Sorry, but this is far from a "good implementation". First off, it's an extension, so there are probably going to be next to no new BT users that wouldn't have been able to use another client anyway.
Second, the implementation you are talking about, which could hopefully introduce more widespread (legal) use of BitTorrent to conserve bandwidth, is Opera's integration of a BitTorrent client back in July.
Anyway, judging by the screenshots (coralcached), this is really not that similar to a regular BitTorrent client anyway. It actually seems more like a FastTrack client to me, what with the friends and the browsing shared lists and stuff.. perhaps BitTorrent is just chucked in there as an add-on? In any event, I don't see it being any better than Opera's BT (which is not very good/configurable).
One of the main problems that people need to get over to get BT to work well is connectability. I would say most people these days are unconnectable when they first start using BT (behind a firewall/NAT and can't accept incoming connections) and this is a big barrier to BT becoming something that anyone can use.
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And I think what most people miss while comparing Firefox to Opera or IE is that Firefox is a much younger project than the others.Opera has been around for a number of years
Even if your comment about Opera having "been around longer" was valid, you're ignoring the fact that just because a browser is developing faster than another (although I disagree with that too), that doesn't make it any better at all. "Opera is better, but hey, at the rate it's going at now, Firefox will be just as good, therefore Firefox is better!"
What the fuck? Speaking as a student who's been living in Perth since I waws 5, I can honestly say that our transport setup is fucked. Particularly public transport. You simply can't depend on a bus to actually arrive at all, let alone on time. Every other week an entire train line (ie. one-quarter of the whole train system) is shut down and replaced by a "rail replacement" bus, which takes about 10 times longer to get anywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
for those of you who have never heard of 'copyleft' before. Apparently it essentially means licensing something under a license like GPL or Creative Commons..
(Slightly OT) That's actually pretty cheap. Most companies here charge US $35-$60 for onsite calls. I occasionally help my father-in-law out at his computer shop, and while he's toward the low end of that, the recent spike in gas prices has him considering raising the rates.
Yep, that's because I have to charge a lower amount, since I do it as a 'hobby' (ie. not a registered business), and I'm only fifteen.
If they like the CD, they're going to buy it eventually, because it looks cool. They'll probably also buy the T-shirt, and the concert ticket
I definitely agree with the T-shirt and the concert ticket, because that's what I do - I usually get my introduction to a band by getting mp3's off a friend, and since then I've gone to several concerts of those bands. I'm not into the T-shirt thing, but I also purchase a lot of music DVDs of those bands (and not just because you can't find them pirated on the 'net;)). I see that as my way of trying to support the artists.
In my opinion, the point that you're missing is the fact that the 90% who I'm talking about aren't generally "real" music fans. I'm talking about 11 - 12 year olds who basically hear a song on the radio and say "wow, that song's cool, I want it on the iPod my parents bought for me". They download the song, which yes, may have initially been pirated by people way up in the mp3 'scene', but is by and large being shared by other people like them. That's why if you search for a song currently in the "top" 40 on any of these networks you'll always find hundreds of people sharing it.
The other thing is that these sort of people, at least while they are still 12 or so, never seem to develop any sort of 'fandom' of a particular band. For example, my sister (who fits into this age group, although she gets me to get her her music so isn't into the P2P thing) told me the other day that a song was 'heaps old' and that it was therefore a crap song because it had been off the charts for 6 months or something. (Actually, I'd been listening to it as part of another album that I had and wasn't aware that it had ever been "on the charts".)
These people basically don't support the artists in any way except through "So Fresh" et al. Don't know if you have that in the US, but it's this compilation CD released four times a year with "twenty of the latest pop hits" on it.
There are plenty of people who believe that filesharing is ethical and acceptable, and laws to stop it are unethical and unacceptable. Do you really think that you can outlaw something millions of people do all the time, and not see a backlash?
Nop,e not at all. I just think that the file sharers who believe in freedom of speech and all that are just the minority, and quite significantly.
Speaking from experience from doing private jobs for people (spyware / virus cleanup etc. at their house for AU$20 an hour), if there is any sort of filesharing software, it is 90% of the time installed by the kids who heard about it from their friends.
For every person scared off by these tactics, two others will be angered into sharing more. I cannot imagine that they are not aware of that by now.
I disagree. Do you think that the sort of people 'angered into sharing more' are the same sort of people sharing thousands of files on Kazaa/gnutella2 etc?
I think the OP just wanted software to remove one specific virus. In that case, go to Symantec Security Response, and look for the particular virus, then download the removal tool.
But is the physical CD worth $14.99 to me?......Is the "virtual" CD worth $11.99 or $12.99......compared to the original $9.99)?...like $9.99 for physical CD's......and $6.99 or $7.99 for whole......$0.99 a song actually doesn't...
ARGH! Not the god-damn *.99 pricings again! How about this... $10 for physical CDs, $7 or $8 for whole albums (virtual) and $1 a song?
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Dude, what the fuck? I thought it was just me. Who is that bitch Vanessa J. Smith, and why is she trying to sell us software?
I still see an ad at the top of the page. :-\
Wow, Firefox is so innovative!
Sorry, but this is far from a "good implementation". First off, it's an extension, so there are probably going to be next to no new BT users that wouldn't have been able to use another client anyway.
Second, the implementation you are talking about, which could hopefully introduce more widespread (legal) use of BitTorrent to conserve bandwidth, is Opera's integration of a BitTorrent client back in July.
