Just a troll article looking for pageviews, from the fraking SKy by broadband page:
How does Sky use Kontiki's secure peer-to-peer technology to deliver videos to my PC?
Sky by broadband displays the video content available for you to download. Kontiki offers the underlying peer-to-peer technology which delivers the videos you choose in a secure, efficient manner, enabling very large, high-resolution videos to be delivered to your computer.
Specifically, the Kontiki technology determines how to download the video you selected by searching for sources of that video on locations which may include Sky's own network, or other users of Sky's Kontiki network or "grid". If the video can be delivered to you more quickly and efficiently from another computer, that's exactly what Kontiki will do! Conversely, your computer is also part of Sky's Kontiki grid, so your computer might be used as a source location for transferring a video to another Sky user.
Pretty much says it's doing what TFA is bitching about them not saying.
And even if iTunes shut down tomorrow, I would lose 0% of my music.
Just dont try copying your music to a new computer then, cuz if you did you'd have to reauthorize and oops, no iTMS servers to auth against means all that music is just wasted bits on your hard-drive.
Hate to tell ya, but I own my car, bought it straight up. In my belief if you dont have the money to pay for it up front, you dont need it all that bad.
Think back to the 50's and 60's, then look at today. Compare the advances in technology, one would expect that with the advances in technology, we'd be working less and have more free time. Kinda gone the opposite way hasn't it.
You mean there going to do something different instead of "OMGZORS THE LEVELS ARE SO MUCH BIGGZOR NOW!" and keep the exact same boring repetitive playstyle?
What is currently the best way of automatically ripping a significant number of CDs?"
There isn't one. If you were mearly duplicating, there's plenty of robotic/automated (albiet expensive) solutions, but since you're wanting to rip, you can either hire that teenager, or send it off to these people.
The problem is to be made into a mode of pure watching, a state of the same. In fact, if the environment is technologically-driven, so you crumple up the URL from the last tab you were already expecting.
I believe I speak for a large % of/. when I say:
What the hell did you just say?
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1) Turn around 2) Tell her to shut the fuck up (yes i personally would use those words) 3) If she doesn't, go get Manager. 4) Get her kicked out and get your money back.
Blockbuster also does this - basically, if you send 3 dvds back - even in the same envelope, blockbuster will "receive" 2 at x time and then "receive" the other one later.
I call bullshit. Each DVD has their own sleeve and their own pre-paid envelope to send them back in, If you're putting all 3 into 1, well then there's something wrong with you, not Blockbuster.
Historical climate data were calculated from weather 'proxies' such as tree rings, ice cores, and seashells from Europe, Asia, and North America, and attempted to address the shortcomings of earlier studies.
And we all know how accurate and exact historical measurements are.
Well yea, and how many consider burning the US flag blasphemous . . . I bet I coudln't guess on both hands and feet how many US flags they've burned so far . . . you dont see Americans rioting every time they do it, now do ya?
I agree it's slow, and it's not an unlimited source of bandwidth, I'm just saying I use it on a daily basis, and I know of lots of other people who do who use it for distributing media.
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Just a troll article looking for pageviews, from the fraking SKy by broadband page:
How does Sky use Kontiki's secure peer-to-peer technology to deliver videos to my PC?
Sky by broadband displays the video content available for you to download. Kontiki offers the underlying peer-to-peer technology which delivers the videos you choose in a secure, efficient manner, enabling very large, high-resolution videos to be delivered to your computer.
Specifically, the Kontiki technology determines how to download the video you selected by searching for sources of that video on locations which may include Sky's own network, or other users of Sky's Kontiki network or "grid". If the video can be delivered to you more quickly and efficiently from another computer, that's exactly what Kontiki will do! Conversely, your computer is also part of Sky's Kontiki grid, so your computer might be used as a source location for transferring a video to another Sky user.
Pretty much says it's doing what TFA is bitching about them not saying.
And even if iTunes shut down tomorrow, I would lose 0% of my music.
Just dont try copying your music to a new computer then, cuz if you did you'd have to reauthorize and oops, no iTMS servers to auth against means all that music is just wasted bits on your hard-drive.
Hate to tell ya, but I own my car, bought it straight up. In my belief if you dont have the money to pay for it up front, you dont need it all that bad.
you can already do this. this card isn't anything all that new. just current tech in a new box.
Yes, not to mention it plays PS games too, I'm wanting to get ahold of all (four?) Silent Hill games, and then the entire Resident Evil series.
