@serguey123 said:
Filed under: <FONT color=#698d73>It seems anketam is actually serious in wanting rants</FONT>You have no idea.
@serguey123 said:
Filed under: <FONT color=#698d73>It seems anketam is actually serious in wanting rants</FONT>You have no idea.
I just had a fridge horror moment thinking about using the black hole technology on the explosion. For the sake of argument lets say it magicly worked and sucked in the entire galaxy threatening explosion. That same black hole sent spock and friends back in time... so should it not have sent the explosion back in time too, thus creating a paradox of death and doom for the entire galaxy?
@serguey123 said:
@serguey123 said:You dont have to, but I would love to see 3 pages of posts of people ranting about it. Using artificial black hole technology to stop a super nova, seriously? That is like using a magnet to stop the shrapnel from an exploding grenade.@Cassidy said:I watched the film the other day and here are my impressions but first a disclaimerCatch the latest film, the reboot. I thought it pretty good.Sure I'll add it to my list but Star Trek has been a dissapointment so far
Disclaimer: I'm a sci fi fan but not a Star Trek fan so my opinion is biased but torn between my love for the genre and my indifference toward the series.
The good: Hmmm... I guess I can call it a satisfactory experience in absent minded kind of way with big explosions, gritty blue tinted scenes and lots of lens flare, also some good CGI and a big budget. So if you have nothing better to do and turn off your brain it can be tolerated.
However if you turn on your brain you might notice some stuff, for example:
They sent both Spock and Kirk to the same planet and within walking distance of each other... of all the planets in the fucking galaxy... seriously? Do all transporters have the same software provider? Do they have a default "SEND PRISIONER" setting coded by a lazy programmer with a hardcoded set of coordinates?
Scotty makes ship travel obsolete by creating the super transporter, so the crew of TNG in this universe are fucking hipsters... on second thought this explains so much.
The mediocre: The whole movie is another atempt by Hollywood to cash in like all recent superhero movies and Hasbro's toyline merchandise, the saddest thing is that it kind of worked as it generated the most revenue (even adjusting for inflation) of all the other Star Trek movies. The whole thing seems soulless.
The bad: Do I have to go there?
@serguey123 said:
@NickAragua said:And I thought Candy Land would be a more civilized place that would allow its citizens to be armed with full auto weapons.That really is a weakness. If I'm heading for the clock tower, I would bring some sort of bolt-action or single shot rifle. I'm looking at a situation where I'm shooting at long ranges with no real way to resupply, so I need to conserve ammo, and if I spray out all my ammo in the first couple of minutes, well, then, I'm just going to be an idiot on top of a clock tower with an empty gun. Real weakness: Poor planning skills.Amateur, assault rifles for the most part have a three setting fire selector:Single Shot: For picking isolated targets, like that smug manager or that stapler stealing bitch
Bursts: For tight groupings, like that team of incompetent devs that always makes you work twice as hard because of their retarded code.
Full Auto: For that last blast of glory when the tactical team goes in to take you down.
By the way, I'm not a weapon's conossier as they are illegal in my country (however it is mandatory that you know how to use it...wtf) so my terminology might not be correct.
@dhromed said:
@Lorne Kates said:dhromed nailed it. In C# 0/0 does not throw an exception :P@dhromed said:lol NaN0/0 FUNNYJesus fucking christ, doesn't anyone check for DIV BY ZERO errors anymore? Any you put it straight into production you fucking fuck fucker.
@dhromed said:
@oheso said:*whacks dhromed with bamboo stick* 間違った単語! 正しい単語: すごい@dhromed said:sugoiYes, sensei.Ugokanai! (whacks with bamboo stick)
@El_Heffe said:
@dhromed said:It was asking to be poked. It just stuck out from all other threads because of its insane size, much like a giant tumor.@blakeyrat said:This one? @RHuckster said:that threadWhich thread?SpectateSwamp's debate is probably the only one I've participated in that is more inane.
