26 Sep
2013
26 Sep
'13
3:50 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 06:00:55PM -0500, brian carroll wrote:
i imagine most with mathematical instinct would think something 'real-world' is missing in this approximation, in that you could not realistically use-up all FedEx resources for such a data sharing project without likely taking down the system or being denied access- and thus existing traffic and congestion are not included in this ideal naive model.
You overestimate the amount of useful content the Internet carries. Let's assume you just want to deliver text messages hand-entered by people. Let's say 10^9 people/day care to enter some ~kByte of text. That's a mere TByte/day, uncompressed.