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In regards to card swiping and chip cards, my current workplace has the new chip card readers yet we do not accept chip transactions. Which I find it so weird because the majority of our customers use chip cards and they had to turn away from us because we don't read chip cards. It kinda hurts us as a business, our company really needs to step up on that asap.
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Yeah, pretty much. We've had a lot of credit card security breaches here in Houston as well as the rate for identity theft is super high. So people these days are super reliant on secure purchases. It's either swipe or pay in cash, otherwise there's not much we can do until those chip readers can read those types of cards.
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In a lot of cases, the lack of support is down to the software retailers are using probably not being set up to be chip compatible yet.
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Sometimes I do wonder what happened that made the US take so long to switch to chip-based cards, really.
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Ugh thank god that technology is not that high here.
It would be very annoying for being worry about indentity theft problem. I would rather bring cash lol. |
Guess it is nice to want things... still have a lot of things here that I'd like to get rid of and a lot of things to want to get...
Can't have it all, I suppose. (Especially since I need to get a job before even thinking about all that.) Also, you get a lot of dust in a few months... |
Cash is great to have if you often conduct business with a retailer and/or establishment that has a credit card/debit card surcharge.
Also, it'll be two years now that I've owned my Toshiba laptop with no hardware problems to date! |
I would call ten years old computer to be old hahaha.
My family's first computer survive 10 years (1998 - 2008 ) Windows 98, Pentium Pro Dead due to hardisk failure. the rest of hardware were sold. Second Computer Pentium 4 2.1Ghz (2003 - 2010 ) Dead due to software problem, we sold it. Third Computer Pentium 4 3.0Ghz (2007 - 2010 ) We cannot stand the sound of fan and overheats often. Sold it Surviving Computer Intel Core i5 750 (2009 - now ) This is a mid tier gaming laptop at the time purchasing, GTS 250. But the card was dead so we replaced it with Radeon 6670 HD which is quite entry level for nowadays games. The good thing is this machine has oC feature so stressing the system isn't that hard. |
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I used to deal with this beeping as well, especially when I'm using my old PC at times (it was given to me at around 2004, I believe), to the point that when I heard a certain distinct sound, I know it spells trouble because my harddrive there and OS inside won't respond unless I reset the PC and shut it down, and trying to fix my harddrive's connection cables. Thankfully the problem is no more when I brought it to the PC experts for service several months ago, at least for now.
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Well in other news, Verizon moved their mail services from their own system to AOL Mail. I'm not really fond of the change (because why bother?), but at the same time, I'd rather keep my email address than being forced to stop using it.
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I ended up getting this big baby today at Micro Center. 8 GB RAM, Core i7, and the display is freaking huge. It was on sale too. |
I'm not sure I showed this laptop before on here...I was very close to getting it but I was told that the HDD was even SLOWER than the one I picked, and the RAM is not expandable, which sucked. I was gonna pay $100 more on a laptop that has zero opportunities of expansion. I only liked it for the cosmetic.
For the ASUS one I got, the RAM is expandable to 16 GB, which is also what I'm planning to do soon. |
Tell me about it...I have an HP printer that lasted less than a year. It's an ink waster and it likes to eat paper. 0/10 never buying one again.
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My parents bought an HP printer that literally lasted like two months. The guy at the store said that was pretty common and he'd seen a bunch of them die quickly. It's a shame - the HP we had before that lasted probably 8-10 years.
I had a Canon that lasted 3-4 years, but when that went up I bought an Epson and it's been great. Haven't had any paper jam issues, it sips ink (I've only changed it twice, and I've had the printer for probably 3 years or more), and it's wireless. It got me through a good chunk of grad school and it's still going strong. |
My HP printer/scanner from 2010 still works. It just needs more ink! :P
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My family's all-in-one HP from something like 2002 still works after all these years. We don't use it much, though.
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Have you tried poking around in your Windows 7 installation to see what broke somehow? (You probably should make an external copy of the recovery image if possible. Just in case the storage fails and/or you want to replace the system drive) Got my warranty replacement SSD just now. Probably will install it later as an Intel RST/SRT drive if possible... Hopefully I can't screw that up somehow. I'll be paving the OS out, though, with a fresh install. Want it to be as clean as it can be :) |
Well in unrelated news, I made my first eBay purchase this evening! :P
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I probably should brush up on my CSS skills lately. I probably can make my signature fancier... |
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