what is the scope and limitations of the internet?

[samz90]

what is the scope and limitations of the internet? any help appreciated.

[b0shb4ll]

Any chance you could be a little more specific about what you mean... I mean, scope? as in the size overal?

Limitations? like emailing your kettle to get a coffee on the go for when you arrive home? I reckon that is a limitation that could do with being reviewed..

[OBonio]

There's no reason why you couldn't email your kettle (probably more like a Tassimo) to get it make you a coffee for when you get home...

Limitations.. IPv4 was a limitation as it only allowed for so many public IP addresses. IPv6 (not sure what happened to v5) allows for a hell of a lot more.

[b0shb4ll]

IPv5 was only used for testing perposes.

There is a reason why you can't email your kettle yet, and that's because you can't buy a kettle with a modem yet!

[OBonio]

That's a limitation of the kettle, not the internet.

[b0shb4ll]

But it could also be considered a limitation of a modem, which connects the internet..

[OBonio]

No. In this example, the modem would be the enabler to overcome the kettle's limitation of not being able to connect to the internet.

[b0shb4ll]

erm, no.

If modems came with built in kettles, there wouldn't be a problem. There for, the limitation is within the modem..

[OBonio]

I never was any good at lateral thinking. Suffice to say, one day you will be able to have a steaming cup of coffee ready for you when you get home. Whether it's with a modem with a built in kettle, or a kettle with a built in modem is neither here nor there. It's still not a limitation of the internet.

[Toureman]

I am good at lateral thinking Obonio thats why I email my wife and lo and behold there is a steaming hot coffee waiting for me when I get home!

[Confab]

Kettles don't make coffee they boil water!