I did the express RMA where they bill you (a hold on credit cards, an actual transaction on debit cards), then send a replacement, then revert the charge once they receive the busted item.
They switched ticketing systems midstream, every note was lost, no action had been taken, dates were faked, etc. My ticket still says it's open even though they've confirmed that it's closed. They never actually billed me for the PSU. In fact, they temporarily issued a refund for the value of the PSU they never charged me for. My tickets is still "Processing" and I still double check my credit card statement every week to make sure they don't try to bill me.
My favorite is when the site throws an autoplaying video at you, you stop it, then you scroll down to read whatever you wanted to read, and the video resizes and moves to the bottom right corner, following you as you scroll down the page. And of course it'll start playing again when it feels like it.
Our version of Kronos time keeping + whatever, for one. It recently stopped working on FF completely. Only Chrome is supported, and only Chrome seems to work now (perhaps Opera would work). Firefox used to work once you got the site to believe you had the proper versions of flash/java installed.
But why should I have to mute each site individually? Why can't "no autoplay sound" be turned off globally? I never want any site to autoplay (either audio or video). There used to be plugins that disable autoplay, but apparently none of them work anymore because Google changed Chrome to intentionally break them, which seems... evil.
There are a few websites I use that only work in Chrome (because fuck testing in anything else, right modern web developers?), and I'm fuckign sick of having to mute them every time.
High end audio software ties into physical knobs and sliders and shit on your high end boards. You control the digital knob with an actual knob.
All other software apes the high end software, but most of it can't tie into actual hardware dealies and even the mid end packages that can often don't because the low end users don't have such hardware.
1. In the EU, you have to stop frequently. Minimum 45 minutes per 4 1/2 hours for commercial drivers. You can lose your license if you don't. So rapid charging stops aren't a slowdown at all.
You think regulations are going to be followed? LOL!
Necessities (eggs, milk, bread, etc.) at the very back of the store.
That's because these things spoil and need to by cycled more frequently by the people working in the back of the store. They're put on the back and edges of the store to minimize wasted time and blocked aisles, as well as to allow for work space, counters, and POS terminals for the bakery, the deli, the butcher, etc. It's a functional design. Legend has it you can look past the milk and see an employee stocking more!
You know, a country with money's a little like a mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it and danged if it knows how to use it.
Heh-heh, mule.
The name's Musk, Elon Musk. And I come before you good people tonight with an idea. Probably the greatest... Aw, it's not for you. It's more of a China idea.
Now, wait just a minute. We're twice as smart as the people of China. Just tell us your idea and we'll give you subsidies for it.
All right. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll show you my idea. I give you the Tesla Autopilotl!
I've sold autopilots to Plymouth, Oldsmobile, and Studebaker, and by gum, it put them on the map!
Well, sir, there's nothin' on earth like a genuine bona-fide electrified one-car autopilot! What'd I say?
If it doesn't autonomously pilot the vehicle, it's not autopilot and should not be called such.
And autopilot for planes is far, far, far more advanced, capable, robust, and reliable than the shit Elon is selling. The people using it are explicitly trained on what it can and can't do. People buying Teslas only get the marketing speak shoved in their face.
It's bullshit. Of course you download it. But you only download a tiny sliver, because the only thing this shit is ever used for is ads.
Ever play a F2P game and have an option to watch an ad for gems/gold/whatever? But the ad is an interactive mini demo of a game? That's all this is, and that's all it ever will be.
Can't even remember. I just knew it was a potential issue and decided to avoid the whole mess when I first got my PS3 by adding in a larger hard drive on day 1. As HAKdragon mentioned, it was up to developers to lock the saves or not. I believe when PS+ came about the issue was "resolved" because you could backup your saves to Sony's servers to get around the lock. Of course, that assumes you are paying the monthly subscription.
DJI copies the controllers and features that you can buy in kits and communities work on together, package it up nicely and get it to half work half of the time.
Their customer support is a joke, their SOP for all issues is to deny, deny, deny. If you experience the DJI uncontrolled take off bug or the sudden loss of control/power bugs, and your shit is broken, they will just blame you for not doing the voodoo ritual of their startup procedures correctly, even if you have video evidence that you did it all. Then they'll hem and haw and claim a firmware update is coming to fix rare occurrences.
