Seems like a lot of people on here are reminiscing about their childhood so here goes:
Coming from a farming village there were many things to play with on the farms in my area. One of the coolest things was a crow-scarer. It was a tube about 1.5 meters long that was connected at a 45 degree angle to its frame and storage box. Every 10 minutes the pressure would build up inside the tube and the propane gas would be released making a loud bang, scaring the crows. I don't think that the gas was ignited though.
We stuffed all manner of things down the tube; turnips, cow pats, people's socks and shoes, gravel. Nothing really worked; it all got jammed about halfway down... until we found some empty paint tins. Putting these over the end of the tube kept the pressure in for longer, and boy would they fly. Using people's bikes as target practice was great fun
The only problem was that we couldn't adjust the timing so waiting 10 minutes for each bang got boring after a while.
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I don't know if you are being serious or trying to be funny but...
I stopped following all the P2P news stories a long time ago. Zeropaid.com got boring - the same arguments over and over again. I actually see Slashdot heading the same way.
Kazza, as I understand it, doesn't deliver customized ads. It is the job of Altnet to do that and even Altnet doesn't actually deliver those ads. Ads are sent in true P2P fashion, from one user to another. How many people would still use it if they knew that they were supplying ads to other users by means of their paid-for-bandwidth?
'Trying to get "verified files" going' is not quite correct. This has been available for some time in the form of a program called sig2dat. It works on all FastTrack networks. i.e. The Kazza network.
In the parent of your post the author talks about the client supplying the MD5 hash. This is not strictly true either. I get ALL my MD5 hashes from websites, IM and email and I have done for quiet some time.
I would post links but I've been Karma whoreing too much recently.
Every time I go the cobblers to have a key cut I normally end up taking it back. The fresh key is cut on a professional key cutting machine by someone who has probably cut thousands of them - I still end up taking it back because it doesn't work in the lock. I've also worked in on the bench in an engineering company and am trained to use a file - detailed filing is not like filing your nails or removing huge burrs from machined metal.
Unless it hasn't been possible to melt down old cars and make new products out of them until now?
When I worked for BMW Rover Body and Pressings I saw a lot of waste metal. There is even a scrap metal merchant next door who would probably go bust if the plant was to shut down. Most of the scrap metal is used to make central heating radiators if I remember correctly. NONE of it goes back into making cars though - the quality of it is just too poor.
The devices are powered by received RF energy, which the "reader" transmits. This isn't crazy, remember crystal AM radios? Did you know that you can listen to AM stations using a reciever that's powered BY the AM signal?
Those were the days. I remember the war. I remember running a 1000 meters of copper wire from my wireless receiver, thorough the hole in the wall, up the old plum tree, over next door's fence, up the telegraph pole, round the community outhouse, over the refuse ditch and back again. The joy of those cold winter nights huddled round the old faithful listening to the world service was truly a delight. Oh how I miss my wireless and, come to think of it, my old gramophone......actually, no I don't. I'm lying. I'm only 28.
This is what the shop owners would have you believe. They have been saying it so long that everyone thinks it is gospel.
Imagine that all shoplifting stopped tomorrow. Do you think prices would drop tomorrow as well? The shop owners would come up with more spin about employing security and installing CCTV. The prices would not drop.
Thanks for that piece of information. I thought Intel was a company that was based 1.5 miles away from me in my home town of Swindon in the UK. They used to be at the end of Pipers Way just up from Croft Road. They must have moved...
It is normally for a 700MB ISO to take 2-3 days on the eDonkey [eMule] network. Remember that you are not downloading from an FTP site or web server; you are downloading from peers with a finite amount of bandwidth. Most people, like me, have a capped upload speed which is 25% of my download speed. The quality of files on this network is the main reason people use it - not the speed.
200 connections is normal too. I currently have 90 connections because of the limitations with Windows 98. You are constantly asking other peers for files at the end of the day.
100 used ports is wrong though and I would be worried about this too. I only use two...
Over at SourceForge eMule is one of the largest downloaded clients on the list...
Change one byte of any file and the MD5 hash for said file changes. This is nothing new or even that clever but it does stop bad files from spreading around the network.
As I understand it, Kazza is still number one when it comes to P2P file sharing. When I last opened Kazza it reported 4 million users. Kazza also uses a file hash to allow segmented downloads as do most P2P clients these days.
These **AA infected files would be a drop in the ocean and they would not spread far. If this is a hoax then it's not even a very clever one.
The Weather, umm... look at the sky, that's how I get my forcast.
Funny you should say this because I had an argument/debate about this yesterday with someone.
I say that tomorrows weather will be the same as today's - ALWAYS. I also say that I will be correct more often than the weather forcasters are. Am I right?
Smallest number of patches before it would work properly
Smallest slip from proposed date to actual date
I would like to nominate Team17 for both these awards. Apart from the fact their game is still not working properly after 3 years and the only proposed date for the long awaited patch is "Soon, before Christmas <INSERT RANDOM YEAR HERE>".
Our only obligation is to drive home and see each other, share a meal, and talk.
