15 Jan
2008
15 Jan
'08
3:56 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008, Mark Smith wrote:
But the fat man isn't allowed to take up residence in the restaurant and continously eat - he's only allowed to be there in bursts, like we used to be able to assume people would use networks they're connected to. "Left running" P2P is the fat man never leaving and never stopping eating.
ffs, stop with the crappy analogies. The internet is like a badly designed commodity network. Built increasingly cheaper to deal with market pressures and unable to shift quickly to shifting technologies. Just like the telcos I recall everyone blasting when I was last actually involved in networks bigger than a university campus. Adrian