I use 2 spaces. Do I care what anyone else uses? No. I'm more concerned about the average Joe's inability to spell and punctuate -- and his complete and utter indifference to it.
Maybe Ubuntu can work on not sucking before they bother with shit like this.
Ubuntu has gotten progressively less useful with every release; it seems they'd rather put more effort into revamping how it looks than making it stable.
I just wish they'd spend less time with eye candy, and more time making it stable. It seems every release of Ubuntu becomes less and less usable than the last. My parents computers started crashing randomly, my wife's laptop crashed and took the filesystem with it, etc. Sure debian's older, but at least I can put a computer on it and expect it not to lock hard.
My parents and wife are on debian now, and I continue to play around with different distributions for posterity, but often find myself running back to debian or gentoo.
PCI requirements these days make the rules such that companies don't have to, and don't want to hold your card data. Most companies take your card #, pass it off to their payment gateway, receive the auth, and delete the card information. Hell, many companies are moving to hosted service pages hosted by their payment provider so they don't even have to take your card number.
Aside from that, Ticketmaster is an evil, evil corporation, and they do stupid shit like that all the time.
My comment isn't about brick-and-mortar. It's about the big box stores and their lack of knowledge, their turnover, their lack of customer service, and their muscling out of smaller, local competitors.
Buy your TV from a local mom & pop shop -- some still exist. The likelihood that you'll be able to talk to the same guy about it in a year should you have an issue is much higher, the customer service you'll find is infintely better, and you get to keep some money in your local economy. Sure it might cost a little more, but when they're not trying to jam worthless 'extended service plans' down your throat, it's worth the premium.
I'm Canadian, and my issues are (usually) with Rogers, but I've found that e-mailing CEOs of companies that piss me off get me results every time.
And finding CEO e-mail addresses is rarely difficult. Get the e-mail of their corporate investor relations person, and then follow that same e-mail format with the CEO's name. ie firstinitiallastname@domain.com, or firstname.lastname@domain.com, etc.
I've never been unsuccessful in finding a CEOs e-mail address.
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And despite wanting to jump on the bandwagon, I just found myself going, "meh. I don't see the point."
*shrug*
This post for president.
I use 2 spaces. Do I care what anyone else uses? No. I'm more concerned about the average Joe's inability to spell and punctuate -- and his complete and utter indifference to it.
No, there was both.
First he told her he'd need a new laptop mailed to him to 'work on the case from home', which she overnighted to him.
Then, he used her credit card to buy another woman a computer and a router.
With the crazy rash of pansying up our youth over the last few decades, I welcome a little ass-kicking.
Every single person I know that uses the word/phrase/prefix 'hella' is a raving douchebag.
Lets not legitimise their idiocy, hmm?
Awesome. Any other questions?
Maybe Ubuntu can work on not sucking before they bother with shit like this.
Ubuntu has gotten progressively less useful with every release; it seems they'd rather put more effort into revamping how it looks than making it stable.
I just wish they'd spend less time with eye candy, and more time making it stable. It seems every release of Ubuntu becomes less and less usable than the last. My parents computers started crashing randomly, my wife's laptop crashed and took the filesystem with it, etc. Sure debian's older, but at least I can put a computer on it and expect it not to lock hard.
My parents and wife are on debian now, and I continue to play around with different distributions for posterity, but often find myself running back to debian or gentoo.
This is *not* true.
Not even a little bit.
PCI requirements these days make the rules such that companies don't have to, and don't want to hold your card data. Most companies take your card #, pass it off to their payment gateway, receive the auth, and delete the card information. Hell, many companies are moving to hosted service pages hosted by their payment provider so they don't even have to take your card number.
Aside from that, Ticketmaster is an evil, evil corporation, and they do stupid shit like that all the time.
It'd go to Rogers. No question. Contemptuous bunch of bastards they are.
This is one of the few changes in intelligence screening that actually seems to make some sense.
My comment isn't about brick-and-mortar. It's about the big box stores and their lack of knowledge, their turnover, their lack of customer service, and their muscling out of smaller, local competitors.
Buy your TV from a local mom & pop shop -- some still exist. The likelihood that you'll be able to talk to the same guy about it in a year should you have an issue is much higher, the customer service you'll find is infintely better, and you get to keep some money in your local economy. Sure it might cost a little more, but when they're not trying to jam worthless 'extended service plans' down your throat, it's worth the premium.
Seriously -- you have to be on glue to buy shit from that big box store in the first place.
There's an elixir in almost every single clock.
The cars with the recall still go into neutral just fine. anything you've heard elsewhere is bullshit conjecture.
Can we get back to the topic at-hand, now please?
The second I can afford solar power and get my house "off-the-grid", you can bet your ass I'll be there.
Its current pricetag is simply too heavy for my wallet.
GoDaddy: We spend all our money on shitty Superbowl commercials, and our customers get screwed.
GoDaddy is a joke. Why they still have any customers is beyond me.
yes.
I'm Canadian, and my issues are (usually) with Rogers, but I've found that e-mailing CEOs of companies that piss me off get me results every time.
And finding CEO e-mail addresses is rarely difficult. Get the e-mail of their corporate investor relations person, and then follow that same e-mail format with the CEO's name. ie firstinitiallastname@domain.com, or firstname.lastname@domain.com, etc.
I've never been unsuccessful in finding a CEOs e-mail address.
As a canadian, you should know that *ANYTHING* would be better than those fucking scumbags at Rogers and Bell.
Unfortunately. :(
First it was the copyright reform, now this. Fuck you, Canadian government.
That's because everyone else makes their hardware for them. They just outsource it.
That makes one of us.
1 word: vagina.
So I stopped consuming caffeine entirely.
Now I sleep better, am more awake in the morning, and generally feel better.
I'll drink maybe one pop a week.