Is not Bit Torrent. This kind of P2P is exclusionary, often letting in only those with fat pipes and lots shared; finding good hubs can be extraordinarily difficult. I will however concede that I know for a fact that with a good enough connection located in the right part of the world, direct connect can land you every episode of Trek in well UNDER two weeks. But this is nary an option for average joe Cable/DSL user who doesn't attend a private university with a T3.
I snagged every season of Voyager, at 6-8gb per season, via BitTorrent at least a year ago. When the box set was released, the torrent took 30 seconds to find, and the download usually took 3 to 5 days.
Finding torrents isn't the problem. Finding working ones is. The seeding just isn't there anymore. Yeah, I'm sure when the box set was released you could run the torrent, go screw a whore, come back, and have many an episode to watch. Bit Torrent is strong zero day. It weakens considerably over time.
I could grab every Trek ever made in about a month's time
Which is not two weeks.;) I thought you were a L337 direct connect user with unlimited sources for downloads averaging in excess of 200kb/s? Why, you ought to be able to snag all 736 episodes (this includes the films, TAS, and the original TOS pilot) well within that deadline!;)
On the other hand, downloading it is not an option for those who want it now
Yeah, just those who want it in a week or so.
Like, the time it would take for a purchased set to be delivered.
Yeah, good luck with that one. Even if someone was kind enough to make a *single* torrent out of all the DVDs, which I've yet to see, it'd be well in excess of 200gb if every episode were ~300mb. To download that in two weeks, you'd need to be pulling down well in excess of 150kb/s constantly. Hope someone's seeding on a fat pipe.
I know people who have been trying to transverse all the torrents for every season of Star Trek for well over a year. Simple fact of the matter is, you're not going to download every season of Star Trek in a timely manner no matter how fast your connection is. Between connection problems, tracker issues, and people who don't upload, it's a slow process. But great for people who are really patient.
British English has been dying for almost 100 years in lieu of America becoming a major power and British English speaking countries losing their status as major powers. Eventually American English will take over. Unless you feel like starting another world war to correct this obviously important (to you) problem, I suggest you get over it and start buying American dictionaries for your schools, or all you die hards are going to look as ridiculous as America looks to other countries for not using the metric system.
PLEASE do not kill my favorite browser with all that bloating junk. It is after all a WEB BROWSER and i already have applications that can do all those things. Integration is good as long as performance doesnt suffer.
SVG does not kill Firefox's performance. The new Firefox builds are actually faster than the old ones because they've made improvements to the rendering engine. You have nothing to worry about with regards to SVG and bloat. This is a good thing.
I would think VML would be another good feature to add after seeing how well google maps work with IE.
VML is Microsoft's version of SVG in a compound document. They proposed VML to the W3C and it was rejected in favor of SVG. But because Microsoft is suffering from not invented here syndrome, they went ahead and implemented VML in IE 5.5 anyway and ignored SVG. A very Microsoft thing to do.
You know, I'm no fan of Microsoft, but this argument gets real old. If MS didn't include IE with Windows, exactly what would we use to download Firefox? Yes, it would be real super cool if MS made FF their default browser so as to be impartial, but the reality of the situation is there's nothing evil about MS making their own browser and setting it as the default.
The flaw with IE is that it's integrated into the OS and can't be uninstalled, yes, but not that it's included with Windows. Is Safari evil for being included with OS X? Is Konqueror evil for being included with KDE? Is Firefox evil for being included with Ubuntu? No, and for the very same reason IE is not evil for being included with Windows. It is only evil for being impossible to remove and totally integrated into the OS.
This project will probably get sued by the people who made the Tango web development platform. Then they'll change their name to Swing and get sued by the people who make the Swing toolkit for Java. They'll then change their name to Foxtrot, but get sued by the Firefox crew for having the word "fox" in their name, which they'll see as an insult to all the name changes they had to endure, at which point Foxtrot will become Waltz, get patented, engraved in stone, bathed in holy water, and otherwise sanctified for all the rest of time. They might also have to sacrifice two chickens on a holy alter whilst performing an African rain dance to prevent further litigation. The Firefox crew really should have tried that.
One thing that surprised me in the review was this:
I found the choice of applications included with the distro to be more than enough to keep a basic user content, but personally I would require more diversity. For instance, I prefer to use Amarok over any of the gtk-based apps available today. I find it to have the best features and ease of use out of any application on the market. Period. In my opinion, Amarok is a fine example that Open Source software can indeed be better than commercial alternatives.
I guess he's never heard of Quod Libet then? Amarok is nothing special, hell, I switched away from Amarok to Quod Libet when I found out about it.
I think this guy needs to take a step back from his anti "distro of the week" bias and his quick dismissal of GTK+ music players and see things for how they are a little more. I thought his review was halfway decent, but his bias leaks through on several occasions.
