Twinbee writes "Gamers often find 'input lag' annoying, but over the years, delay has crept into many other gadgets with equally painful results. article as simple as mobile third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 or redress TV channels can suffer. system software too is far from innocent (Java or Visual Studio 2010 anyone?), and even the desktop itself is riddled with 'invisible' latencies which can frustrate users (take the new Launcher bar in Ubuntu 11 for example). More worryingly, Bufferbloat is a problem that plagues the internet, but has only freshly hit the news. Half of the problem is that it's often arduous to pin down unless you look out for it. As Mick West pointed out: 'Players, and occasionally even designers, cannot always put into words what they feel is wrong with a careful game's controls ... Or they might not be able to tell you anything, and simply say the game sucked, without really comprehension why it sucked.'"

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