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| rdfs:comment | - “The immutable laws of bandwidth tell us we’re just a few years away from being able to download an entire season of ‘24′ in 24 seconds,” he wrote. Okay, so a season of 24 (non-BluRay) is roughly 6 Double Layer DVDs (probably about 30 or 40 GB). So in Bono’s “Brave New World” we get an Internet connection that can successfully pull down 2 gbps. News flash to Bono: Americans don’t have high speed Internet like that (mine can barely handle streaming BOL’s vcast). 40 GB is a lot of bandwidth. And even if your connection could pull something down that fast the server you’re downloading the file from would have to allow that speed as well.
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| Hosts | - Tom Merritt, Jason Howell
Co-hosts: Molly Wood
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| abstract | - “The immutable laws of bandwidth tell us we’re just a few years away from being able to download an entire season of ‘24′ in 24 seconds,” he wrote. Okay, so a season of 24 (non-BluRay) is roughly 6 Double Layer DVDs (probably about 30 or 40 GB). So in Bono’s “Brave New World” we get an Internet connection that can successfully pull down 2 gbps. News flash to Bono: Americans don’t have high speed Internet like that (mine can barely handle streaming BOL’s vcast). 40 GB is a lot of bandwidth. And even if your connection could pull something down that fast the server you’re downloading the file from would have to allow that speed as well. Bono, we get that you’re a cool guy, who thinks very futuristically wearing sunglasses indoors and all, but I’m just not following your your immutable law of bandwidth. Do you really think that the ISPs are the ones who are stealing all the money from the music industry? Is monitoring the Internet like the Communists in China going to help you sell more records? Do you think people are stealing from you, even though your band is the richest on the planet? Back in the days of Windows 98 I saw a “mental controller” for PCs in a compusa. It was a serial port device that looked like a fingerprint scanner. I played with one in store and it worked, mostly, at least for their skiing game. Not sure if it was real neural impulse or biofeedback. It stuck with me because the inventor had a quadraplegic child. They are still available on and require adapters to work with Win2k or -gasp!- WinMe. No word on Vista or Win7 although based on the website design I think the company is trapped in the 90s. That or they have a quadraplegic webmaster stick using Windows 95. Yup, I’m going to hell for that.
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