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UDP + Math = Fast File Transfers
Wolfger writes: "A new file transfer protocol talked about in EE Times gets data from one place to another without actually transmitting the data..." Well, the information is transmitted, just not in its original form. I think there are a couple of other places working on similar ideas - wasn't there a company using this for a fast file download application? User would go to download a game demo or something, receive pieces from several different places, and knit them together? Wish I could recall the company's name.
This sounds a lot like how vector graphics work. They don't transmit every pixel,but only send the coordinates and the instructions how to draw the image.
Somehow they managed to do the same for applications. maybe they only send the sourcecode and compile the code on location
Now you just need to combine that with the revolutionary algorithm to compress any data to one bit and power your computer by cold fusion, and you got one heck of a file transferring machine!
I wonder how hard it would be to highjack a UDP based session like this. What if bogus packets are injected along with the stream of valid ones. Does the math include any form on encyption? Or is this a tunnel for other protocols? Damn it, we need to move away from clear text protocols, not create new ones!
The whole problem with Microsoft is simply they want people to spend more and more on THEM. Yah, just about every business or corporation is driven by consumer spending, but when they go to the lengths to eliminate competition and restrict consumer privileges it gets totally out of hand. Restricting consumer privileges is what this whole issue is about, right? Microsoft wants consumers to spend more on their products by eliminating the option for consumers to spend on a competing product; illegal and unorthodox business practices in the US the last time I checked. Considering Microsoft has made a clone to just about every popular software product, this is obvious (I even hear in XP they threw out Java and are replacing it with C#). Like Microsoft, the music industry too would rather restrict peoples' use of mp3s--ethically or not--and see them buying CDs and such. Ultimately, Microsoft is a monopoly bent on eliminating any competition in order to increase its own revenue, it's using unfair and illegal business practices, and the computer industry would be better if there was an equal competitor.