Cuba has oil now(always there I guess)...lots of it. Potentially as much as Venezuela. Canada is helping develop these oil fields. Currently Cuba's national demand is 10 million tons of oil, they are producing 6 million tons...4 years ago they were producing next to nothing. So in 4 more years Cuba will have an oil surplus.
With a oil surplus, a thirsty European Union and 2 of the most advanced refineries in the world(Canada)that can process its sulphur rich oil, they will be buying brand new Lenovo laptops from China:P.
Cuba has oil now(always there I guess)...lots of it. Potentially as much as Venezuela. Canada is helping develop these oil fields. Currently Cuba's national demand is 10 million tons of oil, they are producing 6 million tons...4 years ago they were producing next to nothing. So in 4 more years Cuba will have an oil surplus.
With a oil surplus, a thirsty European Union and 2 of the most advanced refineries in the world(Canada)that can process its sulphur rich oil, they will be buying brand new Lenovo laptops from China:P.
For the c64 - Pirates, Elite (space sim) For the Amiga - Populus (first real god game), Shadow of the beast, DUNGEON MASTER for Christ sake!! Bards Tale
I wonder what the implications of a strategically placed login message for World of Warcraft, with the names/ridings of the politicians against Net Neutrality.
Tell a WarCrack fiend he may have a high ping during that critical Patchwerk attempt then open a voting station on maintenance day. Voter turnout would probly spike by 3-4 million (current US wow base?) people.
If the people who had the most to lose(M$,google,Blizzard) made an effort to saturate every aspect of online entertainment with things like "facts" and "consequences" on the Net Neutrality debate this issue would become a huge pariah for more politicians. I mean who wants pasty faced basement dwellers emerging every tuesday to block you office entrance...or maybe a costumed Tauren hiding your water cooler with their bulk...etc.
We rent cage space in the Equinix facility in San Jose. in our cage we have close to 40 servers. There was a yahoo cage that had close to 3000 servers. Even they did not use a lot of realestate. I wouldn't be suprised if the facility housed upwards of 20 000 individual devices (anything with power).
The facility have fuel tanks for their generators that wouldn't look out of place at an oil refinery.
With 60 20 ton air conditioners...110 ISPs with available network drops....UPS's that would put a military facility to shame...completely redundant power distribution and AC ducks you could drive a transport truck through.
That we know of...China only shows what it wants to show. But yah, they seem to have a better track record lately. I think when the really tough stuff comes around they will be much more comitted than the US. China have armies of heroes willing to make the big risk.
Personally I really really really hope China does well and loops themselves a Trillion Zillion dollar heavy metal asteroid. The other alternative is my pretty, underpopulated and resource rich country is going to be used to feed the chinese beast.
Someone did a bit of math, if the average chinese citizen were to reach a level prosperity equal to 30% of the average American, they would consume 3x as much natural resources than all of US does right now.
I think maybe the competitive types in the administration may not want to end up like Portugal did during the colonization of the new world. Much/most of the initial exploration and mapping of the Caribbean was done by the Portugese. Much more aggressive empires used that knowledge and work to expand their empires. Why couldn't portugal keep up?
I can see the US doing all the initial space colonization/weaponization work on to have China duplicate the work and 1/1000th the cost. Being able to catch up with less resources gives you more to focus on jumping ahead. China = the New Spain.
China will throw a 1000 people into space just to get 10 that actually survive much like spain throwing a hundred thousand conquistadors away to cleanse the way for its colonies.
The US solution to this problem? Use their dominant position to keep competitors grounded.
What bothers me more than farmers is the continuing problem with the account management application. During the recent round of transfers the Account Management application was available and useable for only short periods of time (minutes).
As a result guilds that moved servers were splintered because people were not able to dedicate a whole day to their refresh button. Everyone that got left behind got a big "thanks bye" from the support group at Blizzard.
Spend the same amount of effort resolving service performance on you website and customer service than hunting farmers that will reappear instantly.
