thanatos

^ Good Job @thanatos!  DISH has pissed me off too, NM Long Story,  I like them for the time being, I guess haha... And I used to work there,  well Echostar...None of that call center jive though,  I was in the Master Control at the Satellite Uplink (which even included the Spacecraft Operations Center),  not that I was flying spacecraft mind you (although my ex GF was),  I worked on Live Events, automation, and Pay Per View movies etc...

@carlsson  Shoot,  I'd have so much fun with that if it were me!  "This shop is Great and the repairs were well-done, wonderful people,  but how come some of the techs left their sex doll and some rubber toys in my back seat?  Just what were they doing back there?"

And then if they contact you for more details,  you say,  "Naww it's OK,  I got all the stains cleaned up and I'd rather not get anyone in trouble."

You're just keepin it real

@Jaybird - That's about how old this is. Built in 2008. But it was a $2500 monster then.

Word

My favorite part was when Han Solo and Greedo's bastard son challenged the band YES to a game of Mad Planets at Del Taco!

I wish GOT was actually what you all described because I WOULD WATCH THAT!!!

I especially like the part where they caterpulted Justin Bieber and Elmo.

Hope springs eternal...

But it has his dead skin/DNA all over it; it's priceless.

Well I'm hoping to get something for my ION Drum Rocker kit someday. I'm sure I'll be disappointed

@Flojomojo that's the first place I went as soon as I heard the news.  Autoplay next has been turned off since they added that 'feature'.  Don't like it.

And I JUST quit Netflix too . . . 

I canceled Netflix several years just because of those autoplay ads.  Maybe I wasn't the only one and they figured out that annoying crap was losing customers.  Can't say I've missed them one bit as Prime has been far more enjoyable imo.

It's about quality, not quantity!

Awesome but can we party like it was 1999?

"I got your crack pipe , bitch" 

Still have my parallel and usb zip drives. They're an integral component of my vintage computing experience from back then!

Me too, have an internal IDE one as well.

I still have my Zip drives, too; a bunch of 100MB drives (internal and external) and an internal 750MB drive, with plenty of media for both.

(I wonder if Zip is more reliable than flash drives for long-term backups of small files?  I know Zip had some quality control problems, but I seem to recall that was early on.)

I'm wearing my 5.50 t-shirt. ?

I wanna go to Milwaukee!   See you guys and raise a glass of BEER!!!

A shame.  I was hoping to run into you again this year!

WOOHOO!  How was it???

@GoldLeader It was great!  So glad we had a chance to see them live.  Venue was small (1000 people max) so pretty much anywhere was up close!  And boy was the beer flowing, I don't think my wife left the couch all day yesterday. 

Awesome!  Ya might say she got caught in a storm of ale!

Best you can do it be there for her. Sounds like you all held each other up for a long time.

@SlidellMan Oh, I totally have experienced that too.  One of our previous dogs was a German Shepherd.  The hips were starting to go.  Put rug runners all through the wood floors so he wouldn't slip.  However what the final ending was because he got mouth cancer.  Amazing dog.

As George Carlin said in one of his bits, "Life is a series of dogs."

Very sorry to hear it.

I've had pretty good luck with my Windows 7 computer,  give or take a few things that didn't have to do with the OS...Is there a way to look up how long it was stable?

@GoldLeader I just open Task Manager, go to the Performance tab, select CPU and look at the Uptime.  Obviously I never needed to reboot it, and it looks like the last power outage that drained the UPS was well over a year ago.

Same here using Win 7.  I also put it on "sleep" instead of rebooting since it takes too long.  

AWESOME!!!

Been about ten years for me.

Me and my then 4 y/o Grandson got mebbe a good 1/3 of the way thru, a couple of years ago.

I had confidence that my(original)battery wouldn't fail, short test runs had worked out fine.

That was a disappointing day, for sure...

Even worse-I have an Everdrive, just wanted to do it on the real thing...

I've changed/evolved my tastes recently, but SNES Zelda was my "favorite game ever" for a couple decades.

That game and watch sure is tempting, it looks amazing.

It's neat, super small, but playable.  Feels a bit light, they could have added some heavier materials to make it seem less cheaply made.

Also for the price I would think they could have at least included some maps and instructions.  The only included instructions is how to plug it into the charger, and then 4 pages of legalese in multiple languages.  Nothing on how to use it at all.

What kinda phone you going to? I usually keep a phone 2-3 years max. $200-$300 Android phones usually are only given security updates for a couple years and only get maybe 1 OS upgrade if you're lucky.

I did have a Moto E ($120) for a year then upgraded to a Moto G ($200) and had it 2 years. Then I bought a refurb Google Pixel 2 that I thought I'd be able to use a couple years, but it was a lemon and had to return it. Then I went back to a Moto G for a year or so before getting this Nokia 4.2 2 years ago. It's on Android 10 and sadly last Security patch it got was 8 months ago. 

