I've been pondering this of late. Of course when downloading via bittorrent you're also uploading chunks of the show. I wonder, though: If an HBO subscriber downloads Rome and only seeds it through to 99%, then the subscriber has not actually uploaded the show in any form that a single person could use; if gathered up, it would be just a bunch of unusable data. For that matter, even a share ratio > 100% may not entitle a single person to a complete file, since chunks will be sent multiple times.
May I never need this defense.
By the way, I think the second image is taken in infrared, and the color choices for displaying it are even more confusing.
According to the cute redhead's blog entry, "the view employs a broader range of wavelengths than is visible to the human eye, from ultraviolet to infrared, and is enhanced to bring out subtle color variations."
Anyway, it's a fantastic image of Hyperion. We should launch a manned mission there at once, if only to ski down those pristine slopes of... whatever the hell they are. One of these will get us there.
Thanks, I hadn't realized it was an MMORPG, or marketed as such; makes the parent's statement more meaningful. The "programmer wisdom" was tongue-in-cheek...
Uru could have come close to achieving that level of quality had more people played it.
Just as a matter of curiosity, how is software quality related to the number of users of said software? I'm not a programmer, so these things fly right over my head.
It wasn't God who brought the destruction to the people - but the ineptitude of people in the government and those who decided to build a city below sea level.
I like it, it's a good spin: In their first military victory, planned nearly three hundred years ago, the French brought destruction to the people of New Orleans.
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A better plan may be to sell a subscription to a single show. I'd give 'em $4 a month for a weekly high quality, fast download of Rome.
I've been pondering this of late. Of course when downloading via bittorrent you're also uploading chunks of the show. I wonder, though: If an HBO subscriber downloads Rome and only seeds it through to 99%, then the subscriber has not actually uploaded the show in any form that a single person could use; if gathered up, it would be just a bunch of unusable data. For that matter, even a share ratio > 100% may not entitle a single person to a complete file, since chunks will be sent multiple times. May I never need this defense.
As well, this story was posted six days after the fact.
Anyway, it's a fantastic image of Hyperion. We should launch a manned mission there at once, if only to ski down those pristine slopes of... whatever the hell they are. One of these will get us there.
Thanks, I hadn't realized it was an MMORPG, or marketed as such; makes the parent's statement more meaningful. The "programmer wisdom" was tongue-in-cheek...
I like it, it's a good spin: In their first military victory, planned nearly three hundred years ago, the French brought destruction to the people of New Orleans.
And the whole thing should be buckled to a car, for greater portability.
Spreads out the necessary resources.