A Limited Edition Religion
FINALLY have my replacement mobo. Stupid thing took forever. Mind you, they had to test it and ensure that in fact, they had sold me a broken mobo. Soon I will have a PCU that isn't singing a swan song (my CPU makes this high pitched "eeeeeeee" noise I am pretty sure isn't good
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The Samsung problem is representative of everything that's wrong with the mobile comms market in North America, and in the wilderness of the Great Northern Reaches of Canuckistania in particular. Now, I don't mean to go off on a rant here, but I'm about to. Sorry in advance.
As you've no doubt long known, the Samsung telephones highly subsidized and thus widely distributed by Rogers et al are most known for tacking pleasant graphical animations on top of a shoddy, feature-free core operating system (no support for sending or receiving concatenated SMS? Capitalization problems with T9 input? A user dictionary that a light user can overflow in a week of light use? Seriously?); for perpetuating the ignominy of antennas which are not only external, but able and expected to be extended during use; and for fit, finish and build quality befitting a device with a mean time between failure closely approximating the average provider contract term.
The manuals are opaque, if present at all. The few configuration options the devices do have ( ... )
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speaking of, i recently decided to start reading Charlaine Harris' take on vampires (the tv show True Blood is based on her books). so far it's one or two steps above romance novels, but i guess i'm addicted to the genre now. the tv show is done quite well, though. not just another cop or hospital show, heh.
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