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[Devin Asay]

On May 21, 2009, at 10:52 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Devin Asay wrote:
>>
>> On May 18, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What about the delay going from the U.S. and back?
>>>>> What's the latency?
>>>>
>>>> Hah! Try being in Australia before complaining about latency!!!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Come on, you know full well that Oz is a day ahead of the US. Even
>>> your own
>>> on-Rev site, at the bottom,  shows that your time is 15 hrs ahead of
>>> Texas
>>> time, so it can't be latency because your messages arrive at your
>>> computer
>>> before they've even arrived at the Texas servers. I assume it's  
>>> difficult
>>> sending your messages 'back to the future'.
>>
>> There is a simple explanation. Sarah obviously has ported Jacque's  
>> Time
>> Warp stack to on-rev.
>
> Yeah, but she only figured out the part that goes backward.

No, it's just a limitation of the web. HTTP is read-only and temporal- 
past-only. We'll have to wait for the next version of the HTTP  
protocol to get temporal-future capability. It's just one more  
advantage of the Rev desktop environment. :-)

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University