The future of gaming

[Tarron]

Half comedy, half bad science with a recurring porn and burger king theme. It was still a good read.

http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2421&pageid=1

The highlight was:
"We hereby predict that by the year 2028, someone, somewhere, will literally wipe his ass with a computer more powerful than any that exists today."

[Howitzer]

wild.

[Bazz]

While they make brief mention of it, they fail to emphasize the point that the artical is purely academic because we will all be farmers in 5 years because of the impending oil crash.

[Howitzer]

While they make brief mention of it, they fail to emphasize the point that the artical is purely academic because we will all be farmers in 5 years because of the impending oil crash.


LOOOOOOOL so true. We're going to self-implode.

[Punkrocker]

LOOOOOOOL so true. We're going to self-implode.

Only problem with this is that there's plenty of oil.

Let me speak from my personal experience.

My mother inherited some land where oil was found (Oklahoma). Mobil oil company put up a well and refused to pump saying it wasn't "cost effective". A year later they ask to drill another well...get permission, drill it and again it's still not "cost effective" to pump.

15 years, 3 oil wells and 4 natural gas wells later and guess what? Still haven't pumped any oil out of that area. Independent surveys that have been done there show that there is a massive amount of oil under the land that she has the mineral rights to, but because we can buy it cheaper from the middle east it's smarter for us to sit on the oil here in the states until we exhaust the supplies from overseas. My mother gets checks for a grand total of a couple of bucks a month just from what little oil comes out of the ground due to seepage and them doing pressure checks and whatnot. That's split between a couple of hundred people (the land goes way back in the family, so they are all cousins of some sort). Every now and then she'll get one for a couple hundred when they pull several barrels out for whatever reason, but that's definitely not the norm.

Now, couple that with all the oil shale we have in the continental U.S. that is going totally unused (because it's too expensive to build the plant to pull the oil out compared to buying it from the arabs) and we have enough oil available to us to continue our present rate of growth for (as of the last estimate I saw, which may or may not be accurate since it was about 5 years ago) at least another 50 years.

I know the emotional response is that we are running out of oil. We are in Iraq only to get cheaper oil for us here (never mind that oil prices have continued to increase). The clock is ticking, time is running out, the writing is on the wall, etc., etc., etc.

Of course, this is purely from my research I did around 2000 when I became intensely interested in the oil industry after looking over the legal papers when they wanted to drill the latest well, and I'm sure some of you may want to discount it, and that's fine. I honestly am not worried about oil running out in my lifetime. My kids (if I ever have any) WILL have to be concerned, but I'm betting technology will either solve the problem or we'll have a major collapse of civilization by the time it becomes necessary and if that happens it won't matter.

For the tldr noobs out there...oil is fine, l2drive.

[Jubs]

That's why I bought an electric golf cart.

[Xyebane]

Aye dont forget the biotechnology side of it, there are huge advances in using bacteria and yeast to organical synthesis all sorts of shit that we normally make outta oil.

A couple more break throughs and you can literally run your car on wood.

[Punkrocker]

Aye dont forget the biotechnology side of it, there are huge advances in using bacteria and yeast to organical synthesis all sorts of shit that we normally make outta oil.

A couple more break throughs and you can literally run your car on wood.

Dude, if I could power my car off my erections, I'd be able to drive a Porsche!

Oh, wait, was that the kind of wood you were talking about??