remote directory/partition

[Nadav Har'El]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote about "Re: remote directory/partition":
> Gravity generator. The speed of gravity is still unknown, but might be very
> very fast, and will enforce low-latency and cross-barrier transport across
> continents. I don't think, however, you can find a gravity generator in the
> commodity market. Not sure if you can find any at all :-)

Indeed. It is worth remembering that the diameter of a circle is a full
1.5708 (PI/2) times shorter than half its circumference, so if you can get
the communication *through* the earth, you can make the latency 37% lower
than with traditional wires-over-the-surface communication technology.

:-)


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