Why is cafe world running so slow

If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser. But first things first: What do I mean by gaming cafe? Sure you can entertain those who are there for casual surfing or chatting and whatnot, but at the end of the day, you are there to cater to gamers. Keeping that in mind will help you figure out the direction your cybercafe is going for.

For example, it will make more sense to have your games patched and updated instead of having the latest photo editing software.

Take note that this is for people who seriously want a gaming cafe with quality in mind. Sure having a lot of computers is very advantageous. You can accommodate a lot of customers especially those that like to play in groups and you can also host tournaments. If you have the time, money and workforce to do this then go ahead and do it, but if you are putting fifty units on the floor and are going to let them take care of themselves, please rethink this. And even if you can afford it financially, consider how many you can afford to maintain and look after.

These things need regular maintenance and peripheral replacements and you will be surprised how quickly keyboards or mice break. By experience, I started with ten units. There are daily maintenance tasks before the shop opens and closes like patching the games or clearing the cache. There are also monthly tasks like disk defragmentation or physical cleaning of the interior of the system unit. There are also irregular tasks like installation of new games.

Having a cybercafe with multiple units is very awesome indeed especially during the first few weeks. Let me tell you that this is a waste of money. While canvassing for a place to buy our units from, we came across one shop who was telling us that we could run a maxed out StarCraft 2 on an on-board MB gfx card with a Pentium 4 processor.

Now if you encounter something like that, turn around, walk away and do not look back. So why should you turn away from affordable low-end specs? Second, upgrading that means buying a new computer.

These things have compatibility issues. How much will it cost to upgrade from this to that? The cost in the long run is going to hurt you. Do not always rely on what the salesperson is telling you.

One of the things that makes gamers angry is lag. So try to reduce that by getting sufficient internet connection. Consider all your options. It would be helpful to actually head over to a customer service center and discuss things with a sales representative. Make sure to ask questions about bandwidth consumption and the dreaded internet capping. And also search the internet for reviews and experiences from other net cafe owners.

Who told you that getting a residential type broadband internet connection running on a max of 1 to 2 Mbps was a good idea? The internet connection salesperson? European settlers would also come to introduce the plant to their colonies in Asia and South America: Portugal brought coffee to Brazil, France to Vietnam, and Spain to Colombia.

The sale of coffee was intimately linked with the slave trade, which was not abolished until the s in Colombia and the s in Brazil. The plants that produce Arabica coffee beans — the most aromatic kind favoured by the majority of drinkers — are very sensitive to the climate: they thrive in a narrow temperature band of C and require plenty of rainfall. And just as the quality of wine depends on the terroir of grapes, the taste of each coffee blend will be shaped by the conditions in which the beans are grown.

The state of Minas Gerais in Brazil provides almost perfect conditions. Even so, the young leaves are made of such delicate tissue that they have to be kept under shade to avoid too much direct sunlight. After six months, the small trees are ready to be planted — but they still require meticulous care to ensure they receive enough water.

Once they reach maturity, the plants will begin to blossom with white flowers that will eventually fall away to reveal the cherries that contain the beans. Overall, it takes around two and a half years until the first crop can be harvested — meaning a long lag before the farmer can see a return on his or her investment. The plants are biennial, meaning that they will only produce a full yield every couple of years after that point. The harvest only begins after a quality control manager has tasted the beans to ensure they are of optimum quality.

Once they are taken from the trees, they are sorted, washed and graded and then laid out on a vast patio to dry. They are then vacuum-packed and loaded onto trucks, ready for transit. Worldwide, the cultivation and production of coffee supports more than million workers and their families, many of whom feel extremely passionate about their profession, including Suely Di Souza at the Daterra farm. Her husband had been working on the farm for seven years before her, she says.

With the other workers on the farm, the job has provided a sense of community for De Souza Paiva that she would otherwise have been missing. Cultivation is only one part of the story — before they can be drunk, the raw beans must be cooked.

In countries such as Italy, with a long history of coffee culture dating to the 16th Century , the blending and roasting of the beans is considered an almost supernatural craft. Lelli says that during roasting, he pays attention to tiny changes from second to second.

Unlike a typical filter coffee, an espresso is brewed by forcing a lower volume of steaming water through the ground beans at high pressure. Espresso coffees can now be found in thousands of cities across the world. This is thanks, in part, to Howard Schultz, a manager at a little known coffee shop in Seattle, who fell in love with Italian espresso during a business trip to Milan. He would later buy out the owners and launch an aggressive expansion campaign that would lead his company — Starbucks — to become one of the most recognisable brands in the world.

Unlike a pub, say, the coffee bar was a suitable meeting place at any time of the day, for any age group. Whether or not Starbucks has succeeded in recreating the Italian experience is of course a matter of debate. But the popularity of artisanal coffee shops today certainly owes a lot to the recognition that coffee can be more than a simple caffeine kick. Today people care much more about the origins of the drink, its unique flavours, and the environment in which they drink it than ever before.

And they see it as a way of connecting to others around them. This attitude, of course, dates right back to the start of coffee culture among the Sufis in the Middle East, where it remains central to many social rituals.

In the US and UK we may have forgotten those connections with our perfunctory consumption of instant coffee in the 50s, 60s and 70s, but we are now coming back full circle. As a sign of its growth, consider this: Starbucks opened their first store in Beijing Today, they open a new store in China every 15 hours.

Whereas most people had drunk instant coffee at home in the past, younger Chinese people are increasingly buying into its social appeal, as well as developing more refined tastes for artisan blends in speciality coffee shops. Even so, the demand in Asia is still very far behind that of more established coffee-drinking regions: in , Japan was the largest consumer in Asia, drinking 4.

But there are obstacles to this growing thirst, the foremost being climate change. Remember that the Arabica plant is incredibly sensitive to heat and rainfall — meaning that rising global temperatures and more irregular weather spell trouble for its long-term survival.