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- wem003, on 05/13/2009, -0/+102Uh... read the article folks - they used the term 'bandwidth' to relate to time available to push some code.
- JDoorjam, on 05/13/2009, -4/+82That's gotta be the most uptight McDonald's in America.
- BorsKaegel, on 05/12/2009, -4/+60Doesn't matter how big Google is, their bandwidth will always be finite, whether you are referring to network capacity or manpower.
- bstew22, on 05/13/2009, -1/+52I hate your job after reading that.
- NathanielJ, on 05/13/2009, -1/+50It's amazing to me that the article is actually *about* how the word was misunderstood by the public, and half of the people commenting here clearly didn't read the article because *they* are misunderstanding the usage of the word as well.
- Camote, on 05/13/2009, -2/+43We use the term all the time where I work (very corporate atmosphere). For example, if I don't have time to do something today because I want to get the hell out of the office, I'd say, "Sorry, I don't have the bandwidth to get this done by EOD. Why don't you leverage your shop to champion the process improvement piece, they have the right skillsets anyway. Come to me tomorrow to work the metrics at a 30000 foot view."
God I hate my job... - AWBoy666, on 05/13/2009, -4/+38This is like saying a porn studio ran out of astroglide.
- chicagodj, on 05/13/2009, -0/+20Very corporate atmosphere translates to we all want to sound high and mighty so we misuse a whole bunch of technical jargon and acronyms to sound more important than we really are.
I bet you have great synergy at the office too. - ligyron, on 05/13/2009, -2/+21Is nobody reading the article?
- Swift2, on 05/13/2009, -2/+21This story is a good example of how stupid the press, including the tech press and the Digg consumers are. Some guy in the chrome dev team used "bandwidth" in its strict sense: speed of traffic time size of packet. You know, the "bandwidth" of a DVD stream is TheSizeOfthePicture x the rate of propagation. So a DVD, which has fixed bandwidth, works two ways: NTSC is 720 x 480, and PAL is 720 x 576, because there are only 25 frames per second in PAL, so the picture can be bigger. See? Bandwidth. So developers refer to "bandwidth" in that way, meaning how much data can be downloaded, but also, how many developers can be at work at any given time. How many hours they can work. How much Jolt is available, and how tired they are. Some idiot says, "Ha! Google doesn't have bandwidth!" and a "stupidmeme" is started. And it doesn't matter how many times you explain it, somebody's not going to read the second paragraph, and the stupidmeme survives. 'Dja hear that Gore said he invented the Internet?
- jgtg32a, on 05/13/2009, -0/+19No, Joe the snake
- Bloodboiler, on 05/13/2009, -0/+15Still to come:
- Google serves billions of free cookies daily, but refuses to give any to clueless bloggers. - pegothejerk, on 05/13/2009, -1/+16no, it's more like astroglide saying they ran out of porn stars to apply their product in porn.
- blah247, on 05/13/2009, -0/+13impotent people wear suits to work.
- matthewfinnell, on 05/13/2009, -0/+13best comment i've seen in a while (this comment sucks).
- xsecretfiles, on 05/13/2009, -0/+13At first I was like.. what does space have to do with porn????
then I read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroglide
Then I was like.......ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh - amorrise, on 05/13/2009, -0/+13If they said man power the article would have said the execs at Google are impotent.
- bjs3171, on 05/13/2009, -0/+13jesus who cares?
in the real world this would be a 30-second exchange.
"We didn't have the bandwidth..."
"you didn't have the *bandwidth*???"
"haha...i mean the other kind of "bandwidth""
"yeah i know." - MrSkills, on 05/13/2009, -0/+13What article?
- isunktheship, on 05/13/2009, -0/+12^^99% of news articles are sensational, welcome to the big world of media hype.
- biggestprick, on 05/13/2009, -2/+14............................................________
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...................................,<`.._|_,-&``................`\ - inactive, on 05/13/2009, -0/+12he said penis hehehe
- jgubbe, on 05/13/2009, -4/+16Clogged Tubes? Better get Joe to snake them tubes.
- igyigyigy, on 05/13/2009, -0/+12Whereas I'd say
"I've to leave at 5.30, I'll get it done in the morning" - MaxxusFlamus, on 05/13/2009, -2/+12for god's sake...
bloggers need to stop writing.
They have no flip ***** clue what they're talking about and apparently lack any ability to infer that google's definition of "bandwidth" was man power and not data pipe bandwidth. - TheNik, on 05/13/2009, -0/+9No one ever reads the article. Or apparently the first line of the description.
- CogitatorX, on 05/13/2009, -1/+10I'd punch you in the face for talking to me like that.
- stanleyford, on 05/13/2009, -0/+8Wow, I feel bad for you. At my office, we use most of the same terms, but we say 10,000 foot view. So at least we're 20,000 less.
- KaiUno, on 05/13/2009, -0/+8If you google porn, you're doing it wrong.
- drowe, on 05/13/2009, -0/+8Ping me when you're done with that. I'm going to run it up the flagpole.
- ePuck, on 05/13/2009, -1/+8oh great, why digg if its misleading then?
- danielsamuels, on 05/13/2009, -1/+8RTFA.
- bjs3171, on 05/13/2009, -0/+7the word "bandwidth" existed before 1992.
- WarriorBlake, on 05/13/2009, -0/+6People with impotence have an erectile dysfunction.
- Perdido, on 05/13/2009, -1/+6In their penis.
- NovaPrime9, on 05/13/2009, -1/+6Take it easy, Darth.
- Lawlmuffin, on 05/13/2009, -0/+5The tubes need cleaned.
- Defiant001, on 05/13/2009, -0/+5I thought the comments were the article?
- forevernomad, on 05/13/2009, -0/+5Thanks for that I thought it was a new space sport.
- FlopinDonkFest, on 05/13/2009, -0/+4Yep.
- aRtFrEeK101, on 05/13/2009, -1/+5Leave it to ZDNet to run with the words and not the story....
- RyeBrye, on 05/13/2009, -1/+3Bandwidth shouldn't be used to describe human resources unless you have a SLA with your developer sweatshop.
- pingveno, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2One of my former teachers uses the term "bandwidth" in the same way as the Google Chrome blog did. He has many projects going at once so sometimes he just doesn't have the "bandwidth" to deal with anything else.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2I'm gonna have to try it - Firefox has been crawling like a quadriplegic turtle the last week or so, and I hear that Chrome now has some sort of ad-blocking addon available (any word on how good it is, by the by?)
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2They probably impose limits on themselves. They are trying to go green.
- jeexbit, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2metaphors people, metaphors...
- tybouchardfan2, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2What comments?
- MrSkills, on 05/14/2009, -0/+1What what?
- pingveno, on 05/13/2009, -1/+2Huh? This was in about 2003 and he is the advisor for a group that creates web sites. It's pretty obvious where the metaphor was coming from.
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