Um I buy music, but not from any major label... I go out of my way to support bands I like who aren't signed to major labels and I support small 'indy' labels.
Why? Because I like their music and I can accept it as good music. They write their own stuff. They stick to their artistic ideals. And they will keep doing it as long as they find it interesting to do.
Why don't I support bands with major label deals? Because most don't have much real talent. Most don't write their own songs. Most submit to the whims of the labels marketing department rather than sticking to their artistic gifts. And finally most are at the utter whim of the labels themselves. One bad record and they may never be heard from again.
I wish the band Ra (try to search for them, not all that easy) would drop their contract with their label, though they will loose all rights to their work (it's owned by the label as pretty much every artists is). They have talent, but got no exposure and seem to have dropped compltely off the map... That happens all to often with bands with real talent, but aren't the next boy band or talentless bimbo girl that the music label can push around...
If I still had contact with some of my beta tester friends who got in the DE beta back when Eve: Second Genesis was coming out (I'd wondered where this went, since that was over a year ago) I could tell you which of those was the most liekly...
Though combining 1 & 2 together sounds reasonable. Compared to Lineage 2 and EQ2 the graphics I remember in beta pics of DE were pretty bad, though they remind me a bit of World of Warcraft... I remember stress testing was a big part of the phase of testign they were in back then, which if it's been delayed a year in that phase may be a big reason for it as well...
Well not advertising it is right. I bitched that sicne I was quite happy with my DishNetwork service I didn't need nor want their cable TV service, so she stepped down from standard ($30/month), to Basic ($15/month), to basic basic ($8) to get me to take one... She swore I had to have some sort of cable TV service as well (though that's just BS as their is no technical reason I'd have to).
Though some companies like Adelphia claim you have to have digital cable to get cable internet. In fact they won't sell service to you if you don't already have digital cable. Which is funny since Digital cable TV has nothing to do with the system used to provide broadband internet. I think all of them jsut want to force you to pay more...
I have basic basic cable that I pay $8/month for on top of my cable internet conenction... It's just the local broadcast stations via cable connection and nothign else (it was the minimum required by RR). I could get 'digital' cable for $29.95/month, but I have DishNetwork for TV for 3 times the number of stations as what cable would give me (though the local stations over cable are nice since DishNetworking can't provide local channels to me right now).
On the other hand I can't use Speakeasy as my local phone company (Verizon) 'downgraded' my local switch for my street so I can't get DSL and even a long 2 hour bitch session getting tossed between departments at Verizon couldn't get them to 'upgrade' my local switch so I coudl get it... Since Speakeasy DSL doesn't run their own lines I'm screwed unless Verizon gets their act together (yeah right, like that's gonna happen)...
You need to live where I do then... Well just as far as cable connections go...
I get 3M/512k cable connection for $40/month through RR... That's including a $8/month fee for not using cable TV...
On the other hand DSL was ~$35/month (if my street could get it) for 1M/256k... I think that pretty much proves that cable can be just as affordable as DSL service... Though then again none of the services locally require contracts either, so pricing is the same regardless of how long you plan to have it...
Oh I live in the US and I was in the same position as you til early this year... I would have killed someone if it would have gotten me broadband... As is I had a fit when my phone company told me DSL was available in my area, but not my street (because of the local switching used on my street)... Luckily my cable company decided to fill the gaps fairly soon after that...
Hmm well I lock my doors to potect my house, I lock my car to protect my car... In fact if I don't it's MY DAMN FAULT someone steals it. No don't lock your wireless access point, go ahead. I'll still blame you if soemone 'steals' access and it is perfectly reasonable to expect someone to...
And you are paying for a connection that can peak at X by X amount. You may be paying for "all the speed", but since bandwidth is handled dynamically you don't 'loose' anything unless you aren't using it to begin with...
So again secure your wireless network or use every ounce of bandwidth all the time so no one else can...
Err to a private home (at least in the US) it's highly doubtful anyone could say that... Mostly because besides T# connectiosn most broadband access isn't metered, so they aren't paying anything more if someone accesses it... They are however legally responsible for what is accessed over that connection.
