Teeell me about it. When I bought my motherboard -- a DFI Lanparty UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G --, I thought I'd upgrade my CPU later on. Nah, the only interesting CPU for me is the 65W 5600+, but since it only has half the amount of L2 cache compared to its 89W counterpart (which is what I have), I have no choice but to keep the same CPU.
I wish I could say I won't buy DFI again, but they're not sold here -- I got mine in the States.
Some firms do make an effort to make products that consume less power, but some unscrupulous companies have jumped in the green bandwagon without actually making greener products. It's no surprise, really. Car companies have started doing it as well: Renault have labeled their Clio 1.5l DCi green out of the blue, when it consumes about the same as the older models. All in all, it seems it has turned into a marketing gimmick rather than an actual feature for some firms.
Hence the reason why the AC in the first post made an absurd comparison. He probably meant that the whole "my product is greener than yours" trend is bullcrap to him.
To be honest, I am interpreting ASCII waves from nearby countries' wireless networks solely with my mind powers.
Seriously, though... If I remember correctly, I knew people who had the net back in '96.
Generally speaking, the speeds here are sub par, and the offers are a joke when it comes to download caps. The best speed you can get is 8 mbps with Orange (formerly Wanadoo, part of France Telecom) for... around 60 euros a month, I think. More if you go over the download cap.
So yeah, we're lagging behind, but we're luckier than say, Haitian people.
Hey, I said "some." Maybe the person who modded me troll has never been in an American university.
I guess that a literature teacher begging his students to use at least one semicolon in their essay after having explained how to use said punctuation mark -- because most of them didn't have a clue what it is for -- isn't enough for me to assert that many American students don't know how to use punctuation marks properly. Especially when the aforementioned situation happened in a 300 level class.
They used to teach a lot of things in elementary school that people these days think are college level: grammar, spelling, latin, greek, algebra, basic chemistry, debate, logic.
Ah, this explains why all those American students didn't know what a semicolon was for.
What I meant was, it does not necessarily mean that the people who graduate high school have a decent level of education. Proof is, I have taught English to freshmen of MES (kinda like business), and most of them sucked at English -- which I expected anyway, given how good we are at training students to foreign languages --, at French, and at... maths. C'mon, +500% = x5 ??? I know I'd want to be good with numbers if I had to cope with statistics and the likes for at least three years.
Sadly enough, it's not just Anglo-Saxon countries. I've seen school headmasters pride themselves because they got a 80% pass rate at the French baccalaureat; yet anyone who's sensible enough knows it doesn't mean shit anymore.
Hey, it's not like you could apply as a cashier with less than a bachelor's.;-)
If I wanna switch over to DSL, the most reliable provider's cheapest offer is a sloppy 512/128kbps connexion for 29.90 euros a month. However, if you start watching online videos and the likes, the price will increase up to 44.90 euros a month, because you're capped to 3GB downwards.[1] Other providers? Some of them are cheaper, but they're all still renting bandwidth to Orange, which cheapest offer I've just described, hence their reliability may go down the tubes when Orange is moody.[2] let's not forget all of said providers require you to buy or rent their egregious modem to be allowed full functionality.
So yeah, Reunion Island sure ain't the center of the world, but truth is, there are still places out there where DSL isn't cheap.
[1] Let us now have a good laugh: Orange only offers that in overseas France -- Reunion Island, Martinique, Guadeloupe, etc. If you live in Metropolitan France, there's no such download cap horseshit. [2] The only relatively good offer I have noticed is with iZi: unlimited downloads (at 1024/256 kbps) and phone calls to local and Metropolitan France landlines. For 50 euros a month.:-/
Flamebait? Sheesh. That was what my family and friends told me. I didn't pull anything outta my back; you just may have a different experience there if you're white and rich. Maybe I need to elaborate after all...
I've got a friend whom people over there ignored when he was merely asking them where he could find a doctor, because they thought he was begging for money. They didn't even bother trying to listen to him, just because he's not white. Another friend of mine, who now lives in a middle-sized town in France, people just insult when he's walking down the street because he's from a different ethnics than them -- so that includes Whites and non-Whites. A girl I knew told me she went to some village in France, and everybody didn't like her until she said she was a Christian, and not a Muslim, which they thought she was, at what point all the guys wanted to date her. Do I need to mention she's quite tanned? Do I need to go on with my friends' mishaps?
Looks like some people really need the option "-1: Disagree."
P.P.S: Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying all French are racists and shall rot in hell. Damn, I could hardly do that -- I'm French myself. The thing is, people can quite often not be that open-minded over metropolitan France (at least when compared to Reunion Island), especially if you look African or Asian.
Well, French was widely used until the middle of the last century, especially in the diplomatic sphere. Plus it's spoken in part of Belgium and Switzerland, Quebec and former French colonies in Africa and Asia. And that's without counting all the overseas territories France owns.
Should you not believe me, here is the whole thing.
