I think that theres generally more pressure to upload in a starved torrent. In that you don't get the file(s) as fast. Theres not much reason to believe you can get away with having resent 10% of your torrent unless theres a nice bandwidth surplus. In which case, its only unfair if the major uploaders aren't doing charity work on that torrent (at which point they should throttle, slowing your download and making you do more because of that).
I agree, on an average torrent, its nice to make or break a 1.0 sharing ratio for the torrent's health. Sometimes thats all too easy to do in the course of downloading though.
Knocking swarming, which nicely deals with users dropping out of the network. Demoing a torrent with three chunks, which is just really small. Assuming the second, third, fourth, fifth downloader is blocked when most clients will happily upload one chunk it has to four people at the same time.
Generally trying to hide behind block transfer sequencing, overlooking how torrent really works, and glazing over the simple issue that collective bandwidth out is the real limiting factor, which k2b can't do much to help with.
Upload limiting works, but limits your download speed. The client develoeprs have to recognize that yes, sharing is nice and leeching is bad, but disrupting the users' connection is a Very Bad Thing.
A decent client, of which there are many, will let you throttle your outbound.
Note that the way torrent works, if noone uploads, noone downloads. And the faster everyone pushes, the faster everyone gets. Its not so much an artificial thing as it is an economy of bandwidth.
And again, if you don't like sending full tilt, find a better client.
I'll get over it when the three IBM tech drives I just ran an RMA on get back and work for an extended period of time without flushing terrabyte fractions of my data down the crapper!
The trick was the Amiga formatted discs with one gap at the start of a track, PCs put a gap between each sector. This is ignoring filesystem efficiencies.
...mainly when the software is controlling a pair of 5 ton robotic (human crunching) legs.
Of course software that tells your garbage disposal to turn on at the wrong time would also be bad.
I guess microwave software has a hardware interlock to deal with, so I can safely piss the software off and clean my microwave at the same time ("just stick my head in here to see if the roof is clean..." bRRRRRRrrwttTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!).
Ultimately, I guess it boils down to how many grandmas have tripped over a roomba down a flight of stairs. Though airbus accidents are more exciting.
If Microsoft sold cars, this would be like including a helmet to protect you from the inexplicable spike in the roof that stabs at you from time to time.
Okay, unrealistic extreme, thats how I feel though.
I wonder though, if Microsoft does an antivirus program. Would the scanning code be riddled with unchecked buffers?:-)
If you fail or abort 5 consecutive tests, or if you do not deliver a test when required the unit will sound your horn. If you allow the horn to sound for 4 minutes then you will get a Violation that must be reported to the court.
It obviously encourages drunk people to drive with haste to reach a destination (like a reasonable parking place in a crowded city, or work so they don't get fired and loose the ability to make house or car payments).
All that while making alot of noise (further distracting the driver directly and indirectly through the actions of others).
Naturally being alerted that you have to breathe into an "Ignition Interlock" on the drop of a hat won't degrade a driver's focus any either...
We need a South Park where Tweak gets a toy battery powered car that uses such a system.:-)
I just felt like trying to support them for some reason.
(and when I said "discontented few", I mean those who've tried Knoppix first and wern't happy with it, I don't believe there are alot of those type of people here)
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Then all that'll happen is a bunch of log entries saying people are trying to pirate "history_of_the_internet.pdf.exe". The horror!!!
I think that theres generally more pressure to upload in a starved torrent. In that you don't get the file(s) as fast. Theres not much reason to believe you can get away with having resent 10% of your torrent unless theres a nice bandwidth surplus. In which case, its only unfair if the major uploaders aren't doing charity work on that torrent (at which point they should throttle, slowing your download and making you do more because of that).
I agree, on an average torrent, its nice to make or break a 1.0 sharing ratio for the torrent's health. Sometimes thats all too easy to do in the course of downloading though.
I think that comparison is bunk.
Knocking swarming, which nicely deals with users dropping out of the network.
Demoing a torrent with three chunks, which is just really small.
