bandwidth behind it; I'd recommend 30KB/s minimum, but more is better. You complain that seeders are "punished" and this is why torrents die, but while long-term seeders are nice, they aren't necessary. It is better for me as a content distributor to allow people to close their torrent and play with their new download as soon as they'd like to. Having torrents die off when interest fades is an artifact of misuse of this specification.
You worry about pollution on Suprnova.org, and so do I; there's no reason why it wouldn't exist. But as BitTorrent was normally intended this isn't a problem at all. People visiting Blizzard's website to download content via BitTorrent (actually Blizzard uses a modified downloader, but the concept would be the same if users received a standard
You're also concerned about tracker availability. I recommend content distributors run their own trackers, which is an easy task given the numerous types of trackers available, including script-based trackers. There's no reason for a tracker to go down unless the web server goes down, in which case no one would probably be able to get a copy of the
As a sharing method BitTorrent indeed has some deficiencies, but it simply wasn't designed for that. That BitTorrent is being misused for that purpose only testifies to its effectiveness. Perhaps a sharing system with elements taken from BitTorrent will someday arise; I know Suprnova.org is attempting to create one with "Exeem". But please don't badmouth BitTorrent.
Is that related to "The Department of Redundancy Department"?
"The kids next door put a softball through my window and wiped out my entire MP3 collection!"
It's not exactly software, though it is soft. And luscious. Check out bikini calculus.
See, that's the problem -- it doesn't occur on any of the machines I use, which seems to indicate it's coming from a non-standard DLL somewhere. I'm not using any libraries aside from wxPython and win32all. I've tried gathering evidence to pin down a suspect DLL but I've gotten nowhere.
Being the maintainer for a fairly large and complex app written in Python, I can tell you it's a mixed blessing. It's nice and portable, extremely powerful, easy to understand. It also causes me no end of headaches, especially under Windows; engine corruption on some systems causes extremely odd and sometimes funny errors (e.g: TypeError: f() takes exactly 14391 arguments (3 given)). Memory usage, especially with the graphics library, is enormous, though still short of what Java would require. All in all, it's okay, but there's plenty of room for improvement.
And a 1,000 megawatt plant uses 4 million tons of coal a year, resulting in the release of 5.2 tons of Uranium and 12.8 tones of thorium. A 1000 megawatt light water nuclear plant of the type used in the USA uses about 25 tons of uranium a year.
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True, but it doesn't eject all of that into the atmosphere. At least, not if something doesn't go horribly wrong.
If you're willing to use breeder reactors and their ilk, you can actually get more power out the the uranium in the ash than you got burning the coal!
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This circumstance does have some advantages; by tying themselves together financially they open the possibility for one to be traced from the other.
It also opens the participants to criminal conspiracy charges. Can you say RICO, motherf***er?
This is why professional photographers are deserting to digital cameras in droves. Apart from a few die-hards (who mostly use MF and LF cameras anyway), people find it's just plain easier to work with digital cameras, especially when most of the time their work needs to be digitized in order to be sent to the printer anyway. A sub-$1000 SLR doesn't have the same absolute resolution as film, but if you add up the cost of the camera body, the slide scanner (and yeah, you're never going to get decent results from that flatbed adapter), and all the time and trouble either having film developed or developing it yourself, it's worthwhile to either get a cheap digicam and deal with the reduced quality or invest in a pro-grade SLR set-up.
Something over a year ago I came up with an alternative to the Pons-Fleischman testing apparatus that eliminated some of the problems with their design. (The biggest problem is that the operation of the cell pumps large amounts of heat into it, orders of magnitude larger than the amount being measured, making it difficult to detect the effect.) I was too lazy to set it up as an experiment so I made it available to the public. I also sent it to a few of labs doing research in cold fusion. Never heard back, so I guess they're deluged with ideas from other crackpots too. :-D
Make that link bittornado.com
If you've installed any programs from Download.com, Cnet.com or ZDnet.com, beware.
I started getting reports of malware being attached to a program I work on and discovered the affected parties had obtained their copies of the program from Download.com. I had never submitted the program to them, but someone else had -- and they'd contaminated it with malware while they were at it. I complained, and the program was removed. (Actually, they first switched the links to the official server, but removed it when I complained further that they needed to tighten up their submission procedures.)
While Download.com is no longer distributing my program, they are still distributing malware attached to other programs (just went to their site to confirm it) via xeol.net and probably others. They don't seem too interested in fixing the problem. I also sent a complaint to the FBI's cybercrime division, and they apparently weren't interested, either.
Interesting... This would be even more efficient in solar or cogeneration applications, where a solar furnace or waste heat from the generation plant could be used to heat the electrolytic vessel.
Maybe someday we'll have real turkipedes.
Adding an extra couple megabytes to the built-in storage would solve any upgrade problems. As for slower access, I think it's worthwhile considering it makes the memory non-volatile, don't you?
Not to mention, running httpd corraled as a normal user account is a great way to beef up security.
It'd be stupid for small businesses, unless all those businesses had identical machines. A small business would be in dire straits if an update came along that wasn't compatible with their hardware. They'd still need the equivalent of a MIS department, someone who sold them the machine and double-checked the updates' compatibility.
I don't think having systems update automatically based on a distro manager would be that smart. I do think the auto-update function would be very useful if distribution were controlled locally, say by a company's MIS department. They'd have a better handle on what hardware was out there, and could test and make sure updates won't start breaking things. It'd also work if a computer manufacturer and distributor did it, assuming owners limited what changes they made to hardware.
This is a wonderful style guide to building icons meant for Windows XP, and the techniques are good for icons of all sorts. You can figure out how to build good looking icons out of simple design elements.
Given these IP regulations here, and a hundred years or so, their quality-of-life may be better than ours.