@dhromed said:
Do not worry, this card was banned from official game play.@blakeyrat said:
You lose 50 forumpoints.Speakerphone Dude (enchanted creature) 1/1
When Speakerphone Dude first enters play, place 500 tokens on him. With every attack, regardless of success, Speakerphone Dude loses 50 tokens. Upon defeat, Speakerphone Dude does not go to the graveyard, but to a random place in the top quarter of your deck, while retaining the remainder of the tokens. This process continues until all tokens have been depleted. It then goes to the graveyard.
While Speakerphone Dude is in play, all white, black and blue cards have their casting cost increased by 1 for each required color. This effect stacks for every Speakerphone Dude in play.
"I smash it every time, but it just keeps coming back!" – Blakharrat the Warrior
Not surprised, right now they are more focused on Office Communicator, which actually fills a need.
@blakeyrat said:
@lettucemode said:Well that serves as a lesson for being penny pinching greedy. You should only be greedy on the big things. Reminds me of those people who will spend 10+ hours to farm monsters to get a single uber item that will become worthless after a few hours of game progression.@dhromed said:Jeez. I hope he meant blues. Nobody picks up greys or whites. You do end up with tons of useless blues though.And what the hell am I supposed to do with these low-number junk drops I pick up? I can't salvage em. Can't even sell 'em because resale value is practically nothing!I just stopped picking up gray and white drops around level 12.Edit: then again I did meet a Skyrim player who complained that the inventory is too tiny (it's not, it's incredibly generous), and when I pressed him it turned out he picked up literally every item in the game that had a sell value-- even plates and forks. He must have had to go back to town like 4 times while raiding a single fort. So who knows what insane people do.
There is an xkcd about that...
But I love how the bee coming in from the left waves it front legs around right before the crash.
Oh the agony. You should add an addendum letter to the next guy saying pretty much the same thing, but in your own words.
@snoofle said:
@Anketam said:A little piece of my brain just BSOD.Are you getting paid for the extra 6 hours of over time each day?Yes - 14 hours of pay; 6 at time and a half; for 8 hours of work. For 4 months and counting.
You are not the first to be in that situation, and certaintly not the last. I have come close to being in those situations, but my managers have resolved it in a far more ethical way, which was don't charge idle time to a program if you are working on another program during that idle time. Obviously this does not work in your [snoofle's] case. Just for clarity sake... Are you getting paid for the extra 6 hours of over time each day?
Salamander pointed this out, but did not fully go into it so it appears to have been over looked, so here it is...
The whole point of the research was not whether someone knew what a=b meant, but if someone could form a possible logical meaning for it and then apply that same logic across a whole test worth of similar problems. So there was no 'right' answer for any given problem, but if they were consistent, inconsistent, or did not care when they tried to answer it. The writer of the original paper claimed that it was only those who could apply logical rules consistently could learn how to program. Which if you think about makes some sense, if you see a=b and think copy left assignment, and then later on the same test decide that b=a means copy right assignment then you probably should change your major. I personally think anyone -can- be taught basic programming logic, but that it is not likely a good idea for far too many reasons. Just imagine someone writing code and in their head the meaning of different logical operations is changing based off what they feel it should mean given the context, think about the quality of the code they are going to be creating and the likelihood that it will end up here.
@morbiuswilters said:
@dhromed said:Yet sci-fi geeks love to watch Big Bang TheorySame reason doctors don't watch House and lawyers don't watch legal dramas.@morbiuswilters said:
To me, Dexter is clearly murder porn for sociopaths.Ok so why did you stop watching? You're like, the perfect demographic.
@morbiuswilters said:
@dhromed said:I personally prefer dhromed's animated avatar where dhromed is stalking in the background of morbiuswilters' avatar.Yeah, but I don't look that closely at Avatars, especially ones that look so much like the default. Hell, the first few times you posted with your new avatar I had no idea it was you.@morbiuswilters said:
Dammit, now I won't be able to tell you apart.The one is way blurrier.
@morbiuswilters said:
@Cassidy said:What about me then? My avatar is an inanimate object.Perhaps I'm only registering snoof's over zelmak's solely based upon avatar.Probably. People with the plain avatar don't count as humans in my book. It's hard to empathize with them; I think in my soul I just assume they are some creation of CS.
