Yeah. When I first saw Xenon 2 on my ST, I thought that the 16-color 320x200 screen was rendered in TrueColor. It was incredible how far they pushed the limits. Atari ST and Amiga were so much superior to the ugly MS-DOS IBM PC boxes. Yet, they still lost the battle... I wonder how come Mac is still alive.
Yeah, Another World was really awesome. I still remember how I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it for the first time. There were many other great games from guys like Silmarils or Bitmap Brothers. Oh those were the times!:-)
Moreover, when I started downloading a file in Emule+ there (as I expected) is no "Highest" priority for the download. You have just Low-Normal-High.
The "Highest" priority is one of the best things in the edonkey2000 client and in the Overnet network. You can choose one of your downloads to get the highest priority and you don't wait in queues (partnering with other people who are downloading the file at the highest priority).
Again, the eDonkey2000 client and the Overnet network have simply no competition. And if they die, the best P2P will die.
Strange, I've just went through the entire Emule+ preferences GUI and searched their entire forum for the keyword "Overnet", but did not find anything that would allow me to connect to the Overnet network.
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Because it is not cross-platform? Of course they don't want you to create programs that builds for Win, Mac and Linux from a single code base.
I disagree. The Overnet network was better than my "eMule experience" because I didn't have to mess with any servers. You just run it, click Search, click Download, and go do something else. What's more you'll find rare files there (unlike on *bitorrent networks).
I'm not sure but reverse engineering the Overnet network protocol might be illegal. And it probably is, otherwise there would already be an open source client for Overnet. But there's none.
FYI, the official edonkey2000 client is the only tool that can access the Overnet network. With emule you can access only the edonkey2000 network, which sucks compared to the Overnet network (I know both networks first hand).
You can't use the eMule client (or any other apart from the official eDonkey2000) client to access the *Overnet* network. eMule can access only the eDonkey 2000 network.
Overnet network is *not* eDonkey2000 network.
Now, I know both networks and the Overnet network is *VASTLY* superior to eDonkey2000 network.
So it does matter whether the eDonkey2000 client development is stopped, because it is the only too using which you can access the Overnet network.
Preventing ads from being displayed, for example, on an Open Source project homepage is equal to preventing the project from receiving donations.
There are people who run great subscription-free popular websites (such as Slashdot). These sites are so popular, that no free hosting can be used due to excessive bandwidth usage and number of visits. Ads allow these sites to continue to be free. If everyone selfishly blocked the ads they display, these sites would have two options: Become subscribers-only, or shut it down.
It is like saying: Hey webmaster I like your content, but I do not want you to have an opportunity to earn some money to pay your web hosting costs.
Ads are similar to the situation where people donate money to open source projects. Preventing ads from being displayed is like forbidding donating money to a Free project.
Although they may sound greedy, they are actually right. When I see for instance Google ads on a site, I do not actually pay anything. But the webmaster earns money from the ads and can continue to devote his free time to working on the website.
But how is it that the Internet Archives project resists claims of copyright infringement and the likes when they have copies of entire websites in their records?
Did you ask this question when Google introduced site cache several years ago?
Recently, several large corporations, which (apart from other things) develop
commercial software, released a number of projects on sourceforge.net. Among them were:
Microsoft (3 projects),
Google (4 projects), IBM
(30 projects),
Adobe (1 project).
The reasons they gave for such move
are often somewhat "foggy". My personal opinion is that it finally became
"cool" to have a project on sourceforge.net, which is great of course.
It is not bad programming. Some applications inevitably need adminstrator privileges in order to be installed correctly. If you need an example, I can supply one: All applications that come with their own drivers (e.g. on-the-fly encryption software etc.) require admin privileges when they are being installed.
Here where I live (EU, Czech Republic), we have had companies offering free access to internet for free for many many years. So your question should be rephrased to "Has 'free Internet access' finally arrived in the US?"
> And China' ain't bad
China puts people with different opinions in prison (disidents) as do most of the other communist countries (Cuba, North Korea, etc.)
> Don't you get it, this is exactly the reason why countries around the world dislike the United States.
I'm sure there are more reasons than exactly this *one*.
Can you imagine a US proxy physically located in, say, North Korea? BTW, one can easily verify that a proxy is really located in a country that does not collaborate with US/European authorities by using tools to traceroute the IP of the proxy.
We need to start using only P2P software that allows connecting through anonymous proxies. Those proxies should of course be located in countries that are known to be unwilling to collaborate with US/European authorities. It would make P2P much slower but should put these lawsuits to an end.
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Yeah. When I first saw Xenon 2 on my ST, I thought that the 16-color 320x200 screen was rendered in TrueColor. It was incredible how far they pushed the limits. Atari ST and Amiga were so much superior to the ugly MS-DOS IBM PC boxes. Yet, they still lost the battle... I wonder how come Mac is still alive.
