On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:05 PM, David Turnbull <[email protected]> wrote: > This morning I had broadband. Now I don't. Thanks Obama! > > http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0129/DOC-331760A1.pdf
Is this really useful for anything though? I mean, why did they even take the time to deliberate on changing the definition? From my understanding, video data is only getting more and more compressed, which reduces load from the network and instead places it on the processors that need to compress and uncompress the data. This is true for things like Netflix and Skype, where the minimum real-time bandwidth requirements is under 1MBPS. If the Government was really concerned with schools getting video data feeds in realtime (even though I bet most of their material could be pre-downloaded rather than streamed) they should be enabling multicast research and implementation (i.e. AccessGrid). It seems to me this is another clue indicative of a general trend to be less and less efficient with using computer technology. Programming IDEs get easier and easier to use, allowing more untrained coders to produce programs that are easily available on places like Google Play, which because of their inefficiencies cause users to misplace the bad-performance on their hardware, which results in landfills and wasteful tendencies elsewhere. /end slight rant/ _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
