I have a customer who claims that the product we delivered them was slow and unresponsive. However, when we tested it to try and determine what was wrong, we didn't find anything wrong with it.
it seems like I attract customers that are never happy, no matter what you do for them.
If it's one or two people, they're a problem. If it's most of them, as your post seems to suggest, then you might want to rethink your line of business. Maybe you're just not very good at it?
I'm reminded of the beginning of Hitchhiker's Guide - "Someone was terribly incompetant and he hoped it wasn't him."
And the perfect gift would be... a burning paper sack full of fresh dogshit. Leave it on his porch. All us old people LOVE that!
"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love." -Mahatma Gandhi Why allow anger to arise and thus Do exactly as he wants you to do? -The Buddha
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" - Jesus
Oops, this is slashdot, no wonder you didn't add that last one!
A young cop won't help, his hearing has already been damaged by firearm training. Your other idea sounds like it may have merit... but it would be hard as hell getting a cop who couldn't hear the sound to go to the trouble.
there are certain segments of the elderly who literally hate everyone.
there are certain segments of the young who literally hate everyone, too. These young assholes either grow up to be old assholes, get killed, or mellow out and change their ways. But most of the elderly who hate everyone always hated everyone.
Assholes come in all sizes, shapes, colors, and ages.
It's the woofers that cost. Tweeters are dirt-cheap. I used to have a pair of speakers that had in addition to tweeters what Kenwood called "super-tweeters", with a range that reportedly started at 16 kHz.
It would be a waste today, CDs can't reproduce tones that high accurately.
However, those high tones that I couldn't hear if I still had those speakers color the lower frequency sounds I can hear. Take a high pitched tone and mix it with a low pitched tone and look at it on an oscilloscope, you'll see what I mean.
Even with my old ears my Presence CD doesn't have the presence that my Presence LP does. Of course, part of that is the shitty remastering they did on the CD.
And frequency response isn't the only thing to suffer when you compress audio. You also lose dynamics.
If you ever hear an old fashioned telephone ring in the distance when you're listening to a CD, that's aliasing distortion. You don't need great ears to hear it, either.
My eyes, however, have hit the 40-year marker and I do have to use reading glasses. The doc said I used them too much by learning to read when I was two.
Get a different eye doctor, yours is a quack. Everyone needs reading glasses if they live long enough. It's usually between 40 and 50, and your reading had nothing to do with it. In middle age the eye's focusing lens (behind the iris) gradually hardens, so you can't focus any more.
This can be fixed. However, at $7500 per eye it's pretty expensive, but if you can develop cataracts then insurance will cover all but a couple grand per eye. It's called a CrystaLens; they stick a needle in your eye, suck out the lens, and replace it with the implant. It's brand new, only FDA approved in 2003.
I had my left eye done last month, and it's amazing. I'm 54 and was using contact lenses for my lifelong 20-400 nearsightedness AND reading glasses for my age related farsightedness. My left eye is now 20-16 (that's better than 20-20) and in good light I can read the date on a dime, without glasses! I've never been able to see this good before, even with corrective lenses.
My other eye's lens hasn't become opaque enough for insurance to help yet, the doctor says a year or two. So, I have time to save up another two grand for the other eye, and still use a contact lens in that one.
Oh yeah, you can give yourself cataracts with steroid eye drops like prednisolone.
Guess my old man was wrong about listening to all that loud HEAVY METAL MUSIC!
Yes, he was. The real culprit in age related hearing loss is that factory. THE FACTORY. THE FACTORY! I SAID... WHAT?
Note the cops can't hear it, even the young ones. Hunters would be the same way. Anything that makes your ears ring (let alone hurt) damages them.
Young Nascar drivers (and those who spectate weekly) won't hear it either.
If you're playing in the band and you have nightly gigs, the metal (or any other genre; drums are LOUD) will screw up your hearing.
Construction workers go deaf too.
If you wonder why women make less money than men but have a longer lifespan, it's because the dirty dangerous jobs women refuse to take pay more. It's also the reason the lady above could hear the flyback transformer but her husband can't.
I've never had problems ripping any CD that would actually play. But I did get rooted despite having autorun shut off. My 19 year old daughter trusted Sony and manually ran the autorun file on the CD, probably looking for videos or something.
