I could goto California tomorrow, I know enough COBOL that I could manage it. I'll do it for cheap too. I'm sure I'm gonna get way in over my head, but thats what California did in the first place, so why not continue the trend.
Oh wait... my laptop will probably be taken away when I try to board a plane. Thanks Government oversight fuck everyone at every level!
Maybe your father is much more wiser than you grant him credit for.
this line - "If nothing else, maybe I can serve as a bad example.", is an excellent example for most people that I encounter on a daily basis. Just wish people would realize that.
woman with phone "I broke my phone(by dropping it in the toilet), but I'm only 2 months(72 days) into my new(2yr) contract, can I buy(replace) this phone for a new $49.99 phone?" (corrections to her question added) [looked up her account] me, the tech "Unfortunately you got locked into a contract, thus subsidizing the price of your broken phone. You'll have to pay full price for your replacement phone." WWP "What does that mean?" MTT "It means, you wont get the lower price discount for your next phone." WWP "what does that mean?" MTT "Your going to pay around $300 for a replacement phone." WWP "What does that mean?" MTT (your serious?) "The cheapest replacement phone I can get you is $249.99. Because your not going to get the discounts you received for your first phone. I know... I hate that as well. I hate contracts, but thats the trade off in getting your phone for so cheap the first time." WWP "Thats bullshit, I want my money back, I hate this phone..."
I choose not to continue... But seriously that is exactly how the conversation started.
I have a better idea than Z.... Let everyone on the plane carry a gun. DONE, no one will fuck with anyone if everyone has a gun. (say that 10 times fast)
Thank you, I'll be waiting for my check. you may mail it to... wait this is the internet. contact me directly please.
wow thanks. now I have thst image in my head... if only I could go back in time, to scratch my eyes out before.... wait... time paradox.... hmmmm I'll have to discover the code...... heheheheh heh.
I call that crackhead prices. Along with a crackhead warranty. I knew a friend who used to buy 'junk' from his favorite crackhead on a monthly basis. Honestly I made more money off of my 'friend'/acquaintance in fixing the crap than he did in savings of buying the crap. (ok, he got a awesome laptop loaded with spyware/virii/pr0n/etc... everything else sucked)
Crackhead warranty as follows: 1) You buy as is, if it works then your winning the game already 2) Beware of crackhead deliveries, within the week your apartment/house might be broken into. (friend learned) 3) There is no manufacture warranty available (friend learned again) 4) No refunds (Same as rule 1, but sometimes a crackhead will do trade ins) 5) The price you get for said item, can be negotiated 6) Beware, items are most likely stolen. (duh....)
Ding Ding, you are a winner. But seriously you ARE the winner.
Most of the time when you encounter a need to repair a hardware defect, it is always better to send it in to the manufacture. Contact the manufacture to obtain a RMA number and most likely, have the manufacture send you the mailing box to send the laptop in. Now, while your in conversation with the manufacture, you can state that the HDD contains confidential information (lie about it, government blah blah... they can't ask questions, its 'government bs') so you are going to remove the accessable hard drive enclosure and keep its safe while you send in the laptop for repair. I've done this myself. With Acer, and Dell. Both times it was due to a hardware defect, and both times, neither argued over the issue.
However, in your case(Author of/. article) you purchased a laptop from a retail store. in which DOES NOT manufacture the equipment, but does service the hardware, and occasional software restore. However in your case, you have a hardware related issue, that does not pertain to software. So the argument policy here is that the retail outlet is purposely denying a repair claim.
(THIS IS STANDARD)
I've seen this with ratoshack, bad buy and curcuit city. (ex: customer brings in laptop, keyboard ALT key had popped off the keyboard base, and wont re hinge. However this customer purchased the EXTENDED warranty (extra $149.99) which covered hardware defects including keyboard replacements. Customer repair claim denied. "Cosmetic wear and tear is not covered in extended service plan warranty* When we took the issue up a few notches the claim was taken care of. However as an additional policy, *Any repair claims completed fulfills our service warranty agreements and closes the warranty account. (I shit you not) However when that action was noticed it sure as hell was not listed or noted by the sales associate selling you the extended warranty. now was it. However the web address you see on the brochure would then lead you to a NEW policy that was written (most likely a week after the warranty brochure was printed)
Point here for you is this. You need to force the issue with higher management. it does not fucking matter whether you have Linux, Unix, Windows 98, or even Windows 3.1 for all that matters. They cannot deny a warranty claim on a defective HARDWARE related issue. Software CANNOT cause a hinge to rub against the plastic because of a faulty screw/washer, or mount design. FUCK THEM retailing lying bastards as hard as you can, on this. I assure you, by the time you are done, you should have your laptop repaired, and a manager kissing your ass, for every purchase you make from that day forward.
