I'm really taking wild guesses here, but maybe the AAC is encoded with a variable bitrate, so for those parts of the song where its silent or there's not a lot going on, it doesn't use as much space? That's what OGGs do, at least.
Over the years, your opinions on various video games have grown to be respected in internet circles, and how games are portrayed in your comic and writeups has an effect on whether or not your fans will buy them.
Me question is: have any game designers/publishers ever approached you and offered kickbacks for positive reviews, and if so, how do you usually deal with the situation?
I think the designer is aware of the possibility to trace people through direct connections, but is assuming that friends of friends aren't RIAA agents. You're right, though, they very well could be.
Personally, I'd only use this to share with people on my buddy list I've known and trusted for a long time, and I think by putting in an invite system with everyone in the group having veto power over who joins, this issue of corrupt individuals could go a long way toward being addressed.
However, your comment on routing packets through the buddy system is an intriguing one. While it would slow things down immensely, it could be a way for a new user to 'prove themselves' or something before becoming a full member of group, and it could also make for a good way to get around mutually-firewalled connections. Especially on fast networks such as Internet2, the speed loss might be acceptable.
I see this project as more of a way to share any files between close friends than as an alternative to things like I2Hub or Suprnova -- I'd probably use it to share photos of college and stuff more than to share music or movies. I think it'd also be a damn cool way to get around stuff like firewalls interfering with AIM's file transfer.
RTFA. The software meant to be truly peer to peer, so it only talks to the other buddy you're sharing with. So, as long as I'm sure that my friend, who identifies himself with a key exchange, is not the RIAA, the RIAA won't know you're downloading (you can even encrypt the download itself if you don't mind the overhead). The framework already almost exists with the gaim-encryption plugin. I don't think it would be too hard to extend.
Now, once you start sharing with random people, then yes, you have an untrusted network, but I don't think that that's what this project is aiming for.
If the earth blows up, the moon will likely be sent spiraling into the sun or out of the solarsystem anyways, so to be extra safe, have your data also backed up on a spaceship that can remain accessable in the case of terrestrial destruction.
I don't think they change anything major (or haven't since.9 or so). In the past (before knowing about this option), I've modified extentions manually to up the target version number to whatever I was running.
I think their way of specifying Firefox versions is rather retarded. Instead, I think each Firefox build should have a list of extention API versions it supports, and all the extentions should have an API version number instead of a Firefox version number. But, at 1.0, its probably too late to change that for the time being.
I dunno about dual screen stuff, but personally I'm much more excited about the graphics capabilities and the wireless gaming. I think that'll be the killer features rather than the touchscreen.
I dunno what I2Hub you're using, but my experience has been much better. Get a better client than the regular DC++ (ie, StrongDC or ZDC), which supports multiple sources, has much better performing hashing, and runs better in general.
The speed really depends on your school. Lots of schools are now capping I2 traffic to the residence halls, so if you're in one of those schools or downloading from one of those schools, you're not gonna get good speeds. Generally, from places like UCLA, CMU, and UMASS, I get speeds anywhere from 200kb/s to 700kb/s for my (fully legal, of course) downloads. From places like RIT, its like 2kb/s.
As for the intelligence of the people there, some people are dumb, it happens. There are quite a few morons on Gnutella as well, but there's no chatroom so they don't show. No one's forcing you to read the chatroom of I2hub, anyways.
I've found that I2Hub has better/more available music on than Gnutella, but I'll definitely agree that BitTorrent (ie, suprnova) are much much better for movies and games. Of course, uhh, I never download any of that....
LM Hashing converts all lowercase letters to uppercase, so the casing won't do you much good, but your numbers will, yeah. The length also won't do you much good, since the hash function will just split the password into two strings (a 7-char and a 1-char) and hash them seperately.
Quality-wise, its great. Very easy to do seperate audio streams, bundle subtitles in several languages, etc. A lot of Anime uses OGM nowadays, and the quality is damn-near perfect. I think the video streams are encoded in xvid, so it should be good for all sorts of stuff.
Or add "deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main" to/etc/apt/sources.list and install mplayer from there. That repository also has DeCSS and all that fun stuff. Debian and Mandrake are extremely convenient for that sort of stuff, with the above repository for Debian and the PLF for Mandrake.
Exactly. For months and months I was one of the "Yeah, I'll definitely donate sometime down the road" types of people, and then I saw "5 days remaining" and something clicked. Donated that very day.
Probably would have never donated it if something like this hadn't been done.
So many people seem to have this "switch over" attitude where they only want to use one client. I know some people who use BT, Kazaa, DC++, Gnutella, eDonkey, and traditional FTPs all at the same time. The more networks (yeah, BT isn't really a network, but still) you're using, the better your chances are of finding what you're looking for.
