Not really.
As far as scripting goes, it's a good language that's been badly implemented and abused far too much for it's own sake.
JS isn't a really complex language (even though it goes as far as providing classes and objects), but it's streamlined and all in all not THAT badly thought.
It would be better if it wasn't that permissive, but... oh well...
That, sir, is completely retarded since it prevents visitors from:
Using any legacy browser, or text browser, or anything but mainstream browsers for that matter
Browsing with JS desactivated
Bookmarking or linking a specific thread or post since you're so retarded that you were retarded enough to not provide any permalinking mean
On top of that you've managed to put a fucking permanent refresh spam every 10 seconds or so.
AND you're using fucking frames.
Your forum sucks man, badly, it ranks even lower than PHPbb as far as forum quality goes.
Not 6 months, more like 4 years.
6 months after it started breaking through to mainstream (thanks to google's Google Maps, Gmail and Google Suggests), 6 months after finding a new name for an old tech (AJAX), but xmlHttpRequest has been on the web since at least IE6, and probably earlier
You should stop smoking mate.
HTML/XHTML are still the base languages of the web, Javascript should only be used to improve the user experience, and when it's well used the website is not supposed to break when javascript is not activated (*) (then again 90% of the websites out there use shitty javascript in a shitty way).
Oh, and Javascript has always been the only scripting language that had a bit of cross-browsers compatibility (VBScript doesn't even come close), and the used server-side languages won't change.
(*) This is the base law behind the Graceful Degradation principle, which is even extended in the theory of progressive enhancement design: nothing should be necessary but the base data [HTML/XHTML] of your website, you should be able to desactivate anything that is added on top (style, scripting, whatever) without any *major* drawback (aka loss of some ease/speed is okay, but inability to use the website is not)
No it won't, a torrent download is only slow at the beginning, when the initial server tries to shell out the first few copies.
Then, as you start having more data seeded from peers the global transfert speed will increase exponentially with the increase of the network size (because every new peer has more nodes to get data from than the previous one).
Now of course i don't know what you call "slow", and your own datarate might not be really impressive, but as far as global transfert speed go, you need some big server pipes to beat a popular BT network
WTF does "pseudo-democratic" mean anyway?
That these guys can choose their presidents directly by themselves instead of having to vote for retarded geezer's college to do it?
Or does "not psuedo democratic" (whatever that is) mean that the government is not supposed to listen to the voters, but should do much whoring to the corporations instead?
Damn, god bless the Democratic Republic of America (mmm, where did I hear that one) then, but I don't want it where I live.
You click on the Internet icon on the desktop.
You can also go to Wallmart and ask them if they could put the internet on your floppy disk (warning: you need a floppy disk)
This doesn't seem to accomplish much in the way of providing anonymity if everyone in the swarm still had to go through the same starting node somewhere.
Nah, you can connect to the swarm, retreive the IPs (there is 0 security on BT swarms - and this is intended - which means all IPs are fully public) and try to DOS each and every node.
Good luck in doing so, though.
And you'll have to do that for every single torrent file, because the swarms are independant from one another and the clients are more than likely different too
Now, there are a lot of uses for bittorrent, and it's no more "less than honorable" than something like Firefox, which can help deliver porn to your desktop. Personally, I've used it to download ISO DVD images of Linux distributions (Fedora core 3, Ubuntu 5.04, Knoppix 3.x, and Xandros OC3.0 to be exact), a few applications like World Wind, a few publicly available video clips and some TV shows.
OpenOffice is also avaible via torrent distribution, WoW beta used to be (no idea for the final product), and these "trackerless" torrents will allow for much simple torrent distribution setup, therefore widespread usage for *not piracy*
But the.torrent can be hosted pretty much anywhere on the web, and is only a few kb of data.
Tracker were much weaker to attacks, and were the part targetted by majors trying to break in BT networks (especially since many trackers are often hosted on the same physical machine)
And yes, IE is cross-platform too, just on a much more limited scale.
Wrong, IE isn't cross platform, IE5/Mac has been released in 2000 and never updated (project has been fully dropped), and it has nothing in common with it's windows counterpart, it uses the Tasman engine which was specially crafted for it by the IE5/Mac team (led by Tantek Celik).
And on many points (not all of them though, there are lots of IE5/Mac specific bugs including some that were fixed in the last version of Tasman... which was never updated to IE5/Mac), it's still ahead of IE6.