For me this would be perfect... but Christmas is for children and if you have children then you cannot give them nothing - peer group pressure and all that stuff.
It's sad when I think about how much my partner has spent on our daughter already. I wanted to get her a hamster and be done with it...
And any ads I've bothered to look at are usaully just stupid. Here's one I kept seeing while searching for google for something to buy. I was
a consumer with money, looking to spend it:
search for: discounted foo
And I'd get a bunch of ads pop up that said "We have discounted foo!"
You have Gator or some other spyware/crapware/ad-stealing-ware. Google does not pop-up adverts. You need to remove it.
Plus, I am the only retailer of Discounted Foo in the western world and I don't advertise it on the internet for legal reasons.
Perhaps the various semi-rigid body armors are better after all. Does anybody know how effective they actually are? Are there any studies or tests?
I've seen people fall off bikes at 150mph on the track. They slide for a bit, sometimes roll over a few times, but always manage to get up and walk away afterwards.
Not sure if they use rigid body armour like you are talking about, but there are pieces of plastic covering the spine and kidney areas.
Like I said, they walk away, so they are effective.
I see your point but the thing I find funny is that best tunes I downloaded, in my opinion, were by Bing Crosby. And it was a recording of a radio show that was broadcast free at the time...
Sunday 11:00am - Typed the word 'xmas' into eMule.
Sunday 11:01am - Typed the words 'christmas' into eMule.
Sunday 11:03am - Selected 15 RAR files of MP3s and started to download.
Monday 07:45am - Moved 5 downloaded albums into my not-shared folder and looked at the other 10 that are still downloading.
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Tonight I will spend some time deleted all the crap in order to burn one nice Xmas CD for my daughter. She will listen to it once today and probably once on Xmas day.
What a huge waste of bandwidth! But what other choice do I have?
My school took part in creating the Digital Domesday book, as most schools did. We did the normal scapebook thing; pictures and stories. Only the best stuff made it in.
I also remember see the finished version in the Natural History museum (or was it the Science museum?). It had one of those Marble Madness balls on the front for navigating - great fun.
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That's rubbish really. It is a know fact that smaller, lighter cars accelerate better that bigger cars with the same engine size. The ultra small Jap cars with the turbo charged 650cc engines fly... and I've been overtaken by Smart cars doing 90mph on the motorway. So, small doesn't mean slow unless you and your passenger weigh as much as a pair of milking cows.
If you crash at 70mph then you are as good as dead. It doesn't matter how many airbags you have or how much armour plating you've welded on. You stand little chance of surviving. Ever seen a cadaver crashing at 30mph? Dead I tell you.
Bring on the small car I say. Reduce the tax on them even more, reduce the import duty and you'll reduce the need for big overpowered 5 litre V8s that are probably only needed for pulling cattle out the mud on a winters day.
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Seems like a lot of people on here are reminiscing about their childhood so here goes: Coming from a farming village there were many things to play with on the farms in my area. One of the coolest things was a crow-scarer. It was a tube about 1.5 meters long that was connected at a 45 degree angle to its frame and storage box. Every 10 minutes the pressure would build up inside the tube and the propane gas would be released making a loud bang, scaring the crows. I don't think that the gas was ignited though. We stuffed all manner of things down the tube; turnips, cow pats, people's socks and shoes, gravel. Nothing really worked; it all got jammed about halfway down... until we found some empty paint tins. Putting these over the end of the tube kept the pressure in for longer, and boy would they fly. Using people's bikes as target practice was great fun The only problem was that we couldn't adjust the timing so waiting 10 minutes for each bang got boring after a while.
I stopped following all the P2P news stories a long time ago. Zeropaid.com got boring - the same arguments over and over again. I actually see Slashdot heading the same way.
Kazza, as I understand it, doesn't deliver customized ads. It is the job of Altnet to do that and even Altnet doesn't actually deliver those ads. Ads are sent in true P2P fashion, from one user to another. How many people would still use it if they knew that they were supplying ads to other users by means of their paid-for-bandwidth?
Yes, DVD-Screeners do normally have all the warning intact. DVD-RIPs that come out a couple of months later tend not to have any warnings on though.
'Trying to get "verified files" going' is not quite correct. This has been available for some time in the form of a program called sig2dat. It works on all FastTrack networks. i.e. The Kazza network.
In the parent of your post the author talks about the client supplying the MD5 hash. This is not strictly true either. I get ALL my MD5 hashes from websites, IM and email and I have done for quiet some time.
I would post links but I've been Karma whoreing too much recently.
Every time I go the cobblers to have a key cut I normally end up taking it back. The fresh key is cut on a professional key cutting machine by someone who has probably cut thousands of them - I still end up taking it back because it doesn't work in the lock. I've also worked in on the bench in an engineering company and am trained to use a file - detailed filing is not like filing your nails or removing huge burrs from machined metal.
Load of bollocks I say.
True true. Our door has a little hammer with a toughened point on the impact edge. It is the only way to break it in case of a fire.
