Recent content by dxwarlock

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    Solved! I believe I just destroyed my laptop.

    What antonie said, or more than likely you possibly broke the MB connections themselves to the HD. (as the HD itself will take more abuse to fully break than the MB connectors for it). Which means your out of luck usually. Those CAN be repaired but its expensive as its usually a full board...
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    5 Tips for Delicious Food Photos

    Stop encouraging people to take more pics of their lunch, bad enough they apply filters to a tree and act like they are professional photo artist. Dont need them getting more tips to encourage them to post pics of things we don't care that they ordered at chipotle.
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    This 10-Year-Old Made His Own 'Minecraft' Server

    After running a server for 3 years, I can say that this article represents about 80% of the 1000's of servers out there based on who I get spamming my server chat with an IP, typing "join 12.12.12.12 IP AWESOME SAUCE SERVER!!" and leaving. Ran by 10-15 year old kids that figured out running a...
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    Facebook Sparks Debate on Right to Use Teens in Ads

    stop 'giving' the people..was a typo. where is the edit button :P and man, I hit submit once, and made 10 replies somehow..sorry about that.
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    Facebook Sparks Debate on Right to Use Teens in Ads

    To jldevoy: They dont have a right to use peoples images, UNLESS they upload them to the people in question...easy solution, stop GIVEN the people pictures, your complaining of using your pictures. People shouldn't sign up for sites that admit they use your data and pictures your store on their...
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    American Express Turns Twitter #Hashtags Into Purchases

    Doesn't this seem HARDER than just buying it online with paypal/CC to start with while making free advertisement by your tweet? I mean the steps below sound more of a pain that just doing a paypal/CC purchase, with more wait time staring at your twitter waiting for that reply tweet you must...
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    Windows 8 Off to an Awkward Start, Analyst Says

    Your disregarding the difference between 'figure it out in a day' and "want to use it after figuring it out". You seem to be making the "easy to figure out" equals "will like using it". And corp and consumer are different. But your forgetting up to 40% of windows sales profits, and acceptance...
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    Windows 8 Off to an Awkward Start, Analyst Says

    Think you misinterpreted me saying they wasn't going to put it on any live boxes, and them not trying i, they have all tried it a lot using the companies MSDN accounts and a VM/ESXI setup. Many of them couldn't wait for it to show up for final release download to see what it was all about when...
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    Windows 8 Off to an Awkward Start, Analyst Says

    cknobmanThis article is bs and these "analysts" are full of sh!t.Every retail outlet I have been too since late November has 90% of their computers on sale sporting Windows 8. Also for this..it makes no sense of explaining how popular and well like windows 8 is..it just states they are selling...
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    Windows 8 Off to an Awkward Start, Analyst Says

    cknobmanThis article is bs and these "analysts" are full of sh!t.Every retail outlet I have been too since late November has 90% of their computers on sale sporting Windows 8.As for being confusing these analysts must be idiots. My 59-60 year old mom and dad (who are novice computer users at...
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    Apple Approves One Millionth iOS App

    Toms approves its One Millionth reader that doesn't care.
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    Google Fiber Now Going Live in Kansas City

    digiexIt's no use, with the grip of anti piracy corporations in the US, what would you do with that lots of bandwidth? So piracy is the only use for highspeed at home? 1. I see a use for home hosted low ping gameservers. 2. Mass storage across multiple places without needing a 3rd party 'cloud'...
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    Facebook Paid $715 Million for Instagram

    Even if the stock value was $0 now compared to when they got it $300 million was too much to pay for it. I mean really..3/4 of a BILLION dollars, for a photo website?
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    Tumblr May Finally Be Cleaning Out NSFW Adult Material

    Nooo..now the 4 adults that still use tumblr will have nothing to look at while at work...
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    Apple Has Idea for Fuel Cell Battery That Would Last Weeks

    No thanks, time extended battery aside. Just what I always wanted..a phone I had to put fuel in to keep it running. at airport, battery dying? no simple plug and charge for you! you now have to go find fuel for your phone. or by the iFuel accessory for $400 that refuels your phone on the go!