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- The comments actually now show up the weakness of where I was about to make a comment. P2P by itself is not actually the main culprit. video streaming or any srtreaming client ---> server is...
- Web browsers have a very different bandwidth profile, but your point is valid in that other types of services can saturate a connection. Certainly any UDP service can do this. We used to take high...
- Hey Sean, I also agree with you - the oversubscription for low-cost purposes is an issue I didn't touch here, but may in the future. Good insight though. --Kyle
- Hey Chris, Thanks. I'll agree with too many streams saturating a connection... this is a known problem. Depending on, say, the Torrent client you use, you can decide whether or not you want to...
- I work for an ISP. We sell primarily to businesses. Our products are priced such that the price charged to the customer includes the fully burdened cost of providing that service. e.g. we make a...
Kyle Brady: A Blog
thoughts on life, code, and things
Mozilla recently released an early version of a new project called “Prism”… not at catchy or anthropomorphic as their other projects… What does it do? It’s quite elementary, my dear Watson: it brings the internet home.
Explain, ... Continue reading »
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1 year ago
... "It’s about running it in a separate process" ...
that seems to be what i'm reading from the proponents. however, when i run multiple "Prism" apps on my windows box at the office, and i execute "Process Explorer" (from SysInternals), i see only *one* "xulrunner.exe" in the Task List.
and if i kill that single xulrunner process, guess what? it killed all three of my "individual" Prism apps - same behavior as if i launched multiple browser windows.
granted, the memory footprint is small, but i can achieve that with Opera or K-Meleon.
1 year ago
Maybe this is something they'll be doing in the future? And they're only concerned right now with it working, before they realize it in full?
Thanks for the info though, this is good to know.
--Kyle
1 year ago
Also - you still need a 'web desktop' place where you can login and your desktop of Prism windows automatically popup if Prism is installed on a system. That would be a nice unifying interface for mobilites like me.