I just installed the player and watched the videos. I'm running Linux, so it might work different in Windows (probably not a whole lot different though). When you open up the torrent with their player, it essentially functions like a normal bittorrent client, with a lot of automation. It will buffer for a bit, and then open up VLC (or whatever your default player is?) and start playing the stream. You don't actually see a list of all the torrents you are currently distributing, but it saves them to a cache somewhere, and seeds them even after you are done watching them. It just sits in the system tray and does its thing. Which is probably a necessity for this to work.
Actually, I just watched the BBC weather report, and it was in an AVI. VLC was a little confused when it started playing it, and asked if I wanted to repair it, but I declined, and it played it anyway.
The live streaming video didn't work all that great on my computer. Reason is probably that my internet connection right now is very substandard. The BBC weather report actually worked really well. It stuttered a little bit when it started, but as it went on, it never did it again. I would again attribute this to my internet connection more than anything. But it was smooth as silk after the first little bit.
You can set priorities on the files, and your client will request those pieces first. In a streaming situation, I would imagine that everyone's client would be set to prioritize the chunks in order. Which I think would actually probably work really well. Everyone's client would become really bottom heavy as they watched the movie, and download speeds would start out really fast, and gradually taper off. If you had enough clients, I would imagine that it wouldn't be an issue.
Very interesting concept, and I'm surprised nobody thought of it sooner. It could start a new p2p video service like the world has never seen. Instead of taking 2 hours to download the movie, then watching it, you can watch any movie on pirate bay, right now. The trick is just that everyone needs to be using a streaming client.
Ah yeah, I can see that. There was really never much possibility of me going on to grad school. That's just a huge time commitment with very little payoff in the real world. I did take an extra year on my undergraduate degree to get a coop degree (I took 3 semesters back to back). And I think that was invaluable for preparing me for the real world. But I don't have much use for a Master's Degree, other than the cool sounding title.
And I agree, it probably should be taught in computer science. But as I mentioned in another post a little down from here, my main problem with her teaching it to us was her presentation. I disliked being forced to use a tool of her choice. It was probably more difficult to defy her than simply learning the tool (I had to modify metadata with a hex editor). But I very much dislike it when a prof insists on a specific method of getting to a correct solution. The best profs that I've ever had will recommend a method, but if something works better for you, then they don't discourage that. (I'm not saying that every solution is created equal, or that a prof should allow a student to submit every assignment in assembly. But oftentimes there are many just-as-good solutions to a problem.)
Yes, I am very stubborn. Yes, I can be pig-headed. But I might lack humility. It really depends on who I'm talking to I think. I've had many teachers that I've looked up to, and did their extra work without complaint. This one in particular bothered the hell out of me. She was very stuck on processes and procedure. Drawing outside of the lines is something that I personally find real value in, and in her class, things had to be done her way or no way at all. I didn't appreciate that, and made it a point to subvert the process whenever possible.
Do I regret not learning LaTex? A little. As you've mentioned, it really doesn't hurt to learn something new. I am a naturally inquisitive person, and I know a great deal of things that I will never use again, simply because they interested me. But I have a really bad taste in my mouth about LaTex, given that it was presented to me in such a way. If she had recommended its usage, I probably would have checked it out. But by requiring it, and telling us that assignments would not be graded if they weren't submitted with LaTex? That just challenged me to defy her. I took the alternate route, and generated them in OpenOffice, then altered the metadata to say they were generated with tex2pdf (or whatever the tool was called).
Seems you completely misunderstood what she was pretending: my guess is that she wanted you to learn another point of view in the field of documents creation.
This was a database class. Not a business class. I don't think that document creation is something I should really be concerned with. I quite honestly don't care what program creates the document. When I have to write documentation, it's usually in the form of a wiki, html, or source code comments. I don't think an office document is all that good of a medium for carrying most of the information I want to convey.
Looking through my documents directory on my PC, I see a number of word processor documents. And do you know what they are? Resumes. Different versions of my resume. And I've NEVER written any sort of office document professionally.
My problem was that it was a completely pointless exercise that had nothing to do with the material being taught in the class (Databases). LaTex might be the most awesome thing since sliced bread. I don't care. It was out of the scope of that class, and if I wanted to learn how to use it, I would do it in my own time. It's a trivial process (as you yourself have stated), but I have absolutely zero use for such a skill. I simply do not write documents, and I resented being forced to learn how to use a program I would never use again.
Yeah, whats the point of learning a popular markup language used in most academic articles while in college.
If you can't read the article without knowing the markup language, then it's not really a good language, is it? Regardless, I've only read 2 academic articles in my life (that can really be called that), and that's because they were assigned by the prof. One was mundane, and the other was ridiculous. They were distributed on paper, so I can't really tell what created them.
