This is interesting to me, because at many large universities (including mine) the only things you keep a copyright to are work created and submitted specifically in the course of classwork! Any other work which you do at the university is completely taken from you.
There is no such length. Length, usage patterns, and network connection speed are all fundamental factors.
The calculations are not exact -- they assume a perfect network, generally. This will be perturbed by the real-world data, but they generally aren't more than an order of magnitude off. The reason is because connection speed doesn't matter unless you have highly asynchronous connections. The client will stay on the swarm as long as it needs to in order to receive the entire file, and subsequently will send out data during that time.
BitTorrent isn't designed to make the original source unnecessary...it's designed to simply reduce load on the original source. Which it does quite well.
I am not arguing this - I am simply saying that it doesn't work *well* for small files. There are situations in which it will still improve the load on the source server, but these situations only occur when there are more than one person downloading the file at the same time (only for high-traffic sites). That being said, most of the web isn't comprised of high-traffic sites, and they will be just as slow if not slower if they were BitTorrent-enabled.
The original source tends to send out around the bandwidth of a single upload at any one time.
Unless there are multiple clients which are just starting. In this case it will send out twice the normal bandwidth.
Sockets have nothing whatsoever to do with the NIC. They exist at a higher level, and will not cause the card to break.
My wording was off. The large amount of sockets and specific network pattern of BitTorrent tends to cause bugs to appear in network card drivers (or firmware). There are numerous problems on the BitTorrent-help list which have been solved by upgrading or downgrading the driver (or firmware). So they don't cause the card to break, rather they cause the drivers to not work.
BitTorrent generally doesn't work very well on small files. This is because clients tend to drop off too fast. In fact, you can calculate the "optimal filesize", that is, the length when even if the client exits right after finishing the file, the torrent will survive and sustain itself. I believe it is at around 1GB, but I don't have the figures handy. Mabye the guy who did the calculations will chime in sometime.
This brings another problem with BitTorrent - it doesn't work well unless clients are connected for a while after they finish the file. This could be "quick-fixed" by leaving the client open until it has sent at least one copy of the file out (or that many bits, your choice).
The third problem that it would have is that BitTorrent generally opens a whole bunch of network connections. Many of those are incoming (NAT people won't work as well), and many are outgoing. This large amount of sockets tends to make some of the cheaper commodity cards break. You see alot of these problems on the BitTorrent mailing lists.
Also, Porn has always been an early adopter of new technology. VCR tapes, DVDs and the internet are excellent examples. Because porn uses it isn't a reason to count the technology out.
There is no 2GB file. In BitTorrent, you can create a torrent of a directory. When you start the torrent, BitTorrent creates a directory called 'mandrake9.1/' (IIRC), and creates the 3 ISO files inside it.
Download BitTorrent Here or `apt-get install bittorrent` on debian, and I think there is a port for it for you FreeBSD people.
Anyone who wants to get this file, should try using BitTorrent to get it. It is a file swarming application that helps everyone get the file by uploading pieces of the file you have already downloaded. It should transfer faster, and the best part is, everyone gets the file faster than the Mandrake FTP site, which I am sure has limited bandwidth.
I would think that these smart people would realize that simulating a meteorite impact would need something other than bowling balls. Doesn't the composition of such fast-moving objects make some difference in how they bounce? Last time I checked, meteors aren't made of bowling balls. Plus I can imagine why everyone in utah would want to be on the government's side on this. Sure, dropping things from planes is cool, but what if it lands on your wife. (Mabye that's why they have spares in utah)
Sounds like a group of crackpots to me - not that there's anything wrong with crackpots mind you. There has to be someone around to go wild about free energy theories and such. Just wait until one of them is right. (Little do we know, many have already been right, but they've been carted off to the island)
Bogofilter has been out since august, and does this bayesian spam-stuff in C, which probably will run a bit faster than the perl or python versions just because of it's compiled-ness. I've never run it myself, but people on debian lists say it works better or not as good as spamassassin.
A couple things that jump out at me -- Project eLiza -- this is a joke right? Eliza for system administration makes me think straight away of "What is your username? What do you mean, there's no user of that name.. "
Second is: What is your username? jamuraa What makes you believe your username is jamuraa? It just is. Is it because of your plans that you say it just is? Not really, you gave it to me. Maybe your life have something to do with this......
Well, the next time I have $6k lying around and don't want to do things like buy cars or computers or tons of other cool stuff with it, I'll consider getting one of these.
