i'm an argentinean too. for me the problem here won't be the usage or opportunities this kind of technology would offer, the problem here will be the distribution. because of the way networking works on these laptops it gets useful on a high density of them, and as pointed out, they are "only" 1 million. i do think than, corruption aside, the experiment will get very interesting in buenos aires, where the density is much higher and the basic technology training (pcs on cybercafes, cellphones, etc.) is much more widespread.
i agree. most young users are exclusively MSN. some older users (as myself) had ICQ accounts, which were the most popular until almost 4 years ago. i use trillian, of my local contacts, 90% are MSN, with three ICQ, 1 Yahoo. of my international contacts, the list is much more different, with several AIM and ICQ from europe and other parts of the world, and even some Yahoos! only my geekiest fellows use gtalk or other jabber, like i do.
I like SETI institute's "Are We Alone" podcast very much. I think it's their radio show and still retains the advertisings, but the debates are usually pretty interesting. RSS is at http://podcast.seti.org/index.xml
It is really old news. I've played Lost Coast myself last week downloaded with Steam-Down which now seems to be available at http://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17163
I suppose it's even easier for people with legal Steam accounts.
I must add, that technology showcase level is a piece of art.
converting your already lossy audio files to another lossy codec (like OGG) is no good. You'll only get more artifacts and such. Plus, I don't think you'll find many places where you can play ogg and you can't play mp3... BUT, if you want to play with it, I may suggest you try the dbpoweramp converter at http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm , the swiss army knife of audio transcoding. You just install the codec plugins you want and that's it.
Yes, there's an option in eMule to attach a comment and a rating to a shared file and I don't recall seeing a misuse of that feature, not counting the "friend slot please!" comments.
What continues to be succesful is common sense. For important (read popular) releases, reading the files' names and checking them back on nforce works just fine. Another aspect of the ed2k community that keeps it over others is that like torrents, most people gets their ed2k links from known indexing sites. While it's known that those can be shut down by the MPAA/RIAA they still are the true power behind the network. So when a new release comes out, the majority of users are sharing the proper file, acting as a snowball.
A/. title for that article would be in the lines of "Will Google lauch their own FF browser only to 64 bits processors?"...of course, this posted as NEWS.:)
Oh that's true. For the labels, and for Argentina (that's what I can account for) it's totally right. Google's isn't that intuitive for searching locations there, and lacks a lot (most) of info and place names. I thinks it's logical, as it isn't much of an important hotspot for Google.
The images looks great on Buenos Aires for example, except for some squares that has very (very) poor resolution, but leaving that mayor cities it gets poorer fast.
Anyway, it's free, and it's going to change the way we do lots of things in the close future no doubt about it, as services begin to apply to it on worldwide locations as it does in the US, for example.
I don't see how this is news, or if it actually is news, in a very mathematical theoric way, the BBC article doesn't explain that at all, further what I could write after watching three Back To The Future movies...
The difference is that the RIAA strategy doesn't rely on stopping filesharing one by one, it relies on fear. Nobody would stop doing it until they receive the "please stop" letter. I'm sure that number is way bigger than the ammount of users the Fasttrack network lost in the US because of fear of being sued for thousands of dollars.
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I'm considering purchasing an iPad 2 and paying the extra 3G version because it seems the Wi-Fi only doesn't have GPS.
the pirate bay might be the largest tracker, but suprnova was a search portal, the google of trackers. it's a very different thing.
First thing I thought while reading the title was "hey great more Futurama news!"
i'm an argentinean too. for me the problem here won't be the usage or opportunities this kind of technology would offer, the problem here will be the distribution. because of the way networking works on these laptops it gets useful on a high density of them, and as pointed out, they are "only" 1 million. i do think than, corruption aside, the experiment will get very interesting in buenos aires, where the density is much higher and the basic technology training (pcs on cybercafes, cellphones, etc.) is much more widespread.
It's not needed to go to gnutella or sth. The edonkey network already has a viable alternative, the Kad network eMule uses.
i agree. most young users are exclusively MSN. some older users (as myself) had ICQ accounts, which were the most popular until almost 4 years ago. i use trillian, of my local contacts, 90% are MSN, with three ICQ, 1 Yahoo. of my international contacts, the list is much more different, with several AIM and ICQ from europe and other parts of the world, and even some Yahoos! only my geekiest fellows use gtalk or other jabber, like i do.
The firefox tool bar is out of beta since 22/9 and also the famous google maps.
I like SETI institute's "Are We Alone" podcast very much. I think it's their radio show and still retains the advertisings, but the debates are usually pretty interesting. RSS is at http://podcast.seti.org/index.xml
It is really old news. I've played Lost Coast myself last week downloaded with Steam-Down which now seems to be available at http://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17163 I suppose it's even easier for people with legal Steam accounts. I must add, that technology showcase level is a piece of art.
converting your already lossy audio files to another lossy codec (like OGG) is no good. You'll only get more artifacts and such. Plus, I don't think you'll find many places where you can play ogg and you can't play mp3... BUT, if you want to play with it, I may suggest you try the dbpoweramp converter at http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm , the swiss army knife of audio transcoding. You just install the codec plugins you want and that's it.
Yes, there's an option in eMule to attach a comment and a rating to a shared file and I don't recall seeing a misuse of that feature, not counting the "friend slot please!" comments. What continues to be succesful is common sense. For important (read popular) releases, reading the files' names and checking them back on nforce works just fine. Another aspect of the ed2k community that keeps it over others is that like torrents, most people gets their ed2k links from known indexing sites. While it's known that those can be shut down by the MPAA/RIAA they still are the true power behind the network. So when a new release comes out, the majority of users are sharing the proper file, acting as a snowball.
A /. title for that article would be in the lines of "Will Google lauch their own FF browser only to 64 bits processors?" ...of course, this posted as NEWS. :)
Oh that's true. For the labels, and for Argentina (that's what I can account for) it's totally right. Google's isn't that intuitive for searching locations there, and lacks a lot (most) of info and place names. I thinks it's logical, as it isn't much of an important hotspot for Google. The images looks great on Buenos Aires for example, except for some squares that has very (very) poor resolution, but leaving that mayor cities it gets poorer fast. Anyway, it's free, and it's going to change the way we do lots of things in the close future no doubt about it, as services begin to apply to it on worldwide locations as it does in the US, for example.
i'm not in the US, but in southamerica, and world wind has better names and locators for worldwide locations of towns, minor cities, lakes, etc.
I don't see how this is news, or if it actually is news, in a very mathematical theoric way, the BBC article doesn't explain that at all, further what I could write after watching three Back To The Future movies...
The difference is that the RIAA strategy doesn't rely on stopping filesharing one by one, it relies on fear. Nobody would stop doing it until they receive the "please stop" letter. I'm sure that number is way bigger than the ammount of users the Fasttrack network lost in the US because of fear of being sued for thousands of dollars.