I'm using an ADSL connection and rarely get pings below 100ms even to servers in my own country, for more obscure titles I may have to connect to other countries and then it gets to 200ms or worse. Games without lag compensation are almost completely unplayable (and with obscure titles laggy servers often mean everybody has a bad ping and needs to lead targets even though the game wasn't designed to require that) and firefights turn into blind spraying as you hope your bullets ever line up with the enemy. With lag compensation you aim, shoot and maybe see the result later but sniper rifles and such don't become useless. Believe me, I've seen plenty of games where I wasn't the only one who had trouble with lag and those games become hilarious/pathetic when they require precision shooting.
Digital Foundry concluded that console games often have input lag in the 100+ms range (especially since many games on the HD consoles only run at 30 FPS). That includes the full delay from input to on-screen action, even on the PC you won't see 5ms often because the delay includes not just the transfer delays but also the processing, first the signal must goto the game, then it has to be incorporated on the next simulation frame which you only see on the next render frame and that gets additional lag if you have an LCD screen (which I don't).
The Wii has some productive software, nothing major but it provides an internet browser and apps for stuff like weather or news. I think in the UK there's even a BBC iPlayer channel.
To be fair this whole subscription service mania is a result of revenues not growing as much as costs so sooner or later their whole operation will crash down anyway (they'll focus on delivering fewer and fewer titles that must all be huge hitters but epect failures to eliminate publishers going that route) and people who are less hostile towards the customer and blowing less money on nonsense like cutting edge graphics (of course you need decent graphics but you don't need expensive cutting edge ones) will take over. While Activision et al build bigger and bigger blockbusters countless avenues for cheaply made games are springing up everywhere. The future of gaming is not ridiculous prices, it's cutting back the superfluous costs and delivering reasonably priced games with good enough graphics and good fun (which isn't terribly expensive).
Maybe some advertising is what NASA needs so people won't ignore it when congress slashes their funding yet again. The game doesn't seem to be terribly expensive to make and the America's Army guys made it.
Find me a law that says they must render aid to you in an emergency.
Some countries make it a crime to witness an emergency and not help to the extent you are capable of but I don't think the US does (advice in first aid training was to never help an American because you're liable for any errors you make while helping, other countries give you legal protection if you aren't doing anything seriously wrong).
It's debatable but a random generator producing headlines out of English words could conceivably be lower. Of course low integrity reporting hasn't been the same since Joseph Göbbels died.
I fall back to German pronunciation for romanized Asian words (which tends to be closer to the proper pronunciation than trying the English one) so I didn't even get the first part.
I can't speak about durability but the battery life on the iPod Touch when used for gaming probably rivals the Nomad (I think even the PSP is better than that). At times it feels like you have about two hours of battery life. It might be prettier than the DS but the battery life is abysmal and the system gets painfully hot under load.
Makes you wonder how a traceable business partner (the ad company) can get away with an illegal act like malicious ad banners without being sued into oblivion.
I'm an iPod Touch user and if the application demands an internet connection just to run it's not going to work because I don't have an always available internet connection (and usually delete apps like that unless they're online multiplayer games or things like that). Location services are fine, my device doesn't have a location sensor anyway so that gives no useful data.
Yeah, I wish we could report apps as suspicious, I ran into one that I bought and rated poorly, then it got deleted and replaced by a differently named one, with a completely nonsensical 5 star review attached. The app description also cites a lot of falsified review quotes (none of the cited reviews exist).
For reference, the name of the app was Gatter Cycles, now it's renamed to Gatter Raid (including a partial wipe of references to the old name on the developer's website). The developer is called Sebastian Schnell and operates under the name SSMD. There, I hope that stabs his reputation in the neck.
Even a biased publication has to look out for its reputation, propaganda is worthless if people just ignore it and slamming a company that's already in bad reputation is an easy reputation boost.
Then again with the sales numbers of tabloids I'm not sure people ignore disreputable sources...
That's why soccer bookies do things like expecting you to correctly guess the results of several games, if one is wrong you lose. Other bookies let you bet on the final score instead of the result. Sure, it's random but the odds of the customer winning are far lower than 50%.
I think the two goals of the second halftime were enough to make it clear that the wrongly ignored goal didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Would've made it a 4:2 win instead of a 4:1 but arguing that that one goal would have changed the flow of the game enough to prevent the later two German goals is silly since the morale impact was clearly visible even after the second English goal was ignored by the ref (after all the ball still got past all defenses), the German team played very badly for quite a while after it, only recovering much later and scoring those two goals. The demoralized team was still enough to prevent further English goals and take the game beyond reasonable dispute once the morale recovered.
Of course the predictions didn't really work since people expected the german team to be really bad this world cup with Ballack down and fairly inexperienced players in the roster but it seems to be working well anyway.
If you repeat your key (looks like you're going for an OTP) you make it breakable. I'm not sure an OTP based on a public code page is a good idea and if the key used is text in a language that already gives a strong hint for any cracker.
Wait, how the hell do you get oil up into the clouds? That stuff is fairly heavy and doesn't turn into vapor like water does.
Also what's nuking the well supposed to do? Blast the seafloor wide open and release even more oil? Not every problem in the world can be solved with nukes.
