What a difference 6 years makes. I'm 19. And yet I've played most of those games when they were still popular. Yes, some of the older ones were truely before my time, but others remained popular in arcades into the early 90s, so I had opportunities to play them.
I mean, these kids are seeing Playstation games and acting like they're ancient. I'm only six years older than the oldest kid in that roundup, and I can remember the days BEFORE the SNES, when the best console on the market was the NES. And I spent quite a bit of time with the Atari and games of that caliber, and I damn well enjoyed them.
Know what I think the difference is? When I was growing up systems one generation behind (NES during the SNES days) were still popular, and multiple generations behind (Intellivision, Colecovision, Atari, in the SNES days) were still around and in good working order. It looks to me like where in my day we embraced the older generations of systems, today these kids wouldn't touch anything outside the current generation... and probably never DID.
All you need is a copy of Winamp and the Shoutcast server/DSP. Have Winamp tune into whatever source you want (In the case of proprietary stuff like Real Audio you'd have to have the realaudio player to play, and set Winamp to record off "wave"), then use that same copy of Winamp to just stream via shoutcast.
They could have gone after a small paypal-type company. But the BANKS? These are corporations here that are ROLLING in so much money they don't know what to do with it, the corporations that CHARGE YOU MONEY to borrow YOUR money so THEY can make money by investing or lending it. They've got gobs of cash, and grind this challanger into the ground.
I already have TV over my phone lines. It's called BitTorrent over DSL.
On a good torrent I can download at faster than realtime; it's 3mbit DSL, most TV content on the net is roughly 1.1mbit, or 350MB/42min episode. Some of the 350MB episodes are ripped from HDTV sources and are of extremely high quality. Not HDTV obviously, but pretty close to DVD quality, which I find impressive for something that just aired an hour before I download it.
But the best example is when I download said epsiodes onto a high powered server and then stream the AVI file from there. I need only about 1.5mbit from the server in order to get a stable connection on these AVI files.
To replace a PC based LAN party with an XBOX based LAN party, there are still many hardware requirements. You need lots of TVs (Hard to get enough of), and network cables, switches, etc.
Considering how difficult it is to get a bunch of TVs, it's probably way easier to go with a traditional LAN party. Somebody made the comment about high-school students not being able to go to LAN parties. That's rediculous, I've been hosting and going to LAN parties since mid highschool, from 4 people up to 400 people. Many people at both the big and small ones were from highschool, some younger than myself when I started going to them.
BitTorrent is not opensource. It's public domain. If Bram Cohen MADE it public domain, it is obviously his intention for his IDEA to spread as far as possible, into both opensourced (Azureus) and closed source (Exeem) products. He was more generous than the OpenSource proponents are; he wanted his creation to benefit as many people as possible, without restriction.
Re:The availability problem can be solved.
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Probably not, I only ran one donation drive back in the day. That led to NovaSearch's first dedicated server.
When Suprnova told me they wanted to switch from NovaSearch to their own internal search, I gave them the source to NovaSearch in hopes that Suprnova's search would be as good as NovaSearch. While it seems they mimmicked some of NovaSearch (which is good), they left out some of NovaSearch's more unique features.
The availability problem can be solved.
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It all comes down to two things: knowing where to host, and how to maximize your availability.
35% of all net traffic belongs to BitTorrent traffic. The corresponding web and traffic tracker required to power that is inconsequential.
I used to run NovaSearch.net, which was for a time the official search function of Suprnova.Org. I made up roughly half of all their traffic, something on the order of 300k pageviews per day by the end. Availability was indeed a large problem, and always my primary concern. However, my possible availability was much higher than actual availability. By this I mean that Novasearch had the POTENTIAL to be available much more than it was, due to reliance on Suprnova.
When SuprNova went down, NovaSearch (usually, often it could be used as an out-of-date cache when Suprnova was down) went down too, because it didn't get updates. That accounted for most of my downtime, very little of it was actually from issues relating to NovaSearch itself.
Despite all this, NovaSearch, during it's primary operational period, relied on only one dedicated server (A second was added for static content later on, but for transfer cap reasons, not actual bandwidth or load). This highlights the primary problem with Suprnova in regards to their reliability, they rely on donated mirrors, and that reliance has caused them to use an insufficient architechture (Last I heard the core of Suprnova was one single dual xeon server). Had they instead chosen to use a clustered solution that they managed themselves, combined with hardware firewalls and DDoS mitigation technology, the availability then and now would be significantly higher.
