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Comment Can't by games with plain cash, anymore then? (Score 1) 478

by Diovanti on Thursday March 05, 2009 @06:47AM (#27075421) Attached to: How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive?

If everything goes digital, you'd no longer be able to purchase games with cash. Sucks to those people who don't have credit/debit cards or those who want to use cash transactions to protect their privacy.

Bandwidth Use In MMOs 188

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday October 23, 2008 @12:59AM from the more-always-more dept.

Massively is running a story about bandwidth costs for MMOs and other virtual worlds. It's based on a post at the BBC on the same subject which references a traffic analysis (PDF) done for World of Warcraft. Quoting: "If you're an average user on capped access, the odds are you have roughly 20Gbytes per month to allocate among all of your Internet usage (it varies depending on just where you are). For you, sucking back (for example) a 2GB World of Warcraft patch isn't something you can just do. It's something you have to plan for — and quite often you have to plan for in the following month. Even a 500MB download has to be handled with caution. MMOGs as a rule don't use a whole lot of bandwidth in actual operation. However, the quantity definitely rises in busy areas with lots of players, where there are large numbers of mobs, or on raids, and takes quite a much larger jump if you're using voice as well."

Towards a Wiki For Formally Verified Mathematics 299

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @06:14PM from the preparing-the-ground-for-our-robot-overlords dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cameron Freer, an instructor in pure mathematics at MIT, is working on an intriguing project called vdash.org (video from O'Reilly Ignite Boston 4): a math wiki which only allows true theorems to be added! Based on Isabelle, a free-software theorem prover, the wiki will state all of known mathematics in a machine-readable language and verify all theorems for correctness, thus providing a knowledge base for interactive proof assistants. In addition to its benefits for education and research, such a project could reveal undiscovered connections between fields of mathematics, thus advancing some fields with no further work being necessary."

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