As a matter of fact I do, but no bits or personal skill that I trusted enough to make the holes exactly where they needed to be without botching something, and if I went that route and screwed it up, I would have just been out $310 when Toys'R'Us told me to suck it since I'd just voided the warranty by attempting that little self repair.
Just this past week, for my kid's birthday, I bought him a swingset from Toys'R'Us, along with the 2 year protection plan, it turned out to be $310... Had to let it sit in the garage for a couple of days until he was gone for the weekend, then planned to put it together and have it waiting for him, feet cemented into the ground and all, by the time of his party on Saturday...
We had everything pulled out of the box, most of it un-bubblewrapped, and close to half of it put together, when we went to seat the last 2 legs... The U-bar on the end of one side was missing holes in one of its leg things, meaning we couldn't put the leg into it and bolt it down...
I called the local store up and they said we would have to box the whole thing back up, take it back to the store, and get a new one from them... I told them that was unacceptable because this thing was all over the place, half put together, and we'd be lucky to even get it all to fit back in the box... They apologized "for the inconvenience" but said that was their policy...
I called corporate and went from one CSR to her manager, who told me the same thing... When I asked why I couldn't just take in the bad part and have them swap it out with one from another box and then treat that box as the returned item, they said it was because they needed the original box's lot # so the manufacturer could track if that problem was present in any others from that lot... That makes sense of course, but when I asked if I could just take them the lot # from the original box along w/ the part, I was just told "well yeah you can.. but the manufacturer won't accept that" as if that's my problem...
I ended up boxing it all back up, taking it back, and getting my money back... Then I went over to Sam's Club and spent $420 on a trampoline for him instead... Also, I'll probably never shop at Toys'R'Us again, and am looking into trading away the Toys'R'Us gift cards he got for his birthday for some other company...
The tracking logic makes sense, and it wouldn't have been such a hassle on a smaller item, but for something the size of this, which had a footprint of about 15x7x7 ft, it was too much of a pain in the ass to expect me to jump through those hoops to get 1 piece of it replaced.
I know I'm a bit late in replying to this, but I'm getting caught up on my/. from the weekend:) Just because we interpret varying wavelengths of light as colors doesn't necessarily mean that magnetic fields would be interpreted this way also... It all depends on the sensory input processing the brain uses for that particular sense... While ours interpret light wavelengths as colors obviously, some animals don't interpret colors at all, although greyscale could be argued as color variations... However, leaving light out of it altogether, sound is really just varying wavelengths of energy being interpreted by an entirely different sensory input, and even touch could be argued the same, as all physical objects are just made up of energy operating at certain energy frequencies... For all we know, a magnetic field sensor in the brain could perceive the field as an audible tone that gets stronger as they line up with the field in one direction or another, or it could be something visible, if not in colors, then perhaps in some form of opaqueness, like lenses of varying thickness being overlayed on their regular field of vision depending on how they're facing in the magnetic field (doubtful, since birds are often cited as having good vision and this seems like it would jack that up a bit:D)... Who knows, maybe they can smell the magnetic field or maybe it just makes them tingle when they're pointing north or south, who knows:)
I was thinking the same thing, or if quantum hasn't been quite refined as a useful science yet, at the very least, nanocomputing should be advanced enough to the point that it can take the reigns from microcomputing... That's what we like to do in this industry anyway, just change out prefixes when the technology hits a certain milestone... If you think the nano-itx motherboards are small, wait until you see the super-mega-ultra-nano-itx in 10 years, all components will be on separate cards, not quite risers, because they'll be connected via fiberoptic links directly into the bus a few microns away from the tri-tri-core CPU, the AMD Zelda-core 64000+ processor... And thanks to the miracle of nanocomputing's molecular level manipulation, food replicators will be a USB device available from Newegg... However, thanks to the miracles of the evolving software industry to meet the ever-increasing needs of users, there won't be drivers available for the new food replicators on Linux, it takes Windows 2020 over an hour to produce 1 hardboiled egg that you could have made yourself in 5-10 minutes, because it's thrashing your solid state drive (because really people, 2 terabytes of RAM is OS's recommended *minimum*), and it tastes more like a peanut butter sandwich because you don't have the latest Microsoft version of the driver for Windows 2020, because of course it makes the hardware incompatible with Windows 2020... Mac users will complain that they've had their iReplicator for 6 months already and stood in line for 12 hours to get one, and Jobs is slashing the price in half in anticipation of the release of the 2nd generation iReplicator...
