[opensource-dev] TPV & opensim & physics prediction

[Argent Stonecutter]

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On 2010-02-28, at 14:05, Dzonatas Sol wrote:

> This is perfect then...
>
> If you are scheduled to meet in a sim later in the week, then why  
> worry if all the static objects take a day to download from that sim  
> through archaic usenet means. You would already have all the object  
> information needed for physics and to render in a local storage.
>
> By the time everybody meets, there would be no lag to suddenly  
> download all objects from a single host.
>
> Times that by 10,000 people... just for scalability concerns.
>
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> On 2010-02-25, at 15:12, Dzonatas Sol wrote:
>>> [Usenet] worked. It is still free and open.
>>
>> It used to be. It's getting harder and harder to get feeds these  
>> days. Everyone just reads through Google Groups rather than trying  
>> to find someone with a feed. SL and OpenSim started with the  
>> equivalent of "Google Groups" already live.
>>
>> It wasn't even vaguely real-time. It was *OK* that the stanford- 
>> munnari link was a daily airmailed magtape, nobody cared if their  
>> newsfeed was a day behind.
>>
>>
>

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