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PS4 review - Is Sony winning the console war?
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The PlayStation 4 was launched over two years ago. Now there are some brilliant new games out, including the excellent Uncharted 4, we thought it was a good time to give our review a thorough overhaul. The console has come a long way since launch, with numerous system updates smoothing out most of its rough edges.
If you're reading this you may well have already decided which console you want, but we'll be pointing out some of the lesser-known features on offer. If you're still undecided whether to buy a PS4 or an Xbox One, then it's well worth exploring the differences between the two as well, so see our PS4 vs Xbox One article too.
Sony has positioned the angular PS4 as a purebred gaming machine with a powerful hardware specification. Open the box and it's clear that the vast majority of your money has been spent inside the casing. There's no bundled camera peripheral, only the bare minimum of ports on the back, and even the power brick has been integrated inside the chassis. It's neat, compact and powerful-looking. But has its lived up to the early hype and expectations?
The PS4 might have started out life as a rather expensive upgrade, but prices have plummeted since launch and the console is now more affordable than ever. Sony officially knocked the price down to £300 in the UK in November 2015, bringing it in line with Microsoft's Xbox One, which had been discounted several months earlier. Sony's console was good value against the Xbox even when it cost £50 more, so now that the two consoles are even again it's an absolute blinder of a deal. Better yet, many retailers have slashed prices further, meaning you can pick a console up for as little as £250 in the run-up to Christmas.
The PS4 is an pretty sleek piece of kit. It's raked angles plus a mix of matt and gloss finishes look far classier than you might expect for a plastic-shelled games console. A recessed central gully contains the slot-loading disc drive and twin front USB3 ports, while a line bisecting the console the other way integrates the power and eject controls and a strip light that lets you know the console's power and notification status.
We really like the look, but we'd prefer proper buttons that click in when you touch them, rather than the touch-sensitive controls. Even after 18 months we still get confused about which is which sometime and eject a disc instead of just turning on the console.
^ The PS4 is a smart-looking piece of kit and, despite it having PC-related components inside, it looks nothing like a PC
Around the back is the HDMI output, Ethernet port, S/PDIF output and an AUX port for the PlayStation Camera peripheral. Power is provided by plugging in a typical figure-eight power lead and it draws from 80W idling, up to 140W in-game, but just 3W when in its Rest Mode.
Rest Mode is essentially a very clever standby mode for the console, during which it can charge controllers, download system and game updates, and even keep your games in a Suspend mode. This means you be playing a game, pause it, put the console in Rest Mode and it will save your game state. Then when you power it back up, you can start playing just where you left off almost instantaneously. It's a brilliant feature (also available on Xbox One) that works with any game that doesn't require you be online, such as Destiny.
^ There's not much in the way of ports at the back, but there's plenty of venting
Placed horizontally it's practically silent when idling, which is good for Blu-ray playback or streaming TV. However, it does pick up considerably when playing a game, and even more so when navigating the main menu while a game ran in the background. It's notably louder than the Xbox One and you'll want to keep it as far away from you as possible when gaming. Position it upright and the fan noise increases further still, so best to keep it lying down somewhere with good air flow.
Inside the console Sony has used similar components to Microsoft, with a powerful AMD chip at its heart. For the PS4 this single integrated chip contains both an eight-core CPU and a GPU with 18 compute units. That's 50% more compute units than the Xbox One, providing a significant advantage in graphical horsepower, which can also be turned to use in special effects and advanced physics simulation if preferred.
The PS4's memory system consists of a single large pool of 8GB of super-fast GDDR5 memory - more than we've seen on even the most expensive PC graphics cards. The Xbox One by comparison uses the same amount of slower DDR3 memory, with a super-fast 32MB cache to help make up the difference.
18 months in, we're confident in saying that the PS4's simpler memory architecture and superior GPU has proved the better choice. In multiplatform games, the PS4 consistently outperforms the Xbox One, with either smoother frame rates or higher resolutions onscreen. Most commonly PS4 games run at a Full HD 1,920x1,080, while Xbox One games go for a 1,600x900 resolution. It's not a huge visual disparity but you can see it, and we're now confident it's an advantage that the Xbox One won't close.
The DualShock 4 is a huge improvement over its predecessor, and it needed to be. Though still recognisably a PlayStation controller, the new controller is larger and more comfortably rounded. The back has a non-slip micro-texture and the front is dominated by a light that reacts to in-game events, identify players by colour, and allows the PS4 camera peripheral to track its movements accurately.
The light is a little too bright for our tastes at its default setting, reflecting off our TV screen in the dark; thankfully, you can change it from the original Bright setting, down to Medium or Dim by simply holding down the PS button on the controller and select Adjust Devices.
It has a built-in 800mAh battery that charges over a micro USB connection. It's very convenient but it's limited battery life of around eight hours means you'll want to leave on charge whenever you're not playing. Thankfully you can set the PS4's USB port to output power for 3 hours after the console goes into its Rest Mode, which is enough to get your controllers fully charged.
^ The new controller is more comfortable to hold, has more precise controls and a couple of next-gen features too - it's a fantastic evolution of previous DualShock controllers
The analogue sticks have more resistance and very little deadzone before they react to your inputs; they're also further apart, so you thumbs never touch, and are very precise. The d-pad is responsive with good feedback, though the face buttons could have clicked a little more positively. The triggers are good too, though they lack the vibration feedback of the Xbox One's.
The new gamepad also adds a touchpad, so you can execute swipes and other gesture-based commands. This also clicks in to provide a way to select options from onscreen menus. Less obvious is the built-in motion controls which are beautifully refined, giving you instinctive input in supporting games. We're still yet to see much integration of these features in big games, though.
^ You can hook up any headphones to the controller for late-night gaming sessions
One feature we love on the DualShock 4 is its microphone port. As well as being used to add a chat headset for multiplayer games (a basic one comes bundled), you can also output full stereo audio from the PS4 (game, movie, TV catch-up, anything) through it. It's brilliant for late night sessions with headphones without disturbing anyone else or running cables across your living room. There's a crisp mono speaker too for up-close sound effects and you can talk back thanks to a microphone.


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What is the meaning of the colloquial French expression "le titi parisien"? I've googled this several times, and while several answers come up, as a moderately fluent French speaker they don't "feel" right to me. Since this is a question of "argot," the nuance has to be just right, hence I'm coming here for insight from live humans.
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I think the best English equivalent for it is urchin, as in a street urchin. Bear in mind that the quintessential titi parisien is Victor Hugo's Gavroche.
In Dictionnaire des locutions françaises, un titi (pop.) is given the following grammatical explanation:
According to the TLF dictionary, le titi parisien is a 'typical' parisian kid. Like Gavroche, as Indoxica said in his answer, un gavroche being a synonym of un titi parisien according to the same dictionary.
This kid doesn't exist anymore though. This expression refers to kids of the mid/late 19th century.
As a French, please allow me to answer your question, backing up on the French wikipedia that seems complete.
A "Titi parisien" is a colloquial expression, in France to define a "child of Paris", resourceful, bright, and a practical joker, the archetype of which is the Gavroche character in "les Misérables" by Victor Hugo; then, consequently, an adult from popular classes in Paris.
You may Google "Titi parisien" and look at the pictures. All those with a cap on represent the titi parisien I grew up knowing.
