How microsoft plan to stealthily bring back Always Online

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

gergroy said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

gergroy said:

Yes, well, did you notice how i put cloud in quotes?  Still the idea they have been talking about is off loading processes, whether you use the term cloud or dedicated servers, they are talking about the same thing...

The only things that could be offloaded without being affected by latency are things that are neither essential nor process intensive, i.e those process being offloaded would have no substaintial benefit.

network connections can easily go up to a couple of seconds, when real-time rendering needs at least 1/15 per frame to achieve a non powerpoint framerate

Did you even look at what i was referencing?  Or is your mind just completely set in pessimistic mode on this subject?

Read your own article, they say it "could be" not it is Crackdown tech. Not to mention that demo was done interally, with a direct connection to MS's server farm.

You said they could use it to offload things for cool purposes, I refuted that doing that over the Cloud is ridiculously impractical. You respond with how offloading could still be done over some kind of networking, semantics aside. I counter that with how the only things that could be offloaded without a performance hit that makes it counterproductive, so its not substaintial. No pessimism here. Just realism.