ForeverGeek » Error http://www.forevergeek.com Nerds are for Dorks Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:42:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 MovieClips.com snippets of film site launches beta, or should have http://www.forevergeek.com/2009/12/movieclipscom_snippets_of_film_site_launches_beta_or_should_have/ http://www.forevergeek.com/2009/12/movieclipscom_snippets_of_film_site_launches_beta_or_should_have/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:00:23 +0000 andy http://www.forevergeek.com/?p=14764 Has anyone heard of the film “409″? No? Me neither, but that’s all I get when I try to visit the new MovieClips.com beta that supposedly launched today.

I could understand if the site had generated so much hype that its servers had overloaded.

I’d be annoyed, but understanding, if it had told me that I was in the wrong territory to watch films from the six Hollywood studios that have authorised them.

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Getting a 409 error isn’t quite what I had in mind.

Did I cause the conflict?

Well, no matter. Perhaps it’ll be back up later, then I can search thousands of two-minute movie clips, rate and share them, and maybe even embed them on my own site.

Will it topple the might of YouTube, which now has its fair share of legitimate film clips? Possibly, if film buffs decide it’s a worthy destination and if the social networking aspects / links are up to scratch.

Take a look — MovieClips.com — and see if it works for you.

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It took Microsoft almost a year before it finally acknowledged the RROD error and announce that it is extending the warranty of the 360 to three years to address this particular problem. Unfortunately, that three year warranty is specifically just for the RROD error and not for any other errors that a 360 owner will experience that could be almost equally catastrophic. With, at one point, a failure rate of almost 68 percent, Microsoft was probably hoping that RROD errors were there only hurdle.

But with more and more owners now complaining of getting an E74 error, Microsoft has now again been forced to cover the said error for a free, three year warranty. The E74 error, strangely enough, is also RROD related.

Microsoft released a very optimistic statement that while a “majority” of Xbox 360 owners continue to have fun with their console a “very small percentage” of their customers have reported an error that “displays E74 on their screen. Again, an optimistic assessment because if it were just a very small percentage then why even decide to make a new free, three year warranty for the E74 error? A cursory visit at any Xbox 360 website will give anyone a fair idea of how equally prevalent this error is. I even personally know someone who got two successive E74 errors on two consoles he bought.

Hopefully, this is the last of the truly catastrophic errors that Xbox 360s will present its owners and that the new Jasper 360s have finally, finally fixed all of these hardware failures.

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