I agree with you on most of that. However, MANY people have routers. Essentially anybody who has a broadband line and more than one computer.
And routers these days are generally easy to use. CompUSSR sells one for $20 with a nice web interface and very easy instructions.
However, the fact remains that most VoIP software has horrific problems when working with a router. Whether this is problems with most routers handling UDP, or just bad programming is something that's beyond me.
Mainly, latency is the biggest issue to be conquered at this time.
I live in Los Angeles and communicate with an FWD SIP with which I call a conference in Japan almost daily. Latency with that is very low, and that's with a free service!
I really don't latency is the problem as much as it is making the technology easier to use for the average joe ( X-Lite is NOT easy to set up if you have router ).
"Flashmob is about democratizing supercomputing," said John Witchel, a graduate student at USF who codeveloped the concept. "It's about giving supercomputing power to the people so that we can decide how we want supercomputers to be used."
People HAVE decided what they want to contribute to, hence SETI@Home, distributed.net, folding@home, etc.
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just short-term memory?
Then the cache gets written to the hard drive for permanent storage so after you turn yourself off (in bed), the data is there the next day.
That if you click Site Info for a search result, it shows Alexda data on Amazon.com?
That sort of doesn't make sense, as my website isn't a product they sell.
I agree with you on most of that. However, MANY people have routers. Essentially anybody who has a broadband line and more than one computer.
And routers these days are generally easy to use. CompUSSR sells one for $20 with a nice web interface and very easy instructions.
However, the fact remains that most VoIP software has horrific problems when working with a router. Whether this is problems with most routers handling UDP, or just bad programming is something that's beyond me.
Mainly, latency is the biggest issue to be conquered at this time.
I live in Los Angeles and communicate with an FWD SIP with which I call a conference in Japan almost daily. Latency with that is very low, and that's with a free service!
I really don't latency is the problem as much as it is making the technology easier to use for the average joe ( X-Lite is NOT easy to set up if you have router ).
So, basically. The story is completely wrong, as spam existed more than 10 years ago.
That's it? That's like only 10 of the year-old Mac that I have.
Really, 180 gflops isn't very much, and I think certainly not deserving of the "mob" moniker.
"Flashmob is about democratizing supercomputing," said John Witchel, a graduate student at USF who codeveloped the concept. "It's about giving supercomputing power to the people so that we can decide how we want supercomputers to be used."
People HAVE decided what they want to contribute to, hence SETI@Home, distributed.net, folding@home, etc.