Oh oh that looks like the final death blow to mldonkey:(
Why oh why must it die? It's the only bittorrent/edonkey/ftp/http download manager for headless/remote servers there is. And it’s freakin’ great software.
Please, is there anyone who knows a replacement? Or who can write OCaml? We need to save it! Or at least have a replacement that can do the same things.
Well, I once realized, that all code basically is "throwaway code". Meaning, that you only can do proper evolution of a software project, if you do a complete rewrite from time to time. That is, because the basic usage and purpose of the program changes with time. New, better paradigms get discovered, etc. And they don't fit with the old basic architecture. If you just endlessly patch them on top, you get something like Windows ME, Internet Explorer, or MS Office.
So you make clear cuts: You stay with the old paradigms in the old code base, and just perfect that one, fix all the bugs, etc. Meanwhile you slowly use more and more resources to transition to the new code base, written with a really proper foundation of design, adapted to the new usage patterns and purposes. Backwards compatibility really should not even be considered here! Importers, yes. Real compatibility: No way. Because that would be the opposite of a clear cut, by not allowing 100% freedom to redesign it properly. Which means you drag along the old crap anyway, despite it not fitting into the new ideas.
That's why I now always use a 4.1-part versioning scheme: "G.M.m.p b", where b: Build number. Including "beta"/"alpha"/"RC" status, etc. p: Patch number. Drop-in update with no functionality change at all. Only bug/security fixes. m: Minor version number. Drop-in update with functionality changes. M: Major version number. Can not be dropped in just like that. Big functionality changes. But no paradigm changes. G: Generation number. Complete rewrite with paradigm changes. Up to being a completely new program. Comparable to the number in movies or games. Like GTA 2, GTA 3, GTA 4.
Also as with games and movies, different generations can co-exist for a long time. Allowing the old version to become perfected and allowing people their own choice of when to move. The rule is that the old generation can only be abandoned, when each and every single function of it is available in the new generation. They can be different, or not needed anymore because of the new paradigms. But they have to be there. No exceptions! That is one big reason why people do not want to switch to Linux, Firefox or OpenOffice from Windows, Internet Explorer and MS Office. They still lack that tiny feature that makes it more effort to switch, than to stay an suffer the shitty product. It's human nature of inertia-caused efficiency.
That is why it's so bad that how KDE3 now gets abandoned, despite KDE4 still being close to alpha state (yes I talk about KDE 4.3) in terms of comparable fullness of functionality and all-around polishing.
Of course it provides a significant proportion in a fraction of the size.
It's the fractal principle. Just as you need maybe 10 iterations to generate what feels like half the detail in a Mandelbrot, and 5000 (or rather and infinite amount) for the other half.
That is because of the cascading levels of differences. If ReactOS has the basic cases handled, in can do e.g. 80 of the functions in 20% of the code, or even less.
See it like this:
Implementation detail level 1: 50.0% of functionality done use case 1: 50.0% of functionality covered
Implementation detail level 2: 75.0% of functionality done use case 2: an additional 15.0% covered use case 3: an additional 10.0% covered
Implementation detail level 3: 87.5% of functionality done use case 4: an additional 4.0% covered use case 5: an additional 3.5% covered use case 6: an additional 3.0% covered use case 7: an additional 2.0% covered
etc. Now consider, that every use case on average can take the same amount of time to implement. (Assuming that we talked about orthogonal use cases.) Then it's clear why it takes so much more work for the billions of tiny exceptions that you have to add for the last 5% of use cases.
I think Agnitum's Outpost firewall still beats everything out there by far. It has too many security features that are just completely missing solutions for giant holes elsewhere.
A simple web page can contain that evil URI. And as it already in on the *inside* of the firewall, it is guaranteed to crash the system. With a bit of luck, one can stumble on a site that got some XSS infection, and that thing scans the whole subnet for crashable computers.
Then again, what is the point of simple crashes? No cracker is interested in them. They bring no benefits. They rather want one that acts as if *nothing at all* happened, while being infected.
Uum, with Linux you can configure the resolution freely, since the Icons mostly are SVG nowadays. And in Firefox there is a zoom anyway. So you pretty much get a resolution-independent desktop. (Well, at least you can scale everything.)
That feature even has multiple implementations with many configuration option, in Compiz Fusion (for Linux). Ýou can just zoom, lock the screen to an area, select a zoom area, use a "magnifying glass", etc, etc. All with configurable buttons and behavior.
