buffering

Theoretically, an echo server could wait to send until several GB of data were received or the connection is closed, buffering the data limitlessly, and still be compliant.

They often suck in that: 1) They're shitty at predicting the optimum buffer size 2) They do not continue buffering when paused, or do not indicate whether they are buffering.

Oftentimes if you fast-forward (drag the slider) past the buffering point, the movie will continue playing fine.

And furthermore, implementing operators that are asynchronous in nature requires juggling with `request(n)` and with buffering.

In my experience, using getc is usually not too terrible compared to writing buffering code to do the same thing.

Next time please let us know that a video begins buffering on page load.

Surely the average data plan could handle ~300kbps streaming with enough of an overhead such that buffering would make interruptions extremely unlikely?

This is to prevent too much output buffering so that at low baud rates you can interrupt the screen refresh with type-ahead.

The problems are caused by Youtube's extremely heavy throttling and also the rules that Youtube sets on client side buffering, not Flash.

Also the only reason todo this on web is to use some sort of double-buffering and prevent redraws before everything is updated.

Sure, there was zero buffering and even the slightest bump caused a skip...

Starting with scarcity of nutrition leads to buffering way too much later on.

You will need to implement a similar mechanism based on buffering and a custom implementation of CharSequence " 0.

They also delay trades and "packet" securities between indexes and buffering small changes in market cap from predicting trades.

The authors thoughts on "financial institutions buffering fear" really don't require invocation of another complex framework unless he somehow wants to derive credibility from this, which would of course be poor form.