Was I mad! I forgave my daughter, but Sony will never, ever get another penny from me, not for CDs and not for electronic equipment. I'll cheer the day their CEO dies, and may even travel to Japam to piss on his grave.
Most people DIDN'T get infected with Sony's evil trash. But just because you've never been rooted doesn't mean you can't be. All it takes is trusting the wrong person. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
The problem, which Cory points out, is that when you de-DRM songs by burning an audio CD, and re-import as MP3, you have to manually re-enter meta data. I don't mind the slightdrop in quality doing this round-trip, but the meta data manual entering is a nuisance.
Now, DRM is on the rise and in the future you will not be able to obtain any mainstream music (IE, anything other than crappy folk) that is not rife with copy protection.
Have you had the radio on lately? The record companies have no clue about music at all! If you tune in a "rock" station you hear whiney loser shit like "Staind". Meanwhile, my elderly dad complains that the country stations play rock and roll. Go out and hear cover bands, and you'll see twentysomethings on stage and in the audience, and it's 70s and 80s and 90s rock they're playing.
Meanwhile, those same local bands are recording CDs of original material. Some of it sucks and some of it's good, but it isn't DRMed.
control or die. That is the mantra by which our culture exists.
Unfortunately true, but the mantra itself is misleading at best. I will die sooner or later, but I don't have to control anything but myself. Sorry, I just don't get it I guess.
"Chances are, you're behind a firewall or proxy, or clicked the Back button..." Of COURSE I'm behind a firewall, do you think I'm stupid? This is a Windows machine for Christ's sake!
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I have a customer who claims that the product we delivered them was slow and unresponsive. However, when we tested it to try and determine what was wrong, we didn't find anything wrong with it.
Steve Ballmer is MoOsEb0y?
The customer is NOT always right. He is, however, the one paying your bills.
it seems like I attract customers that are never happy, no matter what you do for them.
If it's one or two people, they're a problem. If it's most of them, as your post seems to suggest, then you might want to rethink your line of business. Maybe you're just not very good at it?
I'm reminded of the beginning of Hitchhiker's Guide - "Someone was terribly incompetant and he hoped it wasn't him."
Buy him a gift.
And the perfect gift would be... a burning paper sack full of fresh dogshit. Leave it on his porch. All us old people LOVE that!
"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love." -Mahatma Gandhi
Why allow anger to arise and thus Do exactly as he wants you to do? -The Buddha
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" - Jesus
Oops, this is slashdot, no wonder you didn't add that last one!
Suggested tune to play: Pink Floyd's Summer '68 from the Atom Heart Mother album.
A young cop won't help, his hearing has already been damaged by firearm training. Your other idea sounds like it may have merit... but it would be hard as hell getting a cop who couldn't hear the sound to go to the trouble.
2 wrongs don't make a right.
Maybe not, but three lefts do.
there are certain segments of the elderly who literally hate everyone.
there are certain segments of the young who literally hate everyone, too. These young assholes either grow up to be old assholes, get killed, or mellow out and change their ways. But most of the elderly who hate everyone always hated everyone.
Assholes come in all sizes, shapes, colors, and ages.
It's the woofers that cost. Tweeters are dirt-cheap. I used to have a pair of speakers that had in addition to tweeters what Kenwood called "super-tweeters", with a range that reportedly started at 16 kHz.
It would be a waste today, CDs can't reproduce tones that high accurately.
However, those high tones that I couldn't hear if I still had those speakers color the lower frequency sounds I can hear. Take a high pitched tone and mix it with a low pitched tone and look at it on an oscilloscope, you'll see what I mean.
Even with my old ears my Presence CD doesn't have the presence that my Presence LP does. Of course, part of that is the shitty remastering they did on the CD.
And frequency response isn't the only thing to suffer when you compress audio. You also lose dynamics.
If you ever hear an old fashioned telephone ring in the distance when you're listening to a CD, that's aliasing distortion. You don't need great ears to hear it, either.
My eyes, however, have hit the 40-year marker and I do have to use reading glasses. The doc said I used them too much by learning to read when I was two.
Get a different eye doctor, yours is a quack. Everyone needs reading glasses if they live long enough. It's usually between 40 and 50, and your reading had nothing to do with it. In middle age the eye's focusing lens (behind the iris) gradually hardens, so you can't focus any more.
