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Ethernet at 10 Gbps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-waiting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article talks about 10 Gigabit Ethernet and asks, 'But just how much data can a person consume?' Currently at work, we're working on a major project to re-architect our core application platform so that the different systems can be de-coupled and hosted separately. The legacy design implicitly relies on systems being in the same LAN due to bandwidth-expensive operations (e.g., database replication). Having this much bandwidth would change the way we design. What would you do with this much bandwidth?"

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  1. Hmm... by ravenspear · · Score: 5, Funny

    What would you do with this much bandwidth?"

    Check out more unusual positions.

  2. Hey, why not? by AJYeary · · Score: 2, Funny

    Build an entire slashdot-proof network!

  3. silly question by 00zero · · Score: 2, Funny
    10 Gb is rediculous. 640K should be enough for anyone.

    good political satire

    1. Re:silly question by hunterx11 · · Score: 3, Funny

      In the future, spelling will not be a part of the post at all, but will be defined by external Cascading Spelling Sheets. Of course, in order to implement this we all have to learn Chinese.

      --
      English is easier said than done.
  4. Reminds me of an old quote... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just get us the bandwidth - we'll manage to piss it all away. Easy!

    1G should be enough for anyone.
    -- Nicholas Cravotta, 2004

    640K should be enough for anyone.
    -- Bill Gates, 1981

  5. Holo-Porn by Hallowed · · Score: 2, Funny

    That might be just enough bandwidth to get a life-like signal to the holographic projector!

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    2. Do not eat iPod shuffle.

  6. What would I do?-Horror-vision. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "What would Joe Sixpack do with it? I'm not sure at the moment. Thing is, since we're working within our limitations today it's hard to concieve of whta use it'd be."

    The Goatse.cx experience in holographic, 5.1 surround-sound, smello-tactile-vision.

  7. Donald Duck by DonaldDuckBigO · · Score: 0, Funny

    Donald Duck is going to have a SCREAMING ORGASM when he downloads Daisy Duck pr0n at 10Gbps and sees how hot she is OMG OMG OMG

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    Listen in on Donald Duck!

  8. play an entire orc army by Machine9 · · Score: 2, Funny
    on world of warcraft, using a single router to hook several dozens of PCs to the net.

    You won't actually have to control the orcs, the mere sight of them on your screen will initiate instant lag-death for people with lesser video cards.

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    Machine9dotNet

  9. Presidential Bioinformatics by buckhead_buddy · · Score: 5, Funny
    But just how much data can a person consume?'

    100 Megabytes per chromosome
    x 23 chromosomes per gamete
    x 20 million gametes per ejaculation

    Therefore Ms. Lewinsky can consume roughly 46,000,000,000 megabytes
    (assuming that there is no overflow to a dress)

    How much can you consume?

    1. Re:Presidential Bioinformatics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Close, but not entirely accurate.

      A single gamete has 1.5 billion individual base pairs. Of course, that's base-4, since DNA doesn't work off of binary. ACGT is what you're made of. :) In other words, you have 3 billion bits per DNA strand. The average male ejaculation contains around 150 million sperm. This means that there is a total of 450,000,000,000,000,000 bits of information, which turns into 56.25 petabytes of information. That number is close to yours, but your information is wrong.

      The fact that I just corrected you is pretty sad as well.

  10. Argh! No more! by namespan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude, what *is* it with the porn meme? There's like 15 comments to that effect already in this thread, before it broke 50 comments. If every slashdotter was as dedicated/addicted to downloading pr0n as is stereotype goes, the whole freakin' internet would have been DDOSd long ago.

    Yeah, I know it's popular, but geez. Not all of us are spending our time gazing and wanking. Some of us actually code (and even talk to women!)

    I hereby banish this to the Beowulf cluster of memes, along with Soviet Russia/Hot Grits/Profit!

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    1. Re:Argh! No more! by Commander+Trollco · · Score: 2, Funny

      <voice "nerd">And some of us code women! Girl robot, here I come (cum?)!</voice>

      And don't bash hot grits. Hot grits was cool.

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    2. Re:Argh! No more! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I hereby banish this to the Beowulf cluster of memes

      Funny, the "Wow! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!" was my initial response.

    3. Re:Argh! No more! by optikSmoke · · Score: 4, Funny

      I hereby banish this to the Beowulf cluster of memes, along with Soviet Russia/Hot Grits/Profit!

      Umm, ya. Well done. The, um, banishing of things into..... popularity. That'll be effective. We all know how unused each of those oft-repeating jokes are. Oh, wait......

      damn.

      All your base are belong to porn?

  11. Re:That's exactly the quote I remembered by SillyNickName4me · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well..
    I wish my compu had less ram... so that a system dump takes a bit shorter.. ;)

  12. Re:Posts mentioning Porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    move beyond the teenage years and enter into a discussion that isn't focused around the act of parading women

    No, thanks :-)

  13. Re:Porn! by rokzy · · Score: 2, Funny

    It had to be said.

    It was.

  14. Patches. by empaler · · Score: 3, Funny

    Several hundred megabyte patches.

    Oh.

  15. Re:Posts mentioning Porn by bigdreamer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seriously gentleman, move beyond the teenage years and enter into a discussion that isn't focused around the act of parading women. Sorry, it isn't funny, intelligent, and I think most readers would say that you are simply embarassing yourself.

    You must be new here.

    Speaking as a heterosexual female in a committed relationship, even I enjoy watching pornography every once in a while. It's not a terrible thing. Besides, after you hang around male geeks for a while, you'll realize that many of them are seriously sexually deprived. Porn is all they have, which is really sad, actually. Makes me want to clone myself to satisfy the male geek population. ;)

  16. Re:Remote Virtual Immersion by gnuman99 · · Score: 2, Funny
    If I was going under the knife remotely, I'd want the surgeon to have as much bandwidth as possible (and very, very, very low latency).

    Instead of very low latency, I would prefer no lost packets and *smooth* motion, and not that jagged back and forth you sometimes get! Ouch!

  17. Re:Remote Virtual Immersion by MP3Chuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a malpractice lawsuit!

    Exhibit A: Surgery Log
    [DR]Surgeon opened Xx[Patient]xX's abdomen with a scalpel.
    [DR]Surgeon punctures Xx[Patient]xX's stomach with forceps.
    Xx[Patient]xX: OMGWTF??!!
    [DR]Assistant: ROFL PWNED!!1
    [DR]Surgeon: STFU N00B i ping 350
    Xx[Patient]xX: w/e

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    Who doesn't like free music?
  18. Re:What would I do? by rokzy · · Score: 2, Funny

    >...will Microsoft see this as an opportunity to release new, extra-inefficient network protocols?

    yes, every packet will contain an easter egg flight simulator.