Um. I know of one popular P2P app where what you describe is an issue: the original Gnutella. (And possibly the new Gnutella, I haven't had a look at that one yet, but chances are they worked on the issue.)
Searching time certainly never was an issue in Napster, in fact, Napster was probably the P2P app where searching was fastest. IIRC, all the file lists of the clients were transmitted to a global server (or rather a cluster thereof), which then looked up requests in its database. So you had a single point where all the organisation went together, and consequently a single point of failure.
Modern networks like Fasttrack and eDonkey distribute this task, too. Fasttrack dynamically allocates certain client computers as "supernodes", which work as local servers other clients send their file lists and search requests to (so FastTrack is basically both P2P file sharing and indexing). EDonkey, on the other hand, has a dedicated server app which a number of people have set up, and to which client computers connect. In both cases, servers redirect search queries to other servers, so you get a number of results (basically) at once, and after some time more and more. This can take a while, but still never long enough to be bothersome, really. It doesn't make the system fail, either.
That's probably just you. Most people aren't able to reliably decide on any single favorite among the popular psycho-acoustic models at mid to high bitrates (ie, 192 to 256 kbit and above). Some formats (esp Vorbis) seem to be better suited for the low and medium bitrates between 64 and 192 kbit than others, though. (reference, in German, though)
I'm not saying it's either right or wrong, just stating a fact. Another fact: we're living in a representative democracy (that is, I do, I assume you do, too), and the argument I referenced before is not all that contradictive in a representative democracy. Oh well. *shrugs* There've been pages upon pages of discussion on this topic, I have no interest in wading through actively myself, especially not here. (I'm sure somebody else will, though.:P)
That is actually one of the main arguments (at least here in Germany) against the introduction of referendums which have the power to change the constitution.
Nice idea, but god damn it sounds cruel! Books have feelings, too, you know.
Re:You know, Fresco...doesn't ring a bell?
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There's also that big "X"-symbol at the side which might give you a hint. I had never heard of Fresco or Berlin (in that context, har har), but I figured what it was about and was confirmed right 20 seconds later when I had a glance at the linked page.
Nevertheless, I agree, a subblause explaining what Fresco does wouldn't have hurt.
No, it isn't. I like being nostalgic about old computer systems as any other geek, but playing those old games on an emulator isn't that cool, really. I'd rather play NFS6 than Turbo Outrun.
There isn't really anything to give a chance to. It's not like it was a different interface, it just doesn't look the same, it works the same entirely. I'm sure everyone who has used Windows 9x+ for some time could easily adapt to the new look, but why bother.
Treebeard is in (at least) one of the scenes - at 02:33. And cheers for that, Treebeard is just awesome, I'd have hated to see him removed. Seeing Bombadil (and like 30 pages before and after him) cut was bad enough, but he at least wasn't as essential to the story as Treebeard is.
What if it never does? What if they never hit their magic number? Can I get a refund?
Yeah, I think that's a pretty bad problem. What would have happened to all the Blender money if they had been short of the $100,000? I assume it'd have been refunded, but what an organisational nightmare.
Oh c'mon. DVD decoding is one thing, but my 120 MHz Cyrix could realtime decode MP3s (if barely), and it certainly didn't push my old 300 MHz Celeron to its limit. Heck, even PDAs decode MP3s in realtime. I'm pretty sure that $200 PC could play DivX without a hiccup.
It's the oldest rule of capitalism: Vote with your feet.
Well, yeah. And at the same time people still get to hear the music they want by copying ("stealing") it. In a way, mass copyright violation ("piracy") is just a democratic way to prove legislation is made according to corporate rather than public interest.;)
Eh? Unless the CRT is really old (ie. pre multi-sync), it should be able to display just about every resolution you throw at it. 1280x1024 will look terrible on either, of course, but unlike LCDs, CRTs aren't fixed to a certain number of pixels displayed. They just get all fuzzy if run at way to high resolutions. Of course, you might have tried displaying resolutions higher than 800x600 at too high refresh rates, which the monitor (hopefully) won't even try to display. But that's really a different issue.
You do have double the MHz, but it's an XScale CPU, instead of a StrongARM one. It's faste, but nowhere near twice as fast, depending, of course, strongly on what you're running. On the PocketPC platform, there are a few examples of well-designed StrongARM PDAs ranking higher in general benchmarks than some XScale-equipped ones.
500 to 600 bucks, estimates (!) the infoSync article linked to in the story.
Re:Natural Selection is Fantastic
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There's nothing in particular which I hated, it's just a more general feeling of total repugnance. Although I'm pretty sure I could find out why I hated it exactly, but I'm not going to waste my time analyzing that. It's just that I had the impression that virtually everybody thought NS was the best thing since sliced bread, turns out it's just a normal mod after all. Nothing wrong with that, obviously, I'm sure there'll be a lot of people who do like it.
Oh and just for you, I disabled the +1 bonus for this post. Nevertheless, using is by no means abusing it - it's more easily modded down, at least if more people consider it a troll. To quote the FAQ: This is how the system is designed to work: you can't just rack up karma, and then post nonsense.
Re:Natural Selection is Fantastic
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I just played it, I thought it was terrible. Can't believe I patched up HL for this. But oh well, there's a new version of Front Line Force coming up, so I guess it's not in vain.
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Um. I know of one popular P2P app where what you describe is an issue: the original Gnutella. (And possibly the new Gnutella, I haven't had a look at that one yet, but chances are they worked on the issue.)
