1) The developers opposing Gnutella2 seem to be the LimeWire developers (their client is open-source under the GPL see www.limewire.org), gtk-gnutella (GPL as well, see gtk-gnutella.sf.net) and BearShare (not open-source). So calling this a war between free and commercial is stupid, especially since Shareaza IS NOT open-source.
GTK cannot really be called a legitimate voice in the "war" because their client is very outdated. It doesn't even support Ultrapeers.
Limewire and BearShare are "commercial". I didn't say closed source. Limewire has been thrown through the mud because it included "Stealware" (as seen previously here too) and BearShare for being the first Gnutella client to include spyware/ads.
Gnucleus and Shareaza are both non-profit, and seem to care more about the user experience than the highly esteemed ego's of the GDF's "leaders". So that's why it was dubbed "War of Free vs. Commercial" by John Marshall.
2) LimeWire and the other opposed Gnutella2 for a variety of reasons. They didn't want a new message format where the old would still work, they preferred the GUESS search algorithm over the Gnutella2 search and they said they would not accept the name because if there ever was a Gnutella2 it should be announced by the whole GDF (Gnutella Developer Forum) and not by a single developer.
None of their opposition stemmed from legitiamte technical reasons. All of those complaints were debunked and addressed by Mike, and he commented on why the community should better choose his methods. And the GDF did not respond with technical reasonings, but rather emotional outburts.
Mike didn't expect Gnutella2 to be mass implamented by all developers that quickly, he of course expected the members to debate on all aspects of it, and work towards a common goal off of the Gnutella2 proposal. But immidiately, the GDF saw it as a thret, and labeled it as such.
3) After Shareaza developer Mike Stokes has shown an attitude towards the GDF that could very well be called hostile, things got a little out of hand. The GDF now demands that Mike hands the Gnutella2.com domain to the people running Gnutella.com. Mike won't do so and Raphael Manfraedi (gtk-gnutella) has even proposed to start blocking gnutella2 enabled clients.
That's crap. Mike is clearly the only developer in the GDF who acts professional. I'm guessing what your calling hostile is his inability to cooperate with the "supposed" leaders of the GDF. And he has his reasons to, and has made them clear on countless occassions.
Blocking Gnutella2 clients is silly. They're doing a disservice to their users if they block Shareaza, which works seamlessly with Gnutella1. It uploads to BearShare, Limewire and other clients. There is no technical/logical reason why Shareaza should be banned - just simply out of spite.
What kind of message does it send banning Shareaza? "Never mess with Limewire or BearShare, or your BANNED!". Give me a break.
4) Shareaza fan's like the one who posted this news story helped a great deal to create the current situation by flaming on the GDF, posting rumors and lies (like Shareaza had 80k-100k users - even Mike Stokes denied that) on various news sites and in gnutella-centric forums.
Whenever there is a person supporting Shareaza, they're immidiately labeled as a rabid insane fool. The negative-ness put upon Shareaza fans just shows how blind the GDF is with jeliousy. Vinnie of BearShare (who is suppost to be a professional sane individual) complains of people on his forum saying his client sucks. SO WHAT? That's life. Don't you think Pepsi Co. gets letters saying their product sucks in comparison to Coca-cola? This is buisness! Jeez, grow up.
My slashdot submission was very valid and non-bias, IMO.
5) The Gnutella2 protocol is still an undocumented proprietary extension.
It is not an extension. It's an entirly different protocol meant to replace the current Gnutella. It is documented, and specs are completed, but not yet fully avaliable.
Mike tried to release specs to the GDF, but all he got in return were rabid demands like "SURRENDER" and "GO TO HELL" and what not. So he has suspended those submissions. Perhaps if the GDF were more level-headed, and emotionally stable, he could finish releasing the specs. It is my belief that he will release them before v1.7 final of SHareaza is released, but not directly to the GDF.
The Gnutella2 protocol is meant to be open/free just as Gnutella is. It was meant to heal the problems with Gnutella, and bring it up to speed with other conventional/current P2P networks.
