On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Jan 20, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
Marshall wrote:
Those sorts of percentages are common in Pareto distributions (AKA
Zipf's law AKA "the 80-20 rule").
With the Zipf's exponent typical of web usage and video watching, I
would predict something closer to
10% of the users consuming 50% of the usage, but this estimate is not
that unrealistic.
I would predict that these sorts of distributions will continue as
long as humans are the primary consumers of
bandwidth.
Regards
Marshall
That's until the spambots inherit the world, right?
I tend to take the long view.
sensor nets anyone?
research
http://research.cens.ucla.edu/portal/page?_pageid=59,43783&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
business
http://www.campbellsci.com/bridge-monitoring
investment
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=184400339
global alerts? disaster management? physical world traffic engineering?