NeverMan -> RE: Is TCP/IP Supported? (2/11/2008 4:57:48 PM)
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ORIGINAL: moopere Live chat? I thought we were talking about an IGOUGO gaming system? I assume that you -do- realise email is sent over tcp/ip as its transport protocol? Yes, I understand the both the current Internet model and the OSI model. I am also quite aware of Amdahl's Law (for the other guy). YOU were the one that pointed out that TCP/IP connections can get lost and you used that as an argument against TCP/IP play, so I guess you are correcting yourself, thank you. Oh for goodness sakes. That was me outlaying a corner case issue with direct tcp/ip in response to an assertion (by someone) that emails get lost and/or can take a long time. If you'd read what I was saying you'd have known that both are corner cases and should not be used as arguments for or against. quote:
ORIGINAL: NeverMan The "live chat" vs. "email" was just an analogy, sorry if you didn't understand that. TCP/IP is essentially the same as FTF, and FTF is faster than PBEM. I simply don't understand: 1) how you people cannot see that Because some of us are professional programmers? quote:
ORIGINAL: NeverMan 2) why so many pro-PBEMs are so anti-TCP/IP (why is the world so bi-everything?) There can be both you know. Because programmers are pestered all day and night by end-users (such as the pro tcp/ip lobby here) who throw wild suggestions out into the world with justifications of "why not"....the why not in this case being that the end result will be almost no different to the model already presented and the amount of work required to prove this is extraordinary (huge!). But look, you have now worked yourself up into a hysterical state over this. I've got no personal agenda here so I think I'll let it go at this point. If the pro tcpip lobby gets their way it won't be a bad thing for the PBEMers, just an additional thing, which is all good. Cheers, Moopere. Hysterical state? LOL. No, I'm just stating the logical. I have little emotion wrapped up in the TCP/IP slash PBEM argument, it's just that to me it doesn't make sense not to have TCP/IP. And when I said "programmers" I meant, yes, us professional programmers. I believe that there are quite a few here (and in the world nowadays I might add). IMO, good programmers (software engineers) listen to "pesky end users" and don't have a negative attitude about it. If you aren't writing code for an end user as a professional programmer, then who are you writing code for?
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