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Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly
johnp. writes "A computer browser that is said to least quadruple surfing speeds on the Internet has won the top prize at an Irish exhibition for young scientists, it was announced on Saturday. Adnan Osmani, 16, a student at Saint Finian's College in Mullingar, central Ireland spent 18 months writing 780,000 lines of computer code to develop the browser. Known as "XWEBS", the system works with an ordinary Internet connection using a 56K modem on a normal telephone line.
" A number of people had submitted this over the weekend - there's absolutely no hard data that I can find to go along with this, so if you find anything more on it, plz. post below - somehow 1500 lines of code per day, "every media player" built in doesn't ring true for me.
Yeah, but his goal is to open a business, and Harvard is a good environment for that goal, if not just for the people you meet. Sure, if you want to be a grunt, going to MIT or Waterloo is a good idea. But if you want to have "C.E.O." next to your name, Harvard is a better choice.
-no broken link
Cache.
Piggy-backing ontop of a spider.
Supposing this browser performs some sort of read-ahead on pages it's being told to view (i.e. following the links behind the scenes while the meat tube in the chair reads the screen) then its probably possible. The trick is, keep that RX light on the modem as solid as possible. Dont let a single moment go by where that connection is idle. Spider the hell out of a webpage.
To optimize browsing, all you'de have to write is a pretty good filter within the browser engine to identify and exclude non-relevant links from the spider's list of things to look at.... i.e., "don't waste time following a casino-on-net ad. Look for links imbedded within large reigons of text and follow those."
In short, it's feasable. Spend less time knocking this guy, and spend more time using your goddamn head and think about it.
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