I use it to make Flash videos that would stutter in full screen run smooth while filling the screen anyway. And to make dexterity games easier. ^^ But I bet it's also great for graphics work.
Just use a projector! ^^ No, seriously! You can't go much more low-DPI than a projector, can you.
There are many geeky solutions, like projecting it on the back of a surface (e.g. using the paper that they use for those DIY multi-touch tables), lowering the brightness of the projector, etc.
I'm sure that way you can build yourself a nice giant screen with up to HD resolution, but very low DPI. It's entirely possible, that you can fill your whole viewing angle with it then. Which should be really impressive in games!:D (IMAX effect)
One tip: Two half-HD projectors are (much) cheaper than one full-HD projector.:D
The clocks run FASTER in general, in a higher orbit. Even height variations in the orbit count.
So one *has* to calculate that effect it. No getting around it. And what I think is usually done, is run the clocks faster by the predictable amount, and then do small corrections for the unpredictable factors.
I don't know where you got the idea that it would only be launching creating an initial offset. But you are really, *really* wrong there. Sorry.
"By 2014 your mom will admit that she's a shitting penisboob-tentacle monster from planet Jupiter, and that she will rape you to death. It's in the bill."
Uuum, that is the theory. But just as much as "working communism" it's a pipe dream of the "love & peace" type of people.
In reality, nature still works with natural selection, the reason every single one of us exists is still that the genes and ideas of our parents won against those of others or expanded into unused resources / free spaces, we still each and everyone play the game of natural selection. Although nowadays we are advanced enough to use the indirect effects like teamwork. Leaders still are just humans......and so they still have the "conflict" of their own interests against those that voted for them.
Because in the end, they are only true to themselves. To us they are only true (and thereby perhaps beneficial), as long as they risk losing their own resources otherwise. And of course one part of the strategy to keep those resources, is to lower the risk of us taking them away.
It's actually just human nature. That's why it never gets "better". (Depends on who you ask, right? ^^)
And that is why we would need competency-modulated direct democracy. In which those with the most competence would have the most power. But as competence is relative, that part of their power that is modulated trough our competency rating, would only be power that governs ourselves. So that we couldn't trick the system by mass-tweaking it in our favor. (Yes I know that this is hard to make sense of on the first reading(s). But trust me: If you give it thought, it will make sense. And only if it then upon even further thought stops making sense, can you tell me it's not thought to the end. [Which it really never is ^^ But of course I welcome all useful critique.])
For every time someone does not believe you that the parties are just puppets for the companies that really control the country.
(Like all those, who switch to ignorance mode, as soon as they feel the smell of conspiracy, even when it's actually true. [Which is the other extreme of those people that believe *everything*])
Then again: Prove that anyone or anything except for yourself exists at all. ^^
There are no facts. There is only relative information, obtained trough channels with trust relationships. (How much do you trust your source? And how much do you trust your own eyes? What you think you know is relative to your source and the trust in it.) If it is a "fact" (which it can't) is actually irrelevant.
The question is, what it makes out of you, and what you make of it.
This just proves how low one can go in knowing jack about dating. DNA tests? Yeah, because we want to stay 20+ years with a person, have sex and love each other, because of a great DNA match! Toootally realistic!;)
I think the best way to know if a dating site is good, is by finding out the dating skills of those who created it!
On second thought. Why slow yourself down by using a dating site? Just read a bit about how dating actually works (There is no shame in knowing the theory. It can only make things better.), then go out and talk to girls! Gives you much more than any site could.
LOL. I just thought I had misspelled it as "unClusteredThinking", until I noticed that I already had the script installed. Just shows how well it works. ^^
Indeed. "Cluster" is a more fitting word. I just wrote the Greasemonkey script, and changed it to use that word: unCloudedThinking 0.1 For the fun, I also throw in a replacement of "hacker" with "cracker" and some nice Unicode characters. Feel free to add more.:)
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Uuum dude, you are stuck with fake! No shitting penis-nipple-tentacles there. Just white noise or some old advertisement. ^^
Oh oh that looks like the final death blow to mldonkey :(
Why oh why must it die? It's the only bittorrent/edonkey/ftp/http download manager for headless/remote servers there is. And it’s freakin’ great software.
Please, is there anyone who knows a replacement? Or who can write OCaml? We need to save it! Or at least have a replacement that can do the same things.
Well, I once realized, that all code basically is "throwaway code". Meaning, that you only can do proper evolution of a software project, if you do a complete rewrite from time to time.
That is, because the basic usage and purpose of the program changes with time. New, better paradigms get discovered, etc. And they don't fit with the old basic architecture.
