Let's be realistic. The only reason why it gets a boost like that is because of the GDDR5 in the system, you strip that out and it's slower than a PC built 5 years ago. But, your example is rather flawed, being that "buying a name" means you're gutting 20% of your upgrade budget.
And PC gaming has been killing consoles for the last 5 years, in fact it takes the wii, xbox and PS3 to equal the sales on the PC generally speaking. Not only that but in the last year and half, it's been a case of "the console is dead. Long live the PC." Not that the PC went anywhere, and the doomsayers have been calling that it's dead since the mid-90's.
The union negotiated contracts are designed this way to protect the union members that have paid the most dues.
Tell that to the GM, Ford and Chysler employees who had their collective agreements null and voided by states, provinces and federal governments. Just because you think that's what'll happen it doesn't mean it always will. And in the case of the automakers, those cases are still before the courts.
The US banks have waffled on it for nearly 6 years and getting terminals upgraded. We've been fully chip & pin in Canada for that long now, and if you're wondering why it hasn't been done it's because the cost of upgrading millions of terminals is expensive.
Yeah that's not legal in Canada, just a FYI. The feds cracked down hard on them for trying that one. Doubly true since there are now chip skimmers out there that can duplicate the chip. Though they're very rare at the moment. Even with that, you'll find that most of the banks in Canada are now partnering with either Visa or MC for loss coverage on chip&pin cards.
No one was subjected to grade 13, it was fully optional. You want to go do it, and get a leg up? All the power to you, want to stop at 12 and head into university anyway? Go do it. It was the *other* provinces that were throwing a hissy fit over it because they felt that it was giving an unfair advantage to students from Ontario in the university classroom.
Sounds to me like the problem isn't buying cheap natural gas, but getting enough of it into New England.
No pipes in a lot of cases. The NG network is somewhat limited, but we've got massive ready reserves of it in Canada, and it's all sitting capped off. We could easily sell it to the US, but there's no real piping to run from AB/SK/MB to those areas of the US. We do ship it by rail car that way though.
In Ontario we used to have this thing called OAC(Grade 13) which gave you equivalent degrees or partial credits towards university. So in a sense, they can be valuable. When they killed and gutted grade 13 here, the quality of students entering university dropped through the floor.
NE is violently opposed to building any energy infrastructure.
Of course they are, they buy it all from Canada for less than what we pay for it at home. And about half the time the NE-US buys it at us from a loss on our side, you really don't *need* to build new power plants or generators---unless you want to supply on your own side. As it stands, you're getting a hell of a deal from us.
If that was true, then no one would ever be a sperm donor.
Welcome to Europe and Canada, where the courts have effectively made sure that guys won't engage in relationships at all, because of any type of potential fuck-over. I had a feeling that this would hit the US eventually, enjoy it. Because for many young guys, this will be the only way they'll ever get fucked.
Actually, you'll find that most teenagers are using other services and bailing from FB because it's what "the adults around them use." And no teenager wants mom, dad, grandparents, aunts and uncles looking over their shoulder.
Out in Alberta they make bins that have a lock, but are reinforced plastic. And can be auto-unlocked by the handler on the truck. I should have taken some pictures of it when I was out there, since it was neat as anything.
Out in the wild areas of wild north america, we get around the problem of wildlife getting into the garbage by using lid-locking metal cans. I've yet to see something chew through galvanized steel, and do it successfully. Even the bears give up after a time if they can't smash the lid off.
It would probably be easier if we let people use nonsensical pass-phrases instead of continuing to make it more difficult. I could walk around any government office, or business and probably find 90% of the passwords in no time. With that they'd be some form of incomprehensible jibberish that no one could remember unless they were using it for everything.
So it's from the reseller side that you're getting the drives. I would have figured it would have been from Ingram Micro, Supercom or something similar. Since buying batches in the 10k range from them isn't uncommon. We used to buy 5k-15k drives at a time from Ingram Micro without a problem. Going with that, it may be worth the effort and time to setup a low-cost storefront that sells in a few locations(or purely online), and buy drives from higher up in the supply chain with a prediction between retail sales, and what you'd actually use.
