"The belief that an institution is <b>required </b>for invention, the pursuit of knowledge, or the observation of the world is possibly the greatest tragedy of mankind"<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Really new ideas are almost always attacked.</div><div>
But for the the perseverance of the originators,</div><div>everything really new would go up in flames </div><div>under mob rule.</div><br></blockquote><div><br>Agreed Bob :)<div><br></div> Linus admitted that when his invention was ridiculed by the creator of Minx it was the hardest, and most difficult time to continue in development. In fact he stopped posting in the Minx boards for some times.<br>
<br>Not everyone is thick skinned, and as bone-headed as some of us (myself included) - All I can ask is we approach ideas with temperance.<br><br><br>As to the Bit Torrent thing:<br><br>
I can make these points about the bt protocol:<br>
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1.) The fitness or validity of a single peer/seed doesn't matter.<br>
2.) Peers can come online and offline arbitrarily<br>
3.) Upload speed can be combined across multiple peers simultaneously<br>
4.) If a portion of a file isn't available it doesn't keep the file from being downloaded<br>
5.) Validity, checksums, dissassembly-and-reassembly of a file is abstracted.<br>6.) You are still unconstrained at having a "Master" seed that is hosted on dedicated fiber in a AAA security center if you want 100% uptime guarantees... In Otherwords the nature of the protocol and its "popularity is required" observation that most people make isn't true if the seed is "commercially/administratively" backed.<br>
If there is only 1 seed available you would download it at the same speed as if you were ftp'ing it -> but with all the benefits above added.<br><br>I will admit that Rsync can accomplish many of these same things, but not from multiple sources as far as I am aware... And I'm not sure how good Rsync is about a file that is partially downloaded and repeatedly interrupted in its download... <br>
I have experienced failed checksums when sync'ing a Binary file with Rsync... of course I'm sure people have had failed checksums with the BT protocol as well.<br><br>Either way, thanks Michael for sharing... <br>
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