I know they still do baggers at the Krogers stores in Central Ohio, probably because Krogers is a union joint.
Went grocery shopping today. Got in line and waited, got nearly up to the cash, cash closed and everyone had to move to another register. Now everyone who was behind me is in front of me. Get nearly up to the register, and the cash closes, and we have to relocate to another register. Now everyone who was behind me is in front of me again. Spent maybe 5 minutes shopping, but closer to twenty in line.
That has been the norm for well on 20 years now for menial labour jobs such as that.I honestly am starting to think that it's becoming the norm to just skip training people on jobs and throw them out there.
That was your first mistake, trying to help. Your second mistake was caring about what they did.Yesterday somebody at work asked me "what's a good program to play video files?" So naturally I answered VLC. Welllll turns out he then went and downloaded one of the "packaged" versions of VLC out there that have alternative installers that put extra toolbars, spyware and crapware on your computer. /headdesk.
Well, I'm more straightforward with this guy because he's a little more savvy than the rest of the users - he maintains our local webserver and wiki, can write foxpro scripts, etc.That was your first mistake, trying to help. Your second mistake was caring about what they did.
And then he THREW IT ON THE GROUUUUNNND!Like there's this one guy who has some kind of problem, ya know? Like he just doesn't seem to fully comprehend everything going on in some way. Like he gets a brownie and thinks he should get more change than he did even though it's counted out correctly. So he comes up a bit later to get another and I'll admit that part of my motives involved not wanting to try to explain subtraction to him again but I just figured I'd do something nice and not charge him. Well he either got offended or didn't know why I was doing it or something because he's acting weird and talking about it a lot.
Sorry, but I laughed. Because I've done that and today was a day like that.Turns out I was pressing the "reset" button instead of "power."
D'oh!
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Yes, it would. . . but I'm on AGP, not PCIe. The GF6800/QFX4000 was THE best native* AGP card ever made.Would a GeForce 8800 Ultra be an upgrade? If so, that one is about $140 with free shipping.
It is long. LONG. Long past time for you to go ahead and upgrade to a PCIe capable motherboard. I did so four YEARS ago and I thought I had held out as long as humanly possible.Yes, it would. . . but I'm on AGP, not PCIe. The GF6800/QFX4000 was THE best native* AGP card ever made.
--Patrick
*Every AGP card since has been a PCIe card with a PCIe<->AGP bridge chip added.
As you might expect, you are not telling me anything I don't already know. I have had a replacement system spec'd out for years (for about $500-600), but so far have only been able to acquire the GPU (an ATI X1900 AIW). As is the case with many of my dreams, it boils down to a chronic lack of fundage.It is long. LONG. Long past time for you to go ahead and upgrade to a PCIe capable motherboard. I did so four YEARS ago and I thought I had held out as long as humanly possible.
Thunderbolt is an Intel spec, and a fast one at that. USB3.0 will gain a lot of traction due to its backward compatibility with USB 1.1/2.0. As for FireWire 1600/3200, you almost never hear anything. Mainstream Thunderbolt is supposed to be coming near the middle of 2012.I think that thunderbolt has a good chance of competing with USB for faster communications, but it is essentially an external PCIe slot (time shared with a displayport interface). Due to its proprietary-ness, though, it's going to face an uphill battle to industry-wide acceptance. I don't think the USB implementers forum is going to go down without a fight, but they also haven't had good uptake on USB3.0 either, and it's already slower than thunderbolt.
I wish I had my W2, I'd be finished quick as could be. Good for you.*Yes, it's Jan 4th and I've already completed my 2011 Federal income tax return. We're just waiting for the forms to go final so we can file.