I have never YET used Vista, nor have I seen this particular book. But I HAVE bought one of the book's (and Operating System's) predecessors. By that I mean to refer to "Windows 2000: The Missing Manual" (part of the same series), and I was immensely satisfied with it because it filled all the needs for immediate knowledge that I had at the time. </p><p> <b<Microsoft DOES NOT DO ANYONE ANY JUSTICE</b> when they leave out such incredibly pertinent amounts of information as I HAD TO FIND in a THIRD-PARTY book (series) like these. And I am not complaining about the book series, the one book I have is still excellent. It is just a SHAME that Microsoft could really "care less". </p><p> <b>Microsoft should be UTTERLY ASHAMED that people known for excellent documentation about OPEN SOURCE software can actually write BETTER MANUALS than Microsoft (known for closed-source commercial software, amongst other unsavory connotations) can, about their own CLOSED SOURCE software!!!</b> </p><p> Ironically ("yeah right!"), I actually wonder if Microsoft actually (subtly?) encourages people to "find out on their own" by writing or buying (or reading) books from series like these. Aside from their huge fees for their own "Microsoft Press" materials, that is (Pah!) </p><p> In short, based on previous experience with the book about Windows 2000, if I had Windows Vista, this book reviewed here would ideally be the FIRST BOOK I would want to purchase regarding it, and recommend to others as well. </p>
The fact that earthquakes happen under the ocean is nothing new, we just don't know the overall "scale" of how many or how intense they are. It is recently known that earthquakes are on the rise in more and more places where they have not normally occurred before, and I think we will see (hear? sense? record?) even more occurrences of volcanic and magmatic activity the more we listen to the "gut reactions" of Earth's core so close to the sea floor, an area which, like the article said, usually has not been listened to much before.
I know this might seem like flamebait, but I assure everyone that I do NOT intend to start any kind of conflict or argument here. Just my opinion and I see this in the news of the world, more and more: always about more earthquakes going on than ever before. So, in light of the recent 30 years or more, mostly from what I have studied, I DO believe that the "End of the Age" eons ago foretold by Jesus the Christ, is even swifter approaching...
24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
24:2 And Jesus said unto them, 'See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.'
24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, 'Take heed that no man deceive you.'
24:5 'For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
24:6 'And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.'
24:7 'For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.'
21:5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, He [Jesus] said,
21:6 'As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
21:7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
21:8 And he said, 'Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
21:9 'But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
21:10 Then said he unto them, 'Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
21:11 'And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.'
This law should also be considered when reviewing RIAA and MPAA claims of tracing and attempting to indict anonymous "Does" on possible P2P activity. The RIAA and MPAA claim to be able to tell what someone is downloading by attempting to connect on that download stream, but are they not doing the exact same thing that the other downloaders are doing? Isn't that a form of ENTRAPMENT? And by doing so they need to connect "un-invited" to one's computer and thus verify if they are a substantially-gradual peer on a known copyrighted work.
And I think, irregardless of whatever I am (or am not) downloading or uploading, that unless I INVITE them in, explicitly, that I likewise should not have to use contraceptive inventions for purpose of increased privacy on my computer like the TOR and I2P Networks, PeerGuardian, or ProtoWall; but because THEY (the RIAA/MPAA) are such hypocritical bastards, they necessitate that I do take such privacy-protecting actions. But it remains true that they (the RIAA and MPAA and their BayTSP henchmen) are thus INVADING my CHATTEL, my PC, my PERSONAL PRIVATE PROPERTY, and that this law we are talking about here (invasion of chattel) should also apply to them, as is the case with that woman in Oregon who is filing suit against the RIAA (see the following link: Oregon RIAA Victim Fights Back; Sues RIAA for Electronic Trespass, Violations of Computer Fraud & Abuse, Invasion of Privacy, RICO, Fraud ).
Hmmm, perhaps I should echo these comments on the EFF and EPIC websites, eh?
Or, just encapsulate all your trading inside encrypted archives with the password in the filename - people have been doing this for a long time.
Remember Wrapster and AlbumWrap? Just use WinZIP/RAR/ACE/7Zip whatever u want, to compress and encrypt any content you wish. Most applications out there only support being able to "see inside" ZIP archives, and only a small few support looking inside of RAR's. HARDLY ANY support the others, except 7Zip (which is the best in my opinion and is succeeding at securing much more widespread programmer adoption, more every day).