That's what wikipedia says about the expression, but actually what we call "titi parisien" is also the patois/local dialect that used to be talked in 1920-30 in Paris with expressions like "meszigues/teszigues/seszigues" as to say "moi/toi/lui". But that's a parisian thing (aa)

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Im here for my wife, Lonkes Kibardira said to Darth Vader as he stood in front of him light saber drawn.
I do not think that will be possible Vader replied She has trespassed on Imperial property. She has to die. As he said this he raised his light saber to cut Lonkes down. Kibar jumped at him but was overpowered and thrown to the ground.
I was going to give her a painless death but because of your foolishness you shall both suffer. Vader raised his saber a second time. When it fell it cut Lonkes lekku of her head. Vader held Kibars head so he would be forced to watch his wife suffer and die. Kibar used the force to pull his light saber back to his hand but his attempt was futile. Vader grabbed the saber and cut Kibars lekku from his head. As Kibar died Vader said I will enjoy killing your son the same way I kill you. Vaders saber went up and came down with a bright red blur. Kibars head fell to the ground.
Klattudira woke with a scream. He had had this same dream every night scents his mother and fathers death. He knew Vader would someday come for him, too. He dreaded this day every minute of his life. But for now he was a simple moister farmer living at his late fathers farm. Every morning he would head out to check the vaporators but as usual today the first and probably the rest were empty. He slammed his foot in to the vaporator. He new he needed to head into Mos Eisley and find work but farming was about all he was good at. He wasnt even that good at it. He had a job working for a company called PPS but that didnt bring in much money either. If I was a better fighter I would make more but Im not. He wished he could have lived in the time of the Jedi. He new if he was given the chance he could become a Jedi but all he could do was dream. He had met an old Jedi once who had told him he had potential. That Jedi had said when he returned from Allderan he would teach him the ways of the Jedi but it had been a long time scents he had seen him. He feared he would never come back. If I was given the chance I would leave and never come back. He hated this hot planet. The sand, the heat, the dryness of the air. He looked to the sky. If only I could be up there among the stars flying my fighter he said as he kicked at the sand. He didnt have a fighter yet but he knew he would get one. He had found an old abandon A-wing once. It didnt fly very well but he got the feel for it. He flew for hours and hours until the fighter ran out of fuel and crashed. He wished it had had enough fuel to get out of the atmosphere but it didnt and there was no need to dream. He had to finish checking the vaporators.
A few hours later he had finished with very little profit. Im going to go now. Theres no use staying here farming for less than I could make killing a single womprat and selling its pelt. Ill sell the farm, by a small house near Mos Eisley, and find work there. He headed to the building he kept his swoop in. This piece of crap isnt going to work for much longer. Ill have to get a new one. He got on the swoop and headed for Mos Eisley to try to sell his farm.
A few miles out from Mos Eisley his swoop spun out of control. A blaster bolt had hit the back end of it. Another flew through the air just barley missing Klaatus head. He jumped off his swoop just before a shot hit the fuel compartment and blew his swoop into oblivion. He landed in a sand dune, looked up, and saw his attackers standing over him, a tuskin hunting party. Im doomed. Suddenly the tuskins looked up and ran away. He saw a Krayt Dragon stomping up over the top of the sand dune with the remains of a tuskin hanging out of its mouth. The Krayt charged at Klaatu. Klaatu jumped up on top of the monster. How the heck did I jump that high?! He pulled out his blaster and started blasting away at the Krayts back. Barley any of the shots penetrate the monsters thick scaly skin. The Krayt swooped his tail up and it hit Klaatu hard knocking him to the ground. He blacked out.
Klaatu awoke and opened his eyes. He saw a Twilek standing over him. It was his cousin, Kivadira.
You took a pretty bad fall there Kiva said.
Im just lucky you showed up Klaatu said as he tried to sit up with little avail.
Stay down. That Krayt is looking for us.
How long was I out? I feel like Ive been out for days Klaatu said rubbing his head.
Only a minute or two. You bounce back fast. Lets get out of hear before that Krayt fines us. They hopped into Kivas speeder and headed for Mos Eisley.
The Path of a Jedi Part 2
They arrived at Mos Eisley and parked in front of the cantina. They went inside for a drink. Are you going to stick around for awhile? Klaatu asked after they sat down.
I guess I was hoping to talk you into coming with me this time.
They sat silently for a minute or two then Klaatu said Yeah. Ill come. The farming business hasnt been good and Im really sick of this planet. Ill have to sell the farm.
Taken care of. I found someone who wanted to by it just before I left Endor. They should be arriving in a day or two.
What made you think I would say yes? Klaatu said angrily. That was my dads farm. I dont want to just sell it to anyone.
Sorry. Dont worry. Hes a nice guy. Kinda mysterious but a nice guy.
Ok. You had better be right Klaatu said or Ill sell you precious ship when you sleep. They both laughed. I have some things to take care of before we go. Meet me back here in three days. He left the cantina and headed to the local PPS facility.
Im here to request a transfer he said to the attendant at the front desk.
Ok. Please fill this out. The attendant handed him a form. He sat down to fill it out. When he finished he brought the form back to the attendant.
As he was about to leave a Wookie came up to him and said Hello. My name is Rowwlok1. Please follow me. Klaatu did what he asked. He followed him to a room were two other figures stood. One was a Zabrak who introduced himself as Rowda Lapitt. The other was a Human who Klaatu recognized as Jarek Rek.
We have a mission for you that we think you might be able to pull off. We have a client who is having trouble with his vaporators. We thought scents you were a moister farmer you might be able to help him Jarek said and then started laughing.
Thats not funny. If you will excuse me I have things to do Klaatu said then left the room.
Hey. It was just a joke Jarek called after him but he didnt stop.
As he left the building someone grabbed him, pulled him over to the side, and said He is here! Take this and find somewhere to hide! Then as quickly as he appeared he was gone.
I dont believe it! Vader is here?! He turned around and went back into the building. Rowwlok1 was standing at the door.
Can I stay here for a couple days? Klaatu asked
Sure you can. We have some empty rooms on the third floor Rowwlok said. Sorry about the farmer joke.
Thats ok. I sold the farm anyway.
Heres the keycard.
Klaatu headed for the lift. I wonder whats in this package? Once he was inside his room he sat down and opened the package. Inside was a journal, a blueprint to a light saber, and a holocube. He activated the holocube. There was a Twilek holding a blue light saber. Dad! The Twilek began to speak I dont have much time. I am tracking Vader. I am a Jedi Master and it is your destiny to become on someday. Here is my journal and a blueprint that I made for you. Make the saber and read my journal. It will be the key for you to follow the path of a Jedi. Son, I love you.
Dad wait! Klaatu said but the image was gone.
The Path of a Jedi Part 3
I know what I must do Klaatu said I must follow the path of a Jedi. He picked up the blueprint and studied it. I will need a lot of stuff before I can start building it. This is going to be hard. He set the blueprint down and picked up his fathers journal, opened it up, and started reading.
Several hours later Klaatu set down the journal. He decided to go try to find some of the materials he needed to build his light saber. As he was leaving he saw Kiva running up to him. They blew it up! Kiva said angrily.
Who blew what up? Klaatu asked.
Some Imperials came out a nowhere and blew up the silver shadow! I think we might be stuck here for awhile.
Vader. Klaatu said with a far off look in his eyes.
What. Vader is here? That cant be. Why would he come all the way out here just to blow up my ship?
Hes after me.
What? Why? Kiva asked.
I never told you how my parents died Klaatu told Kiva everything.
So let me get this strait. Vader killed your parents and said he would kill you then today some old dude gives you a package with this junk in it?
