The thing that plugs into your cable or DSL isn't really a 'modem' either but that doesn't stop people from calling it one. 'Virtual telescope' is far easier for laymen to grasp. Yes, slashdotters can for the most part understand this stuff, but your pedantry isn't really called for.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call it a duck. This looks like a game and sounds like a game. I call it a game. That doesn't mean it's not a faithful simulation of racing; it just means the publishers are either really full of themselves, trolling for publicity, or both.
I was referring to professional sports. When you get paid millions to play a game you love, it's not only worth the hard work, but you're doing something RIGHT.
People in every State are free to elect new State Representatives and (by varying mechanisms) to change their State Constitutions in order to determine how electors are required to vote. That is how the system works.
Computer/console gaming can be a professional endeavor but it isn't a sport anymore than professional chess is a sport. A sport requires some degree of physical activity beyond clicking a mouse or gamepad.
I'm not taking anything away from the level of skill involved and maybe I'm just getting into the semantics too much, but I'm tired of people equating professional gaming with sports. Again, the chess analogy comes to mind.
What you are describing is a pipe dream. Even *if* they managed to do something like that, performance would be utter crap, die size would be huge, and the odds are it just plain would suck.
Not really. Nothing stops them from making it a Federal tax then distributing the proceeds to the various States. It would also grow the bureaucracy, which they also adore.
This has nothing to do with string theory, so let's all do a !stringtheory up on the tagline. There is nothing about cosmology in this; it's about methods used for years by mathematicians to visualize 4D abstract objects as they move through 3D space.
It's obviously the fault of the filesharers. All those bits streaming through the equipment at the same time as video and legitimate Internet usage cause friction, see, and that caused the boxes to catch fire. Yet another arguement against the evil pirates!
You seem to think everything that runs on a mainframe is COBOL. It's not. I am not advocating one solution over another, I'm just saying that there is plenty of room for mainframe based solutions. It is also possible to let someone else manage your (leased) mainframe hardware.
There is no one size fits all solution. Not in IT nor in any other endeavor.
Mainframes are far more fault tolerant than any server. A cluster of servers has fault tolerance, yes, but it a bit harder to manage. Mainframes Just Work for the most part...oh and yes you can run Linux on them.
I have found over the years that most C++ haters never bothered to really learn the language. Most of them started with C and then took the habits they learned there and never changed them for C++. Despite being mostly a superset of C, C++ is a very different language and requires a very different approach to leverage properly.
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The thing that plugs into your cable or DSL isn't really a 'modem' either but that doesn't stop people from calling it one. 'Virtual telescope' is far easier for laymen to grasp. Yes, slashdotters can for the most part understand this stuff, but your pedantry isn't really called for.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call it a duck. This looks like a game and sounds like a game. I call it a game. That doesn't mean it's not a faithful simulation of racing; it just means the publishers are either really full of themselves, trolling for publicity, or both.
I was referring to professional sports. When you get paid millions to play a game you love, it's not only worth the hard work, but you're doing something RIGHT.
In all the non-drug sports it come down to genetics and chance, and that's hardly fair.
You left out the part about years of training, physical conditioning, and downright hard, hard work.
People in every State are free to elect new State Representatives and (by varying mechanisms) to change their State Constitutions in order to determine how electors are required to vote. That is how the system works.
Computer/console gaming can be a professional endeavor but it isn't a sport anymore than professional chess is a sport. A sport requires some degree of physical activity beyond clicking a mouse or gamepad.
I'm not taking anything away from the level of skill involved and maybe I'm just getting into the semantics too much, but I'm tired of people equating professional gaming with sports. Again, the chess analogy comes to mind.
What you are describing is a pipe dream. Even *if* they managed to do something like that, performance would be utter crap, die size would be huge, and the odds are it just plain would suck.
Not really. Nothing stops them from making it a Federal tax then distributing the proceeds to the various States. It would also grow the bureaucracy, which they also adore.
Then it will go to Congress and they will pass new laws allowing these taxes. The current Congress never met a tax it didn't like.
Won't someone think of the poor vegetarians! The horror! The horror!
Really? Just copy paste? No effort to even say something from your own head? Wow, how informative.
It added more to the discussion than your AC whining did.
Yes, and the average home user is going to do that too...not.
Video games *can be* art. That doesn't make all video games works of art.
I feel exactly the same way about my tax dollars going to fund welfare for people who are able bodied and otherwise capable of fending for themselves.
I think California itself causes cancer...brain cancer. I really wish they would cede from the Union and stop trying to fuck the rest of us up.
...he must be new here.
This has nothing to do with string theory, so let's all do a !stringtheory up on the tagline. There is nothing about cosmology in this; it's about methods used for years by mathematicians to visualize 4D abstract objects as they move through 3D space.
It's not even new.
Obviously someone without a sense of humor. ZING! WHOOSH! ZOOM! Make sure you duck when the jokes fly over your head; wouldn't want you to get hurt.
A few caught fire or even exploded.
It's obviously the fault of the filesharers. All those bits streaming through the equipment at the same time as video and legitimate Internet usage cause friction, see, and that caused the boxes to catch fire. Yet another arguement against the evil pirates!
It was drunken typo-English, not broken per se ;)
You seem to think everything that runs on a mainframe is COBOL. It's not. I am not advocating one solution over another, I'm just saying that there is plenty of room for mainframe based solutions. It is also possible to let someone else manage your (leased) mainframe hardware.
There is no one size fits all solution. Not in IT nor in any other endeavor.
That's ok because he's raking in millions selling 'carbon credits' now. I don't think he'll starve.
Mainframes are far more fault tolerant than any server. A cluster of servers has fault tolerance, yes, but it a bit harder to manage. Mainframes Just Work for the most part...oh and yes you can run Linux on them.
Yeah, it's really hard to tell Mom to hit the 'alt' key.
I have found over the years that most C++ haters never bothered to really learn the language. Most of them started with C and then took the habits they learned there and never changed them for C++. Despite being mostly a superset of C, C++ is a very different language and requires a very different approach to leverage properly.
You, sir, will be hearing from my attorney shortly. I am suing for the pain and suffereing you caused with that image.