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Permalink Reply by S on April 26, 2011 at 10:10am

There's an old saying about how nothing beats the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes driving down the highway.  It's still true even with fast connections.  Having a messenger take a 1TB hard drive across town is way faster than trying to transfer it using the typical commodity connections.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on April 26, 2011 at 3:22pm

And even though transferring/sending across the internet may be faster, a paper copy,flash drive can't be hacked or intercepted in route.

 

And who the heck has a 1 terabyte file just to send over?

 

ES said:

There's an old saying about how nothing beats the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes driving down the highway.  It's still true even with fast connections.  Having a messenger take a 1TB hard drive across town is way faster than trying to transfer it using the typical commodity connections.

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on April 27, 2011 at 12:54am

Not everything is data.  Good old fashioned 3-dimensional items still need to be delivered in a hurry.  When sometime in the future you can email a toner cartridge then IRL messengers might be on the way out.

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Permalink Reply by S on April 27, 2011 at 1:41am

Mike Zumwalt said:

And even though transferring/sending across the internet may be faster, a paper copy,flash drive can't be hacked or intercepted in route.

 

And who the heck has a 1 terabyte file just to send over?

 

 

If you're working with hd video, you can quickly get close.  2 hours of uncompressed 1080p at 24fps is just over 1 TB.  Toss in extra stuff for effects, and other data  for editing and you can probably get to 1 TB with video that's a lot shorter than 2 hours.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on April 27, 2011 at 2:49am

Show's what I know.But I'm not a tech wiz.

Also remember the dot com burst where everybody set up businesses online then took orders but realized you couldn't ship products through the internet? Some things still need to be done in person, like most jobs.
S said:

Mike Zumwalt said:

And even though transferring/sending across the internet may be faster, a paper copy,flash drive can't be hacked or intercepted in route.

 

And who the heck has a 1 terabyte file just to send over?

 

 

If you're working with hd video, you can quickly get close.  2 hours of uncompressed 1080p at 24fps is just over 1 TB.  Toss in extra stuff for effects, and other data  for editing and you can probably get to 1 TB with video that's a lot shorter than 2 hours.

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Permalink Reply by Joel on April 27, 2011 at 4:48am

A properly configured network connection is much much harder to hack than people seem to think.  Modern encryption is effectively impossible to break.  Knocking over a guy on a bike and stealing his bag, on the other hand, is quite simple.  

Mike Zumwalt said:

And even though transferring/sending across the internet may be faster, a paper copy,flash drive can't be hacked or intercepted in route.

 

And who the heck has a 1 terabyte file just to send over?

 

ES said:

There's an old saying about how nothing beats the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes driving down the highway.  It's still true even with fast connections.  Having a messenger take a 1TB hard drive across town is way faster than trying to transfer it using the typical commodity connections.

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