Because HEY, thats all you want from a corporate retail chain. some respect and dignity because you shop at their place and give them your hard earned cash so you can feed the fat fucks that never work a day except in a office which most likely has a shower room attached.///this post was not previewed.
Well one can realize that these are still not fully unmanned. There are still 'tech' / specialists that are controlling these HKs. The difference is, the specialists that are flying these things are either miles away from the action, or sitting right next to Comms, or intel to verify what they are attacking. Now, if software permits, maybe there is a better system for Friendly/Foe identification, so less Friendly kills would occur.
Or the Tech/Specialist is a true hardcore gamer, and is like me... If it moves, and it is in the general attack area. Then I kill it. So far my old record for friendly fire kills in UT2k3 was 10 for 10. I hated my team.
I just hope the tech/specialist controlling these HKs are not against their own team.
This bullshit about Terrorists are going to attack the US if we don't search every person's ass before entering a plane or even Every blinking light on Star Trek could potentially be a bomb is completely, media based paranoia.
Hold my beer while I pull every LED off my monitors, KB, Mice, Computers, Cell Phones, etc to make sure they aren't really bombs.
I could rate my previous DM & related Management staff as one of the worst in the City of San Antonio. This situation would probably be similar to many others. Tax company (Jackson Hewitt), merges two districts together in order to save money, and eliminate a need to have two districts. I'll say it like this, Between 'East' and 'West', East was the district that was growing, and showing drastic improvements (The two seasons I was working for East, we won all the company awards.)
So the higher ups decided to merge both districts and make each Districts' Management staff compete for positions. Well, one kiss ass led to another, and West DM staff took over, and what was left of the East DM staff either quit, or was 'let go' for unknown reasons.
Thankfully, the company couldn't keep reliable IT staff with the West district, so I was fortunate enough to be hired back on w/o competing for my position. Right from the beginning I realized, that my new DM staff was not going to receptive to my methods of getting the job done 'ahead of schedule, and successfully'. I was given way more work than being paid for. Sure I understood that merging two districts ment I would have to deal with 40+ storefronts instead of 28. (yes, merging the West district only added 18 more stores to my work load.) Wasn't all that bad, until I realized that everyone from the West DM staff liked to turn off their phones, and/or forward all phone calls to the Tech guy, no matter what the issue was.
I spent way more time dealing with, "Such and such store is locked, and the manager of that store can't get in. STOP EVERYTHING YOUR DOING, AND GOTO THAT STORE TO LET IN THE MANAGER." or "Stop doing what you are doing now, and go deliver these tax books to all these other stores... oh, yes we do have a courier, but he is busy mowing the grass at one of the stores." Because of all the delays in what I had to do, I also was blamed for everything technical... "Why are the computers not ready at this store?" and "The tax software is not working properly, you are at fault for not doing your job".
Until I finally gave up, I being harrased so much by store managers, DM staff, and lack of support for my NEEDS to get the job done, I finally snapped on my final "chewing out". The District Marketing Manager decided to throw his weight (literally and metaphorically) and jump onto the "Chew out the IT guy because we can blame him for all the short comings for this season... because he is the only one left from the East... not part of the inside group... blah blah blah"
After the Marketing manager jumped onto my case about something as trivial as "DM manager hired a fresh manager to manage a store and that manager didn't know what her username was (HR issue not mine?)." I finally quit, after realizing I just quit my job I then decided to goto HR and see what they could do to help my situation.
The HR 'lady' was a glorified Secretary. Seriously, she used to be the secretary of the previous Regional Manager, but because the Regional Manager was so bad at doing her job, they moved her on. When the district was merged together the company brought in a HR 'lady' from Jackson Hewitt (higher up position), well less than three months into the job, the HR 'lady' quit because of all the complications with support from the 'West' DM staff. So I got stuck with the glorified secretary, who in turn didn't do a damn thing when I stated to her what happened for all the time I spent dealing with BS.
Didn't take me an hour to realize that the glorified secretary wasn't qualified to be in her position, I was told "OK, you may leave, and we will call you back when we want you back." Fine with me, I was trying to do my job by myself, instead they took my 3 week old assistant and hired 5 more techs to do my one man job.
I just wish I had an attorney to deal with this situation because I was seriously harassed, over-worked, and forced out of a job due to inter-management politics. Anyone have suggestions... this was part of my 06 season with the company.
