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Comment: Re:Kind of... (Score 1) 367

by Sardak (#38672702) Attached to: Approximately how speedy is your Internet connection?
I agree. I really wish there were some sort of minimum portion of the advertised speed that they were required to provide. My connection is advertised as 12 Mbps, but it fluctuates so wildly that I get anywhere from 0.5 to 17 Mbps (from the same source, so it's not server dependent). Overall, I would say it averages out at around 3-4 Mbps. Unfortunately, the only other option in my area is 1.5 Mbps DSL.

Comment: Re:The article is much too kind ... (Score 1) 381

by Sardak (#38158210) Attached to: Dell's Misleading Graphics Card Buying Advice
The box my router came in has a table on the back that implies that if I want to watch HD movies, I should have purchased the model with "300 + 300 Mbps" wireless. This is, of course, despite the fact that most of my devices are wired and my actual internet connection can only provide 2% of that.

Comment: Re:Pretty simple explanation... (Score 1) 841

by Sardak (#37966374) Attached to: Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out?
I tend to agree for the most part. I recently went back to college to start an electronics engineering degree program. While there is a lot of work, none of it particularly difficult. I'm doing quite well, but I can't help noticing that 95% of my fellow students are struggling immensely. What I really don't understand is why they chose to enter a program like this while claiming to hate math and logic.

I often stay after class to help out those who are willing to accept it, but there's only so much I can do. The biggest problem, in my opinion, is that because so many of the students are having a difficult time, the entire class gets behind as we continually rehash the same material far after what was allotted in the syllabus. I'm almost hoping that many of them will drop out so that future semesters can go more smoothly.

Comment: Re:Usability regression (Score 1) 862

by Sardak (#37605332) Attached to: Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It
I've had the exact opposite experience. I use the start menu far more often when I'm using a windows 7 system than I did with any of the XP or below systems in the past. It's much, much faster to hit the windows key and type a few letters of the program I want to launch than it is to hunt through a desktop full of icons.

Comment: Re:Now I know I'm among friends here on slashdot (Score 3, Interesting) 840

by Sardak (#36594428) Attached to: With regards to beer, I prefer it to be:
I personally find beer (every kind I've ever had the displeasure of encountering throughout my life) to be absolutely repulsive. I can't even come up with a witty way to adequately describe the terrible way it tastes to me. I have that problem with a lot of things, though. Coffee is probably the next worst after beer. Give me a good vodka or rum any day, but keep that nasty stuff away.

Comment: Re:More ads? (Score 1) 473

by Sardak (#36558864) Attached to: Hulu For Sale: Is There Good News For Users?
I recall one night while my girlfriend and I were watching something on Hulu shortly after I had gone through their Ad Tailor survey. We saw the exact same commercial at least 6 or 7 times in a row, once playing back to back in a 2-commercial break. After that, I went back and lied on their survey to make it less tedious.

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