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The ability of a system to compute one billion floating point operations in one second. AMD's K6-2 processor and Motorola's G4 processor can achieve speeds of over 1 Gflop, for example, and newer chips can do multiple Gflops. The problem with trying to measure Gflops is determining a standard method of measuring floating point operation or instructions. Even if you do this, it's not clear that the measurement would refle
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Gflop - To make a long story short: My girlfriend is in Spain for thesemester, and I have a Verizon landline in my house. I went on theirwebsite to see how much it would cost to call, and it said $0.10 aminute and a $4 fee. Sounded very cheap to me, so I made several hoursof phone calls. I got my bill yesterday: $630. Called Verizon. Theytold me that I needed to call them and agree to pay the $4 to activatethe international calling for that price. Since I did not, I wascharged $3.09 a minute. They refused to charge me the $4 and then howmuch I would have paid, saying it was my fault I didn't pay the $4even though on their website there is no mention of calling them topay it or that there is a different rate if you don't pay it etc ...Has anyone had this problem or know a way to get out of it / convincethem that they should charge me the price it would have been had itbeen $4. I'm a poor college student who simply can't afford that typeof payment. I have no idea what to do.Thanks.[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Maybe an appeal to the chairman'soffice would work. It has for me a couple times. Or else filing acommission complaint. But really, what made you think they wouldautomatically know of your intentions and put you on the $4 plan?For them to do that without your okay is also illegal; it is knownas 'cramming'. This really isn't Verizon's fault at all; try againtomorrow with a different rep and see if she will help you beforeyou go the appeals route. If you get out of this mess in one piece,start reading their advertising more closely, and *always* tell thebusiness office your intentions before you make calls like this.PAT]
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