D programming language conference

[Mike Parker]

Anders Bergh wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Mike Parker <aldacron at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Speak for yourself! Embedded flash videos are a great deal more convenient
>> than regular downloads and a great deal better than torrents.
>> I refuse to install a torrent client.
>>
> 
> Why do you refuse to install a torrent client? Is it because it's
> often associated with piracy? BitTorrent is quite popular and works
> great for what it was designed for. Especially when you have a fast
> connection, whenever I download things like OpenOffice it's miles
> faster than the http mirrors.
> 
> Even Opera comes with a built-in BitTorrent client.
> 
> Anders

I know BitTorrent is popular, what it is and what it does. But it's not 
just torrents. Anything that requires me to install one more client to 
download it isn't getting the time of day from me. I have a fantastic 
transfer rate and a perfectly good download manager that works through a 
Firefox plugin. If I can't download something through that, I don't want it.

Besides, I've used BitTorrent in the past on my old box and didn't see 
any benefit to using it.