Tracker reliability is a much lesser problem. Torrents can easily survive short to medium tracker downtime just by the shear momentum of the users. Once they have a peer list, they can continue communicating with those peers even with the tracker down. And the widespread adoption of various unofficial additions to the BitTorrent protocol have further improved that. One such improvement that enjoys almost universal support among third-party BitTorrent clients is the multi-tracker protocol, which effectively allows trackers to be clustered so that even if all but one of the trackers for a torrent is down, it can continue normally.
Anyhow, this is a long post that sort of went off on a tangent and started rambling, but I thought that I should put a few words in because of the role I played.
I would imagine it would not be that difficult to create a program that would record the tracks, and split them up in real time based on the pauses between tracks. It could save further time by allowing you to enter the ID3 info while it was ripping, which would then be automatically applied to the files when ripping was completed. You then reduce the time it takes to do this to the runtime of the CD.
I guess I'm just used to the high delay that can be associated with intercontinental VoIP. Rarely do I have to deal with 500ms, but I have little trouble with 200 to 300ms.
The whole point is though that these people CANNOT get a landline, nor cellular. While the phone company is now installing landlines at enormous expense, there are still other places in similar situations. What's better, 500ms of VoIP latency, but having a real phone line, or no latency, but no phoneline?
That happens to me with pretty close to no latency. You get used to it;)
Overseas calls have latency of anywhere from 100 to 300 milliseconds, and it's not that bad. Fact is, a good quality, reliable connection, with an actual phone number people can call in and out of (Unlike the bag phones) is worth the 500ms penalty.
Grab some black construction paper, cut up from the bottom, then cut a hole the size of the videocamera's lense. Then place the black construction paper on the camera. It should be possible to get it to stay on it's own, if not some tape should hold it in place.
This will make the teleprompter much easier to read even against bright backgrounds; there would be a more or less single colour background over the entire viewable area of the teleprompter instead of the vastly different background colours in the current one; in the sample photo you can only really read the text that is in front of the black camera.
It's the opposite of cheaper, but every one of those people should be able to get telephone service...
All they need to do is get two-way satellite internet service (Admittedly not cheap), and then subscribe for VoIP. The benefit of course is that since they're not technically in any area code, they can pick any area code and join it.
Yes, satellite has high latency (Something like 500ms minimum), but on a telephone half a second of delay isn't really noticeable. The only question would be if the VoIP app would be able to handle the latency.
I don't understand, what image degradation? Why would there be size savings?
All Coral does is cache files. It doesn't modify them at all. It's designed to save bandwidth for the SERVER by serving up the content from it's own cache rather than the server itself.
If you are seeing image degradation, well, something is seriously wrong with your machine.
It works fine from here. The problem is you are using a very buggy DNS server (Windows 2000's DNS server for example). Such servers are very rare... As I understand almost all DNS servers out there run BIND on *nix and work fine.
The problem is explained in detail here:
http://coral.scs.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/wiki.php/Main/F AQ #SERVFAIL
I mean honestly. Coral is precicesly what this situation was designed for. Penny-Arcade could significantly reduce their bandwidth usage by coralizing the comics. Heck, even Slashdot could get a major speedup on their hosting these christmas pages by using Coral for the links.
Here are the coralized versions of the Slashdot-hosted images... If a few people request them they should get cached and will load like greased lightning:
Following links fom within there, it appears that the DS's encryption has been hacked (Just today even), and working cart readers have been made. So progress is being made.
The limitation here is processing power. I honestly have no idea if the GB/GBC games ran well on the GBA using an emulator, but the natural solution here would be to use the DS processor for these things, not the GBA processor. But since the GBA flash carts only seem to have access to the GBA processor, I guess we'll have to wait for a DS-specific flash cart. If it's even possible. Do they make flash memory that small? Time will tell.
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He's using Thunderbird's built in spam filter, which is a bayesian filter already.
What a difference 6 years makes. I'm 19. And yet I've played most of those games when they were still popular. Yes, some of the older ones were truely before my time, but others remained popular in arcades into the early 90s, so I had opportunities to play them.
I mean, these kids are seeing Playstation games and acting like they're ancient. I'm only six years older than the oldest kid in that roundup, and I can remember the days BEFORE the SNES, when the best console on the market was the NES. And I spent quite a bit of time with the Atari and games of that caliber, and I damn well enjoyed them.