A simple MD5 can authenticate whether the archive has been tampered with or is incomplete. Then just type in the password contained in the filename, and voila! Who cares about companies making their P2P apps "license-aware"?
It's all bullshit, anything can be hacked. Doesn't matter what 1 programmer does because 10 others will circumvent it a day or week later:-P
Things like this don't scare me anymore. Not even the new upcoming generation of Blu-Ray / HD-DVD's scare me anymore. And "DVD-Jon" is my hero!:-) hehehe
Don't forget about Ajuba! http://wiki.tcl.tk/912 - the once-formerly-new-name of TCL/TK's company website, which was a better name: Scriptics.org, which changed yet again from Ajuba, to the now much-more sensible http://www.tcl.tk/
hahahaha! Where do these OTHER geeks get all these damn stupid names from?????
Warning: inverse host lookup failed for 64.233.167.125: h_errno 11004: NO_DATA
DNS fwd/rev mismatch: talk.l.google.com != toolbar.google.com talk.l.google.com [64.233.167.125] 5222 (?) open HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: http://www.google.com/talk/ Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 151
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1>302 Moved</H1>The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.google.com/talk/">here</A>.</BODY ></HTML>
So what's with the Talk.L.google.com ? it seems that any calls to the "talk.google.com" resolve or redirect to a "talk.L.google.com" (lowercase l actually but it still translates that URL into another one).
Pinging talk.l.google.com [216.239.37.125] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 216.239.37.125: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=243 Reply from 216.239.37.125: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=243 Reply from 216.239.37.125: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=243 Reply from 216.239.37.125: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=243
Ping statistics for 216.239.37.125:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 22ms, Maximum = 22ms, Average = 22ms
--- TO: "YA_Python_dev": And these are the only NETCAT results I was able to get? What parameters am I supposed to pass to NETCAT in order to get the results you specified ?
I *personally* MYSELF do HAVE leg ulcers, currently, and i would NEVER want to consider this "maggots" treatment... only because it freaks me out and i do not think they'd be all that clean...
basically, "Ewwwwwwww"
sighs..
leg ulcers (even non-diabetic ones like i have) are a royal pain in the ass and last for YEARS even when treated by professionals, properly:-(
First of all, yes some bit torrent clients can prioritize file downloads, but this prioritization is only in like 4 levels...
1. High / get this file first 2. Normal / get this file whenever u get around to it 3. Low / get this file last 4. None / Never get this file (exclude it)
Even if u did alter the BT protocol to have the very first 5 seconds of a video prioritized as the 1st level of downloading (get it first), 5 seconds of video is never the same in bytes nor download time. 5 seconds of video could be as small as a 20-64K, or as big as 10s of megabytes.. depending on the encoding of the file before it was ever streamed in the first place. Standardization here only applies to formats that are streamable in the first place (and those formats do not use BT protocol but instead use Real Media, WMV, ASF, MOV, EV2, or likewise). And starting out on a stream is not always dependable because you would rely on peers unless there was always a dedicated seeder-server somewhere (and this would require the legitimacy of content as well, otherwise such seeder-servers would be taken down by erstwhile-Gestapo MPAA/RIAA:-) Thus, relying on other peers to provide you even those first 5 seconds of seeded video would not be feasible neither if they hadn't received it yet.
My opinion seems to be that implementing a streaming-torrent type protocol is far too dependent on centralization, rather than the idealist movement towards de-centralization (and thus, perfection of privacy)...
Your idea, about updating a dynamic torrent file, still requires a central seeded server, at the least, to get the updated torrent metadata (and the incremental video/audio streem), to get all of this from and, that is centralization, exactly which Bit Torrent was not meant for (trackers are not servers, they are merely resource aggregators of those peers that can serve, simultaneously). I think it would be far simpler to just use existing methods (SWF, EV2, MMS, RTSP, HTTP, FTP, or IP multi-casting) rather than reinventing the wheel. But I believe with those methods (all the application protocols I just mentioned as examples) they already use an indexing format - its embedded into the video stream and accounted-for at both ends in the first place...