This isn't really for the average layman, at least that is obvious. Is it only news on slashdot because some web author screwed up while he was proofing the draft? Mabye not. 11 megapixels is a huge jump (twice the current high-end professional ones).
The biggest question, however, is how many megapixels are needed before the quality is on par with analog cameras.
While the genre might be contested over as to it's worth, this show was the best show in the genre. I have watched in vain the other robot shows and noone gives the same 'feel' as this one does. Mabye it's because they don't treat it like wrestling or like trick dog shows, but they actually attempt to make it SEEM more like a sport. That said, being the cream of the crop of a horrible crop isn't something that comedy central is going for. I am actually surprised, because they seemed to prominently advertise it for a while (at least when I had comedy central). Not that it got good ratings or anything.
One thing that is missing from this show: a variety of weapons. The weapons shouldn't be limited, this just makes the teams stagnate with their wedge or flipper or spinner designs. The
truly original bots just aren't seen anymore because they get beaten to shreds by the people who make the old, tired, (albeit successful) designs. I think allowing for more weapons will add variety to the field.
We can only hope that ESPN picks this up.. then they'd have something to show on ESPN2 that's not jocks having a pissing contest.
Great, just what I need, for my new security system to 'isolate and sacrifice' all the Secretary's computers, noticing their computers are the ones which most viruses get onto the network with.
I played the trumpet for about 6 yars of my life. I would routinely play works that required me to know italian. fortissimo, vibrato, etc. It didn't bother me in the slightest. I knew what the words meant because I was tought.
It's fairly simple to look at english and programming in the same way.
If nintendo would get off their asses and figure out that their GBA's biggest problem is light and not battery usage, they would put this into new GBAs right now.
I'm actually holding off on buying a GBA because I remember all those times with my ORIGINAL GB when I had to tilt the screen to see right and get contortions in my neck. When I heard there were light problems, that blew it for me. I was planning on buying one straight away before.
If nintendo put this into production, they would get my $120 I been holding for a couple months.
Yea, my theory was that the (seemingly) 6 year old boy getting shot in the forehead with a shotgun-like device... Couldn't be that or anything. Or the fact that he sports a nice handgun earlier in the ep.
It is too bad, it explains alot about the gates and Earth that won't get picked up on until later because of the skippage.
We knew that systems were going to be sold with XP from OEM, why is this news? Gateway and Dell have been selling systems with free upgrades to XP personal edition for a month or so now.
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Last time I checked, the X-prize isn't for people going into orbit. It's for a "sub-orbital shot that leaves most of the atmosphere and comes back". That IS all they want to do.
Some fields require massive amounts of funding (medicine comes to mind) in order to do any useful reasearch. Saying that research will go back to the 'public domain' of universities means that all that funding will need to come from somewhere. Since the companies who are selling these products aren't funding them anymore because they can't afford to invest into a product that won't give them good returns, where do you expect the money to come from?
Note that after a specified time period, patented material DOES go into public domain. That's half the point of a patent, to share innovation.
You might have a small jump-start, but if you're a big company (say the kind of comapny who could spend $300mil) you have to train your workers somehow, and there goes your startup time. Your higher price probably would turn off potential buyers, because today, copies sell better than originals in many cases because of their cheaper price. You wouldn't stop researching because your patent WILL expire, letting other people copy your ideas and use them then. You need to stay aheasd of the curve.
Your AIDS cure argument doesn't make any sense. There's a PTO for a reason. If a cure was simple and cheap to make, it would probably be too simple to be patented.
I'm against software patents, mostly because they don't make sense. I'm not against patents in many other fields, because the research in those fields that wouldn't have been done without them.
If you spent $300 million researching that new way to build a house (granted, I don't know how much Google spent researching indexing topics) , and then you started charging to build houses for people lets say, 300% faster and with 200% more strength at the end, would you want some other company coming in and stealing your process that you spent $300 million developing? How would you plan to recoup the research costs? Would you even spend the money reseatching in the first place if you KNEW that it would just get ripped off and you wouldn't be able to get any of that research money back because of competition? Funny, patents actually are good for innovation.
There's an interesting oddity with O'Neal though, in McGyver he was the smart guy who knew everything.. In SG-1 he's 'shoot first, ask questions later' and 'explain it in english' -- basically opposite to what he used to play. Unless Bakula does an extremely good acting job (I wouldn't put it past him), everyone will be thinking "Sam" when he walks onto the bridge.
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This is interesting to me, because at many large universities (including mine) the only things you keep a copyright to are work created and submitted specifically in the course of classwork! Any other work which you do at the university is completely taken from you.