Man I must be bored because I did it... with notepad by the way.
Didn't you find the word "Ducky" on the top line a bit funnier? His username maybe?
This is what the shop owners would have you believe. They have been saying it so long that everyone thinks it is gospel.
Imagine that all shoplifting stopped tomorrow. Do you think prices would drop tomorrow as well? The shop owners would come up with more spin about employing security and installing CCTV. The prices would not drop.
Thanks for that piece of information. I thought Intel was a company that was based 1.5 miles away from me in my home town of Swindon in the UK. They used to be at the end of Pipers Way just up from Croft Road. They must have moved...
It is normally for a 700MB ISO to take 2-3 days on the eDonkey [eMule] network. Remember that you are not downloading from an FTP site or web server; you are downloading from peers with a finite amount of bandwidth. Most people, like me, have a capped upload speed which is 25% of my download speed. The quality of files on this network is the main reason people use it - not the speed.
200 connections is normal too. I currently have 90 connections because of the limitations with Windows 98. You are constantly asking other peers for files at the end of the day.
100 used ports is wrong though and I would be worried about this too. I only use two...
Over at SourceForge eMule is one of the largest downloaded clients on the list...
Change one byte of any file and the MD5 hash for said file changes. This is nothing new or even that clever but it does stop bad files from spreading around the network.
As I understand it, Kazza is still number one when it comes to P2P file sharing. When I last opened Kazza it reported 4 million users. Kazza also uses a file hash to allow segmented downloads as do most P2P clients these days.
These **AA infected files would be a drop in the ocean and they would not spread far. If this is a hoax then it's not even a very clever one.
Funny you should say this because I had an argument/debate about this yesterday with someone.
I say that tomorrows weather will be the same as today's - ALWAYS. I also say that I will be correct more often than the weather forcasters are. Am I right?
Yes, I live in the UK too.
I've owned a watch that picked up Radio One in stereo.
I've owned a watch that stored all my phone numbers.
I've owned a watch that told me the room temperature.
I've owned a watch that took my pulse.
I've owned a watch that let me change the channels on the TV.
Internet? On a watch? With a Velcro strap, a non-scratch face and digital analogue hands? Nah, no thanks Casio.
...I think I get one with a built in camera instead.
...I'll probably be dead in 2050 you insensitive clod(s)
I would like to nominate Team17 for both these awards. Apart from the fact their game is still not working properly after 3 years and the only proposed date for the long awaited patch is "Soon, before Christmas <INSERT RANDOM YEAR HERE>".
Our only obligation is to drive home and see each other, share a meal, and talk.
For me this would be perfect... but Christmas is for children and if you have children then you cannot give them nothing - peer group pressure and all that stuff.
It's sad when I think about how much my partner has spent on our daughter already. I wanted to get her a hamster and be done with it...
You have Gator or some other spyware/crapware/ad-stealing-ware. Google does not pop-up adverts. You need to remove it.
Plus, I am the only retailer of Discounted Foo in the western world and I don't advertise it on the internet for legal reasons.
Perhaps the various semi-rigid body armors are better after all. Does anybody know how effective they actually are? Are there any studies or tests?
I've seen people fall off bikes at 150mph on the track. They slide for a bit, sometimes roll over a few times, but always manage to get up and walk away afterwards.
Not sure if they use rigid body armour like you are talking about, but there are pieces of plastic covering the spine and kidney areas.
Like I said, they walk away, so they are effective.
I see your point but the thing I find funny is that best tunes I downloaded, in my opinion, were by Bing Crosby. And it was a recording of a radio show that was broadcast free at the time...
Sunday 11:00am - Typed the word 'xmas' into eMule.
Sunday 11:01am - Typed the words 'christmas' into eMule.
Sunday 11:03am - Selected 15 RAR files of MP3s and started to download.
Monday 07:45am - Moved 5 downloaded albums into my not-shared folder and looked at the other 10 that are still downloading.
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Tonight I will spend some time deleted all the crap in order to burn one nice Xmas CD for my daughter. She will listen to it once today and probably once on Xmas day.
What a huge waste of bandwidth! But what other choice do I have?
I also remember see the finished version in the Natural History museum (or was it the Science museum?). It had one of those Marble Madness balls on the front for navigating - great fun.
If they put this online it will make a good read.
The original is here.
That's rubbish really. It is a know fact that smaller, lighter cars accelerate better that bigger cars with the same engine size. The ultra small Jap cars with the turbo charged 650cc engines fly... and I've been overtaken by Smart cars doing 90mph on the motorway. So, small doesn't mean slow unless you and your passenger weigh as much as a pair of milking cows.
If you crash at 70mph then you are as good as dead. It doesn't matter how many airbags you have or how much armour plating you've welded on. You stand little chance of surviving. Ever seen a cadaver crashing at 30mph? Dead I tell you.
Bring on the small car I say. Reduce the tax on them even more, reduce the import duty and you'll reduce the need for big overpowered 5 litre V8s that are probably only needed for pulling cattle out the mud on a winters day.
Like I said. Please hush.