When Will Everything Be Live?
I obtained a copy of Microsoft Office 2007 and began doing my school work. Saving the document multiple times, I began to think. Why doesn’t it always save? I then thought of multiple instances where things would be better if they were relatively “live.” My Segway checks 100 times per second to make sure that it is balanced upright; how come my web browser requires me to manually check (yeah bandwidth issues but why not). How come my Gmail only updates every minute or so, and every five minutes for Outlook on my phone. How come on I don’t see topics moving up and down on my favorite forums? Is it all really just a bandwidth issue. I thought about this also when using my Mac, where most of the settings are live. When I change my font on Adium, I don’t need to hit “OK,” as goes for most setting in Macintosh system preferences. Vice versa, why don’t I need to save my World of Warcraft character every so often?
I know that the internet is heading this way. Look at XHTML, Atom/RSS feeds; they’re all live.
Loading …October 11 2007 10:02 pm | Misc and Thoughts
Dan on 12 Oct 2007 at 6:44 am #
The internet auto updating? Not until we have connections that can handle it simultaneously from millions of users at once. In theory we do now, but all our broadband connections are “burst” connections. Imagine all the extra stress put the servers serving those requests, imagine all the wasted bandwidth serving requests just for the sake of serving requests as there will be no new information many times.
As for Office ‘07: Open Words options and set it to autosave every minute that should cover you
Keith on 12 Oct 2007 at 10:32 am #
How do technologies like direct push exist?