Yeah, that's the article I pulled my quotes from. That article says that it's mainly launch units that fail, for a variety of reasons, and that the new ones fail far, far less. Did you read it? I agree that they fail more often than they should, but it's now below 10% (according to that article). And in my experience they have been fantastic about replacing them.
Galileo
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I totally cross Xbox 360 off my want list.
by 5go inmy cousin has one and loves it.
though i don't see why he has had in the shop more than he has played it.
it sent it in threee time for one issue.
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Which is worse, Adam's sin, or God's reaction to his sin?
by Dirty Rat inwhen you look at all the pain and suffering in this world, and then wonder why god decided that mankind should pay for one man's sin, with interest on top of that, it's revolting.. no way can the added pain and suffering of billions of people equal the fault that adam did.. .
ps: this is jh .
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Galileo
Yes I totally agree. I think it's crazy how the JW's (and probably some other religions) spin the fact that God let them live long enough to bear children as a loving provision. Say what? Why not just kill them the day that they ate from it, like he said he was going to, then start over. Problem solved! No, his solution is much more loving: six thousand years of disease, slavery, rape, murder, torture, starvation, etc. etc...all to people that did nothing to deserve it but be born "imperfect".
Add to that that at the time Adam and Eve sinned, they were 100% of the humans created directly by God. 100% of his "perfect" creation showed a major design flaw! Sounds more like an indictment against God than humans. After all, if a potter makes a flawed pot, is it the pot's fault or the one that made it?
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Scans needed, Aid to Bible Understanding (not 1971)
by Fatfreek ini have the original release of the aid to bible understanding book (english), copyright, 1971 (inside front cover).
only if there is a later copyright date cited in your aid book will i need your help.
i wish to make a word for word comparison of certain articles that were found in the aid book, then transcribed into its predecessor -- the insight on the scriptures.. .
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Galileo
It's the 1971 version.
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Witty replies needed......
by loosie inok one of the only two peopel who don't know i haven't gone to meetings in 3 years sent me this remark: , i can't believe how all this time has gone by.
the one good thing about getting older like this is that it brings us that much closer to the new system.
i need a witty reply.
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Galileo
Just agree: "Yes, it's been right around the corner for one hundred thirty years. It can't be much longer."
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I totally cross Xbox 360 off my want list.
by 5go inmy cousin has one and loves it.
though i don't see why he has had in the shop more than he has played it.
it sent it in threee time for one issue.
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Galileo
The falcon chips are suffering the same failure rats not surprising seeing as that wasn't the reported problem the soldering was the problem.
Where did you get that the current chips have the same failure rate? I read that article you linked to back in January when it came out. Nowhere does it say that. On the contrary, the article xbox360fanboy is quoting says:
It's around 30%, and all will probably fail early. This quarter they are expecting 1 M failures, most of those Xenons.
Xenons meaning launch units. It goes on to say:
Q: How much more reliable are the current generation of Xbox 360 than the previous designs? Original Xenon, Zypher and Falcon.I've heard that the failure rates for the current design is sub 10%. Much much better, but still too high imoh. And those designs haven't seen much life yet, so no one knows if that failure rate will hold.
Q: Let's go over some of the rumored reasons RROD. Could you tell how close each theory is?
Over heating CPU/GPU due to the lead free solder?
They don't overheat due to PB Free. They over heat due to too much power dissipated in too small of an area, w/o a sufficient thermal management design to take the heat away from the junction of the transistors on the chips, the packages themselves, and the mobo. And the over heating is on the GPU. When the CPU heatsink is applied right, it does not over heat.The main design flaw was the excessive heat on the GPU warping the mother board around it. This would stress the solder joints on the GPU and any bad joints would then fail in early life.
Since the old hot GPU has now been replaced with a cooler running GPU, it would follow that the failure rate would be significantly less, which by all accounts has been proved true. Bad soldering is even easier to fix than redesigning the GPU and heatsink, both of which they did, as well as changing the thermal glue.
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I totally cross Xbox 360 off my want list.
by 5go inmy cousin has one and loves it.
though i don't see why he has had in the shop more than he has played it.
it sent it in threee time for one issue.
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Galileo
Warning MS just changed the RRoD with the last firmware update to two reds two greens and will not honor the RRoD warranty if you get the new RRoD. Some tech guys noticed the change recently. The old RRoD still happens but it is for only one problem not a general failure any more.