I went from a Galaxy S7 to a Galaxy S20 FE.  

I don't really worry about security update availability, because I don't install many apps, and don't go browsing unknown sites. 

And yeah, I was heavily annoyed last night while in old man mode just due to all the notifications that started streaming in for all the apps I hadn't yet uninstalled or disabled.  And of course all the needless UX changes that aren't needed.  <shakes fist at cloud>

I love my Samsung Galaxy (I'm too lazy to go look and tell ya which one) almost as well as my previous Samsung Galaxy.  I need a sticker for it that says, "Don't laugh.  It's paid for."  My goal is to hold onto it until the sun explodes.

Actually maybe. Though I broadened out of the specialty in 2013, it's still in my general area. What's wrong with the binding?

PM sent!  Though in 2013, you might not have even run into this issue yet.

Shoot me a PM.  I'm no longer in tech, but may something useful that can be dredged out of my brain.

The science is sound.

The sound of silence in preferable.

He'll probably offer to compromise and watch it with you, since otherwise he'd desert you.

Years ago, I once tried to sign up Just for the sweepstakes online and it was a bigger joke than that crap they used to send out in the mail.  It's like tangent after tangent,   You're caught in a downpour of torrential ads trying to get your attention, because they think you'll eventually click on just one.  I also remember some of those same type of ads spammed up Amazon's M-Turk system too.  You were supposed to get paid (to test their system) just by clicking to get through all of the ads, but you could never reach the end.  It just kept going around in circles.  They wasted your time and then wouldn't pay.  After one try I said Never Again!   It's not worth it.   I'm not sure it'd be worth it if I was guaranteed to win haha...Just get to the end to win!  (Except you can Never reach the end!)...

In the movie Knight And Day, IIRC it's explained that Publishers Clearing House is just a front group, and Tom Cruise uses it to set up his parents with income. I can't exactly remember all the details, but the meat of it is that his parents 'won' the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes twice. Lol.

I'm a bit baffled by the amount of magazines people are buying or subscribing to nowadays.  Sure the numbers have to be way down but there are still a lot of magazines that people subscribe to (nothing I would want - good housekeeping and people type mags).  I would love to see some old video game mags in print but it isn't viable.  I guess the magazines still in print have some decent numbers to warrant their existence.

As for the whole Publisher's Clearing House stuff... again I see a lot of their print material and I'm thankful it isn't going to my mailbox!  lol  I remember in the 80's when my parents would subscribe to a magazine and would be guaranteed a 'prize'... it was always some gimmick trinket that would be the prize... and then the mail would continue on and on.  The best part was the magazine subscription... as it was the one thing I wanted (it was a hockey magazine of some sort that was much more interesting that the junk mail they would send!).

Sweet!  I Love those guys!!

NICE!!! THANK YOU for this discovery, they rawk!  

@save2600  Quite possible.  I think it might have been in the Tacobox thread.  Too lazy to search. 

I wasn't even actively looking to sell. Stumbled on a WTB post on Craigslist!

PERFECT

I totally get where you were coming from with "dump this thing before it breaks, because I can't fix it"

Yup. Main reason I hung on so long is you just can't play that one properly with emulators.

Shatner disagrees.

I hear it comes with a Media Male

Can I get a whole case of 'em shipped to me in a ridiculous way? I have very specific needs

I don't get the attitude the providers have with phones and UX changes on the same device.  It should be for security, not from going from Windows XP to Windows 10.  Or randomly changing the icon shapes and colors for no reason.

What type of phone is it?

Galaxy S7.  So not even a new one.

I think people are confusing the ability to add public messages on other members' feeds with sending them private messages.  One would think they'd stop after seeing what was supposed to be a private message appearing in the status updates, but apparently not.

I still have not heard anything back, it is pissing me off.

I don't think they look at the main forum page, so they don't even know it's happening. They just take a dump in the middle of the floor and walk away. If you want to PM somebody, send them an actual PM.

And here I was, just about to subscribe...

These are jokes, son

No they're not. Let us pray in the of the VCS, and of the 6502, and of the Holy TIA, Atari!

I am dying, it is 60F, unreal.

My mom told me back home it went a low 75 degrees and a high of 82.. pretty crazy.

@Flojo, hey we got down to -10, I'm not saying it didn't suck! Just thought I'd try to be funny today.

Hm, not the one I was thinking of. It was an arcade like run and gun I think.

Destruction Paper by masschamber

That was it, thanks!

Where does society come up with these people?

Hahah... ok. Go Don Quixote!

Whaaa? LOL