So, congratulations, you have just described (in a roundabout way) and re-invented the wheel of, the aforementioned format concepts of what we have always known as streaming video, something which need not even involve Bit Torrent at all! lol
I don't think that is currently feasible, since the original Bit Torrent client rather randomly exchanges chunks or "pieces" of a.torrent, and does so in no progressive "from the bottom-up" type of order. Because of the nature of the Bit Torrent protocol, you would see lots of MPEG-like-artifacts from the very start of your video stream, because of the middle or the end of the file being transferred first before the beginning of the video stream was ever sent just yet. I do not believe BT makes any exact distinctions between exchanging data "from the bottom-up", as it really just trades what is most accessible amongst its peers, at the most convenient times:
ie: sending a piece somewhere in the middle just because other clients need it, and downloading a piece somewhere at the end, simply because other clients have it.
Streaming would not be a possible application from the abstraction of the BT protocol unless someone were to basically write a whole new other protocol. The logistical management of the BT protocol is just too random and different by design to fully promote a "bottom-up" type of fill request as would be needed for audio or video streaming. Not to mention all the horrible syncing errors one would get from all the packets flying about within no certain order (how could you sync an audio stream with a video stream, when entirely different parts of the whole file are basically flying about, random pieces exchanging amongst suddenly-appearing and disappearing peers, willy-nilly??? Not to mention with "ghost trackers" and never-guaranteed tracker downtimes. Its just impossible with BT).
(quote) "Chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates added the new title to his name yesterday when Britain's Queen Elizabeth, gave an honorary knighthood in a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace recognizing his efforts to help improve health and reduce poverty in the developing world.
Mr. Bill Gates is not part of the British Empire so he will not be called "Sir Bill" hence the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire title." (end quote)
Now what I find most interesting, is, since I think the 13th Amendment still applies? 13th Amendment in our US Constitution, we could witness the formal and official stripping of Bill Gate's American Citizenship! (I wish as well that we could get rid of many of our favorite attorneys, or law-shark "Esquires"!:-)
"In 1810 Congress proposed an amendment, the original Thirteenth amendment, to add a heavy penalty to this clause by this wording,
If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding office of trust or profit under them, or either of them." -- from an essay about our US Constitution (Article I, Section 9, item link 69a)
Do any of you think we should return to our Founding Father's American Heritage roots, reinstate the original 13th Amendment, strip-away Bill Gate's citizenship, disband Microsoft, and oust Bill Gates as a branded traitor?:-)
!#%$#$*& That URL on my first reply attempt didnt work right (sorry mods.. *hangs head in shame* I will use Preview next time)...
Anyhoo, again, Maybe this game was inspired by this? "SW Project":
http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/sw_proje ct
Yes SOMEONE already DID try making a Star Wars "Fan Film" MOVIE out of using Lego products... it failed miserably as you will no doubt have an endless laugh at the poor guy who attempted it, by watching that above video lollllll
but man i was the Lego master when I was a kid.... I always combined all the sets I had and I made huge sea/space-freighters and guns and "computers" and stuff outta em... I never could get any of them to work tho... lol Much less able to blow up a planet... lol
Somehow I suspect that Weird Al must have a part in this... LOL
Maybe this game was inspired by this? "SW Project":
http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/sw_proje ct
Yes SOMEONE already DID try making a Star Wars "Fan Film" MOVIE out of using Lego products... it failed miserably as you will no doubt have an endless laugh at the poor guy who attempted it, by watching that above video lollllll
but man i was the Lego master when I was a kid.... I always combined all the sets I had and I made huge sea/space-freighters and guns and "computers" and stuff outta em... I never could get any of them to work tho... lol Much less able to blow up a planet... lol
Somehow I suspect that Weird Al must have a part in this... LOL
Slashdot Mirror
the original link in the article no longer works. I got a webserver error of some sort.
:-(
does anyone have copies of the sounds, or a mirror site?
I really need to compare these sounds because I think 2 of my drives are failing
I have never YET used Vista, nor have I seen this particular book. But I HAVE bought one of the book's (and Operating System's) predecessors. By that I mean to refer to "Windows 2000: The Missing Manual" (part of the same series), and I was immensely satisfied with it because it filled all the needs for immediate knowledge that I had at the time.
</p><p>
<b<Microsoft DOES NOT DO ANYONE ANY JUSTICE</b> when they leave out such incredibly pertinent amounts of information as I HAD TO FIND in a THIRD-PARTY book (series) like these. And I am not complaining about the book series, the one book I have is still excellent. It is just a SHAME that Microsoft could really "care less".
