Quote from: gjhiggins on November 09, 2014, 01:03:38 PM

Quote from: ohad on November 03, 2014, 03:43:25 PM

Some economical aspects on Zennet (will slowly make this list longer):

As your project proceeds, you will likely need more support with your English: economic == the discipline, economical == thrifty. Fortunately, mangled syntax English robust against is. Except for 2. (below) where the tense makes a crucial difference in this particular context ...

Definitely right. I apologized for my English several times here, and also pointed that some misunderstandings are because of my English. Yet, it's not that a disaster, since it's a discussion, and I guess the situation isn't that bad. One even answered that I have a good English. I disagree

At any case, the formal documents (like the About Zennet article) went through talented native English speakers.

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1. If you hire 10 or 100 computers for the same task, the latter option will indeed run ~10 times faster

That statement makes an implicit assumption that the task is always amenable to parallel processing. Have you examined the range and depth of that assumption in terms of how much of the anticipated business depends upon it? Is it intended that the solution space be limited to such tasks --- or at least those tasks which are amenable to a parallel solution and can be identified as such, characterised and quantified in some reliable and accurate fashion?

FWIW, you don't mean "~10". The most favourable statement that you can truthfully make is "up to 10 times" and I suspect that you'd be hard-pressed to provide solid support that ~10 is the general case and not, in fact, some difficult-to-quantify smaller subset.

That's of course correct. Sure there are limits for how a job can scale and with which efficiency. Zennet is indeed designed for distributed tasks only (both types you mentioned, if I got you correctly), as on my assumptions comment above. I might needed to put a few more ~~ and <<. It is indeed a rough estimation, just to draw the meaning for people not necessarily know much about distributed computing.

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2. Entities who buy a lot of Zencoins, usually do it in order to calculate something, hence spread them back to the people right away.

Can I just check (in case it's not merely a trivial issue of EFL) --- this is actually a forward-looking statement, a prediction of a future state rather than a description of an existing state? Because if it is a forward-looking statement, I'd really like to know how you got to usually.

Yes, forward-looking, but less a prediction, more like a tendencies compared to currencies, stock etc.
English corrections accepted