There is no such length. Length, usage patterns, and network connection speed are all fundamental factors.
The calculations are not exact -- they assume a perfect network, generally. This will be perturbed by the real-world data, but they generally aren't more than an order of magnitude off. The reason is because connection speed doesn't matter unless you have highly asynchronous connections. The client will stay on the swarm as long as it needs to in order to receive the entire file, and subsequently will send out data during that time.
BitTorrent isn't designed to make the original source unnecessary...it's designed to simply reduce load on the original source. Which it does quite well.
I am not arguing this - I am simply saying that it doesn't work *well* for small files. There are situations in which it will still improve the load on the source server, but these situations only occur when there are more than one person downloading the file at the same time (only for high-traffic sites). That being said, most of the web isn't comprised of high-traffic sites, and they will be just as slow if not slower if they were BitTorrent-enabled.
The original source tends to send out around the bandwidth of a single upload at any one time.
Unless there are multiple clients which are just starting. In this case it will send out twice the normal bandwidth.
Sockets have nothing whatsoever to do with the NIC. They exist at a higher level, and will not cause the card to break.
My wording was off. The large amount of sockets and specific network pattern of BitTorrent tends to cause bugs to appear in network card drivers (or firmware). There are numerous problems on the BitTorrent-help list which have been solved by upgrading or downgrading the driver (or firmware). So they don't cause the card to break, rather they cause the drivers to not work.
BitTorrent generally doesn't work very well on small files. This is because clients tend to drop off too fast. In fact, you can calculate the "optimal filesize", that is, the length when even if the client exits right after finishing the file, the torrent will survive and sustain itself. I believe it is at around 1GB, but I don't have the figures handy. Mabye the guy who did the calculations will chime in sometime.
This brings another problem with BitTorrent - it doesn't work well unless clients are connected for a while after they finish the file. This could be "quick-fixed" by leaving the client open until it has sent at least one copy of the file out (or that many bits, your choice).
The third problem that it would have is that BitTorrent generally opens a whole bunch of network connections. Many of those are incoming (NAT people won't work as well), and many are outgoing. This large amount of sockets tends to make some of the cheaper commodity cards break. You see alot of these problems on the BitTorrent mailing lists.
Also, Porn has always been an early adopter of new technology. VCR tapes, DVDs and the internet are excellent examples. Because porn uses it isn't a reason to count the technology out.
There is no 2GB file. In BitTorrent, you can create a torrent of a directory.
When you start the torrent, BitTorrent creates a directory called 'mandrake9.1/' (IIRC), and creates the 3 ISO files inside it.
BitTorrent Link of Mandrake 9.1 <-- You need BitTorrent to click here.
Download BitTorrent Here or `apt-get install bittorrent` on debian, and I think there is a port for it for you FreeBSD people.
Anyone who wants to get this file, should try using BitTorrent to get it. It is a file swarming application that helps everyone get the file by uploading pieces of the file you have already downloaded. It should transfer faster, and the best part is, everyone gets the file faster than the Mandrake FTP site, which I am sure has limited bandwidth.
Props to the other people mentioning BitTorrent.
I would think that these smart people would realize that simulating a meteorite impact would need something other than bowling balls. Doesn't the composition of such fast-moving objects make some difference in how they bounce? Last time I checked, meteors aren't made of bowling balls. Plus I can imagine why everyone in utah would want to be on the government's side on this. Sure, dropping things from planes is cool, but what if it lands on your wife. (Mabye that's why they have spares in utah)
Sounds like a group of crackpots to me - not that there's anything wrong with crackpots mind you. There has to be someone around to go wild about free energy theories and such. Just wait until one of them is right. (Little do we know, many have already been right, but they've been carted off to the island)
Bogofilter has been out since august, and does this bayesian spam-stuff in C, which probably will run a bit faster than the perl or python versions just because of it's compiled-ness. I've never run it myself, but people on debian lists say it works better or not as good as spamassassin.
A couple things that jump out at me -- Project eLiza -- this is a joke right? Eliza for system administration makes me think straight away of "What is your username? What do you mean, there's no user of that name.. "
.....
Second is:
What is your username?
jamuraa
What makes you believe your username is jamuraa?
It just is.
Is it because of your plans that you say it just is?
Not really, you gave it to me.
Maybe your life have something to do with this.
Well, the next time I have $6k lying around and don't want to do things like buy cars or computers or tons of other cool stuff with it, I'll consider getting one of these.
