" or does the lack of search negate its effectiveness?"
No the lack of search is exactly what differentiates the BitTorrent network (though its not really a network is it? It piggy backs off webservers) from other P2P apps.
It runs perfectly on Portable.NET 0.6.10 (http://www.getdotgnu.com/) apart from one command line error it spits out: "could not locate the assembly Microsoft.Ink/1.7.2600.2180".
This sounds good but its nothing that isn't already accomplished with existing networks.
Finding one person with a file, finds all people with that file => Can't remember the exact name, but Gnutella does a very similar thing with distributed hash tables.
Anti-leeching => Edonkey uses download limits based on your upload limit. This is a very trivial problem.
Yeah exactly. Its identical to all other mainstream P2P apps.
The original BitTorrent merely used the swarming feature (hardly innovative, this technology is old) to transfer files and the WWW as the "network" to locate these files.
This is very useful for legitimate sites wanting to distribute load. But most of the usefulness was due to the seamlessness of the plugin in IE.
A plugin with similiar ease of use could be created for any P2P network.
Creating an actual independent BitTorrent network really does nothing that hasn't been done before.
Removable, rechargeable battery
ZEN MICRO's removable battery is easy to swap with another fully charged battery, there's no need to hang around waiting for your player to charge. Now you truly have the battery juice to get loose.
They are suggesting a better protocol which is still in the labs for the most part.
And what makes this a better protocol? Its vast history of being a solid, reliable protocol with its massive amount of industrial testing? Oh wait thats TCP.
Frankly, new stacks that look better than old ones are a dime a dozen. Until you test them in the real world you will never know and why bother changing TCP when it does a damn fine job right now?
IPv6 was implemented for the sole reason (primarily) of addressing the shortage of IP addresses.
An application like this that adds value to an existing OS (and in particular the fact that it does it via a web based interface) can only lessen the demand for anyone to upgrade their OS (especially to Longhorn)...
Too little too late. This version really has the look of maturity (finally), if only it had been released a year or more ago it might have really taken off.
A pity because it will never happen now that.NET has a foothold. Oh well, at least we have Mono...
P.S. Long live the Java language... the best ive used because its clean and concise. IKVM/w Mono looks good.
If this right did not exist, there would be drastically less incentive to create, and the public domain would become void of artistic works.
Bullshit. TRUE artisitic works are not copyright driven, they are driven by a person(s) desire to "create".
You are referring to "artisitic" works like 99% of pop music i.e. manufactured crap, and yes without copyright its likely this kind of music would wither, hooray!
Do you think the fact that paintings can get copied and seen by all to be a deterant to painters?
You are confusing the term music labels like to throw around alot - artists, with "manufactured business venture". The two are not the same, and only derives its incentive from copyrights.
The idea that someone gets up one day and says "I don't think ill be creative anymore because I won't have control over my works" is ridiculous and sounds like typical RIAA crap.
I think they meant that not only are speeds increasing BUT performance along with it.
Intel (for example) increased speeds a while back and didn't really increase performance, i.e. P4 Willamite compared to P3 Coppermine (and the 0.13u version of the Coppermine, can't remember its name).
Intel have also increased performance without increasing speeds, i.e. P4 Northwood compared to P4 Willamite.
The developers have made the basic mistake of basing something off a metaphor for the sake of it. It does not improve usability (except perhaps increasing learnability) and it does not have good user satisfaction (going by the numerous reviews and comments).
Metaphors are there to help a user become familiar with an interface. Which it probably does to an extent. However there ARE NOT IN ANY WAY intended to replace more efficient methods, i.e. the "page view".
And I agree, it does make the user the janitor by having to clean up windows.
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No no no. Art itself should never, ever be able to be copyrighted. It is morally bankrupt to argue otherwise.
What a f***ing ridiculous article. The editor who published this should be shot. Bias is an understatement.
" or does the lack of search negate its effectiveness?"
No the lack of search is exactly what differentiates the BitTorrent network (though its not really a network is it? It piggy backs off webservers) from other P2P apps.
Seriously, why would you want to force one core to be occupied with certain application(s)?
It is the operating systems job to decide how to perform its concurrency (which Windows XP is reasonably good at), not the user.
The OS is the only part of the system which can ensure you make the most of both cores.
If you want to make sure an application is "lag free", give it a higher priority and let the OS do its job.
Anyone who knows anything about usability principles knows that user involvement is the #1 most important thing.
There is so many things wrong with your argument I wont comment on them all except one:
"AMD is in a much better position to go against Cell than them. There is a reason why Intel is out of the next gen game".
Do you have ANY idea how much resources Intel has? Not just money either, but production capacity as well.
