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Comment A lot, but it was inherited. (Score 1) 310

To be fair, my family and I did not print most of the pages. My main printer is an HP LaserJet 2100 that was retired from work and I got for free, along with 4 toner cartridges, being it was the last 2100 in service. I much prefer my kids print to that than the color inkjet with WAY higher cost per page (after all, can't get lower than a free printer with free toner!).

Comment What in the heck?? (Score 1) 642

Wow, I am glad I do not live in the UK. When will politicians realize that the more you try to regulate and squeeze something out, the more it oozes out around the edges. And, how exactly are they going to block porn?? Heuristic image recognition?? Banning all torrents, usernet access, or file shareing sites such as Rapidshare, Uploading, DepositFiles, etc??? How would they do this without killing almost all of the internet??

Comment Re:For only $500 Billion up front! (Score 1) 311

You should bother to look where IBM is hiring. They are looking for a lot of tech people in a large Dubuque Iowa call center that they run. Evidently staying out of the coast corridors and huge cities is a good way to save money on facilities and employees while still getting employees where English is their native language. $15/hr in semi rural Iowa gets you a house and a car, near Chicago that gets you a hole in the wall.

Comment Re:Celiac disease is not an allergy (Score 1) 177

As a person with Celiac, at McDonalds you can have a salad with no croutons, ice cream, and hamburger patties. That is about it. The worst part about it is the absolute pain of eating out (I normally just eat at home even when the family eats out). Most fast food is off limits except for similar items. I desperately miss good pizza and Chinese food.

I was diagnosed after having intestinal cramping that was incredibly painful after I ate. I could not sleep through it, it caused me to buckle over in pain, and even the max strength of Vicodin barely got rid of it, though I was feeling a lot less pain on that. Luckily, I had an ulcer about 6 months prior, and was still in contact with my GI person. He diagnosed me the day I came in. That was about 6 years ago at the age of 38. After that I learned just how many things had gluten in them. Even gluten free, the pain took about 3 months to go away totally. 10-12 hours a day of hard labor level pain for 3 months really left me stressed out.

Comment Re:Not a troll (Score 1) 161

I do not think that you are remembering things clearly. Rambus was competing with the original DDR, not DDR2. Yes, the original Rambus was slightly faster than DDR, but with horrible latency issues compared to it. Read some chipset reviews for a VIA DDR chipset on a P IV vs Rambus. Also, Rambus was originally shoved down or throats by Intel on the Pentium III (or at least they tried). Rambus was also a lot more expensive to manufacture being a totally new design, while DDR was an extension of standard SDRAM. Much like how HD-DVD was cheaper to make than Blu-Ray being an extension of an existing process.

Also, I believe that Rambus originally went after the memory makers for DDR, not just DDR2. So yes, after latency was taken care of in streaming, it was faster, but it was never cheaper.

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