Admiral Crunch
09-28-2003, 03:26 AM
I can not get the latest version of K++ to even work on my personal computing device, W.A.S.T.E. lived up to its name, soulseek is substandard at best (even when its servers are online), as far as I can tell the best thing out there is IRC for aquisition and distribution of data based commodities.
Has technology regressed so? Have we allowed ourselves to be turned towards ancient barbarian methods of electrical communications? To be reduced to mere mischievious scoundrels when once they called us pirates? Is this the best we have to offer in our battle against those who would have us locked up in a prison of non communicative ignorance - crawling in the mud like the whip tamed peasants they intend us to be? If so, I overestimated this movement of free willed knowledge by an enormous magnitude, and I do not look forward to bearing the yoke of oppression it's failure will bring.
With users fleeing the fasttrack network like so many rats from a sinking ship (hopefully to drown for their lack of loyalty towards their fellow rats) and with advertisment bearing software never being an option:
Where's the Beef?
Am I really stuck downloading data commodities from a single source at a miserable 30KBps? What is the point of broadband if my bandwidth lay idle like so much useless flotsam? 30KBps is like having DSL (which in turn is not unlike dialup).
Is there still a client / network which will allow me to download from multiple sources that has enough users to make it possible to utilize that feature?
What, precisely, are the makers of these programs thinking? "Wouldn't it be grand if our users could only download from one person at a time - regardless of the amount of available bandwidth!" I spit at these programmers for their lack of forsight. It is they who are killing the rapid flow of information. Hopefully the writers of the next "W.A.S.T.E." will consider that (if they are not busy selling our souls to AOL).
Perhaps I am wrong to be so vexed. Point me then in the correct heading - towards a client crafted with skill and, dare I ask, logic and on a network with more than just a scant few pedestrian stragglers limping along the information highway clogging the road to knowledge with their undersized (and overglorified) ENIACS pimping their 'band of the hour' refuse as though it were worth anything more than the wasted magnetic force spent to store it.
My appriciation in advance, and my neverending gratitude to the hale and hardy soul who can point me to an adequate source.
The Admiral.
Has technology regressed so? Have we allowed ourselves to be turned towards ancient barbarian methods of electrical communications? To be reduced to mere mischievious scoundrels when once they called us pirates? Is this the best we have to offer in our battle against those who would have us locked up in a prison of non communicative ignorance - crawling in the mud like the whip tamed peasants they intend us to be? If so, I overestimated this movement of free willed knowledge by an enormous magnitude, and I do not look forward to bearing the yoke of oppression it's failure will bring.
With users fleeing the fasttrack network like so many rats from a sinking ship (hopefully to drown for their lack of loyalty towards their fellow rats) and with advertisment bearing software never being an option:
Where's the Beef?
Am I really stuck downloading data commodities from a single source at a miserable 30KBps? What is the point of broadband if my bandwidth lay idle like so much useless flotsam? 30KBps is like having DSL (which in turn is not unlike dialup).
Is there still a client / network which will allow me to download from multiple sources that has enough users to make it possible to utilize that feature?
What, precisely, are the makers of these programs thinking? "Wouldn't it be grand if our users could only download from one person at a time - regardless of the amount of available bandwidth!" I spit at these programmers for their lack of forsight. It is they who are killing the rapid flow of information. Hopefully the writers of the next "W.A.S.T.E." will consider that (if they are not busy selling our souls to AOL).
Perhaps I am wrong to be so vexed. Point me then in the correct heading - towards a client crafted with skill and, dare I ask, logic and on a network with more than just a scant few pedestrian stragglers limping along the information highway clogging the road to knowledge with their undersized (and overglorified) ENIACS pimping their 'band of the hour' refuse as though it were worth anything more than the wasted magnetic force spent to store it.
My appriciation in advance, and my neverending gratitude to the hale and hardy soul who can point me to an adequate source.
The Admiral.