I was forced to use it two or three years ago for a couple of months after a merger. Thankfully everybody else said the same: Horrible, horrible, horrible. But users are locked in -the same way as with MS: Proprietary file formats and APIs create a lot of inertia. It was quite a project to integrate that new group.
They used to be heroes but now they've given up the hero-ing (are about to, rather) and only do evil socialist gubmint "research" on climate. At least that's what I gather from climate blogs is Fox News' line these days.
The "debate" is exclusively non-scientific in application and is solely used as rationalization for either full on central govt control, or rationalization for full on libertarianism.
Sure, if you stay away from those sciency media and stick to political media... And the fact that there's an ice age every 75,000 years justifies us screwing up the Earth within 300?
If he knew what he was talking about he wouldn't be a sales droid at Best Buy. Corollary: A Best Buy sales droid has no clue. Corollay2: They only repeat what someone trained them to say.
Sooo.. if open, unencrypted P2P is going the way of the Dodo because of three strike laws then isn't that an argument for Freenet? And if someone on Freenet downloads a packet from my node that happens to be part of a CP file, since I have no control over what goes through my box and don't know about it, doesn't the free haven provision in the DMCA apply? I'm only a provider.
No. The BT blocks are much larger than the hash so there are (astronomically) many different blocks that map to the hash value and you can't know which one is the correct one.
The problems that remain are the finding of content, for that there is still no solution to the current centralised databases (aka "torrent sites")
That works beautifully with Kad for ed2k so I've always wondered why nobody has implemented that on top of the DHT in Bittorrent.
and longevity of the content: as soon as the last seeder stops seeding, the file is lost from the network.
Well every block of the file has to be on a hard drive *somewhere*. If people don't keep it around then the bits are gone. I like Freenet's approach: Every user donates a chunk of disk (like 2GB) for anonymous encrypted storage.
Generally you have more bandwidth available than you need on average, so your client will buffer and then stop reading. I'd expect the WiFi connection to go into low power mode during those pauses.
There are rules and even laws that tell the Corps how to regulate the water supply. They do what they're told. The blame lies squarely on the politicians who wrote the rules. There has been plenty of criticism from the Corps about having to hold back too much water.
Applying this to the US, you'd have to replace "country" by "state." It's a matter of geography. With a well connected large grid, production and consumption even out over a large area and the little balance that remains is easily taken care of by storage and/or the remaining nuclear and fossil fuel plants.
Even worse, what about all the images of a half naked man nailed to a cross? That scared me as a kid and I'm sure will scare many today. Those pictures (and their abstraction, only the cross) have to go.
So where's the sustainable energy source that's as cheap, widely available and portable as oil that's also usable as the chemical base for all the fertilizers and pesticides? And don't say "coal" - its peak is only 20 to 30 years later than oil's. Mass wise that is - energy (BTU) wise peak coal was in the late 90s.
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I was forced to use it two or three years ago for a couple of months after a merger. Thankfully everybody else said the same: Horrible, horrible, horrible.
But users are locked in -the same way as with MS: Proprietary file formats and APIs create a lot of inertia. It was quite a project to integrate that new group.
They used to be heroes but now they've given up the hero-ing (are about to, rather) and only do evil socialist gubmint "research" on climate.
At least that's what I gather from climate blogs is Fox News' line these days.
The "debate" is exclusively non-scientific in application and is solely used as rationalization for either full on central govt control, or rationalization for full on libertarianism.
Sure, if you stay away from those sciency media and stick to political media...
And the fact that there's an ice age every 75,000 years justifies us screwing up the Earth within 300?
+1. That's exactly the issue. Every denier argument oozes science illiteracy or innumeracy. Or basic logic fails.
If he knew what he was talking about he wouldn't be a sales droid at Best Buy.
Corollary: A Best Buy sales droid has no clue.
Corollay2: They only repeat what someone trained them to say.
Don't forget that 33% of the American 0's are obese so they need cables with more cross section to get through unhindered.
Sooo.. if open, unencrypted P2P is going the way of the Dodo because of three strike laws then isn't that an argument for Freenet?
And if someone on Freenet downloads a packet from my node that happens to be part of a CP file, since I have no control over what goes through my box and don't know about it, doesn't the free haven provision in the DMCA apply? I'm only a provider.
No. The BT blocks are much larger than the hash so there are (astronomically) many different blocks that map to the hash value and you can't know which one is the correct one.
The problems that remain are the finding of content, for that there is still no solution to the current centralised databases (aka "torrent sites")
That works beautifully with Kad for ed2k so I've always wondered why nobody has implemented that on top of the DHT in Bittorrent.
and longevity of the content: as soon as the last seeder stops seeding, the file is lost from the network.
Well every block of the file has to be on a hard drive *somewhere*. If people don't keep it around then the bits are gone.
I like Freenet's approach: Every user donates a chunk of disk (like 2GB) for anonymous encrypted storage.
Generally you have more bandwidth available than you need on average, so your client will buffer and then stop reading. I'd expect the WiFi connection to go into low power mode during those pauses.
There's also Amazon and other app stores and you can download the app manually and install it.
There are rules and even laws that tell the Corps how to regulate the water supply. They do what they're told. The blame lies squarely on the politicians who wrote the rules. There has been plenty of criticism from the Corps about having to hold back too much water.
Citibank is the worst. They needed to be bailed out after taking on too much risk every few decades. Read up on their history.
I find your criticism of engineers hard to accept when you start with being 6 orders of magnitude off.
+5. Just my thoughts.
What will be Microsoft's next Silverlight, and who will buy?
.Net?
http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/230502/562113.aspx
Who said it first? "The best Republican President since Bill Clinton."
It'll be the deficit hawks in climate change denying red states that are affected most by gaps in forecasting.
The US have one party with two right wings.
Applying this to the US, you'd have to replace "country" by "state." It's a matter of geography. With a well connected large grid, production and consumption even out over a large area and the little balance that remains is easily taken care of by storage and/or the remaining nuclear and fossil fuel plants.
The "Wind and Solar don't handle base load" argument is bogus:
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/05/10/why-wind-intermittency-is-not-a-big-deal/
Where are the ARM based netbooks that run Ubuntu? And no, I don't mean the Asus Transformer at twice the price of an Atom based netbook.
Even worse, what about all the images of a half naked man nailed to a cross? That scared me as a kid and I'm sure will scare many today. Those pictures (and their abstraction, only the cross) have to go.
So where's the sustainable energy source that's as cheap, widely available and portable as oil that's also usable as the chemical base for all the fertilizers and pesticides?
And don't say "coal" - its peak is only 20 to 30 years later than oil's. Mass wise that is - energy (BTU) wise peak coal was in the late 90s.
Tractors? Fertilizers? Pesticides? Irrigation?