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John.d.h · « **Reply #2550 on:** 7 November 2011, 19:52:45 »

I'm a bit surprised that they don't tip in Canada. Here, wait staff are some of the only employees who can get paid less than minimum wage because it is expected that they will make it up with tips. I actually like the idea because it gives them an incentive to provide good service. Your waiter sucks? Let your money do the talking. Give a lousy tip.

Omega · « **Reply #2551 on:** 8 November 2011, 05:57:17 »

Quote from: John.d.h on 7 November 2011, 19:52:45

I'm a bit surprised that they don't tip in Canada. Here, wait staff are some of the only employees who can get paid less than minimum wage because it is expected that they will make it up with tips. I actually like the idea because it gives them an incentive to provide good service. Your waiter sucks? Let your money do the talking. Give a lousy tip.

Wha? We tip in Canada, it's just not mandatory. I've never seen any restaurant force you to pay the tip - dunno if it's legal or just widely unaccepted. In some of the places I ate at in the US, the service did suck, but we couldn't give a crappy tip, since they already took out a massive 18%. And not trying to be cheap or something, but I can't afford to tip 18%. Usually my family (and most others I know) just tip around 10% or so; 15% if they thought it was exceptional service.

I understand that the wait staff isn't paid very well (though here in Canada, they are at least paid minimum wage, and most ads I've seen offer slightly above minimum wage, which is $9.50 in my province, but as high as $11 in Nunavut), I just prefer to be able to have the right to choose how much to tip. Don't see a reason to tip much if they treat us like crap, after all.

//Edit: My god... Out of curiosity, I looked up the US minimum wage... It is way below any Canadian wage, and many states allow tipped employees to go as low as $2... That's terrible.

Mr War · « **Reply #2552 on:** 8 November 2011, 22:10:54 »

18%??? Yeah that's outrageous!

Ishmaru · « **Reply #2553 on:** 9 November 2011, 01:27:08 »

18% Tip is Customary, but not always required. It varies on the restaurant. Most require 18% tip for parties more than 3, others will include it in the bill. Tiping is mandatory for Yellow cabs in NY

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Omega · « **Reply #2554 on:** 9 November 2011, 01:46:17 »

Well, we probably used roughly ten different restaurants, of which more than half had inserted gratuities into the bill directly. The amount usually varied from 13-18%, and was usually for parties of 3-6 or more. I suppose it's pretty commonplace there, but we don't have anything like that in Canada, so it came as a surprise, really.

What I found strange was at the Tony Romas, the inside of the bill folder tries to explain the gratuities to their international guests, stating that no gratuity was added to the bill yet... when it very much was.

Ishmaru · « **Reply #2555 on:** 9 November 2011, 05:19:44 »

Quote from: Omega on 9 November 2011, 01:46:17

What I found strange was at the Tony Romas, the inside of the bill folder tries to explain the gratuities to their international guests, stating that no gratuity was added to the bill yet... when it very much was.

Wow that's pretty low of them

, but i don't think they are the only ones to do it either...

Omega · « **Reply #2556 on:** 16 November 2011, 01:46:22 »

[big]My God, it has an answer to Everything! Well, maybe [small][small]not[/small][/small]...[/big]

Ishmaru · « **Reply #2557 on:** 24 November 2011, 14:00:58 »

To my friends in the States' Happy Thanksgiving!

wyvern · « **Reply #2558 on:** 24 November 2011, 18:06:35 »

Thanks. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Omega · « **Reply #2559 on:** 25 November 2011, 03:37:15 »

Quote from: Wyvern on 24 November 2011, 18:06:35

Thanks. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Quote from: Ishmaru on 24 November 2011, 14:00:58

To my friends in the States' Happy Thanksgiving!

Psh, Thanksgiving was so last month (for Canada, anyway).

Omega · « **Reply #2560 on:** 10 June 2012, 02:11:02 »

Been a while since we've posted here. The other day I finally got the chance to build my planned gaming rig, and oh, did it go well!

ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 motherboard
Intel Core i7-2700K CPU
MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II 2GD5/OC graphics card
G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB RAM
Kingwin ABT-750MM 750W PSU
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU cooler
Asus DRW-24B1ST 24x DVD burner
HANNspree HF225DPB 21.5" LCD monitor
Alden Design AK3 case
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit OEM (was there ever really a choice?)

