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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Playing Card Plethora => Topic started by: Justin O. on November 09, 2015, 06:56:42 PM
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These were gone in less than one second with only a few people throwing back the $400 tier a couple of time. I'm surprised there was no post on here about the sale, but astonished at how quickly they were gone. Did anyone pick one up this year?
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I couldn't get 1... they were gone way too fast and no way my computer can catch up with it.
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Yeah, everything happened way too fast...all I could get was the throwbacks at 400, which I just can't justify spending at the moment, especially with another JR project being released this weekend! ???
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These were gone in less than one second with only a few people throwing back the $400 tier a couple of time. I'm surprised there was no post on here about the sale, but astonished at how quickly they were gone. Did anyone pick one up this year?
Lee advertised the sale here. With the market being as diverse as it is these days, even J-Nuggs tend to generate less attention than they once did - though they still fetch a premium price. Clearly they're still popular, if they were gone as quickly as they appear to have.
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Hey guys,
Thanks for participating on Sunday. Sorry if you didn't get a chance to buy one of the decks. They went SUPER fast this year. And yes, it seems the demand still very much outweighs the supply.
As for starting a thread in here, my bad. I didn't have time to juggle everything. Maybe next time?
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Completely slipped off my calendar to try and grab an early tier. Bummed.
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I didn't even make an attempt.
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I didn't even make an attempt.
I didn't either actually. My connection speed is no where near what's needed to get in on them at something I can afford. I did a quick speed test earlier and just shook my head. I knew there was no way. Maybe next year.
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I didn't even make an attempt.
I didn't either actually. My connection speed is no where near what's needed to get in on them at something I can afford. I did a quick speed test earlier and just shook my head. I knew there was no way. Maybe next year.
Speed tests alone aren't what will get people in there with the first clicks. It's timing, and no speed test in the world can alter that. I can run a 1,000-meter race with a bullet from a 9-millimeter pistol - typically, I'd be losing that race, but if I have enough time to get a 999.99-meter head-start, the bullet's gonna lose. It might be moving at about 335 meters per second and the typical non-athlete might be able to run about 5 kilometers an hour (or 1.4 meters per second), but that still gives me nearly three seconds to travel a single centimeter and win. With the right timing, a dial-up connection can beat a T1 line.
I used to hear jokes in the early days of computer telecommunications about something called the bandwidth of "the sneakernet" - a kid carrying a backpack full of floppy disks down the street had a faster bandwidth than the fastest modems available at the time. Change that to a messenger bag full of USB keychain drives, and he's probably faster than the best fiberoptic lines today. And don't get me started on the bandwidth of a station wagon... :))
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I didn't even make an attempt.
I didn't either actually. My connection speed is no where near what's needed to get in on them at something I can afford. I did a quick speed test earlier and just shook my head. I knew there was no way. Maybe next year.
I used to hear jokes in the early days of computer telecommunications about something called the bandwidth of "the sneakernet" - a kid carrying a backpack full of floppy disks down the street had a faster bandwidth than the fastest modems available at the time. Change that to a messenger bag full of USB keychain drives, and he's probably faster than the best fiberoptic lines today. And don't get me started on the bandwidth of a station wagon... :))
This is a fascinatinc "article" about matching the 'SneakerNet' with data transfer
https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
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This is a fascinating "article" about matching the 'SneakerNet' with data transfer
https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
That's hysterical - love it!
There is one edge that SneakerNet has over the Internet, and will continue to have for many decades yet - SneakerNet can deliver a hot pizza in as little as 30 minutes, whereas the Internet has yet to deliver any hot pizzas in the past 40+ years - just pictures of them!