In the early 90's, I was tasked with looking at a 286 in a warehouse that wouldn't run for more than a few minutes before crashing angrily.

I turned it on, observed that the PSU fan was caked with dust and not spinning, unplugged the hard drive, and gave the PSU some brisk percussive maintenance. It belched a thick cloud of brown crud, and the fan worked again.

Reassembled, and it worked for years.

Crying baby monitor ? Really ? :|

Deaf people have babies, too.

Rooting isn't so bad on an S5, either: Downgrade the phone to a version that towelroot works on (using odin). Install towelroot, safestrap (in that order). Flash a rooted Lollipop ROM of your choosing using Safestrap.

Being able to understand and complete the rooting process for a given device is something that I do before I even consider buying it.

If they can deal with three different graphics engines, you'd think adding a fourth would be no big deal.

Think about digging a hole for a basement.
After you have done 3, the 4th is the same work. You only know ore about making breaks, drinking water etc.

How retarded is that?

Just because M$ is the market leader suddenly there is a DirectX for Macs? Never heard about that before.

And game vendors prefer DirectX over OpenGL?

One of the reasons I don't work in the game industry ... I would vomit before going to work, several times in between and several times after.

How anyone think she can program a game for DirectX and then port it to OpenGL instead of the other way around or simply only doing OpenGL is beyond me.

I think I may help shed some light on this. I am not sure how good it will be but I will try.

Some say that atheists do not believe in a god. Others say that atheists believe there is no god. In both it requires a belief, believing that there is no god. The verbiage just brings that aspect to the forefront. So, if one actively believes there is no god then that is a belief system ergo a religion by some definitions.

I offer no opinion other than the above. What you believe is entirely up to you as is how you opt to identify yourself.

Your post is mostly gibberish but to reply...

A company can restrict your ability to use their property as your platform for speech. The government can also do so, we call them "free speech zones."

You should also read my post. I make it quite clear that this is applicable to the United States and that other nations can and have different laws and that some include no right to free speech at all. This is not a complicated subject but your incorrect ranting is cute. What is also amusing is that someone actually noticed your capitalization and punctuation and thought you were saying something pertinent. They absolutely could not have read it before moderating it or, alternatively, they just are inept.

Investments are the money doing work. You do not invest in a company so that the company can just sit on the money. They take that money and spend it doing things like growing their business, hiring new people, buying supplies, investing in growth, creating new products, and other things. When you put money in a bank it does not just sit idle in a bank. That money is also invested, it is used to loan other people money, it pays salaries and works. Unless you are storing it in a shoe box, or a proverbial shoe box, it is working. Obviously you should have some in a shoe box so that you have access to it.

So, after you take someone else's money what are you going to do when that money is gone? If you stole all the money from the 1% you could run the federal government on that money alone for a grand total of a little over four days (using someone else's math but checking it indicated that it was the correct sum) and then they will have the same situation they were in before (and fewer investments in short or long-term growth) and, worse, because of all the money being exchanged and the wealth removed the deflated dollar will have even less buying power than it had before that.

YTMND! So, what is next? You have no more wealthy people but you do have a bunch of new people who collected those lowered-value dollars. Are you going to take it from them next? How many times are you going to do this? Are you going to drive the country into the ground as quickly as you can or are you going to make it slow and painful?

What was surprising and did not match the rest of my home-use experiences was that I get the same address every time. The one that remained turned off got the same IP address back after about a six week disconnect from the power that ran the router. That is what was different than my usual experiences. I typically would return home after a weeks vacation and find the IP address had changed when I powered the router back on. That was the expected behavior from what I had been conditioned to anticipate. Having it different, a static IP address, was a nice surprise.

I used to pay attention to my IP address because I would often connect from work to retrieve data that I did not bring with me. It was important that I use an IP-to-domain service that enabled me to just use a single URL to connect to my system and access my files. I would just update that information when my IP address changed and eventually found a freeware application that enabled me to just skip the manual updating. I think the service I used was dyndns and the freeware application is behind unwilling to power on neurons.

This is where I meant to post this response. Somehow I ended up posting it in a different thread. I can only assume that stupidity was involved. My own involvement is the reason that I suspect stupidity. With this reply, though, that has been taken care of.

Ignore my other post. The actual reply is threaded below the nonsensical reply. The nonsensical reply, while a nice enough post and all, does not belong here. My gibberish knows no bounds and my inability to comprehend even simple things is unlimited.

Those are not the words you are looking for.

Ignore that. I had several tabs open and I am functionally retarded.

What I meant to say, to you, was along the lines of; Yeah. I found it a bit odd that they were "seeing" things in the other person's post. It was remarkable how much insight they could gather from those limited sentences. Their ability to grasp a person's mental health status with so limited information should be lauded and investigated as they truly can change the psychiatric medical field. I suspect they will get a Nobel Prize and be featured on the cover of both Time and Rolling Stone magazines. Also, the ladies will be impressed so they will further their genetic profile far and wide.

What was surprising and did not match the rest of my home-use experiences was that I get the same address every time. The one that remained turned off got the same IP address back after about a six week disconnect from the power that ran the router. That is what was different than my usual experiences. I typically would return home after a weeks vacation and find the IP address had changed when I powered the router back on. That was the expected behavior from what I had been conditioned to anticipate. Having it different, a static IP address, was a nice surprise.

I used to pay attention to my IP address because I would often connect from work to retrieve data that I did not bring with me. It was important that I use an IP-to-domain service that enabled me to just use a single URL to connect to my system and access my files. I would just update that information when my IP address changed and eventually found a freeware application that enabled me to just skip the manual updating. I think the service I used was dyndns and the freeware application is behind unwilling to power on neurons.

Well yeah. It has been this way for as long as I can think of and further back than that. I was born so long ago that the Sun had a price tag on it still. It was illegal even then. The amusing part is that someone opted to down-mod my post when the replies have, I have not read all replies yet, paraphrased what I said or added information and clarification to it. I do not care about the moderation but I find it sad that someone was unable to understand it. I had thought my writing fairly clear.

Anyhow, yes. Speech has consequences and you do have a right to free speech or even a freedom of speech. The latter is superfluous and it is only constrained by physically removing that right. Even a gag order does not prevent free speech - it just means that there are consequences for violating it. A gag order removes one's right to speak on that particular subject as you seemingly know.

You absolutely do have that right. You have that right but are not free to say anything you want without repercussions. So, yes. That is what I said but with much more detail. There have, as far as I know, limits to our "free speech." I, for one, do not always like the speech but I would never dream of silencing someone. One of my concerns is that these things should already have been illegal (the variances determined by their people) and not require a new law because of "internet."

I like to put it this way: I am free to kill you, I am not at liberty to do so.

In case you're wondering, I know why you don't get invited to parties...