After all, if you could buy 10k units with a 15-25% markdown(not sure how valid that is anymore--but what we used to get it at), and undercut the rest of the competition it's more money in the pocket at the end of the day right? And to expand on the "not sure how valid" it has more to do with the total lack of drive suppliers worldwide now. Back when I was in the industry we had: Quantum, Maxtor, Seagate, WD, Conner, Hitachi(before merger), Fujitsu, NEC and Philips among others.
Fun fact about Canada, if you live in Southern Ontario the chances of you using the non-OUR version is pretty high, especially if you were educated in the 80's, since the entire edumudcation system was waffling over whether or not it was okay. For those of us who went through that it's been hell ever since.
Oddly it's not just them, there's also the environmental groups doing the same thing. There's a massive crackdown going on by the CRA against all foreign interest via lobbying and donations of money.
So I'm not following you, are you saying that FPP is bad because the conservatives got elected, or are you saying that FPP is bad in general? If you look back in political history the political party with the greatest control of canadian politics has been the Liberal party. And let's be realistic, there's plenty of flaws including the day that Trudeau effectively broke the government in the 70's, by calling a parliamentary vote after everyone went home--breaking the notification rules because he wanted to be PM that badly.
As it is, I'm fine with FPP and having been a delegate for the liberals and the reform party, both use the system to it's full advantage. The weakest part of politics like anywhere else in the western world is getting people out to vote.
No one is buying blank cassette tapes or CD-ROM/DVD's anymore. Waaaaa we need more money!
If no one is buying those forms of media anymore how is the collection arm still raking in money hand-over-fist? They've got one hell of a pile just sitting there from the last year.
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PC built five years ago? On what budget?
Roughly? About $700. So yeah, consoles haven't gone up and anywhere.
Also, VGchartz is uselss. It doesn't count digital sales, only retail sales.
All national security agencies engage in industrial espionage. Whether the NSA, CSIS, or MI6.
Let's be realistic. The only reason why it gets a boost like that is because of the GDDR5 in the system, you strip that out and it's slower than a PC built 5 years ago. But, your example is rather flawed, being that "buying a name" means you're gutting 20% of your upgrade budget.
And PC gaming has been killing consoles for the last 5 years, in fact it takes the wii, xbox and PS3 to equal the sales on the PC generally speaking. Not only that but in the last year and half, it's been a case of "the console is dead. Long live the PC." Not that the PC went anywhere, and the doomsayers have been calling that it's dead since the mid-90's.
Forget derived from gasoline, this is what will happen. Bloom Country saw it years ago.
The union negotiated contracts are designed this way to protect the union members that have paid the most dues.
Tell that to the GM, Ford and Chysler employees who had their collective agreements null and voided by states, provinces and federal governments. Just because you think that's what'll happen it doesn't mean it always will. And in the case of the automakers, those cases are still before the courts.
The US banks have waffled on it for nearly 6 years and getting terminals upgraded. We've been fully chip & pin in Canada for that long now, and if you're wondering why it hasn't been done it's because the cost of upgrading millions of terminals is expensive.
Yeah that's not legal in Canada, just a FYI. The feds cracked down hard on them for trying that one. Doubly true since there are now chip skimmers out there that can duplicate the chip. Though they're very rare at the moment. Even with that, you'll find that most of the banks in Canada are now partnering with either Visa or MC for loss coverage on chip&pin cards.
No one was subjected to grade 13, it was fully optional. You want to go do it, and get a leg up? All the power to you, want to stop at 12 and head into university anyway? Go do it. It was the *other* provinces that were throwing a hissy fit over it because they felt that it was giving an unfair advantage to students from Ontario in the university classroom.
Sounds to me like the problem isn't buying cheap natural gas, but getting enough of it into New England.
No pipes in a lot of cases. The NG network is somewhat limited, but we've got massive ready reserves of it in Canada, and it's all sitting capped off. We could easily sell it to the US, but there's no real piping to run from AB/SK/MB to those areas of the US. We do ship it by rail car that way though.