All in all the lesson should be if you don't want other people using your wireless connection turn on WEP and other securing technologies! If you don't I consider that person to be inviting people to use their connection.
loitering only really applies to private places, ie resturants, stores, etc...
Public property doesn't normally get covered under 'loitering'... It would eb awfully wierd to say, get kicked out of a library because you'd spent a few hours there.... Where as that would be wierd at most stores.
I've seen 16 socket Opteron boards, though no one seems to make one... So 8 is not the limit... In fact I've heard of a single board 32 cpu solution...
Also Hypertransport is not designed for connecting devices... It has no slot orc socket interface, it's used to conenct chips... Also PCI-E is already out and on soem boards, but with less than stellar effects so far...
I haven't used a mousepad with either my new MS intellimouse explorer or my old one and I've never had a precision problem... In fact my new wireless one is insanely smooth in it's tracking...
So in other words I've found no advantage what-so-ever in using a mousepad with my optical mice...
Strangely I used to use an original Intellimouse explorer and just recently traded up to the new Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2... This new explorer model is sweet... Smooth as can be and not one hiccup...
Actually it could eb very likely they want new software to take advantage of WinFS before it's release... I recently saw a clip showing off a in-development media app that MS is working on that requires WinFS (& since both the alpha app and alpha WinFS were used they sure seem to work atm). It was pretty fancy and simplified alot of file management tasks. I'm guessing most of the delay is related to apps like that, so they can actually show some purpose for WinFS...
Actually in most cases the ones who are abusers can do any amount of physical abuse as well as long as they don't do to much damage... I remember being assaulted several times in school and as long as no teacher or other eye witness saw they were free to do whatever...
In the end I did actually fight back, but since I wasn't used to the ins and outs of doing when no one was looking I always faced the consequences... Then again there was no reasoning with any of my abusers in school... I learned that starting in 3rd grade and only ending when I went to college... The schools were useless beyond belief.
I haven't read past 'That's also the problem though - I'm so used to dealing with women as friends, it's hard to act in any other way. I'm seen as comfortable, safe, and ironically enough a good source of dating advice.' & I'm struck by how much you sound like me...
I have lots of women who become friends, but it feels both strange and hard to becoem more than that... And as it is most never think of me in any romantic way to begin with so my awkward attempts to head that way only end up damage my friendships...
The 'Then we hit the second layer. I freeze when flirted with. I don't mean, I stammer, or look a little nervous, I mean my first reaction is to hold completely still. I am at least mostly over the looking confused phase.' just adds to the likeness... I've been on a handful of 'dates' and I still often look confused when women flirt with me... I don't understand exactly what or how to repsond...
For layer 3, I've only ever had once that I wasn't nervous and I meet a nice woman... Only to have my roomates come in and screw everything up by making me nervous... Which she seemed to take as being nervous about/with her and that kiled everything... I'll never stop blaming them for that...
For the last point I still understand compeltely... In the past I've meet more bisexual and lesbian women than anything else... And most of the bisexual women are more interested in otehr women when I meet them (having been treated like crap by bad guys)... Now I'm in a slightly larger city... Or should I say 'near'... Technically I live 20 miles away from anything that could be called a city... But once in that city there are some 40-50k of people... But most of the population are older than I am... So the places to go for someone my age are limited and who goes are even more limited... Which reminds me of one girl I hit it off with and then I found out she was engaged to be married... Yeah while she may have wanted something on the side I'd hardly be able to leave my house if the fiancee ever heard about that... So I cut that off pretty fast... Not that from what I heard she was a real catch anyways... She was bisexual and had slept with her fiancees sister while dating him... I hear he doesn't talk to his sister anymore...
We seem way way to similiar... Though your use of the term 'flatmate' suggests you live in another country than I do... I'm not sure that's much of a difference though...
Hehe Yeah longtime shlashdot reader... Though I'd have a 6xxxx if I'd registered when I first started visiting...