We have things called textbooks that are a wealth of knowledge. I suggest you try them out sometime AC. I don't really have a whole lot of free time, and they tend to sort out the mundane/ridiculous from the good. (Assuming you purchase a good book, which can usually be discovered by asking your peers)
I should also note that this was a computer science class, not physics. We really just needed to answer questions about Databases, and nothing more complicated that a text based word processor would offer. (Sorry if that's completely inaccurate. As I said, I didn't bother to learn, as it rubbed me the wrong way, and I don't use any word processor enough to learn a new markup language just to submit an assignment.)
One of my teachers in school required us to submit assignments in LaTex. There was quite nearly a full scale rebellion. I was pissed off enough that she required us to use a program of her choice to generate a PDF that I simply didn't bother to learn. I just OO.o, same as always, and exported to PDF. The marker didn't know the difference.
It's because you don't understand how it works. The wii remote works by measuring acceleration, not position or velocity. You need to think in those terms.
You might be right. But I still haven't seen anything in modern music that compares to the greats of the past. I honestly believe that the main reason for that is that bands went from playing live shows to making albums. When that happened, the dynamism of the live show was lost. I'm not saying that Pink Floyd was all that dynamic (they were actually quite static), but it served to lower the bar.
The previous reply is correct. I know that it's somewhat common for Americans to go to Cuba via Canada. However, the current rules are that you need to show a passport to fly over the border, but you don't need to show it if you DRIVE over the border. So perhaps a flight into a nearby American city, and a drive to Canada are in order? However, I think this final bypass is being closed on Jan 1, 2009, and you will need a passport regardless.
Don't forget us godless Canadians. Although I must say that I have no idea why I would want to keep the poor people at a distance. Can you explain that to me please?
Actually, I don't think XM has commercials. I think they simply fund themselves on your subscription. I don't remember hearing any commercials anyway, other than advertising events that they are a part of, or events happening on other channels.
I've just rented a few cars that had XM, and when available, I'll listen to it. So I might be incorrect, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works.
You know what? I would hire the guy. Simply because it's a complete bullshit maneuver on the part of the company that hired him by firing him the next day with no reason given. That's just not cool. I might personally have given them the password. But I have much respect for DoctorFrog for not giving it to them.
You know, I actually worked for an outsourcing company. (Comcast). Our call centre was the highest rated in all of our company, and there were call centres in the US. In fact, I personally cleaned up a lot of the mess created by your fine call centres in the grand US of A, staffed by people who I doubt even owned computers.
Honestly, your shit doesn't smell like roses. I'm sick of this xenophobic nonsense.
Karma be damned. Do you honestly think you are inherently superior to the Indian companies, just because you are American? I've worked with a few Indians, and they were just as good as some of the Americans I've worked with. Articles like this never cease to piss me off, because they never fail to paint the Indians as a group of imbeciles who can't code their way out of a paper bag. Your post really does not help.
I bought the Roger Waters "The Wall: Live in Berlin" SACD not so long ago, and it is absolutely fantastic. I was 9 years old when that concert was held, and I wouldn't have understood had I been there.
It's things like that, that make me really wish I had lived during such times. That concert must have been powerful to those who had lived in Berlin during the Cold War. I had but a small taste from the SACD. But it was good.
And yes, completely agreed. Animals was a fantastic album. Whatever happened to modern music that nothing of that caliber is created anymore?
Who exactly is doing this wide reviling of his lyrics? I never even heard of that before (and I even checked Wikipedia's article on Roger Waters to see if I was missing something). My circle of friends tends to love Pink Floyd, the lyrics most of all.
You seem to think that his lyrics are "pomopous", but I think they are insightful and I'm obviously not the only one who thinks so. They are very relevant to some people, not just him. But honestly, even if they were only relevant to him, would that make his creation any less enjoyable?
I wonder if that might have something to do with it?
Word has it that that the OFLC may only give out R18+ ratings on games when there is unanimous support from all the attorney generals in Australia. And they all agree it should be allowed, except for one asshat who wants to think of the children.
You know that I bought the Cedega subscription to play Pirates? This was supposedly a fully supported, fully working game in Cedega. I barely got the thing to install, let alone play. It at least installed in Wine, and I could get it to show me some corrupt graphics.
I tried a few other games, but I never got anything working satisfactorily in Cedega.
Yeah, I've seen use of GPL code as well. It's never sat right with me, but I've always made sure that my employers never did such things. The worst I've seen was one of my leads using code that was copyrighted to another company. I reported that to the CEO.
But yes, I completely agree that we cannot use GPL code anywhere except tools, as it does not fit with our business model. My point was that I doubt that BSD code gets returned by our industry either. It just allows us to take without giving back.