Wow, this is impressive, instead of just letting it go you stomped it dead (unfortunately not the guy). That is shocking to say the least.
@nonpartisan said:
... But I would not say anything insulting to any of their family members because that's called "good taste." It's how you navigate a civilized society.I lolled at the fact you think we are a civilized society. I personally would not laugh at a memorial that depicts an evil person as good, but I would feel strong emotions against it, and I fully understand why people like morbiuswilters would be incline to act out against it.
My personal favorite voyager episodes were the ones featuring Q (and specially the one with Q jr).
@blakeyrat said:
@Anketam said:That is a recipe for success in any other episode. The lower their shields are, the more exploding panels, the more dead red (eh... yellow) shirts, the more likely they are able to pull out an impossible solution. In this case all they had to do was reverse the polarity of some piece of equipment on the ship (like the deflector dish) do some button smash on a console on the space station and they could have been sent back to the alpha quadrant in no time flat. It would have been less far fetched than some of the other crazy stuff they have done.I both loved and hated Voyager. During the first episode I wondered why they did not plant some timed demolitions use the device to get back and then let the timed boom do its thing.Because they were under attack by like 5 ships, they just lost half their crew and replaced them with a crew that was unfamiliar with the ship and how Starfleet operates, and the space station took hours to recharge. That was not a WTF. Edit: Oh, and the only reason the space station wasn't already kablooey is that one of the Kazon ships rammed it-- the Caretaker had already set the self-destruct before the Voyager crew left.What IS a WTF is that while Voyager had no choice but to blow the space station and run, dialog in later episodes makes it sound like they did. One of the huge sources of WTFs for Voyager is that the writers didn't watch their own show. Which is one of the reasons the quality is so spastic.
I both loved and hated Voyager. During the first episode I wondered why they did not plant some timed demolitions use the device to get back and then let the timed boom do its thing.
@nonpartisan said:
@PJH said:Creating a memorial for a person who had done evil does not make much sense to me in the first place. Memorials should only exist for victims and great people, aka people that should be remembered. Is it any wonder that people will treat a memorial for a murderer like trash?Coming late to this, and without knowledge of the purported crime ('cos I can't google it at the mo)... WTF?Troy Davis is a murderer who was executed in Georgia. Morbs finds it funny to troll Twitter and Facebook forums that are read by the family in their time of mourning. I find it disgusting, reprehensible, and immoral. He says the family insulted Troy Davis' victim. I say he has no idea what is going on in the minds of the family that would cause them to make such statements. Maybe they're assholes too. But maybe they're reacting to the pain of their beloved family member being executed and finding a scapegoat for their pain. Whatever the reason, Morbs has no direct involvement. As a moral human being, he'd leave the family alone. But he is not a moral human being.
@JoeCool said:
@blakeyrat said:Years ago when I spent time on IRC channels, whenever someone asked how to change a setting, someone (sometimes me) would say: "Just use the short cut Alt-F4 and it will come right up". It would be quite funny seeing 'the user has disconnect' message that would then appear. Bonus points if they fell for it twice in a row when they got back on.@hetas said:Ctrl-X-S Ctrl-X-CControl-S is. Alt-F4 is not.@blakeyrat said:
.... Any software that uses ":wq" as a shortcut to ANYTHING deserves nothing but scorn.So "CTRL-S, ALT-F4" is much better then?
Just because some Linux program is terrible doesn't mean the Windows shortcuts are good. Sometimes TWO things can be terrible, you know.
@morbiuswilters said:
@boomzilla said:I cannot express how much I love your post.@blakeyrat said:I disagree with both of you. Seeing as this is from the Federal government, I can only assume it started out as a plan to construct an airport in Bumfuck, Kansas named after a currently-serving Senator. By the time it had made it out of committee, 3,000 pages of amendments had been tacked on, mostly dealing with "fixes" to health care and miscellaneous corn subsidies. On the floor of the Senate, the Democrats argued that the airport/health clusterfuck/ConAgra payoff was necessary for the future of our country and brought out orphans with leukemia to strengthen that point. The Republicans retorted that spending $1 trillion on an airport in Kansas makes about as much sense as, well, spending $1 trillion on an airport in Kansas.The Real WTF is that the guy who developed this probably didn't even bother to search for a better solution before starting on Excel.I would even disagree with this. I still think it started off with some guy doing a few calculations for his own purposes, which eventually grew into this giant spreadsheet, to which they decided to add some UI stuff so they could release it to the public.