Billy-Bob lives in a middle-sized town in Reunion Island and knows how to speak French better than the average French speaker (thanks to a congenital sense of grammar Nazism and five long years at university), let alone you. Nice try.
It's easy to "have a blast" when you don't live there. I know people who do (namely my own sister and some cousins of ours), and life isn't always fun. My sister is quite clear-complexioned, so she didn't have to put up with the "you're not white enough" idiots. One of our cousins -- whose complexion is darker -- wasn't that lucky and couldn't enter some nightclub. Nobody tried to stop his French wife from doing so though.
Granted, that kinda thing happens more often in middle-sized cities and people are generally more open-minded in Paris. But Parisians are still assholes, no matter what. You could get raped in the street, nobody would come to rescue you or call 17.
P.S.: I agree on the "you should speak the language(s) that is (are) spoken in the country you're visiting" part though.
True that. Asking a Parisian your way is the same as insulting him. The country folk, on the other hand, will only have a problem with you if your skin complexion is too dark to their taste -- then they might think you're a Muslim or something.
P.S.: Those are what friends of mine told me upon returning from their journey to metropolitan France. Plus those were the nicest part of their respective stories.
nice features (such a firewall built directly into the NIC)
Actually, NAM can be very buggy. My system had never been really stable when it was installed; for example, I wasn't able to install a game without getting a BSOD. Just playing music in Winamp with nothing else open would crash my computer at times as well.
Leaving everyone except the hard-core KDE lovers what????
That is called an impersonal structure. It means that of all the people who were using KDE, only the hard-core lovers did not switch to another distro.
Yes, I know a VGA device is capable of outputting high resolutions without any problems -- I remember 2048x1536 as the maximum resolution. The thing is, I've noticed on some setups how using the VGA connexion would result in a blurry image compared to DVI/HDMI. Maybe the signal emitting devices just had crappy analog components. Or the telly/monitor.
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True, but since the prototype of the car for the average American is an automatic, that doesn't work very well.
KCCI-TV is run by monks?
That's why I hate foreign words in English -- you never know what syllable should be stressed.
Teeell me about it. When I bought my motherboard -- a DFI Lanparty UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G --, I thought I'd upgrade my CPU later on. Nah, the only interesting CPU for me is the 65W 5600+, but since it only has half the amount of L2 cache compared to its 89W counterpart (which is what I have), I have no choice but to keep the same CPU.
I wish I could say I won't buy DFI again, but they're not sold here -- I got mine in the States.
Welcome to the USA, where lots of parents expect the State to do the parenting for them. Because, you know, they deserve it after all.
Some firms do make an effort to make products that consume less power, but some unscrupulous companies have jumped in the green bandwagon without actually making greener products. It's no surprise, really. Car companies have started doing it as well: Renault have labeled their Clio 1.5l DCi green out of the blue, when it consumes about the same as the older models. All in all, it seems it has turned into a marketing gimmick rather than an actual feature for some firms.
Hence the reason why the AC in the first post made an absurd comparison. He probably meant that the whole "my product is greener than yours" trend is bullcrap to him.
To be honest, I am interpreting ASCII waves from nearby countries' wireless networks solely with my mind powers.
Seriously, though... If I remember correctly, I knew people who had the net back in '96.
Generally speaking, the speeds here are sub par, and the offers are a joke when it comes to download caps. The best speed you can get is 8 mbps with Orange (formerly Wanadoo, part of France Telecom) for... around 60 euros a month, I think. More if you go over the download cap.
So yeah, we're lagging behind, but we're luckier than say, Haitian people.
I think it's the other way around. It makes more sense to me, since the US has got more corn syrup than any other nation out there.
Either way, I think they use sugar from sugar cane down here -- I live in Reunion Island.
Plus Chile, unlike most other countries in South America, is about the only place there where the police won't rob you.
University of Montana, ENLI 321 (Dickensian literature), spring '07.
P.S.: Make that "meant," not "said."
Hey, I said "some." Maybe the person who modded me troll has never been in an American university. I guess that a literature teacher begging his students to use at least one semicolon in their essay after having explained how to use said punctuation mark -- because most of them didn't have a clue what it is for -- isn't enough for me to assert that many American students don't know how to use punctuation marks properly. Especially when the aforementioned situation happened in a 300 level class.
They used to teach a lot of things in elementary school that people these days think are college level: grammar, spelling, latin, greek, algebra, basic chemistry, debate, logic.
Ah, this explains why all those American students didn't know what a semicolon was for.
What I meant was, it does not necessarily mean that the people who graduate high school have a decent level of education. Proof is, I have taught English to freshmen of MES (kinda like business), and most of them sucked at English -- which I expected anyway, given how good we are at training students to foreign languages --, at French, and at... maths. C'mon, +500% = x5 ??? I know I'd want to be good with numbers if I had to cope with statistics and the likes for at least three years.