There have always been multiple light patterns. They are codes that tell the techs what the error is. Mine had the three red rings since the last firmware update. As for your cousin's anecdote about multiple failures, it seems he has had some unusual bad luck. I game with about nine different Xbox 360 owners. Between us, three have had the RRoD, which is directly in keeping with MS' numbers. Of those, all were prior to the new 65nm chips and new heatsinks. Of the three of us that had failures, none have had any issues with our replacements. Of my friends that have the new 65nm chips, not one has failed.
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I hate being alone ...
by easyreader1970 inmany times i read the life stories of former jws.
some of these jws are or have been married.
sometimes their spouses share their doubt about the religion and at times they leave the "truth" together or months or years apart.
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I understand completely. I spend a great deal of time alone since I lost my wife to the cult. Sometimes it's actually quite nice, but other times it can be very depressing. Try and find some new interests, you can change your situation. Personally, when I get down, I like to exercise the freedom I didn't have as a JW. Usually that takes the form of watching a movie that would have been unacceptable to them. One of my favorites is "Lucky Number Slevin." It's packed full of gratuitous sex and violence. I find that very cathardic.
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I totally cross Xbox 360 off my want list.
by 5go inmy cousin has one and loves it.
though i don't see why he has had in the shop more than he has played it.
it sent it in threee time for one issue.
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Galileo
The newer ones don't have anywhere near the failure rate, however, they do still fail. Mine has red ringed once. No big deal, though, They send you a box, postage paid, you mail it off and they send you a repaired one. Mine was a year old before it red ringed. I sent it off on a Monday and I got it back that Friday.
I have both a 360 and a PS3. The PS3 is a much better piece of hardware, it is whisper quiet and built like a nice piece of high end home theater equipment. That being said, the only thing I use it for is watching Blu-Ray movies.
The best game, as far as fun and playability on either console, is Halo 3. There is nothing like the experience of Halo 3 multiplayer with your friends. I just picked up GTA IV on the 360 (I would've gotten it on PS3 but all my friends have 360s and to me gaming is very much a social activity). It's fun, but I can tell you that in a month or two I will put it away and go back to playing Halo 3 virtually every day. Halo 3 alone is worth buying a 360 and putting up with the occasional (as in once every three years or so, now that they've somewhat fixed the problem) trip to the shop.
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Why does an atheist have to disprove anything?
by digderidoo ini have noticed alot of debate in posts lately between an atheist argument and a christian one.
it seems to me that the atheist is asked to disprove god's existence.
some times these debates have started to get personal with one side attacking the other with insults and i do not want to start another argument like these.. but i dont get it?
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Galileo
You seem to imply that Hitler's Catholicism is what led him to the evil he did. So he killed all those people and started a war because of Christianity?
Once again Burn, your knee is jerking a little too quickly. I left Hitler out of my original list because I don't believe he was motivated by religion. My remark about Hitler was in response to realone implying he was an atheist:
um did you forget about Hitler? all that were killed here out number what you speak of
I was merely pointing out that Hitler was not an atheist. Nothing more.
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Why does an atheist have to disprove anything?
by digderidoo ini have noticed alot of debate in posts lately between an atheist argument and a christian one.
it seems to me that the atheist is asked to disprove god's existence.
some times these debates have started to get personal with one side attacking the other with insults and i do not want to start another argument like these.. but i dont get it?
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Galileo
Religious belief is not synonymous with good behavior, but neither is the absence of belief. Granted the history of religious people is a history fraught with failures but you can write the history of anything as a story of injustice. First you decide what you hate, and then you gather evidence for its hatefulness. Since metaphorically speaking man is a fallen creature there is always much nastiness to be found.
I actually agree with your point, but I wasn't arguing that religion must equal evil behavior, or that atheism equals the absence of such. The point I was responding to was:
you are kidding. if it wasnt for believers this earth would be in anarchy
My point was actually virtually the same as yours. Believers have not created a world without anarchy, quite the contrary. Unlike the Hitler arguement, all the examples I gave were evils perpetrated by believers because of their beliefs. I believe Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg made too broad a statement when he said: "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." However, there is certainly a lot of truth in that statement. Personally I believe the world would be much less anarchic if everyone on earth replaced their religion with rational thinking.