OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[Larsky]

Here comes Larsky.

I find your obsession with me to be kind of creepy, DanO.

[Topweasel]

In Apple's defense - they have begun to actually lower their price points (selectively) to be more competitive. It's not across the board and I still counter that I can build bigger, better, faster, but it's a start.

Its just that now that the hardware is exactly the same, its always more pricey until you stat hitting that $2000 mark, and even then you lose features so they can have the style aspect covered. So now your paying more for either its version of style or the Mac OS X. If its OS X then people need to stop whining about how much windows costs.

[Drew]

Speaking of planetary stuff - this one's been around the intertubes quite a bit, but in case you haven't seen it, it's pretty fun stuff:

Link

I've seen that before and it is so hard to imagine the size of those red giants. It is said that each of those big-ass stars may have already gone supernova, but the light from them takes so long to get to us we wouldn't see it for many many years after. 36 years in the case of Arcturus, and 300 in the case of Betelgeuse. Try to digest that.

[SeattleLionsFan]

Peep this. The Hubble has seen galaxies billions of light years away. So it is seeing a billion years in the past. It's freaky to think of.

[Drew]

Unfathomable.

[DanO]

"I find your obsession with me to be kind of creepy, DanO."
--------------------No you don't you love it.

GO LIONS "09" !!!!!!!!!

[Sweatpants Murphy]

$10 LCD!

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8749287&type=product&id=1202649424157

Obviously a typo:

52" Samsung LCD for $9.99


Don't know how long they'll have this one up. I just ordered mine, everything went through I even have $10.66 from best buy under 'pending items' in my online bank account already. we'll see if they actually honor this price.

[-Deborah-]

That price means the extended warranty is also pretty cheap lol.

I'll be curious how that turns out.

[Malto Marko]

Heh, heh.

I ordered one also. I was not given an option to pick one up so delivered it came to $84.79.

[Sweatpants Murphy]

weird, mine said free delivery on August 17th.

[Larsky]

The Best Buy policy on such things.

Errors on Our Site
Prices and availability of products and services are subject to change without notice. Errors will be corrected where discovered, and Best Buy reserves the right to revoke any stated offer and to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions including after an order has been submitted and whether or not the order has been confirmed and your credit card charged. If your credit card has already been charged for the purchase and your order is cancelled, Best Buy will issue a credit to your credit card account in the amount of the charge. Individual bank policies will dictate when this amount is credited to your account. If you are not fully satisfied with your purchase, you may return it in accordance with Best Buy's Return Policy.

Good luck, guys.

[Sharkbait]

I just tried also and it said, no items in cart. :x

[Topweasel]

Almost got the order out but they were in middle of breaking it. I was able to get it into the cart eventually, I think they were actively deleting it out of peoples carts. Just before I finish they deleted it from the cart again. Now it looks like they killed the shipping table for this product so people can't put it in the cart anymore.

[-Deborah-]

I placed my order earlier ($110 delivery fee, $19.99 extended warranty) successfully. When I looked at my order status, it said PROCESSING. But now when I look at my order status it says NO ORDERS FOUND and there are no emails from them saying they cancelled the order. They should at least send a notice, sheesh.

[Panoptes]

They will notify you by email in short order.

I don't know about BB but I have had about a 75/25 success rate when getting in on pricing error items over the internet.

Good luck.