Thats right. And now Vader is here and he wants me dead and no one can stop him.
And now we have no way off the planet. Darn! Were in big trouble!
I have an idea. When is the guy who is buying my farm getting here? Klaatu asked.
Tomorrow. Why?
We can use that money to buy a ship but we still need somewhere to lie low until he gets here. My father started his training on Endor then went to Dathomir then when he was a fully trained Jedi Knight he went to fight the Krayts on Tatooine.
Sounds like a plan to me but were will we stay until we can leave the planet?
PPS. Its the company I work for. Theyre good at what they do. Klaatu said then they headed back to the PPS facility.
Whoa. If I would have known you were wanted by the Lord of the Sith himself I would have never let you in. We dont want to get involved with this. If Lord Vader comes here he will shut us down and kill us all Rowwlok said after Klaatu told him there situation.
Please. We cant do this on our own. We need your help Klaatu pleaded.
Ill have to talk it over with Rowda. Wait here Rowwlok said then headed into a back room in the facility.
A few minutes latter Rowwlok and Rowda emerged from the room. We have decided to protect you. We have a small isolated facility about 70 miles from here. You two can stay there. We will provide you with transportation to the facility and we will send transportation when are sources let us know Vader has left the planet Rowwlok said and good luck.
Thanks guys. When do we leave? Klaatu asked.
20 minutes. The speeder will be waiting for you out back Rowda said then he and Rowwlok went down a long hallway that led to the administrator of transportation.
20 minutes later Klaatu and Kiva got into the speeder that will take them to the isolated facility. The driver was Jarek. Sorry about the farmer joke he said as they pulled away from the building and headed out to the facility they will be staying at.
No problem. I sold the farm so you cant make farmer jokes anymore Klaatu said.
What about Jedi jokes? Kiva asked jokingly.
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Exercise might be the last thing on your mind after you give birth, but it's worthwhile. In fact, exercise after pregnancy might be one of the best things you can do for yourself. Follow these tips to keep exercise after pregnancy safe.
Regular exercise after pregnancy can:
Better yet, including physical activity in your daily routine helps you set a positive example for your child now and in the years to come.
Exercise isn't thought to have any adverse effects on breast milk volume or composition, nor is it thought to affect a nursing infant's growth. Some research, however, suggests that high-intensity physical activity can cause lactic acid to accumulate in breast milk and produce a sour taste a baby might not like. If you're breast-feeding, you can prevent this potential problem by sticking to moderate physical activity and drinking plenty of fluids during and after your workout.
If vigorous activity is a priority during the first few months of breast-feeding, consider feeding your baby before your workout or pumping before your workout and feeding your baby the pumped breast milk afterward. This can also help you stay comfortable while you're exercising. Alternatively, you can simply avoid breast-feeding your baby right after your workout. After months four to five of breast-feeding, physical activity has less of an impact on your milk because your body produces most milk at feeding time.
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Two hundred demonstrators were arrested at a rally for immigration reform on the National Mall Tuesday. Capitol Police detained the protesters, including Georgia Rep. John Lewis and other members of Congress, after they sat down in the street in front of the U.S. Capitol building.
Rally organizers say they wanted to remind Congress to keep immigration reform on the legislative agenda, which has been bogged down by the ongoing government shutdown and federal spending debate. Tuesday's event followed similar demonstrations over the weekend around the country in support of immigration reform.
In the nation's capital, the chanting of "¡Sí, se puede! ¡Sí, se puede!" ("Yes, we can! Yes, we can!" in Spanish) echoed across the Mall as a mix of labor union members, community organizers and young families with strollers made their way toward the Capitol from the rally's earlier site in front of the Smithsonian Institution building.
Despite the political gridlock on Capitol Hill, demonstrator Rebecca Diaz of Washington, D.C., said she's hopeful that immigration reform will pass.
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Are there any automated tools for auditing config files exported from Cisco IOS devices? Free/Open Source is always nice, but anything that does the job would be of interest.
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Cisco's own SDM (Security Device Manager) performs some basic auditing. "Cisco SDM allows users to perform one-step security audits to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their router configurations against common security vulnerabilities." For a list of features included, see AutoSecure Features Implemented in Cisco SDM .
Another well-known tool is Cisco RAT, available from the Center for Internet Security.
These are good starting points, but far from perfect.
A more recent option (which I haven't tried yet) is the Nessus IOS plugin from Tenable.
More ad hoc (single-function) tools can be found at
You can also check out Nipper (http://www.titania.co.uk/)
It's cheap: $85 for evaluating 5 devices (home license).
HP Network Automation is what we use. It's commercial software but works great.
For devices with ACLs you should try Tufin SecureTrack.
It reads in the running config file and allows you to perform various kinds of analysis such as ACL overlap report, finding ACLs that match certain access patterns, for example ACLs allowing access from one zone to another etc.
CiscoConfParse (download link) is an open-source audit toolset that lets you express the audit as Python code. Disclaimer: I am the author.
License: GPL
You might check out AlgoSec and Lumeta to see if their products will do what you want.
Caveats: I have no personal experience with these vendors, nor do I have any financial relationship with them.


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July 25, 2012
Ten historic gravesites in Cape Town
Tombstone tourists will find Cape Town interesting ground for exploration, with the eras of the Mother City's history offering diverse sites for cemetery enthusiasts to discover.
The first notable burial in Cape Town's history was that of Rev. Joan van Arckel. In the early days of the Cape settlement, notable figures were buried inside church buildings and thus a place of worship was provided inside the Castle of Good Hope. Rev. van Arckel was laid to rest at this place of worship in the incomplete Castle in January 1666.
Some of Cape Town's cemeteries, open to this day, are home to the remains of South Africans including the first prime minister of the Cape Colony from 1872 to 1878, Sir John Molteno, who rests in the Claremont cemetery; Sir Thomas Upington, premier of the Cape Colony between 1884 and 1886, buried at Maitland cemetery; Sir Gordon Sprigg, four-time prime minister during 1878 and 1904, and John X Merriman, the last prime minister of the Cape Colony (1908-1910), at Mowbray cemetery.
Colonel John Graham was famous as the founder of Grahamstown in 1814. He died in Wynberg in March 1821 and was buried in the Somerset Road Cemetery, which has since been levelled, however, a window was erected in his memory at St Saviour's Church in Claremont.
The Kramat of Sheikh Yusuf of Bantam can be found in Macassar. Sheikh Yusuf is said to be the father of Islam in South Africa and his Kramat is an important holy shrine for followers of the faith.
The Kramat Sheikh Mohamed Hassen Ghaibie Shah al Qadri, a follower of Sheikh Yusuf of Macassar, can be found on Signal Hill.
The Kramats of Sheikh Abdurahman Matebe and Sayed Mahmud are located in Constantia. Both were spiritual and religious leaders who became political prisoners of the Dutch East Company. They arrived in May 1668, after being banished to Constantia in the Cape.
Gugulethu Cemetery is home to the graves of well-known heroes and heroines of the apartheid struggle such as Oscar Mpetha, the Gugulethu Seven and Pro Jack.
So if you are drawn to the legacies of the long gone, Cape Town will unfold their histories in quiet places of memory.


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Great ****ing news. Now I have to go back to Jan 1st. I hate this game.
Great ****ing news. Now I have to go back to Jan 1st. I hate this game.
