Capping the download or upload rate in Bittorrent clients does not cap their actual bandwidth usage when you consider packet overhead for finding new peers and initiating or responding to new connections in most cases.
Prioritizing and limiting those packets on a router (or on the machine running BitTorrent at the OS level) instead makes a big difference.
I have one of those. Its called an old Linux box running QoS rules.
I limit the maximum bandwidth BitTorrent gets, I prioritize responses to VoiP, then gaming packets and I use RED to drop packets on BitTorrent when it starts firing off too many new packets at once (which it tends to do).
More importantly (to me at least), Cedega allows me to play most any Windows API based game I like at this point. As more people use Linux, cooperation to make things like Cedega work well for developers will probably increase too.
The mind police really are out there. There is a strong group of people in your own country who do not wish you to THINK evil at all, and they will go so far as to legislate against it.
Of course, my buddies and I sat around at table once discussing how we'd conduct a good take-over-europe kind of a war and what atrocities would be acceptable for a positive outcome, does that make us guilty of war crimes? Of course not.
Speeding is very obviously a money grab to anyone who runs the statistics. When Michigan raised limits to 75mph they actually had fewer accidents as a result. Obviously driving 300mph on a road designed for going 55mph would almost certainly result in death, but the actual speed limits people are so frequently violating were not made with current vehicular standards in mind, nor the current average level of driving proficiency in the public and are therefore hopelessly out of date.
Consider a recent book that won prizes in Canada for its depiction of a kidnapper who believes he's in love with the little girl he has confined. It is an excellent piece of literature, but you wouldn't want it on your shelf if you live in a country where mere depictions of acts are illegal, no matter their intent, or the actual safety of children.
PS, I've heard it said a few times on the radio and elsewhere that there is no good evidence to show that the viewing of child pornography in any way leads to or is even indicative of the desire to abuse actual children, not that anyone in the Senate would stand up and oppose a child safety act.
Hand coding is never silly. Hand coding is simple and fast and works much better than Dreamweaver et al if you know what you're doing.
Hand coding also lets you avoid all the wasteful javascript and CSS crap those editors embed in their HTML and you can intelligently reorganize that information in your templates, etc.
PS Hand-coding does not mean editing each HTML page by hand, it means coding the HTML for output by hand.
The intelligent thing that is frequently done on Wikipedia to handle obvious perspective issues is to make articles about those perspectives. A wikipedia article about "cats versus dogs as a pet" is a better place for such an argument than in the cat or dog articles, for example.
They're all called wiki-whatever because they are Wikis. That's like saying "hey, you drive car! I also have car. Car is good on mileage, isn't it?" and the other idiot is being pedantic for asking "which car?" when you mean "your ford".
There is no proof whatsoever that a burglar would "very likely harm" you. None. Period. Go find a study proving otherwise.
Next point, I dare you to pull ANY gun at close range on a martial arts expert. You better have your fully automatic trigger already depressed as you pull it out before you feel your arm snap or you're NOT going to win that fight.
You obviously think those moves in movies aren't possible and that people can't actually connect with 2000lbs of force in a simple kick.
"What's this close range stuff?" Its your house. Not a gymnasium. How long does it take you to draw and stabilize your weapon on an intruder 10' away, and how quickly could the martial arts expert to simply immobilize that same person in the same time period?
If you can quick-draw and aim properly with split second timing, I dare say you no longer qualify as "a person with relatively little training."
I'm sorry, but isn't the whole point to prevent the burglary?
Why exactly do you need to shoot them once they're running away? Do you believe personal injury or death is a valid result of theft? Not even the UAE kills people for simple theft.
Its intellectually lazy to claim that climatology which has had such a short life as a science at all is as robust as you claim that it is.
It is also intellectually lazy to claim any study of a chaotic system can even be robust at all.
Climate change may or may not be linear. It may or may not be exponential, and it may or may not reverse suddenly because a couple butterflies made out in the jungle.
As others will be quick to point out, a random Joe-Linux user won't have to worry about clicking on that random executable because unless it uses a local-root exploit (which SELinux is doing a great job of preventing in many cases), the virus in question can't attack their system files and infect the entire system as a result.
Sure, I could perhaps convince Joe Linux user to run "rm -rf./.*" which might be entertaining for a bit but infecting the system files still won't happen.
Which, true or not, is hardly relevant to the conversation at hand in which the gp said "for theists", those who believe in a god.
And since theists believe in god, its a rational conversation to be had with them.
Should you be incapable of having rational conversations about things which you cannot yourself prove or choose not to believe in, you might want to study that inability on its own.
I've had perfectly rational conversations about planetary alignment and druids with people who believe in such things, and many people have had long rational conversations about Klingon mating rituals -- an obvious fiction.
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Capping the download or upload rate in Bittorrent clients does not cap their actual bandwidth usage when you consider packet overhead for finding new peers and initiating or responding to new connections in most cases.
Prioritizing and limiting those packets on a router (or on the machine running BitTorrent at the OS level) instead makes a big difference.
I have one of those. Its called an old Linux box running QoS rules.
I limit the maximum bandwidth BitTorrent gets, I prioritize responses to VoiP, then gaming packets and I use RED to drop packets on BitTorrent when it starts firing off too many new packets at once (which it tends to do).
More importantly (to me at least), Cedega allows me to play most any Windows API based game I like at this point. As more people use Linux, cooperation to make things like Cedega work well for developers will probably increase too.
Distributing high-resolution imagery to multiple research institutions as part of clinical trials perhaps?
It would be protected and encrypted traffic of course (one would hope).
