Counting Rupees: Once bitten, twice shy (1)
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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, BusinessEach week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: This past week, my 360 finally gave up the ghost. It began with an occasional hard freeze, and a day later was freezing every two or three minutes - a tell-tale symptom of impending red rings of death. Unfortunately, my Xbox exhibited all of the symptoms except an actual series of red rings: ...
Comienzan a circular las primeras Xbox 360 "Jasper" (1)
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Filed under: Original, Juegos Hoy llega la buena nueva para aquellos preocupados por el mal de las luces rojas, o peor aún, los que ya sucumbieron por el maligno poder del RROD. Al parecer, están circulando por algunas tiendas norteamericanas las primeras Xbox 360 con codename Jasper, es decir, aquellas que incorporan CPU y GPU con tecnología de 65nm.Al igual que en anteriores lanzamientos de otros modelos, existe ciertos detalles a tener en cuanta para ...
A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture (2)
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I'm tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The "This will work in the next version." The "It's in our roadmap." The "Buy now and upgrade later." The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn't tested enough before reaching our hands. The feeling now extends to hardware: Everything is built to end up in the trash ...
Sam's Club Will Swap RRoD'd 360s, Refund Difference if Necessary (5)
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Keep this in mind if you're console-shopping on Black Friday. Via Consumerist comes word that Sam's Club, dealt with courteously and calmly, replaced a red-ring-of-death Xbox 360 with a working unit, let the poor guy keep his hard drive so he didn't lose his games and gamesaves, and, since all they had were cheaper bundles, refunded him the difference in cost. And, I might add, did all this without the BS replacement plan that some ...
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Lindsay said:
My 360 RROD on the weekend. It's a brick at this point. Gonna send it in this week. I'm glad it happened before my warranty expired - but I think I had a year to go on the 3 year one for this anyway.
A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture (85)
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I'm tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The "This will work in the next version." The "It's in our roadmap." The "Buy now and upgrade later." The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn't tested enough before reaching our hands. The feeling now extends to hardware: Everything is built to end up in the trash ...
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rszaloki said:
baszki, szálljunk már le a magas lóról! Nem kalapácsról, vagy egy rádióról/spectrumról/apple II-ről van már szó!
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Nándi said:
@rszaloki szerintem pedig tökre igaza van, tényleg egyre kevesebb termék jön ki rendesen kitesztelve. ha egy autóba 10 km kábelt és számítógépet pakolnak (komplex termék) akkor vállalják érte a felelősséget... Ne fordulhasson elő olyasmi, hogy az automata bezárja az üres autót járó motorral, te meg nézed kívülről és vakarod a fejed (aztán meg szaladsz előásni a pótkulcsot...)
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MDupuis said:
Amen.
A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture [Bad Technology] (14)
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I'm tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The "This will work in the next version." The "It's in our roadmap." The "Buy now and upgrade later." The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn't tested enough before reaching our hands. The feeling now extends to hardware: Everything is built to end up in the trash ...
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Nándi said:
@rszaloki szerintem pedig tökre igaza van, tényleg egyre kevesebb termék jön ki rendesen kitesztelve. ha egy autóba 10 km kábelt és számítógépet pakolnak (komplex termék) akkor vállalják érte a felelősséget... Ne fordulhasson elő olyasmi, hogy az automata bezárja az üres autót járó motorral, te meg nézed kívülről és vakarod a fejed (aztán meg szaladsz előásni a pótkulcsot...)
How to Store Sperm in 4 Steps - Just in Case (20)
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Save the swimmies! (Photo: futurowoman) I never thought I’d visit a sperm bank. Perhaps it was flipping a motorcycle at 90 mph on Infineon Raceway. Perhaps it was tearing my Achilles tendon in jiu-jitsu practice, then getting thrown on my head. Maybe having my scuba mask fill with blood at 120 feet underwater in Belize? That could have done it. Or perhaps is was just crossing the 30-year age threshold and having friends who didn’t ...
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vanlandw said:
If money wasn't an object or if I ever though anybody would want to carry my child this would be something pretty cool to do.
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Alice Robison said:
if only they had this for eggs...
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Kishore Balakrishnan said:
sperm storage tim ferriss
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Kate said:
this has very little relevance to me personally, but it's a decent idea, and well a hilarious article from the awesome Tim Ferriss. so enjoy.
Η πολιτική και η δημοσιογραφία της πεντάρας! (1)
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ΔΕΙΤΕ ΤΟ VIDEO! Δεν είχε λόγους ιδιαίτερους ο δημοσιογράφος Πάσχος Μανδραβέλης [του οποίου η επάρκεια και εντιμότητα αλλά και ο μη-φανατισμός δεν αμφισβητούνται] για να μιλήσει με τον τρόπο που τον ακούσαμε χθες βράδυ στις ειδήσεις του τηλεοπτικού “Σκάι”. Δηλαδή, η ανάλυσή του ήταν λογική και δεν χρειαζόταν και πολύ μυαλό για να καταλάβεις ότι οι [...]
کارخانه ي تهيه ي اعضاي بدن انسان +18 (1)
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کارخانه ي تهيه ي اعضاي بدن انسان ( مثل کنسرو ماهی) Human parts processing factory (like sardines) A factory in Russia harvesting kidneys, eye corneas and other human body parts for sale. يک کارخانه در روسيه- کليه - قرنيه ي چشم و ديگر اعضاي بدن رو براي فروش تهيه می کند. Bodies are collected from drunk drivers who died in car accidents, people staying alone who had frozen to death in the cold winter, criminals ...
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Fardin said:
بابا اینا دیگه چقدکثیفن
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What happens if the Xbox 360 NXE causes RROD? (5)
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Flickr’d You know the upcoming New Xbox Experience that has so many people excited for some reason? Turns out that Microsoft call centers are bracing themselves for NXE-induced red rings of death. So while you’re gaining a [fancy?] new user interface you may also be losing an Xbox 360. Fun! It’s like this: Microsoft is afraid that its Frankenstein of a machine may have trouble “taking,” in a sense, the NXE update. The result of ...
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Jason Bryant said:
Just get a PS3 and save yourself the trouble. I did, and there's no trouble.
I Got My RRoD Xbox 360 Fixed, No Thanks to Microsoft (1)
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Two weeks ago today, I turned on my Xbox 360 and was greeted by 3 glorious red lights. Never in my life, have I gone from being in a perfectly great mood to completely filled with rage in such a short span. This is after all, my fourth Xbox 360 to fall victim to one error or another that rendered it useless. I wasted no time, and jumped on the phone with Xbox Support to ...
Sarah Palin Is All Ears In Corn Form! (1)
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Wheeler Farms, near Toledo, Ohio, created a Sarah Palin corn maze in a 16-acre field. As you can see, it looks like a pretty shitty maze. Sadly, that didn't stop me from getting lost and circling her lapel for two hours. A face from ears: Palin is carved into cornfield [boston] Thanks to Richard, who would look devilishly handsome as a corn maze.
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