With Intellectual Property, I wonder how many "Good Ideas" will be lost in the future. You can't even propose something without being sued to hell, or your too restricted to create new buisnesses because everything is patented.
"Billy: Hey! I have made a prototype for a Nanotech replicator!" "Sally: Err... Sony patented everything Nanotec" "Billy: Yea, I forgot.::throws prototype in trash::"
Why don't they use File Sharing Clients as tools? I still buy CD's while using Shareaza. I wouldn't mind advertisments within Shareaza, or an easy way to right click songs I like and buy the entire CD.
Remember that File Sharing doesn't become a problem unless people are subsituting it from buying CD's, which is not the case with everyone. And majority who do take part in that act, probably would never buy a CD anyways. So the equilivant is listening to the music on the radio.
The solution for the RIAA is to lower CD prices a little, pay the artists more, cut the fat by getting rid of the unnessassary middlemen, and adding extra's to CD's (Stickers, Pictures, Signed stuff, Coupons, Concert Ticket Discounts, Website Member Access... etc.).
I personally know P2P Client developers and destroying buisnesses, music artists, and causing people to lose their jobs is not of their intentions.
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you watched 20 hours and seem proud of the fact. does that strike anyone else as a little sad?
How many hours of Farscape, X-Files or Simpsons have you watched? Lurking Slashdot? What on earth is your point?
20 hours poured into good entertainment isn't wasted IMO.
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Thanks for writing that.
I have been wearly of closed minded people not seeing the ending for what it is. The ending made you think, if it weren't there and if David was left in the water, then the ending and the feeling you have after watching it would of been very empty.
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I don't know what this FUD is all about. The people here reviewing it probably only saw one episode. You have to see the entire 20 hours, which I did, to get the entire experience. The reason most of the people here dislike it is probably because it had limited "action" and more drama/story.
I saw the promo for "Taken" on the USA Network (USA is affiliated/owns the SciFi Channel?) and I was a bit skeptical. Also, it seemed Spielberg was getting too much glory, as there were many many directors (one for each episode, I believe) who took part in the miniseries. So if you don't like this, it isn't entirly Spielberg's fault.
Anyways, I thought the miniseries was very good. Probably the best miniseries I've ever seen. And the best "Alien" story, in terms of accuracy and "it could of happened"-ness, as well.
The great thing about the miniseries was the theme of "Family" as it followed three families from the 1940's to today. They pulled it off quite well, as you could see traits of the characters which resembeled their parents/grandparents. And how they all intermeshed and met up again in the future.
The Government was portrayed quite badly, as offical governement workers often killed off innocent people to keep the secret. If the Government really did that, it is very dangerous. Here's a tip: If you ever find aliens/UFO's etc., call CNN or the Today show gang, not Uncle Sam. It reminds me of one of the few episodes of Stargate I've seen, where some guy says "It's almost worst to lie to your citizens than to commit murder".
The aliens were interesting as well. They did a good job of crafting them, but I believe they could of done better on the special effects. They certainly weren't up to par with the current movies in theatres, but around to where "Enterprise" is. The Alien ships were interesting, as it displayed what they could look like in the interior. The theory about them meshing together to create one big craft was interesting as well.
All in all, the people who did this miniseries did do their homework. As I reconized a lot of plot which was taken out of real life events. I also remember the crew mentioning that they intereviewed abductees and sifted through a large amount of documented events and theories before doing the show, which payed off IMO.
I would like to see a sequal, but I'd like Steven Spielberg also to do it. If it loses any of it's original imagineers, I think it would be very disapointing.
I mean, going after those who actually possess and distribute something that they have not legally purchased? Sounds legitimate to me.
I think your a little confused. I thought that "Slashdot" wanted the people who burn the stuff and sell it on the black market (who earn profit off of piracy) to be caught and thrown in the slammer, not "innocent" P2P nodes.
