Napster was great untill too many people used Napster. Then it was Gnutella, but soon too many people used that too. Then Morpheus, then Kazaa... Each emerges, gains popularity, and is destroyed by it's own popularity.
Here's a clue - any network where a message from a client is supposed to perpetuate to every other client is doomed to failure as the number of users increase. No amount of CPU or bandwidth that we will see in the near future can save it.
Who is starting the next P2P sacrifical network? Might as well get on board before it becomes popular and the honeymoon ends.
And if we built it out of old Cyrix chips, we'd melt a hole to the center of the earth. Cyrix chips run hotter than anything short of a V8 engine. When the fan on one of mine broke, it melted the foam between the cpu and the fan in seconds.
What Telecom fails to recognise is that these people are pushing the envelope of what the Internet can do, and will drive the technology economy in years to come.
Could you just give me the news and stop telling me what to think, please?
You're failing to consider one line from the article:
Part of this low score may occur because the Winstone benchmark test does not repeat tasks, which minimizes the opportunities for the Code Morphing technology to have an effect.
Regardless of how SIGNIFICANT the difference under speed testing programs, the difference might be less SIGNIFICANT under normal use. Just a little SIGNIFICANT point you left out.
I had a hell of a time getting one as well - I succeeded out of pure stubornness. Only one blockbuster in town had an XBox for rent, and only one had Halo for rent - and the two were *not* close together, not remotely close together. The average consumer would have given up long before, but we were stubborn and determined.
I can see why Halo might get the XBox rented a lot. I rented one to play through the game with a friend one long weekend. It was a lot of fun, but I don't miss Halo or have any other reason to rent one of the things.
I understand quite well. Creating a new type of client doesn't have a significant effect on the data synchronization inside the server cluster, at least, it doesn't if Verant can program worth a damn.
Does anybody here have a clue anymore? Usenet servers don't have to be rewritten every time a new usenet client comes out. That's the point of the client/server split. UO had a linux client for a while, and you can bet for certain that the UO team didn't go out of thier way to support that server-side - and they didn't need to.
You finish with a good point, but I still don't see what the parent post, which is a mishmash of confused topics and miserable english, has to do with anything regarding this story...
I remember when The Sims guy (I think) did an interview where he said that doing multiplayer online worlds across platforms like Win/Linux was incredibly difficult, verging on impossible, due to the tremendously minute detail required in keeping everything in sync. I wonder if this problem appears here as well.
Huh? This is one of the most vapid things I've seen rated to 5 in a long time. EQ isn't impossible on Windows, it's been done. The Sims guy is talking about having multiple people in a Sim-city, a fully dynamic enviornment, which EQ isn't in any way, shape, or form. EQ is entirely static geography, which makes it an entirely different case.
In other words, will PS2 users play in the same world as PC users?
What does that have to do with your first paragraph? The first discusses possibility issues and the second discusses porting issues. Huh?
Congratulations, you have successfully karma-whored by playing buzzword bingo.
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Ah, yes. Good point. Verily, I kick myself for not catching that myself. Dx/Dt stands for the rate of change of x with respect to t, and is indeed *not* a division. Bravo.
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I read the "I don't have a problem with relativity" statements. I don't see how he could actually mean that. Time dilation effects are pretty critical to the Standard Model. He's just trying to combine Newtonian principles and Relativity and noting that the two don't fit together.
Well, duh.
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I dug out the core of his argument:
Simple Proof that Nothing Can Move in Spacetime
Why is motion in spacetime impossible? It has to do with the definitions of space and time and the equation of velocity v = dx/dt. What the equation is saying is that, if an object moves over any distance x, there is an elapsed time t. Since time is defined in physics as a parameter for denoting change (evolution), the equation for velocity along the time axis must be given as v = dt/dt which is self-referential. The self-reference comes from having to divide dt by itself. dt/dt always equals 1 because the units cancel out. This is of course meaningless as far as velocity is concerned.
