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Mourne not your comrades who must dwell / too strong to strive -
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, / Buried alive;
But rather mourne the apathetic throng / The cowed, and the meek -
Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.
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Posted by: dalmedya
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: dalmedya
Cost aside, I don't think MS are set up for huge dataflow in a short period. They'd need quite a few servers on multiple internet connections, dedicated solely to the podcast.
I'm betting they have better things to spend their money on, at least from their viewpoint.
and Windows Update doesn't generate (and support) tons of traffic?Yes, it does, but that is a vital service, and the files and whatnot hosted would usually not compare in size to a video podcast.
Posted by: aku
um... I think you may have forgotten the fact that they release videos on Bungie.net pretty frequently. A few notable ones were the Halo 3 Announcement trailer, the vid-docs, and the first Blomkamp Halo short. If they wanted to do a video, they could host it with no problems.None of those (with the exception of the announcement trailer) would have been downloaded as rabidly as a podcast.
And I'm fairly certain they were hosted elsewhere. AND they were pretty much one-offs.
Yes, they were hosted elsewhere, on Microsoft servers, judging by the redirect you have to go through to get them. Which would be a viable option in this case, as well. All I'm saying is that the technical difficulties, while possibly providing an obstacle, would in no way whatsoever be insurmountable.
Edit: After reading your response to Recon, I noticed that you seem to be making a gross misjudgment, either about the number of downloads the podcast would get, or an underestimate of the size of the previous downloads. Windows Updates are most certainly smaller than a video, but you are not considering the fact that literally millions of people are downloading it at the exact same time, due to people using the default windows settings for automatic updating.
[Edited on 09.16.2007 6:49 PM PDT]