So what's changed:
We've got a harder draw in the Copa Libertadores:
Jorge Luna has demanded to have his contract torn up:
I love how I'm getting punished for the game ****ing up. Thanks SI.
Fluminense have come back with an identical offer for Fernandez, so at least something has stayed the same.
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I feel quite dirty for winning this match. I mean there's nothing I can do about it, but it still feels wrong.
A pretty comfortable victory that puts us through to groups stages. Espinoza's made a good start to his career, his pace is far more dangerous than Ledesma was able to be against opposition right backs.
The joy of being seeded fourth; you draw one of the best teams in Brazil, probably the best team in Paraguay and a team from your own country you have never beaten... ever. I can't wait for these six rounds of punishment.
Hope you get a couple of results from that.
Ouch! Tough draw! Good achievement though, qualifying for the group stages
Still doing well, with a few difficulties. Have you thought about moving on yet, or staying in Argentina for a while longer?
Saying that, its best not to make plans because I'll only break them.
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With seemingly every big star at my club angling for a move to a "bigger" club, I felt it was prudent to lock these two child geniuses to extra long contracts. Worst case scenario is that I have them until 2021. Best case? Baby, I'm gonna get paid.
I'm going to be at work all day today, so here's a brief update:
We've had a much more impressive start to the Clausura, despite a number of injuries. Espinoza, Amieva, Prieto, Marquez and a few here and there which have affected us. Despite this we've managed to come back from last year's horror half and show the league what we're capable of. Indeed our 6-2 demolition of Argentinos is easily the standout result.
I'll keep the Copa Libertadores cards close to my chest for now, but things are getting interesting on that front,
Enjoy your Saturday, I won't be.
Excellent so far.
I am so happy with this result. A draw away at Internatcional (aided by a red card for them) and a home victory against them too has ensured we will progress to the knockout stages. Lanus are still completely unbeatable when we play them, but a sneaky draw in the last match shows that maybe one day we can beat them. I'll be honest, when we drew this group I didn't expect to qualify, so really anything upwards from here is just a bonus. My priority here is still to win the Clausura, to get maximum points to ensure we can qualify for the Copa Libertadores next year.
I'm going to tempt fate here, but I think this is one of the easier draws we could have gotten. It'll still need to be full blooded, but thankfully we didn't scrape a top tier Brazilian side.
Why can't my players play like this when my board decides to have a family fun day. I've been given two opportunities a few years back and we lost both scoring no goals. Masters at mistiming everything.
We almost ****ed this up, but to be fair I did play a shell squad to conserve our energy.
Another Ecuadorian side in the Quarter Finals, should be an interesting tie.
Phew, just about came through that. With us 2-0 down I had to do something, on came Espinoza and he scored a magical solo goal. It took a while to get the second, but it's going to make things easier in the home leg. But Emelec have shown they can be dangerous and we need to guard against that.
After ten mother****ing tries, FINALLY. Not only have I got this monkey off my back, I've kicked it square in the face, burned both of its eyes out with cigarettes and tossed its wasted carcass into a nearby river. Lanus are not my problem any more.
Useless ********. A golden opportunity, probably the most golden opportunity since Whitney Houston discovered methamphetamines. But we pissed it away. What's worse was that because of their stupidity, I had to tell the team they are a group of morons, which now means their morale is miserable. I'm adding Emelec to my list of people/things I hate more than mushrooms.
Just discovered this button, it just flipped my world upside down.
I didn't ask for a parent club, this was a deal done without my knowledge. I don't imagine anything coming from this, I mean Lens aren't renowned as a rich club, still it's nice to know my chairman does some work behind the scenes.
A much more solid half campaign which leaves me on a high for the end of the 2015/16 season. At one point we were looking close to matching Independiente, our 3-0 victory over them made me think we could power through to the end, however injuries and some bad football in the last three or four means we tailed off slightly.
But the good signs are there and if we can stay relatively injury free we may very well be the top boys next season.
My main priority though is to ensure we qualify for the Copa Libertadores. With our lack of gates and increasing wage costs, we really need to maximise our earning potential in every feasible manner. The best way is to get paid extra winning matches and there is no bigger earner than the Copa Libertadores.
Things are looking good again.
I can imagine you've got a bit of a taste for the Libertadores now.
A difficult decision to make but necessary. Parra refused to sign a new contract and only had a year left. I could have probably got more if his contract was longer, but £5m is still a fair price. Everyone else who wanted to mutiny against me has signed a new deal, including Ledesma. I'm going to need a replacement, but down here in the deep dirty south this kind of money can go a long way. I'll miss him, but at least I'm not turning up to party with an empty hat.
Transfers - 2016/17 season.
This boy is where I spent my Parra money. A hefty price tag, but he has enough ability to justify it. His age guarantees a level of resale value and that alone satisfies me in terms of the price. He's a very competent central midfielder and I'm hoping he'll give us a smoother edge when playing against teams, Podio is still with us, I love him but he can be very aggressive at times.
These two were brought in to cover the right midfield slot vacated by Parra. Unfortunately Machado's citizenship papers didn't clear by the time registration closed so unfortunately I won't be playing Busao until the new year begins. It's my own fault, but trust me when I say this: I could not find one, not even one, truly standout candidate to replace Parra. That's why I got these two and a loan.
Nothing else too interesting. A young CB and some outgoings. I like the squad we have. Other than the RM slot I'm happy with every position in the team and we can do as well as we did last year as long as people turn up to matches. I think it could be a good season, but knowing my luck I could be unemployed in four months.
I've got to say, I was not expecting that at all. Apparently they like the fact we got a good deal for him and that we'll get a cut of any future money. Go me, I think.
You know you're in for an interesting season when both of your first choice fullbacks are injured in the same training session.
Best thread in this forum, why haven't I found this before.
Shouldn't take too many seasons now to win either the Apertura or the Closura I think - or even the Libertadores. Team's getting more and more solid every season.
Remember how I said earlier how I was happy with the team? Remember how I said I had confidence in their ability to push through defeats and get back on the horse? I was lying. That was me being positive. Or maybe it was me being honest and then having my words stuffed down my throat by a giant hammer made of pictures of me with eggs on my face. I'm disgusted. Truly and utterly ****ing disgusted at this sorry sack of losers. Oh, I'm not overreacting either:
That's what we call in my game an utter collapse. That's the fall of the Berlin Wall when it comes to capitulation. Every single time I try to build Rome this group of morons manages to find a way to destroy it in a day. It's embarrassing. If the game was actually sophisticated at replicating the real life football media I would have been branded a cursed manager. Or worse, just simply inept. Yet I don't see what more I can do, in fact if I see these words ever again:
I might just go outside and kick the living **** out of the first animal I can get my hands on.
It's beyond poor. This is a team who can beat the champions 5-1 but somehow can't string a set of results together right when it matters. I constantly wonder why our average gate doesn't increase year on year, but now I know why; who in their right mind would pay to go to a strip club where the girl gets on stage, dances the best dance of her life and then just as you're about to finally get a glimpse of her quim she crumbles to the floor, has a seizure and soils herself. It's not entertainment it's masochism and the national statistics are very accurate on these details: less than 50% of the population want to purposefully hurt their brains and pay for it at the same time.
I'm angry, really ****ing angry. I don't mind not being good enough to win the league, if that's the case then so be it. I can accept limitations. But christ, there aren't any. We can beat any team in this division and we prove that consistently. I can't bear to imagine the number of times I see our name at the top of the table, only for it to not be there when it matters.