Assuming the second, third, fourth, fifth downloader is blocked when most clients will happily upload one chunk it has to four people at the same time.
Generally trying to hide behind block transfer sequencing, overlooking how torrent really works, and glazing over the simple issue that collective bandwidth out is the real limiting factor, which k2b can't do much to help with.
Upload limiting works, but limits your download speed. The client develoeprs have to recognize that yes, sharing is nice and leeching is bad, but disrupting the users' connection is a Very Bad Thing.
A decent client, of which there are many, will let you throttle your outbound.
Note that the way torrent works, if noone uploads, noone downloads. And the faster everyone pushes, the faster everyone gets. Its not so much an artificial thing as it is an economy of bandwidth.
And again, if you don't like sending full tilt, find a better client.
Debian newbie?
apt-get install aptitude synaptic
I think it looks nice by ez-bake oven standards.
44100 samples/sec * 16 bits * 2 channels / screwed up decimal conventions = 1411.2 Kilobits/sec.
I did a little math buddy, did you have any to show?
Re: Typical WAV,
I recognize WAV supports varying frequencies, channels, and bit depths.
I thought "BSD is dead" posts were rudundant..
what kind of bitrate are they using for a 4 minute MP3 recording to take up 40MB?
1333 Kb/s, I've seen many many FLACs smaller than that.
Heck, the typical WAV is 1411 Kb/s
AFAIK only one platter is accessed at a time. Otherwise multi-platter alignment issues pop up.
First person to do that earns my pity.
I'll get over it when the three IBM tech drives I just ran an RMA on get back and work for an extended period of time without flushing terrabyte fractions of my data down the crapper!
Yeah, they shouldn't be too proud of that technological terror they've constructed.
How many floppy disks does it take to fill a grand canyon? :-)
The trick was the Amiga formatted discs with one gap at the start of a track, PCs put a gap between each sector. This is ignoring filesystem efficiencies.
...mainly when the software is controlling a pair of 5 ton robotic (human crunching) legs.
Of course software that tells your garbage disposal to turn on at the wrong time would also be bad.
I guess microwave software has a hardware interlock to deal with, so I can safely piss the software off and clean my microwave at the same time ("just stick my head in here to see if the roof is clean..." bRRRRRRrrwttTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!).
Ultimately, I guess it boils down to how many grandmas have tripped over a roomba down a flight of stairs. Though airbus accidents are more exciting.
But ... but ... the colors!
If Microsoft sold cars, this would be like including a helmet to protect you from the inexplicable spike in the roof that stabs at you from time to time.
:-)
Okay, unrealistic extreme, thats how I feel though.
I wonder though, if Microsoft does an antivirus program. Would the scanning code be riddled with unchecked buffers?
Saving my shit is cool. Mixing it with water and leaving diahrea everywhere is not.
It destroys clever little hacks like self-modifying code
Those were destroyed by CPU caches a while ago AFAIK. Every time you selfmod you need to flush the cache, which is a huge performance hit.
If you fail or abort 5 consecutive tests, or if you do not deliver a test when required the unit will sound your horn. If you allow the horn to sound for 4 minutes then you will get a Violation that must be reported to the court.
:-)
It obviously encourages drunk people to drive with haste to reach a destination (like a reasonable parking place in a crowded city, or work so they don't get fired and loose the ability to make house or car payments).
All that while making alot of noise (further distracting the driver directly and indirectly through the actions of others).
Naturally being alerted that you have to breathe into an "Ignition Interlock" on the drop of a hat won't degrade a driver's focus any either...
We need a South Park where Tweak gets a toy battery powered car that uses such a system.
I want to nominate the parent for Score:6
I really don't understand why this is a troll.
If it were Score:0, Funny then I wouldn't mind so much. I think someone has gotten good at trolling me through mod points...
Yeah, same here.
I just felt like trying to support them for some reason.
(and when I said "discontented few", I mean those who've tried Knoppix first and wern't happy with it, I don't believe there are alot of those type of people here)
Hmmm, any live CDs based around porn-get yet?