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[Spigalau]

I just realised today that all most every technological gadget I own is about 5 years old!


Quick question, has anyone had a problem with there sky box? We have been getting the rainfade error constantly for the last month. Anyone experienced this before?

Is it raining ?

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Quick question, has anyone had a problem with there sky box? We have been getting the rainfade error constantly for the last month. Anyone experienced this before?

Has it been raining?

EDIT: Spig bet me to it.

[Growler]

I am Mr. Chen Guan,
 and i have a sensitive and confidential business worth
US$17,300,000.00 from Hong Kong.
I will give the details. write back via
 (mrchen1229@hotmail.com.hk)

FUCKING AWESOME!!

HANDS OFF CUNTS! $17.3 MILL ALLLLLLLLL MINE!

[Growler]

Re:Rain fade, my olds box got it in the weekend, clear blue sky, sky had to come fix it, needed a new thingymajig on the dish, you know the whatsyacallit doohickey

[toofast]

iirc you can get that error if your sky dish is knocked off alignment. So if you had heavy winds/a storm recently, that could be your problem.

[Spigalau]

Re:Rain fade, my olds box got it in the weekend, clear blue sky, sky had to come fix it, needed a new thingymajig on the dish, you know the whatsyacallit doohickey

LNB

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

I am Mr. Chen Guan,
 and i have a sensitive and confidential business worth
US$17,300,000.00 from Hong Kong.
I will give the details. write back via
 (mrchen1229@hotmail.com.hk)

FUCKING AWESOME!!

HANDS OFF CUNTS! $17.3 MILL ALLLLLLLLL MINE!

Dude, that sounds like an awesome dead, you should totally do it.

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[Growler]

Re:Rain fade, my olds box got it in the weekend, clear blue sky, sky had to come fix it, needed a new thingymajig on the dish, you know the whatsyacallit doohickey

LNB

That's what I said Spig, a LNB

[Spork]

Umm, actually before you lay such a quick and poorly made judgement, you should think that perhaps not every business is Australian, simply because it is located in Australia. I know you are only joking, but I believe behind every bit of sarcasm there is at least a bit of truth.

you know im australian right? the comment was made in jest in an effort to halt the "omg i cant believe your poor customer service" rants.

Despite whether the business is australian or not, the workers are - whether theyre white australians, native australians or imported australians - theyre still australians.

Umm, actually before you lay such a quick and poorly made judgement, you should think that perhaps not every business is Australian, simply because it is located in Australia. I know you are only joking, but I believe behind every bit of sarcasm there is at least a bit of truth.

you know im australian right? the comment was made in jest in an effort to halt the "omg i cant believe your poor customer service" rants.

Despite whether the business is australian or not, the workers are - whether theyre white australians, native australians or imported australians - theyre still australians.

I did not know you are Australian, not one bit, but for one, I was tired, and two.. Well.. what ever..

And also, a lot of the employees here are fresh off the boat, within the last couple of months, no citizenship, hardly any English, not a bit of sense in many of them. They're Chinese. Not being derogatory at all, I'm good friends with all of them, they love how I am pretty much a problem solver for anything that they need, but I'm not quite sure that just because they've arrived in Australia that they can yet be defined as Australian's.

[mattnz]

I dunno if I would call apple or nintendos hardware shit.

You're right, Apple's hardware isn't shit.

But to me, Apple and Nintendo operate the same way. They sell and market a short lived experience. A Novelty. (for me, this is how I feel when I use products from both companies).

Nintendo's hardware is basic and more than likely cheap as chips. I just feel resentment towards Nintendo and liken them to Apple because I harbour the same resentment.

Personal opinion only.

lolwut? Nintendo also makes software that is second-to-none, lets not forget.

[Retardobot]

I dunno if I would call apple or nintendos hardware shit.

You're right, Apple's hardware isn't shit.

But to me, Apple and Nintendo operate the same way. They sell and market a short lived experience. A Novelty. (for me, this is how I feel when I use products from both companies).

Nintendo's hardware is basic and more than likely cheap as chips. I just feel resentment towards Nintendo and liken them to Apple because I harbour the same resentment.

Personal opinion only.

lolwut? Nintendo also makes software that is second-to-none, lets not forget.

So does Apple, and I'm talking about neither of their software making capabilities.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

lolwut? Nintendo also makes software that is second-to-none, lets not forget.

What are you basing that on?


Nintendo has never appealed to me, but that's fine, everybody has their different likes.

Plus I always found Mario totally lame. Sonic is far more awesome.

[Obble]

lolwut? Nintendo also makes software that is second-to-none, lets not forget.

What are you basing that on?

pokemon games

[DeeUnit]

It's Nintendo, I grew up on that shit.


NES, SNES, N64 and the cube. Then came along the PS and xbox. I will never forget that alien game I played on my snes, or goldeneye 64/podracer.

[420fairy]

N64 goldeneye FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DeeUnit]

Use the bumper! That's what it's for!


I miss valentine.

[Growler]

N64 goldeneye FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck yeah, i was playing it a few weeks ago!!

Then i pulled out y gamecube and played some time splitters and mario kart!

FUCKING AWESOME!

[Speakman]

fuck yeah, holidays. 3 weeks, starting right now


first half of course done, dusted, and passed. easily. feels good, men

[mattnz]

lolwut? Nintendo also makes software that is second-to-none, lets not forget.

What are you basing that on?


Nintendo has never appealed to me, but that's fine, everybody has their different likes.

Plus I always found Mario totally lame. Sonic is far more awesome.

I would struggle to name a bad Nintendo game. Some may not be to my liking, but they are always well executed and technically well made.

I dunno if I would call apple or nintendos hardware shit.

You're right, Apple's hardware isn't shit.

But to me, Apple and Nintendo operate the same way. They sell and market a short lived experience. A Novelty. (for me, this is how I feel when I use products from both companies).

Nintendo's hardware is basic and more than likely cheap as chips. I just feel resentment towards Nintendo and liken them to Apple because I harbour the same resentment.

Personal opinion only.

lolwut? Nintendo also makes software that is second-to-none, lets not forget.

So does Apple, and I'm talking about neither of their software making capabilities.

And even comparing Apple and Nintendo on a hardware basis is unfair on Nintendo. Whereas Apple takes existing technology and wraps it up in a pretty package, Nintendo is consistently innovative, and continues to come up with technologies that become standard. It may be fair to compare them in dominance over their respective markets (this generation, anyway), but beyond that there's not much similarity.

(Talking about Steve Jobs' Apple, of course

[zolteg]

I just realised today that all most every technological gadget I own is about 5 years old!


Quick question, has anyone had a problem with there sky box? We have been getting the rainfade error constantly for the last month. Anyone experienced this before?

Yeah. Probably corrosion in your antenna/cabling. ring sky, get them to come out & sort it.

[Growler]

orrrrrrrrr

there could be a banana in your tailpipe

[Emrico1]

orrrrrr

there's somebody rapin errrrbody

[Speakman]

he's climbin in yo windows

[Growler]

I SAID!

MOTHER FUCKING BANANA IN YOUR MOTHER FUCKING TAILPIPE!

[Emrico1]

ok ok ok, if you insist