There's no way you could sit down and play Super Mario Bros for the first time and beat it in 10-15 minutes. If he has fun with it thats great for him, all I said was that it had to be a time consuming fat to accomplish. I don't see what your point is supposed to be...
Apple didn't make the device, why should they have to deal with exchanging it? It's the manufacturer's fault it's defective so it only makes sense that you deal with them to get an exchange. It cuts out the middleman (Apple) so you should get a quicker turnaround on the return/exchange...
Here in the US almost every time I've had to return defective hardware I had to deal directly with the manufacturer... it makes sense to me - the manufacturer should be held responsible for their own defective products. Also, by dealing directly with the manufacturer you cut out the middleman - which should generally result in an overall quicker return/exchange process...
Yeah, you click "Buy" and don't change any of the options on the next screen, leaving it like one of the main configs they show you on the main product page. Their return policies are on the site, it's the buyer's fault for not reading them before purchasing.
Yeah once through it's not long. When you consider it probably took hundreds (maybe thousands???) of runs through the game that each took longer than 5 min 17 sec (consider his first time playing the game ever, that probably took hours), it adds up to a rather insane amount of time.
Exactly, so they should simply not release a description of the exploit so the 'mal-ware' writers have nothing to go off of unless they stumble upon the security hole themselves. Or perhaps M$ should simply have Windows automatically and transparently update itself without telling you. Wouldn't that be fun?!?!
Actually the release after "XP Reloaded" won't be "XP Reloaded Reloaded" but rather "XP Revolutions". It will cause PC's worldwide to become sentient and begin the brutal enslavement of humanity.
Yeah I really don't know what you're talking about, all recent Apple computers (define recent as "post-beige") I've worked with have taken any sort of RAM I've stuck in them so long as it was the correct type/speed for the machine... The only possible problem lies with certain RAM chips that have extra "features" Macs don't utilize and therefore will cause the Mac to reject the chip...but really once again it's simply a matter of knowing what chip features your Mac will accept or reject before you go buying RAM... this can very easily be found out at www.xlr8yourmac.com or other various web resources...in short - use "common sense" and do a little "research" before you go buying something and you will never run into problems...I can't believe I actually have to tell someone this...
And rightfully so because the hardware error code is probably coming from the 3rd party RAM so you should contact the 3rd party RAM vendor rather than Apple in the first place...common sense...
It's not horrific...
It's his own damn fault for being stupid enough to buy extra RAM and disk drives straight from Apple, you're always much better off getting them separately from some other vendor - it's much cheaper. I say he deserves it.
I did this recently with a real old 500mb scsi drive - just took an identical one that was known to work and swapped the drive platter (thankfully this old drive only had one platter to deal with). You have to be extremely careful when doing this though, hard drive platters are very easy to damage. I'd reccomend using gloves of some sort to prevent getting skin oils on the platter and having plenty of antistatic plastic around to set stuff on.
DAmn, you beat me to it...but yeah this place is awesome...they had a surplus store I used to go to...Haven't been there in a while though, I wonder if it's still around...
Anyone else remember the games Streets of Sim City, where you could import your SimCity save files then drive/walk around in the city you made. This game was way ahead of it's time...think VIce City/GTA3 except it game out in 1997 so the graphics weren't quite up to par but the gameplay was quite similar. There was also SimCopter where you got to fly helipoter missions around in SimCities you built and imported.
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That's just overcomplicated and inefficient
It's COLD there???? REALLY???????
Holy shit!@#$#@$^$#
**cough**....
Too bad Star Trek was a TV show and therefore holds no basis in reality, at all...
There's no way you could sit down and play Super Mario Bros for the first time and beat it in 10-15 minutes. If he has fun with it thats great for him, all I said was that it had to be a time consuming fat to accomplish. I don't see what your point is supposed to be...
18th century? I didn't know we had computers since the 1800's....
...yeah you can...get a clue...
Apple didn't make the device, why should they have to deal with exchanging it? It's the manufacturer's fault it's defective so it only makes sense that you deal with them to get an exchange. It cuts out the middleman (Apple) so you should get a quicker turnaround on the return/exchange...
Here in the US almost every time I've had to return defective hardware I had to deal directly with the manufacturer... it makes sense to me - the manufacturer should be held responsible for their own defective products. Also, by dealing directly with the manufacturer you cut out the middleman - which should generally result in an overall quicker return/exchange process...
So I can buy stuff from you guys and use it for almost a year then return it for a full refund?
Yeah, you click "Buy" and don't change any of the options on the next screen, leaving it like one of the main configs they show you on the main product page. Their return policies are on the site, it's the buyer's fault for not reading them before purchasing.
I have some friends who could beat Contra in under 20 min or so as well.
...and certain flowers!
Yeah once through it's not long. When you consider it probably took hundreds (maybe thousands???) of runs through the game that each took longer than 5 min 17 sec (consider his first time playing the game ever, that probably took hours), it adds up to a rather insane amount of time.
Exactly, so they should simply not release a description of the exploit so the 'mal-ware' writers have nothing to go off of unless they stumble upon the security hole themselves.
Or perhaps M$ should simply have Windows automatically and transparently update itself without telling you. Wouldn't that be fun?!?!
They already do this 8)
or perhaps they simply ought to focus work on releasing a secure OS for once...
...if by "sense of humor" you mean "poor coding"...
Actually the release after "XP Reloaded" won't be "XP Reloaded Reloaded" but rather "XP Revolutions". It will cause PC's worldwide to become sentient and begin the brutal enslavement of humanity.
Yeah I really don't know what you're talking about, all recent Apple computers (define recent as "post-beige") I've worked with have taken any sort of RAM I've stuck in them so long as it was the correct type/speed for the machine... The only possible problem lies with certain RAM chips that have extra "features" Macs don't utilize and therefore will cause the Mac to reject the chip...but really once again it's simply a matter of knowing what chip features your Mac will accept or reject before you go buying RAM... this can very easily be found out at www.xlr8yourmac.com or other various web resources...in short - use "common sense" and do a little "research" before you go buying something and you will never run into problems...I can't believe I actually have to tell someone this...
And rightfully so because the hardware error code is probably coming from the 3rd party RAM so you should contact the 3rd party RAM vendor rather than Apple in the first place...common sense...
It's not horrific... It's his own damn fault for being stupid enough to buy extra RAM and disk drives straight from Apple, you're always much better off getting them separately from some other vendor - it's much cheaper. I say he deserves it.
I did this recently with a real old 500mb scsi drive - just took an identical one that was known to work and swapped the drive platter (thankfully this old drive only had one platter to deal with). You have to be extremely careful when doing this though, hard drive platters are very easy to damage. I'd reccomend using gloves of some sort to prevent getting skin oils on the platter and having plenty of antistatic plastic around to set stuff on.
DAmn, you beat me to it...but yeah this place is awesome...they had a surplus store I used to go to...Haven't been there in a while though, I wonder if it's still around...
My fav was stealing the apache helicopter from a military base in SimCopter then wreaking havoc on my cities. :D
Anyone else remember the games Streets of Sim City, where you could import your SimCity save files then drive/walk around in the city you made. This game was way ahead of it's time...think VIce City/GTA3 except it game out in 1997 so the graphics weren't quite up to par but the gameplay was quite similar. There was also SimCopter where you got to fly helipoter missions around in SimCities you built and imported.