Actually, what I would like to see is a 11 year old minority girl who has random MP3's of her favorite American artist (of which her and her minimum wage working class parents can't afford to pay for the overpriced CD's) to be thrown in jail. Once that gets released to the press, it will destroy the RIAA/MPAA.
If that happened, I predict a private concert for the girl by her favorite artist and a basket of free CD's on the TODAY Show or something:P
Then the RIAA would creep back into the dark corners of the corperate industry and never bother "poor innocent P2P nodes" ever again, and perhaps actually think up a better buisness model instead of throwing of thretening and throwing their customers into jail.
I find publishing of THE Gnutella2 spec by ONE development team laughable
Then lets hear you? I haven't seen any replies in the GDF from Limewire on the spec yet. You find that specs being released by Shareaza are laughable, but what about when Limewire proposes their GUESS proposal? Or "CHORD" proposal? Didn't "one development team" work on those? Sure, you released it before actually implamenting it, but still... the rest of the GDF just questioned about it, you were really the only development team. People don't say "Gnutella's GUESS proposal" they say "Limewire's GUESS proposal".
The latest enhancement is GUESS, which was introduced before Shareaza's new searching methodology and seems to be Shareaza's inspiration.
Can Limewire stop saying that? Which is totally and utterly untrue?!! Mike was working on G2 long before you sent him your spec on GUESS. He told you in a private e-mail that he was working on it before hand, and that he would probably release his with GUESS.
And the specs released today are **VERY DIFFERENT** from your damn GUESS proposal.
implemented over the last year or so by SEVERAL COOPERATING Gnutella vendors
Oh, and what about your Remote Queueing feature? Shareaza founded that, and it's included in Limewire. Mike wants to cooperate, but your not giving him a chance.
The Shareaza people continue to attempt to preempt Gnutella as THEIR protocol, when in fact they are pretty much branching off from the network.
"Shareaza People"? There is only one developer for Shareaza, Mike. Shareaza supports G1 and G2, it supports "Gnutella".
Micheal Stokes (Shareaza developer>) thought that the GDF (Gnutella Developers Forum) was a too slow at fixing Gnutella's problems (unscalable, too much unused bandwidth, unorgnaized for future additions) so he went ahead himself (by himself) and wrote Gnutella2. He has done this before, when he wrote the spec for "Remote Queueing" (kind of like IRC). He wrote his spec first, developed it in his client, released it then proposed the idea to the GDF. The GDF likes it and now Limewire, Bearshare and Gnucleus all support it.
The GDF is pissed that Mike went ahead and "updated Gnutella" without asking them first. Granted, they have a right to. The GDF is meant to be a consensus, a forum for all developers. And a "assumed" condition of that is to let the other developers know *ahead of time* before going ahead and doing something this massive. And the entire idea that he called it "Gnutella2" (using the Gnutella brand) and advertised it as the "next revolution in P2P" (which it actually, IMO, is) pisses them off even more.
However, if you notice, it seems only the developers with corperate ties are pissed. Other clients such as GTK (Linux), Gnucleus, etc. all seem interested in the protocol, I believe GTK already said they'd implament it. Limewire and BearShare still seem upset. (It's like owning a oil company, then someone comes out with electricty - sucks).
Anyways, Mike likes the Gnutella ideals - that it is open and free. So he called it "Gnutella2". Partly to "refresh" Gnutella and revive Gnutella's bad image it has with the general user (which it has achieved IMO) and to show users it's the "second generation" of Gnutella.
The Protocol is being released now. This is part one, the next one will go over the new packet encapsulation and what not.
I hate it when I want to go see a movie and my friends say "Oh, just saw that. It was okay." "What do you mean? It comes out tomarrow?" "I downloaded it on Kazaa."
Or worse, they tell you what happens in the movie. I make sure I always get good seats and tickets a few days ahead of time to see a movie, and it becomes increasingly annoying when your friend thinks he's l33t because he saw the movie before it was released. That's probably my biggest annoyance. People who go to the theaters now are considered "Pigeons", at least in the teenager group.