One could also argue that you're giving the RIAA or whoever more openings to attack you, but still.
That's nothing. Before the RIAA started suing, Kazaa was about twice as bit user-wise (according to Slyck), and I think quite a bit more than twice as big size-wise. Most of the people who left Kazaa went to eDonkey, though, so the files are still there somewhere.
Or perhaps they like having access to huge amounts of movies and music from places like Suprnova and I2Hub and don't particularly want the RIAA, MPAA, and Satan shutting them down.
Researchers are people too, you know! Sometimes some of them need to study.. human anatomy... Yeah, that's right.
But can you do stuff like opening notepad:/c|/test.txt in, say, Word, after defining that handler? And can you save to notepad:/c|/test.txt? That's what this seems to allow in KDE.
That functionality could very well be in Windows. I have no idea.
I used to have a tech support job for which we could spend part of our time administering the help desk's servers if we wanted to. While we were doing that, usually no one would bother us with tech-support questions. At one point, I just launched up
# while [ true ]; do make; make clean; done
and sat back and had a nice relaxing day. Whenever anyone would ask me anything, I'd point to the scrolling compile messages on the screen and tell them that I was busy.
Now that I think back on it, I could have just installed Gentoo on something, which would have been more productive. But, nah...
The difference is that those DVD players are generally in the back seat, at least in all of the non-modded cars I've seen, and in theory don't distract the driver. Putting in car-based web surfing for the driver would cause a good amount of distraction, and that's what the automakers are afraid of getting sued for.
Of course, I'm against the lawsuit-happy culture here as much as anyone, but I'm kinda glad that people won't be getting DVD and web browsers players in the front seat. The quality of drivers pretty much anywhere in America that I've been to isn't that great even without them.
Uh... Firefox (Phoenix) was started specifically to make a slim, fast alternative to Mozilla. So far, a lot of the fancy features (ie, mouse gestures, advanced tab stuff, adblock) are implemented as extensions, keeping the base download small.
I don't know what you mean by being extremely bloated, but I don't really see how its bloated in Windows or in Linux. As far as I can tell, its no more bloated than it was at Phoenix 0.3.
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I'm really taking wild guesses here, but maybe the AAC is encoded with a variable bitrate, so for those parts of the song where its silent or there's not a lot going on, it doesn't use as much space? That's what OGGs do, at least.
Over the years, your opinions on various video games have grown to be respected in internet circles, and how games are portrayed in your comic and writeups has an effect on whether or not your fans will buy them.
Me question is: have any game designers/publishers ever approached you and offered kickbacks for positive reviews, and if so, how do you usually deal with the situation?
I think the designer is aware of the possibility to trace people through direct connections, but is assuming that friends of friends aren't RIAA agents. You're right, though, they very well could be.
Personally, I'd only use this to share with people on my buddy list I've known and trusted for a long time, and I think by putting in an invite system with everyone in the group having veto power over who joins, this issue of corrupt individuals could go a long way toward being addressed.
However, your comment on routing packets through the buddy system is an intriguing one. While it would slow things down immensely, it could be a way for a new user to 'prove themselves' or something before becoming a full member of group, and it could also make for a good way to get around mutually-firewalled connections. Especially on fast networks such as Internet2, the speed loss might be acceptable.
I see this project as more of a way to share any files between close friends than as an alternative to things like I2Hub or Suprnova -- I'd probably use it to share photos of college and stuff more than to share music or movies. I think it'd also be a damn cool way to get around stuff like firewalls interfering with AIM's file transfer.
and why very few people still use DirectConnect
DC is quite popular. Check out I2Hub, for example. Its just a DC hub over Internet2.
I do agree, though, that's its extremely simple to track people with DC.
RTFA. The software meant to be truly peer to peer, so it only talks to the other buddy you're sharing with. So, as long as I'm sure that my friend, who identifies himself with a key exchange, is not the RIAA, the RIAA won't know you're downloading (you can even encrypt the download itself if you don't mind the overhead). The framework already almost exists with the gaim-encryption plugin. I don't think it would be too hard to extend.
Now, once you start sharing with random people, then yes, you have an untrusted network, but I don't think that that's what this project is aiming for.
If the earth blows up, the moon will likely be sent spiraling into the sun or out of the solarsystem anyways, so to be extra safe, have your data also backed up on a spaceship that can remain accessable in the case of terrestrial destruction.
I don't think they change anything major (or haven't since .9 or so). In the past (before knowing about this option), I've modified extentions manually to up the target version number to whatever I was running.
I think their way of specifying Firefox versions is rather retarded. Instead, I think each Firefox build should have a list of extention API versions it supports, and all the extentions should have an API version number instead of a Firefox version number. But, at 1.0, its probably too late to change that for the time being.
