Ajax asyncronously calls JAVA functions without needing a page redraw.
Wrong.
Uh... you fail to explain how this statement is wrong. It is in fact correct, unless you're telling me that Ajax can't asynchronously call server-side java code.
Just because you're on the internet, doesn't mean you get to be a pompous ass.
Wow, that's a hefty chunk of time to spend doing a single installation. Are all installations like this, or did you hit some snags? If they do two installs a day, I'm guessing the former.
At that rate, they'll probably get to my house roughly... never.
Richard Dinon saw the laptop's muted glow through the rear window of the SUV parked outside his home. He walked closer and noticed a man inside.
Then the man noticed Dinon and snapped his computer shut.
Maybe it's census work, the 28-year-old veterinarian told his girlfriend. An hour later, Dinon left to drive her home. The Chevy Blazer was still there, the man furtively hunched over his computer.
Dinon returned at 11 p.m. and the men repeated their strange dance.
I don't know how the guy knew he was doing something wrong (though I could hazard a few guesses), but his repeated attempts to hide what he was doing suggests that he did know he was doing something wrong.
Suppose you have a bad ratio of seeds to peers on the torrent (say 1 to 100) and that the average completion on the torrent is around 33%. Assuming a random distribution of pieces, which is good for BT, this means that 33 peers and the seed have the final piece. With the avalanche system, it looks like almost all 100 peers will have something you can use as the last piece.
Here's the thing. If you have a number of par files and all of the original segments, then there are many more pieces you could potentially download. If you need to download 500 of 500 segments, the number of sources you can download from begins to dwindle as you get on towards 400 or 450 pieces (I'm just making up these numbers, but you get the point). If instead, you need to download 500 of 1500 segments, chances are there won't be a scarcity of segments even at 499.
IMHO, this is actually a really good idea, since I for one would take the added CPU overhead of processing parity files in return for more sources to download from. I've got spare CPU cycles anyway.
Your shouting intrigues me, but proxy servers are not new and there are several Cache-Control directives that tell a proxy server that a page is dynamic and user-specific and thus should not be cached.
The upgrade market is the enthusiast market, which while important for prestige is really not very much of the overall desktop PC market. Most people get their PCs from Dell, HP, etc....
It's more about being paid $100 to take a phone. If you have an unlocked phone, American providers will be happy to let you sign up for a plan with it, since they lose money on their phones anyway. But I don't want an unlocked phone, I want a hundred bucks.
Seriously though, who doesn't do other things with their computer while their burning a DVD, encoding a movie, running a virus scan, or God knows what else? And personally, that's the only time that my computer feels slow. I don't care about 30 more fps in Doom, I just want my computer to be fast even when Eclipse is rebuilding my projects (or gentoo is rebuilding KDE, or whatever).
You are correct. I think the solid archive option of rar is what makes it worth using though. So far as I know, there isn't a similar options for Zips, but correct me if I'm wrong.
Zip and Rar have too completely different design philosophies. Zip compresses each file individually which means that you can access each file seperately without having to decompress the entire archive. Rar compresses an entire collection of files, which means that it can further compress archives when files are similar to each other. Try compressing a directory of log files with Zip and then again with Rar, you'll see the difference.
As to movies being rar'd into a million pieces, that just means that it was at some point transfered over usenet (or maybe IRC). Corruption of part of a transfer is a fact of life there, so breaking a file into a "million" pieces and providing parity files is normal.
"Because the releases consists of small parts you don't have to worry about re-downloading the whole release if something goes wrong and a file gets corrupted."
BS. In this day and age of high speed internet this is not relevent. Especially while using torrent files. It really wasn't ever relevent during the modem/bbs days. Z-modem had resume downloads and everyone used it. No need for rar then.
You have obviously never done binary transfers over usenet (which is still very common today). It's done almost exclusively using RAR because news servers DO drop posts which means that you WILL lose parts of the archive.
Are you serious? Instead of being a p2p connection, the client sent the data to the server which then sent it to another client?
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No, it's like suing napster for saying "There's a guy over there in that place illegally distributing software." If you remember, that worked out pretty well for the RIAA.
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Ajax asyncronously calls JAVA functions without needing a page redraw.
Wrong.
Uh... you fail to explain how this statement is wrong. It is in fact correct, unless you're telling me that Ajax can't asynchronously call server-side java code.
Just because you're on the internet, doesn't mean you get to be a pompous ass.
Wow, that's a hefty chunk of time to spend doing a single installation. Are all installations like this, or did you hit some snags? If they do two installs a day, I'm guessing the former.
