> NewScientist.com news service
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> amounts of data between computers. It is hoped this will drive forward
> new internet technologies that require high data transfer speeds, such
> as tele-immersion and virtual reality.
As a free translation to the non-computer-minded: "virtual reality" is code-speak for running stadium-sized skirmishes of Serious Sam II at 1200 x 1084. Yow!
> This backbone could also give researchers in many scientific disciplines
> access to massive amounts of data and computing power at other
> universities across the planet.
This is code-speak for "Metal Gear Solid 3 is going multiplayer." (All the fancy verbiage is just to drum up funding support from clueless politicians. Science marches on!)
-- Dennis