I really wish the board would sack me, I'm too much of a pussy to resign because I still feel as though there is something to fight for, but I really, really do not want to manage these ****ing idiots any longer.
I'd be interested to see how Lautaro Fernandez ends up on other people's games. I nurtured him from a pretty rank outsider to a fairly decent standard as a left back. I'm pleased we're getting good money for him, Navia is a far better player. I've had a nap and I feel much better now.
I'm taking bets if anyone's interested. After that performance I'm making us odds on to not even finish in the top half of the table, such is my luck.
Two transfers during the break:
Perez will be coming in as first choice right midfielder. I haven't felt super comfortable with Ledesma playing on the right side and despite his age I think Perez will be a great player for the club. He came in on a free from Benfica which means he's on a high wage, however I think the cost is justified because of his ability.
Another signing from the Barcelona academy in Argentina. My coaches believe his potential to be higher than Russo's however I'm going to need to get him tutored to hopefully raise his mental attributes. I'm not too sure how he's going to fit into the team just yet, but that isn't an issue just yet because he is fairly young. Depending on how soon my two star strikers leave the club I may even retrain him as a striker, but that's further down the line than I'd like to imagine for now.
I also sold Sergio Forlin to a Hungarian side, Gyor, for £400k. He made a few first team appearances but was never going to be a regular and that was a decent amount of money for a youth player from our academy.
I normally don't update on what's going on in the Copa Argentina because we always get knocked out in the fifth or sixth round, but this year we've made it to the quarter final stage for the first time in my period managing here. It's not a major priority, but I might start fielding a stronger side now we're up in the higher echelons.
A day between fixtures is a bit much, no? I'll update with what the result is, but I'm going to envisage a defeat and maybe some injuries just to make the cake just that little bit sourer.
In the circumstances I'd say a 0-0 against the Apertura runners-up is a great result. Freddy Prieto picked up a slight injury so I subbed him off, luckily there's been no lasting damage.
Now's an appropriate time to show you how we're doing in the league. We are experts at getting 30 points, but it is around this point that we fall apart. God knows why it happens, god knows but it is usually here. I just want to document how strong our position is at the top of the league. I don't want it to happen, but if it does then at least people can get a good sense of why exactly I get so angry at this side come the end of each half season.
Still got a good margin in case things do go a bit pear-shaped.
A 3-0 victory over All Boys means we're through to the semi-final of the cup. This could be the first major competition the club wins, but I'm not putting my hopes up, they'll only be brutally shattered.
Yeah, I'd be delighted to take over the position of manager at a club fourteen places below me in the league, especially when I'm closer than I ever have been to actually finishing something this club has started.
I'd say that was a statement of intent.
Go away!
Here's a memory that will forever be indelibly etched into the back of my mind:
Housewives' favourite Gonzalo Rovira scoring the winning penalty in a dramatic 4-3 penalty victory over Boca Juniors.
It was a pretty ****** game and despite some great chances for us, no one seemed able to score. An injury to Machado meant on came Rovira and he managed to square things up. When they saved our second penalty I felt sure they would wrap it up, but Lerda pulled us back into things and then there was only one man to take it.
I'm delighted, finally I can put something on my shelf that isn't a picture of me at a theme park. We've worked hard over the last few years to put ourselves into these kinds of positions where we are capable of winning things. It's justified and certainly no group of players in this division deserves success more than this lot do, no matter how hard they try to avoid it come the end of every season.
Just noticed this thread and read the whole thing, Absolutely brilliant and can take a lot of inspiration in helping me do my career thread 'The Road to Continental Dominance'
Two-faced *******. Saying that, well done to him, Uruguay are the world champions and if he can keep on playing for them he may very well become a proper regular. Also, I wouldn't mind the £15,000,000 asking price I set for him.
Do you just leave every concern any player has be and hope it goes away?
I'm used to it, when you play in gateway leagues you have to constantly battle to keep players and to make sure the expectations are managed correctly. I know when the right time to sell Machado and Russo will be, but it isn't now and it isn't a pressing concern, because I've managed their expectations in a fairly sensible manner. I couldn't get Parra onside, so I had to sell him, but the rest have been fairly easy to work in my favour.
One defeat in the whole of the Clausura. On the final day against Boca Juniors. In the last five minutes. Not a tragedy, but it would have been nice to say we were undefeated for half a season. Saying that, thank god it came then, because I'd imagine the players would have melted into the ground after a loss like that.
What a Clausura though. We led, dominated, controlled, whichever phrasing you prefer to use, we did it. After the pathetic end to the Apertura, we needed this. Or more importantly, I needed this, to maintain my sanity. We were special, often untouchable, but it was a squad effort. We get infected with injuries quite frequently so it's nice to see that a player like Francisco Hernandez has now clocked over 125 appearances under my management, despite never being a first choice player.
I think chief among the changes was bringing in Albarracin and Nava, they've been crucial to plugging the gaps in our defence. We all know the quality of our attack, but it's the whole team that should be celebrated for this.
From here, it's going to be a very interesting time. We've broken that glass ceiling that we could get through and now we can make something of the opportunities in front of us. I've said before, I want to win an Apertura and a Clausura in the same season. My current feeling is that there's still some time left for me at Gimnasia, we're Clausura and Cup champions int he same season, six years after I took over.
A drink to the 2016/17 season.
Brilliant mate, This thread is one of the best on the forums so KIU
Some more good news, the board finally pulled their fingers out and managed to negotiate a much better sponsorship package for us. Almost double our previous annual income. We're still pretty porous when it comes to money coming in and out of the club, but at least we're starting to get paid more adequately in relation to our improved stature within the South American game.
Some nice money coming in to balance out finances
Like me in every save I have i always seem to get a loss every month :/
That's normal, you should get a loss every month. Because usually that's not actually a loss but a calculated investment, only to be covered and generally profited at the end of season with prize money, sponsorship and tv revenue
Great thread, great progress. Be interested to see your next move, after the unfinished business here of course.
There, no problems this time.
Great second period of the season. Big improvements on the opening stage
Transfers - Season 2017/18
A free transfer from Argentinos, I felt he was good enough to come into the team as backup, but one Rovira gets too old or Machado/Russo moves on he should be able to make the step up to regular first team action. His pace is a real threat, similar to Antonio Medina, except thankfully he is also a decent finisher and mentally capable.
Correa was another free transfer from Velez. I'll be honest it was simply the fact he was available that I went ahead and signed him. I don't really have any larger plan for him, but he is a very good player and I made a decision that in time a space would open up somehow.
My annual big money signing this year was Diego Segales. He's a Uruguayan international and looked perfect for the defensive central midfield slot that I've found it difficult, at times, to master. He's a real catch, expensive yes, but he definitely justifies the price tag.
The future replacement for Danilo Lerda. He's got some very good attributes and is almost ready to come into the team as is. However out of loyalty to Lerda I won't be letting that happen, Lerda has been the longest serving player for me since we got promoted and it's only fair I let him see out his contract with us while playing.
I had some interesting offers during the break, including a £2.3m loan offer (no future fee) for Eduardo Sanchez. However with Albarracin's contract only running until 2019 and him being a little difficult during negotiations I'm going to hold off until next year to decide the course of action.
I took a while to consider this. I've already got a lot of football on my plate every season, but then I decided that a country like Tunisia is considered a top 10 nation in Africa and that could mean a good opportunity to spread the word of my existence. If I can start some kind of cult or a religion based around me than it's possible it could spread across the world. Either way, I'm looking forward to it.
