You can get fiber in Keller Texas already.
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"Verizon has begun an ambitious rollout of fiber optics to businesses and residences with the deployment of 440,000 feet of cabling in suburban Dallas.
The carrier this week announced that it is about halfway through the build-out of a fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network to every home and business in Keller, Texas, a city of 25,000. When completed, Verizon will string 1.2 million feet of fiber through Keller."
"Verizon reiterated plans to pass about 1 million homes in nine states with FTTP by the end of the year. Earlier this year, analysts stated expectations that Verizon would fall short of that goal by about 200,000 to 300,000 homes, reportedly due to problems with initial equipment shipments from vendor AFC."
http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0519foa.htm l
If you really want the truth about global warming then I suggest you visit this site:
http://www.co2science.org/ushcn/ushcn.htm
The official temperature data for the United States shows no sign of global warming. Go see for yourself if you want the truth.
I am well aware of how some people who play FPS's competitively always try to get obscene FPS's. That does not mean they are right. If I ran a game at 100 FPS and asked someone "is this running at 60 or 100" they would not be able to tell me. Anything above 60 and it gets VERY difficult to see the difference. Monitor hertz is a little different. Most people can see the difference up to 72 hertz and some can see it up to 75. The difference in screen refresh is a little easier to detect though, then the FPS of on screen movement. Its easier to see "flicker" then the changes in FPS of on screen movement.
P2P is great, I am glad its getting more popular. Piracy is bad though.... Not that any of you pirate.;) I actually think more companies should be using P2P in a legitimate way (to distribute game demo's movie trailers, etc).
I actually think the Hotmail backdoor was fairly similar to this (you used a login form on a site other then Hotmail.com and you did not have to enter a password).
As long as the game has some kind of educational value I see nothing wrong. They do put TV programs on in the classroom so why not games? I don't think they should be playing Smash Brothers Melee or anything but games like Myst can promote problem solving skills.
The safety record of the shuttles are much worse than any commercial jet. Very few shuttles exist compared to the amount that have been destroyed. Not only that, but very few shuttle flights occur compared to airline flights. I don't even need to look up the statistics to know that the safety record of the shuttle is very poor compared to airliners. Of course thats to be expected; space flight has inherent risks.
Well, anything over 60 FPS is not going to help you anyway. The eye can't see much over 60 FPS. A dual card setup will allow you to run Doom III at very high detail levels though. If you want to run a game like Doom III with everything turned on then by all means buy two video cards. Graphics just don't mean that much to me, I don't mind turning down the detail levels a little bit.
I wonder how many people will actually use this. Two 6800 GT's at 400 dollars each equals 800 dollars. Plus your going to need a massive power supply. One 6800 GT requires a 350 watt power supply so would two require a 700 watt power supply?! Yeeeesh....
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