</p><p>
<b>Microsoft should be UTTERLY ASHAMED that people known for excellent documentation about OPEN SOURCE software can actually write BETTER MANUALS than Microsoft (known for closed-source commercial software, amongst other unsavory connotations) can, about their own CLOSED SOURCE software!!!</b>
</p><p>
Ironically ("yeah right!"), I actually wonder if Microsoft actually (subtly?) encourages people to "find out on their own" by writing or buying (or reading) books from series like these. Aside from their huge fees for their own "Microsoft Press" materials, that is (Pah!)
</p><p>
In short, based on previous experience with the book about Windows 2000, if I had Windows Vista, this book reviewed here would ideally be the FIRST BOOK I would want to purchase regarding it, and recommend to others as well.
</p>
The fact that earthquakes happen under the ocean is nothing new, we just don't know the overall "scale" of how many or how intense they are. It is recently known that earthquakes are on the rise in more and more places where they have not normally occurred before, and I think we will see (hear? sense? record?) even more occurrences of volcanic and magmatic activity the more we listen to the "gut reactions" of Earth's core so close to the sea floor, an area which, like the article said, usually has not been listened to much before.
I know this might seem like flamebait, but I assure everyone that I do NOT intend to start any kind of conflict or argument here. Just my opinion and I see this in the news of the world, more and more: always about more earthquakes going on than ever before. So, in light of the recent 30 years or more, mostly from what I have studied, I DO believe that the "End of the Age" eons ago foretold by Jesus the Christ, is even swifter approaching ...
Matthew 24:1-8 (King James Version)
Luke 21:5-11 (King James Version)
Read this page about Earthquakes by Century 7.0 and Higher
Signs of the End of the Age: Earthquakes on the increase!
What happened with the Earthquake near Indonesia that caused the Tsunami?
Earthquakes occurring in divverse places PREDICTED
This law should also be considered when reviewing RIAA and MPAA claims of tracing and attempting to indict anonymous "Does" on possible P2P activity. The RIAA and MPAA claim to be able to tell what someone is downloading by attempting to connect on that download stream, but are they not doing the exact same thing that the other downloaders are doing? Isn't that a form of ENTRAPMENT? And by doing so they need to connect "un-invited" to one's computer and thus verify if they are a substantially-gradual peer on a known copyrighted work.
And I think, irregardless of whatever I am (or am not) downloading or uploading, that unless I INVITE them in, explicitly, that I likewise should not have to use contraceptive inventions for purpose of increased privacy on my computer like the TOR and I2P Networks, PeerGuardian, or ProtoWall; but because THEY (the RIAA/MPAA) are such hypocritical bastards, they necessitate that I do take such privacy-protecting actions. But it remains true that they (the RIAA and MPAA and their BayTSP henchmen) are thus INVADING my CHATTEL, my PC, my PERSONAL PRIVATE PROPERTY, and that this law we are talking about here (invasion of chattel) should also apply to them, as is the case with that woman in Oregon who is filing suit against the RIAA (see the following link: Oregon RIAA Victim Fights Back; Sues RIAA for Electronic Trespass, Violations of Computer Fraud & Abuse, Invasion of Privacy, RICO, Fraud ).
Hmmm, perhaps I should echo these comments on the EFF and EPIC websites, eh?
Or, just encapsulate all your trading inside encrypted archives with the password in the filename - people have been doing this for a long time.
:-P
:-)
Remember Wrapster and AlbumWrap? Just use WinZIP/RAR/ACE/7Zip whatever u want, to compress and encrypt any content you wish. Most applications out there only support being able to "see inside" ZIP archives, and only a small few support looking inside of RAR's. HARDLY ANY support the others, except 7Zip (which is the best in my opinion and is succeeding at securing much more widespread programmer adoption, more every day).
A simple MD5 can authenticate whether the archive has been tampered with or is incomplete. Then just type in the password contained in the filename, and voila! Who cares about companies making their P2P apps "license-aware"?
It's all bullshit, anything can be hacked. Doesn't matter what 1 programmer does because 10 others will circumvent it a day or week later
Things like this don't scare me anymore. Not even the new upcoming generation of Blu-Ray / HD-DVD's scare me anymore. And "DVD-Jon" is my hero!
hehehe
hahahaha!
