What bittorrent really needs is proper browser integration. Only when using bittorrent is equally easy as just clicking a web link (i.e., no external programs, configuration etc., just the IE/firefox download window) it will be massively used. When you need azureus/bittornado or anything else, the public will remain small.
And think about how much more computing power the servers would need. The wikipedia site, with a relatively low write / read ratio (so static caching is improving performance a lot) already needs a huge number of machines!
So the electromagnetic signal has reached us now...
Probably a mass of ionic particles will travel at a speed way below light speed, does anyone know when that blast is going to arrive, and if there is a way to pick it up using home electronics?
Why are so many people participating in seti@home when both the goal and the expected result are kind of weak?
It seems that an ideologic goal seems to attractive power of an ideologic goal is higher than the repelling power of a low chance of success.
I would rate this as a goal irrelevant to most people and an undefined chance of success, so why join? In my opinion, biology projects with protein folding to find cancer/AIDS cures seem to have the best chance of success/utility product.
I wonder if they will adopt a good streaming format which is a good tradeoff between not waiting too long before being able to start watching the movie and not experiencing unwanted delays during watching...
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So google isn't mainstream? They have a huge number of linux servers, serving up their core business: search results.
What bittorrent really needs is proper browser integration. Only when using bittorrent is equally easy as just clicking a web link (i.e., no external programs, configuration etc., just the IE/firefox download window) it will be massively used. When you need azureus/bittornado or anything else, the public will remain small.
And think about how much more computing power the servers would need. The wikipedia site, with a relatively low write / read ratio (so static caching is improving performance a lot) already needs a huge number of machines!
I guess we can all freely change the agenda and speakers order in a collaborative effort?
In the beginning, there was one dupe story...
In the end, there were 10,000 comments swearing about it.
So the electromagnetic signal has reached us now...
Probably a mass of ionic particles will travel at a speed way below light speed, does anyone know when that blast is going to arrive, and if there is a way to pick it up using home electronics?
Why are so many people participating in seti@home when both the goal and the expected result are kind of weak? It seems that an ideologic goal seems to attractive power of an ideologic goal is higher than the repelling power of a low chance of success. I would rate this as a goal irrelevant to most people and an undefined chance of success, so why join? In my opinion, biology projects with protein folding to find cancer/AIDS cures seem to have the best chance of success/utility product.
I wonder if they will adopt a good streaming format which is a good tradeoff between not waiting too long before being able to start watching the movie and not experiencing unwanted delays during watching...
Well let's hope that Microsoft will first sponsor someone to work on internet explorer...
Well, according to google:
google "evil corporation": 2,010 hits
google "good corporation": 207 hits
They have the odds against! They're doing even worse than M$:
microsoft evil corporation: 840 hits
microsoft good corporation: 297 hits
What do you mean? Goodger ==> Googler Firefox ==> Firflox?
You're wrong. It actually is 62.7 %.
Yeah, a quite lossless compressed version of the story would be something like "Lossy compression sux0rz".