While advances in chip technology is indeed good news, this needs to be backed up by equivalent advances in new age applications. After all who would want more firepower behind the same old MS-Office or chat client.
My take is that the immense number crunching power of these new age chips should be directed towards a new generation of data compression/de-compression applications based on newer algorithms. This will allow intense video/grahpics based applications like Metaverse/SecondLife to run elegantly and effortlessly on existing networks.
Other applications could be language translation on-the-fly where you speak English at one end of telephone line and the listener gets to hear French at the other end.
We need creative applications like these to leverage the computing power of these new chips
I really do not care a fig if this violates AnsheChung's privacy or not, nor do I care which way this particular dispute is resolved, whether in the court of law or the court of public opinion.
What interests me is that the issue and challenges thrown up in this case in SecondLife is very close to what would have happened in RealLife as well. ( The analogy of Mr Kennedy being insulted at a private Democratic party fund raiser... as quoted by another post... is particularly accurate)
What this means that SecondLIfe is approaching RealLife in many aspects ( OK, agreed, there is no hunger, no starvation and no terrorist related death, AS YET )... and this is a sign of convergence.
As we have more and more such convergence, we will see more and more MMORPGs like SecondLife emerging out the woodwork and entering mainstream, digital cyberia.
That is when a universal, 'open', browser like client will become a reality, and this will force the 'open' VRML( or equivalent ?) based servers to become the backbone of the new 3D-worldwideweb.
If flying penises and law courts further the cause, let us have more of it:-)
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While advances in chip technology is indeed good news, this needs to be backed up by equivalent advances in new age applications. After all who would want more firepower behind the same old MS-Office or chat client.
My take is that the immense number crunching power of these new age chips should be directed towards a new generation of data compression/de-compression applications based on newer algorithms. This will allow intense video/grahpics based applications like Metaverse/SecondLife to run elegantly and effortlessly on existing networks.
Other applications could be language translation on-the-fly where you speak English at one end of telephone line and the listener gets to hear French at the other end.
We need creative applications like these to leverage the computing power of these new chips
I really do not care a fig if this violates AnsheChung's privacy or not, nor do I care which way this particular dispute is resolved, whether in the court of law or the court of public opinion. What interests me is that the issue and challenges thrown up in this case in SecondLife is very close to what would have happened in RealLife as well. ( The analogy of Mr Kennedy being insulted at a private Democratic party fund raiser ... as quoted by another post ... is particularly accurate)
What this means that SecondLIfe is approaching RealLife in many aspects ( OK, agreed, there is no hunger, no starvation and no terrorist related death, AS YET ) ... and this is a sign of convergence.
As we have more and more such convergence, we will see more and more MMORPGs like SecondLife emerging out the woodwork and entering mainstream, digital cyberia.
That is when a universal, 'open', browser like client will become a reality, and this will force the 'open' VRML( or equivalent ?) based servers to become the backbone of the new 3D-worldwideweb.
If flying penises and law courts further the cause, let us have more of it :-)