Yeah, Another World was really awesome. I still remember how I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it for the first time. There were many other great games from guys like Silmarils or Bitmap Brothers. Oh those were the times! :-)
You misunderstood my post. Notice the subject line "Times have changed". (Meaning it is incredible how the technology has advanced).
When I read about that 4 MB of L2 cache, I recalled that my Atari ST had 0.5 MB of regular RAM back in 1990. I'm probably too sentimental...
Moreover, when I started downloading a file in Emule+ there (as I expected) is no "Highest" priority for the download. You have just Low-Normal-High.
The "Highest" priority is one of the best things in the edonkey2000 client and in the Overnet network. You can choose one of your downloads to get the highest priority and you don't wait in queues (partnering with other people who are downloading the file at the highest priority).
Again, the eDonkey2000 client and the Overnet network have simply no competition. And if they die, the best P2P will die.
Strange, I've just went through the entire Emule+ preferences GUI and searched their entire forum for the keyword "Overnet", but did not find anything that would allow me to connect to the Overnet network.
Because it is not cross-platform? Of course they don't want you to create programs that builds for Win, Mac and Linux from a single code base.
I disagree. The Overnet network was better than my "eMule experience" because I didn't have to mess with any servers. You just run it, click Search, click Download, and go do something else. What's more you'll find rare files there (unlike on *bitorrent networks).
I'm not sure but reverse engineering the Overnet network protocol might be illegal. And it probably is, otherwise there would already be an open source client for Overnet. But there's none.
> I'm not using the edonkey2000 client, I'm using eMule.
Then you can't access the Overnet network, which is vastly superior to the edonkey2000 network. Overnet network is not edonkey2000 network.
FYI, the official edonkey2000 client is the only tool that can access the Overnet network. With emule you can access only the edonkey2000 network, which sucks compared to the Overnet network (I know both networks first hand).
You can't use the eMule client (or any other apart from the official eDonkey2000) client to access the *Overnet* network. eMule can access only the eDonkey 2000 network.
Overnet network is *not* eDonkey2000 network.
Now, I know both networks and the Overnet network is *VASTLY* superior to eDonkey2000 network.
So it does matter whether the eDonkey2000 client development is stopped, because it is the only too using which you can access the Overnet network.
Their bug tracker has been closed for months. No beta version has been released for months. Need I continue?
The RIAA continued its fight against P2P networking with little effect
Doesn't really seem so. They managed to make the owners of the biggest P2P network (eDonkey2000) say they "throw the towel in".
Preventing ads from being displayed, for example, on an Open Source project homepage is equal to preventing the project from receiving donations.
There are people who run great subscription-free popular websites (such as Slashdot). These sites are so popular, that no free hosting can be used due to excessive bandwidth usage and number of visits. Ads allow these sites to continue to be free. If everyone selfishly blocked the ads they display, these sites would have two options: Become subscribers-only, or shut it down.
It is like saying: Hey webmaster I like your content, but I do not want you to have an opportunity to earn some money to pay your web hosting costs.
Ads are similar to the situation where people donate money to open source projects. Preventing ads from being displayed is like forbidding donating money to a Free project. Although they may sound greedy, they are actually right. When I see for instance Google ads on a site, I do not actually pay anything. But the webmaster earns money from the ads and can continue to devote his free time to working on the website.
But how is it that the Internet Archives project resists claims of copyright infringement and the likes when they have copies of entire websites in their records?
Did you ask this question when Google introduced site cache several years ago?
Recently, several large corporations, which (apart from other things) develop commercial software, released a number of projects on sourceforge.net. Among them were: Microsoft (3 projects), Google (4 projects), IBM (30 projects), Adobe (1 project). The reasons they gave for such move are often somewhat "foggy". My personal opinion is that it finally became "cool" to have a project on sourceforge.net, which is great of course.
It is not bad programming. Some applications inevitably need adminstrator privileges in order to be installed correctly. If you need an example, I can supply one: All applications that come with their own drivers (e.g. on-the-fly encryption software etc.) require admin privileges when they are being installed.
Has 'free Internet access' finally arrived?
Here where I live (EU, Czech Republic), we have had companies offering free access to internet for free for many many years. So your question should be rephrased to "Has 'free Internet access' finally arrived in the US?"
The common people mostly only care about what a president candidate look like.
> And China' ain't bad China puts people with different opinions in prison (disidents) as do most of the other communist countries (Cuba, North Korea, etc.) > Don't you get it, this is exactly the reason why countries around the world dislike the United States. I'm sure there are more reasons than exactly this *one*.
Can you imagine a US proxy physically located in, say, North Korea? BTW, one can easily verify that a proxy is really located in a country that does not collaborate with US/European authorities by using tools to traceroute the IP of the proxy.
The biggest problem now is: Is there enough anonymous proxies in these countries to handle the P2P traffic?
We need to start using only P2P software that allows connecting through anonymous proxies. Those proxies should of course be located in countries that are known to be unwilling to collaborate with US/European authorities. It would make P2P much slower but should put these lawsuits to an end.