Lack of bandwidth will soon freeze our computers.
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From http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6169488.ece.
"Internet users face regular “brownouts” that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year."
The author really seems to know what he's talking about, doesn't he?
Bonus points for using the word "cyberspace".
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Outlook freezes for me during Internet brownouts. Here at work we can only get ADSL, and that is severly limited by the monopolistic phone company (modem syncs at 8032kbps but never get over 3Mbps throughput, usually much worse, with pings over 400ms to the first hop)
Besides, this is old news!
I used to have a housemate that was careful to not go over his internet quota for this reason. "I won't have you slowing down my computer!" [with my downloading from my computer]. (Most Internet plans here in Australia come with a quota with "shaping" (usually 64kbps) if that quota is exceeded)
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Computers will begin freezing in 2012
Articles about the internet Rule #1: Any article which uses the word "cyberspace" can safely be discarded as crap.
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The sad thing is that he is right. Thanks to badly programmed applications, connection quality issues can make programs lock up.
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@henke37 said:
Thanks to badly programmed applications, connection quality issues can make programs lock up.
Yeah, was that fixed in Windows Explorer on Vista? I haven't had any problems at work, but it's a good network so it never really times out or searches for long.
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LOL, along those lines....http://www.danodemano.com/Downloads/VID%2000065.3GP
Sorry for the slowness, my DSL is only 512K up :(
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I suppose the RealWTF is me....I should have done this in the first place: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g_it2IJPb8
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So much for Cloud computing. . . .
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Roadrunner cable internet in the US typically gets me 1MB/s. That's a capital B. It's faster if the guy on the other end has a fat pipe, like downloading from M$, or slower when downloading a torrent of niche fetish porn like double-amputee black lesbian six-fingered midget leather daddies.
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@dhromed said:
@henke37 said:
Thanks to badly programmed applications, connection quality issues can make programs lock up.
Yeah, was that fixed in Windows Explorer on Vista? I haven't had any problems at work, but it's a good network so it never really times out or searches for long.
I never noticed it on Vista, but this was one of the issues that finally drove me off of Macs forever. I got sick of Finder locking up for 2-3 minutes at a time because the wifi connection was flakey.
Now if only the Windows Live Sync guy would test his program with a flakey network-- it "handles" it in about the dumbest way possible.
