The trouble I've found with ATI is since the 9800 they've gone back to the bad 'ole days of stability issues on their low end. Top tier stuff like Batman is rock solid, but oddball stuff like Psyconauts, No One Lives Forever 2, Streetfighter X Tekken, Sonic Generations, Sonic/Sega All Stars Racing, etc crash. Lots :(.

I miss my 1650 (an overclocked 9800 with a smaller die for less heat). The image quality blew my GT240 away. But it couldn't keep up with SFxT much less Arkham. I tried one of the low end 4xxxx serious (4050? Can't remember), but it crashed lots. I've heard if you shell out the big bucks for the $300 range you don't get that, but that's too rich for my blood...

because I have an nVidia GT240. It likes to pretend it's a Directx 10 card, but it's not fooling anyone. Games run like crap in Win7 for me, but run great in XP. If I had $200 lying around I could just buy a new card, but I've got better things to spend, and Arkham City runs just fine on my 6 year old 6000+ with a GT240.

And I've got a host of Steam games and Indie titles to play. Nice try though.

and it's incredibly frustrating. I'm a bright guy and I can help her with her homework, but I don't remember everything from high school physics or algebra/trig. And with humanities and the Arts there's often a 'right' answer from the teaching materials.

I used to wonder why this stuff wasn't online until I saw the profits those textbook companies make. Stupid capitalism.

You'd love North Korea's justice system; it is the epitome of "fair" by your twisted standard. Fortunately, most civilized societies have not only abolished the states' power to kill their own people, they enjoy lower murder rates as well.

Off the top of my head, anything related to: marriage counseling, retirement planning, realtor services, military recruitment and VA, alcoholic beverages, car rental, AARP, lottery and OTB.

that part's not rocket science. Americans make too much money. We live too well. Our air is too clean and our food too nutritious.

That's the number of actual H1-B workers in this country. E.g. take the legal limit and multiply it by 3. We don't send them home when their Visas expire, so lots of them stay. The estimates are around 3 times the limit. 180,000 today. Once we raise the limit to 300,000 we'll have a million new tech workers hitting the economy within 3 years. Forget the tech economy, that'll depress _everyone's_ wages.

you're too lazy to google.

is because we started letting private businesses run schools for profit. You want to curb that? Turn them back into real public institutions instead of quasi-private ones where the costs are paid by you and me and the profits go to 1%.

That's not what happens. It's just wishful thinking. Outsourcing isn't being brought back on shore because of communication problems, it's because a few of the outsourcing firms got greedy and cut corners a little too thin. They'll learn.

Plus code written by slaves is cheap. So Cheap I can throw out your old code and start from scratch and still come out ahead. The last piece to the puzzle is to remember that for the top 1% who are pushing these things through they own a piece of just about every major company. So if company A overcharges company B the 1% still make gobs of money.

And Managing a Mickey D's is incredibly hard. First it's brutally difficult work. 50 to 60 hours a week. Next, you're constantly jockeying to keep your employees because you don't pay them enough to have anything near a stable lifestyle (and no, they're not all kids. That workforce is graying too).

Basically, the world doesn't work the way you think it does. I'd be OK if you were only hurting yourself, but when you go and vote you hurt me too...

that exist for the sole purpose of teaching businesses how to do an end run around every rule regarding hiring H1-Bs.

Saying "I'd be fine with a lift on the H-1B visa limits if it required them to actually demonstrate that they had made real efforts to hire Americans first." is pointless. It's not just wishful thinking, its fundamentally ignoring the purpose of the system...