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How obvious does a troll have to be.

Tony Soprano is having a moral dilemma about this car nonsense.

Well I know the word Alien and it is used to describe a human

which does not belong to a country or is from outer space...

So how many humans you have met from outer space?

Do you usually meet them on lower Sukhumvit?

That is why they are there to help Thai people in USA

Unfortunately for you and your wife that is not the main reason they are there. Better you realize that now as it will only help you when dealing with them.

1,000 baht is about right for a quality private taxi to take you to the airport. By quality I mean a new mid size - large comfy car with polite & safe driver who arrives early to make sure you get where you have to be on time. Not so bad since the same in NYC runs about double that.

How to Fix the US Economy with 40 million dollars:

Forget giving trillions of dollars to Wall St companies and banks...please

consider patriotic retirement, which will only cost 40 million dollars :

There's about 40 million people over 50 years old in the US work force.

- pay them $1 million apiece severance with these stipulations:

40 million people x $1M each = $40 trillion. Perhaps this was a Dubya idea?

Could work in most countries.

Doubtful

Thanks but I've already been there and the sites listed appear to be distributors or they don't carry much but a few low end items.

I'm looking for Sennheiser HD555's and was wondering if any of you audiophiles knew of the best place to shop for them, and possibly audition them and some others as well. Fortune is the ideal location if any of those shops carry them.

Also would appreciate any recommendations for closed headphones, in the same price range as the 555's, that are available in BKK.

The wife just came back from California Fitness today and said "It won't be long before they close down".

She went to Sukhumvit Soi 31 (which is closing down soon anyway) and saw "foreigners" talking with the management or owners. She said everyone there was talking about California Fitness being sold to foreigners. (not only the Soi 31 branch but the whole company).

Somehow she is always seems to be spot on with rumours.

If they do sell it, and the new owners don't honor current memberships at least for a year or 2, then good luck to them in getting any new customers.

I think you are all missing the point. It's not about what is illegal, it's about what is deemed to be against the rules on the TV forums.

There is no point in trying to understand why things are done a certain way as there is nothing to keep the admin/mods from bending the rules or flat out ignoring them whenever they decide to. It's his/their site, they can do what they want with it.

One wonders why this thread is left open, when a thread like this is closed..

Because it is not an illegal phone. Name, size, look, soft- and hardware are different from the iPhone.

I know if someone who was recently banned were still around, they'd say it was a conspiracy between Microsoft and TV, or at least a certain member of TV.

I am not that person and I believe there are no conspiracies at play here, simply selective enforcement of the rules.

You want a bus from CM to Suvarnabhumi? That's going to be one expensive taxi ride back. Better off having her fly there.

Does the interface work the same way as the real iphone? That was the most impressive thing to me about it.

I'll gladly take 8mbps for 50 baht more than I'm paying for 3mbps right now.

If it were up to me though, I'd be happier with my current 3mbps and a 2x bump in the upstream.

You can find the current promotion prices here

http://www.truecorp.co.th/eng/promotion/pr...uperhispeed.jsp

256Kb is still 590, but you can probably upgrade to the 1Mb for 599 plan using the SUPER package price.

Do you leave your television set on 'standby' all the time?

No

Would turning the button to 'Off' save me any serious money?

No, it's only using a few watts at most. It'll save you about 50 baht per year, if that.

Demonoid does not check or care about your ratio/uploads. Their system for measuring it is so borked it's far from accurate anyway. I honestly haven't seen much on there that isn't on TPB with more seeds/peers anyway. Other private trackers though are worth using and have hard to find content.

Well, after all that, it ended up being a bad motherboard. Yes, we eased the timings, raised the voltage, etc. They then swapped in some different/better memory in the MB and it was still misbehaving. When they eventually pulled out another P5Q Deluxe and tried my original RAM in it, low and behold, it worked.

Have to say I'm very glad to be in Bangkok and not back home ordering online in a situation like this. It would have taken quite a while to narrow it down to the MB with all the shipping back and forth to an online reseller who may or may not have useful and efficient RMA procedures and staff.

The P5Q does default to 5-5-5-15 for the RAM, so I've manually set it to 4-4-4-12 which is working fine. The tech there had bumped the voltage to 2.1 or 2.2 (the approved range is 1.8 - 2.3), but I knocked it back down to 1.9 and it's working just fine. Might even bump it down to 1.8 and see how it works, unless I decide to try some overclocking for a bit.

In the end I'm very satisfied with Jedi's support. The techs looking into the problem were nothing but friendly and professional.

Still feeling a bit sour about who I assume is the owner or boss based on the above posts. I'll definitely be avoiding her if I go back to Jedi again, and if she happens to chime in again about VAT or some other such nonsense I'd simply walk, for good.

I'm heading back to Pantip today, after buying a new system yesterday evening, to hopefully replace some memory that doesn't work in my motherboard. Similar thread was started recently about the same shop and branch of Jedi, the one with all women working there, but I thought I'd give them a try anyway since I've read mostly good things about Jedi (and I didn't realize yesterday that one shop is run by clueless women while the other is run by guys who appear to know their stuff).

