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Understanding Bandwidth and Latency
M. Woodrow, Jr. writes "Ars has a very eye-opening article on the real causes of bandwidth latency and why we should just drool endlessly over maximum throughput issues. In particular, I think the author's look into the PowerPC 970 and the P4's frontside bus is interesting considering how we're constantly being told by marketers that more speed is always going to translate into massive performance gains. The issue is, of course, far more complex, and this article does a good job of thinking about the problem from an almost platform agnostic point of view."
latency causes there to already be 100 posts when you bring up the comments page ... and you thought you were first! :)
until this site is Slashdotted...
To make a pun demonstrates the highest understanding of a language
There was a guy who demonstrated a way to transmit data over the electromagnetic field surrounding every powerline. ALl you do is plug your computer into a power outlet, basically. The throughput was incredible, and latency everywhere would be under 10ms, as they demonstrated.
Anyone hear from these guys lately, or at least know a url, if they havn't been bought out be the telecoms?
... once wrote:
Never underestimate the bandwith of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
The latency is terrible, though.
This is so completely insensitive. I am a platform Athiest and I don't like having your "beliefs" forced on me.
I have no idea what this thing in front of me is, or how it got here, but I don't share your fucking beliefs. Just leave me alone, m'kay?
Wow it sure is nice,
To be able to read a 2 page long comment.
Especially when it wold only normally be a small paragraph.
Except that the author thought that it wasn't long enough.
So they typed it like this,
And made everyone hate them.
Considering each line is a different idea you fool, you would have a 10 page article if each line was expanded into a eloquent paragraph. Additionally, with requisite sentences crafted at the beginning and end of each paragraph over 30% would become filler. If you understand the prinicples of reading, you will know based on psychological testing of comprehension and legibility speed that horizontal sentences with whitespace above and below are rapidly read in 8 word clusters by people with high IQs. I bet you are one of those anal fools that used text mode white-on-black background fixed point MS-DOS text through the 1980 and 1990s while every one else went macintosh style modern fontography and legibility. In reality you are a closet mac bigot and hate yourself for not knowing anything concrete to criticize except poking fun at the extra linefeed characters to seperate the countless seperate topics in the post. Did you ever think for a moment, that perhaps the extra line feeds were placed there DELIBERATELY just to provoke people similar to yourself. Well its probably the case, so the intention and effort reached their mark well. Long live AGIT-PROP!
The linux kernel guys pay attention to these thigns and code for them by hand. Hence their badass performance
11*43+456^2