Well til college my problem was identical to his... I can tell in that kindred soul kinda way... And even then mine are... brief... & normally get extremely confused/confusing... Heck as is it's now been 3 years since anyting I'd even attempt to call a relationship in the vaguest sense...
To start the biggest most complex issue to dating involves attracting the attention of the opposite sex... For someone with no or limited relationship experience this is a giant hurdle... My problem started because I'm naturally extremely shy... I've sorted solved that first hurdle, though I still get tongue tied and find it hard to talk to women I don't know... If you can't talk to a woman it's just about impossible to get a date with her... & even if you can talk to her you have to 'hit it off' to even have a chance of getting a date...
This is where the internet comes in handy... except their are far fewer women than men and I suck at starting conversations & therefor attracting attention from women... This means the internet makes it a bit easier, but mostly in finding women, not in actually getting attention from them... I also have the problem that I refuse to date women who I either work with or meet through work (that are customers, clients, or vendors)... At 25 I'd hope to heck that your not still in school so if your like me you've just nixed your easiest way to meet women... Women who may know you well enough to like you... In my opinion though women you meet through work are to dangerous to date. If it's a coworker that can cause all sorts of hell... If it's a client, customer, or vendor it can almsot be worse than a coworker... Especially when you have little experience and the wrong move can be really really bad...
Figuring you have now ocercome these first hurdles you come up against the next barrier... Knowing what the heck to do. Most people learn how relationships work when they are teens, very few people don't know how that works by the time they are in college or beyond. Why is this a problem? People expect you to know the basics, in fact those same basics are what most divorcies have to relearn... But relearning is far far easier than learning for the first time... I'm so bad at these (hence the rarely longer than a week thing) that I'm not even going to try to explain what they are... In fact I'd sound insane to someone used to dating... In know I've tried to explain it before...
So first we start with having them hard to meet, then we add on hard to know what to do once we do have a date... This leads to such a slow growth curve in understanding how to date that it's just silly... I know I've given up for the time being... I wouldn't be suprised at all if I'm not alone in giving up after a certain point... If not for the internet and knowing some crazy people in college I'd probably still be stuck on step one myself and have to claim I'd never had a date before....
While I don't have time for the reply I'd like (I just got called in to work... just after getting home)... I will say I'm not all that different from the poster you are replying to... My 'best' relationships have lasted maybe a week unless they've been long-distance internet matchups, which have sometimes lasted months though rarely ever meeting... If we ever did meet that is... And even counting those I only have a handful of experiences...
The problem more than anything is more in the understanding who to attract and converse with women the way you want category and no therapist or matching service is any good at all with helping in that area... Let alone the huge problems understanding what to do in a relationship when you've had very little experience with them...
Unfortunately I need to go, so I'll have to leave it at that...
If I didn't already pay taxes on every cent I earned to my state I might be tempted to do so... As is Every penny I make is taxed twice (once when I get payed, once when I use it to buy something)...
So when I buy out of state I fell no desire what so ever to pay my states sales tax on an item...
I'll mention since I've worked at a CC that CityAdvatange (it's current name regardless of form) actually can be used in the manufacturers 1 year time span, but it only adds the extras manufacturers don't cover during that period... I'll also mention that at CC we are pushed to sell them (everyone is these days) we are also required to represent them truthfully and aren't allowed to lie to cutomers... That being said most customers don't understand what the heck we say or remember it correctly... So suddenly "We will fix anything that goes wrong with the hardware itself within X years due to use or manufacturers defects." becomes "We cover anything that can go wrong with this in X years.", which is very very different... The second qould require us to fix anything software-wise to go wrong with a system or in fact absolutely anything else... The first is the truth and what we normally say (I'm not saying some don't lie, but they can be fired for it), which is we cover hardware for the length of the plan and guarentee it to work under normal circumstances (no tossing it into the water to get a free new one). Customers routinely don't understand the difference, can't remember what the heck was said and so say we promised them the world, or say that hoping to scam us...
