There were man-made lakes, majestic fountains, bricked lanes, and a low speed limit enforced by speed bumps.
First, on a flight back from the East Coast, my travel laptop failed when its relatively new SSD bricked.
Villages that once sustained themselves have shrunk inside their bleached walls, their people ageing, half their doors and windows bricked up.
Visitors can also visit the production floor of the red-bricked Volkswagen factory led by English-speaking tour guides in headsets and brown blazers.
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And worst of all, the upgrade is not completed, so my phone has been bricked--it's stuck in emergency mode and won't start up.
The East German authorities initially bricked up the windows and doors of adjoining buildings, but later demolished such structures to clear the border area.
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Sabriel looked up from it and back along eth bricked drive that left the road and curved up to an imposing pair of wrought-iron gates.
The 7ft square room, which has no doors and a bricked-up window, was found when computer cabling was being installed at Byfleet Manor, in Mill Lane.
The Ottoman powers in Athens cared nothing for the ruins of Greek antiquity, and had already pillaged them for building stone or bricked them up for gun-placements.
The 3D world can be navigated using a joystick and offers an immersive experience of a landscape that historically had a river running through it until it was bricked up in the 19th Century.
There have been reports that the Blackberry outage there last week coincided with a 40% decrease in traffic accidents, with speculation that drivers were focused on the road rather than on their bricked phones.
Anyways, if you're one of those recent victims of the Fall 2006 firmware update for the Xbox 360 and had your console bricked, you might be glad to learn that Microsoft has extended its standard 90 day warranty to a full year, and the new warranty applies retroactively.
ENGADGET: Microsoft extends Xbox 360 warranty to one year, covering most "bricked" consoles
We're not exactly sure how this helps those who purchased an Xbox more than a year ago, just to have it bricked by the Fall update, and we're guessing that class action lawsuit isn't going anywhere, but at least it's a good step from Microsoft -- just a few weeks late.
ENGADGET: Microsoft extends Xbox 360 warranty to one year, covering most "bricked" consoles
Unfortunately for Microsoft, Kevin has a bit more traction with his lawsuit, given the fact that the update has bricked his own Xbox 360 (last time around it was unclear if the accuser had even encountered any of the problems listed in his suit), and that Microsoft is refusing to replace his console.
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