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Fast TCP To Increase Speed Of File Transfers?
Wrighter writes "There's a new story at Yahoo about a new version of TCP called Fast TCP that might help increase the speed of file transfers. Sounds like it basically estimates the maximum efficient speed of your network, and then goes for it, dumping a lot of time-consuming error checking." There's also an article at the New Scientist with some additional information.
Umm.. what?
no shit!
Not only is it hard to /. yahoo, but check out his second last paragraph.
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Computer technology is revolutionizing our world. The last advance in information dissemination of this magnitude was the printing press. Revolutions have never been defined as fair or predictable, and this revolution is no exception.
This article will describe computer technology's promise of access to information for individuals with disabilities - a promise that is becoming vague and ephemeral as the benefits of this technology become an essential part of the definition of professional competence. Next, this article will discuss some of the reasons for the revocation of technology's promise of access to information for individuals with disabilities. In the subsequent sections this article will describe a remarkable gathering of experts from around the world at Recording for the Blind headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey on May 14-15, 1994. The goal of this group was nothing less than reformation of a revolution.
SECTION 1 -- INTRODUCTION
Before microcomputers automatically converted information from one format to another, there were very few individuals with disabilities who could succeed in post-secondary institutions. The established models for "assisting" individuals with disabilities that continued well into the 1970's were sheltered workshops and menial, home-based, contract labor.
The microcomputer offered a revolutionary change in the way information was used. A separation between the information and the form of the information became apparent. For instance, each time a computer user sends information over a modem to another user, a series of questions is automatically asked by both participants, "Is the other party seeing exactly what I sent?" and "Did I receive what the other party sent?"
These questions may appear to be common sense, and therefore simplistic, but they represent a new level of sophistication. The use of a computer to transfer information is not the same as converting sound to electricity and saying,"Watson, I need you!" Rather than converting a human act into another form, a computer is making choices about the data. This data has no ideas or subjects or meaning. It is a flow of binary bits with which one computer "talks" to another computer. We, as operators, are not involved in this communication. Our communication goals are very different from the objectives that were used to create a computer link. We must verify that meaning has accompanied the form of communication.
The "meaning" that I am referring to is not a metaphysical meaning. The questions asked by the two computer users who are using a modem simply defines a human communication with a machine and not another person.
The American Standard Code of Information Interchange (ASCII) is a correlation between the world of the user and the computer. This code attempts to assure the users of computers that there is a standard for the transmission of information which combines meaning and form.
The purpose of this simplistic epistemology is to define what a computer does with data as opposed to what a human does with data. The reason for the establishment of this distinction is that it is the basis of both the promise and the possible failure of computers to present information to individuals with disabilities.
This speedy transmission of complete garbage is brought to you by FastTCP.
(transmission may be simulated)
Yes tis true, getting FP puts you in this surreal euphoric state. Akin to bj, preceeded and followed up by the use of the proper illegal drugs and cracking xbox digital signing. ok, maybe not that good, but there's something to this whole fp thing ;P
Willy-nilly? You're definitely gay!
Name that show!
You're about to "discover" my foot broken off in your ass.
this story's a senSation!
:p
like flies to
The story will be available on /. next week.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.