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FlappyBoobs

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  1. Dongles have been around since before the Internet was a thing, well before wireless anything. We used to use LPT Dongles for software keys before Windows 3.1 even became popular.
  2. You believe what you want. But grey market licenses are against the licensing terms, making the license invalid. You likely will not be caught, but your key could one day stop working. It's not fear mongering it's the truth about how regional licensing works. If it was perfectly okay no one would buy at the expensive price. Anyone who believes cheap licences are legit is fooling themselves. Its not illegal because Microsoft don't make the law, but they do control what Keys are active and allowed to access online services. It's also a complete piss take against software developers. You are willing to shell out thousands for your hardware and games but won't purchase the OS to get the best out of it?
  3. Those licenses are not legal retail licenses. You may as well go unlicensed rather than waste your money on one that isn't a legal license for you. I don't get why people like you are willing to spend thousands on Games and Hardware, but wont spend $100 on the software that actually allows the Games to run. Stop being a cheap ass and buy real licenses.
  4. Try calling the citizens advice bureau, they can put you in touch with solicitors that will give free employment advice, and even help you fight wrongful dismissal. The short and curleys of it are that if she is a shift worker she will for certain be fired. She will have to sue for wrongful dismissal and only then will you find out if what the did was wrong. If your family needs the money now, then she should go to work.
  5. The extra 2gb is doing very little in your system. An almost 50% increase in frequency will be more noticeable (you probably won't notice much difference truth be told) . However if you don't have any current performance issues for you chosen applications then just leave it alone.
  6. XMP requires the same RAM speeds your MB is disabling one of the sticks when you enable it. Mine just doesn't show the option when I mix speeds.
  7. It's a much better windows experience in general. But if you never play above 60fps it only makes sense if you need a new screen anyway.
  8. Like I've said, you have bypassed Australian consumer law because you were not an Australian consumer. It simply doesn't apply because you did a grey import (also called parallel import). As you are now starting to get a little hostial I am done trying to explain it to you. Good luck with your law degree.
  9. But they are not. Asus US are not governed by Australian law, that's the bit you are not getting. It's a bit like asking Holden to warranty Opel cars that are imported, they had noting to do with the origional sale despite having the same parent company and using the same global platform. You didn't want to support your local market when originally purchasing your item, but you now want your local market to pay out of their own pocket to help you. Can you see what what you are asking for is a little choosey beggar?
  10. It doesn't matter either way, the cost of your card is not worth spending a single cent on legal costs. Really the only end result here is you suck it up and follow their rules or go buy a new card, those are your two only sensible options. Anything else doesn't make any economic sense.
  11. They are separate legal entities though, which is why you have the issue.
  12. Yes, but because you ordered from Amazon US and Asus US are the manufacturer you have to jump through their hoops to get support, and if their hoop involves having a US based address there is nothing Australian law can help you with as no Australian legal entity other than you was involved in the origional transaction. The only company the Australian legal system can possibly go after is Asus International via Asus AU, but because neither ASUS AU nor ASUS INT were involved in the origional transaction your courts will not issue an order for a company that has not been involved (this is why global companies are structured the way they are). Its a loop hole used by companies to stop grey imports. I don't like it, but legally they can do this. My advise to get your card working again is to try offering to pay shipping from the US to you and accept all responsibility for any additional fees and insurances (dangerous if you don't trust them). Because going the legal route will remove all good faith, which you need because the cost of the card is not worth spending any money on real legal advice. If you want to try and skirt the system in AU get a friend who hasn't called them (or you do it if you haven't given your details) to just do it as if the card was bought in Australia and you might get lucky and they'll just accept it and do a doorstep RMA (where you get the new card delivered and give the courier the old one). One more thing, ASUS AU have a team of experienced Australian consumer lawyers working for them, I guarantee you that they are not breaking the law on this one. If they get found guilty in your courts of breaking the law regarding this then I will send you a 1080ti myself.
  13. But in this case you did not buy through an Australian reseller or directly from ASUS. You imported it yourself, effectively becoming the importer/reseller for yourself meaning that you are responsible for the warranty claims for the people who purchased your goods i.e. You, so you are back to square one. If you think ASUS are breaking the law contact the correct ombudsman for the industry, but you won't get far with that, best bet is to just try the pre paid shipping route. International trade law (which I've dealt with for 25 years now) is extremely complicated and your 4 year law course won't have even scratched the surface of it. Talk to your trade law professor because he will be the best free advice you can get.
  14. Unfortunately Australian consumer law doesn't apply unless you ordered from an Australian based company/shop/webshop, because they can only cover things within their legal domain. (you would be covered if you used an Australian localised version of amazon and not the US one though, as the law is based on the company you ordered from, not where they chose to send the parts from) ASUS US won't ship outside the US due to costs, however try calling them back and saying that you will pre pay a return shipping label for them, ask to esculate to a manager that has the power to override their system and they may be okay with that.
  15. You need to wrap it in an <img> tag for the browser to interpret it as an image.
  16. You are now running into the second issue of ordering outside your country (the first being import and shipping fees). ASUS will honour the warranty you purchased with the card, which applies only in the US and Canada for cards purchased in the US. That's the risk you run when trying to save a little bit of money. Your lawyer will tell you the same but will charge you for telling you that. Sorry dude but the only way to do it is to send your card back to the US and follow the warranty process you purchased. Amazon may be able to help so its worth contacting them, but ASUS AU are correct that you have to go through ASUS US because they are the company that got your money. I know the reason why you are annoyed is because that means you have to pay to ship it (and that doing that means you would have spent more on it than purchasing it in your home country) but again, that's the risk you take when ordering outside your home market to save a buck or two initially.
  17. Considering there is an EU wide law on this sort of thing I don't see it getting very far when challenged in the EU courts. The specific text is "Hyperlinks to news articles, accompanied by “individual words or very short extracts”, can be shared freely" so Google has the higher court on its side, so this will be interesting.
  18. Not cheap but this is an 8" one https://www.beetronics.co.uk/8-inch-touchscreen The do a 15" for about £350. Other than that old POS terminals may have what you need.
  19. You should go back to the 90s, when overclocking meant moving jumpers around and no chip was locked.
  20. I don't know why you'd ever want to do that, but the price is not unreasonable at all, especially when paying Danish wages. A basic "website" app for android will cost you 25k DKK (just under 4k usd) and not really do much other than basic shopping cart and account management. Still though its a really silly idea, if you want to experience how bad it is download the remote desktop app (made by microsoft and free) and connect to your own Windows 10 pc. Volia Windows 10 running "on" your android phone. You can send me my 25k on mobilepay.
  21. Try using a display port cable instead. I never got my freesync monitor to work with gsync over HDMI but DP worked perfectly. (DP worked perfectly, title of your sex tape)
  22. Go to your local discount hardware store and buy a tap and die kit. You can then re-thread the screw holes properly and get some slightly wider screws (from the same hardware store) and it's job done.
  23. It depends who you are. I have $5 cheapo mice that are 15+ years old that work fine... But I also have my origional game boy headphones and they still work, so YMMV
  24. Do you actually have any problems? Or are you just wondering why it isn't using all 6GB?
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