The five stages of equipment death greif: · Denial (maybe I can fix it) · Anger (Why did the stupid thing break?!) · Bargaining (Maybe I can just work around it...) · Depression (I miss my stuff) · Upgrade (Oooo, shiny!)

Quote: Originally Posted by Born2bwire At least it was a quick death. An emergency operation was attempted, yet was in vain.

Today we (the royal we) mourn the unfortunate passing of one of the central pillars of life. It is my unfortunate honor to inform myself that fate has called my V6s to a better place. A place where headphones may be truely happy. Such a cruel game is life; to tragicaly rip from the ears such...

A Muppet's Christmas Carol Chirstmas Vacation Home Alone

What makes me suspicious is just how damn complicated and full of loopholes the rebate procedure is. First: In the age where you can do just about anything online, they want you to mail it in. Why do this other than to annoy people into not sending in rebates? Second: They don't accept...

Brushed aluminum or steel looks best to me, or a black ceramic glazed finish. So I suppose that means silver most of the time because I never see the glaze on anything new that isn't priced in the upper stratosphere.

Never give your info out over the phone unless you initiate the call. Somebody likely pulled a printout with the site's name on it from your trash and decided to try their luck on getting your CC number from you.

I swear, he must have learned from watching the TV show. He even sits the exact same way: How many other people have pets that seem to resemble TV or movie animals?

Quote: Originally posted by ProFingerSk8er hum...weird.. in my area FedEx is a lot better then UPS, packages from FedEx were either on-time or early Same here. Airborne is cream of the crop, followed by FedEx Next or 2nd day and UPS Ground. There are actually two FedEx's...

Now, will the RIAA take it all the way to the Supreme Court and risk getting the whole law tossed out (I'm sure companies like Echostar/DirecTV and the DVD Forum would just love that)? I would think there would be pressure from other groups to let this battle go instead of risking the...

Quote: Originally posted by lan I think it's just fine to go alone. Since most of my friends are 9-5, I can easily catch matinee shows for cheaper and less crowds IF i even go. I've found out that all the theaters around here will give you matinee prices for regular evening shows...

There are two different types of messenger included with XP, both equally useless. #1, the more annoying of the two is the Windows Messenger Service. This can be used to popup advertisements or used/abused to send network-wide messeges using the command prompt (example: announcing server...

I'm likely gonna end up with a 3.41 for this semester. Not too shabby for a major in Physics. What makes me mad is I have a C in English. Of all subjects, why English? I've gotten A's in all my other English classes, where I could actually write. This time they decided to do something...

MS has a lot to lose with this gambit. They are banking that flash memory manufaturers would rather pay the fee than have people install drivers to read the volumes. But, how can MS tout the newest version of windows as a highly compatible multimedia platform if they don't support whatever new...

Quote: Originally posted by Trawlerman Does anybody else find the modern Windows/Multimedia keyboards to be totally worthless. Who uses the extra keys anyway? *waves hand* I use them a lot on my laptop, mainly the "windows key". I'm a bit paranoid, so I lock my laptop whenever I...