Re: Slap n' tickle
- From: rick_sobie@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:02:15 -0700 (PDT)
On Apr 9, 2:53 am, rick_so...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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.
So shouldn't downloading be, streaming the content first?
Shouldn't you be streaming in your download, and then deciding if you
want to keep it first?
That is how you force people to download only the content they want,
instead of wasting bandwidth on garbage.
So you have your torrent set up to stream the header, stream the
snapshots of the video, is this what you want?
Ok then download the file.
With music same. Play a sample is that the right file?
Are these rar packages the right image sets?
You see with utorrent you can set priority for each file, but for one
long movie you cannot instruct it to get the beginning so you can
sample it.
So again they fail. They keep the integrity of the file, but the file
is often worthless garbage content-wise.
Its a crap shoot. Should it be a crap shoot?
I think it is all not very scientific really.
But it could be. If more thought went into design.
Its simple to look at a system and say, these are the problems
inherent in the system.
We can patch those problems but can we instead design a system that
does not have those problems?
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