Instead they offered a proposal called the "Free Freedom Act For Strengthening the United States' Freedom" which was the same exact bill but with a modest price tag of $999 billion. The left screamed "Orphan killers!" The right screamed "Those orphans probably got leukemia by having premarital sex!" A confused, elderly Republican Senator wondered aloud why Negroes no longer tip their hats when you pass them on the sidewalk nor will they dance an enchanting jig for a nickel. Flabbergasted, members of both parties award him a "Lifetime Service Award" for his 97 years in the Senate; photos are taken and Dom Perignon is served.
Eventually the bill passes with a price tag of $999.9 billion. Both parties claim victory. The EPA immediately files a lawsuit demanding an environmental impact study because the Kansas airport is going to be built in a corn field, corn now being a Federally-protected endangered species after a generous donation to Senators of both parties from ConAgra. Worried that they will have to give the taxpayers back their $999.8 billion (after deducting Dom Perignon-related expenses), the money is reallocated into something else the EPA has been suing over: electric cars. $7 million is spent finding a suitable contractor to build the $20 thousand modeling software. The contractor's painful rickets from a corn-only diet have left him with no money to purchase tools, so he uses the only software available on his computer: Excel.
What would be even more impressive is getting a headhunter to try and head hunt themselves.
I think there is some kind of justice if you manage to get the head hunters to head hunt each other. For me only my linked in account gets head hunter spam, which never makes it into any of my real emails. However I still get random college related financial aid emails even though I have been out of college for over 4 years.
Based off of their logic every single program ever written in the same language is tied together. This journalist should get a slap to the back of the head.
@mott555 said:
@El_Heffe said:I recommend replacing part of the sidewalk with a 15 foot deep covered (but obvious) pit with a very muddy bottom.@dhromed said:Try a college campus sometime. It's honestly safer to walk in the grass and stay off the sidewalks because literally 70%+ of pedestrians are staring at their phone AND are wearing super-loud earbuds. So basically they are completely blind and deaf to the outside world and seem to navigate by muscle memory alone. They meander around the sidewalk in such a way as to make drunks who could fall over, pass out, and die of alcohol poisoning at any moment look like Olympic gold medalists. They'll bump into you or each other and not even notice. It's very dangerous to ride a bicycle because of them. Thankfully I've since graduated and navigating our office is much safer. If I had more time I could probably have quite a bit of fun putting obstacles on the sidewalks and watching them trip, of course while recording and uploading to YouTube.Having a cellphone doesn't mean suddenly everybody's going to call you and it's not magically going to clutter your life with all kinds of people. So far, today, I've sent and received 0 texts and made 0 phonecalls.I feel exactly the same way. However, you and I are apparently the only 2 people in the universe who operate that way and it's not surprising that people associate cell phones with "knowing about others all the time":
And it's not about "knowing about others all the time". Shit man, do you think I make extensive phonecalls just to talk to people about "stuff", for "fun"? What a quaint idea! I have things to do! So do the people I know! No, it's a strictly functional apparatus; not a social one.
- Went out to dinner. When we sat down at our table, the woman at the next table was talking on her phone. We ate dinner, sat around for a while and then left. We were there for about an hour and the woman at the next table never put down the phone. She was still on the phone as we left.
- If there are any people in the restaurant under the age of 20 they will spend at least 90% of their time staring at their phone.
- Visiting my wife's parents on Christmas. Her brother, who is 40, was also there and spent most of the evening staring at his phone.
- Went to the local mall. Groups of 3 or 4 teenage girls walking around, staring at their phones, almost never looking up or never even looking at their "friends" around them.