Oh also I'll mention back in the day CityAdvantage was called CSP (Computer Support Plan), ESP (Electronics Support Plan), & RPP (Replacement Protection Plan). The first to do the standard 'will replace if not able to fix under X circumstances', the second was effectively in-store credit if the item failed within the period of time stated... Now a days it's pretty much impossible to figure out what is covered as what, since they don't say... But in reality those are still the same... Or they were last tiem I worked there...
What because I was born in the US I'm not supposed to be able to find South Wales on a map or know where it is?
& really since Florida is the size of quite a few countries in Europe, it's not so strange a comparison... Then again Canadians get annoyed if you don't understand where BC is or any other province... Not so disimiliar to states in the US (though there are less of them)...
strangely this was almost exactly what I thought when I read the article blurb... Except the alien commander isn't named Xenu, it's quite unprouncable and he's 12 foot tall with and wears some sort of powered suit ala Independance Day...
Uh not to be mean, but I regularly fight off attacks that have my side back to the main base. Now the problem lies with my support, once I kill them all off the first node & retake that location, my team usual ends up screwing up... If they don't we keep the node & can push them all the way back...
Then again I've managed to accumulate 120 pts in a single 12 minute game (or if you want call it 1 pt per 6 seconds). I regularly fight off 4 or 5 guys at a time before someone gets lucky...
I don't know anyone else who posts on slashdot (though I do know a few who read it), so no I didn't.
Big cache is more expensive, because it increases the size of the CPU's die. In fact cache has more to do with chip die size than almost anything. Also cache eats power, so big cache CPU's are: hotter & bigger. Oh and lets not forget that cache is the most likely part to fail on cpu's. Hence why several times in CPU history the low grade of a CPU has been higher end CPU's with half their cache disabled because it was bad.
All of that adds up to them being expensive. I have heard thougbh that Opteron gains very little from more L2 cache & that is the reason why they may lower the cache to 512k from 1M in their A64 line.
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Um I buy music, but not from any major label... I go out of my way to support bands I like who aren't signed to major labels and I support small 'indy' labels.
Why? Because I like their music and I can accept it as good music. They write their own stuff. They stick to their artistic ideals. And they will keep doing it as long as they find it interesting to do.
Why don't I support bands with major label deals? Because most don't have much real talent. Most don't write their own songs. Most submit to the whims of the labels marketing department rather than sticking to their artistic gifts. And finally most are at the utter whim of the labels themselves. One bad record and they may never be heard from again.
I wish the band Ra (try to search for them, not all that easy) would drop their contract with their label, though they will loose all rights to their work (it's owned by the label as pretty much every artists is). They have talent, but got no exposure and seem to have dropped compltely off the map... That happens all to often with bands with real talent, but aren't the next boy band or talentless bimbo girl that the music label can push around...
If I still had contact with some of my beta tester friends who got in the DE beta back when Eve: Second Genesis was coming out (I'd wondered where this went, since that was over a year ago) I could tell you which of those was the most liekly...
Though combining 1 & 2 together sounds reasonable. Compared to Lineage 2 and EQ2 the graphics I remember in beta pics of DE were pretty bad, though they remind me a bit of World of Warcraft... I remember stress testing was a big part of the phase of testign they were in back then, which if it's been delayed a year in that phase may be a big reason for it as well...
Well not advertising it is right. I bitched that sicne I was quite happy with my DishNetwork service I didn't need nor want their cable TV service, so she stepped down from standard ($30/month), to Basic ($15/month), to basic basic ($8) to get me to take one... She swore I had to have some sort of cable TV service as well (though that's just BS as their is no technical reason I'd have to).
Though some companies like Adelphia claim you have to have digital cable to get cable internet. In fact they won't sell service to you if you don't already have digital cable. Which is funny since Digital cable TV has nothing to do with the system used to provide broadband internet. I think all of them jsut want to force you to pay more...
I have basic basic cable that I pay $8/month for on top of my cable internet conenction... It's just the local broadcast stations via cable connection and nothign else (it was the minimum required by RR). I could get 'digital' cable for $29.95/month, but I have DishNetwork for TV for 3 times the number of stations as what cable would give me (though the local stations over cable are nice since DishNetworking can't provide local channels to me right now).