To emphasize, it is logically impossible for the t coordinate of an object to change because such a change is self-referential. Et voilà! It's that simple. No time travel, no motion in spacetime, no spacetime and no time dimension. They are all abstract mathematical constructs without any counterpart in nature.
I'm not a mathematician or a physicist, so I lack the mathematical ninjitsu to disprove him. If I were to go about it, I'd open up with the idea that clock slowdown at high velocities is an observed phenomena, so therefore he must be playing fast and loose with some words that do not mean what he thinks they mean in a 'physics' sense (time,velocity,space), as time has already been demonstrated to be mutable.
In other words, he's defining his terms to conform to his view of reality, and not trying to use them to describe reality.
Can anyone be a little more specific, such as comparing what he means by 'time' and what modern physicists mean by 'time'?
There would be government laws to control time travel, he believes.
Having the US government try to claim hegemony over the entire planet is bad enough without them trying to claim jurisdiction over the past and future.
This worked from a friend of mine, who got sacked for extremely questionable reasons and took the company to task. Between the firing and the filing of the suit, the company closed thier local office. My friend filed claim in local court - they'd have to send a representive back to the state with the office they closed to contest it, so they didn't. He got a nice pile of change out of that.
I saw a post on usenet that says it's going to be 4 hours. (It was a series list, not an individual post, so it's a little bit more authoritive than just an opinion.) So, if you do the first 5 books, that's a little less than an hour per book. The list of what you have to cut is staggering.
You'll have to cut the story down to it's barest elements. It might be an interesting watch for non-fans, but Zelazny fans will hate it.
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Fine. You don't mind never getting a cent for your work. Some people would like to make money at it.
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I wager I'm not alone in wishing you'd just go away.
Easy. None of the damn things scale.
Napster was great untill too many people used Napster. Then it was Gnutella, but soon too many people used that too. Then Morpheus, then Kazaa... Each emerges, gains popularity, and is destroyed by it's own popularity.
Here's a clue - any network where a message from a client is supposed to perpetuate to every other client is doomed to failure as the number of users increase. No amount of CPU or bandwidth that we will see in the near future can save it.
Who is starting the next P2P sacrifical network? Might as well get on board before it becomes popular and the honeymoon ends.
Global warming research is weapons research. They're just digging for global warming propaganda, a good part of any war machine.
We're wondering why you just don't log out already.
I have no idea why it was the way it was. It came to me that way from the salesman.
And if we built it out of old Cyrix chips, we'd melt a hole to the center of the earth. Cyrix chips run hotter than anything short of a V8 engine. When the fan on one of mine broke, it melted the foam between the cpu and the fan in seconds.
What Telecom fails to recognise is that these people are pushing the envelope of what the Internet can do, and will drive the technology economy in years to come.
Could you just give me the news and stop telling me what to think, please?
You're failing to consider one line from the article:
Part of this low score may occur because the Winstone benchmark test does not repeat tasks, which minimizes the opportunities for the Code Morphing technology to have an effect.
Regardless of how SIGNIFICANT the difference under speed testing programs, the difference might be less SIGNIFICANT under normal use. Just a little SIGNIFICANT point you left out.
Your *asterisks* make me *wish* you understood html. :)
You're obviously *not* old school. *grin*
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I hate that so many problems happen in science and elsewhere over definitional issues. We need to throw out all the words and make new ones. *grin*
I had a hell of a time getting one as well - I succeeded out of pure stubornness. Only one blockbuster in town had an XBox for rent, and only one had Halo for rent - and the two were *not* close together, not remotely close together. The average consumer would have given up long before, but we were stubborn and determined.
I can see why Halo might get the XBox rented a lot. I rented one to play through the game with a friend one long weekend. It was a lot of fun, but I don't miss Halo or have any other reason to rent one of the things.
I understand quite well. Creating a new type of client doesn't have a significant effect on the data synchronization inside the server cluster, at least, it doesn't if Verant can program worth a damn.
