[Magictour] Re: Stats

>now that data storing is so much easier than in the past,
>the history will become much wider and more people will
>find a place in it. So, yes , I do think that if someone
>will type your name into a searchengine in 100 years,
>then he will probably find you.

Or perhaps my only homonym ! It's weird, since I have a very rare name and
firstname.

>JC said:
>I'm aware that we are technologically in advance, but the problem is that
we
>are theoretical guys.
>I'm not so aware of that. Maybe we were 40 years ago, but then the
>Japanese came. They are actually a bit silent and now we are waiting
>for the Chinese.

No, Japanese and Chinese just know how to improve products for large public
audience.
But they are definitely not very good at game programming (which is my
domain). The best technicians are, in the order: German, Swedish, French,
English, Swiss. Hungarian and Russians are pretty good too.

>it's also the bureaucracy
(in Germany it's everywhere but I didn't even know the English word,
had to look it up)

Yes, I didn't know the translation too, but in France, it's sad to see that
most of the problems come from their behaviour.

>this can be automized, IMO. 50 years ago nobody could imagine that
>you might telefone without an operator ! In some years, you create
>a distributed project with one mouseclick and it's maintained
>automatically (and JC will be glad that he already has another job ;-) )

Some frameworks (like Cosm, Entropia) exist for that, but that's right: no
front-end for distributed applications exists.
It's a good idea (no money to make, alas !).

>>Gunter is now pretty good at maintaining his site,
>he isn't. Everything is entered manually. There should be a program
>to convert SOLUTION.TXT into new html- tours within index.htm

Ok, I'll write the tool tonight.

>But I don't expect many more new tours to appear.

2 days ago, I thought that we'll find 3 or 4 tours max. It seems I'll be
wrong.

>you should have told me this 3 years ago !

For the Eternity puzzle ?
There was a running project on that (Swiss something), but they were forced
to stop !

JC


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