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Transatlantic Ping Faster than Sending a Pixel to Screen

posted by mrcoolbp on Friday March 28 2014, @05:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the 1ms-2ms-3ms-floor dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

Two years ago John Carmack tweeted, "I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f'd up is that?" And if this weren't John Carmack, I'd file it under the interwebs being silly.

Not convinced? You aren't alone, but Carmack appeared when called out to defend this claim.

We looked further and found this informative article from AnandTech about input lag.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by WizardFusion on Friday March 28 2014, @06:30AM

    by WizardFusion (498) on Friday March 28 2014, @06:30AM (#22443)

    +1 funny
    +1 sad

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