I have a better idea... place a sign about a 1/2 mile ahead of the bridge saying "Anyone driving slower than the speed limit from now on will be shot... twice"
I think that would be the cheapest solution. two signs... cost $250
I don't know about you, but... a simple sign at the Auditorium door saying "Cell phones will not work in the theater". I also don't see your logic in OMG my phone wont work. Billy is going to die from a heart attack. Oh, if I step outside the auditorium, my phone works.
Plus. most people would you know... ALERT the management staff of the theater if there is an emergency.
Your problem with, oh my phone HAS to be on while I'm in the theater, Because I'm a EMS person. Ummm, pager? Pagers run on a different frequency, just have the jammer disable 800/1900 etc etc.
I don't see how it is a waste of energy, when it is the chip itself converting wasted energy to useful energy. I already see some ass clown patenting this chip, or the IP of this chip for use with CPU/GPU fans. As the processor gets hot, the heat sink pulls that heat away from the processor, in which a motor is directly connected to the chip to take the new heat/electrical energy to power a fan, to which it cools the heat sink. As the heat builds up, the chip generates more energy for the motor, which speeds up the fan. As the heat sink cools, less energy is converted, and the motor slows the fan down. (Direct trade off?)
I don't see a 'waste' of energy in this logic. This actually makes since, because many buy stronger power supplies, because of the CPU/GPU power consumption, along with the additional amount of fans needed to keep the system cool.
Eventually this same technology(technique) can be applied to power supply fans as well. Thus requiring less power out of the PSU.
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Ha I ordered my robot legs yesterday.
I could goto California tomorrow, I know enough COBOL that I could manage it. I'll do it for cheap too. I'm sure I'm gonna get way in over my head, but thats what California did in the first place, so why not continue the trend.
Oh wait... my laptop will probably be taken away when I try to board a plane. Thanks Government oversight fuck everyone at every level!
Your right.... and although you were an ass about explaining it. the AC got what s/he deserves.
But, yes.... Both AC's were pointless, as is this post of mine.
No... Poor Jonny was all happy and waiting, and then no tape.
I think the tape robot should have rebelled. SkyNet FTW. oh wait... nm...
Maybe your father is much more wiser than you grant him credit for.
this line - "If nothing else, maybe I can serve as a bad example.", is an excellent example for most people that I encounter on a daily basis. Just wish people would realize that.
woman with phone "I broke my phone(by dropping it in the toilet), but I'm only 2 months(72 days) into my new(2yr) contract, can I buy(replace) this phone for a new $49.99 phone?" (corrections to her question added)
[looked up her account]
me, the tech "Unfortunately you got locked into a contract, thus subsidizing the price of your broken phone. You'll have to pay full price for your replacement phone."
WWP "What does that mean?"
MTT "It means, you wont get the lower price discount for your next phone."
WWP "what does that mean?"
MTT "Your going to pay around $300 for a replacement phone."
WWP "What does that mean?"
MTT (your serious?) "The cheapest replacement phone I can get you is $249.99. Because your not going to get the discounts you received for your first phone. I know... I hate that as well. I hate contracts, but thats the trade off in getting your phone for so cheap the first time."
WWP "Thats bullshit, I want my money back, I hate this phone..."
I choose not to continue... But seriously that is exactly how the conversation started.
Sure something can stop a mach 8 flying lump of metal.
The ship/person/building you intend on pointing it at. Everyone knows that silly.
Well I would have worded it completely differently.
"The earth, its round, and it took a billion imaginative years before humans *landed on it. Make peace, and realize this... Sharing is caring."
At least thats what I would have translated it. And my version is SOOOOoo much friendlier.
*landed = suddenly humans appeared. (based on the great book's example.)
I have a better idea than Z.... Let everyone on the plane carry a gun. DONE, no one will fuck with anyone if everyone has a gun. (say that 10 times fast)
Thank you, I'll be waiting for my check. you may mail it to... wait this is the internet. contact me directly please.
wow thanks. now I have thst image in my head... if only I could go back in time, to scratch my eyes out before.... wait... time paradox.... hmmmm I'll have to discover the code...... heheheheh heh.
I call that crackhead prices. Along with a crackhead warranty. I knew a friend who used to buy 'junk' from his favorite crackhead on a monthly basis. Honestly I made more money off of my 'friend'/acquaintance in fixing the crap than he did in savings of buying the crap. (ok, he got a awesome laptop loaded with spyware/virii/pr0n/etc... everything else sucked)
Crackhead warranty as follows:
1) You buy as is, if it works then your winning the game already
2) Beware of crackhead deliveries, within the week your apartment/house might be broken into. (friend learned)
3) There is no manufacture warranty available (friend learned again)
4) No refunds (Same as rule 1, but sometimes a crackhead will do trade ins)
5) The price you get for said item, can be negotiated
6) Beware, items are most likely stolen. (duh....)
