A recent story on the cleveland.com front page presented an view of the Pentagon that many people, including a gamer like me, would never have expected: they're a bunch of gamers too! Well, not really. The story paints a picture of a government that is spending money wisely-instead of frivolously-on PS3 consoles because of their massive computing capabilities with faster speeds than anything they could purchase today.
Please don't misunderstand this, government workers are not going to sit around their offices playing multiplayer Call of Duty. At least I don't think so. Instead, with all the consoles linked together the Pentagon will have one of the most powerful supercomputers available.
On one hand, though, I do wish they would all sit around with controllers in their hands shooting zombies. It might be kind of fun to jump online with a couple of CIA agents to take down some of the walking dead.
Check out the story for yourselves:
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/11/defense_department_is_using_pl.html
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