Snails Edge Out ADSL 205
Anonymous writes "Dear Sirs,
Following our experiment last year, and after long preparations, we have successfully proved that certain gastropods called African giant snails can be faster then ADSL and ... pigeons. The system we have used, called SNAP (SNAil-based data transfer Protocol), uses biological carriers (snails), and, for the first time, taking advantages of the unique merits of the wheel for data transfer. More details can be found here."
Not legal in US (Score:2, Informative)
Though I though African giant snails were the size of a fist.
Re:In the blog (Score:4, Informative)
Hang on, lets establish some standards here... (Score:4, Informative)
I think if we are going to establish bandwidth records we need to establish distance too. I suggest 100kms is probably a pretty good minimum measure to make sense.
THAN, for the love of... THAN! (Score:5, Informative)
Faster THAN. Faster THAN. Faster THAN.
Same as:
Smarter THAN. Better THAN. Other THAN. Fatter THAN. Uglier THAN. Costs more THAN. Performs better THAN. More difficult THAN. Takes more effort THAN. Tastes better THAN. Prints more clearly THAN. More structured THAN. More anonymous THAN. More cowardly THAN. More falsely THAN.
Basic idea:
THAN - used in comparison statements.
THEN - used to demonstrate cause-and-effect