Time Warner Cable can't sell upgraded speed in most neighborhoods because they seldom can actually provide it.
I have TWC (available at a discount due to where I live currently), rated for 20Mb/s service. At 4am, it is about as good as advertised: 14Mb/s. At 8pm, it is 3xxKb/s (notice that is Kb/s)... old DSL level download speeds. Many of the other X number of neighbors on the same chunk of cable are obviously in contention for the same chunk of over-allocated bandwidth.
Why pay for upgraded service when their infrastructure can only support it in the wee hours of the morning?
Exactly correct. That is why I downgraded from Road Runner Turbo and saved $10/mo in the process. At prime times (they have since split my local node so this may not be an issue), the download speeds were a fraction of those published, so I was just wasting money paying for a higher tier.
Also, who would subscribe to a one year contract with Time Warner when Google's gigabit will be available in just a few months?
A. Except it's currently $65 for 35Mbps. They'll probably upgrade it to 50Mpbs without telling me soon, since I started at 5Mbps at this price years ago.
It's not that much in Kansas City. I pay $55 for 1/15Mbps. I could pay $65 for 2/20Mbps, and I did, but because their backbone is over-subscribed it isn't worth it for occasionally faster downloads.
I happen to be in Kansas City, and I'm patiently waiting for google fiber to be available in my neighborhood.
I actually did lower my service from Turbo (up to 2/20 Mbps) to standard (up to 1/15 Mbps) because there was little difference between the two during prime-time congestion. I certainly won't bother to add $30 to my $55 monthly internet-only bill just to have up to 50 Mbps service that still has the same lag and over-subscribed node bandwidth problems that my current service has.
If you look at the footage right before the accident, you'll notice that there appears to be a double fence door right where the impact occurred. It seems to me that the fence did it's job just fine, but the door itself failed.
Shooting at tanks and not doing any damage has happened to me as well. Thing is there can be several reasons for it, like lag, just plain missing him, hitting at an oblique angle, or just not enough penetration in your ammo for that part of his tank. There is a world of tanks beginner forum that explains a lot of the mechanics and how to use them.
Even if you were to kill a group of people not using your assault rifle, that would lend credence to people having assault weapons needing psychiatric testing.
I bought HOMM6 on sale from steam and was also having crashes until I reverted to an older Nvidia video driver. From what I've read on the forums, anything 301.42 or older should work.
Words with friends was originally created by another company. According to venturebeat.com, they paid some $44 million for it in November 2010. I assume chess with friends came with it.
I've stopped ordering a long time ago when I found out he was a heavy political backer of the "nut-job right" (not to be confused with actual Conservatives).
I didn't realize this. I won't be as bummed out that they won't deliver in my area now.
Those side banners and having to resize every singly page are largely why I paid $3-$5 for a manga reader on my phone (that basically strips the images from the host sites). I no longer have any ads to deal with while getting my manga fix.
Dealers will often say that any problem is typical. I remember having a used saturn with a lot of play in the steering wheel, and they said it was "typical".
Some of us have wired connections that aren't 100% reliable. For the most part, my cable modem (time warner) does fine, but due to the technology involved, it could go bad at any time for reasons outside my control. I actually lost a character when I was playing in a perma-death guild thanks to my cable-modem dropping at an inopportune time.
the windows app store lets apps have the shareware like system where they can have free and payed stuff that you can unlock in the same app.
Apple has the same thing, as I've purchased a couple apps that do exactly that. There's even a feature to restore your purchase if a phone restore or upgrade loses the setting.
You are correct in saying that the video card makes a huge difference. But so does the processor. For that matter, so does having sufficient memory. If you don't believe me, read http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/10/11/amd_bulldozer_fx8150_gameplay_performance_review/4 and notice how even the i5 2500k has nearly 50% more average fps (from 40.8 to 57.2) than the amd fx8150 on a fairly high-end AMD Radeon HD 6970 even at only 1920x1200 resolution and noAA/noAF. Then try extrapolating that to a 2560x1600 screen (1.78x the pixels) and that would be 23 average fps vs. 32 average fps -- the difference between smooth and choppy. Note that the same review has other games with no noticeable difference between the processors, but the only game of the few reviewed that I play happens to be Civ V.
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Time Warner Cable can't sell upgraded speed in most neighborhoods because they seldom can actually provide it.
I have TWC (available at a discount due to where I live currently), rated for 20Mb/s service. At 4am, it is about as good as advertised: 14Mb/s. At 8pm, it is 3xxKb/s (notice that is Kb/s) ... old DSL level download speeds. Many of the other X number of neighbors on the same chunk of cable are obviously in contention for the same chunk of over-allocated bandwidth.
Why pay for upgraded service when their infrastructure can only support it in the wee hours of the morning?
