Posted by: etoven - 25th September 2011, 7:35 PM - Forum: Ramble City
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I just upgraded my router to 300Mbit N.. Erich Likey.. :)
So far nothing I own supports the 300Mb band though..
The blueray player supports 150Mb
And my Android tablet looks like it's running at 72Mb
Still much better than G..
The rest of my stuff is hardwired eithernet, which runs at 100Mb Full duplex. It's funny that wireless is much faster than wired now.. Although realistically my blue ray player is actually only getting 100Mb because of the bottleneck at the router. But at least at 150Mb to the router I know it's getting every penny out of that 100Mb router connection. I ran a speed test from my steaming HD movie provider, and It says I can stream 720p HD lossless compression with uncompressed dolby digital sound, no buffering.. I think I'm going to celebrate by renting a shit load of HD movies tomorrow..
Until Zelda SS releases in the US... now sure, I won't be getting it day one, but I am really looking forward to it. It sounds like it could be an incredible game, the game's so different from what we expect from Zelda in some important ways, but it sounds just as great. I have very low expectations from the story, but from the gameplay, I'm expecting great things...
Oh, for anyone who didn't hear, there's also going to be a $70 special edition that comes with a golden Wiimote+. Too bad there probably won't be a golden nunchuck to go with it...
On that note though, it's pretty annoying how NoA released blue and pink Wiimote and Wiimote+es, but did not release Nunchucks to go with them. One of my controllers is a blue Wiimote+, I wish there was a matching Nunchuk for it.
(I probably won't get the gold controller, though it'd be cool... I already have four Wiimotes, after all. Two black regular ones with black nunchucks and Wii Motion+ addons, one red Wiimote+ with red nunchuck (so lucky to find those used for no more than normal controllers...), and a blue Wiimote+ with white nunchuck. Oh, and one Zapper. I've been considering getting a second, but haven't yet. Of course though, the only Zapper game I actually own is Link's Crossbow Training... somehow I don't have any of the other Wii lightgun-style games yet.
But yeah, SS... a lot of things about the gameplay of this one sounds interesting, from the big open world overworld which you will have to revisit parts of as you progress, to the flight element to the game with the sky-based main town, etc...
I heard this on NPR and I thought this defiantly worth sharing..
Apparently Troy Davis who was executed last night, ordered enough food to feed a large third world country as his last meal, and then decided not to eat a single bite. :) The meal reportedly cost the state several hundred dollars and, he didn't even eat the food. Nice..
Now a Georgia senior has proposed a bill, eliminating last meal rights to condemned prisoners.
This is... neat. Read the whole thing though. It's not EXACTLY modelling the protean, but it's still useful, and now I want to play video games to CURE AIDS.
Also, it's taken almost nothing from Google's marketshare since it was introduced. Instead, most of its marketshare gain has been from Yahoo and minor, lesser search engines -- and given that Yahoo now uses Bing as its search provider, getting marketshare from Yahoo doesn't get Microsoft too much.
So yeah, wow, those are some big losses... I wonder how long MS will keep going on with them. At the moment anyway MS seems committed to Bing, regardless of losses.