MythTV would do the application part quite well. Comparisons between MythTV and MCE have made it to Slashdot before.
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I dunno about dual screen stuff, but personally I'm much more excited about the graphics capabilities and the wireless gaming. I think that'll be the killer features rather than the touchscreen.
I dunno what I2Hub you're using, but my experience has been much better. Get a better client than the regular DC++ (ie, StrongDC or ZDC), which supports multiple sources, has much better performing hashing, and runs better in general.
The speed really depends on your school. Lots of schools are now capping I2 traffic to the residence halls, so if you're in one of those schools or downloading from one of those schools, you're not gonna get good speeds. Generally, from places like UCLA, CMU, and UMASS, I get speeds anywhere from 200kb/s to 700kb/s for my (fully legal, of course) downloads. From places like RIT, its like 2kb/s.
As for the intelligence of the people there, some people are dumb, it happens. There are quite a few morons on Gnutella as well, but there's no chatroom so they don't show. No one's forcing you to read the chatroom of I2hub, anyways.
I've found that I2Hub has better/more available music on than Gnutella, but I'll definitely agree that BitTorrent (ie, suprnova) are much much better for movies and games. Of course, uhh, I never download any of that....
LM Hashing converts all lowercase letters to uppercase, so the casing won't do you much good, but your numbers will, yeah. The length also won't do you much good, since the hash function will just split the password into two strings (a 7-char and a 1-char) and hash them seperately.
That's not a giant moon spotlight, its a space station!
Quality-wise, its great. Very easy to do seperate audio streams, bundle subtitles in several languages, etc. A lot of Anime uses OGM nowadays, and the quality is damn-near perfect. I think the video streams are encoded in xvid, so it should be good for all sorts of stuff.
Or add "deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main" to /etc/apt/sources.list and install mplayer from there. That repository also has DeCSS and all that fun stuff. Debian and Mandrake are extremely convenient for that sort of stuff, with the above repository for Debian and the PLF for Mandrake.
Exactly. For months and months I was one of the "Yeah, I'll definitely donate sometime down the road" types of people, and then I saw "5 days remaining" and something clicked. Donated that very day.
Probably would have never donated it if something like this hadn't been done.
So many people seem to have this "switch over" attitude where they only want to use one client. I know some people who use BT, Kazaa, DC++, Gnutella, eDonkey, and traditional FTPs all at the same time. The more networks (yeah, BT isn't really a network, but still) you're using, the better your chances are of finding what you're looking for.
One could also argue that you're giving the RIAA or whoever more openings to attack you, but still.
That's nothing. Before the RIAA started suing, Kazaa was about twice as bit user-wise (according to Slyck), and I think quite a bit more than twice as big size-wise. Most of the people who left Kazaa went to eDonkey, though, so the files are still there somewhere.
Or perhaps they like having access to huge amounts of movies and music from places like Suprnova and I2Hub and don't particularly want the RIAA, MPAA, and Satan shutting them down.
.. human anatomy... Yeah, that's right.
Researchers are people too, you know! Sometimes some of them need to study
But can you do stuff like opening notepad:/c|/test.txt in, say, Word, after defining that handler? And can you save to notepad:/c|/test.txt? That's what this seems to allow in KDE.
That functionality could very well be in Windows. I have no idea.
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Do you have version 1.4.0 on both the client and the server? That might be necessary for the suspending.
How'd you get the scroll wheel going? It just worked out of the box?
I used to have a tech support job for which we could spend part of our time administering the help desk's servers if we wanted to. While we were doing that, usually no one would bother us with tech-support questions. At one point, I just launched up
# while [ true ]; do make; make clean; done
and sat back and had a nice relaxing day. Whenever anyone would ask me anything, I'd point to the scrolling compile messages on the screen and tell them that I was busy.
Now that I think back on it, I could have just installed Gentoo on something, which would have been more productive. But, nah...
The difference is that those DVD players are generally in the back seat, at least in all of the non-modded cars I've seen, and in theory don't distract the driver. Putting in car-based web surfing for the driver would cause a good amount of distraction, and that's what the automakers are afraid of getting sued for.
Of course, I'm against the lawsuit-happy culture here as much as anyone, but I'm kinda glad that people won't be getting DVD and web browsers players in the front seat. The quality of drivers pretty much anywhere in America that I've been to isn't that great even without them.
Uh... Firefox (Phoenix) was started specifically to make a slim, fast alternative to Mozilla. So far, a lot of the fancy features (ie, mouse gestures, advanced tab stuff, adblock) are implemented as extensions, keeping the base download small.
I don't know what you mean by being extremely bloated, but I don't really see how its bloated in Windows or in Linux. As far as I can tell, its no more bloated than it was at Phoenix 0.3.