They're the fucking worst. But they've got a low entry price for "serious" gear (as opposed to children's toys) and a complete package for novices. You're always better off buying a kit because you own the flight controller and can choose what to put on it. Assembly is trivial. The only hurdle is the software/firmware and the dilemma of choice.
What is the alternative? The DJI drones are a generation ahead of anything else on the market... and with an 85-90% market share, they have enough revenue to extend their lead.
Disclaimer: I have a DJI Mavic Pro. It is very nice.
DJI sucks. They're like a crappy Chinese GoPro knock off. You can buy kits from just about anywhere and get a much better copter for the same amount of money.
Yeah, that would be a perfectly reasonable comparison if every brand laptop manufacturer decided to hack the Windows kernel with a custom UI to make their laptop superior to others, and then couldn't be arsed to every do an update because they'd already sold it, so the work to backport the security was operating costs they don't want.
It's the manufacturers choice to do more than add apps on top of the vanilla OS.
It's the manufacturers problem.
No, it would be perfectly reasonable if the overall design of Android wasn't such a shitshow. A system library security update shouldn't break a skin, UI tweak, or build.prop tweak an OEM slapped in.
Android is an abortion of Java on a crippled runt of Linux running with shitty fucking Qualcomm firmware.
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I had the same issue with a PSU RMA.
I did the express RMA where they bill you (a hold on credit cards, an actual transaction on debit cards), then send a replacement, then revert the charge once they receive the busted item.
They switched ticketing systems midstream, every note was lost, no action had been taken, dates were faked, etc.
My ticket still says it's open even though they've confirmed that it's closed. They never actually billed me for the PSU. In fact, they temporarily issued a refund for the value of the PSU they never charged me for. My tickets is still "Processing" and I still double check my credit card statement every week to make sure they don't try to bill me.
"In the animal kingdom, all animals are nomads. None of them farm."
"Ants farm, and so do beavers."
Second AC wins.
It's never a good idea to make sweeping generalizations.
Never? That seems to be quite the sweeping generalization!
Previously, FF worked once you got it to report the versions Kronos expected, but that's no longer the case, even if you do have the proper versions.
My favorite is when the site throws an autoplaying video at you, you stop it, then you scroll down to read whatever you wanted to read, and the video resizes and moves to the bottom right corner, following you as you scroll down the page. And of course it'll start playing again when it feels like it.
Our version of Kronos time keeping + whatever, for one. It recently stopped working on FF completely. Only Chrome is supported, and only Chrome seems to work now (perhaps Opera would work). Firefox used to work once you got the site to believe you had the proper versions of flash/java installed.
But why should I have to mute each site individually? Why can't "no autoplay sound" be turned off globally? I never want any site to autoplay (either audio or video). There used to be plugins that disable autoplay, but apparently none of them work anymore because Google changed Chrome to intentionally break them, which seems ... evil.
Mute Chrome in your OS?
There are a few websites I use that only work in Chrome (because fuck testing in anything else, right modern web developers?), and I'm fuckign sick of having to mute them every time.
"When someone tells you who they are, believe them." - Maya Angelou
I am the Lindbergh baby.
Except you have to control them with a mouse.
No, you fools.
High end audio software ties into physical knobs and sliders and shit on your high end boards. You control the digital knob with an actual knob.
All other software apes the high end software, but most of it can't tie into actual hardware dealies and even the mid end packages that can often don't because the low end users don't have such hardware.
1. In the EU, you have to stop frequently. Minimum 45 minutes per 4 1/2 hours for commercial drivers. You can lose your license if you don't. So rapid charging stops aren't a slowdown at all.
You think regulations are going to be followed? LOL!
Look to the right of the headline. They made this change a while back. Yes, it's stupid.
Necessities (eggs, milk, bread, etc.) at the very back of the store.
That's because these things spoil and need to by cycled more frequently by the people working in the back of the store. They're put on the back and edges of the store to minimize wasted time and blocked aisles, as well as to allow for work space, counters, and POS terminals for the bakery, the deli, the butcher, etc. It's a functional design. Legend has it you can look past the milk and see an employee stocking more!
You know, a country with money's a little like a mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it and danged if it knows how to use it.
Heh-heh, mule.
The name's Musk, Elon Musk. And I come before you good people tonight with an idea. Probably the greatest... Aw, it's not for you. It's more of a China idea.
