The question was, were the government employees that signed the deals getting hookers and blow from Oracle Marketing to influence their decisions? Having worked for Oracle Market, and seeing as how they had no ethical qualms with billing customers for work that was never done, I wouldn't put the practice of outright bribing decision makers above them. On the other hand, I have no actual evidence that bribery occurred.
Buddy, you're the one who either decided to have a wife and kids, or you let the little woman browbeat you into your present situation. You're neglecting the third possibility: the condom broke.
Which is exactly the point. Building wind and solar capability doesn't reduce your need for conventional power plants to handle peak demand. They just allow you to idle those conventional power plants most of the time. One thing that would make sense is to attach wind and solar to hydroelectric dams. When the wind is blowing or sun is shining, you can release less water through the turbine, and when no wind or sun is available, crank up the hydro to max.
Those actions existed long before videogames, and would continue to exist even if multiplayer games were abolished. Ever watch a group of kids interact in real life? They don't need multiplayer games to be whiny, hypercritical, exclusive, or abusive. Basically, kids will attempt to do anything they think they can get away with, regardless of whether or not they are in-game.
Our rich heritage of sidewalk chalk art also quickly disappears, as do sand castles and Buddhist sand Mandalas... why can't people just accept the fact that everything is transitory -- including video games?
I wish hard-core Anonymous Cowards would stop thinking of themselves as geniuses or something and learn to recognize humor when they see it. Of course 50 Gbps is overkill for a mouse, that's why it's funny!
Just run parallel wires instead of serializing everything and you have all the throughput anyone could possibly use. Too bad the people that designed SATA didn't think of that!
It was a response to Yep its exactly like life. People being assholes in multiplayer games IS exactly like life! Sorry if you don't like it that way, buy I call things as they are, not like you wish they were.
IIRC, even in Novell NetWare the old blocking I/O calls which prevented the client from doing anything else while it waited for a response from the server were much faster than the new non-blocking I/O...
Yep, I got accused of cheating in college just because I got a better score on a sociology final than anyone else in the class. (The professor taught the same exact class with the same exact test every semester. I didn't have a copy of a previous test, I just had a used book in which everything he said was going to be on the final was already underlined, and I read the book right before the final.)
Yep, high school cliques and college fraternities work exactly on the principle of being able to boot people you don't like.
Yep, I've had bosses that cussed me out and threatened me, and there were no repercussions to them. I, on the other hand, had to find a new job.
We weren't interesting a million years ago?!? Hell, we're not even that interesting NOW! We don't become interesting until we are capable of communicating with them without requiring a substantial layout of energy on their behalf. You see, extraterrestrial intelligence subscribes to the same "Street Vendor Theorem" espoused by American tourists: if they want to sell me shell necklaces, they damn well better learn to speak my language first!
Life is common, but so are cataclysmic events. Very few life forms evolve higher intelligence. After a point intelligence isn't very useful for survival; we evolved intelligence far beyond that needed for mere survival because we used it for social competition since smarter people had more chance of breeding (hard as that is to believe today).
Of the few life forms that evolved higher intelligence, very few of them would have won the race to establish viable self-sufficient colonies off-planet before a cataclysmic event wiped out their planet, solar system, or galaxy.
And finally, of course, the obvious -- any really intelligent being wouldn't go around hanging up neon "I'm here!" signs to broadcast their location to potential predators.
Finally, it may be that really advanced civilizations discover a "party line" that enables faster than light communication, which would enable most of the benefits of interacting without other species without the expense of physically traveling to them or the risk of giving away one's own location. In which case, they are merely keeping a low profile while waiting for us to also discover this communications method.
It's perfectly legal for the cops to photograph you in order to issue traffic citations, but if you photograph the cops doing their job, you are hauled in for "interfering with arrest". Likewise, they can have audio/videotape recorders in their squad cars (with tapes that are conveniently "lost" when they are accused of wrongdoing), but if you put a videocamera on your helmet, you are illegally wiretapping them.
A valid point, but LAN parties are now playing free games using local servers which not only eliminate lag, but also will be available long after the profit motive is gone. Buying into an online service whose business model depends on having 100,000 subscribers is as naive as buying into those health clubs that sell "lifetime" memberships -- don't be surprised when you come in one day only to find the doors permanently locked.
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The question was, were the government employees that signed the deals getting hookers and blow from Oracle Marketing to influence their decisions? Having worked for Oracle Market, and seeing as how they had no ethical qualms with billing customers for work that was never done, I wouldn't put the practice of outright bribing decision makers above them. On the other hand, I have no actual evidence that bribery occurred.
"Stupid is as stupid does."