Should be a good move.
Good move mate
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to welcome you to the Gonzalo Berardi show:
Machado and Russo are out injured for a few months. My mind is slightly more at ease now.
**** this, it's happening again.
I can't be arsed with that lot any longer. I need a fresh start. I keep making all the right moves, I keep adding depth to this team, I keep managing their happiness, I keep playing tactics that win us games. But one defeat, one defeat and that's it. We go to ****. I can't be arsed with them any longer. Let the club sell the best players, let them sink back into obscurity, if they can't survive as a unit then that's their own perogative, I won't be in charge of that fragile ship.
I need a fresh start.
It's what an American would call a no-brainer. The current world champions wanted me as their manager, I didn't apply for it, but they wanted me. So I accepted. They have one game remaining in the World Cup qualifiers, this is how it stands:
The final game against Peru, in three days, is a must win to ensure we make the play-offs at least. There is a real abundance of talent in Uruguay at the moment and I've been given a huge opportunity to make my mark as a manager on the global stage. I'm excited, the day-to-day management of Gimnasia was beginning to hurt me and I needed a fresh start. Hopefully I can make something that really shouldn't be happening, I mean six and a half years ago I was a Sunday League manager.
So we qualify, but only just. After going 3-0 wonderboy Martinez pulled two back and I was genuinely scared I was going to have to wait four years. So I did what any coward would do, I played a 5-4-1 and prayed like I've never prayed before. It worked, but by god I don't want to be in that position again. Peru are a weak side and if we play like that we'll get **** on at the World Cup. I'm going to need to play as many friendlies as possible and get a tactic working that is secure. I do not want to embarrass myself.
Looking at Uruguay, the options in attack are almost limitless. But there are four key players that stand out; Edinson Cavani, Luis Suarez, Abel Hernandez and Nicolas Lodeiro. I am normally a firm believer in strike partnership, it breeds a certain level of competitiveness in the final third. But in this instance it seems a waste, in my eyes, excluding one of the three strikers. But playing a flat three up front always gives me worries over the midfield being exposed by the team becoming too attacking and lacking any real width. For this purpose I have decided to go with a 4-5-1/4-3-3 composite:
The principal idea is to take the fact Suarez and Cavani are both equally adept at playing in the wide AM roles and therefore push them there, to give me peace of mind over the shape of the formation, without removing one or the other, missing out on a star player.
The three man midfield will need some work in terms of selection. Uruguay are not so blessed in the central midfield department, a combination of either two defensive central midfielders and one attacking or vice versa is something I will need to mull over. Lodeiro needs to be included, but given his natural ability as an attacker partnering him with another attacking central player could mean our anchor comes under far too much pressure.
We have a friendly against Italy coming up and it will be interesting to see how we fare under this formation against first class opposition. The nature of the match is most important, but this is not only my first idea, but my best one too. I can't see how Uruguay can play utilising all their best options in any other manner. I shall be crossing my fingers that I am correct on this occasion.
As promising a start as any. Going to get back into club management as well?
Hmm, we were pretty much outplayed. We had one shot on target and generally speaking we were lucky. I need to go back to the drawing board.
Right, I've decided the best plan of attack is to face the best in the world. I'm going to do what I said wasn't, i.e. play a 4-3-3, and I'm going to try to outscore them. I didn't like only having one shot on target against Italy, it isn't how I like my teams to play football. If we're going to the World Cup, we're going to entertain people.
I have to say, I'm very happy with that draw. New Zealand should be an easy three points, so a win in either of the two games should see us through, but realistically we should be topping the group. There were a lot of difficult draws so I'm glad that we managed to get an easier ride.
My job now is to organise a few more friendlies to make sure we're prepared for the World Cup.
So that's the schedule. A prestige friendly against Spain, followed by staggered warm ups against increasingly difficult opposition, then into the lion's den. The theory is to have the team kicking and screaming, ready to launch into the competition all guns blazing. Of course that's the theory, I expect the unexpected.
We've got our formation. Despite the fact we lost, we played well, very well in fact. They scored from a solo effort off Felipe and an own goal. We outplayed them, should have scored at least three and we looked good. The three man midfield wasn't swamped, Hernandez, Suarez, Cavani combined so effectively the Spanish didn't know what hit them. I'm ready for the World Cup now.
Are they ready for us?
Great move, good luck in the World Cup!
I'm excited, although these are only friendlies we've looked remarkably dangerous against teams. The first friendly was just a warm up, but the players did what was required and got in the mood to start scoring. Against Belarus we didn't take the chances, but we created large number of them and the fact the players were getting into good positions was good enough for me. The final game was the icing on the cake. We went up against one of the strongest sides in the world and we came out on top. We weren't over-run, we pushed them to the edge and to top it off, we came back from a goal down.
That's why I'm excited. I feel as though the team is playing in a manner that I am comfortable with and I feel as though we can do well in the competition. The preferred line up is as follows:
Abel Hernandez picked up an injury a few weeks ago, he's still in the squad but has only just recovered. Because of that, as the keen eyed readers of this career will have noted, Leandro Machado is starting up front. Joining him in the centre of midfield is fellow Gimnasia team mate Diego Segales. My only real concern is that Lodeiro hasn't been receiving enough game time at Liverpool and therefore his match fitness is shot. At the moment he's only getting about 60% through games before I have to sub him off. Hopefully he can build things up through the group stages. Other than that, we're full strength and ready to kick some arse.
Tobol Toboklsk was a bit of a random friendly to have.
A powerful start to our group. We looked very dangerous, I don't recall Bosnia having any shots on target. My only worry is that first choice goalkeeper Muslera damaged his elbow and will be out for two weeks. Luckily Martin Rodriguez, our backup, is suitably qualified to perform the task.
I don't know how we didn't win this match. Oh wait, I do: Igor ****ing Akinfeev. Jesus, that man was possessed. He was everywhere, literally everywhere. Thank god we didn't concede because we couldn't put the ball past him. If this wasn't a video game I'd put it down to home advantage, but all the same, it puts us in a good position to top the group.
Still can't believe we didn't win this game though. Wait, just remembered: Igor ****ing Akinfeev.
A demolition job was called for, a demolition job was received. It means we top the group and go into the second round in scintillating form.
A difficult tie, my experience of Portugal isn't too hot but I'd imagine they're still a top quality side.
Domination over New Zealand. Tight game against Portugal. 2-1 to you I reckon.
Urgh, Cristiano Ronaldo. I was so scared he was going to single handedly drag Portugal back into this game. So scared I was that I actually reverted to my pussy five man defence. Then they go and shock me by scoring a fourth to put my mind at ease. This was not an easy match and despite Portugal playing a narrow formation, we were exposed out wide a few times. Thankfully some serious performances by Machado and Lodeiro created enough chances for this lot to hit the net and we did what I asked of them: outscore the ********.
Great result. Potential to go all the way!
Ooh, it was either them or Germany. Either way, hard tie.
A surprisingly routine victory over Holland. They never really threatened us as such and once the third went in I pulled off key players and sat back. However that worked against us because we had to play the final ten minutes with ten men after Segales was injured.
Speaking of injuries, Segales is out for at least a week while Coates (of Liverpool) is out for month with a broken arm. Luckily Godin is able to come in and is his equal in defence, however Segales is harder to replace and we will miss his defensive capabilities in the next round.
Bring on the semi-finals, I can't wait to see who we draw.
