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08/04/09
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a) All sets of RAM come with stickers.
b) Overclocked RAM runs hot and the extra cooling would HELP keep the RAM stable.
Also ricer typically refers to people putting huge wings or ugly body kits that don't make the car faster. In most cases these huge wings might even make rearward visibility worst. I don't see how this is rice? So WTF? Where's the professionalism?
08/04/09
@heero884: Because it looks like this? Also, motorcycles only qualify as a "race" if you are a transformer or a go-bot. And you, sir, are no go-bot...
...a-are you?
08/04/09
Did the author not do his research? If you were to take a look at the high end DDR3 memory available on Newegg a lot of them include a fan.. and I believe a lot of us would rather take a bulkier heatsink than to add another fan to our computers.
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@heero884: I found that picture by typing in "Rice Rocket" into google. So maybe WE were talking about bikes, but you weren't?
Also, THIS is a Rice Rocket-Bike with a ridiculous design that matches the RAM in the picture.
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I'm not asian, and I was a little shocked at this articles title.
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also, I dont know, personally, a single black person who drives a cadilac.
08/04/09
Second, your analogy is off because black people do not have nations that produces predominantly watermelons as its supporting agriculture and exporting product.
Honestly though, I think that the term "rice" has changed. "Rice" has become a verb that means to extremely modify a car for performance and looks. Black people do it, white people do it and asian people have a whole culture revolving around modifying cars away from the stock look. Therefore, the term "rice rockets" are not meant to be derogatory but just an adjective.
08/04/09
yep, it's vernacular, not hate speech. What about beanermobile? Sounds more racist, but follows the same formula: cultural food + word for conveyance = arguably racist slang term for a type of vehicle.
is a French car a cheese-wheel? Is a british car a banger-wagon? Is an Ethiopian ride an anjara-car?
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If Mexico created their own brand of cars that were popular and imported the United States, beanermobile might not be derogatory and racist anymore. On the other hand, cheese-wheel and banger-wagon sound like pretty decent nicknames for Peugeot and Renault, or Aston Martin/Mini*kind of*/Jaguar. Kinda funny that British people actually call their sedans "4-bangers"
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is it racist to point out that it's always affluent white people who always make a point of making anything with any reference to race 'racist'?
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I've got a Core2Duo E6400, both cores are clocked at 2.13Ghz. So in fact, they already have.
08/04/09
The thing that gets tricky about this is that there are some single or dual cores clocked in the 3.5 - 4.0ghz range... but those aren't the highest end processors.
05/13/09
As a loyal customer for many years i have but one request. Please stop being lame and following the herd. they do it better than you and you are becoming obsolete. bandwidth caps are for chumps. take it off and really differentiate yourself from verizon. and who uses baltimore as a test market? i'm pretty sure everyone there thought the same thing. and obviously hardware is a huge deal now-a-days so find something that you won't be useless after a year of use. i don't care what it costs you to secure the rights to something just friggin do it. your customer service is gettin better, but you still employ morons. give the guy in the store access to the system the guy at teletech has. it's a he said she said fiasco every time i need something done. i have more beef, but i am at work so will save it for later.
Nick
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So, if you're likely to go with Verizon anyway, this seems like a decent option.
D.
05/07/09