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Posted by Arny Krueger on 11/30/07 13:07
"Jack" <jack@beanstalk.net> wrote in message
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> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:474EB9A0.BE11E4B3@hotmail.com:
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>> Jack wrote:
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>>> Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtri@dslextreme.com> wrote
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>>>> Audio compression will stay around for some uses.
>>>> CPUs and algorithms will always be much cheaper than
>>>> long distance bandwidth and wireless bandwidth.
>>>> Regardless of how fast the internet gets, 10x
>>>> compression still means 10x customer capacity. 10x
>>>> compression on your mobile player means 10x the room
>>>> for music.
>>>
>>> Also, there are now warnings of Internet bottlenecks by
>>> 2010 due to multimedia content and increased
>>> population/usership.
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>> The usual scaremongering. Journalists are clueless about
>> technology.
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>> The pipes will simply get bigger to take the load.
>
> Like oil will keep flowing no matter what? They are
> warning that billion$ must be spent now to make sure it
> doesn't happen. The Net was not originally conceived for
> this much audio and video transfer.
Things change. Arpanet was not designed to support the world wide web. It
could barely do light email.
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