Wait, is this Fraternite? If so, you were in my alliance a while ago; I remember your economics advice. Yeah, CN has some of the best player organizations I've ever seen in any game, on or offline. I have often thought that it would take virtually no structural changes to convert my alliance into an actual real-world organization. The game itself is almost nonexistent: it's just a thin pretext for the player-created politics.

I'm not sure if this really counts because often it fits in with the intent of the game, but I like to completely explore everything. Especially if there's a map that gets filled in as I explore; I will happily criss-cross a bare desert if it's the last uncharted corner of the map. It really clues you in on the quality of the game: the best games are the ones where the designers stuck all sorts of cool little things away in corners for people like me to find. The worst games are the ones where none of the doors open but the ones you need to reach the next story point.

This game has been so unbalanced since they nerfed funny. Interesting is way OP'd. They'd better at least throw us a bone in this world event.

Are you doing random or sequential writes? Your numbers sound like their sequential write numbers.

But how far has this reference frame itself traveled during that one minute?'

Relative to what? Relative to itself, it hasn't traveled at all. And since we don't know the mechanism for time travel, there's no reason to use any other reference frame. Really, until we understand how they are supposed to travel through time we can't discuss the interactions of reference frames across time skips.

There's a reason we don't already use visible light signals to send wireless data (except if we're lost in the wilderness, I guess). It's VISIBLE. Can you image how annoying it would be to have light flickering around you all the time from your communicating devices? One of the primary advantages of the various bands we use (radio, infrared, etc.) is that they don't interfere with our normal operations: they're invisible.

We've got plenty of bandwidth that doesn't interact directly with the human body. Why don't we stick to that instead of trying to use something that does?

"Mac" and "PC" aren't operating systems. They're hardware platforms. "PC" would include both Windows and Linux, as well as all the other PC-compatible operating systems.

Let's say I take them up on this beta offer and download Rome: Total War. Then I decide their service just isn't for me. Do I own Rome: Total War? Can I play it after I quit their service? Or does it check with their service that I'm entitled to play the game every time?

This guy makes a good case against "dumb" auto-scaling; that is, doing a simple "more traffic = scale up" calculation. However, it should be trivial to create more sophisticated algorithms that eliminate or at least reduce the problems he gives. For example, a module that can "recognize" DoS attacks versus slashdotting in most cases and either block or scale based on the results shouldn't be hard.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got cloned by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know - there is a fine line of bio-ethical concern between humans and animals.

I wonder how efficient this process could be made. If it could be done with relative efficiency, would it be worthwhile to start looking at antimatter as a viable energy storage solution for certain applications? As far as I was aware, one of the major roadblocks to that was the antimatter creation process.