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Cuba has oil now(always there I guess)...lots of it. Potentially as much as Venezuela. Canada is helping develop these oil fields. Currently Cuba's national demand is 10 million tons of oil, they are producing 6 million tons...4 years ago they were producing next to nothing. So in 4 more years Cuba will have an oil surplus. With a oil surplus, a thirsty European Union and 2 of the most advanced refineries in the world(Canada)that can process its sulphur rich oil, they will be buying brand new Lenovo laptops from China :P.
Cuba has oil now(always there I guess)...lots of it. Potentially as much as Venezuela. Canada is helping develop these oil fields. Currently Cuba's national demand is 10 million tons of oil, they are producing 6 million tons...4 years ago they were producing next to nothing. So in 4 more years Cuba will have an oil surplus.
:P.
With a oil surplus, a thirsty European Union and 2 of the most advanced refineries in the world(Canada)that can process its sulphur rich oil, they will be buying brand new Lenovo laptops from China
For the c64 - Pirates, Elite (space sim)
For the Amiga - Populus (first real god game), Shadow of the beast, DUNGEON MASTER for Christ sake!! Bards Tale
For PC:
Pool of Radiance
I wonder what the implications of a strategically placed login message for World of Warcraft, with the names/ridings of the politicians against Net Neutrality.
Tell a WarCrack fiend he may have a high ping during that critical Patchwerk attempt then open a voting station on maintenance day. Voter turnout would probly spike by 3-4 million (current US wow base?) people.
If the people who had the most to lose(M$,google,Blizzard) made an effort to saturate every aspect of online entertainment with things like "facts" and "consequences" on the Net Neutrality debate this issue would become a huge pariah for more politicians. I mean who wants pasty faced basement dwellers emerging every tuesday to block you office entrance...or maybe a costumed Tauren hiding your water cooler with their bulk...etc.
Google and Microsoft search indices. Sounds like too pure a fountain to draw from. Try mining from a dirtier source, like my browser history.
We rent cage space in the Equinix facility in San Jose. in our cage we have close to 40 servers. There was a yahoo cage that had close to 3000 servers. Even they did not use a lot of realestate. I wouldn't be suprised if the facility housed upwards of 20 000 individual devices (anything with power).
The facility have fuel tanks for their generators that wouldn't look out of place at an oil refinery.
With 60 20 ton air conditioners...110 ISPs with available network drops....UPS's that would put a military facility to shame...completely redundant power distribution and AC ducks you could drive a transport truck through.
I've already joined the fight against Sony...I haven't in the past or plan to in the future pay for Sony titles.
I wish I could say it was for noble reasons.
That we know of...China only shows what it wants to show. But yah, they seem to have a better track record lately. I think when the really tough stuff comes around they will be much more comitted than the US. China have armies of heroes willing to make the big risk.
Personally I really really really hope China does well and loops themselves a Trillion Zillion dollar heavy metal asteroid. The other alternative is my pretty, underpopulated and resource rich country is going to be used to feed the chinese beast.
Someone did a bit of math, if the average chinese citizen were to reach a level prosperity equal to 30% of the average American, they would consume 3x as much natural resources than all of US does right now.
I think maybe the competitive types in the administration may not want to end up like Portugal did during the colonization of the new world. Much/most of the initial exploration and mapping of the Caribbean was done by the Portugese. Much more aggressive empires used that knowledge and work to expand their empires. Why couldn't portugal keep up? I can see the US doing all the initial space colonization/weaponization work on to have China duplicate the work and 1/1000th the cost. Being able to catch up with less resources gives you more to focus on jumping ahead. China = the New Spain. China will throw a 1000 people into space just to get 10 that actually survive much like spain throwing a hundred thousand conquistadors away to cleanse the way for its colonies. The US solution to this problem? Use their dominant position to keep competitors grounded.
What bothers me more than farmers is the continuing problem with the account management application. During the recent round of transfers the Account Management application was available and useable for only short periods of time (minutes). As a result guilds that moved servers were splintered because people were not able to dedicate a whole day to their refresh button. Everyone that got left behind got a big "thanks bye" from the support group at Blizzard. Spend the same amount of effort resolving service performance on you website and customer service than hunting farmers that will reappear instantly.