Oh but their tech support reps were guru's. Of course they had to be to deal with the many problems a Packard Hell could have.
My fav that I had to try to trouble-shoot, while working tech support at AOL, is still the combo sound card and modem that had a conflict with itself.
oooh, i had that one. when it played a sound the modem would intermittently hang up. great fun when you're trying to stream audio over a sub-56k dialup connection.
never managed to sort it out.
Now the ecozealots will decry our spoiling of the natural martial environment, and will protest any attempt at colonization or terraformation as the destruction of a precious natural world.
have a read of kim stanley robinson's mars trilogy. that's *exactly* what happens.
I saw a show on Discovery where anti-whaling activists did exactly this. They basically had a cannon that shot buckets of butryic acid onto the deck of the whaling ship. Butyric acid smells almost exactly like vomit, and the smell sticks:)
"Office 2007's biggest competitor is Office 2003." - this will hold true for any piece of software that has the market sewn up to the extent that office has.
including directly with one of the companies mentioned (i work dealer support for a large OEM) and most of them are plebians, with no knowledge and very little love or enjoyment of their jobs. what's crazy is that if you *want* them to do this (i.e. data rescue), i've seen PC world quote GBP600 for a simple slaving of the drive to another machine.
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sagan explains this wonderfully
mod parent funny!
Oh but their tech support reps were guru's. Of course they had to be to deal with the many problems a Packard Hell could have. My fav that I had to try to trouble-shoot, while working tech support at AOL, is still the combo sound card and modem that had a conflict with itself.
oooh, i had that one. when it played a sound the modem would intermittently hang up. great fun when you're trying to stream audio over a sub-56k dialup connection. never managed to sort it out.
Now the ecozealots will decry our spoiling of the natural martial environment, and will protest any attempt at colonization or terraformation as the destruction of a precious natural world.
have a read of kim stanley robinson's mars trilogy. that's *exactly* what happens.
What have ye got against the Scots?
Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
No true Scotsman would say that!
I saw a show on Discovery where anti-whaling activists did exactly this. They basically had a cannon that shot buckets of butryic acid onto the deck of the whaling ship. Butyric acid smells almost exactly like vomit, and the smell sticks :)
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you're not the first person to have that idea.
To differentiate myself from the lot of you bores I shall take a first name: Fah. From this point on I am Fah Q! :)
I got an actual LOL from this, which is rare.
(huuummmm)
Man this is dull.
This one gets the electrical nuts out of the woodwork.
I don't even know where to start with this sentence.
1. Super-intelligent rats 2. Super-intelligent cats 3. Super-intelligent dogs 4. Hyper-intelligent gorillas 5. ????? 6. PROFIT!
he
not to mention if it's an african or a european F-16.
pens that write upside down.
Or 'pencils', as the Russians like to call them.
Earlier today, I saw my neighbours buying a few tins of this stu#&[NO CARRIER]
(0 day) [ScEnE]-Every_malware_ever.torrent
mild singing
This was a triumph I'm making a note here; huge success It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
Ever heard of 'the encyclopaedia anyone can edit'?
"Office 2007's biggest competitor is Office 2003." - this will hold true for any piece of software that has the market sewn up to the extent that office has.
well, their philosophy of letting their customers be their testers has never let them down before. oh, wait...
including directly with one of the companies mentioned (i work dealer support for a large OEM) and most of them are plebians, with no knowledge and very little love or enjoyment of their jobs. what's crazy is that if you *want* them to do this (i.e. data rescue), i've seen PC world quote GBP600 for a simple slaving of the drive to another machine.
he'd probably have made a fortune selling the old one on eBay.
http://xkcd.com/327/
well, it uses wiki as a source. if wiki started using it as a source as well, it would create some weird citation divide by ze
there's already been quite a bit of discussion on wiki regarding whether it's okay to use WA as a source, and the general consensus seems to be that it isn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#wolfram_alpha--_moving_discussion