If you just endlessly patch them on top, you get something like Windows ME, Internet Explorer, or MS Office.
So you make clear cuts: You stay with the old paradigms in the old code base, and just perfect that one, fix all the bugs, etc. Meanwhile you slowly use more and more resources to transition to the new code base, written with a really proper foundation of design, adapted to the new usage patterns and purposes. Backwards compatibility really should not even be considered here! Importers, yes. Real compatibility: No way. Because that would be the opposite of a clear cut, by not allowing 100% freedom to redesign it properly. Which means you drag along the old crap anyway, despite it not fitting into the new ideas.
That's why I now always use a 4.1-part versioning scheme:
"G.M.m.p b", where
b: Build number. Including "beta"/"alpha"/"RC" status, etc.
p: Patch number. Drop-in update with no functionality change at all. Only bug/security fixes.
m: Minor version number. Drop-in update with functionality changes.
M: Major version number. Can not be dropped in just like that. Big functionality changes. But no paradigm changes.
G: Generation number. Complete rewrite with paradigm changes. Up to being a completely new program. Comparable to the number in movies or games. Like GTA 2, GTA 3, GTA 4.
Also as with games and movies, different generations can co-exist for a long time. Allowing the old version to become perfected and allowing people their own choice of when to move.
The rule is that the old generation can only be abandoned, when each and every single function of it is available in the new generation. They can be different, or not needed anymore because of the new paradigms. But they have to be there. No exceptions!
That is one big reason why people do not want to switch to Linux, Firefox or OpenOffice from Windows, Internet Explorer and MS Office. They still lack that tiny feature that makes it more effort to switch, than to stay an suffer the shitty product. It's human nature of inertia-caused efficiency.
That is why it's so bad that how KDE3 now gets abandoned, despite KDE4 still being close to alpha state (yes I talk about KDE 4.3) in terms of comparable fullness of functionality and all-around polishing.
Of course it provides a significant proportion in a fraction of the size.
It's the fractal principle. Just as you need maybe 10 iterations to generate what feels like half the detail in a Mandelbrot, and 5000 (or rather and infinite amount) for the other half.
That is because of the cascading levels of differences.
If ReactOS has the basic cases handled, in can do e.g. 80 of the functions in 20% of the code, or even less.
See it like this:
Implementation detail level 1: 50.0% of functionality done
use case 1: 50.0% of functionality covered
Implementation detail level 2: 75.0% of functionality done
use case 2: an additional 15.0% covered
use case 3: an additional 10.0% covered
Implementation detail level 3: 87.5% of functionality done
use case 4: an additional 4.0% covered
use case 5: an additional 3.5% covered
use case 6: an additional 3.0% covered
use case 7: an additional 2.0% covered
etc.
Now consider, that every use case on average can take the same amount of time to implement. (Assuming that we talked about orthogonal use cases.)
Then it's clear why it takes so much more work for the billions of tiny exceptions that you have to add for the last 5% of use cases.
I think Agnitum's Outpost firewall still beats everything out there by far. It has too many security features that are just completely missing solutions for giant holes elsewhere.
A simple web page can contain that evil URI. And as it already in on the *inside* of the firewall, it is guaranteed to crash the system. With a bit of luck, one can stumble on a site that got some XSS infection, and that thing scans the whole subnet for crashable computers.
Then again, what is the point of simple crashes? No cracker is interested in them. They bring no benefits. They rather want one that acts as if *nothing at all* happened, while being infected.
It is 01:57 in Germany *right now*. So is it today?
By the way. "Europe" has more than one time zone! So this is completely useless. What is the time in my *country*?
Uum, with Linux you can configure the resolution freely, since the Icons mostly are SVG nowadays. And in Firefox there is a zoom anyway. So you pretty much get a resolution-independent desktop.
(Well, at least you can scale everything.)
That feature even has multiple implementations with many configuration option, in Compiz Fusion (for Linux).
Ýou can just zoom, lock the screen to an area, select a zoom area, use a "magnifying glass", etc, etc. All with configurable buttons and behavior.
I use it to make Flash videos that would stutter in full screen run smooth while filling the screen anyway.
And to make dexterity games easier. ^^
But I bet it's also great for graphics work.
It's limited to Slashdot for that very reason. :)
Just use a projector! ^^
No, seriously!
You can't go much more low-DPI than a projector, can you.
There are many geeky solutions, like projecting it on the back of a surface (e.g. using the paper that they use for those DIY multi-touch tables), lowering the brightness of the projector, etc.
