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- leodavinci, on 11/10/2007, -4/+100The author does not even raise the ideas of anything more novel then streaming HD-DVD movies to anywhere on the earth... big deal, the ability to stream HD video will be available to 90% of the people online within the next five years. If you are going to make a post about infinite bandwidth (which is obviously impossible, there is a finite amount that is achievable) at least talk about something that is a little mind blowing, like perhaps streaming your entire brain to a robot on mars so you can explore and then downloading all the information gathered back to yourself on earth.
I don't know, I just pulled that out of my ass, but it is at least more exciting than "omg tons of bandwidth, HD HENTAI!" - merdiesel, on 11/10/2007, -4/+62What if you had ∞ dollars??!
Come on, what are we 10? - nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+46That 8 fell over. Lol
- mklopez, on 11/10/2007, -3/+40Infinite bandwidth? One moment please...
[surfs to every pr0n site out there... clicks on every "download" and "save as" link found]
uh... Now, can I get infinite storage space too? - Error601, on 11/10/2007, -8/+43Well, that was silly. He's confusing bandwidth with propagation time. There are many non-bandwidth related propagation delays such as router processing time and packet loss. Bandwidth saturation causes buffering and sometimes packet loss if the router doesn't have enough resources. Mostly you're limited by the remote server capacity as it almost always takes longer to process a request than transmit it.
- MatTipton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33You have 1208339743804319384723046298294839484903098449049112893892975801 new messages in your spam folder.
- Error601, on 10/12/2007, -10/+38Sorry, science is not a conspiracy.
- deadlift, on 11/10/2007, -1/+27The author of this "essay" wants to feel like a scholar by labeling his article of writing an essay. lol
- TritonX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26My point is that we could do so much more if current technology was better implemented.
- bhattsan, on 11/10/2007, -1/+25Hell, I just want 100 mbps duplex *jealously looks at Koreans*
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17you're not nearly old enough.
- jmkiii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17That fad ended years ago.
Carrier pigeons... Wave of the future! - hiphoc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16Even Mark Cuban said something similar about speed. He said the local ISP's are not putting the proper infrastructure in to get bradband to everyone. The web slows down from the local ISP hub to your house. I think Cuban said the last 3 miles or so are slowng the web.
- swchen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Hmmm, well for one, sites wouldn't fall victim to the Digg Effect!
- Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Oh yeah? I have Infinity MILLION dollars! Beat THAT!
- Chickenslayer19, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I can't believe something so simple made me laugh so hard...
- TritonX, on 11/10/2007, -15/+28It would be nice, we could already have it, like many other good technologies. But the market will never allow it, ISPs are having too much fun creating different speed plans to milk the most out of customers.
- Error601, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Since there could be an infinite number of simultaneous hits on your DB, you will need an infinite speed server to go with it.
- akkibaba, on 11/10/2007, -5/+18Then we could download UltraPorn!
- notthemama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Did you read the article? He actually defined the difference between them and said most people misunderstand the difference.
He mentioned propagation time wouldn't change, as in a very wide hideway that still takes travel time. - wordsofwisedumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11One of the points he makes is that the need for infinite storage space would be cut down. With infinite bandwidth you could revisit the same website and re-watch the same pr0n just as fast as opening it off your local storage media.
- sanman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Everyone on earth would work in the p0rn industry
- DeathJux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The Singularity would be upon us lickety-split.
- muniak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9There would be a plethora of streaming porn websites.
...oh wait.
Nevermind. - Travisty2012, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9BURIED: Good question...horrible article.
- DiamondIce, on 10/13/2007, -1/+9Bradband is so much better. Brad and his band like to kick it old school.
- dubloe7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9i want to digg you for the singularity comment.
and i want to bury you for the 'lickety-split' comment.
*head asplode* - Intoccabile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Dude come on your on digg! we're not 10......We're 13!
- mb3581, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8maybe not,, but there would definitely be some melting servers... =O
- EnterDaMatrix, on 10/16/2007, -0/+7I think you are confusing LAN with the internet.
- dubloe7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"In school we were taught that infinity was for all intents 0..."
I don't even know where to begin on that. What high school did you go to so I know to never ever send any of my kids there. - Eastcoastsurfer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7No more connection lag in video games, that would be amazing. Now if we could get infinite money, I suppose anything could happen. This article is fail.
- RicktheBrick, on 10/11/2007, -0/+51. No more tv schedules as all programs would be on demand.
2. One would shop at an on line virtual store and than go to that store to pick up the items.
3. At home schools for children 12 and above and would continue until retirement.
4. No local data storage needed as everything would be stored at the ISP.
5. Video phones in every room with access available to emergency people so they can determine when help is needed. - yoda17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Would have been nice if the author had put out some ideas about how things would be different if we had infinite bandwidth.
- silfiriel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5it's non sense. internet bandwidth can't be infinite and I mean never, since it's limited by capacityand it will always be, and more important it's limited by users. there are 6 billion people on the planet and that's the limit. teoretiacaly we can use infinite bandwidth in infinite time. he probably meant unlimited bandwidth. I hope he meant it, otherwise that whole article is a piece of garbage. but I am pretty sure he meant infinite.
- Dylan47, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4try web storage
- FBombAndy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6That should be "What if Internet Bandwidth 'were' infinite?" Conditional tense. Jerk.
- dubloe7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4comcast would stop calling me about my high usage.
- fryguy1013, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I don't think so. A lot of the problems servers die is because of increased load on the processors. Making the pipe bigger won't instantly make all computers run faster (although assuming "infinite bandwidth", one could conjecture that an infinitely fast computer could be made with the same technology)
- rouslan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4>ISPs are having too much fun creating different speed plans to milk the most out of customers.
I definitely agree, because the US has very low average speeds compared to Europe, and at the same time I've heard only 2% of installed fiber optic cables are in use. - dafragsta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5How is this a matter of science? Sure, the hardware serving and receiving the files is probably going to do extremely well to saturate a 1Gb link, but that doesn't mean we couldn't still have 1Gb residential links with FIOS and get loop providers to play ball with regulation. We are choking ourselves out of the technology race when the world leaders have 100Mb symmetrical consumer lines for very reasonable prices. Someone has to pay the piper, but they found a way to make it work. It's all a perceived cost beyond the initial infrastructure, unless of course you've been listening to Ted Stevens too much.
- sowdog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Agreed on the interesting question but poor follow up. if there was such a thing as infinite bandwidth, we'd have to rethink how we view our computer systems. online operating systems could be an option with online storage. maybe even change the idea of storage since everyone/anyones shared data is essentially local. no more seeding/sharing files, just running it out of the shared folder. im sure someone else can come up with a more interesting idea .
- EnterDaMatrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4For an extreme example of high bandwidth, high latency see IP over Avian Carriers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carrier ... - Irfit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4*****
- jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Easy. I have infinity BILLION dollars.
- noumuon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4of course there is. there is always going to be an upper limit on things like bandwidth imposed by that pesky thing called physics. oh, and bandwidth, in terms of computers, is in terms of quantity / time.
- MaxPayne3476, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4what is this slashdotted you speak of?
- damien6669, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I would need way more hard drives... and my power bill would be too high to survive. I would have to sell a kidney...
- cherwilco, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3OMG I didnt even THINK of HD Hentai!!! WOOOOHOOOO
/sarcasm - Yarin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Infinite bandwidth = Infinite porn, hurray!
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