The Windows operating system imposes one of the primary bottlenecks at this speed. As one network administrator says, "When we want to stress test our network, we use Linux, not Microsoft." His experience is that contention and file-system-overhead issues within Windows limits 1 GE desktop links to 1.25 Mbps. Even a quad-processor server peaks at 250 to 300 Mbps, with the processor at 100% usage.
I downloaded the movie 2 weeks ago, got sued for it, sued Bram Cohen for inducing me to do it, and finally gave up and took Orrin Hatch out for ice cream.
Information has always had a degree of publicness. Many different types of government records are public, meaning that the public has a right to access them.
Of course in the past this meant digging through stacks of books in a basement somewhere or waiting weeks for someone else to do it for you. This certainly made those records less "public", in that they required more effort to retrieve.
This degree of publicness is rapidly changing with electronically stored info which is very searchable and comparable
This same thing is happening with information that is not public, but available to law enforcement. In the past, law enforcement personell may have had legal access to information, but it was difficult and time consuming to do. Now it is getting easier and faster. It is also getting easy to go on fishing trips.
I see this is tying into the increase in general surveillance - like the Baltimore and Boston camera installations that are going on. Sure what is visible on the street is "public", but just how readily available should it be?
While being a slashdotter might be a step in the right direction, most of what ends up on here is regurgitated from fairly mainstream sources. Why don't more people harness technology to share information with their neighbors? Especially local information. Sure there are sites like indymedia.org, but what about people doing real independent reporting?
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The Windows operating system imposes one of the primary bottlenecks at this speed. As one network administrator says, "When we want to stress test our network, we use Linux, not Microsoft." His experience is that contention and file-system-overhead issues within Windows limits 1 GE desktop links to 1.25 Mbps. Even a quad-processor server peaks at 250 to 300 Mbps, with the processor at 100% usage.
Yeah I'm a snob, but at least my OS works.
If this thing was automated you might run into some problems, but then again it could be worse or just annoying.
I downloaded the movie 2 weeks ago, got sued for it, sued Bram Cohen for inducing me to do it, and finally gave up and took Orrin Hatch out for ice cream.
Yeah, Simulating train traffic like this would be much easier. Of course it's mostly about people not wanting to give up control.
I wonder if it would be possible for a single car to predict what the optimum reservation time is in order to make it through the intersection faster?
Information has always had a degree of publicness. Many different types of government records are public, meaning that the public has a right to access them.
Of course in the past this meant digging through stacks of books in a basement somewhere or waiting weeks for someone else to do it for you. This certainly made those records less "public", in that they required more effort to retrieve.
This degree of publicness is rapidly changing with electronically stored info which is very searchable and comparable
This same thing is happening with information that is not public, but available to law enforcement. In the past, law enforcement personell may have had legal access to information, but it was difficult and time consuming to do. Now it is getting easier and faster. It is also getting easy to go on fishing trips.
I see this is tying into the increase in general surveillance - like the Baltimore and Boston camera installations that are going on. Sure what is visible on the street is "public", but just how readily available should it be?
When they have Acrobatic Robots, that's when I'll care.
Do we get to ditch VHS and get consumer betamax back?
Recollection becomes an "unauthorized derivative work", talking becomes "piracy." Forget Fahrenheit 9/11, the real danger is Fahrenheit 451.
While being a slashdotter might be a step in the right direction, most of what ends up on here is regurgitated from fairly mainstream sources. Why don't more people harness technology to share information with their neighbors? Especially local information. Sure there are sites like indymedia.org, but what about people doing real independent reporting?
Anybody got examples?
Does that billion include pirated copies?