I still maintain that this simply can't work, and that it's an absolutely braindead money pit of an idea if it's not a total scam.
Idea: let's take the most latency sensitive, computationally demanding, and visually intensive thing you can do with a modern computer and try to apply the thin client model to it.
A single instance of the application in question will demand the full resources of the most powerful PC you can throw at it, but we'll just wave our hands and mutter something about virtualization to convince stupid investors that we have magic at our disposal. Because they are morons and because we put on a good show, they'll believe that you can somehow run many instances of a game on the equivalent of a single PC. We'll also be encoding 720p video in realtime at a quality / bandwidth ratio that no codec today can deliver; this will presumably happen on the same computing hardware that's already running multiple instances of cutting edge 3D games.
Finally, we'll throw in some shit about the iphone, because people can't stop fellating apple lately.
Anyone who believes this is technically feasible, much less economically viable, is fucking *retarded*.
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I still maintain that this simply can't work, and that it's an absolutely braindead money pit of an idea if it's not a total scam.
Idea: let's take the most latency sensitive, computationally demanding, and visually intensive thing you can do with a modern computer and try to apply the thin client model to it.
A single instance of the application in question will demand the full resources of the most powerful PC you can throw at it, but we'll just wave our hands and mutter something about virtualization to convince stupid investors that we have magic at our disposal. Because they are morons and because we put on a good show, they'll believe that you can somehow run many instances of a game on the equivalent of a single PC. We'll also be encoding 720p video in realtime at a quality / bandwidth ratio that no codec today can deliver; this will presumably happen on the same computing hardware that's already running multiple instances of cutting edge 3D games.
Finally, we'll throw in some shit about the iphone, because people can't stop fellating apple lately.
Anyone who believes this is technically feasible, much less economically viable, is fucking *retarded*.
ol well if need proof simply for fact watch this http://tv.seas.columbia.edu/videos/545/60/79?file=1&autostart=true he is and does show To a class of 100 or so all of 40 using iphones to watch his game play at the podium.. LOl u need to wake teh f#^a up