[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[BCS]

Hello Georg,

>> As for some hard numbers, I recall a NOVA show where a construction
>> planner was asked to set up a time line for the pyramids using period
>> tech. The time line was under 3 years (2.5 IIRC).
>> 
> Say 2000 men and 3 years. But stacking stones is a bit easier than
> doing rocket science, right? Building rockets is not just stacking
> iron, most of it is the rocket science, and that takes reading,
> thinking, and asking each other. A lot.
>

My poit is that most people (might even have been all bedfor that job) thought 
more in terms of 10-40 years.
 
> Just to get a measure, write on a piece of paper how many hours you
> would need to write a Monopoly (the board game) server that servers
> 10000 players, on a PC. One honest and careful estimate, according to
> your own programming skills. Then, do that many hours of work on it,
> and see how many percent of the work you got done in that time. (If
> that's too big a project, then do a TicTacToe server.)


If you are questioning the reliability of the numbers, keep in mind the guy 
who ran out that timeline did the same thing for multi-million dollar projects 
as his day job. If he got that kind of numbers wrong, it could cost millions 
in real money.

> 
> I don't want the answer. It's for yourself.
> 

inf.