"At various times she claimed to have received degrees from Albany Medical College, Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, and Union College and we confirmed that she had not graduated from any of these schools." That's not misrepresenting, that is outright, bold-faced lying.
In addition to consuming bandwidth and technological resources, P2P file-sharing also exposes the university network to viruses, spyware and other attacks. It also is frequently used for illegally distributing copyrighted works. Replace "P2P file-sharing" in that statement with "the internet" and it is just as valid. This has nothing to do with any of the reasons they have listed and everything to do with them preemptively caving in to legal pressure from the RIAA.
It probably needs to wait a little bit for mainstream hardware to catch up to it's outlandish specs (which in all honesty, you don't need if you don't run it in it's Turbo Hyper-Fighting Championship Edition graphics mode). The new UI is 95% of the reason to move to Vista. If you are going to disable it then why use Vista over XP at all?
Over all, retail sales of PC-based games in the United States exceeded $970 million in 2006, an increase of about 1 percent of sales the previous year of $953 million, which represented about a 14 percent drop from $1.1 billion in 2004. World of Warcraft was released in 2004. The first expansion was released in 2007. What do you want to bet that the there will be another spike in sales for the 2007 figures?
Matthew Newton, a columnist at PC World, has a great up on seven things you'll want to change as soon as you start using Feisty Fawn. A great up? Is that like a write-up, or some slang I am unaware of? This is in the very first sentence even.
Could this be why some people still prefer newspapers and magazines to the Web? Intrusive ads, popup windows, flash animations and audio come to mind as reasons. Also the simple fact that many people like the freedom of being able to actually hold and move around the thing they are looking at. Kerning adjustments seem pretty low on the list of reasons IMHO.
It's interesting that they mention credit card information, as you have to enter your complete billing address and credit card information every single time you make a purchase through Steam. Is this hacker lying, or is Steam collecting and storing credit card information on users for shady reasons?
Microsoft has stated repeatedly that Open Source is the enemy and in so many words. If you missed that, you are simply not informed enough to be qualified to contribute to this discussion. Care to back that up with an actual reference for those of us in the uninformed masses?
Quite a few years ago I had a watch powered by the exact same principle. Merely walking around would generate the power it needed to keep itself running. Unfortunately as I got more and more into computers I found the watch holding less and less of a charge, until eventually it stopped working altogether. If I had to choose between movement and a watch or computers I would have to say I'm glad there's a clock in the bottom right corner of the screen.
It would indeed be odd for someone to publish a paper about a novel way of speeding up downloads if in fact Bitorrent, or any other file sharing protocol already worked that way. Thanks for pointing out that they don't. Please excuse me for pointing out the de facto standards for P2P do not currently implement something like this, nor do they allow for this modification within the current structure. I thought this was a place for discussion of the article.
The intuition: people make small changes to files like changing the artist or title in the MP3 header, and then BitTorrent and other systems treat this as a "different" file, when in fact it's 99.9% similar. BitTorrent, as most of you know, doesn't work this way. Files are selected from a server called a "tracker", and only users with that exact file size and hash will be linked with you. The only way you could implement a system like this is to create an entirely new protocol, server software and client software. Given the widespread adoption of BitTorrent I think the performance gains would have to be very substantial for people to migrate.
Many music files, for instance, may differ only in the artist-and-title headers, but are otherwise 99 percent similar. It's not even 9AM and I have already filled my bullshit quota for the day. The concept itself is dubious, but this statement in particular is ludicrous.
I wish the articles on slashdot were shorter. I only managed to get half way through this one before my busy life distracted me. Wow, is that a nickel?
Provide some "test your download speed here" app, collect zip code & ISP of person testing, map results. If one can garner enough mindshare, one could build this map without forcing the ISP's to disclose anything. Reverse engineering, in a manner of speaking. I don't think that would be very accurate. Just because I run this app and it shows my down speed at 1.5mb/s that could just mean I am cheap and only want to pay for the low-end service.
Seems to me like proxy servers just replace Big Brother knowing everything you do with some tiny "anonymous browsing" site. And you are willfully giving them all this information to boot, so if they decide to turn over all their logs there isn't a thing you could do.
I didn't know telecopes were that old. Is this a typo, and didn't they mean decades instead? If not, what did ancient telescopes do? Hans Lipperhey invented the telescope in the late 1500s.
In that case, maybe this next round of evidence will have to be not only beyond anything we know but also beyond anything we know how to know. I knew he was going to say that.
MTBF matters because it's random. They're not saying that every drive will last that long, they're saying that the average drive will. Therefore the chance of any drive failing within a reasonable amount of time drops the more the mean time is. So with a 5000000 MTBF the chance of any one drive failing in your life time is incredibly minuscule. In 20 years from now, when hard drive capacity is measured in yottabytes, will you really be carrying around a 512MB thumbdrive you bought for $20 back before the Great War of 2010?
Something tells me that there would be more of a market for technology that makes people in real life look more like their avatar, instead. They already have this invention. It's called running shoes.
He then shared quotes from executives at Sony and Microsoft talking about games as a serious artistic medium, and then a quote from a Nintendo executive saying the company only wanted to make "fun" games. "Rest assured," he went on to say, "we won't fall into the stupid design trap of making our game fun. We'll leave that for the amateurs at Nintendo."
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It's interesting that they mention credit card information, as you have to enter your complete billing address and credit card information every single time you make a purchase through Steam. Is this hacker lying, or is Steam collecting and storing credit card information on users for shady reasons?
Quite a few years ago I had a watch powered by the exact same principle. Merely walking around would generate the power it needed to keep itself running. Unfortunately as I got more and more into computers I found the watch holding less and less of a charge, until eventually it stopped working altogether. If I had to choose between movement and a watch or computers I would have to say I'm glad there's a clock in the bottom right corner of the screen.
I wish the articles on slashdot were shorter. I only managed to get half way through this one before my busy life distracted me. Wow, is that a nickel?
How long before this is bought/patented by oil companies and sealed away in the same warehouse as the Ark of the Covenant.
Seems to me like proxy servers just replace Big Brother knowing everything you do with some tiny "anonymous browsing" site. And you are willfully giving them all this information to boot, so if they decide to turn over all their logs there isn't a thing you could do.
I wonder what metrics they are using to determine importance, and why Street Fighter II was not on that list.
When will this technology be applied to pornography?