Having played BW2 through from beginning to end, I can say that it is a very fun game. I encountered a few bugs, none of which were gamebreaking. It was a little disappointing in the later levels to have little flexibility as far as strategy is concerned, but the humor of being able to create 50 story high apartment skyscrapers that loom over your temples and fields more than makes up for it. Oh, and the fact that my cow insisted on "pooping on those defenses" and henceforth damaging my city walls with projectile stools.
Definitely worth the purchase price, IMO. Multiplayer will make it a no-brainer, if it happens.
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Current FTTP deployments allow 55 ms latency in TCP connections. A standard NTSC video signal typically requires a serial bit rate of 143.2 Mb/s. 30 MB/s (typical mid-range FTTP bandwidth) incoming would allow for a nearly instantaneous first frame response time on an NTSC signal, approximately 74.9 ms.
Seems pretty instantaneous to me. Theoretically speaking, of course.
The only thing that the US has control over is the infrastructure within it's boundaries. Percieved control is based on private parties only, as other commenters have elaborated on in sufficient detail. If other parties want to "make" an internet, let them do it. It's already been demonstrated. If they don't have the resources or willpower to do that, can they convince anyone that they have what it takes to "handle" the existing internet? I think not.
I, too, had a different thought about the content of this article when I read the title. My supervisor and myself just had a discussion about the failings of large and cumbersome IT deparments. As with most large and cumbersome organizations, they tend to perpetuate problems to maximize IT department resource requirements. For instance, when one of our internal applications gains a new feature, but consequently develops about 15 new bugs, we have to issue a ticket for correction not for the feature that is causing the problem, not even for each individual problem that has been created by the adding of said feature, but for every single instance of any bug instancing its self on any account in the entire system. Why? Because they want to string out actually hunting down the adapters that are causing issues in the first place, and instead create a patchwork of fixes that eventually have to be refixed. It justifies their bloated existence.
On the contrary, on average, the same amount of regeneratory meece and non-regeneratory meece would be severely wounded given the same environment. The probability of the regeneratory moose.. er.. mouse surviving is significantly higher simply based on the fact that if it CAN survive the next 2 weeks of lameness, it will, once again, be one of the meece with lack of lamity. Given enough time, all your reece's peeces belong to meeces.
You should not need to create a system that motivates people to use new ideas. The benefits of using the idea should be the motivation. No one wants to use bad ideas.
So, to reiterate the subject, IP is a good thing. The current situation may not be ideal, but it is far better than anarchy.
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Having played BW2 through from beginning to end, I can say that it is a very fun game. I encountered a few bugs, none of which were gamebreaking. It was a little disappointing in the later levels to have little flexibility as far as strategy is concerned, but the humor of being able to create 50 story high apartment skyscrapers that loom over your temples and fields more than makes up for it. Oh, and the fact that my cow insisted on "pooping on those defenses" and henceforth damaging my city walls with projectile stools. Definitely worth the purchase price, IMO. Multiplayer will make it a no-brainer, if it happens.
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Current FTTP deployments allow 55 ms latency in TCP connections. A standard NTSC video signal typically requires a serial bit rate of 143.2 Mb/s. 30 MB/s (typical mid-range FTTP bandwidth) incoming would allow for a nearly instantaneous first frame response time on an NTSC signal, approximately 74.9 ms. Seems pretty instantaneous to me. Theoretically speaking, of course.
http://66.35.250.150/ It's all you need.
The question in question should not be the question. The question is what does the *government* do?
The only thing that the US has control over is the infrastructure within it's boundaries. Percieved control is based on private parties only, as other commenters have elaborated on in sufficient detail. If other parties want to "make" an internet, let them do it. It's already been demonstrated. If they don't have the resources or willpower to do that, can they convince anyone that they have what it takes to "handle" the existing internet? I think not.
I, too, had a different thought about the content of this article when I read the title. My supervisor and myself just had a discussion about the failings of large and cumbersome IT deparments. As with most large and cumbersome organizations, they tend to perpetuate problems to maximize IT department resource requirements. For instance, when one of our internal applications gains a new feature, but consequently develops about 15 new bugs, we have to issue a ticket for correction not for the feature that is causing the problem, not even for each individual problem that has been created by the adding of said feature, but for every single instance of any bug instancing its self on any account in the entire system. Why? Because they want to string out actually hunting down the adapters that are causing issues in the first place, and instead create a patchwork of fixes that eventually have to be refixed. It justifies their bloated existence.
On the contrary, on average, the same amount of regeneratory meece and non-regeneratory meece would be severely wounded given the same environment. The probability of the regeneratory moose.. er.. mouse surviving is significantly higher simply based on the fact that if it CAN survive the next 2 weeks of lameness, it will, once again, be one of the meece with lack of lamity. Given enough time, all your reece's peeces belong to meeces.
They would have been eaten by the fans anyhow...
You should not need to create a system that motivates people to use new ideas. The benefits of using the idea should be the motivation. No one wants to use bad ideas.
So, to reiterate the subject, IP is a good thing. The current situation may not be ideal, but it is far better than anarchy.