no kidding, left the window open last night actually woke up with a bit of a chill this morning.
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Toronto-Age |OT3| Going Off the Rails on a Gravy Train
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no kidding, left the window open last night actually woke up with a bit of a chill this morning.
AlphaTwo00
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A bit late. It's at a bank, your typical software stuff.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
AlphaTwo00
Member
Yes, no one will notice it if I just take the rounding errors into an account just like in office space.
Didn't Richard Pryor do that in a Superman? Or rather have it go to a separate pay cheque?
The Elite
BOSS
In Office Space they mention Superman III.
The power button on my iphone 4 is now stuck. Apparently it's a big problem and there's a pending class action lawsuit about it.
Anyways, I need to get it fixed. I'm using the gesture workaround currently but I want to get this repaired.
My question is if anyone has used irepair.ca to get their mac stuff serviced out of warranty? I'm reading yelp reviews and they all vary wildly from excellent to crap.
Anyways, I need to get it fixed. I'm using the gesture workaround currently but I want to get this repaired.
My question is if anyone has used irepair.ca to get their mac stuff serviced out of warranty? I'm reading yelp reviews and they all vary wildly from excellent to crap.
The Elite
BOSS
I had my iPhone 4 for three years and never experienced a stuck power button. Never heard of the issue until just now. Fascinating.
Yeah I never heard about it until I was researching how to fix it myself. Basically you need to do almost a complete tear down to access the part. A lot can go wrong along the way and since I would need to buy the part and all the screwdrivers and tools I figure I may as well get someone who's experienced working with iphones to work on it.
A link to the lawsuit is here is you're interested: http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...get-of-new-class-action-lawsuit-against-apple
A link to the lawsuit is here is you're interested: http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...get-of-new-class-action-lawsuit-against-apple
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
I expect SOMEONE will be buying us a round at the next meet up?
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Wait, I think you bought us a round last time anyways...now I can't remember since IT'S BEEN SO LONG!
dammit, kraftwerk!
Ah, okay. I've never seen Office Space.
You should remedy that. It dawned upon me once at work that my cube mates were named Peter, Mike and Samir. I shit you not. (This will only make sense once you've seen the movie)
When I came upon this realization and told them - it was when they told me the horrifying fact that none of them had ever seen Office Space.
Did they then see it?
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Sadly I am seeing this more and more these days. A must watch for anyone who's ever worked in an office.
Another hidden gem (IMO) that just about no one has seen by the same directory is Idiocracy.
you know what you have to do, right?
Then again, I think it's probably more popular in the States because Comedy Central over there would repeat that movie all the fucking time.
And really, Idiocracy probably hits too close to home to be properly appreciated by the masses.
I'm late on this one, but I really like The Monk's Table on Yonge just north of Summerhill http://www.themonkstable.com/
Kuro Madoushi
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Terrible movie. But terribly prophetic.
Zombie James
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Can you guys recommend any good health food stores? I'm on a health kick right now and my local supermarkets don't have anything I'm looking for like nutritional yeast, vital wheat gluten, organic tofu, egg replacer...
Got my iphone repaired at the irepair.ca branch near Greenwood and Danforth. Less than 50% off the apple store quote and finished within an hour for my broken power button.
There's a ton of bad reviews on Yelp but personally I had a great experience so I wanted to share that here.
There's a ton of bad reviews on Yelp but personally I had a great experience so I wanted to share that here.
Part of the reason I'm done with Apple when my contract is up on my iPhone 4. They charge a premium for all their products but there is almost no support, even when you have the stupid Apple warranty. Fuck them and their terrible business practices.
What happened to you? Apple's usually pretty good with their service. You get a one-year warranty, expandable to three years if you pay up.
I don't know about you,
My iPhone recently had an issue. I was told to do a reset to see if it fixes it, and come back if it doesn't. It didn't, I came back, they had my case on file, I got a new phone. Took about half an hour overall. That's with my Apple Care.
My Macbook Pro screen broke, and they took it in for repairs. A week later, brand new, working screen. Also thanks to Apple Care.
Years ago, I had to call them up to replace my iPod due to a smashed screen. They sent me a new one, I sent mine back. No Apple Care, no problem.
Not going to defend the premium prices (they are pretty fucking pricey), but they've done their job servicing my Apple products.
The Elite
BOSS
http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=1&threadid=109523
Love Urban Exploration. Wish I had the time (and balls) to do more of it.
Love Urban Exploration. Wish I had the time (and balls) to do more of it.
Same here.
One thing I'd love to do is look inside Maple Leaf Gardens before the renovation. There was a video of CTV going inside and looking around without having anything switched on or prepared for them to go through.
There's been a few people who were able to look inside the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium before it was torn down. Those pictures fascinate me.
Yeah, what? I've had literally zero bad experiences with Apple's customer service, and have hardly ever heard of any bad experiences short of them charging for an out-of-warranty repair (which the sometimes don't even charge for). My friend shattered her iPhone 4S by dropping it when it was out of warranty and they replaced it for free in 20 minutes despite the fact that it was user error and out of warranty.
Say what you want about their upfront prices but I've never encountered better customer service.
