Posts by Sam Murphy

Does anyone here happen to be selling any DDR5 RAM that still comes with a valid warranty?

Does anyone happen to know where I can find the best deals on graphics cards right now?

I was just chatting with a gravel industry expert, and they dropped some pretty eye-opening numbers on me... apparently, we’re spending something like $250 million a year importing gravel from Mexico and Canada. It feels completely backwards when you consider they’re actively dredging it right out of the Mississippi, which is actually causing our side of the riverbank to erode away. So, in a weird way, we're essentially paying premium prices for gravel that's sitting right on our doorstep, all while the lack of proper sand and gravel management is contributing to these massive flooding issues...

When you look at Tranmere and see they haven't managed to find the back of the net in four straight matches, it really suggests there’s a fundamental issue with this squad... their offensive rhythm just isn't there, and honestly, they're facing an opponent that is clearly the superior side given how much better they look in the standings. Leverkusen seems like a far more reliable bet because the German teams are consistently high-scoring and play such an aggressive, goal-oriented style of football, so I definitely wouldn't touch that tennis line at 1.20 if I were you...

jadewolf16 said:Here are my "sure things" for tomorrow's slate...

Juventus is looking steady—Latina is at 1.15

Latina is fighting tooth and nail for that direct promotion to the top tier, whereas Juve checked out a while ago, and securing second place is pretty much a lock, so they might struggle to find motivation...

Everton vs. City, City at 1.15
Everton is feeling the sting of being weakened, especially after losing their Champions League push, while for City, this match is the absolute season-defining moment—if they pull this off, there's a 99% chance they take the title...

Tranmere vs. Bradford, Tranmere at 1.15
Tranmere hasn't found the back of the net in their last four outings, making this their absolute last gasp for survival, whereas Bradford just doesn't seem to have anything left to play for...

PSV vs. Breda, 1.15
It's the final round, and PSV absolutely has to secure their spot in the Europa League...

Dundee vs. Dumbarton, Dundee at 1.10
Dundee really needs these points to cement their promotion to the first division...

All-in @ 1.92

I'm mostly on board with your logic, but I have to wonder about that Tranmere pick... you're saying they haven't scored in their last four games, yet we're supposed to bet on them at 1.15? Surely there's a better pairing out there somewhere...🙄

If you ask me, I think Bayern Munich is going to pull this one off today... Real Madrid just hasn't looked right on the defensive end lately, especially after that rough 2-0 loss to a much weaker Borussia Dortmund following their 3-0 win at home, so I honestly think the Germans are going to absolutely tear them apart...

Man, you’re just totally out of touch with reality, and I’m pretty sure I’m channeling my inner Kareem Abdul-Jabbar when I say that...

Sweden beat France, and now the commentator is claiming if we play for a draw, the French are going to be celebrating on the dance floor... but wait, wouldn't they be dancing just as hard if we managed to beat Poland too?

- truck driver - and honestly, robots already do a better job (even as we speak!)

I haven't seen a single robot behind the wheel of a semi-truck yet, and frankly, the whole concept doesn't sit right with me... just imagine if its microchip suddenly glitches out while it's hauling freight on the highway...

David Price5 said:Yes!
http://www.space.com/21250-nasa-3d-f...ter-pizza.html
Plus, if this device actually works, we might even be able to manufacture our own printer filament right at home.

Personally, I’ve never been a fan of that whole printed food concept...😕

I wonder if we’ll eventually get to the point where we can just 3D print our food, or if we should all start grabbing our shovels and getting ready to work the soil ourselves, given everything that seems to be heading our way...

You basically just need a man and you print him out, but then what? What are people actually supposed to do with them, or is there some kind of organized disposal strategy in place similar to how things were handled during World War II...

What is going on with this forum lately? It feels like the posts just keep stretching on forever...

But what happens if someone truly has absolutely nothing to their name—no assets, no savings, nothing at all for the authorities to seize—and we're wondering what the next step in that process actually looks like?

nimbleharbor10 said:In any case, I find Orban's policies quite appealing because they actually incentivize small businesses by slapping higher taxes on bankers and massive corporations—which, let’s face it, are usually foreign-owned anyway. His approach seems designed to support people who actually live off their own hard work and helps foster more job creation.

Unfortunately, I can't picture Zoran taking any meaningful action against a major bank or a giant corporation just to benefit the little guy. Fools like me, who voted for the Democratic Party in the last election hoping they'd finally cut through the red tape, are the ones paying the price. As for the Democratic Party? Never again.

It's sad, but it's hard to imagine America shifting its focus toward small firms and entrepreneurship; it feels like everyone here is too eager to act as a lackey for some corporate overlord.

Look, I gave them my vote back in 2000 when they were making these exact same promises, and I was disappointed then too. They say "never again," but history is the best teacher, and most people just refuse to learn from it...

Someone actually mentioned that they might try to charge me for the repair if they determine the damage was caused by a lightning strike, which isn't ideal since the nearest service center or tech shop is such a trek away that shipping my motherboard back would probably end up costing as much as just buying a brand-new network card... It seems like the hardware hasn't actually fried since the lights are still on, but it’s more like it’s just completely frozen up; I already tried toggling the LAN settings in the BIOS to see if a quick disable and enable would kickstart things, but nothing happened...

I was wondering if there's any way to actually get this fixed... I happen to know a local handyman over in Chicago who doesn't charge an arm and a leg for his work.

So, a lightning strike hit out of nowhere the other day while I was away from home, and I didn't have a chance to unplug anything... and now everything is a mess. The ports on my modem—which they actually just replaced for me recently—are totally fried, and since the card keeps flashing green, I’m pretty sure the hardware itself is toast. My motherboard is still under warranty, so I'm torn between sending the whole unit in for service or just picking up a new network card to pop into the PC slot, but the catch is I only have one single slot available... and if I use it now, I won't have any room left if I need to upgrade something else down the road, so what would you guys suggest...

Benjamin King2 said:Honestly, pick whichever one you want, because the x64 version doesn't really make a difference here...

I keep running into these weird errors whenever I try to run the installer, almost like it’s telling me it isn't compatible with Windows 7 x64?

It was pointing to some issue with System 32\olepro 32 dll—could that be the culprit? Well, I think I found a workaround by just dropping the olepro.dll directly into the program's folder, and that seems to have done the trick...

I was really thinking about the situation involving that woman whose fifteen-year-old is constantly swearing and being disrespectful to everyone in sight, which makes me wonder what things are going to look like in just two or three years when they're fully grown... I also can't help but feel that it isn't healthy for parents to be bickering or throwing accusations at one another regarding discipline right in front of their children, though I know firsthand how incredibly difficult it is to get everyone on the same page...