......don't give loans (and ridiculously long ones at that) to people who have no business having a loan in the first place. I thank god everyday that our canadian banks didn't engage in such practices and the results speak for themselves.
Again, it's not a ventilation issue. If you actually take a 360 completely apart you'll know why I say that. The reason most of them had the error relating to the graphics chip was as follows: 1. The crappy "thermal-tape" used wasn't effective enough at transferring heat from the chips (cpu and gpu) to the heatsinks. 2. The crappy X-clamp design of holding the heatsinks onto the 360 mainboard didn't ta
We have 2 360's in the house. An older one (my daughter's second-revision) which suffered the "red-ring-o-death" and a new one (mine). When my daughter's 360 suffered the RROD I voided the warranty (there is no way I'm sending something away and waiting forever to get it or maybe a refurb back) and completely took it apart. I removed the x-clamp holding the heatsinks down and cleaned the crappy "thermal-tape" off of the die's and gave
The following article says it all as far as I'm concerned. http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/02/osama_and_chants_of_usa
[quote who="SivCorp" reply="1" id="2930888"] "He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword" He had it coming...[/quote] maybe, but isn't celebrating someone's (even osama's) death in the streets exactly the kind of [i]ideology[/i] the west was fighting against? seems a tad ironic eh? of course this could all just be an "attention-grab" seeing as we all know the us has been jealous of the attention the
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[quote who="CharlesCS" reply="17" id="2928553"] I'm of the belief that one should learn not only how to use a device but how it also works. These days people are handed everything with an "easy button" design where they will alway be dependant on someone else to fix their problems. Mac users are no different than PC users when it comes to learning or not learning how to avoid or fix something on a PC or Mac. I have to agree with DrGuy on this one, seems more like a status thing that
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Charles, Not quite. I know plenty of developers who have MACs. That "candy-like interface" you talk about might be made for the casual home user where let's face it......it should be. The casual home-user should not have to try to remember which of the 10 ways to do something on a PC is the way he/she was shown by the neighbourhood PC-clown. Those developers I was talking about use the command-line on a MAC just as much as they would if they
I might as well quote myself from another thread as this is my response here as well....... [quote] The "internet-model" or rather [i]the connected world[/i] as an economy/society unto itself has been begging to be run as a [b]for-license/fee model[/b] for a long time now. The archaic ideals of a society/economy that works on services or products that are "owned" by the consumer is out-dated and old-fashioned. License and user fees, cloud life/economics are where the future li
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[quote who="Sinperium" reply="6" id="2928177"]So Microsoft and Apple are representations of humans since they emulate virus-like behavior so naturally already. Of course, Apple doesn't have viruses--they call it "iTunes".[/quote] Don't kid yourself. It is in fact thanks to large corporations like MS and Apple that IT is where it's at today. You think those hippy-loving GNU programmers would have given you the tech you enjoy today? 
[quote who="Sinperium" reply="4" id="2928160"]Exactly! All that's important to understand is that Microsoft and Apple are equally evil. [/quote] Wrong. Agent Smith said it best when he suggested that we humans are in fact the virus. All humans. [e digicons]O:)[/e]
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I'm not from the UK (Canada here) but I remember helping some people getting set up to host for MP gaming a while ago who were in the UK and it turned out that SKY was doing some pretty restrictive "NAT filtering" at the ISP end without even telling the client. I only found out because I actually called SKY on behalf of these people and when talking to their CS they finally admitted what they were doing. Once the filtering was turned OFF the people were able to
[quote who="inthebloodofeden" reply="21" id="2925799"] 3) About " second opinion" software, there is plenty of good freeware ones. Hitman Pro (fully functions available for 30 days freeware), Malwarebytes, Emsisoft Emergency Kit (ex A-squared free), probably a lot more than a "second opinion" and, for me, the best one in his sector. The new version it doesn't require installation, and has got just the highest malware (any kind) detection rating at all. Besides, for all de
[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="125" id="2923864"]I'm all for ideas (and inexpensive ones - methinks we might find a sympathetic ear at SD). That said - off topic moment. Saw you had a game up monk. Sorry I missed you. Looked up your stats. Current Favor Points: -120 Favor Points Spent: 700 Favor Points Earned: 580 How do you do that heh [/quote] You know,
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