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- geminitojanus, on 10/21/2007, -1/+124The "50x faster" line is a complete lie; they're timing how long until you can watch instead of how long the transfer takes to finish.
The deal here is pretty simple, and I think these Chinese guys figured it out. One of BitTorrent's biggest strengths is also its biggest weakness: the protocol is designed to propagate the least common pieces of data first, to keep the torrent alive and make sure the web has at least one full copy of it around and near to you. For downloading video, this is preposterous, you want to download the data in order so you can watch it as it downloads.
It's completely possible to take the BitTorrent protocol as it stands, and introduce a new scheduler for video/in-order content that would allow it to download in order or some compromise ("as close to in order as possible"). It shouldn't even be a hard thing to integrate into any existing client, it just damages the "fairness" principal that Bittorrent strives after. This to me sounds pretty much like what they're doing. - inactive, on 10/21/2007, -9/+76But... you can't pronounce a single word in Chinese. While most Chinese people can at least say, "Hello."
- DiggerRich, on 10/21/2007, -27/+83But... the Chinese can't even pronounce Torrent.
- john2kx, on 10/21/2007, -15/+65you mean, "Herro".
- Swift2, on 10/17/2007, -3/+38So, Chinese programmers may defeat the Chinese Communist Party, and the RIAA/MPAA, their ideological brethren! Theoretically, this is a benefit of communism, but of course, since it makes all kinds of content available to the Chinese, The key thing is, remember what Kuo says: without artificial restraints -- CCP or RIAA -- Internet technology makes all media available. What's not free? Bandwidth. That's the currency. That's what content providers have to live off as a percentage. So a good version of blin.cn is one where you pay a "content tax" and access everything you want. No DRM. Let the technology work the way it should.
- SiNN4R, on 10/17/2007, -7/+33Being run over by a tank is another benefit of communism.
- jamend, on 10/17/2007, -1/+15Some clients (BitComet) already have the option to prioritize downloads for "preview" (= download in order).
- jaytea90, on 10/23/2007, -4/+17That's the JAPANESE you racist bastard
- jamend, on 10/17/2007, -0/+12VLC can play files that are still downloading without any problems. It'll recheck the file progress automatically and it'll skip over any broken/missing parts.
- lordmetroid, on 10/17/2007, -1/+12Tank man is a mystery, let his agenda be uspoken of or give us some references!
- MajorD, on 10/17/2007, -0/+10Can anybody translate the Chinese at Blin.cn for us please?
- Myonosken, on 10/17/2007, -1/+11"Hidden Dragon scares birthday"
Oh that sounds awesome. - drizzlelicious, on 10/17/2007, -6/+16I don't know a single Chinese that pronounces "hello" as "herro"
- selectodude, on 10/17/2007, -0/+8You need to install the Chinese language pack.
- Ademan, on 10/17/2007, -2/+10I can call you a stinky egg in mandarin. And a couple other phrases that I don't remember what they mean, but i remember how to pronounce them.
- silentdragoon, on 10/17/2007, -0/+8"Stalin big fight A B"
Man, I gotta download that! - BlackJackJester, on 10/17/2007, -1/+8Too bad bittorrent speeds are only hindered by the speed of the infrastructure, not the speed of bittorrent. Based on a pretty decent knowledge of networks and decent programming skills, i'm gonna call a big fat BS on this one. In order to be able to view the file at 2.2%, that means he is getting the data linearly, which basically means you need an asston of seeders, or else it sucks balls.
Lets look at this empirically. I get about 1MB/sec Maximum over bittorrent (comcast, bitches). That means, he gets 50MB/sec (commucast maybe?(har har)). He'd need a dedicated gigabit line to his house to achieve speeds like that. I'm sure the top 5 members of the communist party all do, but Ho Ching Dong, your average Chinese sweat shop worker, probably has to share a piece of string with communist cups on either end, telling them what to do.
Buried as inaccurate. - ThreeDee912, on 10/18/2007, -0/+7It's still limited to your connection speed, so I can download a well-seeded movie at 2 mbps over BitTorrent, or 2 mpbs over Blin.cn. Same thing.
- inactive, on 10/17/2007, -0/+7I don't know a single program that print "Hello World" in chinese...
- Godlike, on 10/17/2007, -0/+7"There is an eggplant, in your moustache"
"The door is made of soup."