That's why I love it when they AIM me and say "Shit! I spent 5 hours downloading a movie and it was blank!"
Over at VCDQuality there are screencaps up. A little too bright, but not bad. The quality seems to be improving since I've last seen a VCD Release.
The VCD Community is growing larger and larger everyday. It's common now at school to watch in-theatre movies on "Movie Days" because students bring the DVD's to school. (I've witnessed around 10 kids huddled around a PC in amazement on how some "l33t schoolmate" obtained the movie)
Though, a problem with the VCD Community is they release over IRC. They should do it over Gnutella2, eDonkey or another good P2P Network where each downloader also uploads to other users using Partial File Sharing. Releases can get out waaay faster on P2P than IRC.
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Now that Shareaza has global searches (and nativly hashes in SHA/MD4/ND5/TTH) we can post up the hash of linux distro's and begin downloading from the Linxu distro site.
People can download off that person using partial file sharing, people can download off that person using partial file sharing etc. It will save the main site a hell of a lot of bandwidth and you'll be downloading the distro swarming from 10+ people rather than one slow FTP site.
Re:Gnutella2 - The real story!
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Since you work for Limewire, then you'll know that Mike (the developer of Shareaza) was contacted by you with your GUESS proposal as he was working on his own similar proposal (wish is now used in Shareaza). I know those e-mail logs are lurking somewhere at Limewire LLC. Perhaps your accusations that Mike "stole" or "took" the GUESS protocol are a little too "immature"?
Come now. I think were all quite tired of the poor attitude the GDF has shown towards Mike. There is no rule in the GDF against further development of the Gnutella protocol. I could of course have apathy for why your upset (Mike hasen't released the specs yet, or consulted the GDF before hand) but there is no putting off the actual facts: I get better results on G2 than G1. Less bandwidth, more fruitful results, etc etc.
GUESS will be included in Shareaza soon enough as other clients start using it (in Shareaza's G1 capability). If you dislike the G2 design, that's fine. But we also hope that you could put aside your personal matters and actually embrace the network as really a better path to take than currently working with the mess which is G1.
How will a 300x500 (px) video look on my HDTV? Not very good. What's the use for the DivX player anyways? I see no use for it! Other than people who rip DVD's to DivX files and burn them to CD's, like you say.
And doesn't compressing DivX files take eons to do? It takes my computer 20 minutes to do a music video!
I'll pass on this. This isn't something your mom will use.
I don't think any clean-freak mom in America would want this thing to do it's floors. I watched the video clip in the article, then you'll know what I mean.
First of all, it seems to only floors. And it only cleans "slightly" it doesn't seem like it will go deep into the rug and get that dirt out, it does not seem powerful at all with no adaquate suction.
In addition, it doesn't seem very intelligent. It works by sweeping around an area, then when it detects something, it will go in a circular motion to make sure it gets all of it up in that area. But it can easily roam off and miss a lot. Well, unless you give it a lot of time. In the video, they said it would take 45 minutes to clean the studio. Or a half hour to clean a small room. Do note, half of that time is probably finding the mess. That's probably it's biggest problem. Perhaps it should send out detection lasers (or whatever, the stuff that stores use for automatic doors etc.) to detect if anything is above floor level?
The problem with actually finding the mess in a short amount of time was so paramount that they developed little pods that you put around it, to cage it in so it won't pass them and find the mess faster. While that helps, it really isn't solving the problem. Ideally, you'd start it up and it goes straight to the mess and clean it up.
Right now, I'd consider the thing blind. Aimlessly circling around looking for crumbs.
I wouldn't recommend it. Though, there is very good potential for "iRobot" (the company). Check back in a few years.
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With Intellectual Property, I wonder how many "Good Ideas" will be lost in the future. You can't even propose something without being sued to hell, or your too restricted to create new buisnesses because everything is patented.
::throws prototype in trash::"
"Billy: Hey! I have made a prototype for a Nanotech replicator!"
