[Ogre] How exactly did Japan conquer China?

[Chris French]

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> From: David Morse <dcmorse at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Ogre] How exactly did Japan conquer China?
> As they say, "Past results are no indicator of future performance". 
> Look at the miniturization and performance increases cameras have
> undergone in our lifetimes.  Look at networking technology.  Look at
> little robots.  And finally look at storage densities, on e.g. Hard
> Drives.  I'm just extrapolating a Moore's Law for these types of
> things, and we don't even have autofacs yet.

That's as may be -- there's still any number of ways to end-run the
system. For a short list, read p. 6 of _GURPS OGRE_.

"My name -- my number -- on a list!"
"Honours, or deportation?"
"Jamming."
["It's Your Funeral", _The Prisoner_]

> 
> Although in terms of miniaturization, Bushiverse is starting to pull
> away from Ogreverse, even with its 60 year head start.  I seem to
> recall an Ogre Mk V has 1 gigabyte of RAM.  The computer I'm typing
> this on also has 1 gigabyte of RAM.  Maybe Bushiverse is better at
> miniturization while Ogreverse is better at Macro.

Or maybe whomever wrote that bit of flavor-text massively missed
the mark -- your 1-gig computer ain't exactly talkin' back t' you, now
ain't it? :) (AI is a lot harder to achieve than folks think.)

CF