[TML] New 3d computer simulation design

[Knapp]

We are talking, about talking :-}, between planets and I was just
assuming that it would take a lot of power to do it thus have high
cost but getting cheaper with higher tech planets.
Even with VoIP you must pay for your internet.
Cost more for more bandwidth makes sense to me.
Douglas

On Dec 2, 2007 12:40 AM, Timothy Little <tim at little-possums.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 07:32:15PM +0100, Knapp wrote:
> > Even on the Earth it cost more to call a long distance. If nothing
> > else this is a bit of realism.
>
> Never used any form of VoIP? ;^)
>
> If you want realism and expensive communication, you'll probably want
> to make real-time video communication practically impossible.  Voice
> should be prohibitive to all but the richest.  That enables text
> communication to be merely expensive - 1000 written words typically
> requires fewer bits than 2 seconds of voice-optimised compressed
> audio.
>
>
> - Tim
>
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