After pointing out the ladies which motherboard, cpu, etc., I was interested in, they recommended some of the cheaper GEIL memory (cheaper being relative to Thailand since RAM appears to be much much cheaper in the states at this point). I asked the ladies "Are you sure 4 of these sticks will work in this motherboard? I need 8GB." Even had it translated for them by my Thai tagalong in order to be extremely certain that it wouldn't cause me headaches and hours of troubleshooting, and they said "sure, no problem." They then had the other jedi shop put the system together where I watched it boot and was satisfied that all the parts were in working order and appeared to work together.

Unfortunately upon getting it home it took hours of messing around with everything under the sun to get any OS installed, and even then it wasn't stable. I knew from experience that consistent OS installation problems likes these were 99% likely to be the RAM, so I was eventually able to get XP 64 installed with 2 sticks instead of 4. Decided it was time to run memtest, and with 4 sticks the system locked up almost immediately. Gave it a go with 2 sticks and they ran fine. Swapped with the other 2 sticks and they ran fine as well.

I decided to look up the qualified parts list for the P5Q Deluxe at the Asus site and saw my sticks weren't mentioned, though there was one with a similar part number, just 1 number off I think, that was only qualified for a single stick in the system (out of 4). I just laughed as the "yeah yeah, no problem, work fine" from the jedi sales women couldn't have been more off the mark.

Now I'm off to Pantip, computer in tow and armed with the list of qualified RAM to see what they'll do for me. I was a little peeved to be honest that they insisted I pay VAT, after the sales woman who was helping me for almost an hour gave me a final price for all of the components so I knew how much to get from the ATM. When I get back to pay, and mention I need a receipt in my companies name, all of a sudden that wasn't the final price and they insisted I pay VAT. I haggled them down a bit from what they wanted, but since every other store was closing I wasn't in much of a position to say no unless I felt like going back again today (which I'm doing anyway) and going to any of the other shops there that don't charge VAT, as none of them do unless they think they've got you by the balls, which jedi basically did at the time.

Until I conclude the follow-up visit in a little while, I'm still up in the air about if I would give them any repeat business. The guys who hang out at the corner shop seem to know what they are doing, and if I were to go back to Jedi for anything it would be straight to their shop. The women I ended up with at the other shop were clueless and caused me to waste time and another trip over there. They were also able to gouge me for a bit as it was late, the other shops were closing, and I was desperate not to go back to Pantip again today ( I paid most of the "VAT" they wanted and I'm going back anyway). Not surprisingly, non of the other shops I made purchases from yesterday charged me VAT, including IT City. In fact most gave me a discount off the advertised price when asked. If there was a comparable shop at Fortune I wouldn't even think twice about going to Pantip, but unfortunately there isn't anyplace that has such a variety of high end components that Jedi and some other shops at Pantip have.

I'll follow up when I get back. I'm 99% sure that they'll sort everything out for me, but I'm interested in seeing if they will (try to) charge me for more expensive RAM if it ends up that similar priced sticks won't work in the motherboard. I don't have a problem paying, but it's just the fact that they assured me it would work, and you'd think that after they've built x number of systems based on this motherboard they'd know which RAM would work and which wouldn't.

I'll post the components here as I've seen people discussing similar systems recently and it might help them avoid the issues I've had so far.

ASUS P5Q Deluxe

Intel Q9550

*** GEIL DDR2 800 4GB(kit of 2) 4-4-4-12 -- 4 sticks of this does not work with this MB.

Powercolor HD 4850 GDDR5

Thermaltake ToughPower 650W

Updating the BIOS from the 6 or 8 month old original version to the latest version from a few weeks ago improved stability with 4 sticks a bit, but not enough for this RAM.

How in the world could that happen with the big tree there supporting the wires?

Did you actually just happen to hijack somebody reading thaivisa forums, or is that your traffic?

A fuc_k-buddy, yes. So much is true. But you still have to shell out the baht..

Uh, no. That would make him/her a whore.

Not so , whores shag free , it's prosyis that have enough brain to charge .

Is prosyis some sort of medical condition?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whore

1: a woman who engages in sexual acts for money : prostitute ; also : a promiscuous or immoral woman

A fuc_k-buddy, yes. So much is true. But you still have to shell out the baht..

Uh, no. That would make him/her a whore.

Because the energy my lights use are the cause of global warming?

Global stupidity is more like it if they actually shut off street lamps in cities with automobile traffic.

I have to agree with Tariq, and his suggestion is free as well. VMware server and the Linux software/appliances are free, so have a go.

Gary, don't tell too many people about our little place up in the boonies, too many Farangs would screw it up.

Let them stay in Beautiful Bangkok. The pleasant driving conditions, the unhurried pace of life, the 35 baht big bottle of beer, the clean air, all these things pale into insignifigance compared to the permanent traffic jams pollution and high prices of Bangkok.

Let them stay there!

Must be heaven on earth.