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New Data Transmission Speed Record
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmag is reporting that a team of German and Japanese scientists have collaborated to shatter the world record for data transmission speed. From the article: "By transmitting a data signal at 2.56 terabits per second over a 160-kilometer link (equivalent to 2,560,000,000,000 bits per second or the contents of 60 DVDs) the researchers bettered the old record of 1.28 terabits per second held by a Japanese group. By comparison, the fastest high-speed links currently carry data at a maximum 40 Gbit/s, or around 50 times slower."
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What kind of measurement is that? Why can't we use something everyone understands like u-haul trucks full of dvd's driving 100 kilometers per fortnight*10^(-6)?
For the uninitiated, that's a microfortnight.
How much it is in terms of "a station wagon full of magtape" or Library of Congress.
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Wow, converting to MPAA units that's 300 years of jail time per second! Smokin!
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Well folks, time to gear up.
;-)
We know what happens when the Germans and the Japanese collaborate
I'm calling my cable company to see if I can pay $25,000/month to get the data rate. Needless to say this will increase the downloads of my extremely intelligent blog.
Equivalent to 160,000 metres and 160,000,000 millimetres!
Vista will require this much bandwidth as a minimum, to download security patches and have them rendered in erotic 3D by the compulsory 4Tb graphics card, when it is released in THE YEAR 3000.
Three different answers for what boils down to a grade school story problem. At least we know you three didn't cheat from each other.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
...and in related news, the spokesman for the MPAA is currently unable to comment due to suffering a heart attack.
"For comparison purposes, that speed would allow a recipient to download an average slashdot user's entire porn collection is just six hours 19 minutes."
The 11,520,000 ms ping times also might interfere with some applications.
You're assuming only one truck can use the road at a time.
Where's the moderation for "+5 for extreme nerdiness, minus several million because you really should get out more"? /says someone who's closing in on 4000 posts to slashdot...
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Well actually, trailers can be up to 53 feet long.. that increases their volume to 109m^3. That's still short, however I believe you're allowed to pull two trailers in any state (and even 3 in some).. 218m^3! Far above and beyond the paltry 138.24m^3 you need. In fact the extra room could carry a WHOLE LOT OF BEER.. for watching all those DVDs.
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
lets see, the new record is 60 DVD/s "ordinary" lines come in at 50 times slower, so still well over 1 dvd/second 60/50=x x=ludicrus speed Hey bob, uhh we need to move all of the internet to my house... and back again, by tues.
Like the saying goes, never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes. -Pyrotic