No it wasn’t. It’s just that the problems we had back them have either been solved, forgotten, lost relevance or have become the problems of today. Sorry for being a downer but it really annoys me when people idolize the past like it had no problems.
“Yesterday you survived which is a luxurious certainty you don’t have about today” Walt Whitman
I had cousins account and I found torrenting still much more convenient than having to open Netflix in the propper browser or app to play with semi-decent quality.
In my country, Netflix shows often come out later than in the US so why pay money when I can get a greater variety of shows earlier for free on other streaming sites?
Streaming is a gray area. Germany is relatively strict with torrents but on streaming, you neither own nor share it at any point
In Russian law only sharing is illegal, not downloading. And proving your intent is impossible if you don’t have formal education. Basically “I didn’t know” is rock-solid defence.
I think it’s technically the same in Germany but indent doesn’t matter that much so it’s illegal even if you claim you didn’t know. Also owning it is also illegal I think. When you stream it, you don’t own it.
And honestly I don’t see the benefit of downloading it. Do I have to wait till the whole season is out or do I torrent each episode separately? Neither sounds fun. I can just click the episode I want to watch and watch it. Why bother to download it as a whole?
Do I have to wait till the whole season is out or do I torrent each episode separately? Neither sounds fun. I can just click the episode I want to watch and watch it. Why bother to download it as a whole?
What does this has to do with anything? You just download and watch. You can even download and watch at the same time. Or download and watch later even without internet.
My mom is in the hospital and I have the keys to her boyfriends car but my phone is going to die, can you bring it to my mom or print out a map quest map and fax that to the hospital and I can pick it up tomorrow? Please hold it for me.
Considering some of the sellers, they deserve each other. I have cash, don’t want to haggle, and can pick it up whenever it’s convenient. Three weeks later I’m either told it’s gone or asked what time I can be there.
I could have been there weeks ago. I already purchased one elsewhere. No need to get pissy when it’s been so long.
I still to this day don’t know how it worked, but I remember back when I would pirate games and often there would be like 20 different compressed archives, but somehow you only need to decompress one of them and the game would install. Was like magic.
Multipart archives still exist. They’re now used for file sharing websites that have a maximum file size. Before that they were for unreliable p2p networks, so you didn’t lose the parts you’d already downloaded when your peer goes offline. Originally it was to fit something big on multiple cd-roms or floppies.
Opening somthing.rar also reads the data in somthing.r01 through somthing.r15 etc
Opening somthing.rar also reads the data in somthing.r01 through somthing.r15 etc
Oh so it’s just kinda a part of the rar specification then? How did that work on CDs or floppies, if presumably you’d have had to swap out to insert the next part?
Yes, it asks for the next part if it’s not in the same folder with the same name, doesn’t really make a difference what it’s stored on. Multipart zip and tar also exist.
So the first file acts as a sort of index? From the earlier comment I thought it was autodetecting the presence of the numbered files and expanding what it found.
It’s going to have some metadata to that effect yes, like a file index or number of parts or total extracted file size. I don’t know the details, I’ve used them I haven’t read the spec. rar is Rarlab’s proprietary format so there might not even be a public spec.
They’re normally all the same size except for the last part, so it’s not that file 1 is just an index.
Most compression programs offer a way to separate your thing in multiple parts, I know 7zip and Peazip do.
I’ve recently had to properly rename the latter part of a multipart zip because the source I got it from probably just renamed the parts it stole from elsewhere, which broke the whole “extract part 1, everything else comes along!”
I’ve nearly been bricked by a crazy and/or violent person while driving. Twice, actually. I can tell you with certainty that this will cause people to slow and potentially invite a wellness check. Bricks have so much utility.
Years ago somebody threw a brick off an overpass and shattered my Dad’s windshield while he was on the highway. He drives for a living so he was able to maintain control but it could have easily killed him and others.
Sounds like your dad was treated the same way he treats others.
Pollution is not a victimless crime. It causes famines, droughts, fires, and hurricanes. It kills people. The fact that you can’t see the people you’re killing shouldn’t be important. You’re not an animal, you’re a human who has been blessed with reason enough to understand the consequences of your actions. The fact that you and your dad choose not to use this faculty is not anyone else’s problem.
There was a horrific video from years back of dashcam footage where a family was driving down the highway and a brick flew through their windshield, killing the wife in the passenger seat instantly. I can’t imagine going through that much trauma as a family.
That one is fucking haunting. At least nobody threw that one though, it fell off of a truck heading in the opposite direction. Makes you realize how much we have to just trust that everyone around us on the highway has their shit together.
Holy shit, is this why lowly assistants are colloquially called gophers?!? I never drew the connection. Sometime we just take weird words or phrases for granted without thinking about their etymology.
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