I'd like some detail on that statement, personally. Why would you make such a claim?
Canada's an excellent place to work, with a high standard of living and arguably a less politicized environment.
Thank you for sparing me the karma of posting the same thing (consider this a +5 moderation).
I get really annoyed when I see people making such claims. Thanks again.
The mind police really are out there. There is a strong group of people in your own country who do not wish you to THINK evil at all, and they will go so far as to legislate against it.
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Of course, my buddies and I sat around at table once discussing how we'd conduct a good take-over-europe kind of a war and what atrocities would be acceptable for a positive outcome, does that make us guilty of war crimes? Of course not.
Ergo
Quite well said, the last part at least.
Speeding is very obviously a money grab to anyone who runs the statistics. When Michigan raised limits to 75mph they actually had fewer accidents as a result. Obviously driving 300mph on a road designed for going 55mph would almost certainly result in death, but the actual speed limits people are so frequently violating were not made with current vehicular standards in mind, nor the current average level of driving proficiency in the public and are therefore hopelessly out of date.
If its an import, definitely :-)
Consider a recent book that won prizes in Canada for its depiction of a kidnapper who believes he's in love with the little girl he has confined. It is an excellent piece of literature, but you wouldn't want it on your shelf if you live in a country where mere depictions of acts are illegal, no matter their intent, or the actual safety of children.
PS, I've heard it said a few times on the radio and elsewhere that there is no good evidence to show that the viewing of child pornography in any way leads to or is even indicative of the desire to abuse actual children, not that anyone in the Senate would stand up and oppose a child safety act.
In the who's more evil fight, I'm not convinced Sony's even a minor demon compared to Microsoft.
:-)
Get a grip
I ripped mine to FLAC and stream them via my PS3 transcoded to WAV format. Works very well.
Hand coding is never silly. Hand coding is simple and fast and works much better than Dreamweaver et al if you know what you're doing.
Hand coding also lets you avoid all the wasteful javascript and CSS crap those editors embed in their HTML and you can intelligently reorganize that information in your templates, etc.
PS Hand-coding does not mean editing each HTML page by hand, it means coding the HTML for output by hand.
That's just excellent :-)
Personally, I do actually use vim, and I really need a good button for it.
You know you're trolling, right?
Wikipedia's been shown time and again to be as reliable as most other sources of data for general knowledge. More reliable than some in fact.
The intelligent thing that is frequently done on Wikipedia to handle obvious perspective issues is to make articles about those perspectives. A wikipedia article about "cats versus dogs as a pet" is a better place for such an argument than in the cat or dog articles, for example.
They're all called wiki-whatever because they are Wikis. That's like saying "hey, you drive car! I also have car. Car is good on mileage, isn't it?" and the other idiot is being pedantic for asking "which car?" when you mean "your ford".
There is no proof whatsoever that a burglar would "very likely harm" you. None. Period. Go find a study proving otherwise.
Next point, I dare you to pull ANY gun at close range on a martial arts expert. You better have your fully automatic trigger already depressed as you pull it out before you feel your arm snap or you're NOT going to win that fight.
You obviously think those moves in movies aren't possible and that people can't actually connect with 2000lbs of force in a simple kick.
"What's this close range stuff?" Its your house. Not a gymnasium. How long does it take you to draw and stabilize your weapon on an intruder 10' away, and how quickly could the martial arts expert to simply immobilize that same person in the same time period?
If you can quick-draw and aim properly with split second timing, I dare say you no longer qualify as "a person with relatively little training."
I'm sorry, but isn't the whole point to prevent the burglary?
Why exactly do you need to shoot them once they're running away? Do you believe personal injury or death is a valid result of theft? Not even the UAE kills people for simple theft.
I dare you to claim that they did deserve to die, for burglary.
Seriously.
The court system doesn't impose lethal injections on burglars, so why should YOU have the right to use lethal force on one?
Next question.
Its intellectually lazy to claim that climatology which has had such a short life as a science at all is as robust as you claim that it is.
It is also intellectually lazy to claim any study of a chaotic system can even be robust at all.
Climate change may or may not be linear. It may or may not be exponential, and it may or may not reverse suddenly because a couple butterflies made out in the jungle.
Trends are NOT proofs, they are just trends.
You obviously haven't used Gnome lately. No offense intended, but it is much more usable than Windows for most tasks.
SELinux is quickly helping to fix that problem.
"wtf is this? You don't need network access or access to this directory, go away."
Mandatory Access Controls are coming along nicely. About time too.
Sure, but unlike the Windows user, he can then log in as root and clean out his infection from his normal user account and move on with his life.
In the Windows case, I hope you have a backup because its time to re-install Windows.
PS, rkhunter is a great example of a program that detects for real Linux infections, for those looking.
As others will be quick to point out, a random Joe-Linux user won't have to worry about clicking on that random executable because unless it uses a local-root exploit (which SELinux is doing a great job of preventing in many cases), the virus in question can't attack their system files and infect the entire system as a result.
./.*" which might be entertaining for a bit but infecting the system files still won't happen.
Sure, I could perhaps convince Joe Linux user to run "rm -rf
Which, true or not, is hardly relevant to the conversation at hand in which the gp said "for theists", those who believe in a god.
And since theists believe in god, its a rational conversation to be had with them.
Should you be incapable of having rational conversations about things which you cannot yourself prove or choose not to believe in, you might want to study that inability on its own.
I've had perfectly rational conversations about planetary alignment and druids with people who believe in such things, and many people have had long rational conversations about Klingon mating rituals -- an obvious fiction.