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Will World Cup Streaming Cause Internet Meltdown?
MetaNick writes "It seems with every worldwide sporting event, e.g., Olympics, World Cup, we hear warnings of a "meltdown" as more and more broadband users attempt to stream video of the event to their browsers. And such predictions have just begun for the World Cup just getting underway: World Cup streaming to cause network meltdown, World Cup by broadband endangers networks. Has this ever really happened? Will it happen with this the World Cup just getting underway? I tend to doubt it. I looked for articles discussing how predictions of meltdowns did NOT come to pass, but I couldn't find any."
The bigger question is, if porn were to choke the internet, would the internet like it?
Yes. But that's OK because Slashdot looks like crap now and nobody is going to use it. It should all balance out.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
you play football.
In the US, Soccer plays you! At least, things are heading that direction.
Q: What did the comedian say to the crowd?
A: If I knew, this joke would be funny.
He is using quotes to make sure the reader knows he is referring to the game where actual 'feet' are used when interacting with the 'ball', rather than the game sharing the same name where 'hands' are primarily used.
Obviously it is the former needs the quotes to avoid confusion, rather than the latter, which is much more widespread and popular.
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Or more like this: "GOOOOOO...buffering, 23%, 45%, 67%...OOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!"
By the way you do realize that "world" in world series is a cruel joke right?
Oh, we know. Every year we invite you foreign buttholes, try to make nice, put all our differences aside for a friendly game, but do you show up? No. We just sit here all by ourselves with our "Go France" foam fingers and cry into our beer that no one showed up for our party, so we scrimmage and go home, and then you guys wonder why we bomb the shit out of you.
Real nice, World. Real nice.
The world's best baseball players play in the USA.
The world's best [American] football players play in the USA.
Probably because these are sports that aren't really played that much outside the US (and Japan).
A clue in return: We called baseball "rounders" at school. And it was a girl's game.
Yes in this context the "World Cup" is actually inviting the "World" to attend, unlike the US version of "World" where sometimes, if they are lucky, Canadians are invited.
I can almost see the lines:
"World Cup event will cause shortage on electromagnetic waves, due to the high amount of TV devices turned on at the same time.
The massive number of TVs turned on for the upcoming World Cup will cause electromagnetic waves to be drained by billions of antennas worldwide. Specialists affirm that the huge demand for signal will suck up the waves from the transmitting antennas in the TV stations, causing an overload on those towers. 'Those circuits will eventually burn to ashes' says Dr. Doom a very known authority in the field.
That's not all: it is also speculated that even the satellites will get toasted and fall from their orbits. 'The deaths it can cause will make the Ragnarok look like a bathroom accident' Doom adds, despite the fact that 3/4 of the planet's surface if covered by water.
Few scientists go even further, by claiming that the TVs will also suck the magnetic field of the planet, triggering the series of events popularized in the movie The Core.
'No matter what we do, we're all just doomed by our own TVs.'"
- Please, ignore everything written above.