begin  quoting Lan Barnes as of Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:24:20PM -0800:
> I have just returned from an extended Fry's Type I experience. I am on
> hold on the Suicide Hot Line.

Condolences. 

I have resolved to never buy anything at Fry's that I wouldn't rather
throw away then have to bother with returning.

[snip]
> I would tell you all the humiliating details had I the time. The
> preadolescent customer "service" rep who could barely control his
> contempt, and seemed to think that repeating unintelligible techno-babble
> louder constituted communication (Him: "It's a bla bla bla that fits your
> blah." Me (pointing): "But this chip says 'VIA'!")

Heh. Ya have t' head 'em off at t' pass, pardner.  Pre-emptive attacks
with technobabble, plus inferring that they're selling dodgy goods.

> - the board was a return
> 
> - nothing they had uses my current memory (why don't they just flow solder
> the memory for all the reuse I get?)

Eventually they'll need the bandwidth to memory so high they'll _have_
to put it on the chip.  Anything external from that will be merely for
swap and disk cache.

[snip]

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