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Old 05-14-2008, 06:33   #23
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As useful and powerful as grids probably will become, I don't think they'll be useful for real time online games like EU.

The power of grids comes from massive parallelity, which is hard to utilize in EU and other real time games, and which also have overhead of data transfer between grid nodes.
Heheh I heard the same such talk back in the late 80s.
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"Never" really means "soon!"

And as the years pass, "soon" comes faster and faster!
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When will the web replace RL food?
When will the moon be made from cheese?
When you learn to fly by flapping your ears?
When will George Bush receive an Nobel Peace Prize?

You think "soon" is the answer to everything?
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