Several important matters remain unresolved, including what to use for in-flight repair of the thermal tiles, which protect the shuttle's nose and belly from temperatures of more than 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit upon reentry.
Five methods are being studied, including a giant caulking gun that dispenses pinkish-orange goo.
Emule has no company behing it, and probably noone with interest in logging what you download either. In Emule you connect to servers which people like you and me set up, so it's a very different scenario from Kazaa, where you always connect to the same network.
I should also point out that even without multi source downloading, DC++ can also be great for downloading big files such as movies, since there are guys with great connections there. I have downloaded movies almost to the max bandwidth of my 4 Mbps downstream from a single source! Usually finnish or swedish guys, who even have more than one person downloading from them...
For me, the only decent P2P programs nowadays are DC++ and Bittorrent. I rarely use programs like Emule since one takes days to start downloading a file, and one can't shutdown the computer while waiting, or the place in the queue will be lost...
So I'll summarize what I think are the advantages of each program/protocol:
DC++ Advantages - well organized shares, great for downloading music (if you want more than you can find on Kazaa). DC++ Disadvantages - no multi-source downloading (although there are dc++ mods which permit this), no queuing system.
Bittorrent advantages - fast downloads, great for popular files. Bittorrent disadvantages - not too much variety of things to download.
Emule/Edonkey advantages - fast downloads (once you start downloading) and has more variety of files than bittorrent. Emule/Edonkey disadvantages - queuing system makes it almost impossible to start downloading some files unless you have your computer on all the time, and the shares are not as organized as in DC++.
I'm biting the troll since this argument seems to be used a lot here.
I hope someone beats google.
And when (if) that happens, what will you say next? "I hope someone beats google-beaters-united"?
The power and information google has and will continue to imporve upon is scary.
So, what do you suggest be done? Maybe there shouldn't be any search engine, heavily used webmail? Maybe every human should crawl into an egg and stay there?
Your scenario assumes the driver and passenger(s) will see the same things at the same time, which is not a given: what if the passenger is reading or just has his eyes shut?
What if the world ends? What if he is a three-eyed dwarf?
It's all a matter of probabilities, not possibilites.
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Several important matters remain unresolved, including what to use for in-flight repair of the thermal tiles, which protect the shuttle's nose and belly from temperatures of more than 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit upon reentry.
Five methods are being studied, including a giant caulking gun that dispenses pinkish-orange goo.
Some slashdot moderators really suck... I've had tons of non-troll posts modded as Troll, like one of my posts on this same thread... http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138590&cid=115 97988
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Yeah, imagine a load of alien-movie-like species appearing because of that :D
Emule has no company behing it, and probably noone with interest in logging what you download either. In Emule you connect to servers which people like you and me set up, so it's a very different scenario from Kazaa, where you always connect to the same network.
I should also point out that even without multi source downloading, DC++ can also be great for downloading big files such as movies, since there are guys with great connections there. I have downloaded movies almost to the max bandwidth of my 4 Mbps downstream from a single source! Usually finnish or swedish guys, who even have more than one person downloading from them...
For me, the only decent P2P programs nowadays are DC++ and Bittorrent. I rarely use programs like Emule since one takes days to start downloading a file, and one can't shutdown the computer while waiting, or the place in the queue will be lost...
So I'll summarize what I think are the advantages of each program/protocol:
DC++ Advantages - well organized shares, great for downloading music (if you want more than you can find on Kazaa).
DC++ Disadvantages - no multi-source downloading (although there are dc++ mods which permit this), no queuing system.
Bittorrent advantages - fast downloads, great for popular files.
Bittorrent disadvantages - not too much variety of things to download.
Emule/Edonkey advantages - fast downloads (once you start downloading) and has more variety of files than bittorrent.
Emule/Edonkey disadvantages - queuing system makes it almost impossible to start downloading some files unless you have your computer on all the time, and the shares are not as organized as in DC++.
This only goes to show that our world is full of opportunities (as stupid as they might be) to make money...
No they won't...
Only on slashdot would a comment like this one get modded as troll and overrated.
Not that I didn't know the quality of slashdot modding judging by the moderation of some of my comments.
And when (if) that happens, what will you say next? "I hope someone beats google-beaters-united"?
So, what do you suggest be done? Maybe there shouldn't be any search engine, heavily used webmail? Maybe every human should crawl into an egg and stay there?
Am I the only one who would prefer not having every crappy article about google vs msn having a link for it posted here on slashdot?
Don't worry, you're not alone
Yeah, and the inexcusable part is that the meta-mods marked it as Underrated :D
Why in hell would be the parent post a troll?
It's just you :)
Why didn't you patent it? :)
Because it says "family members living in the same household".
Man, your nick would be so much funnier like this - An onymous Coward
What if the world ends? What if he is a three-eyed dwarf?
It's all a matter of probabilities, not possibilites.
Uses such as?
False...
I thought this kind of bullshit would only affect proprietary systems such as windows!
Arrrghhhhhh, the human race sucks.
Don't forget your http's in your href's :)