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Speed. Whether you are speeding down the Motorway, or running around a track- we crave it. The same can be said about Internet connection speed. Will there ever be a time when we get comments like, "This connection is so slow, it almost took a nanosecond to download a movie." Scary, yet the time will come.
Something about the need gets us excited, well, unless you have motion sickness, in which case you will hate it, but it's normally down to adrenaline. It pumps through our blood at the mere mention of Speed, and we crave it. I always get butterfly's in my stomach when I am going on a fast rollercoaster, not because I'm scared, and it's not because I have motion sickness, but because I know that when the wind passes through my hair as I am nipping along a track, I will enjoy it more than anything. This brings back to the Internet. If speed wasn't needed, then why do we get faster connections, faster modems, and the introduction of Broadband? We need speed. If speed never existed, how would we get things done in time? Would life as we know it change? Well, Internet time would anyway. How long does it take for the average SR page to load on a 56K modem? Roughly 3-4 seconds. And what about broadband? Almost instantly. So you see, speed allows us to view things much quicker, and by the time around 10 pages have loaded, the Broadband connection is already 30 to 40 seconds ahead.
Speed can also be applied to computer games. It can be mentioned in the sense of how long the game takes to develop, how quickly it runs, how long you take to finish it and how long it sits on your shelf after you have completed it. Speed is a necessity of a developer. Without speed, how can a game developer make the game in time for the release date they promised? They can't always, which is why games are pushed back until they are ready. If speed came in a bottle, would we drink it all the time? I know I would, as it would allow me to get home from school earlier, gaining me precious minutes on my console or on the Internet.
Looking at today's world, we see people rushing around trying to get jobs done, or trying to get something downloaded of off the Internet, and for some reason, people believe that if they were faster, they won't have to rush around. Wrong. All it means is that if people are faster, they want to get more jobs done, which will still make them rush around. Again, this can be applied to the Internet. As I said earlier, we crave Internet speed, well, I do anyway, but if we were granted a faster connection that Broadband, it would allow us to download files quicker, but we would be tempted to try and download more files per second, which will again make the connection slower. There is no way around this problem, well, there is, but not many people realize it. In a world that moves faster than we do, we never stop for a minute and see the world at a slower rate, because we don't have time. If we were to slow down, or not download so many things per hour, maybe we would get a little faster. So, the key to going faster is to slow down. Possibly, but how fast can we go? How fast can we travel before we get tired, or how fast can connections get before we can get no faster. Only time can tell…
Something about the need gets us excited, well, unless you have motion sickness, in which case you will hate it, but it's normally down to adrenaline. It pumps through our blood at the mere mention of Speed, and we crave it. I always get butterfly's in my stomach when I am going on a fast rollercoaster, not because I'm scared, and it's not because I have motion sickness, but because I know that when the wind passes through my hair as I am nipping along a track, I will enjoy it more than anything. This brings back to the Internet. If speed wasn't needed, then why do we get faster connections, faster modems, and the introduction of Broadband? We need speed. If speed never existed, how would we get things done in time? Would life as we know it change? Well, Internet time would anyway. How long does it take for the average SR page to load on a 56K modem? Roughly 3-4 seconds. And what about broadband? Almost instantly. So you see, speed allows us to view things much quicker, and by the time around 10 pages have loaded, the Broadband connection is already 30 to 40 seconds ahead.
Speed can also be applied to computer games. It can be mentioned in the sense of how long the game takes to develop, how quickly it runs, how long you take to finish it and how long it sits on your shelf after you have completed it. Speed is a necessity of a developer. Without speed, how can a game developer make the game in time for the release date they promised? They can't always, which is why games are pushed back until they are ready. If speed came in a bottle, would we drink it all the time? I know I would, as it would allow me to get home from school earlier, gaining me precious minutes on my console or on the Internet.
Looking at today's world, we see people rushing around trying to get jobs done, or trying to get something downloaded of off the Internet, and for some reason, people believe that if they were faster, they won't have to rush around. Wrong. All it means is that if people are faster, they want to get more jobs done, which will still make them rush around. Again, this can be applied to the Internet. As I said earlier, we crave Internet speed, well, I do anyway, but if we were granted a faster connection that Broadband, it would allow us to download files quicker, but we would be tempted to try and download more files per second, which will again make the connection slower. There is no way around this problem, well, there is, but not many people realize it. In a world that moves faster than we do, we never stop for a minute and see the world at a slower rate, because we don't have time. If we were to slow down, or not download so many things per hour, maybe we would get a little faster. So, the key to going faster is to slow down. Possibly, but how fast can we go? How fast can we travel before we get tired, or how fast can connections get before we can get no faster. Only time can tell…
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Racing Games would suck without speed....