Raphael: Dude, did you know they had so many toppings? Their ads are way out of date...
Michaelangelo: And look what this chick can do with her legs!
Splinter: Are you all still using the internet? You need your rest or you will never defeat Shre--whoa, look what that young woman can do with her legs!
Donatello: *bad gangster impression* You dirty rat!
Am I correct in thinking that if she decides to settle without this coming to a conclusion in court, that nothing of any good would come out of this for anyone else that might choose to go on the offensive against the **AA? Can you use the verdict of a class action suit as a precedent for another class action suit, or is that kind of thing only reserved for other types of cases? If she did decide that she had a good chance of winning, and stuck it out to a verdict, and if it was decided in her favor, would that open the door for others to use that as precedence in their own class action suits against the **AA?
Ok, so I didn't read the grandparent post before posting that, but the concept would be the same... BackupPC allows you to set different configuration profiles for each individual machine (that just override bits and pieces of the global configuration file, just the lines you need to override like username/password), so you can just use the local administrator username/password for that machine and connect to the administrative share for C$ or D$ on that machine, instead of having to make an actual visible share on the network...
You don't have to explicitly share anything out... Use a windows administrative share... If it's for a business, chances are they've got an AD controller and you can use a domain admin account (or set the backuppc acct to be in the domain admin group) and connect straight to the root of the drive, then access whatever path you want on it...
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As a matter of fact I do, but no bits or personal skill that I trusted enough to make the holes exactly where they needed to be without botching something, and if I went that route and screwed it up, I would have just been out $310 when Toys'R'Us told me to suck it since I'd just voided the warranty by attempting that little self repair.
Just this past week, for my kid's birthday, I bought him a swingset from Toys'R'Us, along with the 2 year protection plan, it turned out to be $310... Had to let it sit in the garage for a couple of days until he was gone for the weekend, then planned to put it together and have it waiting for him, feet cemented into the ground and all, by the time of his party on Saturday...
We had everything pulled out of the box, most of it un-bubblewrapped, and close to half of it put together, when we went to seat the last 2 legs... The U-bar on the end of one side was missing holes in one of its leg things, meaning we couldn't put the leg into it and bolt it down...
I called the local store up and they said we would have to box the whole thing back up, take it back to the store, and get a new one from them... I told them that was unacceptable because this thing was all over the place, half put together, and we'd be lucky to even get it all to fit back in the box... They apologized "for the inconvenience" but said that was their policy...
I called corporate and went from one CSR to her manager, who told me the same thing... When I asked why I couldn't just take in the bad part and have them swap it out with one from another box and then treat that box as the returned item, they said it was because they needed the original box's lot # so the manufacturer could track if that problem was present in any others from that lot... That makes sense of course, but when I asked if I could just take them the lot # from the original box along w/ the part, I was just told "well yeah you can.. but the manufacturer won't accept that" as if that's my problem...
I ended up boxing it all back up, taking it back, and getting my money back... Then I went over to Sam's Club and spent $420 on a trampoline for him instead... Also, I'll probably never shop at Toys'R'Us again, and am looking into trading away the Toys'R'Us gift cards he got for his birthday for some other company...
The tracking logic makes sense, and it wouldn't have been such a hassle on a smaller item, but for something the size of this, which had a footprint of about 15x7x7 ft, it was too much of a pain in the ass to expect me to jump through those hoops to get 1 piece of it replaced.
