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Mark Parity20-Jan-16 21:26

Mark Parity

20-Jan-16 21:26

Music

U. G. Leander20-Jan-16 21:32

20-Jan-16 21:32

1B 1W

Mark Parity20-Jan-16 21:50

Mark Parity

20-Jan-16 21:50

strum

U. G. Leander20-Jan-16 21:57

20-Jan-16 21:57

Mark Parity20-Jan-16 22:09

Mark Parity

20-Jan-16 22:09

Mules - Don't ask I'm using a "brute force attack" method.

BTW how many guesses am I allowed? (Mastermind rules)

OriginalGriff20-Jan-16 22:25

OriginalGriff

20-Jan-16 22:25

Why are you using a BF&I^* method with three common letters, when you know only two are correct?
MUSIC 1B/1W
STRUM 0B/2W
MULES contains the 'M', 'U', and 'S' from the previous two.

^{* Brute Force & Ignorance}

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

U. G. Leander20-Jan-16 22:27

Re: WSO FOSW OTD 21. Jan. 2016 - 1st hint added

20-Jan-16 22:27

Chris Copeland20-Jan-16 22:30

Chris Copeland

20-Jan-16 22:30

I'll take a bite.. MINOR?

Re: WSO FOSW OTD 21. Jan. 2016 - 1st hint added

U. G. Leander20-Jan-16 22:36

Re: WSO FOSW OTD 21. Jan. 2016 - 1st hint added

20-Jan-16 22:36

Correct, well done. Your turn tomorrow Smile | :)

...I guess the clue was too easy, wasn't it?

Chris Copeland20-Jan-16 22:49

Chris Copeland

20-Jan-16 22:49

Awesome, I shall get the cogs working on one for tomorrow!

It sort of gave it away, but the 1B 1W from MUSIC was a tell too Poke tongue | ;-P

Leslie Nielsen still clinging on to remain dead

_Maxxx_20-Jan-16 20:30

_Maxxx_

20-Jan-16 20:30

Why is Leslie Nielsen STILL dead? - BBC News[^]

PooperPig - Coming Soon

Re: Leslie Nielsen still clinging on to remain dead

Sascha Lefèvre20-Jan-16 21:12

Sascha Lefèvre

20-Jan-16 21:12

This guy. Overacting, again.

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Re: Leslie Nielsen still clinging on to remain dead

Sander Rossel20-Jan-16 21:15

Sander Rossel

20-Jan-16 21:15

Leslie Nielsen died!? Omg that's such bad news! Cry | :((

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Re: Leslie Nielsen still clinging on to remain dead

CDP180220-Jan-16 21:53

CDP1802

20-Jan-16 21:53

Looks like Leslie will come back a few more times.

I wonder if this has something to do with it:

Big Fat Important Movie (2008) Played by Leslie Nielsen (as Osama Bin Nielsen)

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modified 21-Jan-16 4:00am.

TigerDirect -- No More Components

C-P-User-320-Jan-16 12:29

20-Jan-16 12:29

I just called, and the guy told me that they don't sell components any more.

This confused me, because I looked on their website and it appears that they do.

So I clicked on SSD Drives, and it looks like they don't sell those any more. (Just one refurb on the site, nothing new from anyone else.)

Did I miss the memo ?

Mike Hankey20-Jan-16 12:54

Mike Hankey

20-Jan-16 12:54

They've shut a lot of stores down in the last year. Not doing well I'd say!

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Forogar 20-Jan-16 13:26

Forogar

20-Jan-16 13:26

Good riddance to them. They ripped me off by sending me, and charging me for things I didn't, and wouldn't normally, order. When i objected their mantra was - "We show that you ordered these items - do you wish to return you order, there will be return shipping and a restocking fee".

- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

C-P-User-320-Jan-16 15:33

20-Jan-16 15:33

Here is how you can stop that before it happens...

CitiBank Has This[^] very nice trick. You give the online merchant a credit card number which you limit, both time and money.

If they try to hit you for more money than the number is worth, the transaction is denied.

A very few other banks also have this. I am surprised that it is not more popular.

Ron Anders20-Jan-16 15:27

Ron Anders

20-Jan-16 15:27

Turn out the lights, the parties' over.

Member 1008817120-Jan-16 17:54

Member 10088171

20-Jan-16 17:54

Look for rising prices.Less competition is never good.

C-P-User-321-Jan-16 5:47

21-Jan-16 5:47

Member 10088171 wrote:
Look for rising prices.Less competition...

Agreeing with that !

I wonder if ...

The market is just in its final phase
The market is not in its final phase, it's just downsizing now that computers are no longer so groovy
The unfair reality of economic recession chose this company to hit
The company is okay, but the owner(s) are lonely for the old days of mega profits
This is just one company's business decision (i.e., an anomaly, not a major market indicator)
Space aliens heisted the inventory
None of the above
All of the above

I wonder, wonder, wonder, if another company (quite likely, ex-employees) will form a Phoenix from the ashes. Then again, I'm thinking of my own actions with them. I did hundreds of dollars with them between 2000 and 2010, maybe in the thousands; but then far less in this decade.

And so...

Is this an anomaly ? Or a market indicator ?

i.e., Does America have enough paying customers for such a possible Phoenix to emerge ?

Does anyone have any on-the-ins perspectives from them or NewEgg or CDW or others in that market ?

Dan Neely21-Jan-16 3:44

Dan Neely

21-Jan-16 3:44

Are they shutting down entirely? Their listings for laptops/tablets are extremely sparse as well...

I'm not that surprised to see them going. Buying a bunch of stores from a failed boxmart chain was dumping money down the toilet. Online they suffered from being less searchable than Newegg and not having cheap/free expedited shipping like Amazon (prime).

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kmoorevs21-Jan-16 3:54

kmoorevs

21-Jan-16 3:54

I haven't bought from them in several years but they were my #1 hardware for a very long time. Too bad! Sigh | :sigh:

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C-P-User-321-Jan-16 6:04