In Ontario we used to have this thing called OAC(Grade 13) which gave you equivalent degrees or partial credits towards university. So in a sense, they can be valuable. When they killed and gutted grade 13 here, the quality of students entering university dropped through the floor.
NE is violently opposed to building any energy infrastructure.
Of course they are, they buy it all from Canada for less than what we pay for it at home. And about half the time the NE-US buys it at us from a loss on our side, you really don't *need* to build new power plants or generators---unless you want to supply on your own side. As it stands, you're getting a hell of a deal from us.
Sounds hot. I'm sure there's a rule34 application of it too.
You want lazy, try Hitachi PLC's. Never again.
If that was true, then no one would ever be a sperm donor.
Welcome to Europe and Canada, where the courts have effectively made sure that guys won't engage in relationships at all, because of any type of potential fuck-over. I had a feeling that this would hit the US eventually, enjoy it. Because for many young guys, this will be the only way they'll ever get fucked.
Nobody is going to tax you for not using something,
Really? How's those school taxes working out.
Actually, you'll find that most teenagers are using other services and bailing from FB because it's what "the adults around them use." And no teenager wants mom, dad, grandparents, aunts and uncles looking over their shoulder.
Out in Alberta they make bins that have a lock, but are reinforced plastic. And can be auto-unlocked by the handler on the truck. I should have taken some pictures of it when I was out there, since it was neat as anything.
Out in the wild areas of wild north america, we get around the problem of wildlife getting into the garbage by using lid-locking metal cans. I've yet to see something chew through galvanized steel, and do it successfully. Even the bears give up after a time if they can't smash the lid off.
It would probably be easier if we let people use nonsensical pass-phrases instead of continuing to make it more difficult. I could walk around any government office, or business and probably find 90% of the passwords in no time. With that they'd be some form of incomprehensible jibberish that no one could remember unless they were using it for everything.
So it's from the reseller side that you're getting the drives. I would have figured it would have been from Ingram Micro, Supercom or something similar. Since buying batches in the 10k range from them isn't uncommon. We used to buy 5k-15k drives at a time from Ingram Micro without a problem. Going with that, it may be worth the effort and time to setup a low-cost storefront that sells in a few locations(or purely online), and buy drives from higher up in the supply chain with a prediction between retail sales, and what you'd actually use.
After all, if you could buy 10k units with a 15-25% markdown(not sure how valid that is anymore--but what we used to get it at), and undercut the rest of the competition it's more money in the pocket at the end of the day right? And to expand on the "not sure how valid" it has more to do with the total lack of drive suppliers worldwide now. Back when I was in the industry we had: Quantum, Maxtor, Seagate, WD, Conner, Hitachi(before merger), Fujitsu, NEC and Philips among others.
Fun fact about Canada, if you live in Southern Ontario the chances of you using the non-OUR version is pretty high, especially if you were educated in the 80's, since the entire edumudcation system was waffling over whether or not it was okay. For those of us who went through that it's been hell ever since.
is there a problem with listening to Pandora on your computer
Yep. Pandora doesn't work on your computer in Canada unless you're using a proxy or something else.
the US copyright lobby is really pissing us off
Oddly it's not just them, there's also the environmental groups doing the same thing. There's a massive crackdown going on by the CRA against all foreign interest via lobbying and donations of money.
So I'm not following you, are you saying that FPP is bad because the conservatives got elected, or are you saying that FPP is bad in general? If you look back in political history the political party with the greatest control of canadian politics has been the Liberal party. And let's be realistic, there's plenty of flaws including the day that Trudeau effectively broke the government in the 70's, by calling a parliamentary vote after everyone went home--breaking the notification rules because he wanted to be PM that badly.
As it is, I'm fine with FPP and having been a delegate for the liberals and the reform party, both use the system to it's full advantage. The weakest part of politics like anywhere else in the western world is getting people out to vote.
No one is buying blank cassette tapes or CD-ROM/DVD's anymore. Waaaaa we need more money!
If no one is buying those forms of media anymore how is the collection arm still raking in money hand-over-fist? They've got one hell of a pile just sitting there from the last year.