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I'm using an ADSL connection and rarely get pings below 100ms even to servers in my own country, for more obscure titles I may have to connect to other countries and then it gets to 200ms or worse. Games without lag compensation are almost completely unplayable (and with obscure titles laggy servers often mean everybody has a bad ping and needs to lead targets even though the game wasn't designed to require that) and firefights turn into blind spraying as you hope your bullets ever line up with the enemy. With lag compensation you aim, shoot and maybe see the result later but sniper rifles and such don't become useless. Believe me, I've seen plenty of games where I wasn't the only one who had trouble with lag and those games become hilarious/pathetic when they require precision shooting.
Digital Foundry concluded that console games often have input lag in the 100+ms range (especially since many games on the HD consoles only run at 30 FPS). That includes the full delay from input to on-screen action, even on the PC you won't see 5ms often because the delay includes not just the transfer delays but also the processing, first the signal must goto the game, then it has to be incorporated on the next simulation frame which you only see on the next render frame and that gets additional lag if you have an LCD screen (which I don't).
Wouldn't a hub instead of a switch join the collision domains and have all kinds of bad effects on the network?
The Wii has some productive software, nothing major but it provides an internet browser and apps for stuff like weather or news. I think in the UK there's even a BBC iPlayer channel.
Their subscription isn't necessary for online play, it gives you extra perks but regular online gaming is still free.
To be fair this whole subscription service mania is a result of revenues not growing as much as costs so sooner or later their whole operation will crash down anyway (they'll focus on delivering fewer and fewer titles that must all be huge hitters but epect failures to eliminate publishers going that route) and people who are less hostile towards the customer and blowing less money on nonsense like cutting edge graphics (of course you need decent graphics but you don't need expensive cutting edge ones) will take over. While Activision et al build bigger and bigger blockbusters countless avenues for cheaply made games are springing up everywhere. The future of gaming is not ridiculous prices, it's cutting back the superfluous costs and delivering reasonably priced games with good enough graphics and good fun (which isn't terribly expensive).
You know, you're just giving me an idea for what to do with all that oil: Drown lawyers in it!
Maybe some advertising is what NASA needs so people won't ignore it when congress slashes their funding yet again. The game doesn't seem to be terribly expensive to make and the America's Army guys made it.
Find me a law that says they must render aid to you in an emergency.
Some countries make it a crime to witness an emergency and not help to the extent you are capable of but I don't think the US does (advice in first aid training was to never help an American because you're liable for any errors you make while helping, other countries give you legal protection if you aren't doing anything seriously wrong).
It's debatable but a random generator producing headlines out of English words could conceivably be lower. Of course low integrity reporting hasn't been the same since Joseph Göbbels died.
No, the batteries would run out.
I fall back to German pronunciation for romanized Asian words (which tends to be closer to the proper pronunciation than trying the English one) so I didn't even get the first part.
On the app store you see software adding several As to the front of their name just to end up near the top in an alphabetical list.
I can't speak about durability but the battery life on the iPod Touch when used for gaming probably rivals the Nomad (I think even the PSP is better than that). At times it feels like you have about two hours of battery life. It might be prettier than the DS but the battery life is abysmal and the system gets painfully hot under load.
Makes you wonder how a traceable business partner (the ad company) can get away with an illegal act like malicious ad banners without being sued into oblivion.
I'm an iPod Touch user and if the application demands an internet connection just to run it's not going to work because I don't have an always available internet connection (and usually delete apps like that unless they're online multiplayer games or things like that). Location services are fine, my device doesn't have a location sensor anyway so that gives no useful data.
Yeah, I wish we could report apps as suspicious, I ran into one that I bought and rated poorly, then it got deleted and replaced by a differently named one, with a completely nonsensical 5 star review attached. The app description also cites a lot of falsified review quotes (none of the cited reviews exist).
For reference, the name of the app was Gatter Cycles, now it's renamed to Gatter Raid (including a partial wipe of references to the old name on the developer's website). The developer is called Sebastian Schnell and operates under the name SSMD. There, I hope that stabs his reputation in the neck.
I would have thought that refers to the Qt GUI library.
Even a biased publication has to look out for its reputation, propaganda is worthless if people just ignore it and slamming a company that's already in bad reputation is an easy reputation boost.
Then again with the sales numbers of tabloids I'm not sure people ignore disreputable sources...
That's why soccer bookies do things like expecting you to correctly guess the results of several games, if one is wrong you lose. Other bookies let you bet on the final score instead of the result. Sure, it's random but the odds of the customer winning are far lower than 50%.
Reminds me, what were his recent predictions? The last one I heard about was Germany beating England.
I think the two goals of the second halftime were enough to make it clear that the wrongly ignored goal didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Would've made it a 4:2 win instead of a 4:1 but arguing that that one goal would have changed the flow of the game enough to prevent the later two German goals is silly since the morale impact was clearly visible even after the second English goal was ignored by the ref (after all the ball still got past all defenses), the German team played very badly for quite a while after it, only recovering much later and scoring those two goals. The demoralized team was still enough to prevent further English goals and take the game beyond reasonable dispute once the morale recovered.
Of course the predictions didn't really work since people expected the german team to be really bad this world cup with Ballack down and fairly inexperienced players in the roster but it seems to be working well anyway.
No, a German would likely mispronounce the CH there. Different people would likely pick different pronunciations.
If you repeat your key (looks like you're going for an OTP) you make it breakable. I'm not sure an OTP based on a public code page is a good idea and if the key used is text in a language that already gives a strong hint for any cracker.
Wait, how the hell do you get oil up into the clouds? That stuff is fairly heavy and doesn't turn into vapor like water does.
Also what's nuking the well supposed to do? Blast the seafloor wide open and release even more oil? Not every problem in the world can be solved with nukes.