Searching time certainly never was an issue in Napster, in fact, Napster was probably the P2P app where searching was fastest. IIRC, all the file lists of the clients were transmitted to a global server (or rather a cluster thereof), which then looked up requests in its database. So you had a single point where all the organisation went together, and consequently a single point of failure.
Modern networks like Fasttrack and eDonkey distribute this task, too. Fasttrack dynamically allocates certain client computers as "supernodes", which work as local servers other clients send their file lists and search requests to (so FastTrack is basically both P2P file sharing and indexing). EDonkey, on the other hand, has a dedicated server app which a number of people have set up, and to which client computers connect. In both cases, servers redirect search queries to other servers, so you get a number of results (basically) at once, and after some time more and more. This can take a while, but still never long enough to be bothersome, really. It doesn't make the system fail, either.
That's probably just you. Most people aren't able to reliably decide on any single favorite among the popular psycho-acoustic models at mid to high bitrates (ie, 192 to 256 kbit and above). Some formats (esp Vorbis) seem to be better suited for the low and medium bitrates between 64 and 192 kbit than others, though. (reference, in German, though)
A sin that'd prevent you from ever being president, amongst other things.
I'm not saying it's either right or wrong, just stating a fact. Another fact: we're living in a representative democracy (that is, I do, I assume you do, too), and the argument I referenced before is not all that contradictive in a representative democracy. :P)
Oh well. *shrugs* There've been pages upon pages of discussion on this topic, I have no interest in wading through actively myself, especially not here. (I'm sure somebody else will, though.
That is actually one of the main arguments (at least here in Germany) against the introduction of referendums which have the power to change the constitution.
Funny how you chose the schoolyard bully analogy to prove your point.
Nice idea, but god damn it sounds cruel! Books have feelings, too, you know.
There's also that big "X"-symbol at the side which might give you a hint. I had never heard of Fresco or Berlin (in that context, har har), but I figured what it was about and was confirmed right 20 seconds later when I had a glance at the linked page.
Nevertheless, I agree, a subblause explaining what Fresco does wouldn't have hurt.
Well, that's the low quality version. The screenshots look a lot better in the high quality one. But I guess every mirror is appreciated. *shrugs*
I mean, isn't Jumpman Jr. still fun :)
No, it isn't. I like being nostalgic about old computer systems as any other geek, but playing those old games on an emulator isn't that cool, really. I'd rather play NFS6 than Turbo Outrun.
There isn't really anything to give a chance to. It's not like it was a different interface, it just doesn't look the same, it works the same entirely. I'm sure everyone who has used Windows 9x+ for some time could easily adapt to the new look, but why bother.
Treebeard is in (at least) one of the scenes - at 02:33. And cheers for that, Treebeard is just awesome, I'd have hated to see him removed. Seeing Bombadil (and like 30 pages before and after him) cut was bad enough, but he at least wasn't as essential to the story as Treebeard is.
What if it never does? What if they never hit their magic number? Can I get a refund?
Yeah, I think that's a pretty bad problem. What would have happened to all the Blender money if they had been short of the $100,000? I assume it'd have been refunded, but what an organisational nightmare.
It's "ransom", not "ransome". Not a spelling nazi troll, just an FYI as you made the same avoidable mistake three times in two posts.
If your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail or How We Can Use The Internet For All Kinds of BS.
Winamp3 really pushes the box to the limit.
Oh c'mon. DVD decoding is one thing, but my 120 MHz Cyrix could realtime decode MP3s (if barely), and it certainly didn't push my old 300 MHz Celeron to its limit. Heck, even PDAs decode MP3s in realtime. I'm pretty sure that $200 PC could play DivX without a hiccup.
It's the oldest rule of capitalism: Vote with your feet.
;)
Well, yeah. And at the same time people still get to hear the music they want by copying ("stealing") it. In a way, mass copyright violation ("piracy") is just a democratic way to prove legislation is made according to corporate rather than public interest.
The most widespread DSL service here in Germany is 768kbit down, 128 kbit up, with no traffic limit. I wonder how long it's going to stay that way.
The Indian government is Karma whoring!
Eh? Unless the CRT is really old (ie. pre multi-sync), it should be able to display just about every resolution you throw at it. 1280x1024 will look terrible on either, of course, but unlike LCDs, CRTs aren't fixed to a certain number of pixels displayed. They just get all fuzzy if run at way to high resolutions.
Of course, you might have tried displaying resolutions higher than 800x600 at too high refresh rates, which the monitor (hopefully) won't even try to display. But that's really a different issue.
You do have double the MHz, but it's an XScale CPU, instead of a StrongARM one. It's faste, but nowhere near twice as fast, depending, of course, strongly on what you're running. On the PocketPC platform, there are a few examples of well-designed StrongARM PDAs ranking higher in general benchmarks than some XScale-equipped ones.
500 to 600 bucks, estimates (!) the infoSync article linked to in the story.
There's nothing in particular which I hated, it's just a more general feeling of total repugnance. Although I'm pretty sure I could find out why I hated it exactly, but I'm not going to waste my time analyzing that. It's just that I had the impression that virtually everybody thought NS was the best thing since sliced bread, turns out it's just a normal mod after all. Nothing wrong with that, obviously, I'm sure there'll be a lot of people who do like it.
Oh and just for you, I disabled the +1 bonus for this post. Nevertheless, using is by no means abusing it - it's more easily modded down, at least if more people consider it a troll. To quote the FAQ: This is how the system is designed to work: you can't just rack up karma, and then post nonsense.
I just played it, I thought it was terrible. Can't believe I patched up HL for this. But oh well, there's a new version of Front Line Force coming up, so I guess it's not in vain.
Yes, you're right, of course. Sorry. The rest remains correct, though. :)