Does anybody here have a clue anymore? Usenet servers don't have to be rewritten every time a new usenet client comes out. That's the point of the client/server split. UO had a linux client for a while, and you can bet for certain that the UO team didn't go out of thier way to support that server-side - and they didn't need to.
You finish with a good point, but I still don't see what the parent post, which is a mishmash of confused topics and miserable english, has to do with anything regarding this story...
I remember when The Sims guy (I think) did an interview where he said that doing multiplayer online worlds across platforms like Win/Linux was incredibly difficult, verging on impossible, due to the tremendously minute detail required in keeping everything in sync. I wonder if this problem appears here as well.
Huh? This is one of the most vapid things I've seen rated to 5 in a long time. EQ isn't impossible on Windows, it's been done. The Sims guy is talking about having multiple people in a Sim-city, a fully dynamic enviornment, which EQ isn't in any way, shape, or form. EQ is entirely static geography, which makes it an entirely different case.
In other words, will PS2 users play in the same world as PC users?
What does that have to do with your first paragraph? The first discusses possibility issues and the second discusses porting issues. Huh?
Congratulations, you have successfully karma-whored by playing buzzword bingo.
Ah, yes. Good point. Verily, I kick myself for not catching that myself. Dx/Dt stands for the rate of change of x with respect to t, and is indeed *not* a division. Bravo.
I read the "I don't have a problem with relativity" statements. I don't see how he could actually mean that. Time dilation effects are pretty critical to the Standard Model. He's just trying to combine Newtonian principles and Relativity and noting that the two don't fit together.
Well, duh.
I dug out the core of his argument:
Simple Proof that Nothing Can Move in Spacetime
Why is motion in spacetime impossible? It has to do with the definitions of space and time and the equation of velocity v = dx/dt. What the equation is saying is that, if an object moves over any distance x, there is an elapsed time t. Since time is defined in physics as a parameter for denoting change (evolution), the equation for velocity along the time axis must be given as v = dt/dt which is self-referential. The self-reference comes from having to divide dt by itself. dt/dt always equals 1 because the units cancel out. This is of course meaningless as far as velocity is concerned.
To emphasize, it is logically impossible for the t coordinate of an object to change because such a change is self-referential. Et voilà! It's that simple. No time travel, no motion in spacetime, no spacetime and no time dimension. They are all abstract mathematical constructs without any counterpart in nature.
I'm not a mathematician or a physicist, so I lack the mathematical ninjitsu to disprove him. If I were to go about it, I'd open up with the idea that clock slowdown at high velocities is an observed phenomena, so therefore he must be playing fast and loose with some words that do not mean what he thinks they mean in a 'physics' sense (time,velocity,space), as time has already been demonstrated to be mutable.
In other words, he's defining his terms to conform to his view of reality, and not trying to use them to describe reality.
Can anyone be a little more specific, such as comparing what he means by 'time' and what modern physicists mean by 'time'?
And what about the ethics of changing history?
There would be government laws to control time travel, he believes.
Having the US government try to claim hegemony over the entire planet is bad enough without them trying to claim jurisdiction over the past and future.
This worked from a friend of mine, who got sacked for extremely questionable reasons and took the company to task. Between the firing and the filing of the suit, the company closed thier local office. My friend filed claim in local court - they'd have to send a representive back to the state with the office they closed to contest it, so they didn't. He got a nice pile of change out of that.
GPS. Rule. I can snitch mine and take it on a mountain hike.
"We need a refill at table 2, two at table 11, and one at ... glacier national park? dispatch a chopper..."
Imagine Amber as a 2-hour mini-series.
I saw a post on usenet that says it's going to be 4 hours. (It was a series list, not an individual post, so it's a little bit more authoritive than just an opinion.) So, if you do the first 5 books, that's a little less than an hour per book. The list of what you have to cut is staggering.
You'll have to cut the story down to it's barest elements. It might be an interesting watch for non-fans, but Zelazny fans will hate it.
Sounds good to me. I'll even pay for the coffee.