Sadly enough, it's not just Anglo-Saxon countries. I've seen school headmasters pride themselves because they got a 80% pass rate at the French baccalaureat; yet anyone who's sensible enough knows it doesn't mean shit anymore.
;-)
Hey, it's not like you could apply as a cashier with less than a bachelor's.
If I wanna switch over to DSL, the most reliable provider's cheapest offer is a sloppy 512/128kbps connexion for 29.90 euros a month. However, if you start watching online videos and the likes, the price will increase up to 44.90 euros a month, because you're capped to 3GB downwards.[1] Other providers? Some of them are cheaper, but they're all still renting bandwidth to Orange, which cheapest offer I've just described, hence their reliability may go down the tubes when Orange is moody.[2] let's not forget all of said providers require you to buy or rent their egregious modem to be allowed full functionality.
:-/
So yeah, Reunion Island sure ain't the center of the world, but truth is, there are still places out there where DSL isn't cheap.
[1] Let us now have a good laugh: Orange only offers that in overseas France -- Reunion Island, Martinique, Guadeloupe, etc. If you live in Metropolitan France, there's no such download cap horseshit.
[2] The only relatively good offer I have noticed is with iZi: unlimited downloads (at 1024/256 kbps) and phone calls to local and Metropolitan France landlines. For 50 euros a month.
I don't think playing Baldur's Gate would feel right with a gamepad. Or Fallout. Or Jagged Alliance. Oh, and Age of Empires III too.... Shall I go on?
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against consoles, but some games are best played with a keyboard/mouse combo.
Flamebait? Sheesh. That was what my family and friends told me. I didn't pull anything outta my back; you just may have a different experience there if you're white and rich. Maybe I need to elaborate after all...
I've got a friend whom people over there ignored when he was merely asking them where he could find a doctor, because they thought he was begging for money. They didn't even bother trying to listen to him, just because he's not white. Another friend of mine, who now lives in a middle-sized town in France, people just insult when he's walking down the street because he's from a different ethnics than them -- so that includes Whites and non-Whites. A girl I knew told me she went to some village in France, and everybody didn't like her until she said she was a Christian, and not a Muslim, which they thought she was, at what point all the guys wanted to date her. Do I need to mention she's quite tanned? Do I need to go on with my friends' mishaps?
Looks like some people really need the option "-1: Disagree."
P.P.S: Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying all French are racists and shall rot in hell. Damn, I could hardly do that -- I'm French myself. The thing is, people can quite often not be that open-minded over metropolitan France (at least when compared to Reunion Island), especially if you look African or Asian.
Well, French was widely used until the middle of the last century, especially in the diplomatic sphere. Plus it's spoken in part of Belgium and Switzerland, Quebec and former French colonies in Africa and Asia. And that's without counting all the overseas territories France owns.
Should you not believe me, here is the whole thing.
Billy-Bob lives in a middle-sized town in Reunion Island and knows how to speak French better than the average French speaker (thanks to a congenital sense of grammar Nazism and five long years at university), let alone you. Nice try.
It's easy to "have a blast" when you don't live there. I know people who do (namely my own sister and some cousins of ours), and life isn't always fun. My sister is quite clear-complexioned, so she didn't have to put up with the "you're not white enough" idiots. One of our cousins -- whose complexion is darker -- wasn't that lucky and couldn't enter some nightclub. Nobody tried to stop his French wife from doing so though.
Granted, that kinda thing happens more often in middle-sized cities and people are generally more open-minded in Paris. But Parisians are still assholes, no matter what. You could get raped in the street, nobody would come to rescue you or call 17.
P.S.: I agree on the "you should speak the language(s) that is (are) spoken in the country you're visiting" part though.
Hence the "or something" part. I wasn't being exhaustive.
True that. Asking a Parisian your way is the same as insulting him. The country folk, on the other hand, will only have a problem with you if your skin complexion is too dark to their taste -- then they might think you're a Muslim or something.
P.S.: Those are what friends of mine told me upon returning from their journey to metropolitan France. Plus those were the nicest part of their respective stories.
(...) where anyone with enough money never needs to goto jail for any crime.
You've been coding for too long; take a lil' break.
nice features (such a firewall built directly into the NIC)
Actually, NAM can be very buggy. My system had never been really stable when it was installed; for example, I wasn't able to install a game without getting a BSOD. Just playing music in Winamp with nothing else open would crash my computer at times as well.
Leaving everyone except the hard-core KDE lovers what????
That is called an impersonal structure. It means that of all the people who were using KDE, only the hard-core lovers did not switch to another distro.
Yes, I know a VGA device is capable of outputting high resolutions without any problems -- I remember 2048x1536 as the maximum resolution. The thing is, I've noticed on some setups how using the VGA connexion would result in a blurry image compared to DVI/HDMI. Maybe the signal emitting devices just had crappy analog components. Or the telly/monitor.