"Sally: Err... Sony patented everything Nanotec"
"Billy: Yea, I forgot.
Why don't they use File Sharing Clients as tools? I still buy CD's while using Shareaza. I wouldn't mind advertisments within Shareaza, or an easy way to right click songs I like and buy the entire CD.
Remember that File Sharing doesn't become a problem unless people are subsituting it from buying CD's, which is not the case with everyone. And majority who do take part in that act, probably would never buy a CD anyways. So the equilivant is listening to the music on the radio.
The solution for the RIAA is to lower CD prices a little, pay the artists more, cut the fat by getting rid of the unnessassary middlemen, and adding extra's to CD's (Stickers, Pictures, Signed stuff, Coupons, Concert Ticket Discounts, Website Member Access... etc.).
I personally know P2P Client developers and destroying buisnesses, music artists, and causing people to lose their jobs is not of their intentions.
20 hours poured into good entertainment isn't wasted IMO.
Thanks for writing that.
I have been wearly of closed minded people not seeing the ending for what it is. The ending made you think, if it weren't there and if David was left in the water, then the ending and the feeling you have after watching it would of been very empty.
I don't know what this FUD is all about. The people here reviewing it probably only saw one episode. You have to see the entire 20 hours, which I did, to get the entire experience. The reason most of the people here dislike it is probably because it had limited "action" and more drama/story.
I saw the promo for "Taken" on the USA Network (USA is affiliated/owns the SciFi Channel?) and I was a bit skeptical. Also, it seemed Spielberg was getting too much glory, as there were many many directors (one for each episode, I believe) who took part in the miniseries. So if you don't like this, it isn't entirly Spielberg's fault.
Anyways, I thought the miniseries was very good. Probably the best miniseries I've ever seen. And the best "Alien" story, in terms of accuracy and "it could of happened"-ness, as well.
The great thing about the miniseries was the theme of "Family" as it followed three families from the 1940's to today. They pulled it off quite well, as you could see traits of the characters which resembeled their parents/grandparents. And how they all intermeshed and met up again in the future.
The Government was portrayed quite badly, as offical governement workers often killed off innocent people to keep the secret. If the Government really did that, it is very dangerous. Here's a tip: If you ever find aliens/UFO's etc., call CNN or the Today show gang, not Uncle Sam. It reminds me of one of the few episodes of Stargate I've seen, where some guy says "It's almost worst to lie to your citizens than to commit murder".
The aliens were interesting as well. They did a good job of crafting them, but I believe they could of done better on the special effects. They certainly weren't up to par with the current movies in theatres, but around to where "Enterprise" is. The Alien ships were interesting, as it displayed what they could look like in the interior. The theory about them meshing together to create one big craft was interesting as well.
All in all, the people who did this miniseries did do their homework. As I reconized a lot of plot which was taken out of real life events. I also remember the crew mentioning that they intereviewed abductees and sifted through a large amount of documented events and theories before doing the show, which payed off IMO.
I would like to see a sequal, but I'd like Steven Spielberg also to do it. If it loses any of it's original imagineers, I think it would be very disapointing.
I think your a little confused. I thought that "Slashdot" wanted the people who burn the stuff and sell it on the black market (who earn profit off of piracy) to be caught and thrown in the slammer, not "innocent" P2P nodes.
Actually, what I would like to see is a 11 year old minority girl who has random MP3's of her favorite American artist (of which her and her minimum wage working class parents can't afford to pay for the overpriced CD's) to be thrown in jail. Once that gets released to the press, it will destroy the RIAA/MPAA.
If that happened, I predict a private concert for the girl by her favorite artist and a basket of free CD's on the TODAY Show or something
Then the RIAA would creep back into the dark corners of the corperate industry and never bother "poor innocent P2P nodes" ever again, and perhaps actually think up a better buisness model instead of throwing of thretening and throwing their customers into jail.
Shareaza/Gnutella/Gnutella2 already does this.