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I just installed the player and watched the videos. I'm running Linux, so it might work different in Windows (probably not a whole lot different though). When you open up the torrent with their player, it essentially functions like a normal bittorrent client, with a lot of automation. It will buffer for a bit, and then open up VLC (or whatever your default player is?) and start playing the stream. You don't actually see a list of all the torrents you are currently distributing, but it saves them to a cache somewhere, and seeds them even after you are done watching them. It just sits in the system tray and does its thing. Which is probably a necessity for this to work.
Actually, I just watched the BBC weather report, and it was in an AVI. VLC was a little confused when it started playing it, and asked if I wanted to repair it, but I declined, and it played it anyway.
The live streaming video didn't work all that great on my computer. Reason is probably that my internet connection right now is very substandard. The BBC weather report actually worked really well. It stuttered a little bit when it started, but as it went on, it never did it again. I would again attribute this to my internet connection more than anything. But it was smooth as silk after the first little bit.
You can set priorities on the files, and your client will request those pieces first. In a streaming situation, I would imagine that everyone's client would be set to prioritize the chunks in order. Which I think would actually probably work really well. Everyone's client would become really bottom heavy as they watched the movie, and download speeds would start out really fast, and gradually taper off. If you had enough clients, I would imagine that it wouldn't be an issue.
Very interesting concept, and I'm surprised nobody thought of it sooner. It could start a new p2p video service like the world has never seen. Instead of taking 2 hours to download the movie, then watching it, you can watch any movie on pirate bay, right now. The trick is just that everyone needs to be using a streaming client.
Ah yeah, I can see that. There was really never much possibility of me going on to grad school. That's just a huge time commitment with very little payoff in the real world. I did take an extra year on my undergraduate degree to get a coop degree (I took 3 semesters back to back). And I think that was invaluable for preparing me for the real world. But I don't have much use for a Master's Degree, other than the cool sounding title.
And I agree, it probably should be taught in computer science. But as I mentioned in another post a little down from here, my main problem with her teaching it to us was her presentation. I disliked being forced to use a tool of her choice. It was probably more difficult to defy her than simply learning the tool (I had to modify metadata with a hex editor). But I very much dislike it when a prof insists on a specific method of getting to a correct solution. The best profs that I've ever had will recommend a method, but if something works better for you, then they don't discourage that. (I'm not saying that every solution is created equal, or that a prof should allow a student to submit every assignment in assembly. But oftentimes there are many just-as-good solutions to a problem.)
Yes, I am very stubborn. Yes, I can be pig-headed. But I might lack humility. It really depends on who I'm talking to I think. I've had many teachers that I've looked up to, and did their extra work without complaint. This one in particular bothered the hell out of me. She was very stuck on processes and procedure. Drawing outside of the lines is something that I personally find real value in, and in her class, things had to be done her way or no way at all. I didn't appreciate that, and made it a point to subvert the process whenever possible.
Do I regret not learning LaTex? A little. As you've mentioned, it really doesn't hurt to learn something new. I am a naturally inquisitive person, and I know a great deal of things that I will never use again, simply because they interested me. But I have a really bad taste in my mouth about LaTex, given that it was presented to me in such a way. If she had recommended its usage, I probably would have checked it out. But by requiring it, and telling us that assignments would not be graded if they weren't submitted with LaTex? That just challenged me to defy her. I took the alternate route, and generated them in OpenOffice, then altered the metadata to say they were generated with tex2pdf (or whatever the tool was called).
Seems you completely misunderstood what she was pretending: my guess is that she wanted you to learn another point of view in the field of documents creation.
This was a database class. Not a business class. I don't think that document creation is something I should really be concerned with. I quite honestly don't care what program creates the document. When I have to write documentation, it's usually in the form of a wiki, html, or source code comments. I don't think an office document is all that good of a medium for carrying most of the information I want to convey.
Looking through my documents directory on my PC, I see a number of word processor documents. And do you know what they are? Resumes. Different versions of my resume. And I've NEVER written any sort of office document professionally.
My problem was that it was a completely pointless exercise that had nothing to do with the material being taught in the class (Databases). LaTex might be the most awesome thing since sliced bread. I don't care. It was out of the scope of that class, and if I wanted to learn how to use it, I would do it in my own time. It's a trivial process (as you yourself have stated), but I have absolutely zero use for such a skill. I simply do not write documents, and I resented being forced to learn how to use a program I would never use again.
Yeah, whats the point of learning a popular markup language used in most academic articles while in college.
If you can't read the article without knowing the markup language, then it's not really a good language, is it? Regardless, I've only read 2 academic articles in my life (that can really be called that), and that's because they were assigned by the prof. One was mundane, and the other was ridiculous. They were distributed on paper, so I can't really tell what created them.