Anyway, judging by the screenshots (coralcached), this is really not that similar to a regular BitTorrent client anyway. It actually seems more like a FastTrack client to me, what with the friends and the browsing shared lists and stuff.. perhaps BitTorrent is just chucked in there as an add-on? In any event, I don't see it being any better than Opera's BT (which is not very good/configurable).
One of the main problems that people need to get over to get BT to work well is connectability. I would say most people these days are unconnectable when they first start using BT (behind a firewall/NAT and can't accept incoming connections) and this is a big barrier to BT becoming something that anyone can use.
Actually, it's Mozilla.com now. :-\
http://www.mozilla.com/about
yes, was about to mention that.. is it just us? :-/
Well, the client reports the amount uploaded/downloaded to the tracker, and the tracker calculates the ratio from that. Fairly simple.
Alright, I'm installing a leecher mod right now, cos my ratio needs to go from 1.10 to 1.1. What the fuck?
Well, let's see a native binary of Azureus and see how well it runs, then.
Not only was that an appalling joke, the submitter obviously didn't know how to use the Preview button.. and uses BBcode.
A reasonable suspicion, since this article is about ActiveX, which is part of everybody's favourite browser, Internet Explorer.
Even if your comment about Opera having "been around longer" was valid, you're ignoring the fact that just because a browser is developing faster than another (although I disagree with that too), that doesn't make it any better at all. "Opera is better, but hey, at the rate it's going at now, Firefox will be just as good, therefore Firefox is better!"
Google agrees with you. ^_^
Someone want to post a torrent? ;-)
What the fuck? Speaking as a student who's been living in Perth since I waws 5, I can honestly say that our transport setup is fucked. Particularly public transport. You simply can't depend on a bus to actually arrive at all, let alone on time. Every other week an entire train line (ie. one-quarter of the whole train system) is shut down and replaced by a "rail replacement" bus, which takes about 10 times longer to get anywhere.
Holy shit, have we just slashdotted the NSA? I can't reach the article.
Are you a Mormon?
:(
Look at the site, he lives in Utah. The fibre is Mormon-only access.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
for those of you who have never heard of 'copyleft' before. Apparently it essentially means licensing something under a license like GPL or Creative Commons..
Right. My bad. :-\
Don't subscribers usually have a (*) next to their nick?
(Slightly OT) That's actually pretty cheap. Most companies here charge US $35-$60 for onsite calls. I occasionally help my father-in-law out at his computer shop, and while he's toward the low end of that, the recent spike in gas prices has him considering raising the rates.
;)). I see that as my way of trying to support the artists.
Yep, that's because I have to charge a lower amount, since I do it as a 'hobby' (ie. not a registered business), and I'm only fifteen.
If they like the CD, they're going to buy it eventually, because it looks cool. They'll probably also buy the T-shirt, and the concert ticket I definitely agree with the T-shirt and the concert ticket, because that's what I do - I usually get my introduction to a band by getting mp3's off a friend, and since then I've gone to several concerts of those bands. I'm not into the T-shirt thing, but I also purchase a lot of music DVDs of those bands (and not just because you can't find them pirated on the 'net
In my opinion, the point that you're missing is the fact that the 90% who I'm talking about aren't generally "real" music fans. I'm talking about 11 - 12 year olds who basically hear a song on the radio and say "wow, that song's cool, I want it on the iPod my parents bought for me". They download the song, which yes, may have initially been pirated by people way up in the mp3 'scene', but is by and large being shared by other people like them. That's why if you search for a song currently in the "top" 40 on any of these networks you'll always find hundreds of people sharing it.
The other thing is that these sort of people, at least while they are still 12 or so, never seem to develop any sort of 'fandom' of a particular band. For example, my sister (who fits into this age group, although she gets me to get her her music so isn't into the P2P thing) told me the other day that a song was 'heaps old' and that it was therefore a crap song because it had been off the charts for 6 months or something. (Actually, I'd been listening to it as part of another album that I had and wasn't aware that it had ever been "on the charts".)
These people basically don't support the artists in any way except through "So Fresh" et al. Don't know if you have that in the US, but it's this compilation CD released four times a year with "twenty of the latest pop hits" on it.
There are plenty of people who believe that filesharing is ethical and acceptable, and laws to stop it are unethical and unacceptable. Do you really think that you can outlaw something millions of people do all the time, and not see a backlash?
Nop,e not at all. I just think that the file sharers who believe in freedom of speech and all that are just the minority, and quite significantly.
Speaking from experience from doing private jobs for people (spyware / virus cleanup etc. at their house for AU$20 an hour), if there is any sort of filesharing software, it is 90% of the time installed by the kids who heard about it from their friends.
For every person scared off by these tactics, two others will be angered into sharing more. I cannot imagine that they are not aware of that by now.
I disagree. Do you think that the sort of people 'angered into sharing more' are the same sort of people sharing thousands of files on Kazaa/gnutella2 etc?
I think the OP just wanted software to remove one specific virus. In that case, go to Symantec Security Response, and look for the particular virus, then download the removal tool.
;))
;)
SR page for Zotob.L
Direct link to to removal for e.g. Klez.A (old, obviously
They don't always provide removal tools, but often do for the major viruses that cause problems. Stinger is good too
But is the physical CD worth $14.99 to me?... ...Is the "virtual" CD worth $11.99 or $12.99... ...compared to the original $9.99)? ...like $9.99 for physical CD's... ...and $6.99 or $7.99 for whole... ...$0.99 a song actually doesn't...
ARGH! Not the god-damn *.99 pricings again! How about this... $10 for physical CDs, $7 or $8 for whole albums (virtual) and $1 a song?
I think one of the issues here is mail security.
:-\
I mean come on, how expensive is it to get a damn lock on your mailbox?