75 off Mount and Blade and Warband from Steam

75 off Mount and Blade and Warband from Steam

Whether you fancy yourself as a Flashing Blade type, or have delusions of being a legendary Seeker get over to Steam and download and  play the only Equus persona venatus  free form mounted combat action rpg sandbox  game and its expansion/pseudo sequel .


And  seriously ,its only a little like the Witcher  but with  more equus . Or like Oblivion but with much more Equus....Or my little medieval war pony with more rpg ...


And completely seriously Mount and Blade is a gem of an rpg series , that pc rpg fans should not miss especially at this price .


Imagine the fun you can have jousting with 64 players !  How about a Holy Grail mod with siege cows ? Right knave fetch my steed and armour ....We will We Will Rock You!!!!!!!!!!!

and like all the best PC games series there are the obligatory Star Wars mods :

how about a mods v rockers Western Supermare mod? oh wait there is this : 

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A New Adapted Back off Scheme for Broadcasting on IEEE 1609 4 Control Channel in VANET

A New Adapted Back off Scheme for Broadcasting on IEEE 1609 4 Control Channel in VANET

This paper shows that the current works in the field of optimizing the contention window follow:

Propose a static minimum contention window for VANETs
Try to adjust the contention window in function of the vehicle density.

After all, the authors said that regardless of how the local density estimation is accurate, does not solve the problem because the local density cannot show the real data load.

Therefore, they propose two mechanisms:

1- They choose the starting time for each node in the CCH interval based on its geographical position
2- they propose a new back-off mechanism so that the node doesnt frozen its back-off timer by finding a new transmission and continue it until find it zero and then send the packet if find the channel free, otherwise, repeat the same routine.

These scheme shows better performance even if there are some GPS position errors.

Final point: this work distribute the nodes starting time based on their geographical position instead of choosing the optimized contention window. It can decrease the collision probability but it didnt find any answer for adapting the MAC based on the real data load.

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50 OFF on Diablo III

50 OFF on Diablo III

To celebrate the upcoming launch of the Reaper of Souls expansion set, Blizzard is currently offering the original Diablo III on Windows and Mac for just US$ 20.00. Thats 50% OFF!

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Offer ends at 11:59 PM PT on March 23, 2014 Sunday.

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