Bit Torrent is good for things that are new and popular. But when you want to download something old, obscure, and/or unpopular, traditional p2p seems to be the only solution.
Google toolbar's spellcheck is better than Safari's on Mac because it highlights words that are misspelled within the form. In Safari, you have to right click on each one.
Better watch out for those thieves. The last time I tried to make it to Oregon, a thief stole six of my oxen! How the fuck does a thief fit six oxen into his pocket?! Mallot space?!
Talk about fagotry in its most pure form. As if this is actually gonna stop people from making permanent copies of their shows? At best it pisses a few people off and causes public disdain of TiVo. Smart move! *rolls eyes*
Wow. The exact same thing happened to me, concerning my artwork. (Xanga, Livejournal, etc kids leeching.) And I didn't do the goatse thing for the exact same reason you didn't. How creepy!
The Matrix: Original Motion Picture Score [SOUNDTRACK]: $16.98
One (or at least the RIAA) would assume this remarkable price difference is justified because of the difference in replay value. Most people will listen to a movie soundtrack many times more than they will watch the movie.
That said, I don't like the whole idea of a metered service in the first place. I want to be able to pay a flat monthly fee for unlimited music downloads, just like I do for TV. TV is half way there. You can get a TV tuner and make your own rips of TV shows legally. Why can't I subscribe to unlimited music downloads for a flat monthly fee?
Oh yeah, I know why, because the RIAA is insatiably greedy.
Well I know you're opening up the whole KDE vs. GNOME can of worms, but I don't think you're a troll. I think it's actually worth discussing again, and again, and again...:)
Anyway, I'd tend to disagree with you. I think right now GNOME is the better of the two, however I would have agreed with you last year.
Basically as it stands, all the best apps are GTK apps. If you want to run a fully native desktop, you're only gonna do that in GNOME. Whenever I use KDE, I find myself enjoying it as a desktop, but hating it as a toolkit. And I always find myself running GTK apps, like Firefox, GAIM, X-chat, Evolution/Thunderbird, the list goes on.
Now I do like a lot of QT apps. I personally think Konqueror is very nice, even though I hate the defaults. I also *love* k3b and some of the smaller KDE apps like kdf.
That said, neither is perfect. But I think GNOME is improving faster than KDE. KDE is bloated, it has poor defaults, and QT is uglier than GTK (QT has too many borders! too many borders!). And GNOME is too lacking in features. Well, each release of GNOME goes a long way towards solving its features problem. Each release of KDE does little to solve its bloat, poor defaults, and ugly QT.
Given that GNOME is cleaner, better looking, better defaults, is constantly tackling its weak spots, and most good apps are GTK, I can easily see why most distros push GNOME.
But again, it's all personal preference. Both GNOME and KDE are fantastic projects and I wish distros didn't push one or the other but supported them equally. I use Fedora and personally I think Fedora's KDE support is excellent even though it defaults to GNOME.
Anyway, I'll get back to coding in Kate and chatting on GAIM whilst browsing with Firefox in GNOME while burning a dvd with k3b... Unix desktops are not as simple as one DE, one toolkit, one kernel.
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Finding torrents isn't the problem. Finding working ones is. The seeding just isn't there anymore. Yeah, I'm sure when the box set was released you could run the torrent, go screw a whore, come back, and have many an episode to watch. Bit Torrent is strong zero day. It weakens considerably over time.
Which is not two weeks.
Yeah, good luck with that one. Even if someone was kind enough to make a *single* torrent out of all the DVDs, which I've yet to see, it'd be well in excess of 200gb if every episode were ~300mb. To download that in two weeks, you'd need to be pulling down well in excess of 150kb/s constantly. Hope someone's seeding on a fat pipe.
I know people who have been trying to transverse all the torrents for every season of Star Trek for well over a year. Simple fact of the matter is, you're not going to download every season of Star Trek in a timely manner no matter how fast your connection is. Between connection problems, tracker issues, and people who don't upload, it's a slow process. But great for people who are really patient.
British English has been dying for almost 100 years in lieu of America becoming a major power and British English speaking countries losing their status as major powers. Eventually American English will take over. Unless you feel like starting another world war to correct this obviously important (to you) problem, I suggest you get over it and start buying American dictionaries for your schools, or all you die hards are going to look as ridiculous as America looks to other countries for not using the metric system.
You know, I'm no fan of Microsoft, but this argument gets real old. If MS didn't include IE with Windows, exactly what would we use to download Firefox? Yes, it would be real super cool if MS made FF their default browser so as to be impartial, but the reality of the situation is there's nothing evil about MS making their own browser and setting it as the default.
