top-posting in honor of len:
Uff... are you some kind of lobbying/PR/marketing arm of Big 3d?
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:03:27 -0500, Len Bullard <>
wrote:
> Only that the cost of electricity and taxes for the server farms will
> push
> the private subnet systems service vendors to look around for cheaper
> systems just as you say. Scaling up systems like SL may become too
> expensive. One wonders if the peer-to-peer VR systems like Croquet and
> the
> client-side systems with proposed network sensors are the better bet.
> Not
> all decisions are driven by the technical considerations of performance.
> Thermal costs are not friendly to the growth of the web without some
> serious
> rethinking of server-side systems.
>
>
> len
