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AOL Developing Cheap Switch for Audio Streaming

Posted by timothy on from the when-banks-compete-you-win dept.

legaleagll writes: "According to a Fortune magazine article and a follow-up article on ZDNet, AOL is developing a cheap switch that can handle streaming audio for 10,000 users, versus current technology of 100 - 1,000 users per box depending on expense of system. The code name for the product is Ultravox and was apparantly spurred into existence because RealNetworks is now offering internet service for cheaper than AOL. I'm a little skeptical because I'm not sure how the use of an intelligent router would eliminate the need for the expensive systems to stream the audio. Wouldn't moving the software for streaming onto the router make for a more expensive router and still require the expense a box outside of the router anyway?"

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  1. Gays by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    My hole is dark, it just brings sorrow
    Let 'em ream...

    Thank you for the gays
    Those well-hung gays, those flaming gays that raped me
    I'm thinking of the gays
    I won't forget a single gay, believe me

    Gays I'll remember all my life
    Gays with their balls so firm and ripe
    You took my arse
    And then I knew that very soon you'd ream me
    But it's alright
    Now I'm not frightened of your sperm, believe me
    Gays....

    Thank you for the gays
    Those well-hung gays, those flaming gays that raped me
    I'm thinking of the gays
    I won't forget a single gay, believe me
    My hole was tight
    My hole was tight before your cock had reamed me
    And though you're gone
    You'll rape me every single night, believe me

    Gays....

    -- Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda

  2. first first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    should I join clit?

  3. AOL by ChrisMG999 · · Score: 0, Troll

    So now everyone can pay the RIAA thanks to the CARP. Thanks AOL.

    AOL: 50 million people can't all be stupid...Can they?