CoreParad0x

In response to post #27188304. #27188919, #27191199, #27192944, #27193319, #27223279 are all replies on the same post. I agree with fallout31961 and Thaiauxn. The school system, at least here in the US, is a joke. I'm 27, and I don't remember it being particularly good when I was in it. I remember when I lived in Florida and went to a charter school, that was pretty good, challenging, then we had to move in 12th grade to Virginia. The school was extremely easy, I had to retake the state test and I felt like I was back in middle school. It was on the computer, and heck I was even able to find a way to cheat on it (not that I even needed to). My AP computer science class went from having actual lectures, projects, etc to being just "Here's this book, copy all the code from the book to the IDE and compile it." No lectures, no teaching, just busywork. I knew more than everyone (read: Two people) in that Virginia AP comp-sci class because the only thing they did was copy out of a book. No actual drive to learn the stuff, or expand. The school system gives you no reason to actually want to go. Yeah some of the stuff you learn is interesting, but for the most part it's not. Most of the time you seem to get teachers who have too many students, not enough time to actually come up with compelling course material, etc. You literally have no other drive, short of whatever you come with, aside from getting grades and passing these stupid state tests.

I'd like to see them make a similar service, however the home bit is inaccurate. This service is hosted out of datacenters, there's no way a residential connection could manage even a small fraction of this, even if the setup was perfect. Hence my statement. I know the Nexus is hosted out of datacenters (I do read the network updates they post from time to time, and I followed every update they posted regarding the upgrade). My reason for saying they should run it out of their home is then it makes it personal when things go wrong. You can't then pass off the blame as "the server needed a restart." or "The weather's bad, sorry." In the case of the Nexus, they're doing the best they can, and it'll take them a while to iron out the wrinkles. I know full well that a home connection can't run something the size of even a tenth of the Nexus. My only reason for saying they should run said similar service from home is so that they get to receive all the flak from having the site down for a couple hours. Ah, true enough. I can understand that then, and yeah, they would have a ton of outage lol. In fact, I would imagine if they got a fraction of the traffic Nexus does it would essentially be an unintentional DoS on their connection (which would be quite funny).

I'd like to see them make a similar service, however the home bit is inaccurate. This service is hosted out of datacenters, there's no way a residential connection could manage even a small fraction of this, even if the setup was perfect.

Dude, they're trying to get it all sorted. Just deal with it and stop being such a pansy.

I really respect you for making these blog posts. It separates you from the standard "entity" that we get used to in times like this, where they lack any sort of transparency and divulge pretty much nothing that goes on behind the scenes. The queue sounds really nice, too. I honestly thought there was always one there, but mostly because I never looked (Then again the max I downloaded was like 6 - 10 concurrently - I can't even imagine tracking down 200 files to download them at once...) I also respect the fact that you guys take responsibility and admit screwups or oversights. I hope you manage to get the servers sorted out! How ridiculous. While the most I think I've concurrently downloaded was ~6 - 10 files, I honestly thought there was a queue in place (I just never really watched it all that closely to notice there wasn't, it's a set it and go kind of a thing), it's ridiculous of you to place this level of blame on the users of the NMM when the NMM is flawed (and knowingly so) in a way that allows them to do this. I do web development, and I know one of the first mindsets I take when I'm developing the user end of an application is "How might the user abuse this, intentionally or unintentionally". I think this should be the mindset of any application that interacts with a server and is operated by an end-user. If they don't want people to download 200 concurrent files and essentially hammer the server, it's their responsibility to make it not allow that (which is what they basically said). Expecting people to be decent is as equally stupid as downloading 200 concurrent files or not putting in a queue to begin with.