Think back to the 50's and 60's, then look at today. Compare the advances in technology, one would expect that with the advances in technology, we'd be working less and have more free time. Kinda gone the opposite way hasn't it.
You mean there going to do something different instead of "OMGZORS THE LEVELS ARE SO MUCH BIGGZOR NOW!" and keep the exact same boring repetitive playstyle?
and will publish benchmark results as first as a first impression of the new Socket and processors tomorrow.
Nice to see the Editors are living up to their name.
Got any links about locking down USB ports in such a manner?
yes, by then we will all have Nural Net Processahs.
it's a flash app, good luck trying to automate that with perl/lwp.
What is currently the best way of automatically ripping a significant number of CDs?"
There isn't one. If you were mearly duplicating, there's plenty of robotic/automated (albiet expensive) solutions, but since you're wanting to rip, you can either hire that teenager, or send it off to these people.
The problem is to be made into a mode of pure watching, a state of the same. In fact, if the environment is technologically-driven, so you crumple up the URL from the last tab you were already expecting.
/. when I say:
I believe I speak for a large % of
What the hell did you just say?
1) Turn around
2) Tell her to shut the fuck up (yes i personally would use those words)
3) If she doesn't, go get Manager.
4) Get her kicked out and get your money back.
On the rare occurrence that a call does come through during the day my cell phone belts out toccata at max volume and there is no option to change it.
Turn it off and use POTS.
Alright, since the US always seems to get bashed when they pass any sort of even halfway stupid law . . . .
Queue Big Brother posts in 5 . . 4 . . . 3. . .
Blockbuster also does this - basically, if you send 3 dvds back - even in the same envelope, blockbuster will "receive" 2 at x time and then "receive" the other one later.
I call bullshit. Each DVD has their own sleeve and their own pre-paid envelope to send them back in, If you're putting all 3 into 1, well then there's something wrong with you, not Blockbuster.
It's nice to know there are still undiscovered troves of rich history out there waiting to be found.
yes, I have peer-reviewed scientific journals on my side, and on yours . .
Although the new paper looked at data up to only 1995, recent years have continued with even more pronounced warmth.
Ahh, yes decade old data.
"From 1986 to 2000 central Antartic valleys cooled .7 C per decade with serious ecosystem damage from cold"
'Antartic climate cooling and terrestrial ecosystem response' Nature 415: 517-20
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"Both satellite data and ground stations show slight cooling over the last 20 years."
'Variability and trends in ANtartic surface temperates from in situ and satellite infared measurements' Journal of CLimate, 13: 1674-96
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"Side-looking radar measurements show West Antartic ice is increasing at 26.8 gigatons/yr. Reversing the melting trend of the last 6000 years"
'Positive mass balance of the Ross Ice Streams, West Antarticia' Science 295: 476-80
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"During the last four interglacials, going back 420,000 years, the Earth was warmer than it is today."
'CLimate and atmospheric history of hte past 420,000 years from the Vostok Ice Core, Antartica' Nature 399: 429-36
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"Less Antartic ice has melted today than occured furing the last interglacial"
'Radiocarbon constrains on ice sheet advance and retreat in the Weddell Sea, Antartica' Geology 27: 179-82
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The Sahara has shrunk since 1980
'Africans go back to the land as plants reclaim the desert' New Scientist 175, 21 September 2002.
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On the other hand sea level *is* rising, as it has been for the last 6000 years since the satart of the Holocene, about 10-20 cm every 100 years.
http://www.csr.utexas.edu/gmsl/main.html
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Hell I could throw in stats and references about the decreases in tropical storm activity, but I think I've made my point enough.
Historical climate data were calculated from weather 'proxies' such as tree rings, ice cores, and seashells from Europe, Asia, and North America, and attempted to address the shortcomings of earlier studies.
And we all know how accurate and exact historical measurements are.
Well yea, and how many consider burning the US flag blasphemous . . . I bet I coudln't guess on both hands and feet how many US flags they've burned so far . . . you dont see Americans rioting every time they do it, now do ya?
Neither perl nor python are very popular for large application development, even on unix. So there isn't much demand.
;)
Bah, that's because we already solved all the problems
Or due to the talented Russians writing the exploits for money?
I agree it's slow, and it's not an unlimited source of bandwidth, I'm just saying I use it on a daily basis, and I know of lots of other people who do who use it for distributing media.