Macbook Pro related (although I am done with them in general). Stock 2011 MBP was running extremely hot. Hotter than most people had reported. It was bordering on being able to fry an egg on the underside. At that price point, I don't have patience for these types of issues. Apple Geniuses (read: Assholes) wouldn't do anything for me. Wouldn't take it apart to check for manufacturing defect or thermal paste issue, wouldn't investigate any OS issues, wouldn't exchange for a refurb. Nothing. Basically told me that it isn't a laptop, so not you use it on my lap (what the fuck, still doesn't solve the issue of the keyboard being hot?) and to maybe buy a plastic snap on protector for it. Apparently the temperature monitors are inaccurate as well (lmfao). They also told me how advanced the CPUs are and this is normal (sounds like a design flaw to me). I'm sorry, but the price vs. performance is lacking so I would expect everything else to be stellar, but it's not. To each his own I guess, but I won't be buying Apple's shitware again.
And this is my other issue with their support: there is no equality. You catch the wrong person at the Apple store and they aren't going to do fuck all for you.
Sorry to hear, and being the owner of a 2009 model, shit does get pretty fucking hot.
I guess they're waiting on actual damages or defects to manifest visibly before they replace it.
You could try giving their customer support a call and see what they say about the matter. You could probably ask about getting it replaced at the Apple Store with written confirmation to do so by customer support, since they wouldn't do it the first time.
Weren't there talks of a dedicated football stadium some time pre-Ford to potentially have the Bills relocate here? Either he knows something we don't on that matter, or he's banking on the Bills relocating soon. I don't think that's happening anytime soon.
this stadium hes proposing is way too small for the nfl. he says we won the grey cup so we should have a new stadium. lol.
it will only cost the city 200-300 million.
Oh shit. Totally missed the 35,000 seating part. :lol
In that case, there is a rumour that the Jays are considering replacing the field with real grass, converting the Rogers Centre into a permanent baseball stadium. There's issues that come along, of course.
Noticed some people talking about Schwartz's in the Canadian deals thread, and I guess I never thought to ask before, have you guys been to any good delis in the GTA? I'm a big fan in particular of Centre St. Deli and Moe Pancer's.
Shopsy's and Wolfie's are pretty great as well.
Shopsy's and Wolfie's are pretty great as well.
I'm long past my iphone 4 warranty. I've had no issues with apple while under their warranty. This is just an anecdote but Apple fixed my 2 year out of warranty plastic case macbook crack for free because of a known defect with their cases. I do agree it's hit or miss with Apple because they gave me the run around with my broken ipod touch.
I'm invested in their app/music ecosystem so they're going to be my next phone.
I'm just glad there's alternatives to official apple store service.
Oh man I'd kill Kuro for a sandwich from Schwartz's right now.
yep. caplansky's would also do.
AlphaTwo00
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never bough a round, but I did promise I will buy one next time we meet, whenever the hell that is.
Only been there once, so no I decided to just wait in line.
I've definitely heard from people that the other place is also excellent, so might try that next time I'm in Montreal.
On the way home today I was flipping through the stations when I remembered that the new indie station was supposed to start soon so I tuned into 88.1. When I did so I caught the end of a song that I thought was a strange choice for an indie station and what was even weirder was that they played the same song again. I couldn't help but listen to it to see if it would happen again. After the song ended they said something about getting ready to launch the station in 6 days and then announced something along the lines of "here's another hit" and then they played the same song again. 88.1 fucking
me and everyone else. :lol
July 31st at noon they finally launch.
http://countdown.indie88.com/
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July 31st at noon they finally launch.
http://countdown.indie88.com/
AlphaTwo00
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Well, I have a counter to it, somewhat. Stock 2011 (early 2011) 13" MBP, which I was using for Xcode dev. Fan often goes nuts whenever I'm compiling, and I've always written it off as a CPU max issue (and it is, Xcode will eat up all the threads and 4GBs of RAM if you let it). The fan is loud, but since I don't put it on my lap, not a big issue. (I've heard that it's pretty much the major, and only defect with that gen of MBPs).
Within the first year, when upgrading to Lion, the HDD completely crapped out. Took it to the store, no questions asked, gave me a new drive, and recovered the existing drive. Didn't even have to pay for apple support (covered within the first year).
Are they pricy for what the guts are? Yeah, but then you gotta ask when you're getting a Mac in the first place. I didn't have much of a choice given the need to build and deploy on a mac.
Oh god, Xcode development on that? You deserve a medal of some sort.
But a loud fan and maxing a system that cost that much is acceptable to you? I know some people are fine with it, but I guess I was naive to think that things like that wouldn't be an issue at that price point. Seems like you are paying a lot for a limited OS and a fancy looking
AlphaTwo00
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In early 2011, this was pretty much my best bet at a budget system that can do xcode. It holds up well to this day (although RAM does hurt).
For power users, I rarely recommend a mac because they'll usually find things awkward and annoying moving from Windows and such, and of course, that price point. But I can see a specific subset of people that I wholly recommend to. It's no different than the iPhone/Android debate: some people would be much better off with a close and limited system that automate and simplifies things for them.
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