Heck we all need Speed (not the drug)
Heck we all need Speed (not the drug)
Well for a start all the Sonic games would totally suck if it weren't for the speed...
Still trying to beat me, eh, Microchips?!
Because you have an addiction and you can't control it.
Try rehab, the cold turkey may be bad but it's the only way.
Try rehab, the cold turkey may be bad but it's the only way.
Once again, great topic Microchips!
Speed seems to play an essential role in life. As time goes by, more people are getting more impatient with the development of products and technology ... the same CAN be said about games as well.
Talking about games, we even now rush to complete games, to see who has the fast completion time. Saying this, I'm not that kind of person. I enjoy the game as much as I can (getting my money's worth) and THEN go on to test my speed.
Great topic MC!
Speed seems to play an essential role in life. As time goes by, more people are getting more impatient with the development of products and technology ... the same CAN be said about games as well.
Talking about games, we even now rush to complete games, to see who has the fast completion time. Saying this, I'm not that kind of person. I enjoy the game as much as I can (getting my money's worth) and THEN go on to test my speed.
Great topic MC!
when i tried my m8s broadband i didn;t find it amazingly faster than my 56k connection.
good topic.
good topic.
Cheers Mr. Joe. Oh, and nice Rant!
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:D
Excellent topic by the way.
A little bit short, but nonetheless very interesting read.
I like speed..... mmmmm...
Ahem.
:-D
A little bit short, but nonetheless very interesting read.
I like speed..... mmmmm...
Ahem.
:-D
Ryu Ken wrote:
> Anyway, interesting topic, good luck on a game, but did you really
> have to post it in both Prime and Chat? I wouldn't think that the
> ammount of web page views accounts to anything, but the actual quality
> of the post, if that's what you're thinking. If the staff choose a
> topic on number of replies, that's a crooked system.
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He can post it in Prime and Chat if he wants, because just posting a topic that actually has a few points to make and one that is written well in Chat can be pushed down under heaps of spam, so he posts it in Prime where it won't be so easily shunted out of the way, and also, Prime is where gamers go to actually talk about games, and not just where they come for chats on anything, which is what FOG Chat is like.
Posting in Prime and Chat will make no difference to anything really, except possibly Microchips' word count, but that isn't going to be effected very much in this case, as his topic isn't really that long. Mr. Snuggly (GAD picker) will see both the topics, and he'll just count it as one topic (the one in Prime) and if the topic is good enough, then that'll be the topic that wins. Nothing wrong with posting a topic twice, as it does not have any effect whatsoever on the outcome of GAD on that day.
GAD is not based on the amount of replies. There have been many topics that have won without one single reply, which goes to show that it isn't replies that generate GADs, it is the quality of the topic that does.
Rant over.
> Anyway, interesting topic, good luck on a game, but did you really
> have to post it in both Prime and Chat? I wouldn't think that the
> ammount of web page views accounts to anything, but the actual quality
> of the post, if that's what you're thinking. If the staff choose a
> topic on number of replies, that's a crooked system.
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He can post it in Prime and Chat if he wants, because just posting a topic that actually has a few points to make and one that is written well in Chat can be pushed down under heaps of spam, so he posts it in Prime where it won't be so easily shunted out of the way, and also, Prime is where gamers go to actually talk about games, and not just where they come for chats on anything, which is what FOG Chat is like.
Posting in Prime and Chat will make no difference to anything really, except possibly Microchips' word count, but that isn't going to be effected very much in this case, as his topic isn't really that long. Mr. Snuggly (GAD picker) will see both the topics, and he'll just count it as one topic (the one in Prime) and if the topic is good enough, then that'll be the topic that wins. Nothing wrong with posting a topic twice, as it does not have any effect whatsoever on the outcome of GAD on that day.
GAD is not based on the amount of replies. There have been many topics that have won without one single reply, which goes to show that it isn't replies that generate GADs, it is the quality of the topic that does.
Rant over.
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