I love this show....
Ding Ding, you are a winner. But seriously you ARE the winner.
/. article) you purchased a laptop from a retail store. in which DOES NOT manufacture the equipment, but does service the hardware, and occasional software restore. However in your case, you have a hardware related issue, that does not pertain to software. So the argument policy here is that the retail outlet is purposely denying a repair claim.
///this post was not previewed.
Most of the time when you encounter a need to repair a hardware defect, it is always better to send it in to the manufacture. Contact the manufacture to obtain a RMA number and most likely, have the manufacture send you the mailing box to send the laptop in. Now, while your in conversation with the manufacture, you can state that the HDD contains confidential information (lie about it, government blah blah... they can't ask questions, its 'government bs') so you are going to remove the accessable hard drive enclosure and keep its safe while you send in the laptop for repair. I've done this myself. With Acer, and Dell. Both times it was due to a hardware defect, and both times, neither argued over the issue.
However, in your case(Author of
(THIS IS STANDARD)
I've seen this with ratoshack, bad buy and curcuit city. (ex: customer brings in laptop, keyboard ALT key had popped off the keyboard base, and wont re hinge. However this customer purchased the EXTENDED warranty (extra $149.99) which covered hardware defects including keyboard replacements. Customer repair claim denied. "Cosmetic wear and tear is not covered in extended service plan warranty* When we took the issue up a few notches the claim was taken care of. However as an additional policy, *Any repair claims completed fulfills our service warranty agreements and closes the warranty account. (I shit you not) However when that action was noticed it sure as hell was not listed or noted by the sales associate selling you the extended warranty. now was it. However the web address you see on the brochure would then lead you to a NEW policy that was written (most likely a week after the warranty brochure was printed)
Point here for you is this. You need to force the issue with higher management. it does not fucking matter whether you have Linux, Unix, Windows 98, or even Windows 3.1 for all that matters. They cannot deny a warranty claim on a defective HARDWARE related issue. Software CANNOT cause a hinge to rub against the plastic because of a faulty screw/washer, or mount design. FUCK THEM retailing lying bastards as hard as you can, on this. I assure you, by the time you are done, you should have your laptop repaired, and a manager kissing your ass, for every purchase you make from that day forward.
Because HEY, thats all you want from a corporate retail chain. some respect and dignity because you shop at their place and give them your hard earned cash so you can feed the fat fucks that never work a day except in a office which most likely has a shower room attached.
Well put, let us all learn from the Anonymous Coward.
Well one can realize that these are still not fully unmanned. There are still 'tech' / specialists that are controlling these HKs. The difference is, the specialists that are flying these things are either miles away from the action, or sitting right next to Comms, or intel to verify what they are attacking. Now, if software permits, maybe there is a better system for Friendly/Foe identification, so less Friendly kills would occur.
Or the Tech/Specialist is a true hardcore gamer, and is like me... If it moves, and it is in the general attack area. Then I kill it. So far my old record for friendly fire kills in UT2k3 was 10 for 10. I hated my team.
I just hope the tech/specialist controlling these HKs are not against their own team.
Back in the day, I didn't even exist...
Now beat that! They won't believe me even if I tried to prove it.
Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!!!!
Has a nice ring to it.
"We can't have a bunch of twats runing around the office trying to capture senseless packets of the spring break pictures of your mother."
"is it me, or do we have a bunch of twats running around the office?"
"twat was his name?"
Point Exactly...
This bullshit about Terrorists are going to attack the US if we don't search every person's ass before entering a plane or even Every blinking light on Star Trek could potentially be a bomb is completely, media based paranoia.
Hold my beer while I pull every LED off my monitors, KB, Mice, Computers, Cell Phones, etc to make sure they aren't really bombs.
I wish I heard about this survey long before now.
I could rate my previous DM & related Management staff as one of the worst in the City of San Antonio. This situation would probably be similar to many others. Tax company (Jackson Hewitt), merges two districts together in order to save money, and eliminate a need to have two districts. I'll say it like this, Between 'East' and 'West', East was the district that was growing, and showing drastic improvements (The two seasons I was working for East, we won all the company awards.)
