OT: Somthing ODD

Fyron · #1 June 14th, 2007, 03:57 PM

$55? What are you driving, a tank?

Renegade 13 · #2 June 14th, 2007, 05:45 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
$55? What are you driving, a tank?

$55 USD would maybe fill 1 1/2 of the 2 fuel tanks on my vehicle. Any medium/large sized vehicle easily can eat that much per fill up.

Sorry to derail your thread AT, but I honestly had nothing productive to add

geoschmo · #3 June 14th, 2007, 07:30 PM

I drive a four door sedan and my last few fillups have been over $40. That's not far from $55. My car's no econo-box, but it's not a tank by any means.

AngleWyrm · #4 June 15th, 2007, 04:01 AM

I had a heck of a time trying to get GameDev.net last night, and it was still dragging it's heals this morning. The top graphic would pop up right away (cached probably)

25~30 seconds later, the ad banner would come up, but still no forum pages. Another 25~30 seconds goes by, and finally the page loads. Happened every time.

My guess is that there is one main advertizing agency that does banners, and they crashed. The result? web sites timing out on an ad banner.

Moral: Don't put 'pre-load' or whatever into your web pages, you might make your customers wait on someone else's problems.

That's my guess anyway.

Randallw · #5 June 15th, 2007, 05:13 AM

I wouldn't trust that dslreports.com site. I checked it for you yesterday and today I find two shortcuts and a bookmark for it on my computer. I have what I believe is a resonable amount of Anti virus so I don't know how it got on.

Fyron · #6 June 15th, 2007, 02:58 PM

...what? DSLreports doesn't do stuff like that... It's a highly respected, professional site. It doesn't do drive-by linking.

GuyOfDoom · #7 June 15th, 2007, 03:53 PM

The standard car is designed to get at least 300 miles on a full tank and considering the poor gas mileage(<25mpg) for most american cars they easily have a 15+ gallon tank.

Randallw · #8 June 15th, 2007, 10:41 PM

Well I have never visited it before. I don't know about it. All I know is afterwards I found a bookmark and 2 shortcuts on my desktop. I am sure I did nothing when I visited. I could tell what it was for although I could not readily see how it gave reports. I don't recall clicking on anything just looking at the screen. I am 99.99r sure I didn't do anything but if you say they are legit perhaps somehow I did click on something by mistake or someone in my house came along and went back there.

wait, it's coming back to me now. For ages I have had 2 shortcuts on my desktop for going to a report. I think I picked them up when I tried fixing something a year or two ago. They have long just been text icons, but it seems they were for dslreports and so when I finally visited the site again i got the ico file and so they then had an icon that stood out.

doesn't explain the bookmark, though I can admit it may be the same reason.

Renegade 13 · #9 June 15th, 2007, 06:02 PM

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AngleWyrm said:
The top graphic would pop up right away (cached probably)

25~30 seconds later, the ad banner would come up, but still no forum pages. Another 25~30 seconds goes by, and finally the page loads. Happened every time.

Welcome to the world of dial-up internet!

GuyOfDoom · #10 June 15th, 2007, 07:15 PM

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Renegade 13 said:
Welcome to the world of dial-up internet!

Dial-up hurts. I'm reminded of the pain everytime I visit my parents.