----- Original Message ---- From: Jeff Wilson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 31 December, 2008 9:02:53 PM Subject: Re: [gurps] Re: Internet on blue planet and like worlds
>> However, desired content must be produced. What percentage of >> the internet users are producing massive amounts of content, rather than >> just consuming content? Now scale that down to a >> population of less than two million. >The scaling is not that simple. Your typical high-volume user here is moving >gulping a gigabyte a day and serving somewhat less in the form a webcam, file >>sharing, untrimmed replies, and some pet thing like DJ-ing. >For each expensive colonist, >you'll have zillions lots of cheap, IP-connected sensors and effectors that >need to be monitored and driven remotely, >because there's only so many places the colonist can go in a day, you are thinking of a wireless sensor network ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_network ) > and some non-cheap, high-volume ip connected nodes buffering this for the > colonists, > <snip> a caching proxy server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server) would do the job >Then, on top of that, >they are going to want a stream of as much of Earth's daily content as they >can get, >for entertainment as well as reference purposes. I can understand emails/voice-emails/video-emails send and received from earth I dont see the need for earth based entertainment like TV, radio etc when local entertainment is better Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
