The render farm still has to render all the clients from their own POV. The only thing that's less in this case is the GPU and RAM requirements on the clients. But, assuming H.264 at 1024kbps vs a few kbps to exchange only the players position data, all of their bandwidth requirements just increased by a few hundred times.
I still say that ISP monthly limits and latency won't make this quite usable for games, but it could do wonders for a LAN game server.
Some websites have user-friendly URLs, such as "www.apple.com/macmini/". You don't even need to click that link to know what it's about.
Other websites have dumb, half-friendly URLs, where they add the backend technology inside the URL, such as "http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/" (what's with the "index.cfm" in the URL?). If they fix that problem, all the links pointing to the current URL will break. If they ever change technology, it's also going to break the links from other websites.
And then we have the URLs designed by web monkeys, such as the link for Dell's new Adamo laptop: "www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/adamo/topics/en/us/adamo-onyx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs". What the HELL is that thing? Even if we forget the parameters at the end, look at the path of that thing! I don't care how your crap is organized on the server, the URL should be much simpler than that!
And last, we have completely brain-dead URLs that seem to be created for computers only, without any chance of figuring out what kind of content is waiting for us on the other side of that link. Crap like "http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=16154&SR=nav:electronics:computers:notebook_computers:shop_compare:ss". We're lucky to see "notebook_computers" in the parameters, sometimes it's just a database reference number.
But even with crap URLs like that, unless you have to spell it, write it down or read it on a (paper) page, such links can be hidden behind simple anchor text such as Sony Laptops.
Twitter is its own problem, they should be the ones to fix their own mess. Someone could start a service similar to Twitter but without counting HTML code as being part of the X characters limit, which seems to be what the fuss is all about.
I think you just found the IT equivalent of ambulance-chasing laywers...
1. Find job at company XYZ. 2. Make a list of all licensing violations. 3. Quit job, stating "found better job" or whatever. 4. Call BSA with all violations, collect rewards. 5. Profits!
In this case it's quite different. It's not religious zealots crying wolf at something they don't understand. It's rational people, some of them scientists, saying that we really don't know for sure, that our current knowledge could be flawed. A real scientist should always be ready to question our current knowledge.
Another way to put it: if we were so sure that what we know is 100% correct then we wouldn't need to build the LHC to test our theories in the first place.
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The render farm still has to render all the clients from their own POV. The only thing that's less in this case is the GPU and RAM requirements on the clients. But, assuming H.264 at 1024kbps vs a few kbps to exchange only the players position data, all of their bandwidth requirements just increased by a few hundred times.
I still say that ISP monthly limits and latency won't make this quite usable for games, but it could do wonders for a LAN game server.
And here I thought Smurfs were only a cartoon.
Gattaca.
I simply clicked a link from their own front page.
Forgetting about the Mac mini, are we?
Some websites have user-friendly URLs, such as "www.apple.com/macmini/". You don't even need to click that link to know what it's about.
Other websites have dumb, half-friendly URLs, where they add the backend technology inside the URL, such as "http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/" (what's with the "index.cfm" in the URL?). If they fix that problem, all the links pointing to the current URL will break. If they ever change technology, it's also going to break the links from other websites.
And then we have the URLs designed by web monkeys, such as the link for Dell's new Adamo laptop: "www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/adamo/topics/en/us/adamo-onyx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs". What the HELL is that thing? Even if we forget the parameters at the end, look at the path of that thing! I don't care how your crap is organized on the server, the URL should be much simpler than that!
And last, we have completely brain-dead URLs that seem to be created for computers only, without any chance of figuring out what kind of content is waiting for us on the other side of that link. Crap like "http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=16154&SR=nav:electronics:computers:notebook_computers:shop_compare:ss". We're lucky to see "notebook_computers" in the parameters, sometimes it's just a database reference number.
But even with crap URLs like that, unless you have to spell it, write it down or read it on a (paper) page, such links can be hidden behind simple anchor text such as Sony Laptops.
Twitter is its own problem, they should be the ones to fix their own mess. Someone could start a service similar to Twitter but without counting HTML code as being part of the X characters limit, which seems to be what the fuss is all about.
Just because they're made of wood logs doesn't mean they don't work.
Hey, don't rain on their parade.
The whales and dolphins, or the chickens and cows?
Oups, lawyers not laywers...
I also hate those stupid "choosing an item in the list equals submitting said choice".
Choosing something in a list is one step, submitting your choice is another.
I think you just found the IT equivalent of ambulance-chasing laywers...
1. Find job at company XYZ.
2. Make a list of all licensing violations.
3. Quit job, stating "found better job" or whatever.
4. Call BSA with all violations, collect rewards.
5. Profits!
But you are Anonymous Coward!
In this case it's quite different. It's not religious zealots crying wolf at something they don't understand. It's rational people, some of them scientists, saying that we really don't know for sure, that our current knowledge could be flawed. A real scientist should always be ready to question our current knowledge.
Another way to put it: if we were so sure that what we know is 100% correct then we wouldn't need to build the LHC to test our theories in the first place.
It really is from "relative@hotmail.com" as far as they're concerned.
Wouldn't GING work? (Go is not Go!)
At least the U.S. dollar is still worth more than Flainian Pobble Beads.
Just don't call any programming language B# or you'll have a lawsuit from Fox on your hand.
I can write you a check with several zeroes in it but that doesn't mean it's worth anything.
The little light on the dashboard isn't working. When will they learn and put TWO little lights under the dashboard!
And fortunately for us, they're making CPUs, not screws!
Red Green, that's who!
and they waited until november to tell you!
Care to tell me how I can play FF XI or WoW without company servers?
Can somebody call hell to see if they can host the next Winter Olympics?