this part cracks me up. how many times have you heard someone whining about lag when in reality, their skills = pants?
'Harlan Beverly has won his share of tournaments in online games, but as a hard-core gamer for the past 15 years he has also suffered the agony of losing. "And it's not my fault," he groans. The culprit, he says, is a technical lag that slows many games when the servers that they are running on bog down with traffic. In online baseball, for instance, this might cause a delay when a batter swings.'
'Harlan Beverly has won his share of tournaments in online games, but as a hard-core gamer for the past 15 years he has also suffered the agony of losing. "And it's not my fault," he groans. The culprit, he says, is a technical lag that slows many games when the servers that they are running on bog down with traffic. In online baseball, for instance, this might cause a delay when a batter swings.'