Integer programming is a pretty interesting topic. There's a good deal of theory behind it, but if you just want to model some systems there are plenty of software packages that let you do that too. The most accessible one is probably solverwhich comes with Microsoft Excel.
I think a big part of the project is that it has the Bittorrent-like functionality. The clients upload to one another and do so during the downloading process.
Using http with curl or wget without making considerable modifications (ie rewriting bittorrent) wouldn't have the benefits of bittorrent. Might be a good technique to retrieve.torrent files though.
Wait a I minute, I won't argue with your logic about why Comcast is doing this. Or about them being 1.5 times larger than Disney. I'm simply not aware of these facts and not in a position to dispute them.
But i'm from New York, and I don't know of anybody (or too many people at least) that use Comcast cable. Up here Timewarner and Cablevision are the two big players. So even if they are in the New York market, they certainly don't have a lock on it.
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This sounds like a specific application of the cutting stock problem.
Cutting stock is an interesting integer programming problem.
The airlines particularly, have famously huge integer programming problems.
From what I've heard from friends who are researching the airline problem, there are approximately 800 constraints, and 9 trillion variables.
Another famous integer programming problem is the the travelling salesman problem.
Integer programming is a pretty interesting topic. There's a good deal of theory behind it, but if you just want to model some systems there are plenty of software packages that let you do that too. The most accessible one is probably solverwhich comes with Microsoft Excel.
I think a big part of the project is that it has the Bittorrent-like functionality. The clients upload to one another and do so during the downloading process. Using http with curl or wget without making considerable modifications (ie rewriting bittorrent) wouldn't have the benefits of bittorrent. Might be a good technique to retrieve .torrent files though.
Wait a I minute, I won't argue with your logic about why Comcast is doing this. Or about them being 1.5 times larger than Disney. I'm simply not aware of these facts and not in a position to dispute them. But i'm from New York, and I don't know of anybody (or too many people at least) that use Comcast cable. Up here Timewarner and Cablevision are the two big players. So even if they are in the New York market, they certainly don't have a lock on it.