http://tete-tete-tete.com/52/tubes/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:34:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://tete-tete-tete.com/52/tubes/#comment-88 RSA Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:10:41 +0000 http://tete-tete-tete.com/52/tubes/#comment-88 To be honest rather than snarky, I think it's not too bad an analogy either; we sometimes talk about information being pipelined, etc., so it's not a priori ridiculous. But to introduce the tubes analogy as a better one that a truck analogy, I think, shows a basic lack of understanding. He'd have been better off saying it's like telephone lines with everyone talking to everyone all the time. To be honest rather than snarky, I think it’s not too bad an analogy either; we sometimes talk about information being pipelined, etc., so it’s not a priori ridiculous. But to introduce the tubes analogy as a better one that a truck analogy, I think, shows a basic lack of understanding. He’d have been better off saying it’s like telephone lines with everyone talking to everyone all the time.

]]> http://tete-tete-tete.com/52/tubes/#comment-87 smijer Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:30:46 +0000 http://tete-tete-tete.com/52/tubes/#comment-87 I thought Stevens was hilarious, but - and maybe this is my own ignorance - I thought it wasn't too bad as an analogy. I don't know about a "series" of tubes, rather a network of tubes, many running in parallel. Of course, his prime objective was to let Ma Bell decide which packets move & which ones sit, so they can charge more for moving them... which is a stupid idea. But, really one can do worse than the tubes analogy... tubes with a bunch of dump trucks driving through them, maybe. I thought Stevens was hilarious, but - and maybe this is my own ignorance - I thought it wasn’t too bad as an analogy. I don’t know about a “series” of tubes, rather a network of tubes, many running in parallel. Of course, his prime objective was to let Ma Bell decide which packets move & which ones sit, so they can charge more for moving them… which is a stupid idea. But, really one can do worse than the tubes analogy… tubes with a bunch of dump trucks driving through them, maybe.

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