and it's unfortunate many of us will have to pass on learning it...

Whenever I usually have to program myself, there's rarely another person in the world who'd have similar understanding and knowledge of the subject. Let alone in the same company, and if so, solution would be handy already.

TFA only affirms: nothing good can ever come out of corporate environment...
everything worthwhile is done on a farm, in a galaxy far far away, e.g. V8, Doom, Luke Skywalker...
On professional side, V8 sucks googles comparing to some other VMs.

Distances aside, I can get 1sec ping within 100 miles, quite easily.

More so with throttling, compression/decompression and other wapor-service of most ISPs.

"For standard definition (480p) resolutions, users will need a minimum of 1.5 megabits/sec. A 5 megabits/sec connection will support high definition (720P or 1080i) connections"

I actually consider myself being ahead of the curve and most of the country, definitely better off than Comcast cable, having ATT DSL with 1.5mbit down. Guess when I'd see 1.5mbit down?

Never, ever! I do see 1.2 most of the time, sometimes they drop down to 100kbit and then I'm recording the downtime for the next time I call them up.

PS: I've heard Comcast cable customers with 1.5mbit down have 600kbit typically.

we get pings of 3sec from San Francisco to sites in Sweden... good luck with that multiplayer experience

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