So the higher ups decided to merge both districts and make each Districts' Management staff compete for positions. Well, one kiss ass led to another, and West DM staff took over, and what was left of the East DM staff either quit, or was 'let go' for unknown reasons.
Thankfully, the company couldn't keep reliable IT staff with the West district, so I was fortunate enough to be hired back on w/o competing for my position. Right from the beginning I realized, that my new DM staff was not going to receptive to my methods of getting the job done 'ahead of schedule, and successfully'. I was given way more work than being paid for. Sure I understood that merging two districts ment I would have to deal with 40+ storefronts instead of 28. (yes, merging the West district only added 18 more stores to my work load.) Wasn't all that bad, until I realized that everyone from the West DM staff liked to turn off their phones, and/or forward all phone calls to the Tech guy, no matter what the issue was.
I spent way more time dealing with, "Such and such store is locked, and the manager of that store can't get in. STOP EVERYTHING YOUR DOING, AND GOTO THAT STORE TO LET IN THE MANAGER." or "Stop doing what you are doing now, and go deliver these tax books to all these other stores... oh, yes we do have a courier, but he is busy mowing the grass at one of the stores." Because of all the delays in what I had to do, I also was blamed for everything technical... "Why are the computers not ready at this store?" and "The tax software is not working properly, you are at fault for not doing your job".
Until I finally gave up, I being harrased so much by store managers, DM staff, and lack of support for my NEEDS to get the job done, I finally snapped on my final "chewing out". The District Marketing Manager decided to throw his weight (literally and metaphorically) and jump onto the "Chew out the IT guy because we can blame him for all the short comings for this season... because he is the only one left from the East... not part of the inside group... blah blah blah"
After the Marketing manager jumped onto my case about something as trivial as "DM manager hired a fresh manager to manage a store and that manager didn't know what her username was (HR issue not mine?)." I finally quit, after realizing I just quit my job I then decided to goto HR and see what they could do to help my situation.
The HR 'lady' was a glorified Secretary. Seriously, she used to be the secretary of the previous Regional Manager, but because the Regional Manager was so bad at doing her job, they moved her on. When the district was merged together the company brought in a HR 'lady' from Jackson Hewitt (higher up position), well less than three months into the job, the HR 'lady' quit because of all the complications with support from the 'West' DM staff. So I got stuck with the glorified secretary, who in turn didn't do a damn thing when I stated to her what happened for all the time I spent dealing with BS.
Didn't take me an hour to realize that the glorified secretary wasn't qualified to be in her position, I was told "OK, you may leave, and we will call you back when we want you back." Fine with me, I was trying to do my job by myself, instead they took my 3 week old assistant and hired 5 more techs to do my one man job.
I just wish I had an attorney to deal with this situation because I was seriously harassed, over-worked, and forced out of a job due to inter-management politics. Anyone have suggestions... this was part of my 06 season with the company.
I have a better idea... place a sign about a 1/2 mile ahead of the bridge saying "Anyone driving slower than the speed limit from now on will be shot... twice"
I think that would be the cheapest solution. two signs... cost $250
I don't know about you, but... a simple sign at the Auditorium door saying "Cell phones will not work in the theater". I also don't see your logic in OMG my phone wont work. Billy is going to die from a heart attack. Oh, if I step outside the auditorium, my phone works.
Plus. most people would you know... ALERT the management staff of the theater if there is an emergency.
Your problem with, oh my phone HAS to be on while I'm in the theater, Because I'm a EMS person. Ummm, pager? Pagers run on a different frequency, just have the jammer disable 800/1900 etc etc.
To say, I welcome my Korean Automated self cleaning, schedule telling, my cloths will not get me laid today overlords.
Exactly...
I don't see how it is a waste of energy, when it is the chip itself converting wasted energy to useful energy. I already see some ass clown patenting this chip, or the IP of this chip for use with CPU/GPU fans. As the processor gets hot, the heat sink pulls that heat away from the processor, in which a motor is directly connected to the chip to take the new heat/electrical energy to power a fan, to which it cools the heat sink. As the heat builds up, the chip generates more energy for the motor, which speeds up the fan. As the heat sink cools, less energy is converted, and the motor slows the fan down. (Direct trade off?)
I don't see a 'waste' of energy in this logic. This actually makes since, because many buy stronger power supplies, because of the CPU/GPU power consumption, along with the additional amount of fans needed to keep the system cool.
Eventually this same technology(technique) can be applied to power supply fans as well. Thus requiring less power out of the PSU.
batter chances than Smell-O-Vision
Man the first foot commercial... and its all over!
Mark Cuban?