Know what I think the difference is? When I was growing up systems one generation behind (NES during the SNES days) were still popular, and multiple generations behind (Intellivision, Colecovision, Atari, in the SNES days) were still around and in good working order. It looks to me like where in my day we embraced the older generations of systems, today these kids wouldn't touch anything outside the current generation... and probably never DID.
All you need is a copy of Winamp and the Shoutcast server/DSP. Have Winamp tune into whatever source you want (In the case of proprietary stuff like Real Audio you'd have to have the realaudio player to play, and set Winamp to record off "wave"), then use that same copy of Winamp to just stream via shoutcast.
They could have gone after a small paypal-type company. But the BANKS? These are corporations here that are ROLLING in so much money they don't know what to do with it, the corporations that CHARGE YOU MONEY to borrow YOUR money so THEY can make money by investing or lending it. They've got gobs of cash, and grind this challanger into the ground.
I already have TV over my phone lines. It's called BitTorrent over DSL.
On a good torrent I can download at faster than realtime; it's 3mbit DSL, most TV content on the net is roughly 1.1mbit, or 350MB/42min episode. Some of the 350MB episodes are ripped from HDTV sources and are of extremely high quality. Not HDTV obviously, but pretty close to DVD quality, which I find impressive for something that just aired an hour before I download it.
But the best example is when I download said epsiodes onto a high powered server and then stream the AVI file from there. I need only about 1.5mbit from the server in order to get a stable connection on these AVI files.
You're RENTING a bike. For $3.60 an hour. How is that expensive? That's less than a third the hourly price bike rentals are around here in Montreal.
To replace a PC based LAN party with an XBOX based LAN party, there are still many hardware requirements. You need lots of TVs (Hard to get enough of), and network cables, switches, etc.
Considering how difficult it is to get a bunch of TVs, it's probably way easier to go with a traditional LAN party. Somebody made the comment about high-school students not being able to go to LAN parties. That's rediculous, I've been hosting and going to LAN parties since mid highschool, from 4 people up to 400 people. Many people at both the big and small ones were from highschool, some younger than myself when I started going to them.
Looks interesting, but it doesn't seem to have sound support. Which is kind of handy to have for a MIDI sequencer :p
Even one that uses Cygwin? I'd hate to have to try to run this thing in VMware (Unless somebody can point out a faster way to run Linux in Windows)
BitTorrent is not opensource. It's public domain. If Bram Cohen MADE it public domain, it is obviously his intention for his IDEA to spread as far as possible, into both opensourced (Azureus) and closed source (Exeem) products. He was more generous than the OpenSource proponents are; he wanted his creation to benefit as many people as possible, without restriction.
Probably not, I only ran one donation drive back in the day. That led to NovaSearch's first dedicated server.
When Suprnova told me they wanted to switch from NovaSearch to their own internal search, I gave them the source to NovaSearch in hopes that Suprnova's search would be as good as NovaSearch. While it seems they mimmicked some of NovaSearch (which is good), they left out some of NovaSearch's more unique features.
It all comes down to two things: knowing where to host, and how to maximize your availability.
35% of all net traffic belongs to BitTorrent traffic. The corresponding web and traffic tracker required to power that is inconsequential.
I used to run NovaSearch.net, which was for a time the official search function of Suprnova.Org. I made up roughly half of all their traffic, something on the order of 300k pageviews per day by the end. Availability was indeed a large problem, and always my primary concern. However, my possible availability was much higher than actual availability. By this I mean that Novasearch had the POTENTIAL to be available much more than it was, due to reliance on Suprnova.
When SuprNova went down, NovaSearch (usually, often it could be used as an out-of-date cache when Suprnova was down) went down too, because it didn't get updates. That accounted for most of my downtime, very little of it was actually from issues relating to NovaSearch itself.
Despite all this, NovaSearch, during it's primary operational period, relied on only one dedicated server (A second was added for static content later on, but for transfer cap reasons, not actual bandwidth or load). This highlights the primary problem with Suprnova in regards to their reliability, they rely on donated mirrors, and that reliance has caused them to use an insufficient architechture (Last I heard the core of Suprnova was one single dual xeon server). Had they instead chosen to use a clustered solution that they managed themselves, combined with hardware firewalls and DDoS mitigation technology, the availability then and now would be significantly higher.
