Re: [vos-d] parameterized views

2006-12-04 Thread Karsten Otto
Hi folks! From the top of my head, I'd say this idea of yours sounds cool, but is probably going too far. After all, the idea is to present a synchronized world for everybody to *share*, i.e. Gibson's consensual hallucination. If every user gets to see the world in an entirely different

Re: [vos-d] status and scheming

2006-12-04 Thread Karsten Otto
Am 01.12.2006 um 19:37 schrieb S Mattison: Now-ish is a great interpretation of it. The server can't send everyone a packet every nanosecond. Exactly. I was thinking somewhat in the lines of a simplified per- world NTP (RFC 1305). And I don't think it should 'degrade' to server-client, I

Re: [vos-d] status and scheming

2006-12-04 Thread S Mattison
On 12/4/06, Karsten Otto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... Ideally, everybody should host their own content (or at least avatar). However, most people nowadays are smart enough to install a personal firewall, protecting their machine from the evil Internet. Yet the same people are rarely skilled