 If you thought UMS icons were ugly..., Interesting technology |
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 Jan 27 2005, 03:21 PM
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Shooting Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,840 Joined: 24-July 02 From: Lubbock, TX Member No.: 3,024  |
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Jan 27 2005, 03:38 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 230 Joined: 3-December 04 Member No.: 6,863 |
There have been several out there like this. I remember one called Vurisotity (or colse to it). It was of a 3d world that you could explore. It reminded me of EQ in look. You could meet other people online and the such. the only problem was getting a website designed for this was ungodly expensive. hope this doesn't fall to the same pitfalls.
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Jan 27 2005, 03:40 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,453 Joined: 17-September 04 From: St. Paul Member No.: 6,675 |
This is how I envision turtle decking.
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Jan 27 2005, 03:43 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
The mods for that must be fun. You could pile all your porn sites into a Red Light district and add some sprites taken from your little VirtualStripper dancing in the corner of your screen.
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Jan 27 2005, 03:43 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,840 Joined: 24-July 02 From: Lubbock, TX Member No.: 3,024 |
I just don't see how this is any faster then just browsing through each individual page anyway. I mean, it has to load up the front page of each site anyway.
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Jan 27 2005, 03:48 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
These controls are horrible! I can't even back up!? Strafing would be nice, too.
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Jan 27 2005, 03:49 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
I think the general idea for this is that you don't have to design a website for it. You just open it like a normal browser and go through all the websties. Problem is, if you don't have a great connection, the loading time will be a bitch-and-a-half. |
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Jan 27 2005, 03:51 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
I'm browsing this on a T1 and the load times are still unacceptable.
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Jan 27 2005, 03:55 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
Consider how many pages have to load.
Also; is it a T1 all to your own self, or is it shared? |
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Jan 27 2005, 03:56 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
This time of day; all to myself.
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Jan 27 2005, 04:03 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,840 Joined: 24-July 02 From: Lubbock, TX Member No.: 3,024 |
Nice
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Jan 27 2005, 04:06 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
I'm at work. I only have cable at home.
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Jan 27 2005, 04:08 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
I'll assume you have bandwidth limiters then.
Besides, T1 isn't even all that fast anymore. Even OC-12 is slow compared to what speeds some people I know have. Also take into account it probably loads up... Say 100 pages. Then those pages all have upload limits, so you don't get your full down rate. |
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Jan 27 2005, 04:11 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
It's fine as long as I don't move too fast, but once you start running around the 3B city it takes a while to catch up.
And yes, I am limited to T1. The network I'm on is much, much faster. But this time of the day all the students are asleep or at class, so I can easily hit my T1 limit. |
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Jan 27 2005, 04:13 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,950 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Reminds me of the DOOM GUI for Linux. A lot more fun than "kill -9", I must say.
~J |
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Jan 27 2005, 04:14 PM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
Im sitting on 5 meg cable, and its slow enough I can gripe here while its loading.
If this is the future of the internet, Im going back to command line before its too late. |
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Jan 27 2005, 04:16 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
*shudder* |
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Jan 27 2005, 04:20 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
I think I could browse faster using 1st edition rules! :rotfl:
:S |
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Jan 27 2005, 04:26 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,840 Joined: 24-July 02 From: Lubbock, TX Member No.: 3,024 |
I work on a system that has OC-3 to the desktop. Too bad I can't host dumpshock files on it :/
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Jan 27 2005, 04:46 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 179 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 381 |
This is possibly the most useless browser I've seen. I'd rather use IE. What's the point? Increased bandwith use doesn't count as a feature in my book. I pity the VCs who've spent their money on this (you can't blame them for not beeing tech-savy).
Sun tried with their 3D java desktop, but that at least had features beyond beeing bulky. At some point we will probably get close to VR-UIs, but it won't look like the 3B browser. The single most promising feature of VR-UI is screen size. Most people prefer to work with a bigger screen if they can, with VR there would be no limit at all. The next most promising feature are FPS, MMORPG and other games. |
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