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Swedish woman gets superfast Internet[^] :omg: and she just reads web-based newspapers with it! :wtf:
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Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007That is crazy fast. I'd be happy with half of that.
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In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer The battle between the user's bandwidth capability and the content provider begins. Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer The battle between the user's bandwidth capability and the content provider begins.
They should have said theoretically less than 2 seconds. In reality no server on the public internet serves up content at that speed.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer The battle between the user's bandwidth capability and the content provider begins.
They should have said theoretically less than 2 seconds. In reality no server on the public internet serves up content at that speed.
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesJimmyRopes wrote:
In reality no server on the public internet serves up content at that speed.
Exactly. Marc
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That is crazy fast. I'd be happy with half of that.
public static void DoSomething() { DoSomethingElse(); } public static void DoSomethingElse() { Dosomething(); }
Minosknight wrote:
I'd be happy with half of that.
Heck, even 1/4th of it would suit me.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer The battle between the user's bandwidth capability and the content provider begins.
They should have said theoretically less than 2 seconds. In reality no server on the public internet serves up content at that speed.
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesEasyNews doesn't cap bandwidth when I'm downloading from them...hmmmm...
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Marc Clifton wrote:
In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer The battle between the user's bandwidth capability and the content provider begins.
They should have said theoretically less than 2 seconds. In reality no server on the public internet serves up content at that speed.
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes"In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie..."
JimmyRopes wrote:
They should have said theoretically less than 2 seconds
"can" implies possibility, not just immediate capability. i can win the lottery. no matter how much i want to, i probably won't.
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In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer The battle between the user's bandwidth capability and the content provider begins. Marc
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Minosknight wrote:
I'd be happy with half of that.
Heck, even 1/4th of it would suit me.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
Its nice to see what may be possible in the near future :]
public static void DoSomething() { DoSomethingElse(); } public static void DoSomethingElse() { Dosomething(); }
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Swedish woman gets superfast Internet[^] :omg: and she just reads web-based newspapers with it! :wtf:
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Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
and she just reads web-based newspapers with it!
which is probably why they picked her as a guinea pig. Unlike your average .net user she won't view the opportunity to download a terabyte of pron/warez a day as a challenge. :->
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Its nice to see what may be possible in the near future :]
public static void DoSomething() { DoSomethingElse(); } public static void DoSomethingElse() { Dosomething(); }
Minosknight wrote:
Its nice to see what may be possible in the near future
Only if Verizon would finish the Fios up here. I've seen them set up along the highway but they don't seem to have them going into the actual neighborhood. I only have 1.5mbps and have been told by them that I was very lucky to have it considering the distance to the CO and gauge wiring on the lines.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Swedish woman gets superfast Internet[^] :omg: and she just reads web-based newspapers with it! :wtf:
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Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007I wonder if they also outfitted her with a computer that can handle 4GBytes / s data rate.
John
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I wonder if they also outfitted her with a computer that can handle 4GBytes / s data rate.
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
I wonder if they also outfitted her with a computer that can handle 4GBytes / s data rate.
I wondered about that myself. Computer would have to be a pretty recent set of hardware not to bog the connection down.
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John M. Drescher wrote:
I wonder if they also outfitted her with a computer that can handle 4GBytes / s data rate.
I wondered about that myself. Computer would have to be a pretty recent set of hardware not to bog the connection down.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
it said she had never used a computer before but I bet the guy who designed this whole thing probably didn't set her up with a commodore 64
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
and she just reads web-based newspapers with it!
which is probably why they picked her as a guinea pig. Unlike your average .net user she won't view the opportunity to download a terabyte of pron/warez a day as a challenge. :->
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
dan neely wrote:
which is probably why they picked her as a guinea pig
No kidding. You don't need serious uplink speed to read online news. Us developers on the other hand, would be the ones to benefit more from it. There must be some untold gotcha about the connection, me thinks.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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it said she had never used a computer before but I bet the guy who designed this whole thing probably didn't set her up with a commodore 64
public static void DoSomething() { DoSomethingElse(); } public static void DoSomethingElse() { Dosomething(); }
Minosknight wrote:
this whole thing probably didn't set her up with a commodore 64
:laugh: The old C64 would definitely bog everything down. I had a classmate at Cal State Univ. Fullerton who wrote a web browser for the C64, like 16 years ago :)
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Minosknight wrote:
Its nice to see what may be possible in the near future
Only if Verizon would finish the Fios up here. I've seen them set up along the highway but they don't seem to have them going into the actual neighborhood. I only have 1.5mbps and have been told by them that I was very lucky to have it considering the distance to the CO and gauge wiring on the lines.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
I got T3 which can get up to around 45mbps but I had to get all sorts of things done to use it to any sort of its full capacity. Sometimes, its STILL not enough.
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Minosknight wrote:
this whole thing probably didn't set her up with a commodore 64
:laugh: The old C64 would definitely bog everything down. I had a classmate at Cal State Univ. Fullerton who wrote a web browser for the C64, like 16 years ago :)
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
Haha genius, I would love to mess around with some of the old boxes I had.
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John M. Drescher wrote:
I wonder if they also outfitted her with a computer that can handle 4GBytes / s data rate.
I wondered about that myself. Computer would have to be a pretty recent set of hardware not to bog the connection down.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
Paul Conrad wrote:
Computer would have to be a pretty recent sent of hardware not to bog the connection down.
I have a hard time conceptualizing hardware that can handle that data rate with any current pc hardware. I mean would it be practical to have 50 SATA (or 30 15K SCSI) drives in RAID0 so they will be capable of writing data at > 4GB/s. Or will the machine have several TB of memory? Then there is the bus, ok 1 PCI-E 16 slot for the NIC, one for the hard drive array...
John
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Haha genius, I would love to mess around with some of the old boxes I had.
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Minosknight wrote:
I would love to mess around with some of the old boxes I had.
I still have my old C128 in the attic. Along with it's whopping 3160 block ( 790kb ) 3 1/2 floppy drive. I remember when that was pretty cool :laugh:
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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I got T3 which can get up to around 45mbps but I had to get all sorts of things done to use it to any sort of its full capacity. Sometimes, its STILL not enough.
public static void DoSomething() { DoSomethingElse(); } public static void DoSomethingElse() { Dosomething(); }
Minosknight wrote:
I got T3 which can get up to around 45mbps
Lucky you :) I think the problem is that Verzion doesn't see rural areas as being very marketable :sigh:
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