> >Yes and no. Initially I wanted to "forbid" anything non-deterministic. I
am
> >slowly changing my mind, and I think I would allow some small amount of
> >nondeterminisms, and slight deviations from the STRICT function-of-time
> >requirements.
>
> Ack, stop right there!!!!!
>
> Excuse me, but we shouldn't repeat the past here! You'd be recreating a
> cgi-bin world where we have scripts producing animations on the fly. And
> completely ignoring the most interesting issues of interaction altogether.
What?
Am I the only one that doesn't understand this sentence?
What am I ignoring?
> This is not acceptable.
>
> >I don't understand this at all! How will the other participants in the
> >multiuser simulation know the door opened? That the alarm sounded?
>
> Through message-passing. You're doing it right now.
Sigh. You did it again. This was exactly the point, that Mitra did *NOT*
want any messages to be passed around.
I asked "How would other people then know"?
You esplied "by message passing"...
I give up. I dont have time for this.
Goodbye.
> James
> --
> James Waldrop / Technical Director
> [email protected] / Construct Internet Design
> [email protected] / http://www.construct.net
>
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