On the other hand I can't use Speakeasy as my local phone company (Verizon) 'downgraded' my local switch for my street so I can't get DSL and even a long 2 hour bitch session getting tossed between departments at Verizon couldn't get them to 'upgrade' my local switch so I coudl get it... Since Speakeasy DSL doesn't run their own lines I'm screwed unless Verizon gets their act together (yeah right, like that's gonna happen)...
You need to live where I do then... Well just as far as cable connections go...
I get 3M/512k cable connection for $40/month through RR... That's including a $8/month fee for not using cable TV...
On the other hand DSL was ~$35/month (if my street could get it) for 1M/256k... I think that pretty much proves that cable can be just as affordable as DSL service... Though then again none of the services locally require contracts either, so pricing is the same regardless of how long you plan to have it...
Oh I live in the US and I was in the same position as you til early this year... I would have killed someone if it would have gotten me broadband... As is I had a fit when my phone company told me DSL was available in my area, but not my street (because of the local switching used on my street)... Luckily my cable company decided to fill the gaps fairly soon after that...
Hmm well I lock my doors to potect my house, I lock my car to protect my car... In fact if I don't it's MY DAMN FAULT someone steals it. No don't lock your wireless access point, go ahead. I'll still blame you if soemone 'steals' access and it is perfectly reasonable to expect someone to...
And you are paying for a connection that can peak at X by X amount. You may be paying for "all the speed", but since bandwidth is handled dynamically you don't 'loose' anything unless you aren't using it to begin with...
So again secure your wireless network or use every ounce of bandwidth all the time so no one else can...
Err to a private home (at least in the US) it's highly doubtful anyone could say that... Mostly because besides T# connectiosn most broadband access isn't metered, so they aren't paying anything more if someone accesses it... They are however legally responsible for what is accessed over that connection.
All in all the lesson should be if you don't want other people using your wireless connection turn on WEP and other securing technologies! If you don't I consider that person to be inviting people to use their connection.
loitering only really applies to private places, ie resturants, stores, etc...
Public property doesn't normally get covered under 'loitering'... It would eb awfully wierd to say, get kicked out of a library because you'd spent a few hours there.... Where as that would be wierd at most stores.
I've seen 16 socket Opteron boards, though no one seems to make one... So 8 is not the limit... In fact I've heard of a single board 32 cpu solution...
Also Hypertransport is not designed for connecting devices... It has no slot orc socket interface, it's used to conenct chips... Also PCI-E is already out and on soem boards, but with less than stellar effects so far...
I haven't used a mousepad with either my new MS intellimouse explorer or my old one and I've never had a precision problem... In fact my new wireless one is insanely smooth in it's tracking...
So in other words I've found no advantage what-so-ever in using a mousepad with my optical mice...
Strangely I used to use an original Intellimouse explorer and just recently traded up to the new Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2... This new explorer model is sweet... Smooth as can be and not one hiccup...
Actually it could eb very likely they want new software to take advantage of WinFS before it's release... I recently saw a clip showing off a in-development media app that MS is working on that requires WinFS (& since both the alpha app and alpha WinFS were used they sure seem to work atm). It was pretty fancy and simplified alot of file management tasks. I'm guessing most of the delay is related to apps like that, so they can actually show some purpose for WinFS...
Actually in most cases the ones who are abusers can do any amount of physical abuse as well as long as they don't do to much damage... I remember being assaulted several times in school and as long as no teacher or other eye witness saw they were free to do whatever...
In the end I did actually fight back, but since I wasn't used to the ins and outs of doing when no one was looking I always faced the consequences... Then again there was no reasoning with any of my abusers in school... I learned that starting in 3rd grade and only ending when I went to college... The schools were useless beyond belief.
I haven't read past 'That's also the problem though - I'm so used to dealing with women as friends, it's hard to act in any other way. I'm seen as comfortable, safe, and ironically enough a good source of dating advice.' & I'm struck by how much you sound like me...
