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No... little 3D only. Us po' folk have to have voice too. Ain't that why we have a republic? One tends to post to the content type one is working on, Rob. The trends in 3D systems interest me a) because of a long fight for 3D and XML b) because this is where something new is emerging in the WWW that is aggregating many different technical trends but in a different wrapper. There is an article at CNet about searching SL. Tony Parisi makes a cogent comment that if they actually used the web infrastructure instead of being a private subnet, they wouldn't have to reinvent searching for their own content. There are also some neat ideas about how being in a 3D world can add different utilities to what we use searching for. As I've said before, proximity is an emergence engine in the same way a topical vector model indexes text. But the costs and impacts of big server farms affect everyone. It's an "inconvenient truth". len From: Robert Koberg [mailto:rob@k...] top-posting in honor of len: Uff... are you some kind of lobbying/PR/marketing arm of Big 3d? On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:03:27 -0500, Len Bullard <cbullard@h...> wrote: > Only that the cost of electricity and taxes for the server farms will > push > the private subnet systems service vendors to look around for cheaper > systems just as you say. Scaling up systems like SL may become too > expensive. One wonders if the peer-to-peer VR systems like Croquet and > the > client-side systems with proposed network sensors are the better bet. > Not > all decisions are driven by the technical considerations of performance. > Thermal costs are not friendly to the growth of the web without some > serious > rethinking of server-side systems. > > > len
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