[Gllug] [Appallingly OT] Times Article on ABD was Fighting a virus

Peter Childs peterachilds at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 14:47:40 UTC 2007


On 20/02/07, Caroline Ford <caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
> John Hearns wrote:
> > paul at ma1.se wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hey I thought you were going to say that bus lanes were like leased
> >> lines and the remaining car lanes, more a contended ADSL service with
> >> lots of P2P on it, then we would almost have been on topic!
> > Bus lanes have a larger packet size too.
> Fibre optics for the masses!
>
> I expect some will still want their own, individual dial-up though.
> Strange but true.
>
> Caroline
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I would say trains were more like Fibre Optics where as Busses and
Cars run along standard cables.

I can't quite see why Busses are like TCP, I would say more like UDP:
You wait ages for 1 and 2 come at once.

Peter..
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