- As I'm driving into the parking lot of a store, there is a line of cars coming out. Every car, without exception, the driver is talking on a phone.
- Every time I go to a store, there is always at least one asshole in the checkout line who is on their phone and trying to do everything with one hand because the other hand is holding the phone for that phone call that is so fucking important it can't wait 2 minutes while they pay for their shit.
- I'm in a parking garage and a woman is trying to maneuver backwards into a very tight parking space, while talking on the phone.
The comments on the article are great.
It is things like this that lead to work place violence.
@LoztInSpace said:
<Long painful story>And this is why you should never change, upgrade, or downgrade your plan with a company when it is already working. Even though you could always stop paying them and go through extra stories of dealing with the debt collectors, which would probably be less painful.
@tchize said:
Once upon a day, i received a notice in my box. "your package is still waiting for you to pick it up", from a company i never heard of. Address was correct but the name on it was neither me nor the previous owner. I emailed them saying the address was probably wrong. They thanked me. Two week later, i receive the bill for the package (which i didn't pick up). I email them and told them next letters with wrong name from them will remain unopened. They apologized. One moth later, i received a reminder for the letter. I ignored it. Fast forward about 6 month. I have alread received - one letter from debt collection agency reminding me to pay + adminstration fee + late fee - three reminders from collection agency, with progressive threatening. - three more letter saying "this is your last chance before the court" and then, nothing more. No more news from the collection agency. What a shame, this was starting to get funny. I already imagined having to go to the court and say "I am sorry, Miss X won't come today, because there has never been a Miss X at given address" :)Heck, you could have even drawn out the drama further, if they did schedule a court case, by not showing up. After all you were not the one being sued, and then the police would have gotten involved and might have come to your place with a warrant for Miss X.
Right now I am in my own little hilarious drama. Note that I have been living at my current address for over 4 years now, and the previous tenant did not and still have not bothered to tell the state about the change in address (which in my state you are required to update this in 3 months of moving normally done by getting a new drivers license issued). It started out several years ago when Mrs previous tenant decided to speed past some speed cameras. When I got the first one in the mail I thought it was for me, until I saw the picture of the car speeding and realized it was not my car, and then I double checked the addresse and realized it was not for me. I kindly used the provided business return envelope to include a nice note with all the other stuff explaining that the person had not lived at the address in over a year (which should have raised red flags for them). I started to get follow up mail saying to pay the amount owed along with 2 more speeding tickets for the same individual (I again used the snail mail return envolope to send it all back with a nice note explaining the person no longer lived here). Several more months after that I get a piece of mail from a department of motor vehicles for the woman saying that her drivers license has been suspended, for unpaid tickets (Started shredding at this point since the goverment was not listening to me). Then there was over a year of silence nothing, so I though yey they must have tried a different form of communication and got the thing resolved. Then 3 months ago I all of a suddenly get a ton of spam mail from all kinds of defense lawyers for driving on a suspended license, (guess who it was for). 2 months ago I get a mail from the state judicial system for a resolution to the court case (did not bother opening just shredded, thinking it might finally be over). Last month I got a follow up piece of mail from the judicial system with a nice header on it indicating that she had not bothered to pay the court fines. I cant imagine how that could have happened, maybe if she had bothered to update her address she might have actually gotten the bill. So I am confident that she will be back in court. I wonder if the cops will come by with a warrant for her arrest, I think that will be funny. On a side note I just got a piece of mail for her husband Mr previous tenant for jury duty, I would laugh hard if his wife's case lands on the same day that he does not show up for jury duty.
I have learned never to get hyped up over a game just because its prequals were good. Just because a game follows in the series of good games does not increase its chances of being a good game, only its chances of being a more expensive game. There is also something about the third game in the series, if the first and second games both rock in your opinion, the third one will likely suck to you (and the bigger the gap between 2 & 3 the greater the potential suckness).