Oh baby, what a semi-final. But then I wasn't expecting any less, it's not exactly often you get an easy tie in the semi-final of the World Cup. I'm excited though, this is really into the danger zone.
Nothing needs to be said. We're in the final.
We are in the final.
What a final. Two classic rivals in the biggest final in professional sport. I. CAN. NOT. WAIT.
In fact... yeah, I'm going to record it.
Best of luck in the final mate, great career so far.
Well I was going to record the match, except it over-ran 4gb and won't play when I open it, so you'll have to make do with my report:
People are used to seeing me get angry, ridiculously angry over situations in this game where, in context, I shouldn't allow them to. But not in this situation. I finished this match smiling. We played so well throughout this entire tournament and despite losing in the final to an awesome Argentina, we were the tournament's entertainers.
The match was a classic, they scored within thirty seconds due to some comical defending, but and instant double salvo, followed by a third on the half hour mark and suddenly it was looking amazing. But they came back, stalked us, hunted us down and found their footing. They got the required two goals, we had a goal disallowed in injury time, then they almost won it in extra time before our pathetic attempt at penalties saw us finally lose.
But you know what, who cares. Argentina did just enough to win this competition, but we made this tournament. Averaged over four goals a game, scored some outstanding ones as well and we carried ourselves with honour defending the title won four years ago.
What an experience, probably one of my favourite few hours playing this game since I started more than a decade ago. Truly mesmerising.
Says it all, only one Argentinian in the dream team.
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This makes sense to me. I've only been in charge for eight months, but that eight months has easily been my favourite period managing in Football Manager for quite some time. I don't want to tarnish it, I want to preserve it as something special. It's good to step down when I'm hot, when I'm in a good mood, when I feel I can get back into club management. Thank you Uruguay.
The date is 18th July 2018.
No thanks, don't feel like managing in Italy.
I like the idea of managing in Russia. I was looking at options in Brazil and in Singapore, but then out of nowhere CSKA Moscow came along. It was probably too tempting, they're set up so ridiculously well, but then that also means the pressure is on to get results quickly. I don't know, this could be a great move, it could be a horrible one. But right now I'm on a real high so I'm walking into it with a positive attitude.


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I hope I found the right stackexchange site for this question.
I'm in the process of translating a book (scientific publication) for private use. If I ever decide to publish it, what is the procedure - who is the right person to ask for publishing rights and translation approval?
Update (previously posted as a comment):
Two of three authors are deceased, and I still need to find out what is the situation with the third one. I'm translating from a Russian translation of the book (due to the unavailability of the original).
If all three authors show up to be deceased - should I contact the original publisher(s) (since it was a joint publication by two companies) or the publisher of the version I'm translating (since one (the Poles) are holding the general, and the other (the Russians) are holding the Russian translation rights)?
Furthermore, the Russian publisher went out of business (Mir Moscow).


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Cooks compete in Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off
Several awards on the line
UPDATED 6:43 PM PST Feb 23, 2013
More than 70 chefs fired up their stoves to prepare their best bowls of clam chowder in the 32nd Annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off and Festival.
Chowder cooks started slicing and dicing away around 7 a.m. Saturday, getting ready for a panel of judges to start the official tasting around 1 p.m.
Contestants can compete in one or both divisions: Individual and/or Professional. Teams also compete for "Most Original Team," "Most Tasted Chowder" and "People's Choice" awards.
The hope is no one will go home hungry.
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How can I make a p2p multiplayer game? I would like to have a server-less multiplayer game. But then, how all the clients know each other?
Why the p2p-protocol is so famous in file transfer but not in multiplayer games?
How can I make a p2p multiplayer game? I would like to have a server-less multiplayer game. But then, how all the clients know each other?
Why the p2p-protocol is so famous in file transfer but not in multiplayer games?
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Peer to peer games generally still have a game host. Its the game host that posts the game to the master games list and accepts new connections. Whenever the game host accepts a new client to the game it notifies all existing clients about the new client so that they can ensure they connect to the new client.
The simplest way to implement p2p is with a lobby. All clients connect to the host in a lobby (or chat room). When the host is ready the player presses start and they all enter the game at the same time (commonly used in strategy games). A more complex approach is to use "drop-in drop-out" where players can join and leave mid game, however this is a lot more complex to implement in a p2p game and requires a feature called host-migration.
A good number of games use peer to peer networking, including most strategy, sports and driving titles. Just about all Xbox360 and PS3 games use p2p networking. The client-server architecture is mostly used in first person shooter or MMO games.
Client-Server is generally easier to implement as only 1 machine has not know the entire game state, the clients are basically just renderers with some prediction to make things look smooth.
When you build a p2p engine, all clients need a full state of the game world and they all are required to stay in sync.
For more details on p2p and client-server architectures I suggest you read the following article: http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/what-every-programmer-needs-to-know-about-game-networking/
And if you're new to networking in general checkout the other great articles on that site. Glenn is a networking genius.
There are many reasons p2p is not popular in games, mostly due to lag. Everyone is as slow as the slowest player. We're not talking about bandwidth here, but ping time.
p2p can transfer tons of data, but it does so with a quite high ping, games need to transmit very small amounts of data, with minimal ping time.
There are some interesting aspects about peer-to-peer systems and action games. I tried to post them as a comment on Glenn Fiedler's blog, but apparently he doesn't like to be proved wrong and pulled the whole article instead. It's still in google's cache, in case you want to read it.
He didn't let the comment go online, so I'll quote it here:
You can find the thread I'm referencing at http://www.devmaster.net/forums/showthread.php?t=14640.
I think someone mentioned the firewall problems peer-to-peer has in one of the threads from the article. A possible solution would be a NAT-Punchthrough:
There is no 100% success rate, so you should tell the players to open a port anyway.
A good example of 'true peer-to-peer' gameplay would be a real-time-strategy game such as Starcraft.
In a game with hundreds of units/projectiles in motion, it's not practical to repeatedly send unit positions/states over the network to all other players, so one solution here is for all players to run the (exact same) simulation in sync.
When one player performs an action, the command/order ('move zergling to X,Y') can be sent to all other players, to be executed by all instances of the simulation a fraction of a second later.
In this situation, if any player disconnects, the game can continue - as there's no need for a server/host to be running the game, the remaining players can carry on.
However, keeping the games in sync is non-trivial, you have to use a fixed timestep for the game logic updates, and must be very careful with use and seeding of random number generators, to ensure that the simulations will not diverge!
It would be a bit disingenuous to claim that it's not famous for games when most Real Time Strategy games (Star Craft series, Command and Conquer Series) and many FPS games (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2) use it.
That said how one learns about the game is up to the matchmaking / lobbying service that you use or create. But even once one learns about the game, there still may be one or more peers that are more equal than others. Consider the case of 3 clients wishing to play, one behind an open nat, 2 behind strict (Closed) nats. The open nat peer can take connections from the other two. But the 2 strict can not connect directly to each other, they will require the open nat to relay the packets. If the open nat peer drops from the game, then either another relay would need to be found or the game will be disrupted.
you may also want to check out Badumna (www.badumna.com) which claims to be a peer-to-peer networking solution for online games. It seems to do the game state synchronisation in a distributed manner and according to their website there is a Flash version coming.
You probably want to run with one player(We'll call him/her the "Host") as a non authoritative server. You'll have all the other players communicate what they are doing on their end with our host, and the host will relay the messages to the other players.