The flaw with IE is that it's integrated into the OS and can't be uninstalled, yes, but not that it's included with Windows. Is Safari evil for being included with OS X? Is Konqueror evil for being included with KDE? Is Firefox evil for being included with Ubuntu? No, and for the very same reason IE is not evil for being included with Windows. It is only evil for being impossible to remove and totally integrated into the OS.
Except one of those "Voodoo" predictions we can exact change over to eliminate as a potential cause, reaping secondary benefits in the process.
Maybe he should go back to Moya.
*rimshot*
You might want to speak to someone about your clinical paranoia.
All right, then I'll talk to you in his place. That guy just pwned your argument.
This project will probably get sued by the people who made the Tango web development platform. Then they'll change their name to Swing and get sued by the people who make the Swing toolkit for Java. They'll then change their name to Foxtrot, but get sued by the Firefox crew for having the word "fox" in their name, which they'll see as an insult to all the name changes they had to endure, at which point Foxtrot will become Waltz, get patented, engraved in stone, bathed in holy water, and otherwise sanctified for all the rest of time. They might also have to sacrifice two chickens on a holy alter whilst performing an African rain dance to prevent further litigation. The Firefox crew really should have tried that.
I think this guy needs to take a step back from his anti "distro of the week" bias and his quick dismissal of GTK+ music players and see things for how they are a little more. I thought his review was halfway decent, but his bias leaks through on several occasions.
And for Linux users?
Bit Torrent is good for things that are new and popular. But when you want to download something old, obscure, and/or unpopular, traditional p2p seems to be the only solution.
alt+printscreen takes a screenshot of a single window.
Google toolbar's spellcheck is better than Safari's on Mac because it highlights words that are misspelled within the form. In Safari, you have to right click on each one.
Take a look at this screenshot
Pay the Indian or float it... but whatever you do, DON'T ATTEMPT TO FORD THE RIVER! The future of Linux is at stake!! *passes out*
Better watch out for those thieves. The last time I tried to make it to Oregon, a thief stole six of my oxen! How the fuck does a thief fit six oxen into his pocket?! Mallot space?!
Talk about fagotry in its most pure form. As if this is actually gonna stop people from making permanent copies of their shows? At best it pisses a few people off and causes public disdain of TiVo. Smart move! *rolls eyes*
Wow. The exact same thing happened to me, concerning my artwork. (Xanga, Livejournal, etc kids leeching.) And I didn't do the goatse thing for the exact same reason you didn't. How creepy!
That said, I don't like the whole idea of a metered service in the first place. I want to be able to pay a flat monthly fee for unlimited music downloads, just like I do for TV. TV is half way there. You can get a TV tuner and make your own rips of TV shows legally. Why can't I subscribe to unlimited music downloads for a flat monthly fee?
Oh yeah, I know why, because the RIAA is insatiably greedy.
(Woohoo 1000th post!)
A cool client would be nice, yes, but I'd like to know whether or not they're going to enable transports to other services.
Well I know you're opening up the whole KDE vs. GNOME can of worms, but I don't think you're a troll. I think it's actually worth discussing again, and again, and again... :)
Anyway, I'd tend to disagree with you. I think right now GNOME is the better of the two, however I would have agreed with you last year.
Basically as it stands, all the best apps are GTK apps. If you want to run a fully native desktop, you're only gonna do that in GNOME. Whenever I use KDE, I find myself enjoying it as a desktop, but hating it as a toolkit. And I always find myself running GTK apps, like Firefox, GAIM, X-chat, Evolution/Thunderbird, the list goes on.
Now I do like a lot of QT apps. I personally think Konqueror is very nice, even though I hate the defaults. I also *love* k3b and some of the smaller KDE apps like kdf.
That said, neither is perfect. But I think GNOME is improving faster than KDE. KDE is bloated, it has poor defaults, and QT is uglier than GTK (QT has too many borders! too many borders!). And GNOME is too lacking in features. Well, each release of GNOME goes a long way towards solving its features problem. Each release of KDE does little to solve its bloat, poor defaults, and ugly QT.
Given that GNOME is cleaner, better looking, better defaults, is constantly tackling its weak spots, and most good apps are GTK, I can easily see why most distros push GNOME.
But again, it's all personal preference. Both GNOME and KDE are fantastic projects and I wish distros didn't push one or the other but supported them equally. I use Fedora and personally I think Fedora's KDE support is excellent even though it defaults to GNOME.
Anyway, I'll get back to coding in Kate and chatting on GAIM whilst browsing with Firefox in GNOME while burning a dvd with k3b... Unix desktops are not as simple as one DE, one toolkit, one kernel.
In TFA, the guy who ported it to Windows said he used SDL, OpenGL, and OpenAL.