It's a combination of Partial File Sharing, Remote Queueing, Download Mesh (Alternative Sources) and Swarming. Works very well, actually.
Then lets hear you? I haven't seen any replies in the GDF from Limewire on the spec yet. You find that specs being released by Shareaza are laughable, but what about when Limewire proposes their GUESS proposal? Or "CHORD" proposal? Didn't "one development team" work on those? Sure, you released it before actually implamenting it, but still... the rest of the GDF just questioned about it, you were really the only development team. People don't say "Gnutella's GUESS proposal" they say "Limewire's GUESS proposal".
Can Limewire stop saying that? Which is totally and utterly untrue?!! Mike was working on G2 long before you sent him your spec on GUESS. He told you in a private e-mail that he was working on it before hand, and that he would probably release his with GUESS.
And the specs released today are **VERY DIFFERENT** from your damn GUESS proposal.
Oh, and what about your Remote Queueing feature? Shareaza founded that, and it's included in Limewire. Mike wants to cooperate, but your not giving him a chance.
"Shareaza People"? There is only one developer for Shareaza, Mike. Shareaza supports G1 and G2, it supports "Gnutella".
If other clients don't adopt Gnutella2, or something better/as good then they'll be pushed out of the market, simple as that.
Look at it yourself. Do you think it was progressing well?
Well, here's the story.
Micheal Stokes (Shareaza developer>) thought that the GDF (Gnutella Developers Forum) was a too slow at fixing Gnutella's problems (unscalable, too much unused bandwidth, unorgnaized for future additions) so he went ahead himself (by himself) and wrote Gnutella2. He has done this before, when he wrote the spec for "Remote Queueing" (kind of like IRC). He wrote his spec first, developed it in his client, released it then proposed the idea to the GDF. The GDF likes it and now Limewire, Bearshare and Gnucleus all support it.
The GDF is pissed that Mike went ahead and "updated Gnutella" without asking them first. Granted, they have a right to. The GDF is meant to be a consensus, a forum for all developers. And a "assumed" condition of that is to let the other developers know *ahead of time* before going ahead and doing something this massive. And the entire idea that he called it "Gnutella2" (using the Gnutella brand) and advertised it as the "next revolution in P2P" (which it actually, IMO, is) pisses them off even more.
However, if you notice, it seems only the developers with corperate ties are pissed. Other clients such as GTK (Linux), Gnucleus, etc. all seem interested in the protocol, I believe GTK already said they'd implament it. Limewire and BearShare still seem upset. (It's like owning a oil company, then someone comes out with electricty - sucks).
Anyways, Mike likes the Gnutella ideals - that it is open and free. So he called it "Gnutella2". Partly to "refresh" Gnutella and revive Gnutella's bad image it has with the general user (which it has achieved IMO) and to show users it's the "second generation" of Gnutella.
The Protocol is being released now. This is part one, the next one will go over the new packet encapsulation and what not.
OpenOffice recently asked the P2P community to help out in distributing it's massive install file over their networks.
5 PC RWCT7Y.XKR2LGSL2K3DR4CTE5H5PDZGQCZOKN2NJWOOQHQ&dn= OOo_1.0.1_Win32Intel_install.zip
It's now on Gnutella2.
magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:S5Q756FJ7326XXDGA7KZBF2
I get 15 sources in seconds. (G2 required - good luck on G1)
I hate it when I want to go see a movie and my friends say "Oh, just saw that. It was okay." "What do you mean? It comes out tomarrow?" "I downloaded it on Kazaa."
Or worse, they tell you what happens in the movie. I make sure I always get good seats and tickets a few days ahead of time to see a movie, and it becomes increasingly annoying when your friend thinks he's l33t because he saw the movie before it was released. That's probably my biggest annoyance. People who go to the theaters now are considered "Pigeons", at least in the teenager group.
That's why I love it when they AIM me and say "Shit! I spent 5 hours downloading a movie and it was blank!"
Errr. It seems they have anti-leeching on their images. Try this.