I'm sure that way you can build yourself a nice giant screen with up to HD resolution, but very low DPI. It's entirely possible, that you can fill your whole viewing angle with it then. :D (IMAX effect)
Which should be really impressive in games!
One tip: Two half-HD projectors are (much) cheaper than one full-HD projector. :D
Omg you are so wrong, it's not even funny!
The clocks run FASTER in general, in a higher orbit. Even height variations in the orbit count.
So one *has* to calculate that effect it. No getting around it.
And what I think is usually done, is run the clocks faster by the predictable amount, and then do small corrections for the unpredictable factors.
I don't know where you got the idea that it would only be launching creating an initial offset. But you are really, *really* wrong there. Sorry.
Oh, I meant a couple of *bearded* satellites. ^^
Hmm... after looking at the Wikipedia disambiguation page, it could be bearded cars, battleships, aircrafts, or military units too. :)
Wow, thanks! And I thought it would be pretty funny, to see a couple of satellites in 17th century clothes, float trough space... )
I found a comment that is just as reliable:
"By 2014 your mom will admit that she's a shitting penisboob-tentacle monster from planet Jupiter, and that she will rape you to death. It's in the bill."
^^
Uuum, that is the theory. But just as much as "working communism" it's a pipe dream of the "love & peace" type of people.
In reality, ...and so they still have the "conflict" of their own interests against those that voted for them.
nature still works with natural selection,
the reason every single one of us exists is still that the genes and ideas of our parents won against those of others or expanded into unused resources / free spaces,
we still each and everyone play the game of natural selection. Although nowadays we are advanced enough to use the indirect effects like teamwork.
Leaders still are just humans...
Because in the end, they are only true to themselves. To us they are only true (and thereby perhaps beneficial), as long as they risk losing their own resources otherwise. And of course one part of the strategy to keep those resources, is to lower the risk of us taking them away.
It's actually just human nature. That's why it never gets "better". (Depends on who you ask, right? ^^)
And that is why we would need competency-modulated direct democracy. In which those with the most competence would have the most power.
But as competence is relative, that part of their power that is modulated trough our competency rating, would only be power that governs ourselves. So that we couldn't trick the system by mass-tweaking it in our favor. (Yes I know that this is hard to make sense of on the first reading(s). But trust me: If you give it thought, it will make sense. And only if it then upon even further thought stops making sense, can you tell me it's not thought to the end. [Which it really never is ^^ But of course I welcome all useful critique.])
...to browse with my new Greasemonkey script, that replaces the Republicans and Democrats with $puppet1 and $puppet2.
Puts things into perspective... Let's see what other words I can repair and free from newspeak.
For every time someone does not believe you that the parties are just puppets for the companies that really control the country.
(Like all those, who switch to ignorance mode, as soon as they feel the smell of conspiracy, even when it's actually true. [Which is the other extreme of those people that believe *everything*])
Then again: Prove that anyone or anything except for yourself exists at all. ^^
There are no facts. There is only relative information, obtained trough channels with trust relationships. (How much do you trust your source? And how much do you trust your own eyes? What you think you know is relative to your source and the trust in it.)
If it is a "fact" (which it can't) is actually irrelevant.
The question is, what it makes out of you, and what you make of it.
Strange. Since the UN usually is the arm of the US government.
Whether this is because China now owns the USA (in terms of money they owe)...?
No us that aren't in the US, definitely. To you in the US, perhaps not. But hey, China owns the US anyway, so... ^^
This just proves how low one can go in knowing jack about dating. ;)
DNA tests? Yeah, because we want to stay 20+ years with a person, have sex and love each other, because of a great DNA match!
Toootally realistic!
I think the best way to know if a dating site is good, is by finding out the dating skills of those who created it!
On second thought. Why slow yourself down by using a dating site? Just read a bit about how dating actually works (There is no shame in knowing the theory. It can only make things better.), then go out and talk to girls! Gives you much more than any site could.
LOL. I just thought I had misspelled it as "unClusteredThinking", until I noticed that I already had the script installed. Just shows how well it works. ^^
Indeed. "Cluster" is a more fitting word. I just wrote the Greasemonkey script, and changed it to use that word: unCloudedThinking 0.1 :)
For the fun, I also throw in a replacement of "hacker" with "cracker" and some nice Unicode characters. Feel free to add more.
s/cloud/network/
There. Done it for ya. Was that so hard?
We should make a Greasemonkey script out of it. :)