@Severity One said:
It's actually 265 HP.When I saw this instead of thinking horse power, I immediately thought of Health Points. I am such a nerd. >_<
@boomzilla said:
@Severity One said:Put it another way: what significant contribution have the USA made to world cuisine, other than fast food? And even the fast food comes from Europe: hamburgers, frankfurters and wieners are all named after German or Austrian cities; then there are French fries (also sometimes known as freedom fries) and pizza.I'd say that our biggest contribution was in figuring out how to make enough safe food to feed lots and lots of people. Fast food is a part of that, of course. I'd rather be stuck eating McDonalds and KFC for the rest of my life than the best European gourmet food while having to rely on shitty (organic!) farming and preservation practices. Of course, Europe leads the way in trying to keep the brown man hungry and malnourished (viz protests against GMOs).
The main reason why there's a lot of good food in America (talking recipes and menus now) is, of course, all of the immigrants who bring different ideas about food, which then get combined and spread around. It doesn't matter who invented some sort of food, but whether you can get it or not. Not that there aren't some uniquely awesome American dishes, like BBQ. I like caesar salads, too.
Most people over look some of the foods that America invented, one quick google search and I found this:
Two on the list that pwn pretty much any food that Europe invented: Philly Cheesesteak and Smores.
Eat that Europe!
@Severity One said:
Problem is that you cant be in all of those different places at the same time, yet you are taking a lot of regional issues that USA has combining them all together. I could easily take all the worse elements from the countries you list and come up with the same argument against Europe. USA not only has a large number of good things about it, it also at an overall level is much better than any country in Europe.[quote user="morbiuswilters] Given that the best-known American cook is Colonel Sanders and that his sous-chef is Ronald McDonald, that is somewhat of a risky statement to make.
The fact is that rubbish food in Europe is largely limited to the British Isles and, it pains me to say, the Netherlands - with the exception of the southern province of Limburg, where I happen to be from. Everything south of the Dutch-Belgian border has good food indeed.
I can't vouch for Scandinavia or eatern Europe, because I've never been there. I would imagine Scandinavia to be more or less on the same lines as Britain. (How many Swedish restaurants can you name? Outside Sweden?)
Germany is a bit of a special case. The food is generally simple, a bit like the people living there, but of good quality, like some of their products.
And another fact is that, whatever you have in northern America (let's pretend for a moment that Canada has anything interesting to offer) that's great and all that, somewhere in Europe you'll find something better.
Want to legally drive 100 mph or faster? Go to Germany.
Want to go 220 mph in a train? Go to Spain. (And yes, trains do make sense here, because of the shorter distances. Also, they take you to the city centre, not some airport in the middle of nowhere.)
Want a beautiful supercar? Go to Italy.
Want to legally buy drugs? Go to the Netherlands (whilst it lasts).
Want to see some original Greek, Roman, medieval or gothic architecture? Take your pick, there are gothic cathedrals all over the place.
Want to see subway stations that look like palaces? Go to Russia.
Want to be given an assault rifle by the government? Be Swiss. And male. And between ages 18 and 30.
Admittedly, if you like tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, excessive homicide rates or being eaten by sharks, you're better off in the USA.
@dhromed said:
@Severity One said:The only lie that matters is the cake.More like 6 minutes. I averaged 30 km/h through the centre of Amsterdam.That is a lie.
@blakeyrat said:
...Except of course when Steam got hacked and thus leaked everyone's credit card numbers. My card ended up getting some unauthorized charges on it shortly after that leak, and I had to get a new card issued. Ironicly I found a WTF (actually several) in my credit card company's process of after they issue a new card...The few things I have bought from GOG, I keep in my own personal backups. Because God knows when they'll shut down for real. I don't do that with Steam-- despite the software's bugginess and shittiness and general-unusability, I still trust them more with my data.
In my case my credit card and car issurance are done through the same company so they charge my deductible directly to the credit card. My new card meant I got a new number, and they did not automatically update the car insurance to use the new credit card (Note they have no problem updating it automatically when the card naturally expires). So skip ahead 60 days later I get a call from them saying they are about to drop my car insurance. I of course quickly rectified it, but I was curious as to how they did not send me a bill after 30 days stating oh BTW you have not paid us last month. Aparantly when I went with paperless billing they went all out paperless, even to the point of not telling me when something was wrong. Oh and they did not even bother to send me an email at all during all of this.