Buddy, you're the one who either decided to have a wife and kids, or you let the little woman browbeat you into your present situation. You're neglecting the third possibility: the condom broke.
Learn from the French I tried learning from the French once, but I quickly gave up... lesson learned!
Which is exactly the point. Building wind and solar capability doesn't reduce your need for conventional power plants to handle peak demand. They just allow you to idle those conventional power plants most of the time. One thing that would make sense is to attach wind and solar to hydroelectric dams. When the wind is blowing or sun is shining, you can release less water through the turbine, and when no wind or sun is available, crank up the hydro to max.
Those actions existed long before videogames, and would continue to exist even if multiplayer games were abolished. Ever watch a group of kids interact in real life? They don't need multiplayer games to be whiny, hypercritical, exclusive, or abusive. Basically, kids will attempt to do anything they think they can get away with, regardless of whether or not they are in-game.
They've obviously got way too much time on their hands!
Our rich heritage of sidewalk chalk art also quickly disappears, as do sand castles and Buddhist sand Mandalas... why can't people just accept the fact that everything is transitory -- including video games?
You say that as if you think it's a bad thing!
I wish hard-core Anonymous Cowards would stop thinking of themselves as geniuses or something and learn to recognize humor when they see it. Of course 50 Gbps is overkill for a mouse, that's why it's funny!
Just run parallel wires instead of serializing everything and you have all the throughput anyone could possibly use. Too bad the people that designed SATA didn't think of that!
It was a response to Yep its exactly like life. People being assholes in multiplayer games IS exactly like life! Sorry if you don't like it that way, buy I call things as they are, not like you wish they were.
How long until an optical mouse using this technology is available?
Not as awesome as flying squirrels with frickin' laser beams mounted on their heads!
If my grandfather had 5 balls, he'd be a pinball machine!
If Larry Ellison took every personal secretary he's ever had and laid them end-to-end, he'd have a few more sexual discrimination suites to answer to!
IIRC, even in Novell NetWare the old blocking I/O calls which prevented the client from doing anything else while it waited for a response from the server were much faster than the new non-blocking I/O...
But if you use it the old way... Perl is, almost by definition, just as compact as shell. And several orders of magnitude less readable!
So I presume any cop in the state using a dashboard camera is ALSO subject to prosecution under the same law?
Yep, I got accused of cheating in college just because I got a better score on a sociology final than anyone else in the class. (The professor taught the same exact class with the same exact test every semester. I didn't have a copy of a previous test, I just had a used book in which everything he said was going to be on the final was already underlined, and I read the book right before the final.)
Yep, high school cliques and college fraternities work exactly on the principle of being able to boot people you don't like.
Yep, I've had bosses that cussed me out and threatened me, and there were no repercussions to them. I, on the other hand, had to find a new job.
We weren't interesting a million years ago?!? Hell, we're not even that interesting NOW! We don't become interesting until we are capable of communicating with them without requiring a substantial layout of energy on their behalf. You see, extraterrestrial intelligence subscribes to the same "Street Vendor Theorem" espoused by American tourists: if they want to sell me shell necklaces, they damn well better learn to speak my language first!
Them that advertise also get laid more often. You pays your money and you takes your chances.
Life is common, but so are cataclysmic events. Very few life forms evolve higher intelligence. After a point intelligence isn't very useful for survival; we evolved intelligence far beyond that needed for mere survival because we used it for social competition since smarter people had more chance of breeding (hard as that is to believe today).
Of the few life forms that evolved higher intelligence, very few of them would have won the race to establish viable self-sufficient colonies off-planet before a cataclysmic event wiped out their planet, solar system, or galaxy.
And finally, of course, the obvious -- any really intelligent being wouldn't go around hanging up neon "I'm here!" signs to broadcast their location to potential predators.
Finally, it may be that really advanced civilizations discover a "party line" that enables faster than light communication, which would enable most of the benefits of interacting without other species without the expense of physically traveling to them or the risk of giving away one's own location. In which case, they are merely keeping a low profile while waiting for us to also discover this communications method.
It's perfectly legal for the cops to photograph you in order to issue traffic citations, but if you photograph the cops doing their job, you are hauled in for "interfering with arrest". Likewise, they can have audio/videotape recorders in their squad cars (with tapes that are conveniently "lost" when they are accused of wrongdoing), but if you put a videocamera on your helmet, you are illegally wiretapping them.
A valid point, but LAN parties are now playing free games using local servers which not only eliminate lag, but also will be available long after the profit motive is gone. Buying into an online service whose business model depends on having 100,000 subscribers is as naive as buying into those health clubs that sell "lifetime" memberships -- don't be surprised when you come in one day only to find the doors permanently locked.