Some of us like drowning out are girlfriends, so we need massive noise isolating headphones and lock ourselves away in an office.
The music they are listening to is silenced muzzle shots… there are used to protect their ears. I hope that wasn’t a serious questions because I have lost faith in humanity at the moment.
you could just find a girlfriend who didn’t make you miserable. just a thought.
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The music they are listening to is silenced muzzle shots… there are used to protect their ears. I hope that wasn’t a serious questions because I have lost faith in humanity at the moment.
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Don’t worry we lost faith in you too.
Roomba please!
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The music they are listening to is silenced muzzle shots… there are used to protect their ears. I hope that wasn’t a serious questions because I have lost faith in humanity at the moment.
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Methinks someone is taking these posts WAAAAY to seriously…
I am looking for work and I have a degree in biomedical engineering. Can I get a job?
Wow, I’ve been poppin gocassionally to see what’s Woot. And I was struck by just how UNHAPPY that mannequin head looks. Or is he just a little slow? Somethin’ ain’t right with that boy!
Sell out! sell out! sell out! Daddy needs a new bunker of canaries!
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Wow, I’ve been poppin gocassionally to see what’s Woot. And I was struck by just how UNHAPPY that mannequin head looks. Or is he just a little slow? Somethin’ ain’t right with that boy!
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He’s emo.
He’s sad because he just got sold out!
I think so. Where are all the edjumacated people here?
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Lets be honest, if one is gaming then he does NOT have a girlfriend to drown out…that is WHY one is gaming, because they dont have a girlfriend! haha
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just replace “girlfriend” with “wife” and you’re all set.
In other words The woot servers are lagging some because of all the F5’ing going on
According to the product description for this exact model number at iBoydsthere is a separate microphone included. Who knows what separate means.
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Or abuse of corporate resources (which could be criminal as it could be seen as a Denial of Service attack)…
Just don’t get caught…
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He is restricting traffic to internal users. That’s a completely different thing… Hop over to wikipedia and read up on bandwith management, Quality of Service tagging, and traffic shaping…
woot
They have a headset, sir, its not attached.
Do research before you spout nonsense
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Quick confession only my woot brethren can appreciate.
I am the IT director for my company.
We have over 200 employees.
I throttle everyone’s (but mine) internet to 10% during a wootoff.
Shh!
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I know several companies that block woot completely during a woot-off. Not so much because of bandwidth, but because of the productivity hit.
Some of them also block streaming video during March Madness except during lunch…