Hey Andrew!

Dec 03 16:21 05, Andrew Ball wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 AB> Who are "they"?  What bill?

The people who think that any of this is 'free' and that somehow I owe them
something.  That is who 'they' are here.  Sometimes that can be your own
family and they can be extremely wasteful with other people's money.  I
could easily cite examples if you wish.

The fact that you have to ask makes me wonder if you are one of 'they'.  ;-)

    >> that would cost more then it is worth to me.

 AB> ?

Overbloated, completely useless data that wastes bandwidth that they aren't
paying for.  Usually mutimedia stuff not unlike what we're currently
discussing except far more lame, technically speaking.

 AB> There's an economic advantage to my preference too: I can download an 
 AB> MPEG or MP3 file slowly over a low-bandwidth link.

Yes you can.  I can too but it still costs money and possibly more on a low
speed connection.  Again I could cite examples when viewed in a cost/time
(metered) context.

 AB> With streams, if 
 AB> you lack sufficient bandwidth to play in real time, you are out of 
 AB> luck.  :-(

That is exactly correct except that it isn't a problem as I have access to
the good stuff seeing as I decided beforehand what the good stuff is/was. 
It works here and costwise pays for itself in it's first hour or two of
usage when compared to a high speed internet connection.  After that it is
pure cream and is much better cream then you can find out there,
internettedly speaking.  Thus cost effective and greater quality if high
speed is the benchmark.  More for less as it were, using the same hardware
you're inclined to use on a high speed internet connection.

  MK>> Right, unless whatever you have in your auto can
    >> handle a DVD and then it coul have the needed band
    >> -width.

 AB> That gives me storage capacity, not bandwidth.

Both.  If the application has a DVD-ROM then that decides the bandwidth
depending on how it is wired in and what is controlling it and it's
capabilities.  Just because it isn't an internet connection doesn't mean
that it has to conform but is just as limited to the same considerations as
far as bandwidth is concerned.

Life is good,
Maurice

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