Now, wait just a minute. We're twice as smart as the people of China. Just tell us your idea and we'll give you subsidies for it.
All right. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll show you my idea. I give you the Tesla Autopilotl!
I've sold autopilots to Plymouth, Oldsmobile, and Studebaker, and by gum, it put them on the map!
Well, sir, there's nothin' on earth like a genuine bona-fide electrified one-car autopilot! What'd I say?
Autopilot!
What's it called?
Autopilot.
That's right! Autopilot!
Autopilot, autopilot, autopilot, autopilot, autopilot...
I hear those things are awfully new.
It's user tested, but not by you.
Is there a chance the car could crash?
It's not your life, so splash the cash.
First adopters must be brave...
They'll be given early graves.
Will this venture fund new green jobs?
No, good sir, I'm the new Steve Jobs.
We've killed off our whole space program.
Fund my SpaceX, my good man.
I swear, it's the country's only choice! Log in to PayPal and raise your voice!
Autopilot
What's it called?
Autopilot
AUTOPILOT!
But the economy's still all fucked and broken.
Subsidies, this man has stolen!
Autopilot
Autopilot
Autopilot!
Autopilot!!!
Auto...*CRASH*
Human's aren't that great in situation's for which they don't have experience either...
Like pluralizing thing's?
If it doesn't autonomously pilot the vehicle, it's not autopilot and should not be called such.
And autopilot for planes is far, far, far more advanced, capable, robust, and reliable than the shit Elon is selling. The people using it are explicitly trained on what it can and can't do. People buying Teslas only get the marketing speak shoved in their face.
It's bullshit. Of course you download it. But you only download a tiny sliver, because the only thing this shit is ever used for is ads.
Ever play a F2P game and have an option to watch an ad for gems/gold/whatever? But the ad is an interactive mini demo of a game? That's all this is, and that's all it ever will be.
Yup. 100% accurate. I'd add "do not want" to #5 as well.
A blockchain is just a list.
IBM is going to trace food contamination with a list.
Can't even remember. I just knew it was a potential issue and decided to avoid the whole mess when I first got my PS3 by adding in a larger hard drive on day 1.
As HAKdragon mentioned, it was up to developers to lock the saves or not. I believe when PS+ came about the issue was "resolved" because you could backup your saves to Sony's servers to get around the lock. Of course, that assumes you are paying the monthly subscription.
I'm referring to the GoPro camera knock offs. All the "me too" copycats in the "action cam" market that sprouted up after GoPro's success.
DJI copies the controllers and features that you can buy in kits and communities work on together, package it up nicely and get it to half work half of the time.
Their customer support is a joke, their SOP for all issues is to deny, deny, deny. If you experience the DJI uncontrolled take off bug or the sudden loss of control/power bugs, and your shit is broken, they will just blame you for not doing the voodoo ritual of their startup procedures correctly, even if you have video evidence that you did it all. Then they'll hem and haw and claim a firmware update is coming to fix rare occurrences.
They're the fucking worst. But they've got a low entry price for "serious" gear (as opposed to children's toys) and a complete package for novices. You're always better off buying a kit because you own the flight controller and can choose what to put on it. Assembly is trivial. The only hurdle is the software/firmware and the dilemma of choice.
What is the alternative? The DJI drones are a generation ahead of anything else on the market ... and with an 85-90% market share, they have enough revenue to extend their lead.
Disclaimer: I have a DJI Mavic Pro. It is very nice.
DJI sucks. They're like a crappy Chinese GoPro knock off. You can buy kits from just about anywhere and get a much better copter for the same amount of money.
Sony locks certain saves to the console too. Or at least they did in the PS3 days. Annoying.
Yeah, that would be a perfectly reasonable comparison if every brand laptop manufacturer decided to hack the Windows kernel with a custom UI to make their laptop superior to others, and then couldn't be arsed to every do an update because they'd already sold it, so the work to backport the security was operating costs they don't want.
It's the manufacturers choice to do more than add apps on top of the vanilla OS.
It's the manufacturers problem.
No, it would be perfectly reasonable if the overall design of Android wasn't such a shitshow. A system library security update shouldn't break a skin, UI tweak, or build.prop tweak an OEM slapped in.
Android is an abortion of Java on a crippled runt of Linux running with shitty fucking Qualcomm firmware.