This isn't really for the average layman, at least that is obvious. Is it only news on slashdot because some web author screwed up while he was proofing the draft? Mabye not. 11 megapixels is a huge jump (twice the current high-end professional ones).
The biggest question, however, is how many megapixels are needed before the quality is on par with analog cameras.
One thing that is missing from this show: a variety of weapons. The weapons shouldn't be limited, this just makes the teams stagnate with their wedge or flipper or spinner designs. The truly original bots just aren't seen anymore because they get beaten to shreds by the people who make the old, tired, (albeit successful) designs. I think allowing for more weapons will add variety to the field.
We can only hope that ESPN picks this up.. then they'd have something to show on ESPN2 that's not jocks having a pissing contest.
Wait, I must be doing something wrong. I've installed postgresql at least 5 times, and all I had to do was `apt-get install postgresql`..
Great, just what I need, for my new security system to 'isolate and sacrifice' all the Secretary's computers, noticing their computers are the ones which most viruses get onto the network with.
> a free standards compliant SSH client on all your Windows boxes (does such a thing exist?)
Like PuTTY?
Nethack.
'Nuff said.
Lets think about it for a but.
I played the trumpet for about 6 yars of my life. I would routinely play works that required me to know italian. fortissimo, vibrato, etc. It didn't bother me in the slightest. I knew what the words meant because I was tought.
It's fairly simple to look at english and programming in the same way.
If nintendo would get off their asses and figure out that their GBA's biggest problem is light and not battery usage, they would put this into new GBAs right now.
I'm actually holding off on buying a GBA because I remember all those times with my ORIGINAL GB when I had to tilt the screen to see right and get contortions in my neck. When I heard there were light problems, that blew it for me. I was planning on buying one straight away before.
If nintendo put this into production, they would get my $120 I been holding for a couple months.
Yea, my theory was that the (seemingly) 6 year old boy getting shot in the forehead with a shotgun-like device... Couldn't be that or anything. Or the fact that he sports a nice handgun earlier in the ep.
It is too bad, it explains alot about the gates and Earth that won't get picked up on until later because of the skippage.
So what?
We knew that systems were going to be sold with XP from OEM, why is this news? Gateway and Dell have been selling systems with free upgrades to XP personal edition for a month or so now.
If any of you don't have a PayPal account yet, you can sign up and get $5 free. My first act: give give it to the red cross fund. Go to PayPal now and sign up!
Last time I checked, the X-prize isn't for people going into orbit. It's for a "sub-orbital shot that leaves most of the atmosphere and comes back". That IS all they want to do.
Some fields require massive amounts of funding (medicine comes to mind) in order to do any useful reasearch. Saying that research will go back to the 'public domain' of universities means that all that funding will need to come from somewhere. Since the companies who are selling these products aren't funding them anymore because they can't afford to invest into a product that won't give them good returns, where do you expect the money to come from?
Note that after a specified time period, patented material DOES go into public domain. That's half the point of a patent, to share innovation.
This page sums up pretty much what I feel about software patents.
You might have a small jump-start, but if you're a big company (say the kind of comapny who could spend $300mil) you have to train your workers somehow, and there goes your startup time. Your higher price probably would turn off potential buyers, because today, copies sell better than originals in many cases because of their cheaper price. You wouldn't stop researching because your patent WILL expire, letting other people copy your ideas and use them then. You need to stay aheasd of the curve.
Your AIDS cure argument doesn't make any sense. There's a PTO for a reason. If a cure was simple and cheap to make, it would probably be too simple to be patented.
I'm against software patents, mostly because they don't make sense. I'm not against patents in many other fields, because the research in those fields that wouldn't have been done without them.
If you spent $300 million researching that new way to build a house (granted, I don't know how much Google spent researching indexing topics) , and then you started charging to build houses for people lets say, 300% faster and with 200% more strength at the end, would you want some other company coming in and stealing your process that you spent $300 million developing? How would you plan to recoup the research costs? Would you even spend the money reseatching in the first place if you KNEW that it would just get ripped off and you wouldn't be able to get any of that research money back because of competition? Funny, patents actually are good for innovation.
There's an interesting oddity with O'Neal though, in McGyver he was the smart guy who knew everything.. In SG-1 he's 'shoot first, ask questions later' and 'explain it in english' -- basically opposite to what he used to play. Unless Bakula does an extremely good acting job (I wouldn't put it past him), everyone will be thinking "Sam" when he walks onto the bridge.