@blakeyrat said:
Do people have these posts queued up waiting to go the instant someone posts on a vaguely related topic?Could be worse, they could be posting vaguely related xkcd comics.If you have your own wtf, post it in your own damn thread. Don't hijack mine. Ass.
@MeesterTurner said:
Cool - It's only AU$44.70 to go from 1 Hammond Ave, Airport West to 10 Downing St, London - Even cheaper than a flight!But do you really want to be in one of their taxis for that long?
@El_Heffe said:
@Anketam said:DC area should shut down, but it is the fact they don't shut down which is why it is so horrible. The last major snow storm came through during the afternoon and everyone had gone to work like normal that morning and did not bother to leave work early, you can imagine the hilarity that ensued. I used to live in the southern part of Virginia where one time they closed the schools because of the threat of it snowing, we got 0 inches of any percipitation that day.But it is even more fun when it snows in the DC area.It's even more fun when it snows somewhere like Texas, where the tiniest bit of snow causes everything to shut down as if it's the worst natual disater ever. A musician friend from Ohio once told me about playing at a club somewhere in Texas, and it snowed that day, just a very small amount When the band went on stage the place was empty and there was exactly one person in the audience. And he was from Ohio.
@C-Octothorpe said:
@Anketam said:Nope, as long as you are sure not to properly package it, just like they did with the hard drive.In those cases I would recommend:FTFY
- Send the head of their pet/family member in a package without a return address.
What, too pushy?
He obviously was getting paid per line of code.
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
@blakeyrat said:Placebo effect and marketing can do wonders. How do you think Apple does so well?But none of them change the fact that Vista was a stable, usable, fast OS. Anybody who's actually tried it for longer than an hour could tell you that.A lot of Vista PCs really were slow when Vista first came out, be they shop-bought (and they could be truly awful), or my brother-in-law's £2000 custom-built PC.All the Vista computers that I've used in the last few years have run fine – even before SP2; I suspect all the problems got ironed relatively quickly, but at that point everyone had built up such a well of hatred towards it that it could never be good, ever. Vista evil! Must hate Vista!
It's amusing that Vista is seen as evil, and 7 as fabulous, when they really aren't all that different at all.
Here is a wonderful example of this from Clients from Hell:
@Clients from Hell said:
I accidentally sent my client two identical attachments.From: Client
We’re going with the top ad, please lighten the photo (same as the one below) and email only the top ad to ASAP.
I’m leaving to an offsite, I will follow-up this afternoon, thanks!
To: Client
From: Client’s Partner
Definitely the top one, slogan really stands out. Only concern is photo in bottom one is lighter and would be better in paper.
@EncoreSpod said:
I used to work at a computer place that used the cheapest UK courier service they could get at the time, lets call them "Shitty Stink". Occasionally we would do swapouts on items, perhaps because they were incorrect or faulty.In those cases I would recommend:Of course we specified to the customer the usual t&c of 'put it back in the original box', sometimes they didn't have a box, we'd just say make sure its well protected in a box and some bubble wrap.
Now of course its kinda the customer's fault if they didn't find packaging, if they didn't the courier would take one look at it and say "I can't take that its not even packaged!" or "Where am I supposed to affix the label?" or suchlike.
Unfortunately some drivers out there just didn't care, didn't know any better or just didn't want the hassle.
I experienced the complete opposite of the excessive packaging problem one day when I received back a 3.5 hard disk, with a courier label slapped on the top. Bare, unboxed, label covering the "do not cover this hole" hole and pretty obviously after its been thrown from basket to basket to van as it made its away across the island kicked to shit.
Of course it was in no fit state to RMA back to the manufacturer now, the customer didn't care as we'd sent it on swapout and he already had his new drive and on complaining to the courier all we got was "Well so what, it was broken anyway!"
@blakeyrat said:
@Lorne Kates said:Not to mention that there are no fat people in Skyrim.It's always a fun and exciting time to witness the exact moment a thread derails into a unwinnable social-driven flamewar.Did you know Skyrim is super-sexist?