I have lots of women who become friends, but it feels both strange and hard to becoem more than that... And as it is most never think of me in any romantic way to begin with so my awkward attempts to head that way only end up damage my friendships...
The 'Then we hit the second layer. I freeze when flirted with. I don't mean, I stammer, or look a little nervous, I mean my first reaction is to hold completely still. I am at least mostly over the looking confused phase.' just adds to the likeness... I've been on a handful of 'dates' and I still often look confused when women flirt with me... I don't understand exactly what or how to repsond...
For layer 3, I've only ever had once that I wasn't nervous and I meet a nice woman... Only to have my roomates come in and screw everything up by making me nervous... Which she seemed to take as being nervous about/with her and that kiled everything... I'll never stop blaming them for that...
For the last point I still understand compeltely... In the past I've meet more bisexual and lesbian women than anything else... And most of the bisexual women are more interested in otehr women when I meet them (having been treated like crap by bad guys)... Now I'm in a slightly larger city... Or should I say 'near'... Technically I live 20 miles away from anything that could be called a city... But once in that city there are some 40-50k of people... But most of the population are older than I am... So the places to go for someone my age are limited and who goes are even more limited... Which reminds me of one girl I hit it off with and then I found out she was engaged to be married... Yeah while she may have wanted something on the side I'd hardly be able to leave my house if the fiancee ever heard about that... So I cut that off pretty fast... Not that from what I heard she was a real catch anyways... She was bisexual and had slept with her fiancees sister while dating him... I hear he doesn't talk to his sister anymore...
We seem way way to similiar... Though your use of the term 'flatmate' suggests you live in another country than I do... I'm not sure that's much of a difference though...
Hehe Yeah longtime shlashdot reader... Though I'd have a 6xxxx if I'd registered when I first started visiting...
Well til college my problem was identical to his... I can tell in that kindred soul kinda way... And even then mine are... brief... & normally get extremely confused/confusing... Heck as is it's now been 3 years since anyting I'd even attempt to call a relationship in the vaguest sense...
To start the biggest most complex issue to dating involves attracting the attention of the opposite sex... For someone with no or limited relationship experience this is a giant hurdle... My problem started because I'm naturally extremely shy... I've sorted solved that first hurdle, though I still get tongue tied and find it hard to talk to women I don't know... If you can't talk to a woman it's just about impossible to get a date with her... & even if you can talk to her you have to 'hit it off' to even have a chance of getting a date...
This is where the internet comes in handy... except their are far fewer women than men and I suck at starting conversations & therefor attracting attention from women... This means the internet makes it a bit easier, but mostly in finding women, not in actually getting attention from them... I also have the problem that I refuse to date women who I either work with or meet through work (that are customers, clients, or vendors)... At 25 I'd hope to heck that your not still in school so if your like me you've just nixed your easiest way to meet women... Women who may know you well enough to like you... In my opinion though women you meet through work are to dangerous to date. If it's a coworker that can cause all sorts of hell... If it's a client, customer, or vendor it can almsot be worse than a coworker... Especially when you have little experience and the wrong move can be really really bad...
Figuring you have now ocercome these first hurdles you come up against the next barrier... Knowing what the heck to do. Most people learn how relationships work when they are teens, very few people don't know how that works by the time they are in college or beyond. Why is this a problem? People expect you to know the basics, in fact those same basics are what most divorcies have to relearn... But relearning is far far easier than learning for the first time... I'm so bad at these (hence the rarely longer than a week thing) that I'm not even going to try to explain what they are... In fact I'd sound insane to someone used to dating... In know I've tried to explain it before...
So first we start with having them hard to meet, then we add on hard to know what to do once we do have a date... This leads to such a slow growth curve in understanding how to date that it's just silly... I know I've given up for the time being... I wouldn't be suprised at all if I'm not alone in giving up after a certain point... If not for the internet and knowing some crazy people in college I'd probably still be stuck on step one myself and have to claim I'd never had a date before....