Last time I checked, Charles Babbage was an englishman, and if you need electronics then it's english (again) with the Colossus Mark 1 in December 1943 (Konrad Zuse's Z3 was technically a full fledged programmable computer too, but mechanical by 1941)
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Not really.
As far as scripting goes, it's a good language that's been badly implemented and abused far too much for it's own sake.
JS isn't a really complex language (even though it goes as far as providing classes and objects), but it's streamlined and all in all not THAT badly thought.
It would be better if it wasn't that permissive, but... oh well...
- Using any legacy browser, or text browser, or anything but mainstream browsers for that matter
- Browsing with JS desactivated
- Bookmarking or linking a specific thread or post since you're so retarded that you were retarded enough to not provide any permalinking mean
On top of that you've managed to put a fucking permanent refresh spam every 10 seconds or so.AND you're using fucking frames.
Your forum sucks man, badly, it ranks even lower than PHPbb as far as forum quality goes.
Not 6 months, more like 4 years.
6 months after it started breaking through to mainstream (thanks to google's Google Maps, Gmail and Google Suggests), 6 months after finding a new name for an old tech (AJAX), but xmlHttpRequest has been on the web since at least IE6, and probably earlier
You should stop smoking mate.
HTML/XHTML are still the base languages of the web, Javascript should only be used to improve the user experience, and when it's well used the website is not supposed to break when javascript is not activated (*) (then again 90% of the websites out there use shitty javascript in a shitty way).
Oh, and Javascript has always been the only scripting language that had a bit of cross-browsers compatibility (VBScript doesn't even come close), and the used server-side languages won't change.
(*) This is the base law behind the Graceful Degradation principle, which is even extended in the theory of progressive enhancement design: nothing should be necessary but the base data [HTML/XHTML] of your website, you should be able to desactivate anything that is added on top (style, scripting, whatever) without any *major* drawback (aka loss of some ease/speed is okay, but inability to use the website is not)
Now if Revolution even had cardridge ports for the legacy games you DO own...
No it won't, a torrent download is only slow at the beginning, when the initial server tries to shell out the first few copies.
Then, as you start having more data seeded from peers the global transfert speed will increase exponentially with the increase of the network size (because every new peer has more nodes to get data from than the previous one).
Now of course i don't know what you call "slow", and your own datarate might not be really impressive, but as far as global transfert speed go, you need some big server pipes to beat a popular BT network
'cept that it wouldn't be deliberate at all in this case...
Yes it is, because commercial or not it's still unauthorized distribution of copyrighted work
WTF does "pseudo-democratic" mean anyway?
That these guys can choose their presidents directly by themselves instead of having to vote for retarded geezer's college to do it?
Or does "not psuedo democratic" (whatever that is) mean that the government is not supposed to listen to the voters, but should do much whoring to the corporations instead?
Damn, god bless the Democratic Republic of America (mmm, where did I hear that one) then, but I don't want it where I live.
And you forgot Peru (it has probably been covered on /., but i'm too lazy to search for it)
Unless he replaced the first instance too, which yielded twin pieces of cake
You click on the Internet icon on the desktop.
You can also go to Wallmart and ask them if they could put the internet on your floppy disk (warning: you need a floppy disk)
ABC is built on top of BitTornado, which means that ABC'll implement trackerless torrents when Shad0w'll have it implemented in Tornado
Basically, he said: "you're not supposed to use BT for Bad Things ©, if you do then it's at your own risk".
Nah, you can connect to the swarm, retreive the IPs (there is 0 security on BT swarms - and this is intended - which means all IPs are fully public) and try to DOS each and every node. Good luck in doing so, though. And you'll have to do that for every single torrent file, because the swarms are independant from one another and the clients are more than likely different too
But the .torrent can be hosted pretty much anywhere on the web, and is only a few kb of data.
Tracker were much weaker to attacks, and were the part targetted by majors trying to break in BT networks (especially since many trackers are often hosted on the same physical machine)
True, IE5/Mac chokes on many JS things.
And on many points (not all of them though, there are lots of IE5/Mac specific bugs including some that were fixed in the last version of Tasman... which was never updated to IE5/Mac), it's still ahead of IE6.
Yes, right, because you're paying fair prices already for your products and MS' profit margin on Windows and Office products is not above 85%...
oh wait...