This can be fixed. However, at $7500 per eye it's pretty expensive, but if you can develop cataracts then insurance will cover all but a couple grand per eye. It's called a CrystaLens; they stick a needle in your eye, suck out the lens, and replace it with the implant. It's brand new, only FDA approved in 2003.
I had my left eye done last month, and it's amazing. I'm 54 and was using contact lenses for my lifelong 20-400 nearsightedness AND reading glasses for my age related farsightedness. My left eye is now 20-16 (that's better than 20-20) and in good light I can read the date on a dime, without glasses! I've never been able to see this good before, even with corrective lenses.
My other eye's lens hasn't become opaque enough for insurance to help yet, the doctor says a year or two. So, I have time to save up another two grand for the other eye, and still use a contact lens in that one.
Oh yeah, you can give yourself cataracts with steroid eye drops like prednisolone.
Guess my old man was wrong about listening to all that loud HEAVY METAL MUSIC!
Yes, he was. The real culprit in age related hearing loss is that factory. THE FACTORY. THE FACTORY! I SAID... WHAT?
Note the cops can't hear it, even the young ones. Hunters would be the same way. Anything that makes your ears ring (let alone hurt) damages them.
Young Nascar drivers (and those who spectate weekly) won't hear it either.
If you're playing in the band and you have nightly gigs, the metal (or any other genre; drums are LOUD) will screw up your hearing.
Construction workers go deaf too.
If you wonder why women make less money than men but have a longer lifespan, it's because the dirty dangerous jobs women refuse to take pay more. It's also the reason the lady above could hear the flyback transformer but her husband can't.
MATURE adults try to talk out their problems.
If he were a mature adult he wouldn't have a problem because he couldn't hear it!
They need to get a day job
Why?
and make their regularly schedule appointments to their mental health doctors.
I pity you in your drab world.
"I don't know what I like, but I know what art is"
This IS art. I wish I'd thought of it!
Mood rings, only this time electronic and hanging on the wall! Dude, pass that pipe over her.
I've never had problems ripping any CD that would actually play. But I did get rooted despite having autorun shut off. My 19 year old daughter trusted Sony and manually ran the autorun file on the CD, probably looking for videos or something.
Was I mad! I forgave my daughter, but Sony will never, ever get another penny from me, not for CDs and not for electronic equipment. I'll cheer the day their CEO dies, and may even travel to Japam to piss on his grave.
Most people DIDN'T get infected with Sony's evil trash. But just because you've never been rooted doesn't mean you can't be. All it takes is trusting the wrong person. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
The problem, which Cory points out, is that when you de-DRM songs by burning an audio CD, and re-import as MP3, you have to manually re-enter meta data. I don't mind the slightdrop in quality doing this round-trip, but the meta data manual entering is a nuisance.
I rip my vinyl to CD and MP3 and find that you can get really obscure albums on Wikipedia and copy and paste the metadata right in to your MP3s.
Now, DRM is on the rise and in the future you will not be able to obtain any mainstream music (IE, anything other than crappy folk) that is not rife with copy protection.
Have you had the radio on lately? The record companies have no clue about music at all! If you tune in a "rock" station you hear whiney loser shit like "Staind". Meanwhile, my elderly dad complains that the country stations play rock and roll. Go out and hear cover bands, and you'll see twentysomethings on stage and in the audience, and it's 70s and 80s and 90s rock they're playing.
Meanwhile, those same local bands are recording CDs of original material. Some of it sucks and some of it's good, but it isn't DRMed.
The established players are doomed.
I think he was referring to the Sony XCP rootkit that shipped on Sony-BMG's audio CDs. Neglect to hold the shift key down and you're r00ted.
I wrote an article about it- How to rip from vinyl or tape
control or die. That is the mantra by which our culture exists.
Unfortunately true, but the mantra itself is misleading at best. I will die sooner or later, but I don't have to control anything but myself. Sorry, I just don't get it I guess.
If you already had the movie what would you download it? Whare are all these stupid people on slashdot coming from, this used to be a nerd site!
My old man says if frogs had wings they wouldn't bump tyheir asses when they jumped. "What if" indeed.
Oh wait, I'm not an elector...
"Chances are, you're behind a firewall or proxy, or clicked the Back button..." Of COURSE I'm behind a firewall, do you think I'm stupid? This is a Windows machine for Christ's sake!
When I hear about somebody getting a real, actual virus on a Linux machine I'll buy some Linux anti-virus.
Same thing with the phone.