I can... but then, I used to be a Sprint PCS customer...
I know I'm a bit late in replying to this, but I'm getting caught up on my /. from the weekend :) Just because we interpret varying wavelengths of light as colors doesn't necessarily mean that magnetic fields would be interpreted this way also... It all depends on the sensory input processing the brain uses for that particular sense... While ours interpret light wavelengths as colors obviously, some animals don't interpret colors at all, although greyscale could be argued as color variations... However, leaving light out of it altogether, sound is really just varying wavelengths of energy being interpreted by an entirely different sensory input, and even touch could be argued the same, as all physical objects are just made up of energy operating at certain energy frequencies... For all we know, a magnetic field sensor in the brain could perceive the field as an audible tone that gets stronger as they line up with the field in one direction or another, or it could be something visible, if not in colors, then perhaps in some form of opaqueness, like lenses of varying thickness being overlayed on their regular field of vision depending on how they're facing in the magnetic field (doubtful, since birds are often cited as having good vision and this seems like it would jack that up a bit :D)... Who knows, maybe they can smell the magnetic field or maybe it just makes them tingle when they're pointing north or south, who knows :)
I was thinking the same thing, or if quantum hasn't been quite refined as a useful science yet, at the very least, nanocomputing should be advanced enough to the point that it can take the reigns from microcomputing... That's what we like to do in this industry anyway, just change out prefixes when the technology hits a certain milestone... If you think the nano-itx motherboards are small, wait until you see the super-mega-ultra-nano-itx in 10 years, all components will be on separate cards, not quite risers, because they'll be connected via fiberoptic links directly into the bus a few microns away from the tri-tri-core CPU, the AMD Zelda-core 64000+ processor... And thanks to the miracle of nanocomputing's molecular level manipulation, food replicators will be a USB device available from Newegg... However, thanks to the miracles of the evolving software industry to meet the ever-increasing needs of users, there won't be drivers available for the new food replicators on Linux, it takes Windows 2020 over an hour to produce 1 hardboiled egg that you could have made yourself in 5-10 minutes, because it's thrashing your solid state drive (because really people, 2 terabytes of RAM is OS's recommended *minimum*), and it tastes more like a peanut butter sandwich because you don't have the latest Microsoft version of the driver for Windows 2020, because of course it makes the hardware incompatible with Windows 2020... Mac users will complain that they've had their iReplicator for 6 months already and stood in line for 12 hours to get one, and Jobs is slashing the price in half in anticipation of the release of the 2nd generation iReplicator...
Raphael: Dude, did you know they had so many toppings? Their ads are way out of date...
Michaelangelo: And look what this chick can do with her legs!
Splinter: Are you all still using the internet? You need your rest or you will never defeat Shre--whoa, look what that young woman can do with her legs!
Donatello: *bad gangster impression* You dirty rat!
Am I correct in thinking that if she decides to settle without this coming to a conclusion in court, that nothing of any good would come out of this for anyone else that might choose to go on the offensive against the **AA? Can you use the verdict of a class action suit as a precedent for another class action suit, or is that kind of thing only reserved for other types of cases? If she did decide that she had a good chance of winning, and stuck it out to a verdict, and if it was decided in her favor, would that open the door for others to use that as precedence in their own class action suits against the **AA?
Ok, so I didn't read the grandparent post before posting that, but the concept would be the same... BackupPC allows you to set different configuration profiles for each individual machine (that just override bits and pieces of the global configuration file, just the lines you need to override like username/password), so you can just use the local administrator username/password for that machine and connect to the administrative share for C$ or D$ on that machine, instead of having to make an actual visible share on the network...
You don't have to explicitly share anything out... Use a windows administrative share... If it's for a business, chances are they've got an AD controller and you can use a domain admin account (or set the backuppc acct to be in the domain admin group) and connect straight to the root of the drive, then access whatever path you want on it...