Don't forget about Ajuba! http://wiki.tcl.tk/912 - the once-formerly-new-name of TCL/TK's company website, which was a better name: Scriptics.org, which changed yet again from Ajuba, to the now much-more sensible http://www.tcl.tk/
hahahaha! Where do these OTHER geeks get all these damn stupid names from?????
hey it worked grand! thanks!
Y ></HTML>
and now since it is truly online publicly, here are the new results as of tonight:
4NT 5.00A Windows XP 5.1
Copyright 1988-2003 Rex Conn & JP Software Inc. All Rights Reserved
[C:\] echo "<stream:stream to='talk.google.com' xmlns='jabber:client' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams'>" | nc -v talk.google.com 5222
Warning: inverse host lookup failed for 64.233.167.125: h_errno 11004: NO_DATA
DNS fwd/rev mismatch: talk.l.google.com != toolbar.google.com
talk.l.google.com [64.233.167.125] 5222 (?) open
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: http://www.google.com/talk/
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 151
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1>302 Moved</H1>The document
has moved <A HREF="http://www.google.com/talk/">here</A>.</BOD
[C:\]
So what's with the Talk.L.google.com ?
it seems that any calls to the "talk.google.com" resolve or redirect to a "talk.L.google.com" (lowercase l actually but it still translates that URL into another one).
I'd say this is imminent!
Look at the following:
C:> nslookup talk.l.google.com.
Server: dslrouter
Address: 192.168.1.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: talk.l.google.com
Addresses: 216.239.37.125, 64.233.167.125
C:> ping talk.google.com.
Pinging talk.l.google.com [216.239.37.125] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 216.239.37.125: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=243
Reply from 216.239.37.125: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=243
Reply from 216.239.37.125: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=243
Reply from 216.239.37.125: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=243
Ping statistics for 216.239.37.125:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 22ms, Maximum = 22ms, Average = 22ms
--- TO: "YA_Python_dev": And these are the only NETCAT results I was able to get? What parameters am I supposed to pass to NETCAT in order to get the results you specified ?
I echo'd this into a file echo.txt:
<stream:stream to='talk.google.com' xmlns='jabber:client' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams'>
And then I ran NETCAT v1.1 (on WinXP) with that file, like this:
C:> nc -L -vv talk.google.com 5222 echo.txt
DNS fwd/rev mismatch: talk.l.google.com != toolbar.google.com
Warning: inverse host lookup failed for 64.233.167.125: h_errno 11004: NO_DATA
local listen fuxored: INVAL
C:>
---- Interesting results!!!
Apparently Virtual Reality is also now being used to treat victims and those present during 9-11, according to this recent news story: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/04/29/spark.virtual/i ndex.html
I *personally* MYSELF do HAVE leg ulcers, currently, and i would NEVER want to consider this "maggots" treatment ... only because it freaks me out and i do not think they'd be all that clean ...
:-(
basically, "Ewwwwwwww"
sighs..
leg ulcers (even non-diabetic ones like i have) are a royal pain in the ass and last for YEARS even when treated by professionals, properly
First of all, yes some bit torrent clients can prioritize file downloads, but this prioritization is only in like 4 levels ...
.. depending on the encoding of the file before it was ever streamed in the first place. Standardization here only applies to formats that are streamable in the first place (and those formats do not use BT protocol but instead use Real Media, WMV, ASF, MOV, EV2, or likewise). And starting out on a stream is not always dependable because you would rely on peers unless there was always a dedicated seeder-server somewhere (and this would require the legitimacy of content as well, otherwise such seeder-servers would be taken down by erstwhile-Gestapo MPAA/RIAA :-) Thus, relying on other peers to provide you even those first 5 seconds of seeded video would not be feasible neither if they hadn't received it yet.
...
1. High / get this file first
2. Normal / get this file whenever u get around to it
3. Low / get this file last
4. None / Never get this file (exclude it)
Even if u did alter the BT protocol to have the very first 5 seconds of a video prioritized as the 1st level of downloading (get it first), 5 seconds of video is never the same in bytes nor download time. 5 seconds of video could be as small as a 20-64K, or as big as 10s of megabytes
My opinion seems to be that implementing a streaming-torrent type protocol is far too dependent on centralization, rather than the idealist movement towards de-centralization (and thus, perfection of privacy)...
