8.6 GB Internet? 382
prostoalex writes "Caltech computer scientists announced the protocol, capable of delivering 8,609 Mbps over the Internet, using 10 simultaneous flows of data. The research project was conducted in partnership with CERN, DataTAG, StarLight, Cisco, and Level 3. The practical applications, according to the press release, is ability 'to download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds'. There is a number of papers and scientific publications available."
watch out! (Score:5, Funny)
Too fast! (Score:1, Funny)
btw. maybe fp.
Argh! 8Gb (Score:5, Funny)
CalTech (Score:5, Funny)
CalTech's Motto: Enabling Faster Porn and Slashdoting Through Technology
Bless those people
Sigh (Score:3, Funny)
A full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, they meant legit full-length DVD movies...
Re:Argh! 8Gb (Score:4, Funny)
gosh (Score:4, Funny)
That sound you hear (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Too fast! (Score:0, Funny)
Looks like you're on the old Internet.
Give me units I can understand! (Score:5, Funny)
Five Seconds? (Score:5, Funny)
Five seconds?? Ohhhh... but I want it NOW!
In other news, the DCMA was appended to... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:watch out! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bottleneck (Score:5, Funny)
Well,
Eight giga-whats? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sigh (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Megabits per second (Score:5, Funny)
When you count in octal, there are 10 bits to a byte. After a few months doing coding on old big iron I accidently balanced my checkbook in octal. Took me a WEEK to get that straightened out.
Honestly though, this doesn't eliminate the bottleneck, it just moves it from the cables to the Server, or to your hard drive. Given that we can pretty much
I still would like to get it to my house, though.
Re:Bottleneck (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bottleneck (Score:2, Funny)
That thing is a hazard! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Eight giga-whats? (Score:3, Funny)
DMSCA (Score:2, Funny)
Jack Valenti has heart failure at announcement.
Hilary Rosen Responds by announcing DMSCA bill.
Berman and Hollings, after campaign contributions and honorariums, announce co-sponsor the Digital Millenium Scientist Control Act, stating that the only reason scientists could possibly have for developing the technology for such fast downloads is to support porn, piracy, and terrorists.
The Digital Millenium Scientist Control Act is written to allow scientific research, unless it can be used to deny unjust enrichment of the MPAA/RIAA members, in which case the scientists will be put through a shredder, or turned loose in a locked room with MPAA/RIAA executives, at the MPAA/RIAA's choosing.
Hollings could be overhead asking Berman, "What's a computer?", and Berman could be heard answering, "It's something the MPAA/RIAA are trying to turn into a television. I told you we could squeeze more cash out them. Now tell me where you invest your honorariums, and then shut up".
This just in... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:MPAA Surrenders (Score:5, Funny)
i was looking forward to downloading DVD's as i watched them.
Shit, they're not talking about downloading the DVD while watching them, they're talking about downloading the entire movie before MPlayer is even finished recognizing your hardware!
Re:Eight giga-whats? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:no thanks (Score:5, Funny)
Why would you want to do that? Don't you understand that this connection would be much, much faster than your current modem? It would be at least 24 times faster, with the potential of being up to 57 times faster. Especially during off-peak hours like Thursday at 8pm.
That would make me 24 times the pirate I am today, with the potential to be up to 57 times the pirate I am today. Then they would use that peculiar method of reasoning to assign me a sentence that would require 24 lifetimes to serve, with the potential of requiring up to 57 lifetimes to serve.
Of course, I'm all for upping the stakes, here.
Re:How long will it take for hard drives to catch (Score:5, Funny)
Who needs hard disk capacity if you can stream a movie in realtime?
Why would anybody want to watch an entire movie in 5 seconds, certainly my ability to absorb information is not as good as that and I regard it to be rather high(Toung in cheek).
Re:watch out! (Score:5, Funny)
"Back... and to the left... back... and to the left... back....... and to the left..."
Before you out-geek me (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, yeah. I meant Gb/s. Still not fast enough to get you laid.
How to pronounce it.. (Score:5, Funny)
That would be FAQMSTCP..in other words pronounced
FAH Q MS TCP...
as read on FARK...
Don't know... (Score:4, Funny)
(stood on end, that is...)
I Need The Bandwidth (Score:2, Funny)
Thank you, CalTech!
The saviour of P2P (Score:2, Funny)
On the other hand, those dumb Dawson Creek loving people will probably just download all episodes in DV-format, making my important games slow again...
Already started... (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot 2020 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Slashdot 2020 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:no thanks (Score:2, Funny)
Mmmmm... LPB's.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nothing new (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A full-length DVD movie in less than five secon (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Caltech (Score:2, Funny)
Re:watch out! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Argh! 8Gb (Score:4, Funny)
I recall a frame wherein Dilberts boss ordered up a printout of the internet. So, you don't need to use discs, either.
Re:Eight giga-whats? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Raping of the Acronyms (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe they're Welsh.
This reminds me of a conversation I had last night (Score:4, Funny)
DVDs/Second? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Already started... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How long will it take for hard drives to catch (Score:3, Funny)
Too bad the other 16 minutes are utterly, utterly wasted.
In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
In other news, the MPAA has filed a lawsuit against Caltech for "aiding the piracy of copyrighted movies". The RIAA is expected to file a similar lawsuit as many wonder why they haven't already milked Caltech for all the money it's got.
Re:Argh! 8Gb (Score:3, Funny)
speak for yourself. this is a turing test complient computer speaking ASCII.
wow-ee! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Argh! 8Gb (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Eight giga-whats? (Score:4, Funny)
1076.125 MegaBytes per second
3.87405 TerraBytes per day
Assuming an average of 5 kB per spam comes to ~77.5 Million spam emails per day.
Yes I have no life.
Re:Argh! 8Gb (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Argh! 8Gb (Score:3, Funny)