Pete
Like I said, I picked up most of my knowledge from science magazines and the like, but I am told that Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End has a good depiction of AR...
Occasionally I'm callous and strange.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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CaBil - Jun 04, 2008 2:25:47 pm PDT #868 of 26132
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 04, 2008 3:22:49 pm PDT #869 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
CaBil, it wasn't just AR, but all the other terms you were using too. I've used wikipedia to look up a few since then, so some of them were not particularly useful beginners' guides...
CaBil - Jun 04, 2008 4:20:49 pm PDT #870 of 26132
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Anything you are still uncertain about?
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 04, 2008 8:05:35 pm PDT #871 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Oh plenty, but I will do more digging when I have time, and pose questions as and when.
Okay, one, do you have a simple explanation of Cloud Computing?
billytea - Jun 04, 2008 8:19:06 pm PDT #872 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Linked just because I thought it was very cute: a seven-year-old gets his first taste of D&D. [link]
amych - Jun 05, 2008 3:36:26 am PDT #873 of 26132
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
That's incredibly sweet, BT. Also, cute to watch a board full o' guys flailing around in obvious need of a phrase to correspond to "OMG MY OVARIES!!"
SailAweigh - Jun 05, 2008 3:41:11 am PDT #874 of 26132
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Too cute!
CaBil - Jun 05, 2008 4:06:28 am PDT #875 of 26132
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
He certainly has the gaming mindset down...
"No. I need to know now. It could be a monster village, daddy. You. Never. Know."
CaBil - Jun 05, 2008 4:21:03 am PDT #876 of 26132
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Cloud computing is the idea that there is computer resources (clock cycles, servers, memory) that are available by task rather than by renting the physical machinery. Amazon and Google are currently doing this, renting out time and resources from their server farms. Cloud comes from how computer resources are usually illustrated in org charts (as a cloud) but also represents that it is as accessible as air.
The fiction applications of it is that if you have the money, you can rent out as 'big' of a computer as you need, need a supercomputer to crack the encryption on a message? Hope your credit card holds up...
billytea - Jun 05, 2008 1:17:56 pm PDT #877 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Also, cute to watch a board full o' guys flailing around in obvious need of a phrase to correspond to "OMG MY OVARIES!!"
Yeah. I hear something very different in meaning from "OMG MY TESTICLES!!"