On 03/01/07, Ron Hall ron.hall@mcgill.ca wrote:
How big is the stick? And does it conform to current industry standards for sticks? You may need to upgrade to a brickbat or sledge hammer.
We upgraded the stick from a 1.5m pole to a 2.5m ash stake last year, to appropriately scale to the needs of our user base. I believe we also trialled a distributed architecture whereby we had Mark, Domas and Kyle, all with sticks. Tests showed that if they kept the sticks moving, the effective spin-up time of the stick was eliminated when responding to attacks, however, their arms got tired more quickly, leaving them open to later attacks.
Rob Church