Colour me a firm believer in making backups of games that nowadays cost over $100 (in my currency). I won't buy a console until I know I can play a backup copy on it. I have two small children, and although the older one is learning to handle discs with care, it takes time for them to permanently learn anything.
Even worse than children, I once lived with other twenty-somethings.
Fuckers who post their own blog posts about blog posts on Slashdot and get their stories accepted without the slightest shred of thought are what make me cry. Slashdot has been a real tear-jerker this last week.
Unless it's just an amazing coincidence that the submitter is "richi".
When Apple does something, Steve Jobs is the devil, it's nothing but evil monopolistic corporate greed, etc etc. But when Microsoft - the overhyped darling of Slashdot - does the same thing, suddenly it 'makes sense'!
It never even occurred to us that that ending wasn't a joke. My wife and I thought it was pretty funny, sort of like Kyle's big speech to the Visitors, and everything else in both parts had been a festival of self-reference.
I have no information about this instance, but the public face of the company you are speaking to is not always knowledgeable or intelligent. I work for a software company, and I have seen instances where a customer reports an issue and has it waved away without consultation by the first-contact support employee, usually under hand-waving like "no-one else is seeing this problem", or "I haven't been able to reproduce it". In most of these cases, an experienced person has not been consulted, and there has been no further investigation on our side.
Yes, the support people are part of the company, which makes the response the company's responsibility, but at the end of the day it comes down to flawed human beings assuming they know more than they do. We try to take steps to prevent it, but it's hard to anticipate and recover from without manually inspecting each support incident after the fact - a step we just don't have the time or money to take.
All the Apple apologists out there were lauding the lack of multitasking as a feature, not a bug
I love the emotionally charged bullshit on both sides of this crapfest. A bug! Apple really wanted multitasking in the first release, but some stinking off-by-one errors forced them into pretending it was by design...
You just can't get this sort of entertainment with sane people.
Yeah, I can hear Steve Jobs railing on his staff from here.
"Damn it, you boobs! You switched to non-industry-standard units, and you STILL didn't get us darkpixel2k? Don't give me those iPhone and iPad sales numbers, you guys FUCKED UP!"
I would very much like to have you come to my company and explain to my boss why he is a twelve year old girl.
Seriously. I got an email from him with 15 exclamation marks, 6 of them in red and the rest in green. I have not yet seen an email marked up sensibly for readability.
To be fair, a lot of our stupidity results from our proximity to Australia. It's like trying not to have the volume too loud when you're living beside the airport.
Slashdot Mirror
One that takes discipline.
*rimshot* ...
*gunshot*
Oh Slashdot, what happened? You used to be cool. .....
yeah, okay, that's not true. But still.
Everything except pay for it!
The trick is to have a willing female participant.
...I hope he does.
That's hilarious.
Colour me a firm believer in making backups of games that nowadays cost over $100 (in my currency). I won't buy a console until I know I can play a backup copy on it. I have two small children, and although the older one is learning to handle discs with care, it takes time for them to permanently learn anything.
Even worse than children, I once lived with other twenty-somethings.
For the love of God, don't tell us anything about storage or capacity.
(I'm preparing for contradictory comments below).
No you're not!
The Universe as a teetering column of bicycles atop of an infinite pile of turtles has an uncanny ring of truth to it.
It certainly explains much about the stuff I see every day on the internet.
In the given context, I believe the emphasised definition should be #3.
Fuckers who post their own blog posts about blog posts on Slashdot and get their stories accepted without the slightest shred of thought are what make me cry. Slashdot has been a real tear-jerker this last week.
Unless it's just an amazing coincidence that the submitter is "richi".
Ned Ryerson?
But if you add 3/7 and 2/3 you get 1.90524 which is imprecise
That is really imprecise.
microsoft do something that makes sense
Oh sure. This is just typical of Slashdot.
When Apple does something, Steve Jobs is the devil, it's nothing but evil monopolistic corporate greed, etc etc. But when Microsoft - the overhyped darling of Slashdot - does the same thing, suddenly it 'makes sense'!
You don't get it?
A weak, inexplicable imitation of earlier, better tech?
That's Twitter in a nutshell.
An action movie. Let's not wander outside the realms of plausibility.
Personally, I prefer "A segment of time during which you may not ponder suicide as a way out".
It never even occurred to us that that ending wasn't a joke. My wife and I thought it was pretty funny, sort of like Kyle's big speech to the Visitors, and everything else in both parts had been a festival of self-reference.
I have no information about this instance, but the public face of the company you are speaking to is not always knowledgeable or intelligent. I work for a software company, and I have seen instances where a customer reports an issue and has it waved away without consultation by the first-contact support employee, usually under hand-waving like "no-one else is seeing this problem", or "I haven't been able to reproduce it". In most of these cases, an experienced person has not been consulted, and there has been no further investigation on our side.
Yes, the support people are part of the company, which makes the response the company's responsibility, but at the end of the day it comes down to flawed human beings assuming they know more than they do. We try to take steps to prevent it, but it's hard to anticipate and recover from without manually inspecting each support incident after the fact - a step we just don't have the time or money to take.
All the Apple apologists out there were lauding the lack of multitasking as a feature, not a bug
I love the emotionally charged bullshit on both sides of this crapfest. A bug! Apple really wanted multitasking in the first release, but some stinking off-by-one errors forced them into pretending it was by design...
You just can't get this sort of entertainment with sane people.
Yeah, I can hear Steve Jobs railing on his staff from here.
"Damn it, you boobs! You switched to non-industry-standard units, and you STILL didn't get us darkpixel2k? Don't give me those iPhone and iPad sales numbers, you guys FUCKED UP!"
...and it was 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE, so I guess it wasn't as deeply burnt as he thought!
POKE 53280, 0
POKE 53281, 0
I would very much like to have you come to my company and explain to my boss why he is a twelve year old girl.
Seriously. I got an email from him with 15 exclamation marks, 6 of them in red and the rest in green. I have not yet seen an email marked up sensibly for readability.
To be fair, a lot of our stupidity results from our proximity to Australia. It's like trying not to have the volume too loud when you're living beside the airport.
(It's a friendly rivalry, really)
Here is the actual list I made up.
Okay, I know what you're saying, but some phrases do not inspire confidence :)