But now you're getting back to the whole essence of the problem.
Fact is users are the cause for bad tech support. Quite literally 50% of the US can barely turn on a computer and surf to a web page. This is true because many users think computers are too complicated or difficult to understand. Well you don't need to understand a computer to use it, and even most Linux distributions out today are very intuitive if you spend five minutes looking around. Windows and Mac OS's are even better.
Unfortuantly because so many people don't understand jack about a computer, and though self-fullfilling prophecies will NEVER figure out how to use one properly. My mother is a good example, I've been trying to teach her how to use a computer for 6 years (and I conduct fairly successfull classes regularly so I know how to teach someone how to use a computer without making them more frustrated) and she still only knows how to play solitare, look up web sites (which she refuses to surf through them, saying she can't figure out how to find what she wants to find (like a product on a web page when all she has to do is type something in the search box), and turn it on. Literally. Fact is most people are just like my mother.
Anyways, back to the point, because so many users have these problems that THEY are responsible for fixing (I mean are tech support people supposed to be psychiatrists(sp?) as well?), they call up tech support to fix the problem. Here's where the second problem comes in, there are a decent level of knowledgable tech support out there, but very few greats. The greats know what they are doing in just about any situation. The "decent" tech support people end up forgetting everything they know because the company gives them a script to work off of and they think it's god. Then when you get successfull you get more calls, and the company has to hire more people, but they start looking at people who are dumb as bricks because they also think the script will work for someone with no computer experience.
So in the end, all those users who refuse to figure something out on their own (no matter how easy it is) call tech support, forcing a company to hire more people, most of which won't have any experience or schooling, so their tech support level drops considerably.
The Cat 6 cable itself is thinner than Cat 5 cable, which means if you aren't extra careful you could accidentally rip the jacket and puncture the copper trying to pull the cable through a tight spot, whereas Cat 5 might have survived.
News flash, everyone under the sun from NVidia and ATI, to FutureMark has stated that 3DMark is not designed to reflect an actual game, it's designed to test a video card under controlled circumstances. Simple as that.
By the way, anyone tried GameGuage, that one at least provides some emulation of an actual game.
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But now you're getting back to the whole essence of the problem. Fact is users are the cause for bad tech support. Quite literally 50% of the US can barely turn on a computer and surf to a web page. This is true because many users think computers are too complicated or difficult to understand. Well you don't need to understand a computer to use it, and even most Linux distributions out today are very intuitive if you spend five minutes looking around. Windows and Mac OS's are even better. Unfortuantly because so many people don't understand jack about a computer, and though self-fullfilling prophecies will NEVER figure out how to use one properly. My mother is a good example, I've been trying to teach her how to use a computer for 6 years (and I conduct fairly successfull classes regularly so I know how to teach someone how to use a computer without making them more frustrated) and she still only knows how to play solitare, look up web sites (which she refuses to surf through them, saying she can't figure out how to find what she wants to find (like a product on a web page when all she has to do is type something in the search box), and turn it on. Literally. Fact is most people are just like my mother. Anyways, back to the point, because so many users have these problems that THEY are responsible for fixing (I mean are tech support people supposed to be psychiatrists(sp?) as well?), they call up tech support to fix the problem. Here's where the second problem comes in, there are a decent level of knowledgable tech support out there, but very few greats. The greats know what they are doing in just about any situation. The "decent" tech support people end up forgetting everything they know because the company gives them a script to work off of and they think it's god. Then when you get successfull you get more calls, and the company has to hire more people, but they start looking at people who are dumb as bricks because they also think the script will work for someone with no computer experience. So in the end, all those users who refuse to figure something out on their own (no matter how easy it is) call tech support, forcing a company to hire more people, most of which won't have any experience or schooling, so their tech support level drops considerably.
The Cat 6 cable itself is thinner than Cat 5 cable, which means if you aren't extra careful you could accidentally rip the jacket and puncture the copper trying to pull the cable through a tight spot, whereas Cat 5 might have survived.
You can run GB over Cat 5e. It's more durable than Cat 6 as well, there is no reason to run Cat 6 over Cat 5e
News flash, everyone under the sun from NVidia and ATI, to FutureMark has stated that 3DMark is not designed to reflect an actual game, it's designed to test a video card under controlled circumstances. Simple as that.
By the way, anyone tried GameGuage, that one at least provides some emulation of an actual game.