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Why the Olympics Didn't Melt the Internet
perlow tips his blog entry over at ZDNet on why the Internet didn't melt when millions of users streamed 480i video for a week. The short answer is Limelight Networks of Tempe, Arizona. "[W]hy the Internet didn't 'melt' is quite simple — [Limelight is] completely 'off the cloud.' In other words, unlike Akamai and similar content caching providers, their system isn't deployed over the public Internet... Limelight has partnered with over 800 broadband Internet providers worldwide... so that the content is either co-located in the same facility as your ISP's main communications infrastructure, or it leases a dedicated Optical Carrier line so that it actually appears as part of your ISP's internal network. In most cases, you're never even leaving your Tier 1 provider to get the video."
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Fuck. I haven't watched the Olympics at all because I didn't have access to a tv (or a tivo). But for a change, the networks got their asses in order and actually put decent streaming video up? Now you tell me!
I'm on a bandwidth cap you insensitive clo(u)d!
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
I kind of wish the internet HAD melted. Not only would that have made a cool youtube video, but I waste too much time on the internet.
Come to think of it, I wouldn't have been able to view the youtube video then.
Also come to think of it, I'm wasting time on the internet right now.
Ha, I've got DSL from the phone company. They control my home phone, cell phone, internet, satellite tv, and brain chip, but they do not control my cable tv! That would be stupid!
Because the tubes are made of copper which is quite heat conductive.
"cloud" in reference to the internet he will he recieve a digital kick in the balls.
Fuck "clouds" and "Web2.0".
(But fuck clouds more)
In a manner of speaking the entire Internet is a cloud of computers.
AAAARRGGHH!
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A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.' - D. Adams
NBCOlympics.com doesn't support linux for their videos. That's why the internet didn't melt: linux users can't watch.
no, I don't have a sig
That was an opportunity for pure MST3K gold.
Announcers: "And here the runners are passing Tienanmen Square, in front of the Gate of Eternal Peace".
Audience: where absolutely nothing happened! It's eternally peaceful!
Announcers: "Mao's portrait is changed annually, and has a different color backdrop every year"
Audience: *stunned silence*, mentioning trivia like that while skipping over the massacre was just too much for even the most cynical of us to improve upon.
Annoucners: "It was once a gate to the Forbidden City, where the Emperor held court, but after the Revolution, was opened up to the Chinese people..."
Audience: "And pay no attention to the grease spot where that guy stood in front of the column of tanks..."
Announcers: "And next the course goes through the first modern University in China..."
Audience: "...whose enrollment numbers suffered a mysterious drop a few years back, or, at least, they would have dropped if anything had happened at the last landmark, which, of course, it didn't..."
And they truly are the *heaviest* if you know what I mean. Hur hur.
You don't seem to understand. The Internet data isn't carried by cars in the trunk. It is a series of tubes. It can only go so fast in the tubes, kind of like how the water in your sink won't come out any faster. Unless you install pumps on your tubes, but then it may pump faster than you can fill it!
We are one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. Back to you with the weather, Bob!