Exactly correct. That is why I downgraded from Road Runner Turbo and saved $10/mo in the process. At prime times (they have since split my local node so this may not be an issue), the download speeds were a fraction of those published, so I was just wasting money paying for a higher tier.
Also, who would subscribe to a one year contract with Time Warner when Google's gigabit will be available in just a few months?
The Plaza is in Kansas City, Mo, not Ks. Also, it's south of what anyone not in a suburb calls downtown.
A. Except it's currently $65 for 35Mbps. They'll probably upgrade it to 50Mpbs without telling me soon, since I started at 5Mbps at this price years ago.
It's not that much in Kansas City. I pay $55 for 1/15Mbps. I could pay $65 for 2/20Mbps, and I did, but because their backbone is over-subscribed it isn't worth it for occasionally faster downloads.
I happen to be in Kansas City, and I'm patiently waiting for google fiber to be available in my neighborhood.
I actually did lower my service from Turbo (up to 2/20 Mbps) to standard (up to 1/15 Mbps) because there was little difference between the two during prime-time congestion. I certainly won't bother to add $30 to my $55 monthly internet-only bill just to have up to 50 Mbps service that still has the same lag and over-subscribed node bandwidth problems that my current service has.
"Sir, my scans have detected unauthorized weapons. Please put them down or I will apply force."
You have 20 seconds to comply
If you look at the footage right before the accident, you'll notice that there appears to be a double fence door right where the impact occurred. It seems to me that the fence did it's job just fine, but the door itself failed.
Shooting at tanks and not doing any damage has happened to me as well. Thing is there can be several reasons for it, like lag, just plain missing him, hitting at an oblique angle, or just not enough penetration in your ammo for that part of his tank. There is a world of tanks beginner forum that explains a lot of the mechanics and how to use them.
Some kid managed to kill himself while taking apart an unplugged power supply. I'm not sure how he managed to electrocute himself off a capacitor, but it's definitely possible.
What happens if they "accidentally" change the price of your sucks upwards of 1000%? Does it still automatically purchase them?
No, simply a data point. Maybe with enough data, we can form some meaningful conclusions.
Even if you were to kill a group of people not using your assault rifle, that would lend credence to people having assault weapons needing psychiatric testing.
I bought HOMM6 on sale from steam and was also having crashes until I reverted to an older Nvidia video driver. From what I've read on the forums, anything 301.42 or older should work.
Words with friends was originally created by another company. According to venturebeat.com, they paid some $44 million for it in November 2010. I assume chess with friends came with it.
If my poor as heck friends are correct, food stamps only work for un-cooked food, so they only get Papa Murphy's pizza.
I've stopped ordering a long time ago when I found out he was a heavy political backer of the "nut-job right" (not to be confused with actual Conservatives).
I didn't realize this. I won't be as bummed out that they won't deliver in my area now.
You could try using opendns to block a large number of ads, though I'm sure it's not as effective as this device.
Those side banners and having to resize every singly page are largely why I paid $3-$5 for a manga reader on my phone (that basically strips the images from the host sites). I no longer have any ads to deal with while getting my manga fix.
Dealers will often say that any problem is typical. I remember having a used saturn with a lot of play in the steering wheel, and they said it was "typical".
Whoosh, meet Chrisq. Chrisq, meet Whoosh.
How is this a whoosh? Care to explain this joke, or do you also pay $24/yr for free email?
I still await the day that federal money and state license plates don't contain religious slogans. "In God we trust" is rather insulting.
Yes. One quote pulled completely out of context, proves he is "as much of a twat as Ayn Rand".
Some of us have wired connections that aren't 100% reliable. For the most part, my cable modem (time warner) does fine, but due to the technology involved, it could go bad at any time for reasons outside my control. I actually lost a character when I was playing in a perma-death guild thanks to my cable-modem dropping at an inopportune time.
the windows app store lets apps have the shareware like system where they can have free and payed stuff that you can unlock in the same app.
Apple has the same thing, as I've purchased a couple apps that do exactly that. There's even a feature to restore your purchase if a phone restore or upgrade loses the setting.
Developer time is "free" if you're a one-man shop. $100 buys a helluva lot of pizzas.
Yeah, like 5 or 6 pizzas.
You are correct in saying that the video card makes a huge difference. But so does the processor. For that matter, so does having sufficient memory. If you don't believe me, read http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/10/11/amd_bulldozer_fx8150_gameplay_performance_review/4 and notice how even the i5 2500k has nearly 50% more average fps (from 40.8 to 57.2) than the amd fx8150 on a fairly high-end AMD Radeon HD 6970 even at only 1920x1200 resolution and noAA/noAF. Then try extrapolating that to a 2560x1600 screen (1.78x the pixels) and that would be 23 average fps vs. 32 average fps -- the difference between smooth and choppy. Note that the same review has other games with no noticeable difference between the processors, but the only game of the few reviewed that I play happens to be Civ V.