At that rate, they'll probably get to my house roughly... never.
Richard Dinon saw the laptop's muted glow through the rear window of the SUV parked outside his home. He walked closer and noticed a man inside.
Then the man noticed Dinon and snapped his computer shut.
Maybe it's census work, the 28-year-old veterinarian told his girlfriend. An hour later, Dinon left to drive her home. The Chevy Blazer was still there, the man furtively hunched over his computer.
Dinon returned at 11 p.m. and the men repeated their strange dance.
I don't know how the guy knew he was doing something wrong (though I could hazard a few guesses), but his repeated attempts to hide what he was doing suggests that he did know he was doing something wrong.
Suppose you have a bad ratio of seeds to peers on the torrent (say 1 to 100) and that the average completion on the torrent is around 33%. Assuming a random distribution of pieces, which is good for BT, this means that 33 peers and the seed have the final piece. With the avalanche system, it looks like almost all 100 peers will have something you can use as the last piece.
Here's the thing. If you have a number of par files and all of the original segments, then there are many more pieces you could potentially download. If you need to download 500 of 500 segments, the number of sources you can download from begins to dwindle as you get on towards 400 or 450 pieces (I'm just making up these numbers, but you get the point). If instead, you need to download 500 of 1500 segments, chances are there won't be a scarcity of segments even at 499.
IMHO, this is actually a really good idea, since I for one would take the added CPU overhead of processing parity files in return for more sources to download from. I've got spare CPU cycles anyway.
Your shouting intrigues me, but proxy servers are not new and there are several Cache-Control directives that tell a proxy server that a page is dynamic and user-specific and thus should not be cached.
The upgrade market is the enthusiast market, which while important for prestige is really not very much of the overall desktop PC market. Most people get their PCs from Dell, HP, etc....
Since when did technical have anything to do with good sci-fi?
Sounds interesting. What provider/plan do you use and how many minutes does $8/month get you?
It's more about being paid $100 to take a phone. If you have an unlocked phone, American providers will be happy to let you sign up for a plan with it, since they lose money on their phones anyway. But I don't want an unlocked phone, I want a hundred bucks.
The mobile phone industry is driven by teenage girls everywhere, not just in the US :).
You're new to slashdot, aren't you? ;)
The idle task? Get your ass on folding@home boy!
Seriously though, who doesn't do other things with their computer while their burning a DVD, encoding a movie, running a virus scan, or God knows what else? And personally, that's the only time that my computer feels slow. I don't care about 30 more fps in Doom, I just want my computer to be fast even when Eclipse is rebuilding my projects (or gentoo is rebuilding KDE, or whatever).
People like you are the reason why a lot of the rest of us are getting good speeds. Thanks.
It's a pretty consistent 300-400K/s here. Try tweaking your router settings like the above poster suggests.
How does that work though? Surely they aren't allowed to use force, and I can't imagine someone is going to open the door for them...
Well, the slowest point is probably your ISP with its oversold 100Mbps connections all trying to get out at once.
You are correct. I think the solid archive option of rar is what makes it worth using though. So far as I know, there isn't a similar options for Zips, but correct me if I'm wrong.
Zip and Rar have too completely different design philosophies. Zip compresses each file individually which means that you can access each file seperately without having to decompress the entire archive. Rar compresses an entire collection of files, which means that it can further compress archives when files are similar to each other. Try compressing a directory of log files with Zip and then again with Rar, you'll see the difference.
As to movies being rar'd into a million pieces, that just means that it was at some point transfered over usenet (or maybe IRC). Corruption of part of a transfer is a fact of life there, so breaking a file into a "million" pieces and providing parity files is normal.
"Because the releases consists of small parts you don't have to worry about re-downloading the whole release if something goes wrong and a file gets corrupted." BS. In this day and age of high speed internet this is not relevent. Especially while using torrent files. It really wasn't ever relevent during the modem/bbs days. Z-modem had resume downloads and everyone used it. No need for rar then.
You have obviously never done binary transfers over usenet (which is still very common today). It's done almost exclusively using RAR because news servers DO drop posts which means that you WILL lose parts of the archive.Just like people who buy commercial webhosting accidentally upload warez to their websites to distribute using p2p?
Or, GASP!, putting audio bugs in your apartment?
uh... care to explain?
Are you serious? Instead of being a p2p connection, the client sent the data to the server which then sent it to another client?
No, it's like suing napster for saying "There's a guy over there in that place illegally distributing software." If you remember, that worked out pretty well for the RIAA.