We have things called textbooks that are a wealth of knowledge. I suggest you try them out sometime AC. I don't really have a whole lot of free time, and they tend to sort out the mundane/ridiculous from the good. (Assuming you purchase a good book, which can usually be discovered by asking your peers)
I should also note that this was a computer science class, not physics. We really just needed to answer questions about Databases, and nothing more complicated that a text based word processor would offer. (Sorry if that's completely inaccurate. As I said, I didn't bother to learn, as it rubbed me the wrong way, and I don't use any word processor enough to learn a new markup language just to submit an assignment.)
One of my teachers in school required us to submit assignments in LaTex. There was quite nearly a full scale rebellion. I was pissed off enough that she required us to use a program of her choice to generate a PDF that I simply didn't bother to learn. I just OO.o, same as always, and exported to PDF. The marker didn't know the difference.
It's because you don't understand how it works. The wii remote works by measuring acceleration, not position or velocity. You need to think in those terms.
You might be right. But I still haven't seen anything in modern music that compares to the greats of the past. I honestly believe that the main reason for that is that bands went from playing live shows to making albums. When that happened, the dynamism of the live show was lost. I'm not saying that Pink Floyd was all that dynamic (they were actually quite static), but it served to lower the bar.
Look how well that's worked for Americans. =P
The previous reply is correct. I know that it's somewhat common for Americans to go to Cuba via Canada. However, the current rules are that you need to show a passport to fly over the border, but you don't need to show it if you DRIVE over the border. So perhaps a flight into a nearby American city, and a drive to Canada are in order? However, I think this final bypass is being closed on Jan 1, 2009, and you will need a passport regardless.
Don't forget us godless Canadians. Although I must say that I have no idea why I would want to keep the poor people at a distance. Can you explain that to me please?
Actually, I don't think XM has commercials. I think they simply fund themselves on your subscription. I don't remember hearing any commercials anyway, other than advertising events that they are a part of, or events happening on other channels.
I've just rented a few cars that had XM, and when available, I'll listen to it. So I might be incorrect, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works.
You know what? I would hire the guy. Simply because it's a complete bullshit maneuver on the part of the company that hired him by firing him the next day with no reason given. That's just not cool. I might personally have given them the password. But I have much respect for DoctorFrog for not giving it to them.
Indeed. But that is NOT what the parent poster was complaining about.
You know, I actually worked for an outsourcing company. (Comcast). Our call centre was the highest rated in all of our company, and there were call centres in the US. In fact, I personally cleaned up a lot of the mess created by your fine call centres in the grand US of A, staffed by people who I doubt even owned computers.
Honestly, your shit doesn't smell like roses. I'm sick of this xenophobic nonsense.
Karma be damned. Do you honestly think you are inherently superior to the Indian companies, just because you are American? I've worked with a few Indians, and they were just as good as some of the Americans I've worked with. Articles like this never cease to piss me off, because they never fail to paint the Indians as a group of imbeciles who can't code their way out of a paper bag. Your post really does not help.
What on earth is a nanastructure?
I bought the Roger Waters "The Wall: Live in Berlin" SACD not so long ago, and it is absolutely fantastic. I was 9 years old when that concert was held, and I wouldn't have understood had I been there.
It's things like that, that make me really wish I had lived during such times. That concert must have been powerful to those who had lived in Berlin during the Cold War. I had but a small taste from the SACD. But it was good.
And yes, completely agreed. Animals was a fantastic album. Whatever happened to modern music that nothing of that caliber is created anymore?
Who exactly is doing this wide reviling of his lyrics? I never even heard of that before (and I even checked Wikipedia's article on Roger Waters to see if I was missing something). My circle of friends tends to love Pink Floyd, the lyrics most of all.
You seem to think that his lyrics are "pomopous", but I think they are insightful and I'm obviously not the only one who thinks so. They are very relevant to some people, not just him. But honestly, even if they were only relevant to him, would that make his creation any less enjoyable?
I wonder if that might have something to do with it?
Word has it that that the OFLC may only give out R18+ ratings on games when there is unanimous support from all the attorney generals in Australia. And they all agree it should be allowed, except for one asshat who wants to think of the children.
You know that I bought the Cedega subscription to play Pirates? This was supposedly a fully supported, fully working game in Cedega. I barely got the thing to install, let alone play. It at least installed in Wine, and I could get it to show me some corrupt graphics.
I tried a few other games, but I never got anything working satisfactorily in Cedega.
Yeah, I've seen use of GPL code as well. It's never sat right with me, but I've always made sure that my employers never did such things. The worst I've seen was one of my leads using code that was copyrighted to another company. I reported that to the CEO.
But yes, I completely agree that we cannot use GPL code anywhere except tools, as it does not fit with our business model. My point was that I doubt that BSD code gets returned by our industry either. It just allows us to take without giving back.