Tracker reliability is a much lesser problem. Torrents can easily survive short to medium tracker downtime just by the shear momentum of the users. Once they have a peer list, they can continue communicating with those peers even with the tracker down. And the widespread adoption of various unofficial additions to the BitTorrent protocol have further improved that. One such improvement that enjoys almost universal support among third-party BitTorrent clients is the multi-tracker protocol, which effectively allows trackers to be clustered so that even if all but one of the trackers for a torrent is down, it can continue normally.
Anyhow, this is a long post that sort of went off on a tangent and started rambling, but I thought that I should put a few words in because of the role I played.
I would imagine it would not be that difficult to create a program that would record the tracks, and split them up in real time based on the pauses between tracks. It could save further time by allowing you to enter the ID3 info while it was ripping, which would then be automatically applied to the files when ripping was completed. You then reduce the time it takes to do this to the runtime of the CD.
I guess I'm just used to the high delay that can be associated with intercontinental VoIP. Rarely do I have to deal with 500ms, but I have little trouble with 200 to 300ms.
The whole point is though that these people CANNOT get a landline, nor cellular. While the phone company is now installing landlines at enormous expense, there are still other places in similar situations. What's better, 500ms of VoIP latency, but having a real phone line, or no latency, but no phoneline?
That happens to me with pretty close to no latency. You get used to it ;)
Overseas calls have latency of anywhere from 100 to 300 milliseconds, and it's not that bad.
Fact is, a good quality, reliable connection, with an actual phone number people can call in and out of (Unlike the bag phones) is worth the 500ms penalty.
Grab some black construction paper, cut up from the bottom, then cut a hole the size of the videocamera's lense. Then place the black construction paper on the camera. It should be possible to get it to stay on it's own, if not some tape should hold it in place.
This will make the teleprompter much easier to read even against bright backgrounds; there would be a more or less single colour background over the entire viewable area of the teleprompter instead of the vastly different background colours in the current one; in the sample photo you can only really read the text that is in front of the black camera.
It's the opposite of cheaper, but every one of those people should be able to get telephone service...
All they need to do is get two-way satellite internet service (Admittedly not cheap), and then subscribe for VoIP. The benefit of course is that since they're not technically in any area code, they can pick any area code and join it.
Yes, satellite has high latency (Something like 500ms minimum), but on a telephone half a second of delay isn't really noticeable. The only question would be if the VoIP app would be able to handle the latency.
I don't understand, what image degradation? Why would there be size savings?
All Coral does is cache files. It doesn't modify them at all. It's designed to save bandwidth for the SERVER by serving up the content from it's own cache rather than the server itself.
If you are seeing image degradation, well, something is seriously wrong with your machine.
It works fine from here. The problem is you are using a very buggy DNS server (Windows 2000's DNS server for example). Such servers are very rare... As I understand almost all DNS servers out there run BIND on *nix and work fine.
F AQ #SERVFAIL
The problem is explained in detail here:
http://coral.scs.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/wiki.php/Main/
Coral only uses port 8090. There's no way around it. The server network that is hosting them already makes use of port 80.
However, from what I recall they are planning to set up some sort of virtualhosting network-wide to get access to port 80.
USE CORAL!
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I mean honestly. Coral is precicesly what this situation was designed for. Penny-Arcade could significantly reduce their bandwidth usage by coralizing the comics. Heck, even Slashdot could get a major speedup on their hosting these christmas pages by using Coral for the links.
Here are the coralized versions of the Slashdot-hosted images... If a few people request them they should get cached and will load like greased lightning:
http://66.35.250.242.nyud.net:8090/cover_book.jpg
http://66.35.250.242.nyud.net:8090/page_1_book.jp
Following links fom within there, it appears that the DS's encryption has been hacked (Just today even), and working cart readers have been made. So progress is being made.
The limitation here is processing power. I honestly have no idea if the GB/GBC games ran well on the GBA using an emulator, but the natural solution here would be to use the DS processor for these things, not the GBA processor. But since the GBA flash carts only seem to have access to the GBA processor, I guess we'll have to wait for a DS-specific flash cart. If it's even possible. Do they make flash memory that small? Time will tell.
With what, an emulator? The only news I'd heard so far was that you could use GBA flashcards in a DS to play GBA games.
That'd be great, but TFA is a 404 now.