Over at VCDQuality there are screencaps up. A little too bright, but not bad. The quality seems to be improving since I've last seen a VCD Release.
The VCD Community is growing larger and larger everyday. It's common now at school to watch in-theatre movies on "Movie Days" because students bring the DVD's to school. (I've witnessed around 10 kids huddled around a PC in amazement on how some "l33t schoolmate" obtained the movie)
Though, a problem with the VCD Community is they release over IRC. They should do it over Gnutella2, eDonkey or another good P2P Network where each downloader also uploads to other users using Partial File Sharing. Releases can get out waaay faster on P2P than IRC.
Now that Shareaza has global searches (and nativly hashes in SHA/MD4/ND5/TTH) we can post up the hash of linux distro's and begin downloading from the Linxu distro site.
People can download off that person using partial file sharing, people can download off that person using partial file sharing etc. It will save the main site a hell of a lot of bandwidth and you'll be downloading the distro swarming from 10+ people rather than one slow FTP site.
Whaa? I actually think Shareaza has the best UI out of all Gnutella clients.
Though, there is that one Searching Status I begged Mike not to put in, which was put in anyways =)
Your suggestions are welcome on the forum.
Since you work for Limewire, then you'll know that Mike (the developer of Shareaza) was contacted by you with your GUESS proposal as he was working on his own similar proposal (wish is now used in Shareaza). I know those e-mail logs are lurking somewhere at Limewire LLC. Perhaps your accusations that Mike "stole" or "took" the GUESS protocol are a little too "immature"?
Come now. I think were all quite tired of the poor attitude the GDF has shown towards Mike. There is no rule in the GDF against further development of the Gnutella protocol. I could of course have apathy for why your upset (Mike hasen't released the specs yet, or consulted the GDF before hand) but there is no putting off the actual facts: I get better results on G2 than G1. Less bandwidth, more fruitful results, etc etc.
GUESS will be included in Shareaza soon enough as other clients start using it (in Shareaza's G1 capability). If you dislike the G2 design, that's fine. But we also hope that you could put aside your personal matters and actually embrace the network as really a better path to take than currently working with the mess which is G1.
"I vote for a third party!"
"Go ahead! Throw your vote away!"
Found them
One for the longest disclaimer, and one for the most un-read disclaimer. Hmmm... wonder why?
Not to mention Quality.
How will a 300x500 (px) video look on my HDTV? Not very good. What's the use for the DivX player anyways? I see no use for it! Other than people who rip DVD's to DivX files and burn them to CD's, like you say.
And doesn't compressing DivX files take eons to do? It takes my computer 20 minutes to do a music video!
I'll pass on this. This isn't something your mom will use.
That's interesting. I wonder what other "denied" stuff is actually true.
I don't think any clean-freak mom in America would want this thing to do it's floors. I watched the video clip in the article, then you'll know what I mean.
First of all, it seems to only floors. And it only cleans "slightly" it doesn't seem like it will go deep into the rug and get that dirt out, it does not seem powerful at all with no adaquate suction.
In addition, it doesn't seem very intelligent. It works by sweeping around an area, then when it detects something, it will go in a circular motion to make sure it gets all of it up in that area. But it can easily roam off and miss a lot. Well, unless you give it a lot of time. In the video, they said it would take 45 minutes to clean the studio. Or a half hour to clean a small room. Do note, half of that time is probably finding the mess. That's probably it's biggest problem. Perhaps it should send out detection lasers (or whatever, the stuff that stores use for automatic doors etc.) to detect if anything is above floor level?
The problem with actually finding the mess in a short amount of time was so paramount that they developed little pods that you put around it, to cage it in so it won't pass them and find the mess faster. While that helps, it really isn't solving the problem. Ideally, you'd start it up and it goes straight to the mess and clean it up.
Right now, I'd consider the thing blind. Aimlessly circling around looking for crumbs.
I wouldn't recommend it. Though, there is very good potential for "iRobot" (the company). Check back in a few years.