You probably also want to pass a list of what computers are connected to the hosting player so that if they drop a new host can be chosen somehow and start communicating with the remaining players.
The documentation for smartfoxserver may help you out and/or you may end up wanting to use it for your game as well. You'd just embed it into your client game instead of having a separate client and server program.
I'm a little bit interested on this matter. You are saying there are a lots of problems with making a game p2p instead of a classic client-server model. But i'm pretty sure that p2p is like client-server but every peer has the chance to become a server. About the LAG if u add one more machine as a server there are more probabilities that many clients are further from the server, but using p2p there are no extra machines in the lobby u can manage the latency tests and create groups with minimal ping. About the traffic generating, as i've learned you must ask the clients to transmit lesser than less i mean the clients have to figure all the other clients are willing to mean.
If you're making a relatively simple looking mmorpg with low system requirements, I'd suggest creating an internal program that creates a "frequency" based on the contents of the game's folder and what the files consist of. This will make people with the same "frequency" play on the same channels. Modded, manipulated or normal clients will be separated. This will only work for native hacks or mods, but I'm sure this covers all of the "dumb" cheaters. Combined with the error checking method that one person mentioned means little to no moderation required. As far as ports go, just have it cover port 52225 with a background process that keeps it plugged on routers without trigger-ports.


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Seated high in the Rocky Mountains west of Fort Collins, Zimmerman Lake was abuzz last week, and not just from the swarms of pesky mosquitos that had a heyday dive-bombing visitors.
Instead, scientists and students from the University of Colorado Boulder and fisheries biologists and managers from state and federal natural resource agencies were focused on the inhabitants of a water tank in the back of a Colorado Parks and Wildlife fish-stocking truck. Inside were hundreds of colorful trout known as greenback cutthroats, about to be released into their native river drainage after vanishing for decades.
The event was a conservation management milestone, a result of a novel 2012 genetic sleuthing study led by CU-Boulder Senior Research Associate Jessica Metcalf of the BioFrontiers Institute that helped to clarify the native diversity and distribution of several Colorado cutthroat trout strains. The study was largely based on DNA samples taken from specimens collected in Colorado as far back as 150 years ago that were compared with DNA of modern-day cutthroat trout.
The biggest surprise in 2012 was that the cutthroat trout strain native to the South Platte River drainage survived only in a single population—a small stream known as Bear Creek that actually is in the nearby Arkansas River drainage. The trout living in Bear Creek most likely were collected from the South Platte River drainage in the 1880s and stocked into Bear Creek.
"This is a real win for conservation genetics," says Metcalf. "We were able to use historical specimens to find out something quite novel about cutthroat trout biodiversity that has resulted in a management action. We are not just bringing a native species back to its historic range, but the greenback cutthroat trout, our Colorado state fish. I would have never imagined this outcome when we started our research in 2001."
The members of the Greenback Cutthroat Trout Recovery Team, involving CU-Boulder and state and federal agencies, hope the milestone is the first step in reintroducing the federally protected fish into selected waters in the South Platte basin, which the CU-Boulder research team inferred to be its historical haunt.
According to Doug Krieger, senior aquatic biologist for Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Greenback Cutthroat Recovery Team leader, about 3,500 greenback cutthroat trout—offspring of fish taken from Bear Creek—have been raised at the Mt. Shavano State Rearing Unit and the Leadville National Fish Hatchery. "We finally have the opportunity to bring these fish home," he says.
CU-Boulder Professor Andrew Martin, who spearheaded the 2012 study with Metcalf, says researchers are trying to understand more about the characteristics of the greenback, including how well the fish succeed in their new environment. "Living in Zimmerman Lake at an elevation over 10,000 feet will be very different from living in Bear Creek at 6,100 feet or living the 'cushy' life in a hatchery," he explains.
Data from a random sample of fingerlings being released at Zimmerman Lake included DNA collection as well as physical measures of trout appearance. In the next several years Martin and his colleagues, including CU-Boulder students, will revisit the lake to follow the fate of 200 individual, marked cutthroats as a way to assess the success of the initial stocking effort and whether natural selection is playing a role in determining the success and failure of different individuals.
"This is an extremely challenging situation," says Martin of CU-Boulder's ecology and evolutionary biology department. "But this recovery effort has been a joint project of many different people with different interests and backgrounds combining their energy toward one specific goal. We have a chance to bring a native species back from the brink, and I'm happy to be a part of it."
CU-Boulder senior Peter Omasta, who is majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology and is funded to do summer research by the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, says the stocking event may have been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. "So often we hear about what's wrong with the environment, and how biodiversity is disappearing," he explains. "But I had the opportunity to be part of an historical conservation experience—introducing a native species back into its own environment."
The museum specimens used in the study came from the California Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology. Metcalf and her colleagues first collected multiple samples of tissue and bone from each of the ethanol-pickled trout specimens, obtaining fragments of DNA that were amplified and then pieced together like a high-tech jigsaw puzzle to reveal two telltale genes of the individual specimens.
The decline of native cutthroat trout in Colorado occurred because of a combination of pollution, overfishing and stocking of native and non-native species of trout, says Metcalf. "It's ironic that stocking nearly drove the greenback cutthroat trout to extinction, but a particularly early stocking event actually saved it from extinction."


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Georgia Wildlife Resources Division
2070 U.S. Hwy. 278, SE, Social Circle, GA 30025
Bay Creek Elementary School in Loganville ran away with top shooting honors at the first of five regional archery tournaments Saturday at Loganville High School.
Bay Creek Elementary shot a team score of 3,081 to beat out 11 schools and win the overall highest-scoring team award at Georgia-NASP Regional No. 1. Bay Creek also won the elementary school division to qualify for the 6th annual Georgia-NASP State Tournament March 21 at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry.
Lafayette Christian School from LaGrange automatically qualified for the state tournament by winning the high school division with a team score of 2,850.
Individually, 5th-grader Dylan Thompson from Bay Creek Elementary was awarded the overall highest scoring male champion with a score of 285 (out of 300). The overall highest scoring female champion was Lafayette Christian School's Hannah Powell, who fired a 257. She tied Bay Creek Elementary's Caroline Hughes, who also shot a 257, but Powell won the tie-breaker by shooting more 10 rings.
Other top individual shooters included: Lafayette Christian's Rebecca Borders (228, top middle school female); Branch Christian's Eddie Alvarez (267, top middle school male); and Sola Fide Christian's Joey Kasper (269, top high school male).
More than 230 students in elementary, middle and high school competed at Regional No. 1. Schools that did not win an automatic berth to state at the regional tournament can still be selected as a high-scoring wildcard team after the final regional tournament is completed in late February.
The National Archery in the Schools Program is an in-school archery curriculum that meets all education department standards. Only schools that are certified in NASP through the Georgia Department of Natural Resources are qualified to compete in the Georgia Tournament. Schools in nearly 80 counties in Georgia are NASP certified.
The program promotes instruction in international-style target archery to improve educational performance and participation in shooting sports. Research has shown that the program, administered through a minimum two-week course during the school year, improves class attendance and behavior. NASP universal fit bows make it possible for students of all sizes and genders to succeed in archery while raising self-esteem levels and improving hand-eye coordination during physical activity.
NASP is taught in 48 states as well as six countries. To date, more than nine million students have gone through the program.
For more information on NASP in Georgia, recreational shooting sports opportunities or to find a range near you, visit www.georgiawildlife.com [1], contact a local WRD Game Management Office or call (770) 918-6416.
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