AMD is an annoying insect to Intel, albeit in recent times one with a bit of a sting.
Btw im an AMD user and supporter.
It runs perfectly on Portable.NET 0.6.10 (http://www.getdotgnu.com/) apart from one command line error it spits out: "could not locate the assembly Microsoft.Ink/1.7.2600.2180".
Hope this helps.
This really frustrates me. Why the hell arn't you working WITH the OO project, rather than forking and creating your own project?
This wastes effort in both camps and slows divides projects which should be unified.
Well another way would be to use a priority queue to determine who you upload to.
This would be ordered (highest first, lowest last) by how much you have downloaded from an ip+port this session.
So basically those giving you the most data, get the highest priority in your upload queue.
This is one example of an "uncrackable" solution to the anti-leeching problem.
This sounds good but its nothing that isn't already accomplished with existing networks.
Finding one person with a file, finds all people with that file => Can't remember the exact name, but Gnutella does a very similar thing with distributed hash tables.
Anti-leeching => Edonkey uses download limits based on your upload limit. This is a very trivial problem.
Yeah exactly. Its identical to all other mainstream P2P apps.
The original BitTorrent merely used the swarming feature (hardly innovative, this technology is old) to transfer files and the WWW as the "network" to locate these files.
This is very useful for legitimate sites wanting to distribute load. But most of the usefulness was due to the seamlessness of the plugin in IE.
A plugin with similiar ease of use could be created for any P2P network.
Creating an actual independent BitTorrent network really does nothing that hasn't been done before.
Yes. But would they be facing charges if their offenses were not made public? I think not. Media is a powerful influence in the USA, not so in Israel.
Removable, rechargeable battery ZEN MICRO's removable battery is easy to swap with another fully charged battery, there's no need to hang around waiting for your player to charge. Now you truly have the battery juice to get loose.
Yeah totally agree, ive done two usability papers during my degree and people really don't understand how big the field is.
And more importantly they dont understand how VERY important it is.
How about the ability to sort bookmarks alphabetically?
I believe there has been bug fixes on this, not sure if its what you're looking for though.
They are suggesting a better protocol which is still in the labs for the most part.
And what makes this a better protocol? Its vast history of being a solid, reliable protocol with its massive amount of industrial testing? Oh wait thats TCP.
Frankly, new stacks that look better than old ones are a dime a dozen. Until you test them in the real world you will never know and why bother changing TCP when it does a damn fine job right now?
IPv6 was implemented for the sole reason (primarily) of addressing the shortage of IP addresses.
An application like this that adds value to an existing OS (and in particular the fact that it does it via a web based interface) can only lessen the demand for anyone to upgrade their OS (especially to Longhorn)...
Too little too late. This version really has the look of maturity (finally), if only it had been released a year or more ago it might have really taken off.
.NET has a foothold. Oh well, at least we have Mono...
... the best ive used because its clean and concise. IKVM /w Mono looks good.
A pity because it will never happen now that
P.S. Long live the Java language
Despite (or because of) being written in the Java programming language, Sphinx-4 performs as well as similar systems written in C.
Im sick of these comments. Anyone that needs to know about the performance of Java knows its very fast. Why bother commenting about it anymore?
Its like saying "... and because it was written in C, its very fast...", as if we didn't know already.
If this right did not exist, there would be drastically less incentive to create, and the public domain would become void of artistic works.
Bullshit. TRUE artisitic works are not copyright driven, they are driven by a person(s) desire to "create".
You are referring to "artisitic" works like 99% of pop music i.e. manufactured crap, and yes without copyright its likely this kind of music would wither, hooray!
Do you think the fact that paintings can get copied and seen by all to be a deterant to painters?
You are confusing the term music labels like to throw around alot - artists, with "manufactured business venture". The two are not the same, and only derives its incentive from copyrights.
The idea that someone gets up one day and says "I don't think ill be creative anymore because I won't have control over my works" is ridiculous and sounds like typical RIAA crap.
I think they meant that not only are speeds increasing BUT performance along with it. Intel (for example) increased speeds a while back and didn't really increase performance, i.e. P4 Willamite compared to P3 Coppermine (and the 0.13u version of the Coppermine, can't remember its name). Intel have also increased performance without increasing speeds, i.e. P4 Northwood compared to P4 Willamite.
The developers have made the basic mistake of basing something off a metaphor for the sake of it. It does not improve usability (except perhaps increasing learnability) and it does not have good user satisfaction (going by the numerous reviews and comments). Metaphors are there to help a user become familiar with an interface. Which it probably does to an extent. However there ARE NOT IN ANY WAY intended to replace more efficient methods, i.e. the "page view". And I agree, it does make the user the janitor by having to clean up windows.
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