Achieved POST on the first try without issues, works godly. The Witcher 2, Skyrim, and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood all play nicely at 1920x1080 with maxed out settings.

On another topic, I found a fantastic program today. Windows users probably know how Windows Explorer can display the thumbnails for images in common formats, such as JPG or PNG, but not less common formats such as TGA. SageThumbs, an open source shell extension which utilizes parts of the powerful XnView program, allows Windows Explorer to display thumbnails for an additional 162 image formats (plus another 26 if XnView is installed). Pretty nice to be able to see what XCF, PSD, TGA, AI, and SVG files look like right in explorer.

John.d.h · « **Reply #2561 on:** 10 June 2012, 02:21:12 »

My new laptop is not a gaming rig by any strech but I think it's safe to say that I won't be going back to integrated graphics anytime soon.

Omega · « **Reply #2562 on:** 10 June 2012, 10:46:15 »

I really would like to overclock that 2700K (which is why I opted for it) some more. As it stands, I've done some slight overclocking, but haven't been able to find a half decent guide for overclocking a modern Sandy Bridge CPU. Anyone happen to know any?

-Archmage- · « **Reply #2563 on:** 26 November 2012, 01:43:10 »

I'm making some upgrades to my desktop rig as well!

-AMD Phenom II x6 1055t
-ATI Radeon HD 5870
-1TB HDD
-850W power supply
-8GB ram
-various coolers
-Biostar 990fx motherboard

That's been my rig for quite a while now, but this black friday I ordered me a lil upgrade.

-Intel SSD(one of the faster ones I found)
-Windows 8 is goin right on that ssd, I'm expecting microscopic boot times, and higher quality game recording!
-G.Skill Sniper Gaming series low latency 32GBs RAM

And for my Alienware laptop I ordered replacement ram, taking it from 6GB to 16!

Early next year I'm looking at GPU upgrades for Crysis 3. Got my eyes set on the 7990, and my ears waiting for news of the 8000 series.

Omega · « **Reply #2564 on:** 27 November 2012, 12:27:57 »

Why bother going beyond 8, or even 6, gigabytes of RAM?

-Archmage- · « **Reply #2565 on:** 1 December 2012, 08:15:22 »

Cause I've maxed out too many times on both.
I'm runnin that upgraded system right now, and hell it is fast!!

softcoder · « **Reply #2566 on:** 1 December 2012, 15:59:09 »

Running some complex models in Blender (or other 3d renderers) or a few VM's at the same time and you easily surpass 16 GB of ram.

tiger · « **Reply #2567 on:** 1 December 2012, 17:53:29 »

When I render my videos in blender 2.64 they hog all the memory on my system just rendering the thing. But 2.49b is even slower......

I FINALLY upgraded to 2.64. Wow what a difference. Hard to find a thing. But with time I'm sure I will.

Omega · « **Reply #2568 on:** 2 December 2012, 02:45:47 »

Quote from: tiger on 1 December 2012, 17:53:29

I FINALLY upgraded to 2.64. Wow what a difference. Hard to find a thing. But with time I'm sure I will.

Pro tip: hit spacebar and type in what you want to do (it searches all possible functions).

tiger · « **Reply #2569 on:** 2 December 2012, 16:52:06 »

Well that is quite useful! Thanks

Gabbe · « **Reply #2570 on:** 9 December 2012, 15:37:22 »

Quote from: Omega on 27 November 2012, 12:27:57

Why bother going beyond 8, or even 6, gigabytes of RAM?

Becuase e-peen

Statybininkas18 · « **Reply #2571 on:** 25 October 2018, 06:44:06 »

Hello !

I want to ask, where do you guys buy video games?

Thanks !

HonzaCZ · « **Reply #2572 on:** 26 October 2018, 22:20:13 »

Quote from: Statybininkas18 on 25 October 2018, 06:44:06

Hello !

I want to ask, where do you guys buy video games?

Thanks !

Epic necro my friend, on steam.

Statybininkas18 · « **Reply #2573 on:** 19 November 2018, 13:45:48 »

What about Amazon?

HonzaCZ · « **Reply #2574 on:** 31 December 2018, 20:05:50 »

Happy new year cunts

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