Or, we could just start using IP multicast for all audio and video streaming. We're talking 15 year old technology here... why isn't anybody using it?
Becuase nobody watches the same thing at the same time?
250kBs that's 2000 of the 100000 bits per second I was sold (10 megabit connection)
Nitpick: that's 2000000 (2mbit) of 10000000 (10mbit)
Download rates actually typically decrease when your upload rate increases even though the connection is bidirectional and should have no issues doing both at once.
This is because when you download, your computer send packets back to the source to say "Yes, I got this". So, if you use the upstream for uploading a file, the download can't get its packets out fast enough to keep up with the downstream.
It's not a screen, it's digital paper. There's no touchable form of this yet.
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix
One sony and both iRex devices seem to have touchscreen capability, according to this page.
Point it to a directory and give it a regex and you can find every file whose content matches.
Isn't this what grep is for?
Hackers of the world, unite!