I believe this is precisely what the Liberty Alliance is working on -- open, interoperable standards for federated network identity. It would be good from the end user perspective if the social networking sites at least started recognizing each other's members by using liberty alliance identities, but I suppose there isn't yet much motivation for them to do that. Eventually they will realize that they are doomed to die of fracturing user bases and be forced to give up on having everyone as members -- perhaps then a macro-network of much smaller community-based networks could emerge, using federated identities and web services to tie them together.
You are very quick to make fun of this gentleman, who has obviously invested quite a lot of his time into creating this railroad. I am sure he has quite a lot of fun doing this work, but aside from that it should be obvious to anyone who actually visited his site that he is a true historian. He has actually researched the original railroad and presents much of his information on-line as well as running what amounts to an operating museum.
I, for one, appreciate his work and would love to be able to visit his layout and enjoy it as I would any other historical museum.
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I believe what is being referred to is a ridiculously slow "Fast Forward" function.
I believe this is precisely what the Liberty Alliance is working on -- open, interoperable standards for federated network identity. It would be good from the end user perspective if the social networking sites at least started recognizing each other's members by using liberty alliance identities, but I suppose there isn't yet much motivation for them to do that. Eventually they will realize that they are doomed to die of fracturing user bases and be forced to give up on having everyone as members -- perhaps then a macro-network of much smaller community-based networks could emerge, using federated identities and web services to tie them together.
You are very quick to make fun of this gentleman, who has obviously invested quite a lot of his time into creating this railroad. I am sure he has quite a lot of fun doing this work, but aside from that it should be obvious to anyone who actually visited his site that he is a true historian. He has actually researched the original railroad and presents much of his information on-line as well as running what amounts to an operating museum.
I, for one, appreciate his work and would love to be able to visit his layout and enjoy it as I would any other historical museum.