Your idea, about updating a dynamic torrent file, still requires a central seeded server, at the least, to get the updated torrent metadata (and the incremental video/audio streem), to get all of this from and, that is centralization, exactly which Bit Torrent was not meant for (trackers are not servers, they are merely resource aggregators of those peers that can serve, simultaneously). I think it would be far simpler to just use existing methods (SWF, EV2, MMS, RTSP, HTTP, FTP, or IP multi-casting) rather than reinventing the wheel. But I believe with those methods (all the application protocols I just mentioned as examples) they already use an indexing format - its embedded into the video stream and accounted-for at both ends in the first place
So, congratulations, you have just described (in a roundabout way) and re-invented the wheel of, the aforementioned format concepts of what we have always known as streaming video, something which need not even involve Bit Torrent at all! lol
I don't think that is currently feasible, since the original Bit Torrent client rather randomly exchanges chunks or "pieces" of a .torrent, and does so in no progressive "from the bottom-up" type of order. Because of the nature of the Bit Torrent protocol, you would see lots of MPEG-like-artifacts from the very start of your video stream, because of the middle or the end of the file being transferred first before the beginning of the video stream was ever sent just yet. I do not believe BT makes any exact distinctions between exchanging data "from the bottom-up", as it really just trades what is most accessible amongst its peers, at the most convenient times:
ie: sending a piece somewhere in the middle just because other clients need it, and downloading a piece somewhere at the end, simply because other clients have it.
Streaming would not be a possible application from the abstraction of the BT protocol unless someone were to basically write a whole new other protocol. The logistical management of the BT protocol is just too random and different by design to fully promote a "bottom-up" type of fill request as would be needed for audio or video streaming. Not to mention all the horrible syncing errors one would get from all the packets flying about within no certain order (how could you sync an audio stream with a video stream, when entirely different parts of the whole file are basically flying about, random pieces exchanging amongst suddenly-appearing and disappearing peers, willy-nilly??? Not to mention with "ghost trackers" and never-guaranteed tracker downtimes. Its just impossible with BT).
Bill Gates adds KBE title
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From the Ployer.com news blog:
(quote) "Chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates added the new title to his name yesterday when Britain's Queen Elizabeth, gave an honorary knighthood in a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace recognizing his efforts to help improve health and reduce poverty in the developing world.
Mr. Bill Gates is not part of the British Empire so he will not be called "Sir Bill" hence the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire title." (end quote)
Now what I find most interesting, is, since I think the 13th Amendment still applies? 13th Amendment in our US Constitution, we could witness the formal and official stripping of Bill Gate's American Citizenship! (I wish as well that we could get rid of many of our favorite attorneys, or law-shark "Esquires"! :-)
"In 1810 Congress proposed an amendment, the original Thirteenth amendment, to add a heavy penalty to this clause by this wording,
If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding office of trust or profit under them, or either of them." -- from an essay about our US Constitution (Article I, Section 9, item link 69a)
Do any of you think we should return to our Founding Father's American Heritage roots, reinstate the original 13th Amendment, strip-away Bill Gate's citizenship, disband Microsoft, and oust Bill Gates as a branded traitor? :-)
!#%$#$*& That URL on my first reply attempt didnt work right (sorry mods .. *hangs head in shame* I will use Preview next time)...
Anyhoo, again, Maybe this game was inspired by this? "SW Project":
http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/sw_proje ct
Yes SOMEONE already DID try making a Star Wars "Fan Film" MOVIE out of using Lego products ... it failed miserably as you will no doubt have an endless laugh at the poor guy who attempted it, by watching that above video lollllll
but man i was the Lego master when I was a kid .... I always combined all the sets I had and I made huge sea/space-freighters and guns and "computers" and stuff outta em ... I never could get any of them to work tho ... lol Much less able to blow up a planet ... lol
Somehow I suspect that Weird Al must have a part in this ... LOL
Maybe this game was inspired by this? "SW Project": http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/sw_proje ct
Yes SOMEONE already DID try making a Star Wars "Fan Film" MOVIE out of using Lego products ... it failed miserably as you will no doubt have an endless laugh at the poor guy who attempted it, by watching that above video lollllll
but man i was the Lego master when I was a kid .... I always combined all the sets I had and I made huge sea/space-freighters and guns and "computers" and stuff outta em ... I never could get any of them to work tho ... lol Much less able to blow up a planet ... lol
Somehow I suspect that Weird Al must have a part in this ... LOL
uh, you forgot to mention YAML http://www.yaml.org/ lol