Re: Slap n' tickle


You see with torrents, you download a large file, often the first part
of that file is the last you get, so that the integrity of the entire
file, is retained.
If you stop the download the file is useless without the file header.
With peer to peer, people were stopping the download and then others
would download that partial file.

So the design of the torrent system helps to ensure that files will
remain complete in the system.

But the proper naming of files and content as a for instance video.
Well you should have a series of snapshots of the entire video sitting
in the header of the file and extractable, so that it tells you at a
glance what the content is.


If people were afraid that the snapshots would give away the story of
the movie, then you could just take the first half of the video.
Often people do that with torrents, they include an image of some sort
to signify what the video content is, but not always.

If you have a large music collection, you might be doing like most
people and using search, to search a name in the file list.
The name of the song or the name of the band.

AI can make that better by associating words. Tied into a database on
some large server, and it could identify the file, check the content
to see if it matches and prompt the user so that identification can
take place, whereupon your database can be organized like a proper
library.
And much of that has been done to remove the work of doing it
yourself, which is an impossible task for most collections.

But it still has to prompt you and it still makes a mess, corrupts
your data and then crashes. No matter whose program you are using.

So thats why it is more important, to just get the data you want in
the first place! Do you need 20 tera-bytes of songs you will never
listen to? By bands you have never heard of, playing music you don't
like?

And movies that stink, and alllll that data that worthless data you
downloaded because you really didn't know what the content was when
you were downloading it.




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