On Tue, 29 May 2007, Jim Lux wrote:
So how's Verizon going to amortize the $900 installation cost of my FiOS?
As an investment. So that they "win". Because if they don't, others will and they'll lose. And yeah, ultimately YOU will pay for it, but maybe not all at once and up front. Speaking of your other issues -- one possible solution is media replication and media servers. OK, so to be able to deliver (say) the 2000 top DVD titles on demand requires 10-20 TB of storage. That's a trivial investment, really. Disk (even RAID disk) is perhaps $0.25/GB. Storing a movie costs at MOST $5-10 -- small compared to the capital investment required to sell them or rent them on physical media. And disk is ever cheaper, servers ever faster. So if one locates "stores" of basically all the titles one might wish to deliver that auto-replicate on demand while solving an "interesting" problem in provisioning and optimization throughout communities (with a suitable tree structure or network) one can avoid a lot of resource contention on the aggregate backbone. There are already companies trying to move into this space using the limited bw already available -- however, centralized distribution models probably will not scale. All we REALLY need is for somebody to be working on the ware needed to heat up a direct neural interface to the information. I'm tired of typing. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