Dang I don't remember any more of them... - Durrok, on 10/17/2007, -1/+8BEN - What's the first rule of usenet? Someone ban his ip.
- Godlike, on 10/17/2007, -0/+6"Neighbor wonderful experience"???
- dephrye, on 10/17/2007, -0/+5Well you have to pay for that service anyway, I dl'd the client and every time I click on a bit of media it takes me to a payment page. So, if it's 50x faster than BitTorrent and you have to pay for it .... doesn't that make it like a Newsgroup?
- eatmorgnome, on 10/17/2007, -0/+5There's alot of BS technology seeping out of China these days. I've worked with some of the stuff... fantastic claims followed by junk. As always, ignore this crap until you see it work for yourself.
- billmccartney, on 10/17/2007, -1/+6actually mplayer (and i think to a lesser extent vlc) can play broken avi streams!
- mrjit, on 10/17/2007, -7/+12What a ***** worthless comment.
- bionerual, on 10/17/2007, -0/+4http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww ...
Google atleasts get the text - phatalbert, on 10/17/2007, -2/+6Because Myanmar==China
- dubloe7, on 10/17/2007, -1/+5it looks like you need to get english down first.
- Nev9, on 10/17/2007, -2/+6Stop calling it Web 2.0!
- dubloe7, on 10/17/2007, -0/+4WOW, you can't even download a person with bittorrent, what old technology.
- bruenig, on 10/17/2007, -7/+11Tank man was protesting against free market. Read your history.
- MWeather, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4No.
- pseudononymist, on 10/17/2007, -1/+5The restriction is our pathetic bandwidth.
- wisam, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3Would anybody tell us what's the name of that media player he mentioned.
I'm more than happy with mplayer on Linux. But on windows I'm not satisfied with VLC, Media Player Classic nor Smplayer. - Tetraca, on 10/17/2007, -1/+4The only restriction is laziness.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3Uh... no restriction?
Dude mega conglomerates are beating peoples doors down for money. They've sued thousands of people.
Plus only a few connections across the country are even as high as 10 megabit. - TheNatMan, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3Click the second blue button from the right at the top (register). Then, enter the information in the boxes in this order:
1. Screen name, in the form of an email address
2. Password (at least 6 letters) (The thing to the right indicates the strength of your password -- red = weak, yellow = ok, green = great
3. Re-enter password
If you want to read the software use agreement for some reason, that's the link below the re-enter password thing. Then, click the yellow button to confirm.
After you register, you can click the yellow button next to your email in the corner and get to your command center.
Anywho, after this, click the giant yellow arrow in the upper right hand corner, and install it. The install screen is actually going to look like a series of giant boxes, but that's ok, just plow right on through.
Or not...I had to stop at this point because it was shady as hell...
PS: the name of the site means neighbor in Chinese. that's what that's from. - Myonosken, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3No watch you get dugg down by everyone for being a prick.
- Godlike, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3Uh... not really... a 'hello world' can be pretty useful even to experienced programmers... to give you the context of the language in a very basic sense...
- pseudononymist, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3The rules are totally different in China...
- MajorD, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Oh excellent man! That leads to some funny translations...
"Crescent and the peppery-Soul sunny Southern Shaolin situation of the 36 scheduled Aegean" - lol
清十二帝疑案——嘉 - thunderclap, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2I used Google to translate it and its like a chinese version of that Azureus 3.0 site that you get the movies and crud from. It isnt Azureus however. And it only has five movies. And you do pay for the bandwidth (in yuan!) but there is a free section. Kaperskey is involved somehow. I don't know how.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Since when did piracy ever have regulation?
You do know that pirate code book in "Pirates of the Carribean 3" was completely made up right? - wisam, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Never mind, here it is
http://www.baofeng.com/ - phatalbert, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Yea, sounds like your computer doesn't have Chinese language support installed.
- YJ2k2, on 10/17/2007, -1/+3"Wei" is only used as a phone call hello. You can't use it as an every day greeting.
Point aside, you're a racist *****. I've never heard of Chinese ghettos where they don't speak English at all. Except in China. - nhprm, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Ill prolly be burried with you, but thats a good Honest Abe joke if I ever read one.
- neffy, on 10/17/2007, -2/+4So...he DIDN'T get run over by a tank?
- ArthurSucks, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Please don't try to start a flame between Usenet and Bittorrent. They are two very different things.
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