While I don't have time for the reply I'd like (I just got called in to work... just after getting home)... I will say I'm not all that different from the poster you are replying to... My 'best' relationships have lasted maybe a week unless they've been long-distance internet matchups, which have sometimes lasted months though rarely ever meeting... If we ever did meet that is... And even counting those I only have a handful of experiences...
The problem more than anything is more in the understanding who to attract and converse with women the way you want category and no therapist or matching service is any good at all with helping in that area... Let alone the huge problems understanding what to do in a relationship when you've had very little experience with them...
Unfortunately I need to go, so I'll have to leave it at that...
If I didn't already pay taxes on every cent I earned to my state I might be tempted to do so... As is Every penny I make is taxed twice (once when I get payed, once when I use it to buy something)...
So when I buy out of state I fell no desire what so ever to pay my states sales tax on an item...
I'll mention since I've worked at a CC that CityAdvatange (it's current name regardless of form) actually can be used in the manufacturers 1 year time span, but it only adds the extras manufacturers don't cover during that period... I'll also mention that at CC we are pushed to sell them (everyone is these days) we are also required to represent them truthfully and aren't allowed to lie to cutomers... That being said most customers don't understand what the heck we say or remember it correctly... So suddenly "We will fix anything that goes wrong with the hardware itself within X years due to use or manufacturers defects." becomes "We cover anything that can go wrong with this in X years.", which is very very different... The second qould require us to fix anything software-wise to go wrong with a system or in fact absolutely anything else... The first is the truth and what we normally say (I'm not saying some don't lie, but they can be fired for it), which is we cover hardware for the length of the plan and guarentee it to work under normal circumstances (no tossing it into the water to get a free new one). Customers routinely don't understand the difference, can't remember what the heck was said and so say we promised them the world, or say that hoping to scam us...
Oh also I'll mention back in the day CityAdvantage was called CSP (Computer Support Plan), ESP (Electronics Support Plan), & RPP (Replacement Protection Plan). The first to do the standard 'will replace if not able to fix under X circumstances', the second was effectively in-store credit if the item failed within the period of time stated... Now a days it's pretty much impossible to figure out what is covered as what, since they don't say... But in reality those are still the same... Or they were last tiem I worked there...
My god... That was 'flamebait'? I was trying to be funny... Obviously I failed... I still dont' see what makes it flamebait though...
What because I was born in the US I'm not supposed to be able to find South Wales on a map or know where it is?
& really since Florida is the size of quite a few countries in Europe, it's not so strange a comparison... Then again Canadians get annoyed if you don't understand where BC is or any other province... Not so disimiliar to states in the US (though there are less of them)...
Err which Columbus and which Toronto are you using n your secodn example? I know of at least 6 cities all named Columbus... & 3 named Toronto...
I'm assuming because of your first example you mean ones in and/or around France (which narrowed which Lyon and which Paris)...
Is it just me or do we have to come up with some international naming conventions?
strangely this was almost exactly what I thought when I read the article blurb... Except the alien commander isn't named Xenu, it's quite unprouncable and he's 12 foot tall with and wears some sort of powered suit ala Independance Day...
Uh not to be mean, but I regularly fight off attacks that have my side back to the main base. Now the problem lies with my support, once I kill them all off the first node & retake that location, my team usual ends up screwing up... If they don't we keep the node & can push them all the way back...
Then again I've managed to accumulate 120 pts in a single 12 minute game (or if you want call it 1 pt per 6 seconds). I regularly fight off 4 or 5 guys at a time before someone gets lucky...
I don't know anyone else who posts on slashdot (though I do know a few who read it), so no I didn't.
Big cache is more expensive, because it increases the size of the CPU's die. In fact cache has more to do with chip die size than almost anything. Also cache eats power, so big cache CPU's are: hotter & bigger. Oh and lets not forget that cache is the most likely part to fail on cpu's. Hence why several times in CPU history the low grade of a CPU has been higher end CPU's with half their cache disabled because it was bad.
All of that adds up to them being expensive. I have heard thougbh that Opteron gains very little from more L2 cache & that is the reason why they may lower the cache to 512k from 1M in their A64 line.