Re: Re: [colorforth] DARPA takes aim at IT sacred cows

[Oninoshiko <oninoshiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"A Pax, a pax, a pax upon thee"

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 wtanksleyjr@xxxxxxx wrote:

> The current problem with BT is that getting the last part 
> of a file is very slow, because many people turn off their 
> clients as soon as the download completes, so there are few 
> sources for the last parts of a file. 

correction, BT transmits the parts of the files in a randome order, so you 
are as likly to find the last parts as the first parts

> The OSI model is nothing but philosophy; it's empty talk
> and categorization, distinctions without differences.
> There's no hard math behind it and no practical experience.

naa... atleast phlosophy can be fun, ive always hated the OSI model (well 
as long as ive known about it (which is not as long is ive meen doing 
networking))

> 
> It makes a nice way to split things up to teach students,
> but there are other ways, and there's no reason to suppose
> it's anything close to the best, either for teaching or for
> working.

Its not that nice of a way to split things up, because you have things 
which cross over. IMNSHO we sould devide it into what is acculay there, 
and stop filling students minds with sensless drivel

Oninoshiko

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