Hello Georg,
As for some hard numbers, I recall a NOVA show where a construction
planner was asked to set up a time line for the pyramids using period
tech. The time line was under 3 years (2.5 IIRC).
Say 2000 men and 3 years. But stacking stones is a bit easier than
doing rocket science, right? Building rockets is not just stacking
iron, most of it is the rocket science, and that takes reading,
thinking, and asking each other. A lot.
My poit is that most people (might even have been all bedfor that job) thought
more in terms of 10-40 years.
Just to get a measure, write on a piece of paper how many hours you
would need to write a Monopoly (the board game) server that servers
10000 players, on a PC. One honest and careful estimate, according to
your own programming skills. Then, do that many hours of work on it,
and see how many percent of the work you got done in that time. (If
that's too big a project, then do a TicTacToe server.)
If you are questioning the reliability of the numbers, keep in mind the guy
who ran out that timeline did the same thing for multi-million dollar projects
as his day job. If he got that kind of numbers wrong, it could cost millions
in real money.
I don't want the answer. It's for yourself.
inf.
