Bandwidth Quotes - Page 2

• The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability.

  William Poundstone

  Essence, Messages, Shannon

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Most of the network related programming in games has to do with providing a good interactive experience when playing over the internet. This matter is very different from serving web pages. The primary concern there is to handle connection latency, latency fluctuations, packet loss and bandwidth limitations, and pretty much hide all of that from the player's experience.

  Timothee Besset

  Loss, Player, Games

  "ID Software Developer Timothee Besset on Network Performance in Games". Network Performance Daily, January 29, 2007.

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• If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if they are looking to the mass market then they must develop WAP sites.

  Jack London

  Needs, Video, Site

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• If [YouTube] were to switch to Theora and maintain even a semblance of the current YouTube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the internet.

  Chris DiBona

  Quality, Internet, Currents

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