Heh, I wish. Unfortunately, the word teleport here does not mean what everybody immediately thinks. Otherwise, this would mean sooo much more than lower latency gaming.
I just recently transferred all of my domains over from GoDaddy to Moniker, which was relatively painless with their site heavily oriented around bulk transfers. Although the control panel could be better, it is sooo much better than GoDaddy's. When I logged in to GoDaddy to transfer these domains, not having logged in for quite some time, and with their ever changing, incredibly busy design, it took me a good 60 seconds or so to even find the link to the 'domain manager'.
The whole elephant incident alone wouldn't have made me switch, but after wanting to try something new for some time, that was all I needed to put the effort in to finding someone else.
Although I've just started learning it, Haskell seems to be a worthy language for games (even has PPC support?). Even as a low-level "scripting" language of sorts, using FFI...although I'm not sure how easy it is to bind with C++ at the moment.
Going by the rest of the article, I'm assuming by native HTML5 they mean hardware accelerated compositing? Good for them if so, but 'native' is definitely the wrong word to use, and the development channel of Chrome has supported hardware accelerated compositing for quite some time.
Awesome.. we really need some Gmail competitors. I love Gmail and all, but they've reigned king with very little real competition for a surprisingly long time.
"Last week, the prototype was presented to the energy division of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is backing the Michigan State University Engine Research Laboratory with $2.5 million in funding."
I am just as skeptical, but if this is how they get their funding to build that working prototype than I'd say it's fair enough.
Very nice! It is indeed amazing how much thought and effort was put into this, and it is appreciated. At some point, I'll have to convert for Visual Studio use if someone doesn't beat me to it.
Haha, that breeds all kinds of crazy ideas. If one could simulate the world's biosphere and its organisms at the genetic or even cellular level, we might one day be able to predict the effects of evolution on humans and other animals.
MAYBE even with bacteria and viruses to predict and then cure diseases before they even present themselves!
I doubt our understanding of genetics/biology is extensive enough for this yet, not to mention the computing power needed, but it seems quite possible.